12 Weeks of 2nd Sem is Done!

Fuhhhhhhhhh~ I thought I'm not gonna make it through the weeks, but thanks God for taking care of me. It's obvious that I'm super busy with all the reports, assignments, projects and what-so-ever thing that mess up a student life recently as I didn't blog for the pass 7 days!

Since the first assignment that I completed in these 2 weeks which is the previous post about the programming assignment that drove me crazy overnight, I'd spend endless nights in computer lab but somehow I still slept for at least 3 hours everyday.

One of the craziest project I did is my 4th design project that we're required to design a power plant or power generating device to supply the power for The University of Nottingham Sutton Bonnington Campus in UK and we should break even within 10 years (which means the cost used for the power plant must be covered up by the money saved in 10 years time).

It's supposed to be a 1 month project that we need to present our idea in the form of plan poster, and I did everything (research+cost calculation+business plan+designing the poster) in 2 days. Thanks for Kai Seng who gave me precious advices as he's having a paper that is similar to power plant design as well.

This is my poster:

Well, the day of presentation finally arrived. We are ordered to enter our tutor's room 1 by 1 to give him a brief presentation and defend our solution when questions are asked. My presentation is somehow OK as Dr Nawaf is not that kind of fussy lecturer and I think he's interested in one of my method - the Wave Dragon. *There's a link to its main website, just click on the word itself, engineers should check it out! It's cool, available on youtube too*

The corridor is still OK at the beginning:


Then it became so crowded with nervous souls awaiting their turn to present:


As usual, the only thing I can do with my camera in hand while waiting:


Check this out, the new technology - Wave Dragon:

Anyway, today is the last day of lecture for 12 weeks of classes and guess what? I skipped class for the whole morning to complete my Air Motor project fabrication. It's supposed to be done earlier but the busy schedule just made our life difficult. Luckily, we still settled it today and I hope it works on the day of testing (if it works, there'll be extra marks awarded).

Thanks for my group members that showed up for the fabrication sessions, you're the best!

I can actually go back home in the afternoon and relax for a while after stressing myself for 2 weeks, but I decided to stay back at the workshop to help my coursemates from the other groups to finish their Air Motor. Not because I'm a busy-body (I don't deny it completely) but because I understand the frustration of groupmates not helping and how it feels when you need helping hands. Besides, they helped me throughout my previous assignments and projects.

Overall, I'm glad all my courseworks are done but just feels bad about being unable to lead worship well during the last bible study session... because of too busy thus not enough preparation. After this weekend, I'm suppose to drill my notes as exam is coming soon, but I guess I can't do it yet as something more important lies in between.

I'm so stress until I started a chocolate bar and it left only 3 rows:

Ezekiel 16:54 "you may bear your shame and be disgraced for all the confort you brought." Challenges and suffering are essential for life (it's easy to say...) in order for us to grow and learn. Keeping ourselves in the comfort zone somehow shows immaturity of living a life. I pray that God bless us a peaceful and organized mind to study during our study break. Pray that for those who travel back to their respective hometown, may God blesses them journey mercy. Finally, for my personal problem that haunt me, LORD, just one more chance, please allow me to take this challenge one more time. Be with me oh LORD, in Jesus name I pray, Amen.