I was so tense before the 3rd 15-111 Exam today that I practically couldn't smile or be cheerful anytime before 11.30am. It went okay I guess. I just hope my code doesn't fail me.


The main event of the day for me was the Chemical Boat race held at the Fence. Sunny day today and the weather was cool. I like it. There was quite a crowd of Chemical Engineering undergraduates witnessing us freshmen racing our Styrofoam boats.

The length was 45 ft. 0 load.

Ours went like this: our first try was only 33 ft and we believe that the bottle was not shaken very well. The jet went slow. I panicked of course. So, on our second try, we made sure the bottle was shaken really well till white foam was seen inside the tube. It really went faster than any other competing boats but we lacked the amount of liquid so it stoped at 40 ft. It was really a boost of confidence and on our third try, we added an 50 mL of acid. It didn't went further. 39.8 ft I think.

Anyway, we were glad that it went striaght. To tell the truth, we were more worried on it not going straight than the amount of chemicals needed. Calvin's group was the winner and they deserve it after all their effort. We worked hard too but not as hard Calvin's. Anyway, glad that it was over. The race was more memorable than my Mech E race last year. Designing a boat is much easier than a car definitely.

Our boat didn't really go what we expected. Calvin's group is doing really well. They could ask for a distance and get the boat to go there chemically. Our team needs to get the data right today.



It's last week of class. Less time to blog.

Lucky for me to have to go out and send the F.C.E. for Prof. McElfresh. I realized that it's chilly outside and I need get a jacket for the outdoor testing of chem boat.



Went to mIRC for the first time in like...a year? Met my second cousin Fabian @ #iban. We've not met for around 5 years I think. Maybe more. I updated me with his current life in UPM Bintulu and on his cousin Freddy. Told me he has a gf so chun that he's jealous. Haha. We spoke Iban on text which is kinda awkward at first. My spoken Iban sucks coz I tend to stammer in that language. I think my brother's and sister's mastery of the language is better than mine. Partly because they have more Iban friends in school and they speak Iban with them. For me, I spoke Malay with my Iban friend. What a shame.



In Iban, the word for "Malay" is "Laut". I was thinking on the origin of the term. I don't think it sounds any near to the Malay word for "sea". Also, I don't think Malays live near the sea. One possiblity is that the Ibans brought along the term from the origin in Sumatera a couple hundred years ago. Maybe they interacted with the Malays in Sumatera. Another possiblity that the Ibans must have referred them to the people who lives near the sea. The Malays and Melanaus in Sarawak generally live by the sea especially along the Kuching and Sibu division. So, I guess when the Malays first meet the Iban, they were introduced as people who lives near the sea. "Kami orang tinggal dekat laut sana." The Ibans might have nodded with partial confusion so they referred them as "laut" since the Malays said they live near the sea.

"Maybe she just wants to be my friend...."



I'm done with my Physics formal report. Everything typed out and the diagrams are done. All I need now is to check them tomorrow by rereading it 10 times. Haha. The amount of error-checking I have to do is twice the amount that an ordinary person has to do. My fierce and strict English tutor when I was in Primary 3, Ms. Wee, said I'm a very careless students. What else could she expect from me? I was only a 9-year-old studying English with 13-year-olds. Hahaha. Here I'm showing off.



I just hope my 2nd last programming assignment that I've just submitted will get full mark. It's 8 points but it seems easy. The easiness makes me feel uneasy. 8 points for creating a basic BST? I had worse time coding previous assignments whose full points were only 5.



I just bargained for a desktop computer from another student. I just hope he takes my offer. I'm hoping to run a server in room. There's so much things to learn in Linux and PHP.

Wish it could be real



I'm feeling really cold now. I think it's because of the surge in caffeine in my bloodstream now. I dranked a half-bottle of DIET Pepsi an hour ago. I just wonder why caffeine makes you feel cold after a while.



Irwan is moving into the apartment for the summer. I rushed back from my campus to help him moved his stuffs into the room. When I saw his self-assembled PC with a flat panel display, I was very much tempted to go order a motherboard right away. In fact, I've been trying to surpress the temptation to build a desktop. But look at how much I've spent on my IBM Thinkpad, I should tell myself that a desktop can wait. Probably after the summer when the unspent allowance accumulates.



Nice weather today but I did nothing outdoors to take advantage of the warm temperature. The only time I spent under the sun was watching Prof. Powers and Matt fixing the the trough for Wednesday's Chemical Boat Competition.

This weekend shall be Physic Lab Formal Report weekend. I've just completed the introduction part which I made for nearly 2 pages. I had to relate the principle of equipartition with the the ratio of specific heats, gamma. I'm kinda satisfied with what I explained. No gray area but I need some physicist to verify it.



Still worried about the outcome of my final grade...

I'm just so frustrated with my 15-111 (Java) quiz 3. I just couldn't get the deleteFirst method to work. It worked on 5/7 test cases. Even worse, I ran out of time so I didn't check the previous methods and questions.



I just don't want to get a B for this course. I really don't want...