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He walks. He runs. And perhaps most importantly, he inspires us to dream…

And another point, he is a non-human that moves like human.

That’s Honda’s ASIMO (Advanced Step in Innovative MObility). Standing at 130cm and weighing 54kg, he is one of the most advanced humanoid robot on Earth. It took 22 years for Honda’s Research and Development Wako Fundamental Technical Research Center to produce this master piece (almost the same age as me… ) and on 18 Nov 2008, he stepped into UTM.

And this was one of those days where the normally “don’t care” group of staffs suddenly transformed into the “extra hardworking” servants serving the VIPs.

On stage dancing with the kids

And when it comes to robotics, even us, who’re still in the middle of our final exam, have to “volunteer” to help prepare for the robotic exhibition…

Me with UTM version humanoid robots

The 2 girls who programmed the robots for exhibition. Who says girls can’t construct robots?

The Macho Men of the day

Clowns with the balls…

UTM Robocon Team with ASIMO

Cute, isn’t it? Wish I can have one in my house…haha…he really “inspires me dreaming”…

EMPTA was one of the big sponsor in my education life. Since primary school, I’ve been “forking” out some money from them every year. Small money, big money, whatever I can get, I’ll sweep everything (I’m pretty greedy huh? muahahahaha… =P).

But all this has come to an end… This is the final year I’m eligible to apply for it.

The “one kind” face… Get caught on candid camera. =P

You may ask why… Well, people grow old and it’s harder for old people to ask for money from others… too bad for me…. =P

Paycheck !

After the prize giving ceremony, we went for lunch at a Korean BBQ restaurant near Kepong, DAORAE. It was not the original plan, but there’s a “girl” who’s so eager to try it just because her favourite artists was there before (duh… girls can spend anything on things they are crazy bout…). In the end, the whole family just bear with the decision.

What we don’t expect much is always something that will surprise us most.

At first we thought it was just an ordinary Korean cuisine restaurant with only Kimchi. We order 2 sets for taste trying. Yes, the food comes with Kimchi (as expected), but with a lot more than that. The waiter was very friendly to help us BBQ the meat and teach us HOW to eat Korean food.

BBQ’ing the meat. Yummy…

Wah, eat food also need people to teach one ar?

Yes, it’s special… the cooked meat itself taste nothing, but after a few combinations and “combos” with other dishes, it taste FANTASTIC !!!

One of the “combos”…

The “Largest” guy in the family… =P

Well, it’s the same in life… thing which we think is insignificant to us,  is crucial to another thing that’s important to us.

Since it was my day forking other people’s money, I ended up being forked to foot the bill…

It’s good to know something at least a little bit more than others…

These 2 days I’ve been returning to my previous diploma campus helping some of my juniors with something that I’ve been working very long and hard on, something that has been keeping me so busy that I normally sacrifice my holiday and stay back at UTM to learn… Microcontrollers.

It’s wonderful to see how this group of juniors improve in such a fast pace. The last time I met them was bout 5 months ago, where they just started organising this club for students to learn and develop robotic stuffs. And now, they are the seniors here and organising the same training program for the new juniors. They sacrifice their holiday as well just to guide these juniors to learn things which will never been taught in their syllabus.

Thinking back during my diploma era, we’ve long for this type of training program to be held during our time. However our network were lacking and we can hardly contact any senior to guide us through the process. At the same time, the staffs were unsupportive with this type of activity back then. Hence, we ended up not being able to come across this knowledge until we entered degree.

What makes 2 individuals with same education background different (besides gender, age, bla bla bla and all the crap you can think of… =P ) ? You bet…… it’s experience.

Some people spend their life doing what normal people do, while some spend their life exceeding their limits, doing “extraordinary” things… and that’s what we get, normal folks and “extraordinary” people.

Once there’s a friend who told me this, “Everything changes, but there’s only 2 things that will never change, what are they?”

It’s the first 2 words of the sentence.

Humans are emotional. We normally relate things to 2 types of feeling, pain and pleasure. Most of us (even myself) are afraid of changes. We love to live in our comfort zone most of the time without realising anything wrong. We dislike changes because psychologically, change = pain. When things changed to problems, it’s only then we regret for not doing anything bout it earlier.

It’s the same as the process of learning. Most of us dislike learning something new or extra. What we want is what sufficient for us at this moment. As the saying goes, “No pain, no gain.” It’s painful, it requires us to go extra miles in order to learn something new. Hence, most of them time we procrastinate. We remain at the same spot wihout going anywhere.

Frankly, I totally admire their learning spirit. Wish them the very best on their journey of learning and hope that one day, they will succeed in what they do. =)

Hello world !!! Well this is the default post title from the system for newbie like me.

For those of you who don’t know me… Hi! nice to meet you. =)

For those of you who know me, you’re probably thinking,” Mr Calvin, lost for so long and suddenly reappear…1st emo blog that gone missing, 2nd insurance and finance blog that only hot for 1 week I guess, now what ???” Well sorry la friends…I’m not the type that can write as well as you, so now still working on it…

Anyway, this blog will be mainly about my life and things happening around me. I don’t have diary, and I don’t have good memory as well. Many things that are happening around me, I’ll forget about them as easy as I drink water. So hope that this can at least save some of my precious memory and allow me to get in touch with people around me. Friends, I still love you…

Til then… =)