Packing Up

Its Monday, 30th June , 3.10pm and im packing up.


This morning i said goodbye to the Chai, Ann, Yun .. last night i said goodbye to the whole lot of pakistani/indians and the day before to Mitch, Ky and Chris.


Half and hour ago i said goodbye to Wes and Yasu.


In another hours time I'll say goodbye to Oscar and then at 7 i'll send off abdul and Ali.

Then its just going to be 3 of us girls left here at the Blue Towers.

I came to OFS-1 a little bit hesitant and not quite sure what to expect. Its surprising that in the space of a week I found people I could talk to, could go out with. . just the simple act of having dinner together or lunchbreaks together means alot when you're somewhere new and dont know anyone.

Im packing up and feeling just a little blue at the thought of moving on. I was getting comfortable.. Now theres so few of us left and so much free time it feels strange .. kind of lonely i guess. . But thats life. Move on, meet new people, make the best out of everything.


I had a good time here in Abu Dhabi. And its hard to imagine going to Qatar where i'll be starting out all over again. Im feeling a little envious that Mus and Wes will both be going to Labuan together.

Cross fingers, hope that i'll be okay.

When I say it fast i call it Abi Dhabi

Only a day or so left till i pack up and leave Abu Dhabi for my next location.

I dont know, although is different here i've settled into some sort of routine, made some friends..
Its going to be difficult going to a location where i know noone. At all.


Judging from the geographical coefficient, Qatar isnt all that bad . . Judging from what I've been told, if you want to go out in Kemaman, it would be better just to head to Kuantan. Damn.


Anyway, I dont do much here.. at the moment its just alot of courses (ALL DAY, OMG) so by the time we get back there isnt much time to do anything..

I wake up around 5.30 am everyday (SHIT SO EARLY) and now im just tired.. Maybe its the food, maybe its the heat... Im just so tired. Havent had much of an appetite either, i have a chicken whopper, a steak and cheese subway, a few subway cookies and chicken briyani sitting in the fridge. Just not hungry. Oh well.

By the way, stuff here is EXPENSIVE! And the meal portions are huge ! Even the McDonalds burgers are bigger (the regular is our large - i couldnt finish it) and a medium McChicken meal was 19dirhams.

Sorry if i cant call you all, 20 dirhams for 10 minutes is wayyy out of my budget

Did go out to visit the malls and do a little sightseeing . . which may be why im so tired cos im spending my rest time going out, but im only gonna be here once . . so . .


I got my coveralls. Now i look like a giant blueberry.

Dusty and Hot

Greetings for Abu Dhabi!

After flying what felt like a ridiculously long time across Malaysia and India I arrived in Abu Dhabi international Airport at around 1am local time (its 4 hours behind here). It took like forever to get through immigration and by the time i hopped onto the SLB bus (it has seatbelts!), took another neverending drive down to wherever i am and checked in to my room it was like 3am.

Thats coming to 7am for the rest of you all in Malaysia. T T

Its an intersting place (even though i haven't left my room yet), very square.

Miss all of you.
Miss the fact that i've got noone to poke fun at the blue lights in the bus or the seatbelts
And that they drive on the opposite side of the road and it feels damn weired
Or that its hot and dusty and very square
And that there arent any big trees and the skies are cloudless
And that people really do wear the red checked cloth on their heads (like in the movies!)
etc etc etc

I will be back soon!

A Thought

Five years, one week and 5 days ago, I said goodbye to Him.

He hugged me, and whispered into my ear " I'm going to miss you the most"

Seems like a lifetime ago, things have changed so much since then.

Its funny how certain things trigger your memory.

Shhhh...

Dont tell my mum, but i let the doggies into the house while everyone was away all week!
A marker of time. How did this fluffy little critter


Morph into this?

Banana Muffin

As I sit here in Coffee Bean inhaling the scent of banana muffins and black coffee and sipping my Southern Blend, I wonder if this is what i'll be doing for some time to come. Scabbing of airport wifi and passing time online while i wait for my boarding call.

Damn, thank God laptops (my pretty red Dell!) and wifi.

Seriously.

I need a haircut, I hate my current shaggy look.

Almost There

OMG OMG OMG

Its already Sunday, which means that I have less than 4 days to pack up and get ready for a whole new (hard and boring) chapter of my life.

Im leaving Friday. FRIDAY. So soon!?! Im not ready! I cant do it . .

Flight to KL on Friday to sign a few papers, then off to Dubai on Saturday, arrive on Sunday, take a van ride to Abu Dhabi, check in to my service apartment (hopfully its nice, and i dont share rooms) and crash. Then its up at 5am on Monday to get ready for my OFS-1 i.e. welcome to the oil field.

One week.

The I'm back in KL for a day or two before packing up my whole freakin life and moving to Kemaman. Terengganu. I have nothing decent to wear.

TERENGGANU. The only thing that comes to mind when I think of Terengganu is keropok lekor.

I'm worried. Not just about the place, but about the job, about everything. Its hard to leave everything behind, even more so when its for an indefinite period of time. What do I look forward to now? I know I said I'm up for the challenge, but sometimes I doubt myself. I look back on my past days and I realised I was never really alone; I always had someone to back me up. So i graduated from uni with reasonable good results, but still feeling a little like a fraud. Cos I dont know if I could have done it by myself.

I know I should be taking things with a pinch of salt, but horror stories are horror stories all the same.

I'm really going to miss my home. And my friends. And my pets. We all do what we have to, but it wasnt an easy choice to make.

My mind is in a mess

Things I need to get done, ASAP

1. Make a gazillion photocopies of everything
2. Get a new bank account
3. Buy luggage
4. PACK
5. Fix my glasses
6. Get my drivers license
7. Hunt out my transcripts from USM
8. Flight tickets
9. Clear my room
10. Get suitable (boring) clothes
11. Get my vaccinations
12. Go to a money changer
...

OH CRAP

TGIF ?

Lately, I've been going to TGIF way waaayy too frequently. I dont know what on earth possessed me to imagine that I could finish a whole entire mud pie by myself, but thats what I ordered ( In my defense, we were there for dessert, i might as well eat. Diet be dammned)

Obviously I couldnt finish it so i asked to 'tapau' the mud pie.

You should have seen the servers face. Hahahaha . . . He told me it wasnt possible.

Its a good thing the manager dude there can recognise us, this is what he packed for me:
A piece half eaten piece of mudpie wrapped in foil and surrounded by ice.

When i got home i couldnt get the mudpie out of the ice, the damn thing froze solid.

On another note, its already the 12th of June! Crap! 10 more days till I have to pack up and leave. The holidays passed too fast. . . Im not ready to start work, I'm starting to doubt myself cos when people think of (Lisa + Oil field) they find it hard to swallow. Like i cant do it.

Yes, i KNOW i act like a complete piece of fluff every now and then but still . . . we fluffy cretins have little fluffly egos too . .

What have i gotten myself into now?!

Celebrate!

I made it!

I made it through four years of uni, through my last and final semester!!

All that suffering was worth it .. I have managed to scrape through this semester and hang on by my teeth.

3.69

First Class honours! Woot!


Oh my gosh, I am so relieved.

Just so you know me

Just for you . .

I am wildly unpredictable - i have mood swings, i get depressed, i can laugh like theres no tomorrow, i can be grumpy all day and 5 minutes later have a good time with my friends
I am a softie - my heart is too big. I cry in movies, i cry over dead guinea pigs, abused animals and feel bad for roadkill/homeless people or animals/trees/
I can laugh for absolutely no reason at all, over something that isnt all that funny
I am a klutz. I trip over my own feet, walk into walls and fall into drains
I can be such a complete bimbo - who cuts my hair is a matter of great importance
I am intelligent. I am well read, i can carry a conversation, i know what im talking about
I am independent - no one needs to pick up after me or hold me hand and tell me what to do
I am a girl, which means i still adore being treated like a princess
I am shy. It takes a while for me to get to know people
Yet sometimes when i start talking i can go on forever
I am silly - i rarely look before i leap, sometimes my common sense flies out the window
I am confused. I dont know what i really want, its hard to make decisions
I love ice cream, coffee, chocolate and shopping
I can randomly spout nonsense until the cows come home
I love to abrubtly change topics when you're talking to me
I love being around people, but value my privacy
I hate sharing rooms. Get out of my personal space
Dance naked in the night!
I am a perfectionist. I love it when my margins are perfectly justified, when all my calculations are to the same decimal points, when my hand writing is perfectly straight. I like knowing that i've done a damn good job
I make my bed every night before i go to bed
I have locked my car keys in my car more than once.
I love the beach, i love the sea, i will get my diving licence some day
My dream is to own a bakery/clothes shop
But my real dream is to run a pet shelter
I like having a home. I missed out having a family
I am competitive. I've been groomed from young to compete. It doenst show
I am human. I make mistakes. Alot of them
I enjoy good wine, good liquor and good food.
I love to dance. Its unexplainable.
I get grumpy when i havent slept/eaten/left alone for too long
I am inquisitive. I ask why. Alot. Government education has squished it out of me
I am a rebel. Dont tell me what to do and expect me to do it unless it makes sense. I will go against you just because.
I still cannot speak mandarin after 4 years in a public university
I cant understand why people chuck their trash all over the place
Sometimes, I have intense cravings for an icy cold coke
I dont like chinese new year or family reunions
The less sleep i get, the less sense i make when i talk. Dont call me early in the mornings.
I dont curse, unless im driving and you piss me off
I am generally docile, unless im driving and you piss me off
I will go to back to bali and learn how to surf. properly
I am a worrywart when it comes to things important to me
I hate it when people mess up my stuff
The real world scares me. Who is going to watch me back?


I am me. This is me. No one else like me.

Just because I am

I have been waayy too lzay to upload all the Bali pics, cos STREAMYX SUCKS. Damn bloody unstable, im better off scabbing my neighbours wifi connection in the middle of the night. Anyway, because I am such a camwhore (admittance is the first step to recovery, haha) Im substituting those with pics from my Miri excursion.

Eric and I, at the Shell house. I look damn corporate, right??

The rest of us.

Because we were bored waiting, we took a trip out the back door to see the Piasau beach, just off the shell residence. Like a 3 minute walk away.

Piasau beach. I cant remember what was so funny . .

Apparently, a trip to Miri isnt complete without visiting the Grand Old Lady on Canada Hill.

The first ever oil rig, been here since 1910. And I am too lazy to add more pics of kolo mee and 3 coloured tea, so toodles!

Madness

Okay, I dont know why I said that. Im sleepy.

Havent done much these days 'cept to attempt to clear out my overflowing closet - I have so much stuff! Its making my room hot (fabric heat gain mah) and dusty. Hopefully, my deals will comee through so I can make a little moolah out of my unwanted (and now unwearable) clothes.

Dropped by Terri's godsisters house today, and her godma saw me. I used to go over very frequently back when I was still in school and still cycled a bicycle. Those were the days. Dammit, getting side tracked.

Anyway, the first thing she said was ' wah, havent seen you for so long '.

Then she said ' wah, gained weight lah '

Ouch.

I

Back!

Yes, this blog has been shamefully neglected yet again.

I came back from uni, unloaded my car two days later (it was raining, okay) then packed up and headed off to KL one week later to meet my sis in law, my cousin, vila and to have a spanking good time :)

Then it was off to Bali .. 5 blissfull days at Alam Kul Kul *damn those people know how to treat their guests with Jon, back to KL then hopped on a bus to return to my little island. Loads of pics to upload. Yes, I am such a camwhore.



I swear, once I have to moolah, i'm flying MAS. No more Air Asia (why do people make so much noise on these budget flights?), no more konsortium busses (notice how they are always, always at least half an hour late). I wil travel in style.
Assuming I can be that lavish.

RM8 for a hotdog and i get a DIY kit.

Anyway, I spent a day and a half at home before my paranoid mum woke me up at 5AM to catch a 7.15 am flight. 5AM WOR. Some people havent gone to bed yet! Dammit. My flight was cancelled and they pushed me to a 8am flight. Grrr. Cut the long story short, after 6 hours of travel (flight+transit+taxi) I ended up in Miri. Which is small (no offence). And had kolo mee (like wantan mee) and the three layered tea drink (which is interesting) and took a drive to see the grand old lady and stood on the beach facing the south china sea (looks kinda dirty, maybe im on the wrong side of the beach).

And im home. Again. My room smells funky and i have mega load of laundry to get done.

Speechless

I had a lot to say and now i dont. .

Streched out my hand to ask my mum for some pocket money cos i haven't really been getting much ... as usual it ended up with a long lecture and neither of us being happy

I swear, it would be easier to get money working as a stripper then to get pocket money off her (does anyone know where i can get a job?).

She thinks i can move down to kl and survive fine on 1800 a month.

BULLSHIT.

Its already a struggle to rent a flat in penang and live with that amount, wtf how to move to kl?

Its not fair. I know im whining and i shouldnt be whining, but really its NOT FAIR. I feel like i started out with a ball and chain around my neck already and i havent really ventured out into the world yet.

Ever done grocery shopping? A packet of 3in1 coffee, a packet of julies biscuits, some youghurt, a bag of catfood ..

Thats already RM50 gone.

I think i'll just sell off all my stuff and starve to death.

Another chapter

Yes yes, i am home.

Four years of uni life over and done with. Mixed feelings. I cant say i enjoyed ever being in USM (what with the bloody dress code, bad food, shared toilets, irritating room mates and bugs) but i cant say i'll be looking forward to starting work and getting used to everything all over again.

And no security blanket this time :(

I hope I'm back for good. Or at least a while. And that i dont have to transplant myself to another state. But it doesnt look good...

I havent unpacked my stuff from the car yet. Its funny how you can pack up a years worth of junk in a stinky little hostel room is about an hour .. and load it all into one car.

But im so so tired.. i want to do nothing

YES I AM LAZY, LIVE WITH IT.
Im allowed to be lazy, i havent been getting enough sleep.

Funny.. the next time i'll be seeing my unimates, we'll be discussing our jobs instead of how the lecturers suck.

So many options. How to decide?
Scary scary

PinkDalmation

Im home. Im not home free (one more paper to go) but im home nevertheless.
I have missed my room and my bed and my hot water
Im still suffering from the numerous bug bites i picked up ober the weeks i stayed in uni, and im still exhausted from the many many sleepless nights . .
but i am home.

My room has a sleeping aura.
I love it :)

To Procure?

Lol, I was surfing m-w.com to use the online dictionary to check out the word procure. Ahem.. My sentence "...to assist in the procurement ... " i was't too sure if it was the procurement or procuring so i looked it up and this is what i found : procure

Main Entry:

pro·cure

Pronunciation:

\prə-ˈkyu̇r, prō-\

Function:

verb

Inflected Form(s):

pro·cured; pro·cur·ing

Etymology:

Middle English, from Anglo-French procurer, from Late Latin procurare, from Latin, to take care of, from pro- for + cura care

Date:

14th century

transitive verb1 a: to get possession of : obtain by particular care and effort b: to get and make available for promiscuous sexual intercourse

I just had to share this.

MyLife_OnceADay

Brilliant idea - A photojournal

Todays pic:

Its my final semester. Just breathe.

Captured with: Panasonic Lumix DMC FX30, Macro @ ISO100

Pretty in Pink

I dont play the guitar, but if I did this is what I'd get:

(picture credits to guitarproshop.blogspot.com)

Yes, I'd go get it just because its pink and pretty. So sue me.

Mixed Feelings

Umm .. . I started out knowing what i wanted to say, but now i don't know anymore.

Internal censor, lol

Had bfast with A at Mcs . . didnt really want to go, but dragged myself nevertheless.. it would be hilarious if i blew A off and ended up in the same category as T. Damn I didnt know people could still be so petty.

I think im not the chirpiest person to be with for breakfast. Especially if i haven't had any coffee yet.

Its Sunday so im going back to the bug infested hole tonight. But i guess living there has its perks - thats the excuse i tend to give people when i dont want to meet them .. that im in uni .. Hahaha .. So S doenst know im back, thankfully.

Sometimes im there, sometimes im here. . . . you'll never know, will you?

Hmmm ... bumped into M. Har Har Har. Will save this gossip for another time :)

I realise when im bored i tend to spend money. Bad habit, but it gives me something to do . . and i still gain some sort of satisfaction from it. Wish i was one of those rich brats with daddy's credit card so i can spend all i want and not give a rats ass. Bought myself 3 new books yesterday! Had an above average dinner . . or supper ? And wasted more time.

Oh well.

Mixed feelings about alot of things, but cannot pass the censorship board lah.

What am i going to do now?

Time

When do you know if its time to give up?

When do you know its the right time to let go?

Or am i just being too hasty, are my fingers just too idle?

Ah, the decisions i have to make. I dont know how well pretending nothing changed is going to work. Whatever. Bah.

Its Thaipusum today (yay!) so its a holiday (double yay!). Though i dont think it makes that much of a difference since i only have 2 hours of class today but let us be thankful for the leetle leetle joys of uni life.

Anyway, i've got almost everything i need for my project. Bought my wood yesterday but the idiot of a man lied to me!!!! He didnt bring me my stuff. :( Now i have to go chase him down and its awfully hard to chase down a man who doesnt speak the same language as you. Ho hum.

Its my last semester! I still cant decide if its a good thing or a bad thing, lazy people like me dont find going to work 5 days a week for the next 30 or so years very appealing. . . .

Happy New 2008

Yea, its the new year. Funny how it doesnt seem all that big a deal anymore. Maybe its just that im getting older (oh no). Maybe its just that it never really was that big a deal, but i keep forgetting.

Bah.

Happy New Year!

Whatever it is, I generally forget my new years resolutions by March. Lets see how long it can last this time.

The last bit of 2007 wasnt a good. At least, my personal life wasnt too great but then again, my personal life is always a mess anyway. Oh gosh, im rambling.

Whatever, heres to hoping that this year will bring with it great new things and that i wont be too much of a knucklehead to ignore whatevers coming.

I recieved an email from an old friend a couple of days ago. And it made me stop and think. And i realised just how much things have changed since then. Gosh, those simpler times seem like another lifetime ago. Its hard to try to put the past year or so into a few sentences and make it make sense.

Give me a few moments to reminisce.

Okay. Anyway, im stuck between two hard places.. Have TWO dinners coming up on the same day. How to decide?? Neither one is a guaranteed enjoyable experience, two different sets of people, two different places. .. . .

How do you make a choice like this?

Unless i pack up and head to Singapore for the weekend and do neither.

Everything costs me money :(

I dont like bugs.

I am a girl.

Let me get this straight. Although i am part of the teeny tiny percentage of females in my class and thus spend most of my time with the boys, i am STILL a girl.

And i am absolutely terrified of bugs.

My uni has blocked access to my multiply account (sucks) but i need to randomly rant so here i am.

A giant cicada flew into my room last week. I ran out screaming, grabbed Jesie and the two of us spent the greater part of the next hour trying to get the damn thing out.

Giant Cicada!

So no, i do NOT like bugs of any kind. And dont even TRY to tell me there are cute bugs cos as far as im concerned, there arent any.

Nope, ladybirds do not count as cute.

Hello World

Hello World. Ths first thing every C++ tutorial teaches you to do. I haved moved to Multiply .

Stawberry & Yoghurt

Strawberry & Yoghurt.

Thats what my handcream is. Bought from Boots at the airport. Long distance air travel wrecks havoc on your skin and nails. Hence the contsant need for hand cream now.

I've neglected this page shamefully since i got onto multiply.

Gotta try harder, this was the first page i really got up and running just the way i like it, i cant let it die off just like that.

Blogging is like sex, i think.

The more you do it, the more you want it.

When circumstances dont permit you to do it, you miss it.

When youre in a long term situation where you cant have it, you get used to not doing it anymore, and the urge dies off.

Well dies of temporarily in the case of sex, but you get what i mean.

Gotta try harder.....

Fly Away

Gosh its been forever since im posted anything up here. My hols are half gone already *sob sob*

Short update to keep this place going.. Because this is my first ever blog.. and i dont have the heart to let it die even though i have absolutly nothing to say.

Actually, im just wasting time so i dont have to get ready for work :P. I hate my internship that much... what wouldnt i give to do absolutly nothing these hols.

Ive just handed in all my required student exchange documents... If everything goes smoothly, i should be receiving my CoE in a day or two, i'll go apply for my student visa and book my plane ticket.. then im basically all set to go.

I have rather mixed feelings about going... I want to go.. I want to go somewhere new (kaki gatal mah) .. I want to see what its like .. on the other hand.. can i really leave everyone behind? I'll be completely alone, no fall back plan... If i mess up ive got noone to run to.. what if its horrible? what if i cant adjust? What about Jon? Can i handle being cut off from him for six months?

I have to put my foot down and have faith that everythings gonna be alright. But its hard to do.

Want anything from Aussie?? Let me know :)

Sleep is good

Okay ... hols are here .. finals are over .. time to curl up and do this : No more sneaking 15 more minutes off youre alarm clock every morning .. nap all day :P

the Cat

Ahahahahahahahah !!!!!!!!

Is she gone yet?

Just in case you cant see , the caption at the bottom says " How many times have we just thought," If I just close my eyes the bitch will go away"

close your eyes, close your eyes ... close your eyes ..

Is she gone yet?

Brokeback Mountain?

I'm pretty sure everyone knows what Brokeback mountain is about .. even if they haven't watched it yet. Two gays dude. .. having a gay relationship. . and a gay marriage .. and gay kissing .. you get the picture. .

Anyway .. Brokeback Mountain was what everyone had on their mind this morning .. when thean chye walked in in his bright red body glove tee ... followed by hanxen .. IN THE EXACT SAME BRIGHT RED BODY GLOVE TEE ... AHahahahahaha ..

Farneee .... especially since they're both very very against gay sex

I didn't realise I was wearing a red tee too .. until the girl next to me leaned over and asked, " EH, you all pakat wear same colour today issit ??? "

Come in to the lecture hall, look for a bright blotch of red .. thats us :)

Aiyo Kar Loon .. why didn't you wear a red shirt as well ??? Then we'd be Design Team J . Or is that Manufact. Group J?.

Wasted ..

I lost ..

To the girl who took off her shirt.

Cheap shot.

Oh St Valentine ..

Its that dreaded day again .. VALENTINES DAY. A day loathed by singles and couples alike. Couples because for a majority of them its time to get down to the excruciating process of he choosing the perfect gift and the perfect flowers and the perfect dinner place bla bla bla and woe betide the man that comes back with THE WRONG GIFT! And for the minority of couples who for some reason or another simply arent able to spend Valentines day with that special someone, its painful to sit and watch other couples making kissy faces and showing off extravagant (read: waste of money loh) bouquets of flowers and teddy bears when they know that their someone is there but just simply unreachable. And when they say theres no pain quite like the pain of unrequited love, i believe that there isnt one person out there who does not know that pain.

Dammit.

Originally a day to celebrate love, valentines day has now become more like a competition to see who's bf or gf got the bigger/better/more expensive gift or ate in the most high class restaurants. Its a day where those smug couples openly flaunt their relationships in front of others and where singles feel doubly single. A day where the couples feel superior and the singles feel like theyre missing out on something. Its a day where where business take the opportunity to reap in profits. I mean, 12 bucks for ONE rose? Thats robbery! In short, its commercialised. Its become a whole bunch of bull.

In these past years, either my patience has become increasingly short or there are just way way too many couples out there attached to the hip. Yes, we know you love each other but really .. you dont HAVE to wear the EXACT SAME TSHIRT. We know you make out every night but you really dont HAVE to tickle each others bits while queuing up to buy groceries .. save it for another time when you arent holding up the queue. And you dont have to jab the stems of your flowers into the back of the poor innocent dude behind you just because theyre bigger than your head. And so on.. And so on.. ARGH!

Makes me feel like going out their and egging them. No, Im not bitter spinster. I just have a low tolerance level for annoying people.

Anyway to all those who dont happen to have an other half around to make kissy faces with on Feb14, dont fret. Dont hide at home.. You dont have a half, so hang out with the other fractions - your friends! Minus the kissy faces, of course.. Valentines day is primarily about love... and we love our friends (and ourselves) dont we?? Come on.. say it ... i wuuvv yoouuu..

Oh yea ... EVERYONE hates valentines day cos it causes massive TRAFFIC JAMS!

Yosh!

If you happen to be keeping up to date with my Multiply, you might have heard that i had a group presentation on the monday right after CNY. The presentation we spent one day preparing the slides, and the presentation which i only went through the slides the morning itself .. and guess what ...

We aced it !! Woo Hoo!

Hahaha ... last minute work isnt that bad .. and the ability to talk complete nonsense helps :)

During a particularly gruelling Q&A session i had to rely heavily on my crap talking skills .. thank god for all the training i had in school .. words in italics are the ones running through my head

Q : Could you explain the difference in precision between abrasive jet machining, water jet machining and abrasive water jat machining?
A: (dammit like i know .. i dont even have the textbook .. how ah?? change topic!) Well .. actually its not really about the prescision but actually about the material used... in this process the material used is .. (back to something i know .. hmm..)
Q : Is the flow in AWJM laminar, turbulent or transitional and why?
A : ( Not fair! what has manufacturing got to do with fluid mechanics?? ok .. make something up ..) (very confidently) The flow is turbulent. You see, AWJM is characterized by the mixing in the nozzle and its high velocity. From Bernoullis equation and Reynolds transport theorem ... (oh good.. try to sound smart..does anyone know im completely making this up?)

And it went on like that for a good five to ten questions .. with me making up as many things as possible. . :D I always figured even if you have no idea what youre talking about you gotta at least make people believe you know what youre talking about... AND IT WORKED !!

The banana group - KING OF LAST MINUTE WORK!

ahahahahaha

Saya Sebatang Kote

I picked this up off the net... absolutely hilarious .. hahahah
This was written by a Malaysian studying overseas.

His complete original post is as follows:

Enjoy :)

Saya Sebatang Kote

10 years. That's how long an average Malaysian student studies the Malay language in school. Funny thing is that overseas I meet a lot of Malaysian students who seem to have forgotten everything they learned about Malay. I meet a lot of Malaysians who can't speak, read or write Malay anymore.
As for me, my Malay had never been very good but it wasn't too bad either. I would sometimes get A's for my Karangans in school and I even used to do Syarahans.
Anyway, I wondered to myself: It has been 4 years since I finished Form 5. I know I definately can still speak and read Malay, but the question is... can I still write?
Whenever I think of writing Malay, I think of those days in Standard 1 where we would write small little Karangans (essays) with titles like "Saya Seekor Kuching". So, 14 years down the line, I decided to revisit those essays that normally have a maximum of 120 words. I sat down to write an essay without the help of a dictionary.

And here is my essay entitled

Saya Sebatang Kotek (I am a Cock)

Helo! Nama saya Abu. Saya sebatang kotek berwarna hitam dan berukuran 15 inchi. Ya, banyak orang kata pemilik saya Bob sangat bernasib baik dilahirkan dengan saya tetapi sebenarnya, saya tidak dicintai. Tiap-tiap hari, saya disimpan di dalam seluarnya yang amat gelap dan dikeluarkan cuma apabila tiada orang di sekeliling. Manapun, Bob ada kalanya meluahkan hatinya kepada saya. Bila tiada orang nampak, Bob akan keluarkan saya dan menyentuh saya dengan kasih sayang yang amat lembut sampai says muntah. Saya tahu dalam minda Bob... saya memalukan dia.

Semuanya berubah pada satu hari bila Bob sudah lebih 20 tahun. Dia tiba-tiba mula menyukai saya dan juga membeli pakaian cantik untuk saya. Walaubagaimanapun, pada satu hari... (akan disambung)
116 Patah Perkataan

At this point he gave up... and his friend took over :)

Walaubagaimanapun, pada satu hari, dia keluarkan saya di depan satu gua gelap. aku tidak beberapa suka situasi itu tetapi dia melembutkan leher aku dengan sentuhan kuku jari dia. tiba-tiba, gua it kena rusuk hantu! dia mempunyai dua batang leher and dua biji kepala! kepala it pelik sekali kerana rambutnya macam lima batang jari kaki! ok dan ini berlaku: Gua kena rusuk itu menggunakan kepala mereka untuk bunuh aku! mereka cuba memotong saluran oksigen aki dengan memicit saya dengan kuat! aku hendak "duduk" pun tak boleh kerana kaki terajang! Tetapi, nasib baik dia perlahan sikit kerana tuan saya menjerit kesakitan.

aku hampir termuntah tetapi tuan saya menyelamatkan nyawa saya dengan melarikan diri dari gua rusuk itu. pelik sekali, dia masih menyentuh saya seperti hendak memanaskan saya. TIBA-TIBA tuan saya mendekati gua itu lalu memasukkan saya ke dalam gua itu!Taat dan kesetiaan saya pada tuan saya hilang sekelip mata. aku ketakutan apabila dalam gua itu, menunggu apa-apa yang akan terjadi pada saya. aku tidak takut dibunuh. tanpa penyediaan, badan saya digosok pada dinding gua itu! gua itu busuk sekali dan amat kering lagi ketat! tapi perasaan berubah apabila gris magik mengalir pada dinding dari siling rumah. aku rasa pada masa itu, hantu dari gua itu sudah merusuk tuan saya kerana tuan saya terjadi gila dan memasukkan saya dalam Simple Harmonic Motion pada 1000rpm. lepas beberapa jam, tuan saya masih bertenaga dan gua sudah dibanjiri dengan air merah! air merah itu tertumpah keluar dari dinding pecah. aku terasa pening lalu memuntah.

aku mengotori baju cantik saya. aku amat kasihan sekali. tetapi hantu dalam tuan saya sudah terbang pergi. tuan saya melepasi saya dari gua gila itu, menanggal baju cantik saya dan mencampakinya. aku tidak kisah kerana baju itu bau coklat dan aku tidak suka coklat.

The End.

HAhahaha.. hope you had a good laugh.. cos i know i did.. Visit the authors blog at here.

The tide is out

I went back sometime later. Its was early evening, and the tide was out. So heres a clearer daytime pic of dead dolphin (sorrylah, not that clear.. had to use a phone to take the pic).. all red.. and bloated... with flies hovering about..

Ugh.

Remember Seaquest? Darwin?

All the fluffy things

This is something i watched and OH MY GOD .. it is so utterly repulsive. . There arent any words to describe shit like this. Its cruel, its inhumane.. Its just plain evil. And thats putting it mildly.

People like that dont deserve to bloody live. Death would be an easy out. People like that should be tortured to the point of near death, then allowed to recuperate briefly before the whole torture cycle begins again. Dammit.

Click here to see what i saw.

Seriously ... for the love of god..

Dont do fur. Please.

Tide of Death

I was with the girls at Gurney drive last night .. Our usual hang our spot when we wanna chat but have no cash to go anywhere else (where you actually have to buy something) .. what to do ... finacial crisis .. ahahaha ..

Anyway, we were walking along the drive looking for a good place to sit when our noses detected the very strong scent of kiam hu ..

Guess what the tide brought in :

Dont know what that is ? Its a freakin dead dolphin. About slighlty over a metre long, very dead and very smelly. With a huge cut midway down its belly and its guts falling out.

Oh gross.. Ive never seen a dolphin up close. Its kinda sad that the first time i see one, its dead.

Lost

Today ...

I locked myself out of my room.

%&^#

Yup.. i locked the door, went to class and returned only to find out that my keys mysteriously dissappeared somewhere between my fluid dynamics tutorial and my journey home.

One roomie gone home, another two gone out for lunch and the melayu people at the admin office gone out to pray...

That pretty much left me stuck outside.

*&(*.

Happy New Year!

Its officially 2006!

So, Happy New Year!!

New Year Celebrations @ Glo !

Booze, Sex and Drugs!! Thats the way to usher in the new year ... Hahahah ..

Actually, just booze :) whiskey and tequila is enough to make me happy :)

Sorry girls... it'll be with you all next countdown, k?? We had Christmas together, righT??

Cheers to 2006 .. may it be tons better than 2005 .. heheh .. actually ... it will be .. less one person di mahhhh :P

Two and a Half years to go

Its my second semester in my second year. Four more semesters to go till i graduate. Its my first week of uni .. and im sick. Already. Being sick during the first week of the semseter isnt all that bad. But being sick during the new year weekend is. ARGGH!! Even if the fever goes i wont be able to eat all i want! or drink all i want! Dammit!

Happy New Years everyone. So long 2005 ... im looking forward to a new year.

Christmas :)

Its christmas .. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Glo ROCKS!!

Tequila shots rock!!!

Im never going back to chillout again.

Hehehhe

Christmas present

I was gettin ready to go out last night when i found this sitting on my driveway. My cat brought me an early Christmas present. She somehow managed to catch a freakin bat. Ugh. Yuck.

Movie Day

Finally, i managed to coerce people into watching King Kong with me. I know, old show but hey ive been busy trying to make money.

Movie was a little bit draggy (10 mins staring at the sunset), and king kong reminded me of a spoilt chauvinistic male (i want to own this girl and only this girl) but on the whole it was pretty good. Except if you nitpick at small details too much you might end up spoiling the movie (eg - how come shes so clean?)

Oh yea .. and NEver Ever take little kids who cant sit still or shut up during a three hour long movie. I swear, i felt like smacking the little boy behind me who couldnt sit still. Argh.

Tomorrow is Friday!! :) Damn sleepy right now cos i dragged myself out of bed at an ungodly hour to go for breakfast with jit shiong, jooi hong and vila .. And it must be the drinks or the curry mee cos came back with a bellyache, dammit. But still.. im glad i got to meet up with them one last time before we head back to our respective unis to start a new sem.

Still more people i have yet to meet up with, though.. Im running out of time.

Oh yea.. i got to see Jit shiongs sugar gliders as well .. damn cute little buggers .. it jumped on my head a couple of times, hehehe

New arrival

For the past couple of days ive been so busy baking thanks to all those people who make orders last minute that i havent introduced the latest addition to my house.

Therefore i now introduce Shots. Isnt she cute? Picked her up from the roadside after Terri's birthday :) Couldnt resist .. she was around my legs before we entered the restaurant, still there outside halfway through the meal and tried to follow us in .. And i caved. How can anyone say no to a face soo cute??

Enlightenment.

For the past week, many people have been coming up to me and asking me whats going on. I guess its finally time to spill the beans, since we all deserve to know the truth. Have a good look .. here's the girl who said to my face she doesnt need her friends.

The wonders never cease

HMmmm... its amazing to what extent a person can go for a guy .. to defend a guy .. to defend their own interests.

I finally see the light.

The person i thought i could trust, the person whom i thought was my friend, the person whom i stuck my neck out for to defend turned around and stabbed me in the back .. for the past six months. While she showed me a happy face all the while, little did i know that she was silently trashing me. Looking back, i guess i should have seen it coming. What a fool i am for trusting someone who obviously didnt value me. I guess the cliche is true - looks can be decieving.

I suppose when even friends can be thrown away for the sake of a stranger, its time to surpass all bitterness and leave for the happy place.

So long.

Happy Birthday!!!!

Its Terris birthday today!1

Happy 21st Birthday Terri!!

Heres wishing happy birhday to the girl ive known (but didnt talk to) since standard two :)

Hope everythin goes your way next year .. cos you deserve it.

Results Out Today!!

Results are out!!

Well, not actually the results but you can check your gpa and cgpa at healthycampus.usm.my

Its wiered .. why is it the gpa is out before the grades? Hmmm..

Michelle is back with my purple happy cat!!! Only three more to go to complete the set :)

Reminiscence

Some things are fragile, once broken; cannot be regained.

Looking back, its suprising how much one can put ones neck on the line just for old times sake.

And when it comes to a point where you wake up and realise : is it even worth it?, you know somethings not quite right anymore.

When you finally had enough of the "tepuk sebelah tangan" stuff, its time to make a change. Cut your losses and let go ...

Be free of the past that drags you down.

Tonight

Tonight ...

Is a night to get completely wasted

:)

Duduklah atas pagar..

When things get split into two sides, even sitting in the middle can get you in trouble.

I swore i wouldnt get involved, yet somehow i am now. Dammit.

I think im just gonna sit in my room with my two feng shui cats (third one on the way) and watch anime.

Watch Elfen Lied. Highly reccommended.

I need a good nap

Im more than half way through my hols.. and im dead tired.

Somethings bothering me, but i dont know what cos ive been waking up regularly at about five in the morning. And of course when you go back to bed then wake up again you end up feeling like shit. Arghhh... I cant believe it .. im gonna end up going back to uni as tired as i was when i came back from that hell hole.

Everyones back, with Vila the last person to arrive yesterday. I wonder, though if anything will change. Maybe one extra person to test cookies in ishuets house..

Theres a storm brewing. I hope to hell i dont end up in the middle of it.

Need some $$

Im BAck!

From a rather unproductive trip .. I have amazingly returned with barely any clothes.. except for a really nice beige jacket. Instead, i managed to spend a load of cash on odd items like candles, mugs, and pillows. Christmas pressies, ya know ?? Oh yea .. and my nikes .. my pretty nikes :) and a bag .. and underwear ... I didnt manage to get an external HD during my visit to the PC fair (god, i forgot how much i hate that place) but i did manage to scrape up enough dough for my altec lansing speakers and headphones .. oooo :).

Im not supposed to eat or drink anything after midnight today.

Its odd how you suddenly feel lke doing things when you've been specifically told not to. I really, really want a drink of water..

Sigh. Tomorrows gonna be a long, long day.

Keep your fingers crossed for me..

Going places

Im going to KL! :)

Hopefully i'll be back with some goodies .. i need a new set of speakers, a new pair of headphones (pig chewed up the wire), blank dvds and if my budget can manage, an external HD... And along the way hopefully i get to do some CNY shopping!! Cross your fingers, hope that i make lots and lots of money.

Its been a very packed week so far .. this week, i got about as much sleep as i did in uni .. from 13 hours a day (average only lah) last week to about five or six (??) this week .. which is why i woke up with a fever and sniffles ( Kar Loon, YOU PASSED IT TO ME AGAIN!!). But thanks to the power of modern drugs and a whole day in bed, im ready to go .. now i just need to pack ... hmmmm.. how many shirts can you wear in a day ?? Even harder, how many days can i go wearing the same bra??

Dammit. .. decisions decisions ... I hope i finish packing by the time its morning:)

One week over ..

All too soon one week of hols have passed. Jon has gone back to uni, ishuet has just finished her papers, chai is in kl and my boxes of uni stuff have yet to be unpacked (dammit what have i been doing??). Oh yea .. and my guinea pig is still sick :(

I thought i'd be lonely after jon left - but thanks to my buddies ive had plenty to do so far. Terri and I have been baking cookies in Ishuets house.. Yup Yup .. cookies .. Anyone wanna buy?? Choccie chips or raisins .. take your pick .. we put good stuff in k .. branded ingrediants ... heheheh ...

Will be going down to KL with the girls soon .. time to have a little break, go for a little holiday, do a little shopping ... :P Next week and the week after that promises to be major fun !!!

Heheheheh ....

Very long overdue (sorry la, have to study) but im finally gonna post up a few pics from Andreas birthday party .. Sorry la ishuet .. your page take damn long to load ler ..

Picnic

Quest : To find something fun and inexpensive to do during the hols

What did we come out with? A good old fashioned picnic by the beach :)

Hehehe .. free and fun. What more can you ask for? We packed up our blanket, sandwiches ( i make good ham-egg-cheese sandwiches k! ) and junk and headed to the beach for a day of baking in the sun and doing absolutely nothing. And after weeks and weeks of having something to do, i can finally do NOTHING!!

Only sad thing is that i didnt scrape up the guts to go for a horse ride :)

Once again, Im so so glad i live on an island .. surrounded by water .. where the beach is only a half hour drive away. Something most penangites take for granted till they leave.

Suprisingly, it was pretty crowded .. with people (reflexology seems to be the new money making business on the beach), horses and pigeons. Since when were there pigeons on the beach anyway?? Oh well .. if you can find cobras in paya terubong i guess pigeons on the beach is pretty normal..

Yes, i know i look odd - i wasnt ready for the camera.

*Thanks :)*

Next thing to do : Go swimming!!! I wanna go swimming!! Lets go swimming!!

It is Alive!!

IM BACK!!!

Yup yup .. after a month of absence and cramming in my humble little hostel room im BACK! Finals are over (finally) and im raring to have some fun. I swear, ive never crammed so much before in my entire life.. model student .. waking up around six every morning and going to bed around one .. i did nothing but study and watch stuff on my laptop. Managed to go through season 2 of carnivale, season 1 of desperate housewives and season 3 of scrubs .. heheheh ... i ran out of things to watch .. and eat. In the two weeks of study break i had there i managed to finish ten packets of instant noodles.. Ahhh... the joys of being a student :) .. Thats the last time im taking 20 credits.

Anyways, finished all seven of my papers, packed one semesters worth of junk into boxes (no idea how i managed to collect that much stuff(and now im back!!) So happy so happy :). Call me call me!! I wanna go have some fun .. its time to get this ass up and moving! I swear i could feel all the mass of my body slowly gravitating towards my ass as i sat at the table every day. I overdosed on coffee (worried i fall asleep during my paper mah) and lack of sleep has given me eyebags bigger than my eyes and zits have started poppin out on my forehead. After my last major paper i slept for fifteen hours .. heheheh ..

I dont wanna think about my papers - plenty of time to mull over my results in a months time.

Im outta here .. time to enjoy myself! I earned it :)