The Day That I Was Wishing For?

Actually, Tuesday was the day where my schedule was packed.

But not today...

Today, I finished my last assignment for this semester.. (oh victory~)

And today, there was no lecture, no tutorial, just LSP401 class.

And it was the last LSP class, by the way.

I sensed that my LSP teacher's eyes was quite watery or was it my imagination?

Because I think I am oversensitive sometimes.

Thinking too much and reading too much into someone's facial expression.

If it was not my imagination, then she was good in camouflaging her emotion cause she kind of tried to cheer up by mentioning something funny.

I guess she's gonna miss us like we are certainly gonna miss her..

She asked us to keep in touch, and acknowledge that me and another student named Avinesh can consult her in the future to ask about our next English paper we are going to take.

Well, I was thinking about taking Creative Writing, just like my sister, cause I like writing fiction compared to non-fiction. Ah, I wish, if I need not to repeat this paper, lah..

At the end of the LSP class today, my classmate, Hafizah, took out the wrapped gift and card that the whole class bought for our LSP teacher, Puan Kanchana Devi.

Aww~

And Puan Kanchana was surprised, and yet, she could make jokes about the word "Tq" inside the card we wrote for her. I told you, she was a sporting teacher, and with a lots of sense of humour too. I wish if I am going to take my next English paper, I can be taught by her, or at least, someone like her.

Oh, was it the day that I was wishing for?

A day without lecture? (of course I wish for this day!)

A day with the last class? (Err? Unsure? Depend on the class, I guess..)

A day where the last assignment was accomplished? (definitely, I wish for this day)

So, today was the day I was wishing for.. There may be farewell, but at least, we had immortalised the sweet memories inside our brain.

As Puan Kanchana said, we have to fly, and not repeat this paper and be confined in USM cage.
We have to see the world. Maybe we like university life, but there's more to life than just being comfortable, or being safe at your comfort zone. Yup, I agree completely..

Ok, so bubbye.. Gonna fly to my dreamland now.. ;)

Being Mysterious for One Night........

In~~




Ta-daa!!!

MASQUERADE NIGHT!!!

Happening on 28th March 2009,
(which btw, was also the Earth Hour Night)

and.......

Can you spot me??

Okay, see the clue from the picture below..

Melissa (my sis) and yours truly, ;) Taking pic inside the USM bus

I wore all black, straight hair, and urm, they said I followed Rihanna's style?? Honestly, I am not a big fan of Rihanna, but asal dia famous, I don't mind being her clone for one night. hehe.. ;)
I mean, I was not the one who chose this fashion. Actually, my sis was my stylist for the night.
And huh~she got the idea to style me up from Rihanna's fashion. Minus the umbrella of course.


My sis and her boyfriend (Ah Fook),and guess what?His name is Wong Tian Fook, and cut it short, become WTF.
Man, I pity him because people take the chance to curse while calling his name.. (-_-)

Okay, so our party was held at Naza Hotel, Penang, somewhere near the beach, but not facing the seaside.. URm, sorry no picture to prove this statement, but come to Penang and see for yourself if you doubt me.

Now, let the night begins.

One of the earliest performance a song performance by the penyanyi jemputan dari Engineering Campus. Future engineers discovering their artistic side.. Hmm..
They performed two songs, forgot the songs' title because too syok drinking the soup, our second dish that time.

I only know the one in the middle is Jude.The two guys yang syok menyanyi beside him, no lo se.

Then, there were performance by ex-Exco members. Such a fun and sporting performance by the ex-Excos.. Two thumbs up!!
While I was concentrating to eat the pineapple fried rice (yummy!!), suddenly the MC called on the juniors to go onstage to perform *cough* and I ignored the call, but later had to go onstage cause have to beri muka (yang hodoh ini).. tsk.. tsk..

Rihanna, eh, no lah, that's me (left) with Marcella (Mulan of the night) and Meredith (Rosalinda of the night)
This masquerade night turned into celebrity nite pulak!! :P

Look how much kayu and static I looked compared to the two divas beside me..
[Admiring Marcella and Meredith..] (*=*)
I was extremely embarassed that time because my voice could not come up.
URggh!! URggh!! Struggling to raise my voice but failed.
Well, I could follow Rihanna's fashion style but in terms of voice, sorry bebeh!!

After performance..

(cis, this post become cacat cause I accidentally deleted one pic here while I want to edit.. tsk.. tsk..)


Ei, ei where is everybody??

Oh, patutla nobody. Cause they are all taking position to pose in front of camera. Okay, so I pun tak mau kalah.. ;)

I joined the seniors to take photos with masks. Have to make full use of the masks cause this was the only chance to wear them..

Come on girls!! Show our masks off!!

After the party, modelicious moment.. Have to make full use of the attires and masks we wore cause not everytime can wear them.. So have to immortalize the moment inside photos... ;)


Mellisa (centre) being sandwiched between Chua sisters.. ;)

After that, we were camwhoring all through the night... (Yawn~)

Oh what a madilicious night.. Hope the next year we will have something fun and creative like this again.. But with sufficient food, of course..!! (I was quite hungry after the party..)


Still want to upload some pics but that's enough for tonight.. Remember, assignment first..!!

While waiting for the Masquerade Pics..

Ok, so I'm not going to blog about my party last night today because I had not take the photos from my sister, and I can only upload the pictures when I am in the library. So for today, I have something else to talk about. I did not attend the morning Mass, because we came back quite late to the hostel, around 1 am something in the morning.. [yawn~] So me and my seniors went to the evening Mass today at St Francis Xavier Church. I love going to St Francis Xavier Church compared to the Our Lady of Sorrows church because of the better choice of hymns by the choir and also the feelings that I felt while in the church. There are more churchy feeling here compared to OLS Church.

So, as usual, after completing the Sunday Mass service, we went to dine at Prangin Mall. Today was different because my sister did not join us. She was ill, so I joined my seniors, which consist of Angel, Xiao Yen and Stephanie (my peer in age). Well, after finishing our dinner, we went to the bus station and we took the rapid bus (oh yeah). And oh, the service was good, but the other annoying thing was that, there were three annoying passengers inside the bus, which consists of three guys. Among the three guys, there was this particular guy who was the cheekiest and ugliest being that I'd ever seen(I am not exaggerating). He was like, purposely leaned near me and my senior when we stood inside the bus. So, to escape from being the free victim of this cheeky monkey, we adjusted our position to the other pole and bubbye leany monkey. So, there was this particular young girl who reached her destination, and she kind of passed in front of the cheeky monkey. The cheeky monkey, could not control himself, kept asking the girl, "Amoi, nak pergi mana nih?" and at the same time his hand was like touching the side of her waist. He kept repeating the question while the other hand touching the side of her waist. Wa lao eh~!!! I was quite shocked that time. How come he molested (I consider this molesting!!) the girl in front of us all?? Biadab bedebah bedeboi dan semua yang sewaktu dengannya!!!!! He thought he could do anything just because he's not local?? He thought he could get away with anything just because he's not local and if he's being reported, he would just simply say we locals are prejudice of people from his country... @#%&*!!!!

Okay, but after that, there were some intervention from the bus's atmosphere. We smelt something funny. Somebody let go the gas. In silence, but with odour. Haha. Ambik kau!! Maybe somebody kentut for you, cheeky monkey, but unfortunately, the other passengers, like muah, was suffering along but we could bear with the smell. At least a personal satisfaction from us towards the cheeky monkey, because he had to use his gatai hand to cover his nose instead of simply touching other people's sensitive places. Muahahahaha!!!

But that was not enough. Somebody as cheeky as him deserved to be punished in a more critical way rather than just a smelling a simple smelly gas. Ada lori, ada bas, ada hari, ada balas!! Haih, why ah, if use Milan, got something wrong with the bus's service, and with Rapid, got something wrong with the other passenger. Waiya!! Next time, there should be a sensor for Cheekimeter before anyone passenger can go inside the bus. This is for the safety of the humanity, especially for the females.

Okay, so ladies, I guess, from my story here, I found a tip to escape being the victim of cheeky monkey @ cheap molestor while using a public transport. Kentutlah sepuasnya, and then they (the cheeky passengers) will keep their distance from you. ;)

Tonight's The Nite!!

Well, I'm not talking about the Earth Hour Night, but

Ta-daa!!

Masquerade Night!!

So, obviously, I could not participate in the Earth Hour Night because I am going to attend a Masquerade party tonight (CUS club farewell party) and who turned off electricity during a party, right? But the positive thing is, I am participating in this Earth Hour indirectly because when I go to the party, that automatically means I am switching off the lights in my hostel... ;)
Which means I am not violating the Earth Hour Night too, right?
Bijak, kan.. No compromise here.. ;)

If I don't go to the party, well, the lights at the party's location will still be turned on whether I'm there or not, so better be there than be at my hostel where the lights will be switched off automatically by the university's administration from 9 pm to 10 pm.

Besides, I am the one who always switched off my lights when sleeping, even when my room mate's not here. Though sometimes I am scared of the dark, I switched off the lights too. See how much I am pro in switching off the lights?? I switched the lights off more than one hour if you wana accumulate them, so don't see me as a criminal for attending a party tonight.
(Wana feel less guilty for not participating directly in the earth's hour)

Okay, so happy switching off the lights to you guys and happy masquerade night to me..
;)

We Better Think About It Deeply..

Today, I had the intuition to attend the SHE lecture since my sister, seniors and me did not attend the Station of the Cross service today. The SHE lecture today (I can't believe I'm saying this) was more interesting than the previous SHE lectures that I attended. I am not in the position to compare it with the all the previous lectures because I've been skipping SHE lectures a lot.

Well, today's SHE lecture was more interactive. The lecturer (who happened to be doing lecture at KL right before lecturing at our university) asked us whether the SHE project that we've done really contribute in creating relation among ethnics? Well, honestly, of course not really. I mean, most of the title of the projects were like dancing, food (ahem), and we just need to know merely the identity. But we did not really done a research how the things can contribute in creating relation among races. Urm, excuse me on my previous statement, thinking back, I think that those things like dance and food stuff did create relation among races, but we did not see the process how the relations among races are done. I mean, yeah, how does Indian food (which my group is doing ) help to create relation among races? Okay, let's see. Non-Indian like Chinese and Malay do visit the Indian stall and Indian cafe due to they want to eat Indian food. By ordering and communicating with the cafe's owner and workers which are of course, Indians, then the interaction happened.

But by knowing all these things, the other more serious aspects concerning special rights (hak istimewa) and things like economical status would simply be tolerated just by knowing about other's culture which is not really relevant to solving the tension among ethnics? Yeah, I agree that by knowing about other's culture, we can understand the practise more. But the problem is that, the tension among races do not occur merely because we are different, but it's because we are treated differently. He said that "Sebenarnya kaum bukan Bumiputera tidak mempersoalkan tentang hak istimewa kaum Melayu, tetapi mereka mempersoalkan tentang hak mereka sendiri yang telah dijanjikan". He said that, of course, the hak istimewa thingy is not the real problem since the non-Bumiputera had agreed to that - it's just that the promise for their own rights which they are not satisfied with because the promise had not really been kept.

So, does the SHE project really help in creating relation among ethnics and races? Hmm, my answer is 30%. How bout you?

Second Last Look..

Today, I am very, very happy because my group's SHE lecturer who was assigned to supervise us approved our SHE project and even included positive remarks on the project that we e-mailed her. Finally hard work paid off. But all this won't happen without my group mate who really put her efforts in this project. She was the one who really in contact with our SHE lecturer. The rest of us, me and the other two guys, were just like robots which needed our buttons to be pushed, then after that, barulah we will do our part. Yup, hehe, I am aware of my robotic behaviour.

This week is the second last week for lectures and classes. Though I am excited to leave the class and lectures, I felt a twinge of sadness to leave all the sweet memories behind. (You must think that I am kidding to be having sweet memories in class). I mean, I am lucky this semester to be taught by wonderful lecturers and teachers who really put their efforts in educating us - especially my LSP teacher, Puan Kanchana Devi and not to forget my LKM teacher, Cik Aida Shuhaida. I like the interactive atmosphere in their classes. Both teachers, obviously are of different races from me. They had their own specialties, and both were really talented teacher though their style of teachings were different. Though at first in my LSP class, I did not have any acquaintences because most of them were seniors, finally, I adapted to my LSP class and began to interact with them. They were sporting too, and thoughtful. Last week, after my LSP teacher left the class, two of my LSP classmates, seniors Hafiza and Wan Shing, collected money from us to buy Ferrero Roche chocolates for our beloved teacher. Unfortunately, the same thing could not be applied in my LKM class because, er, hehe, when I asked the some of the LKM classmates about it, and some of them were like "Need meh??" But my friend, Mei Ling, assured me that if we want to, we can do it among the three of us only. [Sniff sniff, so touched at her gesture... :)] I am very touched by that, but at the same time, I mean, it's better if we the whole class give her something to let her know that the whole Kumpulan 47 really appreciate her. She had really sacrificed a lot for us. I'd been a teacher too, a lousy one, but still it took a lot of efforts. I know the feeling of worries about the students' performance. And I guess, a good teacher like both of them must have done a lot more efforts for being able to teach effectively. Ah, do you think their salary could pay off their sacrifice? Hmmph, I hereby declare no. Big NO.

For the next week, I wish I could drink in all the memories before leaving all of these behind. If I had the nerve, I would want to apologize to both of the teachers for being a careless, superblur and impunctual student to the class, especially my LSP class. But as usual, this timid girl would not go for sentimental thingy and covered them with happy-go-lucky and what's-the-big-deal attitude. Ah, and one more thing, I want to apologize first if I could not do well in the exam, ya, all ye teachers and lecturers. (Macamlah they read this blog~)

Ok, so I wish I am going to be really healthy next week to go to my last lectures and classes. and drink in all the memories... Urm, minus TITAS and SHE? Hehe?? (nervous laugh)

"No Lo Se!!" and Crossing Fingers Twice....

It's funny how the Spanish Word "No Lo Se" which means "I don't know" can be seen as a positive statement if we combine the word "Lo" and "Se" to become one new word, and this phrase can stated as "No Lose" ( Tidak kalah..) Yay!! Lol.. I know, lame right? Well, I was quite worried about my Spanish test that I sat for just now because I was clueless about most of the questions there. If want to goreng, sorry, I did not have the kung fu or skill to goreng in Spanish. Huhu~ Just hope that I could pass or at least get a B in my Spanish test which I sat today.. [-_-]

Today, I was quite happy because my group mate and I FINALLY finished our SHE 101 project. But (crossing fingers) our lecturer who supervised us had not approve our final report yet, so there's kind of 50-50 chance of redoing back our project again, which I do not have the intention or willingness to do again. My group mate/friend had done her best and sacrificed a lot for this project (She was lack of sleep just because of this), so I hope nothing is going to take away our happy hour tonight.. Touch wood, I mean Happy HourS.. Not hour only.. (Talking about the lecturer who supervised us, long life, she just called me up while I am blogging.. woo hoo!! She assured that she'll take a look at our report and reply my e-mail by tomorrow.. Yay! Cross double fingers)

So, yawning fully, I hereby want to do my laundry that had been mounting up in my room.. ;)

Madness Makes My Brain Go Round-Round to other Irrelevant Things

I had rejected my sister's invitation to dine with her for two days in a row. Wa lao eh~ Sorry, sis.. Did not do this on purpose. Got lots of work to do..
And I had my LSP interview this morning. Thank God it was over.. Yay!
I don't really care what the result will be cause I have other things to worry about now..

MAD WORRY LIST
1) SHE project

2) HXE (ASS)ignments

3) Semantic online task

4) How I'm gonna lose my pimples for the upcoming masquerade party this Saturday if I keep getting not enough sleep? (-_-) [yawning~]

5) Do I need to repeat my History paper cause it was one of my TERAS and I got a D for it?
(Cis, I thought my History is history already!!)

6) Not to forget my Spanish test tomorrow which I haven't even start my revision?
(No lo se!!)

7) And LSP listening test this Thursday? (Remind me to korek telinga.. wuwu~)

8) I have a mountain of laundries which I haven't wash...
(Mama, please come to Penang *battling eyelashes*)

By the way, our LSP teacher was kind of asked us this interesting question
"If you were given a chance to read someone's personal diary, whose would it be?"

The answers from my classmates were, future husband [which I also thought about ;) ]
Adolf Hitler's diary [gerenti 18 SG punya diary cause so many violence caused by him]
God's diary [no comment], and also siblings' diary.
And guess what my answer was? Hehe..
It was a priest's diary..
I wanted to read the private diary of a priest because I want to look at the daily lives of a person who's more into the spiritual outlook than the worldly outlook..
Besides, I added that time, by reading the diary of a priest, I can know the secrets of other people too because people go to confess their sins to a priest, so a priest's private diary is like the key to every other secrets especially the nasty secrets.. ;)

The second question that my LSP teacher asked us was that among the four given adjectives,
"Intelligent, happy, rich, famous"
Which one would we choose?

Majority of the answers were intelligent. The reasons given by my classmates were that if we are intelligent, the other 3 aspects will come eventually (which I really agree with) and some mentioned about world domination, and some mentioned about gaining respects from others.
Well, my answer was intelligence too.

The reason why I chose intelligence was that, intelligence was the only thing that is permanent.
Fame does not last long because every famous people has their own fame time.
Riches, of course, is not long lasting too because money and possessions will finish eventually.
Happiness too, unfortunately, is temporary because we cannot be happy all the time. If you disagree with me, let me ask you, when you lost someone you love, doesn't it hurt you?
That's what I felt when I lost my grandmother when I was eight, and the sad feeling of loss was experienced everytime when my cat went away or dead. (-_-)

Well, intelligence on the other hand, sticks with us, and stays permanent with us.
So, I guess, being intelligent is the safest option among the four choices.
As mentioned by my classmates, being intelligent can promise us the other 3 aspects but none of the other can promise us to be intelligent.

Updated, on the same day: Err, I guess I forgot my super important file in the library.. (Which contains my Spanish workbook and notes!! Wuwu~ )

Prepare to be ME..

Tomorrow is my interview day... Have to put on things I hate like make up and stuff, wear high heels and wear kebaya. But the important thing is, how should I carry myself? And one more thing, should I take the bus or walk to the Language Centre? Cause I don't want to run into some familiar faces while wearing kebaya and high heels, carrying a handbag and a file.

I had a really bad experience with interview. My last interview happened when I was 18 years old, and the previous night before that interview, I did not prepare for the interview because I was so fanatic with Akademi Fantasia season 4. (Thanks to Amirul ~ roll eyes)
I even had no idea to talk about myself at that time.. (-_-)
Man~ I hope history won't repeat itself again tomorrow.

Aii, I guess this is the shortest post ever.. ;) Wish me luck!!

The New Look and Other Short Stories...

Today, I woke up early, but today, I had a hard time choosing my outfit so that it could go well with my new hairstyle. Well, yes, I cut my hair yesterday afternoon, accompanied by my friend, Susanna at "O Hair Saloon" (which was spelled salon at the billboard). And guess what, the hairstylist was quite laser-tongued. Waiseh~I know I had a funny-shaped head but what can I do about it? I know what I can do about it, go to the hair saloon (which I was doing) cut my hair with quite a round shape at the back to normalize my funny head. Though maybe my funny head shape was due to my wrong sleeping style when I was a baby, what, can a baby know what is the effect of wrong sleeping style? By the way, don't baby prefer comfort more to appearance?

Well, the thing about my experience at the hair saloon was that, the hairstylist was honest, which by the way is a good thing, but he was honest in a harsh way. I am a customer what, I am not here for a free haircut. When Susanna asked him to cut my hair nicely, he told her that since my hair was already not nice and messy, there is no worry about that, and he can simply cut my hair, and it will still be more beautiful than my hair that time. Wa lao eh~ Though I find it amusing, and I damn know that my hair was such a mess, I think that it was kind of inappropriate. If I had a beautiful hair that time, why the crap should I go to the hair saloon? Isn't hair saloon a place for hair makeover? And one more thing which I quite agree with him was that, my hair is very oily. I did not put the oil on purpose, but that was the natural oil coming out of my hair due to the conditioner I used on my hair. He asked me not to use the hair-conditioner anymore and that was the only positiveness that he was showing towards me. After that, that was the end of the episode on my new look from the saloon.

The other thing was that, which is another story, was that I am quite regretful that I did not really connect myself with my close friend. Yesterday, I just know from a friend that my close friend lost her father when she was younger, and I took for granted that both her parents still alive. How can I overlook this one. But the thing was that, my friend kept insisting that she already told me last semester and I was quite sure that she never tell me before, because this is something so sensitive, of course I would remember, don't I? Unless, I lose my memory, which in this case, so out of the way. So, that was not the point. The point here is that, how can I be so NOT observant. No wonder she always talk to her mother, but not her father. I was so busy mentioning about study stuff with her until I overlooked the personal side, which by the way, is so important. So, we kinda made pinkies that we would share our problems and personal stories with each other. :" I am so sorry, my friend, for neglecting the personal bond we should have.

The thing about today was that, it was my senior's ( senior in year, but peer in age,) birthday!! This senior (Stephanie) is a really happy-go-lucky and a person with a great joking skill. She can joke about anything and make you ROFL. The moment she saw my new haircut was that, she said I am wearing a helmet. :D Though being the subject of the joke, I couldn't help laughing. We surprised her at McDonald, and took some pictures there. Too bad I don't have the pictures with me, but I would upload it in the future if I go to the library or when I already get the pictures from my sis.. We were trying to surprise her, and it worked. Woo hoo! She actually thought that we were treating her birthday like any normal day because we did mention about her birthday, but we just buat selamba.. By the way, the movie we watched at the cinema today was kinda nice, "Race to Witch Mountain". Wow, the dialogues were funny.. I recommend this movie to be watched, and oh, the Shopaholic movie is coming soon on April, I can't wait.. I am already a number one fan of Isla Fisher.. ;)

Ah, I still have assignments to rush, so the end of the short-long stories.. ;)

That's what I felt.. PS

Personal Note: Before I start telling my story for today, I want to correct that actually my friend whom I mentioned in the post "What's Going On" is actually under the influence of the Holy Spirit and not the disturber. It was the Holy Spirit which took him to travel around the world instead of the disturber. So, phew~ felt less worried.. ;)

I was glad yesterday.. I was glad NOT because I submitted my assignment yesterday, NOT because one test was over yesterday, NOT because I was finalized as an assistant secretary [Oh, God help me carry this cross] in my religious club, BUT because I experienced something significant yesterday -which was that my idea was mentioned and was considered during the club's meeting yesterday. I felt, oh so PS (Personal Satisfaction).. Well, I gave out the idea anonymously during the pre-AGM survey (handwritten, not verbally, as usual) and nobody knows that it was my idea except me *wink* oops, but now you do, but only through my blog.. ;) And I was satisfied because my idea was worth mentioning, though just being mentioned briefly.. I know some of you might think it's just a common thing, but for me, it's not. For someone like me (whose ideas are always being ridiculed, especially when being voiced out verbally), I think that this was a big moment of my life. I mean, though I was not acknowledged for the idea because the idea was given anonymously (I'm glad I wasn't cause my survey form contains a lot of other negative answers, wahahaha), I am personally satisfied, and could not help to let out a smile when my idea about creating a blog for my club was being mentioned. For your information, my club did not have a blog, and I (who is currently so into blogging) will naturally think out an idea like this "Why not this club has a blog which can keep the memories, the thoughts, the announcement, and the album for all these years?" At first, it was just a rough idea, but I kept elaborating my contents and thus, finally it was worth mentioning in today's AGM [Oh, satisfaction.. ;)] Well, I don't care if some of you might laugh at me for being so happy and excited for experiencing such an insignificant event like this (idea being accepted, so what? dahlah anonymously). I think this personal satisfaction about my idea being accepted that I experienced at the moment is equivalent as someone who is overjoyed to be offered a job in a job interview. Why, oh why, you might think, this event is so significant to me? As I've mentioned earlier, I'm used to people brushing off my ideas, people thinking that I'm good for nothing, people thinking me as a superblur person (this, I damn agree about this, but sometimes, I get quite annoyed when people get prejudiced at me for being blur), and people thinking I am such a dependent person (especially towards my sister). Because of all these evaluation and views towards me, I become not confident and low in self-esteem, thus leading to me stuttering behaviour when having a conversation with someone I'm not familiar with, or even with someone I'm familiar with, but I have a big gap with. In short, I guess, I'm just like a bug, an insignificant creature. But that moment, the moment my idea was mentioned, it was as if, finally, this insignificant bug is contributing something towards the club which she is usually seen as not taking the club seriously (FYI, I always arrived late for the club's meeting :").. I am happy that my idea was being considered. I hope they really make it happen and I don't mind to lend a helping hand if they want to create a blog or find someone to blog because I (though still amateur in blogging) already have an imagination what the blog will be like. ;)

PS: I was really touched that my friend was advising me, but as usual, I always follow my stupid intuition to let others step on my head.. :" (sorry to let you down~)

I am in Blogging and Reading Blogs Mode..

I know I should have been more discipline to control my temptation to blog but urggh.. I can't. Anyway, it's lent season and I should expect more temptations going on besides the urge to blog.. Since I am in the library and the line was good enough, I think, why not create yet another post? At least I get to blog what I want and not according to some assignment format which is so tedious and confusing for me. Just another post this week, and then I should switch off the blogging mode and then return to the ASS-ignment mode, plus revision mode.. Man, I got two tests coming this Thursday and Friday but my compact (with air probably) brain is too lazy to cram yet another beneficial input to save its owner from failing her test this week.

Today is quite different from other Mondays before because usually I attended my swimming lesson from 5 pm to 7 pm. But from today onwards, swimming Ko-K is out of my way because the day that I had my swimming test was the last day of Ko-K. I did not realize it was the last day, and thought today would be the last day, but huh~ I was unprepared to drink all the swimming pool memories (pun intended) [I drank a lot of swimming pool water (ewww??) during my swimming lesson..] in..

Bye bye USM swimming pool.. Though I always complained that I had to walk a long way just to reach you, I guess I should thank you for letting me swim and walk in you (before I know swimming).. Though I had bittersweet memories there (bitter because being laughed at for being a slow learner in swimming), at least I had gained new friends and new skill there. Not to forget the most important detail, where I swam in you for free!!

At first you were my enemy, for you failed to support me whenever I tried to float on you,
but now you are my friend..
Whom I might miss quite terribly~

PS: It's 9.10 pm already.. Switching off my blogging mode..

I'm Mad at Milan (the bus ya, not the place) !!

After shopping for interview items and attending the Mass at OLS Church, we were in a really good mood, until......

I'm sooo extremely and totally mad at Milan bus!!!!

Ya know why, and what? They DARED to charged us RM1.50 per person for our journey from Komtar to Sungai Dua.
Such a crappy money-cheater and liar!!

(-_-)

For those who lived and stayed in Penang, as we all know, the standard price for Milan bus for that journey is RM1.00 - and probably not RM1.50!!!
It's illogical that when we paid RM1 for our journey from Sungai Dua to Komtar, and being charged at a different rate for the same journey length to return to Sungai Dua at the very same day...

And what was their so-called rational for charging us at this rate?

Quoted from Mad Money-Cheater bus driver:
"Rapid bus also charged RM1.50, so we also charge RM1.50 lah!!"

What a joke!!
That was the most foolish statement of the YEAR, and undoubtedly of the century.

"Wahai pak drebar bas Milan, sedar dirilah mak oii!!! Nama saja sedap - Milan!!
Tapi servis tu hampeh betoi!!! "

Why do they even have the nerve to compare their service with Rapid Bus's service?

First of all, the 5727 Milan bus just now is not air-conditioned.
And all the Rapid buses are air-conditioned.

Secondly, every Milan bus does not issue a ticket. So, we never know where the money we paid gone to. In the pocket of the bus driver or the Milan bus company?
Rapid bus, on the other hand, issues every passenger the bus tickets, thus the probability for the driver to be dishonest about the money is like, zero percent.

Thirdly, Milan bus takes a long time to reach the destination.
They waited at the bus station until the space inside the bus is full, then after that they are satisfied to leave the station for our destination.
Rapid bus, on the other hand, is fast, as fast as the name. They just stayed for a little while at the bus station, then they move to reach your destination as rapidly as can be.

And Milan buses are usually very smelly.. (Nauseating)

Hmmphh!!!

They (Mad Milan bus) think they can easily cheat our money because we are students ka?
Don't they realize that students are always the most rebellious among the citizens' group?

Wait ya, wait ya...

One day, 5727 Milan bus is gonna lose one of its tyres!!

Muahahahahaha!!!

My Looks Fooled Ya'll !! (Don't I look Malaysian enough?)

It's ironic when I did not have the intention to fool other people, they are fooled and when I had the intention to fool them, they are soooo not fooled.. I did not fool others verbally, but they were just fooled just by the way I looked. Let me describe the way I look. I have black short hair, dark skin, average-sized eyes, average height, and I am Chinese. (Refer to the side of the blog) But people tend to think I am Malay. And that's understandable. People tend to mistake my ethnicity, but recently, strangers that I just met had their own ideas of what my nationality is. I thought I looked so Malaysian, and then the comments and queries from strangers made me think twice.


The first incident was when I was at Prangin Mall with my sisters and her friends at a bra store. Suddenly the saleswoman approached me while I was scanning through the weird-looking bras and asked me "Are you Indonesian?" The moment I heard her question, I laughed out loud. I told her that I am a Sarawakian. And she just nodded. And she asked us if we came to Penang to work, and I answered her, "Urm, we come here to study.." I could not hide my amusement and I was clearly grinning that moment. The saleswoman was smiling sweetly and looked at the five of us and nodded "Good, good." Then I nodded along and wondered, if only we were really Indonesians and we came here to work, will the same comment come out of her mouth?

The second incident happened the day right after the first incident. This second incident took place at a bus stop near the Language Centre. Me and my friend, Hema, just came back from swimming practice and we were like, dead tired, man.. We talked and talked but not even one bus came that time. Then, suddenly, a Chinese guy appeared. Apparently, he just came back from jogging. He asked us, in English, with his Mainland China accent, how long have we been waiting there. I answered him "Half an hour." Then, out of the blue, he asked me "Are you from Thailand?" I was like, hehe, with an amused facial expression, corrected him and said that I am from Sarawak, Malaysia. I even told him that I am actually Chinese, but I am a mixed-blood of Chinese and Melanau.

The third incident, took place at the Language Centre's bus stop again. And the incident happened just yesterday. There were these two girls, one with tudung and one without tudung, waiting at the bus stop with me. They were conversing in a foreign language, which I finally detected as Thai language. Suddenly, the Thailand girl who wore the tudung eyed me with an interested look and asked me something. At first, I thought she was speaking in Thai language to me, but when I asked "huh?" she repeated her question -"Where are you from?" Inside my mind, I was like, not again, not this question. I've had enough of this questions for the past few days. No wonder I noticed both of them kept checking on me earlier. I thought they were laughing at my slippers, and thank God, no, they weren't. I answered them, with the same amusing feeling, telling them that I am from Sarawak, Malaysia. And she was like smiling, saying that she thought I was from Thailand too. She informed me that she and her friend were from Thailand and I was like, "Oh, i see.." And pretended that I just realized it though I knew it all along. ;)

Actually, I am not the only one in the family who faced this looks-fooling crisis. Both of my elder sisters were facing the same circumstances too. My eldest sister was mistaken by her best friend's family's friend as their Indonesian maid when she went shopping with her best friend's family, which I find amusing till now. My second sister, on the other hand, was mistaken as an international student from Japan during her first year in the university. It was not easy being mistaken as international student, she said, for the other students did not dare to approach her, thinking that they need to speak a really good English to interact with her. Lol.

Me, a Thailand girl? Maybe, I gotta do a research on my family background to see if I have ancestors from Thailand. Or else, why do people got fooled when we don't even try?

Supersticious Alert!!

It's already past 12 am in Malaysia, and the date is 13th March 2009, and this date falls on Friday.

In short, it's Friday the 13th.

Actually, I did not notice it but when my Facebook friend mentioned about it in her shout out the other day, I was like, man, how come I overlooked the date??

So, what do you think all the superstitious people out there are gonna do??

Let me guess...

a) The superstitious students would stay at their hostels to avoid any bad karma or any unfortunate happenings.
Action taken: Skipping classes and lectures.
Outcome: Minus one attendance. 30 something percent of getting barred from exam. Talking about unfortunate event.

b) The supersticious workers would stay at home and probably won't get out of the bed, cause afraid later something terrible might happen at their working place.
Action taken: Skipping work.
Outcome: Your boss gonna have bad impression about you. MC? Not an excuse.. Huh~ You're not healthy and tough enough to be his/her employee!!

c) The supersticious females would try to mandi bunga to keep the bala away. As the Malay people said "Mandi bunga untuk buang bala."
Action taken: Plucking all those beautiful nice smelling flowers.
Outcome: Less beauty on earth. Mother Nature's gonna haunt you!!

I, on the other hand, am gonna continue my Friday routine as usual.. Why? I am not superstitious. Nothing bad gonna happen to me on this date.


URm, touch wood??

Something Worthy from WUS!!

Actually my main purpose of visiting the WUS Ekspo Jualan was to support a close friend of mine, Lee Ying, because she was opening her WUS stall today. For those who is clueless about what WUS is, actually WUS is a course to educate the students to become the future entrepreneurs.
So, students were exposed to entrepreneurship and were asked to sell something on Expo day,
with one condition, where they were not allowed to sell food or drinks.

Well, after finishing my LSP class, I went to take a look around the WUS expo court with my friend, Pei Lee, and we could not find where Lee Ying's stall was. Then, I saw a stall which sold something I like - Second hand story books!!! (I know I am a cheapskate..)



But these are Sweet Valley Twins books!! [Plus one Dear Amanda book which kind of have interesting synopsis and it also reminded me of my best friend.. ;) ]
And how cheap are they?? RM 4 for one?? Nope, but RM 4 for four books!!
One book for RM1, and I was like, wow~

Though I don't really favour SVT books nowadays, I had a tendency of making sure I read every series in the book that I ever liked. And these series were the ones that I ever wished to read, but never had the chance and already forgot that I wished to read them. But now, as Celine Dion once sang, "It's all coming back to me now~" I wanted to buy them so much and read them after the semester exam!!

Actually, I was thinking of buying only one book, but when I saw some of titles which I did not have the chance to read when I was 13 and 14 years old, I thought, maybe, this was just the right time to compensate them.

Besides buying these teenagehood favourite story books, I bought a cool shirt there.
Purple in colour.. ;)
(Though not my favourite colour, but I think the purple shirt colour looks better than the blue one, which is my truely and madly favourite colour)

So guess how much does the shirt costs?

RM10??

Haha, nope.. But almost right..

It just costed me RM 8!!


Total them up = Just costed me RM12!!

Plus, there is no need for me to pay for the bus fare compared to shopping at the mall because this WUS expo's venue is inside my university area.

I guess I am looking forward to the WUS expo again the next sem. I wish they are going to sell something like formal shoes and attires... ;)


P.S: By the way, I wondered how much did the students earned for offering such good bargains?

Getting the Best Out of Unhealthy Food

Being a university student, we tend to save our money by limiting the budget of our food. My hostel mates opted not to eat and sometimes ate instant noodles daily as their lunches or dinner to save budget and to save time. Everyone was busy until they had no time to tapau something from the cafeteria.

My sister, a health-conscious person that she is, used to advise me to take less instant noodles (she asked me to consume them only once a month) because as everybody knows, instant noodles are not good for health. For this semester, I did not touch any instant noodles until this morning. I prepared an instant noodle (Maggi Mee) for my lunch because I was lazy to tapau something from the cafeteria and by the way, it's lent season now and I was trying my best not to indulge in luxurious food - but actually failed because everytime after church, me, my sister and her friends would go around Prangin Mall in search for the best and worth it diner. So, at least, during the weekdays, I would try to fast, as in eating less luxurious food (not like the Muslim fast where I can't even drink, man, until now, I am really amazed at how my Muslim friends could stand a whole day without eating and drinking)..

Fasting is good too because a) we can save money, b) we can get rid of the fat in our body, c) You would not take for granted of all that luxurious, especially the home-cooked meals and not to forget d) Not need to eat that oily stuff from the cafeteria. At the same time, I did not neglect my health by eating this Maggi Mee, don't get me wrong. While preparing the Maggi Mee, I made sure it has some health benefit in it, while trying hard to minimize the unhealthy contents in it. I threw away the water that I used to boil the noodles for three times and finally I mixed some carrots inside my bowl of Maggi Mee soup and voila, a not-so-unhealthy Maggi was ready to be eaten. If possible, add an egg as a source of protein in your instant noodles, besides contributing for yummier taste. So, my sister finally agreed on my method, which actually I got from my neighbouring hostel mate who is a health conscious person. If you are to eat something unhealthy, don't forget to mix something healthy in it so that you can lessen your risk of getting the negative side effects of every unhealthy meal. But that doesn't mean you can stay safe if you eat Maggi with carrots and eggs everyday. I just mean that whenever we consume an unhealthy food, try your best to make it not as unhealthy by adding some health benefit to it. I hope I conveyed my message clear enough.

PS: By the way, I think self-prepared meal is sometimes better than the cafeteria food in terms of the hygiene and the freshness of the food. Besides, DIY food is beneficial because they are budget-friendly too and who knows you might discover a new way to make tasty, healthy, easy DIY food and ended up like Rachel Ray? ;) Try your DIY not-so-unhealthy food, such as bread with prunes or drink Cola with a slice of lemon, and many more...

Hola Comida!!

There are a million reasons to say YES and not to say NO to this outing opportunity. The day Senor Omar announced about this visit to USM Engineering Campus for the International Food Festival during my Spanish language class two weeks ago, I did not have the second thought on agreeing to participate the moment I knew the date of the trip is on 10th of March 2009, which is today! The top 10 reasons why this outing is worth my participation is because :

1) It's FREE of charge

2) We will have excuse letter for the classes today (the best way to skip classes)

3) When you say the word FOOD, it's the biggest temptation for me, and when you mentioned the word International, it is a MUST GO urge.

4) It would be my chance to get to know some of my Spanish language classmates better

5) I've never tried Spanish style food before, so this is a good opportunity

6)I've never been to Engineering Campus, and since my curiosity mode is on, there is no way I should ever say NO...

7) Another reason for camwhoring, urm, i mean, taking nice photos of the view and the food.

8) I want to see if Senor Omar knows how to cook!!

9) I love outing!!

10) Have I mention that it's free?? I think that reason alone could trigger everyone to join this outing if were given this golden opportunity!!

Okay, so as usual, if going for an outing, I would be on the punctual mode. Woke up around 6 a.m. and I was one of the early birds this morning, to be at the Language Centre as early as 7.35 am. The USM bus would pick us up from there. But as usual, (or was it curse?) whenever I am early, the other person must be late, and not just late, but late late, as in terribly late. The bus driver who was supposed to pick us up at 8 am finally reached the Language Centre at around 8.30 am. I know it was just 30 minutes but well, I was there as early as 7.35, so for me, it was like an hour wasted on waiting, ya know..

The journey from USM main campus to the engineering campus was like about 30 to 40 minutes, and when we finally reached the engineering campus, my first impression was like, wow, it was soooo lonely there. I barely see any student walking at the sideways at the university. And then, there were fewer parked cars in the parking area. If this were the main campus, some of the cars don't even park on the parking lots, but at the non-parking areas. The cars were just like two to three cars at a parking area with 20 to 30 lots. Man, such a waste, don't you think?? But I guess most of the students use the bike or walk to class everyday, so there is no need for buses to fetch them everyday, thus less air-pollution.

Then, when we got out from the bus at around 9 am in the morning, we stood there watching the Spanish language teachers do some preparations for the Spanish food stall. We did not help because as usual, everybody was trying to help, so me and my friends gave them the opportunity to help by not helping.
See how we can help others by doing nothing?? Hehe.

We took some pictures and then we went wandering around the campus. My two friends, Dijah and Tze Ping had not have their breakfast, so we were searching for cafeteria to feed ourselves.
After searching for about 10 minutes, we saw the cafeteria.
Tze Ping (left) and Dijah entering the cafeteria



Man, the cafeteria was really big. It was not like in USM main campus, where there are small cafeterias in every hostel. This cafeteria was like an eating hall. And there were many stalls. Moreover, it was really clean compared to our cafeteria back at Penang. I mixed kuey tiaw, fried rice, fried mee and fried egg on my plate and ordered orange syrup and the total was only RM2.40. RM 2.40 for food and drink! Man, it was way cheaper than the cafe back in the main campus. I would've paid RM3 for food alone if this was back at Penang.
Wow, I totally like it here in the case of the food's price. ;)

After eating, we went back to the International Food Festival court and took some more pictures. We tried to help by promoting Spanish food such as tortilla de patatas, which is a kind of Spanish omelette mixed with potatoes, tapas which is a kind of Spanish sandwich, and other kinds of Spanish food. I was drooling over the food, thus I quickly buy the food coupons to buy the food. It was worth every cent, the price, cause I paid RM1 for two tapas, and also another RM1 for two tortilla. I was surprised I still have space to put all that food even though I just had a meal at the cafeteria before that.


Tacos (upper part of the photo), tapas (lower part of the photo)


The tacos de hongos (which is tacos with chicken)

Then, me and Tze Ping went to watch the demonstration for the Chinese style cooking and got the chance to taste the sample of the food. Man, how I love food tasting.

While busying myself savouring over the wonderful smell of the food, there was one thing I noticed about Engineering campus. There were more guys than girls in this campus was the first thing. The second thing was that, I realized, NO WONDER there were NOT many good-looking guys back in USM main campus. If there were, they were only a few of them, on the scale one out of 25 male students. Sorry, make that 1 out of 50 males. The reason why there were not many good looking guys back in my campus was because they were all here, HERE at the engineering campus!! I can confidently say, 1 out of 5 males in this campus is a hottie. Seriously.. The average looking in this campus would probably be a hottie if they are to be measured by USM main campus standard. No offence, USM main campus guys. You are lucky to be here because if you are at the Engineering Campus, you will never get a date based on your looks and style alone (slam the USM main campus guys for being so vain, and perasan diri hensem) and also the fact that the girls there are rare species??

Then, the thing that lifted my spirit here was that my number was called for the lucky draw session. 609!! Yay!! I won a wrapped gift and later found out at my hostel that the content was a metal mug.

The wrapped gift that I won..

Man, I've always wanted an extra mug because currently, I only had one mug and I am very tension because I have to wash it everytime after drinking a hot drink when I only need to drink a cold water after that.

So, as a conclusion, I think this outing is totally worth my time and money (not the money for this outing but the money i spent there, because as I mentioned earlier, this trip is free of charge) and I even won a lucky draw. The feeling of winning something itself is already such a wonderful feeling, what more to say the prize was something that I've always wanted all this while.

Unfortunately, I was unable to upload the photos of the events for this outing because of the poor wireless connection here. Anyway, mi gusta comida de Espanola mucha!! Adios amigas!!

PS: Updated.. I think it would be such a waste if the photos during this trip were not posted, so I went to the library and uploaded all those memorable pics cause the wireless line in the library is better.. And one more thingy, too bad the group photo was not with me.. -_-

but it's okay, cause as long as the food are shown, then you will understand why I was drooling over them.. ;)

Jammed and Jumbled Mind

Today, I woke up early to practise swimming with my sister at her apartment's swimming pool. I am going to sit for my swimming test this Thursday, and yet I haven't improve breast stroke swimming style. I run out of breath easily.

After swimming at her place, I went back to my hostel though she asked me to stay till noon to have my lunch there. Actually, I would like that, but this semester, I am getting busier and busier till I have no time even to stay a little bit longer at my sister's house. And surprisingly, it was easy for me to adapt to this lifestyle, where I am less at my sister's house but more at my own hostel. I felt that I have more privacy at my hostel than at my sister's house because she had lot of housemates and I felt that everytime I am at her place, I have no mood to study but to go online. Here at my hostel and at my own room, I felt more comfortable. Though I have compromises for choosing this hostel over my sis's apartment this semester, I felt I have to do this so that I have more time studying than just idling around. I was more dependent on my sister last sem compared to this sem. And this sem, I am going to make full use of my time more. But now my mind is jammed and jumbled up while doing the introduction of my HET 123 assignment. Fuh!!

Then while making my assignment, I received a message from the vice president of the CUS club asking me to become the MC for the night because it's a tradition to have junior participating in the event. Man, I know my name is MC but I don't know how to become MC, because a) I have no experience and b) I stutter sometimes (refer to the 10 Mad things about me). And of course, I felt bad for rejecting this because I know I was like the last resort because everybody else is rejecting this offer, I am sure I am not the first to be asked to be MC, I was the second or the second last after this offer got rejected by other people. Lol.

So here I am. I am aware of my problems but when am I gonna solve it?? Blerrh!!

First Step to Stop Gangsterism

This is just the rough idea that I have on the method that we should practise to curb gangsterism. As they say, first thing first, we should use education as the first step to curb gangsterism. Nowadays, every young child goes to school. Moral values should be instilled in them at a very young age. The moral values in them should not be measured just by their scores in the Moral test but also practically. Their class teacher should be their Moral teacher because it is always the class teacher who knows the students' character best. Teachers play a vital role in instilling the Moral values in students because they are like the students' second parents. Since the teachers are playing a vital role in the students' lives, they should not be burdened with many works like collecting money, photostating exercises, and all those clerk's job look alike. These extra jobs is burdening the teachers and caused them to be moody while teaching, causing them to punish students easily or be annoyed easily causing the students to hate schools and therefore loitering around and finally got involved in gangsterism. The school should have a place like Jabatan Bendahari like it is in universities. Students pay their school fees to the clerk or receptionist in a computerised office. I don't see lecturers being burdened with the collecting money's job, right? In terms of measuring the students' moral behaviour, it should not be only the Moral's teacher evaluation on a particular student is counted. The other teachers have the right to discuss a student's particular quality because Moral in practical is very subjective. Then, the government should only allowed students to leave school after Form 6 and not Form 5 or below since most of the jobs with SPM qualifications does not pay well. People join gangsterism for money, because their academic achievement does not ensure good income. Besides that, the school-leavers especially men, should have a legal job within 6 months after graduating. If they failed to show their legal work's licence or permit, then they would be asked to do a job at another state or town. I know it's not easy to implement this, but let's start with the first step. Maybe, it can make a little difference, at least.