10 Muharam

Tomorrow is 10 Muharam, the tenth day in Islamic calendar. It is the day of remembrance for prophet Musa having been saved by Allah with his followers from the evil of Pharaoh. It is encouraged to fast on this day as well as the day before. I am trying to fast so I hope it will go through.

So today is almost two weeks after classes started. I have projects in design class and fortran, as well as labs in ep lab. Those three things are enough to keep me busy. The design class is going very very slowly as for me, since I have done little about the design class.

Topics I think I should be researching: Properties of an aluminum sheet metal.
1) force, stress, tension
2) inductance
3) dent

A trip to Hilo

Arrived at Hilo on Saturday morning at around 7 and it was raining. In fact, it was the rainy season during my stay and it was during the winter break, so it was about 5 jan in 2007. The airport is a small one and it really looks like a rural kind of airport with wooden walls and floor. It was open and there was no airconditioned once we step out of the bridge from the airplane. Instuitively, I rent a car so that we can see the whole island in the fastest and keisurely possible. We stayed for 3 days and it was raining everyday. Luckily when we arrived at one point the rain just stopped and the sun shows itself. We maanaged to find the south most point of the US and looking at the sea, the wind was blowing ferociously. A few minutes standing at the shore, we were greeted with a heavy flow of rain blowing towards the lands. Our hope of finding the black plus green sand beach shattered through the glass of the rain drops. We also found out that Mauna Kea in the big island of Hawaii is the tallest mountain as measured from the bottom of the sea.

A waiter in restaurant

I was once a waiter working in a Turkish restaurant. It was not really a difficult job and the pay was satisfactory. I remembered taking orders from customers, and there were sometimes customers who ordered something not in the menu and often times I was annoyed. Why wouldn't everyone just order something that IS on the menu? Why would anyone make my life miserable? Why? Why? I was a customer and always be a customer in some restaurant and sometimes I would just do the same. Sometimes, my experience stop me from ordering something different from the menu. I would rather spend more time studying the menu rather than asking the waiter or ask the waiter to put more of that, less of this, without that thing or ordering something out of the menu. I once ordered a plain fried egg when it is not really in the menu. I felt guilty sometimes but it was way back when I had not been a waiter. Indeed being a waiter has taught me some important lesson in life. I quited the job because I was bored. I am easily bored. Imagine having to do the same thing each time you come to work. I am not that kind of a person. I just could not stand it. Especially when I am also a student studying to get a degree. It was not really easy to be a student when you really want to excel in your studies. Nevertheless, I feel like working again since I need some money. I am now surveying some position working in the campus.

Gambling

In a casino I saw a lot of elders playing the gambling machine hoping to get their luck strike thus obtaining a lot of money. However, the rule of gambling will not let you win that easily. The probability of winning the biggest jackpot is very close to zero. Rich people know about this thus making it a competition to build the grandest hotel with lots of casino slot machines hence making them rich and richer everyday. The majority of those playing the casino machines tend to bet on everything on every choice possible. Intuitively, they will win some, more frequent than those who bet little on few choices. Nevertheless, they always end up losing more than than what they are winning. In the end they have nothing and often go home with less than they bring in. So I think we can guess where the money goes; to people like Mr Trump.