Typical Engineer Story

1) The site investigation (SI) indicate that the slope is safe. In reality, the result of site investigation only reveal the soil properties in details, but not as a firm assurance for the safety of the slope. A geotechnical engineer must perform a complete analysis by using the site investigation's result to derive the factor of safety (F.O.S). A good judgement from an engineer also vital before finalizing the F.O.S. The slope composition and geology can be extremely varies even at a near distance. Geology information, soil classification and properties play a prime role in determine the slope stability. 2) Heavy downpour resulted to slope failure For a layman, it is logical for the slope to fail during heavy rainfall. As to engineer, continuous downpour will increase the water table and hence diminishing the F.O.S of the slopes. A minimum F.O.S is within 1.2 to 1.4, depending on the risk values to human and economy. In Malaysia, the minimum acceptable F.O.S is 1.5. 3) So

 Yeah...welcome to the grim fantasy of the dead. The world which filled with free magic and charter magic.The story depicted about a girl named Sabriel. Daughter of Mage Abhorsen. In their world, Abhorsen is the special person which is capable to bind the dead. Sabriel was in misson to seek out her missing farther. To do so, she need to cross the save haven of the sacred Wall and facing the gruesome creatures with great thirst for blood and life force. She's soon discovered the secret lies within her bloodlines and families. Not to mention about her great enemy, Kerrigor. Buy the books and you will enjoy the plot absolutely. This is the first volume of the great epic. Garth Nix had crafted the story in a way that you will anxiously want to grab the second volume.  

   Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 Finally. The epic story of J.K. Rowling has finally comes to its end. Well..almost. This is part one of the two movies based on the final volume (Frankly, I prefer watching the movies instead of reading the books). It was unusual as the endings was split up into two movies. Well, the reason being perhaps they will able to digs more gold on the franchise as much as possible or perhaps they just don't want the final ends too early...or..perhaps the other reasons that we will never know. Honestly, the adaptation of the book was quite fair (perhaps on the first half). The first part take us away from the safe haven of Hogwarts. Meanwhile, our three heroes race against time in search of the Horcruxes which contains part of Voldermort's soul. Voldermort becomes a ruthless killer. You can expect a tension in the build up and the dark, heavy overtones are almost suffocating. The movie is 45 minutes longer than the previous one. For

Here we are. The most notable and the world best universities in the world: 1) Harvard University - United States 2) California Institute of Technology - United States 3) Massachusetts Institute of Technology - United States 4) Stanford University - United States 5) Princeton University - United States 6) University of Cambridge - United Kingdom 7) University of Oxford - United Kingdom 8) University of California Berkeley - United States 9) Imperial College London - United Kingdom 10) Yale University - United States

When it comes to nuclear, the gruesome incident such as Chernobyl and the deadly wars of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will always haunted the ordinary people including me. I'm not going to explain in details on what is nuclear and the process involved. The main argument here is whether the technology is viable and served as the best energy solution to mankind particularly to Malaysia. Recently in Malaysia, the government had put a great effort into introducing the mechanism and the great benefits of nuclear power plant. The campaign set off quite drastically as to educate people not to rely much on fossil energy as a main nation's energy resources. Malaysia can be considered as lagging behind compared to other asian countries in terms of nuclear energy application. However, this technology already establish in Malaysia since 1972 and was called Centre of Application of Nuclear Malaysia (CRANE) before it was named as Tun Ismail Atomic Research Centre. It was converted to Nuc

I do have obsession with the university rankings :). The results of much awaited, the Times Higher Education for 2010 has been released. Each year, most of the university in the world aimed for the best rankings. Although the methodology used being criticized by some of the university's academician , it is evident that the result has been well accepted by the international community, hence to determine the best university to invest with. Before we go through the rankings, understanding the  indicators used to gauge the universities performance will be advantageous: 1) Instutional Indicators = 30% They gauge the learning environment by ratio between staff and students, the ratio of doctoral students to undergraduates, the ratio of successful doctoral degrees awarded per staff member, institutional funding indicator and lastly the results from the academic reputation survey for teaching. 2) Research Indicator = 30% The number of research papers per staff member, research fu

A significant names which spearheading the advent of information technology in Malaysia. Welcome to Western Digital (WD). To layman, the company is known as the manufactures of the computer hard drives, contents, external storage and consumer electronics product. The main headquarter lies in Lake Forest, California. To date, the company employs 27,000 people worldwide. The areas of suitable career will be in Electrical/Electronic Engineering , IT, Mechanical Engineering and Social Science and Skills in C++ and Robotics.  In Malaysia, the company already established since 1973 with an investment amounted to RM 1.6 billion for the past 35 years span.  The average starting salary is RM2,500(USD 811) per month. There are also other fascinating  employment package. Imagine going for an overseas assignment which is the starting point of an international exposure. An engineer may be sent to US headquarters for training. Damn! that's awesome :) . However, for local graduates they may h