HOCUS POCUS

June 19, 2006

what did you choose, what do you get….

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When I look back to the past, even though I know that I should not look back to the past coz it will change nothing, it makes me re-consider some others career path that I possibly had taken, but I was not.

I am just watching “A Few Good Men”, a film produced in 1992 with Tom Cruise and Demi Moore as a leading role. I felt that I have watched this movie few years back in TV, but re-watch it is worth all the time that I spent. From the actor and the actress itself, this film is indeed attracting. Demi Moore was damn hot and Tom Cruise was not as hateful as he is now. Other than that, the story was quite interesting even though the script was not really well written, in my opinion. Jack Nicholson did a great job to present a fanatical, proud and shallow minded marine colonel which is honestly, I am familiar with… you get may point, rite? emoticon

The thing that attracted me to watch this movie was the career that I identified as one of my career path that I possibly had taken, to be a lawyer. I think that I have anything needed to be a lawyer. Talking and arguing is the things that I love the most. I do like to analyze a case, make a hypothesis, then try to prove it. Trying to read people mind and behavior, and see hidden things inside their mind are something that I do almost everyday. Last, but the ultimate quality that I have is my ability to investigate people, to know what they intend to do, and sometimes know their secret then gossiping it… emoticon the last point is indeed a gossip. emoticon

I also think that I have the natural passion to be a lawyer, or at least involve in a crime world, not as a criminal of course, ever since I was a kid. My favorite TV series in my early year of primary school is Detective O’Hara, with Pat Morita as Lt. O’Hara. There was lots of crime scene on that series and also inside court scene when he tried to provide evidence of a crime. Furthermore, Agatha Christie novel is my favorite reading. My sister and I even put our money together to buy the novel. Most of the people will choose Hercule Poirot as their favorite character, but my favorite character is Miss Marple. I do admire this granny ability to read people mind to solve the cases

In my Junior High, the next TV series related to lawyer life that I liked was Ally McBeal. It is quite embarrassing to admit it, but she was my dream girl…emoticon but I could not continue to watch this series right after Junior High, coz my high school did not give me a chance to watch it. I think that was the point where I did not even consider lawyer as my career choice anymore, coz my mind was shifted to something else. Science was my priority in High School, although I also got some social module like economics and sociology, and I did like it, but I just did not get a chance to learn those module more intense. The worst thing was that I was in a semi military kind of life. military, absolutely, the last profession that I ever consider as my career, or even I do not consider it… emoticon

And now, I am here, in my road to be an Electronic Engineer. I don’t know whether it is the best choice or not, but it is the path that I have to be through, and hopefully it is the best for me. Even though that I am sometimes in suffer, but maybe, let say if I was in law school rite now, I would be more in suffer. It is funny when I look back to the past and see that everything that I have now is far from what I thought it would be, but again, it’s life… just make the best of this test and don’t ask why, green day said…

June 7, 2006

STMicroelectronic and my precious 22 Weeks Industrial Attachment

Filed under: story

emoticonstupid me who thought that ST is stand for Singapore Technologiesemoticon luckily I should not have an interview to be accepted in this company, they will kick me out when I said that ST is stand for Singapore Technologies emoticon but the logo on the right remind me with something familiar… I don’t know what it is, anyone know?

OK, with a help from my trusted aunt, auntie wiki, I finally know where the ST come from… STMicroelectonic (STM) is a semiconductor company, the field that I want to take as my specialization in my final year. It produce Integrated circuits for specific applications, Memories (flash, eeprom), Microcontrollers, smartcards, analog circuits power ICs , etc.

The ST group was formed in June 1987 from the merger of two semiconductor companies: the Italian company SGS Microelettronica (Società Generale Semiconduttori) and the French company Thomson Semiconducteurs, the semiconductor arm of the French company, Thomson. In May 1998, the company changed its name from SGS-THOMSON to STMicroelectronics following the withdrawal of Thomson SA. emoticon now I know where ST comes from emoticon

But the fact that makes me shock is when I open this page Worldwide Top 20 Semiconductor Market Share Ranking Year by Year. Below is the table :
  1. Intel
  2. Samsung Semiconductors
  3. Texas Instruments
  4. Toshiba Semiconductors
  5. STMicroelectronics
  6. Infineon (spin-off from Siemens Semiconductors)
  7. Renesas (merger of Mitsubishi and Hitachi Semiconductors) N
  8. EC Semiconductors
  9. Philips Semiconductors
  10. Freescale (ex Motorola Semiconductors)
  11. Hynix
  12. Micron Technology
  13. Sony Semiconductors
  14. Matsushita Semiconductors
  15. AMD (1)
  16. Qualcomm (3) (fabless)
  17. Sharp Semiconductors
  18. Rohm
  19. IBM Microelectronics (2)
  20. Broadcom (3) (fabless)

emoticonCan you see it? STM in number 5 and Micron in number 12… I just have nothing to say…

My project title is : Metrology Recipe Set-up in PVD/CVD, It looks like I will work in "clean room". For those who have no idea what the clean room is, I will explain you nothing, just see the picture below, you will get the idea….

My worksuit during my precious 22 Week Industrial Attachement. Again, I have nothing to say…..

End of one thing and beginning of another thing

Filed under: story

I am a skeptic person. Arguing is my hobby, because I believe that it can lead us to the improvement. I don’t easily believe in what people say, or even a theory that have been established for a long time. I believe that something can be absolutely right when any proofs support it to be right, and if it is not, so there is always a room for improvement to make it “more right” or better for everyone. That is why we should use our brain to think, than speak up our idea, even though that’s mean we have to challenge a big thing or even ourselves. It is ok if you’re wrong, but if you’re right, you’ll be pride of yourself.

Enough for the “heavy” stuff… emoticon Wow, it has been more than three weeks since my last post. For you who always wait for my latest post, if any of course emoticon, please accept my apology. One and the only reason is because of the full time 8.45am-51.5pm, 5 weeks long Design and Innovation Project, which has absorb all of my energy to write something here. But the good news is… it’s over!!!!! emoticon Our group report is done, I just need to print and submit it tomorrow. Anyway, our group did not make it to the final…. So sad… emoticonwith the fact that the professor who supervise us always went to final for the last four years, he must be very disappointed… I was a little bit confidence at first, but the fact shows that other group is better… so my deepest apology for Prof Eddie Wong to let you down… Thank you very much for all your help and support…

My heart beat faster a last few days waiting for the result to come out…. And the result made me quite shock, in positive ways, fortunately…. It is better than I expected, thanks God, Alhamdulillah for your help… but if you compare my result with others result, my result is far-far away below them… but I am OK with that, because… I do my best to you…. Nothing for me to do… but just one last cry… one last cry… hehehehe… GJ* mode… but honestly, far from inside my heart, I am really happy with the result… emoticon

Other thing that makes my heart beat faster is the IA allocation result today… oops… I haven’t let you know that I did not get the project from micron… yea, just as expected… but at first I thought that I was the only one who did the interview for that post, and being rejected without competitor is nothing but shameless… emoticon but I was wrong, there is one more student applied for that post (duh… so many project, why do you choose the same project with me… emoticon), and SHE, yea.. she is a eureka student, which means a dean list student, and also means she is and straight As student…. Oh no, not straight As, because she also has A+ and distinction… hahahaha… at least I lost with proud…. Hahahaha….

But again, fortunately I got my second choice… STMicroelectronic, and actually the project in this company is more related with the specialization that I want to take in my final year… again, Alhamdulillah… thanks God to give me the best for me… this post is quite long already, I will briefly introduce STM in the next post…

Wah, when I reread this post I feel like a wise man… hehehehe…. I am getting older what? Maybe it naturally happens that I become wiser… huhuhuhu emoticon






















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