Portraiture At Pulau Redang

Bout' few weeks ago, we (from the class of Economics Tourism) had a field trip to the famed Pulau Redang. Yeah, 'field' trip. We just enrolled the class to go for trips. Yeah, aren't you glad that I am THAT honest. haha. Lets just hope the final examination will be as easy as playing at the east cost island.

Anyway, some of shots are taken on the boat (or speedboat...although its pretty huge and slow). And remaining were shot on the cliff nearby Laguna Redang Resort (fyi, we didn't stay there). The spot is rather secluded and not that 'user-friendly'. You might just slip and be one with the sea there. But great landscape and view :)

A Week In Uni

Happy New Year!!!

...still not too late rite? Still kinda new to me :P

Here's a brief outline of my first week in UKM. (Classes actually started on the 30th but heck, as I was still in holiday mood)

1. Classes are on Mondays and Tuesdays (11am-2pm, 2pm-5pm) and Wednesdays (8am-11am, 2pm-5pm). Total of 6 classes, 18 credit hours.
   
2. Might have a potential tutorial class on Thursdays or Fridays, but no one wants that.
3. Still lazy and in slacking mood
4. One lecturer was grumpy, old and love asking tough questions
5. One lecturer was long sighted, kept on reading from her huge old book of notes, like a speeding bullet and non of us understood our very own notes that we copied down.
6. Had an elective class with approx 8-10 of my coursemates, 10 hours later, everyone decided to switch to an easier subject and left me alone in that class. I've already taken that 'easier' class.
7. Realised its hard to waste time in UKM when your next class is starting in 3 hours.
8. My faculty's nasi lemak sucked big time.
9. First year students seemed to start dressing up way better (and prettier too,this is what I call a better environment). Apparently I'm still wearing tshirt and jeans to class.
10. And last but not least, and also the best...my 'time management' class lecturer came late. She's a nice lecturer, but I still find that kinda funny
    

Photography Assignment

I've totally forgotten bout this poster assignment for my photography subject in UKM. Thanks to Esther for reminding me bout it :)

It was from my previous Pangkor photos set. Yeaps, I'm very pleased with this pic for many reasons. One of it is that it was worth waiting for that winged guy to look up instead of muching nonstop with its beak down.

Surprising (or not so)

I was working my ass for this econometrics assignment of mine. For those of you who have no idea what the heck is that, its still a field/study/specialisation under economics.

In a laymen term: A study and/or solution of a particular problem/issue through the perspective of mathematical, statistical and economics.

I didn't google that up, so don't take that as an official definition. I could be wrong. I'm just quoting and translating back by memory from what my lecturer has said.

ANYWAY, we're suppose to come up with this 'mini thesis' assignment which is freely based on any topics of our choice. It's quite simple...decide on a problem/issue, get the data, process and interpret the results, transfer everything into a thesis form.

I was working my way from middle to front and then to the back. So my issue was decided based on the data I found. The issue I was working on was that road accidents are affected by the factor of the number of commercial vehicles (lorry, trailer) and the amount of summons issued by our cops during Ops Sikap.

To prove that I'm not lying, here's the output I got from the data.

Parameter Estimates

Parameter Standard
Variable DF Estimate Error t Value Pr > |t|

Intercept 1 5.01346 1.77470 2.82 0.2166
LX1 1 -0.15874 0.16041 -0.99 0.5033
LX2 1 0.72740 0.13309 5.47 0.1152

Do u see the -1.5874? That means its a negative relation among 2 variables.
So the 0.7274 is showing a positive relation. Simple enough rite?

Here goes:
In a laymen lingo, it means the more summons issued by the cops, the higher the amount of road accidents gets!! Lol. This is really interesting. Probably everyone speeds off right after the road block knowing there wont be another speed trap bout 200km ahead.

Anyway this research is lacking in alot of areas like lack of data (data from 2005-2008), accuracy of the given data, should be using the number of summons throughout the whole year (but I cant get it) etc etc.
Afterall the given varibles are not significant in explaining the model/equation. It means the data doesn't make much of an effect towards the number of accidents. But then again, it means that Ops Sikap doesn't make a significance change either! Ha!

So eventually I changed to a more boring topic which is about Malaysia economics. Very bland and textbook-like.

Moral of the story: Ops Sikap doesn't make a difference (besides financially)

Photography Assignment

Yes, I major in Economics. But that doesn't stop me from taking fun electives like this one :)

Requirements for the 60% course assignment:

• 1 Shot of yourself (in this case, myself) - I'll just use my facebook pic

• 20 selected pics (supposely as your best 20 pics) - I only have 20 'good' shots, non i considered it to be the 'best'

• A slideshow - Right belowwwww

• A printed 12R pic of anything - I'll post it later on

• A printed 12R of the same pic (refer right above) and be photoshopped/scribbled/cut/doodled/stepped/anything into an advertisement piece.

So here's the slideshow which I've done from the photoshoot in Taman Tasik Perdana.

It's a little corny and lame. But heck, as long i'm showcasing my pics in a nice moving order right?




P/s: I would like to thank Evelyn Loh for suggestion of the jiwang song. Actually she would like me to thank her in this post for NOT suggesting the song but sending me the song instead.

Faculty Night 2008 Pictures

Here are the pics.
All 666 of them (gasp, evil number! oh well...) , courtesy to everyone who contributed to the pics whom I have no idea. I just grabbed the 1.3gb file from Sze Sze :P

Enjoy!