N.C

its 7.40am and i've tried calling Samuel for the past 10minutes....He asked me to wake him up but, as usual... =p

WEEE! National Conference starts today! 6 days at Peace Haven, for all the Msian Uni's.

Few us TLC-ites are going, Weng Yan, Li Yee, Keat Poh, Chris, Sam n Me.

Dunno how cold it is, not been to Genting in years, so hope i've packed enuff.

Cheerio till Saturday!

Celebrating Raya with Firdaus...Dress code: Kurung/Kebaya

Too-Ohh

As of yesterday...I said goodbye to my teen years.
Yeap, teen i am no more..Some know that i've been dreading it, others have no clue.
I must say though i had a great day.
Sadly, my family seem to have given up the gift giving tradition and replaced it with "Shelby, what do you want for your bday?"
That so S U C K S
Every parent should and must suffer the trauma of running around shops, scratching their heads to figure out what to buy their child, regardless of how old one gets.

Woke up on Thursday pretty chirpy mood...Had to go to Pos Laju main office to pick up a parcel sent by Sim from S'wak...The counter lady looked at my ic, realised and then wished me...Thought that was nice of her- usually the counter ppl are grouchy. Sim sent me a rather strange handmade paper figure...Will take pictures when i locate my camera.

Wont go into detail of whole day but enjoyed it tremendously...Did have moments of unexplained sadness though...And it's obvious because i become very silent. Blame it on PMS only lar...! Muahaha...

People of the world! You all should be extreamly jealous because i've got the bestest fella around...Lets see, how to talk about it without sounding mushy or icky...
Can't, so will not. Will keep them precious thoughts to myself.
Just amazed at how things have turned out, thinking back to my previous bday's...Form 5 (spent with Greg), Lower 6 (spent with Dom), Upper 6 (spent with STPM books) and yesterday...

My only regret is i didnt get to spend it with my TLC gang...According to Josh, they wanted to pop by my house n surprise me, but i was out watching movie, then dinner with family, then went out with my BB friends...Problem was i already made the plans with the others...so what to do ? =(

Sometimes i think bday's are just so....argh-ifying. But the phone calls from friends are great...Squat Mathew Thomas purposely rubbed in the fact i'm now 20. Cow, his car will be polka-dotted by me again. But what i cant stand is those "friends" that wished me via Friendster just cause there was the bday reminder...best part was wished me 2-3days early.Friends.....righttttt.

But i am happy! And most of the people i've met up with have said i've lost weight...weeeeeee!
I'm pathetic, i know.

What to do, old edi...

Guess where i am.....?

Ride home was surprisingly short
4hours only, wow! Konsortium rocks la!
Wish i brought my pilow back with me tho, would've helped on the journey home....Couldn't find a comfortable spot to put my head.

As predicted, the toilet that we stopped at...had NO water...Gah! Thats gotta be one of the worst possible situations...

Have spent evening totally bumming on the couch watching t.v.
Loving it.

Rudi directed me to a you-just-have-to-smile sorta site, http://www.wimp.com/funnydogs/

If only i could've captured some of the dumb things my dogs have done
Like how they nearly banged down my gate when i came home...

Stuffed my last bag with my pillow and blanket into the store room...
I'm so megaly afraid and totally sure that my boxes and bags are gonna get damaged.
Imagine, i'm on the 5th floor, but there was no space,so had to go to the 9th and even then when i left today it was FULL from corner to corner with boxes, bags, buckets, artwork, projects...Everything u can imagine la..

And so now i'm wondering: hmmm, if person A has her box right at the back, next to mine, and A comes back before me, and wants to get to her boxes...Will she be kind enough to treat my stuff with the care and gentleness it deserves...?

Man, i sure hope so...

Yay! Will shower using water heater tonight! No freezing cold showers for a month!

I'm coming home............!

I'm happy happy HAPPY
In case your as thick as a tree trunk, my exams are over ...

I'm going home
In less than 12hours

Yay...

Was sitting next to a really small lady today on the bus, she had her baby in her arms...Wanted to secretly snap a shot of the wee tot but didnt manage to. Was a joy to see him sleeping there so peacefully.. Tried to imagine how teeny i was once upon a time.
Now i'm like a big gorrila...

Must go home and search for baby photos

HOME, here i come !

Male and Female

Tis my last Sunday here, we USM'rs got taken for lunch by the church elder and wife. Really got a chance to know them better. And shared their life stories. They aint that old,in their 50's... Spoke about how it was growing up in Msia after the war, losing parents young,and their courtship (7years)

I asked "So, how did he propose to you?"
His reply : Ahhhh....I can't quite remember...

That part was so cute
They've been married about 32years now and are marriage counselors themselves.
Uncle Edward said, "You have to go into a relationship with your eyes wide open...And then once you're married, close one eye." =p

Another point they made was how it would be good if we became English teachers, after Chris said he was thinking about that field... How we would be the ones that would save the country! (foo-yoh) But there's no doubt that the change in syllabus from BM to English is causing major problems in so many areas of M'sia, especially out of the KL/Klang Valley area. Really lor, i've grown up in a predominantly English speaking community, and i take it for granted.And our local graduates come outta Uni with english just as bad as when the went in.

Its both sad and scary at the same time.

Had a very interesting discussion today at Sunday School (actually,we've never had any uninteresting ones) about the Jessie Chung case.
Me, Li Yee, Chris and Daniel were discussing it the other night, our views and opinions.Was an extra long talk actually, and thankfully we had good tandoori chicken to eat at the same time, but no real conclusion was reached.

So, we asked Uncle Pek Bing what he thought about the issue.
Surprisingly, he said he does not know yet and would not be so quick to say it is wrong. It's not so easy to say, it's right or it's wrong. The argument from Genesis is only an example of the case for sex change. It's does not completely justify the case for sex change.

jeng jeng jeng

This was his line of thinking.
Genesis 1:27

So God created man

In his own image,

in the image of God

he created him;

male and female

he created them.

Firstly, there is male and female, no in between. Kay. But because of the fall of man and sin, people along the way have gotten messed up- genetically, new diseases, etc. It is a result of sin.
Yet we try to cure the diseases. SO, if the result of sin is such a being (man trapped in womans body or other way round) there is nothing wrong with correcting the "problem", by completly changing the gender altogether. Because we know there are no in-betweens, in this way, your becoming the whole other gender.

Chris, with his stylish hair dyed brown asked:
"But isn't it wrong to change what God has created?"

Pek Bing's reply "I believe you were born with black hair....."

=)

Its mind boggling but makes sense at the same time.
A baby born with a whole in his heart, is treated...If one leg is shorter than the other, operations are done to straighten em. Jesus healed people in his time here on earth.

So what if the solution to a case like this is simply to change ones gender completely...

*change has been made to Uncle Bing's comment*

News Today

Popped up to the cafe while waiting for my notes to be photocopied downstairs

Laughed at article in today's paper bout World Toilet Day
Suggested having toilet bowls with extra part so those that MUST squat can squat ...
And flush-able floor and walls...

Thinking of my public toilet experiences.....shudder...avoid them at all costs
Oh no, will be coming back by bus, and if the driver doesnt chose a well-kept stop
Die lah

Also another article about a man being haunted by a female ghost that keeps trying to have sex with him.
Bizarre.

Yesterday was even MORE hilarious, though sad at the same time.As 13year old boy gave a man a BJ for RM2 so he could go to the CYBER CAFE!!! TWO BUCKS ! And it was int he paper cause the man REFUSED to pay the boy. TWO BUCKS...So, the boy got angry cause kena con and went n told his mom.

Dang man, what is the world coming to.

This is quite cute, in today's Star:

Artificial way to breed dispassionate pandas

MALE giant pandas are notoriously not at all amorous – only one in 10 makes an effort to mate.
And to make matters worse, females are very picky about Mr Right. (who isnt?)

Certainly not encouraging if the endangered species has to thrive, but one good sign is a “hands-off” approach that is working well.
This year, 25 pandas were born through artificial insemination, of which 21 survived, a record since China started trying the method in the 1960s, reports Xinhua.

“It's undoubtedly a boon,” said Zhang Zhihe, director of the Chengdu-based Giant Panda Breeding Technology Committee.
Zoologists artificially impregnated 38 giant pandas nationwide in the spring and the 25 were born in the fall, Zhang told Xinhua on Thursday.
He said 16 of the surviving baby pandas were born at the Wolong Giant Panda Breeding and Research Centre in Sichuan Province, including two sets of twins.
The Wolong centre has reported a 100% newborn survival rate for five years in a row.

“We owe this achievement to Chinese scientists. They have acquired the technology and experience after years of hard work.”
Last year, 30 artificially-fertilized giant pandas produced 12 offspring but only nine survived.
– China Daily

Yay!

Ache

My eyes ache
My back aches
My brain aches
My heart aches
My mouth aches
My fingers ache
My entire being aches

I'm fed up, and glad the uni is so big i can disappear
I'm also re-thinking what i post on blogs, maybe should just not post stuff thats actually real, and just be chirpy and cheery like a Brady Bunch family member.

Which means i shouldnt even post what i wrote above.

Thinking too much.

Lets see, one happy thing that happened today...

Have actually thought for 5mins and cant think of anything
This is bad.
Ever had the feeling of just going somewhere far far away...
Further away than Penang la, as is obviously not far enough.

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I hate the bloody idiots that dont bloody well deserve to drive.
I usually stay away from the hate word cause i feel its too harsh to be used...
Last week my brother lost his friend in a car accident.
Only couple of hours after hanging out with Cam.

The guy was driving along with his bro, in the slow lane, following speed limit when a bloody car that was racing came up from behind and hit his car slightly. The car spun, and flipped onto the fast lane. They were both alive, but as he was getting out of the car, another car that was racing (prob chasing the fisrt car) slammed into the car. He died trying to get out.

I'm SO PISSED OFF
why are people so damn stupid?
Now i know why my mom worries so much when i come home late
And i dont blame her
Just look at the death rate over this past festive season
What a waste of life
Complete and utter waste

So all you genius ppl out there, that LOVE to tell you're driving tales of how u JUST missed banging into this, or how FAST you managed to get your car to or how you managed to make it somewhere in ONLY so-n-so minutes...
Brilliant. Keep it up.
Who knows, you MIGHT just actually kill someone.

Would be a great story to tell, eh?

Two More To Go !

Another paper down, tomorrow one more, 21st last one. . .

Todays one was bad...
Well, no thats wrong. I thought it would be really bad, but it turned out not too bad...

Theories of Receptive and Productive Skills...Even the title sounds boring.
So naturally, the whole thing is about what experts and specialists say.
No way of simply nonsensing your way through.

Nevertheless, i nonsensed my way through...to the best of my productive ability la...

Last night was bad; kept sleeping- getting up to study, sleeping- getting up to study. Fortunately, and amazingly enough of the exact things that i was reading came out, if not i'd be done for...
I had 3 dreams though, strange ones- one involved a group of friends, and we had to look after a baby(?!?) , next one i can't quite remember, and the last one i went out and had dim sum.
Mmmm....
Maybe cause it was 4+ am in the morning (haha) that i dreamt of it...

ANyways, my hour in the cafe is up
Gonna eat, sleep, then get up and study for tmr.At least i like the subject- just like my Form 6 Lit. Doing Shakespeare's Macbeth, poems, Joy Luck Club (Obi-Mun i can return it to u after this sem) Sons and Lovers, and some others la...

Ish, due to unbalenced diet and screwed up sleeping habits, have big and painful zit on chin.
Oww...

What to do...

What do you do when you know you should do something, but dont do it cause you think its better if you dont, but you cant sit easy knowing its not done....

I've said before i'm bad at confrontation.

But now i'm so annoyed. Someone who i thought i knew has changed. Behaviour is so different. Nothing like what i thought it would be. And i dont get why...

Its happened often enough that now i just dont care anymore.
I'm not gonna preach to the person, he should know better.
Its even worse when the parents are involved and i've got to put on a smiley face and act like all is peachy.
I dont mind covering for my friends, but not if they keep me in the dark.
Got a call from his parents just now, i didnt pick up.
I dowanna pretend to be what i'm not.
Nor cover for him.
Nor act like all is fine.

If only i could just say, "Look, stop calling me, i'm not who you should be talking to. Talk to your own son"

*oh my gosh, as i write this, got another call from the parents. Sucks*

Dr. R

Weee....Mini break from exams, till next Wednesday. Paper today was so-so la, as the rest. The lecturer for this paper is pretty generous with his marking so i'm not too worried.
Lemme tell u abit about him.
*to protect his identity, we shall name him Dr. R*

My Lecturer - Dr R
Dr. R is round. He is round like a ball. Almost every part of him is round. He had a round head, fingers, tummy, butt and even ears. Really, he's really round. He's also vertically challenged, so he is cute n small and round.

Sadly, Dr. R is gatal. I actually nicknamed him gatal-man, reason being he has on several occasions brought up his story bout a naked orang asli girl he saw once...He gets excited and had a big smile when he talks about it. There's other sick-er stuff he's said, but i better not share.

Dr. R is boring. I've nearly fallen asleep in his class. Not good cause 1. i'm easily spotted 2.only 27ppl in the class. He will be speaking, and then lose track and pause, looking for the word
..............................-pause-.........................................

Then he takes off his glasses, rubs his eyes and thinks of the word somemore
............................-longer pause-.......................................

Really, there's been dead silence in his class for like, almost 30seconds before, with all of us looking at each other wondering whats up with him.
Maybe he's high.
Or made himself sleepy.
Then he pulls up a chair and sits. And he looks even MORE round.

Dr. R is a generous man. So generous that he canceled the last 3weeks of lecture.
He also gave us the chapters to study for the exam.
I cant stand Dr. R , but at the same time, i kesian him and sorta like him.

There's no denying it...
He's a very well rounded man....

Angka Giliran 20459

GAHHHHHHHHH!

Didnt save the post, and all was gone cause the irritating pop-up came saying

*Something something Illegal action something, have to close...*
And poof, it closed. So rude la...

Okay, breath in, breath out.
Inner poise.
Start again...

Yaaaaay! (haha,so fake!) Just finished second paper. Teknik Berfikir...
DOnt ask me why they think we need to be taught how to think...Beats me.
But unlike its brother Pemikiran Kritis, its quite fun. Maybe cause my tutor made it seem fun: giving us some iq questions, interesting discussions, always saying FIKIR DILUAR KOTAK!

Today the question was come up with ways the government can prevent Malaysia from getting attacked by terrorists...
I said befriend them, make them like us so they wont attack...
Muahahaha...
OH! And we get to use colour pencils... =P
Gotta draw a mind map and illustrate it... Quite fun, i drew bombs and dead stick-men...

Yesterday's paper was....Orait i guess. Expected 60+ objective questions, there were only 40! So yay for that.
The last subjective question had me totally clueless though.
Actually, when i read it i was laughing to myself. THose that know will know why...

43.Bincangkan hujah berikut secara kritis:
*Jika John mencintai saya, jadi dia mesti ingin berkahwin dengan saya. Jelas bahawa John tidak ingin berkahwin dengan saya. *

If i seriously believed in signs and all, i'd SO take that as a sign...i mean how much more obvious could it get?
I kept writing Jon outta habit instead of John.
Maybe i didn't know the answer because i dont know the answer...
Kekeke...

In the library comp lab at the moment.
Yay! Free internet usage...keke
Surprised though, cause no one's here- usually its packed.

Time for me to go though...
*rumble*
That was my tummy...

Doom

Tomorrow - first paper
Darn freakin scared
Cause its like my worst subject, stupid Pemikiran Kritis

Premis 1 : Semua orang di dalam kelas A tahu tentang Pemikiran Kritis
Premis 2: Shah berada di dalam kelas A
Kesimpulan : Jadi, Shah tahu tentang Pemikiran Kritis

Its something like that but much, much worse.
If it were that easy i'd be rejoicing...
Stupid compulsary Uni course...
Supposedly a plus for our future, employers will be impressed.
Bah.

My brains are like rotten potatoes.
Doom.

K i d n a p p e d

Kay, here's the story-
On Monday afternoon i was not-so-kid-anymore-napped against my will by a big furry creature and his accomplice.
End of story.

Idiots man them two...

I didnt tell anyone i was back...
But the TLC ppl found out, AFTER i came back to Penang edi.
If only Weng Soon didnt see me in One Utama, cis...

Joshua, i know you miss me alot lar...Konon-nya u and the "populars" not gonna layan me? Right....STUDY, STPM coming....Or dont study and come to USM! kekeke
Oh, Yin Ngai, i wanna see the photo's when i get back.. =p

Very happy tho, got to see Snubby, (he's really getting old) and my bronchitis brother, AND best of all, found my blood donation book...
SO actually....Thanks yar, Rude-e...you stupid!

Watched Chicken Little, it was GOOD fun to watch...i enjoyed it.Especially the poor stereotyped pig, Runt; and the ditzy Fish...Songs in the movie also really nice- the pull at ur heartstrings kind...

Exams are on the 9th, 10th ,16th ,17th and the 21st...
Should be back on the 22nd, hooray!

Last night auntie from Sg Nibong invited us for makan at her house...Great food man...And the family is really nice. Am liking the Sg. Nibong ppl...sorry Mr Beautiful, ur no. 2 edi

I'm off!