Alice & Harry

Shot this at Taman Botanika Penang(I think...).

As you can see, behind me is a row of kinda tall plants/ trees. And I have to tell you that walking in between the rows of trees makes you feel like
a) you're Alice in Wonderland and you're expecting to see a bunny holding a clock jump out at you any second, all the while muttering about how he's late to the tea party.
b) you're Harry Potter in the Goblet of Fire, the part where he had to perform task four which involved going through that wicked awesome maze. So, of course, you're expecting a Blast Ended Skwert or a sphinx to appear in front of you.
I was dissapoited on both counts :(
ps/ the old-age question - does my bum look big in these pants? :P

Goodbye UTM!

Well, starting next week, all my classes will be held at Yayasan Selangor(wherever that is?). This is because UTM's basically knocking everything down and builing new things over the old one's graves. This shot was taken from the roof top bridge of one the buildings there and can you SEE why they would want to knock the whole place down? Look at the walls and the railings and whatever else and you can tell it's ancient and in dire need of repair.

Anyways, while we were there we did enjoy ourselves so we do have a lil' love for it :P

Oh yeah, this shot was taken at DAWN. Yes, I know some of you (meaning people from my high school) are impressed that Liyana actually wakes up waaay before the sun does. In your face! LOL...

So far, I've heard nothing but bad info about YS from our pengetua e.g not enough space to pray, to eat and even take a piss! But whateve, cause you know what? Do you hear that? That distant sound from the back of your head? Yes, that's Survivor by Destiny's Child playing just for me.

*Till next time..

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My Date with the Doc!

Hey,

So basically all JPA kids have to have a medical check up to make sure that we're not infected with anthrax or lyme disease or whatever. The school board gave everyone a semester to do the check up and I, like everyone else decided to do it at the very last minute. Typical.

Woke up at 7 something, showered, ate a plate of watermelons and left with my dad to go the Kajang Polyclinic. It's a pretty big clinic so we thought it'd be fine. How wrong we were. Not only did we wait 2 hours mindlessly then when it was finally my turn, the doc says to me -

"You should know that all these tests will take a month, right?"

"What?! A month? I ain't got that long."

"Well yeah. We can do everything today but you'll only get the results next month."

"Hmm.. thanks... but no thanks, Doc."

"Alrighty then."

OK, he didn't actually say alrighty but that's not the point. The point is, A MONTH! Like I told that Doc, I ain't got a month. So called a friend and he said that his is only taking him around a week. He did his at a private hospital. So that would be my Plan C.

My Plan B was to go to MINDEF and have it done there. A few years back when I had to go to Australia, the whole family did the medical check up here and everything took less than a day and we got the results a few days afterwards.

So, yeah, we went there. Dad bumped(not literally) into an old friend and they started talking and whatnot. When their conversation was over and they'd said their goodbyes I asked him who that was and he says -

"Oh, that was a clerk from my old office."

"Hountodeska(Seriously)?!"

"Yeah, why?"

"She was holding an LV bag."

"So?"

Apparently, my dear dad does not realize the significance of what I'm trying to say. Exactly how much are clerks making nowadays to be able to afford such a sweet bag??! Any job openings I should know about??

Back to my ordeal, so basically after signing up and being told that there were like 3 different places that we had to go to, we went and yada yada.

Important event : I have to let it be known that I have never had my blood taken so you really can't blame me for acting the way I did.

The doc straps this velcro strip around my upper arms, swabs my vein, prods it to make it look more obvious, he gets his syring ready, taps my arms again and....


"Wait! I can't do this!"

"You kidding me?"

"No! Just hold on a minute. Let me get my grip or whatever."

"The faster we do this the quicker you can get out of here."

"Fine. I want a hand." (I say this to the other doc that was also in the same room.)

"Why?"

"I want to squeeze the life out of it."

"Fine. Have mine." (The 2nd doc gave me his hand. How nice! :p)

"OK. Now, do it."

And the 1st doc takes my blood. Surprisingly, it didn't hurt that much.

With that over, we next had to go the Institut Penyakit Respiratori I think it was called. Here, a nurse jabbed my other arm(my left) with some sort of virus to make I don'y have TB or something. I have to come back next Monday so that they can measure the size of the swelling(?!).

My dad then drove us home and I procedeed to sleep like Rip Van Winkle.





When I get the results I'll tell you how I fared.





xoxox

Shine

My favourite poem to date -

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

We are all meant to shine as children do.

It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone.

And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

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I first heard this when I watched Coach Carter and often when the movie is playing on my tv I'll watch through the whole thing just so that I can listen to this poem being spoken out loud by one of the basketball players. It really is that worth it to hear and see. Well, in my opinoin at least.

My Trip to Kedah & Penang!

The scene that embraced me on the way back from Pulau Pinang.

With Ellie on a beach somewhere in Pinang.

At Kubu Kota Kedah, Enn's cousin, Abg Yun took us sightseeing

Damn, my legs look short in this shot!

Saying Goodbye!

Cheryl, Martha and moi!

No! It's not the forever kind but you will be sorely and dearly missed

CHERYL KHOR SENG HONG!

Make us proud at UTP!

Bored!

Soon Kie & Si Gee doing their morning stretches and Danial lazing around. :)

Fierdous and the S2 (si gee & soon kie)

Yuen and Yang Herk.

I love it when you smile Herk-san! Kawaii !

School

View from my class.

The senpais' classes are on the top half on the left hand side of the building.Tried to be artistic, failed!The scene in the mornings.My class. Himawari = Sunflower, if that's not obvious enough!

Yes, I do realize that the building is practically ancient and that your grandma probably looks younger that it but stuff it, OK?



UTM's gonna renovate everything and while they're doing that my classes will be held at Yayasan Selangor. After about a few months we'll then be moving to INTEC!





xoxoxo

A Few Wishes to the Gods!

I wanna do well for my exam. Then, go to Japan!

I wanna go to Japan!

I wanna pass my exam with good marks!

xoxoxox

Celebrating Tanabata!

Hafiz and San standing in front of the tree that was placeed in front of our class.

We actually thought that the bammboos were put there to celebrate the huge amount of Pandas our batch had been getting!

(Panda = Failed)

Hafiz and I with our cute poses! Uweek!

Basics - Tanabata (七夕, tanabata?), meaning "Evening of the seventh") is a Japanese star festival, derived from the Chinese star festival, Qi Xi (七夕 "The Night of Sevens")．
It celebrates the meeting of Orihime (Vega) and Hikoboshi (Altair). The Milky Way, a river made from stars that crosses the sky, separates these lovers, and they are allowed to meet only once a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month of the lunisolar calendar. Since the stars come out at night, the celebration is held at night.

We watched a short video then spent the rest of the hour making origami to hang on the trees and writing our wishes that were also to be put onto the tree.

I then went back to my hostel and slept till 9pm, if I'm not mistaken.

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Tearing Down Our Hamper!

Let the brutality begin!

But seriously, it was like watching a pack of wolves trying to devour a cute lil' bunny!

Hafiz won't let go of the hamper!

Hakim, me, Nez & Mira!

I can't even explain this!

Hakim with a few of our senpais(seniors) showing off their goods!

Most of my classmates with a sprinkle of senpais tossed in!

xoxoxox

Sports Day

The Kurois

Word of warning - a few of my blog posts won't be in chronological order because frankly I'm just too lazy to put it all nice and whatnot. Heck, I'll do it later.

Here goes ->
* Was held on the 26th June 2008.
* My house, Black, got second place. Not bad, I guess. At least the hamper was decent-sized.
* Totally burnt my skin playing netball and volleyball in the freakin' hot sun.
* Enn didn't make it because a)she woke up late. LOL. b)her uncle was sent to the hospital and she's a caring niece. :p
* I totally missed watching the chinese guys play basketball. I wanted to watch their game so badly. :( They play well plus the Blue team had these matching outfits! They looked so hot! LOL!
* Oh yeah, Blue house won overall (actually wanted to not even mention this but common sense says I have to).

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