Alhamdullilah

salam.

I do believe in the terms never ever give up.. try and try again.. and ever since UTM changed the grade point average code (2nd year, 1st sem), it has been quite hard for me to grab a spot in the Dean's List.

And today, Alhamdulillah I'm on the list again!.. Alhamdulillah.

Before this I got it twice during my 1st year and after that, eversince I got my 'kancil' (lol.. ternyata, padah akibat terlalu rajin merayau rayau dgn konco2ku lol) I've never got into the dean's list.. up until now. I am soooooooooooooooo thankful to Allah swt.

I got a message from Ham this morning, telling that the result is out. At first I was so lazy to get on9 and view my result cause i had a feeling that I'm just going to get another 3.33 (LOL).. you know, after seeing my senarai tampal a month before, i seriously didnt think I'm going to make it into the dean's list haha. but of course that didnt stop me from praying to Allah swt and still hoping I'll make it. tawakal jak la. I've struggled hard during studyweek and i'm not just gonna give up now. I've been sleepless during study week, and i believe that its not going to be a waste. I've been too far and I'm not just going to give up now.
And Alhamdulillah, my sleepless night, my struggle, all the caffeine that I've consumed (lol) was worth it.

What I would like to share here is that, Never Give Up. Try as hard as u can. if the 1st sem of 2nd yr u didnt make it, try again. if the 2nd sem of 2nd year also resulted the same, try again. if in the 1st sem of the 3rd year u didnt make it again, never give up! again work harder, struggle harder, doubled ur effort!. never stop praying to Allah swt for it. InsyAllah you WILL make it.

Cant wait to tell my parents, if it werent for them praying along for me & giving me everything to help me with my studies. I wouldnt have make it this far. Have to start fasting now, gotta repay my nazar.

cheers


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Dan Brown : The Lost Symbol.....Comming SOON

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New York, NY (April 20, 2009) Dan Brown's new novel, the eagerly awaited follow-up to his #1 international phenomenon, The Da Vinci Code, which was the bestselling hardcover adult novel of all time with 81 million copies in print worldwide, will be published in the U.S. and Canada by Doubleday on September 15, 2009.

The Lost Symbol will have a first printing of 5 million copies, and it will once again feature Dan Brown's unforgettable protagonist, Robert Langdon. The announcement was made today by Sonny Mehta, Chairman and Editor in Chief of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

"This is a great day for readers and booksellers," said Mehta."The Lost Symbol is a brilliant and compelling thriller. Dan Brown's prodigious talent for storytelling, infused with history, codes and intrigue, is on full display in this new book. This is one of the most anticipated publications in recent history, and it was well worth the wait."

Brown's longtime editor, Jason Kaufman, Vice President and Executive Editor at Doubleday said, "Nothing ever is as it first appears in a Dan Brown novel. This book's narrative takes place in a twelve-hour period, and from the first page, Dan's readers will feel the thrill of discovery as they follow Robert Langdon through a masterful and unexpected new landscape. The Lost Symbol is full of surprises."

"This novel has been a strange and wonderful journey," said Brown. "Weaving five years of research into the story's twelve-hour timeframe was an exhilarating challenge. Robert Langdon's life clearly moves a lot faster than mine."

The audio version of The Lost Symbol will be published in North America in September by Random House Audio.

The Da Vinci Code, published by Doubleday on March 18, 2003, spent 144 weeks on The New York Times Hardcover Fiction bestseller list, 54 of them at #1—the position at which it debuted. The novel has been translated into 51 languages.

The film of The Da Vinci Code was a #1 box office smash when it was released by Columbia Pictures in May 2006 with Ron Howard directing and Tom Hanks starring as Robert Langdon. Box office receipts were $758 million. The same team will release Angels and Demons theatrically worldwide on May 15, 2009.

Following the publication of The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown's earlier novels, Digital Fortress, Deception Point and Angels and Demons have all gone on to become multi-million copy international bestsellers.

The Lost Symbol will be published in the U.K. on September 15th by Transworld Publishers, a division of The Random House Group who has published all of Brown's novels.

Dan Brown is represented by Heide Lange at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates, Inc.

Doubleday is an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. whose parent company is Bertelsmann AG. For more information about Doubleday please visit our website at http://www.doubleday.com. For more information about Dan Brown please visit www.danbrown.com.

Sam Bourne : The Righteous Men - Not bad, but not 'that' great either

Salam.

I thought of writing a review on this book ages ago but haven’t got the time to do so. So here I am, as free as a bird (? lol).

Well, well, well, this is the 2^nd Sam Bourne’s work that I’ve read and I must give him some credit (before I trash him a bit lol) for this book. The Righteous Men. It is definitely not as bad as ‘The Last Testament’ which is another one of his works. You can read my review on The Last Testament HERE.

Synopsis

Before further comments on the book, I’d like to give some insight to every1 who hasn’t read the book yet on how the story develops.

The Main character, William Monroe Jr is a New York Times journalist, around 20 ish, and is married to his wife Beth, who is described to be very beautiful. And so as Will, described to be very attractive. (so typical of all novel huhu). As a journalist, Will is always looking for stories to write and somehow he stumble into the mysterious murders of men, all of whom turn out to be 'Robin Hood' type characters - outwardly wicked, but secretly performing acts which show them to be truely righteous men - when, suddenly he got an email saying that his wife is kidnapped. The kidnapper didn’t want any money or anything they just wanted to borrow Beth for awhile. And Will was told not to involved the police or his wife will be killed. he has no clue as to who has kidnapped her or why. Will was determined to find out!

Suddenly, he is dragged into a very different world as the clues lead him to what appears to be an orthodox Jewish sect. He is fighting for his life - his and that of his wife and friends - and is on the run from the police, who suspect him of murder.

Through out the journey, he got some help from his two friends, Tom, will’s bestfriend and who is a computer genius. And also T.C (stands for Tova Chaya.. you will only found out that towards the end of the book..its a Jewish name), TC is a great help for Will since she is like a freakin genius who knows EVERYTHING and EVERY KNOWLEDGE in the world but yet she doesn’t know the difference between pop music and hip hop. You might have pictureD TC as being a geeky girl wearing a spec and everything but NAAAAH you’re wrong! She’s the type of girl who dies her hair blue and pierced her belly button and she’s an artist (painter not singer la). Owh forget to mention, she was William’s ex. There’s a conflict! haha.

The Review

Like I said, not bad... but.. well, okay I hate to compare it with TDVC (The Da Vincci Code) but I HAVE TO! LOL (why? Coz The Mirror claimed Sam Bourne to be ‘The biggest challenger to Dan Brown's crown !’ and I’ve spend money and time on the book bcoz of this OVERATED comment, hence I HAVE TO COMPARE IT TO TDVC!! Thank u.hehe). THE MIRROR is totally rubbish! Haha sorry The Mirror. I guess ‘The Mirror’ haven’t really actually ‘read’ TDVC. TDVC is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than TRM (The righteous Men).

One of the lacking element in TRM is the excitement in the ‘puzzle’ solving. TRM is just like TDVC, there are loads of puzzle to be solve by the main character along the way to find the truth. But in TRM the puzzle is like...hmm.. how should I put this... kinda lame. Not as challenging as TDVC. TDVC’s puzzle is more exciting and you learn alot thru the puzzles. And I love how Dan Brown’s connect the puzzle with history! It made the puzzle so believable and the story seem so TRUE. Instead TRM puzzle is so not connected with any of the Jew’s history or world history in general. Sam Bourne seem to try to make the connection but it is not convincing enough!.

Sam Bourne is definitely not a contender for Dan Brown: the Da Vinci Code was fast paced and unputdownable.

I recommend Dan Brown’s fan not to expect anything from this book. But its good to read. Not bad. The plot is there. You keep wanting to know why the Jews capture Beth and what are the connections between Will and the 36 righteous Men. That is what kept me reading this book.

Ps: after reading two of Sam Bourne's works, I have a feeling that he's a jew. or if not, then he's a jews lover.lol

Huhu I miss Dan Brown’s and J.K Rowling...

What’s next?... what should I read next?!!... any recommendation? Huhu.

I think I’ll try get my hands on one of the twilight saga.

sayonara

2 weeks so far in ABf

other trainees..mizi, mua, steph & terrence. all in dierent deprtmnt.huhu. I'm the only trainee in electrical dept. I was suppose to be in instrumentation dept (other e&e trainees r there) but somehow the HR staff put me in electrical dept. owh well, Mr Igat is with me. I like Mr Igat! he is my supervisor.

I'm already working in the plant area now. of all the new intake trainees I'm the only one who constantly have to enter the plant site. that is becoz my office is in the plant site.huhu. my office is in the workshop area, where all the electrical & instrumentation engineers are. I pretty much dont have any thing to do. haha. well, Mr Subramaniam, the executive engineer (generation section) already gave me like 3 projects and all I had to do to find the informations i needed for the projects was to read their 'so-freakin-many-files' in the file rack. Basically I have all the informations needed for my reports now so I dunno what to do haha.

Everymorning all the engineers have a meeting with the technician, and last week according to my schedule (prepared by the ever wonderful Mr Igat, thank u :) I was under the generation sect and my supervisor was Mr Nor Azhar (another wonderful person!) and next week he will be on holiday until 8th of june.huhu. Last week Mr Azhar drag me along with him EVERYWHERE! and I mean EVERYWHERE. Even to this Operation & Management meeting in the CCR (central control room) It was fun cause at least I had something to do la haha. I'm gonna miss him next week.huhu WHO'S GOING TO DRAG ME ANYWHERE again then?!! I guess I'll just sit at my desk and do some reading on ENMC (Electrical Network Monitoring and Control...one of my projects). I'm gonna miss Mr Azhar eventho sometimes he was kind of anoying haha (forgive me mr azhar) its just that everytime I joined him for a meeting, even a huge meeting with other engineers, he would like BROADCAST it to EVERYONE that I'm the GM's lilttle sister. okay at first it felt kind of 'nice' but after sometime it felt annoying haha.

One thing I'm really impressed with the electrical dept in ABf is that both the engineers and the technician are really close. if the technicians have some problems in the plant, they can freely tell it to the dept manager (currently the dept manager is Mr Yee Yen fu). and believe me most of the technicians are out spoken. kalau apa nak dicakap ya pedas, pedas lah nya, sik da tapis tapis agik haha.

Another thing is that the dept really take a huge deal on safety during work. Everyweek the dept
would have safety briefing and everyone in the dept must attend the meeting. they even take ATTENDANCE! haha..

Owh I should mention here, everytime a meeting ends we would have small meals provided! yipeeee..haha free food. again and again and again... lol

Day 2.we were given PPE.

safety shoes

2 coveralls. 1 safety helmet. 1 googlfe. 1 ear plug.

My first day of Industrial Training

Ahh, sorry for not updating this blog for quite awhile. I have been busy with final exams and the internet line at my college was down during study week but now I’m in bintulu already. So there wont be any problems with my internet line anymore.haha

Well anyway, on the 11 of May I started my industrial training in ABF (Asean Bintulu Fertilizer). Yes! I’m doing my practical in ABF. Why not in MLNG? (u ask) Well, I did accept MLNG offer awhile back but when I re-read the offer letter, I acknowledged that they wanted me to do a 3 months industrial training. So I had to write an official letter to reject their offer.huhu

My first day at ABF was filled with safety briefings. Haha. I reported my self around 7 am, and sometime after that there were 6 others trainee reporting in the HR dept. So there were a total 7 of us. If was amazed when I saw the AFB office building. It looked like a ship!haha

At 730am were had to filled up a form for our swipe cards everytime we entered the plant site latter on when each of us started working. Each of the workers at plant site has a swipe cards to enter the plant site. This will prevent others from entering the plant site. After finish filling up the form we all went to plant site using ABf shuttle provided. The plant site is just about 3 minutes from the office building. From then onwards we had soo many briefings. I’m not gonna complain coz ABF really wants to ensure our training will be injury free from the hazard and risks exposed at the plant site. After each briefings, we had to undergo a simple quiz. Each of us needs to pass the quiz 100% to enable us to work at plant site. If not, we had to undergo the briefings again and do the quiz again. Lucky all of us pass with lying colours.

We had 2 breaks, the first aft 1030am and another at 12pm.f After 1030am we had another safety briefings and another one at 2pm. The 2pm briefings on ‘safety working at height’. And again there was a quiz after fthat at 400 we went back to the office building usingf ABf shuttlle. And we were dismissed at 430pm.

The end (I’m tired really huhu)

kepalak mizi ngn terrence.haha

report masuk plant area ngn security. yg pkai bju putih tu ktorg nyer guide.abg kai yg agak sengal haha.