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Friday, August 31, 2007

National Bridge Model Competition


Hmm..finally its over..joining the national bridge model competition two months ago..Our group (five of us) manage to enter second stage of the competition.Thus this two weeks plus we busy to prepare two model bridge,poster, movie presentation and landscape. During the preparation it was a tough time for me. Spend most of our time in doing the bridge model, sleep at very late night, skip lectures. Due to all of us have high demand in this competition, we re-do the bridge things again and again. Sometime i was so frustrated about the re-do things. Well, we manage to finish our stuff at the eleventh hour before we depart from our campus to Johor UTM. It was a 2days event on Tuesday and Wednesday.We depart by Monday 7am. Ha, we dint sleep on sunday nite..coz we only manage to finish all things at about 5am..hence, almost of the whole journey we sleep in bus. Haha..People like me, a bit tall..will suffer in the bus..We reach UTM at about 5pm..After that we direct went to the hall and start to arrange our landscape, poster....However, we found out that our landscape that Gavin did was too long..cant put on the table that they hv prepare for us. Due to gavin busy to improve our bridge structure so i was called by one of my group member to do another new landscape. Can feel that she put so high expectation on me again as she ask me not to worried about the material that i need. My job was to think and to decorate it nicely..so stress..last minutes what can i do..haha..thanks to my dear heavenly father..Idea just pop out one by one as i ask Him during the preparation.. haha..that night all of us only manage to sleep one hour coz busy to do the landscape..On the first day of the competition, each group have to go on the stage to present the bridge model..Before two hours of our turn to present,group members decide me to present it on stage..o..man..what a good surprise for me..even in school, i have to use at least a night to prepare..stress again..Thank God, i have present it camly and confidently..Group members so surprise and they thought that i was so enjoy to talk on the stage..haha..at that moment i just pretend la..just thought that He is with me and dint think for other things..Our bridge can support 5kg with only 0.79mm deflection, the weight of our bridge is 115gram..it was a good news to us as our deflection is d smallest among all. And our bridge weight is d fourth or fifth lightess. It was a hope for all of us..On the second day of competiton we wake up by 5am just to improve our landscape. It was because there will be 5 judges to come over booth by booth to give mark for landscape, multimedia presentation, poster, buildable, creativity, bridge structure..I pray for everything besides the justice of competition. Most of the UTM and Inti college breaks the rules..and it was so overt..a lot of participant was so angry with it, some of them even went to the "transfomer bridges" booth to challenge the ppl on the first day. One of the group even ask judge about that on second day. But the judge just smile and dint give any comment..As i knew they have break the rules on d first day,i thought the judge will take some action for the "transformer bridge",so i just concentrate to do my thing and dint give any respond to my coursemate as  they discuss about it..so sad..the judge did nothing..and all the transformer bridge won most of the prize..we lose..It was so easy to win as long as we dare to break the rules..Seriously,if have to use such way to win the prize, i rather choose to lose than win. I have exprience so much of His goodness along the whole process of our bridge preparation and competition.No regret to join the competition at least one of my wish have come true which is go johor..Hmm..have to back to normal life la..a lot of things..test, design, assignment are waving with me..