GOOD got more points than BAD this time...

As the title would suggest... despite some bad things that happened in the last two days... overall, it was still a couple of great days...

Friday, February 25th, 2005...
No orientation activity for the day... and I got to sleep til 11am or so again.. sigh...
woke up and got to confirm with Roger to have lunch at Boulevard...
ate lunch and then we had badminton game that afternoon with Adrian, Kevin and a couple of friends they made during Orientation...
but before that, we 'wasted' some time at a little spot at the third floor of Boulevard, where there was a little.. how should I call it... an event that was meant to raise awareness of road safety amongst the young people (as in schooling children)...
There, was a lot of those quick but interesting games or such that depicts traffic safeties....
it was an all right time... got to enjoy ourselves while we were there, though around those simple, childish games...

anyway... after that, headed for badminton.... we went to the court at Pujut... I don't know the exact location...
and boy.. it was terribly hot... just... the heat was effecting my mood to play a lot... and effecting the others too....
just couldn't bother to play seriously during the matches... just too hot for me to bother.. sigh...
but two hours by, we then headed off for home...
home... I showered and got ready for tonight...
got to make plans with Izzah and some of the other ladies of CV to go out tonight and just chill...

ate a little something before it was time to go...
I drove all the way to Curtin and the Curtin Village... first to pick Izzah & Gretchel from the hostel and then to the Village to pick up some of the rest....
Stopped by there for a while... no.. a LONG while...
cause, besides Navodi, Kimmy & Serena, there were also some boys to join us... some of the new student we got to know during the last O-Week... Candy was also at Kimmy's house...
We got to talk there for quite a while... about some.. *ahem* cold treatment some of the CV members had been given during a Student Ambassador meeting that took place the day before at the Student Service...
I've no comment on it, since I wasn't there... but I heard that it was quite bad....
and it seems apparent that something's going on with the Student Ambassadors, in particular the woman who's also the Head of Student Service, aka Ms F...
no need to say more lah.. I'll see what happens next time before I go further into this...

OK... why we wait for so long, was because turned out that the boys hadn't gotten ready... and just began to when we went over to their place to tell them about it....
Izzah, Gretchel, Serena & Navodi then decided to go to Candy's place to accompany her as she changed her clothing...
while waiting for the boys, Kimmy & I just went to wait for them at her place...
we got to talk while we waited... sigh... how comfortable it is sometimes to just sit and talk...
anyway... after quite some time again, then the boys came over to meet us... Josh, Brit & Carl....

Got into my car, and then went off... decided to meet with Izzah & the others at Al Fresco later... where we'll have our dinner....
when arrived there, only realised that it was already after 9pm!! haha!
the rest of the girls then joined us and we had our somethings to eat....
more than one hour or so, we were done with our dinner and then we headed for Desserts... yes.. the ice-cream place..
there we met with a Student Council member who was with three girls, new students in the last O-Week as well...
We talked and just enjoyed each other's company..... but later, they went off to continue on with the night...
The rest of us waited there for Abel who was supposed to meet with us....
turned out he had been sleeping all the while and decided to pick up some people..KC, his gf Chu Chu, Sara, & Jenny!!
We waited half an hours or so, then they finally arrived!
we had quite a time there.. lots of good laughs... it was a yet another memorable time spent together...
I drove on home, when finally midnight and we left Desserts and headed for Cheerie Berries....
definitely couldn't spend some more time out and I headed home, after saying my goodbyes...
this day was over then... or so it seemed...


Saturday, February 26, 2005....
Morning... between 4.30 to 5am... two message woke me up... the first one from Serena got me slightly more aware from my sleep... the second from Izzah really woke me up.. haha!
I first read Izzah's message, and she thanked me for spending time with them and that it had been a great time...
Serena's message, told me about the meeting that was supposed to be today on certain things we needed to do during the coming O-week... told me to meet at Kimmy's place at 4.30pm.... ok then....
messaged her a few more times before we were done with that actually...
and yeah, that was the time that they were done clubbing and had arrived home to sleep....
Got to return to my sleep eventually, despite my thoughts of just staying up after that...

Then woke up at 11am or so again.. sigh.. been sleeping quite a lot lately... haha... catching up with my lack of sleep huh?
anyway.. lunch at home... did a little online... stopped when my brother wanted to use the computer...
So I 'wasted' my time with Shadow Hearts on the PS2... then came about 4pm, which was when I stopped and then drove off to Kimmy's place at Curtin Village....
Arrived there and surprised Kimmy who didn't know of the plan...
well... it was still not yet 4.30pm so just waited there for Serena and the others....
Kimmy & I talked some more... or.. more like she did most of the talking.. I just listened most of the time.... hahah!
It was long while later, before Serena arrived there...... we all got to talk for a while...
however, there was a short period of despair somewhere during our time.... I was quite petrified...
didn't know what I should do... I knew I should comfort her... but should I... when she finally blurted out, I just went over and place my arm on her shoulder, trying to comfort her....
she broke into tears... I just let her cry there, without saying anything... and soon enough, she stopped herself... and told us two that she was all right....
it was that time, that Izzah called for me to pick her & Gretchel up from the hostel... which I accepted gladly...
picking the two up, they wanted to buy something to eat from the DPS area....
after a long while before we got the food, then went to Kimmy's place...
the two ate while we discussed a little on our meeting agenda... after quite some time later, we decided to have the meeting outside...
and since it was coming night already, we were quickly swarmed by lots and lots of mosquitoes... I took the initiation to take off my shoe and knock them out of the air and squash them... and I have to say.. I got to kill a lot at the time alone that that particular area of the patio had practically became a mosquito graveyard... haha!
ahahaha... and that idea somehow got into our ideas during our meeting and we were laughing SO much as we discussed... sigh....
our laughter just kept continuing even as we headed to that same coffee shop that we went earlier to buy something to eat... this time, only Serena, Kimmy & I ate.... for dinner....
arriving there, we encountered Jenny, Jessie & Yogesh and also some of the new students, Brit, Josh, V, Carl & another one which I forgotten the name (sorry!)...
they'd already eaten so they all left earlier.... while me and the four girls were laughing our heads off while the three of us ate...
I laughed so much that I couldn't finish my meal.. sigh.... those girls.... Britney Spears and mosquitoes just seem to be such a big part of our conversation... hahah!

after that, when it started to drizzle, we thought to head back quickly, since Kimmy still had her laundry out...
but as we drove, she decided that it was too late to bother, then went to Serena's place to get some pillows and stuffs, since the three girls were staying over at Kimmy's....
It was a fun though short 'road trip' between Serena's to Kimmy's....
When arrived there, I got to stick around with the girls.... It was already passed 9.30pm, so they were convincing me to go home, so as not to get into trouble with my mother...
I was reluctant since I would like to spend some more time with them... but then again, I thought that there was nothing more for me to do with them really... since the meeting was already done with.... mainly... I suppose...
the girls then finally convinced me to go... as I drove off, they sent me off.. hahah...
it was one definite memorable time, well spent, with them...

and once back home... showered and then came online... and did this blog entry...
tomorrow, I've confirmed, I won't be working... yay.. more time to sleep.. hahaha...
tomorrow, think I'll be mostly bored... just playing online or on the PS2 mainly, most likely... sigh...

~ Laughter is the best medicine.
(This is undoubtedly true... and I believe this very much... plus, laughing should help with your abdominal muscles as laughing requires that part of your muscles... I believe....
just don't laugh so much until you can't breath... [wink] )

Today came, and it was great!!

As the title says, today was a great day for me...
First of all.. let me start off my blog...

Morning, drove to Curtin.. near arriving, detoured to Curtin Village to pick up Kimmy...
Last night, she'd called me up asking for a lift, since a few of the new students (who live at the Curtin Village as well) wanted to come early to campus for the tutorial registrations...
Picked them up, arrived at school.. and we went off.....
Met with some of the other CV members when arrived at the cafeteria before moving to the Lecture Theater (LT)....
Went into business... discussing and working on the coming orientation sessions....
Had to practise a little on the dancing steps for our tradition song for Orientation, 'Lean On Me'...

Soon, it was time to begin the orientation session... but then.... we had a problem...
the tutorial registrations had already a long queue of students... and including the new students...
darn it.. it was so hard to convince them to leave the queue to get into the LT....
To be honest, I felt SO frustrated... most were very reluctant....
got to convince even some of those.. but then the more stubborn ones.... really hurt me in a way....
to be honest.. I believe I never saw that one particular fellow get into the LT after that.... have to say lah two words... His lose....
really thought he'd be promising enough to return after he told us... but fine....

anyway... we were able to round up most of the new students that were outside in the queue...
and the session finally began.. first, with an energizer to liven the people up...
It was great, cause we had the help of Abel to control the crowd....
then after the energizer, was the Motivational Talk by Sham & Mr. Anba, two amazing lecturers in Curtin...
Sham (She prefers to be called so than with a 'Ms') especially was a particular speaker that the crowd was attracted to.. with her VERY powerful speech....
it even frightens me some times as she speak... hahaa!
Somewhere during her speech, we had a competition between groups among the new student, of making straw towers...
I won't go into details... but all I can say that was some of the students were quite creative at creating their straw towers....

ok... this session over, lunch break... for the new students lah!
we, the CV members, stayed back for a little to practise on our 'Lean On Me' dance again...
practised some more... then the Student Council members came on the dot...
then they took over inside to set everything up for the next session while the CV members went for lunch break..
While lunch break, got to interact with some of the new students, who were at the cafeteria... and we got good feedbacks... they'd enjoyed themselves today, more than the earlier days, thankfully...
And oh yeah... during the earlier session, Abel was able to got the new students into their groups to prepare for their group performances for the coming O-Beach Fiesta... Hooray!!

Anyway... came the next session.. Student Council and Club Presentations...
in this session, Bay & I got to be chosen to be the MCs for the day...
first the session started off with our 'Lean On Me' dance.. haha! It was great!
After that, the new students were introduced with the Student Council members and some of the clubs available in Curtin....
have to say.. it was quite boring actually.... mainly during the club presentation part... until the end of it when it was Curtin Volunteers! turn to present....
and that I believe got the people's attention, cause Abel was asked to talk briefly about the organisation by one of the two CV presidents, Snow Jae...
Oh yeah.. there was something that Abel asked the new students... immediately after Snow Jae's request for him to speak...
"Can you tell me the name of ONE of the presidents of CV?"
his clue was that 'she'd just talked earlier' when there was some hesitations... haha! and guess what happened?
One raised his hand and spoke.. "Tiang!"
I was like... 'SAY WHAT!?'
He spoke louder again when Abel didn't realise it...
this time, everyone was surprised....

while then, I just cheered just for the sake of it! hahaa! There were some of them that actually mistakened me as one of the presidents! hahaha!
OK... at the end of CV's presentation, our CV dance group was brought forward to dance 'Just A Little While' by Janet Jackson... (the same dance steps as the one I joined all-so long ago... sigh... sweet memories)
The group consisted of Gretchel, Joana, Navodi, Giegel & Azie.. I came in somewhere in the middle to do a 'cartwheel'... (lazy to explain what that is....)
and as I did, I did it bad... way out of practise with my lack of wushu participations... but I went for the second round and I accidentally hit Gretchel....
I landed not properly but safely and immediately checked on her.. she was all right and the dance continued...
once out of the dance sequence, I started to feel pain in my knees again... caused by the first cartwheel... sigh... way out of shape and practise.... sigh...
but it was all right.. no harm done, thankfully...

OK.. our presentation over... it ends the session then.... and our work was done...
earlier, we had allocated an hour's time for the new students to do their tutorial registrations after the session and so they went off to do that....
cleared things up in the LT... and I went home with Roger & Tze Yang (driving).... why, since I drove to school in the morning?
my brother had to come to school for the registration as well... so he came to school with his friend and left driving the car....
k.... that over with... arrived home... then had to go to Jonathan's house for a little dinner...
went there.... ate some and I got to play Prince of Persia: Warrior Within...
spent some time there, before going home... and that was all for today then...

Felt great and so cheery during the orientation.. sigh.. just love it...
Foundation O-week next week.. now time to rest for now... sigh... waiter work as usual this Sunday...
tomorrow, may be joining for badminton and hopefully a time out with Gretch, Izzah, Abel & some of the new students...

~ Help others means helping yourself.
{Random quote... but meainingful}

Different Approaches of LAPD, FBI & CIA

Found this joke somewhere in Multiply... posted by Delirious...

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), The FBI, and the CIA are all trying to prove that they are the best at apprehending criminals. The President decides to give them a test. He releases a rabbit into a forest and each of them has to catch it.

The CIA goes in. They place animal informants throughout the forest. They question all plant and mineral witnesses. After three months of extensive investigations they conclude that rabbits do not exist.

The FBI goes in. After two weeks with no leads they burn the forest, killing everything in it, including the rabbit, and they make no apologies. The rabbit had it coming.

The LAPD goes in. They come out two hours later with a badly beaten bear. The bear is yelling: "Okay! Okay! I'm a rabbit! I'm a rabbit!"

Can't wait for tomorrow!!

Man.. today I slept all the way til 11.30am!!! wah!!
Though not the whole way... some time around 8.30am, Serena's sms woke me up...
she was asking me to pick her up to school today... but I couldn't as I wasn't going to the school in the morning...
After that, gone back to sleep...
To be honest, as I slept, I was dreaming... I dreamt that I had woken up and was doing things... can't remember what, but I just really feel that I have woken up!!
When I REALLY woke up, I was shocked to find that it was already 11.30am!!
and I woke up cause my sister called me up, cause we'll supposed to go to the temple to visit my father...
man.. that would mean I'd continue to sleep for longer!!! AHH!!

Anyway.. lunch, then went to the temple...
came home and I was late for my 2.30pm appointment with Dr. Adeline...
showered quickly, and drove to Curtin... and went to where her office was... to be about twenty minutes late...
I was surprised to find out that Ms. Christine was going to be with us during the appointment... Oh oh....
I tried to speak out my mind about how the orientation was... but those two had teamed up to debate against me...
I can't say much cause it was a two against one battle and I definitely can't beat them... though I was still able to get my point through to them.. hopefully...
at least, I was able to get them to allow us to have more activities for the Foundation... and try to do something for Degree... sigh...
And also, that the future Orientations will be taken into the hands of the Student Council.. YES!! Those guys I can surely trust....
Fine lah.. let them have things go their way for now.. sheesh...
"This orientation has been the smoothest ever since.." quoted from Dr. Adeline (not exact words)..
My @**..... It's only smooth within your management, it seems...
Next time, I really need a gang to help back me up.. otherwise I just can't get things going in my way... sigh...

Anyway.. over with that... went for the council meeting....
Discussed more deeply into the comnig special day... "Chill" Day, which includes the O-City Tour (tour around Miri for the non-Sarawakians mainly) and also the O-Beach Fiesta (O-night celebrated at the beach, the Piasau Boat Club)...
And also tomorrow's activities, with included Abel's involvement in a Motivational Talk and also the introduction of the clubs in Curtin to the new students... Yay! I get to be one of the two MCs of this part! haha!
It'll be great tomorrow... I'm sure the new students will enjoy it!

Anyway... darn it... the next meeting was amongst the Curtin Volunteers members with Abel for tomorrow when the motivational talk...
somewhere in between, my mother phoned me and kept scolding me to go back home...
The family was supposed to go to my Grandparents' home for a traditional family reunion dinner for Chap Goh Mei..
right now, there was no other ride except the car I drove here.... I already told her before that my meeting will be late.. she just didn't listen....
luckily, in the end, she was able to follow Jonathan's family there..but the damage was done... sheesh...
after she hung up on me.. I felt SO MUCH like crying... it was such a terrible slap to my emotions... shit...
I'd went outside the meeting room to talk to my mother.. the talk was over three minutes.. and I stayed outside for a few more minutes... almost crying right there... shit... it hurt so much.... but the meeting was still going on... I just had to go in... no time to be a Drama Queen....
Went on with the meeting and soon enough it was over and I drove home... after sending back Snow Jae & Azie...
phoned home, and my brother told me that mother and my sister had already left...
called my sister... spoke with my mother and so I drove to my Grandparents' house...
my mother spoke to me in her normal tone.. which made me feel better... sigh....
ate there... spent some time there... before I drove home with my sister and my mother....

Then, came online...
that was all lah......

~ An advise from me... Don't hold grudges at anyone for something small and irrelevent. Those grudges are unnecessary and may destroy your relationship with even those closest to you....
(Learned from many experiences)

Day of Strong Goods and Near-Fatal Bads

Don't understand the title?
Well.. today had been all right, though I'm very tired.... but there were a few moments that nearly got me into deep trouble.. MAN!!
ok... let me begin...

Morning..
Drove to school.... and guess what...?
As I reached the bridge at the end of the main road at the Pujut area... I NEARLY ENDED UP KNOCKING THE CAR IN FRONT OF ME!!!
Damn it!! The cars just suddenly like... stopped!! I pushed on the brake so hard!!
When my car stopped, I was so scared that I might have hit the front car!!
but seeing the driver didn't retaliate... I figured that there was still space between the two of us...
cause if the Land Cruiser that I drove DID hit the smaller car, the driver would've definitely felt it.. undoubtedly..
I was so shakened up from that as I continued to drive...
Driving front, I was puzzled.. why did the cars all suddenly like stopped?
there was no blockage or anything.. and there were only about less than ten cars in front of me.. so why the sudden stop?? or VERY slow down...
ok.. that's one near fatal bad...

anyway.. picked up Azie.. then picked up Serena at her place at Senadin... would've went to pick up Snow too, but she messaged me earlier, saying that she'll go to Curtin earlier, so no need to...
got to work when arrived at Curtin.... at the Lecture Theater...
so much work... the projectors were not able to be turned on.. audios were not working... sheesh...
oh yeah.. Gretchel and Izzah had joined to help with the orientation as well...
well.. the new students gathered... and so it begins....
we did a few games to help energise them for the coming talks later...
it was just a quick and easy game... but unfortunately, it wasn't good enough to prepare them for the talks...

There was a promo for the special day that the Student Council had planned for them (from yesterday's meeting)... did by Snow...
I and a few of the others went around to collect the names of people joining the activities...
As I did, I went along to talk to them.. and boy it was great and enjoyable...
I can even recall chatting with some of them...
and an even sweeter memory was during lunch break, when I was even able to sit down with a few of them and just talked...
by the way, lunch time, I joined Roger, Adrian Foo, Kevin, Guan Thai, Tina, & a few other ex-high schoolmates to eat at Ciao Mien & Hot Beans, the cafe at the hostel area of Curtin...
and damned.. the food we ordered (Fried Noodle & Fried Kueh Tiaw) were just awful.... bleh!

Anyway.. afternoon, some more activities for the orientation, but not much..
Sent back Azie and came back since the orientation was not over and she had nothing else to do there...
after the orientation was over.. had some work back at the Student Service... sheesh.. so many work and errors in printing... sheesh...
then, after that was a meeting among the Student Ambassadors with Ms. Christine, the new Student Councillor...
did a little planning for the coming Foundation O-Week... but not much though...
I was able to make a suggestion that the end of the Degree O-week, that is Friday...
since the day is now free... maybe we could do some fun group activities so that they can have group performances for the coming O-Night...
this had better be done... it shouldn't be in question!! unfortunately, I feel that it is... sigh....

Anyway.. after that drove home.. my eyes were so tired... and that was led me to the second near-fatal bad... damn...
I was driving... when I was feeling sleepy... and then... I realised that my mind just went off for a split second there and MY CAR WAS ABOUT TO GO OF THE SIDE OF THE ROAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Quickly I regained control... thankfully.. Man.....

I definitely will need to thank all the goodness that had saved me from such trouble and danger....

Anyway... arrived home SAFELY...
showered.. and got to the tv... and took a nap on the couch... sigh... I needed it...
then Renee messaged me, saying that she needed to pass me Snow Jae's CV shirt... cause she didn't have the time to return it herself to Snow...
got to meet just now with a trouble of communications when my phone lose signal and her call couldn't get through... sheesh...
anyway.. got the shirt and I got home again...

Sigh.. got online and got e-mail from Dr. Adeline..
I forgot to mention that this morning I got to meet with her at the office, when I needed to borrow a radio for the Lecture Theater, just for back-up in case the audio system didn't work...
Then, she realised that I had been the one that sent the e-mail... and asked me to meet with her that afternoon..
since I was supposed to do something for the orientation, she then changed to tomorrow, afternoon...
that's good.. I feel I might be able to win this.. but there is a possibility that I can't win it in time to save this Orientation... hopefully that possibility is not going to be how it's going to end....

that's all from me...

~ Thank you, all of my goodness, for saving me from such troubles and dangers... I wonder very much and am afraid to imagine the thought of what would've happened if it had been the otherwise end....

Saving The O-Week

Well... last night got to chat with Esther online in MSN from midnight til nearly 3 in the morning...
Sigh... such a enjoyable conversation...

Went to sleep after she went off....
And slept all the way til 11am when a message rang in my phone...
Turned out to be Snow Jae... A council meeting at 4pm later... ok then...

Showered... Lunch... then watched some Feng Shui show.. or talk... by Lillian Too...
She was talking about the Chinese Astrology... or simply, Animal Signs...
I'm Tiger by the way...
after that (2am), played some Shadow Hearts....
as I did, Azie messaged me... asking me about a meeting... messaged some more.. got to her to join me for it...
then also, Kent Onn messaged me... and told me that I scored 71.5 for Malaysian Studies.. Yay! Woohoo!
Continue my playing, til it was time to go for that meeting...

Picked up Azie and arrived at Curtin...
had a little trouble findng the venue of the meeting as Snow Jae was misinformed I supposed...
got to the room and met up with some of the Student Council members and also... ABEL!!! Long time no see...
anyway... discussed some activities that the Student Council were running for the Orientation... and some other things...
meeting here took less than three hours... before we all went our way...
Besides Azie, I also had to send back Snow Jae & Serena... man... so many ladies around me... Hahaha!

Well.. one big news here...
When got home.. dinner, shower.. I went online to find an e-mail from Dr. Adeline...
just to inform you... last night, I wrote an e-mail and sent it to Ms. Fidella...
in the e-mail I was asking for her permission to give the power to run the activities of the Foundation O-week to the foundation students that are helping out...
main reason, cause I want the orientation to be more fun...

well... turned out that Ms. Fidella forwarded my message to Dr. Adeline Wong.. and she replied my message...
asking me to look for her on the idea....
and so I replied her back asking her when can i make an appointment... and added some more reasons to why I'm going with the idea...
Hopefully, I will get that power to run the Orientation.. at least the Foundation... I added a little that I hope that we students can control the Degree's O-week too...

Well.. I really hope to be able to save the new students from having to attend such a 'boring' orientation.... sigh...

~ Where there's a will, there's a way.
(Not a quote of my own, but it's meaningful...)

IQ Test

I got to find this IQ test site...

http://www.iqtest.dk/main.swf
go ahead and check it out...

I scored a 128 for my first go...
wow...

as proof.. here is a screenshot of it...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v431/Zack_TKWei/IQTestResult.jpg
(It's too big so I am only putting a URL link to the picture...)

Think of the children - A good story

To those of us who have children in our lives, whether they are our own, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, or students... here is something to make you chuckle.
Whenever your children are out of control, you can take comfort from the thought that even God's omnipotence did not extend to His own children. After creating heaven and earth, God created Adam and Eve. And the first thing he said was "DON'T!"

"Don't what?" Adam replied.

"Don't eat the forbidden fruit." God said.

"Forbidden fruit? We have forbidden fruit? Hey Eve... we have forbidden fruit!!!!!"

"No Way!"

"Yes way!"

"Do NOT eat the fruit!" said God.

"Why"

"Because I am your Father and I said so!" God replied, wondering why He hadn't stopped creation after making the elephants.
A few minutes later, God saw His children having an apple break and He was angry!
"Didn't I tell you not to eat the fruit?" God asked.

"Uh huh," Adam replied.

"Then why did you?" said the Father.

"I don't know," said Eve.

"She started it!" Adam said

"Did not!"

"Did too!"

"DID NOT!"

Having had it with the two of them, God's punishment was that Adam and Eve should have children of their own. Thus the pattern was set and it has never changed.

BUT THERE IS REASSURANCE IN THE STORY!
If you have persistently and lovingly tried to give children wisdom and they haven't taken it, don't be hard on yourself.
If God had trouble raising children, what makes you think it would be a piece of cake for you?
THINGS TO THINK ABOUT!

1. You spend the first two years of their life teaching them to walk and talk. Then you spend the next sixteen telling them to sit down and shut up.

2. Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your own children.

3. Mothers of teens now know why some animals eat their young.

4. Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.

5. The main purpose of holding children's parties is to remind yourself that there are children more awful than your own.

6. We childproofed our homes, but they are still getting in.


ADVICE FOR THE DAY: Be nice to your kids. They will choose your nursing home one day.

AND FINALLY:

IF YOU HAVE A LOT OF TENSION AND YOU GET A HEADACHE, DO WHAT IT SAYS ON
THE ASPIRIN BOTTLE:

"TAKE TWO ASPIRIN" AND "KEEP AWAY FROM CHILDREN"!!!!!



Quick, send this on to ten people within the next five minutes. Nothing will happen if you don't, but if you do, ten people will be laughing.

Contrasting Days of Work

Sigh.. how many days? Three days working straight.. sigh... so tired...
ok.. let's first update on yesterday...

Friday, 19 February, 2005...
Morning started work at 8am... came to work with my brother...
Customers came in early.. at 8.30am... sigh... and then they never stopped coming...
sigh.. so tired lah.. and I recall.. again I clenched my fist... I was so not in the working mood...
however.. time went on.. and finally my mind woke up and I felt better while working...

That afternoon... when it was nearing our time to go home at 2pm... David asked me and my brother to stay behind... until 5pm.. O_O!!
Why?
Because there'll be some customers in the restaurant before the function that night...
and they all need to go home and rest for the function... all except one of them... who onyl came that afternoon to take over the whole place...
I agreed to it cause I knew it's gonna be an easy few extra hours...
and surely enough it was...
I was even able to sit down behind the counter for quite a while...
hahaa... but I do recall this particular accident that happened...
pouring the Chinese Tea to the customers... there was one particular guy... I took his glass.. and I poured the tea quickly into the glass as I did with the others, cause I didn't want the glass to get too hot for my fingers... since the tea was REALLY hot!!
and guess what?
the glass cracked and nearly shattered in my hand... the tea even spilled through the cracks and onto my hand and onto the table...
Reflexively, my hand placed the cracked/spilling glass onto the table and I was stunned for a while... (as well as some of the customers around me)
then no choice but to take another glass and fill that one... slower this time.. hahaha...
well.. that was all lah...
around 5pm, Roger arrived... showed him the cracked glass... ahhaa...
soon, me and my brother went home.. to the surprise of some who didn't realise we'd stayed there since morning...
NINE HOURS of work.. *fakes a faint*
but it was all right... it started off bad.. but ended quite all right

The next day (today) will have work again... but only me as my brother wanted to watch NBA...
that night, for dinner, my family and Jonathan's family (of three for your information, his parents and Jon) went to Al Fresco... yeah, the cafe where I got to eat with Abel & some other friends in Curtin in earlier times...
rare occasion, so I joined...
oh yeah... this reminds me.... I'm thinking that this day had been my clumpsiest day in all my years..
during work... the cracked glass incident... and some other minor details, such as dropping the dishware and silverwares a few times...
then that night at Al Fresco, I accidentally spilled a glass of drink over the table and the glass even cracked from the impact of it hitting the table.. DAMN IT!!
sigh.. luckily, the people there only charged me the drink.. not the glass... phew....
oh yeah... another thing happened during that time... me and my brother got into another argument...
my goodness.. this time, he's really done it.. he's SO LOUSY at retelling a recent event...
our argument started when we headed home from work... which was latest two hours earlier!
and he was completely telling the story wrong... and making it sound like I'm the one that's wrong!!!
*TUUUUuuuuuuUUUUT* that guy!! But whatever lah him...

ok... enough about that..
dinner there... went around Boulevard... then went home...
couldn't update last night, cause I had work tomorrow so I wanted to sleep early and it was already 10pm...
Then! I got to chat with a friend of mine online in MSN... Esther Ting...
turned out she'd been working during the function at Grand Palace Hotel just now... (with Roger)
We got to chat quite some last night... great conversation...
In the past, we'd been talking a lot.. and she'd asked me about the work at Grand Palace..
this coming Monday, she'll be going to Kuala Lumpur so she just wanted to earn something til then...
and finally, last Thursday she got a call from David and had worked three days straight since... (including today) two night functions and one day work...
and yes, she told me that she was going to be working (today) in the morning... (as well as Roger)
I was excited as I've gotten to be friends with this girl, and now I get the chance to meet her before she leaves...
I went off by midnight (darn it...) and went to sleep...


Next day...
I was excited... I forgot to mention, last night, Esther told me that she and Roger will be starting work at 7am...
then before I sleep, I decided to join them early... to earn some extra buck...
And I did... though I arrived slightly after 7am...
surprised the two when I did...
and to be honest.. I was surprised to see Esther herself...
I gotta admit.. she's quite a pretty girl... (but whatever!! Don't point any finger at me!)

To be honest.. I was quite... cheery.. today... I smiled here and there as I worked... and I was actually... having fun!?
ok.. let me explain the situation at work... by 8am.. first customer came in already...
and soon after.. another one.. and then another.. and then some more... and soon in twenty minutes we have over five tables to take care of! That's the most heavy work I've done within the first hour of work.. plus it was at 8am!!
customers after customers.... tables taken one after the other.. and soon, we had to prepare the table right in front of the customers!!
sigh... no time to even think about my legs' fatigue as the manager keeps barking us to be faster and more aware.... as a few times some of the tables were left unattended....
well.. what do you think.. you just told me to take care of THIS side of the restaurant.. and then soon you complain to me about the unattended table at THAT side...
anyway... I had my fun while working... I was even humming to the repetitive music in the restaurant... AHH!!!

That afternoon.... things FINALLY started to slow down... as customers were starting to lessen...
that we even finally got our chance to take our lunch breaks...
Work was over for most of us by 2pm... but then David asked me to stay back.. but this time til 3pm only lah! hahaa.. not 5...
I got to convince Roger (I think) to stay behind to work as well...
it was an easy extra hour of work... only two tables were occupied...
we both just mostly did our own thing... including eating some of the food there.. [SHHH!! Don't spread the word!!]

Anyway.. soon enough, we left for home...
My feet were really complaining by now as I drove home...
when reached home, was informed to go to my aunty's house.. reason?
my Aunty's mother-in-law just passed away, just yesterday (morning, I heard)...
Died of old age... According to my mother, 80++ years old...
Walked to my aunty's nearby home.. and prayed a little in front of the deceived's portrait (with joss sticks of course) and then headed home already...
reason was because my family had been there for longer while I was working... and were just waiting for me, I supposed...
I spent not more than five minutes there... amazing...

Showered.. played some PS2... and then dinner.. then came online...
now just spending my time online... hopefully chatting with Esther before tomorrow...
she's leaving by evening time...
and once there.. she'll mostly likely lose contact with the Internet.... for she won't be having a computer (if not mistaken according to what she said) there...
That all...

~ All work and all play makes Zack a very tired boy...
(A quote I made some time ago when I've realised how tired I am, with all the work and PS2 playing... Nice, huh? ^_^ )

Which F.R.I.E.N.D.S. cast member are you?

Take the quiz: "Which F.R.I.E.N.D.S. Cast Member are you? (pics!)"

Ross
You are Mr. Smarty!!! This may come off as nerdy sometimes, but you can also be quite charming!!


This quiz is pretty obvious... six answers, each representing the six cast members of FRIENDS....
But I just love the comedy series!!

A very nice and meaningful story to share to all...

The Trouble Tree
Author: Unknown
Retrieved: One of Warbot's Multiply Journals

The carpenter I hired to help me restore an old farmhouse had just finished a rough first day on the job. A flat tire made him lose an hour of work, his electric saw quit, and now his ancient pickup truck refused to start.

While I drove him home, he sat in stony silence. On arriving, he invited me in to meet his family. As we walked toward the front door, he paused briefly at a small tree, touching tips of the branches with both hands. When opening the door, he underwent an amazing transformation. His tanned face was wreathed in smiles and he hugged his two small children and gave his wife a kiss.

Afterward he walked me to the car. We passed the tree and my curiosity got the better of me. I asked him about what I had seen him do earlier. "Oh, that's my trouble tree," he replied. "I know I can't help having troubles on the job, but one thing's for sure, troubles don't belong in the house with my wife and the children. So I just hang them up on the tree every night when I come home. Then in the morning I pick them up again."

"Funny thing is," he smiled, "when I come out in the morning to pick 'em up, there ain't nearly as many as I remember hanging up the night before."

Constantine... My Review....

Genre: (In my view) Action, Drama, Thriller, Fantasy & a little bit of comedy
Length: About two hours if not mistaken...
Director: Francis Lawrence
Starring: Keanu Reeves (John), Rachel Weisz (Angela / Isabel), Shia LaBeouf (Chas), Tilda Winston (Gabriel), Pruitt Taylor Vince (Father Hennessy), Djimon Hounsou (Midnite), Gavin Rossdale (Balthazar), Peter Stormare (Satan)
* Movie is based on characters from the DC Comic/Vertigo Hellblazer Graphic Novel.

John Constantine has been to hell and back.
Born with a gift he didn't want, the ability to clearly recognize the half-breed angels and demons that walk the earth in human skin, Constantine was driven to take his own life to escape the tormenting clarity of his vision. but he failed. Resuscitated against his will, he found himself cast back into the land of the living. Now, marked as an attempted suicide with a temporary lease on life, he patrols the earthly border between heaven and hell, hoping in vain to earn his way back to salvation by sending the devil's foot soldiers back to the depths.
But Constantine is no saint. Disillusioned by the world around him and at odds with the one beyond, he's a hard-drinking, hard-living bitter hero who scorns the very idea of heroisn. Constantine will fight to save your soul but he doesn't want your admiration or your thanks - and certainly not your sympathy.
All he wants is a reprieve.
When a desperate but skeptical police detective enlists his help in solving the mysterious death of her beloved twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists just beneath the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles. Caught in a catastrophic series of otherworldly events, the two become inextricably involved and seek to find their own peace at whatever cost.
(Story introduction retrieved from http://constantinemovie.warnerbros.com/)

This movie was great.. though it surprises me that there are actually SOME reviewers out there who think this movie was a 'major disappointment'... I mean.. What the hell? what kind of standard are you using there to review the movie!?

OK first off.. the story... It was great... Really enjoyable, interesting and not to difficult to understand.
It's really creative... all of these.. heaven and hell... Angels and demons... etc and etc...
And even the appearance of Satan himself... nicely portrayed! Peter Stormare did an excellent job, I must say...

Speaking of which.. the characters... I really find John Constantine himself very very likable...
probably my favorite character in the whole movie.. besides Satan and of course, Gabriel's cool hairstyle.. haha!
Besides the main few characters... the other characters were cool too! Like the extra demons and angels we see along the way...


Visual effects are cool too... especially the look of 'Hell'...
However.. there was ONE particular scene.. where everything started to look like a scene from the game, Resident Evil or Silent Hill...
I mean, you looking over your character and using a shotgun to shoot the zombies or monsters that are coming at you...
yeah... there was one scene where John starts blasting away at some demons... somewhere near the end... that's where it looked like that... though only for a brief moment...

Characters were excellent and interesting... the humor was good, laughable and not corny *coughHimalayaSinghcoughcough*... Visual was great... Story was amazingly amusing...
I don't see why you shouldn't go and watch this movie...

"Heaven and hell are right here, behind every wall, behind every window, the world behind the world. And we're smack in the middle."

~ John Constantine

Life just goes on...

Ah... my lower back feels pain... sigh...
Well... today's gotten better, compared to yesterday...

Morning, I got to go to work at the restaurant at Grand Palace Hotel again... sigh.. David called last night... and i decided to go for work today... my brother too...
Today, I got up with the mood from last night still lingering within me... damn.. that cause me to be quite moody...

Going into work... I was SO tired... sigh... physically, mentally & even emotionally...
Physically... lack of sleeping hours... sigh...
Mentally... also includes lack of sleep.. but also includes my busy times lately... (the Curtin Ambassador thing and then work)
Emotionally... the recent events of last night and before....
sigh... all this caused me to be 'slow' as I worked.... I was quiet most of the time.... didn't respond much to other's speaking with me....
except for my brother who was on the subject of 'Prince of Persia' mainly....
I covered my exhaustion mostly... by responding back when others talked to me... and also smiled or laughed when they made a joke or two...
Sigh... but that didn't help with my moodiness...
As more and more customers came in... I was actually clenching my fist.... damn.. I was definitely not in the mood to work at the time....
What was the most annoying part of the early hours of my work just now, was the darn annoying children... yelling and shrieking and running around and just causing a ruckus...
all of that caused me to have a 'mind'ache... sigh.... I swear... I probably could've just fell unconscious cause of that... but then again.. I've yet to recall myself losing consciousness, besides sleeping...
Thankfully.. hours into work... my mind finally woke up and I was in a better mood to work....

And David asked me and my brother to work again tomorrow, as well as Sunday....
no problem for my brother... but for me, when he asked the question, I was still in my moodiness... and I chose to not work.... just to spend time to myself...
then another question... what about tonight? No thank you too! That's worse!
then some more later.. tomorrow night... damn... I'm feeling to tired for so much work!!!
To my surprise.. David actually was going to force me into work for tomorrow morning... oh man... hahaha... He told me to work more before the school starts!
sigh.. fine fine fine.. one more time before the school starts... sigh.....

After work... headed home... played Kingdom Hearts... trying to see if my luck would allow me to witness the ending of the game.... but guess not...
the PS2 was still unable to load the cinematic ending... sigh....
maybe I can try it at my cousin, Jonathan's PS2... hopefully it'll work there....
if not.. then I'll try Azie's, if I can...
since with that failed.. I thought to give Prince of Persia another try...
that supposedly 'impossible' event.. turned out to just be another very difficult part of the game that my brother undeliberately created....
despite the low life, annoyingly accurate enemies, and difficult obstacles, not to mention a lot of my 'temper fuses' burned.... I finally got through that part of the game and was even able to heal the hero's life to full.. and then save the game... both my brother's progress through the game and the actual game itself...
Showed my brother what I did... and then he left to do his own stuffs....

I then got to play Shadow Hearts: Covenant... it's an all right game so far... heard from many mouths that it was good...
and it appeared good.. plus it's RPG so I'm definitely attracted...
Played not so much, before time for dinner...

Nothing much lah for today.. just that things are gradually but surely turning for the better...
My roller coaster ride is now heading upwards once again....

- If you can't beat them, you MUST be doing something wrong.. undeniably...

Damn today......

Damn today.... it's like today was one long string of misfortune for me.... though it wasn't completely... I think...

First.. morning... I woke up at my mobile phone alarm... but then slept right back... til I was woken up by my mother... half an hour before 9am.. which should've been the time I left to pick Azie for Curtin...
got my shower... got my breakfast... Kimmy messaged asking about where the meeting was..
And then I drove off....

Picked up Azie... arrived at Curtin... Went to the Student Service, where the meeting for the Curtin Ambassador was supposed to be...
some others were Snow Jae, Serena, Hazel, & some more others that were all degree students and people I don't know of...
Waited there for quite some time before the meeting actually started.... conducted by Ms. Fidela...
Asked us this, asked us that... basically, in my view, this process was to tell us to somehow 'sidetrack' the new students' from realising the bad side of campus life in Curtin.. for example, the food in canteen.. expensive fees... etc...
By the way, we wee introduced to two new people in the staff.... Ms. Christine (Spelling?), the new Student Councillor... & Ms. Rismaliza, the new Students Affairs Officer...
I'm taking this orientation is to be taken care of by Ms. Rismaliza... (will explain later)

We then move deeper into Curtin Ambassador.. turned out, we're supposed to be ready to help the new or (practically) any student on campus on probably anything that they might need help with..
guess what? We're supposed to be wearing Curtin Ambassador tags... that way everyone would know us...
not that I'm against that... but I am against wearing a big lamonaded tag that hangs in front of my chest.. I was hoping for like an actual name tag.. like that of the high school students at least...
Hahaha... plus.. the tags don't have our names on them... instead just the two words 'Curtin' & 'Ambassador', plus a (supposed) random background...
there were suggestions for tags with our name on them, that way the new students could call us by name instead... but I'm not even sure if Ms. Fidela is with that idea....
Kimmy made a joke about it... "Oh, hi, Curtin Ambassador #1... Hi, Curtin Ambassador #2.... hi, Curtin Ambassador with the long hair... Hi Curtin Ambassador with long hair and wear spectacles..." and so on... I hope you get my picture...
Besides that,Ms. Fidela is also planning for a Curtin Ambassador 'uniform' of sorts.... she explained to us that they had given thought about it before this...
First draft was a blazer or coat for the formality, but cancelled cause of hot weather...
Second draft was a normal T-shirt to counter the hot weather... but cancelled cause it was too personal and casual...
Final draft was a vest.. that covered all of earlier weaknesses... down side...
color of uniform had to be of corporate color... which was mainly green!! Die lah!! Ugly leh if like that!!
Thankfully, she had also planned that we ourselves design the vest... the corporate color are green, gold (not yellow) & black....
there was already some ideas for the vest... but this plan is probably executed only in the next semester... (shrugs)

With that aside, we got into the program for the Orientation week... One main word for it... B-O-R-I-N-G....
All talks.. practically completely... with the only fun part about it is the ice-breaking session... unless you count touring around campus as fun....
and yet, the ice-breaking session is only half an hour in the morning, on Day 2... that's it... everything else.. talk talk talk...
unless the Student Council (the existing one) can help with it at the end of the O-week... but then again, I don't know how it's gonna be...
Oh... there will be an O-night at the end of the Orientation weeks... (end of the Foundation O-week).. but Ms. Fidela had no actual plan how to go about it.. or none at all...
I think she might just think the new students would just dance and do some random performances or something... I don't know, honestly...
This part of the meeting over... everyone left, knowing what was needed to be done.. I think..
but we actually never got into the Foundation O-week... according to Ms. Fidela, the whole schedule is the same between Degree & Foundation O-Week...
which is bad... sigh...

when nearly everyone left the room... the only two foundation students there, Azie & I, got to talk with Ms. Rismaliza, the new Students Affairs Officer...
I told her about how I felt about the program... and some of my suggestions to make the O-Week more fun...
She said she too thought so.. but Ms. Fidela shot down her suggestions... her obvious reason related to students sticks with academic and that's it... no need for anything else than study study study....
another obvious reason would be... she just doesn't want to bother to add anything more...
'just straight to the point of the whole orientation's purpose'..... I believe that's what's going on here...
Well.. to be honest, I just don't know how's this O-Week's gonna turn up....
How does Abel does it...? Being able to work against Ms. Fidela and still not be sacked....
cause of his strong support? from the students? some of the lecturers? some of the staffs within the student services? and even the Dean himself?
I've not a clue how he does it...
I fear that going against Ms. Fidela this time would worn up Ms. Rismaliza getting sacked off....
by the way, Ms. Rismaliza just started her work in Curtin a month ago... so she's no experience in how orientation in Curtin works....

OK... pass all that.. we also have a problem... lack of Foundation students in the Curtin Ambassador...
there's so far only two!! Azie & I will need to recruit some more somehow!!
most of our choices are not able to comply with our request....
(so far, for me, I got to round up Nichalos Gala & Albert Wong... hopefully they can join...)
I need more help!! Please!! Those of you who are Foundation student in Curtin Sarawak Malaysia... PLEASE help us out!!!
long shot.. but worth a try at least...

Afternoon... came home... I cancelled my badminton appointment with Roger, Adrian & Kevin cause I just felt lazy to run around for today.... and was really itching to play Kingdom Hearts again... sigh...
Just can't beat Sephiroth, damn difficult this guy....
Oh yeah... I had told my brother to help get my work salary after his work at Grand Palace Hotel...
but then he returned saying that he didn't know where to get the salary and then when he found out... my sister was already waiting for him outside...
Anyway... then we went together to get the salary... though... actually.. he drove me there and I went up to get it...
got it... then headed home... sigh, sheesh... troublesome fellow...
then when I want to return to my Kingdom Hearts game.. he asks to pay Prince of Persia.. all right... I don't mind... since later he has to go to pick up my other sister at the airport...
took my shower and then watched him...
he was facing lots of trouble for now.... and soon enough... he got himselt in a spot that's practically impossible to pass...
life low... pesky enemies with deadly accurate attacks... plus with difficult obstacles...
as I tried to help.. can't... too hard to.. with those damn enemies....
seems that he'll have to restart the whole game again... such a lousy player I should say...
but then again, he rarely plays RPG sort of games... so I guess he's just inexperienced... sigh..

then he drove off with my eldest sister to the airport.. and I stopped to watch some tv... no particular reason for that really...
then when my mother took over the tv, I returned to Kingdom Hearts...
I finally decided to just finish the whole game and then next time completely beat it in Expert mode... including Sephiroth that is...
but then, after a long time to get to the Final boss.... and beating him.. it should've been time for the cinematic scene to get in... but then, guess what?
the PS2 lagged... it just doesn't load the scene.. leaving the whole screen a dark blank....
SHEESH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ah! fine... I'll try again another time... now time for dinner....

OK.. now this is where things start to REALLY shit up....
firstly... as I was almost done with dinner.. Azie suddenly messaged me.. and told me that she wants out of Curtin Ambassador... saying she was not capable for it....
I was completely stunned!!
naturally, I told her to stay and what'd happened...
reply... she gotten to think about it and she realised all of the BURDEN....
Reply back... I'll be there to help her through... no matter how 'burden'ful...
thankfully she thought it through before messaging me that she'll stay...
Thank you so much...
with so little help. I just can't have one more help lost just because of the stress and strain of the work.... sigh...

My mood was beginning to slip from good from that...
and got worse later when I found out my computer was acting up... in an annoyingly unpleasant way...
it just doesn't wanna start!! got into Windows.. then jammed....
after I don't know how many tries.... (restarting... starting with safe mode... removing some of the start-ups... etc)...
after one virus scan, with the help of my brother.... I guess things are all right.. though turned out there wasn't any virus or infected files...
by the way.. this whole event happened for an hour.. and plus with not so good mood... I think you can understand how bad my mood got then.... shit...
I was thinking of ways to smash this DAMN computer to bits!!

Big breath in and then out...
well... that's it then....
I don't know why today became SUCH A DAMNED DAY....
but I suppose it was just bound to happen some day....
Guess it had started from yesterday, when my stupid brother got so damn annoyingly stubborn and self-centered...
sigh.. last night the argument between us was worse than before.... Sigh... never thought I'd be yelling so furiously at him... damn fellow...
He often misunderstands what others say (in particularly me)... he always ASS-U-ME what people says, especially me.... I say one thing, he thinks of that and then adds something extra in his mind...
Not only that... he also can sometimes make people misunderstand him... as if he thinks everyone knows what he is thinking all of a sudden...


OK... read this script and tell me what you think...
Brother "Why didn't you install the modem in your computer when I told you to?"
Me "I didn't know how"
He takes out a manual book and throws it in front of me... and then throws the cd for the installation at me....
He goes of to the toilet for a while...
I try to continue with my computer stuff for a moment..
He returns... and stands beside me... "What are you doing?"
Me "My stuff..."
Pause for a while.... I look at him, who was still standing beside me... "What?"
He suddenly retaliates "What do you mean 'what'? I stand here waiting to help you install the modem and then you ask me 'what'?!"

I was like................................... WHAT THE F*CK!!

besides that damned incident from last night... (whihc caused the fierce argument) I think my brother's one who don't know how to respect people... I think he doesn't respect me at all... he may even think of me as an idiot too...
I can still recall... my mother scolded him for not respecting her.... his reply... I know about respect and why don't I respect you?
my mother then emphasized on the difference of knowing and doing it.... my brother, I imagined, just stayed as stubborn as he is.... He just thinks the whole family is against him or something and siding with me only whenever there was an argument between us...
but hey! Who's the one who keeps trying to prove that he's not wrong in the argument?
and as a matter of fact, you were, idiot brother of mine....
sigh... just hate having such negativity inside me... shit...

I really really truly envy those who can care or even love their brothers...
I can NEVER love my brother... I can care for him... but not much.... and some times, at all....
not unless he changes himself for the better...

but whatever... this whole blog is practically reeking of negativity.. enough for now...

- Optimism is good and all... but a little pessimism brings the reality back into your thoughts.

Patience is a bliss! Persistence helps too.

Oh-yea!! I was able to beat THREE of some of the optional bosses in Kingdom Hearts since my last blog entry!! Woohoo!!

Last night, after my blog and a little chat with Iqbal, I went off to play some more of the game..
And I was able to beat Ice Titan of Hercules!! Tough one.. this one practically rains attacks after attacks at ya!! But if you've gotten to know Ice Titan in this game, I'm sure you'd understand that you'll be counting on its attacks, in order to beat it...
I got to beat it eventually! With much patience and persistence!! =P
After that satisfying victory, I called it the night...

Next (this) morning, I got to wake up when my mobile phone alarm went off... ^_^
But then, had to help mother to send my brother to work at Grand Palace Hotel.. sigh.. well.. help her lah.. she's my mother bah...
after that... read newspaper... ate some lasagnia.. and then went to play PS2 again....
as I did, made plans with Roger & Adrian Foo on our movie outing that we just planned to watch that afernoon...
With all that done... I just played Kingdom Hearts... man.. was finding it hard to beat this ONE optional boss... so I just bother to level myself up at some other places...

When Roger came over to my place, I took my shower and then helped him to get some MP3s from my computer into his USB Handy Drive...
after that, still some time left before we leave for lunch... I played just ONE round to try and beat that earlier boss again... I failed however...
With that done, we then left for lunch... Had actually planned to eat at Yakin but then changed to go to Parkson to eat... since we had only one hour before the movie...

Bought the tickets and then off for lunch somewhere in the complex...
Decided to eat at McDonald's after feeling the urge to not eat at the food court....
And I can say this officially... that that was the first time I bought and ate a burger (any kind) in some fast food restaurant...
Within half an hour, we were done with lunch... and a little later, Adrian joined us.. then went to wait at the movie.. Constantine, starring Keanu Reeve..
Will post my review of it in my next blog entry...

After the movie... Adrian went home.. but Roger & I went for one round of bowling each...
He beat my by four points in total... sigh... well.. at least I was the one that got the only Strike in the whole game.. ahhaa!
It's been a long time since any of us played bowling... I'm getting way lousier than before!!
Anyway.. after that, spent a little time reading at Popular Bookstore...
after that, he sent me back home...
he stayed a little... and watched me as I got back to fighting that one boss again...
failed a few times in front of him... but when he left.... my next try, I FINALLY BEAT HIM!! Kurt Zisa, a six-armed, cobra-headed robotic monstrosity that can be found at the desert in Aladdin's world!!
after that... went to defeat Phantom at the Clock Tower of Peter Pan's world....

Actually... I looked up a little guide online on information on these guys.. and found out that Phantom was supposed to be the harder one... but I found out that Kurt Zisa was the tougher one...
Phantom was easy, once you know what to do... I was even able to beat him in my first try today...
Next target would be... Sephiroth... yeah.. the cool villain from Final Fantasy 7...
He is supposedly the HARDEST of ALL BOSSES in Kingdom Hearts..
and I got one try at him last night... and he ain't an easy one..
what's more.. I've to face him one-on-one, instead of a party of three against him alone!
tough... but I'll keep my persistence up!

Tomorrow, meeting for the Curtin Ambassador on the Orientation Week coming up next week..
will be picking up Azie along the way as well.. =)
Good thing she finally decided to join in last night....
That's all from me!

~ Both patience and persistence are able to get what you want each... work better together...
(just came up with this one from my experience with those optional bosses..)

Another day... Another... yeah.. day

Yeah.. just another day... another normal day...

Morning, I had waitering work at Grand Palace Hotel again, as mentioned in my earlier blog entry....
thankfully, today there was not many customers.... in fact, the first half-an-hour more was complete freedom of customers....
which was a bliss.. though unfortunately enough, didn't last...
first there was just one... which then connects with another one.. and then another one.. and then, soon enough... I had to get used to the fact that I'm not gonna be able to sit down again for the rest of the day, except during lunch break and when I go home...
but it was all right.. not many customers.. not many work...
Over six and a half hours of salary is in line for me this Thursday...

Tomorrow, I won't be working... cause I wanted to rest at home, before the Curtin Ambassador thing kicks in this Thursday... as I said before as well...
However, my brother will be though....

afternoon, after work, came home to play Kingdom Hearts again... still unable to beat that tough 'optional' boss... sigh...
later, I might stop online to play again.. Hahaha! Can't resist it!!

Anyway.. during my night of online.. I encountered someone in Multiply who spoke of Philosophies (St. Adrian)... which knocked me...
I've plenty of Philosophies myself... and I've not been sharing them...
Now, I plan to either begin or end my blog entries with a line/quote... hopefully they'll make you think about your life.. and even better... make you happier in your life somehow...

~ Fate enjoys throwing obstacles into our lives. Our main purpose in life is to brave those challenges and not run away from them.

My A1 SPM 2003 English Essay

If I recall, I believe I wrote something some weeks ago about meeting a teacher from my ex-high school, SMK Chung Hua...
She was an English teacher that had once taught my class.
She had requested me to write the essay that I wrote for my SPM English paper that scored me A1 for my English 1119 / GCE standard score...
I found the request a hard one, but she said that it doesn't have to be exactly the same.. but what I wrote is terribly unalike.
Sigh.. my writing style had evolve a lot over the year and more... though my memory of how the story went is qutie strong.
hehe... that's probably cause of the long long story behind this essay... maybe I'll write about it some day.. just for the sake of memory...

Anyway.. here it goes... my essay... PLEASE leave your comment on it!!
The SPM test paper asked that I end my essay with this sentence, "If I had taken his/her advise, this would not happen." (Or something similar)


___Running, I was panting heavily. Loud footsteps echoed behind me. I turned into an alleyway and hid myself behind a dumpster. The footsteps got closer and closer. I held my breath to remain silent, despite my lungs screaming for air. I listened to the steps tentatively. The footsteps were loud and hard against the cement floor. It lasted for seconds but it felt so much longer for me. My lungs were getting desperate!

___The footsteps began to sound softer and softer as they ran further from here, before finally they disappeared from the distance. I felt relieved, but I was still alert as I took in a long but quiet breath. I remained there for a while longer, making sure that it was safe. Minutes passed and I stepped out from my hiding, within the dumpster’s shadow.

___Suddenly, a loud gunshot greeted my ears, followed by the sound of metal piercing through flesh and blood spattering out. The next thing I knew, my back landed onto the floor as my head shot backwards, my cranium knocking hard against the cement floor. However, that was not the agony I felt as I felt the bleeding wound in my chest.

___“Think you could escape?” a calm male voice spoke out.

___I lifted my head up to see him, a man wearing a neat tuxedo with a black top hat. His black leather shoes sounded as he paced slowly towards where I laid. His face was hidden in darkness, but as he came closer, the nearby lamp on the wall cast a little on his face, revealing the glittering steel mask on his face. He squatted next to me, as I got a better look at him. His mask covered only around his eyes and across the bridge of his nose.

___“Did you really think I’d let you spoil my fun?” he spoke coolly, looking down at me.

___What have I gotten myself into? Memories flashed through my mind as I laid there.

___“You mustn’t let your emotions control you, especially when at work. Or it will lead you to trouble,” the detective told me, his assistant, some time ago.

___I can still remember. Over a month ago, my fiancé, the love of my life, was lost to this masked man and I had vowed to seek revenge. That was when he told me, but I didn’t take his advice and went after this masked man. My search led me into his territory and now, this.

___“This is my game,” the masked man spoke confidently before he held up his revolver. “And I’m in control.”

___His thumb pulled down at the lever as the loud click of the gun echoed in my ears. Slowly, he pointed the gun at my forehead.

___“Your end is here,” he spoke again.

___Why did I not listen to him? I scolded myself! Tears were welling up in my eyes now. The masked man’s finger began to pull the trigger.

___“Game over,” his voice haunted my mind.

___If I had taken his advise, this would not happened.

Romantist? Realist? Or both? I'm both! (grin)

I gotten to try something on Blogthings again...and actually..
I think this one seems.. quite.... accurate....

You Are A Romantic Realist

You are more romantic than 50% of the population. You tend to be grounded when it comes to romance.Sure, you can fall hard... but only for someone you've gotten to know.And once you're in love, you can be a total romantic goofball...But you'd never admit it to your friends!

Are You Romantic or Realistic?

My Day of Valentine

Well... today's been quite a...... uh.... no comment....

Morning.. overslept my mobile phone alarm again.... sigh...
thank my mother woke me up again... which left me with only over half an hour to prepare myself before work...
Made it to work anyway... and got ot work...
Last time, Roger told me that the first hour of work from 8am was not very much as customers were rare that early...
not in my case... just when I thought I could steal some time off my feet... some customers came and I had to get back onto my feet...
it was a rare case.. but whatever....

The starting seemed slow.. but as things start to pick up.. time just practically flew by... and before I knew it.. it was nearing the time to go back home... happy moment that was.. ahhah!
I was feeling real tired and my mind was real sleepy... to make matters worse.. I was feeling some headaches at the top of my head... annoying pain....
somewhere during work, David asked me to work tomorrow morning.. same hours...
I was, you can say.. 'caught off-guard'... I was really looking forward to just resting for the next few days, before the Curtin Ambassador thing kicks in this Thursday...
I thought about it for hours.. before I finally decided that I should lessen my playing on the PS2 and earn some money with my time instead...
a hard and soon-to-be more tiresome decision... but it was a rightful one in my view...

Returned home from work, I went straight to shower and then went to play Kingdom Hearts again... just love the game, man...
but still can't beat those (I found out) optional bosses... those bosses are tough... though I found
my performance improving from yesterday.. that's good... a sign that I WILL eventually beat them... (or at least, it.. since I only fought one of them today)
played all the way til the beginning of night... which was when I went for dinner and shower and then online...

Now, my brother's trying out Prince of Persia: Sands of Time... He rarely plays PS2 but I guess he was feeling bored of sitting in front of the computer all the time...
but whatever... that's his business.. which i am lazy to bother with...

Well... That's how MY day of Valentine went...
Azie couldn't go out for today... busy with some 'family' stuffs...
My view of my day led me to have no comment on how my today was...
just don't know how to describe it in words...

before I end this blog....

Eve of Valentine's

Hmm... turned out that I didn't have to go to work today... hehee!
last night I contacted David... instead, he asked me then and there if I wanted to come to work...
I declined... why? Cause I wanted to play.. HAHAHA! Hey! test just finished! So enjoy once lah.. no work.. no worries...

today, I didn't wake up early as I had planned...
turned out I went back to sleep after my mobile phone alarm... and slept for a few more hours before waking up on my own... at 9.45am...
Came out of the room to find my young cousin, Jonathan playing King Arthur on the PS2....
I let him play, sometimes altering turns whenever he or I died in the game...
then stopped for lunch... when my family and Jon's went to Tasty Point (the one near Mega Hotel)...
After that... went around Imperial Mall for a little... before my brother, me and Jon headed to my house...
went straight to play Kingdom Hearts...

Boy... I've gotten to the point where the monsters all became incredibly strong! Man!! So tough to beat them! Epecially a few of the bosses...
Couldn't do much in the game's story for today cause spent too much time losing to those REALLY hard bosses...
then came time to go out for dinner.. at the Chinese restaurant at Dynasty Hotel... together with Jonathan's family too...
after that, my family went around Parkson for a little...
while there, I got to encounter a few ex-Chung Hua mates of mine... some of which were my classmates too...
just a quick 'Hello' & 'Happy Chinese New Year' and then they went off...
Spent some more time around the supermarket before we headed back home...

Oh yeah... forgot to add....
somewhere during dinner... David called my brother's mobile phone....
he asked him if he could come for work tomorrow morning.. my brother declined... and then David asked for me...
I complied... My as well earn some money for this week.... hehe....
So... tomorrow morning til early afternoon, I'll be quite busy... sigh.. on the day of Valentine's too..
hmm.... which of course reminds me of someone..
Will be planning to buy her something.... but we'll see how it goes...

Check this out!!

Hahaha... Hilarious entertainment....

Got it from Kori Lin's Multiply....

Check it out!!

I have the power!!!

I've the power.. the power...
.. to HAVE FUN!!!
Muahhahahahaha!

Friday, February 11, 2005
Morning, I spent my time playing Kingdom Hearts.. but once near noon, I stopped...
showered and have lunch and left for Curtin... why?
MALAYSIAN STUDIES EXAM that evening!!
I planned to study the subject for the whole afternoon....
thankfully, on campus, I was able to find a computer in the lab where I can use for the whole afternoon...
stayed there for hours... then Kent Onn joined me... we then got into some discussion on the exam...
to be honest... I was quite calm about the test.... I wasn't at all worrying about it.... and I believe Kent was too.. but at least he was better prepared for it..
somewhere along the afternoon.. about an hour or so before the exam... Jackson suddenly messaged me saying that he just took the exam and is willing to help those who'll be taking the exam later...
I was like... 'Say what!?'
Turned out that Jackson had a clash of two exams later.... so he had the M'sian studies exam earlier... to some of the other's advantage, thankfully!!
got to know most of the questions that Jackson gone through.. and so, Kent & I went back to the computer lab to do some more research on these questions..
half an hour before the test, we went to the cafeteria... Kent followed me but intended to do some more studying there...
I, on the other hand, went there in search for food so that I don't feel hungry during the test later.... since my lunch was before coming to campus! (by the way, test was at 5.30pm...)

turned out nothing I wanted to eat... so didn't... thankfully I didn't feel hungry during the two-hour long test...
before the test, just hung around the cafeteria.. with Krishna, Hari, Jackson, Nadia, Liz, & Wong...
seems that most of us were quite confident about the test, or we're just not taking it seriosuly...
honestly, I thought i was able to be out of the exam hall before the two hour mark was reached...
but turned out that it wasn't going to be as I had quite some to write.... until my writing hand was sore...
but make it through anyway.... felt great, but the next morning, we have Moral Studies exam and I haven't started my revision on that!
but it wasn't only me.. most of the others too haven't started their revision onMoral Studies...
and most of them wre planning to go insoniac and study the whole night through til morning....
me... I planned to revise the subject the whole night and NOT til morning.. haha!

Drove home and went straight to my computer to study through the lecture notes...
as I did, I later decided to write down notes on a piece of paper so that I can study them the next morning...
Spent hours in front of the computer to write the notes.. at one point, Krish chat with me through Wong's MSN, asking about the format of tomorrow's exam...
I honestly had forgotten the format that Ms. Azlin had told us over a week ago...
anyway.. I was finally done with the notes before 1 in the morning...
then went straight to sleep....


Saturday, February 12, 2005
Morning.. thank you, mother, for waking me up early this morning!!
I had slept through my mobile phone alarm... which was half an hour ago...
I showered, and had breakfast and left for Curtin before 8am....
when I got there, found Marilyn & Yu Yen at the cafeteria... and so joined them to study Moral for the time being...
as more of the others started to appear and join us... it finally came to the hour of the exam...
it wasn't too hard... I was able to do the exam quite satisfyingly too... and was out of the exam hall before one hour has even passed!! to the surprise of some others...
once out of the hall... I actually JUMPED WITH JOY!! Oh yeah! I was free for now and I can GLADLY play Kingdom Hearts!!
but then again.. some of you will think that I've been playing the game anyway, despite the inpending exams.... but whatever...

Could have been out with Yu Yen, Marilyn & maybe a few others to visit their houses... but my cousin, Jonathan was at my house, and I was supposed to 'entertain' him....
drove home... quite relax and was even driving slightly faster than usual.. cause just can't wait to get into Kingdom Hearts...
got home and did play the game for a few hours...
but then later, my mother, my eldest sister, Jonathan, his parents & I went out to Boulevard... why?
to look for the USB Handy Drive plus MP3 player that I've been looking for...
went browsing a couple of computer and hardware stores, but end up not buying any...
however, my uncle offered to help me order one, but we'll see how that go...
shopping some more in the supermarket.. then headed home...
Jonathan & I then got onto the PS2.. I mostly played Kingdom Hearts... but HOURS later, then Jonathan got his turn, playing King Arthur...

Dinner time, got to enjoy some delicious eel... (Japanese name I don't know how to spell).. and then came online....
actually, tomorrow I'm not sure if I'll be working at Grand Palace Hotel... will need to confirm with David, the person in charge there...

FIN for today...