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Anyway, on the 8th anniversary of Al-Qaeda's successful terror run in the US and A, halfway around the world here in Subang Jaya, some of us old college mates gathered and had a barbecue outing. No I'm not writing anything about the barbecue apart from the fact that MY MUTTON RAWKZ! Yep, not writing anything, Darren already has that covered.
Few people knew it, but the Mechanical people from Monash, namely Me, Patma, Kein Yip and Sidharth had a Warman project run right the following morning at 9am (Oh and by the way, we went back at 2am after the barbecue).
The objective of the project was to construct :
- a vehicle that carries the baton from the start point to the exchange point, passes the baton, and
- a second vehicle that accepts the baton and rushes off to the end point
(Our Electrical vehicle)Other teams 'invested' a great deal of money on the project, which was worth a grand 5% of our final grade. By a great deal I mean around the range of RM100 or more. To put things into perspective, our team only spent a grand total of RM20 on the project.
There were two runs, in which teams must get at least one successful run. We were lucky to get a good first run, thanks to last minute ad hoc duct taping and inspections. Yeah, you read it right, duct taping. Our whole vehicle was practically held together with duct tape.
(The team lining up the first car right before the first run)
(The first car sending the baton towards our Optimus Prime trailer.)
(Optimus Prime travelling godspeed towards the end zone. )With the first run over and successful, all the pressure was off our shoulders, and we started letting our guard down. Checks weren't done, and inspections were laxed. And that ultimately resulted in a failed second run.
(Baton car being lined up for second run)
(Disaster in the making. Note the position of the baton.)
(I caught the anti-climax on film as it happened.)
(Aftermath)
(The team)
