last for 2009

2009 lasts till tomorrow just before the clock strikes 12 am sharp. I'll be 19 soon. While I loss track of time enjoying my holidays, a year passed by in a flash.

Yesterday, I went through the newspaper and came across a captivating headline "18-year old Barefoot Burglar". In the age of 18, he has stolen things ranged from credit cards to private planes. Although he is a burglar, I admit I have some sense of admiration towards him. Pixie Lott, a British singer now, makes her way to international stage at the age of 18. Many other 18 year old teens successfully land themselves in the world most pretigious football league (BPL), the long-yearning destination of all basketball players (NBA) and other leading fields of the world. While others blossom out at the age of 18, I spent my 18 watching TV, surfing facebook, but that's my life. I can complain nothing as they have put in so much efforts for their success while I haven't. I don't expect myself to be like them, just hoping that in 2010, I can learn more, know more, do more, see more, grow more and eat more perhaps, haha.

2010, I'm up to my heel and off to go. Don't let me stop.

short tales in recent life

Get something extra for lunch for FREE just makes you feel good. Haha. Few days back, I got a double-sized chicken patty but the tauke just have me paid for the normal price. He said:"You're lucky today, I'm supposed to charge you for more but I'll just have it as the normal price. The two chicken patties just stick to each other." Before this, he also joked about charging me double when I got a double yolk egg. Below is an attached picture of my extra value lunch.

my regular meal

Then, two days before I sit for my ICIS final paper, I woke up at 7.30am for a jog. I planned to start off my last minute ICIS revision after the jog. That morning, my image on the mirror gave me a big shock. I looked like a zombie, or perhaps a panda. Are my eye balls protruding outwards and caused "shadows" to be casted under my eyes? Haha. It was already quite bright that time. The air is invigorating. After having some warm-ups, I plugged in my earphones and took off. I found myself gasping for air just after one complete round around the lake. Low stamina... I LOVE MY SPORTSHOES, although they were worn off. Sorry for not taking good care of you, by making you a pair of multipurpose shoes...

the lake

comfortable, convenient,... support Adidas! haha

And that day, I left my clothes outside drying and headed for IRC for some revision. I think my "RAM" was completely stuffed with ICIS notes, terms, etc until I totally forgot about my clothes. At 6pm, I ran through the rain to "rescue" them. It's too late, anyway. They were soaked wet.

One last tale, I was late for my ICIS final exam. I didn't wake up late, just that I wasted too much time on the way to the examination hall. I had so many butteflies in my stomach when I entered the hall. I took some time to settle down before starting my ICIS final paper. The objective questions were tougher than the subjective ones. Hope to have good marks...

self reflection

I always think that I'm mature enough to organise my own life. Well, now that I really allocate some time to think about this issue that I've tried to avoid for such long time, I realise that I'm not as good as I think.

After entering UTP, my body clock changed. 12am, a time that I considered to be very late back in my secondary school life, now appears to be the beginning of the night. I'll only retire for the night at 3 to 4am. I've put a liitle effort to change it. I threw myself onto bed on 12am yesterday but yet, I woke up at 11am. No matter how early I sleep, I'll just wake up late. My mom wasn't there anymore to wake me up and to drag me to bed.

Secondly, I wasted a lot of time. Facebook is the main culprit, I guess. (pointing the finger to others since I'm the one in blame) I spent a lot of time on Facebook recently. I even surf Facebook when I was revising for my tests which eventually cost me a lot of lost marks. I've rushed through an anime and a Japanese drama recently, Code Geass and Proposal Daisekusen which I rated above 8/10 for both. It is time-consuming but it is much worthy than surfing Facebook. I would also rather use the time I wasted on Facebook to chat with friends on MSN.

I think that I've lived a lifeless life and I've not been using my brain to think in my university life. Sometimes, I have the thought that life is meaningless but I remembered once when my friend said his life is meaningless, I told him,"Life is meaningful, you are the one that is useless to make your life meaningless." I'm damn disappointed with myself now. I seemed to have a scheduled life. It is either going to lectures or spending time in the room surfing the internet. I've also been killing my creativity. I'm living life to the "foolest", not fullest.
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Promises:

1. I would try to sleep early with some exceptions:

(i) if there is a MU match that particular night.

(ii) if I have examination or some assignments to be handed over the other day.

2. I would cut down on my time in Facebook, no exceptions.

3. I would spend more time to think and try to live life to the fullest.

4. I would try to fulfill my promises.

Village 2 in UTP

I promised CSC that I'll take pictures of V2. Sorry for taking such a long time to show you. But at least I keep my promise. Haha.

This is the V2 cafe. Up there is called V2 foyer

where students ususally have meetings.

V2A


V2B

V2D - the block I'm living in. The window above right where the stairs start descending,
is my room. So, I also don't know I'm in the ground floor or the first floor. Haha.


This is the intruder found. So now you can see the consequences of trespassing. Haha.

"I think it is not necessary to let you all take a look at my room so I don't take any photos.

Nothing special about it..."

unconfident

Still remember once when my teacher asked me for the reason of rejecting her recommendation to make me the class monitor when I was still a Form One student, I answered, "I don't want to burden myself by giving myself additional responsibility." And guess what, I was scolded. Some sentences from her speech still remained in my mind until today. "How are you going to take care of your family, and how are you going to survive in future if you are scared of responsibilities?" It was then that I realised what a coward I was, not being dared enough to bear consequences due to a lack in confidence. Anyway, that incident caused no impact on me, how pathetic...

It was so irony for someone who is so unconfident in carrying most of the tasks in life, like me to ask others always to have faith in themselves. Recently, due to my lack in confidence and fear for bearing consequences, driving somehow appears to be a great challenge for me. When people ask me to drive, I'll try to reject. But, no worries because I'm working on it now. Wish me luck to find back my confidence in driving and in whatever things I do. I'm off to go...

Tiredness

Under the scorchingly hot sun, my shirt was soaking wet with perspiration, the perspiration of fear, disappointment and stress. Turning the knob, I gave the door a shove that it swung open widely. My little bed came right into sight. The textbook, calculator, stationery, papers in my bag were mentally so heavy that I had to drag my shoes along, all the way to my table. Prammm..., my bag got landed forcefully on the chair. The fan was switched to maximum speed. Taking off my shirt, I just fell onto my bed like a stone sinking into the sea. The sound of the fan was the only melody in my ears. I did not care if my sweaty back would make the bed sheet dirty. My shoes were still on and I was still in my tight jeans. With ear phones "plugged" in my ears, I was looking up at the fluorescent light. It was so bright. Many things flashed through my mind so quickly that I could barely remember them. Already Gone was the first song played. This sad song made me more emotional. My mind started to flutter and my eyelids were drooping. Soon, I found myself lying motionlessly with a calm yet depressed mind. I couldn't move a single muscle although I was still awake. Even if there was a man with a knife standing right in front of me, I think there won't be any reaction from me. I was so exhausted that even my involuntary reflex system couldn't function. Soon, I was sleeping like a log.

Oh, it's three already, which was the exact time my replacement chemistry lecture started. Taking my pencil case and calculator in one hand, I ran to the lecture hall. Gasping for air, I stepped into the lecture hall and found my lecturer standing inside. I was going to take a seat at the behind row when he suddenly shouted: "Hey you, come in front please!" I was still blurred at that time....

National Day Weekend

Finally, it was weekend again but this was a special one because we would have Monday holiday. Moreover, my roommate went KL. So, the whole room was mine. Hahahahaha. But CY, I didn't touch you thing, don't worry.

As free as a bird after my ICIS lab on friday noon, I washed my clothes and got my finger warm-up for FIFA09 by facebook-ing first. The tough France team got me rematching the game over and over again. My focus disconnected from FIFA when JL called me for badminton. Actually, I was considered beginner in badminton, and I think that's why JL invited me to play so he can bully me. Haha. Mason, CS and David followed along. It was nice. My badminton skills improved, by a minute amount, I think, maybe I hope. Exhausted, I accidentally kicked a senior's file left on the floor. Luckily, the senior was the friendly-type. The game left me with hangover - the aches and pain all around my body, as I didn't warm-up. In the evening, my friend rent a car and brought us out to Tronoh for food. We also went Taman Maju. AND one more thing, I was so reckless to leave my handphone on top of the car and finally realised it when we stopped for petrol-filling. Luckily, the handphone didn't fly off when the car was moving.

There was nothing special on Saturday. I online the whole afternoon and went to play basketball in the evening. At night, I went to watch football with Mason. It was a big match. Manchester United vs Arsenal. MU led 2-1. At the last minute, Arsenal equalised but it was an offside violation. We shouted and cheered like hell until I was too excited to sleep. Anyway, it was not a good performance by MU. Later JL came to my room to sing and Arria came later on to chat. We planned to go for "sahur" at 6am but V2 cafe already closed so we headed back to sleep.

Of course, I skipped Sunday morning. Bearing some mild muscle ache, I still went to play basketball at 10pm. We played with a few pro Malays. I was overcome with fatigue but it feels good to sweat this much. And one more thing, frankly, I really forgot about the National Day countdown. Haha.

It was National Day but I didn't sense any spirit of patriotism around. No sports for Monday. My drama team spent about 3 hours to roughly finish a draft of our script. At night, I had to start rushing for chemistry tutorial. This was the consequences of having the quote "Revising and doing assignment are prohibited in weekends". I didn't even understand what the questions wanted and I wasn't sure what time only I could finish it. So please don't try this in university...

Back to UTP

I got back to UTP at the 17th of July. It was a sad day for me as I had to leave my comfort zone and my family once again. No more mom's cooking but Malay food. No more fast internet but slow-crawling LAN. No more air-conditioned room but "spa room". No more TV programmes but lectures. The office in Block O had already closed when I reached there so I had to sleep at my friends' room. Shock was my only reaction when I saw one of my friends there with his newly-dyed gold colour hair.

When I went for registration for my room the other morning, I was told that there was no more rooms available for me in V2-A and V2-B where my friends lived. Yang and I were abadoned as we had to stay in V2-D. Our neighbours were all seniors who we didn't know. It was still crowded at 12am but silence fell at about 1am. The first thing that came into my eyes when I stepped into my room were lots and lots of cigarrette butts. I wonder how they could smoke until such level. And from the picture, you can also see the dust accumulated on the floor. The curtain was so dirty that I needed to wash it. It wasn't easy works at all to clean up the room.

The cigarrettes butts and dust under my bed

Zoomed

All the rubbish

About the lectures, they were boring as usual. The lecturers were a bit stricter. Both Chemistry and Physics lecturer like asking questions, so it was far more dangerous compared to last semester. I joined some events this semester as a committee and get a little more busy. I had to run over here and there to register for the labs and tutorials which almost drive me crazy.

I went to Ipoh at the 18th before all the lectures started to buy some necessities. I bought nothing but only a big bottle of 5.5L water. Carrying it up and down the bus and travelling from places to places with it was tiring. And before we had to eat Malay food in the cafe for weeks, we indulged ourselves with something tempting in Ipoh.

I think I'll enjoy more in the second semester here in UTP. But we'll see then.

Market

After being dragged away from my lovely bed, my mom brought me along to the market or I should say "pasar tani" this morning with my father. There were so many people. It had been quite a few years since my last time to the market. The sun was high up in the sky although it was just nine. There were lots of stalls selling all kinds of thing but I was engrossed with a fish stall. There were all kinds of fish, including two small hammerhead sharks. In the other hand, the fishmonger was chopping a big sword fish into parts. There were three or four more on his lorry as the picture taken. This is the first time I saw a real sword fish.

see the sword fishes?

Fruit stalls

seas of people

I took only a few pictures because I thought that snapping pictures around in the market would make me look like a hyperactive child who had never been there. Haha. My parents briefed me about some vegetables and fruits but nothing was embedded in my mind. Haha. We bought a few things and headed home as soon as possible before it got even hotter.

an ordinary day

Today is another ordinary day but I would like to make it a point on my life graph by jotting down some events happened today here. This morning, I woke up late, took my breakfast and stuck in front of my laptop again. At 2pm, my sis drove my bro and I to have our new haircut. She had to wait for about an hour and half to get us our new hairstyle. But, I think, the hour and half was worth waiting because my sis and mom said my hair is nice. Anyone who wish to see my new haircut? Haha.

Then before heading home, we dropped by Alor Star Mall to buy my bro a new pair of slippers. My bro only noticed that he left his slippers in one of the restaurants in Alor Star Mall before we stepped into our house. So, we headed back there and had a movie, "Ice Age 3" instead of going back. It was quite nice and funny but "Transformers 2, Revenge of the Fallen" is still top in my list of favourite movies.

At night, there was a heavy downpour with deafening thunder. And, "thack"! the automatic switch or the fuse box closed the passage of electricity to protect the house's electrical appliances from the high-energy overvoltages caused by lightning. There was a blackout. We dared not turn the switch on again because the lightning can still be seen flashing across the sky. My family and I had dinner in a romantic atmosphere with candles all around. Mosquitoes and heat were the spoilers! hahaha. At about 11pm when we came out of the room, our house were engulfed by smoke. We forgot to close the electric cooker and the curry boiled until too dry. Don't worry, there were no sophisticated smoke detectors or water sprinkler mounted in my house. I am dry. I am safe. Just that the scorched food's smell will keep on haunting my house for another day, I think.

origami robot

Boredom invaded me while I was having my daily task - online. Numbness forced me to stand up to move about before I became a statue in front of the laptop. Suddenly, I thought of doing something I used to do when I was a child. Opening the cupboard, I took out some pieces of papers and started trying to fold them into something, anything. Then, I got something. It looked like a jet. Anyway, it looked so... erm.. I should say incomplete. A second look at it gave me an idea that it could be the body part of a robot (inspired by transformer, although I haven't seen it yet). I started making other body parts and glued them together. Finally, I got this.

I also added a sword for "him".

I showed my mom and guess what. She said that I'm too free until have time to do these stuff. She'll give me some house chores. Haha. But really, I don't help my mom much in doing house chores after coming back from utp. Now, this robot is given to my cousin already. She will need it more than me.

Prison Break

Finally, I managed to finish Prison Break. After a long time, it comes to an end and I feel lighter now. Although I don't quite like the ending, I enjoy this drama a lot. Sincerely recommend it to all of you!

想到就写

我好久没有用华语了。今天突然想写些东西，就在这里写下。



我和你真的是天渊之别。我在天，你在地。虽然我站得比你高，但是你站得比我稳。

金钱上，我赚的比你多，可是风险比较大。你赚的比我少，但是你却赚得很安心。

意见上，我的可能比较特出，比较特别，但是你的永远是比较踏实的。

虽然我在空中，我是飘浮着的，虽然你在地上，你是稳稳的站着的。

（“我”指的不是我自己。“你”并不是指定某某人。这只是我突然想到的。）




灯光下的玻璃和黑暗中的钻石，你会选择哪一个呢？

钻石会比玻璃珍贵多了，可是钻石之所以会珍贵是因为它闪闪发亮的能力。

在黑暗中，不管你有多少潜能，你都无法展现出来。

所以，请珍惜机会，好好用你的优点，别因为害羞而错过机会。

（好好用天赐给你的礼物。）

excuse

Just now I was studying Chemistry. I set a target that is to finish two chapters of Chemistry. Then, I talked to myself, if I can accomplish it, I'll go online as a reward. But at the same time, something flashed through my mind. It is something like if I cannot finish, I'll go online as a way to relax. It is an excuse. My mind made an excuse for me so quickly. If can, consider as reward, if cannot, consider as relax. What a excuse! I think I'm used to give excuse in whatever things I have done wrong. Haiz...

laze

Nowadays, I find myself harder to get motivated. I could not figure out the reasons. No more passion in doing many things. I think I'll end up like the japanese shumo if I continue to laze around like this. Just like mud, boneless and always lying around only. I have disappointed many people and I have lost many times. I can't really continue to see my condition now. A final word to myself: Wake!

Foun Da Theme Camp

It was a three day camp in Kem NurNikman. It was quite long ago so I can't really recall all the events. We purposely changed to the last group to be with the whole gangs of friends: Mason, Kelvin, Arrian, Chang Siong, Chia Yang, Jia Liang, Ming Heng, Jin Rong and I.

First, we reached the campsite in a rather bored condition. Erecting our own tent was the first thing we do. Yang, Chang Siong and shared a tent. After our lunch, we played the high elements. It was quite fun except the push-up part. Then, the highlight of the day was the flying fox. Our flying-fox was different. The common one was by holding onto something with our hands while moving downwards but we were hung like superman. And so, we did lots of styles like acting like superman or ultraman. Haha. At first, we climbed up a structure about three storey high. I took the plunge and experienced free fall only for half a second. Then I did the finishing touch by performing the swimming style. When we reached the other end, we had to cross the river back to the other side. The current is quite fast and I nearly fell. At night, we were blindfolded and asked to form a long straight line by holding the front people's shoulder. We were brought around the campsite. Orders were passed from the front like "Ada batu, angkat kaki, uphill, downhill, squad down, ....." Anyway, many other silly orders came out of nowhere. And when the order "squad down" was passed down, it spread so fast that the whole line of people squad down although only the obstruction was still far away for the people behind. It was so funny. We walked for almost 2 hours. The objective was to let us feel for the blinds.

The second day was begun with the morning exercise. Damn sleepy by that time. I think I was running with my eyes closed. After breakfast, we started some team building games. The first challenge was the spider web. We had to carry all people over the "web" without touching it. The second one is the land mine. We failed the game as almost 3 quarter of our group members "died". The third game was continued after the lunch. Given 4 bigs piece of wood and thick ropes, we were demanded to cross an imaginary river. So, we built something like a bridge to get pass to the other side. The last game was the electric fence where we have to transfer the whole team one by one over the fence to the other side. We broke the record! At night, we were brought up the hill to have a night view. The starlit sky was beyond description. It was so mesmerising. When we walked out back to the campsite, my friends and I nearly lost track of the people in front. We kept running and had to avoid the thorns from plants. I was so grateful that there was no rain that night. The night didn't end there. We had ghost stories-telling session. We circled around and started that session. After some times, we felt cold and retired for the day.

We were also awaken at the third morning for exercising. Then, we had three more games. In the first game, we were given two big sheets of clothes where we had to stand on it and kept putting the other one in front to progress until we crossed the finishing line. My group, Delta won. After that, we were divided into Kampung Minyak Wangi and Kampung Sampah. The situation was both kampung's villagers wanna get pass to the other side by crossing a plank, the "brigde". We had to cooperate by crossing the bridge without falling down from the plank. Lots of "hugging". The third game was the A-frame where there was a pilot in the middle while the A structure was pulled by four ropes controlled by other members. The pulling and releasing of ropes by certain sides would make the frame moved forward and continued progressing. Then, we tidied our stuff and kept the tent before departing back.

I have learnt quite a lot of things there. But the most important thing I learnt is KEEP FIT.

My friends and I before playing the flying fox. See whose face looks afraid.

(From left: Mason, Arrian, Me, Jia Liang, Ming Heng, Chang Siong)

My room in UTP

These are some pictures of my room in UTP. It is small and quite hot. I purposely spent some time tiding my room a bit before taking pictures. Haha.

My messy cupboard

My lovely little bed

The table which I do my assignments and the Cadbury rack

I took from the MPH

The way I hang my clothes



My cupboard and locker

Don't ever try to skip class

Last Thursday, I played truant. As my moral debate was approaching, my team mate and I decided to skip our two hour chemistry tutorial to search for data in the IRC for the debate. It was my first time in UTP, if I'm not mistaken. I asked my friend to sign the attendance list for me.

Only about fifteen minutes in IRC, I received a call from LJL, saying that I "kantoi" already. The tutor had already realised that someone signed for me as no one answered when he called my name in the class. Initially, I made my decision to ignore it. Anyway, the internet connection in IRC was so slow at that time, so I decided to go back to class. When I entered the class, I saw that my name on the list had been cancelled and the tutor asked whether my name was the one cancelled. The whole class laughed.

That wasn't the end. He directly asked me to do a tutorial question on the white board. No one had the answer and I hadn't done it. Anyway, I went out and gave it a try. I couldn't get the answer. Handing me the sheet with answer, he said "Stop torturing yourself, just copy it!"

@#$%!

So, I guessed my name will be painted black in his mind forever. Haiz, first try already "Kantoi"! I think I have messed with the wrong guy already.

watermelon

Last Saturday, I went Ipoh with my friends. Again, we went nowhere but Jusco and Tesco. I think I just bought a ring file. What I wanted to highlight on that day was an embarass event. My friends were paying at the Tesco counter and asked me to take a watermelon. Without lingering, I rushed to the fruit section, grabbed one and ran. All I was thinking was they were waiting for me. When I reached the counter, then only did I realise that I forgot to get the watermelon weighed and price-tagged. And so, I ran all the way back to the fruit section again to get it price-tagged. Then, I recalled the situation earlier, that was when I'm hugging a big watermelon and running like hell. It was just like I was stealing a watermelon... I was so embarrassed.

Pictures in UTP

Injured finger

I hurt my finger while playing basketball. I went to the clinic and get my fingers bandaged. I was also given some pain killers and medicine for swelling. The first picture was the one after I trimmed the wooden splint. Before that, it was like the second picture. There was no smaller wooden splinter in the clinic.

Professor George Fitzgerald Smoot's visit

Professor George Fitzgerald Smoot is the Nobel Prize Winner in Physics (2006). He is here for the Bridges-Dialogues Towards a Culture of Peace entitled Contemplating the Birth of the Universe. I don't know much about the universe but I found it interesting.

Cross Cultural Melodious Show 2009 – Melodious Rendezvous

My friends and I went for the Cross Cultural Melodious Show 2009 – Melodious Rendezvous, organised by Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS Orchestra Chinese Musical (UTPOCM) . It was a great one. A well-known "er hu" solonist from Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Miss Xiyao Chen, said to be top ten in the world and a famous conductor were invited to perform.

F1 activities

After lecture, I went to the Chancellor Complex, with SLIPPERS, only to realise that there was an event that day. I saw many secondary school students, maybe from the F1 in Schools Programme. A foreign guy surrounded by many people passed by. It was later then I found out that he is one of the F1 players. I also missed his performance in the evening. What a waste...

My co-curriculum-Modern Music (Alto Saxophone)

My Poster Presentation for English

Mid Semester Break

I had a 9 days mid semester break on the 20th of March. I went back with my senior's car, a Honda Civic or City. Haha.

The other morning, a call from Brendan woke me up. "Wei, CC, I'll go fetch you now, ok?" I jumped up and rushed to the toilets to prepare myself for the first day in Alor Star since I went back to UTP after taking SPM results. Who knows, maybe I'll see a pretty girl. I rushed out after hearing some honkings and Gary was in the Brendan's Peugeot also. We met with Chee Wah and Kee Peow at Simpang Kuala. They called Kee Peow bad guy due to his "prisoner hairstyle". Instead of Kee Peow's suggestion of eating "Ba Kut Tiea", we went to Alor Star mall. We met Fang and Jian Hao there. We had lunch at UNO cafe and chit-chatted for an hour. They brought me to KSAH, our secondary school after that. We walked around, taking pictures and sat inside 5 Gamma where we used to chit-chat all the time. Brushing through the cobweb of time, lots of memories flashed through my mind. The PAS Cup, Hairstyle-Rainy Day, punishments by teachers, ...

On Sunday, Wil Bond asked me to school again to thank all teachers. Chia Soon drove me there. The ride was slow but steady. All my other friends were already there. All of them were there to verify their documents, instead of thanking our teachers. Haha. The principal was having a meeting so we went to City Plaza first. We had McDonald again.

I went to school again on Tuesday to handle some procedures for the LCCI certificate.

I actually spent most of my time at home with my brother. My PC broke out, so the only entertainment left is TV. So, when my Pc finally done repaired, my bro and I watched the Hong Kong drama, E.U. Quite nice but I don't manage to finish all the episode so I bring some to UTP. I treated Jia Liang's Acer as my TV.

On Friday and Saturday, I went to SP and Bukit Pinang for All Soul's Day. I met my cousin, Wei Jing there. We talked quite a lot about university's life. Then, we prayed and ate so much. It's a long time since we gathered like that.

During the mid semester break, I had pork, meat, fish, fruits, everything. My sis brought me to Pizza Hut and also Alor Star Mall's cinema for the movie "Race to the Witch Mountain".

I really enjoyed the nine days and lI'm looking forward for my next break.

Manchester United vs Aston Villa (5/4/09)

After discussing about the drama presentation, I rushed back to my hostel to put all my stuff and flew to the common room. It is because the clock had already struck 10.50. I was informed that Manchester United's formation is quite weak due to injuries of many major players.

So, the match started. Aston Villa seemed to be a stronger team in the first few minutes until Manchester United was awarded a free kick in the penalty box due to back pass violation. Christiano Ronaldo netted it in a flash. Anyway, before the match ended, Carew equalised back with a header. All of us in the common room signed in disbelief.

For the second half, Mason and I went to the RZM cafe. I ordered a big glass of milo. I nearly decided to go back to sleep when Agborlahor scored, making it 2-1. Several changes had been made and Manchester United seemed to dominate the game. At the 80th minutes, Christiano Ronaldo's ball curved right into the right corner. All MU supporters shouted in joys. 90 minutes had passed but there were 5 minutes of injury time. In the last 15 minutes, MU had a couple of good chances but they failed to score. Then in the 92nd minutes, MacHeda, a new player I think turned and shot. The ball curved past Brad Friedel, followed by shouts of "GOAL"! Mason and I jumped out and shouted loudly. We kept hitting the table and shouting. The celebration almost lasted for 5 minutes. So, in the last, MU got all 3 points with 3-2 as the final results.

It was indeed an exciting game. And, I can't sleep after the game.

Apple

I started to like eating apples when I'm in Form 4, both green and red. I think it started like this : "Why the apples in the fridge are left to be rotten everytime? Eat more fruits, please!" My father and mother always urged me and my siblings to have more fruits and vegetables. So, I pay heed to that advice and now I'm slightly addicted to apples.

Another factor is I like to peel apples. I learnt how to peel an apple from my mom and sis. I noticed that everytime they don't let the apple's skin torn off until almost the whole apple is peeled off the skin. Therefore, I tried and tried and finally I succeeded. Haha. I used to watch TV while peeling the apple but now apples are hardly available here in UTP. Besides, I also eat apples on my way to my tuition. I like doing so because first, as a dessert after dinner and second, it prevents my mouth(breath) from getting stink.

The consequences of eating apples are first, never have constipation and second, I'll be getting further away from Chia Soon, Yin, Min Yee, Megat, Tamim, Nazrin and Wan Khalis they all. It is because of the saying, "An apple a day, keep the doctor away!" So, sorry for my doctor friends.

Are rich people getting prettier?

"Are rich people getting prettier?" This question suddenly flashed through my mind when I'm on my way back to UTP. First of all, I'll talk about the title. What I mean is "will the current generation or the next generation or next next generation or next next next generation from a rich family which continues to remain wealthy from generation to generation becomes more attractive in appearance?"

If a guy or lady is rich, he/she will have money to buy some cosmetics for makeup. He/She will have the money to buy fancy clothes and other adornments.

If a guy or lady is rich, he/she will have money for plastic surgery and other alternatives to lose weight, to get taller or others.

If a guy or lady is rich, he/she will most probably marry a beautiful wife/husband. This means that their child may be prettier due to the other life partner's genes.

But most rich guys or ladies are stuffed with "nutrients" by their parents when they were children and they will continue eating with a big appetite and grow fat.

And, most rich guys or ladies prefer to enjoy their life in their comfortable environment than going for sports, games which makes them look "tak bersemangat" and they can't get slimmer.

So, what's your opinion?



(No offense to anyone who is rich!)

My Ambition

Since young, I dreamed to become a famous inventor, just like Thomas Edison or a famous artist like Leonardo Da Vinci. Anyway, when I grew older, I realised that my dream is a dream because I think I can't work for it. FIFA World Cup 2002 made me a football fan. My passion for football once made me dreaming of being a national team football player but being a rational student, my answer is "nope, I won't!"

At the age of 16, I started having the interest towards engineering as I began to watch some National Geography and Discovery programmes at that time. And, I liked to do some small, peculiar but useless stuff with sticks, papers and rubber bands. I tried many but only a few were successfully produced and one of them was my rubber ball. Considering all these, I think I like Mechanical Engineering (Mechatronic actually, to be more specified) as it involved movement. Anyway, I also like architecture, astronomy, Civil Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Too many things already, I think. So, suddenly there was a question orbitting around my head. Is it that I actually like new knowledge and too much exposure to programmes and new things about ME led me to the wrong thought that I like ME?

Until now, actually, I think I still hold tight onto my first ambition---inventor. I like to design things although I'm not good at it. I like to solve problems that made everyone's brain swell. So, I like to learn new but easy things that other people seldom do. To conclude all in a nutshell, I think I just like to earn respect from others and be remembered until maybe 200 years later. And the strange part is I seldom take money as a factor in deciding my ambition.
*Seldom ≠ never

Ist of March

I'm 18 now, quite old for cartoons already but I still like cartoons. And now, I can watch some cinema movies that some of my friends cannot. Haha.

It's my first birthday away from home. At 12 am on the 1st of March, my friends were singing birthday song for me. As most of them only knew my birthday that midnight, there were no presents. And, they suggested to let me play an interesting game as my present. They filled a paper with names and pasted it on the door. The light was off. They started asking questions and asked me to throw the darts to see which name was struck. We couldn't stop laughing as their questions were so silly and funny.

This year, quite a few friends back in Alor Star remembered my birthday and I appreciated it a lot. My family sent me a birthday card. Although I haven't received it yet (hostel supervisor says letter will only reach in 3 weeks), I was so touched. I wanted to go home. My sister promised to give me a treat. Hahaha.

At 11pm on 01/03/09, I watched the Carling Cup final, Manchester United vs Tottenham Hospur. My birthday ended with Manchester United lifting the Carling Cup trophy.

I'm 18 now. New goals need to be set and there are lots of things I need to learn and improve upon.

Acidic Saliva

Few days ago, I suddenly recalled a scene from the movie "Jurassic Park". The scene is that the saliva from the T-Rex dinosaur seems sizzling when it drops to the ground. It's probably showing that the saliva is either corrosive or hot. And, I assume it to be acidic. I wonder is it because the T-Rex is a carnivore and makes prey of other huge dinosaurs only, and so it should have highly acidic saliva for enzymes like protease to digest proteins. Maybe it is just that the movie wants to highlight the T-Rex "superiority". Or is it just a figment of my imagination and there is no this particular scene in Jurassic Park?

Am I?

I always think that I'm a kind friend and always considerate and care for people's feelings. But recently, I realised that I'm actually not that kind of person. Is it that in the old times when I made fun of my friends and my friends said nothing? Or it depends on people to determine whether what I'm doing is over the limit?

I had a friend who is very nervous and he wants confirmation for everything, twice or thrice. Sometimes, when I'm focusing on something, he kept asking me things. Recently, I actually showed my frustrated expression to him. And, he kept saying sorry for that. And not long after that, he told me that he is going to leave my school as he is not suitable for engineering. I kind of feeling guilty for that. Is it because of my reluctancy to help him that causes him to think like that?

And I dunno whether I'm feeling guilty now or feeling scared that actually all people had that impression towards me. Am I a considerate person? Am I? I kept self-reflecting and suddenly I found I had a lot to do to improve my attitude towards friends and other people.

First Blog Here

(-o-) , so sleepy...

I slept late almost every night recently. My definition for late is 1 to3 am. Don't get scared. It's not because of assignments or revisions. I just went to my friends' room to waste time. I found myself lazy and I just can't get back into school life for the moment.

Anyway, I've learnt some new things or I should say starting learning. For now, I'm learning swimming (free style) and I'd paid RM50 to get a new Speedo goggle from Tesco. Actually, I'd just learnt once, planning for the second. I've never touch anything related to music before and now I'm learning flute in Chinese Orchestra. Amazed with people solving the rubik cube, I bought a cheap one too, still struggling.

One thing that I feel relieved here is that I can watch FOOTBALL here. Haha. We had a common room with a FEW Astro channels. Each person has to pay RM5 per semester for that, COMPULSORY. However, I usually watch football match in the V6 cafe in UTP.

My friends in Alor Star kept attracting me to go back. There're messages like these that I receive:

"I cannot sleep lo tonight because I want to go Genting tomorrow already ..."
"There'll be a gathering in CSC's house ... but sorry, I forget you are in UTP."
"I'm in CSC's home now. Very happy with others ..."

Specially for the one who "terasa": Don't force me to run back! I'll jump over the fence, get away from the security, climb over the mountains, cross the rivers, pass the jungle and run all the way back to ..... you.

10 days in National Service

I was among the lucky ones who were selected to join National Service this year. Being in the first badge, we had to go there on the 27th of December, 2008. That morning, we gathered at Stadium Darul Aman. There were lots of people there. I boarded the second bus to Dusun Minda Resort, Kuala Nerang as I reached there quite late. Carrying a luggage, a backpack and a pail full of things was a big challenge for me. It was damn heavy. After bidding farewell with my family, the bus departed. Bus number - ??? 4218. And here I come, National Service!

The ride was bumpy. We reached the camp site at about 11a.m. There was a swimming pool. BUT can only be used by the guests of the resort. All of us were gathered in Dewan Tun Abdul Razak. We were given our room number, a pillow, a blanket, a plate, a cup, a spoon and a set of bed cover after handing up all the documents. All our things were checked before we entered our cottage. They were looking for cigarrettes. I met Chik when I entered my room, that is A11-3. I gave my parents a call. Then, a few minutes later, Akmal came in. We started introducing ourselves. Lunch was provided at 12:30pm. I was relieved after having a look at the bathroom. We rushed to padang kawat lama to resemble for group-dividing. There were 4 groups, that was Alpha, Bravo, Charlie and Delta. My group was Alpha. After that, in order to elect a new group leader, a few trainees and I were selected to give commands but I wasn't chosen. On the second day, trainees from Penang and Perak finally arrived. K.J. from Penang and Amirul from Perak were my new room mates.

I'll talk about my friends and trainers. I met some old friends and knew a couple of new friends:

Chinese - K.J., Jian Tong, Ah Keong, Jian Lee, Wen Jun(Penang), Ah Tong, Sam(Perak), Chia
Ching, Michael, Justin, Soon Theng, Yang Wei, Han Jun, Zhi Yang(Kedah), ....

Malay - Sayuti, Akmal, Chik , Irfan, Akmal(K), Ridzuan, Zuffar, Amirul, ....

Indian - Naren, Para, Kolgi, Tira, Puni, ....

Siam - Pramot

Trainers- Cikgu Ismail, Cikgu Raul, Cikgu Zul, Cikgu Yusof, Cikgu Taib, Cikgu Azi, Cikgu Seha, ....

Except a few stupid babarians, all trainees there were quite friendly. The trainers were also very friendly, helpful and humerous. My funny room mates kept begging me and K.J. to teach them some chinese sentences. Pramot taught us Thai while we taught him Chinese. I didn't jot down but I remembered some like ku chop su, kin kao, su shuai, ku lo, ku tong kan kin mee, .... Anyway, I didn't manage to learn Hindu.

We were taken for a trip round Dusun Minda Resort and briefed about some future activities like flying-fox, obstacles run, jungle-trekking, canoeing, .... which I didn't manage to try. But before all that, I forget to mention that I'm the first one to be cut off my hair.

A few Landmarks in Dusun Minda Resort

Cottage A

Above is the landmarks I could remember and my cottage. Although it wasn't drawn to scale and not 100% similar, I think it was something like that la. It was quite blur, so if you wanna take a closer look, copy it down. Haha. For your info, the dark blue one of cottage A is our bathroom. Our accomodation was quite good. 6 Persons a cottage with 6 beds and lockers, 2 fans and 2 lamps.

The food there was quite nice. 6 meals a day that is breakfast at 7:30am, tea break at 10:30am, lunch at 12:30pm, tea break again at 4:30pm, dinner at 6:30pm and supper at 10:30pm. Chicken or fish as the main protein, one or two dishes of vegetables, and fruits. I went for the medics once for gastric problems, not because the food wasn't enough but I because didn't eat according to time.

Every trainee was given two sets of pakaian celoreng, two sets of pakaian kelas, two sets of pakaian sukan, two celoreng T-shirts. I learned ways to polish my boots from Chik. My boots were so shining as I got a new one. Ways to tie my boots, how to wear the marching uniform, and even ways to tidy our beds were taught by the trainers. Some particular uniforms and shirts can be sent to the dobby. We had to wash the other shirts we brought ourselves.

As for the activities, I managed to march one time, went to Pokok Sena's Buddha class once, finished Kontrak Kita Janji, attended Charater Building classes three days, i think, Bleep Test, etc. Nohting much to talk about the marching part. The Buddha class was quite fun. We sang songs out loud in the bus on our journey back to the camp. The Kontrak Kita Janji was an activity for all 4 groups to present their promise to the trainers like promised to be punctual, etc. Each team even made their own flag, motto, slogan and song. The Character Building classes had some games that contain some moral values needed to inculcate in life. The Bleep Test was a physical test. I passed the test with level 6.6. Haha. At night when all Muslims went praying during Maghrib, I think, non-Muslims were gathered in Dewan Makan. For the first night, Cikgu Zul let us played a game that was passing the bottle around. Punishment will be given to the one holding it when the music stopped. The purpose was for ice-breaking and encourage us to show the real part of us without feeling embarassed. For the other nights, we gathered there to watch TV, play chess and learn Thai. Ah Tong's and Ah Keong's chinese chess skill were good. I had the chance to play sepak takraw and football a while during leisure time.

It was a good 10 days experience. Although I could not try the flying-fox, the gun-shooting part, etc, I hope all the trainees there will have an enjoyable time.