NACES 2008

Event: National Chemical Engineering Symposium (NACES)
CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHEMICAL ENGINEERS IN A
CHANGING GLOBAL ECONOMY
Date: 1/08/2008 till 3/08/2008
Venue: Faculty of Engineering, UPM

Dis is suppose to be up..very very very long ago.
Forgive me that I don't have much time to blog about this.

First, let me introduce to u wht is NACES...
It's jus something like a conference, tht gathers all the chemical engineering students from public uni and some private colleges.
In these 3 days, there were ice-breaking games, d usual...some talks n forums....some activities of course (eg. station games), technical powerpoint presentation and essay competition.
D essay competition's deadline ended b4 NACES starts. So, it will only hold the prize giving ceremony..

A few of us joined the technical powerpoint presentation, n it's very very stressful..
Appreciate the chance very much from all d seniors.

Jus a brief bout wht v did during the 3 days...
The opening ceremony was fab! then slideshow for the opening is cool~
Of course...all my seniors are fantastic!

This post is actually dedicated to all my seniors for their help during NACES..
Typed this post way before...duno when d. sryyy...

"I have no idea how to thank all of u..
The seniors are really really really really supportive and helpful!
All d last minute work, last minute tips....very much appreciated..
I don't know bout the others, but I really do appreciate it lots n will never ever forget!

Let's see a bit of who my seniors are =P...

Ying Hong:
A walking chemical engineering handbook..any terms u named, he'll know bout it.
Thanks for being there for us anytime v msged or called, even though he himself is so so busy..
A big thanks for being thr during our presentation even though u r having fever that time..it meant a lot to us~
I still remembered hw tired and "blurred" or should i use, exhausted u look in the presentation hall that time..haha
Thanks for giving me the chance to learn from u during NACES!
And also thanks for the money, Mr. treasurer! =P
How can i ever repay u? >.<

Jason:
Another walking chem engineering handbook.. =P
This senior here is famous for his superb brain but then he is also superb on editing powerpoint slides!
Imagine he "madeover" our slides in jus 2 days!!!
Our slides are now presentable n attractive!
He edited all the slides according to all our preferences, planned an interesting intro for willie and the news articles which supported our title very very much..
It's really such a waste tht u couldnt see our presentation since u were on duty in another presentation hall =(

Hwei Lin:
Our very leng lui super senior.. =P
Also our very creative senior..
Came out with our slides' templates in jus one night!
But then it can only take her one night coz she is also very busy n her schedule is fully packed.

Mee Khuan:
Another leng lui super senior =D
She helped us lots on figuring the economic analysis for our presentation..
Estimated cost for the plantation, the harvesting period, the period of time required to gain back all the investment..blah blah blah
V dont know any of all these..she taught us!

Teik Chow:
He was too busy to notice us i guess. haha...but he still make it to our presentation =)
And thanks to all d really last minute advices (really last minute, mayb like 30 minutes or less b4 our presentation, when v were already in the hall?)
and to calm us down? additional points added for ur "super sexy" voice? haha..
FYI, he shouted till he got serious sore throat jus after the first day of NACES..
I have a feeling u were much more nervous than us, or me at least =P

Alvin:
Our dearest director of NACES 2008.
Firstly, a big congratz to him for NACES being so successful~
I dont have to mention i guess. As usual, he wont even have time to rest himself.
But thanks a lot, alvin. He promised us to make it to our presentation n he did... =)
I hope v didnt waste ur time for bringing u in to see our presentation.
Not to forget all the advices on the night before the presentation day.
I sincerely apologize for partially ignored one of the most important advices u gave us.
If not, v might have won the trophy for UPM *sobs*
We will never ever repeat that mistake again.

Hong Tat:
The senior that don't really comment much. He jus listened?
Tht's wht he did after our presentation. His unique way of encouraging us mayb?

Jacklyn:
I gav u a lot of troubles? hehe..
The academic and competition unit director. was under her unit..
Was under her in ChESS also..working with her too much till i m giving her too many troubles
She couldnt help us much on the presentation since she is supposed to be fair being the unit director who is in-charge of it.
Duno hw to thank u o *speechless d*

Dr Chuah n Dr Thomas:
Thanks to dr fr both the info n advices!!
n being so supportive =) "

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JOGOYA~

hiiiiiii~
long time no updates!

sry ppl, i jus finished my finals on the 3rd of oct..
then our 1st outing after our finals...

*dang dang dang*

JOGOYA!!!

date: 4th of November 2008
time: 11.40am (for lunch)
venue: Jogoya, Starhill Gallery

I'm very excited to eat thr of course, since i have been aiming it for a very long time.
V ate at 51bucks per person...d ori was rm78++!!
thanks to the very kind n nice auntie tht offered us her Standard Chartered credit card in order for us to get 50% discount!! n thanks to kai's sister's Jogoya VIP card!!! v got lots of extremely tasty food due to tht...

13 of us went...so in total it cost 660 bucks!

d lobsters are nice n delicious..
d crabs and prawns too~
d unagi is superb!
d chocolates are good~
d cakes are so so~
d ice- creams are expensive! but quite nice...

=P

time for pictures!

more photos can b viewed from my facebook!
=D

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dead

i know my blog is dead..
n i m in person too...
due to those crazy finals, assignments n projects!
i ll b back after 3rd of nov!

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edited

editing my wish list now..

1. hope to survive in uni for 4 years with satisfying results... (this remains coz i really really hope tht i can do it)

2. maintain both my academic n activities (it's getting harder now *sobs*)

3. remember everyone s bday..even though i got m calendar to help me now...(i really need this!)

4. mangas!!!!anime!!!!more more!!i wan more!

5. badly in need of a camera casing to store my skinny t! (currently saving for one)

6. need a headphone also (mine half-spoil)

7. lastly but not least, more new clothes n bags? =D

u all tahu-tahu lahhh... =P

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skinny t phase 2

now let's see..
d details >.< >SONY ULTRA SLIM CAMERA!!!
with 10.1 MP, 3-inch touch screen, 4x Optical zoom???
n it ranges from 8 bucks to 888 bucks???

i was like "can i tag along tmrw?"
i pulled along hsim, my coursemate to this crazy promo launch.
i don't know wht came to me till i m crazy enough to stay overnight in Time Square jus for this camera.

v waited 22 hours for it. that includes,
- run till 5th floor to "ta pao" mcd as our lunch,
- wandering around from time square to lowyat, sg wang wif one of my senior jus to get the atm machine to cash out money.
- chit chatting nonsense
- watched stephen chow's funny movie on our "neighbour's laptop" for ermm, jus half n hour i suppose
- sitting thr learning hw to do my heat exhanger project from my senior
- disturbing another senior not to let him study (yea, he actually brought along a book as thick as 2 n 1/2 inch to study =.=")
- observing all the other crazy ppl tht came to line up, n most of them i assumed are sony freaks.coz i saw sony vaio, sony psp n sony t-album.
for those who own a t-album, y r u ppl still lining up for skinny t????

all these happen during the unofficial queue..jus as the photo below:

lots of chaos actually happen during tht period of time. the cut-queue stuff...
according to the schedule, the official queue suppose to b at only 6am..
but i guess the sony staff "kasihan" us, coz they let us into the official queue at ard 12am..

during the rearrangement, another cut queue incident happened again. aihz.
till d staff and rela came. =.=
after all the hassle, the queue became like this:


it is much more narrow compare to the space v had jus now =(
n v stayed or sit thr till the next morning...
in between, v climbed out to the "cage" to go to the washroom n slp in whtever style tht v can think of.
my legs get numb easily ere *too narrow!*



oh ya, i forget to mention tht, v r given a bottle of water and a white T to color.. crayons are provided by them..haha




v only got to know our prices around 3am i think.
there are 350 units.
first 10 will get it at 8 bucks~~ p/s: the 1st person was thr since thurs night
11-20 at 18 bucks..at the list goes on

the 4 of us (no. 65- 68) got the price, 488 bucks...

10.45am the crazy buy finally starts!


v r given the chance to skin it for free, but i jus took back the sticker =)

my seniors registered for the treasure hunt at 2pm later, but they didnt managed to get in.
It's only for the first 20 teams..

then v have lunch n went back home.

here it is now. my brand new brownie, skinny t, T-77...



=P

all the other photos taken are uploaded in my facebook.. click here to view them o!

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skinny t

my new digital camera~

SKINNY T , DSC T-77

it costs me

488 bucks + 22 hours !

i ll present the camera at once n
i'll save the details during the 22hours later~

i was deciding between black n brown.
at last, i went for brown coz it looks more classy..hehe =P

p/s: it supposed to be brown k, not black....

both of these photos are taken using my W810i of course...

N now photos from the Skinny-T



took it in The Curve this morning =)
i m not pro in these..m improving as much as i can!

i m still very excited bout the camera! =D

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Yakult now~!

Next...

Date: 25th of July 2008
Time: 8.00am to 12.00pm
Numbers of participants: 67 students and 2 lecturers from our department (taking up 2 buses)
Venue: Yakult (M) Sdn Bhd

It's open to all 2nd and 3rd year students from Chemical Engineering, UPM. Yea, this trip is under me... =D

Honestly, the proposal for the approval of this trip has been sent to the Bahagian Hal Ehwal Pelajar (BHEP) since last sem or u can say, last year. N it's only been approved on the 1st week of this sem. The BHEP do take some time to approve something huh?

There were lots to settle after the approval...
The souvenir application, the confirmation with the transport, lecturers, etc...
Anyway, everything is settled by the time v r going for the trip, of course.

The person in charge of the trip from the Yakult is Ms Chew. She is a very friendly and nice lady.
So, I strongly recommend, if any of u is planning any educational trip to anywhere, go for YAKULT!!

Yakult provides a very comfortable visitor spots for everyone since they welcome visitors to their factories.

"As per our teleconversation, Yakult is equiped with a visitor corridor that enable all visitor to view the whole production process through glass window. And this design is taking consideration on the prevention of contamination and safety of all visitors. Therefore, visitors can wear any attire during the factory visit and it shouldn't be any problem for pregnant lady to come by too."

An explaination provided by Ms Chew when I requested to know more bout how the visit is conducted beforehand.

Most of us r impressed by hw well the whole visit is prepared. A big thanks to Ms Chew!
Not to forget the slides n video presentation on Yakult later on in the hall...
All of us got to try a bottle of Yakult for free..n get to buy 1 row of Yakult (5 bottles) at a discounted rate, which is RM 3.70.. (ermm, outside selling at around RM 3.95 i guess)

I bought 3 rows, 2 rows for both the bus drivers n another row for me n my roommates..

It was tiring for me during this trip, compared to all the others of course.
But it was fun and it's worth to go so far for this trip.. =)

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Vitagen!

Aloha
Finally, my first ever update after my 3rd sem has started.
I'm starting with the appetizer first, going on the light ones..


Date: 18th July 2008, Friday
Time: 3pm-5pm
Venue: Malaysia Milk (M) Sdn. Bhd (Vitagen)

ermm..this is jus a simple trip that I tagged along with the juniors.
Supposed to help my senior, Jacklyn out for this trip since I'm from pj..
(Note: Vitagen factory is located ere, for those who don't know)

FYI, this trip is organized by Jacklyn, my 3rd year senior, for the 1st years to let them have a fun n educational trip.
A few of the 3rd year seniors came along too..by car. haha
I'm the only 2nd year thr. sad case rit?

The sad part of the trip was not jus this, let's see..

1) The bus driver was not punctual at all!! He only came to us at 2.45pm, schduled to be 2.15 pm at least. So, with the traffic after prayers on fri, I guessed that I don't have to tell u ppl about how bad is it. N we were totally off from our planned schdule.

2)I'm sorry to tell that the person from Vitagen that was in charge of our trip wasn't that friendly as well. I guessed she was really annoyed that we were late. But we told her right we got into the bus!! She should be more considerate. =(

3) The factory visit wasn't interesting, since we can only visit the packaging section. N we realized something. After the Vitagen has been packed into rows, the Vitagens are actually exposed to the 'hot air' (because it is quite warm in the factory) n the person in charge told us that we supposed to keep all the Vitagens under 4 degree celcius? N all the packed Vitagens are left there for quite some time (from what we observed), even though the person in charge told us that they will be transferred into the 'freezer' in a few minutes' time.

The question is, "Will the Vitagens still be fresh?" =D
Get the answer yourself..hehe

Forget about the sad ones, we enjoyed anyway!

The best part of the trip was, all of us managed to get one whole row of Vitagens n a packet of Chocolate milk for free! =D
But those who answered the Q&A section earlier during the presentation, were given two rows per person. *jealousss*

Gona mention ere n give credits to those very sweet juniors who asked me to pass a bottle or two Vitagens to their direct seniors (d girls in my college).
All those juniors that did that were guys k...it's really very sweet of them, but sadly my junior didn't pass me any *sobs*
I still got a bottle from my ex-junior or he is considered my half- junior, Daniel anyway.. =P

As for all the Vitagens I got, I distributed them to the rest of my coursemates in college, besides keeping one for myself, of course...hehe

Sryy. There aren't any photos on this trip due to some reasons. I will try to get from another senior since he took some photos using his camera phone. Will upload it later!

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