How to spend your weekend alone

Are you being alone this coming weekend? Your family members are busy with their works and your friend are out? You are alone and bored? Here I suggest what can you do when you are alone without getting bored. I am sure you gone rock you weekend because there are so many things to do out there alone.

1. Clean your house and room. You have been busy and no time to clean your house. Now it's the opportunity to do so. Sweeping, moping, washing the mirror, wiping the tables and chair, gardening and so on. It may be boring but you can make it interesting by listening to your favorite music. At the end, you will feel proud of yourselves when you see your house is clean to stay.

2. Grooming. You have to make sure well-groomed all the time. Take this weekend to do pedicure, styling your hair, making home made face-mask and shaving. Plan ahead how you want to do the pedicure or the face mask. Find tips in internet and you will be amazed with the result

3. Cooking. This is the time for you to learn cooking or making your favorite dish. If you are good in cooking, so you can prepare something for your family members and friends. If you are just learning, then buy some cooking books and start cooking! Try to make one to two dishes for yourselves and you can improve it slowly.

4. Do shopping and keep update. Clean your drawer. Throw your cloths that you are not using or out of date. Do some shopping to keep yourselves updated with the current style. Make sure you arrange your clothes nicely for easy access.

5. Plan for your weekdays. You have lot of works pending for your weekdays? Plan ahead and have your own timetable to accomplish all the works. You can also do planning on personal finance. Perhaps,you may want to divide your time appropriately for your daily activities.

6. Have a hobby. Do you have a hobby? If no, start now. You can start reading books, go swimming, go to watch birds or drawing. You will find your real talent and you may achieve something one day.

How do I stay healthy and fit

I really care on how do I keep myself healthy and fit. To begin, the environment of the eating place should be clean. I have been reading some articles from magazines and internet about being healthy and maintain a good figure. Here are what I found:

1. Drinking 8 glasses of water. The benefit of drinking water is undeniable. Water is very cheap and available everywhere. Take this opportunity to drink water as frequent as possible because one day water may be more expensive than soft drinks.

2. Do exercise. We can indulge ourselves in jogging, swimming, playing badminton, dancing and the list goes on.Pick your favorite game and spent some time playing with friends and family. It not only makes us look healthier but also younger.

3. Balance food. Make sure to have all the nutrients in out daily meal. We can make our meal varieties by having fish, vegetables, milk, fruits and whole grain. This will help us to have balance diet and we won't get bored eating the same food all day. I suggest to plan your own menu every week ahead to make sure all nutrients are taken.

4. Take a break. Always have time for yourselves. If you are overloaded with your work and studies which are repetitive, I suggest you to take a vacation with family and friend. Or if you are at home, switch off your hand phone and do your favorite things such as watching movie and gardening.Take a deep breath when you feel tension as that can help you lot.

5. Have regular doctor visit. Visit doctor every 6 months to do medical check-up. Tell the doctor if you find any difficulties because prevention is better than cure. Get your vaccination too.

How to attach external document in Microsoft word

Have you ever wanted to link external documents in Microsoft word? You can either link it to your preferred word ( where when you click on the word, this document will appear) or just attach an external document for the article in word. I figured out about this and here I would like to share it in the simplest way that I could.

1. In Microsoft Word, highlight the word where you want the attached document to pop up when click on it. In my case, I highlighted " average temperature".

2. Go to insert-choose hyper link. The table below will appear:

3.For the column "link to" choose "existing file or web page".

4. For the column "look in", chose appropriately according to your preference. In my case, I would like to chose "current folder".

5. Then pick the document that you want to attach to the word. I am going to attach the file named "HT".

6. Press ok.

7. Here what you will get. Now you can just press ctrl+click on selected word and there, you have the document!

Other method: You also can attach a document by naming it differently at the column "text to display" in the "edit hyperlink" table.

Hope this help you!

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How to put caption for blogger pictures

Well I have tried few methods to apply captions for the pictures in my blog, and I guess this post will be useful for the newbies. We always want the caption of the picture to be right below the picture at the center. Here is the simplest way to do so:

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These are how the image and caption will be displayed:

Note: float:left and text align: center

snapshot tool

Tips:

*If you want the image to float at the center, edit "float:left" to "float:center"
*Change the text position according to your preference at "text align:left;"

How to copy and paste from PDF to word

Portable Document Format (PDF) is a electronic document for long tern preservation.All the contents, texts and images will be reproduced in the same way if needed. Besides, editing PDF is impossible. SO in order to pick information needed from PDF, do we need to type each words? To make things easier, here is a tip to copy, crop, design and paste the required information in our own way.
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Open the respective PDF

Determine the content to copy and paste. Here I would like to copy the table.Select the snapshot tool.

Open paint.(go to start menu-all programs-accessories- paint)

Copy the contents and table above will appear

Paste the copied content to paint. (right click, select paste)

Now you can edit the table in your own way.I labeled some of the important information with red and blue ink.

Select the range to copy from the button above, the right click, copy.Paste to word.

From above steps, now I gain the information that I require which is only the table. By using this method, you will be able to edit the table in paint by adding colors and shapes. This method help you to copy required information from PFD to Word document perfectly.

It 's pink day in Baskin Robbins

Enjoy your Wednesday with your family and friends!!It's PINK Day @ Baskin-Robbins!
What you need to do? Just show up anything in Pink..It can be a shirt, a tie, a pink pen or even finger nails painted in pink!
What you will get? Double Jr. Scoops at the price of single Scoops!
Price of single scoop: RM7.50+
What extra? Top up sugar cone to a delicious Waffle Cone only for RM 1.50+

What is special about Baskin Robbin ice cream?



The ice creams are mouth watery..There are 31 different flavors of cup and cones in Baskin Robbins..Each shop offer different flavors so you may need to visit as many shops you can to taste all the delightful dishes.

Baskin Robbins also serve world's famous beverages such as Cappuccino. Here is the first cappuccino made from yogurt combine with ice cream..

Don't miss your opportunity to taste all these beverages and be PINK on Wednesday!

Damage mechanism from American Petroleum Institute (API)

The damage mechanism analysis is done through American Petroleum Institute (API). This standard is established to describe damage mechanism affecting equipments in refining and petrochemical industries.
This standard contains guidance for the consideration of:

- Information on damage mechanism that can affect process equipments
- Assist regarding the types and extent the damages can be expected
- Selection of effective inspection methods

I learned there are few types of alloys that are used widely in refining and petrochemical industries. Some are:

- Ferritic: Type of metallurgical structure normally found in carbon and low alloy steels.
- Martensitic: Heat treatment and welding followed by rapid cooling can produce this structure in carbon and
  low alloy steels.
- Austenite: solid solution of iron with alloying elements
- Pearlite: structure composed of alpha ferrite and cementite that occurs in some steel and cast irons.

I did some surveys in API about the general damage mechanisms in all type of industries. I mention few below to give a clear idea about what I did:
Engineering Damage Mechanics: Ductile, Creep, Fatigue and Brittle Failures

1.Mechanical and Metallurgical failure

a. Strain Aging: Damage found in older vintage carbon steel under the combined effects of deformation and
    aging at an intermediate temperature

- This result is increase in hardness and strength with a reduction in ductility and toughness
- Equipment with crack is more susceptible to strain aging where when it exposed to intermediate
  temperatures, the zone of deformed material become hardened and less ductile.

2. Uniform or Localized Loss of Thickness

b. Galvanic Corrosion:
 Continuum Damage Mechanics and Numerical Applications (Advanced Topics in Science and Technology in China)

-It is a form of corrosion that occurs at the junction of dissimilar metals when they are joined together in a
  suitable electrolyte.
-This corrosion mainly happens when a fluid that conducts current are in contact with two different materials.

• I have been assigned to read about the list of equipments that are used in Magtymguly collector Riser Platform A (MCR-A). Some of them are:

a. Desander:
Desanders and desilters are drilling rig equipment with a set of hydrocyclones that
separates sand and silt from the drilling fluid.

b. Separators:
A for petroleum production is a large drum designed to separate
production fluids into their constituent components of oil, gas and water