Today is quite a packed day, went to service my car in the morning, lecture in the afternoon, zhi xing's birthday celebration in evening, and watching basketball match at night.

Car service
Made an appointment a day earlier with one of the Honda dealers in Seri Kembangan, for 12pm. In stead of being entertained at 12pm, I had to queue up again and wait for 30minutes, which is not so satisfying. But that's still ok, something worse is coming. The frontdesk guy promised to have my car ready by 2pm, BUT ... I saw my car is still under the sun out there, at 2pm!! Complaint to him few times, ended up start servicing my car at 230pm. Sigh, and I have a lecture at 3pm ... They just have to top up the engine oil and change the air filter, which probably take them about 20minutes to have everything done, but I was forced to stay there for 3 hours long. This service center at Seri Kembangan is a shame of Honda, hopefully someone got to do something on that, ask those frontdesk guys to serve customers friendly and with good manners.


Zhi Xing's birthday celebration
19/10/09 - Our lovely Mr Potato ---> Zhi Suk's birthday! Happy birthday to him =) Wish him a healthy and joyful year ahead. We had the celebration in Wong Kok, located at South City Plaza, Seri Kembangan. As usual, we received a F.O.C, giant sized "Teh Ais". Thinking back, we go there almost every year, just because of the giant drink ;) More than 15 friends attend tonight, what to do, we have to respect the 24-year-old senior, LOL.


Basketball Match
Clash of friends! Our supported team is going to have a match with another group of friends of mine, guess they had fun for the match, ended up with our team at better form, and won the match. After the match, I had some fun at the court, with my slippers and yi-da-lok skills. Well, life is all about fun, isnt' it =)

Too bad i missed something ... I'm so sorry .... hopefully tomorrow can wake up early and have a brand new day.

17th - 18th October 2009

心血来潮, 开车往南部去了。。。

淡边,
一个离加影不到45分钟车程的小乡,
一排排充满着古味的老店,
行人,甲乙丙丁,还比车辆多呢.
这里有一间味道不凡的面店,
龙江面。

它是客家面和云吞面的综合体,
有着云吞面般的口感,
和客家面的汁味,
平凡的一蝶干捞面,
却包含着道地平淡生活的那份感觉。


古城马六甲,
历史古迹的遗留地。
这里没有什么刺激的玩意儿,
只有一些古老的
教堂,
博物馆,
海峡,
等。

记得小学候在书上见过马六甲,
没想到要等到升上大学后
才有机会亲生来“考察”。
顺道去诳诳“Jonker's Street”
试了那里的CENDOL,
马六甲的椰糖果然较香甜,
正!
由于太阳太猛了,
不久就离开马六甲,回芙蓉去。

波德申海滩,
蛮多人的一天,是假期的关系吧?
涨潮了,只好铺个地毯坐着,
没了海滩漫步。

第一次看日落。
原来日落也有着低落的感觉,
意味着告别前的依依不舍。


和芙蓉的朋友一起享用晚餐。
多谢建豪
让我借宿一宵,
和你周到的待客之道,
感激感激。

在芙蓉的第二天,
初次踏入天主教堂,
也没什么好评论的,
尊重每一个宗教吧。
著名的芙蓉烧包竟然休假!
来了两天,也没机会再吃 =(

姨婆老鼠粉。
在芙蓉街场,
那么细长的老鼠粉,
我倒是第一次见。


难忘的旅程。

Finally, i own a pair of Crocs!! I always wanted to get myself a pair of comfortable and nice looking shoes, looking at the growing trend of Crocs, it's just hard to resist from buying it. Especially when the new 'Crocsband' came to town!! It's the first day Crocsband came to Malaysia, and I've own it!! XD It's simply not much different with normal Crocs, it's just that some improvement in the sporty and fashionable appearance, which seem to attract more teenagers towards it, as my point of view. Four different colours are available for Crocsband - red, navy, black and pearl white. Among these four, I found the white is most suitable for me, as it's easier to be matched with my style. Never doubt of its comfort, maybe just a little bit of loose, just a little, which is normal for slippers i guess? One of the drawback of getting this pearl white baby - have to wash it frequently!! If not, pearl white will soon become the fifth colour of Crocsband collection. Love it's black line on the bottom layer, which is the first model that has such kind of design, looks more sporty.



After getting the new baby, went to "Chatterbox" in Bangsar Village, which is average for me, similar in style and quality with Kim Gary, and also its price. Had a bowl of chesse baked rice with pork for my dinner, and a glass of "Old Town Nai Cha", which appears to fill my stomach till now, after 2 hours =S Anywhere, still a nice day outing, especially before the D-day comes, just around the corner ....

Banquet - Bangsar Village 2


This restaurant is mainly designed for its romantic atmosphere, which is quite a nice place to have a fine dining. It's located at Bangsar Village 2, nicely design for both the smoking and non-smoking area. It's weird to see that the smoking area is actually inside the restaurant itself, whereas the the non-smoking area, which is designed as garden-like-theme, is located outside the restaurant. The smoking area is decorated with chandeliers, wicker chairs and wrought iron table stands, and not forgetting to mention of its glassy wall. Mirrors have been used as replacement for the wall, which create a spacious illusion within the restaurant.


The counter is nicely arranged, stacked with bottles of champagne and fruits, mainly oranges. The food is average, but thumbs up for the atmosphere, love its pearl white theme.


When it comes to the price, it's not really convincing for me, well again, it depends on individuals. A simple Curry Chicken Nasi Lemak, costs RM18 per serving. Nothing special of this plate of M'sia-famous-of-all-time, except it's served with one whole egg instead of just half of it like normal Mamak stalls do?
Rating 3.5/5


Mee Jawa, RM15 per plate. Quite a large plate, but not really large when comes to its content.
Rating 3/5

Umeshu (梅酒), is a Japanese liquor made from steeping "ume" fruits in alchocol and sugar. It has a sweet and sour taste, with alcohol content of around 15%. Ume plums contain potassium and calcium, which served as health supplement for Japanese. Some said it's good for ones with gastric, didn't really know how it taste, will try to search for it one day.

Have been busy for last 2 weeks, due to Renewable Energy test2, but it turned out to be open book test -___-" I wish i had more time for the test, perhaps lack of practice has slowed down my pace, i need to be more hardworking =)

Another thing that keep nosing me for these few weeks, is our CFD group project, which cover 30% of the subject assessment.

Objective: to analyze the velocity and temperature distribution of BN-0-024 room

Steps
- using GAMBIT to draw out the simulation model of BN-0-024, a meeting room
- using FLUENT to analyze on the velocity and temperature distribution of it
- come out with suggestion and recommendation for energy optimization

Overview of the meeting room

GAMBIT simulation model

Due to over-complexity of the simulation model, the whole idea is simplified into simple shapes, to ease the iteration and analyzing procedure.

GAMBIT simplified model

The following step is to apply size function to the simulation model, which has a start size of 0.1, growing rate of 1.5 and maximum size of 1. The figure below illustrates the simulation model meshing in-progress. The purpose of applying mesh to the volume is to assign a node to almost every part of the volume, in order to get the information of the node, eg temperature and velocity. After meshed, it's then export as ".msh" file to be read in FLUENT.


We are here in FLUENT, to compare between different velocity and temperature inlet of air conditioning units, 9sets of combination model (with different temperature and velocity) have been iterated, which is shown in table below. For those who are confused, let's take model B16 as example, it uses velocity inlet of 10m/s with temperature setting of 16 degree Celsius.


After getting velocity and temperature plots of each of the case, model B16 has been selected as the best options. The red zone showed below represents the heat dissipated from human's body, which is set to be at 310K, or 37 degree Celsius. While the blue zone represents the coolest zone in this temperature range, which is located at the air conditioning inlet on the top ceiling.

Contours of static temperature (X-plane)

Contours of static temperature (Y-plane)

The figure below shows that the velocity flow at the chair is quite high, which is around 1.6m/s, at the optimum air flow which is not stagnant, nor too breezy.
Velocity vectors colored by Z-velocity

Note that these figure shown are just minor part of our project, they are more than 40 figures in our project, which is too much to be uploaded together in this post.

Well, CFD project is done.

What's next?
- Engineering Economics Test 2 - Tues
- Industrial Energy Management presentation - Tues
- Renewable Energy Challenge 2 report - next Mon
- Renewable Energy Challenge 2 presentation - next Wednesday
- Final Year Project presentation - next Thursday/Friday

Everything is going to be so packed in the next few weeks, hope everyone is doing good, stay in your best condition guys.

Usually Mid Autumn Festival is at month of September, except this year, which is on October. Nevertheless, family dinner is a must for this special day, a symbol of reunion. It reminds me of the drama 家好月圆, where they fight to have family dinner together from either side of 何玛 and 狐狸精(美雪). The Grandpa is so dissapointed to hear that family dinner is out of reach during the Mid Autumn Festival. But then it ends in a good way, family dinner is on! So does it apply to my real life, my parents, grandma and little brother came all the way from Ipoh to have a meaningful family dinner with us, where uncle james, aunty amy and calvin joined us in this big crowd as well. Those tempting dishes happen rarely, perhaps few times a year, because my parents never cook due to tiring working load, and i have been taking in lots of 'Ajinomoto' since small =(


用来保沙葛的生菜 & 冬菇焖鸡

白斩马来鸡 & 葱油酱

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