Haha, finally, it's around the corner where less than 24 hours, we will have our New Year 2008. I guess I won't be joining the countdown in KLCC after my coursemates inviting me. haha....
Anyway, finally, our college has the wireless service but it is just in the starting stage. For now, my area still can't detect any wireless connection. Most of people who wants to go online have to go down to the foyer or the canteen to have internet connection. It was funny to see people sitting at the foyer just to get the internet connection, especially when it is in the middle of the night, or perhaps early in the wee hours. all you can see is the screen that has the light shown onto their face and it makes you feel like you saw hantu especially when the foyer doesn't have any lighting.
Last week I had the worst spending ever in my life. I spent too much that, I almost go off broke. Well, at least the money inside my acccount saved me. Anyway, I did have my so called "year-end shopping' to buy stuffs that I wanted to buy. Among the few are an external hard disk and a running shoes. Most of my money go down on both items. Other than that would be daily neccesities.haha...luckily I never broke like other people who went broke at the end of the year.
Once again it’s the end of the year and darn, how time flies that it’s once again the end of the year. I guess I need to reflect back to certain occurrences that have happened this year.
In Labuan
- One of the biggest things that happened to me this year and it isn’t a good thing either. I’ve lost my beloved camera after it was stolen by an unknown, @#$%^&* individual. Surprisingly, I still can’t figure out how it was lost until now. It is gone in just a few minutes unattended and it is during the prayer time. Those who are in the scene with me will know what has happened that day. I didn’t sleep, eat or do my work properly for a few days because of that.
- Joined a sketch competition, I managed to play a few characters which include of becoming a tree…hehe, too bad, the footage of the sketch was never recover after the whole recording of it was stolen together with my camera. Darn that stupid, jacka** stealer. So far only 5 individual have seen the footage of the sketch before my camera was stolen, and I’m not in the 5 person list.hahaha. Perhaps that guy is interested in our show??!
- Been in a lot of events in LMC alone, football competitions (organiser), drill competition, sketch, etc etc…
- Joined into a club that has its member not really united in doing certain things, luckily, it hasn’t happened to my group. On the last meeting, it’s the first time I scolded people in front of a meeting( another group leaders that said other groups are not doing their jobs and only his group does…takkan I’m not defending my group right?) at the end of the day, lots of people supported me on my action…hehe
- Had food poisoning just few days before final exams, I didn’t study for 4 days because of that.
- Had 3 free KFC meal in a week
- Watched sunrise on the last day in Labuan on a beach. And I was contented to see the sight of Mt. Kinabalu.haha
- Carried super extra weight luggage to board aeroplane. My luggage was overweight by 15 kg when I boarded FAX. 8kg for my next connecting flight to Kuching. I guess FAX was so happy during those few days as lots of students carry their heavy luggage to the airport. Some of my friends had their luggage overweight by 40kg. OMG, emas kah inside?
- Experience of becoming broke on the last day in Labuan after paying the freaking overweight luggage.
In Kuching
- nothing much happened, but it was my first time I’ve watch so many movies in a month with my friends during my semester break recently.
In KL…erm, Klang Valley
- walk on the unknown streets of KL alone without a map. I managed to get to KLCC from pasar seni without a map but only guide. It is not easy for you to get lost as once you are lost, just look up in the sky, and make the two tall peaks as your guide lah.
- Joined in the equestrian…hehe
- Been a sakai for too many times.
- Bought a new camera to replace my camera that was lost
- It seems like it’s not worthy to come back to KL this time, I don’t even have class on the first day of semester. It’s not I didn’t go but the lecturers didn’t come.
- As I’m writing this now, I still don’t have any class that I’ve attended.
Well, It might seem good on the outlook and everything works fine even until today but behind everything, it is actually not working fine and you can’t even detect it.
I would like to share something very unusual that has happened these few days, and I would like everyone to notice what is going on and take it as a lesson to everyone, starting with myself…
Ok, the story goes like this,
My laptop’s LCD hinge apparently loosens. This has been happening around since a two more months and I don’t have any spare time to repair it. At the end of the day, I decided to service my laptop here in Kuching since Kuching has a HP service center which is located near to the Crown Square which is next to the Bank Rakyat( you can see the center from the traffic light that is from Sekama Road.) Anyway, it seems that the only problem with the laptop is the hinge, so I told the front desk personal that my laptop is having problem and it is the hinge only.
Well, everything turns out to be ok and the person has a look at my laptop and she inspected the laptop to see if there is any other wrong with the laptop. While she was doing that, I told her that I’ve just bought the laptop few months ago and already it causes that problem and I managed to tell her that my laptop (notebook) is still under warranty since it is just few less than a year.
Haha, then things started to went wrong when she checked the serial number under my notebook. Eventually she thinks that my laptop is a remarketed product and the warranty actually only lasted for 4 months only. To support her statement, she checked it through the internet with the serial number. It turned out to be really true, the notebook has only 4 months warranty. ( I was really stunt that time when she showed me the statement on the screen… the warranty actually ended on September this year…even more surprisingly, my notebook according to the registry has the warranty started on May this year…) I was so so so surprise with the date of purchase…
OMG, I bought the laptop end of June this year but how come it’s May????
Then, the front desk personal said she will try her best to extend the warranty as we didn’t know about the occurance…
Obviously, it is like been cheated for that as according to her, the people who sold remarketed stuffs should inform the consumers that they are selling remarketed stuffs. Luckily my father was there when we went to Lowyat to make the purchase. So I have saksi for that matter. Hey, what the hell is that, it was obvious that both my dad and I didn’t even heard anything about my notebook is a remarketed stuff and we are even sure that the salesman in Lowyat is telling us that the laptop has one year warranty and he even asked us whether we want to extend the warranty to 3 years. Luckily we didn’t ask for the 3 years warranty as the extended warranty will mean extra charge lah..if I’m not mistaken, it should be around rm200…darn cheater….nasib we didn’t do that….
My poor laptop that has to go thru all of this...
Ok, everything was fine after that. But the word ok doesn’t last long, worst case scenario eventually happened. OMG, this might sounds very awkward to most of us and even me myself tergamam…..
The technician who repaired the hinge managed to repair the hinge but as he was about to unscrew the notebook he noticed that the laptop has only 3 screws supporting the laptop….OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!3 screws???????? Before he told us about that, he did ask us whether we ever repair or open up the laptop…honestly speaking, who the heck is so free to open up the laptop just for fun and forget to unscrew it….It was so new that even the word been repaired is not really suitable for a new notebook. Apparently, questions started to sparked…where is the other 12 more screws???
How did my laptop can tahan that long without even the inside of it spill out??? How come I didn’t notice the mystery of the screws all this while that I was using it???
This is obviously been cheated for a product….( I swear I will go back to Lowyat one day after I’ve return to KL and take down the name of the shop where I bought the laptop…) Again, how did the screw gone??? Question that runs thru my mind until now…. My dad and I really saw the salesman open it from a box which is really sealed from the beginning. The salesman even opened up in front of us after we have requested a new unit rather than the display unit. I would refer the salesman as conman from now onwards….. the conman or conmen since the shops is not operated by him alone. I clearly remember that I checked the product thoroughly and the operating system to the RAM and etc…. but not the screws underneath the laptop…
Who the heck would check whether if there is any screw missing from the product they purchased?? Would you check every inch of the new car you bought to see whether is there any missing screw.?? Surely the answer is no….
The same thing applies when I’ve decided to take the unit of laptop. Anyway, back to the discussion with the front desk personal and the technician. The front desk personal eventually managed to check the price of the screw. This time around I even more tergamam to hear the price of the screws….for the whole set of screws for the laptop, the cost is RM 134….hah??? did I hear wrongly, 12 screws for RM134??? For that one piece of screw I can watch at least five days of astro dynasty package…haha….
It’s just to freaking expensive as if the screw is made of nanotech stuffs or it s made of partly diamond and gold platted. Finally, I understand why the screws are missing. It is taken to be sold again as one piece of it is really profitable. No wonder the conmen are so smart of getting profit…rupa-rupanya, they sell screws….if I have the chance, I will try to screw them off, see how far they go of selling stolen screws after been ‘screwed’.
Anyway, everything was settledafter the extremely rare case is refer to the manager and the manager manage to refer it to HQ at KL. Apparently, they got the new set of screws and I got it free of charge….
Anyway, I would like to express my gratitude to the HP team who had helped me on solving this issue and service it free of charge somemore
They are few lessons to be learn here:
1 ) when you bought stuff that is as expensive as mine, do remember to note where did it come from. As In the case of laptop, do remember to ask the person who sell it whether it is a remarketed stuff. This might happens if you buy a laptop from a shop. It is more secure if you buy directly from the dealer, authorised reseller…
2) Be careful when you buy stuffs at KL, especially Lowyat if you intend to buy laptop, I would like to suggest that it is more secure to buy at those authorised shops.Lowyat is still indeed a great place to shop for IT stuffs but do remember about it.
3) Check the product very thorough before you buy it. Like my case..check the screw, so that you can screw them on the spot and throw their water face on the spot.
4) HP has a good customer service and no doubt HP product is good (promote pula….)
hmm...It seems like there is people demanding or perhaps complaining about me writing too long on my blog, I will try make sure that this post will contain more pictures
Well, let's start with the 'front desk'...this is what someone will notice if they use the Sungai Besi Highway...Anyone will notice the lush greenery of the field just beside the highway... ( it's Taman Pertanian Universiti )
There is the lake and other kind of terrains that were actually created for any cross country events...so no doubt this Taman is quite big..it's along the stretch of the highway after the Toll UPM to the roundabout of Ikram and UNITEN
... if you are lucky, then you make see lots of cows on the field like what I saw the everytime when I go for equastrian, something if you are lucky, you might even see horses "wondering around without being tied up on the lush green of the field...it really makes you feel like you are at a countryside....it has calming effect though
or maybe something you can see human wondering around in the Hilux like this on the highway..haha...in case if the bus that fetched us to and from The equine decided to 'fly us Aeroplane'( they forget about fetching us) ..anyway, it happens only once. The reason why they fly us aeroplane is, the place is kind of isolated and to make the matter seems worse, lots of UPM students don't even know the existence of the Taman Pertanian Universiti as it is off the map of UPM...it's the edge of UPM's map...darn
There are horses likeJade...the white horse...this horse really reminds me of a lot of fairy tales where the prince or princess like to ride on a white horse...
Farazh, the Stallion horse which is owned by Dr. Mahathir before he gave it to UPM ...hey, this horse used to be representing Malaysia in SEA Games and Won a Medal for Malaysia...but unfortunately, Farazh has an operation and that is why his neck is supported to prevent him from bitting his wound. Ohya, the 'mask' is used to cover his eyes
from flies...
Hobo, everyone's favourite horse as this horse is gentle and 'user friendly' I like this horse as well as he will follow what he required to do...very friendly oh...eventhough he is a Gelding Horse...
we were taught of the ways to groom a horse, notice the shinning part of the hoof (the leg of the horse...) the horse baru been sapu with hoof oil an oil which I was told to be expensive than minyak masak and it is applied on the hoof of the horse everytime to prevent the hoofs been exposed to water..
it's like in an animal Kingdom, sometime you might notice those horses here speak among themselves and their way of communication is somehow like the one above...our instructor even told us that they might lick each other as the way of communicating...hehe ;D
Ohya, this is my group pic with the instructors and notice the dark guy on the right, he is our head of instructors,Mr Razak. Really respect him as he is an experience guy in equastrian, he travels to a lot of places and he knows lots of things about horses, He can even tame those wild horses,train them, Not only he is the instructor for us but other club outside. wahsei, He is also a coach for the Terrenganu equastrian squad, a judge and also he used to coach The cast of Anna and the King...wahlau eh, I feel so lucky to learn from him...somemore...it's free of charge
a picture of my group and I after we were evaluated ( a test though...) in grooming the horse...tell you the truth, it's a fun thing to groom the horse eventhough you might need to groom for a long time or even need to tahan the 'karenah' of the horse....
...haha, me being 'bullied' by the others on the last day of the course...jaga you ppl...
a horse can drink average 60-80 litres of water per day...OMG, it's like ten times of our daily intake...darn...
Anyway, on the grooming side, there are lots of steps that needed to be followed and any careless mistake can be fatal..and I'm not kidding, like for example, you might ended up flying away after been kicked by the horse...it's always safety first when it comes to the issue of handling horses...
Flyaway, the name tells us what is the function( chasing flies away) but somehow lots of us laughed when we saw the product, is it a title for a song? by Michael Buble or F.I.R.?
one of the steps of post-grooming is getting the horse ready for riding and among them is shown above...( for the rest of the process, I can't explain much, the best one should be experience it yourself...hehe, especially on the grooming part and getting the horse ready for riding...
Guess what, horses do not take 'shower' often( they only get to do so once a week),except if the horses is too dirty...meanwhile, grooming is done everyday, and those horses enjoyed been groomed
our group pic with our former head of instructor, Mr Amri before Mr. Razak take over, and guess what, Mr Amri is Mr. Razak's student...haha
I guess I was lucky enough to have the oppurtunity to go for equastrian and to be part of It, after a few months of involving in the equastrian, it suddenly makes you addicted towards its and who wants more as it is also free of charge, unfortunately, a few silly guys drop the course after they got the seat and now they don't have the chance to do so ( the space is so limited, each sem, only 30 lucky students are selected for it..it's first come first serve basis...) I'm so lucky in this..hehe, I guess I will take advance course next semester to improve my skills in riding. "It's the cheapest riding course and fee you can find in Malaysia"...claimed Mr. Razak. It's true he claimed that as for advance course, a student only needs to pay RM100 for ten lessons..
=D
I can't believe that my last post dated back one month ago. Might have been busy with lots of stuffs, Aren't sure whether I'm that busy in real fact, as when you glance back through those day before the exam. Now, it feels weird as if The time is not enough for me to put in any effort....haha...I guess I've been talking nonsense for the past few sentences above. Anyway, going back to what I'm intended to say, Yay! finally, I'm back in Kuching for 5 weeks, but I'm still not satisfied of my holiday though as our holiday ends on the 23rd December which mean that our 2nd semester eventually starts on 24th December, Isn't it stupid to have that date for the beginning of 2nd semester. 24th is a Monday, the Next day 25th is Christmas day, a public holiday. My point here is why can't be started on the 26th instead? nothing wrong of doing that isn't it? It seems like our Uni is the only odd Uni that has the 2nd semester starts at 24th december, the other seems normal for me in terms of their holiday. Some even starts their 2nd sem the next year. duh.... Anyway, there are a few of my friends ( perhaps, more than few as I heard lots of students doesn't want to get back to campus on the 24th...which mean ponteng lah....) who decided to book their ticket back only on the 26th. Smart huh?! but we cannot blame them, perhaps it should be the management who needs to reconsider their decision perhaps if not this time , but the next time around.darn
* I'm back on the 22nd though...budak baik bah....*
By the way, I've done a thorough spring cleaning on my room after I've found my room in the state of "troublesome" for me. The reasons I put troublesome are,
1) I found out that I'm sneezing constantly nowadays after I got back here, and I needed to have at least one tissue paper besides me. So you can imagine how dusty it is my room, after it was vacant for a few months
2) I can't even walk inside my room after it was transform into a temporarily store to put stuffs
3) This one I have to admit myself, I didn't clean the room thoroughly for the last few months, ever since I was sent to pulau indah- Pulau Labuan for matriculation programme.
So you can imagine how disorganised it is in my room. Anyway, I've found out lots of stuffs when I did my cleaning, some of the stuffs that I've lost and never found and some even brought back my memories of certain times. maybe the next time around then I will show what I've discovered...hehe...
Day 6- Thursday
Condition inside the college worsened from what I’ve observed, human kind makin berkurangan, even the felos are out of sight, most or probably all have gone back to their respective kampung. Anyway, it’s again another day that I wish it will ends faster, have myself study throughout the morning and the afternoon as well…anyway, manage to went through the day well, so no worry about it.
Day 7- Friday
Consider myself as lucky for the day…hehe. I did went out with a few friends of mine, my boss and co-boss, they are the ex-students of Labuan Matriculation College and now they are studying in Optometrist at UKM. I watched the second movie of the week at another Cinema ( perhaps not two..it’s more than that as I watch a few more movies from my own laptop…). This time around I’m watching The Seeker: The Dark is Rising.Overall the movie was ok, just that, I don’t quite understand what the storyline at the beginning is, I was blurred of what was happening with the kid who claimed to be the seeker of “The Sign”. Somehow, honestly speaking, this was the first time that I almost felt asleep in a cinema. Somehow, the beginning of the story doesn’t captures my attention, darn, record has been broken, I sleep for a few minutes inside the cinema, after that was awaken during the fighting scene.
Another thing I found out from the movie itself was the movie seems like specially set for children to expose them to thrilling movie. The thrill somehow was so mild, this is the first time I saw a dark or evil character that doesn’t really show up the real power of the dark side, the evil thing the character was mild, it’s like afraid to kill or even disturb the kid who claimed as The seeker of “the Sign”. All I can say is, the evil dude only did his attacking “alang-alang” or half way through…,hey, should show the real power of evil side. The Kids pula somehow can be so powerful in just a few days. No wonder I can go sleeping, no suspense.
My friends on the other hand watched Resident Evil, so I didn’t follow them for that as I’ve watched it just a few days ago.
After the movies, We decided to go Petaling Street to eat, erm…I suggested it since they said they want to save money…it’s one of the street in KL where you can find both cheap and expensive food. Like I can imagine beforehand, the place is full of fake stuffs at bargain price. Haha… the funny thing is there is still people opening their stalls below a signboard “ Dilarang menjual Bahan Cetak Rompak….arahan Datuk Bandar DBKL….” I mean for them, they might think,who cares, you are Datuk, I’m businessman, I need to find my own income also…hehe.
Ohya, I did mentioned that I was lucky, first of all, I arrived as what I’ve expected at Berjaya Times Square. My timing was correct. For your Information, I never time myself when I go to Bukit Bintang’s Area. 2nd thing that happens, while I was waiting for my friends, out of sudden, someone serve me with a Starbucks’ Coffee. The waitress just walked towards me and serve me free Starbucks’ coffee. She just said that it’s their new coffee on the menu, free for testing. Hey, who don’t want to take if one of the most expensive coffees was given to you for free. I was thinking of their coffee before I was giving the free sample ( I was standing and waiting at the ticketing counter of GSC cinema at Level 3, Starbucks is just beside the counter…). I forgot what is the name of the coffee but I know it’s cappuccino and somehow it’s green in colour, and the drink taste great…it seems like they put Kiwi I think…not the Kiwi to polish your shoes mine you…haha.Anyway, my friends were unlucky as they arrived only a few minutes later…
3rd thing that I can consider lucky as well was, I get to hop on and off the rapid KL with my Rm1 ticket only. For those living in KL, they will know the rapid KL system. I will explain the system if you ask. Anyway, all my other friends pay Rm2 for their ticket. So I was lucky to go on 4 rapid KL bus ride with just one ringgit.the driver did not notice the buttom of the ticket was different. But they were sure of the date was 12th October, so they let me in.The 4 ride were from UPM to KTM Serdang, Bukit Bintang to Petaling Street, KL pasar Seni to KTM Serdang, and lastly KTM Serdang to UPM. It’s normal for people here, but if you go on 4 bus and above with RM1 ticket, people will not always do.
4th thing was, my friend’s bike that was parked outside a bank is not stolen after I came back to UPM…lucky me….hehe…KL and Selangor not really safe as the crime rate here is quite high. I don’t trust the strangers here especially those with geli face like they are from Indonesia. =_+
Day- 8 Saturday
Ok, I watch the 3rd movie on cineplex again. Darn, now I feel guilty for myself for spending time on watching movie. Never mind then, this time around I watched it with my brother and his gang. The movie was Lust, Caution. This movie set in the Japanese Occupation era and it brings up the issue of how the Chinese have worked hard to free themselves from any kind of occupation. I won’t talk much on the review but this movie is a good movie. It is not really bored as compare to The Seeker then. Although at some point, this movie really get you feel like want to stop watching. But the director is clever enough to make you to continue watching it. Smart. What can we do, Ang Lee is an Academy Award winner, his movie surely has the style. Anyway, the movie has the ending which appears to be different than the other movies around, normally, movies will have good or bad ending, this one is somehow the middle of it…
P/s- there is lots of scenes that have been censored if you watch it at the cinema, so if you want to watch it without been censored by the government then, you should know what to do next. I starts to think that Ang Lee is the director who wants to direct movies that are different from the rest…remember Brokeback Mountains? This movie is banned in Malaysia.
Day -9 Sunday
Done nothing much, stayed at my brother’s house watching tv, study then take a nap…life’s like usual. Anyway, that evening, after going to church, I went out for the first time to Bukit Bintang alone. I guess I’ve never done that before. It’s my first time though…it’s night some more. Hehe, probably u might think I’m enjoying right….but heck no…I was there because I want to see for myself the night life of Bukit Bintang.
Anyway, after walking for quite sometime I found myself to be in Pavillion. The new shopping place in KL. This place is really…I can’t describe it in words…maybe a very high class shopping centre?? Yup…it’s like going to KLCC…it’s really resembling Starhill Gallery but somehow keep it a little low class than that Starhill. The reason I said so is, The Pavillion has some shops which offers affordable wardrobes and somehow has GSC as well. Anyway, I can only say that it is more like KLCC but the place looks very high class as the place is well-designed and equipped with lots of amenities. Erm…my advice is, if you go there, then you are again not rich or maybe not that poor…just have a stroll in it, do some windows shopping, smells the food they are grilling, frying..etc. Or just enjoy the air-conditioned that is cold there, maybe around 17 Celsius. Hehe
Day-10 Monday
Again, I went to watch another movie at the same Cineplex. The Cineplex that is located at Aeon Cheras Selatan, Balakong…uhuh, I’ve watch numerous movies there and I think I’ve familiarised with this place somehow. This time around, My brother, his gang and I went and watch The Detective C++, which I’m unsure of what the C++ means even until now. This movie is a Cantonese Movie and it is starred by Aaron Kwok, a ‘long lost’ superstar singer which I’ve never heard I guess since 2004. Anyway, this film is set at a Chinatown in Thailand ( which I’m not sure where is the exact location of this place, could be Bangkok as well.) This area lives mostly by the Cantonese and they can speak good Cantonese, to my surprise. The detective( Aaron Kwok ) is a local detective who lost his parents ever since he came to Thailand. Something bad happens after he was given a task by his client to search a woman. He was given no clue on it. His client only tell him that this woman always chase after him. Then, the clue leads him to another case and another case. Each time he almost got to solve the case, the person he suspected died. So, it’s like who meet him will die lah. Duh, anyway, at the end of the story, the woman is actually dead for a few months even before the detective was given the task of searching for the woman. It’s known that, those died is the bunch of people who killed her. The rest of the story, hehe, again, go and look out for yourself in the local Cineplex. The story is quite good just that they make the movie like a ghost movie, some more they set the location at Thailand ( Thailand, which is famous for ghost movie). So it’s a bit scary to watch lah.
By the way, I guess I need to save money for now or else I will go broke. Over this whole week, I’m over budget, as you can see, I’ve been to here and there, watching 4 movies which cost me rm 40, darn…need to ikat perut liao…hehe.Anyway, after this month and mid of next month, life will be back to normal again, Yay!!
For now, I need to concentrate on my study, so I will not update my blog frequently, except I’ve story to share. So to everyone out there, especially to those sitting for final exams and not forgotten, STPM students, work hard, study hard, study smart, stay focus, and Gambateh in every subjects you take. May God Bless!!
The End
Day 1- Saturday
Thank God, at least I have things to do today, the morning I did nothing more than just sleeping although I woke up a few times just to check on the time and done my daily chores as normal. The only thing was after I’ve done with something, I will lay back to my bed then sleep back again. Anyway, later that evening, I had equestrian and eventually no riding was done as the weather does not permit us to do horse riding. The reason is the paddock is not suitable as the sand was wet that time. Lightning and thunder will be another issue again obstructing this. You know, horse is very sensitive so ever care must be taken for them. =). Anyway, we did horse grooming instead, the way you can grow your relationship with the horses so that they know who you are. Grooming is not that easy though. Care are specially taken in many aspects from tip to toe…oops,from tips to hoofs. The horses like it when you groom their colts with the rubber curry comb, somehow, you help them to massage, that’s why the horses can go ‘syiok’ sendiri.hehe…maybe, I will put that all in the later post which is dedicated to the equestrian sports I joined.
Night time, my friend, Jason eventually brought us to Putrajaya to take pictures of the place. Erm… I must say that Putrajaya is kind of inactive other than the office hours, the rest of the time, Putrajaya will be inactive but the scenery is worth taking pictures of. We visited a few places for examples :
The Palace of Justice...very popular building nowadays...
So I decided to take photos here as a remembrance that I've been here...
PICC-Putrajaya International Convention Centre..if you like it different way, it seems like a pair of transformer's eyes...angry look...this scene only can be seen at night time...beware, it will transform soon...
KL city skyline..I like this picture as It has 3 of KL tourism spots, Eye On Malaysia, The Twin towers and KL Tower, I took it from a condominium which is stayed by cosmopoint students...hey, I did submit this photo for competition, do vote for it at HP website(click Here)
PM's office,great building it is...
that's how Jason and I promote this place...Welcome to Malaysia, Visit Malaysia Year 2007...hehe
Found Sarawak Flag...Proud to be Sarawakian...hehe
The Putrajaya most beautiful bridge, a well designed bridge
Day 2- Sunday
Stayed at my brother’s house for the morning and afternoon. Well, nothing much I can do then, online is the only thing I think I did in my brother’s house. Anyway, besides that, it’s all watching tv and watching tv alone. Then, on the evening follow him and his gang watch Residents Evil: Extinction. To be honest, I’ve never watch the first 2 episodes of the Resident Evil’s series. But It was a story about Alice who is genetically used to cure some sort of disease that spread out throughout the world. Her blood is claimed to have the anti-viral against the deadly disease that mutate human beings. She is somehow the product of Alice Project. Do watch the movie if you are interested, hehe, I won’t elaborate more on that. Ohya, I heard my brother said that the movie is totally different from the storyline of the game. Somehow, Alice shouldn’t be the main character. For me, I cannot comment anything on this as I’ve never plays this game nor watch the first two series of the Resident Evil.
Then, we went n watch football match on a big screen at a nearby bistro. Frankly speaking, I’m not a football enthusiast but my brother do, so have to follow him watch football match between Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspurs there. Anyway, It was a great match with both of the team draw at the end of the game.
Day 3- Monday
Went back to the college with UPM bus, to my surprise, this is the first time I feel so strange sitting on a UPM bus. Guess what, the whole bus was full of foreigners, mostly from Arabic country, I’m the only one from Malaysia(with the exceptional to the driver…) So, I do feel weird about it, seems like I’m travelling on a tour bus that is specially used to transport foreigners…I was wondering whether I’m on the wrong bus, But heck no…surely it’s UPM bus coz UPM buses are special. It’s always cosy and comfortable…hehe..then the rest of the day…..study!!! and of course update my diaries. Hey, I’m not used to writing a diary. This is the first time I’m writing this. Hopefully I can write down what I did throughout my Raya holiday.
Day 4- Tuesday
Bad start for the day after two of my friends decided to “fly me aeroplane” that is decided not to go the very last minutes. I’m very pissed off with their decisions that I scolded them early in the morning for flying me aeroplane more than 3 times.I can stand it if once but more than three times, it’s really unforgiveable…this type of person need to be scolded so that they can change…but…so muka tebal…(throw your face with durian baru tahu..)I hate people who broke the promises and yet feel not regretting of doing that. Really muka tebal…I really hate those people to add it even worse, the friends that I thought I can mix with is doing this to me. I’ve never done this to them but they make it. Spoiling the image of sarawakian only. Go to hell lah.Better keep down my temperature now or else it will keep on and on…damn
Anyway, padan muka that two stupid guys( stay at your room makan nasi with tin stuffs lah…later…baru padan muka), We (me and my other friends ) enjoyed the one day trip going to KLCC. To starts off, this is the first time I went out with the Metrobus system which has all their buses transport people all to the KL city centre. But I will never use Metrobus again except if really I need to use Metrobus. The reason why I’m not going to use it again is their bus stops at major bus stop for a long time that it seems like they are waiting for passengers, (I thought that should be the passengers waiting for the bus not the bus….)=__=. Anyway, we had our transit using Putra Line to KLCC at Pasar Seni soon after we arrived at Pasar Seni. The cost of using this alternative is much more expensive than using KTM from Serdang to KL sentral then use Putra Line to KLCC. The difference is 70 cents. Not only that, I’ve waited for Metrobus since 7am and the bus only arrived 830am then almost 9am baru jalan. Darn….bad experience again.
Anyway, after arriving at KLCC,We went straight to get the Skybrigde visit’s ticket. We are lucky enough to get a ticket as the tickets normally finish very early. So a person must go early to retrieve the free ticket. Our visit was on 1215pm, we were allowed to visit only for 10 mins inside the bridge. So, we have to take a lot of photos in just a few minutes.
Anyway, this is the first time I’m on a bridge that is 41 floors above the surface. It is a little scary but the views are quite nice after all. So it’s worth going for.
After that, two more friends joined for Petrosains. I will not comment further on that. All I could say is, we treated that place more like a playground than a place to gain knowledge. Basically, it’s a place more for primary and secondary school students to discover stuffs and feel for themselves. For us, most of the stuffs that are exhibited are known to us, the only things that lack is the experience of doing it or even feel it. Like for example, seeing a virtual object in front of our eyes and yet we don’t even know the source. The reason that I say it’s more like a playground to us as we never really look at the facts exhibit there but try everything like a complete ‘sakai’ after trying it, then we say oooh, or chehh….I know how it works…duh…..But one thing I noticed was, most of the experience-yourself tools will ask you to press the “tekan untuk mula” aka Press to start Button…so when we reached a particular station, we will press that thing first before even looking at the facts…naughty…
Overall, it was a fun visit to KLCC skybridge and the Petrosains.
Going back to Serdang on the evening is a super hard stuff. We totally forgot it’s just after office hours, the LRT station was packed, there are people queue even outside the KLCC LRT station. So, in order to avoid the jam, we’ve come to a solution that is to walk to Bank Negara and use KTM to go back to Serdang. People from KL will know how far to go from KLCC to Bank Negara. But who cares, it’s better to use the time stuck in a jam (both human and vehicles… ) and use it to walk to the station and go straight back to Serdang without transit from any station. Not only that, we saved Rm1.10 for that. Hehe…. 
Twin Towers during the morning....
What would you do if everyone is given a 3D glass that looks like a pair of sunglasses...it's fashion showtime then....hehe
Looking down from the bridge is quite scary actually, but it was fun to stand up there, so my phobia can say gone lah...ehhe..ohya this picture show the front part of KLCC...
this is the entrance facing the lake...can be considered as behind the buildings...this is the first time I saw that rooftop can be well designed as well...Normally rooftops are used to cover a building, no artistic values are needed in it...but this one does
Me and Robin...
argh...my hand...it's the electricity that has been transfer to the earth..it's great to see your hand glowing...
The infinity glass, few sakai trying to take picture together, this is the side view... 
From the top, when this picture is taken I was looking at the camera instead of the mirror...stupid...
Proton that has been cut "dissected", this is the engine...kesian the car....
even the tyres also they tidak lepas...quarter of it been "dissected to show us what is inside...
The best part of all is the "duck Ride" where you can watch lots of stuffs, I like the creativity put in showing those piece of information, somemore, you are transferred to a different place by using an egg like transporter. every place has different showcase...all you need to do is just sit back and relax inside the transporter.
They only open this on the evening...I wonder why...
The view of the twin towers on the evening...so you know how long we are inside the buildings...
Day 5- Wednesday
Another bored day, all about study…..Anyway, I set a new feat here, I walked for almost 2 hours plus non-stop from my college to the campus then decided to explore the area. After that, I cycled out to nearby commercial area to have my dinner….isn’t these activities boring? Hmm…that’s what a person who freak out like me for staying in the college for too long will do. Bad….and bored…...
To be Continued....
Once again it’s election time and all the candidates to be the next batch of students’ representative council have definitely made all the efforts they could in order to ‘fish’ some polls to them. Well, it’s the first time this year I’m in the university and it’s kind of cool looking at how people ‘perang’ to win the heart of the each student. Actually, this is not the first time I’m in this condition. Our matriculation or perhaps the all the matriculations are compulsory to have election as stated in the law of “Akta 174”…ya, I know I know, it’s over now, I’m not bound to that law now…but It’s “Akta UKU” which stands for akta universiti dan kolej universiti.
The war of posters started yesterday, and our college is transformed like transformer in just one night into a place full of posters of erm…handsome or not so handsome, pretty and not so pretty faces of the candidates. All put up their posters everywhere and it seems like the number of posters somehow increasing like mushroom after the rain..haha… all of the candidates have their own manifestos and one thing that matters to me is will the things that they mentioned be done?? From my previous experience, most of the promises are just “janji kosong” and it never happened at the end of the day even the last day in matriculation. Darn…but from what I observed, the manifestos that they put were kinda moderate and it’s not that drastic like what was happened on matriculation.
For example, some candidates fight for the transportation to be improved, some emphasized on the reconsideration on the library opening and closing time. Nonetheless, some fight for the benefit of the students like meal plan etc. It was total different from the matriculation where some ‘stupiak’ fellow eventually manifested on having a live watching final of the world cup last year at the big hall. Some even fight for water cooler to be placed everywhere in the dorm. At the end of the day, everything just ends up nothing. Those people pula have the privileges of this and that without doing much effort. It feels like the votes is ‘sia-sia’.
Anyway, moving on to the election here, since yesterday, I have received numerous leaflets saying “undilah saya”. Yesterday was the worse, in just less than an hour, I received four leaflets of different people and they put it under the door. Hmm…I wish I could catch those person that give out all the leaflets. Hopefully by the next few days, I won’t see any posters on the door of the toilets when people are doing their business inside. Perhaps people might draw at it with the ‘brown’ colouring at their faces or even some might use it to wipe in case of emergency.
I wonder what is it trying to show...but it ends up that one of the candidates with a surname of Show...
Posters and posters everywhere, including the bus stops....
The many leaflets that came into my door....
Guess what? Everything that they put on and every creativities they did all just went nothing after the shower of blessing just blew up everything. I guess it should be God’s message to them that we must save our trees, that’s the consequence if human does not take care of the property. Another thing that I think can be ponder upon is a person abilities can be judged through this occurance. If a person is meant to lead us, he will succeed no matter what happen even if he has less poster than the other, he or she can still win it, right? Hey, university students should be smarter enough to think of who is the better person to lead. Posters here and there is not a way of showing that you are capable. One should have proved it. They have to know how the leaders of the past wins the people’s heart. It’s somehow not the amount of poster puts, but through their abilities shown, by the way, putting poster is kind expensive if it was 100 years back. Ponder on how President Suekarno did or perhaps Mahatma Gandhi…..hehe, I better stop been so much enthusiast in talking about this issue. I guess I can crap a lot about a certain issue due to the fact that I was trained to do so since form 4. Most graduated from this place can really crap a lot also.hehe. I know a few of you understand what I was talking about.
The examples of the posters that were left the way it shouldn't after the heavy shower...
The leaflets that were left unattended at the corridor...poor...
Move on to another story, finally everything is over, my assignments,test, presentations and all those craps around. Hehe, after the test on Friday, I decided to have my hair cut after few months I did not cut it. My hair looks like a 70’s rockers’ hair if I did not cut it as I have curly hair. Everyone including my brother and sister were talking about my long hair when I meet, so I think it is time for it to be nicely done. So this is the outcome.
erm...don't want to camwhoring too much...later not good...
I guess I have a lot to talk about since I did not blog for a week then. Another thing is that, after every points and opinion taken, yesterday I’ve decided to take German language as my elective subject( not really elective but somehow, I’m joining it for the sake of learning it only…), Japanese language classes are rather popular as after the registration line is open from midnight, the next morning, the class already exceeded the limit of students they should take. Lucky for me as German language class is still available and to make it interesting, I’m the last person to be in the quota given. Phew…but sad thing was the extra-cocuriccular activities are mostly full few hours after the line was open for registration. It is just 6 hours…who the heck can do it. Darn, spoilt my plan to finish off taking 2 credits hours this year and my plan to take golf. I guess I was lucky enough to join into equastrian sports. For the next semester, the quota for equastrian has decreased into half the students they take this semester. Our ex-instructor ever told us that horse riding on the afternoon is rather not suitable as anything can happen on the afternoon than morning, one of the thing is raining and another one is the hot weather. So practically, I understand why they do that. Thanks be to God for giving me the chance to join in the equastrian and guess what, somehow, I really get into this sports and most of my friends who joined this sports as well. We are planning to go advance for equastrian. Another interesting fact is that, we are the pioneer of the sports in UPM now as equastrian sports only opens this semester. The rest of the sports needs you to spend for the minor equipments, but due to the price of the equipments that is far more expensive that a student might not be able to have it. UPM decided to give the student free use of it. Of course at the end of the day you must return it. And a person also have to endure the smelly helmet for horse riding.I told you, I was lucky enough in this situation. Unlucky to those who did not get it and especially the people who got it but make the most stupid mistake of their life dropping the course like how birds drop their waste and forget about it. Now only they feel the wrath of it. Instead of taking that, for second semester, they only manage to hooked themselves to football. Padan muka, Now you are jealous,for flying me my aeroplane as well.
I think I need to tell on the real facts here, actually I don’t intend to take the extra co-curricular activities this year but after was convinced by a few people and some more the senior told me during our orientation week that they are not allowed to register for any course. They only can register after the first year students, so I was really convinced that I need to take the course as this is the only big oppurtunity to get what you want as senior have to give way to the junior first. For the second semester, who cares about you. Everyone only mind their own bussiness.
Anyway, moving on unto another stuff happen yesterday, I was so surprised by the fact that we have to unlock our log in to the registration through our academic advisor. It creates one question here, why should they do that? It’s somehow troublesome for both party, the students and the lecturerd themselves. Why make a fuss of doing that. Why can’t they just open the line so that you can register into it anytime you want. I was a bit piss about this as it troubled me when I looked for my academic advisor as it’s rather hard for me to find him. At least after looking for him several times today, I found him. But it was a lil too late as most of the competitive subjects especially extra co-curricular activities have reached the quota. Darn….troublesome. I only managed to get into one of the competitive subject today, that is German Language. Yay!!!
haikzz, what a total chaos, this isn't true. I actually cannot post up any photos for this past few days and I can't get a reason why this happens. All i get when everytime I finish adding my photo on the list to be uploaded. the next minute. the webpage appeared with a message indicating that the webpage cannot be found...darn. I've tried it on my laptop and now on the computer at our faculty labs. It turns out that same thing happens...darn... Just hope that this won't deteroriate anymore longer.
Yay, the raya holiday is aroud the corner. As if I'm going back to Kuching to celebrate it pula. perasaan. Anyway, I can predict that this time, the holiday will be more boring then the previous holiday because this time around, less people will stay in the university as the malays are generally heading back to their hometown to celebrate Raya regardless of where is their hometown, be it as far as Tawau or as near as Serdang ( behind the wall..of UPM is an housing area... most get kicked out of college students will stay there). To cut the story short. It will really be one of the boring week of my life and I have to endure it four more years here. darn. hopefully I can find some friends to hang out with me. Hopefully can lepak somewhere during the free time. The other free time, I hope I can put my effort on revising all the subjects that have been pilling up. Somehow, I've to admit that I'm one of the person who can study better according to mood. Too bad, guys are always like that. I 'm not the type of person who can memorise well and concentrate on a thing for a long time. I'm also a procrastinator...hehe, so you know why my stuffs pilling up sometime. Hey, but one thing I've found out of myself is that I can study well in the wee hours of the morning. That one, I really can't figure out why I'm like that. got semangat pula in the wee hours of the morning, strange huh? the only problem for that is, It's hard for me to get out of the bed early in the morning to study.hehe...makin strange.....hopefully I can work this thing out. find a solution for this matter...hehe...
It seems like these few days I’m having trouble logging on into the internet at the faculty. Although I can logged on after a few tries but the connections were rather poor. I cannot post up my last post as all the pictures cannot be uploaded into the internet due to some unforeseen reasons. Or it could be the internet connection that has caused this matter. Anyway, hopefully by these few days I can post up the post with the pictures on. For the meantime, I can only blog with words around.
Anyway, election period is over now and everything is back to normal as it is. Thank God for that. Anyway, holiday is around the corner, I don’t have any plan of going outside of Selangor but to stay inside here. Hehe. It doesn’t mean that I won’t go out and just stay in UPM. I’m planning to go around the area or perhaps touring around KL. It’s the way of enjoying life before our final exam which will be started end of October. Darn…life here goes very fast.hmm…what goes around, comes around. Anyway, I’m still blurred where to go for the holiday. I’m in the process of planning a trip of perhaps a gathering with all my friends that I haven’t seen for quite sometime.
Well, something somehow or rather struck my interest to post on. Eventually, last week my group decided to make a survey( well not we want it actually but we have to conduct a survey for our english speaking class ). After a long discussion, our group decided to conduct a survey on Perception of female students of UPM on relationship.I've never expose any result of the survey that I've conducted all this while but I think the result that I found was rather interesting so I've decided to post it up. I just want to highlight something here that is this survey is purely conducted on female and no manipulation is made throughout the process so it's actually what girls thought of relationships. Erm, one more thing it's only on 40 students and it may not be the sound of the majority among girls so...don't perasaan girls...hehe, here is the result:-
Survey was conducted on 40 random selected female students of UPM.
1. Have you ever fallen in love? If “Yes” at what age did you fall in love? ……
~Yes - 25 No Answer – 8
~ No – 15 ~13- 1 ~17- 5
~14- 1 ~18- 4
~15- 1 ~19-1
~16- 1 ~20-3
2. Your current status :-
~ Single – 26
~ In relationship – 14
(erm..somehow or rather this fact seems ok but I doubt about it)
3. What characteristics do you prefer in choosing a boyfriends?
~ Appearance
Yes- 16
No- 24( it might imply that appearance no longer important aspect to girls but... )
~ Personality
Yes- 36
No- 4 ( the Personality is what girls are looking for ..so guys do take note )
~Intelligence
Yes – 22
No – 18
~ Sense of Humour
Yes – 21
No – 19
~Romantic
Yes-17
No-23
Other
~Loyal-2, ~Religious-1, Muscular- 1, Rich-1
( erm, beware of those girls who are craving for others from guys..their demands are quite high...and guess what, they are the one that tick all of those above plus they add others..as a 'syarat', beware... )
4. Do you mind choosing a guy who is shorter than you are to be your boyfriends?
Yes-20
No-20
(fuh...nasib baik...)
5. Do you mind choosing a guy who is younger than you are to be your boyfriends?
Yes- 19
No – 21
(ok loh...)
6. Are you willing to have a long distance relationship?
Yes- 26
No- 14
(good to hear that...)
7. Do you mind confessing your feelings to a guy whom you wish to have a relationship?
Yes- 16
No- 24
( the globalisation era means that everyone can achieve what they want to achieve... )
8. Would you change your image / appearance to attracts the guy you like?
Yes-11
No – 29
( hey, I agree with this..if you like someone you don't mind of the appearance right??..don't you agree? )
9. Would you be jealous if you see the guy you like or your boyfriend being surrounded by girls?
Yes -31
No – 9
( Surely lah...girls get jealous more easily...hehe...)
10. Do you agree if your boyfriend give priority to his friends rather than you?
~Strongly Agree -1
~ Agree – 10
~ Disagree – 23
~ Strongly Agree – 4
~ Not Sure -2
(seems like a lot of girls are playing on the safe side that is choosing agree and disagree...only one choose strongly agree and 4 for strongly disagree...)
11. Where do you think is the most suitable place to meet your life partner?
~School – 3
~ University – 13
~ Workplace – 18 ( people...girls prefer to meet their life partner in work not in school or University...so take that point...)
Other
~Anywhere & Anytime -5 (good reply... )~
At Church -1 (.....)
12. Are you happy with your current status?
Yes -36
No - 4
( surely happy lah...or else people dah commit suicide loh....glad to hear that girls are living happily... )
p/s: All the comments above is my point of view, sorry if it hurts you, I apologise it for that but I'm commenting on the real fact...
hmmm...it seems like we have to go through the difficult part of the semester, finally, our assignments are pilling up and everything will be due soon. To make it seems a little worse? we are having our test from this week onwards. So, it's lots of things need to be considered. Anyway, just finished my first test on Fortran Programming. somehow the lecturer make the question a little hard for us to do, but it was lucky that we can answer it like what is expected. argh..better off now, I need to finish my three...erm 4 more assignments...all due next week or the week after next week...darn
Ipoh, what is the first impression you can think of when it is mentioned? Well, everyone has their own idea(s) on this city, for me, I would say it should be the scenery and the food that attract me. Hehe… Anyway, going to Ipoh for a five days trip is truly a memorable experience and I’ve tasted a lot of food from their ever famous Ipoh White Coffee to the pamelo that sold at a row of shops by the roadside where I’ve encountered one of the crazy experience where all the so called ‘promoters’ stand still at their respective shop when we arrived at the place for some local treat of Limau Tambun. Well, I should say that Ipoh is much alike to Kuching, the difference is that Ipoh has more nice sceneries where their rocky mountains of limestone looks like we were on one of the cities in China. Ipoh has lots of caves to offer and it is surely a great experience to climb up to the top of the hills through the cave and have a look at Ipoh from the top of the hills. I guess I won’t talk much here and just let the pictures do all the talking. I’ve numerous photos taken throughout the trip and only a few have been selected for public viewing….bear with me hehe..coz I’ve a lot of pics to offer this time around….
nice scenery takan at bukit lang...somehow it looks like Langkawi...
surprisingly we saw one tunnel which we thought it's a cave at the beginning...it's a road eventually
kera..kera..kera..we found lots of kera in those hills and caves
Kampung Kuala kuang..the place where we had erm.."hand-made" mee?...well, eating here can make us feel home at the village...soothing
Sing Yeong Loong white coffee...I wonder I spell the name correctly or not...it sounds like that lah...their coffee is quite famous here and I swear..the coffee taste different than the 3 in 1 white coffee you found in any supermaket.
haha... we saw Japanese Flag in the making at the Ipoh Parade...it's actually the decoration for the preview of the new Nissan Latio...
Ipoh's own "ya chai ji" aka beansprouts chicken...where the dishes are consist of only chicken and beansprouts..the specialty of it is their beansprouts where it is fat and juicy...wonder what they put in order for the beansprouts to grow to that size...
serve with the 'fen' aka the mee or looks like kueh tiau more...
...and the chicken as well...
Perak Caves...one of the caves we had visited...
nice calligraphy...how they manage to do it on the wall of the stone..hmm..nice scenery
a small "perhentian" on top of the hill...one can see the whole of Ipoh city from this place.
..one of the nice scenery capture by the lens of my camera...
a cafe under a tree?? strange huh..but you can find this in Ipoh where there are cafes juz under the tree..I guess to save cost on renting a shop...cheaper and it is cool enjoying meals under the tree...the food here are quite cheap as well...ignore the self-acclaimed good looking guy(my roomie) who has follow throughout the trip to Ipoh....hehe
the lion who roar....guarding the temple...one of the sculpture in Nam Thian Tong...aka Nam Thian Cave
..trying to catch its prey...the self acclaimed guy...
this stairs to the cave seems so steep and eerie...we are unable to go into the cave as it is still under maintanance...erm you can go in actually just that it's quite dark so...it's kind of menakutkan to go up...
Journey to the West...lead by 'Su Wu Kong'
My Zodiac sign..the dragon..
the tortoise pond at the Sam Po cave...this is the place we found a few strange thing
I like this place as it has the temple that is built inside an enclose place where it is surrounded by limestone hill...use your imagination then...
Ahah...found the tortoise pond and...there are lots of them...we managed to feed a few of them...and at the same time we saw...feel tortoise having...erm their 'pleasure time' together...
it rains soon after and I managed to get this nice view and to tell you the truth..it looks great if you shot this view during the raining day
Hentian Limau Tambun...this place has lots of 'freak' people...once a car just parked their car..the shopkeeper...aka the promoter will hold up to their position and standby to drag you to their shop to have a taste at their Pomelo...hmm..I wonder why the local government put them all together selling the same thing all along the row of shops...stupid idea...plus the Pomelo is actually much more expensive than usual...according to locals...
The place where we bought "gai chai beng"..aka little chicken's biscuit...haha...direct translation from cantonese....
one of the famous place for beansprout chicken, lots of famous ppl come here for it...
Tambun ..the place where we had our water activities on the last day of enjoying in Ipoh...
The only ride that I think quite fun for me...
the place where I got my sunburn under the schorching sun..darn...i'm getting darker now...we are inside this pool for almost 3 hours...
our group photos....erm notice the few different people around in the pictures
I swear if I didn't tell you about this place...it looks like Langkawi scenery but it's in fact only in Bukit lang...
Last but not least, thanks to the birthday girl and her family for their courtesy in letting those homeless people during the holiday to stay in her house...really appreciate their effort...Hey, what I can offer back is the next time any of you come to kuching...you are welcome to stay at my house...hehe...anyway, Arigato!!!!
