Saturday, August 15, 2009

Obelisk - The ASSEMBLY..♪

Finally, the day for assembling our obelisk has reached. Unfortunately, there wasn't any bus services in USM on that day because of the Convex. Hence, we were suppose to carry all the parts of our obelisk from our hostel to the School of HBP and it was true that, all my members were suffering in the whole morning:
At the early morning, we divided our works into 3 parts:
  1. Zling and Min were going to Bukit Jambu took the white cloth
  2. Kah Fai was taking the 2nd part of our obelisk and other materials to our site
  3. K.L and I were carrying the heaviest part, basement of the obelisk
Wow, until now, I'm still wondering how could I able to carry the heaviest part with K.L. from my hostel, Desa Aman to the school of HBP! Just both of us! and it took us 1 hour journey!! Well, the weight of that part is totally over 5kg~~ When I was carrying it down from my room, I was almost fainted! I believe that, both of our hands almost get CACAT. But, during the journey to the school of HBP, there was our coursemate who helped me to carry it, thank you my friend ^^"

Around 9am, our lecturer Encik Wan B has given us a short briefing about our site. He told us how we need to do and we must register our obelisk before starting our assembly.

After briefing, we were going to the Dataran Merah and registered our obelisk. Luckily, the process of registering didn't take us a lot of time:

Well, after registering, we started to carry our obelisk to our site. Here we go!!! Heavy~~~~:



Finally, we have reached our site, SITE 16:

We started to construct our obelisk part by part. First at all, Zling and I were going to fill up all the botols with waters. The reason that we fill the botols with waters was to make sure that the basement was stable enough and able to support the whole obelisk which was 3meter height.

Next, we started to construct the other parts. All of us were putting 100% effort on the construction of the obelisk. Well, we used nuts to connect each of the part together:

Finally, we covered our obelisk with the white cloth. Hence, we have successed!!! Our obelisk has done!! Hurray~~

Friday, August 14, 2009

Obelisk - The Making Process..♪

After submitting our proposal for the obelisk, don't ever try to think that we can have rest! Well, our next mission was to build up the obelisk. Wow, how to build up a 3meter height obelisk??! This was the question which I've being headache for awhile. Before starting the construction, 5 of us had a meeting again. All of us were trying to find the most suitable way to construct our obelisk which is stable and sustainable. Hence, PVC paips were our choice which were used to build up the main structure of the obelisk. Here're the other materials which we used during the construction:



Hence, by using the materials above, 5 of us had constructed d structure of the obelisk, part by part. Yes, we had divided our obelisk into 3 main parts:

1st part (the cubic):


2nd and 3rd part:It was not as easy as we thought for building up the structure. Besides taping with tape, we were using screws and nuts to construct it. After constructing the structure, we used the white mounting board to cover it as our obelisk must be in solid white. Firstly, we measured again the weight and the lenght of the structure, therefore we were able to cut the mounting board to pieces. The process of cutting was very tough. Besides, we need to stick the board onto the structure. White glue and hot glue were our tools to stick the board to the structure. Well, this was our product with mounting board:
We had used 4 days to finish our obelisk. On the last night, we have done the rehearsal so we can estimate the time to assemble our obelisk in 20 minutes, and yet, we have succeed!!!: