pay phones

Do you remember these things?

public phones

it has been a while since i saw a working pay phone, that doesn't have any missing pieces or any graffiti around it. a proper working pay phone. 

i remembered those days where these phones were essential, since mobile phones weren't that big of a deal. phone cards were collectable items! haha. i remembered using the pay phone at school, both primary and secondary, to call my mom to get her to pick me up. sometimes me and my mum would go out to the store and stop by the pay phones to call our relatives. we'd have to collect tons of coins before hand tho. i would be the one inserting the coins while my mum gossips away with her sisters *chuckles*

i know for a fact that some of my friends got their boyfriends through these pay phones. prank calls and stuff like that. 

but after awhile, people misuse these things. they vandalize, they don't appreciate these things anymore, since we're in the new era with greater technologies, pay phones are just a waste of space and material. but i'm guessing these things only happens in the town, where as in rural areas, pay phones are essential, right? 

where am i going with this?

no where actually. i found a non-working pay phone outside the library this afternoon. was surprised/excited to see one.

that is all.
ok bye!
xoxo

just my luck~

i just started with my lab yesterday. i started with the basic thing: grinding. i've got these copper plates which are 1cm x 5cm with the thickness of 1.5mm i think. imagine having to grind and polish those tiny little things.

i ended up with this on the first day :

can u see my nails? retarded looking nails setelah di-grind

and this on the second day :

they may not look as bad as i whine 

but believe me, they hurt like shit.

nicely done alin. i wonder what happens next on the third day.

we shall all sit back and watch.

:)

p/s : at LEAST i'm making SOME improvements on my research work. pfft!

xoxo

INTRODUCTION TO MATERIALS LABORATORY

its been a very busy week for me. with classes and lab and more labs. so this week was my first week lab assisting.

INTRODUCTION TO MATERIALS LABORATORY

1. ATOMIC ARRANGEMENT IN SOLID
2. STRUCTURE AND MILLER LATTICE

do any of you remember these things?  vaguely. i remember playing around with polystyrene balls, visualizing the atomic structures. i remember having to remember all of the bravais thing. i do remember how to figure out the miller lattice tho. at least something right? ngehehe.

and so, lab is on every tuesday from 2pm till 6pm...... yes. 

4 FREAKING HOURS!! 

*headbang*

anyways. at the end of the lab, i was left alone with the groups (2 groups each lab session, with 2-3 students each group). the minute the instructor left, they started bombarding me with questions left and right. 'akak' ok? nasiblah akak ni cool dan telah study before hand. haha :P

overall experience, it was agak fun la, tapi torturing sebab 4 jam ok! pfft!

we'll see what happens next week pulak ok? ;)

xoxo

first day

today is officially the first day back in USM. 

new semester

new day

new classes

new outfits?  

(whoops! haha) 

anyways, to start the day, i woke up early in the morning with the mission to settle those unsettled things; daftar subject, daftar course, bla bla bla. 

i headed first to the pejabat pendaftar to settle my pendaftaran, manually. there i came across the EAC people. no wonder there were buses and official usm cars around the front. because of them, i couldn't register to get my new car sticker cause the guard in charge was on duty. pfft!

so next was to my faculty. the new students were crowding the counter in front of the office. i could barely squeeze in. they were all there to drop subjects. and so i got my borang and my jadual, and boy was i surprised. i had a 9am class today! i looked at my watch, darn it. its 10am already. hahaha. i was laughing to myself. very nice alin.

ok. im gonna blame others on this. i was told that classes begin NEXT week. so, pfft! :P

so this semester, my classes are as follows:

Monday 9-10 am (EBB 512 Phase Diagram & Phase Equilibria)

Tuesday 9-11 am (EBB 511 Materials Characterization Techniques)

Wednesday 9-10 am (EBB 512 Phase Diagram & Phase Equilibria)

Thursday 10-11 am (EBB 512 Phase Diagram & Phase Equilibria)

               12-1 pm (EBB 511 Materials Characterization Techniques)

nice kan? i suddenly feel like a final year student all over again. 

well i thank my lucky stars i don't have classes on friday evenings. 

hehehehehe. 

(jangan mara zati :P)

apart from that, i still have my tutoring and lab assisting to do, which i am yet to know when and what i am to do. they said to wait for the notice. hm.. i think the probability of me getting like a lot of tutoring n lab assisting would be low due to the amount of fellowship holders currently, with the addition of the latest one. so, yeah. i hope i won't be doing THAT much.

besides these, i still have to juggle with my research, which is the main point of me being here in the first place. now i know what it means and what it feels like being a research student, even though i have hardly begin with anything.

it is ALL up to you. 

*sigh*

pray hard i so superbly awesome this semester ok?

p/s: alamak. forgot to take pics la. busy memikirkan masalah lain. sorry! esok lah ok? :)

xoxo

updates!

oh my. its been awhile since i blogged. 2 months! yikes! lots to update ey? :) lemme list down all of the things that has happened while i was away.

1. joined the crash course back in perlis for 1 month (june).
2. mimiey's wedding.
3. went to padang besar.
4. visited langkawi.
5. abg alan's wedding.
6. exams!
7. faezah's wedding.
8. home sweet home.
9. back to USM for oath taking.
10. new semester begins! 

that would basically sum up everything. i'll share the details in separate entries ok?

bye! 

xoxo