For your information, I am a final year student of Electrical Electronics Diploma program.
hat means, i have a looooott of work and task to be done. One of them is, electrical/electronics final year project (FYP). The project group consists of two, and my lab partner is a girl. My partner, whose name is Raihan and me, went to buy the project component this morning alongside Faid and Sanusi. We depart at 10.30 and arrives 30 minutes later (waiting for Sanusi took 10 minutes!).
Upon arriving, the list of the components needed was given to the shop assistant. But, the fact that most of us didn’t know is, the price of each component is not that expensive. But the things that raise the price are the ICs (Integrated circuits). Our project uses two ICs. One is a common 8 pin monolithic 555 timer (this one is cheaper, around 90 cents) and the other one is, 18 pins PIC 16F84 (programmable IC). This one is quite expensive, RM 15.00, unprogrammed.
We have to reprogramme it using Microprocessor devices that we have learn earlier. This may be tiresome as I am not programming type.. Raihan, will you do this for me? Huhu..
Wait, if you think that the 18 pinners is expensive, wait till you hear this. Our LCD display, is the most expensive of them all. RM 45.00. Damn. That is 62% of the overall price of RM 73.00! No wonder if your laptop’s LCD monitor broke down, you have to pay around RM 1700 to get it fixed. But actually, the price is not that high, depends on who do you seek help to fix it. (komisen maa!)
Plus, we did a simple circuit, and I personally think that our project is way way simpler than some of our friend with bigger brain. Their project may cost up to RM1500 per unit.
I am going pass that.....No money!
This project burns a hole to my pocket! Well, at least the tauke gave us 4 limau mandarin as the Chinese New Year is just around the corner. Thank you very much!
Yesterday 15th January 2009 was the last day for our group to submit our paperwork on business venture. As long as I can remember, we have been discussing on the type of business venture that we want to enroll in for almost two weeks. In our minds, we have several titles that we think it will be a great success.
Unfortunately, our lecturer a.k.a Mr Baderisang (or Che’ Bad, as we call him), rejects ALL of our idea. To sum up, almost ten type of business we have proposed. We felt very demoralized as they were our brainstorming products for two weeks! And he rejects them all…. Then, as time flies by and he needs to go for his class, he gave us the hint of which project that should we try. He told us several stories based on his eating behavior and experiences. Then, he proposed us to one project that I can’t believe it.
‘Eels Farm’. . . .
We found that to do this title, may encumber us. We really don’t want to do that actually.. One of our group member, Khidir said that, we have to find another topic, if not, “kita terpaksa la belajar mencintai belut..
Aduh.. As a team leader, I decided to discuss with them, and we agreed to do this topic. At last, after some thinking, belut pun belut lah. Ikhlas, the one who has the biggest brain among us, thought there must be a reason why Che ‘ Bad rejects all that and give us his idea instead. Yes! We may get an extra mark for obeying him, who knows?
Hari ni 31 Disember 2008 adalah hari yang paling malang bagiku di tahun 2008. Kasutku dicuri ketika aku sedang berada di dalam surau di Jeti Butterworth. Waktu tu aku tengah nak tunggu train untuk balik KL. Untuk pengetahuan, stesen bas, KTM, dan feri di Penang semuanya terletak di Jeti Butterworth yang merupakan tempat paling ramai pendatang haram. Kasut yang tak sampai seminggu ibu aku belikan, hilang dicuri orang. Sedih..
1. Train aku yang sepatutnya jam 9pm, tangguh ke 10.30pm
2. Aku ambil keputusan untuk Isya' dulu alang2 menunggu.
3. Sebaik selesai solat, aku keluar, tapi kasut dah lesap.
4. Aku merenung kiri dan kanan, dalam keadaan blur sambil mencari kasut.
5. Seorang pakcik menanyakan kasut aku di mana dan mengatakan bahawa dia ternampak tiga ekor budak bawak plastik besar tadi. Aku yakin kasut aku berada di dalamnya.
6. Dengan rasa bersyukur dan sedikit 'panas', aku memakai selipar surau yang terletak di luar surau tersebut yang terletak sebelah pondok polis. Polis pun sudah tak larat nak perhatikan ke kalau-kalau ada pencuri?
7. Pak cik tadi menawarkan aku selipar spare yang disimpannya di dalam lori. Pak cik tu adalah drebar lori dan malam tu dia akan memandu lorinya ke Johor Bahru. Kesian dia.
8. Aku menolak lalu terus menunggu train kerana masa sudah hampir 10.30.
9. Namun, masanya ditangguh lagi ke 11.45. Sedih sungguh aku. Ujian tahun baru.
10. Jam 12 malam, train pun bertolak. Dapatlah aku melihat bunga api tahun baru 2009 di beberapa laluan train.
11. Esoknya, aku ke Jusco Setiawangsa untuk beli sepasang lagi kasut yang sama huhu.
Terima kasih pada 3 ekor orang budak Melayu tu yang membantu aku pulang ke Kuala Lumpur dengan meminjam selipar surau. Dapat juga pahala orang surau ni. Terima kasih banyak-banyak.
Tips jaga kasut!
Disebabkan masalah ni tak pernah selesai, tiap-tiap minggu ada je yang hilang terutama ketika solat Jumaat, aku ada beberapa tips untuk dikongsi.
Cubalah tips ni, aku ada banyak lagi tips, tapi hanya ni yang aku ingat. Ada lagi, aku kongsi lagi, okay?
"Price is what you pay, value is what you get from it"
* Berkenaan selipar tadi, aku dah pulangkan semula pada 4 January 2009. Aku tak curi tau.
