Acc in the Hospital Part II

Aduhh sakitnya. Got admitted to hospital balik semalam. But this time it's not bcoz of that knee problem, it's kidney stone lah pulak. Memang sakit, sekarang pun tengah sakit nak tulis pon susah nie. Ya Allah perit nya ujian yang diberi...

Umme-Salamah Radiyallahu 'anha, the wife of Rasulullah Sallallahu 'alaihi wasallam, narrated: I heard Rasulullah Sallallahu 'alaihi wasallam saying "Never a slave of Allah, afflicted with a calamity, who says (the following words), except that Allah will grant him for his calamity better than that"

"Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi raji'oon. Allahumma'jurni fi musibati wa akhlif li khairam-minha"

Verily unto Allah we belong, and unto Him shall we return. O Allah! Reward me in my calamity, and grant me from it something better than that.

...

Allah the All-Knowing

Knowledge is power

Accidentally in the Hospital?

Kuala Lumpur: *sigh* Sudah seminggu nampaknya duduk rumah akibat accident di Temerloh yang berlaku kira-kira seminggu yang lepas. Accident itu nampaknya sangat ganas sehingga menyebabkan leher terkehel, kaki bengkak, dan menyebabkan lutut kiri di operate akibat acl. Sekarang hari-hari kene buat theraphy dan setiap kali buat, kejutan electric tahap rendah akan diberikan di lutut kiri nie. "ADUUHHHHHeey!!!" itu lah suara mantap yng dikeluarkan oleh saya everytime buat electric theraphy. Memang sakit la, rasa cam kener siat kulit... and dayymn, it hurts so bad. Do that for 15 minutes everyday, enough to make my skin rotting haha.

Alhamdulillah ALLAH masih memanjangkan usia saya. Sebelum ini saya tak pernah berfikir sangat pasal hidup dan mati nie, tetapi selepas kejadian tue... SubhanAllah barulah saya perasan betapa banyaknya rezeki yg Allah masih beri kepada saya, tubuh badan masih lengkap, mata masih nampak, dan mulut masih boleh berkata2. Seharian saya habiskan dengan termenung mengenangkan nasib baik saya ini.

"Ya Allah, Hidupkanlah aku dengan Iman serta dilimpahi rezeki & rahmat, Ya Allah, Matikanlah aku dengan Iman dan dengan pengakhiran yang baik, Ya Allah Masukkanlah aku kedalam syurga dengan Iman besama-sama para solehien yang lain" Ameen

Fooh, bila la agak nye nk masuk keje balik nie. Tetiba rasa cam seorang workaholic haha. Sebenarnya rasa kesunyian duk umah nie plus x boleh berjalan, kaki boleh bend for 15 deg jer... hmmm (melepaskan perasaan seperti seorang pompuan lah pulak hahah).

OK change topic sket,what do engineers think about women? (rasa cam jauh sangat topic changed nie). My boss taught me this and surprisingly during last assesment I got A+ :

But, recently when I was trimming my beard in front of a mirror in my bathroom, I discovered this on my own:

1) Woman = problems --> (1)
2) Solution + promblems = problemsolved --> (2)
3) According to ancient Chinese Book, Men = solution --> (3)

from eq (2): Solution + problems = problemsolved
subtitute eq (3) & (1) into eq (2)

:. Men + Woman = problemsolved /:

Conclusion is, if you hate "that" woman, marry her and problem solved!! LOL

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Swifty Flow

I'm not a big fan of country music to begin with, but living in Nashville for 4 years kinda have like a butterfly-effect on me, til NOW. Well, I still listen to country songs once in a while to muse over all the good times that I had when I was in Nashville.

OK back to the main topic guys. I heard this song White Horse from Taylor Swift and I said, "hey, this is one good song from this young singer". I started downloading the whole album "Fearless" and now I can say, "Feel 'fearless' to country song"! The whole album sounds really great so worth my time downloading it.

And I'm surprised to hear that Colbie Caillate (not so sure how to spell her name) is in the album as well. The song "breathe" was written by Colbie & Taylor. Can you imagine how great the song is when that mellowish colbie-like rythm twanged by a modern country style? Better get the album and listen to it yourself. Dayymn, I miss Nashville.... LOL

Anyhow, great music from T-swizzle

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45

I came across this article in an "FW"ed email from my friend, Raja. It's written by Regina Brett, a 90-year-old woman of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland,Ohio

"To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written."

1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends & parents will. Stay in touch.
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
8. *Skipped* religiously irrelevant
9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.
12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.
13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.
16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
But the second one is up to you and no one else.
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.
23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
24. The most important sex organ is the brain.
25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words ''In five years, will this matter?".
27. Always choose life.
28. Forgive everyone everything.
29. What other people think of you is none of your business.
30. Time heals almost everything. Give time, time.
31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
33. Believe in miracles.
34. *Skipped*
35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
36. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.
37. Your children get only one childhood.
38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's,
we'd grab ours back.
41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
42. The best is yet to come.
43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
44. Yield.
45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift =)

How nice. She also relates some of the lessons with "friendship". Well, friends are important as "Friends are the family you choose for yourself". But are friends really friends? LOL hopefully

Wow growing older sure teaches us alot. Anyway, I remember asking a few times "How old are you?" to my technical coach, a 67 yo Filipino. But he always replied "Hmm, I forgot. I think 50, coz I stop counting my age when I was 49". Great!

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Midship Runabout

Toyota MR-2 Spyder or so called MRS. A mid-engined, rear-drive, two-passenger sport car which everyone tries not to buy for the sake of their children. NO SEAT FOR THEM lar!!!

I'd say it's a very lite drive compared to other performance car i.e Imprezza & Evo, well it's not even a performance car, at least from my pov. Sorry Spyder owners! lol Nonetheless you can still feel that G-force when you're going 0-100 in about 7 secs, can be less though. That's good enough for me I guess. Wt some mods, perhaps with small TD04, a nice air intake, etc.. you'll get your 4-6 secs.

It's like a regular car btw. It's just that, I love sport car period. I'm planning to get another sport car one day... even after I got married, the passion never dies!!! *hopefully* hehe. I'm still learning about the car though, the engine, how to improve and so on. Still a long way to go.

Enough with the promotion. It's hard to describe it in words... give me a call, I'll be more than happy to take you for a ride in my little Spyder! Don't expect too much out of it, it's not a new car and having said that, I need to do some mods sooner or later, apearrance & performance-wise.

~ in 3 years it will be a bigger & better spyder InsyaAllah. I'll be 26 at that time and ready to make some "moves" =)

One thing i need to improve wt the car seriously.... I need a hard top pleeaaasseee...~

Knowledge is power

Obama After Using Fair and Lovely

Some people do change...

What do you guys think?

Hidup Sebatang Kera

Life is fun...

if you enjoy what you're doing

Life is nice...

if you enjoy doing things you don't like

Life is asphyxiating...

if you KEEP doing things you don't like

Life is lonely...

if you have friends who are not friends

Life is boring...

if you live in Kerteh, Ganu

Life is sporty...

if you drive a nice-looking sport car

Life is long...

if you spend it with your love ones

Life is short...

if you think it is short

So no matter where you live

No matter who you are

Live your Life

who said Ganu is boring?? Look at this heart-cooling (menyejuk hati) view haha

Knowledge is power

Oil whirl within Journal Bearings

Oil whirl is probably the most common cause of subsynchronous instability in hydrodynamic journal bearings. Typically, the oil film itself flows around the journal to lubricate and cool the bearing. This develops an average speed slightly less than 50 percent of the journal surface speed (Figure 1).

Normally, the shaft rides on the crest of an oil pressure gradient, rising slightly up the side of the bearing somewhat off vertical at a given, stable attitude angle and eccentricity. The amount of rise depends on the rotor speed, rotor weight and oil pressure. With the shaft operating eccentrically relative to the bearing center, it draws the oil into a wedge to produce this pressurized load-carrying film.

Figure 1. Oil Film Within a Journal ¹

If the shaft receives a disturbing force such as a sudden surge or external shock, it can momentarily increase the eccentricity from its equilibrium position. When this occurs, additional oil is immediately pumped into the space vacated by the shaft. This results in an increased pressure of the load-carrying film, creating additional force between the oil film and shaft. In this case, the oil film can actually drive the shaft ahead of it in a forward circular motion and into a whirling path around the bearing within the bearing clearance. If there is sufficient damping within the system, the shaft can be returned to its normal position and stability. Otherwise, the shaft will continue in its whirling motion, which may become violent depending on several parameters.

- James E. Berry, Technical Associates of Charlotte, PC

Oil Whip Instability

Oil whip occurs on those machines subject to oil whirl when the oil whirl frequency coincides with and becomes locked into a system’s natural frequency (often a rotor balance or critical speed frequency). If we take an example, when the rotor speed increased to just above 9,200 RPM, its speed increased to 2X its first balance natural frequency. At this time the oil whirl which was approximately 43 percent of RPM, was brought into coincidence with this critical speed. The oil whirl was suddenly replaced by oil whip - a lateral forward precessional subharmonic vibration of the rotor. At this point, the oil whip frequency remains the same, independent of the rotor RPM. Note that the oil whip frequency never changed even though the machine continued up in speed to 12,000 RPM. When a shaft goes into oil whip, it's dominant dynamic factors become mass and stiffness in particular; and its amplitude is limited only by the bearing clearance. If it's not being corrected, oil whip may cause destructive vibration resulting catastrophic failure – often in a relatively short period of time.

So make sure:

1. check your bearings (i.e clearance etc)
2. oil specs, viscosity-wise and type
   
3. oil pressure and temperature
4. leakage
5. internal damping

A slight mistake will cause you thousands of dollars. Sometimes 30 seconds mistake will cost you 100k (if it involves compressors) and it will be your most expensive lesson ever. Common mistake is temperature, so watch your temp!!

Knowledge is power.

Early days... less work offcoz compared to now

Showing a happy face (pretending)


After a hard day full of work


Adakah lakonan semata-mata?


"fill up castable kat atas tu nanti tak stable"


"Danny wuz ere". Applying knowledge yg dipelajari di hi-skool


Did some troublesome castable mixing. "Am I static or rotary, why hv 2 do this?"


A "refreshing" night view (malam pun kene kejer nie)


wt Abg Azhan, Leading Technician. I said, "Been there, done that"


The very back end of our plant, flare tower

Umm... I think the pics ain't cool enough, don't have too many pics in my thumbdrive rite now unfortunately, plus it's hard to take pictures in the plant, u need a permit! I guess next time will surely upload super cool ones.

ARGGGGHHHH BOSAN NYER DUK KERTEH!!!!!...

Knowledge is power, and Happy CNY!