Top 5 in 2012 - S-SPEC Winner

Happy New Year and I hope it's not too late to wish everyone here. I would like to take this opportunity to do some recaps on what I've achieved in the year of 2012. I'm proud to announce that I'm the grand prize winner of Shell Inter-Varsity Student Paper Presentation Contest (S-SPEC 2012) under undergraduates category. It was my second attempt to win this coveted prize and I had additional RM2,000 in my pocket after the event. In year 2011, I did participate in this competition but I went home with empty handed and this spurred me on joining this event again before I'm officially graduated from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM).

The highlight of the event was my money got stolen at the night before the event started.

For more information, please log on http://www.utm.my/sspec2013/. Please the opportunity to participate this amazing event and I believe that you won't regret later.

Random Thought

It has been months since I updated my blog. Yeah....finally I finish my studies at UPM and currently I am looking for a good job. I attended some interviews for the past few months and some offered me the jobs and some didn't work out. I attended P's interview last month and after two weeks, I didn't receive any response from HR. I decided to call him and luckily he picked up my phone. I asked him whether I passed the interview or not and he said I passed the interview and I need to send him the final transcript and letter from university before he can issue me the offer letter. Everything was done orally and I don't feel secure because normally I will do things in black and white so that we can keep track on it, in case anything goes wrong. 

If everything goes well, I shall start working in September and I will be based in Kuantan, Pahang. Hopefully the HR guy didn't break his promise and he will issue me the offer letter as soon as possible. Actually, I am hesitate to travel far to Kuantan to start my work because I always wish that my workplace will be somewhere near KL so that I can go back hometown easily during the weekends.

I was happy to receive a call from EM last month and I knew that the phone conversation lasted very short only, probably about 5 minutes. Since then, I'm keep waiting for their call and email everyday because I hope that I will be invited for the face-to-face interview with EM. If I manage to secure it, I will be based in KL and I like it. It has been weeks and they still have not call me for another interview. I felt demotivated and hopefully, they are still screening the potential candidates for an interview, instead of dumping me without any notice because I still have a faith that they will call me one day for an interview. In the earlier phone conversation, I don't feel like they are going to reject my application because they ended the conversation by checking on whether my emailing address was correct or not. This hint is quite obvious to me that they want to contact me again or probably they will not call me again because I think too much.

Anyway, I really hope that I am able to secure a job upon graduation. Seeing other course mates starting their career lives could add more pressure on myself but I still believe that finding a right job is always important so that your career goals can be achieved in the near future. Right now, I still writing a journal for my final year project and I feel lazy to do it. Hopefully more good news will come after this.

Awaiting Hong Kong Trip 2012

Yeah, finally its arrived. Less than 24 hours, I will be boarding and traveling to Hong Kong. It is my first oversea trip this year (2012) and I am really excited to be a part of this trip. There are 7 of us will be heading to Hong Kong tomorrow and we are taking the morning flight (6.00 a.m). Thanks to AirAsia for promotion previously that finally we can fulfill our dreams to fly to Hong Kong. I watched TVB dramas since I was young and I really wish to visit Hong Kong once in my life time. Finally, it comes true and much preparations have been made to make this trip a success one. Arguments and agreements among us cannot be avoided and I hope it doesn't turn out to be hatred later. Hopefully not!

Coming back from Hong Kong later, I need to focus on my final year project and my final sem starts very soon. Really thankful to God for the good results in the sem 7 examination. Job hunting will be carried out soon and more updates will be posted later. Stay tune!

Blogging Time!!

Currently I am doing my internship at Menara Telekom for ACN. So far, I had completed 3 weeks of my internship and it was indeed a memorable experience for getting to know other interns. Most of them were studying overseas and they came back to Malaysia for summer break. Here are some photos to be shared:

Main office entrance

Lovely ACN board

Souvenirs received during interns gathering

5 more weeks to go before a new sem starts and I am officially a fourth year chem eng student by then. Recently, I received a good news that I won a consolation prize for 'PERTANDINGAN KEPENGGUNAAN 2011' under essay writing competition.

Official website FOMCA

Result page

Adios! Lastly....................... 

The highlighted !!

Coming up

More posts I will share with you all after I have completed my industrial training report. Stay tuned...

Back to real business

Almost spent 2 weeks in uni for sem 6 and the first week of lecture classes were always filled with introduction of course syllabus and lab group division. For the past two weeks, my team mate and I were busy preparing PowerPoint slides for L'oreal Brandstorm 2011 and I just sent my team's slides to the Dan (the judge for this competition). Hopefully, my team would be shortlisted for preliminary round and get the opportunity to go to head office of L'oreal next Saturday for short presentation. There are upcoming assignments, lab reports and plant design project waiting for me to compete for the next 12 weeks and I hope I will give them a good shot.

Happy 2011 and Back to School

Happy New Year to everyone. Arrived at UPM college around 2pm and it took almost 4 hours to clean up my room. Really tired and exhausted. During sem break, I managed to finish watching Glee season 2 and Desperate Housewives season 7 till episode 10 but didn't have time to start watching Big Bang Theory (BBT). The second half of 2011, I will carry out my internship in Hexza for 2 months and I'm really looking forward to work as chemical engineer trainee in the company. Tomorrow, I will attend my first lecture class at 8am. All the best in 2011....

NACES 2010: Evidence to Success

Early December, I went for NACES 2010 and I managed to win some prizes. I won first place for Technical Essay Writing Competition and third place for Technical PowerPoint Presentation with fellow team mates (Daniel, Weewee and Szeleng). More happy news is UPM was announced as the best univesity in NACES 2010 because we managed to grab top three prizes.Here are the some reports on NACES 2010 made by UPM internal affairs:

                          

Pic 1: This news can be read  here

Back to November

   Finally the gruesome exams were over and I was planning to take some time to relax myself at home before going back to uni on 1st of December to attend Naces 2010. Naces 2010 can be considered as an annual grand event for all chemical engineering students in public and private unis. This time, I was given the opportunity to participate in essay writing competition and technical power point presentation. I was greedy enough to accept the offers and I must admit that I was struggling to divide my time and focus on both competitions. I am hoping that there will be good outing for us in this Naces. 

                     

   Glad to be able to watch Asian Games report daily on tv but I'm really disappointed at badminton players the most. They can make us proud by grabbing the gold medals for individual event and I will put the blame on BAM for the team competition failure. The back-up players of our country always fail to give good performance in crucial stage and this indicate that our country will not have good players for the coming decade. Personally, I don't know why our players like Koo/Tan and Lee can't handle the pressure of playing in the rubber game. They are easily making the silly mistakes and didn't give a good fight to their oppenents. Their coach always make excuse for their under-performed and they never brave enough to admit that our players are still not good enough. Very disappointing and I wish our badminton players can emulate Nicol DAvid success and she did lose in several matches but she always make quick recovery by winning the next tournament. I'm not saying that our players must win all the tournaments they participate in but at least they will try not to lose to the same opponents easily.

  Coming up next....report on course trip and tv shows.........

July....

Before July ends, I should write something in my blog. 

1st, 2nd and 3rd week of sem 5,

- Busy in preparing for the Chem-E-Car competition but didnt win anything..sorry UPM
- during this period, I didnt have my proper meals and spend most of my time in material lab AND skipping
   the classes as well.
- managed to escape from experimental failure by going to Green Box with kakis. Really enjoy by singing
   'Baby- Justin Bieber' twice and Adam Lambert hits 'Whataya Want from me'
- Not to forget, I was trying to finish watching the TVB drama 'Mysterious of Love' and Raymond Lam really
   blew me off.

This week 

- I received the money from JPA and no worries over financial problem
- watched 'Inception' on Wednesday and this movie was awesome.....I wished I was one of the casts.
- announcement test 1 by lecturer = no holiday for this weekend
- And today I received one good news...I won consolation prize for essay writing competition...(extra
   RM100 in my pocket and a cert for my collection)...wish to hit the jackpot (RM2,500)
- Dressing casual for the coursenite..just few hours away from now...

That's how I spent my weeks in UPM so far.........................

2 MORE PAPERS TO GO.....

My last paper for this week is Pengucapan Awam on Friday night and next week, I'm going to sit for Unit Operation 1 before heading to Genting with fellow coursemates. Hopefully, my first time visit to Genting would be memorable and fruitful one. Really can't wait to visit casino and theme park. Last week, I went back to Ipoh and I felt that the climate in Ipoh had changed tremendously because I was sweating all day long. With Andrew Garcia's exit, I think I will not going to watch the American Idol season 9 because the rest of the contestants are really lacking of star power and charisma. This sem break would be the short one to me because I have to go back to UPM earlier to invent my Chem E Car. My group was selected with other 4 groups to represent UPM in this Chem E Car competition this July. All the best..

Course Nite 0910

Last Thursday, the UPM chemical engineering students had their course night at Mines Resort successfully. The second year students are the committee members in this event. I was given the task to be the program protocol but I didn't do much thing due to my laziness. This year, not much seniors attended the course night because they said it was expensive. What a lame excuse!! Haha just kidding..they have their rights for not attending plus they are having exam for the coming week. There were array of food but some of them were tasteless but still can fill in the stomach. There were also three performances from juniors but the last performance with Phua Chu Kang character really captured the audience's attention and the first two performance really..........speechless......kudos to their efforts. Below are the pics taken during the event..

The food still being warmed...

High Five bread is here.......just add favor to it so it will look tasty

what is this??? cakes....so minute only one plate is on the table....

can everyone got the chance to taste it? I guess nope..

pic of me and direct junior....

The event ended at 11.15pm and the juniors were safe to reach college. Earlier, I had packed my things to stay in my course mate house for one night.......... Exciting story would be up next......
Please stay tuned..............................................................................to be continued.......haha

Pesta Ang Pow UPM 2009

Have you seen this before?? It is called tangram or 七巧板 in chinese. I was involved in UPM Pesta Ang Pow 2009 carnival and it was held on 14th Feb 2009. The purpose of having this carnival is to promote Chinese cultures to other races. I am sure that other local universities are also organising this event. It was my friend's idea to have this games in the carnival. Coming to UPM, I'm frequently using Mandarin to communicate with friends and now I have learnt a lot of Chinese characters too. Tangram is a one of traditional Chinese games. All you have to do is form one particular shape like cat or house by using this tangram. It seem easy to form but majority hardly form a complete shape. Only genius can do it within seconds. Are you the one?

tangram

tangram
'kan pan' or 看板means notice board

UPM Engineering Faculty

I promise that I will post some pictures of my faculty in my blog. Here is some of them:

the lake in front of my faculty

the small building is VIP lounge

the laboratories where all the high-tech machines stored here

side view

side view


I hope you all really enjoy seeing it. The reason why i write short entries in my blog is because of time-constrait. Coming to 2 sem, there are a lot of assignments need to be finished up and i need to do revision as the formulas and calculations getting more and more complicated.

My Room @ UPM College

This is my room at UPM college. 2 persons per room and the wifi connection here is considered good enough. Later, I will post some of my fac pictures.