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Sunday, September 27, 2009

Week Two

0 feedbacks Posted by mLCS at 2:09 PM

Here come my second week of attachment:

22/09/09

Setting up projectors and screens.

We did a setup in Sheraton Tower for a conference. I am not sure what the event was about but what I know is the event was related to Intel. I helped to do projector setup such as setting up the screen and doing the adjustment for the projector to make sure the image is able to projected well on screen. Image alignment, colour correction and contrast comparison are the tests to make sure the setting is correct. We spent quite lot of times for doing image alignment because we need to ensure that 3 projectors can project the image to the screen nicely and can combine become a whole image. As you can imagine, the 3 screens were putting together side by side.

Someone was plugged in the RGBHV cable wrongly.

23/09/09

Effect processing unit.

Mackie SRM 350

That was nothing much happened on the day. No event need to be set up. So we had to stay at office to do some housekeeping works such as cleaning the flight case, do labelling for the flight cases for convenience purposes. I took the chance to know more about the equipment and did some research on it. I found out something pretty interesting, which is wireless DMX transmitter and receiver.

24/09/09

Same as yesterday. Nothing much happened on the day but we need to get prepared for the next 3 days because we have 2 major events are coming up and another is wedding ceremony set up. So I followed Xiao Boy(Eng Meng) to prepare the necessary lighting gears for the next 3 events. Now I am more get used to their working style although it is quite tiring most of the time but I think this will be a good chance for me to figure it out what suit me the best.

25/09/09

Doing frequency response test for EV speakers.

Today we need to do set up at St Regis for a wedding ceremony. The wedding is held by a tycoon's son. Well, that is not the point. Before the set up, the technicians from Electro Voice came to do quality check for their speakers. Our company purchased about 24 line array speakers. The test they did was exactly the same as what we did during audio technology lesson. Thanks to Dr Wang. The guys explained to me how important the test is to maintain the quality of the driver to make sure the frequency response and level are still within acceptable range.

This was the first time I have been assigned to do rigging and cabling for the lighting. In the end, I managed to get the job done and now I am more confidence to do it and I know what I am doing and what should I do. We did a small PA system set up at the entrance there. Although this doesn't sounds too hard for us but at least now they are more comfortable to assign work for us to do. It is a great start I guess.

Running and taping down the cabling properly is very important to ensure the cable looks neatly and easier for teardown later.

The lighting gears were ready.

26/09/09

Here comes to the last day of the week. We were doing a set up at Singapore Expo. The amount of equipment involved wasn't a lot but the scale of the event set up was quite a huge set up. Me and Nigel were helping Roy to build up the trusses for projector screen. Most of the senior colleagues were busying for the set up so we didn't disturb them too much and we were just doing some simple job such as clearing the venue, taping the cable and make sure the cable is running smoothly and nicely, arranging all the empty flight cases to make sure that all the cases are keeping neatly. After the set up, Ah Kim and Ah Hui and another guy were explaining to us how the whole video distribution system work with connecting all the input and output devices such as monitor, projector and video camera.

The lighting setup for the event. Part of the trusses was assembled by me and Nigel.

Line array (EV).

 

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Monday, September 21, 2009

Week One (Photo)

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A lot of flight cases...

Preparing the equipment for the set up.

Level 2, the place where stores all the lighting equipment and line array speakers.

Programming the moving lights.

Level 1, the place where stores all the power cables and XLR cables.

Lighting Board (Pearl)

Doing the set up for HTC roadshow.

On the way....

After the set up....

Portable dimmer pack.

He is Eng Meng, the lighting designer and lighting board operator.

The control booth for the Canon Partnership Signing event.

From Swiss Hotel level 69....

Level 4 where they store all the video equipments.

A lot of flight cases....

Trusses... can't really count got how many of them...

Level 3.

Level 3.

Loading the Trusses.

Preparing music to cheer up.

 

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Nokia is Back to Business? The New Nokia N900

0 feedbacks Posted by mLCS at 5:26 PM

After a disappointing N97, now is the time to show something great for the loyal Nokia supporters.



The New Nokia Internet Tablet N900, combining with Maemo 5 operating system. The OS is part of the family of Linux and it has the same characteristic as Linux. It is compatible with most of the Linux applications and it is a open source operation system as similar as Andriod.

If you would like to know more about Maemo, click Here

Here is part of the specification about N900:

Weight: 180g
Touch screen 3.5 “800 × 480 (WVGA
OMAP3430 processor clocked at 500/600 Mhz
GSM Quad-Band 850, 900, 1800, 1900. WCDMA 900, 1700/2100, 2100
Camera 5 megapixel Carl Zeiss with dual-LED flash, autofocus, sliding and hide
1GB of virtual memory (256MB physical RAM, 768MB virtual memory)
Wi-Fi, HSPA
32GB of storage.
Battery 1320 mAh

The problem is, when you see such a great device but only come with a 500Mhz processor, I believe that you might have the same doubt as mine. Why Nokia only equipped such a average speed of processor for this great device. Iphone 3GS is come with 600Mhz, 1Ghz processor for mobile phone is also available.

This is not the only thing that Nokia should improve. Here is the another problem, the resistive touch screen. I believe that resistive touch screen is not as fast as others such as iPhone and HTC. I hope when the time is coming, Nokia will solve the problems and make this become a great internet tablet.

If you want to know more about N900, here is the Review

 

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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Week One

0 feedbacks Posted by mLCS at 11:37 PM

Finally I have a the time to fully rest my body. I am having my 3 days off now due to no major event happens during these 3 days so we managed to get to rest.


Here is the summary of the week.

Day 2 (15/09)
Working Hour: 10am-11pm

First, I followed George to Ngee Ann Poly to set up a 12 inch x 9 inch projector screen at Convention Centre. We did a set up at Ritz Carlton for a company award ceremony, The Entrepreneur of The Year. We started the setup around 7pm due to the delay by the previous event that occupying the venue. That is the first time for us to do set up for a large event. More than 20 moving lights, 6 profiles, 4 pairs of speaker including subwoofer units were been utilised for the event. The company mobilised 3 big trucks for this event but they said this is just considered as medium scale of event set up. I can't wait for take part of large scale of event set up. I am looking forward to that. We were helping them until 11pm because we want to catch the last train.

Day 3 (16/09)
Working Hour: 10am-3am

Me and Nigel were been ordered to report to the office on 10am meanwhile the girls need to report to the Ritz Carlton for helping them meanwhile can learn about what are they doing during rehearsal.

We went to Swiss Hotel to do a set up for the conference. It is a partnership signing event in between 2 parties, Youth Olympic 2010 with Canon. It is not a very big scale set up but this time we had the chance to take part more in doing set up, running the cables and help to do the connection for the equipments. I did for video part. We did the set up on 12pm and teardown on 4.30pm. After we complete the teardown, we stayed at office for awhile, taking some rest for preparing for midnight strike at Ritz Carlton.

This is the first time we do until midnight. We helped to do teardown. I followed Eng Meng and he taught me what I should do during teardown. I noticed that everyone actually know their rules very well and they will helping each other once they complete their jobs. I found that is good and it helps to faster the process and we can manage to get back earlier. After teardown, we need to load all the flight cases onto the trucks and send back to office. We left around 3am.

Day 4 (16/09)
Working Hour: 1pm-7pm

Due to the late night strike yesterday, we been told that we only need to report on 1pm. Not many event need to do on the day so Raymond gave us a briefing about lighting equipment and what is important for setting up an events. After that I followed Eng Meng to Hilton Singapore to do a small set up for a product launching event. It was running by a indian company, which is called Kingfisher. This time I need to follow the order from Eng Meng to complete the tasks, such as rigging lights, running cable, and setting up the console. I feel that I can handle it with more confident now. Thanks to Eng Ming.

Day 5 (17/09)
Working Hour: 10am-3am

We were doing some housekeeping work such as cleaning the equipment, changing the name tags and rearrange the flight cases during the first few hours of working. In the afternoon, me and Nigel followed Raymond go back to Ngee Ann Poly to collect the projector screen. We did a set up for HTC roadshow at Plaza Singapura Atrium on 11pm. It was quite a medium scale of set up. It includes 8 Parcans, 2 pairs of speakers, a dimmer rack and audio mixer. After the set up, we went to Boat Quay to help the others to do the teardown. During the loading up the flight cases to the truck, I accidentally hurt Roy's toe. I am really sorry about that. Work safely is very important. I will learn from mistake....

 

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Attachment is Started!!!

0 feedbacks Posted by mLCS at 12:38 AM

Now I am facing the final part of getting my diploma, industry attachment, which is I think that is the hardest part to complete my course.


However, due to many reasons, I was been arranged to attach to event production company, Trio A.V. This field is not I really interested in but I think now is the good chance for me to explore it. Maybe I will like it after that?? Nothing is impossible.

Day 1 (14/09)
Working Hour: 10am - 6pm

Today is the first day of work. Last night i tried to figure out how to go to the office which is located at Focus One, somewhere of Ubi. Unfortunately there is no straight bus for me to go from Clementi. The only fastest way for me to get to work is take train then bus. The journey is approximately 1 hour.

I reached the office slightly later than Nigel, Gab and Yun Wei. We were reporting to our liaison officer, Mr Alvinson Yap. He is an accountancy manager. We had a briefing session by him to talk about the operation about the company. Just right after the briefing, a few colleagues were going out for doing a projector screen set up at Suntec and Alvinson suggested 2 of us can follow them to have a look about the set up. Me and Gab were followed them.

Because we are new to the company, basically we were not sure what we should do at there so we just stand aside to see how they do the set up. Of course we did help them to do some simple jobs like help to move around the scaffold, pushing the fly cases to the venue and observe what were they doing at the moment.

Basically We didn't do much on monday and we managed to get back home on 6pm. What a great start of the attachment but this is just the beginning.

The first day pictures are with Gab so I need to wait for her to send me the pictures. I will include the pictures once I get it.

 

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Thursday, September 3, 2009

Holiday-ing....

0 feedbacks Posted by mLCS at 1:21 AM

Finally, I am considered a step behind to complete my diploma and what I left now is a 6 month attachment. Currently I haven't confirm which company will I attach to but hopefully will toward more technical side.


So because of the attachment, what I have now is just a short 2 weeks holiday instead of 8 weeks. Basically, I will take more rest during this period and of course, will looking for more good food to eat.

Last 2 days ago, my Singapore classmates came to JB to relax and looking for nice food. Since Mr Joel was the first to come, so I brought him to eat quite a lot of food on the first day, including mi hun gue, nando's and nasi lemak with ayam goreng. Day 2, the rest of the people including syazwan, desmond, andrew, gab, wan yee, meng ting, eng teck and izwan reached in City Square around 2pm due to some issue(late, obviously...), I brought them to Danga City Mall to enjoy some indoor games, such as pool, bowling, karaoke and archery. This was the first time I shoot about 40 arrows. It is not easy to shoot accurately but it is fun.

Someone was lost and drove her car to danga bay. I spent around 30 mins to lead her back to the shopping mall. She is still quite new on driving so I understand and didn't give too much pressure on her. But I gave one of my first time to her which is hogging the Skudai road by driving 50kmph. That was ridiculous and embarrassing.

So after the indoor games session, I brought them to Nusa Bestari 2 to enjoy a nice Malay cuisine. Since for quite a lot of reasons, I suggested to ask Eason to drive her car so we can make the journey safer and faster. After Tom Yum session, we introduced good cendol and ice kacang to them. They really been impressed by the dessert there I guess.

Day 3, which was yesterday, we went to watch G.I Joe at City Square. It was quite a impressive movie in the aspect of visual effect and computer graphic. The technology showed by the movie looks very realistic and not way too far ahead from now.

That is something we just found out yesterday. If you want to watch movie in JB and you have internet connection. Here have a very fast and convenience way to get the movie ticket without queuing at the ticket counter. The solution is book the ticket online. You won't need to pay a single cent of money to book the ticket. You only require to go down to collect the ticket one hour before the show start. What a great service provided by Cathay Malaysia.


 

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