as the header says... thank the Lord!!! i got biochem!!! i thought my results was goin to get me into trouble... but looks like it wasn't as bad as i thought it was!!! taking the pengantar falsafah alam sekitar course was a bad idea (got a C+ for that 3 credit hour paper!!! imagine the effect it had on my cgpa!!!) and although i thought my geology finals was a scorer, turns out my continuous assessment tests pulled me down badly (got a B+ in the finals as the effect of neutralising the previous B- and C- attained in the countinuous assessment tests)... so my cgpa was barely 3.5, a very dangerous position to be in, as you're not safe and also not a gone case... somewhat like sitting on the fence. but thank God everything turned out ok!
i just finished registering my courses online (at about 9.20a.m.)... as usual, it was so hectic! tried to wake up at 7.30a.m. but could only crawl out of bed at 8a.m. (no help from zack who was muzzling me to sayang him... manja dog to the maximum!) after taking a bath and all, i waited (while chatting) online for about half an hour to enter the registration website at 9.00a.m. sharp! at first the loading was so slow... but it got better later on... too many people on the server i guess... PRAISE THE LORD again as i was able to register for everything i planned for and also that my streamyx did not play me out!!! i half expected to fail to register for some subjects... because it's a horrible system the science faculty has... everyone registers online at the same time and it's more like playing a game than registering for courses that would determine our future! and again i had to help my friend register... however, she asked me a little late and some of the courses was already full!! and that was at about 9.30a.m.!!!
anyway, i feel very satisfied now!!! let me try to recap my feelings from the last 2 semesters.
semester 1: at first, i felt satisfied, then when i found out i missed out a course i was abit sad...
semester 2: again i was satisfied at first because i managed to get the important bio subjects and the right timing but i wasn't so happy about not getting a 3 credit hour "luar jabatan course"
semester 3: i feel satisfied because i got what i planned... maxed up my 19 credit hours... biochem subjects, elective course and a "luar jabatan" course... now i'll just have to worry whether i can handle all this!!!
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Monday, June 19, 2006
The many names of zack the dog
- zack (of course)
- baby
- boy
- ah boy
- ahmad zakaria
- wong ahn jing
- asssss hole
- crazy nut ass
- zacko
- jacko
- jack
- ugly mutt ass
- the shadow
- blackie boy
- dobieman pinscher
- smelly boy
- chicken
- greedy fart
- chocolate
- balls
- chicken rice
- ignorant dog
- pat kua
- uncle
- ah mutt
- pig
- sausage on toothpicks
- naughty dog
- miouchess
- miow miow
- mau mau
- muttchy
- mutt-en
- mutton pie
- mechanical dog
with all this name-calling... no wonder he's so confused!!! hahaha
Sunday, June 18, 2006
Forwarded e-mail... amusing!
The following concerns a question in a physics degree exam at the Universityof Copenhagen.
"Describe how to determine the height of a skyscraper with a barometer."
One student replied: "You tie a long piece of string to the neck of the barometer, then lower thebarometer from the roof of the skyscraper to the ground. The length of thestring plus the length of the barometer will equal the height of thebuilding."
This highly original answer so incensed the examiner that the student wasfailed. The student appealed on the grounds that his answer was indisputably correct, and the university appointed an independent arbiter to decide thecase. The arbiter judged that the answer was indeed correct, but did theproblem it was decided to call the student in and allow him six minutes inwhich to provide a verbal answer which showed at least a minimal familiaritywith the basic principles of physics.
For five minutes the student sat in silence, forehead creased in thought.The arbiter reminded him that time was running out, to which the studentreplied that he had several extremely relevant answers, but couldn't make uphis mind which to use. On being advised to hurry up the student replied as follows:
"Firstly, you could take the barometer up to the roof of the skyscraper,drop it over the edge, and measure the time it takes to reach the ground.The height of the building can then be worked out from the formula H = 0.5gx t squared. But bad luck on the barometer."
"Or if the sun is shining you could measure the height of the barometer,then set it on end and measure the length of its shadow. Then you measurethe length of the skyscraper's shadow, and thereafter it is a simple matterof proportional arithmetic to work out the height of the skyscraper."
"But if you wanted to be highly scientific about it, you could tie a shortpiece of string to the barometer and swing it like a pendulum, first atground level and then on the roof of the skyscraper. The height is workedout by the difference in the gravitational restoring force T = 2 pi sqroot(l / g)."
"Or if the skyscraper has an outside emergency staircase, it would be easierto walk up it and mark off the height of the skyscraper in barometerlengths, then add them up."
"If you merely wanted to be boring and orthodox about it, of course, youcould use the barometer to measure the air pressure on the roof of theskyscraper and on the ground, and convert the difference in millibars intofeet to give the height of the building."
"But since we are constantly being exhorted to exercise independence of mindand apply scientific methods, undoubtedly the best way would be to knock onthe janitor's door and say to him 'If you would like a nice new barometer, Iwill give you this one if you tell me the height of this skyscraper'."
The student was Niels Bohr, the only person from Denmark to win the Nobel prize for Physics.
"Describe how to determine the height of a skyscraper with a barometer."
One student replied: "You tie a long piece of string to the neck of the barometer, then lower thebarometer from the roof of the skyscraper to the ground. The length of thestring plus the length of the barometer will equal the height of thebuilding."
This highly original answer so incensed the examiner that the student wasfailed. The student appealed on the grounds that his answer was indisputably correct, and the university appointed an independent arbiter to decide thecase. The arbiter judged that the answer was indeed correct, but did theproblem it was decided to call the student in and allow him six minutes inwhich to provide a verbal answer which showed at least a minimal familiaritywith the basic principles of physics.
For five minutes the student sat in silence, forehead creased in thought.The arbiter reminded him that time was running out, to which the studentreplied that he had several extremely relevant answers, but couldn't make uphis mind which to use. On being advised to hurry up the student replied as follows:
"Firstly, you could take the barometer up to the roof of the skyscraper,drop it over the edge, and measure the time it takes to reach the ground.The height of the building can then be worked out from the formula H = 0.5gx t squared. But bad luck on the barometer."
"Or if the sun is shining you could measure the height of the barometer,then set it on end and measure the length of its shadow. Then you measurethe length of the skyscraper's shadow, and thereafter it is a simple matterof proportional arithmetic to work out the height of the skyscraper."
"But if you wanted to be highly scientific about it, you could tie a shortpiece of string to the barometer and swing it like a pendulum, first atground level and then on the roof of the skyscraper. The height is workedout by the difference in the gravitational restoring force T = 2 pi sqroot(l / g)."
"Or if the skyscraper has an outside emergency staircase, it would be easierto walk up it and mark off the height of the skyscraper in barometerlengths, then add them up."
"If you merely wanted to be boring and orthodox about it, of course, youcould use the barometer to measure the air pressure on the roof of theskyscraper and on the ground, and convert the difference in millibars intofeet to give the height of the building."
"But since we are constantly being exhorted to exercise independence of mindand apply scientific methods, undoubtedly the best way would be to knock onthe janitor's door and say to him 'If you would like a nice new barometer, Iwill give you this one if you tell me the height of this skyscraper'."
The student was Niels Bohr, the only person from Denmark to win the Nobel prize for Physics.
Which are YOU?
i read this in a christian daily digest email:
"There are two kinds of people on earth today;
Just two kinds of people, no more, I say.
Not the sinner and saint, for it's well understood,
That the good are half-bad and the bad half-good.
Not the rich and the poor, for to rate a man's wealth,
You must first know the state of his conscience and health.
Not the humble and proud, for in life's little span,
Who puts on vain airs, is not counted a man.
Not the happy and sad, for the swift flying years
Bring each man his laughter and each man his tears.
No, the two kinds of people on earth I mean,
Are the people who lift, and the people who lean.
Wherever you go, you will find the earth's masses,
Are always divided in just these two classes.
And oddly enough, you will find too, I ween,
There's only one lifter to twenty who lean.
In which class are you? Are you easing the load,
Of overtaxed lifters, who toil down the road?
Or are you a leaner, who lets others share
Your portion of labor, and worry and care?"
so which are you? which am i? i think i'm a lifter but not a leader... in other words, i think i'm the backstage person in most situations... i just can't understand some people (the leaners)... i've met many of this species in my past few projects... saddening... but well, that's life... the lifters and the leaners... like yin and yang? the element that makes us Man... imperfection!
"There are two kinds of people on earth today;
Just two kinds of people, no more, I say.
Not the sinner and saint, for it's well understood,
That the good are half-bad and the bad half-good.
Not the rich and the poor, for to rate a man's wealth,
You must first know the state of his conscience and health.
Not the humble and proud, for in life's little span,
Who puts on vain airs, is not counted a man.
Not the happy and sad, for the swift flying years
Bring each man his laughter and each man his tears.
No, the two kinds of people on earth I mean,
Are the people who lift, and the people who lean.
Wherever you go, you will find the earth's masses,
Are always divided in just these two classes.
And oddly enough, you will find too, I ween,
There's only one lifter to twenty who lean.
In which class are you? Are you easing the load,
Of overtaxed lifters, who toil down the road?
Or are you a leaner, who lets others share
Your portion of labor, and worry and care?"
so which are you? which am i? i think i'm a lifter but not a leader... in other words, i think i'm the backstage person in most situations... i just can't understand some people (the leaners)... i've met many of this species in my past few projects... saddening... but well, that's life... the lifters and the leaners... like yin and yang? the element that makes us Man... imperfection!
Thursday, June 15, 2006
It's really laziness!
so many things to post here but never seem to get down to typing a post... really, it plain laziness!!! i'm practically picking grapes (menganggur) now and still... can't find the time to type a short post... maybe i should develop that habit of typing short posts every 2 hours or so... the kinds that many people do... instead of the really long draggy posts that i've come accustomed to compose... anyway, this whole paragraph is a common idea in most of my posts (as anyone who actually reads this blog will know...)
random thought... (inspired by channel surfing for 1/2 second)... i really don't know what's the hype with james blunt... some of my acquaintances practically worships him and cries whenever she hears one of his songs (which i forgot the title... and don't really care!)... ok, i'll give it to him that "you're beautiful" is quite a nice song... but besides that, i (note: I and not anyone else) think his voice sounds a tad weird... maybe i'm just being paranoid but he sounds like he just inhaled a small dose of helium gas! (well, that's my opinion so no offence to any fans out there...) i guess i still like guys to sound like guys...
now, to the main event that's happened to me... lcpm was from friday till sunday... we didn't have a venue for the camp and at the last resort, we gathered in a fellow aiesecer's rented house in section 17, pj. the house was ok for its age (which is probably more than 35 yrs)... about 3/5 of the management team was in attendence... and we had discussions and presentations and planning... the not so fun stuff... i really couldn't sleep in the hall... kept waking up ever so often... probably because of the hard floor, too many people around me, and people going in and out (to watch the world cup)... so i managed to wheedle my way out of attending sunday's session
one shocking encounter i had during the camp was when some of last term's management team (among others) came to visit us on saturday night... and someone grabbed me and hugged me like a long lost friend!!! while other times i'm invisible to her (it's more like she'll acknowledge me when she wants to and i don't acknowledge her at any time...)
the result of lcpm is that i'm in the same group with the people i've previously found hard to work with!!! what are the odds??? and also they separated YC, ML and me!!! i know that was probably done by the lcp... always picking on us (probably to make us open up?) well, my group is called jingle jungle... and our first task is to do external scanning on 50 companies by the 18th of june... i just finished that!!!! phew...
today (or rather yesterday..) i slept at 7.14 a.m. after working with the beat up old desktop in the store room... trying so hard to get some stuff and since i didn't know the name i had to do so much extra work and the painfully slow processing rate of the pc made it nearly impossible to work with without getting a high blood pressure!!! in the end, i ended up with quite a number of stuff and was quite satisfied... it's so difficult to speak in codes!!! i can't imagine the turmoil of ideas the reader of this post would probably be facing now... anyway, dismiss that...
oh yea... last wednesday, zack fell through the gap between the stair steps (from 1 storey high!!!)... we were watching tv and mum was upstairs so he decided to follow her... and while he was coming down the 3rd step from the highest... he somehow slipped through the gap and tried holding on the step with his front paws... but before i could rush up or rush to catch him, he fell with a solid plop!!! on to the floor... at first we thought that was it... but then he looked up and i called "come here zack..." and he limped to me... and to calm him down, i started to stroke him and tell him "it's ok... it's ok, boy... good boy..." gave him a few kisses and he actually started to cry-howl!!! i think he was shocked out of his mind!!! i tried checking whether he had anything broken... ribs, legs etc. but he didn't scream while i examined him... then after a few minutes, he started acting normally and could even jump up the chair!!! that is one lucky mutt!!! stupid fella is now running about like he never learnt a lesson from the incident!
the next day was the last activity for yv... we went to the beryl's chocolate factory in seri kembangan... lots of chocolates to sample but the tour around the factory was so short and had nothing special. BY and YC came too... so after the tour, we met up with ML's twin, KL and we went to UPM where the miracle youth camp was being held at. met SY there... and they were preparing the evening tea for the delegates. then we went to see the horses in the UPM equin centre and patted burn and black... took some pictures! they're (the horses) really huge!!! we went for lunch after that... we wanted to eat soup with rice in usj18 but the store wasn't open... so sad...
since we had a few hours before our japanese class, we went to ML's house... it was like going to genting! the road was windy and situated next to a ravine!!! her puppy was so mischevious looking (and was mischevious herself as we found our shoes strewn around the garden later on) and the older dog was like fergie (cousin's friendly dead dog)... so cute! we tried to sleep but kept waking up...
japanese class was fun and a little confusing... i need to do some self studying... that's it really...
random thought... (inspired by channel surfing for 1/2 second)... i really don't know what's the hype with james blunt... some of my acquaintances practically worships him and cries whenever she hears one of his songs (which i forgot the title... and don't really care!)... ok, i'll give it to him that "you're beautiful" is quite a nice song... but besides that, i (note: I and not anyone else) think his voice sounds a tad weird... maybe i'm just being paranoid but he sounds like he just inhaled a small dose of helium gas! (well, that's my opinion so no offence to any fans out there...) i guess i still like guys to sound like guys...
now, to the main event that's happened to me... lcpm was from friday till sunday... we didn't have a venue for the camp and at the last resort, we gathered in a fellow aiesecer's rented house in section 17, pj. the house was ok for its age (which is probably more than 35 yrs)... about 3/5 of the management team was in attendence... and we had discussions and presentations and planning... the not so fun stuff... i really couldn't sleep in the hall... kept waking up ever so often... probably because of the hard floor, too many people around me, and people going in and out (to watch the world cup)... so i managed to wheedle my way out of attending sunday's session
one shocking encounter i had during the camp was when some of last term's management team (among others) came to visit us on saturday night... and someone grabbed me and hugged me like a long lost friend!!! while other times i'm invisible to her (it's more like she'll acknowledge me when she wants to and i don't acknowledge her at any time...)
the result of lcpm is that i'm in the same group with the people i've previously found hard to work with!!! what are the odds??? and also they separated YC, ML and me!!! i know that was probably done by the lcp... always picking on us (probably to make us open up?) well, my group is called jingle jungle... and our first task is to do external scanning on 50 companies by the 18th of june... i just finished that!!!! phew...
today (or rather yesterday..) i slept at 7.14 a.m. after working with the beat up old desktop in the store room... trying so hard to get some stuff and since i didn't know the name i had to do so much extra work and the painfully slow processing rate of the pc made it nearly impossible to work with without getting a high blood pressure!!! in the end, i ended up with quite a number of stuff and was quite satisfied... it's so difficult to speak in codes!!! i can't imagine the turmoil of ideas the reader of this post would probably be facing now... anyway, dismiss that...
oh yea... last wednesday, zack fell through the gap between the stair steps (from 1 storey high!!!)... we were watching tv and mum was upstairs so he decided to follow her... and while he was coming down the 3rd step from the highest... he somehow slipped through the gap and tried holding on the step with his front paws... but before i could rush up or rush to catch him, he fell with a solid plop!!! on to the floor... at first we thought that was it... but then he looked up and i called "come here zack..." and he limped to me... and to calm him down, i started to stroke him and tell him "it's ok... it's ok, boy... good boy..." gave him a few kisses and he actually started to cry-howl!!! i think he was shocked out of his mind!!! i tried checking whether he had anything broken... ribs, legs etc. but he didn't scream while i examined him... then after a few minutes, he started acting normally and could even jump up the chair!!! that is one lucky mutt!!! stupid fella is now running about like he never learnt a lesson from the incident!
the next day was the last activity for yv... we went to the beryl's chocolate factory in seri kembangan... lots of chocolates to sample but the tour around the factory was so short and had nothing special. BY and YC came too... so after the tour, we met up with ML's twin, KL and we went to UPM where the miracle youth camp was being held at. met SY there... and they were preparing the evening tea for the delegates. then we went to see the horses in the UPM equin centre and patted burn and black... took some pictures! they're (the horses) really huge!!! we went for lunch after that... we wanted to eat soup with rice in usj18 but the store wasn't open... so sad...
since we had a few hours before our japanese class, we went to ML's house... it was like going to genting! the road was windy and situated next to a ravine!!! her puppy was so mischevious looking (and was mischevious herself as we found our shoes strewn around the garden later on) and the older dog was like fergie (cousin's friendly dead dog)... so cute! we tried to sleep but kept waking up...
japanese class was fun and a little confusing... i need to do some self studying... that's it really...
Sunday, June 04, 2006
YV06 stands for Young Visionaries 2006!!!
today was the closing ceremony for YV06... it was held in the afternoon in a&w taman jaya thanks to a generous sponsorship by one of our OC's uncle!!! at first, i thought it would have to be a very shabby event with 'half-past-six' finger food made by us OCs in a park somewhere ala picnic style... but instead we had the 'wonderful' a&w bear (who went straight to the leng lui OCs when it arrived before greeting the kids!!! naughty naughty mr. bear!!!) anyway, we had lots of leftover chicken and rootbeer which the homes took back for dinner/supper... we could see the kids were happy... lots of laughter and smiles... i really hope they enjoyed our company throughout the 2 months although the promised trainees did not turn up (instead they had us OCs and volunteer trainees from other projects... imane and pileh *spelling???*)
i was so horrible today, i came late for the party... couldn't help it though... mum, LK and i went for lunch in italiannies at the curve and finding a parking space took soooooo long... and then eating our lunch took quite long too because the chicken we ordered (which is their speciality) had some weird taste (vinegar, paprika, pickled chillies among others) and we had to force ourselves to eat it... the carbonara was yummy (as usual) and the pizza was quite good... anyway, i came 15 minutes late to the party... but luckily there wasn't much for us OCs to prepare... BY came later too... and when we were about to go back, she couldn't find her car... which turned out to be parked further up the road... one thing i must mention about the event is that some people who usually just ignore ML and my existence suddenly talked to us in a 'i've known you for ages' attitude... now doesn't that just speak for itself what kind of people they are!
ok, let's back track to last week's YV06 activity... it was the clown show i asked from allan... which, if i might mention here, i had to postpone 3 times!!! felt so bad for bothering him so many times... and as everyone knows, this kind of things (inefficiency...) won't be kept hushed but spreads all over the family... i hope i'm safe... but nevermind about that... the event was a success!!! johnny the clown was great... the kids responded wonderfully!!! and luckily i went ahead and packed the 5 goodie bags (because i volunteered to get the prizes for the games and after i'd bought all the stuff, i found out that they wanted to use some donated old soft toys for prizes... i was so pissed!!! there's a bl***y serious lack of communication among us... SERIOUSLY!!! everyone just does whatever she/he feels and then inform the rest much later...) but anyway, the clown did some fake magic show which the kids kept on chanting "tipu!!! cheating!!!" but the bottom line is they were entertained! and the clown kept on picking on me (probably because he only knows my name among the OCs or maybe he was tipped off that i hate this kind of things! allan always does that to us cousins! hahaha)... so i was mama sue may for the day... all in all, i thought it was a successful day compared with the other weekend activities we had so far...
the previous week was the arts and craft week and well, to cut to the chase, i saw red many many times during the preparation and also during that week's sessions... all i can say is that it could have gone better if only they planned the sessions out like a kindergarten's art and craft class... as a buffer, the sunday session at santa jerome was more fruitful although the materials were less fanciful than saturday at agathians... this time i (because we could see that some people had made up their minds to not help out much because their duty was due on saturday and not sunday) made sure that the kids weren't expected to run the whole show... seemed like i was the only one (besides help my ML and volunteer siew yong) cutting out shapes from coloured paper for the kids to paste on their thank you cards... i really thank God i'd worked in a kindergarten before and many years of preparing arts and craft materials for mum's classes!!! the results were much more organized and neater and less wastage... pity the girls didn't have the vibrantly coloured card sheets like the day before...
to list a few activities we had througout the duration of YV06... cooking and gardening (hahaha... decorating cupcakes were a hit, the rest... not so), salsa dancing (OCs had more fun... i had fun too... again victimized to dance with the instructor because i'm small sized... don't look so clumsy with the wrong steps ma...haha), talk on dental care and washing hands (ML was the hero for this activity!!! ML's mum amused the kids when she talked tamil to them!!! hahaha... i missed that though...)
that's about it... unless i missed something out... well, next week we'll be having our field trip to beryl's chocolate factory...
btw, i just took up a japanese class in jskl, saujana resort... i'm still blur with the 1st class...
Hajime mashite. Watashi wa Sue May desu. Douzo yoroshiku onegai shimasu!
i was so horrible today, i came late for the party... couldn't help it though... mum, LK and i went for lunch in italiannies at the curve and finding a parking space took soooooo long... and then eating our lunch took quite long too because the chicken we ordered (which is their speciality) had some weird taste (vinegar, paprika, pickled chillies among others) and we had to force ourselves to eat it... the carbonara was yummy (as usual) and the pizza was quite good... anyway, i came 15 minutes late to the party... but luckily there wasn't much for us OCs to prepare... BY came later too... and when we were about to go back, she couldn't find her car... which turned out to be parked further up the road... one thing i must mention about the event is that some people who usually just ignore ML and my existence suddenly talked to us in a 'i've known you for ages' attitude... now doesn't that just speak for itself what kind of people they are!
ok, let's back track to last week's YV06 activity... it was the clown show i asked from allan... which, if i might mention here, i had to postpone 3 times!!! felt so bad for bothering him so many times... and as everyone knows, this kind of things (inefficiency...) won't be kept hushed but spreads all over the family... i hope i'm safe... but nevermind about that... the event was a success!!! johnny the clown was great... the kids responded wonderfully!!! and luckily i went ahead and packed the 5 goodie bags (because i volunteered to get the prizes for the games and after i'd bought all the stuff, i found out that they wanted to use some donated old soft toys for prizes... i was so pissed!!! there's a bl***y serious lack of communication among us... SERIOUSLY!!! everyone just does whatever she/he feels and then inform the rest much later...) but anyway, the clown did some fake magic show which the kids kept on chanting "tipu!!! cheating!!!" but the bottom line is they were entertained! and the clown kept on picking on me (probably because he only knows my name among the OCs or maybe he was tipped off that i hate this kind of things! allan always does that to us cousins! hahaha)... so i was mama sue may for the day... all in all, i thought it was a successful day compared with the other weekend activities we had so far...
the previous week was the arts and craft week and well, to cut to the chase, i saw red many many times during the preparation and also during that week's sessions... all i can say is that it could have gone better if only they planned the sessions out like a kindergarten's art and craft class... as a buffer, the sunday session at santa jerome was more fruitful although the materials were less fanciful than saturday at agathians... this time i (because we could see that some people had made up their minds to not help out much because their duty was due on saturday and not sunday) made sure that the kids weren't expected to run the whole show... seemed like i was the only one (besides help my ML and volunteer siew yong) cutting out shapes from coloured paper for the kids to paste on their thank you cards... i really thank God i'd worked in a kindergarten before and many years of preparing arts and craft materials for mum's classes!!! the results were much more organized and neater and less wastage... pity the girls didn't have the vibrantly coloured card sheets like the day before...
to list a few activities we had througout the duration of YV06... cooking and gardening (hahaha... decorating cupcakes were a hit, the rest... not so), salsa dancing (OCs had more fun... i had fun too... again victimized to dance with the instructor because i'm small sized... don't look so clumsy with the wrong steps ma...haha), talk on dental care and washing hands (ML was the hero for this activity!!! ML's mum amused the kids when she talked tamil to them!!! hahaha... i missed that though...)
that's about it... unless i missed something out... well, next week we'll be having our field trip to beryl's chocolate factory...
btw, i just took up a japanese class in jskl, saujana resort... i'm still blur with the 1st class...
Hajime mashite. Watashi wa Sue May desu. Douzo yoroshiku onegai shimasu!
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
my last days in 12th college...
usually, people would be so glad when the semester ends and they can't wait to check out of hostel, but for us few girls, we spent our last few days in college... when others were shifting out, we were stocking up for our last 3 days...
YC, ML (and her twin KL) and I decided to brave out our last days in college... we had many activities lined up to pass our time there... these plans included swimming, watching korean drama n goin to petaling street! it was kind of fun but in a slow pace... and i did manage to do a little more of my scrapbook of my seatru volunteer experience... we watched the korean drama called 'my girl' which was quite funny... at first, when we tried playing it on my laptop, we could only see pictures so we had to go down to the cafeteria to download some software off the internet... and finding the wireless signal was the funniest thing! we were sitting in the cafeteria and there wasn't any signal, so we finished our tau foo fa with tong yuen (which we bought in the chow yang pasar malam... then we went out to the foyer because i remembered someone saying that you have to face the lake to get the wireless signal... and we sat at the lake's edge and we did get a shakey connection... but it disappeared after awhile so we tried walking around and ended up sitting in the middle of the five-foot way where we got a strong signal till my laptop ran out of battery... so weird! so we managed to watch 13 out of the 16 episodes by staying up till 4 am... mainly me and YC...
and then came the part where we had to clear out our room... was pretty sad, or maybe it was just my mind being stereotype... where parting with something brings sadness... anyway, i didn't have anything much to pack... on the contrary, my roomate had so much notes to stash away and so i helped her keep it under the bed (and when next semester starts, she'll have to collect back the notes from the room's new inhabitants...)... creative way of stashing away notes!!!
i think i won't be seeing the inside of a KK12 room ever again... as i didn't apply to stay there next sem... for me, it was fun having a room in KK12 but i must be practical and think about the financial situation i'm in... it's not that i can't afford it but it would be more of a waste of money because i go home almost everyday and only use the room between classes... so next semester i'll be roomless and the library shall be my second home... hahaha... perhaps i'll meet some people in the same situation there or maybe even become more hardworking and studious!!! but it's a universal fact that that's just wishful thinking!!! hahaha... i'm a "last minute works magic" girl... although the magic doesn't come every time!!! hahaha
so, i'm beginning to deviate from the topic here... and to be honest, i've been writing this post for almost a month!!! technically, today is june 4th but since i started this on may 8th, i'll just stick to that... ok, time to write the next post (as 'ganti balik' for my absence from this blog...)
YC, ML (and her twin KL) and I decided to brave out our last days in college... we had many activities lined up to pass our time there... these plans included swimming, watching korean drama n goin to petaling street! it was kind of fun but in a slow pace... and i did manage to do a little more of my scrapbook of my seatru volunteer experience... we watched the korean drama called 'my girl' which was quite funny... at first, when we tried playing it on my laptop, we could only see pictures so we had to go down to the cafeteria to download some software off the internet... and finding the wireless signal was the funniest thing! we were sitting in the cafeteria and there wasn't any signal, so we finished our tau foo fa with tong yuen (which we bought in the chow yang pasar malam... then we went out to the foyer because i remembered someone saying that you have to face the lake to get the wireless signal... and we sat at the lake's edge and we did get a shakey connection... but it disappeared after awhile so we tried walking around and ended up sitting in the middle of the five-foot way where we got a strong signal till my laptop ran out of battery... so weird! so we managed to watch 13 out of the 16 episodes by staying up till 4 am... mainly me and YC...
and then came the part where we had to clear out our room... was pretty sad, or maybe it was just my mind being stereotype... where parting with something brings sadness... anyway, i didn't have anything much to pack... on the contrary, my roomate had so much notes to stash away and so i helped her keep it under the bed (and when next semester starts, she'll have to collect back the notes from the room's new inhabitants...)... creative way of stashing away notes!!!
i think i won't be seeing the inside of a KK12 room ever again... as i didn't apply to stay there next sem... for me, it was fun having a room in KK12 but i must be practical and think about the financial situation i'm in... it's not that i can't afford it but it would be more of a waste of money because i go home almost everyday and only use the room between classes... so next semester i'll be roomless and the library shall be my second home... hahaha... perhaps i'll meet some people in the same situation there or maybe even become more hardworking and studious!!! but it's a universal fact that that's just wishful thinking!!! hahaha... i'm a "last minute works magic" girl... although the magic doesn't come every time!!! hahaha
so, i'm beginning to deviate from the topic here... and to be honest, i've been writing this post for almost a month!!! technically, today is june 4th but since i started this on may 8th, i'll just stick to that... ok, time to write the next post (as 'ganti balik' for my absence from this blog...)
Sunday, April 30, 2006
The audacity of some people!!!
so... i've discovered that the 'i'll do it tomorrow' thing really doesn't work! gosh, i'm a slacker! how can i make up for this?
so yesterday was my first day after the conclusion of my exam period... and i went with mum to kamdar kl, near jalan masjid india... n i bought a set of silver n glass beads bangles... they were abit too big for my wrist... but i liked them... n they costed rm18.90... then mum bought smaller multi-coloured bangles for her kindy kids to wear during concert... n they were rm1.00 per set!!! mum got me a set too! hahaha... it was so funny... 1st time buying n doing this sort of stuff!!!
after that we went to carrefour to get the YV stuff and ended up returning home at 10.30p.m. and only slept at 4a.m. after making the icing for the orphanage kids to decorate the cupcakes... so much hard work... but seems like i'm the only one doing the hard work... in the morning, i was the first one to arrive at our waiting place in um... why is it always like that? people waltzing in at any time they please... it is utterly unprofessional... and to lay claim that our organization has a level of professionalism is total bullshit! another thorn in my foot is the fact that i bloody well had to sacrifice my sleep for the preparations when other people could go clubbing till 4a.m. and others still, who forgot to buy some stuff... is this team work? if it is so, then i'd rather work individually and claim all the credit for myself... it is really amusing to watch some people conciously becoming decoration yet appear to be doing a great deal of work... i would say that it is an acquired art (or rather craftiness?)
but well, enough of that... i think someone is harbouring some grudge against me... i'm not sure though... is being purposefully ignored/left out of plans a sign of a run in the fabric of 'friendship'? or perhaps the 'friendship' itself was never a friendship but rather a mutualism relationship where we bear with each other to a certain level? maybe i've got to stop thinking about it too much... not let the nitty gritty things get to me... sometimes it's so hard to look the other way and be gracious when u know that someone is just being nice to you because there is a motive behind that person... but harbouring ill-feelings will lead to bitterness and a bitter person isn't what i want to be at this age...
so the kids loved the decorating cupcake session although it was abit messy, and we managed to end early... the gardening part was abit redundant because the seeds they bought was so few that it looked so miserable... and the 'syiok sendiri' attitude of @ers can get pretty annoying at times... i'l leave it at that...
luckily we ended early and then i went to mum's hairstylist and waited so long... and then we went to 1u because i had to get a present for nadia... manage to get her some red earth stuff and i also got some for myself... nice! then i went to her party and the only people i knew besides nadia was rebecca and her bf... and later kam came with his wacky sister... and that's all! my old friends circle is thinning... but it's also due to the other members being in different parts of the world! so i look forward to the time when all of us can be reunited!
so yesterday was my first day after the conclusion of my exam period... and i went with mum to kamdar kl, near jalan masjid india... n i bought a set of silver n glass beads bangles... they were abit too big for my wrist... but i liked them... n they costed rm18.90... then mum bought smaller multi-coloured bangles for her kindy kids to wear during concert... n they were rm1.00 per set!!! mum got me a set too! hahaha... it was so funny... 1st time buying n doing this sort of stuff!!!
after that we went to carrefour to get the YV stuff and ended up returning home at 10.30p.m. and only slept at 4a.m. after making the icing for the orphanage kids to decorate the cupcakes... so much hard work... but seems like i'm the only one doing the hard work... in the morning, i was the first one to arrive at our waiting place in um... why is it always like that? people waltzing in at any time they please... it is utterly unprofessional... and to lay claim that our organization has a level of professionalism is total bullshit! another thorn in my foot is the fact that i bloody well had to sacrifice my sleep for the preparations when other people could go clubbing till 4a.m. and others still, who forgot to buy some stuff... is this team work? if it is so, then i'd rather work individually and claim all the credit for myself... it is really amusing to watch some people conciously becoming decoration yet appear to be doing a great deal of work... i would say that it is an acquired art (or rather craftiness?)
but well, enough of that... i think someone is harbouring some grudge against me... i'm not sure though... is being purposefully ignored/left out of plans a sign of a run in the fabric of 'friendship'? or perhaps the 'friendship' itself was never a friendship but rather a mutualism relationship where we bear with each other to a certain level? maybe i've got to stop thinking about it too much... not let the nitty gritty things get to me... sometimes it's so hard to look the other way and be gracious when u know that someone is just being nice to you because there is a motive behind that person... but harbouring ill-feelings will lead to bitterness and a bitter person isn't what i want to be at this age...
so the kids loved the decorating cupcake session although it was abit messy, and we managed to end early... the gardening part was abit redundant because the seeds they bought was so few that it looked so miserable... and the 'syiok sendiri' attitude of @ers can get pretty annoying at times... i'l leave it at that...
luckily we ended early and then i went to mum's hairstylist and waited so long... and then we went to 1u because i had to get a present for nadia... manage to get her some red earth stuff and i also got some for myself... nice! then i went to her party and the only people i knew besides nadia was rebecca and her bf... and later kam came with his wacky sister... and that's all! my old friends circle is thinning... but it's also due to the other members being in different parts of the world! so i look forward to the time when all of us can be reunited!
Friday, April 28, 2006
Done and over with it!
i can't count how many times i've mentally dictated out posts since my last one... someone should invent a thoughts converter that stores the info into a pendrive or something... that would make blogging so easy!!! especially for scatterbrains like me...
so i just finished my last paper for my 2nd semester finals... it was geology... which i was really nervous about... but praise God!!! what i chose to emphasize to study on the night before came out in the questions!!! although it's confirmed that i missed out a few points/facts here and there but i feel really relieved that i practically wrote and wrote non-stop for about 2 hours!!! although what i wrote might have been bullshit... the feeling of accomplishment (probably of being able to write for that long a time) is still there... however, the other papers were kind of disappointing... not because of the questionns but rather because i didn't study hard enough... somehow, this time around it's even harder to get myself to really sit down n study... i don't know why that is so... other people have been mugging since a month before the exams... could it be something that's got to do with uni life? or my character slipping into 'useless bum' mode...
i'm listening to pink floyd's 'the dark side of the moon' under LK's recommendation and listening to it and trying to type this is making me go nuts!!! tick-tock-tick-tock-tick-tock-tick-tock...
went out to midvalley with BY today... we really hung out... had choc frapp in starbucks, lunch in mcD, went to buy my bluetooth usb adapter... tried to find kamdar but turns out it's closed down... speaking of the bluetooth thing... i don't know what's wrong with the thing... i managed to transfer 4 pictures and the thing stopped functioning... i think it might be my phone too... stupid lousy crap (the bluetooth adapter i mean... i love my phone!!!)... we took a cab from um and also back to um... as a whole, i did alot of walking today... coz we went to linguistic faculty today (and the indian lady was quite unforthcoming...) and then back to college and then to the tnb power station and then in midvalley and then in pyramid (with mum)...
last saturday, i went to see the click five with LK in the quicksilver revolution tour at sunway lagoon... getting the tickets was a headache... i registered my hotlink sim card for it but until today they haven't sent me any reply... and in the end sunway pyramid was giving them out for free with any purchase made... so we had a drink at starbucks and claimed 2 tickets on friday... and turns out that LK's friend who's interning in astro was giving out the tickets to the la bodega waiters!!! talk about untapped resources!!! dunggu la... anyway, we went at about 9.00p.m. and we just about in time for their performances (after walking a great deal around the sunway area - hotel, mall, hospital and theme park!) and turns out it was near the artificial beach... people were playing in the water in bikinis and such... and also the crowd was made out of young screaming teenagers and also parents who were chaperoning their kids... felt abit out of place... the band itself was ok... not spectacular (probably due to the crappy sound system... which was even softer than our church's easter presentation!!!)... the lead singer was abit pitchy here and there... truely, the only way to know whether a band is skillfully good is to listen/see them live in concert!!! but anyway, their songs are still very catchy to hear... i think if my friends knew i went for the concert, they'd think i was nuts to go during exam period... but like i said earlier, i'm losing my momentum in the studying department (although, yesterday i found reading geology was very interesting... until the point where i started to panic because there was so much i hadn't covered...)
i've become addicted to 'grey's anatomy'... and i discovered that i have the feature songs of the first three episodes on my hardrive... purely by coincidence... the jem song came with my phone, the cadigans song was accidentally downloaded long ago and the lisa loeb song has been my ringtone for quite awhile... and also patrick dempsey is so charming!!! wait a minute... have i blogged about this before? something about in the past i thought he looked like sean penn but a younger version... but now, i think patrick dempsey looks charming and sean penn looks evil... hahaha
i'm sitting here trying to churn out past memories... but i'm having a mental block (now, how many times have i said that in previous posts? must be one of my most common phrases...)
oh, i went for the @lcum executive interview during my study break (which was about almost 3 weeks ago) and it was disastrous... i barged in twice... first i thought i was late and turns out someone was still being interviewed... and the second time when i thought i could go in but turns out the interviewers were having a discussion!!! and we had to do a few seconds of square dance before the interview... and i had problems answering some of the questions... i wasn't very serious because the interviewers were the aiesecers that i know... and they recorded our interview session... and i think they knew i didn't read the JD... but obviously i wasn't going to waste my studying time reading a complicated jd... well anyway, i just recieved news that i'm in the managerial team now... funny thing is that my enthusiasm has slowly but steadily ebbed away... but i think the best option for me is to just do it... sometimes a kick i the butt is all i need to do something useful and in the end i would enjoy it... is this the 'wong' family trait? seems quite repetative in my generation... hmm... genetical traits being expressed or human laziness?
ok i think this should be a long enough post as a replacement for my absence... but seriously, i don't think anyone actually reads this stuff... so no one's actually missing this crap! hahahha... perasan betul!!! it's sort of becoming a trend to be 'syiok sendiri' especially after entering aiesec... i hope i can be active in other societies starting from next semester onwards... namely pkv... suddenly, after last week's sunday message, i felt like i wanted to go for SCG (school of christian growth)... i need to read the bible more... i'll start tomorrow! (i know my fellow christian sisters will say 'start today, don't just say tomorrow...') ... but on a serious note, i think it's getting quite important for us, christians to know the words of the Bible in these times where our faith is constantly being attacked... hint: the news tells it all...
so i just finished my last paper for my 2nd semester finals... it was geology... which i was really nervous about... but praise God!!! what i chose to emphasize to study on the night before came out in the questions!!! although it's confirmed that i missed out a few points/facts here and there but i feel really relieved that i practically wrote and wrote non-stop for about 2 hours!!! although what i wrote might have been bullshit... the feeling of accomplishment (probably of being able to write for that long a time) is still there... however, the other papers were kind of disappointing... not because of the questionns but rather because i didn't study hard enough... somehow, this time around it's even harder to get myself to really sit down n study... i don't know why that is so... other people have been mugging since a month before the exams... could it be something that's got to do with uni life? or my character slipping into 'useless bum' mode...
i'm listening to pink floyd's 'the dark side of the moon' under LK's recommendation and listening to it and trying to type this is making me go nuts!!! tick-tock-tick-tock-tick-tock-tick-tock...
went out to midvalley with BY today... we really hung out... had choc frapp in starbucks, lunch in mcD, went to buy my bluetooth usb adapter... tried to find kamdar but turns out it's closed down... speaking of the bluetooth thing... i don't know what's wrong with the thing... i managed to transfer 4 pictures and the thing stopped functioning... i think it might be my phone too... stupid lousy crap (the bluetooth adapter i mean... i love my phone!!!)... we took a cab from um and also back to um... as a whole, i did alot of walking today... coz we went to linguistic faculty today (and the indian lady was quite unforthcoming...) and then back to college and then to the tnb power station and then in midvalley and then in pyramid (with mum)...
last saturday, i went to see the click five with LK in the quicksilver revolution tour at sunway lagoon... getting the tickets was a headache... i registered my hotlink sim card for it but until today they haven't sent me any reply... and in the end sunway pyramid was giving them out for free with any purchase made... so we had a drink at starbucks and claimed 2 tickets on friday... and turns out that LK's friend who's interning in astro was giving out the tickets to the la bodega waiters!!! talk about untapped resources!!! dunggu la... anyway, we went at about 9.00p.m. and we just about in time for their performances (after walking a great deal around the sunway area - hotel, mall, hospital and theme park!) and turns out it was near the artificial beach... people were playing in the water in bikinis and such... and also the crowd was made out of young screaming teenagers and also parents who were chaperoning their kids... felt abit out of place... the band itself was ok... not spectacular (probably due to the crappy sound system... which was even softer than our church's easter presentation!!!)... the lead singer was abit pitchy here and there... truely, the only way to know whether a band is skillfully good is to listen/see them live in concert!!! but anyway, their songs are still very catchy to hear... i think if my friends knew i went for the concert, they'd think i was nuts to go during exam period... but like i said earlier, i'm losing my momentum in the studying department (although, yesterday i found reading geology was very interesting... until the point where i started to panic because there was so much i hadn't covered...)
i've become addicted to 'grey's anatomy'... and i discovered that i have the feature songs of the first three episodes on my hardrive... purely by coincidence... the jem song came with my phone, the cadigans song was accidentally downloaded long ago and the lisa loeb song has been my ringtone for quite awhile... and also patrick dempsey is so charming!!! wait a minute... have i blogged about this before? something about in the past i thought he looked like sean penn but a younger version... but now, i think patrick dempsey looks charming and sean penn looks evil... hahaha
i'm sitting here trying to churn out past memories... but i'm having a mental block (now, how many times have i said that in previous posts? must be one of my most common phrases...)
oh, i went for the @lcum executive interview during my study break (which was about almost 3 weeks ago) and it was disastrous... i barged in twice... first i thought i was late and turns out someone was still being interviewed... and the second time when i thought i could go in but turns out the interviewers were having a discussion!!! and we had to do a few seconds of square dance before the interview... and i had problems answering some of the questions... i wasn't very serious because the interviewers were the aiesecers that i know... and they recorded our interview session... and i think they knew i didn't read the JD... but obviously i wasn't going to waste my studying time reading a complicated jd... well anyway, i just recieved news that i'm in the managerial team now... funny thing is that my enthusiasm has slowly but steadily ebbed away... but i think the best option for me is to just do it... sometimes a kick i the butt is all i need to do something useful and in the end i would enjoy it... is this the 'wong' family trait? seems quite repetative in my generation... hmm... genetical traits being expressed or human laziness?
ok i think this should be a long enough post as a replacement for my absence... but seriously, i don't think anyone actually reads this stuff... so no one's actually missing this crap! hahahha... perasan betul!!! it's sort of becoming a trend to be 'syiok sendiri' especially after entering aiesec... i hope i can be active in other societies starting from next semester onwards... namely pkv... suddenly, after last week's sunday message, i felt like i wanted to go for SCG (school of christian growth)... i need to read the bible more... i'll start tomorrow! (i know my fellow christian sisters will say 'start today, don't just say tomorrow...') ... but on a serious note, i think it's getting quite important for us, christians to know the words of the Bible in these times where our faith is constantly being attacked... hint: the news tells it all...
Friday, April 07, 2006
fast forward
so it's been about a month since my last post... since then, i've attended the aisesec ap nite... in melia hotel... 5 stars my arse, it is!?! ML lost her handphone that night... couldn't be aiesecers coz almost everyone has better phones than hers... so why steal it? anyway, we had to bring a mask, and i didn't even take mine out... hahaha... mine is the one i've had since like 10 years ago... from a cousin's party... and i wore my cny 1st day attire... and everyone else was wearing dresses... btw mine's a 2 piece... a canary yellow tube with white gypsy skirt with sequin motif at the waist band. overall, the nite didn't reach my expectation... they said there was a band, turns out there was only karaoke singing for entertainment... and the food was equivalent to chinese economy rice... i guess i'm too used to sheraton imperial and the likes... but from the promo mails, it really sounded great... ML and i didn't go for the after-party in an apartment in ampang... we went home... on the way home we made a wrong turn... hahaha... had to get directions from LK. luckily i've been to the place we "tersesat" before... so it wasn't so intimidating...
had my geology test this week... it was horrible... i think this time i'm really going to get a D... the last time, it turned out quite ok... a B-... but this time... i couldn't even think of what to write!!! so sad... anyway, there were some malay guys who brought in small notes... and they were sharing it between themselves by throwing it in the front... incredible... they're blatantly cheating... and they don't look like 1st years nor 2nd or even 3rd year students... probably failing every semester or something... and when i came out, my pink corsage on my backpack was gone... the geology department must be filled with thieves... ML droped a pencil there and it went M.I.A... Emily left her water bottle there and it also vanished... sometimes i can't believe uni students could act so... it's really saddening to find out day after day that education can't irradicate these kinds of primitive behaviours that brings them down to the levels of heathens... perhaps this is only the situation in local universities... but i doubt that...
yesterday i watched grey's anatomy on astro... and it is really good!!! i used to think patrick dempsey looked like sean penn.... but he is so much more charming... although not too good looking... hahaha... but yes, i plan to follow this series... i guess i can since i won't be staying in college from next semester onwards... speaking about next semester, i can't believe i'll be in 2nd year and i can't imagine what i'll be majoring then...
the latest thing in aiesec is the JE application. the JD looks so frightening and demanding... i don't know whether i should apply or not... the dateline for the online application is friday and dateline for hardcopy is saturday. we are having the opening ceremony of young visionaries on saturday... i foresee a very busy and complicated day ahead. i hope yv06 works out... at the rate its going, i can't even picture the light at the end of the tunnel... anyway, this is the website for our project: http://youngvisionaries2006.mywebhut.com
had my geology test this week... it was horrible... i think this time i'm really going to get a D... the last time, it turned out quite ok... a B-... but this time... i couldn't even think of what to write!!! so sad... anyway, there were some malay guys who brought in small notes... and they were sharing it between themselves by throwing it in the front... incredible... they're blatantly cheating... and they don't look like 1st years nor 2nd or even 3rd year students... probably failing every semester or something... and when i came out, my pink corsage on my backpack was gone... the geology department must be filled with thieves... ML droped a pencil there and it went M.I.A... Emily left her water bottle there and it also vanished... sometimes i can't believe uni students could act so... it's really saddening to find out day after day that education can't irradicate these kinds of primitive behaviours that brings them down to the levels of heathens... perhaps this is only the situation in local universities... but i doubt that...
yesterday i watched grey's anatomy on astro... and it is really good!!! i used to think patrick dempsey looked like sean penn.... but he is so much more charming... although not too good looking... hahaha... but yes, i plan to follow this series... i guess i can since i won't be staying in college from next semester onwards... speaking about next semester, i can't believe i'll be in 2nd year and i can't imagine what i'll be majoring then...
the latest thing in aiesec is the JE application. the JD looks so frightening and demanding... i don't know whether i should apply or not... the dateline for the online application is friday and dateline for hardcopy is saturday. we are having the opening ceremony of young visionaries on saturday... i foresee a very busy and complicated day ahead. i hope yv06 works out... at the rate its going, i can't even picture the light at the end of the tunnel... anyway, this is the website for our project: http://youngvisionaries2006.mywebhut.com
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