Merdeka

31 August will always be a date that Malaysian will remember for the rest of their lives. On the 31 of August 2008, i still remember, we had a lot of fun. The day before Merdeka 30 of August, my church member went to Danga Bay, a famous place for big events in Johor Bahru to celebrate the merdeka day. We were waiting over there for Merdeka countdown. Before that, we went for dinner and went to some places to enjoy.



Four hours before merdeka day and have nothing to do, we decided to go to games centre. There we play games such as basketball, car racing and so on. Then the most exciting part is that we went to a Karaoke Box to sing. I can tell you that everybody was excited because most of them have never tried it before. There are about 15 of us and we have to squeezed to get in the small room. Even though, it was hot and quite uncomfortable at that time but we did not complain much as we are having fun and focus on the singing.



I still remember we choose aqua's song, title I'm a Barbie girl, and it was really really horrible, but that's not the point, it was the atmosphere that we enjoy, we laugh together, we make fun, jokes around and play together. After several hours of singing, at last everybody was exhausted. We leave the place and went straight to the place for merdeka countdown. Straight at 12 am in the morning the first 'bunga api' (hehe) launched and everybody was shouting for merdeka. Merdeka! Merdeka! and Merdeka, as the bunga api continues and people were shouting and having fun, we gather and take videos as well as pictures. That night we are really having fun and enjoy ourselves.



At the end of the ceremony, we went to the seaside and take some pictures. There, our cg leaders( Adrian ) planned to joke around with Yin, after planning what to do, all of us (the guys)ran towards him and lifted him up and brought Yin to the sea side and forced him to tell who he likes, however that doesn't work and we have to bring him down as we can see he almost fainted haha( evil laugh). It was very fuuny to see the way Yin reacted, even in the midst of danger, still, he did not say anything (sigh).....haha but don't woory...we'll see something in the video that i've included in this blog....it was 12 a.m in the morning, and all of us feeling tired and exhausted, we went back by rented bus to utm.



It was a very wonderful memory for me, we have gone through a lot of things and this memory will stay vivid in my mind for as long as i live. Life is good and fun when you make full use of it, there was a saying by William James " I don't sing because i'm happy, i'm happy because i sing".

Experience

Civil engineering course is one the easiest subject in University Technology Malaysia compare to the other subjects such as Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering however its application in the real world is not easy as what most of us think. Civil Engineers have to deal with various kind of problems that might occur during construction for example Engineers have to deal with the design, strength, cost and etc of the whole construction process.



So just imagine, by theory alone, civil engineers won't be able to do an excellence job.Therefore, that's why we as Civil engineers have to do experiments and practical to expose us with the experiences that we can only gain when we are outside there. While studying in UTM, we have gone through a lot of experiments regarding our course.



It was very fun and enjoyable, as we get the chance to learn something new that is useful for us in our future career. Not only that, we get the chance to communicate with each other, get to know each other better and the most important thing is that we enjoy the whole process. We learn a lot of thing there, every Thursday and Friday we'll be having our practical experiments in the lab.



Being in the lab, is indeed very exciting and interesting. We get the chance to handle various kind of gadgets that were used by real Civil Engineers to construct buildings, road and etc. After the whole process we'll jot down the data that we get and use it to write a report regarding the matter. In the report we'll discuss about the experiment, the outcomes, problems that we faced and come out with solutions. It was indeed a very good way to educate students as we are require to think analytically and to be more creative.

Now as we have gone through all the experiments and roughly we knew the prospects of civil engineers, we are more confident and secure and we are one step closer to our dream to become a Civil Engineer. This is indeed and truly an exciting and enjoyable experience as we get the chance to feel how was it like to be an Engineers. So, that's all i would like to share thank you.