On boat to Perhentian Island, Terengganu

We checked-in our chalet around 10:30 am, have a rest till lunch time. Then we started our activity with a short-trip snorkeling package. It tooks about 4 hours of snorkelling from 2:30pm to 6:30pm. There are 4 points of snorkelling visited which are the beginner point, turtle point, fish point and shark point. Our boatman was Abang Mat Snorkeler and he is the best boatman and snorkeler at Perhentian Island.

Snorkeling at turtle point, Perhentian Island

On the next day, we started with breakfast on 8am then went to Pulau Redang for our second snorkeling trip. It was a join trip with another group. The boatman was Pak Din but seems like he had nothing to do with our group. So thumb down. We visited 3 points which are Pulau Redang (baby shark point), Marine Park and Pulau Lang Tengah. Overall, the snorkeling trip was a bit disappointment because the coral there mostly died.

Redang Island Beach

At Marine Park, Redang Island

Turtle rehabilitation at Marine Park, Redang Island

On the last day, we departed from Perhentian Island on 10am. We planed to go back using beach roadway (through Kuala Terengganu). We bought some souvenirs and kopok lekor/sata/otak-otak on our way back home. The journey was so tiring but our car was so cheerful because all the passengers did not sleep at all (plus chatting about girls). The day ends with watching England vs. Germany world cup live match at Dzul Aqmal’s house and England beaten by Germany 4-1. Yes!

Last day at Perhentian Island

Its been so long since my last post. This is because of the final year project. I was extremely busy on the last semester. Alhamdulillah I am able to make it as it should be. Hereafter is another turning point of my (our) life. The beginning of chapter 3. Here im going to summarize what i went through during my undergraduate study.

Part 1: Nothing much. I found that Asyraf and Fathul (my ex-schoolmates) are my classmate under same MiCE department. So do other SEW/SEC students. Know Alepsan as my roommate. And got the worse grade of all subjects in UTM which is a C+ for my Calculus subject. Built my first PC cost me about RM3,500 (thanks mom).

Part 2: A whole semester of merempat at Fazli’s room. Was addicted to Dota. Every day its like playing at least 5 games on local area network with friends. Skipped classes a lot because playing dota till late at night. Fortunately, it was Ramadhan and i still manage to score good grade in exam because of “we dota together and we study together”.

Part 3: Half of my dota friends moved to other colleges. So the addict reduced by half. But i still played it regularly. Got Helmi as my roommate. He loves to play Pro Evolution Soccer (PES). Sometimes i played PES against him. Built second PC for home. Applied Streamyx and set up wireless network in my house.

Part 4: My worst semester in term of academic performance. Scored 3.29 for part 4 due to EMT (and KB) subject. Hardest subject for electrical students (siap masuk kelas pemulihan). Bought my first laptop, Vaio SZ and still running strong till now. Played skate regularly this semester.

Part 5: Third year. Suddenly i woke up from my dream. The dream full of huhahuha (unnecessary things). Start hunting for 1st class. The roommate was Muzakkir, my junior of Smartcamp club. I was the head of facilitator in motivational camp at MRSM Muar. I learnt WordPress (thanks to Fathul) and started my first blog, xtudentz.com but the blog died already. Brought car to UTM and i become more rajin after that.

Part 6: Was the best academic performance (3.96). Thanks to most inspiring lecturer, Prof Khalil (VLSI). So do Pn. Farhana (English – Career Search), Prof Razali (Microelectronic) etc. Went to library frequently on the exam week (because of frustration actually). Finally i made it. Built home theater PC (HTPC) installed with Windows Media Center for home use.

Internship: Did my internship at ICmic Cyberjaya. Go back and forth Kepong-Cyberjaya everyday. Its about 55km and the traffic is congested everyday at KL. Toll cost me RM5/day and fuel about RM10/day. I learnt Silvaco EDA, another IC design software alternative other than Tanner EDA. Silvaco is very powerful design tools, no wonder it costs about a million. Conclusion, money is not everything (Im not going to waste my time by trapping in traffic jam). Second, made me think how mentah i am in IC design industry. Made up my mind to further study doing master to learn more about IC design.

Part 7: Final Year Project (FYP) part 1. Mr. Arif was my supervisor. I decided to become mixed signal IC designer as suggested by Mr Shahab of ICmic. Therefore i started with an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) as my project. 8-bit folding and interpolating ADC was implemented using Tanner EDA. It was very hard to understand the architecture of folding-interpolating ADC. Found Bruno Kasimin from University of Applied Science Aalen, Germany on the internet. He provided my reading materials and explained the concept of the ADC. Barely understand the concept on the end of the semester. Started my second blog, mengejarmimpi.com. Bought Asus Eee PC S101H for my brother, Naim to assist him in study. Found my love on this semester too. Hehe.

Part 8: Final Year Project (FYP) part 2. Quite a relax semester actually. Taking 12 credit only and 4/12 is for the project itself. So i got 3/7 days with class per week. Spending most of my time doing project in my room. Fortunately im able to finish my project a bit sooner than it should be. I was participated in MiCE exhibition to present my project and be complimented by Intel representatives and my CMOS analog lecturer, Prof Abu Khairi. I wrote very simple thesis for my project (33 pages of content/47 pages cover-to-cover). Spent about RM800 to repair my car this semester. Bought a used Compaq laptop and unfortunately it rosak within 3 days. Bought and keep changing iPhone 3GS.

The path is clear. Im going to further my study in IC design. I already have the supervisor and research title for my postgraduate study. Which path that you choose is all the same as long as you know where are you heading to. I wish you all the best in whatever you are doing. Hopefully we will meet together at our weddings.

Im designing a 8-bit folding-interpolating ADC for my final year project (FYP). The most common architecture for folding ADC is combined with interpolator and sometime refer to folding and interpolating ADC. The first three most significant bit (MSB) is realized by 3-bit flash ADC. Meanwhile, another five bits is realized using folding and interpolating circuit. In designing an ADC, the accuracy of the ADC is the most important thing that have to be considered while maintaining the conversion speed. Therefore, designing the folding-interpolating circuit is going to be the hardest parts in this project. You might found the following problems when designing a folding ADC.

1. The folder output shifted and amplified/attenuated when try to interpolate the signal.

2. The sine signal of folder output is asymmetrical.

3. The DC level of the sine signal of folder output increase as input voltage increase.

Owh hari-hari Jeje makan benda ni. Tak boring, tak tahu kenapa. Maybe dilahirkan suka makan roti. Makan sikit je roti, dah rasa kenyang. Makan nasi banyak2 pon kenyang gak, tapi nanti malas macam ular. Kalau keluar jalan, jumpa Delifrance mesti beli punya la roti (croissant) dia. Agak mahal tapi biasa la, kene consider ingredient dan method dia sama. Good ingredients make good food.

Butter Kaya Sandwich

Usually found at most of kopitiam out there and it will cost you about RM2.40. Superb for breakfast, not getting bored eating this one even at night. The ingredient is so simple.

1. Butter (Buttercup)
2. Kaya (Yeo’s)
3. Slices of Bread (Gardenia)

Salmon Cheese Sandwich.

I prefer Salmon Spread of Ayam Brand instead of their Tuna Spread. But it just my personal preference. You can use Tuna Spread also. Im eating the sandwich usually at night, when im too lazy to go to cafe to eat. To make it as a balance diet food, i will add multi leaf salad together. Here is the ingredient:

1. Salmon/Tuna spread (Ayam Brand)
2. Cheese (Kraft)
3. Slices of Bread (Gardenia)
4. Multi leaf salad (Added after toasting all the ingredients above)

Last 2 days i bought a pack of Yakult. I finished all of them in 24hours. On next day, i really feel that the Yakult cleanse my stomach. I have stomach ache until now. Is it the effect of overdosing Yakult? I feel like there are Lactobacillus Shirota fighting mere worms and trojans inside my colon. They bash, backstab and blink attack one another, make me feel even worse.

I was DOTA-ing on Dec 12, and suddenly my Vaio turned off. The game before it turned off was lagging and i realized that my Vaio was overheating. After a very rough inspection made, i found that the cooling fan was not spinning. After finishing another game (thank to FRM for his cooling pad), i went back to my room and start investigating why the fan is not working.

First Inspection:
The fan was stuck. After forcing the fan blades to move, there was something came out from my Vaio, a screw. So that’s the reason why the fan was not spinning.
Second Inspection:
I turned my Vaio on after removing the screw, but then the fan won’t spinning. I disassemble the bottom plate of my laptop to have a look at the fan. Using a screwdriver, i forced the fan blades so that it will move. However, after completing a rotation, it went stop. Therefore, i knew that the fan was not dead, it just stuck at certain angle. Sometimes it will spin but with very noisy like a motorboat.

Third Inspection:
After hours of berangan about the future of my Vaio (am i going to change to another laptop), i gave a try to disassemble my Vaio. It was my first time to fully disassemble my laptop since the fan is located beneath the motherboard. So by hook or by crook, i have to disassemble the motherboard in order to disassemble the fan. I managed to disassemble the fan after a couple of hours and i found that the axis of the fan is not perpendicular to the fan blades. Therefore i went to Giant to buy a pliers and Yakult for extra strength to bend back the fan axis, a metal rod (hehe). Bending the metal rod is easy job but to determine whether the axis of the fan is perpendicularly to the blade was so tiring. After try and error, bend the axis – plug the fan blade to the fan housing – blow the fan – inspect the rotation and noise produced, i managed to align the axis to its very best position.

Assembling the Vaio:
It took me an hour to assemble back my Vaio. I turned on my laptop just after finishing the assembling process. The first problem arose was, the keyboard isn’t function. The second one is, the fan still not spinning! Somehow i forgot to connect the keyboard and fan power supply. Another 5 minutes, i solved the problem. I turned it on again, and the fan is now working (Hooray!). But it still makes some noise, just like there is a neighbor on next 3 floors above me is drilling his wall (Doh!). Im so tired, i wrote this post and go to sleep after that.

Everyone hoping that we could find a partner that will make us happy. Perhaps, the basic thing that everyone looking for are the same. But somehow i realized that: “Seorang anak yang baik, kawan yang baik, pelajar yang baik, dari keluarga yang baik dan seorang pengamal agama yang baik tak menjamin yang dia akan menjadi pasangan yang baik”. Maybe both man and woman are wonderful, but it simply not work together. All the good things are there but its the matter of right person or not. But how we define the right one? I believe that the right person for us is the one who always make thing easy and pleasant when we are with them. Moreover, a understanding couple don’t have to struggle that much to maintain a good relationship. But at least we have to try our best in maintaining good relationship with whoever we are committed to. The willing to contribute and appreciate in a relationship lead to brighter future. Last but not least, i always remind myself that the one that i loved before is the one that made me happy a time ago and the one who taught me the meaning of life and love. If i could make only one wish to be fulfilled, i wish everyone is happy, there is no sadness in this world.

Final exam is coming. I guess i will stop updating this blog for a while (hope so). The first thing to do is to stay away from the internet. Internet is everything to me, and somehow i think its more important than those wasting time exam (haha seriously). Ok whatever, here is my final exam schedule:

2nd Nov: Professional Engineering Practices

4th Nov: Microelectrnic II*

6th Nov: Digital Signal Processing

10th Nov: ECAD and ASIC

* The red one is in dangerous position. Anyway, good luck everyone!

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Oct 12, 2009 – There was a simple makan2 was held at Rasamas, Jaya Jusco Skudai on my 22nd birthday. It was attended by Capik, FRM and myself after sitting for ECAD quiz-4. The event was sponsored by our own respective wallet. I had nasi lemak + garden salad and a glass of iced Milo at Rasamas. Then we moved on to Secret Recipe and FRM treated me a slice of Choc Cheese cake and i bought myself a slice of Hazelnut Choc cake.

How about present for my birthday? So far, i haven’t get any…