September 2011

As mentioned in previous post...LOL...guess now ppl knew wat i meant by "leisure-time project"...

yees, it was the Freescale Cup 2011 Malaysia...an annual line-tracking robot competition held in various countries including Malaysia...Me, jason, meng and jeremy took part in this wif help of my bro....

the days before we went to competition were filled by continuous movie and chill-out outings...tony had to go to Miri to start working on the same day we went to KL for the competition....and he sent us to airport very early in the morning dat day...

err...we went there on Tuesday...it was around 10am when we reached the hotel...walked to KLCC from BB with all the robots and equipments...+_+"
had lunch straight away when we arrived...and finding the venue took us around 30 mins...fyuuhh...it wasn't clear where the venue was...but we made it on time...we quickly started preparing for the test run...(no photos included...check out our facebooks for pics)....

got back to BB for dinner and ah meng bought his new toy dat nite...hahah...went back to prepare for the next day and watch some american tv drama we put in laptop...

the next day was the day when competition actually started....we nid to pass the qualification stage in the morning and the first stage of the final in the afternoon...most of the teams made it through the qualification and hence to final...win ching came to be our only supporter since lunchtime...LOL....so kolien...we only had one supporter...the first stage of the final (the second will be on the next day) was quite a shock...but we made it through....

with the strong teams showing good jobs on the first stage, it was hard to judge who would win the final...only the final next day would answer it...well, we went for a movie dat nite...it was Contagion...a movie about global epidemic...quite a heavy movie...after hours of questions...the ending suggested that everything was a super super mere coincidence...o.O....we went back and prepared for the next day again....

next day!!gosh!!!the final...everybody was quite tense and wondering each others' strategies...the final was fast...i was quite nervous when it just started and much more relieved after the final finished...i was the one who operated the robot in Swinburne's 1st team and ah meng's from 2nd team was after me...the lunchtime was after the final and the results will be announced after that...

just before the announcement, the best i was expecting for us was one out of the top three and maybe one of best design or technical report awards...LOL...during the announcements of the best design and technical report awards, i was a bit down we didnt win...but when announced that our 1st team was the 3rd place winner...we were all super super happy....HAHAH....our 2nd team was the 2nd place winner...wew...of coz, anybody would want to be the 1st...but honestly at that point, 2nd and 3rd places for us were quite satisfactory....

took lotsa pics wif the robots, awards, trophies, mock checks (LOL...just rmb-ed cheque was the British spelling)...we quikly packed since we nid to catch a bus to Kedah as a transit point to Langkawi for holiday...aloha!!!the bus ride took the whole midnite til dawn...6 hours...:)...still shorter than the bus trip back to pontianak from kch...haha...took a ferry to Langkawi when we reached Kuala Kedah...

Langkawi was a nice place...not too big, not too small, traffic not too slow, not too fast, ngam ngam just nice like dat...went to one of the shopping malls (perhaps the only one?)...everything was so cheap man!!!!!!!!!!especially exported stuffs....Langkawi is a duty-free place...LOL...i got an original pair of Hush Puppies slippers for 80 bucks!!ate MarryBrown there...din rmb wat did i take but the wasabi fries was nice!!we went to underwater world...nice aquatic experience there!!!spent hours there...went to Jai Cafe for dinner...the black pepper beef...tsk tsk tsk...so rich in taste!!!after that....shopping time!!!!went to buy drinks and chocolates!!!:D...we chilled out in the apartment we stayed while watching spiderman 3 on TV!!so nostalgic...

we went to the beach the next day...played para-sailing (superb!!) and jet skiing!!swim swim a bit and it was sunset already...the sunset was beautiful!!went for dinner in a seafood restaurant...okok lah..not bad only...went for the last shopping and got back to apartment since we nid to be in the jetty very early in the morning...

got back to KL and finally in Kuching the next day...well arrived in kuching like around midnite...it was damn damn damn tiring...

not much updates in kch the next week except a dinner wif ah meng...LOL...ah meng went to SG last saturday for work...

came to think about it...everybody in our gang has walked their own path....hmm...our convo will be one of the soonest reunion!!!haha...again...cant wait for it!!but before that...work work work!!!