6 for RM24!

2 weeks of this semester has gone. i bet this semester will be another busy one. maybe busier than last semester. on the first week alone, we've been briefed about 3 projects that we should do along this semester, and that's only for one subject. i bet there're not much work for other subjects except for some tutorials and ocsasional assignment.

but for the 3 projects, we have to design 3 different things. the first would be to design an ice cream machine. a machine to make ice cream. not that ais krim malaysia that ur mom used to make when u're little u silly. i don't really grasp the idea but basically, u have to mix ice and a little bit of salt so that the melting temperature for the ice will go below 0 degree celcius. it sounds easy and maybe it does. that's why we're suppose to design and produce the ice cream machine as the final product.

the second one would be to design a car chasis. this would involve a lot of calculation involving force, finite element and stresses. luckily we're not asked to design the floor pan of a car. the car's floor pan (which is basically the 'floor' of the car) is one of the hardest part of car to design besides the engine that most car manufacturer use the same floor pan design for different model of car. ask perodua if u don't believe me. but we don't have to produce the actual chasis, just designing on papers. but it do involve a lot of calculations and drawings, so it may be a lot harder than actually producing the ice cream machine.

the third project is to design a ventilation system for a 2 storey house. a ventilation system is basically an air conditioning unit with other additional system which is the air circulation system, cooling tower and chill water system. a lot of theory from thermodynamics will be used to design this so a lot of revision are needed.

and then again, i also have to build a website for my web authorization subject. so a lot of HTML will be needed and i'll be uploading the website on a .com domain. don't think that it's free. i'll have to pay for the domain name and web hosting but it has a special price for UM students and it's one of the requirement for me to pass this subject, so i won't object. i'm thinking of putting a site that put up reviews of bands, movies and books. just like 3hive, but i'll expand it on books and movies. got any suggestion for my domain name?

like i said, this would be quite a hectic semester for me. and for now, i'll try to meet my friends in subang and shah alam more often as i believe i wouldn't have the luxury to visit them once i've been very busy.

last saturday i went to paylessbooks with zairi, adan and taufik. they're selling some books for cheap. 5 for RM12! so being cheap as i am, i took 5 books from the cheap rack, and one book by zadie smith from the normal priced rack and pay RM24 for 6 books! worth it eh. rather than paying RM30++ for one new books, i got 6 for RM24! this will last me at least a year to finish them. hahaha!