Homecoming

The 3rd year term is finnish and i'm back home for 4 months. It's summer break again! Supposed to be in Kelantan rite now but my mom caught a fever last night. So, i'm here in my room writing this post.

Damn my room was full of dust juz now. Vacuum it all and rearranged the room a bit to accomodate my 4 guitars better. Not really sure with the current arrangement but i'll juz let it be for a while. Change it if i think i would(or rajin enough).

Wut 2 do this 4 month? Money is what i want! for next UNMC term (4th year) cost of living and for a bit of expense money in Melbourne in the coming Sept! Got an interview (or a small chit chat as they said it would be) this monday with Reckitt & Beckinsale at Mutiara Damansara for a 3-4 months temporary job as a "Packaging Administrator". Wuteva that is. The target for this monday would juz to do my best in the interview at least in my book.

Another 4 months of mem'buncit'kn perut!!!!!!!!!!!!

Zombie

2 AM
Heavy head
Blurry eyes
Fighting to stay awake
Heat transfer
Numerical techniques
Conduction, convection and radiation
oh the assignment
should i go to the neverland
or should i stood strong
shed light into my head
with knowledge of might or might not be used
damn!
I'm off!

Reasons of negativity

Thoughts of skies and above
Creeping with light from the darkness
Mistrust rising above all
Reasons of negativity
Gave it all to me
Should it set you free
See of left and right
Brings you to nowhere but down
Dig up Dig up
Crossing over the river
Over to the tree that hopes
Reasons of negativity
Its all that matters
Giving unto the negativity
So bring me down
Down below the bottom

EXAM!!!

So tomorrow is my first paper. MM3 AUT, introduction to automotive technology. Not sure i'm prepared or not. but i'll do my best. got lots more to memorise and understand. lots of assumption done! haha

4 papers this sem. studied heat transfer already but did no excersice yet. gotta straight do the coursework tomorrow night coz its due on friday! also gotta touch a bit of management studies B coz only hav one day gap after heat transfer.

Then, only one will be left... Control n Instrumentation! most mechanical guys really hate dat subject. maybe coz of Hazeem or maybe coz of da subject itself! hmmm.. but still, hav to study it.

Target is to get above 60! up to 2nd upper!

Gud luck for us all!!!

Boredom post..

..and so i'm bored. exam's two weeks away. started already studying a bit for Heat transfer. too lazy to study. too bored to do anythng else. hmmm....

but that's wut a guitar for! muahahaha. the song Ruin hav lot to practice and learn. the solo part of Unforgiven III sounds interesting. perhaps, i should continue learning it instead of knowing the first three notes only. hahaha.


*listening to As-Sahar's Meditation Embum Pagi.. raw sounding black metal album...

Queen of Langkasuka, and FA cup final..

Damn, what a day yesterday was. Went to Stadium bukit Jalil at noon to buy da FA cup final ticket. Then, head to bukit bintang/imbi by LRT from there. went to Pavillion aslo where we (me, Nik izat and Dann)watch da movie, Queen of Langkasuka.

Oh, buy what a movie. Claimed to cost 20million USD. The movie was epic! simply epic. revolved around the Langkasuka empire under the rule of Queen Hijau (her sister's name was Biru, and Ungu)
What i really like was their fighters especially the commander. coz they're all are (atleast seems like) pendekar melayu. using silat as their martial art and keris as their weapon. even the queen has a keris! make me feel dissapointed actually that the Thai's are the one that made movie about the greatness of pahlawan melayu with all the silat. This type of movie should be made here (atleast 2-3 a year probably) instead of those shitty lovey-dovey yusuf haslam (or his son) movies. CGI shoudln't be wasted making STUPID movie like Antoo Fighter or sumthing-brain (don't remember the title). We have rich history to be exploited into a movie. we should really do that. the director of Queen of Langkasuka spent over a year of research to make this movie. Why couldn't we? Anyway, another interesting thing about this movie is how the english subtitle (made by the Thai) translated 'Hang Jarang' (the commander) as 'Lord Jarang'. This could be said that the Thai regards the 'Hang' as a title, not part of a name. Make sense if u think about it because the ones that has 'Hang' in front of his name are warriors/pahlawan/pendekar. Interesting thing to take into consideration into the debate of 'Hang Tuah is a chinese'.

Anyway, after da movie, we head to the stadium, full packed with fans from both sides. we nearly couldn't get any seats! had to panjat to get to seats. haha. however, the game sucks! The first half can be said (atleast to me) as building up. but the second half was terrible, from both sides. then, the 'goal half' at da first half of extra time. the game was quite good especially after kelantan scored. but damn it was a great feeling when selangor equalised! At last, Selangor won the cup at penalty shoot-out! sucky game but happy cos we won! hahaha

EDIT: and because of all the above, i lost my voice!!

of Volvo240 and its sentimental values..

Volvo 240 GLi (injection). The 'Brick' someone would call it. 19 years old, that's how old it is. atleast according to the car grant. My dad bought it from his friend ( Uncle Lan and Aunti G) after being used for around a year (i think) before they moved to the US. Well, it's the only car i could remember that my dad had, Don't recall anything before this car.

It's a powerful 2.0L injection engine(quite ahead of its time), with that trademark roar most people would recognise from a far. Sure, it's body doesn't look 'beautiful/cool' without any aerodynamic feature. Just... box. But does state somewhat like a statement of its boldness. inside, the car is very comfortable without much effect when running throught bumps or rough road. a great car indeed.

about 3 years back, late 2005, my dad gave this car to me after he bought a new (2nd hand actually) volvo; Volvo S80. I was in my foundation year at UNMC. Didn't really drive much at that time. heh, as i remember i would fill the tank usually for rm10 or 20 a time those days. Start to use it more often since the summer break, working at OU. Till then, around rm50 a week of fuel spent for this car. Maintainance was quite high in 2006 but reduced down a bit after that. mostly only regular service after that.

I've been very attached to this car since then. learned a lot from this car. and have great plans for this car. bragged to friends bout how i would use it till i can afford to buy my own car (once started working).

but now... it's all going to an end. going to let go of it and take my sis's Myvi. had a quite hard time deciding for this. all but me are for taking Myvi. feel so hard to let this car go. not really sure why. the point that everyone else gave is so strong over my 'sentimental value' point. well, all things gotta go some time. really gonna miss this car...

A saturday morning post..

It's saturday morning of 4th april. Days of hard works getting the right result for the project. And now a bit tired and lazier.. Tonite is the annual dinner. Hmmm.. how would it be? Red Carpet Affair? Don't really have any high expectations honestly. Just wanna see my gurl happy with her newest dress, cardigans, heels, clutch and accessories. But ofcourse, i'll still enjoy myself with wuteva in store. Wonder who's the guest performance. It better top last year's Jason Lo. But IMHO, don't really think so..

On another topic, we got a new Country leader! A Nottingham University Grad he is.. I think it was in economics. But anyway, he does take this post in a very complicated time. The downfall of the world's economy and the complicated(or stooopid) political scene of Malaysia. Considering he's in a 'Do or Die' situation, wonder how would he perform. Can he cusioned a bit the economic downturn that are reaching our shores? All the best to him. And if he fails, hope the impact of the fall won't be catastrophic..

Malaysia... my beloved motherland (as the Russian said it). Hope the leaders (politicans) can reduce their politics and DO their job..

Well, i'm off to lunch! Presentation slides preparation after that...

Metal Zone... Modded!

Stock, this noise box would give you a quite wide array of sounds. But no matter how you dial it, there's always that spiky mids that hurts ur ears so much. the sound is too sterile. it's been love and hate relationship between me and this box for a while. Mess with one of the knob ones, i'll get frustrated with it.

So one day while surfing the net, i've discovered something called pedal mod! ofcourse there's those infamous Robert Keeley and analogman, but they don't sell kits and i have to bear the cost of shipping there and back plus the mods! So i look into kits. First discovered pedaldoc.com but then settled with monteallums.com. So, once i got my debit mastercard and set up my paypal, i ordered the 'Tri-gain Sustaniac mod' kit.

With soldering skills of guitar cables, i gave it a go. Took quite a number of hours to do the mod. Changed some of the components to higher quality stuffs (metal polyfilm, metal boxed etc.) and also to other values. Took out the caps that's responsible for those spike mids. and added a switch to switch between two types of clipping; LEDs or germanium diodes, or just lift the clipping section altogether.

The result? a much2 improved distortion with better tones to be dialed to. The germanium diodes is my favourite althought having much lesser volume than 'lift' and LED mode. i didn't like the LED clippings.

So, after discovering diystompbox.com, gathered more info for further mods of MT2. I modded it more to give more fatness and replaced the LEDs with assymetrical clipping of germanium-silicon (1n34a-1n4001) diode combo. Just subtle difference actually comparing to the germanium diode symmetrical clippings.

After almost a year, decided to mod it a bit more. changed a cap value for a wider mid and replaced germanium diodes with JFET (J201). Better tone with noticable change in the mids frequency. However, the sustain with JFET clippings is too short. Great crunch, but lack of sustain.

Still, those assym clippings mode is my fav! Conclusion, i now have a fat and heavy distortion that i loooove so much! what it lack is single note at high notes, the treble kinda spiky there.. hmmm..

The Dark Room..

In this darkness of my room..
alone..
i write this entry..
without any idea of wut to write or wutsoever..
wuteva my fingers will bring..
it'll jump around this keyboard writing words..
making sense or not...
with a slight headache for oversleeping in the day..
and a bit of happiness in me..
for the amazing performance of United's FA Cup game..
thinking...