It is good to know what one wants to do. Some ambitious one have plans lay out ahead. Some just count the days as they pass. I'm somewhat in between. The path that I have chosen after my undergraduate is to pursue postgraduate study. I have always wanted a stable and peaceful life, to be the ordinary nobody. I do not know exactly what I want to become, but I most certainly do not want to be stuck in a job as engineer in the later phase of my life. Besides, I do find studying fascinating, for me, it's not something hard. There're stresses in whatever you do, but you can choose to follow your passion, and the stresses become bearable. 

On a side note, I have decided to get a new laptop to replace my Asus Vivobook TP301UJ. Okay, I didn't know I own a Vivobook until I search the model number online just now. Back then, after matriculation, I needed a laptop for my degree (I only have a desktop at home). My brother was using Acer, but it wasn't up to his expectation. Then, there's this friend of my boyfriend, Ravin, who was studying computer science, so I asked for his recommendation. He recommended TP301UJ, so I just bought it in 2016. The price was around RM 2.8 k (if my memory serves me well). It's a really nice laptop, icicle gold in colour. It is able to flip 360°, disabling its laptop mode and become a tablet. I tried the tablet mode a few times, it's pretty cool, but is not really ideal because I wouldn't want to hold a tablet that heavy. I have always mistaken its weight as ~ 2 kg, probably due to its aluminium finish, tbh I find it hard to hold it with a single hand. After searching online, the website reports a weight of 1.5 kg. Wow, it's very light. I can say that the deal is worthwhile considering my entire four-year degree life. You will need to use a few coding softwares if you were to take up an engineering degree. In my degree, I have used quite a few softwares like Matlab, Autocad, Aspen HYSYS, Aspen Energy Analyser, Aspen Plus, Mnova, Design Expert, Illustrator and Photoshop. Previously, I have even tried to use Autocad and Aspen simultaneously. The outcome is that the softwares will occasionally freeze and crash. And lately in the third and fourth years, I start to have problem prompting the sign in display most of the time I turn on the laptop. If you are currently searching for a laptop, please at least get one with SSD, that way it is faster to prompt start or locate or open a file. 

The perk of studying in the university is that you get to install Office 365 education package for free. I didn't manage to install Office 365 previously as I tried, I couldn't get the installer to proceed to the next step, it just kept on buffering. My giving up has indeed lead me to a big trouble in the near future. During my final semester, there're plenty of report writings. I was using the 'old' Microsoft Word to type my report, and I pressed Save every time I remember, literally pressing Save after writing a few sentences. The next morning, the Word document remained the content as the day before yesterday.  I was dumbfounded. I tried to get help from Ravin, but he couldn't find my Autosave file by Microsoft as well. I had no choice but to start over yesterday's effort. Anyhow, he got me the Office 365 using my UM mail and I'm good now. As I am about to venture into the next phase of study (postgrad), I use citation software, Endnote frequently. I encounter serious problem too, the Instant Formatting of Endnote takes very long time, I end up turning off the function. The function enables you to change the format of your citation while you write. Some times, it just crashes my Word. 

After my brother getting a MacBook Pro a few years ago, I am into Mac. Because Apple product has the quality (for me). I am still using iPhone 6, it has been 5 years. It can function well, my 64GB is still enough. The camera is still the prettiest compare to non-Apple phones (I like its realistic camera, if I have a pimple, I see a pimple :) I loathe the beauty camera haha). The downside is its battery, draining quite fast. Not to mention, when the phone gets pretty heated up, it cannot be used, and declare itself 'dead'. So the point is, I get myself a MacBook Air 2020. I know I need a 256GB storage and an Intel i5 processor, so I upgrade the base model from i3 to i5.  

Honestly, this is my first time purchasing a laptop online. I have tried going to various Apple authorised reseller shops, they either do not have stock for MacBook Air 2020, or has the 5k + upgraded version (512 GB, I think). Besides, I want the student discount. The base model is priced at 4.4 k, after student discount, (RM 400) and the upgrade to i5, hence the final price is also 4.4 k. I like that I can upgrade the processor without having to pay extra 😉 To share my experience, I ordered the MacBook Air on 22nd July, they shipped out on 30th, and I receive it on 6th August. I pick the gold colour btw. It looks like rose gold.