40. Designing Logo for Independence Day

 My sister sent me this in Facebook last month and she suggested me to enter. The First Price is RM7,000. Too hard to resist for not trying right? So I took my time to think how my logo should look like. I searched in the website and trying to do some research how a logo in the past 56 years looks like...

I think logo for year 2012 is the most stupid controversial logo, meanwhile logo for year 2013 is the most hilarious logo ever...

I think it resembles someone...LOL.

 Initial draft:

 

When I draft it at first, I think it was quite ok. Then I drew it by using computer three weeks ago, it appeared to be very difficult to draw the shape out and the results turned out to be uglier than I expected because of the white border. I asked my friend whether logo having outline, he said no. Cham. Then I downloaded a software and using existing shapes that given by the software to redesign.

TADAA...

Final Version: 

The reason why it is so pretty and neat because I'm using the software called "EximiousSoft Logo Designer". Really a good software. After I drew it on the software, I transferred it to M. Word to write the explanations. After I done, I went to post office to post it two weeks ago.

Websites:

1. http://www.moe.gov.my/v/pemberitahuan-view?page=1&id=4170
2. http://dinmerican.wordpress.com/2012/07/29/1malaysia-2012-merdeka-day-logo-scrapped/
3. http://www.eximioussoft.com/logo-designer.htm

39. The Completion of Study

Finally I going to graduate!
Although I didn't get 3.67 and above ...
but I'm extremely happy because I earn it all by myself.
Finally I can breathe.

Probably this is the end.
Not sure whether can take PhD or not since PhD probably need 3.67 and above.
Now I can rest and find job and take some professional papers.

I would like to thank to both of my parents especially my mom. Thanks for her continuous support! I also would like to thank Dr. Yong. My Project II must be very terrible since he gives me a B+. Haha.  Thanks to all my course mates. Last but not least, I must say THANK YOU to the person who invented Google, Wikipedia and Copy+Paste! LOL.

38. Master of Mathematical Science Dinner

Went to Shabu-Shabu at Puchong with my course mates yesterday.
And I didn't take any photo because the food mah-mah dei only.
Not recommended. Lol.
Then we went to Setiawalk for second round to yumcha.
We discussed a lot of things about our past (what happened during our Master class), the present (what we are doing now) and the future (what/how will our career path gonna be)
Most of them probably will continue their PhD...others will heading to risk management field (like Gabriel and me), and some will going to statistics related field.
For next week, our result will be released and we are going to graduate.
Then we will have our convo few months later.
The journey for Master took longer but also seems shorter than I thought.
At the end, I quite ng sey tak a bit. Haha.

- No matter what happens, one day we gonna meet again like how fate bring us together in the first place-

37. Termite

Our house infected with termites quite badly... ceiling, stairs and some wood furniture. Don't know where the hell they came from. My parents sprayed some chemicals to kill those fucking termites few months ago. And here I thought I'm safe. Just now when I took out my comic book to read, only to realized some bugs crawling on and in it. Then I looked and checked my comic book carefully and....I saw a hole in it! WHAT A HORROR! DAMN!

No doubt, is termite. I prayed there is no giant nest behind my comic books. I took out all my comic books carefully to check. Wah lah...my beloved One Piece, Yugioh, Sarkas Karakuri and MAR Heaven all got a hole in it. Luckily out of hundreds comic books that I have, only a few have a hole. And luckily my Doraemon and Detective Conan remain untouched. But still tomorrow I need to check one by one.

THIS MEANS WAR! WHAT A GROUP OF BASTARDS! I GONNA KILL EACH OF YOU FOR REVENGE!

36. Infographic: Oil Palm

"There are primarily five types of visualization categories – time-series data, statistical distributions, maps, hierarchies, and networking."

-Infographic, Wikipedia

My first attempt to use infographic to represent time series data taken from Department of Statistics Malaysia. It looks too simple and uninteresting, but at least it is a good start.

Observing directly from the chart, it obviously shows an increasing trend  for the past thirty eight years from 1974 to 2012. Nothing much can say except it shows an increasing in total planted area of oil palm which influenced by government policy to export more palm oil to other countries in order to boost the economy. Palm oil is used in processed food and also as a butter substitute. Besides that, palm oil is used as bio diesel and napalm too.

Source:

1. http://www.statistics.gov.my/portal/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1251&Itemid=109&lang=en

Tool:

1. infogr.am

35. Dental Check-up

I went to see dentist this morning. I was supposed to see dentist last year December but since I was so busy last year...I keep delay it until today. I almost waited for an hour but the dental checkup took less than five minutes. Well, the dentist said my teeth are okay and probably next year need to scale a little bit.

Luckily I remember to take some photos of the timetables for klinik gigi and klinik perubatan, so I can refer it to go at what time next year. I went at 8.15 am and the front seat almost full. I was the 9th person for my category.

One happy task done.