The Pillar Project

Our second assignment for Dr. 1B was to literally build a pillar using minimum cost. We had to get into groups of five with each member role playing a particular position. This little instruction was misunderstood by many as ‘we had to get into groups of five with members from different majors’. So once the class was dismissed, everyone was frantically looking for friends from different majors to build a group. I, in my blur-headed condition, tried to find myself a group too.

Initially I got into the same group as my room mate. But because of some sort of misunderstanding that I don’t know about, the group had extra two people and I was ditched with my friend, Kash. I refuse to say more on this. I’ve gotten over the whole damn thing. After much distress of feeling left out and frantically searching for a new group, I joined The Red Group whom coincidentally were short of one person.

My group members are:
1. Syawal Abd. Rahman
2. Syazimi bin Shaari
3. Jamalludin bin Abd Rahim
4. Nurul Zahirah binti Mokhtar Azizi

I suppose the whole kicked-out-from-my-own-group incident was a blessing in disguise? Hee. My new group members were all boys so they let me sit out most of the physical obligations of the pillar-making process. We made our pillar out of the trunk of a rubber tree. Stabilized by supporting woods nailed on a platform, the pillar is a proud work of diligence and creativity from nature’s natural sources.

The boys set out to find a suitable rubber tree on a thursday morning behind the Bakti Permai hostel. They chopped it off and carried it to the Bakti Permai hostel where we started working. We measured the tree and chopped it to 3 metres. Then we nailed it onto a flat wooden platform and added on supporting woods around the trunk. The whole process took two days.

Tribute to my lovely group members! Heart! Heart! Heart!

After we had set up our pillar in its appointed position, I strolled around to see the others. The scene of everyone scattered around the area with their respective pillars was something memorable. Different kinds of pillars of different sizes and designs dotted the green area of HBP with proud faces of future architects, quantity surveyors, town planners, interior designers, project managers and building engineers.