woo hoo!!

After 2 long weeks of suffering in the robotics lab, we only amounted to almost nothing. Everything for the robotics competition was actually finished in the last 2 days. las 2 nights actually, 9-11.30pm.

Our team was competing in the upper secondary open category. The theme was artist robot and we wanted to put in some 'unsur tradisional' in it. So, we created a batik drawing and painting robot. We wore blue batik shirts and white pants, we looked good. GAAH!! If only there was a best dressed and best decoration category, which they took out purposely because they knew PFS was too good at that. We could've won those hands down.

Some parts of the programming actually went wrong and because of the environment(open-air hall), the wax we heated continuously before the judges came froze too quickly. By the time the judging started, only drops of the wax came out of the 'canting' pen.

We had a kick-ass presentation and everybody was truly fascinated by our folio/presentation. Hence, we had a lot of people gathering around our booth almos the whole time. There were twinkling lights and a bright spotlight at our display. We also had our presentation shown on a big projector screen.

In the end, we only managed a 3rd place win and "Best Innovative Idea" award for our efforts. 2 PFS teams managed to get top-10 in the planting category, they won 5th and 10th place consiquently. We had a lot of fun and take that Lee Ewe Im for giveing us not enaough support. Should've given us more money and we could've won first. Oh well, we're aiming for next year because this is our first time in the open category and we really looked like amateurs.

Photos? Next time I log in..bubye..

what I did during the holidays..

This is the worst holiday I have ever had. On weekdays, I've done nothing but robotics in the morning until 1330 and karate from 1800 to 2000. It's really tiring once i get through it at first but after a few days, I became accustomed to it. I've been training under this Iranian coach for karate for the past month and have been better at sparring then I have ever been before. He used to be a World Champion for sparring. I think his name was Yousef Ataei or something like that. My legs are friggin' tired and painful and my abs are aching but it's all for a good cause, fun. Hey, who says fun isn't a good cause?

well, that's all for now because I can't talk on my current robotics feat because it's top-secret, for now at least..

bubye for now..