Celebrating Independence

Its the eve of Independence Day. Its roughly ten pm, Terri has just dropped me home and will drop ishuet home shortly. We left Gurney still clad in shorts and slippers about the same time everyone started coming. I see a whole load of people, mostly younger than i am. Someones sister, someones brother, juniors .. all who wave and say hi and continue on there way in as we make our way out. Get out before the crowd comes and the jam starts. I guess its a process of aging. Sad. Almost dissappointing, really. But then again, its dissappointing for other reasons which you may or may not know but that doesnt really matter cos its not my point.

So do you gracefully withdraw yourself from overrated social gatherings as you grow up? Or do you go, and hang on to whatever left while you still can? A year ago, i was probably there with the crowd, two years .. i was probably still there. . next year? Probably not. Same goes for new years and other less meaningful celebrations.

Oddly enough while i spent me night at home with my laptop the questions come one by one : why you still at home? not going out tonight? what you doing at home along? etcetera et cetera .. So, what am i doing at home? I dont know.. not exactly quite happy being there but no much of a choice i guess.. time to settle down? I dont know .. maybe i never will be able to settle. Maybe i need to keep on running. Maybe people dont really settle, they jsut find others to run with..

See Mun calls my unwillinges to sit at home hong sou. I just contribute it to the moles on my feet.

Photoblogging?

Me :)

My Ikea lamp .. (Seen this before Benny?)

My burn

Yup... i managed to get myself burnt.. again. I went around for almost a week lookin like there was a mini leech stuck to my hand. Ewww..

Rant Rant Rant

Im back for hols.

Sorry Benny, youre gonna have to wait again for the Ikea lamp. Already got a pic, just too damn lazy to upload it :) Another time yea .. and when are we gonna go for supper??

The unfairness of it all. I come back for hols, yet Chai and Vilas hols dont start till a week after mine. To add to that, my hols and jons hols are at the same time. Great, wouldnt you think? Except that he's on his way to langkawi for three days and two nights with his male buddies who also happen to be staying at his place one night before and two days after the trip to langkawi. And i dont even get a bottle of bacardi!!!! He'll be leaving early sunday morning so that basically doesnt leave me much time. Sigh. I know, im being bitchy and selfish, blahdy blahdy but cut me some slack, i deserve a little time and space to rant. Make things even better, i have two tests and two presentations straight after the hols and my english teachers a dumb bitch. And to top it off, the week Chai comes back for hols i have a test on FRIDAY FROM 8-10PM!!!! I dont even have classes on friday afternoon, i could be home by three but nooooo.... now i get to go home at midnight.

Let me bitch, THIS ABSOLUTLY SUCKS. Its like one of my strength of materials questions : the soalan tanpa soalan. This is a holiday thats not a holiday. Argh. I already feel stressed just thinking about it.

Too many What Ifs.

If you dont love
If you dont care
If nothing matters
Youd be inhuman

But

Youd never hurt.
Is it worth it?

Confessions of an Anaemic

Another week gone by. Fifth week of uni has ended and i still know nuts about my course. Sigh. Why engineering?? Why ? WHy????

I was holdin a plate of glass in one hand, rubbing vigorously at a smudge on it with the my t shirt.. Maybe a little too vigorously cos the glass pane i was holding still didnt quite stay still and ...

Ugh .. blood .. dripping ..
No pain .. stare at my slit finger. .. wait .. here it comes. ..OUCH!
Ooo .. everythings going fuzzy .. static.. theres a roaring in my ears ... ahh .. need to sit down ...

Hmmm.. spots seem to be clearing up.. i can see again!!

This is why i cannot donate blood.

Lost in Space

Okay.. ive made up my mind and i'll soon be a member of the golden key international honour society, malaysian chapter.

But, you gotta pay your membership fees, right? ytc and i figured that the cash wont be going to waste. Only problem is they dont accept cash - its check or money order. I defnitely dont have a check book and the uni post office is too small to sell money orders. Which poses another problem : where is the parit buntar post office? noone i know goes to the post office outside campus, why should they when you can mail stuff right from uni? anyways, after asking around ytc managed to get the vague direction of "its somewhere near the roundabout lah .. turn somewhere there..".

We set off in the direction to town, passed the roundabout and by a great stroke of luck turned into a road where we spotted the post office a little of the main road we were on. keeping my eyes on the post office, i took a left into the road the post office was on and headed straight to it.

Only then did i realise that the road i turned in was a one way street .. and i was headed in the wrong direction. I took a u turn .... right in front of a police station.. with a policeman outside.

I bought a lamp from IKEA!

To summarise the day ...

1. After more than a week, Hxn noticed that i cut my hair. And that was only cos he was walking behind me instead of beside or in front of me. YTC never noticed at all. Guys. Blind.

2. After two days, they noticed i was wearing a belt. Maybe the fact that it was bright red helped. When i said i was cos i was tired of having my jeans a little loose and the back sticking out so half the world could stare down my ass, YTC said something that stunned me: "i though girls had the back of their pants open cos they wanted guys to stare down thiere ass" . I did not expect that .. Apparently, he (therefore all males?) think that girls dress the way they do (super jarang) because they want to attract male attention. So if the back of your pants cant stay closed, or your shirt is a little bit too short and rides up when you stand on tippy toe, or if your shirt is a little transparent and you wore the wrong bra .. its on purpose .. to attract more male attention. In his own words "if they all wear like that then no one see wasted mah...".

3. I wore a new shirt (everyone i know knows i went down to KL to shop) which people noticed but i wasnt prepared for this either : "Eh you look so pretty today? How come i never see you look so pretty before wan?". So i could just take the compliment and shut up nd be happy, or take it as a wake up call that everyday i "dont look pretty".

4. Ooo, the Milo van came today!! Free milo :). I was on the way to class after lunch when i spotted the Milo van and went over to grab my share of free Milo when i spotted good lookin singh (or indian?) man!! Like Gurjit kinda good lookin, only not that good lookin. Trust me, in my uni, good lookin men are a rarity. Definitely not my year, and most definitely not in my school but oh well.. Singh dude talked to me! Okay, so the conversation wasnt really a conversation; it started with a smile ( i smile at anyone who smiles at me k ) and he said

Here for the free Milo?

Duh. Why else would i be standing next to the Milo man? To get Uncle Milos autograph ah? Oh yea .. i got a 'bye' as well :)

5. EMM221 Test 1. After slogging over my damn strength of materials textbook, i coulnt finish the paper anyway. Question 2: WTF?? Only consolation is that out of 4 people i spoke to after that, none of them knew how to do it. Apparently when my lecturer said he plans to raise the standard and make us fail, he really meant it, the SOB. Friend was lucky enough to take it last sem, told me it wasnt that bad - But too many people scored A's last sem, so they changed the happy lecturer to my SOB. $@%$!.

Back!!

Im back from KL. I tell ya, you wanna know what the world would look like if it was gonna end? You should have been there when the haze reached an all time massive API .. somewhere above 300 in PJ.. above 400 in Port Klang. Shit, the papers said hail stones fell. The world is coming to an end soon. It was so bad, there was haze inside the shoppin mall. You could smell it indoors, you could smell it from the bus. Ugh. Eternally gloomy skies, neither bright nor dark.. no rays of sunshine.. lights on in the afternoon.. Looked like a bloody warzone. This must have been what the world looked like when the dinosaurs faced extinction.

Nuff said, the haze cleared up considerably by friday night, and the skies were clear again by saturday. And on sunday, it poured till there were flash floods. Freaky.. go into Alamanda while its hot and sunny, come out two hours later and the sky is so dark and the rain so heavy KL town cant be seen. See, im a bringer of good things :). The same day the haze cleared up in the south though, it started in the Northen side. Yup. I leave Penang, and head down to haze. Then i leave KL and still head home to haze. Ironic. Sigh.

That said, i got my shopping done, i met Vila and Ben and Chai. So yea. . mission accomplished, im a happy woman. All thats left is for Jon to get me my lucky cat. Pics will be up when a)i get some decent connection speed or b)when chai finally mails the pics in her camera to me. By the way, we were the only 'tourists' in Hartamas Square taking photographs. Jon said he cant show his face there anymore..

Cheerios!

Problem Solving

The left side of my orange slippers finally fell apart on me about a week and a half ago. Since then, i have had neither the time nor money to go get myself a new pair. Slippers aint cheap ya know .. everything i came across was way over my rm10 budget.

Since mine tore, ive been randomly using my roomies slippers.. but i cant do that forever now can i? And since engineers are apparently people who solve problems ....

My attempts at putting my poor slipper back together ..

I started off with one poor, not so old broken slipper..

Then i nicked my roomies UHU Glue to try stick it back.. which lasted approxmately half a day. Next time, buy elephant glue when you need to do something a little bit more heavy duty.

Reanalyse the problem. Hmmm...

If the Uhu cant make a permanent bond, i'll have to make it as permanent as possible. At least so my slipper will last till i buy epoxy. If i cant glue it together, i can staple it together! So, armed with stapes (once again nicked from my roomie) i glued the offending part back then stapled the seams together. Its been holding so far, but the damn staples are poking the soles of my feet. Which is why ive stuck fabric plasters over the staples!

Arent i smart??

Ladies and gentlemen, there you have it : The future engineer of Malaysia.

Happy Birthday!!!!

August is another month where birthdays come one after another ...

Its Leech's Birthday!

Happy 21st Birthday Leech!!

Happy birthday to you. . happy birthday to you ... happy birthday to yoouuuu .. *aiya, no money to buy present di la* .. happy birthday to you!!!

*clap clap clap* Yaayyy*

Tick Tock

I sit at my study table, unable to focus
Occasionally sneaking glances at the time.

Hoping against hope that the phone will ring
Alternately switching from believing it will ring
to telling myself that it wont.

Its still silent.
So i continue sitting
With my thoughts scattered.

Ham Chin Peng and Yu Char Koay

After my visit to the PC fair last sunday, i came back with a webcam, a notebook lock, blank cds and cd cases :).

I'll be going down to KL come this Thursday to see my baby and do some shopping (mega sale carnival!!!!) and meet up with a few people - multi task la - since its convo this week. Unfortunately, i had to choose between leaving Pig here in uni for close to five days and hope he has enough to eat and drink, or to not see him for two weeks. I left him in Ishuets house for babysitting .. which means it'll be two whole weeks till i get to see Pig again. I miss him already..

Oh yea .. since i managed to mantain a reasonably high cgpa, i got accepted into some honour society - Golden Key. During my first year, i looked at the notice and wondered what the hell it was. . do you walk around with some golden key or something?? Do you sit in a circle and discuss intellectual things?? Guess i'll find out soon enough ..

But .. i couldnt go get my offer letter cos i wasnt wearing formal wear. &*%^

Happy Birthday!!!!

Its Yu Mings birthday!!

Happy 21st Birthday Yu Ming!!!!

To celebrate yu mings and leechs birthday this month, we all got together to have barbeque steamboat :) Seems like this has turned out to be our fav meal now. All you can eat, you get to choose it and you get to cook it. Yummy..

It was supposed to be a surprise for both of them (we conspired with Teo (leeches guy) to get everything set) where we all meet in ishuets house with the cake and pressies as a surprise. Unfortunately, out hiding behind the sofa to surprise leech fell flat - she saw our heads behind the sofa - and our plan to surprise yu ming backfired - she surprised us instead !

Lotsa good food, ice cream, cake, wine ...... mmmm.. what more could you want on a birthday? Good food and great people :) Heres to wishing the both of them a happy 21st. The best is yet to come.

By the way, you simply cant imagine how silly we felt squatting behind the sofa, trying to figure out how and when to jump out.

Deep inside of You..

My trusty ten year old proton iswara is failing on me. A couple of weeks ago, the wipers wouldnt stop wiping ... Today, the low petrol warning wouldnt stop flashing. Not even when i topped up my tank with RM30 with of fuel.

PETROL IS NOW RM1.62 per liter!!! )%^&* At this rate, even if i ever have enough dough to buy a car, i prolly wont have enough to keep it running. Sigh. Thirty bucks barely gives you 19 litres. This sucks.

Went to Motorola today.. And yup, i brought Pig along with me. I couldnt leave him in the car to bake to death, could i? ANyways, its a 'No Pets Allowed' kinda place. No handphone for visitors sort of place. No bags or jackets without being checked by security kinda place. You get the picture... Very, very high security. Very, very nice place. Anyway, i figured i would never get through if the guard went through my bag (I smuggled him in my bag :)) so i went to the guest registration center and asked the nice Pak Guard to keep my bag for me cos i had my phone and wallet - i conveniently left out i had a guinea pig inside - in it. He siad i could take in the bag and leave my phone.. so no choice.. Pig came with me on a tour of Motorola in my book bag. Somehow, i doubt he found it fun.

Oh yea... todays pic :

Terri and Chai..before the hair dyeing sessions ... before their hair grew long. . Does anyone still remember what Chai looked like before she dyed her hair?? I had a hard time remembering :) I'll be seeing you next week in KL!

Sneaky Piggy

Im going to Motorola tomorrow .. field trip :) Only, i have to submit a report on it .. Sigh.

Minor problem though ... What am i gonna do with Pig? I cant leave him in the car, he might bake to death. Believe me, its possible. Last week, i left him in the car, which was parked in the shade for two hours and came back to find him already in the first stage of a heatstroke. I've figured out a way to sneak him into class, but sneak him into motorola??

Hmmmm ... Outcome tomorrow ..

Pink Knickers

If any of you have gone into a uni hostel before, you can figure out how mine looks like. A hollow, rectangular building, with rooms around its perimeter and showers or such on each end. The layout is unvarying, with each unit directly above another and we can open our room doors can yell across the hollowed out middle to someone else in the room directly opposite.

For those of you lucky people who have never seen a local uni college, just imagine.

I was back in my room, sweeping the floor with the door open so i could sweep out whatever dirt and hair that might be lying around my little corner of the room. (good thing about living in a hostel - you just sweep all the junk right out the door) I was standing at the doorway of my room, looking directly out the door for those few seconds before i turn and reenter my room when the door one floor above me and directly opposite me opened ......

... And a girl came out ... wearing nothing but a sarong and a bra!! I know, im a girl, we all change in front of each other but this was seriously unexpected.

I stared at her. She stared at me.

The she started laughing and rushed back into her room.

Its been an awful long time since ive last posted up a pic. So im gonna randomly post up pics of people from now on just for kicks :) This was taken way back in 2003.

So ... how much change do you see?

My little Orange Seal

Updates have been rather sporadic. Blame it on lousy network connection (aiya, what to do when its free??) and uni lecturers who insist on lab reports being handed up the next day when you have 7 tables and 8 graphs to draw. I was up till 2.30 and overslept. But, i have my trusty roomie to wake me up. Anyhow, i finshed my lab report. Bangganya :)

I got thrown out of the office today. Again. I remembered to put on my collared shirt, i was wearing shoes .. i innocently rode the elevator up to the office to hand i n my lab report. I havent anything to worry about, have i? Im just here to hand in my report, im in my collared shirt, im not showing any skin, my clothes arent too tight, im not in flip flops ...

Dead wrong. I got kicked out cos .....

I was wearing jeans!

&(*^R%^#&. Now i cant even wear jeans?? WTF? What you expect me to wear, you damn skinny arse with a midget of a moustach?? ARggggghhhhh!!!!

Yup. Thats right. No round neck tees, no slippers and no jeans! Sigh. Final warning from skinny arse. Next time, my name gets send to HEP. Where i have another three warning before desciplinary action is taken (read: fine RM200). Anyway, i just gave him this really big grin, and said Fine. Okay. No problem.

My roomie says screw him and stay far away from the office. Okay, she didnt exactly say that (shes far too polite) .. but you get the jest of it. M0re that three quaters of the student population walk around in jeans anyway.