new air cond

the new air cond units came and are sitting outside the lab ready to be assembled. I suddenly feel very proud being a Malaysian...for some strange reason...

no air cond

For the past few months (some say 6), teh central air cond has been malfunctioning. So in the end, the uni scraped up some funds to replace the aging AHU with a new one. Today the workers banged and heaved and brought out piece by piece, the mammoth from the little room at the back of the building.






I just realized that the photos are in reverse order and I am too lazy to change it. Half way through the dismantling process, some fiber thingy caught fire in the room becasue they had to use a blowtorch to break some tubes and metal rods. The fire caught some fiber insulation and the whole room went up in smoke. Because it was the air cond duct that lead to the whole floor, the whole level 1 was filled with smoke from the air cond unit. The fire alarms went off and everybody got evacuated. Later they found out the cause and everybody went back in. But the condition was too terrible to work in.

Smoke really gets in your eyes.

C is for cookee

Prof baked some cookies. And we ate them all.



Chocolate cookies, with chocolate and milk chips in them.
Oh, and remember not to accept food from strange people:


If I were the one who baked the cookies, they would come out the same colour but would taste very different. And all of you will be my guinea pigs to eat them up.

The corridor: data

Today they laid the data cables for the LAN system. One point costs $200 to lay. Previously computer center would do it for everybody for free, now you have to call an external contractor to do it for you, but at least they do a good job of it.


We have now 30 new data points, i.e. $6000 spent.


Cables, cables, nothing but cables.


This one is intersting. The table guy got called in the morning to come down and survey the site so that the cabel people know where to put the points. He refused and instructed them to place the points 'on the wall', lower than 10" from the ground.
Which the data people did.
Then the table guy appeared near 5pm.
And got a shock!
He saw them putting the cabels on the wall, lower than 10" from the ground.
Supposedly there was this metal strip of thing holding the tables together running along that same area. And so there now is a conflict of interest.
Whose fault?
The stupid table guy.
And he still have the guts to ask the data people to relay ALL their cables so that he can put in his tables.
What a big idiot. He wouldnt come in the morning, gave specific instructions for work to be done and now counter his own instructions plus put everybody in a tight spot because of his own poor planning.
He's the guy in white. If you do see him, please don't give him any business:


Clipsal, supposedly the best brand for data cables today