Taman tema tepi pantai

Semalam aku pegi Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Perjalanan dr Liverpool ke sini amik masa dalam 1 1/2 jam. Dari Liverpool Lime Street, berhenti di Preston, pastu amik plak train ke Blackpool South utk ke Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Tiket train hampir £15 pergi balik.

Aku baru tau ada taman tema tak jauh sangat dengan Liverpool minggu lepas. Terus rancang pegi weekend ni. Kalau tak, 2 minggu lagi lah boleh kuar sebab weekend depan sure busy dgn interim report sebab nak kene submit minggu seterusnya.

Harga tiket masuk ke teman tema ni kalau beli online £25. Kalau beli kat kaunter, £30. Kalau rasa nak masuk jer, tak mau main apa2 kene bayar £5.

Ini pemandangan di dalam Blackpool Pleasure Beach.

Di bawah, gambar aku dalam taman tema ni. Gambar yg kat penjuru kiri tu aku tengah naik Bling (sila klik pada gambar ye untuk melihat dengan lebih besar... macam tak biasa plak). Smooth ride, terasa diri melayang-layang, siap badan terbalik lagi.

Taman tema ni besar gak, lebih besar drp Genting Outdoor Theme Park. Malah lebih cantik. Aku memang jenis teruja banyak tengok tempat yg colorful ni. Tambah teruja tengok permainan yg agak menggerunkan lah pada pandangan aku. Tapi gerun pun, kene cuba. So aku pun cubalah Infusion. Ni macam roller coaster, tapi jenis kerusi tergantung. Aku lupa lah nak tangkap gambar. Amik gambar ni dari website.

Memang menggerunkan. Satu lagi yang menggerunkan The Big One. Yg ni dia tak lah sampai badan upside down mcm Infusion tapi laju giler. Pastu ada satu tempat tu, menjunam hampir 90 darjah dengan sengetnya lagi. Klik pada gambar di bawah & you'll understand what I mean.


Ride ni tak secure bahu kita. Kerusi dia plak tak berspan. Agak painful. So hasilnya bangun pagi ni, muscle bahu aku kesakitan. Apa taknya, otot2 bahu ni terkejut sebab tetiba dia kene adjust dgn lajunya bila naik benda tu. Ke kiri ke kanan, menjunam lagi. Kepada yg tak berani atau nangis naik roller coaster kat Genting tu, tak yah lah naik 2 benda alah ni.

Selain drp tempat yg very colorful & game yg pelbagai, yang bestnya aku rasa taman tema ni, walaupun orang ramai tapi beratur tak lah lama sgt nak naik satu2 permainan tu. So takde lah penat sebab beratur. Selain drp permainan yg very thrilling, ada gak yg biasa2 jer. Naik monorail pun best, tengok pemandangan di sekitar theme park. Nak makan pun senang. Southern Fried Chicken kat dalam taman tema ni halal. Pastu kat luar pun ada byk kedai halal.

Taman tema ni dekat dgn laut. Ni pemandangan di luar taman tema.

Roller coaster yg besar kat belakang aku tu lah The Big One. Kira besar gak lah kan, sesuai dgn namanya. Walaupun sakit bahu hari ni, aku tak kisah kalau nak cuba lagi. Seronok!

Robot yang boleh bertukar, raksasa & makhluk asing... mana satu idaman hati?

Transformers 2 release kat UK Jumaat lepas & aku dah tengok pada hari yg sama. Ada member aku suka movie ni, tapi ada gak yg tak suka. So, it's hard to predict whether you'll like it or not. For me, I enjoy watching this movie as much as I enjoy watching Wolverine. Kira memang enjoy gila lah. It's far better than the 1st one. It isn't just an action movie. Some parts are really funny. Cute as well.

Well, ada gak part yg aku kureng suka. Tapi overall, aku suka lah. Best! Tak rugi tengok.

Even there is Optimus Prime in my home.

Aku dah lama teringin nak tengok movie in 3D (check this post). Akhirnya tercapai gak masa spring break yg lalu (la ni baru nak citer). I watched Monsters vs Aliens in 3D & it was awesome!

We could see certain objects pop out from the screen. It's like you can actually touch it. The movie itself is good. Ni yang buat tak sabar nak tengok Ice Age 3 & Final Destination 4, both in 3D.

Ice Age is my favorite animation, so harus lah tengok. Watching in 3D is a bonus. Final Destination plak, just imagine kereta terpelanting in 3D... tak pun kepala terpelanting ke... betul2 depan mata. Huhuuu, must be exciting. Harap2 dapat lah tgk. Walaupun ada kemungkinan aku tengok celah2 jari je.

P/s: Antara 3 objek di atas, aku rasa robot yang boleh bertukar paling kool kot.

Usaha memang tangga kejayaan

Aku nak citer pasal MSc project ni. Boring kan. So, just a brief update je. Kalau cite panjang2, baik tulis thesis terus. Thanx Mimi for your comment on the previous post! You got the answer babe. However, you should give me this answer earlier ;-). Apa2 pun, really thanx to you.

Aku belajar satu benda minggu lepas - teruskan berusaha & jgn malas. InsyaAllah, akan dpt hasilnya. Kejadian berlaku hari Rabu yg lepas. Pagi2 dah hujan. I was on the way to the dept. Boleh plak aku stop tengah jalan, rasa nak patah balik. Dalam hati pikir, takpe kot tak datang lab hari ni. Kalau supervisor tanya, alasan hujan :-P. Tapi bila pikir balik, aku pun dah sekerat jalan. Gi jer lah. Kalau rasa boring, balik lah kan. So aku pun meneruskan perjalanan ke dept.

Aku masih mencari idea utk implement U.S.B interface. Sampai kt dept, aku belek manual, tak tau lah utk yg keberapa kali.. Kira nak warm up lah ni sbb perasaan malas masih menguasai diri. Ini lah board yg aku guna.

Merujuk kepada gambar di atas, tetiba aku notis chip kecik yg bentuk 4 segi sama sebelah U.S.B blaster chip. Chip tu tak berlabel. Aku pun check kat board, chip apakah itu. F.T.D.I chip! Rupa2nya board ni ada F.T.D.I chip.

Isk... camna lah aku tak perasan selama ni. Supervisor aku pun tak tau kot sbb dia tak penah mention pasal chip ni. Manual pun satu, apasal tak label chip tu. Macam tak penting je. Aku pun cariklah user guide for the chip. Alhamdulillah, I got the idea on how to communicate this board with PC using U.S.B.

Cuma la ni aku tak guna V.C.P spt yg dicdgkn oleh Mimi. Aku call library. So, guna function provided by the library, sebab ada special function. Tengok lah nanti, kalau aku rasa macam susah je nak guna function yg aku tak familiar, aku guna V.C.P plak. Ni ler masalah aku. Tak fokus. Kalau bleh, semua benda aku nak try. Nak try develop G.U.I pakai VC++.net lah. Kalau masa byk, takpe jugak.

Ok, ok... cukup pasal projek yek. Aku pun boring gak :-D. Boring camna pun, usaha perlu diteruskan. Caiyok, caiyok!

Confession of A Blogger

- Aku rasa dah boring dgn blog aku ni! Ingatkan bila dah makeover, tak boring dah. Tapi rupanya masih rasa boring. Nak kena buat ultimate makeover ni. Tukar semua, termasuk tajuk blog. Kalau in case tetiba blog ni dah tak wujud, tu maknanya aku tukar alamat blog sekali tau.

- Ada byk benda yg aku nak pos. Sekurang2nya ada 3 topik lah. Macam2 aku nak citer (yg tak related dengan projek MSc aku ok). Tak termasuk pos ni gak. Cuma nak menaip tu yang malas. Tapi menaip pengakuan ntahapahapa ni rajin plak. Heheee.

- Aku suka masuk blog yang tunjuk baju, kasut or handbag. Suka tengok. Tak semestinya yang branded. So kalau aku kaya, aku rasa aku pun akan selalu blog about that kind of stuff since I always have money to buy them. Bagi aku, takde istilah empunya blog nak menunjuk. Dia tunjuk kat blog dia, bukan tunjuk kat blog hangpa. Tak salah kan.

- Aku juga suka masuk blog jahit-menjahit, mengait, menyulam & seumpamanya. Tapi bukan jahit atau sulam baju. Ni jahit benda2 yg cute macam tote bag, sarung bantal, table runner & baju baby girl. Rasa mcm nak beli mesin jahit yg ada function menyulam & belajar menjahit. Mulakan projek & tunjuk hasilnya dlm blog. Kalau ada yg berminat, boleh order. Boleh menjana pendapatan sampingan. Berangan.

- Aku harap aku mampu memblog dengan lebih jujur. I mean just express whatever I feel. Tulis je apa yang aku nak tulis. Taram je kata orang. Couldn't help it but sometimes feel cautious knowing that other people will read it walaupun berapa kerat jer yg baca. Ter-over cautious ni. Well, I'm gonna start writing more openly now. Yer yer arrr jer.

- Tak tau lah kenapa, aku sbnrnya segan nak bg org baca blog aku. Agaknya aku memang naturally penyegan kot. Tu sebab member yg tau aku ada blog pun cuma member opis. Rasanya aku patut bagi member yg lain baca blog aku ni. Salah satu cara untuk merapatkan kembali hubungan yg kian jauh & bg update kisah aku kat diorang. Tak gitu... ;)

Ok bye. Nak tido. Nanti malam nak stay up. Buat projek... projek MSc tau, what else.

Usaha Tangga Kejayaan... kan???

Sebenarnya di ketika ini aku cukup pesimistik dgn kemampuan aku utk melaksanakan project dissertation. Aku rasa mcm susah giler jer. Masa plak singkat.

Minggu lepas aku happy sebab kononnya boleh develop G.U.I guna VB. Rupa2nya VB.net!

Hari tu dah explore sikit. Nak letak chart pun aku tak tau camna. So aku masih tak pasti nak guna apa utk develop G.U.I. Pilihan yg ada cuma Vi^sual Studio 2005 & Mat^lab.

Pastu pikir plak camna nak implement U.S.B controller guna F.P.G.A. Supervisor aku tak mau pakai separate module. Dia nak aku guna the same F.P.G.A chip. Aku pun tak pasti sama ada dia faham ke tak pasal U.S.B ni. Dari pencarian aku di internet, kene guna U.S.B module klu F.P.G.A board tu takde U.S.B. Pastu driver utk PC kene pikir gak.

Tu belum lagi program the F.P.G.A itself. La ni aku guna N.I.O.S II embedded processor. Nak program N.I.O.S ni guna C. Sekarang ni aku tgh cuba guna P.L.L dalam design aku utk naikkn frekuensi. Tak tau lah kenapa, timing requirement for my design is not met. Puas aku godek, still tak met the requirement.

Well, merungut byk pun tak guna kan. Yg penting usaha jer skrg ni.

Mixed Feelings

:-( + :-) = :-|

I feel dissapointed.

I feel sad.

I feel mad.

I feel relief.

I should be grateful. I know. I know.

Alhamdulillah.

Friday Refreshment

Somehow the weather here has changed. It isn't hot anymore. After experiencing the hot weather, I've decided that I prefer the cold one, so I welcome the coldness. We're back with the jackets now. The heater that had stop functioning during the summer, now is working. Pelik gak cuaca kat sini. Adakah musim panas dah berakhir? I'm not sure. Tapi siang masih panjang. Maghrib is around at 9:30pm.

I had a quite long discussion with my supervisor. Yay, I don't have to buy the components now. Just connect the inputs directly to the F.P.G.A. It seems like I've wasted my time looking for them on Farnell website this week, but it's ok. Just like my supervisor said, we might proceed with that later.

Another thing that makes me so relief is I have an option to build the GUI with VB instead of VC++. The program that I expert most. Heheee. There's no VB software in the PC, but he told me that he has the CD & will bring it on Monday. Now, I can focus more on F.P.G.A itself. Two things in mind - the processor & USB controller. It's just a 12-weeks project. So, I'm looking for the easiest (& the best) solution to execute the project.

Seperti biasa, supervisor aku akan turun lab untuk check kitorang. He's very helpful actually tapi merimaskan pada masa yang sama. So, I won't let that bother me. Cuma, aku rasa adalah tidak profesional bila dia turun lab selepas tengahari, tengok student lain takde, dia tanya aku adakah diorang datang pagi tadi. Ask them directly when you meet them. Don't ask others.

Setelah perbincangan tamat, aku pun meringankan mulut bertanya pasal keputusan peperiksaan. As I already known, it's still confidential. However...

Him: I could tell you one thing. You're the 2nd one in your group.
Me: (Blur)
Him: The 1st one is J*har... do you know him?
Me: Yes... (of course I know him! Dia memang terer. Budak ni dapat biasiswa ARM. Dia takde kat UoL la ni sebab dia buat MSc projek kat ARM company.)
Him: So, he's the 1st & you're the 2nd one.
Me: But I want to know my marks.
Him: I think this is good enough.

Sempat gak lah dia 'memberi nasihat' betapa penting projek ni sebab ianya 1/3 daripada jumlah kredit, so it'll certainly affect the average mark & the rating. Aku dah tak kisah pasal kedudukan di dalam kelas sejak darjah 6. Yang penting adalah keputusan peperiksaan UPSR dan seterusnya. I'm not competitive. I just hope to get a good result for myself, never meant to be better than others. Memang tak layak jadi ahli sukan, ahli perniagaan dan ahli politik. Ahli muzik pun tak layak sebab tak reti main muzik. Btw, there are only 8 or 10 students in Microelectronics group. Agaknya kalau campur dengan group Telecommunication yang memang ramai, tak tau lah aku nombor berapa.

However, the info makes me feel good indeed & more curious. Does it mean that I got good marks in the exams :-)? Or is't just bcos I have done well enough in the fully coursework subjects :-(? We'll see, maybe next week... or the week after next week.

Oh yer, T-shirt yang D order dah sampai. Cepat kan. Order hari Rabu, hari Jumaat dah sampai.

Ok, that's all the story about Friday the 5th.

This is the proof that I can't be a travel blogger

Gambar2 ni telah lama diedit, kononnya untuk dipaparkan di blog ni. Some of you might have seen it in my FB. I did plan to write about it. I guess it's time for me utk lupakan jer niat tu. After Paris, these were our (me & JD) next pit stops.


Milan, Italy...

Pengalaman yang paling tidak dapat dilupakan: Tambang teksi yang cekik darah. Punya laju meter taxi.


Frankfurt, Germany...

Pengalaman yang paling tidak dapat dilupakan: Masa kapal terbang nak mendarat, rasa macam melayang2 jer kapal terbang tu. Angin kuat kot. Akhirnya kapal terbang selamat mendarat. Penumpang siap tepuk tangan.


London, England...

Pengalaman yang paling tidak dapat dilupakan: Terkejut tengok keretapi balik ke Liverpool dibatalkan. I was eager to go 'home' after 2 weeks travel. Luckily after about 10 minutes anxiously tried to find a way to go home, direct train to Liverpool tak jadi dibatalkan.


Ok, that's it. I don't know whether I'm going to travel in these 3 months. Don't have any plan & too lazy to plan. Masa ni D yg jadi mastermind. Kalau tak, mau aku terperap jer dalam Liverpool ni. Oh yer, in the middle of June, I might go to Birmingham. I should buy the train tix now, but I haven't confirmed to go.

One thing I can confirm is that I can't wait to travel back for good!

MSc: A New Episode

I met my supervior today. So, I have officially started doing the MSc project. I'm going to design & implement F.P.G.A based lo^gic analyzer.

Last week, we've already received email regarding the project. There are 3 important dates:

July 10 - interim report submission
Sept 8 - final thesis submissiom
Sept 11 - oral presentation

I have to check out from my accommodation before 10am Sept 13. So, I'll be back for good on the day or the day before. But that will be another story.

No more classes & assignments. From now on we'll only focus on the project.

Tak seperti supervisor2 lain, supervisor aku mintak weekly report from us, the students under him. That's ok. Dia juga akan check kitorang kat lab hari2. Yang ni tak ok. Rimas! Dah lah PC pun dia yg allocate utk kitorang, supaya senang dia nak monitor. Buhsannya.

Ni lah kelemahan mendapat supervisor yg kurang sibuk. Kebaikannya ialah senang nak juper walaupun tanpa appoinment. Dah dia check hari2, apa hal plak nak buat appointment kan. Dari awal2 dulu aku memang kurang berkenan sbnrnya dgn supervisor aku ni. Kenapa aku pilih dia? Sebab dia lecturer Digital System. Projek F.P.G.A bawah dia.

We'll see. Today, is my first day. Lots of days to go. So I'll continue whining later. Now need to get back to do some googling regarding the project.