i'm starting to develop this problem of unconciously switching off my alarms in the morning... today was one close encounter... as usual i set my alarms for 6.30a.m. but somehow, i ended up sleeping till 7.15a.m.!!! i had to rush getting ready for lecture and gobbled down a couple of biscuits... and sometimes i amaze myself at how fast i can get ready to go out!
i wasn't late for my biostatistics lecture. in fact i met li sum and we walked together. i really don't get what ANOVA is... there's so many steps to memorize... i need to start using my zar book.
after class, we (mei lin, emily, junie, li sum and i) went swimming. we went to the uni's pool but it was closed... just our luck (like what adrian mole says...)... mind you, we were all syked up for a swim and had literally no money on us and just our matrics card for identification... but anyway, we went to the kelana jaya pool... rm3 per person... and luckily there weren't anyone there and it was ladies day... i didn't dare venture to the deep end because the pool didn't have the step at the sides like the shah alam club pool... so i tried teaching li su to swim and we lingered around the shallow end. i have very low stamina... maybe i should swim more often in the uni 's pool when they open...
then we went back to UM to change and take our money so we could go to midvalley to eat 'ikan bakar'... defeating the purpose of exercising? hehehe... anyway we ate at the oasis food court and the 'ikan bakar' was really good!!! and oily... hehehe... and i gulped down quite alot of 100plus... felt so bloated after that... and to top it all, we went to the california fitness club (because li sum wanted to sign up...) and we had a tour of the place... and well, it looked quite fine... although i must say that the way they conduct their business is pretty sleek and well... seems like you've walked into one of those american tv-shopping commercials... well-planned marketing strategy... anyway, all of us had our bmi tested... and i'm just in the acceptable category (25-30%)... i have 25% fat!!!... just need to reduce a couple of kg to be in the fitness level... but what the heck, i'm happy with where i am now and honestly, i just don't have the drive and determination to go to a fitness club 3 times a week to workout... plus it's so darn expensive... i do respect for some people, it is worth it... but for me, i'd rather spend that money on a couple of good books... i guess this all depends on individual preferences.
all of us came out vowing not to eat 'ikan bakar' and 'paandi's' anymore... but i can guarantee that i'll break that vow quicker than you can say "quick"... the sky looked very dark and moody the whole evening... i had to withdraw some money to buy a pendrive (from dataran prima) but turns out that they don't have stock... so they asked me to come back on monday after they contacted me...
ooh, yesterday we went to honey bee in ss2... their shop layout was quite different... they had a yellow vw in the middle and we sat at the reclining area... i ordered a 'roti bakar' (which was so small... and not as good as uncle lim's) and a grape-ice-blended-with-pop-pop-sprinkles-in-a-ala-"milk bottle"-glass (i can't remember its name...). it was quite fun because the pop pop was exploding in my mouth and eventually in my head! hahahaha... a bit pricey though...
Saturday, October 01, 2005
Xcapade 2005!!! Long awaited update...
3rd September 2005
woke up early. Dad had to drop me back at college to pickup my converse shoes (which I had forgotten to bring home yesterday!) then he sent me, yen chyng and li sum to the kps carpark. We were right on time but as usual, by Malaysian timing, we were early…
bus came at about past 8a.m. I sat with yen chyng and we didn’t get a wink of sleep (unlike most of the others) throughout our journey… which was about maybe 2 hrs, give and take… we passed upm, sime hydroponics farm(which was interesting…) and lots of ‘has-been’ palm oil estates being mowed down for future development… it was pretty sad actually… seeing the barren slopes which somewhat resembles waste lands… ok, I got abit carried away there…
when we reached Marist Brothers Champagnat Youth Centre, Port Dickson we were “told” that the caretaker wasn’t in, so we had to wait outside… then ‘suddenly’ the hall doors flew open and the OCs, EBs, and facis who were hiding inside unbeknownst to us, shouted out their roll call to us… and we reciprocated with a roll call we learnt on the bus. Then we went to our quarters; girls’ dorm was a medium sized room packed with double decker beds to accommodate 20 or more girls… btw, we could see the sea from our place but a barbed-wire fence separated us from the sea… sad case… see no touch!
back in the hall, we had a brief opening ceremony of Xcapade 2005… rules and regulations laid down… and sticking up our “sugar cubes” – which consist of our individually decorated white envelopes which would serve as our mailbox for the next few days… lunch…
square-dancing… couldn’t follow the steps… but most of us were clueless too… hahaha. After tea, we split into our ‘countries’… mine was svalbard… but it was wrongly spelt on our name tags… szalvard… my group consist of me, goay imm, Gloria, poh yee, zaa, jan, mao, wai kwan and faci: shi lin and chung heng. we were given mahjong paper and a few pieces of newspaper and were supposed to use those things to demonstrate 1 of the 6 aiesec values… my group was activating leadeship. We drew the earth and pasted people pics all over the globe… writing stuff like ‘gender isn’t an issue in leadership’ etc.
we had a water crisis… there wasn’t enough water to go around for us to take a satisfactory bath… so we ended up soapily “tapping” the tap heads and waiting for the water to trickle out… we had dinner after that and then there was a really serious session where each newbie had to go up in front of everyone and say something with enough eloquence so that our self-confidence would shine through… and if the seniors didn’t clap, we’d have to try again until they were convinced that we were confident… as usual, scaredy-cat me was freaked out of my mind about this kind of stuff (public speaking)… and since there wasn’t any feasible way out of it, I said a little prayer and literally threw everything to the winds… stepped out and said “I believe all things are possible” and I meant it from the bottom of my cowardly heart… and they clapped! I was so……. relieved and tired after all the adrenaline rush… btw, I got that phrase from the praise and worship song “all things are possible”… when I’m weak You make me strong, when I’m poor I know I’m rich, for in the power of Your love, All thing are possible (4x)… so true!!!
When we were done, we got back into our countries and the next activity was impromptu speaking for 2 minutes… we could speak on any subject so I chose dogs… I had planned to touch on 3 topics : dogs in my life, dogs as the latest “must-have” fad and the bleak future of dogs in shah alam. However when it was my turn, I could only remember the 1st 2 topics… and when I reached my last 30 seconds, I was struggling to recall the last topic but it just wouldn’t come… so I repeated myself and didn’t have a proper ending… the comments I received was that they could see that my thoughts were coming too fast for me to grasp them… and that I tried finding my thoughts up there somewhere… in the ceiling? Hahaha… the others talked about summer in japan (mao), how to cook instant noodles (Gloria), pet cat (zaa), passion for French language (wai kwan), public speaking (jan), music (goay imm) and the beach (poh yee). After that we had a round up of the day’s activities and then we went to the land of Nod.
4th September 2005
wakey wakey at 7a.m. did some exercise and jogged to the gate and back again… those who were late had to do weird punishments… i.e. pushups in an explicit manner, walk butt-to-butt in pairs with hands clasped between knees… then we had breakfast and then we had a simulation session of setting up an exchange…making an appointment with HR manager via phone… and then meeting with HR manager… goay imm and I paired up and we chose sony corporation. Goay imm was the 1st to secure the appointment via “phone”… secretary: thency. We were the last pair to meet the “HR manager” in our group… HR manager: Alvin… and I totally screwed it up!!! I froze and well, there’s not much to say after that… I DO NOT want to relive those devastating moments!!! *having a dramatic fit* … hehehe… NO, it wasn’t that bad, but we got grilled by the nicest HR manager of the 4 “companies”… so go figure…
after that we had to feed lunch to a new friend… I chose wai kwan… I learnt that she’s actually a 3rd year student majoring in French and that she’s local (i.e. from klang valley). I guess the objective of this session was a success but (no offence to anyone… it’s just my paranoia taking over…) I almost puked when I was nearly done with lunch… my imagination was running wild; hence egging on my “saliva-phobic” paranoia… in fact, many a time I was on the verge of puking because of the cups used… gosh, I’ve got to stop thinking too much about tiny little matters…
later we had to create a language (at least for “hello”, “goodbye”, “I love you”), a religion, a national dance and a tribal chant for our respective countries. Then there’d be an “exchange” where one member of each country would be sent to another country… btw our “hello” was flapping both palms opened and raised to our ears; “goodbye” was one hand waving positioned at our butts; “I love you” was 2 slaps across the face; we worshiped the chair and would do a parade clockwise and anticlockwise around the chair; our dance was taking a deep breathe and while people were anticipating something spectacular, we’ start rolling on the ground one way then the other (this really got people’s attention…); and out tribal chant was sitting in a somewhat kneeling position with index fingers pointing to our temples while chanting rapidly and non-stop “money, money, money…” Interesting? I think we looked like total buffoons… anyway, lesson learned was that we’ll meet with different cultures and exchange is for us to learn other country’s culture and in turn educate our own people about it…
we were then given time to ruminate on our thoughts with the aid of biscuits… in other words, we had tea. Period. (the above is an example of me complicating simple matters…) a couple of alumni had came over to PD so we bullied them to do a roll call for us…
we changed into our lousy clothes to go play on the beach… our 1st game was @ “fear factor” where we would group into 4’s and we had to get a specific item out of buckets filled with ‘icky’ stuff in a given time frame… my group almost succeeded… well, truth be told, most of the groups nearly succeeded too… hehehe… 2nd game was like that nickelodeon game where you’d have to answer a question correctly or else you’d get dose of icky goo… for us, we’d get goo treatment if no one answered the question… conclusion is… I got goo-ed, as well as everyone in my round, because we didn’t know the answer to the question: ‘what is a village without a church called?’… answer turned out to be ‘hamlet’… 3rd game was water balloon war… the driest group at the end of the game was the winner… at first, we used our water balloons to bombard other countries but after our ammo finished, we split up and tried to stay as dry as possible… but alas, our endeavours were thwarted when one by one, all of us got ambushed by people with buckets of polluted sea water… I’m proud to say that I was one of the last to get wet…and it was just my left side… but then some seniors ambushed me, grabbing and carrying me (whilst I assumed a cooked prawn position), and then throwing me into the shallow end of the sea… that was when I really had a pain in the a**… and I mean it literally… pelvic bone was aching devilishly till the next day… oh yea, strangely… when I was in the process of being hurled into the sea, I caught someone shouting something to the effect of “ eh, her cap… take off first…”. Well anyway… that was sand and sea water for me… a couple of others (inc. li sum) experienced the same treatment too… and at the end of it all… nobody was dry…
when we got back, everyone clamoured to the toilets to have a “so-called-bath”. And then it was dinner time… surprise, we had to eat dinner blindfolded… it was to make us realize what the blind experienced everyday of their lives… ooh, my “devil” (whose “name” is ‘illusion’) gave me a can of zapple… and also previously a tube of grape mentos… we started corresponding late evening of the 1st day…
we were then shooed out of the hall and all the lights were turned off… candles were lit and we were ushered back into the hall. We were asked to sit in a large circle and told to close our eyes while listening to celtic and instrumental music which were very melancholic sounding. Then thency started speaking… the activity turned out to be similar to the sessions we used to have in smks9 with those “ulama”-looking people… about appreciating the people we love in our life (parents, family…) I think everyone was touched… but somehow, I wasn’t… maybe I’m just a hard person…I remember the first time I went through this in raja muda… my friends and I (goh, cindy, nisha…) were like… so “pantang” la these people, telling us “bayangkan kamu pulang dari sekolah dan nampak ada dua keranda di ruang tamu… dan di dalam keranda-keranda itu adalah ibu bapa kamu… apakah kamu akan rasa…” but somehow these sessions seem to work everytime it was conducted… ok, I think I am wasting too much time reminiscing.
after that session (last breath), we were given an hour break because almost everyone was overwhelmed… so we started our next activity quite late… around 10 something… in our itenary, it was listed as nightstalk… we were asked to take out our flashlights… again, we had to vacate the hall, all the lights were switched off and candles were the only sources of light… we were playing a live-version cluedo… then wei hoong came out and told us she was madam lau and she has been trying to solve this mystery for some time… then there were a couple of scenes (in which all the faci/OC/EB acted out the scenes) where we could only watch from the doorway of the hall… the story was about an Indian girl marrying a Chinese guy and his parents didn’t like it… then the bride gets murdered during the wedding dinner… so we were supposed to find out who the murderer was… snooping around the compound and finding clues… but there were many “extras” who acted as wandering ghosts… and they would ‘kacau’ us… soon we figured if we don’t bother with them they’d go away. The seniors really looked like psychotic ppl… one even stood so close to me and blew down my neck… but I ignored him and he went away… then suddenly he screamed shrilly right at the back of me… and I was momentarily deaf… at the end of it all, all the groups guessed wrongly… the murderer was the husband who found a suspicious note from his father to his wife and she in turn had also found a note from his gay best friend to him and her own lesbian best friend was in love with her and her cunning sister was trying to seduce her husband after her death… talk about complicated storyline!!! It is obvious that these people have been watching too many dramas…btw they also prepared a short drama movie for us… and from the background, I know they filmed in 1u…haha
stayed up late playing games…one was a drinking game… n at first it was cordial drinks but when that ran out, they started using milo… I could feel my stomach churning just looking at them guzzle down the milo as fast as they can… then we were allowed to retire for the night… but our bunch decided to stay and play some more games… which when it turned ‘dirty’, we excused ourselves… lots of misleading photos taken…
5th September 2005
woke up later because we stayed up late… had breakfast… then had a trust fall thing… where we were supposed to fall backwards off the table top into a human net of arms… and if we didn’t trust our friends below, their arms would hurt… and as usual… I got picked on because I looked “light”… and well, I did it… but I think I hurt the people who caught me… hehehe… at least I kept my arms from flailing and smacking someone in the face! Then they said there wasn’t enough time for everyone and so we went in to the hall and had a round-up session… get ready to go… and also we found out who our devil was… I really had no idea who it was because I didn’t know we had to try finding out their identity… so I took a wild guess… amy… and turns out that wild guess was actually true… was really surprised at the coincidence… we exchanged gifts… I gave her a box of ferrero rocher…
then we had to ‘gotong-royong’ clean the place… wash the drains, floors etc. after that we boarded our bus and headed back to um… and that was the end of the camp…
Saturday, September 03, 2005
Reunion...
Had biostatistics in the morning… then I walked back to college… packed some stuff and waited for mum to come… she was supposed to come at around 3p.m. but I ended up falling asleep… only to awake at 3 past!!! Mum still hadn’t come yet… so I tried calling her but my handphone displayed “emergency calls only”… tried turning it off but then it couldn’t start back up… removed and replaced battery; then started back up but still couldn’t make calls… went down to use the public phone… contacted mum… she was in a traffic jam…she arrived at about 3.40p.m and immediately we set off to ss2. I reached the teapot café around 4p.m. CS, BY, SY, Belinda, JH, YL and YC were there already… ordered some food there as I hadn’t had my lunch yet… but the food was quite lousy… and expensive! We all had a short chat because some of them had to rush off… but anyway it was great to see them again! YL and SY have changed in the way they look… they look more matured now… :)
Went home and packed my bags for Xcapade camp (3-5 Sept. ’05)… found out that I had forgotten to bring back my Converse shoes… had to minimize the things I was packing because the hoard just couldn’t fit into my esprit shopping bag and momoe sling bag… but I must say that I’ve learned a lot about packing from our SEATRU trip… i.e. most of the stuff you pack will be redundant and you’ll probably end up improvising with the stuff you brought… at least that’s what I’ve experienced so far…
Went home and packed my bags for Xcapade camp (3-5 Sept. ’05)… found out that I had forgotten to bring back my Converse shoes… had to minimize the things I was packing because the hoard just couldn’t fit into my esprit shopping bag and momoe sling bag… but I must say that I’ve learned a lot about packing from our SEATRU trip… i.e. most of the stuff you pack will be redundant and you’ll probably end up improvising with the stuff you brought… at least that’s what I’ve experienced so far…
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Human decoration?
We performed in front of the ASPIRE delegates… unfortunately they were saying goodbye to each other at the same time… so practically no one actually heard us… maybe more people paid attention when we started singing the staccato section of our “Sejahtera Malaysia” arrangement. But overall it was quite crappy… oh yea, I forgot to mention that only a fraction of the choir members turned up… I think it was less than 20 people altogether… in fact most of the “important” people went back home! So you can imagine what kind of moral support we had a.k.a NONE!!!
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Choir blues
I hate coming back on Sunday nights because I’ll feel so rushed and well, a little depressed too. Unfortunately that was what I had to do yesterday… we kind of had an emergency choir meeting (orientation week choir) because we have to perform for the closing of the ASPIRE workshop… that means we have to sing in front of the foreigners!!! *the horror* ~ coz we kinda suck!?! So let me cut to the chase: we had to cancel our plan of eating seafood in that sungei way place and I had to eat takeout mcD’s in the car on the way to college… pathetic or what? Anyway, basically the meeting was about us singing 3 songs on Tuesday night (that means we have to forego our CC family plans of going to klcc to countdown the merdeka…) and that there’s going to be a 2nd audition for the festival seni choir and we are “urged” to go for a tryout… I don’t think I will because: 1) will I have time to juggle studies, assignments, aiesec and choir? 2) will I still be here next semester? (the festival is in January 2006) and 3) it’s just too scary to sing 2 songs (one in English and another in BM) alone in front of the seniors, Ledionne and Pei Chuen!
Note: I’m using my laptop with no internet connection to type this out now because I have nothing else important to do and well, just wanted to kill time and besides, my blog has been sadly neglected lately mainly because of the lack of time and mood to blog and also due to the horrible, lousy streamyx connection I have at home… (imagine we pay rm66 every month and we can only use the connection efficiently in the morning and afternoon… evening and night time are totally out of the question unless you’re asking for an aneurysm! Anyway, when I do get an internet connection (which should be able to be set up on the 5th of September onwards… wireless in um), I’ll copy and paste this and post it up. I also need to download msn messenger, winzip, adobe acrobat reader, update Norton antivirus…
So I had my 2nd Biology of Organisms test today… it was ok… much easier than I had expected… but surprise: I’ve already pinpoint a question which I’ve answered wrongly… typical me… well, what’s done is done… there’s no turning back so there’s no sense in crying over spilt milk. Anyway, Mei Lin, Junie, Li Sum and I went to Sri Paandi’s for lunch (don’t ask me which one it was though…). I can’t remember whether I’ve mentioned my 1st visit there before but their canvassing customers method was more aggressive today than the last time… one worker actually instructed us to go to the last shop (explanation: the last shop i.e. corner shop, has another lot right next to the other Paandi’s ~ the one we went to… so the shop we went to was actually sandwiched by their competitor… confusing? I don’t blame you…). Anyway both shops claim to be the original and they are pretty serious about it… calling their counterpart “cheaters”! Now, back to my story… we had banana rice and I’m so stuffed till now! I think the workers were like laughing at us (not in an insulting or offensive way though) because we were such a giggly bunch of happy people… I think we were very “lawak” (like mr jp used to say) to them… but the up part of it was they kept offering us more stuff to eat with a smiling face… anyway, my bill came up to rm9.10! the breakdown of it was: banana rice rm3.50, fried chicken rm4 and iced milo rm1.60… but when we paid, the counter guy gave us 50 sen discount! Hahaha…
I’m listening to Michael W. Smith’s worship cd… borrowed it from ah yee… I really like the songs and his singing too… but my laptop speakers are… erm… laptop speakers a.k.a lousy… I think I must invest in a pair of headphones since I don’t intend to get an mp3 player… another thing I must get is a pendrive… currently I’m using LK’s pendrive… it’s so small compared to the regular ones!!! Although slightly pricier…
Oh yea, I talked to CS yesterday afternoon for quite a long time… 99 minutes… we exchanged stories… upm has a golf course!!! And I think she’s having a great time there because there are lots of samadians there and well, she can speak mandarin (the golden key to socializing among the Chinese community in all local universities). And I think for all of us, living on campus has made us independent (if we want something done we have to do it ourselves… and most of our time is spent alone) and tv-deprived (going home means tv time!)
Note: I’m using my laptop with no internet connection to type this out now because I have nothing else important to do and well, just wanted to kill time and besides, my blog has been sadly neglected lately mainly because of the lack of time and mood to blog and also due to the horrible, lousy streamyx connection I have at home… (imagine we pay rm66 every month and we can only use the connection efficiently in the morning and afternoon… evening and night time are totally out of the question unless you’re asking for an aneurysm! Anyway, when I do get an internet connection (which should be able to be set up on the 5th of September onwards… wireless in um), I’ll copy and paste this and post it up. I also need to download msn messenger, winzip, adobe acrobat reader, update Norton antivirus…
So I had my 2nd Biology of Organisms test today… it was ok… much easier than I had expected… but surprise: I’ve already pinpoint a question which I’ve answered wrongly… typical me… well, what’s done is done… there’s no turning back so there’s no sense in crying over spilt milk. Anyway, Mei Lin, Junie, Li Sum and I went to Sri Paandi’s for lunch (don’t ask me which one it was though…). I can’t remember whether I’ve mentioned my 1st visit there before but their canvassing customers method was more aggressive today than the last time… one worker actually instructed us to go to the last shop (explanation: the last shop i.e. corner shop, has another lot right next to the other Paandi’s ~ the one we went to… so the shop we went to was actually sandwiched by their competitor… confusing? I don’t blame you…). Anyway both shops claim to be the original and they are pretty serious about it… calling their counterpart “cheaters”! Now, back to my story… we had banana rice and I’m so stuffed till now! I think the workers were like laughing at us (not in an insulting or offensive way though) because we were such a giggly bunch of happy people… I think we were very “lawak” (like mr jp used to say) to them… but the up part of it was they kept offering us more stuff to eat with a smiling face… anyway, my bill came up to rm9.10! the breakdown of it was: banana rice rm3.50, fried chicken rm4 and iced milo rm1.60… but when we paid, the counter guy gave us 50 sen discount! Hahaha…
I’m listening to Michael W. Smith’s worship cd… borrowed it from ah yee… I really like the songs and his singing too… but my laptop speakers are… erm… laptop speakers a.k.a lousy… I think I must invest in a pair of headphones since I don’t intend to get an mp3 player… another thing I must get is a pendrive… currently I’m using LK’s pendrive… it’s so small compared to the regular ones!!! Although slightly pricier…
Oh yea, I talked to CS yesterday afternoon for quite a long time… 99 minutes… we exchanged stories… upm has a golf course!!! And I think she’s having a great time there because there are lots of samadians there and well, she can speak mandarin (the golden key to socializing among the Chinese community in all local universities). And I think for all of us, living on campus has made us independent (if we want something done we have to do it ourselves… and most of our time is spent alone) and tv-deprived (going home means tv time!)
Saturday, August 27, 2005
chili explosion
i've been staring at my streamyx dsl modem and the 3rd darn light has been blinking all night!!! then how was i able to post this? surprise... i'm using the old trusty jaring dial-up... btw i'm getting sick again... kept sneezing right before dinner... maybe i'm allergic to the dog...
so what's new? i'll start from the most recent interesting event to whenever i feel board of typing... friday - woke up at 7.30am (should have been walking by that time...), so practically ran/brisk-walked to dk teratai (which is so far away and situated on top of a small hill...)was panting like a dog when i reached the lecture hall! after biostatistics tutorial and geology discussion session - went to return the 1st library book i borrowed... saw that bong guy from aiesec (why do ppl have to bleach their whole head of hair???) anyway, when mom came to pick me from college, it was raining horribly... mom drove "into" block d... but still, i got wet... then we went to sungei way to eat seafood... and it was raining too... lots of water for an afternoon... well, thursday after bio practical - went to 1u with mom... bought duck rice for dinner... went back to hostel and had a cat nap for 15 minutes before bugging yen chyng to go for aiesec meeting... anyway we ended up waiting for some time for irving to fetch us... went to the aiesec episode... was just in time for a little square dancing... wauter and e.j from the netherlands presented about their country and also made us play a game where we had to get signatures from the people who matched the description of 10 prepared questions... i got only 7 out of 10... one of the questions was "who is wearing pink underwear?" (?!?) anyway, after the episode, we went back to college... decided to eat my duck rice... had a chili explosion... the little chili container was like a puff ball and when i lifted its lid slightly... "Pop"... there were so much tiny bubbles at the bottom... i wonder whether it was a result of bacterial activity or the chili sauce was extra-cooked by the heat from the soup (which smelled a bit suspicious too)... wednesday - after watching fragments of A.I (i love that show... esp the aliens!) for S&T, i went back home... btw, our S&T tutor quit... so our lecturer is going to conduct our tutorials! (oh no!) .
.. divergence from topic: i watched gattaca and the devil's advocate just now... i love those two shows too... great actors/actresses and good themes! ethan hawke, jude law and uma thurman for gattaca (we should have picked this show to discuss for S&T instead of star wars III!!!) and keanu reeves, charlize theron, al pacino for the devil'e advocate!!! although i've watched these shows so many times around... but i still love them... ;Þ
bought an ftec notebook on sunday from senQ in low yat plaza... it costed us rm3999 plus another rm300++ to extend the warranty to 4 yrs. it has a 12" wide screen... supposedly 1.9kg (seems heavier to me)... pentium m 740, 512mb ram, windows xp home edition, the usual specifications plus it came with a small mouse and a bag. however when i came back home and used it for the 2nd time around midnight, i found that 1 pixel wasn't working... LK confirmed it... so mom took me back to low yat on monday to check the problem... but the pixel was fine when then turned it on... but they promised to change the set... so we hung ard sungei wang waiting for the stock to come... but it didn't come... so had to come back the next day and the boss/person-in-charge was slightly insolent to us... but they changed it for us anyway...
so ok... i'll end here... feeling lethargic and sleepy now...
so what's new? i'll start from the most recent interesting event to whenever i feel board of typing... friday - woke up at 7.30am (should have been walking by that time...), so practically ran/brisk-walked to dk teratai (which is so far away and situated on top of a small hill...)was panting like a dog when i reached the lecture hall! after biostatistics tutorial and geology discussion session - went to return the 1st library book i borrowed... saw that bong guy from aiesec (why do ppl have to bleach their whole head of hair???) anyway, when mom came to pick me from college, it was raining horribly... mom drove "into" block d... but still, i got wet... then we went to sungei way to eat seafood... and it was raining too... lots of water for an afternoon... well, thursday after bio practical - went to 1u with mom... bought duck rice for dinner... went back to hostel and had a cat nap for 15 minutes before bugging yen chyng to go for aiesec meeting... anyway we ended up waiting for some time for irving to fetch us... went to the aiesec episode... was just in time for a little square dancing... wauter and e.j from the netherlands presented about their country and also made us play a game where we had to get signatures from the people who matched the description of 10 prepared questions... i got only 7 out of 10... one of the questions was "who is wearing pink underwear?" (?!?) anyway, after the episode, we went back to college... decided to eat my duck rice... had a chili explosion... the little chili container was like a puff ball and when i lifted its lid slightly... "Pop"... there were so much tiny bubbles at the bottom... i wonder whether it was a result of bacterial activity or the chili sauce was extra-cooked by the heat from the soup (which smelled a bit suspicious too)... wednesday - after watching fragments of A.I (i love that show... esp the aliens!) for S&T, i went back home... btw, our S&T tutor quit... so our lecturer is going to conduct our tutorials! (oh no!) .
.. divergence from topic: i watched gattaca and the devil's advocate just now... i love those two shows too... great actors/actresses and good themes! ethan hawke, jude law and uma thurman for gattaca (we should have picked this show to discuss for S&T instead of star wars III!!!) and keanu reeves, charlize theron, al pacino for the devil'e advocate!!! although i've watched these shows so many times around... but i still love them... ;Þ
bought an ftec notebook on sunday from senQ in low yat plaza... it costed us rm3999 plus another rm300++ to extend the warranty to 4 yrs. it has a 12" wide screen... supposedly 1.9kg (seems heavier to me)... pentium m 740, 512mb ram, windows xp home edition, the usual specifications plus it came with a small mouse and a bag. however when i came back home and used it for the 2nd time around midnight, i found that 1 pixel wasn't working... LK confirmed it... so mom took me back to low yat on monday to check the problem... but the pixel was fine when then turned it on... but they promised to change the set... so we hung ard sungei wang waiting for the stock to come... but it didn't come... so had to come back the next day and the boss/person-in-charge was slightly insolent to us... but they changed it for us anyway...
so ok... i'll end here... feeling lethargic and sleepy now...
Saturday, August 13, 2005
Haze Daze
this is how bad the haze is: i was waiting for the lift in my college when i tried reading a flyer on a pillar about 2 meters away and it was smokey! to top it all, my room's fan is not working and although we have made complaints, the technician hasn't come to fix it for a week now... so i've practically been living at home for this whole week... oh yea, i don't know why but many of us are having lots of tiny pimples... maybe its the water?
the haze in um has been just horrible especially for the past 2 days. and we have to walk to classes, plus most of the science faculty is open-air! but i really pity the graduates having their convocation this week... they're so happy but the weather's so crappy! imagine the pictures they take outdoors would be shrouded in smoke!!! however the good part of it is that there's like a carnival thing going on at the perdanasiswa complex... lots of food, drinks, clothes, and food... did i say food twice? yup... there's so much food! like a 'pasar malam'! and there's a fun fair near one of the colleges... with ferris wheel and all! but i didn't dare venture there because of the hazardous air... i bought a pau and some titbits-on-a-stick and had to gobble it down because we were late for the s&t tutorial.
hmm... i've lost the right mood to blog now so i'm going to have lunch now. btw i'm home for the weekends now... in fact i've been coming homw almost everyday this week... pampered??? ;Þ
the haze in um has been just horrible especially for the past 2 days. and we have to walk to classes, plus most of the science faculty is open-air! but i really pity the graduates having their convocation this week... they're so happy but the weather's so crappy! imagine the pictures they take outdoors would be shrouded in smoke!!! however the good part of it is that there's like a carnival thing going on at the perdanasiswa complex... lots of food, drinks, clothes, and food... did i say food twice? yup... there's so much food! like a 'pasar malam'! and there's a fun fair near one of the colleges... with ferris wheel and all! but i didn't dare venture there because of the hazardous air... i bought a pau and some titbits-on-a-stick and had to gobble it down because we were late for the s&t tutorial.
hmm... i've lost the right mood to blog now so i'm going to have lunch now. btw i'm home for the weekends now... in fact i've been coming homw almost everyday this week... pampered??? ;Þ
Sunday, August 07, 2005
Tests!
wow i haven't been here for a long time... i had a my biology practical test today... it was a written test on cell organelles, mitosis and meiosis - lots of electronmicrographs to identify and label!!! the worse part is... i remember seeing all of them when i was preparing my report (we had to draw all of them...my report was 35 pages of biological drawings... and the lecturer wrote "very nice!" on the last page of my report!) but i just can't quite remember what i wrote/labelled the drawings!!! so i think that's a definite disaster... need to buck up on the next test this tuesday... this time it's fungi, algae and bacteria
ooh... i haven't elaborated on my lecturers (i think)... let me start with biology practical... since it's the most interesting subject... the first lecturer was dr. saharuddin... he looks really young... as in like late 20's to early 30's! anyway he's very cute because he goes around talking to the students and he tries to speak english well but somehow there's always this malay accent lingering behind... but he's lenient to us... luckily!!! the second lecturer is dr. lee... he's also quite young... about 30 plus?! (pretty puzzling to see our lecturers looking not very much older than us!)... he looks quite square and always wears checkered shirts... but he let us compile our 3 reports to hand in next thursday... giving us quite alot of time to do it... oh yea, thanks to him now i know how a zooplankton looks like! our tutor is ms. lau... she a masters student...she's very cute too n some students even talk to her about personal stuff like not settling in properly etc... my biostatistics lecturer is quite nice... she's getting her phd this tuesday during the convocation... i think she's 30 something... although she lectures slower than the other biostats lecturer but she always tells us stories... hehehe... she's also the 2nd lecturer for proses kehidupan (btw last week, the ministry has given out orders for universities to conduct science and maths lectures in english!!! hurrah!!!) my 1st proses kehidupan lecturer was very boring! i know this may sound very nasty but she was like a dead piece of driftwood! my biological organisms lecturer is prof. pang siew moi... she has a lab in the post graduate department (i think)... she reminds me of mrs. tan; but maybe a less animated version?!? it's pretty obvious that she's quite passionate about her field... she told us about mycologists interpretation of certain biblical events... like manna was actually fungi and the sea turned to blood was actually red tide... the other day, i found a microbiology book in the library which has this info... my 'pengenalan kepada kajian sains dan teknologi' lecturer is mr. ng... he's also cute in a little boy way... and i suspect he can't verbally read english well... our tutor is cik wardah... she's really outspoken and a no-nonsense person... but very likeable... my "TITAS" lecturer is also quite young... i dont know her name... she's ok... but she just reads out the power point slides or from the text book... finally my geology class - "bumi dan manusia" lecturer... hmm... prof muhamad ali hassan... he's grouchy at times but i have a feeling he's also quite passionate about his field...
have i elaborated about my new found friends? there's li sum; she's from sri petaling and previously a V.I form-sixer... she's very "chun" and stylish... we have almost identicle timetables ... only 2 different classes... so we hang out and walk together everyday... and there's mei lin from putra heights who's an ex-assuntarian and BB form-sixer... she's really funny, bubbly and giggly... all three of us usually hang around together... there's also a couple of mei lin's friends like emily, jun nee (spelling?) etc and choir friends like goay imm (my cc family member), pei chuen, angeline, yuet mei, ei ling, ain etc. and my geology group friends like yuan lim, siang ling etc. i met some people the other day at the 1st aiesec meeting but i can't remember their names or even their faces! btw, aiesec sounds really interesting but i hope i won't chicken out before anything gets started... i'm planning to go for their leadership camp xcapade... it's on the 28th of august 2005...
i went to seemom's kindergarten concert at 5 p.m. just now... it was quite good for kiddies standard... but biggest disappointment was the sound guy (who turned out to be ms. toh's bf) cut our song short (red class) and it was right at the climax!!! we've been yelling our lungs out training the blurrrrrr kids to do the letter R-E-D formation using pompoms for the past few months and that crucial part was cut out!!! we were so mad!!! i told LK "what kind of a lousy sound engineer is this?" when it happened... imagine all our effort wasted... i really don't know what to think... can you imagine we made 20 crepe pompoms just for this formation and now its gone to the dumps!!! i was so pissing mad!!! i still am!!! it's really unfair... i really thought they'd give the kids a 2nd chance... i meanit's not their fault or ours... it's the technical guy's fault; in fact the whole blame should be on him... well WHATEVER!?! looks like its just not worth it to put up a spectacular performance next year then...
i went shopping in 1u on friday night... bought alot of stuff... a pair of shoes, an umbrella, a bag and 2 shoelaces... i think i spent about rm130+... i'm broke yet again... i want a laptop... but i don't know where to get one and which one's good... plus there's the issue of finance... lots of family negotiation will be in the works... ok i think i better sleep now... going to be drowsy tomorrow...
ooh... i haven't elaborated on my lecturers (i think)... let me start with biology practical... since it's the most interesting subject... the first lecturer was dr. saharuddin... he looks really young... as in like late 20's to early 30's! anyway he's very cute because he goes around talking to the students and he tries to speak english well but somehow there's always this malay accent lingering behind... but he's lenient to us... luckily!!! the second lecturer is dr. lee... he's also quite young... about 30 plus?! (pretty puzzling to see our lecturers looking not very much older than us!)... he looks quite square and always wears checkered shirts... but he let us compile our 3 reports to hand in next thursday... giving us quite alot of time to do it... oh yea, thanks to him now i know how a zooplankton looks like! our tutor is ms. lau... she a masters student...she's very cute too n some students even talk to her about personal stuff like not settling in properly etc... my biostatistics lecturer is quite nice... she's getting her phd this tuesday during the convocation... i think she's 30 something... although she lectures slower than the other biostats lecturer but she always tells us stories... hehehe... she's also the 2nd lecturer for proses kehidupan (btw last week, the ministry has given out orders for universities to conduct science and maths lectures in english!!! hurrah!!!) my 1st proses kehidupan lecturer was very boring! i know this may sound very nasty but she was like a dead piece of driftwood! my biological organisms lecturer is prof. pang siew moi... she has a lab in the post graduate department (i think)... she reminds me of mrs. tan; but maybe a less animated version?!? it's pretty obvious that she's quite passionate about her field... she told us about mycologists interpretation of certain biblical events... like manna was actually fungi and the sea turned to blood was actually red tide... the other day, i found a microbiology book in the library which has this info... my 'pengenalan kepada kajian sains dan teknologi' lecturer is mr. ng... he's also cute in a little boy way... and i suspect he can't verbally read english well... our tutor is cik wardah... she's really outspoken and a no-nonsense person... but very likeable... my "TITAS" lecturer is also quite young... i dont know her name... she's ok... but she just reads out the power point slides or from the text book... finally my geology class - "bumi dan manusia" lecturer... hmm... prof muhamad ali hassan... he's grouchy at times but i have a feeling he's also quite passionate about his field...
have i elaborated about my new found friends? there's li sum; she's from sri petaling and previously a V.I form-sixer... she's very "chun" and stylish... we have almost identicle timetables ... only 2 different classes... so we hang out and walk together everyday... and there's mei lin from putra heights who's an ex-assuntarian and BB form-sixer... she's really funny, bubbly and giggly... all three of us usually hang around together... there's also a couple of mei lin's friends like emily, jun nee (spelling?) etc and choir friends like goay imm (my cc family member), pei chuen, angeline, yuet mei, ei ling, ain etc. and my geology group friends like yuan lim, siang ling etc. i met some people the other day at the 1st aiesec meeting but i can't remember their names or even their faces! btw, aiesec sounds really interesting but i hope i won't chicken out before anything gets started... i'm planning to go for their leadership camp xcapade... it's on the 28th of august 2005...
i went to seemom's kindergarten concert at 5 p.m. just now... it was quite good for kiddies standard... but biggest disappointment was the sound guy (who turned out to be ms. toh's bf) cut our song short (red class) and it was right at the climax!!! we've been yelling our lungs out training the blurrrrrr kids to do the letter R-E-D formation using pompoms for the past few months and that crucial part was cut out!!! we were so mad!!! i told LK "what kind of a lousy sound engineer is this?" when it happened... imagine all our effort wasted... i really don't know what to think... can you imagine we made 20 crepe pompoms just for this formation and now its gone to the dumps!!! i was so pissing mad!!! i still am!!! it's really unfair... i really thought they'd give the kids a 2nd chance... i meanit's not their fault or ours... it's the technical guy's fault; in fact the whole blame should be on him... well WHATEVER!?! looks like its just not worth it to put up a spectacular performance next year then...
i went shopping in 1u on friday night... bought alot of stuff... a pair of shoes, an umbrella, a bag and 2 shoelaces... i think i spent about rm130+... i'm broke yet again... i want a laptop... but i don't know where to get one and which one's good... plus there's the issue of finance... lots of family negotiation will be in the works... ok i think i better sleep now... going to be drowsy tomorrow...
Saturday, July 16, 2005
Lectures...
i'm sick... i have swollen tonsils and kept getting fever episodes since thursday night... i had an asthma attack just before my chinese society meeting on thursday evening... i used the inhaler once so i didn't dare take the ventolin tablet... so i prayed and tried to focus my mind and calm myself down... thank God that worked... by the time i went for the meeting it was over... by the way, i really think that eating mcD was the fuel to the whole flu thing...
anyway, i have signed up for 13 credit hours of classes. the maximum credit hours are 16. at first i had 15 but the science faculty people had to drop "kemahiran maklumat" so i ended up with only 13. my classes are:
biostatistik
proses kehidupan
biologi organisma
amali biologi
pengenalan kepada kajian sains dan teknologi
TITAS 1
i don't know whether i should take "prinsip-prinsip kimia" since i want to major in biochemistry... but the seniors say that chemistry courses are really hard and for the 1st year, our main priority is to get the highest possible cgpa...
so far the lecturers are ok... and surprisingly, the "pengenalan kepada kajian sain dan teknologi" class was quite interesting... something like a philosophy class... however, i'm not sure what language we'll be tested in since the lecturer speaks in bm but his power point slides are in english... btw, funny thing is... the lecturer(he's a chinese) can't express himself very well in english or bm. for most of the lectures, i think i might have to make my own notes because the notes given are really disorganised.
i received only rm6300 for my ptptn loan... i guess i shouldn't have put my parents' real salary... well anyway, it was such a bother getting the loan offer letter and all settled... i MUST say that the ptptn workers are inefficient! they're supposed to start procesing at 9 a.m. but they only arrive at around 9.20 a.m. and only open the counters after 9.35 a.m. luckily i had waited there early and was one of the first few. then they ask us to wait for their briefing... but most of us have classes at 10 a.m. so i just rushed off... in fact i went there the day before at around 4.50 p.m. but they had closed the counter already (when they had advertised their working hours as 9 a.m. - 5.30 p.m.)!!
anyway, i have signed up for 13 credit hours of classes. the maximum credit hours are 16. at first i had 15 but the science faculty people had to drop "kemahiran maklumat" so i ended up with only 13. my classes are:
biostatistik
proses kehidupan
biologi organisma
amali biologi
pengenalan kepada kajian sains dan teknologi
TITAS 1
i don't know whether i should take "prinsip-prinsip kimia" since i want to major in biochemistry... but the seniors say that chemistry courses are really hard and for the 1st year, our main priority is to get the highest possible cgpa...
so far the lecturers are ok... and surprisingly, the "pengenalan kepada kajian sain dan teknologi" class was quite interesting... something like a philosophy class... however, i'm not sure what language we'll be tested in since the lecturer speaks in bm but his power point slides are in english... btw, funny thing is... the lecturer(he's a chinese) can't express himself very well in english or bm. for most of the lectures, i think i might have to make my own notes because the notes given are really disorganised.
i received only rm6300 for my ptptn loan... i guess i shouldn't have put my parents' real salary... well anyway, it was such a bother getting the loan offer letter and all settled... i MUST say that the ptptn workers are inefficient! they're supposed to start procesing at 9 a.m. but they only arrive at around 9.20 a.m. and only open the counters after 9.35 a.m. luckily i had waited there early and was one of the first few. then they ask us to wait for their briefing... but most of us have classes at 10 a.m. so i just rushed off... in fact i went there the day before at around 4.50 p.m. but they had closed the counter already (when they had advertised their working hours as 9 a.m. - 5.30 p.m.)!!
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
First taste of life on campus...
on sunday the 3rd i went to UM, registered myself for the science course and checked-in to the 12th college (hostel). the room was surprisingly nice (better than what i had expected...). 12th college is the newest and biggest residential college in UM. they said that it can accomodate around 2000 or so students. it seems that many seniors are trying to get in too... and we must be active in the college activities in order to maintain our place there. if not, they'll kick us out. it kind of reminds me of smk section 9... so living there is like living in section 9 school... met up with some school mates and later on with yen chyng... we're on the same floor but in different blocks... and our balcony faces the courtyard so we can look out our windows to see whether the other is in or not. we saw mum's student kar sern (he's the good cute boy with a strange little lisp)... turns out his cousin from out of town was settling in there too... her name is june and she's doing science too but majoring in chemistry.
i don't really have the time to elaborate on each and every day of the orientation week, so here's just the gist of it... they made us sleep at 3a.m. and wake up at 5a.m. for our moral slot (which for me, was actually a gathering for chinese people where the chinese PM (pembantu mahasiswa) would talk to us about stuff concerning chinese people... and they spoke in mandarin! so i had to get someone to translate everytime...). we also had to attend many opening ceremonies and talks which made the majority of us freshies, nod our heads into dreamland. there was a time (our "aku janji" ceremony i think) in the dewan tunku canselor (DTC) where a guy was seriously so sleepy that he nearly fell of his chair a couple of times during the ceremony... and everytime it happened, i was trying so hard to stifle my laugh... i know... i'm becoming saddistic...
during our registration, we filled in a couple of forms and i was stupid enough to write down my section 9 choir experiences... this resulted in me being a part of the college's choir team... we had inter-college competitions all week and there was a choir competition on friday evening. however, joining the choir wasn't so bad... i met many new friends and PM Elena and PM Pao Yee... they helped us (science faculty people) to register our course in the secretariat room in our college instead of waiting for our "angka giliran"... mine was 999... so thankfully, i managed to register for all the classes of my choice... we were also exempted from a couple of activities in order to practise... but we missed out on 2 "suak" (cheering in unison) competitions in the DTC. we walked there every night to attend some function and then when the guests are gone we'd have "suak" sessions... although our college is the largest but we somehow didn't have the "semangat". after our 1st night in the DTC, while we were walking back... we challenged the 7th college but they declined us by hiding behind their umbrellas... and i saw irving was one of them!!! hahaha. every night PM Yan would try teaching us a new "suak"... the PMs would go crazy (in a lunatic way) when teaching us "suak"... i guess it brings out the inner-child of everyone... especially pm yan (which i found out leter that i'm actually older than him!!!...ooh... and i noticed that the non-malay matrics students are special/unique somehow... when you talk to them, you just can sense it... maybe it's just me... being paranoid again)... ok back to the choir... we had to wear the college's nasyid team baju kurung. they were quite nice but there wasn't enough of the same colour for the front row (where i stood... coz i'm short...) so another girl and i had to wear light pink sets. anyway, we sang "sejahtera malaysia" and there were 2 other colleges singing the same song... anyhow, we managed to bag the 1st place! so we had to sing in the DTC on saturday night at the "malam juara".
on our "malam juara", the band boboys (spelling?) was the "artis jemputan" and they screwed up at their 1st phrase... calling us UUM!!! so everyone started attacking them with "suak"... anyway they apologised and sang a couple of songs for us. although we (chinese people in the choir) didn't know a single song they played we just danced and had fun... by the way, 12th college won the most gold medals for sports. but in other areas, we didn't do too well. after we came back that night, the PMs made us run around the college taking care that the candle they gave us wouldn' t go out and then jump into the pond and get splashed there. while they were giving out their lengthy instructions i fell asleep and was awoken by rainwater from PM yan's umbrella ( it was raining heavily outside)... anyway, a couple of us experienced that... after that they made us run in the rain... and so i ran... but when we came to the pond, i tried asking PM che abdullah to hold my inhaler for me but they didn't let me go into the pond after that... there were a couple of girls who came out of the pond injured (or maybe sick) and they were so weak they couldn't walk... anyway we slept at 6a.m.
oh yea, someone's parents complained to some big person in um that the PMs weren't allowing us to have enough sleep and so the pengetua got so mad and he stormed out of the hall after confronting us all... he said that the PMs wewn't going to be responsible for us anymore and we can do whatever we want to... then the hall lights and air-cond were switched off and suddenly we had some sort of voice-out among us freshies... it was all abit awkward because (to me) it seemed a little bit staged... but i think others bought it... anyway... i got to eat now... hopefully i'll have time to type up an update on my 1st week of classes...
i don't really have the time to elaborate on each and every day of the orientation week, so here's just the gist of it... they made us sleep at 3a.m. and wake up at 5a.m. for our moral slot (which for me, was actually a gathering for chinese people where the chinese PM (pembantu mahasiswa) would talk to us about stuff concerning chinese people... and they spoke in mandarin! so i had to get someone to translate everytime...). we also had to attend many opening ceremonies and talks which made the majority of us freshies, nod our heads into dreamland. there was a time (our "aku janji" ceremony i think) in the dewan tunku canselor (DTC) where a guy was seriously so sleepy that he nearly fell of his chair a couple of times during the ceremony... and everytime it happened, i was trying so hard to stifle my laugh... i know... i'm becoming saddistic...
during our registration, we filled in a couple of forms and i was stupid enough to write down my section 9 choir experiences... this resulted in me being a part of the college's choir team... we had inter-college competitions all week and there was a choir competition on friday evening. however, joining the choir wasn't so bad... i met many new friends and PM Elena and PM Pao Yee... they helped us (science faculty people) to register our course in the secretariat room in our college instead of waiting for our "angka giliran"... mine was 999... so thankfully, i managed to register for all the classes of my choice... we were also exempted from a couple of activities in order to practise... but we missed out on 2 "suak" (cheering in unison) competitions in the DTC. we walked there every night to attend some function and then when the guests are gone we'd have "suak" sessions... although our college is the largest but we somehow didn't have the "semangat". after our 1st night in the DTC, while we were walking back... we challenged the 7th college but they declined us by hiding behind their umbrellas... and i saw irving was one of them!!! hahaha. every night PM Yan would try teaching us a new "suak"... the PMs would go crazy (in a lunatic way) when teaching us "suak"... i guess it brings out the inner-child of everyone... especially pm yan (which i found out leter that i'm actually older than him!!!...ooh... and i noticed that the non-malay matrics students are special/unique somehow... when you talk to them, you just can sense it... maybe it's just me... being paranoid again)... ok back to the choir... we had to wear the college's nasyid team baju kurung. they were quite nice but there wasn't enough of the same colour for the front row (where i stood... coz i'm short...) so another girl and i had to wear light pink sets. anyway, we sang "sejahtera malaysia" and there were 2 other colleges singing the same song... anyhow, we managed to bag the 1st place! so we had to sing in the DTC on saturday night at the "malam juara".
on our "malam juara", the band boboys (spelling?) was the "artis jemputan" and they screwed up at their 1st phrase... calling us UUM!!! so everyone started attacking them with "suak"... anyway they apologised and sang a couple of songs for us. although we (chinese people in the choir) didn't know a single song they played we just danced and had fun... by the way, 12th college won the most gold medals for sports. but in other areas, we didn't do too well. after we came back that night, the PMs made us run around the college taking care that the candle they gave us wouldn' t go out and then jump into the pond and get splashed there. while they were giving out their lengthy instructions i fell asleep and was awoken by rainwater from PM yan's umbrella ( it was raining heavily outside)... anyway, a couple of us experienced that... after that they made us run in the rain... and so i ran... but when we came to the pond, i tried asking PM che abdullah to hold my inhaler for me but they didn't let me go into the pond after that... there were a couple of girls who came out of the pond injured (or maybe sick) and they were so weak they couldn't walk... anyway we slept at 6a.m.
oh yea, someone's parents complained to some big person in um that the PMs weren't allowing us to have enough sleep and so the pengetua got so mad and he stormed out of the hall after confronting us all... he said that the PMs wewn't going to be responsible for us anymore and we can do whatever we want to... then the hall lights and air-cond were switched off and suddenly we had some sort of voice-out among us freshies... it was all abit awkward because (to me) it seemed a little bit staged... but i think others bought it... anyway... i got to eat now... hopefully i'll have time to type up an update on my 1st week of classes...
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