AHZZ1399: Introduction to Hostel Football

Second sem is coming to an end....and I want to dedicate this blog to one of my passion: football.

Ok.... so how is one cramped hostel place like TARC hostel is going to provide a football field for the football maniacs which is approximately about 50 people who played regularly on field?

The answer is this:
















Yup...this is the stadium....
Who say it is not? I will prove to u why its call a stadium instead of a normal field...


















This is the stands...where all the spectators are watching...because of the overpassionate fans available here....we have to bar the stands for security reasons....
















This is the.....u guessed it....goal post....all u have to do is to slot the ball between the bench's legs and u scored....hey, its much more difficult to score than the one you see on live matches u noe...

And due to the lack of maintainance(see field picture above), we have to play in a desert mode...which of course is hazardous for health due to the sandy ground....but hey, it does make a lot of virtual effects like u saw on fighting scenes in some chinese kung fu movie...nice.

Anyway, we now look at the needs to start a footy match:


The team....like la...for real.....















The official match ball:

















The referee:

















The sponsor:
















The boots:
















Other equipments:
















And the captain( please don't eat when you are seeing this pic):




















So....er hem...back to reality.....tats how we have our evenings passed by.....yup...
Anyway,to TARCians...enjoy ur hols!

Exam: First-Half Report

Another sem, another exam period. Now the first-half report:

As 18th January 2006 loomed, the countdown for the days to come is almost unbearable. It took my nerves out really. Ok, 18th I have BM, nothing much to worry about...just plays my nerves out because it is the first day. Fear of not getting up time for exam is the only worry, I guess. As for the paper, I got the stick when I realize I missed two golden opportunities in translating 2 sentences in the translation part. F*ckin' careless mistake. Any other than that, all goes well.

Inside the opening of the second day, comes English. Nothing seriously to worry about also. Just the time limit that made me a lil' wobbly. Imagine u have to do an essay, a letter, a comprehension, a summary and a cloze passage in 2 hours time. Easy? Well, not till u realized it on the 1-and half hour mark.

Temperature and tempo arises as it came to the third subject, Social Pyschology. It was, and still is, a very interesting subject with a good lecturer. But when u come to exam, who cares whether the subject is interesting or not. Just look at the chapters(16 of them) and the models, theories, hypothesises, u'll become crazy. Because expectations are high for this subject beacause I don wana let my lecturer down, it spurs to study it till the max level. Nice tactic.

Day 4, 23rd January, had to go for Thoeries for Counselling lectured by some particular old hag. Not a very hard subject, but due to some unorganized teaching( he will always say he teached this, teached that before, I don recall any words coming from his mouth), I suffer the consequences. Anyway, no inspiration also to get thru this subject. SO, basically, announced f*cked up.

As we approach the whistle for half time, here comes Psychological Assessment, or we call it Psycho Assess for short....heh. A very boring subject with many statistics. Sigh. The upbeat part is that we get some tips on what to come out. Happy at first, but come to think of it, it doesn't make sense. Now, lets do some basic statistics. This subject has a content which is less than 1/3 of Social Psychology, which consist of chapters like Validity, Realiability, Introduction chapter, 1 type of abilty test and 4 types of personality test. The tips says that validity, realibility, introduction chapter, some parts of ability test and personality tests is coming out........
Just compare the two latest sentence above and you will understand what the heck are the tips for......

And the final, i mean, half time whistle goes...and its time for.....






















Yup, ang-pau session...
Gong Xi Fa Chai!!

E.X.A.M.

EXAM stands for EXtreme Anxiety Mal-behaviour.....wakaka...nah...doesn't really exist in name..but hey, may exist in reality, jz ask my roomate Jem for opinions, esp. after midnite....

Anyway, Doomsday is here and everybody are going to be freaks and nerds for the next few weeks...some can even become psychotic..sigh. And while the tension level rises everyday, I am still here writing this blog...sigh again. Need rest maa...canot meh..

So, basically, here's how much i am goin to store into my hard drive for the next few days...















Walau.....can or not? And to be exact, these does not include the notes and other references I needed to score...like WTF...

And by the way, its not easy to get thru a hostel life studying for ur exam....why?

First thing, u got this...














Yalah...tats why....and if you don wana get hooked with it, you move to further down ur room and u find....














Sigh....the moment u step on it...u wil get those sleeping mantra surrounding u...and the nex few minute u will go zzzzzz.....

So, bo huat lo.....go study room....and u get people talking crap, laughing, shouting at each other, discussing what should they wear during the exams......wah....so called study room....

So, now left only one place that u seriously can go...library....
yep...study there gets the best out of you.....but....sometimes it get so comfortable with the air-con there, u go zzzz.....sigh

Seriously, tell me where to study.....
Room cannot, too tempting.
Study room, more like kap siao room.
Library, too comfortable.
Canteen, food too tempting.
Toilet, too smelly.

Okla, now guess where am I now? Yalah, at room blogging, see? tell u already...too tempting.
SIGH.

Attending A Public Talk

Well, TARC doesn't hold a lot of public talks as expected( or isit that I m ignorant to noe any?) Either way, here's one that benefited the course I taken...

Mr. ..sorry...Dr. Ashok Jansari, Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Neuropsychology in Uni. East London(UEL) is the speaker of this talk...Lets see how he looks like...















Apparently, he looks cool, too cool to be a lecturer...not the typical shirt-with-tie type...with an earing dangling on his left ear...he speaks free-flowing and British-accented English...which of course sounds...erm..cool...

Anyway, he was going to talk about cognition and emotion and synaesthesia( which is a phenomenon of multi-sensory perception which is caused by cross overs of sensory information)....and due to Malaysian timing....meaning the culture of timing...the talk started late due to some technical problems(another Malaysian culture of excuses, its always the case, aint it?)...
















....which will annoy him if it was the first time he staged a talk here( probably he got used to it anyway after being here for soo many times)....

Well, back to the main topic....he talked about the many experiments that he had made or facilitate during the past few years, shared a couple of interesting theories and some applications for the links between cognition and emotion...for the first half...

Then we have a break...
As I was walking around I took some pics for the day...















Here, the guests...meaning the VIPs are treated to a nice cup of coffee with Dr. Ashok....while the not so famous audience( meaning us students) have to find our own food....

As the second half was about to begin...















Students are ushered into thier sits....while thee are some who are undecided whether to stay on...hence the standing up and sitting down actions....

Anyway, the talk began again for almost another 2 hours.....and it was about synaestasia this time....very interesting topic...though there are still many unexplained phenomenon which Dr. Ashok did not find out yet...

Before the end of session, we got some gifts all the way from England....















Yep...this are balls...To be exact..its call Tension balls. To release tension, jz grab it very hard...or the alternative way is...to throw it on someone else...niahaha...
Either way, its a nice gift coming at the right moment prior to the exam fever coming our way....
Thanks, UEL.

NY Eve In Star Hill(Bukit Bintang)

Well, as my history goes....I had never actually celebrated New year Eve. Every year I had been celebrating in Penang, going to Kent's house for a barbecue or buffet. Well, since now I m in KL...somthing new had to happen...so, along with my Hostel mates we hit Star Hill a.k.a. Bukit Bintang...
Upon the arrival around 5pm, we started our journey with some window shopping in Sungei Wang(which always remind me of Prangin Mall in Penang)...and given the time we had...I think we explored almost every clothing shops there....

As we got tired and hungry, we made a pit stop in Kenny Rogers' at Bintang Walk...

















It was packed, and we are lucky to get a table for 5....had a great dinner...and we marched on...

As we go along, the girls got into MNG while the boys hit the pee-pee centre. It was drizzling as we moved on, and scenes like this...

















and this...

















kept repeating themselves as we jogged (becoz of the drizzle) along Bintang Walk...

And of course we came along with scenes like this also...
















Sigh....some rich brats jz duno how to take care of their money...so they desperately kneal beside a toilet and begged...(haha...actually don't pity this guy...he's only acting...wu liao)..

Ok, enuf prank...so where did I stop? Oh, as the New Year closing in...the streets became wild and packed with people...
















And as it gets wilder, the crowd become started to spray foams on you....


















and u get free dye hair treatment....(shaiks, wats the meaning of these aniway? Maybe they get too high...can't get the point..)

Aniway, not all people are foam-maniacs and party goers...so cafes such as Coffee bean, Starbucks and Dome are filled with poeple too...















and this also fustrates me actually...y? can't find a place to rest my already wobbly-legs...eventually we had to pray for it...and as we waited...our patience were rewarded.

So, the team settled down in Dome and some of us had cakes to refill the energy tank...
















Notice that there is a Starbucks cup? Some people jz don't have any idea where they were for the moment..

As we waited for the countdown, we decided to take some pictures of ourselves...

















We wish u a Happy New Year in the year......6002? WTH? oh, sorry read it the Ancient Chinese way(frm right to left)...that is 2006....sigh...people's nowadays ah....

11.59.54 pm....wohoo...time for countdown...5...4....3....2.....1.....Happy New Year..!!
As we countdown everybody rushes out and had a nice view of......

Fireworks!
















Happy 2006!!!

Hope everybody had a nice new year to start with..and may dreams come true! Peace!

2006 Resolution

• Study harder. Lately I have been sitting on a chair, open the book, read one or two words and go zzzzzz.....WT heck? This call study ah? Sigh...
• Spend lesser. I wonder why whenever I see a lot of cash I will spend it free-flowly till u realised that aint enuf left for the end of a month. Then have to puasa for lunch, breakfast...Sigh again
• Puk*m*k! Curse less. Need to control.
• Stop playing sooooo many games. Don't get addicted.
• Get fit. Exercise more. You lazy ass!
• Stop doing last minute work(assignments, presentations etc.)
• LeAhMa CCB. Cursing no good. Stop cursing. Sin Eu good. #@$%!....
• Be more focus. Don't be careless. You blur dumb!
• Go back more often to Penang. But er...can sombody sponsor me home ah?
• Improve English and Cantonese. Break the language barrier.
• Remember again. Lessen ur cursing. %#!*&. Control, control.
• Lastly, be consistant in ur resoultion. Don't slack off. I noe my habbit. Begining very semangat. Then......Aniways, be a better person.

What is ur new year resolution huh?