Field Work

We had our field work on Tuesday (6th March 2007) from 8am-12pm. Alright, the day started with a long-winding lecture from the lab assistants who orginated from Indonesia, mostly..and whatever they say, we find it hard to comprehend, and so, usually it's only "uh..uh...." throughout the whole session of lecture.
Although I must say, they are pretty helpful and friendly to us, especially the Chinese. It's like they understand how we are treated here, and they are just being a teeny-weeny better to us, to make us feel better.

So, that day's work was about Detail Surveying, using Traversing skills and some poles.

We only begun work at 9 am, when the assistant has finished explaining which no one really got what he said. We collected our apparatus, and headed down to the wide field we have in Block 14, which happens to be the Civil Engineering Faculty Block. FOUR groups set out with one intention: To finish as quickly as possible and to outrun the sun that is now being to shine pretty hard.

At 9.30am, the sun was getting pretty hot..even sissy guys are holding umbrellas.. I was pretty cool with the sun, just not so with the heat.

The main objective of this lab work is to sketch out the lake in Block 14, as well as sketch the contour lines or something like that lah!..We have to use some poles and this THEODOLITE (<----) machine which is able to calculate the data on its own. That is like so cool okay.. One person has to hold the pole, place it at one specific place and this observer, using this theodolite machine is supposed to collect the data using the theodolite. Oh, just one thing, this theodolite machine costs about RM64 k. It is also named "the waja"..(coz one waja costs around that figure ma!)


Aah, that was half of the size of the lake we were supposed to sketch on the paper..with accurate data..
See, civil engineering is a noble profession which the engineers go under the hot sun, doing something for mankind.
Where to find, where to find, I ask you??


Cannot find already lah..
So, other engineering faculties, please don't come and complain about your labs which are held in air-conditioned rooms/labs, please take a look of our lab's condition..

Oh, did I mention I have a colleague who came late to this field work, but brought along a pot of coffee and some sandwiches for her group members..?
So good okay?
Civil Engineers really tahu how to enjoy sakan, enjoy habis-habis even though working under pressure and the hot scorching sun!

And yes, during our field work, we managed to find some interesting things..
Let me share with you..

We found alot of ants, scurrying on branches of plants..
What is so special about this?
We had to stand so close to those plants that we were terrified to see the ants climbing onto our poles..and eventually, they will travel to some other places on our bodies...
So, we had to conduct it as quick as possible and then leave the plants and the ants alone..





Then we saw something so funny..we saw a monkey..sitting below the shade, while waving hie to us..We were so fascinated that we took pictures of "it"..luckily I was fast enough to capture pictures of him, but also, he didn't run away at the sight of human around "it"..
Lo Behold, damn_drunken_ape..(<----) ..oh, it's ape..not monkey...my bad!..

Actually I did take a picture of myself. How could I pass an opportunity to camwhore right? But the angle taken was bad, and it made me look fat..so fat, that my cheeks look as if they were bulging out from my face...Aah, enough of making me look bad..so..no pictures of me this time around..

Field work ended at 11.55am.. Burning sun, sensational heat..but it all ended with a bottle of Cola in Pocket C's Into Eat cafe..=)