Semester Break

Okay…

Like always when we are studying, the most awaited thing is the holidays. No matter how moronic it sounds or horrible looking it is, that is fact. But when we are given are given a very long holiday, that mentality instantly converts into ‘I miss studying periods’ mode. That’s what usually happen…

But this semester, the gruelling 2 weeks of finals torture and 1 month of finishing up assignments and lab reports have taken its toll on my brain and my face. Imagine a cheerful 22 year old that was subjected to mental torture, physical torture, 3 all nighter’s in a week, constant bewilderment, pain, suffering, agony and shame. Now I truly know how my face would look like in about 5-7 years in the future by just looking in the mirror. Or that could only be a face of a sleep deprived 22 year old that didn’t sleep for 72 hours straight and was a constant danger to other motorist because he would listen to death metal music to just make him feel alive while driving. Now? Only the waiting of the bad results and a holiday period awaits.

Enough about my pain and suffering. Lets get technical. The following stuff are the stuff that needs or are going to be done within this hellish period of blissful thinking.

• The Watercooled Peltier based Fridge

Ah yes, it was actually running for a week. Until the fateful day that my car was broken into. Not that it was in the car. It was at home. When I was running around Gombak solving the car’s problems something else also happened. But the reservoir had a leak.  The leak was so severe that it meant that there was no more coolant to maintain a constant flow of coolant to the peltier unit to cool it down. Similar to a nuclear reactor, a constant cooling must be maintained so the peltier unit didn’t melt everything around it that was made from plastic. The worst happened. It melted the plastic parts. The inside part of the fridge was actually hot. So hot that it made the water inside the 1.5 litre bottles inside very warm. I don’t know if the peltier unit was damaged or not. It had a maximum temp of 68 degrees Celsius before it degrades. Its a 80W peltier unit. If it survived, it would be a miracle. What was then a sad day made me abandon the failed project.

But now I have an initiative. I would build a failsafe mechanism to keep the the peltier unit below the harmful temperatures of the watercooling failed. The Fukushima Daiichi reactor meltdown gave me a brainwave. The reactor had multiple emergency cooling. Their problem was the tsunami just made all those emergency solutions to waste. How about if I made an emergency cooler that would activate after a certain temp or just be constantly switched on to help the water cooling making it a hybrid cooling. Anyway I go with this project, it could be a big disaster in the making or either just a big brain intensive thing that would make me think of world domination and nuclear fusion.

 

• Final Year Project – Property Defence System

I have learned how to code in C, but that doesn’t mean that I could program a bloody robot to conquer the whole planet could I? So basically I need to familiarize myself with the coding parts so that it could garner up some logical thing like getting words out and getting moving some servos so it wouldn’t kill me with a laser pointed Gatling gun after I switch it on.

 

• 2 more CCTV projects

Well, here comes the shitstorm all over again. Last time I had a fever doing the setting up the whole system so that I could access the CCTV video over the internet so my family could see the premises if the alarm went off. So basically I would set up the whole grid and replicate the circumstances that I have already used for the previous CCTV project. But now I will have a total of 12 cameras to configure and reconfigure when I get it all going.  All I need is some kind of magic to make this project doesn’t go haywire and wouldn’t make have more than a damn fever that could cured by a couple pills of Paracetamol. I hope that this wont make me sick. I have tons of stuff o do this horrid semester break.

 

For I could care is for some little hope of some solitude and it seems that I would not have the damn bloody thought of any peace and tranquillity. Tomorrow I need to make sure I don’t get in some kerfuffle in just trying get some work done.

Warning, rants of a stressed person below

Now I am just stressed out knowing that I cant spend time for myself because of family related stuff to do. At one time, I need  to be at Penang, then I need to be at Ipoh then the other minute I’m to driving 200km south to KL just to get some stuff and after an hour drive back to Ipoh. To be honest, I’m a bit tired and stressed out. I just want to settle down at one location and just do my stuff. I don’t want to waste time doing nothing and just facing internet for the whole day. I don’t want to be on a wild goose chase for nothing. I want my holiday damn it. Why damn it.  I’m an adult where I cant choose where I want to be when I’m on my holiday. It feels a lot like prison. I cant do my job, I cant relax, I cant be with the people I want be with and I cant do what I want to do. I’m just going to blow my head someday and I cant blame anyone else than myself for the situation that I am in right now. Well, my luck isn’t good right now. Someone would probably say ‘screw you’ and laugh at my situation. Damn you. Just damn you, damn your cat, damn your soul, damn your car brakes. I hope you go to heaven fast. I just can’t go on with all that is bugging my head right now. I need to just have a nice rest.

And I love the AMD Fusion platform.

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