This week...

My wife, Ain ,went to Vietnam today with her HONDA team for business trip. She will be there for about 4days. I am a little bit worried that my daughter, Fareehah will not get used to it( I know Ain won't!...heh,sure rindu giler kat Fareehah tuh). We never leave her that long before. I am sure everything will just turn out to be okay eventually, but this is just a father concern about her daughter. Previously when I went for USM trip for few days, Ain had done great job dealing with the situation. I hope I can do it just fine too. I also think this is a good opportunities for me to spend more time with Fareehah. So what to do Fareehah? Will you teman abah tengok live football game around 2:00AM tonight? Do you want to follow abah go to sport equipment shop later today? Do you want to play tennis with abah tomorrow evening?Hey...how about a trip to abah's office? Lets hang out in the USM library afterwards...(although you can't enter the library because you didn't have USM smart card..). Hmm...so...many things to do ya.....wish me luck!!

Champion of the PERODUA ECO-CHALLENGE 2009

USM won!Remember the Perodua Eco-Challenge 2009 entry that I wrote few months ago? Well guess what, my university won the challenge. We got two 1st prize, one in the engineering presentation category and another in the longest distance category for automatic transmission. I am very proud with our USM team. I think this is quite a big achievement to us. Next,Shell Eco-Marathon, and we need to work even more hard this time because it's an international level competition. About the Perodua Eco-Challenge,I hope Perodua will organize this competition annually because we surely want to defend our status as the champion, winning is not easy but defending what you have won is more difficult. So guys, more effort please!! We did proved that with a proper understanding of the concept,technology and systems, we can make improvement. On the race day we get 23.5km with 1 litter of gasoline. Pretty great huh!

Now, about the whole competition,my view point is this competition theme still lacks the ECO aspects. I know that their theme," by consuming less fuel, we are reducing the pollutions as well"but the point is I did not clearly saw that "we are going towards a better environment quality" kind of theme in these competition. What I see is " Buy Perodua cars because we have better fuel consumption compared to Proton".Perodua should use such opportunity to show to the world that they are not just thinking about profit through an "advertisement competition". They should involves more environmentally aspects of things. I didn't even see any "recycle garbage bin"(separated to glass, paper,can etc.) around on the race day. I did saw WWF booth, but that just it. It is more like a funfair with them doing the "hullahoop shoot the duck and you won a teddy bear" booth. Its a circus. I know that the race day should be a fun day for everyone, so are we having fun yet?Anyway, it is the 1st Perodua Eco-Challenge, so lets work together to improve the competitions. This could be a great annual competition and if they really make it right, it will only be in a matter of time before this competition becomes an international challenge,with many oversea universities wanting to participate in it,which will be great for our country.

So guys, really proud of you.What a great sets of people we got here in USM!

(pictures taken from Henry,thanks buddy!)