Mengejar Mimpi

World Cup 2010: South Africe

I’m on Argentina. Why Argentina? Messi. That’s it!

Meanwhile, you can try World Cup 2010 organizer here. So you dont have to write down all matches and result on paper anymore. You can update the result online too. Below are some screenshots of the organizer. It’s free to use. You can simply download it by clicking HERE. Enjoy.

Wish and Dream

Even dont have any income, as a gadget freak i always wanted latest gadget. My first priority is an iPhone 4. Sometimes people couldnt comprehend, why buy expensive iPhone? The answer is simple, very low depreciation. Since apple update its iPhone once (or less) per year, therefore the price for iPhone remains stable.

My second wishlist gadget is the Mac Mini 2010. It will be for my home use actually. Im not a Mac user because mostly im working on Windows. But i realized that Mac Mini is enough for home use, save power and more vulnerable to virus. Its will be great experience having and working on both Mac and Windows platform.

Undergraduate Study Done

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.