Paintball

Today, I had my second time of paintball match with my classmates. It's a very nice experience to play with them.

Anybody that wish to play can go to PISA and play but it cost you RM50 with full body armour and 250 pallets. With 12 people all together, we manage to play for four rounds.

Surprisingly, this round I did not get any shot out from the armour itself. Most of the time,I'm out of ammo =.=
And for the second time, my gun got jam in the middle of the game again. BUT because the gun was jammed, it saved my team mate too. If the gun was in working condition, I would have friendly fire my team mate. Oops. Hahaha

Home made PCB

This was my first time doing PCB at home with all the apparatus given as a gift by friends.

The only thing I don't have at home is the UV light and a good laser printer. Anyway, that problem is solved by using the college's printer and the lab's UV light emitter.

So, at home I basically mix my own developer with water (using some basic judgment) I throw in my whole board and start shaking it for a minute and Poof.... There comes out the board with all the lines drawn =)

Developed board.

Next will be the etching session. Now, here is the problem.. My friend told me that they bought for me the liquid Ferric Chloride but when I opened it up, it seems to have DRIED UP!!!
I was like OMG!!! HOW??? This is when i start korek-ing some of the powders into the container and it look excatly fine grained lead.

Ferric Chloride in powder form

It is than i need to mix it with 60 Celcius water to it and i was like wondering how much water to add in order not to make it too dilute. Again i just simply judge and pour water into it. =D
When the water touches the powder, you can hear the sizzling sound coming out. That's when i lift up the ice cream box to check weather the acid got corrode and create a hole in the container =)

Looks like a galaxy full of stars

After that, throw the whole board into it and start SHAKING.

Shake and shake and shake for 10 minutes till my hand is tired and i just leave it there hoping the chemical can just do its job by removing the copper in the board while i go facebook. Somehow, after another 20 minutes, i returned and checked on the board, it gives me ZERO progress from where i left it.

Thats when i decide to continue shake it again. After 5 minutes..... still not done.

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After 30 minutes, still shaking. Not done yet. Can see some progress.
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After 45 minutes. STILL NOT DONE!!! *hand tired d
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After 1 hour 5 minutes. Finally its done
=)

Picked up the board from the acid and wash the board till its clean and start drilling holes, putting the labels at the top, soldering and finally....

Tadaaa

The circuit was done. At the moment the board haven't gone through any testing yet. Therefore I dunno if anything goes wrong during the process =P


If you were to ask me what happen to the developer and the acid mixture... Well, after checking back at the developer bottle, i seem to had mix quite a lot of it. Therefore, i kept it back in a bottle and gonna reuse it in the future.

It changed to a beautiful blue

As for the Ferric Chloride...... I am not an environmental friendly engineering student =D

Damn Sad

Wah... today, I very sad. I just checked my email and received a mail from the Head of Engineering saying that there is a talk by Tengku Dato' Seri Azmil Zahruddin bin Raja Abdul Aziz on Opportunities and Challenges in Managing International Airline.

I see his name only I damn sad d. Remind me of my failure. Damn sad.....

First day of class after a month of semester break is never nice. Waking up early to attend class and the first subject happens to be Engineering Maths. I got myself tangled up with partial integration and listen to a very long lecture that is very bored. *hope this is not read by the lecturer*

First day of class, i already ponteng 2 hour lab session to go play bowling. Temptations are hard to resist. Damn it

Animals playing bowling

End of 2010 Semester Break

Its the first post for the year 2011. Here are basically some of the events that I joined to kill time.

Event 1
Right after my last paper for the last semester for my Diploma, I spontaneously get to join my friends beach BBQ somewhere in Tanjung Bungah area.

The success of having this BBQ mainly depends on the weather. If it rains, say bye bye to the plan. Anyway, don't forget November and December was a raining season in Penang.

Another factor to be considered was the location to BBQ. It seems to be that it is quite difficult to find a public beach that is clean throughout the north of Penang. From birds eye view, you can see some of us travel from Tanjung Tokong up to Teluk Bahang down back to Tanjung Bungah before finally landing ourself in a beach next to Sunset Bistro.

Mass food production

Over here, I must stress something. Never let other people BBQ the food for you when that guy is busy chasing other "things". As a result of not obeying that law, he cooked food full of sand for us. =S

Me and two others polluting the sea =)

Event 2
Its been a while since me and my friends stayed back late in college to play games. I know its kinda weird when people usually goes cybercafe but we go College. Actually the Internet speed in college is quite fast plus the quiet location of it during the night which allows us to on loud loud the sounds and laugh out loud.

World of Warcraft

After going back at around 5am, the next day, I have to explain to my parents....

"I really didn't go clubbing.... I just go college play game nia!!!"

Event 3
I think I went Altera's Family Day. Actually. I don't have any family nor relatives working there. Its just that my former lecturer who is now working there invited us there to have a look around the building. Well anyway, I haven't enter to a factory before, so why not i make it my first =)

By the way, to all engineers out there, Altera is a good place to work. Starting pay of ur job as an IP engineer, RM4000..... O.O That's a lot man..

Not enough, no punch card system for employees of Altera; meaning you can choose to come to work or not to the office as long as you submit your product on time. This is called "Work from Home". Syioknya...

Still not enough??? Altera Cooperation provides a center for all their employees to release their stress whenever they are tired of working/ brainstorming. What facilities they provide???

A few complete setS of gym equipments

Still not enough??

How about a club house? A house full of leisure games such as:

Pool

Fusball

ASTRO HD TV with every packages

Two sets of Wii Console to play

and a few more such as Dart and board games like Chess, Monopoly, Uno, Chinese Chess and bla bla bla.... Well, I played Monopoly over there since I damn long didn't touch it.

Good Company to work in but I still want to join Agilent or Dell. Hahaha.. for some unknown reason.

Event 4
Hmm.. Haven't played badminton / exercise for a long time already. Symptoms of not plying long time ; cannot even serve for the first 3 times. Very sia suey...

At the moment, I don't think I can play any badminton as my knee seriously hurts. Must wear support each time I'm doing long walking. Got to buy new shuttlecocks soon. =(

Event 5
Had a one day trip to Pulau Jerejak.

Entrance from the Jetty to the Resort

Quite a nice trip especially when we get to sway at the hanging bridge and fly... LOL

Group photo before "shaking" at the bridge

Get to play the Flying Fox, Wall Climbing, Repelling and Cycling round the resort.

FAILED Spiderman

Well I guess that's what I had done for my semester break. Couldn't manage to get out of Malaysia as parents don't allow and I myself is already broke for the month.

It's kinda ridiculous doing only FIVE days activity for the past month right. Actually the rest of the days were like below: ~

me: *sleeping halfway..
Grandmother : Ah Guannnn!!!
me : Yes???
Grandmother : Come down and do this and do that...
me: Holiday leow la... Let me sleep a while.
Grandmother : !@#$%^
me : Ok Ok... Later I'll do for you
Grandmother : NOW!!!!
me: *Jumps out from the bed and run down

A busy semester break.

PS : Credits to Joel Lim on the Jerejak photos.

Grrr

Imagine your Desktop/Laptop is loaded with lots of software till when you move your mouse over the 'All Programs' on the Start menu and it showed you 3 full list of applications. Imagine your PC is updated with the latest updates on every software you installed or accumulated throughout the years you update through the Windows Update. Imagine all the games that you played and the tough levels that you had gone through and the saved games.

All the imagination above were shattered once you reformat your computer. At the moment, I can declare myself having phobia reformatting my PC as the whole reinstalling process took me a long period of time. Together with the sucky line in Malaysia, the time is extended.

Today.. Each time I shut down my computer, I have to wait 30 over updates to be installed. That's nothing to be so frustrating, it will auto shut down after it complete. The most frustrating part is after installing the updates it some updates auto restart the whole PC and leaved it on while I'm away. Good job Microsoft.

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