glorious food

it was a day of good food. first, went to pyramid tower in the afternoon for hi tea lunch. high school reunion! great to see all those faces again...and how they've changed...........and how some havent. hehe. like sheu yang...he's like grown so much taller. Gives me hope that i still have a chance! haha. mostly, they havent changed that much though. chun chi, yang chee, han iung, boon han, and yoong loong are still the shy and quiet guys(at least i think they are), yin peng is still the loud girl, siva the same siva, susan and leng wai tad more girlish and pretty already, charlene the same i guess, pui see and yuen yan wore the same kinda outfit(wearing miniskirt cause they dont let you at matriculation? heh), foo and pui ling still the same, chia and sarah still as b*tchy(lol, joking!) and maintaining their gossip queens reputation, wai kit pretty much the same except with the cool long hair, darren still pretty much the same. worst part of it was, some went "amos, u got thinner!", "amos, seriously lost weight!". I was like "no, my weight hasnt changed a bit!". Not gaining weight for the entire year is already a sad thing, but getting thinner?! CRAP!! Anyways, too bad i gotta leave early to the next food destination. oh ya, the food was great!

Went to malacca for a wedding dinner(dad's from malacca). The ceremony was kinda grand, and the food was great as well. As usual, the dinner was served more than an hour late but i aint complaining cause i was still full from the hi tea. Ate quite a lot, and reached home at about 1am.

It's new year's eve! let's all celebrate! it's been such a wonderful year and it gives me a weird feeling that this year is coming to an end. it's just...so many things have happened especially in the past 7 months or so since i came to college. will post about the year probably tomorrow.

adios!

armageddon

i know it's a little too late...but i just watched the movie. Think it was filmed sometime around 1997. Anyways, it was a great movie! Almost got me to tears at some point....ALMOST. haha. Armageddon means the end of the world, so does apocalypse, and ragnarok too, if i'm not mistaken. Mind my narrow general knowledge. It's about this group of oil drillers sent up to space to drill this 800feet hole in this huge 6-miles wide asteroid that'd hit earth in 18 days and kill everything, even bacteria. They were like facing so many freakin problems up there in space but somehow managed to save the world.

Nice!

the 'cruise', the sea, fishstars, and me.

just came back from this royal malaysian navy cruise trip and it sorta gave me new insights and exposure. let's talk about it.

Day 1 - 19th dec
woke up early, didnt have enough sleep cos i was preparing my head gear last night. Head to subang airport, met zen and szu, ali and the rest of the gang. Divided into buses(according to gender...=.=) Long and delayed trip, but we made it to the naval base at Lumut at about 6 something. Oh ya, before that - we were shocked to learn that most of the participants are schooling kids..and we're just about the only chinese there. not being racist or anything but we sorta expected more chinese people.

Ok so reached the base and took some time to actually enter the ship. We had 10-12 beds in a room, 4 bathrooms(or bath CUBICLES), no hot water, i had no blanket, and no place to charge my phone except at the canteen. Begin wondering what the heck am i doing here. We ate dinner, got divided into groups. Me, szu and her bro jing wen, and vino in STARFISH, zen, her sis, and ali in SEALION. Then we gathered as a group and.....talked. Group leaders: ibrahim and hilman. Members: me, szu, jing wen, vino, akmal, taufik, anas, zaki, kila the leng lui, rao, utilsvaran.

Went to sleep later. That's it for the day.

Day 2
Woke up 6.45am. First activity of the day was this Poncho-Poncho line dancing thing...lame but cute. seems it's played at NS camps. Forgot to mention earlier, we had to line up for the meals, kinda like serving food in a prison...lol. AND wash our own plates...grr. Thing is some dont wash their plates properly, and we gotta choose the clean ones every meal.

After breakfast was our 1st activity as a group: designing a flag and a warcry(translated as perang nangis by emir...not perang menang la szu!) It's some kinda cheer thing to boost spirits and stuff. We came up with this idea of joining our hands together, making a star...then drawing a fish in the star...voila! STARFISH! Tagline was "are you a star, or are you a fish?" Now thinking back, we totally separated STAR and FISH throughout the whole thing. Our warcry was like clapping hands, shouting booyakasha(credits to karthik for introducing the word...heh), shouting STAR, and then FISH(again, separated).

After that every group has to explain their flag and present their warcry. Szu explained our flag and at that point i was kinda observing her to some extent, seeing how she worked her way up to being spotted..gotta learn stuffs like that.

Then came lunch, then we were supposed to draw this murale...on a BIG cloth, in 3hours. Somehow, we got our ideas, started painting, and barely managed to finish it on time, although i wouldnt say it was totally completed as planned. Even without a highlighter, szumei managed to get some paint on my hand. great.

Futsal after that. Nothing much. I didnt play(for obvious reasons) and we lost in the 1st round. The place where they play was seriously HOT. It's like in a lower deck and the atmosphere is exactly like a factory..worst place in the ship. and they played futsal there...

At night was this drum circle performance by afiq and gang...not bad i'd say. It's like a group of people playing a certain drum beat using household items..pails, etc. Cool! Almost forgot, there was this Magic Stick thingy, where one representative from each group'll go out to say what was their most memorable event of the day. There's this guy, "Sassy the Don", who's really like stephen chow, chow sing chi! omygosh he's seriously funny, made everyone laugh, and his actions and the way he talks and moves, i was like telling everyone, "chow sing chi ahhhhhhh...."

That night went to charge my phone at the canteen at talked with ali a bit. He seems to not like the ship too...haha. smsed shanna, "hou cham ah...."

Day 3
Woke up early as usual, breakfast as usual. Uncle Adly brought us this exciting news that we're in Pangkor Island and we MIGHT get to go island hopping! But then he cancelled the plan cos we had workshops. sheesh.

Anyway, the workshops were GREAT. There were 8 workshops altogether, each group can only attend 4..grr. First workshop was none other than...drum circle! They couldnt have chosen a better place than at the back of the ship where we can see the ocean and stuff. And so afiq taught us how to play in a drum circle. He never really taught us about how to use the instruments, just how to follow the beat. I was playing this forgot-wat-name where you have to hit with ur hand. hit until hands pain...=.=. Taught us about 1st breaks, 2nd breaks, switching places, stuff like that. Just awesome. and we gotta present the drum circle that night itself!

After the short time with the drum circle workshop was this tiger conservation thing. Done by a group of great chicks, i'd say. I wouldnt say it was THAT boring, but compared to the other 3, this was the most boring one. Basically it's kinda like an english lesson, where they tell us stuffs about tigers, and how is it like to lose a small part of your body(by taping the thumb and index finger together). Nuff said.

Lunch after that, and workshop by Emir about voice projection and emotional persuasion. He can do all sorts of voices and voice projections, and tried to teach us how to be confident in speaking. He didnt cure my speaking problem though...heh. He can speak in all those accents, British, Australian, etc. The workshop was fun, laughed a lot, at the end of it he was like chatting with ibrahim about how they woke up late that morning...=.=

Last workshop was role-play by kak ernie. There're the NGO, kampung people, and developers debating on whether this 'kampung angin pelik' should be developed. I sorta have a vague memory on doing this before, but i totally forgot what it was like. So i thought the kampung people are the ones who fight against development, developers fight for, and the NGO is in the middle. I was part of the NGO and in the end we were supporting the developers...lol. The 'discussion' was interesting, and kinda heated up, in a fun way.

Oh ya, before that, during lunch time, we were suddenly told to perform a sketch at that night itself! So we discussed a bit during lunch, and practised after the workshops. The practise was a hell of a laughter outburst, especially with the way zaki was laughing..haha, seriously damn funny man! Our plan was to perform different versions of poncho-poncho - fast, slow, happy, sad, etc. The laughing was the best part and sudar got it on tape!

After that kila came and tell us we gotta do some sorta presentation from what we learned at emir's workshop, also on that night! So there's the drum circle, sketch, and presentation. walao eh. we discussed a while with emir and we thought of doing this 'selling high heels for men' persuasion, and i'd have to declare to everyone that i'm....not standing on the same level of height as a great number of men around the world.

So the night came, we were on rough seas, at a high speed, and then...seasickness. Some guy apparently vomited at the pathway heading to my room, and everyone who passes by starts scolding...haha. Vomit stains were also in the toilet, and there were people with sick faces lying on the sofas. I dunno why but guys seem to be more prone to seasickness...hmm. Performances time, and szumei was like no semangat because of seasickness. I think i was seasick too...dunno if it's because i was looking at all those pale faces. Apparently, some of our group members are down due to seasickness at that night. So we performed our drum circle, screwed up a little here and there..but it was ok i guess. Our sketch was delayed due to lack of members, not really good news cause we were ready to present. The presentation was also somehow cancelled, that means only one performance for the night. oh well. Oh ya, that night, we arrived at langkawi!

Conclusion: I was actually beginning to like the trip! The whole nilai gang was saying the same things too...cool!

Day 4...man this is getting LONG!
It was the long awaited pit-stop at langkawi island. We were supposed to wake up at 6am for breakfast....'supposed'. Turns out i woke up late, but the breakfast was even later. While waiting for breakfast, the nilai gang was enjoying the magnificent view from the ship, and taking pictures. Seriously, it was sunrise and it was BEAUTIFUL! will post pics later when i get them. Kinda looked like those landscapes you draw in paintings where there're a couple of green mountains, and the sun is rising in between, and you can see the reflection of the sun on the water. not to mention the early morning sea breeze. a glimpse of heaven.

So we took breakfast and headed to the ferry to langkawi. It was kinda cool since our ship was in the middle of the water and the ferry just came to the ship and took us to the port, like some kinda carrier. Waited in the ferry for a long time and it was freezing cold! Uncle fikri was like scolding us because we were late. I was like shivering and thinking "hey ur the one who served breakfast late....=.=". But then again, organisers have their pressures.

And so, we stepped our foot on solid ground, yay. On the way to the bus, we passed by all these shops, selling duty-free stuffs...cant wait to shop! Anyways we went to this national service camp and it has its own beach...cool. Gathered into our groups and performed our warcry...accidentally said FISHSTAR instead of STARFISH...oops! So we started beach games, first game was 'the longest line'..use whatever we have to make the longest line on the beach. Got wet and dirty already. Next game was this game where we have to roll a big die, even number means move forward that many steps, odd number move backwards. quite fun la. After that was this carry-water-from-sea-to-shore-with-a-bottle-with-holes kinda game. sien. starting to get sunburn. ouch! Then we had this water confidence thingy by uncle fikri where we have to go under water, open eyes, and come back up without rubbing the water of ur eyes. crap la! my eyes are so freaking pain and i cant see anything underwater anyway! had to do that like for so many times and i accidentally swallowed a big gulp of SALLLLTY seawater...eack!!!!

Then we were allowed to swim till it was lunch time. FINALLY. burger and jing wen was like teaching me how to float on my back...hey i think i did it! jing wen tried teaching me how to stay above water, didnt get the hang of it though. Tried climbing on top of burger and sommersalt(correct spelling?) into the water, but failed....miserably. Only managed to swim a while, and it was time to head back to shore. That was when uncle fikri declared the 'crisis'. They forgot to bring plates and cutleries. So what do we do with a crisis? We overcome it. went to pluck leaves to be plates...kinda fun hehe. Anyways, they bought paper plates after all, but we put the leaves on the plates for the fun of it. Food was great.

Then there was volleyball, our team won thanks to szumei's 'killer serves'...lol. I didnt get to play..scared if i volunteer myself, we'll lose miserably...hehe. After that, lepak a while, then off to.....

Shopping! we didnt even bathe...haha. went to this Billion supermarket and got our duty-free stuff. So we bought lotsa chocolates(well, compared to the girls, mine was cheap stuff), souvenirs, and...alcohol. Scared to buy too much alcohol though, scared kena tax, according to the uncles. Bought some kampai, burger bought 3 small bottles of vodka. sudar was like holding 2 big bottles of vodka but in the end settled with a smaller bottle...haha. Time was limited, and we rushed to buy stuffs. After that we headed back to the ferry, emir and ibrahim suffered injuries for god-knows-what reason.

So that night we finally did our performance, kinda screwed up the original plan i guess...but hey, it's a performance la. Then there was this looooong performance by the dolphin team...then zen's team did an acapella. I dunno exactly which night, but for a couple of nights they did show videos of the trip that was recorded so far, with music and all...and it somehow got me thinking bout the whole trip, and i felt more positive about this entire thing. Forgot which night again, but they were showing pictures of afiq, aji, and the girl i forgot her name on their sail on board the leeuwin sail ship. I seriously envy those guys for having that kinda experience, i just hope my chance will come one day.......one day. There's also this interesting fact that there's this big secret sentence written on one of the highest points on the ship, and you'd have to climb really hard to reach that point. I wanna see that sentence for myself!

That night we sorta chatted with 2 uncles. Uncle Shafri was this experienced scuba diver and i was interested in diving ever since i watched 'into the blue'...hehe. well, actually i was interested a long time ago. So i asked him, 'how expensive is scuba diving?' Then he said it's not that expensive. Then he talked stuffs about having his own boat, having all this high tech equipment, flying to maldives, flying here and there, having tea with divers from all around the world, and stuff. "not expensive"......right. The fact that he said the journey to maldives was 'only 3 hours', not 'only 2000bucks' or sumthin, has already proven money is not even a factor to count in for him...so much for scuba diving.

Day 5
been typing for about 2hours now...sleeepy. anyways, breakfast was unusually quiet that morning. Apparently, sleep is now more important than food. But the food was great, roti canai! burger and i ate 2 pieces....mmm.

Played some games, 1st one was the traditional build the highest but stable structure game, with balloons. Our groups structure went all the way to the ceiling and we taped the balloon to the ceiling...lol. Uncle asked us to take it off, but he didnt say we're not allowed to do that earlier....grr. Then was this game where we have to build words that related to the sea with a certain set of letters. We did quite well, but some of our words were considered not related...grr. Can u believe it, Sid(character from ice age) is related to the sea??! lol.

After the games we were practically free of activities. They had to spend the afternoon preparing for the last night, and we decided to perform a dance, representing nilai. So we went looking for emir for his laptop, looked for songs, hardest part was looking for a place to charge his laptop! damn the power supply. and so we kinda hurriedly choreographed and practised our dance.

At night was the last night on the ship. Everyone was wearing their environmental head gear and kain pelikat/sarong/batik/whatever. Then we watched the performances, chow sing chi performing! Our performance was totally screwed up, music didnt go as planned, and the steps went haywire. oh well. After the performance was a crazy moment of photo snapping. Everyone took so many photos. I took one with kila....=)

Last night right, so we didnt plan on sleeping much. Went to ali's room for party and drinking the stuff we bought at langkawi. No we're not heavy drinkers..i'm pretty sure no one actually got drunk, although burger's face was seriously RED. We drank low alcohol stuff, and also milo..and ate some peanuts...yea peanuts. So we just drank and chit chat and play bluff....mm hmm. Before i know it, i was sleeping like a pig.

Final Day - 24th dec
And so the last day arrived. woke up in ali's room and saw szu and zen..didnt know they went back to their room. Went back to my room to write this journal they gave to everyone. Then went to canteen and saw the gang writing their journals...haha. Write together. Managed to get some autographs. Funny, we never really talked to some of them before, but on that day we sorta like knew all of them and they knew all of us. hmm...maybe advantage of being girls. No not me, was talking bout szu and zen...=.=.

And so we packed and went into the bus and returned home. Said our last minute goodbyes and christmas wishes, then headed back home.

Later that night, went to puchong to meet hui yeng and woanting, but only a while. Then went to OUG with chiew wai and gang...BORING!

Overall
So we came to this ship with high expectations, got disappointed on the first day, and towards the end we realised it was worthwhile after all. Best moments: all the free time we spent on the back and front of the ship looking into the ocean, enjoying the strong winds, chatting with nilai people and uncles, laughing in burger's room about 'mayonnaise', playing cards and partying in ali's room, workshops, langkawi, mixing with participants, and realising the bad moments weren't so bad after all. Feel really motivated to be exposed to more of this kinda activites, so szu mei, book a place for me in raleigh's camp yea...=) Met a great bunch of people who are younger than me but have so many exciting experiences. Thoughts about doing crazy stuffs are coming back again...

Other stuffs that i learned: ali can actually hang out with us, chit chat, and share things. i seriously didnt expect him to get to mix around with us so openly, i mean he doesnt drink but he lets us drink in his room. luke is a very funny guy too. bryan's attitude is really like karthik. vodka burns ur throat! and lots more....

Post-RMN
so just 2 days after the trip, we kinda had a 'reunion' at mid valley. went there with szu, zen, jing wen, and zhen wei to watch eragon. would like to talk bout the movie, but...this post is just too freakin long already. met chow sing chi right before zen came, was quite surprised actually cause i didnt really talk to him on the ship. after the movie we met the whole gang and played bowling. somehow we talked to them as if we always hung out together on the ship..but then we actually barely knew each other towards the end of the trip. that's cool.

a little bout today...spent quite a lot on food, movie, bowling, and shopping. I ate like so FULL and i was 1kg lighter than this morning??!

k la...3hours typing this post..that's gotta be enough.

u've just finished listening to...
Sahul. Don.
FM.

jalan-jalan...

Went to pyramid with issac to do some shopping i failed to do the past few days. Unlike one utama, shops in pyramid actually know there is a smaller size than M called S. Still haven't get christmas cards though...aiks. Anyways, i ate the most expensive meal that i had to pay myself at manhattan fish market. Considering my financial condition, 35bucks is A LOT for a single meal. Though the food was really nice, made me FULL.

Then went to this fiesta thingie at some club called tropicana golf and country resort with my dad. Woah, those houses there are BEAUTIFUL. was so full but ate summore....argh. Issac was complaining throughout the meal that i left him behind to go with my dad...haha.

That's all peeps!

past 2 days

Well, the past 2 days have been enjoyable. travelled A LOT with public transport...what the heck. so much time spent on waiting and waiting for ktm, lrt, taxi, monorail, u name it. Anyway, 2 conclusions out of the 2 days.

Size is my enemy - crazy man...most of the stuff i wanna buy..they don't have my size. i know i'm little, but at least have an S size la!! i so wanted to buy that sweater man.... But then again,

The Christmas mood is here! shopping complexes are just filled with christmas stuff, especially mid valley. Makes you happy just walking around with all the decoratives, christmas tunes, and people wearing santa hats. Especially the performance today at mid valley, they're clothes, the colours, the songs, their expressions, their dance...brought this really happy mood into the atmosphere. For some reason, i seem to love christmas a lot more this year. Keep on imagining this really merry surrounding, with smiles all over everyone's faces. Christmas smiles are just so friendly.

The sound the fan is making in my room...it has a beat to it...and i'm playing 'jingle bells' in my head with the beat..cool!

second semester...

quoted from shanna: "and so it ends here"

my 2nd semester in foundation and my 2nd semester in this college. somehow at the beginning of the sem i thought this semester's not gonna be as fun as my 1st sem. Turns out it was just as fun, i learned just as many new things and experienced just as many new stuffs. Though 1st sem and 2nd sem cannot be actually compared together, if u get what i mean. Well, words cant descrive enough so i'll let the pics do the talking. Now that i'm back home, i can post pics of memorable events during my 2nd sem here in Nilai. hmm...its also the 1st time i'm posting pics...

something tells me this sets the record for my longest post....

me as orientation counsellor

da orientation group

'graduation ceremony' of counsellors at KFC

me at KL tour

climbing the steps of batu caves..one of our destinations

issac and ah gang came back to visit us

after finishing the badminton recruitment posters

i dunno what's wrong...but i cant upload anymore pics...am tired anyway. to be continued....

foundation is (unofficially)over...

finally done with the !@#$% exams. this means foundation studies is unoficially over...unofficial cos i still have to take 2 stupid LAN subjects next semester, which also means i'll be very free for the next 3months or so. this semester is officially over. the year is to some extent over too. christmas is just around the corner. RMN is comin. Supposed to be happy but screwed my final paper...grrr.

oh well, gotta start shopping for christmas stuff adi. planetshakers is comin tonight...hmm.

sleepy but dont feel like sleeping. i'll have all the time in the world to sleep anyway...heh.

Buh Bye AF2!!

fly time, fly!

10.10am. Exactly 6hours and 20mins more before my last exam finishes, unless i finish earlier...heh. Been studying IT for the past 7-8hours..beh tahan liao. Actually not really, watched tvb with issac for the 1st few hours....cant concentrate on my book. Thanks to him anyways for accompanying me in room..somehow i seem to have studied more effectively. Havent took my bath since yesterday, gonna bathe before exam.

1 chapter to go...then refresh memory on the whole syllabus, then probably try to remember some computer lab stuff, and im done with IT!

Feeling kinda happy now, cant wait for exams to be over!

Wish me good luck!

lalala....

2.48am - Dec 11.The college's lame connection is down again...but i really feel like blogging, so i'm typing this in notepad to save 1st.

Anyways,

Was listening to some songs just now, and listened to '9th march', the japanese song from 'one litre of tears'. It brought back lotsa memories bout the 'gapekissu' gang...although it was only last semester...heh.

So i decided to take out the CD ah gang burned for us and watch it again. Man, cant describe how i was feeling...kinda feel it was indeed fate that got the bunch of us together. It makes me think that one of the best decisions that i've made so far in nilai was to join the badminton club(and im kinda thanking myself a lot for picking up this sport from small...heh)

Ah gang's last words in the cd..."bcos of one badminton match, we've been friends within a week". Very true, indeed. Thanks to the inti open, we've had so much fun together last semester. thanks to ah gang's satria also. Although we dont really talk much, i kinda miss him...
Our 'sudden travel - cuti-cuti malaysia' journey was amazing too. I still remember, the night b4...shanna smsed me while i was sleeping...she said next day hang out. I was like...'walao siao ah...'. Then if i remember correctly, next day i was supposed to wake up in the morning and if cant wake up...then not going. I woke up in the afternoon....heh. Then we discussed in msn bout the plan...until like 3 something. In the end decided to go klcc...walao so late adi. I still remember i had to WALK from my condo to the bus stop which took me 40 FREAKIN minutes! Then took bus to ktm, then ktm to bandar tasik selatan and ah gang picked me up. The way to klcc was like sooo loong. Jam all the way. We were supposed to meet szu mei there but then we were too late so she went back...too bad. Reached there bout 7pm (took me almost 4hours to reach klcc from my place!) and watched 'Just My Luck'. Then went to burger king for late dinner...then went to issac's place to pick him up. Wanted to go to szu's place but too late liao...too bad again. So 4 of us went for drink at cheras. After that, to the so-called 'small genting' in cheras.

Then came the fun part. Dunno who gave the idea but it was like

"why not go to the real genting?"

hmm...got dragged away with the story-telling. I dont really wanna tell so much stories in my blog. Anyway, the sudden trip to genting was a memorable one, memorable bcos it was so late at night (or so early in the morning), bcos ah gang and issac was leaving, bcos it was so quiet there at that time, and bcos ah gang made the freakin CD! All of these together kinda give a weird feeling.

Not to forget, there're also other fun times, like all the roti susu gatherings, elias's bday, eating all kinds of roti, all the badminton games at nilai spring, and our outing at 1 utama. Seriously, i'll never forget my 1st semester at college.

I have to admit, if both of them were not going to leave, we wouldnt have those times. But then again, if they didnt leave, we might have more enjoyable times throughout college. hard to say. It's like a teenage boy from a middle income family having cancer and his dying wish was to travel around the world. The family might try all means to collect money to fulfill the boy's wish and the boy dies with wonderful memories. But if the boy did not have cancer and lives till old age, he might not get to travel round the world and might have been living a boring life.

We cherish something only when they're gone...or when they're gonna be gone.

I'll always remember ah gang's satria that can fit 6guys and a girl(and 2 more seating on the back boot), his subwoofer, the hours we spent in his car, the journeys, watching music videos, initial d, and one litre of tears in his car, and the moment we said goodbye. When i was getting out of the car the day we were saying goodbye(after pasar malam), he really surprised me when he grabbed my hand and said 'bye bye'. ok i know this sounds gay, but it wasnt like that. i felt really warm at that time and i know i was gonna miss him and his car.

All thanks to inti college.

lol.

p/s: just got back my connection. 5.30am now...still got 7 chapters of econs havent study..and it's in exactly 8hours from now....

dreams.........of christmas

7:07 am. Just finished readin my accounts...finally! oh wait...there's still chapter 1...heh. Will do the finishing touches either after this post or after a nap. Kinda happy cos i managed to understand lotsa stuff i never understood before.

Anyways,

Just now(well..last midnight..) was chatting wif winson and jia yee bout christmas plans and having so many imaginations in my mind of what the perfect Christmas would be for me. It's so nice to have dreams isnt it? Well it's the closest i could get to reality if u asked me....i had this really nice dream last night..no, last morning cos i slept in the morning. It wasnt real anymore after i woke up but i sure enjoyed it during the sleep! Sometimes, a dream is good enough when you know you cant possibly get what u want. Throughout the time i was reading accounts..every 5mins or so i'd start imagining so many wonderful christmases...heh. AND smile to myself in the process. ^.^

"Drea-ea-ea-ea-eam, dream, dream, dream
Drea-ea-ea-ea-eam, dream, dream, dream
When I want you in my arms
When I want you and all your charms
Whenever I want you, all I have to do is
Drea-ea-ea-ea-eam, dream, dream, dream"
Everly Brothers - All I Have to do is Dream

Dreams out of the topic, i'd really like a wonderful christmas this year.
Wish everyone out there a very early Merry Christmas!

Wish me good luck for exams too...

Btw, changed my blog URL haha. Kinda sien with 'amos in letters' and i saw other blogs with cool titles... Originally intended to be 'squeeze da juice out' but it didnt look nice in the URL.

two things in muh mind

Went to times square today and SHOWROOM is on sale! the beautiful nike shoe that i was dreaming to buy was like rm195 instead of 279. Not to mention other expensive nike's like the denim one that's only rm230 instead of 300+. aaargh...how could i resist?!

Reeaallly tempted to buy...but then..gotta consider my financial position, not good at all. I dont really wanna waste money on unnecessary items right now cos i'm aiming for japan next year. Previously i was planning on buying stuff that can be useful in japan e.g. a nike sweater...heh. Gotta start weighing opportunity costs and allocate my very limited money to the right items. hmm..i'd probably end up not buying the shoe i guess...if i hadn't buy the shoe that i'm wearing right now..i would've bought this 1 for sure.

Enough about that. Let's talk about 'Deja Vu'.

I was quite sleepy for the 1st 15-20 minutes..then when it came to the part where they were using those high tech stuff to spy on 4 days before..it gets really exciting. Well, it's pretty much one of those time travel movies, but the way they put together the storyline and the logic they used behind the time travel was excellent. I've always thought about the speed of light being the factor of time travel when someone told me somethin bout einstein's theory. and also when i did my oral presentation about 'perception and reality'. If the light reflected from a moving car takes 5 seconds to reach our eyes, when we see the car, we're actually looking at it's position 5 seconds ago. but in reality the car might already be some distance away. Also read that when we look at stars or galaxies far far away through telescopes, we're actually lookin at what it was a few hundred million years ago..since the light takes that long to reach earth. Since the distance between earth n the sun is 8mins of light, we're always looking at the sun 8mins ago. Most of you out there might already know abt this theory anyway, but it's just so cool.

If we lower the speed of light, we can look into the past. But what if we increased the speed of light? does it mean we can see the future? i cant get any logic on that one though...since i'm not sure whether the future has already happened...if you get what i mean...lol. one of my english articles was talkin bout light n stuff sometime ago...forgot what it was saying though.

hmm...was reviewing the movie but got carried away with this stuff.

Conclusion: Rating - A

tagged...

by zen. didnt realise my name was there...hmm. Bored now anyways...here goes:

1. Put your music player on shuffle.
2. Press forward for each question.
3. Use the song title as the answer to the question even if it doesnt make sense.
4. Tag 5 ppl at their tagboard to ask them to do this!
5. Bold the questions and with the answers , give your own comments on how it relates to the questions.

How are you feeling today?
A1 - Like a Rose
What? This sounds gay...

Will you get far in life?
Kinki Kids - Hitori Janai (means i'm not alone...i think)
Dunno if i'll get far...but i'll not be alone? That's cool.

How do your friends see you?
Westlife - If Your Heart's Not In It
Quite true maybe. Think my friends see me as some non-serious guy.

Will you get married?
Craig David - Hidden Agenda
woo...this sounds cool. my marriage will be a hidden agenda to get rich a.k.a 'sek yuen fan'...haha hopefully not. wanna get rich myself.

What is your best friend's theme song?
Coldplay - Fix You
first of all, who's my best friend? hmm...maybe i need a best friend to 'fix me'...heh.

What is the story of your life?
Westlife - Evergreen
My life is evergreen? that'd be nice! youthful always...heh.

What was high school like?
*some jay chou song...dunno wat title..skip to next song..hehe*
Kinki Kids - Hitori Janai
again? well i guess that means my high school wasnt lonely...

How can you get ahead in life?
Jojo - Too Little Too Late
by being too little and too late? well...im little in size..and i always do last minute work. if that's how im gonna get ahead in life...fine with me! dont wanna stay 'little' though...=.=

What is the best thing about your friends?
Carrie Underwood - Inside Your Heaven
well, friends are great but i dont think they're 'inside my heaven'...lol.

What is in store for this weekend?
Craig David - Hands Up in the Air
hey...am i gonna get arrested or sumthin this weekend? hell no! maybe i'll be dancin with hands up...heh.

What song describes you?
Jay Chou - yi lu xiang bei (initial d song..dunno wat the title means...so next!)
Nobuo Uematsu, Aki Kuroda - Yuna's Determination
din know i had this song in my pc...anyway...'determination' describes me? well it doesnt..at least not for now cos im the hangat-hangat tahi ayam type..hopefully in the future i'll be more determined to reach my goals.

To describe your grandparents?
Backstreet Boys - Shape of My Heart
dun get it...why describe my grandparents? lemme see...they're the shape of my heart? no comments...=.=

How is your life going?
Jesse McCartney - Beautiful Soul
woo...i have a beautiful soul? thx!

What song will they play at your funeral?
Westlife - Mack the Knife
ANSWER OF THE DAY! i dunno what 'mack' means...but...KNIFE?! what the heck...i'm gonna be murdered?! and they're playin the song at my funeral to tease me?!

How does the world see you?
Westlife - Flying Without Wings
here comes superman! oh wait...he has a wing...aiks. Does that means the world sees me as a happy person? hmm..

Will you have a happy life?
98 Degrees - I Do (Cherish You)
hey...direct answer..i will. hehe. but the 'herish you' part kinda spoils the answer. does it mean i have to cherish myself (or 'someone else'..heh) do be happy?

What do your friends really think of you?
Nine Days - If I Am
just now it was 'how do your friends see you'...now it's what they REALLY think of me huh..sucker. 'If I Am'..it seems to have a deep meaning to answer that question..6.30 am now..cant really think...heh.

Do people secretly lust after you?
Westlife - Queen of My Heart
woo..the queen of my heart lusts over me? no need to 'lust' ba...'long after you' would be a better word...hehe

How can I make myself happy?
Westlife - Heart Without a Home
by having a heart without a home? maybe it's sayin i should be some kinda playboy...lol.

Will you ever have children?
Jay Chou - ye ye bao de cha (badly translated as 'grandfather make punya tea'..LOL)
well in that case..i will have children. if not how to be 'grandfather'...

i'm done. this was fun. ain't taggin anybody...dunno who to tag. back to my econs assignment!
oh ya...happy birthday shanna! have a memorable 19th year k!

lifehouse - come back down

Staring right back in the face
A memory can't be erased
I know, because I tried
Start to feel the emptiness
And everything I'm gonna miss
I know, that I can't hide

All this time is passing by
I think it's time to just move on

When you come back down
If you land on your feet
I hope you find a way to make it back to me
When you come around
I'll be there for you
Don't have to be alone with what you're going through

Start to breathe and fake a smile
It's all the same after a while
I know, that you are tired
Carrying the ones you lost
A picture frame with all the thoughts
I know, you hold inside

I hope that you can find your way back
To the place where you belong

When you come back down
If you land on your feet
I hope you find a way to make it back to me
When you come around
I'll be there for you
Don't have to be alone with what you're going through

You're coming back down
You say you feel lost can I help you find it
When you come around
From time to time we all are blinded
You're coming back down
You don't have to tell me what you're feeling
I know what you're going through
I won't be the one that lets go of you

I think it's time to just move on

It's 5.39a.m. right now. Was doing my Econs tutorials then i decided to eat cup noodles and watch Smallville. Season 4 episode 18..heh. Then i heard this nice song playing right at the start of the show. Love it! Then i was like, 'hey that's lifehouse..' It's called 'Come Back Down'. Great song...i wonder why it wasnt popular then..or maybe i just didnt notice it. At the end of the show they sorta played the song again..and then they played 'You and Me'. I used to REALLY like the song last time..and now i like it again cos they played it in the show..heh (not to mention clark and lana was dancing..).

Anyway, back to this song..after the show i quickly googled the lyrics to get the title. Then searched dc++. God blessed me..justin shared it. Heh. Quickly downloaded and listened..nice! Found the guitar tabs but cant play though...jeremy's sleepin hehe.

Credits to Smallville again for the nice selection of songs, and for lifehouse to be guest stars. Just lurve the series! More of these songs and i'll turn full-time music blogger...lol.

p/s: i do realise this song must be kinda old/outdated by now...but who cares! Heh.

feels like today..

Rascal Flatts - Feels Like Today

I Woke up this morning
With this feeling inside me
that I can't explain
like a weight that I've carried
Been carried away, away

But I know something is coming
I don't know what it is
But I know it's amazing, you save me
My time is coming
And I'll find my way out of this longest drought...

It feels like today I know
It feels like today I'm sure
It's the one thing that's missin'
The one thing I'm wishin'
Life's sacred blessin' and then
It feels like today
Feels like today

You treat life like a picture
But it's not a moment thats frozen in time
It's not gonna wait
Til you make up your mind, at all

So while this storm is breaking
While there's light at the end of the tunnel
Keep running towards it
Releasing the pressure, that's my heartache
Soon this dam will break

And it feels like today I know,
it feels like today, I'm sure
It's the one thing that's missin'
The one thing you're wishin'
Life's sacred blessin' and then,
It feels like today

Feels like, feels like your life changes
Feels like, feels like your life changes

It's the one thing that's missin'
The one thing you're wishin'
Life's sacred blessin' and then,
It feels like today
Feels like, feels like your life changes
Feels like, feels like your life changes

This is one song i'd like to hear first thing in the morning after i wake up. Kinda like gives u the spirit to live the day, especially if u dun have enough sleep (like me). First heard this song in an episode of Smallville at the end of it and i knew i gotta get it. gotta love those songs they play in the series, heh. Very motivating.

Best moment to hear the song? Whenever you have this great adventure for the day, or great stuffs to do. like lets say a badminton competition? final exams? journey round the world? heh.

Speaking of motivational songs, i remember one song i liked to sing to myself everytime during SPM last year.

Shannon Noll - Shine

Get up, get up, get up, get up
And lift your head
C'mon, c'mon
Get up out of bed.
Today's the day you hold the world
With your song

Go now, go now, go now
Help ascalate
Angels come down
Help with this parade
To hear the voice ring out
C'mon lets shout
And let your song be heard

This is the time
This is the day
That we've been waiting for
All the world will stop
To watch you shine

Hey now, hey now, hey now, hey now
Sing your hymn
This is the new national anthem
We will all stand on guard
To let you be heard

Let go, let go, let go
All the cannons
How beautiful this world has become
Now everyone will see
What i belive
That these words should be sung

This is the time
This is the day
That we've been waiting for
All the world will stop
To watch you shine
This is the time
This is the day
That we've been waiting for
All the world believes
That you will shine

And if you fall
And if you fall
And if you trust and
Yes it will come true
Hey, hey, yeah

Me two cents worth of songs.

random thought of mine...

Have u ever thought of doing something so crazy/insane/unbelievable/impossible that no person in his right mind will do? I mean like suddenly just doing something out of the ordinary without thinking about the consequences or whatever that will happen to your life after that. No, i'm not talking about stuff they do in fear factor like bury yourself under thousands of cockroaches. Those stuff are temporary.

What i'm talkin about is somethin like deciding to just stop your college education halfway through even if u've been maintaining straight As, then decide on how to make the best out of your life. Travelling to London with 40bucks in your wallet and a backpack, and never returning home until u've been to every country. Hitch hiking around the country/world. Stuff like that. Stuff with such a great risk of failing, such a tough road to walk on, but u know that if u do SUCCEED in the end, your life was worth living.

Forget about playing safe, about taking into consideration all the possible outcomes of the serious decisions that u make before making the choice, about following what the rest are doing because so many people cant be wrong.

What if we just go through life without a plan? What if we just "let things be".."sun kei zi yin"? Seriously, without any plans whatsoever - living today without giving a single thought on how tomorrow might be. Using up the 40bucks in ur wallet which is all the money u have on a single meal..not thinking about how ur gonna have ur next meal. That's kinda fun, stupid though, heh.
But then again, what's the worst that could happen?

Nope. Can't do stuff like that. Dont have the courage. Maybe in the future. Heh.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

i don't get it...

Why do people always get the wrong impression of whatever i say or do? Truth is...i'm not good with words..unless i think for like 5 seconds before saying anything. Let me rephrase that - i'm not good at spontaneous reactions. I mean like if i react to something instantly, i tend to give a wrong impression and people'll misunderstand what i'm trying to say or show.

Another thing - when people say something and when i say the same thing, sometimes others dont get the same meaning from me and from them. what the heck? is there something wrong with the way i communicate, the way i speak, the way i look when i say stuff? I think i'm better conveying my message through msn, cos i get to think and write, and people dont see me. ;)

Been trying to tell myself to stay quiet and dont talk so much, but that's just not my nature when i'm with close friends. As conversations go on, i tend to blabber stuff instinctively (is that a correct word?) and regret them later on.

People, please remember that sometimes, what u 'perceive'(yea...perception!) of my words and actions might not be what i mean (SCC folks, take note). To put it in a way, i'm immature in my communication (yea yea...im immature in everything.. i know). Don't blame me, i'm just a kid in a grown up's world.

p/s : all this doesnt apply to when i'm ejek-ing people. if there's one part of communication i'm good at, it's that. heh. but for the rest of it, yea dont misunderstand me.

2nd p/s : i have a very NARROW vocabulary. can't seem to explain stuff properly while blogging.

the week....

Whew! Finally it's the weekend...the past few days have been oh so stressful and tiring...practically had an average of 4 hours sleep per day.

Lemme see... I couldnt remember much about monday. Oh ya, we were told that the NF-AF debate was on the next day..i was like "walao...seow ah". I didnt really had the intention of debating before that, but then since the topic was my research essay topic, i guess i'd require less effort than others. Not to mention szu mei saying "if Amos speaks, i'll speak"..lol. Well she didnt speak after all, but she did a great deal of help la. We sorta like discussed the topic for less than 1 hour after class..then went for leo meeting. At night we gathered to do econs assignment..though i ended up playing games and the little work that we did we useless after all.

Tuesday - Debate
Slept real late on monday, went to 8am class to hand in my assessment, and asked ms mariani to let me go at 9am to "prepare for debate". But i slept till 10. 10am, we made preparations for debate, till 1pm, without eating lunch. Then the debate was on, crapped whatever info i learned from my research paper, and we were the defending champions! Well, Zeinab was good. At least i get to leave AF with some pride...heh. Kinda forgot what i did that night.

Wednesday - Japanese!
Wednesday. What was wednesday like? Forgot. Dun care la. Oh i remembered...japanese! Went 8-10 class, then at about almost 11...the 69 high skool students from hokkaido came. Then we sorta 'paraded' to the lecture hall..on the way i asked this japanese guy, 'wats ur name?' And he....smiled. =.= oh well. At the lecture hall, i was kinda sesated from the gang as i was sitting right at the front with kiosuka (or kisouke?) All 69 of them sang their skool song which was rather long..then it was musha and uniqueX's performance, then they thought us the Bon Odori dance, which we didnt really learn anyway. Oh ya before the dance we split into group...i just followed kiosuka and asked burger n chris to follow me. To my luck, in the group was leng lui Miki....heh. So we get to know all 4 of them after that..kiosuka, minoru, nane(or nare), and miki..and took them round the college for a tour. We had serious communication problem but they were extremely friendly..dunno how to put to words. And so we took them here and there, treating them to food and games (college's money anyway). At about 2 sumthin...they left, but not without taking pictures...heh. Miss their friendly faces...aih.

Thursday Blues
Thursday! After the good day wif the japanese..came the worst day of the week. I got really low marks for my freakin research paper. Well, i kinda expected that anyway since lazy me didnt pass up the outline and didnt ask for her approval of the topic. Even so, it was sad. I face a high possibility of not getting an A for english this semester, and I hate that. We're just foundation students, can mariani not be that strict?! Some other minor bad things happened that day (yesterday, actually) and i couldnt recall. Then came the night, I have to finish 2 assignments which i barely started doing. Stayed awake till 6 sumthin in the morning..wanted to take a short nap but slept till 10am this morning.

Today...woke up at 10...rushed some part of the conclusion for my econs assignment. At 11...headed to IT class to pass up assignment. She was having break, so i skipped the class..haha. Reached my room, finished the conclusion and formatted the whole assignment till around 12.30. Then rushed to print and bind and hand it in. After that, followed the gang to lepak. The 1st 2 hours of the day was like so in a rush..i was still kinda blur. I was kinda disappointed with my assignments though..felt that they weren't properly and confidently done. Seriously, my laziness destroyed my 2nd semester results.
Ok, so we went lepak-ing. Went to KL sentral for shanna to buy air tickets, turned out it was wasted. Ate a very filling lunch then headed to mid valley. Jalan-jalan a while, then watched Deathnote. It was quite nice since they altered the comic story. Reached nilai at 11 sumthin, ate dinner at eastern tea corner. Reached room, bathed, now blogging...

That's pretty much the week for me. This week's rating: 1/10. Next week, another hectic week of assignments, mid terms, and oral presentation. God bless me.

past few days...

Well, i was kinda packed for the past few days so i didnt get to write anything here..Lemme see.. last friday i wrote some stuff about the Masquerade Ball..but then i had some problem when posting the pics..so i gave up. Ok anyways, the ball was just ok...we had our performance, but no food...sad. Then we kinda lepak-ed around college. Dont feel like writing much now cos it was last week's stuff...heh.

Lets talk bout the holidays.

Last saturday went to cheras to qiu yi and kelvin's place..then we went to Sunway Lagoon! We ended reaching there quite late..bout 2pm cos we cant find the entrance..heh. It was fun anyway, havent been there for ages. Played the tomahawk, 360 degrees spin thingy...kinda exciting and i discovered that i could swim! haha..only for like few metres..but at least i learned how to swim.

Then we went to cheras for bbq steamboat buffet...yummy! Though it's 18.80..kinda expensive. But we ate for like almost 3hours..so i guess it was worth it.

Then we went to kelvin's place to bathe and stuff...then off to qiu yi's place to eat her cake. Got shocked when i knew she had a diploma in bakery..walao. Her cake was quite nice, though i never really like cakes. Too bad some "2 person" didnt get to eat...heh.

Next day i'm off to....

Penang!Went to jiaweih's place in penang to spend our holidays. It was fun, but now i'm tired and sunburnt, lol.
Hmm.. 1st day reached there bout 7 or 8 sumthin at night then we ate at the hawker stalls next to Gurney Plaza. Man, that was like THE place to EAT EAT EAT! But it was also the place to PAY PAY PAY...so expensive.
Later wanted to watch movie but no midnight movie so we went to arcade and i kinda suck at the games...heh.
Next day it was off to Batu Ferringhi. Took us quite long to choose and decide which hotel to stay but we finally checked in at bout 5pm i think. Then went to beach..got wet..and returned. But 14 people is really too many..i was like freezing cold in the hotel room waiting for my turn to bathe. Then we went to eat at some place called Long Beach. Food there was also NICE and EXPENSIVE. But shanna's food was...lol. Oh ya each of us got our own shades...but cheap ones la...heh.
The sleep was okay..next mornin we went to beach again...fun! Rode banana boat..got to ride on the mini speed boat too...and not to forget...PARASAILING! It was my 1st time so it was really exciting.
After that swam a while..then back to jiaweih's house..and zen lost her handphone..sad.
At night we ate at the same place next to the plaza..and this time we got to watch a movie..'World Trade Center'. Well they didnt have any bad comments but i guess expected more from the movie based on the trailer..so i wasnt really satisfied with it...hmm.
Then..walked home...slept..next day wake up..get ready..and off to our loooooong and miserable journey home...heh. Lazy to write bout the trip home..

So..guess thats the holidays for me.
Will post pictures of the ball and penang...one day. heh. soon.

Adios!

my 2 problems...

Well, yesterday was kinda busy..had classes from 8-5 non-stop (though i skipped a class...hehe), then badminton and masquerade ball stuff till almost midnight.
Anyways, yesterday i realized that i had 2 SERIOUS problems. I mean i know i had these problems a long time ago but yesterday (and today) i felt it was more serious than i thought.

Problem No. 1 : I'm LAZY

I definitely procrastinate a LOT. I've been studying and doing homework last minute since God knows when. Well for the past few days, i actually had sufficient time to do what i was supposed to do - finish my research essay outline and study for accounts, AND catch up on my sleep. I ended up wasting my entire weekend doing none of those. I sorta promised i'd hand in my outline on Monday, but i started on it only on Sunday after midnight - ended up doing it until like 4am but still can't finish. Before that i did read some accounts, didn't finish that either. So on Monday, i ended up skipping English and used the 2 hours to study accounts (which is mostly spend sleeping in the common room and talking wif a frog and a coconut...=.=). Then, as i wrote earlier, i was busy till midnight, and when i came home..THE FREAKING INTERNET CONNECTION WAS DOWN! (which explains why i'm writing about YESTERDAY...) So today, i didnt get to hand in my outline, ms mariani was kinda pissed off and she aint accepting any more outlines...
The thing is..although i've had very little sleep the past few days, i didnt really spend my time on what i'm supposed to do, so now i'm tired n sleepy, and my work is still not done.
Conclusion? I really need to discipline myself and manage my time properly. All it takes is WILLPOWER! No more procrastination and sudoku..and i should probably stop being so active in activities.


Problem No. 2 : I have SPEAKING PROBLEM

Yea i know i dont open my mouth and speak clearly when i speak - mum and dad always tell me that. And i dont even know why i speak like that. But i've never really look into the problem and try to improve myself. Yesterday when we were rehearsing our group's performance, i knew i have problem speaking clearly...so i tried to be clearer when i was narrating. But then, after the performance, everyone was like, "i cant hear a single word that you're saying" and i was like "what??! really??!". To think how i always laugh at shanna's pronounciation...i actually speak worse. I really gotta try and improve the way i speak - probably somehow it'd make me speak with more confidence. OPEN MY MOUTH.
So from now on, i gotta speak slower and open my mouth. I gotta admit it does seem weird when i try to speak properly - i wonder if it looks weird to others?

Hmm, guess that's all la..
Gotta catch up on my sleep (not that i'm lazy..but i'll end up sleeping in class if i dont get some rest)..probably skipping IT later (again...not that i'm lazy...we just dont do much in that class)

Ciao.

just some crap..

Well, time for my 2nd post here. The settings and template are too ordinary...gotta change those soon if I have the time..but I'll just leave it as it is for the moment. Oh ya and somebody's gotta teach me how to customize the blog and use the features...szumei? zen?

Lemme see.. last 2 days were quite tiring..lack of sleep though i could've slept if i wanted to...hmm. Thursday came back like 1 somethin in the mornin...saw shanna's testi..so i decided to write for the whole gang..then i started this blog. Next day went 8am class..SHOULD have slept in the afternoon but ended up watching NF's presentation. Then pasar malam and chris's house..SHOULD have came back n sleep.. but ended up sleeping there..hmm. Now, here i am, SHOULD be sleepin but writing this damn blog.

You know what..i was writing something just now about my life so far in Nilai. But then halfway through..i just dunno how to write anymore..seems like i cant really put what i'm thinking into words. Maybe im not supposed to be a blogger? Oh well, maybe one day i'll get the hang of it.

Guess that's all for now.
Signing off.

i'm officially a blogger

There - finally created my own blog. Let's hope I'll put some effort into writing stuffs here. Sometimes there're stuff that I put to deep thought and feel like writing down...the will just fades before i get to write. hmm.
So, yea goodluck to the new blogger.

There - my first post.