Wishes for This Month

Quoting from Yusuf Islam Spiritual Song "Your Mother"

Who Should I give my love to,

My Respect & My honor to,

Who should I pay good mind to,

After Allah?

And Rasulullah?

Comes your Mother.

Who next?

Your Mother.

Who next?

Your Mother.

And then Your Father...

-Extracted from Bukhari & Muslim-

Utmost gratitude to all the teachers I'd been learning from.

Teacher Mala and associates, SKJ3 Bangi, SAS dan lecturer2 di UTP nih...

*p/s: Klw nk wish jgak biarlah btol2 tepat pade tarikhnya, bukan mcm aku yg dh terlambat nk dekat seminggu dh nih...Paling bagus, hargailah mereka2 ini setiap masa, x perlu tunggu Hari Ibu atau Hari Guru utk menyatakan appresiasi anda terhadap mereka. Chewah...cakap mesti nk gempak je aku nih kn? kn? Xpela..aslkan mesej itu sampai.

Renung-renungkan la...Selamat Beramal~ <----(Sounds familiar? (; )

Kekeke!

EDX 19

EDX 19, which stands for Engineering Design Exhibition, the 19th, is a platform where all qualified 3rd Year Studnts' Engineering Team Projects (ETPs), Final Year Stdnts' Projects (FYPs), including various inventions from UTP's lecturers, are exhibited for public. Simply said, it is an engineering design exhibition lah!

So basically there are 3 categories:

1 Final Year Projects (FYP)

2 Final Year Design Projects (FYDP)

3 Engineering Team Projects (ETP)

all of which to be won.

PRE-EDX

Me and my 5 other teamm8s, who come from various engineering programmes-Chemical, Electrical, Civil and Mechanical Engineering Programme- competed in the pre-EDX in the ETP category, and weren't looking forward to get through to the next round. Reason being, we'd failed during the demo and our protoype sucks! It was so screwed-up that one of the evaluators bluntly commented,

" You've got good idea, but you've failed it! "

..and immidiately left our group standing dumbfounded, leaving us with no chance to defend or at least justify our theory.

Surprisingly enough, 5 days later, my team was listed as one of the qualified groups for the 19th EDX...Huahua...!! We've never figured out, till today, how that was made possible.

THE DAY

Ok, so my team was miraculaously qualified for this 19th exhibition. Of course, like any other team, we'd to put in 'additional' efforts to our project so that no one can disparage our idea during the exhibition. We had to build new prototype by adding some improvement features, we carried out a demo to produce our own video simulation, and some other fixing.

Our group proposed a boom for oil spill cleanup by utilizing human hair as the main component. Ngehehe...some of you may say "Yuck..disgusting!". I know some of you would, I can tell because some of my teamm8s had the same perception towards human hair...thank God they didn't object the idea along the way completing this project....ngehehe..

What we did was actually making the hair into 4cm x 4cm packets as shown in the fig.

Know that human hair does not actually 'absorb' the oil. Instead, it 'adsorbs' the oil.

And we put a lot of these hair packets inside the boom (see figure below) that we have designed in such a way that it increases the efficiency of the adsorbency of the hair packets.

The Boom(...tgn sape la tue..kekeke!)

To increase the efficiency of the adsorbency of the hair, we figured out that by stirring, the amount of oil absorbed is increased by a margin of 50%. So, how do we incorporate the concept of stirring in our boom? We had to install a center blade inside the boom as you can see in the following figure.

View from inside the boom

The center blade provides rotations in the boom to stir the mixture of oil and sea water. The mechanism of the boom is more or less described in the following figure.

Click picture for larger view

The 2nd model ready for simulation.

And for the sake of EDX, we had to carry out some tests for our simulation video. A very simple one.....Now notice the difference of the quality of the water before and after we applied our boom.

BEFORE

AFTER A WHILE...

AFTER

Tadaaaa...! Kesan minyak degil hilang! Kekekeke!

So, we'd managed to increase the efficiency of the application of human hair in our project. Too bad, we left the EDX empty handed. We didn't win any of the award offered which are:

1 Best ETP design

2 Best FYP Design

3 Best FYDP Design
4 The most innovative award
5 Peoples' Choice Award

But overall, I believe our group did a very good job. Well done to my teamm8s.

The Fellas: Bulat, Ucop, Aku and Pekro (and the other 2 girls; sorry no photos of them-I haven't asked the permission to post their pic)

To be continued.......

Go Comic! Today (1)

Here comes a new style. I'll post an entry of a comic sketch of my favourite cartoonist Wiley when I feel like to. (I admire his style of drawing; comot tapi kemas).

So what you can do is to comment on the current issue that this guy has incorporated in his cartoon. You know, different person has different way on how they view the message that this guy's trying to convey. So let's see how does your thinking style work?

Let me start for today

Click on picture for larger view

My Comment: Hmm....To my understanding, this is probably why we've come across movies like the Matrix Trilogy and Butterfly Effect which both happen to be so confusing when you watch them for the 1st time....Ngehehe :)

That's my opinion, you can have yours....

Tanggungjawab Syaitan dlm Kehidupan Kita.

Singgah jap kat page nih. Nak buat post baru tp nantilah. Nih ade nukilan berilmu buat peringatan.

Baca baik-baik dan sebarkanlah kpd kengkawan muslim krg sebagai peringatan kita setiap hari dimana syaitan2 kurang ajar ini mengganggu hidup harian yang mungkin selama ini kita tidak sedar hasutan mereka. Sampaikan kepada sekalian muslimin/muslimat yang lain semoga menjadi pedoman hidup hingga ke akhir hayat.

Umar al-Khattab r. a berkata,

"..terdapat 9 jenis anak syaitan.."

1. Zalituun
Duduk di pasar/kedai supaya manusia hilang sifat jimat cermat. Menggoda supaya manusia berbelanja lebih dan membeli barang-barang yang tidak perlu.

2. Wathiin
Pergi kepada orang yang mendapat musibah supaya bersangka buruk terhadap Allah.

3. A'awan
Menghasut sultan/raja/pemerintah supaya tidak mendekati rakyat. Seronok dengan kedudukan/kekayaan hingga terabai kebajikan rakyat dan tidak mahu mendengar nasihat para ulama.

4. Haffaf
Berkawan baik dengan kaki botol. Suka menghampiri orang yang berada di tempat-tempat maksiat (cth : disko, kelab mlm & tempat yg ada minuman keras).

5. Murrah
Merosakkan dan melalaikan ahli dan orang yg sukakan muzik sehingga lupa kepada Allah. Mereka ini tenggelam dalam keseronokan dan glamour etc.






6. Masuud
Duduk di bibir mulut manusia supaya melahirkan fitnah, gosip, umpatan dan apa sahaja penyakit yg mula dari kata-kata mulut.

7. Daasim
(BERILAH SALAM SEBELUM MASUK KE RUMAH...) Duduk di pintu rumah kita. Jika tidak memberi salam ketika masuk ke rumah, Daasim akan bertindak agar berlaku keruntuhan rumahtangga suami isteri bercerai-berai, suami bertindak ganas, memukul isteri, isteri hilang pertimbangan menuntut cerai, anak-anak didera dan pelbagai bentuk kemusnahan rumah tangga lagi).

8. Walahaan
Menimbulkan rasa was-was dalam diri manusia khususnya ketika berwuduk dan solat dan menjejaskan ibadat-ibadat kita yg lain.

9. Lakhuus
Merupakan sahabat orang Majusi yang menyembah api/matahari.

Dan yang akhir-akhir ni yang paling teruk!
(SCROLL DI BAWAH)..

10. Isetan.
Sebuah pasaraya yg terkemuka di seluruh duniawi. Terdapat di sekitar Lembah Klang, Singapore, Beijing &.....
Kebaikan : Memberi potongan harga pada Karnival jualan.
Keburukan : Melalaikan manusia bershopping sehingga lupa waktu sembahyang dan lupe yg lakinya dah tunggu kat kereta.
Pesanan : Shopping tu agak2 sikit, jangan sampai berlebih2an pulak. Membazir itulah sebenarnya amalan Syaitan.

11. Hindusetan
Nie mereka2 yg menonton criter hindustan, sampai masuk waktu sembahyang,maseh menyonggol depan tv.....kapala keluar tanduk, tak sedar.......jadi lah hindusetan !!!

12. Santan
Yang ini name je makanan ( berguna sedikit untuk masak kari dan masak lemak.) Ha..tapi tak tau..banyak santan ni naik arr kolesterol pastu dpt penyakit kronik seperti darah tinggi dan sakit jantung....


*Semua nukilan di atas adalah ehsan daripada Nik Azlina bt Ayub.

Upside Down

First of all, great news.

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahiim.

MechE Club website version 2 is up!

http://www.mecheclub.com

Yes, today, I was inspired by a friend's post that describes the hardship we're going through during this very year of our study! 4th year...huh!

http://butthaffly.blogspot.com

...and so I intend to write a post on a similar subject...but later. Now I'm busy mcm Neraka!!!