Old Calendar

I just threw my PETRONAS 2013 calendar. Say goodbye to all the things I've noted down on the calendar. Goodbye. Its a new year. Thanks for everything that Allah has prepared me from all the experiences, no matter its a bliss or miseries, for all that, is to make me stronger on facing more challenging years coming in front of me. Terima kasih Ya Allah. Aku berserah.

I took photos of some quotes from the calendar.

Simple DIY vase

I'm quite free in this week as I already passed all the report and assignment deadline. All tests are done as well. So those things I'd love to do during my holidays at home are blowing my mind. I start doing a lot of window shopping, not to worry its only window shopping. I start to look around my room what can I do to spend my free time.

I have one bookshelves beside my bed which is still not decorated. Then I saw a simple DIY to make a vase from a recycled mineral bottle and yarns. It is very simple to do but a bit tedious. So I suggest to use the thicker yarns so it won't take so long of your time to finish it. The thick yarns may cost a little bit expensive than the one I used but the quality must be better. You can see how the thicker yarns look like in UsefulDIY.com where the idea of making this DIY vase come from.

The process of making it is easy. We just need to wrap around the mineral bottle with the yarns. You can use any glue that stick nicely. Here I'm using my hot glue gun and glue stick. As the wrapping completed, you can add whatever decoration you love. I'm using rosettes decor as you can make it from ribbon you already have. You can search from Google on how to do the handmade rosette. I leave all the pictures I took while doing this DIY vase :)

Mineral bottle to be recycled

Wrapping the yarn around the bottle

Use handmade or ready-made rosettes or any other decor 

Glue on the fabric so it stick easily

You maybe more creative than what I did. LOL.

Sorry it doesn't look really cool though

Now it can be used to decorate my empty bookshelves :)

That's all!

It takes few hours to finish this and I'm so happy to see there's something colorful at this small part of my room in UTP :)

Pasir Puteh, Perak

I'm not used to drive alone to Ipoh or any places around Perak which are a bit far from UTP. I'm scared I'll be lost. If you're lost in KL it still doesn't matter. There are a lot of signboard that can route you back to your destination. But if you're lost in Ipoh or any area around Perak I don't think we can rely on signboard. At least for the time being. It will improve I believe. But my scariest driving experience was in Damansara. It has a lot of signboard with a lot of crazy diverging junctions.

I went to Pasir Puteh to find another two solar panels with the rating 3W6V. So I went to the most famous electronic shop among UTPian, the State Electronics. Unfortunately the solar panel with the rating that i'm looking for isn't available anymore. I moved to the next shops and still couldn't get the exact rating that I want. Its very hard to find a very small one or a very big one when you're looking for solar panel. And mine are very small. I went to the last shop that I know and that's my last hope. Finally I met them in the last shop :) 

3W 6V panel

I bought this at RM95 each. I need two of these and there are only two left in the shop and probably in the whole Pasir Puteh, so that's really mine! But I forgot to look at the name of the shop :(

Techcom Electrical

State Electronic

Sri Iskandar

Nowadays Sri Iskandar has become quite congested due to lots of cars. In these 4 years, I have witnessed a big changes happen to this place since my first year. Tesco, Billion, Giant, Mydin, McDonald, KFC, Secret Recipe, boutiques and all other shops didn't exist during my first time being here back in July 2009. I remember how at those time when I was about to cry as I cannot find even chocolate in Tronoh and Sri Iskandar after one year living in Subang Jaya town, a big shopping hub.

But still, there are so many places near UTP are not in my DONE list. 

I was looking for a new restaurant this evening and found out one in Bandar Universiti, Sri Iskandar. It's either the restaurant is new or me didn't notice it before. Chop & Grill Corner is the name. It's a normal western food restaurant and its cheap I think. The fish & chips I tried today costs RM5.50. Reasonable with the amount of the food in the plate.

Smoothie

Sometimes you plan for something to happen at certain time, but it happened the other way round. I plan to finish this small solar tracker circuit by today but I don't think it will work. By the way, it should works! Whyyyyy?? So the FYP2 first week milestone is not achieved. Anyway I brought all the stuffs out of lab and keep it in my room so I can do this during weekend. Rabbi yassir wa la tuassir Ya Allah Ya Kareem.

Al-Kahfi and chocolate banana smoothie are here for stress relieving :)

Simple recipe for chocolate banana smoothie:

1. Banana

2. Chocolate powder / milo / vico / ovaltine

3. Condense milk / fresh milk

4. Plain original yogurt

5. 3 to 4 cubes of ice

Blend all above. Happy weekend everyone! :D