I found this video in YouTube, I think some of you know about it. I guess it's worth putting into this blog, I hope you people understand that the message that this song is trying to deliver.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Friday, December 11, 2009
I'm on leave
Sorry for not coming to you on time; I'm nearly a month late. I've got my driving licence, and everything seems to be fine. There isn't much to say, as I have been very seclusive and secretive. I'm in this phase where I'm leaving stuff behind and going on to a new phase of life (Think about leaving schooling life!). Things now seem different. They're very unpredictable, the things that are going to happen in the near future. Certainly it has got something to do with my attitude at facing things. I barely pay attention to stuff nowadays as sometimes I think that there is nothing better to do than being ignorant. But I'll recharge later. I think I deserve the break. I'll come back to some serious stuff in late January so I was thinking of how freely I could do things in this period of time. And maybe it is on this basis that today's me is being shaped. But as I said earlier, I will re-mould myself into normal shape as soon as the important stuff come back again.
Nothing to say about Brunei. It's been raining. Lots of it. Well I have to say something about Brunei, specifically Belait. Have you heard about the 2000 terraced houses scheme in the Mumong/Panaga boundary area? Seems like there is progress. A few observances I have noted are that the walls aren't made of bricks, rather from cement. I suppose they have this cement mould or something of that sort, maybe a template, that you fix onto the land or foundation of the house and you start filling it with that liquid concrete and wait till it dries. Or maybe they use concrete slabs and blocks and cement them together. Or any other method that is cheap and maybe cost-effective that produces a result of certain quality, that stuff. The second thing that I have noted is that the beams don't look thick. They have a sample display house though and it looks modern (though cheap). But we will never know how things will turn out when the houses reach 5 years old. You might well know about houses that look top-notch (whatever the idiom is) initially but then gets damaged due to the weather and gets all sorts of problems within a few years. So we'll see what will happen.
Just to notify, I am on leave. Will be back in February. Do not hesitate to read the Brunei Times on their website when I'm away. Or when I am not away. Or both.
Cheers
Office Boy
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
De-Synthesize
Reality-Check:
Courseworks
1)CAD Solidworks due this friday-Attempted
2)Statistics assignment due end of this week-Not started
Tutorial Sheets
1)SLAG-completed up to Sheet 4 of 8
2)Mechanics-on sheet 4 of 6
3)Maths-not a single one completed and stuck but all attempted, 8 sheets
4)Java Programming-Programming test next week worth 30% and the last 5 of 8 programming session kapai2...
and guess wat?? I DON GIVE A DAMN!!!
Been wondering knpa aku cmani.. I guess Im "DESYNTHESIZE"... One of the conditions I experienced when preparing myself for "A-levels".. and the cure is to do something I Suka buat but lama sudah nda buat....
But it's not working, and I found the cause. It's because IM IN A COMFORTABLE AND SWEET condition. Last weekend was awesome, It was the only weekend where i did not have to do any productive uni work after the previous hectic 4 weeks. So what to do?
GET OUT OF THE COMFORT ZONE!!!
It's blinding me, It's comfortable but in the long run it's not worth it.......
TIME TO LEAP OUTSIDE and DO THINGS which made me here,
COMPLETE THE ABOVE!!!!
dat's why Im here..
dat's why I was sponsored by BSP,
dat's why I aim high in my studies,
dat's why I am ESCAROGONIAN........
WE WORK TO BE THE BEST IN OURSELF!!!
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
No Pain No Gain
It's been a while, been VERY BUSY for the past two weeks.. TOO MUCH assignments,,
To me the past two weeks has been a test and I've learn two things:
1)LAST MINUTE IS A POWERFUL DRIVE, but it is JUST NOT WORTH IT!!! U'll eventually hand-in something but mcam stakat ada sja.. There's no Satisfaction knowing that the assignment could be MUCH MUCH MUCH MORE better...
2)no PAIN, no GAIN..
One of the assignment I have to hand is an individual marketing project on a sprint car that me and two other mates built..
The following is our story( the essay I have to Hand-in):
No Pain, No Gain
The phrase “No Pain, No Gain”, its one of the common sayings we can see around us. I question however, on how many have understood and how significant is that saying on one’s life. The entry that is submitted reflects upon the saying. It is a poster to promote the premiere opening of a new blockbuster hit. The centre of the poster shines “Bravo one”, a sprint car designed and built by 3 young aspiring engineers to be competed into a race of the fastest. It is supposedly produced by The Godfather Entertainment Co., filmed at the University Of Sheffield, reviewed by leading critics of the entertainment industry and is based upon a true story.
I had initially decided to create a short 10 minute video depicting the process of building Bravo One. More of a documentary covering the technical aspect and drama present in building the model in a entertaining manner, something close to MTV’s “Pimp My Ride”. However a lot of manpower is required to create such video. Though all of the guys in team 13 likes the concept of the idea, the project remains an idividual project and must be done by one man. Thus I’ve decided to submit another important aspect of a movie: the premiere poster advert to represent the promotional piece of Bravo One.
There are two criteria that must be met in creating this promotional piece; creativity and effectiveness. I am sure that this piece(a promotional poster intended for the movie of the sprint car) is different from a typical poster advert that is intended for magazines or newspaper; a leading point on creativity. However, the effectiveness of this promotional piece remains to be questioned. Suppose a toy car like Bravo One is on sale , I doubt that a company would create a movie to reach its initial sales target upon release. It is financially challenging. However after few months being in the market, I believe that a a documentary or movie might boost up the sales of the specific toy car. The public especially fans of the stars in the movie might be prompted to purchase such vehicle though they have no professional intend to race such sprint car in a competition. Furthermore such form of promotional piece literally targets everyone. Therefore this form of promotion might somehow be effective.
What I would remember most is not the success in building it but rather the frustation felt everytime our model breaks and doesnt move so as the hardship faced everytime the model has to be re-design. Though we could not meet the final distance required, victory was sweet as a custard strawberry pie when it finally accelerates. It is quite a known fact that the light bulb was finally created after 2000 failures. The expereince in building Bravo One made me appreciate that fact. Something to be remembered upon embarking my professional career as an engineer; “No Pain, No Gain”.
P.s: Thanx to Adri for showing me the magic a photoshop can do
P.s.s: IDK why the 1st part is underlines...
Monday, November 30, 2009
{dartmouth}
Hello everyone
Warning: I have found that this piece I've been writing happens to be quite long and has no pictures, so if you want a summary, here it is:
"I spent the weekend at Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth and had a great time."
So here's the non-summarised version:
I've just got back from Dartmouth in Devon, and so I thought I'd blog this out while everything's still fresh on my mind. Now, what was I doing in this small town on the south coast of England, situated between Exeter and Plymouth?
I spent 2 nights at the Britannia Royal Naval College (BRNC) for the URNU New Entry BRNC Acquaint Course. BRNC is where people who want to become officers in the Royal Navy train, functioning much like the Royal Military Academy (RMA) Sandhurst does in training Army officers.
I joined London URNU (which stands for University Royal Naval Unit) out of a desire to do something a bit 'extra' from what others at university do - like I said during the interview (yes, there is competition for places and an interview serves to sort of filter candidates in), I wanted to "stop being such a foreign student" in that we tend to huddle up in our own communities whilst in the UK and missing out on fun things we gave a second thought to just because they were a tad out of our comfort zones.
Being a citizen of a Commonwealth country we were as welcome to join the URNU as anyone from the UK, and there is even an American with us in the Unit in London. He's here for a term, and he's in the NROTC (Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps) and the URNU is probably the closest to that here.
Anyway, what we do in the URNU in London is that we have Drill Nights on Thursdays at the Unit in Knightsbridge, which is about 20 minutes or so from home here at Marble Arch. At Drill Nights you have, of course, drill and there's 2 sessions after that which can be lectures or something from an array of activities, some hands-on.
There's also the sea weekends. I haven't been on a proper sea weekend although I got to spend a day on our Unit's ship HMS Puncher last month, but the idea of a sea weekend is you get on board on the Saturday, sail to a nearby port and stay there the night before sailing back to Portsmouth on the Sunday. You get to progressively do all sorts of things on the ship, and for the few hours that I was on HMS Puncher last month I did get to steer her and wash the screens near the bow afterwards.
And there's Easter/Summer deployment, where you go for I think 2 weeks to places in Europe. And of course social events, what organisation's activities would be complete without them? Dinners, etc.
Right, back to Dartmouth: the aim of our trip down there was basically to get a 'snapshot' of what life is training to become a Royal Navy officer. We left the Unit on Friday afternoon (which was Hari Raya Aidiladha), taking about 4 1/2 hours, out of the city into the countryside and down to where the sea is. We were given our 'foulies' (foul weather gear), and there was a safety briefing and welcome of sorts before we left for bed. Not bed right away really, as we worked on our kit (polishing, ironing) for a good portion of time in preparation for the next day.
Speaking of kit, I've got a uniform as well which I received about 3 weeks ago: No. 1s, which are the smartest, most ceremonial ones - tie and jacket, that sort of thing and a cap. No. 3s, the everyday one with the cap as well, and No. 4s - a nice blue shirt with drawstring trousers and 'steaming bats' (boots) and a beret. A 'woolly pulley' (jumper) over the top as well.
We had an inspection early the next morning before breakfast and the College Task Presentation, which was basically giving us an overview of what the guys in training do for the time they're there. Mentioning that, there are people from about 20 countries who train at Dartmouth, not the least from Brunei, although I only met a couple of guys, from Kuwait and Oman respectively. As such, there is a mosque for worship and all the non-pork meat served is Halal.
After that we had a tour of the college. To be honest it's a very nice place in a very nice place (get me?) and I was glad to be there. I mean, you have to be top of the class basically in officer training in Brunei to have a chance to be sent to Dartmouth for training, but me just being in the URNU here and having got a chance to spend the weekend at BRNC is just amazing. We were shown around by one of the students there, who told us the reason why we have to salute upon entering the Quarterdeck at BRNC and on any RN ship is because Nelson got shot on the Quarterdeck and died afterwards.
The plan next was to get on the River Dart on the 'motor whalers' but apparently the weather was against it (another explanation was that they were out of order) so we did some team-based exercises indoors instead. Basically it was a you're-stranded-in-the-Sahara-what-do-you-do thing and then we compared the results of the discussions between the groups present, pros and cons.
Parade training after lunch on the Quarterdeck - brilliant to say the least. There's commands for taking your caps on whilst in divisions and putting them back on! College Shop was open afterwards; bought a few souvenirs least including a mug (typical) and a Royal Marines Band CD. Royal Navy Presentation Team (RNPT) presentation afterwards (sort of a video about the RN thing).
Went to the Pavilion for (non-alcoholic) drinks after dinner and after 2 hours went back to my cabin, polished my shoes then went to bed. Almost went 'ashore' to the town of Dartmouth but went against it ... "probably wise" as the Lieutenant-Commander said to me during inspection the next day.
Went to get on the Dart (finally) the next morning, and I steered the picket boat 80% of the time; everyone else was chatting behind. Had a good time doing it and finally let the wheel go coming back into Sandquay; one of the students then took over to park the boat. Did PLTs (don't know what it stands for exactly) after that - basically practical tasks where you have a leader who you listen to but essentially you need to work as a team. The first one was to cross this chasm with a plank shorter than the gap; second was crossing a 'minefield', again with a plank shorter than the minefield's length but we had 'bomb-proof' tankards to use; lastly, which I was team leader of, constructing an antenna. We did that one brilliantly and were well within time.
Had a course wash-up after lunch - basically what was good, what could be improved on before departing back to London! That was my weekend gone, and I missed out on paintball in Leeds and meeting up with Fadhlan in London, but more importantly couldn't be there for Amalina's birthday. However, this coming weekend I'll make that up for her. All in all, had great fun at BRNC, got to meet people and see a bit of how the training process is - phew!
http://www.londonurnu.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_Royal_Naval_Unit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannia_Royal_Naval_College
Warning: I have found that this piece I've been writing happens to be quite long and has no pictures, so if you want a summary, here it is:
"I spent the weekend at Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth and had a great time."
So here's the non-summarised version:
I've just got back from Dartmouth in Devon, and so I thought I'd blog this out while everything's still fresh on my mind. Now, what was I doing in this small town on the south coast of England, situated between Exeter and Plymouth?
I spent 2 nights at the Britannia Royal Naval College (BRNC) for the URNU New Entry BRNC Acquaint Course. BRNC is where people who want to become officers in the Royal Navy train, functioning much like the Royal Military Academy (RMA) Sandhurst does in training Army officers.
I joined London URNU (which stands for University Royal Naval Unit) out of a desire to do something a bit 'extra' from what others at university do - like I said during the interview (yes, there is competition for places and an interview serves to sort of filter candidates in), I wanted to "stop being such a foreign student" in that we tend to huddle up in our own communities whilst in the UK and missing out on fun things we gave a second thought to just because they were a tad out of our comfort zones.
Being a citizen of a Commonwealth country we were as welcome to join the URNU as anyone from the UK, and there is even an American with us in the Unit in London. He's here for a term, and he's in the NROTC (Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps) and the URNU is probably the closest to that here.
Anyway, what we do in the URNU in London is that we have Drill Nights on Thursdays at the Unit in Knightsbridge, which is about 20 minutes or so from home here at Marble Arch. At Drill Nights you have, of course, drill and there's 2 sessions after that which can be lectures or something from an array of activities, some hands-on.
There's also the sea weekends. I haven't been on a proper sea weekend although I got to spend a day on our Unit's ship HMS Puncher last month, but the idea of a sea weekend is you get on board on the Saturday, sail to a nearby port and stay there the night before sailing back to Portsmouth on the Sunday. You get to progressively do all sorts of things on the ship, and for the few hours that I was on HMS Puncher last month I did get to steer her and wash the screens near the bow afterwards.
And there's Easter/Summer deployment, where you go for I think 2 weeks to places in Europe. And of course social events, what organisation's activities would be complete without them? Dinners, etc.
Right, back to Dartmouth: the aim of our trip down there was basically to get a 'snapshot' of what life is training to become a Royal Navy officer. We left the Unit on Friday afternoon (which was Hari Raya Aidiladha), taking about 4 1/2 hours, out of the city into the countryside and down to where the sea is. We were given our 'foulies' (foul weather gear), and there was a safety briefing and welcome of sorts before we left for bed. Not bed right away really, as we worked on our kit (polishing, ironing) for a good portion of time in preparation for the next day.
Speaking of kit, I've got a uniform as well which I received about 3 weeks ago: No. 1s, which are the smartest, most ceremonial ones - tie and jacket, that sort of thing and a cap. No. 3s, the everyday one with the cap as well, and No. 4s - a nice blue shirt with drawstring trousers and 'steaming bats' (boots) and a beret. A 'woolly pulley' (jumper) over the top as well.
We had an inspection early the next morning before breakfast and the College Task Presentation, which was basically giving us an overview of what the guys in training do for the time they're there. Mentioning that, there are people from about 20 countries who train at Dartmouth, not the least from Brunei, although I only met a couple of guys, from Kuwait and Oman respectively. As such, there is a mosque for worship and all the non-pork meat served is Halal.
After that we had a tour of the college. To be honest it's a very nice place in a very nice place (get me?) and I was glad to be there. I mean, you have to be top of the class basically in officer training in Brunei to have a chance to be sent to Dartmouth for training, but me just being in the URNU here and having got a chance to spend the weekend at BRNC is just amazing. We were shown around by one of the students there, who told us the reason why we have to salute upon entering the Quarterdeck at BRNC and on any RN ship is because Nelson got shot on the Quarterdeck and died afterwards.
The plan next was to get on the River Dart on the 'motor whalers' but apparently the weather was against it (another explanation was that they were out of order) so we did some team-based exercises indoors instead. Basically it was a you're-stranded-in-the-Sahara-what-do-you-do thing and then we compared the results of the discussions between the groups present, pros and cons.
Parade training after lunch on the Quarterdeck - brilliant to say the least. There's commands for taking your caps on whilst in divisions and putting them back on! College Shop was open afterwards; bought a few souvenirs least including a mug (typical) and a Royal Marines Band CD. Royal Navy Presentation Team (RNPT) presentation afterwards (sort of a video about the RN thing).
Went to the Pavilion for (non-alcoholic) drinks after dinner and after 2 hours went back to my cabin, polished my shoes then went to bed. Almost went 'ashore' to the town of Dartmouth but went against it ... "probably wise" as the Lieutenant-Commander said to me during inspection the next day.
Went to get on the Dart (finally) the next morning, and I steered the picket boat 80% of the time; everyone else was chatting behind. Had a good time doing it and finally let the wheel go coming back into Sandquay; one of the students then took over to park the boat. Did PLTs (don't know what it stands for exactly) after that - basically practical tasks where you have a leader who you listen to but essentially you need to work as a team. The first one was to cross this chasm with a plank shorter than the gap; second was crossing a 'minefield', again with a plank shorter than the minefield's length but we had 'bomb-proof' tankards to use; lastly, which I was team leader of, constructing an antenna. We did that one brilliantly and were well within time.
Had a course wash-up after lunch - basically what was good, what could be improved on before departing back to London! That was my weekend gone, and I missed out on paintball in Leeds and meeting up with Fadhlan in London, but more importantly couldn't be there for Amalina's birthday. However, this coming weekend I'll make that up for her. All in all, had great fun at BRNC, got to meet people and see a bit of how the training process is - phew!
http://www.londonurnu.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_Royal_Naval_Unit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannia_Royal_Naval_College
Friday, November 6, 2009
"Great Minds think alike"
What do you see?
WE WERE WEARING WHITE ON THE DAY OF DEPARTURE!
conclusion?
"Great minds think alike"......
:)
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Re-Connected
RECONNECTED
A month of no Internet is just a LIVING NIGHTMARE. So what was the story?
Once upon a time, there was a group of 3 men settling in a cozy house which could comfortably support 3 people. One thing is missing from the house. A 4th basic need of a human being called "The Internet". So out of the many possible provider they decided to go with Sky. But the catch is Sky uses the BT line. So they were guaranteed of Internet connection within 28 days. Installation of BT line and setting up the Internet Modem. Plus a satellite TV is part of the package.
After 28 days later, guess what??? THERE WAS STILL NO INTERNET. So the 3 men did a little search and found out that the house was already having a line which is provided by TISCALI. Dat's why the BT line cudnt get thru. N the TISCALI could only be cancelled by the previous owner. The boys contacted the landlord and the previous owner cancelled the line. N then they were told to wait another 28 days.
but one of the guy has a little skill and with a little magic he casted on an iPhone.... *POOM*
They were connected to the world again..................
*THE END*
A month of no Internet is just a LIVING NIGHTMARE. So what was the story?
Once upon a time, there was a group of 3 men settling in a cozy house which could comfortably support 3 people. One thing is missing from the house. A 4th basic need of a human being called "The Internet". So out of the many possible provider they decided to go with Sky. But the catch is Sky uses the BT line. So they were guaranteed of Internet connection within 28 days. Installation of BT line and setting up the Internet Modem. Plus a satellite TV is part of the package.
After 28 days later, guess what??? THERE WAS STILL NO INTERNET. So the 3 men did a little search and found out that the house was already having a line which is provided by TISCALI. Dat's why the BT line cudnt get thru. N the TISCALI could only be cancelled by the previous owner. The boys contacted the landlord and the previous owner cancelled the line. N then they were told to wait another 28 days.
but one of the guy has a little skill and with a little magic he casted on an iPhone.... *POOM*
They were connected to the world again..................
*THE END*
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