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Okok...this is freakingly late...but still I wana voice out...and oh, thanks to Thomas for reminding me...geez..

Alrite, this time around my CGPA has downhill slide for at least like...0.1? Now, some easy maths.....first sem's is 3.75, wat bout 2nd sem's? Answer it in mind...don't shoout it out loud...sshhh

Rite, and guess what? I GOT B FOR ENGLISH!!!
Damn, i remember once or twice...or thrice...that my lecturer said something about easy to pass or something...*awareness struck*...oh ya...she did say its easy to pass, but getting an A? Hmm...nothing mentioned....BUT STILL?

I GOT B FOR ENGLISH!!

Alrite, alrite...I m not LSLY...but hey, i mean, everybody in my class got B...even my friends who are suppose to be damn great in command of english...they got B...so, lets just face it...everybody get B for english...the good, the bad and the ugly...everybody. Hey, universal grades for SSSH students? Biased, man. I mean its true SSSH students have the poorest results in English for the past years...but hey, at least give a damn for people who are good lah...its no surprise that one day we saw ashes in what supposed to be the EMSD building...

Ok, another B is for theory for counselling...which is kinda of...erm...expected. Well, lets just blame at the lecturer, shall we? Hehehe...Well, i got this grumpy old man teaching me then and now( for counselling techniques this sem, see previous blog)...and he is kinda moody...erm...rephrase: he is always damn moody. One minute he smiles... the next minute he's face its like showing that he's got "periods"....

Lecturer:( smiling) Today, I would like to teach about....
Students: (chatting away)....
Lecturer: (stares and continues) ....about the theory of....
One student came in from the front door...
Lecturer:( pissed) Ok,.....now I am *^*%(**%%*nagging away*

Moments later,
Lecturer: Ok, just let you know....you know why I wanted to scold you all...isit because you all make me angry? Nooo.....its because I choose to be angry...yada yada..

I was like...huh? Got people actually chooses to be angry? Thats dangerous and scary....somebody chooses to be angry...eee...its like a time bomb(or even worse)...coz u will never know when he CHOOSES to be angry...
So, anyway, I don't like him....and basically I am not motivated to study this freaking boring subject...and as predicted...yes, face it, Sin Eu...u got B...
So, to sum up....its not the lecturer's fault....its just...erm..erm( I don't wana confess) ...erm...me.

Anyhow, I still wana thank my lecturers for Social Psycho and Sociology. They are great, they are cool and they are never boring....and as not to let them down, initially I get A for the subjects. Hey, it really spurs you to do well. Once again, thanks!

That makes you wonder how you gonna do for this sem...yeap...its already week 5...and I m suppose to start studying, hmm? Wrong....Its still the usual response...

Study? *yawn* *sigh*.....zzzz

On Lecturers and Classes

This time around....I have 3 subjects, English for Social Science, Malaysian Culture and Counselling Methods.
3rd week, and lets see what I expected and what i get...

First, English for Social Science...well, lets just ask everybody, language classes...fun?
As usual, it ain't. So, for the next 4 weeks, its just lecture, tutorial, lecture, tutorial..zzzzz

Second, Counselling Methods and Techniques 1:
For our seniors, its a particular Ms Eva who is recognized as a very good lecturer teaching them. But now, we got the same old man teaching us theories of counselling last sem....which kinda f*ck up...an old, unorganize, emo guy for a pretty, graceful, sweet lady for a lecturer? Thats not the best deal u'll ever get around here....so, here goes another messed up subject which i have to endure for the next few weeks....

I save the best for the last...Malaysian Culture.
Best defined here is not that I get a good lecturer and stuff..its just that I found it interesting in a way...
Basically, its a subject which combined around 5 to 6 courses....which is a massive class with tons and tons of girls around...ahem..
Anyway, for the first week, in came a lecturer with a Zidane hair style...





















Just in case you don't know who Zinedine Zidane is. Notice the bald spot on his top.

In fact, lecturer has much lesser hair than him. But, thats not the interesting part. Its the way he talks which will make you stroll on the floor.Here's a part on how he lecture:

" So, today hoh, we will hoh, cover what the Chinese Culture hoh. We chinese in Maraysia hoh, not call National Chinese, but called Ethnic Chinese. BEcause we are difflent in ethnics. We also worsip difflent cock(God). So hoh, ur cock is difflent from my cock hoh. We also has difflent bird(blood) rerationsips from each other hoh......."

eventually, I told my roomie, and we came up with this theory on why vampires cease to exist:
Vampires suck bird but is scared of cock. * Laughs hysterically.*

Okok...its not a good thing that we are laughing at people, esp. when you are studying counselling. *smirk*.

But then again...... its human nature.

3rd Sem Starts....

3 weeks into 3rd sem...and hey, its almost middle of 3rd sem..why? Its a short sem which has a span of 7 weeks...which means the pace doubled....which means we have to do things in x2 speed...everything from assignments, classes, study, to..well,gaming(=.=).....just imagine u have to hang up ur assignment on the 2nd week....*stared on my pile of assignments next to me and sighed*

Eventually, the fact that its a short sem will spur me to act ASAP comes to your mind. You get it wrong...As usual, your friend here is still lazing around...playing games, go yam cha-ing till midnite..and woke up late for classes, going to classes with panda eyes, slept in class...crapped with classmates...u name it...

Motivation? Huh??

Drive

February 17th: Become full-licence driver. Yeah.
Early early in the morning, I dragged my dad up to change my license. So,on we went to JPJ and by 5 minutes time I got my 3-years-due licence with a still-student-me pic on it( thats the best I can get from my wallet, and, hey, it dosen't matter anyway. Mr. policeman ain't gonna pick M'sia Next Top Model seeing my pic there...they jz wanted money...i mean... to do their job).















Ooooo...aint it cute? *Roomie vomited*

Anyway, being a full-fledge driver of course means you matured. And to prove this right, I got reckless drivers swooming around you, trying to knock you down the next night I came out without my red "P" stickers on my windscreens for the first time. Like WTF?? And just to let you know who are my challengers...








Yeah, Its SLK, Perodua SLK( Small Little Kancil).
And they are challenging an old Nissan Sunny, which, I am informed, has the most solid bumpers around. Solid, heavy veteran vs Milo-tin amatuer. Hah! Get out of here.

Well, M'sian drivers are known for their attitude on the road. Most of them are just plain stupid, reckless, careless, selfish or just too wuliao.
The other day, as I was driving around, behind me came a va-vavroom thing which ends with a turbo-sound-gear-change hault. Expecting a Evo Lancer or some other sport cars, I turn around and saw a CLK (Cute Lil' Kelisa)...gosh, turbo engine on a lightweight vehicle? *Smirk*.
Thats really funny. Neways, its not a surprise if you see Satrias and Kelisas with NFS Most Wanted vinyls and extremely loud irritating engines on the road.

Well, as for a plain stupid and selfish case, lets evaluate this. It happen in my secondary school.
There is this one road which will only allow one car at a time in my school. As I get through half of the section, an Avanza just turned in like nobody's business. Lets look at the illustration:

Well....just based on ur logic...who is to give way to who??

Unfortunately, I am the one who have to mooooove all the way back to where I cam from...and guess what?? I expected a thx or at least a smile?? All I get from that bitch is a cock stare...CCB..

Chung Ling's student's mom?? F**k it!!

Sin Eu says: Totally Utterly Useless.

Its been a long time since the last blog...yeah....coz everytime I thought of using the 56kbps dial-up tingy(well, to be exact its only 46.6 kbps)...i freaked out....
Neways, another reason its because I am plain lazy to write anything.... hah!

Well, its almost 2 weeks since I have been in ma hometown, and it seems to turn out yet another eat-sleep-play-games procedure....why? Oh yeah, thx to the schedule again...the TARCians-rests-others-got-exams schedule. So nothing much to do...except to hit Gurney, to be specific, the GSC over and over and over again.....jz to make up my lost connection with the cinema since...like, 2 months ago? Well, of course, as others are busy, TARCians have to ka ki lai(serve themselves, literally)....so basically I had gone out with TARCians from Penang and KL branches to the same location as usual as u can imagine...of course I have to make time also for my friends that are working and studying,...so visiting them at school and at work is probably worth reminding our friendship after all these years...i mean, months.

Then there is this day created by someone called St. Valentine, which probably condemn singles to hold up the " as-usual-as-possible day"and "being single rocks" sign to everyone else...
Basically, I had nothing against that day but the thing is, I had to watch my parents gone to Gurney Drive, having some oh- so-sweet moments...and I was condemned at home reading " Lelaki dari Marikh, lui zhai from Venus"....urrgh...and to make matters worse, my younger sister is also out the whole day, which makes me feel totally utterly useless...*sob*

Personally, what change during the hols is visible...first of all...as u can see...my English is kinda sucky( I am holding a dictionary, while writing this blog, which explains the whole thing)...rotting since I came back to Penang....my fellow TARCians who saw me can testify that.
Second, I spraint a few more bones, coz i din drink Anlene...nah,....coz too much football, and i am still puzzled why I donno to take care of myself on the pitch....a freaky injury-prone guy I am. So, basically, now I am limping at times and feeling pain here and everywhere.

And the good news i am in Penang this time around is...
I can watch football live every Saturday.
I am not studying.
My fave club is doing well...at the moment.
I am a full-fledge driver now...without the P sign.
I can taste Penang food and my mom's cooking(as usual).
I can watch TV...and lastly...
I am with my family.

Meanwhile,
Mom: Oi, ai chia liao bui? ( Want to eat d not?)
Me: Lai liao, lai liao, tan mania ku. (Coming, coming. Wait a lil bit longer.)

Chowz for now.

Tong Tong Chiang....

There are many factors that this year, the year of the dog...isn't a very partiable new year.....

For one, exams are jz right before and after..no, not even after, its During the CNY. Again, expect cursing from me( and the rest of us), TARC. Imagine urselves burying ur head inside a book and suddenly,: "Oi...ang pow, don wan ah?" (heh, jz an exaggeration...)

Second, some particular law this years stated...NO Fireworks...Fine RM100...
Right, what is CNY without fireworks??? CCB...U noe what? It was sooooo quiet that I din realize its already Day One of CNY till 1 o'clock, when my slow instinct told me to look at the clock...
Thank you, government...thanks for providing a quiet CNY....^&$#*&@#....

Third, my relatives abroad did not come home for the Reunion Dinner..sigh...so, more quietness...

Anyway, proceeded the usual customs that was practiced for the past 18 years....
Reunion dinner at my uncle's place...
Day one, receive ang pow from father's side of relatives
Day two, receive ang pow from mom's side of relatives
Day three, visit temples around penang
Day four, BBQ party at Kent's
Day five, eat play sleep, visit relatives, receive ang pow
Day six, ditto...
Day seven, ditto...
Day eight preparing self back to KL..

Day nine, Exam...yes...exam...great...CNY= exam...nice ar?
Tats d oni special occasion for this years' CNY...sigh.

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?

Mil: The Year In Review

How was 2005 for you?
It was a year of many changes. I move on from 2004 and stayed in Kl for the second-half of the year. I learned a lot in my 6-months-job and gained friggin lot in terms of experience. Got a "decent"result in SPM, enough for me to coughed into TARC, and never look backed, i guessed. New friends, new enviroment, new subjects....its fun. But of course, i missed Penang and my friends and family out there.

What was the highlight of 2005 and why?
Basically, there aren't anything very very exciting things I can think of, but getting a good CGPA for the first sem is for one. Good grades had eluded me for years. Gathering with my family and friends back in Penang had also been fun. Staying abroad do makes u think of ur love one back there.

What was the lowest point of 2005 and why?
I think is the day I recieved SPM results. At first, there was nothing, no hapiness and no sadness. But looking at my friends who, most of them, passed with flying colours, I suddenly had a freaky feeling that this was not a year to enjoy. How wrong I am..hah!

What had changed since the start of the year?
Well, there had been a great change this year, as in switching from one enviroment to another. From Penang to KL, from high school to college, from house to hostel, from good Chinese food to to Mamak.....its had been a year of thousand changes, really. My thoughts and perceptions changed a lot. I started to realised, after receiving SPM results, that my life is not going to be somthing to do with science and maths and technology. Screw science(except Social Science tho)...I wonder: why people must struggle to keep up with the myth that science stream student had prosper while art stream students do not. That is not the case really. The important thing in life is of course do what you enjoy most and what you are interested in, not just fulfill people's demand on you. Get a life. People will never get satisfied with expectations.

What you learned and found out in 2005?
Well, I learned a lot, and i seriously meant a lot of things in 2005. Changes brings a lot of new things, and you have to learn to adapt to it. For the first-half of 2005, I was holding to a, what I thought, is an underpaid job. There, was the first time I experience the toughness of society. Prejudice, discrimination, conformity and politics...bla bla bla bla...list goes on. Here I learned to coped with stress, and this ain't some study stress or somthing. Its a pressure and a situation of make-or-break. Get promoted or get fired. Thats when I realised that study stress is nothing compare to it. and, to be frank, I think exam stress is nothing compared to it. In the second-half of 2005, I learned friggin lot of new things, which of course, its my new road to future. Social science, counselling, psychology and sociology, everything is sooo new for an ex-biology, physics, chemistry and maths nerd like me. Apart from that, I learned a lot from my friends about social life and the importance of updates and places you need to know. Take for example, I din take notice of shops like Body Shop, Lovely Lace and even Sub and Padini. Now I know a lot better. Zouk, Orange and Rush? Aint in my dictionary before that. For now, I am still in the process of learning and experimenting and researching a more meaningful life other than study and play football games on my PC.

If you had to make wishes for 2006, what would it be?
Hmm....first of all, I wish I had a better year than 2005, obviously. I wish good health for my friends and family. I wish to achieved more in studies. I wished my friends rock on. I wish that I can find a partner that can share everything with me. I wish a better luck for me next year..I seriously needed it. I wish my dad can find a job. I wish my sister to be sucessful in studies. I wish hapiness for my mom. Last of all, I wish peace for the world.

To Dear Santa

Dear Santa,

I think I have been very good this year. I got good grades, which seldom happened. I lessen my gaming and I stopped Dota-ing, which is a major improvement. Porn is no more in my dictionary and I have been very good to my sister and my parents.

So, please...can I have the following for Christmas?

A motorcycle













So I can travel easily around KL and Setapak

A lot of cash...so I can buy christmas presentsfor my friends( and some stuff for myself).

An Adidas (not Asadi) boots,











So I can enhance my performance on field.

A slimmer sized digi cam,

So I can take pictures wherever I go (without driving too much attention, heh.)

Oh, if dear Santa can manage...please do send me some great movies on DVDs, a brand new laptop, a iPod, an enhanced E398 with a ROKR version and oh, a girl I would like to hang and be with.

Thank you, Santa.

P/S: Erm, I lived in a hostel..so u may need to show ID card...and da the chimney will not lead towards my room..so um...u may want to use the room door....js in case the bike can't fit into the christmas bag u may sen it thru delivery, no need to send it on Christmas that day...I m happy recieve it a day or two or three later.

Merry christmas!

Race and Ethnicity

After about 23 weeks or more in KL, esp. TARC...I found out that the majority are Chinese. So, you would have assume that most of the Chinese here will find it very easy to settle down. However, that is not the case. One of my friends from abraod had been commenting on the various "race" that is available here. Meaning, somehow, in some ways, we cannot get into a particular group easily although we are all the same race. Y is that so?

Well, actually its not the race that has set us apart, its ethnicity. Accoding to sociology defination of race, Race is socially composed people who share biologically transmitted traits while ethnicity is shared cultural heritage. For this main reason, some of us cannot assomilate ourselves in. Lets see why.

Language(or should we say dialect) speaking, Chinese in KL mostly speak Cantonese. And of course, students who are from abroad or dunno to speak the dialect seems to miss out a lot. We Chinese had a bad habit of speaking our own languages or dialects when other friends of difference race and ethnicity is around. One of my Indian friend told me that was frustrating as it is like threating him as an out-group. Well, I do feel for him as somtimes my friends wags on with a topic in Cantonese and I am there eating sand.

Then again, it somehow provokes u to brush up ur Cantonese, but to some certain extend, it still frustrates u. Then, there are many types of chinese u can find here, lets see some examples.

First of all, there are Chinese who we call the typical Chinese. Speaks, wear and walk like Chinese, which speaks only Mandarin and dialects, full stop. Yup, in classes, is sympathic to see them struggle. But, elsewhere, there are the ones who talks the most. These, as we labelled them, are called the typical Ah Beng and Ah Lian type.

Then, there is the, we called Banana type, that is the opposite of the Ah Beng type. Basically, they will fair well in classes and studies, but struggles in the Chinese-majority society. However, many of my friends which are catogorized here seems to pick up Mandarin and other dialects frigginly fast, which impressed me. Perhaps, maybe its easier to pick up ur own mother tongue than foriegn languages(that explains the situations of the typical chinese type.)

The third group, is the middle of the two types catogorized above. Basically, they can mix with both groups and other races as well. This group, however, ranged variably. There are people who are bilingual, trilingual and so on. So, the more languages and dialects u can speak, the more advantage u are obviously. I got friends who can speak almost anything, from Mandarin, Hokkien, Cantonese, Hakka, Malay and has a good command of English and also some Tamil, blah blah..Damn, where the heck they find time to learn so many languages huh?

So basically, to survive well in KL and TARC, the basic recommendation of language u need to noe is English, Mandarin and the Cantonese dialect. Prior to the open day of TARC today, I would like to advice to-be-students here to brush up their language skills in order to....well, live well?

Presentations....Again

Oh well, when are presentations going to end? It seems like the job of an undergraduate is...complete assignments and present.

But then again....
A big posibility y i m complaining now is because i have been following the norms(or should we call it trend?) of a typical student....

Doing last minute work.

Why? Dunno la..probably it gives the steam-pack feeling when it comes to last minute..or else u won't even care to exercise ur brain cells...

Well, anyway, here's a gist on the presentation in our social psychology...

Rewinding back to the nite before the presentation..



Most of us will be probably hiding behind this model of white new version idiot box...to prepare our script and doing last minute arrangements on our assignments...(of course, for those who got laptops and LCDs, u can't (i mean hiding) do that...heh)

Anyway, turning to the front of the screen....



Like...What the Heck? Doing assignments? Well, i need to chill out maa(excuses, excuses)...jz play a while oni(2 hours...hmm...a while...)...will continue later( yeah, probably the next location is on the bed)...

Aniway, to keep every senses occupied with activities, I included things like....



Yes...this is to make u wide awake(or isit to make u sleep faster, nvm)...so that u will continue till midnite...

Enough preparations I think...now fastforwarding to the next day...

These are the few students who willingly( or some maybe unwillingly) to start of with their presentations....




Most are well prepared..as we saw people using OHPs, cue cards and of course, their talented mouth to make an impression on the lecturer...

While thier groupmembers are doing the presentations....


.... the others stand patiently(or impatiently) to wait for their turns...of course, it makes u nervous when you are waiting...


Fast forwarding to a particular group, I would like to highlight on one of the presenter here....

Thsi is Mr. Jan...probably the best presenter in our class....well, dunno why...no matter how blur he may look in his preparations, he still managed to pull a good show...he's spontaneous for one and very fluent...not the common " ahh...., la....lo..." type..have since gain attention whenever he is presentating, in a proper way, that is ...unlike some people who uses informal ways to get attention...aniway, good job, we sincerely enjoy ur style....

This is probably the best atmosphere to be in when u are having presentations...

Yeah...poeple are attending to ur presentations...somehow, u felt the confidence they gave u....so keep up that attitude guys, we need each other's support.

So, thats all for a mere sneak on our presentations...will bring to u more on that...after people are willing to repeat the process next week. Stay tuned

Tribute to a fighter

Now, now, now first...a word on my fave footy team ..Liverpool

To begin with, they are now 10 games unbeaten and gained it without any reply? What does that tell u? That they are becoming stronger....so, Manchester who?

Anyway, second they are in EPL and in the verge of last 16 in the European champions League..
whereas the other red side...some particular team called Red Syaitan or something...crashed out of ECL..hmm...wat does that tell u? That dominance aint forever...

While Liverpool triumphed..we look at the other side....

Well, that explained it...BUT...

Football ain't predictable, there will be times when the two sides pictured above switching their reactions...

As I said, dominance ain't forever....

The same goes for the case of CLHS band....

They won the state level for Penang Band Concert..but unfortunately they go down on national level..due to some so called...er hum..judgemental technical problem or something...and da...Jit Sin won anyway..

And pleease, my dear friends, don't get too dissapointed..

I repeat, dominance aint forever

So keep working hard!

One day, as a true fighter, we will get what we deserved and what we are supposed to attain..

as long as..we never give up and fight for it!

Be brave, be strong, be proud, we fight....