1st of Jan 2009

It is finally over for the 2008 and the beginning of a new year 2009. This will be the year that I'm sure full of excitements. I can't wait for them to happen one by one and little by little. Truly, 2008 was an eventful year with lots of things happened from January till December. Thank God for those things that has taken place no matter it is bad or good. Good things that has happened will become on of those memorable joyous occasions, the bad one will become a lesson worth experiencing it. What, I hope for this upcoming year will be
1) To be know more and more about the Creator, God..GIG(Get Into God)
2) To improve my grades as I found out that it has plummeted the last exam( even though my CGPA remains the same)
3) To utilise my time wisely...
4) Take more efforts in planning something rather than do it "ala-kadar"

MV Doulos's last voyage to Kuching before it retires...

looks like the yellow army has landed itself in Doulos...
'I will follow Doulos..'haha

today is 1st of January 2009 and I don't think I'm going to reflect back on what has happened throughout 2008, most of the big things that has happened, I've jotted it down on this blog.

this is the best I can get for the fireworks...it's too far to capture
wonder if the fireworks synchronized in all the places, wouldn't it looks better??

Anyway, Today's The Star's newspaper featured an article(or perhaps news..whichever it is) which I think very inspirational and worth looking at it. Can you imagine a duck that neurological Disorder and is paralysed forever? But thank God, someone took the effort to take care of Lemon the Duck. It is inspirational as even a duck has the determination to walk through his/her life, though it has difficulty to walk around and perform what a normal duck would do, e.g Swimming, walking around and flying. Isn't it great to hear stories like that on the first day of the year, and inspired you earlier in the morning rather than bad news of this and that around. For all of guys who wanna check out the inspirational story of a duck, you can check on The star newspaper(1st Jan 2009) page 40 in the world section. or check this website.

Lemon the Duck with santa claus, so cute, lovely and inspiring

Anyway, Happy New year 2009 everyone!!!!

Rants

I will be back to Kuching in two days time, I can't imagine how fast time flies and now it's been 18 weeks since I left Kuching. About the same time last week, I was still tied myself up with all the reference books to prepare for my final. And today, I don't have anything to do. Last week, this house that I live was full of tense and stress but this week and today, it is so empty and suddenly I can feel the emptiness and lack of something. Perhaps I miss the environment where I can see people wandering around in this area and coincidentally met some of the familiar faces at the mamak or even when I'm just walking nearby. Almost all the UPM students have went back to their respective hometown probably enjoying their kampung life.
Anyway, the retreat to Port Dickson is in fact quite weird but it achieved its objectives done that is to make a full planning for our upcoming project of Career and Self Development Expo(C-DEX) which we want to make it a hit and successful. Can you imagine, it took whole of 2days and one night just for the planning part. I remember even one of the department leader having meeting up until 3am just for the planning, and this poor fellow here having to sleep for 1 hour plus for the trip.haha. It was indeed tiring but everyone managed to keep everything roughly planned and I think 90 percent of the plans for the event have been decided. It's a good sign and hopefully the execution part will be a successful as well. to be continue...
hmm...I don't even know what should I do now...haha, I cannot play computer games as well as my mouse is not functioning and I'm using the touchpad now to navigate. I can't imagine myself playing CS or DoTA with touchpad...haha

Email

It's weird sometime to get email which looks like this...Is it a Halloween fool or something similar...haha..As I'm writing this, the date and time they send this have not even happen yet...ouch!! click on the image to enlarge....funny though...

40 cent

What is wrong with all some of the food court nowadays especially here in Klang Valley. I don't want to say this but it just annoyed me when this thing happened. How can a glass of warm water cost 40cent??!! It's not from Evian or some high class drink imported from Europe. It is not even mineral water or processed water from the factory. It is just water from SYABAS which is free for the 1st 2o cubic metres. The water they served doesn't even go through filteration or more advance tech like ionization or 'mineralization'. It is just water that has been boiled an cooled for quite sometime to become warm water aka air suam. What is worse is those people from the food court really took advantage from the price hike few months ago to hike something which is totally unacceptable. Is the water produced from crude oil?? NO!!I don't mind to pay extra if the water they served at least has quality in it. but to pay 40cents for paip water that I have it also in my home, I would say No, This will be the last time I will be ordering drinks from the food court ever. I feel cheated with their drinks. I don't believe it at first when the waiter told me it's 40cent, my spontaneous reaction was "huh, 40 sen, kenapa mahal sangat?". He never answer me anything and just showed me the receipt and told me "sini, tulis Sky Juice, 40sen"...gosh, I told him the same phrase again, and he don't want to reply me anymore. 40 sen and your service is so useless...
I don't mind calling skyjuice at those food court if it is only 20 cent of 30 cent or even free( yes, I found one mamak store here who serve free sky juice in condition you order their food lah....)isn't that good if you just offer people free drink rather than cheating people by charging paip water for 40 cent which I think still unacceptable especially those conditions mentioned above plus I'm sitting by the roadside, with no air cond and the ambient is a whore as it is beside the big drain somemore...*sigh*
what is wrong with those food court operators....

Cool...

This is going to be one of the funniest real life video I've ever seen...enjoy!!

Hey...There's Gotta Be More To Life

This song always inspires me whenever anything went wrong....it works though....both the song and the lyric itself....'There's gotta be more to life'
Feeling Optimistic now...hehe
=D

Sharing people's Joy???

Which one is much more harder? sharing people's joy? or sharing people's sadness?
This was the question that the invited speaker throw to us. My thought that time were, surely people's sadness because sadness is hard for us to listen to people's sad story. After he paused for a while, he answered, "it's people's Joy...". The reason behind this is that, do you normally see a bunch of people happy when a person is in joy. For example, if people were promoted to a much a higher post, there are surely people who are not impressed or jealous of the person who got promoted. This was one of the example given by Dr. Christopher Ash who came to Malaysia for the first time of his life from England.
What he said was actually so true when I experienced it first hand when it comes to this question. Never would I expect people to say this to me when I throw this question to them. It happened when I received a text message from one of my coursemates asking me whether want to join in to go to the convocation of our super senior that happened today. I answered yes as long as there is someone picking me up from my apartment. I was actually referring to my housemates aka my coursemates as well.
Ok, here is what happened when I approached this question to those people in the house with transport. One of them answered with a definitive answer of NO...another one also replied NO...so ok, the 3rd person, ...I don't know them well,they senior did not invite me. if I go also no point....if the others go, I will go also.
So, it forces me to make a decisions which I totally regret and feel sorry about that is not going. I'm feeling so bad until now. Anway, the story doesn't end there. Later on, another coursemates of our own eventually called us to see whether we are going or not. What piss me off by then is the way they handled the conversation. Imagine, the phone is pass on from a person to another and it was forwarded to 3 person, and my coursemate had to repeat his question 3 times and what he get were all No. OMG!!! if they ever treat me that way, I don't know what will happened to me. By the way, they did not pass the phone to me as I don't have a transport.
As I ponder upon my decision which I made earlier, I realised that I made a mistake by following their decision. Can you imagine staying with those bunch of people who never bother anything that happened around them. If you are reading 3 posts before this, you will know by now who I am talking about. Can you imagine I'm following those people's decision, gosh!!! I should not. way not. I just can't believe that I'm living in the same roof with the people who only have their world evolves around their study, watching drama, playing Dota, listening to the same song every now and then, going to the same shop to eat over and over again and never get tired of it. Another person who was not part of them is not observing the Sabbath day any longer which I was kind of not really content about. If he does it again, I will advice him this time around. It was so bad that, he went to meetings, rather than keep the sabbath day holy. surprisingly. He is the one who get used and understand more the way of living as a true christian more than me. surprise surprise, there is always a twist....hmmm...
Ok, let me check what are they doing now, since they don't even make a move of going to the convocation, are they really busy??
OMG, all of them are studying, looks like studying for finals are more important than any other stuffs. Even losing respects from others, they are willing to sacrifice. Is that all about life, everything study? Maybe for them, they live to study. I'm not their parents either. It is their life. I'm not in charge of it. I can only advice them if they went too much of something(in this case not study...). For me, I'd rather pause for a while to do some other more 'humane' things like blogging this post and hope that it serves as an advice so that, anyone of you out there can ponder upon.
Anyway, I just realised that some of those people in the house are really demanding and the fact that sometime they are just 'tin kosong' (my definition for tin kosong( empty can is quite different, I will explain later). One of those things that I observed are some of them will not involve themselves in any activities that doesn't benefit them. It is so bad to the step that once I asked them to join, they answered me with the weirdest and most ridiculious answer around, It was '...if there is a post without working, i will join...", the answer kept us all laughing that time. But as I looked back at it, it shows sometime negative on them. Guess what I found out recently, one of them rather pay RM120 member fee to join Golden Key society. haha, funny though, society that doesn't requires member fee, he doesn't want to join. He just purely look down on they other 'low class' societies. He rather joined the prestigious one. What is the different in joining Golden Key with other societies around?? probably he joined it because of fame. undeniable...Guess what, that is the first society he joined in UPM... gosh, this one really irritates me. For those of you who didn't know about Golden Key, Golden Key is a society that is only open to those smart as* in the school. Their requirement for you to join....CGPA must be 3.50 and above. I will not join this society even if I scored CGPA 4.0...over my dead body....
The reason are
1) From my opinion, why should a society restrict and opens only to high achiever, it is clearly a look down on people who score less than that CGPA. In God's eyes, everyone is equal...mind you
2) It is just plain unacceptable if a society give a letter congratulating people on their result and talk all the hu...ha about wah, u score 25% of what is required for your whole 4 years course and then invites people to join their society providing you pay rm120 as a membership fees. They never specifies what is their rm120 for...just said it is membership fee. Can you imagine, they ask Rm120 from students. If you pay rm120 then you are part of 'US'. If you don't pay, even if you score 4.0 CGPA also no use. Can you imagine a poor fellow who is a genius and got rejected because he is poor. Stupid. It is clearly a society for the rich and smart people.
All in all, this society really insult a lot of people by the way the run the society although it has a lot of benefits joining them.

Going back to earlier statement, What I meant by 'Tin Kosong' (empty can) was on the appearance, they are clever and good at study but beneath everything, can you imagine, those basic things also they don't know how to do. For example, budgetting, they just spend and spend like our house is growing money tree. I know, some of them have their parents giving them money every week... they don't have sense of responsibility even. Another example is, one of them don't even know how to wash his cloth. that is like the basic thing, which is washing cloths and still he don't know how to do it. All he did is to bring it back for his mother to wash every weekend...gosh!!!no money, go back ask parents, want to wash cloths, bring back for mommy to wash. Where is the sense of independence. I would not mentioned about cooking cause many people out there nowadays cannot cook. Not only that, basic thing of repairing the toilet also I have to do for them...where's the sense in that...
I guess I really need more air to breath here. There are just too much bad aura around, kiasu-ness, ignorance, disrespect, no sense of responsiblity, look down on people, and lastly sellfish....I really need air to breath in here. argh....
Only one of my housemates is ok and not towards that zone which I mentioned above. It started with two person, now it is spreading to the 3 person. the other guy I just mentioned is just playing on the safe side. I'm the one starting to be rebellious. I really need air to breath, look at what they've changed me, I used to be earlier to class, never late...now I need to follow their car and I'm late also. I rarely and very very very very seldom 'ponteng' but now I did it. And now, I just want to be good and sharing people's joy but was influenced by them. It is such a pain in the neck. Everytime I study also I'm not studying in peace. the aura of kiasu-ness is there everytime. Gosh I need peace to study and to pass my exam and that's all...please!!!
*big sighs* and *big relieves*, so what is your stand now, sharing people's joy is harder or sharing people's sadness? Looks like I've just shared my thoughts and my sorrow that have been with me for so long. Not that I don't want to share people's advantages but it is so hard for me to find one among all of them. It is so hard, the only thing that I can said is they are clever, and that's it...
God I really pray and need your help to go through this and help me strong be strong to endure this 'storm'. I really hope that I can become a better person that go strong to my faith and to what I believe in.
Song playing in my mind now- Learning to Breath by Switchfoot
For those who read this long post until this far, I personally thank you for listening to my thoughts and rants. It is just to hard for me to keep it into myself...thanks ya
XOXO

This feeling of mine...

Sometime, there are stuffs that I want to let go but I don't even know whether I should do it or not. But it feels bad sometime when this thing really happened to me. I think I never said this before but it was bad enough when everytime any decisions are made, I need to consider other people's feelings. Why I don't care about my own feelings? If don't follow the taste of the guys and started to use my own, they won't even look at you and started to ignore you, some even scold you. At the end, I've to change everything to suit them. why don't it be the other way round where they suit me. Why it always happen to me. Anything happening, I have to follow their needs but not mine. Because of this, I realise that I'm more and more not my own self, rather I'm transform into a guy that is different than when he was 2 years back. It is just so bad that you can notice that those who did not see me for the past 2 years will realise that I'm changed, not in term of physical looks but my attitude. For some of you, I might be still the nice guy from what you've thought, but the surrounding here really effects me a lot. Why should I follow other people's rythm and not into my own self? After watching episode 5,season 2 of the Gossip Girl, I just realise that I'm changed(and I mean a lot...)because I need to suits not one people but lots of people's rythm.
I really wish that I could turn back who I was back then. I really hope and pray that God can help me through this. I'm trying to change to a much better me where, I have control of my life rather than other people. The feeling of have to follow other people's feelings and thoughts really awful and when the people just ignore or don't bother you when you don't follow their needs really make me sad. Why don't we just tolerate?
I'm trying to be optimistic here, so I will try to be myself back and thus ensure that I'm no more different than before. Anyway, praise the Lord for making me realise how important it is to know myself and my own weaknesses, I will try to overcome those weaknesses around. ;)
Yes, like the caption on my blog Ability is what you're capable of doing,Motivation determines what u do,Attitudes determines how well you do it.......Attitudes really determines how well I do it. I guess I'm still lack in that. I'm so grateful that I put the caption on the first place, now it serves a reminder for myself for what is ability, on what is motivation and finally Attitudes.....
p/s: Don't worry, those who are close to me are not affected by this. This phenomenon only happened in my Uni life here. I hope I can overcome this obstacle. To, My friends from the matrics and secondary school, I still cherish the memories of my life back then. Thanks for being part of it....hehe...
=D

Mamma Mia!

This movie is yet another recommended movie that is worth your money to watch in cinema this year. It is a musical movie which I think one of the best in its genre that it can beat the high musical. I'm taking this for real. Surely, The Dark Knight is the best movie this year so far in my own opinion. Eventually you can't get a movie that has its storyline suits the lyrics of the songs that were made popular by Abba. Usually, songs were composed to suit the movies but this is the other way round. The songs were suitable for some scenes that you think that Abba composed all the songs in a story form before producing it.haha...
Anyway, the plot of the story is about a daughter, a mother and a three possible father. One day, the daughter found out about this, and decided to invite all the three possible father to attend her wedding, so who will be the father...it is for you to find out from the movie.heee
This should be the first time that I saw actor like Pierce Brosnan eventually singing, it is kind of weird for me to see a guy who used to be a 007 and becoming a singer...haha. Eventually, the lady who sat besides me sing along those songs featured in the film. Another odd things, that you won't notice is that, people don't start to leave the cinema after the film finish, but to stay for a while to listen to the song feature in the credit part. A sense of reluctant perhaps. Normally, people just leave the cinema the minute they saw the credit. It is contrary.
No wonder this show is still feature in Broadway and it is still a hit till this day especially after the movie adaptation of it is released. You see, it is feature in Broadway some more, High school musical isn't....so do watch it when have time....
=D

My thoughts

haha, it's once again the time of the semester where all the madness will occur, practically it is the exam period again and you can find people are getting more tension about it. This scenario happens to me as well haha...and it is once again where you can find I do odd stuffs that normally I don't do during the normal day. One of it is staying late until morning to study( it seems common for some people right??). Anyway, other than that, I don't know why I can make stupid jokes sometime that I don't even know how I got it...it just spark off and I just conveyed it on the spot. haha...Another one is to blog at 4am in the morning...haha.And it is just the 13rd week of study and not yet to the exam period. I think I'm feeling the heat of the exam more seriously than before. Thanks to the arrangement of the Aerospace department that put all the crucial subjects in one semester. Probably i have been talking about the subjects that I'm talking, and I'm going to mention it again.darn... Vibration(easy to understand but tough to derive the equations, I don't even know how the geniuses got them all relate to each other), Eng maths III(final all maths subject that I'm going to take..yay!!, it's the highest level in bachelor degree..and it shows it is the toughest lah...) , Mechanics of Materials(haha...I failed the first test for no reason), Statistics(quite easy but as you leveled up, gosh, u don't understand why certain statistics it is for), aerothermodynamic(long name which is only available in UPM, but I enjoy the subject very much),E&E technology(not to my liking...that's why I choose Aerospace). So eventually, we have to go through tough time this semester no matter what.
Our lecturers even went nuts and gives us quiz and quiz and some of it is done every week....gosh, I'm so tired of it...but no matter what, I have to be optimistic about that, I have goals that I need to achieve besides balance out my life so that I won't be tilted to any side. whether it is studies, activities, play, sleep, physically,mentally, and my spiritual life. It is crucial to have a dynamic life.I don't want to only concentrated much on study as I think I need to live life to the fullest...hmm..perhaps you might agree or not agree with me, it is just my personal opinion on the way of living, or perhaps my way of living. To be in the dean's list is not what I need like some people here who are dying for it. For me, to be in it is an advantage and I will try my best towards it and I won't be dying for it. It is pointless though if you can achieved that standard and you are bad at other things, you are just as bad as it is. Like an apple, you want to have only one side that is nice and when you flip to the other end, it is rotten. I'd rather be an apple that is almost perfect whenever you turn the apple. Getting into the list doesn't mean that you are qualify for anything, like not to do or participate in anything. Getting into the list doesn't mean that you are exceptional or on top of all the rules.
And yet, it doesn't mean that you can do anything you like and just forget it when you have done it wrong. I only will salute and respect those who get into the Dean's list and they are good in a lot of stuffs which is not academic related. That is what I call the real Dean's list recipients. Yes, I may sound a bit bias but my intention is to show you certain people around that is just like that. The people which takes books as their God and 'worship' it. when asked about other stuffs, they don't know about it. Their life is just evolved around the books. Asked on whether they want to join activities, they give lots of excuses and demands for a post that doesn't requires any work( what the heck is a post without work?!!!!!). maybe can ask to sit and do nothing. If want to succeed in life, we need to work for it and not to ask that question. It really get on my nerve when people responded that to me. Yet, they are the one that doesn't have any precaution about basic things, Is it the higher you study, the more stupid they become?? Yes, It happened, can you imagine those people wasting stuffs and never care about it. Can you imagine that they don't care about their belonging and waited until it is absolutely torn and worn out then they change it?? (illustration: can you imagine, you only treat your cancer when it is only in the final stage of it) funny right, some people are like that.When asked to treat or change it..their respond is, 'aiya...don't care lah, next time when it is about to rosak baru change lah.." OMG....
=___='''
Getting into the list is not above everything and means that you don't need to do other stuffs. I wonder who will hire them the next time when they go out to work? their parents maybe? So fare I have encountered a few( not many people ) who are like this. I swear that you will feel disgust if you are the balance type of people. I'm not only the one that notice that. And about the people that I can respect and deserved to be in the list...I do know a few. I really respect those people. It is what I called deserved for their hard work. For example, one of my super senior, who are graduating this year eventually got into the Dean's list, was a president, active in sports, spiritually matured, balance in everything he do, he cares a lot and totally, he deserve the credits.
Probably you might think that I'm jealous or anything, but I'm telling the truth, and I just want to show that life isn't just about study and don't care about other things. Needless to say, I want to emphasize that their footsteps doesn't occurs on you guys. I will be happy if any of my friends who have tried their best to be balance in all things. If they fail, I will encourage them, If they score or achieved their targets, I will be happy and proud of them as they have made an effort in it. You know who you are...

P/s: It is just purely my opinion, so don't worry about it. ohya, the other odd things that I can do during the exam period is to rant about my opinion and motivate myself after that...ehhe(Frank Sinatra's song- I did it my way)teehee...Anyway, good luck to all those who are sitting for their exam.
;)

food and $$$$..yummy yummy

I came across this article when one of my friends was talking about food with me. My intention at the beginning was to find the most delicious food around but it turns out that I've found an article about the World's Most expensive foods. Ranging from the 'everly' expensive spice which is the saffron to the sandwich, pizza, dessert and etc...as I scroll through the page, my jaws just drop in awe of the food, all of the food are made of the most expensive, luxurious, rare, exquisite...wah...and all I-can't-afford-food. I have only tasted one of the food mentioned that is the Tie Guan Yin chinese tea...that is the cheapest I think in the list...it's cheaper in Asia though for the tea.
Do visit this website

World’s Most Expensive Foods

Selamat Hari Raya

haha..Raya is here...hope that it will be a turning point for anything that is bad since it is the time to forgive and forget...This goes out to whoever that I might have offended in anyway. hehe...
Anyway, after self exile for a few days in my own house, I finally get through it. It's only 2 days as I want to get a feel on how to go through life alone without any contact with the world except the TV set and internet....I only go out to eat then come back to do my stuffs for the 2 days. Gosh, It was kind of bored until some point that you don't even know what you want to do. But surely it's an experience. Today I will be going out...hehe...again stupid rant of my boredom life here during the Raya Holiday....

When september ends...

yay, finally a week holiday after 12 weeks of non-stop lectures, tutorial, lab and bla bla bla. Guess, it is the only week that I can rejuvenate myself by getting more sleep and at the same time start studying for my final. Gosh, I can't imagine that Final exam is around the corner, two more weeks after the raya break, it will be final...(my exam is on the first week of November...the exam week officially starts 2 weeks after the break, so you can imagine how long I have to wait till that day come....gosh). Whenever september ends, I will remember this song very much, "wake me up when september ends" by Green Day, I guess it is an indication that the time has come for me to move on like how the summer ends and autumn will come...and it's time to strive and not to relax anymore, relax time is over. Haha..
The few days of holiday, I will spent it at my house here and I don't have any plan to go anywhere because I have a lot of things to catch up. The two subjects that I really need to catch up are Vibrations and maths...gosh, I hate equation so much that sometime I wonder why such a simple thing, people can make it so complicated. I don't complain about the wonder and the beauty of Vibration and maths as I like the concept so much, Like some of you guys did...most people would know that a vibration will not oscillate for forever so there is damping exist, but what you don't know is the equation just to find the damping is so tedious and tiring that it takes around 2 pages just to find the damping constant.... =____='''
I'm trying to appreciate the beauty of maths and vibration as both of the subjects are really important not only to score but to the rest of my life. Hmm....that's why I need to stay at home and studying...haha, I found myself ranting so much now..

Random Pictures

Some of the random pictures that I think worth sharing at the moment...hehe

from close-up, for those of you who are observance, you will know it's a A380 model,
it is the latest added to my collection of plane...lotsa thx to my sister

It's non other than the model of A380 9V-SKA of Singapore Airlines
first to fly A380
The model of the plane is so detailed that the engines' blades can turn if you blow it
A380 is currently my favourite aircraft..hehe

this is the picture taken from the place where I sit while I do my homework.
You can only see this nice scenery on non hazy days, you should know how polluted is the air here
Anyway, if you pay attention, you will notice a mountain with all the light on top,
that's Genting Higland....it's right of the twin towers

Time management

I know I have not updated my blog for quite some time, but hey, life as a second year university student is not that easy at all( I doubt that my 3rd and 4th year here will be tougher than 2nd year). Eventhough I'm taking only 6 subjects this semester which make it 18 credit hours in total, but *sigh* all of these is the core subjects of my programme. Darn, can you imagine all the tough subjects in one shot, Vibration, Mechanics of Materials, Engineering Maths III,Statistics, Aerothermodynamics,and Electric & Electronic Tech. Plus I'm quite busy as the assistant secretary for the Engineering Student society here.
Honestly speaking, I couldn't juggle my time well at first, I was a lil busy with my society stuffs, until I left behind a lot of my studies. I noticed this phenomenon happening after I failed 3 or more( some of the test results are never announced...I could be failing all...cheese, I'm just scaring myself) tests. Eventually, One of our lecturers demanded seeing me....that was when I noticed something fishy behind it. Anyway, the lecturer was kind enough to advice us( a few of us fail also) he kept on insisting us that we can do it actually, then he asked us why we fail ( like the normal standard procedure if you fail your test...It's what we call ISO syndrome ). So I told him that eventually. Guess what, I only started to 'tidy-up the mess' after the stern warning by the lecturer. He has awaken me that I have I spent too much time on other stuffs rather than studies. So, after the event, I decided to spend more time on studies, the activities stuffs only come after my studies. Studies should be put as priority once again. Now enters the 3rd week after I was given warning by the lecturer, I think I managed to catch up a lil bit of the studies...Thank God!!!
Anyway, Some updates about my life here for the first semester so far..
- I have move out of the college, for some of you still don't know about it. I'm active in societies, but the main reason why I moved out is because I wanna stay with my coursemates so that I can managed my studies more efficiently( which mean I can ask them questions whenever I have doubts)...
-Life is tough here....( like what I have described above ) plus all the assignments and never ending test that keeps going on from week 4 until yesterday. Gosh, they claim it to have 1st and 2nd test but it seems like the test doesn't have ending, week 4, week 5,6 ,7.....then week 9, 10 ...why can't they make it one shot...I'm so tired of tests...this situation can make students stress out though. That is the reason why I can't juggle my time well, some of the test I did not manage to pay attention to as I was busy with my activitivies like week 7. darn....
-trying to juggle my time...it shows a little success now....I try to juggle for my physical and spiritual needs as well...everything most do it moderately....
- I have not met some of my friends that I used to meet during my first year life especially those friends from matriculation...hehe...I still owe my friend a shirt and I haven't returned my friend's stuff since erm....beginning of the year??...hee
- I managed to find time now to do my stuffs like blogging today...yay!!dat's why time management is important...

Report....

This few days, it seems like the news in the country is 'steaming' up and all the news sold like hot cakes. On top of that, I can't wait to see what will happen next, could it be the end or just the climax or just the starting?? Lots of the news reported really caught my attention from the local news which seems never ending to the epic saga to the world news especially the economics section. Anyway, my interest on today's post is non of the above, I guess all of us are aware of the news that I'd mentioned earlier.
The news or perhaps the report that caught my attention today is this.
Yes, it is about the taxi in Malaysia...gosh, I totally agree with the statement. Really, it is awful to see this scenario happening. The one where they mentioned that Taxis in the KLCC is charging people aka "secara suka-hati' is really true. Just the other day, few weeks ago when I went back to Serdang from KLCC with my sister, this scenario happened. Just outside the Suria KLCC, you can see the sign that said beware of Taxi touts, I thought it will never happen there as the sign serve as a stern warning to not only the visitors but also the taxi operators. Nevertheless, those taxi operators still take advantage of people around. Even the local also they cheat aka 'telan'.
Luckily, my sister and I were not cheated. Thanks to my knowledge after being in KL for almost a year. As both of us trying to get a taxi, a taxi driver approached us and asked us where we are heading, so I told him Serdang. Then after looking at both of us ( I carried a big luggage which belongs to my sister...my sister held one small luggage as well )...He said" Serdang, ..erm RM 75...." beware of those taxi in red....some are good some are evil...haha

I was so shock of the price and the guy continued by giving a lot of reasons why he charged us so expensive...saying like " far lah...", "you carry luggage" and some more he added by saying that, it is hard to find people using meter in this area as we insisted on using meter for the journey. Deep inside my heart, I was like, you wanna eat me is it???I won't let you eat no matter what....
After that, we ignored the driver and walk away and into the mall again, where we try our luck on the other exit of the mall. I told my sister that, the price he gave is unreasonable as it is way too expensive. Might as well I borrow a car from my friend and drive it hear. The RM70 can be used to buy petrol that can last for a week on my friend's car. I told her that, the most they can charge is RM50 if they don't want to use meter. C'mon, I know the road back to Serdang from KLCC, just that I don't have a car. That guy treat me like I don't know anything about KL. Anyway, We were fortunate to find a taxi driver on the other exit of the mall that drives us on meter. He was kind enough to say that, it's up to you whether you want to use meter or the other way round. So we surely said meter lah...duh....
Mind you that time is almost to 430pm...Jam....so when he asked me whether I wanna use Highway (smart Tunnel) I reply yes. So the tip here is this, In order for you to save money on the meter especially during peak time, do use highway instead, you might save more...toll fee in Smart tunnel only cost Rm2...
The taxi driver also explain to us why the other taxi driver was charging that amount of fare as we told him about it. He told us that, we are charged higher than expected because we are carrying luggages....they will cheat those people with luggage as most of the time, those who carries luggage are tourists.At the end of the day, our taxi fare only cost us...guess how much, only RM25...3 times lower than the amount of the stupid taxi tout.....
the fare is only rm23 eventually, but because he charged us RM1 for the luggages and also we did give him tips for being a good and honest taxi driver. My principle is simple, if that particular taxi driver is being honest by using meter and not cheating, I might consider give the extra tips as incentive for being the only few cabbies operator in the country that are honest. It's hard to find honest taxi driver though.

Ok I guess I shall get back to my study now, tomorrow will be my Electric and Electronic paper... Mesh current, Thevenin theorem,Norton's Theorem, Superposition theorem,Node voltage method and most importantly AC source here I come....
Gosh, I'm so sick of those E & E stuffs....I'm not meant to be an E & E guy....not my type...darn....

The B777

As I was looking for any corporate videos of Airlines company I came across this. Eventhough, it is quite old, maybe roughly 11 years back, but its worth knowing that Malaysia Airlines operates the first B777 which from my perspective was an achievement at the time. No doubt, I always 'hang-out' at youtube nowadays to watch documentaries or anything that suites my taste...hehe.
Part 1

Part 2

Part 3


hopefully you will know something new right???
Happy independence people!!!

back....

Yes, literally I'm back on blogging again after all the hu-ha that happened throughout the 6 weeks as 2nd year University students. The one of the most important reason for why I was absent in posting blog was my house here did not have a internet connection. Forget about the internet connection in the faculty. I went online in faculty in those time were just to finish my assignment or did my research or do some important matters. No time for blogging as well...more post will be up soon....let's put a smile on that face!!!!hahaha

Of Late- The Burj of Dubai

If you ask me what I was doing this few days, well neither do I a football maniac who glued myself in front of the tv in the wee hours of the morning or play football or any other kinds of sports( well, I don't involve in sports nowadays as I think I really need a break from my hectic schedule back in Uni and needed to rejuvenate again for the upcoming semester where I will be more busy then last previous semester) but rather I was interested in watching documentaries that I have found on the internet. I think after watching a lot of the documentaries posted on youtube I think this will be the best so far for this year documentaries. It's a documentary about the tallest Skyscraper in the world, most of you can guess it right? it's the Burj Dubai. ( click on to see the documentary )
The documentary eventually depicted the advancement of human technologies in building taller skyscrapers. It started from the creation of elevators to solve the issue of transporting human to higher level till the newest technologies implemented in Burj Dubai. All the technologies shown is a follow-up to another one. The latest technologies implemented in Burj Dubai are the Refuge Room where the occupants of the building can hide in case of anything bad happen like fire. Those new technologies are mainly created for evacuation. I guess you guys have to watch the video further to understand more.

this is what I have taken over a year or to be more specific, 10 months or less. Altogether it's 16 subjects. I didn't know about it until when I checked the ESMP on the website. ESMP is an website for courses registration, to check result and those related to courses. Anyway, I never realize that it has been a year since the thrills and nervousness in waiting for the UPU result. The memory of those days just flashes back at me. Although I'm not getting those result nowadays, but I still can feel the aura when it was announced. And I could never expect that, I can take up 8 subjects per semester in four months or 14 weeks time. whoa...and I could not imagine that I'm in 2nd year now although the subjects that I'm taking will be less than in first year. 2nd year will be one of my busiest year of all I guess as I will be in a lot of activities in University especially faculty level. Most of all, I need to save money, life nowadays is hard as everything has increased. Sooner or later, everything will goes up. Inflation will be higher. There are actually one cure to this situation from my own perspective. That is if new invention of oil is found to replace the current fossil fuels. It may sound strange but the person who actually can invent this hydrocarbon change similar to fossil fuels, that person is going to monopolize the world economy. Or perhaps, if new invention of something replaceable to oil and can be installed in every vehicles. I'm saying this as even if new breed of vehicles are built like hybrid cars, the effects now won't be a lot. It can only affects the future not the current situation. I bet that everyone is very reluctant to actually sell their car even if this Hybrid cars are mass produce. So, it won't change the economy landscape for now. You have to wait till hybrid cars is as cheap as a Perodua Kancil on the road, then people might consider it.
One thing came to my mind when I mentioned about something that can replace oil. It was the De Lorean inside The 'Back to The Future II' movie, where Doc installed Mr Fusion, Home Energy Reactor...where he uses garbage as the alternative fuel. It's weird but it's applicable as garbage can be turn gold in the fact that buying fossil fuels now is like buying gold.

Long Post cut short but still long of Penang.

Two days after my trip to Lang Tengah Island, I landed myself in another island which is far more bigger and developed than the Lang Tengah Island. Lang Tengah has beauty of its own and I just love to be on a beach getting myself sunburnt. The plan of going Penang struck my head in the beginning of Semester 2 last year and it is my intention to visit Penang after my final exam for 1st year. I managed to get a place to go Lang tengah 3 days before the departure date. So you should know why I travelled to so many places in less than 10 days. Ok, here is the deal, my real and main purpose of landing myself in Penang is indeed to satisfy my crave for good foods especially chinese foods. Hey, I think everyone knows that Penang is famous for their foods, foods, and foods( oklah, touring to those interesting places is a must as well lah..) . Anyway, A big thanks and I really appreciate Kah Nee who willingly brought us to those places with their famous and signature dishes in Penang, even when she was busy with her stuffs. Thanks ya. To be honest, I still prefer Kuching foods or generally Sarawak foods with the exception of a few dishes which I think can beat up certain Kuching foods in term of tastes. Truly, this is only based on my own opinions and different people has different opinions, right?

I was greeted with the sight of Penang Bridge that is in the process of expansion, what my Penang friend told me was government projects always need a longer time than usual to finish...

Doesn't the condominium looks like twin tower?? this can be sighted after you crossover the bridge to Penang Island

without further a do, after I put down everything in the hotel room, my friend and I went straight to have our sightseeing without any guidance and we headed to any street with our common sense. We found the first Eu Yan Sang shop which is originated from Penang

do you notice the diffence between the beaches?? I was stunt seeing this sight. Luckily before that , I had my eye washed at Lang Tengah IslandFort Cornwallis...the first british settlement in Penang. I didn't manage to went in there as it was closed when we reached the place at 6pm and it closed at 6pm also....

Queen Victoria's Jubilee Tower

Just a few yards away, you will notice the 'egg' shape monument that I don't understand even until today...what's the significant??

This street is called 'the bank' street as you will noticed a lot of banks along this street. Some of the banks existed at the street for a long time this is the example of device that I don't normally seen often and walking through the street makes me feel like I'm on 1970 or 1960, where the bank their is still preserved for example like the above which is owned by Standard Chartered Bank

eventually, We ended up at Gurney Drive and we did visit one of the most popular spot there which is the Gurney Drive's Hawkers' Centre which I can describe as most of the best food in Penang gathering....hmm...so eventually you can taste anything ranging from Penang Fried Kuey Tiao, the 'o-chien' @sea ham with egg( above) , rojak(which I tasted and it taste the same as in Sarawak here as well...), cendol, the kuih, Fried chicken,etc...etc... you name it,they might have it...hehe(picture above courtesy of Penangpage.com) After devouring those food in, I still managed to have a plate of wanton mee and Penang Har mee@Penang Prawn mee....gosh...it tastes good....and cheap as well

posing with Prawn mee...hehethe place where I had my Prawn Mee and Wanton Mee....

the next morning, I woke up earlier and decided to visit the other part of Georgetown which I've not visited. Light Street is a street with lots of old British colonial structure and I found a two of the oldest churches in Penang which is a catholic church(above) and St George's Church Penang ( below )which is located at Lebuh Ferquhar.

just like Kuching, the courthouse is an old building but they make an initiative to restore and preserved it and it still function as a courthouse until today.

section and majistrate court or crime court( sounds funny isn't it??)

SMK convent Penang....

love lane...and St Xavier Institution is just next to it...haha

the school even has a monument honouring St. John

Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion
those who can speak Japanese should know what it is...I know the meaning from the chinese word only

Modern Hotel which can be considered modern in its time....

perhaps a chocolate after a meeting??

After the early morning stroll around the old area of Georgetown...it's time for makan...OMG, the food pictured above taste delicious( actually I don't remember the name...it could be laksa or something...served with clams,prawns, tauhu and the yellow mee....)

you can find the above food at Xin He cafe...at the same time, my friend eventually bought us Che cheong Fun which is so unique in it taste...the special thing is the sauce which is a secret recipe

the Thai sleeping Buddha temple entrance...

my coursemate and I posing in front of the Globe which is 'uniquely' found at the Burmese Standing Buddha Temple...I'm actually pointing at Mauritius...

International Standing Buddha...Now I know the difference between two temple which is just opposite each other....the Standing Buddha was built by the Burmese, the Sleeping Buddha was Built by the Thai

the famous Kek Lok Si Temple which is still under renovation

the place itself has an incline lift which is claimed to be world's first...the fee of using it to and fro is 4 bucks...

to my disappointment...I thought I can see the bronze Guan Yi statue...but it is still under renovation. They are currently making a roof for the statue...

Laksa Penang...it tastes good...but because I don't like Lemon Grass and my tummy refused to accept it...the next day...toilet was the best place to visit for the whole entire day...

Bukit Bendera@Penang Hill is a nice place to visit....forget about the hot(which makes you feels like you are in an oven) and the lullaby ride. The ride was really....(speechless).....Inside the train was so hot and the ride was so slow that a lot of people have fallen asleep in the ride....I was one of them...craddled to sleep in a hot temperature...The ride itself to and fro is 4 bucks

but the view itself was spectacular....the rail was somehow straight up...only a few curves....and a tunnel....

the moment we walked out of the train...it's a sudden change of environment from the hot air in the train to the fresh and cool air of the hill....it's refreshing.....Bukit Bendera, at the moment I thought it is just a lookout point or a recreation point, I saw this... A Police Station!!!!

Telekom Malaysia and Post Office on top of the hill...to my surprise...they are people staying at the hill....and you can drive your 4WD up there...cheh...

Last but not least, the second place or things I did in Penang( the last one was a visit to Queensbay Mall, northern region biggest Shopping Mall ) is to have Cendol...this is the famous Penang Cendol which is found only in Penang Road. It is so famous that, It has a picture together with Phua Chu Kang and his wife eating their cendol...and I mean the Phua Chu Kang...The Unique things about the cendol is, there is no table placed for you to eat your cendol, so you have to stand or sit on the stool and hold the ice cold bowl of cendol in your hand....or if you want, you can just 'Ta Pau' back....the taste itself is different than others...what I tasted was, they put in some coffee or mocha flavour in it...but I could be wrong....

I travelled mostly for food and scenery...or to a place which I've never went before...so in both situations, Lang Tengah Island And Penang visit fit those criterias....OMG...this post took my almost 3 hours to finish....