Recently, I have been working on network cables.  These are the tools that I use.  On the left, it is a tester.  The orange colour punch tool is used to connect the cable to the jack.  The green colour tool is called crimper that is used to connect the RJ45 plug to the cable.

Network cable and the jack.

After the network cable is punch down into the jack, it looks like this.  This is not a difficult job, but concentration is important, because the colour code must be followed exactly.  Each network cable has 4 pairs of copper wires which means there are 8 wires:
1. Blue
2. Blue + White
3. Green
4. Green + White
5. Orange
6. Orang+ White
7. Brown
8. Brown + White

While I was doing the termination, I check it at least twice before I punch the wire down.  My mind is full with colour code.   Blue, White Blue, Brown, White Orange… …  :p

Usually you can find the network jack on the wall, where it allows you to connect your computer to the wall jack using a network cable.  Have you ever seen and have a close look at it?  I am the the person who make it work behind the scene by connecting it from one point to another point such as to the server.

Next, this is a RJ45 plug on a network cable.  With the tools, I can make any length of network cable.  However, if the wire is not crimped properly into the plug (for example wrong colour code or wire not inserted properly), the network will fail.  That’s why I need a tester to confirm that each cable is working properly.

This is a new type of RJ45 plug where the wires are aligned in upper and lower rows.  It is more challenging to crimp compared to the old type.

I have cut the cable where it was too long, I used it for… … 

Hmm…  It’s time to relax my mind by creating some artistic things with the wires.  Does it look better than the messed up cable? :p

This is not done by me but we found this messed up electrical cable in front of a Kopitiam (Café).  The first thing I thought about it was its safety, and the second thing was their artistic shapes. :p

Recently we have been lacking of updating this blog because we have been dealing with cables (Not the cable above, but network cable for computer).  When this project started, my heart was also messy like the cable above because I need to allocate and use all my resources, time and man power wisely.

Now what I am doing is to turn the messy mind into managed and organized state.  Hopefully everything will be over soon.

Hmm…  Tonight I will post how the managed and organized cable look like, which the one that I am dealing with now.  (If I still have energy to switch on my notebook tonight :p)

Let’s go shopping!

Aren’t they nice? These are some knitting handicrafts given to me by a colleague. Her sister made these small knitted toys. They are called Amigurumi and originated in Japan. According to some findings on the Internet, Amigurumi is the Japanese art of knitting or crocheting small stuff animals and anthropomorphic creatures.

Here I have got the strawberry round-layered cookies, vanilla rectangle-layered cookies, eggs, a mushroom and an adorable little cloud.

This is an egg. It has been perfectly fried and ready to be eaten If you can eat and digest it It looks happy.

I also did a search on this long word, anthropomorphic. It turned out that anthropomorphism is the attribution of uniquely human characteristics to non-human creatures and beings, natural and supernatural phenomena, material states and objects or abstract concepts.

The cloud. Is it a good day for shopping?

The result or the search added that the subjects for anthropomorphism commonly include animals and plants depicted as creatures with human motivation able to reason and converse, forces of nature such as clouds, winds or the sun, componenets in games, etc. Well, almost anything can be subject to anthropomorphism.

Assorted cookies! Yummy! It’s true that looks can be deceiving because I have tried offering these cookies to someone and they really thought they are real until they touch the cookies. I was caught too when my colleague showed me these cookies for the first time.

Mr. Mushroom Since we are vegetarians, we have discovered that mushroom is really a good companion in cooking. You can fried mix vegetable with it, marinate and cook it in one piece and they make marvellous porridge too!

I hope that one day I can make some Amigurumis too!

These are the red-lantern-shaped chillies.  Each of them is as big as a table tennis (ping pong) ball.  Their shapes are not exactly rounded but randomly curved.  They can be planted locally in Kuching here, and in Chinese we call it “deng1long2jiao1″ (lantern-shaped chilli).

From Wikipedia, I learned that chillies are actually the fruits of the plants from genus Capsicum.  We wrote about Capsicum earlier this year, you can read it here.  There are many different species and varieties of chillies.  I am not sure about the name for this variety.

These Chilli taste extremely hot, but one of my friends who can’t have his meal without chilli said that it is not as hot as “Cili Padi” (Bird’s Eye Chili Pepper).  He said that if he sees chillies, he saliva will be drooling.

Arrangement #1.

Arrangement #2.

Arrangement #3.

I have arranged this chillies in different ways, which arrangement do you think look nicer?