Why Ur Holiday is Too Long???

Air Asia ticket to Terengganu usually costs around RM50-90 one way. Not during peak time obviously, ahh and yesterday's plan failed miserably. I was supposed to print out the mask for my fabrication process, it turns out yesterday was the 7th day of Chinese New year and some Uncle told me they are still in holiday. yesterday supposed to be raya day for the people he said and then 9th CNY will be raya for their bamboo gods or something.

And that was some new knowledge i learnt when I've already arrived at the shop. haha what a waste of time. Today I'll have to go there again it seems. Actually last night my Uncle had just passed away, so i want to ask if any is reading this post aside me, to please recite Al-fatihah and make doa for him. May Allah bless and shower him with Rahmah and Maghfirah.

Tskkk, such a waste.

It's been two years already, pursuing master. The hardest part, fabrication of those tiny device component. And by tiny I mean in nanometer scale, even smaller than a single hair. Usually, to fabricate this small thingy, we need to pattern it first in a software before print the design out on the substrate itself. The pattern is called mask as it will be directly or on top of the substrate during lithography process. The best thing about designing the pattern is that the machine which supposed to be able to print the mask in IMEN has been out of order for the whole two years now. And everytime I need to design other pattern on the substrate, I'll have to go to a printing shop in Balakong just to have it printed out. As far as I remember, I've wasted my time there at least 10 times. IMEN y u do tisss??

A simple pattern on the substrate

Today I'm going there again. Anyone cares to join? Meh nk blanja K-fry.haha

Blackpink in Justice League

I've just watched Justice League last night. Quite shocked to suddenly hear kpop song playing in a Hollywood movie. What is it that makes blackpink so special, people are waiting for every comeback that they'd make.  I wonder. they dont even have lots of songs, but every one of them is popular. I'm not really into kpop nowadays*, but yea i do listen to some of the songs. For blackpink, my favorite (or maybe the only one i have) would be 'stay'.

*going back to 2012, when i was in CFSIIUM, Afiq, my childhood friend/roommate there introduced to me the world of k-variety/drama/kpop. My first show was obviously 'running man', and 'Full House' was my 1st drama. Following that, i was hooked to k-world but honestly, I like k-variety the best. I watched other shows like rm, family outing, return of superman, and 2 days 1 night. these varieties have like hundreds of episodes, so its better to get to know how much time you'll waste for them before you start, haha.

Today, only two of those varieties that i'm still following, 2 days 1 night and running man. But, if i have to pick either one I'll definitely go for 2d1n. :D And I've long let go korean dramas from my to watch list. Why? because there are lots of other dramas better than korean drama. What is it? hehe I'll expose on the other post.

My 1st Time

I've only been to interview for work once, and that was for customer service position (don't really remember the actual name, but usually you solve customers issue on IT problem) in HP Cyberjaya, few months after graduated from IIUM. It went pretty bad I think, not that I can't answer the question but entahla, I think I messed up when the interviewer asked me basic question like whats happening if you can't browse internet on chrome? I just thought hard answer to impress such as changing the dns and so on, and completely missed out simple answer like maybe there is no internet connection to the device, or maybe the browser is bugged. Then when the interviewer asked me  whether I like the position or not, the simple answer should be yes right. but my answer? i don't really remember but something like if possible I'd want to apply for another position, software developer i said. haha. funny.

in 2016 kot.

my first official job interview in a nutshell, forever will be remembered.

Ez money for snacks :D

Have you guys ever made money by answering survey? I've claimed around RM200 through globaltestmarket.com tho. (timespan=2years, around 4months active)

Finally I've found what I'll do after waking up every morning. Since my brain and body needs time to warm up, I'll start by answering simple survey. at least i'm getting something out of it right. Instead of just scrolling through social media looking for funny videos, I can actually loot some money for snacks. Even though my thesis is not finished yet, haha.

seriously delicious. Must try.

its been 2 weeks already if im not mistaken, to not sleep after subuh. So far so good, even during weekend i still managed to stay awake, it is just that i dont write on holiday. straight to the gaming session in the morning. :D

Today will be another long day, I've just received a reply from the finance in my department, my paper supposed to be published in a journal was denied because the budget allocation for publication is already finished. So, I'll have to find other grant to publish my paper. Man, how hard it is to publish  in a journal, even when the paper is accepted, another problem arises. May Allah ease.

How to not attend a Conference :P

For the last two years, I've participated in two international conference. and this year, another one will be on early march. Whats funny is that for all of these conferences, I always have overlapping schedule that I think is more important to go. since the conference I need to attend was actually compulsory for the student, I have no other choice but to prepare a paper and ask for other author to present it for me.

In 2017, RSM conference was organized in Penang. I dont really remember when was the poster came out to submit the paper but for those particular days, I have booked Air Asia ticket for a vacation in Osaka much early, about half a year before. Since I have planned the vacation with a friend of mine, I tried to persuade my supervisor to take my place in the presentation. And, thankfully she accepted.

ICSE Conference was held in August 2018, and this time everything went smoothly at first. But, about a month before the conference (note that deadline of submission is usually 2-3 months before the conference, so I have already submitted my paper), I have received an invitation from a Japanese Institute for an interview + internship there. And the internship was to commence immediately, around the days when I was supposed to participate on the conference. This time, however, the internship has been called off because the budget was not enough, they said. So, I was able to join the conference, and three days later, I went to Japan just for a week of interview.

My Co-Supervisor, Dr. Rhonira and Me

This upcoming March 2019, another conference, internal but not limited to, a joint symposium is going to be held in UKM. As usual, every IMEN students are required to participate in the program and so do I. Looks like this time once again I'll miss it, since I've already booked for Umrah on that date.

See, three consecutive years, I have to be in this situation. But in reality, I'm actually relieved. Its just that I'm not too eager on presenting in front of tons of academicians. the trauma felt during Japan interview is still there. haha