©2012 Cheng Seeyuan

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Table ofContents

FRESH (p.02)
United as one family
LIFE SKILL (p.03)
Presentation = Communication
TRAVEL AND HOBBY (p.07)
The Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival
in Singapore

SHARING (p.09)
e3 Field Trip 2012

Editorial
It is winter again, finally. We apologize
for publishing this winter issue lately.
Academic things seemed to have occupied our daily lives more and more.
However we still want to give our e3family knowledge and interesting articles through our bi-annual magazine..
We hope to get responses and positive
criticism in order to improve our e3
magazine.
Best regards,
Evision Task Groups
M. Rafiq Mirza Julaihi
Kuare Coggan Donald
Nina Yulianti Rebecca
Marco Armando

KNOWLEDGE (p.11)
Lesson learnt from former
coalmine community

FOCUS (p.05)

Power Shortages in Hokkaido,
Tomari Power Plant possible
to be restarted
MEET THE NEW OFFICERS (p.13)

FOOD CORNER (p.15)
Malaysian Kuih Ketayap
ENGINEERING JOKES (p.16)

FRESH 0d2

United as one family

Niti Pitakteeratham, ex-chairman of e3 Student Organization
Time passed so fast and newgeneration has stepped into theroles of student association. I,
as an ex-chairman, would liketo share my valuable experiences when being at this position. To begin with, “ United
as one family” was a slogan I
said as a chairman and this has
become real. I had a chance
to work with other students
who came from different backgrounds and cultures. Therefore, I had an opportunity towork and live in International
environment and open my vision to be more International
perspective. Significantly webecame very close throughactivities that we arranged together and took good care eachother as a family since then.
Furthermore, as mentioned
earlier that being a chairman,
requires to organize activities
or events for the students so
as to strengthen relationshipamong them. Working as achairman makes me have highresponsibility and know how tobalance between my study andwork. Even though it was quite
tough, it was a great time andfun part for my life as a studentat Hokkaido University. I received lots of good experiences
and friendship, so welcome,new generation. I am confident to say that all of you willlearn and get impression thesame as I have experienced.

LIFE
SKILL
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Presentation =Communicationby Marco Armando

E
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FREE YOUR MIND“How to make agood presentation”
is a question that is often being
asked. To get the answer of thisquestion, one usually goes to abookstore and buy books related to presentation guidelines,
attends seminars and presentation workshops, or seeks guidance from close people whohave more experience. All ofthese ways provide us manykinds of presentation rules,
such as the number of slides,
the flow of content, the good
proportion of slide content,
simple presentation structure,eye contact, and so on. However, we can see in reality thateven successful people who can
do a good presentation in frontof others do not always follow
the same rules or patterns. In
the end, the number of rules
seems to be infinity. Even someof them sometimes do notmatch with each other. Just how
many rules do we need to master the skills of presentation?

K
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Communication =Transfer of Knowledge
One point that is needed to
be stressed is the basic ideaof presentation. Doing a presentation means to convey our
message. Presentation is transfer of knowledge, or basicallycommunication. As long as we
make it clear so that the audience can understand what weare trying to convey, our presentation is good enough. One
certain rule is to make a presentation in way we like. A goodpresentation style or type is theone which suits us the best,helps us to convey our thoughts
easily. Instead of thinking hardabout what to do during presentation, we should try to focus

Get out ofyour own cage!
on how to do. This is called theparadigm change from ‘knowledge-based’ to ‘how to think’.
Communication happens when
one is able to express his ideas
or thoughts to the talking partners, in the case of presentation, the audience. Of course
everybody can communicate
well, but sometimes it is so difficult to express our ideas fluently. There are too many ideas
popping out in our minds, andlack of organization of thoseideas may freeze you and cage
all the ideas. It is importantthat we should try to free ourselves out of this cage in order to communicate perfectly.

In order to free your ideas, youneed to be creative. Being creative means doing somethingthat is unexpected or not listed
in any set of common rules. You
can always follow a recipe or aprocedure, and of course walkin the footsteps of those before
you, probably the successful
people you admire. However
there are boundless additional
options to explore if you arewilling to identify and challenge
assumptions, and to break freeof the expectations that you

Never be afraid of
failure!!
and the others project ontoyou. We may be afraid of being out of our comfort zone, but
the more you experiment, themore you see the spectrum of
options is much broader thanimagined. The sole rule is thatyou are limited only by your energy and imagination. The more
unexpected turn you make,you will get enough attention
from people. The rest of yourideas will surely flow without
any difficulty because you are
not bounded by common rules.

If you do take a risk and happen to fail, remember that personally are not a failure. Failure
is external cause. This perspective will allow you to get up
and try again and again. Youridea might have been poor, thetiming might have been off,
etc, but practice is indeed important. You cannot becomea successful presenter justby learning from books without any real practice. Keep inmind that everything you do isa natural part of the learning
process. If you are not failingsometimes, then you probably
are not taking enough risks.

FOCUS
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Source: www.japantimes.com

POWER SHORTAGES IN HOKKAIDO,TOMARI POWER PLANT
POSSIBLE TO BE RESTARTEDby Marco Armando

Because of the Fukushima reactor accident in March 2011, Japan shut down almost
all of its 54 nuclear power plants throughout the nation. The last reactor, Reactor 3 of
The Tomari Power Plant was also finally stopped on May 5, 2012 by Hokkaido Electric Power Co. However, there is an issue of this power plant to be restarted again
this year due to the high electricity demand in Hokkaido, especially during winter.
The public demo against nuclear power is also still actively moving in Sapporo.

Hokkaido is suffering
due to power shortages during winter this year. First of all,two years ago, all companies
in Japan were required to cut
their electricity usage by 7%.
Then, nuclear power which has
contributed a large portion ofelectricity, is not used anymore
because of the shutdown of
the Tomari power plant in May
2012. Lastly, electricity demandin Hokkaido in winter is 15%
greater than that in summer,
and also generally greater thanthat in other areas of Japan.
Heating power can begenerated using natural gases
and kerosene, but it does nothelp much because the fansand pumps cannot be run
without electricity. Besides,
the needs of electricity-driven
equipments are still very highin Hokkaido. This island, beingat the north of Japan, has many
region-specific equipments, especially for melting snow in
winter. The rough data is asfollows, heating equipments ofroad and parking lots at around
80000 locations, 30000 roof
heating system, and around4000 machines to melt icefrom train tracks. Power shortages might result into a drastic increase of traffic accidents.

Public demo against nuclear in Hokkaido

Hokkaido Electric Power Co.
has made several alternativeelectricity generators, such as
80 diesel generators. These
generators were said to be able
to offset the electricity production loss due to the nuclear
power plant shutdown. From
two months ago, these alternatives has been successful toprovide electricity 5.8% higher
than the maximum demand
forecast. Although this number
is already above the margin of
3% to ensure a steady operation in winter, a failure of one
mid-size power plant is still
able to destroy the margin easily. Hokkaido can obtain powertransmitted from Honshu, but
the maximum capacity of thetransmission line is 600.000 kilowatts. If the demand increase
and surpass this number, there
will surely be power shortage in
Hokkaido. We may expect thenuclear power plant in Tomari tobe restarted at the end of 2012.

Source: e.nikkei.com

However, restart of a nuclear
power plant is very difficult after
the Fukushima accident. Due tothe massive earthquake andtsunami back in March 2011,
the Nuclear Regulation Authority should evaluate the nuclear
power generation technology
and set new standards for thereactors in order to withstandnatural disasters in the future.
The new standards are unlikely
to be studied as well in the near
future because there are a lotof people who are against thenuclear power usage. In Hokkaido, the people assembled agroup of 10000 people against
nuclear. On October 13, 2012,
they also held a concert-likefestival to speak out their voicesof “Sayounara, Genpatsu Hokkaido” or “Goodbye nuclear in
Hokkaido”. The people who arescared of a repetition of Fukushima accident, are still tremblingin the fear. How will this beautiful island survive this challenge?

TRAVEL
AND
HOBBY
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The Chinese
Mid-Autumn
Festivalin Singapore
by Nina Yulianti

Heritage Building in Chinatown, Singapore

Durian puff’s shop in Changi Airport

Last September, I had
the experience to celebrate theChinese Mid-Autumn Festival
in my neighbor country, Singapore. This country is located at
the southern part of Malay Peninsula and it is close to Batam
Island in Riau Islands Provinceof Indonesia. Traveling from Indonesia to Singapore was about
2 hours by a low-cost airline.
Transportation routes from Indonesia can also be via ferryfrom Batam. Instead of English
and Mandarin, a lot of people
here also use Indonesian (Bahasa), so it feels like home.
As the majority population (~74%) is Chinese ethnic,
the festival was adopted froma legendary story of Chang'e,
the Chinese wife of a merciless ruler, and now celebrated
yearly in August or September.
This is quite similar to thanksgiving week in western culture.

Lanterns and Night Market

During this time, Chinatown
Street was decorated by colorful lanterns and Chinese ornaments. Many cheap red-coloredaccessories can be bought in
the night market. Red color
in China culture symbolizes
good luck and happiness. In
the afternoon, ten groups ofchildren were dancing traditional dances china along thestreets of downtown. The evening of the other day, there wasa dragon dance by professional
dancers. Not less interesting,a stage of traditional Chinesesongs in market corner werecrowded mostly with grandfathers and grandmothers.
During the festival week, performing arts troupes depictedscenes from the tale of Chang’ein the form of traditional
dances, opera or puppetry.
For the culinary adventure and budding gourmands,

there were scrumptious mooncakes (a rectangular box or circle shaped thick pastry doughfilled with yummy ingredients)
in traditional flavours like lotus
and egg yolk or exotic varieties like durian, chocolate, coffee and ice cream. We also can
try various traditional Chinese
food, cakes, and drinks, but
it was already adapted to thetaste of Southeast Asia. One of
my favorites is the fabulous durian puff stuffed with fresh durian puree and fresh cream. It
feels very Indonesian or Malay.
Singapore cuisine is called Peranakan or Nonya cuisine, which
combines Chinese, Malay andother influences into a uniqueblend. Please visit in AugustSeptember (the autumn festival) and February (the spring
festival), if you truly want to feelthe atmosphere of China but
the nuances of Southeast Asia.

Mooncake shop in VivoCity shopping mall

SHARING
0910

e3 Field Trip2012

by Zulayat Kurban

Tomakomai Recycle Center“Travel is a very good mean of broadening a person's
perspective. It is exciting to visit different places.
As you travel, you will see beautiful sceneries typical of the region. Besides, you can meet and makenew friends. You can learn a lot of new things aswell. Because of one of my best friend I got the
chance to go to the e3 Field Trip. It was organized by e3 and a trip really full of impressions.”

Here I would like to share
my experience about this trip.
During this trip, the Tomakomai
recycle factory, left a deep impression on me because when I
came to Japan I was shocked by
the garbage classification system. Every day we throw away
a lot of garbage – paper, cans,
kitchen waste, used batteries
and glass. In Japan, people
separate their garbage before
dumping. But in China people
normally do not sort garbage.
After the rubbish is collected, it
is mostly buried or burned andpollutes the environment. Recycling plays a major role in global society. Waste is a big issue
and countries are struggling
with ways to keep the situation
under control. Japan is a model
country in terms of recycling. At
Tomakomai recycle factory the
stuff showed us how to recycle.
You probably don't know wherethat plastic goes after it leaves
your recycling center. Recycled plastic can be changed

to many products commonly
for daily household use, andcan even be turned into industrial or building products.
Melting down and recycling
glass is one of the oldest formsof recycling. Recycled glass
products include all sorts ofglassware, tile, beads. And,of course, recycled glass has
been used in the stained glassand mosaic arts for ages. Using recycled paper reduces thepressure on the world's forests because recycled paper
is made from used paper, notfrom trees. In addition to basic copy paper, recycled paper
products include paper towels, toilet paper, tissues, cardboard binders and CD sleeves.
Recycling is an important factor in conserving natural resources. In Japan, there
is a very popular statement, “Ifyou mix, it is a waste. If you
separate, it is resource.” So,separation of waste is the key
to successfully do recycling.

To sum up, from this trip
really learned a lot, I am so
glad that I joined this trip withe3. I think that it was very wellorganized. And all of us reallyenjoyed the trip. For me I am
not an e3 member, but I feelthat e3 is amazing. I am also
looking forward to the next trip.
Collected garbage (PETs, bottles, cans, etc)

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Lesson learnt
from former
coalmine community
by Nina Yulianti-Yubari City, Hokkaido-

Old coalmine engineering books; some guides from
Harvard University

The history of
coalmine industry
Yubari was founded on 1 April
1943 and a former coal mining industry in Sorachi Subprefecture, Hokkaido. Thereis a famous coalmine museumin Japan with a real coalmine
driftway, and a natural monument of the Yubari Coal Outcrop (Ex-coal mining company).
Visitor can see photos of thereality of hard coalmine workers in Yubari City. The miners’
apartments didn't have thebath in order to unite the workers and build up the solidarity
by making them use the same
public bath and talk together.
Traditional mining sites were
only using the wooden frames
for the galleries of the coalmine. Miners had to climb small
tunnel with simple tools andaccompanied by their wife andchildren. At that time, coalmine workers and their family did
not have welfare sys tem fromthe coal companies. Many widows were working in coalmine
because their spouses passed
away in the mine. Japanese Era
from “Taisho” to the beginningof “Showa” is the best time forcoalmine industry and otherbusinesses. During the period,
the system of digging-out coals
was improved in Japan. The circumstances around the workers
were much better in Hokkaido
than in Kyushu Island locatedin the southern part of Japan.
However, many workers died ofthe explosion in the mines andlung cancer. Japan also tried
to improve coalmine engineering technical and safety workyear by year. Finally, after thebiggest mine-disaster of 1980s,
government gave up all activity but bad conditon remained.

New brand of the city What important
The city went bankrupt in 2007 things to be learned
and has a population of approximately 12,000. So, thecity government worked with
Beacon Communication to promote Yubari, and helped makethe city economically viable
once more. The creative teamfocused on the fact that Yubari
boasted the lowest divorce ratein the whole of Japan and created the idea, “Yubari, no money but love”, with two mascots,a couple called “Yubari Fusai“.
“Fusai” means both “debt” and“married couple” in Japanese.
On the 2011’s election, Yubari
citizens made a spectacular decision by choosing the youngest
Japanese city major, Naomichi
Suzuki (he has law education
background). Nowadays, thiscity is famous for the Yubari
Melon and the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival.

Map of location of Yubari

1. Too dependent on coalmining. This caused the
local residents did nothave any other skills. Thechanging trend from fossil
energy usage (e.g. coal)
to sustainable energy (e.g.
nuclear) could be bad forwhole economy sector.

The world’s major coal is exported largely from China, theUSA, India, Australia, Russia,
Indonesia and South Africa.
Coal quality varies, with the level categorized as lower grade
lignite (59%), sub bituminous(27%) and high grade bituminous and anthracite (14%). So,
what lesson can be learnt from 2. Ageing society. After
Yubari City case for these coalm- bankruptcy, this city could
ine communities in near future? not provide good job op-

portunities, so young people migrated to other cities
such as Sapporo and Tokyo.

Yubari steam cake

3. Vulnerable to disasters,sorrow, and environmental
damage. Historically, many
miners died in the collapseof the mine tunnel. Furthermore, water sources
might be contaminatedwith chemicals from mining and related activities.
4. Young and educatedpeople should be more
responsible.
Innovation and change in Yubari
were started by a group ofyoung people. The elders
who are open-minded supported their activities sothat recovery occurs gradually. They chose two mainideas. Agriculture is oneof good ways to drive new
economic solution. Many
school tours are also arranged to feel the prosperity of coal industry in thepast as a key of tourism.

MEET
THE
NEW
OFFICERS
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JustinShresta
Chairman

14

Hello, I am Justin from one of the most naturally gifted countries in the world, Nepal. I love travelling, making new friends
and watching movies. Apart from them, I have just started exploring my new interest areas in the field of photography andcooking. I completed my undergraduate studies in civil engineering back in Nepal. After that I felt necessary to gain some
professional experience so I worked for a private design company for about 2 years before coming to Japan in search of opportunities and quality education in the field of engineering.
During my stay, I have gained a lot here at Hokkaido University andstill in the process of learning new things each and every day. But
apart from the high quality education, excellent research facilities
and top class faculty members, it is also very important to havegood learning environment and people around it. Thanks to e3
for providing such a platform where students from different partsof the world gather under a single umbrella to fulfill their dreams.
Knowing people from different countries, understanding their culture, food and religion is definitely fun but there are some very
important things apart from them. It’s the feeling of togetherness which is uniting us into a single family where we can share
our moments of joy and sadness, help each other when needed
and of course learn from one another to develop ourselves as anindividual and a team player. This is the beauty of our e3 and e3
student organization plays a key role in it. Therefore, I have accepted this very important responsibility as a challenge to leadthis organization with a vision to add more fun and excitement
retaining the same warm feelings of a family. I hope everyone
will cooperate with our new team to improve our organization.
See you all in e3 activities. Thanks!

Hello everyone, I am Borith from Cambodia. I am 2nd year-doctoral student in the Laboratory of Transportation Intelligence, Graduate school of Engineering, Hokkaido University. I have stayed here
one year already. Although Hokkaido is really cold compared withmy country, I really like Hokkaido especially Hokkudai’s campus;
it has a really beautiful building and landscape with 4 different
seasons. It was really surprise and really enjoyed for me when I
saw the snow and played ski for the first time. Here, I have manyfriends from many countries in the world. I have got lots of life
experiences from this cold region. It is really meaningful for me.
Regarding to university life, I really get warm from e3 programand e3 family. e3 stands for “English Engineering Education program”, It is a really good program for international students tostudy by using English as the medium of instruction. e3 has gathered many students from over the world. It is the best way toshare advanced knowledge in engineering that Japan has withother countries and also a good chance to learn from others.
We share each other not only education but also tradition andculture. I do like e3 program; it is really useful and high standard program. Although we are far from family, friends but wenever feel lonely or homesick since we have e3 family. We havefounded an e3 Student Organization to connect, share, learn, join
force, and work together as a big family. We are together sharing fun, sadness, and problem and solve it together. As for thisyear, I have joined in the Student Organization to work for e3
family as the vice chair of academic. It’s my great honor andpleasure to work for e3 and I will try my best to help this family more effective, stronger, more efficient, more fun and so on.
I am glad to be of some help. Please feel free to contact me.

VC Academic

Takeshi Yoshimura

Jumana Al-Mallahi
Our health is our environment!! Long time ago I was interested onwaste issues and my dream was to study about it, and finally I am
here. e3 gave me this opportunity and much more than I expected.
One of the most unforgettable experiences for me in Japan is autumn. Since in Jordan we don’t have distinct autumn, I was amazed by autumn when I arrived to Japan lastyear, and now simply I can say that autumn is my favorite
season… How come I lived all my life without knowing that!!!
To be in Japan, enjoying its culture and benefit of a good quality
research, without being stressed with the language is somethingunique that e3 offers to us. e3 is prepared for foreigners, allteachers can speak English, lectures are given in English and social life within e3 members is important for having a healthy life.

BorithLong

VC Finance

VC Social

Actually, it was very surprising that I’m taking this important position. I’m thoroughly native Japanese, being born and bred in Sapporo, and without any experiences of leaving Japan for long time. So,
before entering e3 course, I had little opportunity to use English in
my life. But after entering this course, I have a lot of foreign friends
and speak English almost every day. Although my English was not
good, I enjoyed talking with foreign friends positively and the previous e3 chair, Niti-san, recommended me to take this position.
Now I think it is wonderful to take this position because we cancontribute to make nice times for many people, both Japanese andforeign students, through the work of e3 SO. When I entered e3
course, I was surprised that each events are very enjoyable and I
knew later that most of those were supported by e3 SO and TG. I’ve
really respected pervious members because they had great leadership and kindness. Actually I haven’t had the confidence to become
the great organizer like them, but I’ll do my best. And as the only
Japanese in e3 SO, I’d like to contribute to the good relationship between Japanese and foreign students through the tasks and events.

FOOD
CORNER
15ENGINEERING JOKES 1d6

Kuih
Ketayap
Malaysian sweets

ENGINEERING
FACTS
It’s easier to stay awake
till 6 AM than to wake up
at 6 AM!

by Rafiq Mirza

It consists of two parts; the crepe and filling. You willneed these ingredients below:
(a)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

Crepe
1 cup flour
2 eggs
1/2 cup coconut milk
1 cup water
1 tablespoon salt
2 tablespoon cooking oil
1 tablespoon pandan (screwpine) paste/flavoring

(b)
1.
2.
3.
4.

Filling
2 cups grated coconut
1 piece palm sugar or 1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup watera pinch of salt

*Since we are all engineers, and we like exact measurements,
1 cup is equivalent to 250ml.

Moving on to the making
process of this delicious,
green crepe:
1. To make the filling, mix thewater and palm sugar in asaucepan and bring them up
to boil. Once the sugar has
melted, add the grated coconut. Once the coconut is moist
and shiny and all the water has
been absorbed, take it off thestove and set aside to cool.
2. To make the crepe, mix all
the ingredients until the batteris smooth. Heat a 12cm in diameter nonstick pan, brush witha little cooking oil, pour somebatter onto the pan and swirl
the pan around until the batter completely covers the base.
3. Cook the crepe in low heat
until it is slightly brown andcrispy. Then flip it over andcook the other side for about 20
seconds. Remove from the pan.
4. Put some filling on the completed crepe and roll them up
like a spring roll. Ready to serve.
Curious about how it tastes like?
The Malaysians sells coconut
crepe on every Hokudaisai. Or
be adventurous and make themyourselves. Happy cooking!
Kuih ketayap picturesingredients of kuih ketayap

Nothing makes an engineer become productive,
than the “Last Minute”.
“Nights” are more productive than “Days”.
Making a study timetable
is a waste of time, studying only starts a day before an exam.
If you get less marks, yourparents shout at you.
If you get more marks,
your friends shout at you.
One does not simply do
individual assignments
individually.
Using your brain while
copying reduces yourspeed of copying.
The problems of exams
are more difficult thanthose of homeworks.
During exams, the incomeof XEROX shop owners aremuch more than what you
get even after you get ajob.