See you next year!

Another year has come to pass proving time waits for no one. In just a few moments we’ll be entering a new year, a new beginning for some, and just another year for others. Needless to say, even if the year 2004 is coming to an end so quickly, there were many unforgettable events during this year. In my opinion, the most unforgettable event would be the one that recently happened, the great Tsunami, which affected so many countries. In years to come, this event will still come to haunt us, especially those who were directly affected by it. Recent news had stated over 135 thousand deaths due to this one event. When I got the news, I was really overcome by grief. Even now, the death toll reported by the affected countries is rising.

The destruction caused by the tsunami was so great; buildings were leveled, everything in the tsunami’s path was swept away like rain washing away pieces of rubbish, and the worst is what the family members of the victims have to bear. I saw this in the news, an Indonesian man telling a journalist that he has lost everything, all his children were victims of the great wave, and in another footage, children crying, looking for their family. These are really heartbreaking news.

Malaysia was one of the luckier countries where we were not affected so badly compared to countries like Indonesia, India and Thailand. Nevertheless, we were still affected and there were about 50 deaths in Penang, the state affected most badly by the tsunami. This is the first time Malaysian ever experience such a natural disaster. We are lucky we do not have earthquakes, active volcanoes, tornadoes, hurricanes, or typhoons. The only natural distress we had were flash floods, caused by the monsoon, and that is not even half as bad any of the disasters stated previously. This time we were really caught off-guard. No one in Malaysia would expect anything like this to happen and we do not have the appropriate warning system.

Anyway, what had happened have to pass. Now all that we can do is to try improving the situation. Rebuild what had been destroyed and start a new beginning. The least that anyone can do in helping the victims of this tsunami disaster is by giving donations. Donations can be made to ‘The Star Earthquake/Tsunami Relief Fund’ at Menara Star in Petaling Jaya, the Penang Northern Hub office and various branch offices of The Star. No amount is too small and every bit of money donated would be useful in helping the victims.

Oh, and before I forget, to everyone, Happy New Year, may you have a great year ahead! See you next year!

Busy Holidays

Have not been very productive these two days :-( . Yesterday, went to Fitness First for a 'one day free trial'. This was because a friend of mine joined as a member and introduced me and David for a free day pass. We were allowed to bring another friend and so I brought my mom as she was interested in joining the club. We went the Fitness First situated at Uptown, at 10.30am to redeem the day pass. I thought we could start using the facilities there straight away after redeeming the pass, but, no. We had to fill in some forms providing them with some informations of ourselves, before we could start going around the gym. First, we were given a tour, by a membership consultant, showing us the facilities and programs they have there. The tour took about half an hour before we were given our locker key cards and allowed to use the equipments there. I was really excited to try out the equipments there and so I did not really pay attention during the tour. Hehe... Anyway, they have every equipment a person needs to have a good work-out. Besides the equipments, they have classes for the members for special training. I don't really know how to describe the these special training but I joined one of them which is the Body Balance class. A class conducting exercises with a combined element of tai-chi, yoga, and pilante(whatever this is ?!?). They have a very beautiful changing room with sauna and steam bath. In conclusion, that place was a great experience. If I had that amount of money to spare, I'm sure to join this place. Maybe I will, when I start earning my own salary. Then that night, I only managed to get a few journals due to tiredness.

Then today, promised a group of friends to go singing in Red Box, The Curve. Spent 3 hours there; from 12 noon to 3pm. After that, I had to follow a friend to K.L. as she wanted to get new shoes; and the fact that I don't have my own transport back home. After the trip to K.L., it was already dinner time. My friends decided that we have a steamboat buffet. Since I was bored of having steamboat, I suggested a place in Kelana Jaya, 'Restoran Talipon' (wonder why they spelt it like that?), where we can have an extra option of grilling our food on a hot-plate. Dinner took about 2 hours. We wanted to make our moneys worth (kiasu hehe). By the end of our dinner, everyone was so bloated and lazy, no one wanted to move. Despite being on the verge of exploding, we went for ice cream in McDonalds. We chatted there for about another half an hour. Finally, I reached home at 11pm. So, if my calculations were correct, I've spent nearly 12 hours doing nothing productive.

So, in conclusion, I spent two days relaxing and doing nothing productive; when I have a whole lot of lost journals to research and revision to be done. In this one week holidays, I need to use every minute I can to catch up on my work!

*Reminder to self: Your course cost you about RM170,000

Final Product

Final product of convo mag cover

Merry Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas!!! Went to Desa Hartamas yesterday night for the Christmas countdown. Boy, was it crowded. Nothing much happened besides the shouting and cheering. Anyway I'm really tired now, heading up to bed already. Before that, I'd like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas! Good night! ;-)

Bad Luck!!

Very bad luck!!! :-( .Lost my thumb drive. Only noticed it this morning when I was taking my student I.D. Usually the thumb drive hangs together with my I.D. but this morning I discovered that the thumb drive wasn't there. The last I used it was yesterday afternoon when I plugged it in to a computer in the cal-lab to show certain documents to my colleagues. I might have forgotten to unplug it. Some wise guy might have taken it since the i.t. department people, in charge of the cal-lab, I asked did not find anything of my description this morning. The funny thing is, why didn't I notice that it was gone when I hung it up the wall yesterday night? (I hang my I.D. together with the thumb drive on the wall in my room). Now, I'm unsure whether I lost it at home or in the cal-lab. If it's in the cal-lab, then *sob* *sob*, it's gone for sure. There are only few honest people left. Hai... really heart breaking. Furthermore, there are important informations stored inside the thumb drive. Just hope that it could be found.

Just in case,
The thumb drive is black in colour and it's from dell. However, the word 'DELL', which was in clear white, is now very light or hard to see due to excessive friction. If there are anyone from IMU reading this and just so happen to know where my thumb drive is, PLEASE, PLEASE... return it to me. I'm from school of pharmacy batch P1/03. Thanks!!!

After Class

Today had a two hour class from 10.30 am to 12.45 noon (15 mins break in between, my math is not that bad). Then after lunch came up to the library and started searching for the journals I need for my assignment. It was about 1.15pm when I started my search online in the library and had to pause to attend a workshop at 2.30pm. Workshop ended at about 3.45pm and I came up here; the computer lab in the library; again to continue my search. I've been searching from then until now when I decided to take a break. Journals that I require are really hard to find. If it's not outdated, the journals I need are not there there at all. There are only a small number of articles which are related to my subject. Well, studies are never easy, that's for sure! Anyway, I've faced the computer for about 2 hours and it's not going to end soon. They say long exposure to radiation is not good and facing the monitor for too long might increase the chances of getting glaucoma. If that's true, I wonder how long could I endure before going blind or mutated.

In Ipoh

Today at noon I followed ‘ah pa’ back to Ipoh. We followed his second sister who live and work in K.L. Yup, I’m writing this blog now in Ipoh, in ‘ah pa’s home. Anyway before coming back to Ipoh, I woke up at 8am this morning with the worst hangover I ever had. Well, there was no headache but I had a very upset stomach. This was due to the night before, when our batch mates held some sort of a farewell party in Thai Club. The place was not really up to expectations but we still downed quite an amount of alcohol. Today’s hangover was a bad enough experience to give me a lesson on binge drinking. I think I’ll never do in again. Now, the smell of whisky itself makes me sick.

Back to Ipoh; I followed ‘ah pa’ back to Ipoh because his eldest sister’s daughter is reaching her first full month after birth. It’s a Chinese tradition to celebrate a baby’s first full month. Some of my batch mates asked me; what have ‘ah pa’s sister’s baby daughter got to do with me? Well, I lived with ‘ah pa’s family during the semester holidays for a week. ‘Ah pa’s family treated me very well during that week and I really felt embarrass because I could do nothing to repay their kindness. So, I planned to come visit them again today in conjunction with the celebration. And yet, today, ‘ah pa’s family treated me to an expensive dinner again. Felt really bad that I’m just eating without doing anything.

Visited ‘ah pa’s eldest sister tonight and saw her baby daughter. She was really cute, chubby and lovely. The celebration will be taking place tomorrow and I planned to give a RM50 ‘ang pau’ to her as a gift. That’s the least I could do. RM 50 might seem like a small amount, even to me comparing with what his family had given me, but I’m not really earning my money now and I do not really have that much spare money to give. I will be going back to K.L. tomorrow after the feast. However, I really enjoy visiting ‘ah pa’s family. They are really fun to be with. Maybe it’s partly because I’m the only child and ‘ah pa’s family seems ideal. ; - )

Bacterial Chemotherapy

We had had our briefing on our bacterial chemotherapy assignment for the subject Drug and Disease 3. All we have to do now is to look up on the list of disease, look for the one most common infectious organism (bacteria in this case), the best antibacterial drug used to cure this infection, and a maximum of three alternative antibacteria. Sounds easy.... looks easy.... and as a matter of fact it would be easy. BUT... Dr.K wants all our information be extracted from journals; not books nor websites, but recent journals; dating from 2002-2004.

So what makes it so difficult?? After all he have reduced our sources to just one type... Haa... the trick is,.... we don't have recent journals in the library and online journals with more recent dates requires membership which cost money!! And I thought scientific informations should be shared among the public FOR FREE.

Anyway, I'm trying to search through the web for what I can, free online journals which are up to date. The massive workload from other subjects and events are not helping either. Well... just hope things WILL work out,... or at least don't go worse.

TaeGukGi

A Korean movie about two brothers who were forced to take part in the war between North and South Korea. The movie touches on the love of the older brother and what he did to protect his younger brother during the war. My mom, who don't usually watch movies about war, borrowed the movie from a friend when she got to know that the movie or the actor got some awards. I watched this during the weekend and I think it is really a movie worth watching. The story line is good and it is quite touching. Thinking of getting the dvd.

Excuses!!

Woke up at 11 today, and that’s also because Mr. Chan called me telling me he would be arriving 30 minutes later. We’ve made plans to have lunch together and to my surprise, about 10 of us were going. He told me at first he only asked 2 to 3, the normal crowd. But then, he had forgotten that these few could not part with their partners. So he told me that from now on, in order to make plans to invite our friends out, we have to multiply the number of people going by 2. I think he is quite right, now that it seems everyone in our batch in imu come in pairs.

We had ‘banana leaf’ rice in Sri Paandi, somewhere near University Malaya. This place has a good service and the prices are reasonable. Well, at least that’s what I think. After lunch I went home and had to start helping my parents paint the house. As usual, Chinese New Year is just a few months away, so it’s time to beautify the home. Painting really does consume lots of time.

Conclusion: I finally never get to do anything about my studies that I’ve planned. So it has either got to start tomorrow or AT LEAST Monday. Hope I don’t break any more of my own promises. (Can’t say that my lazy bones didn’t play a part tough ;-p)

First picture

Haha, Finally learnt how to use this hello program. Anyway this is the P1/03 butterfly. Why P1/03 butterfly? If you look at half of the image, it's actually made up of the letter P and the numbers 1,0,3. Thought of using it as the cover for our convo mag but some said it's not vibrant enough. So, I'm editing it in Adobe Photoshop. Changing colours, resizing and stuff. Hope it'll come out nice...

Getting old

Just came back from ‘yum cha’ with a few of my former secondary school mates. Three were the normal group and one, MC who I have not met for about a year, joined us. We were updating each other and we came across the topic about marriage. This was because one of our school mates, not present today, was getting married February next year. She invited me and I was still considering whether to attend or not. Then, David, my best friend asked MC when was her turn. I was surprised when she said that she planned hers to be held October next year. Now, I have a very strange feeling, like life has changed to a different stage. Feels like I should start thinking differently, start to plan ahead (not about marriage!! I mean my life). Or maybe it’s just a feeling that I’m getting old….

Cover Design

Haha, I've finally made the cover design. Anyway, some of the people I ask for opinion said that it looks somewhat dull. Hai... So, trying to modify it a bit. Now that I look at the design, it really doesn't seem good enough. Anyway, there will be other designs coming from the other members of the Art and Graphics Committee. Ahh... What the heck, I'm damn tired now. Just came out of a lecture that made me even more confused than before I went in.

Giving to charity

"Don't encourage beggars, donate to other charities"

This is one headline of a short article appeared in The Star newspaper yesterday which caught my eyes. In this short article, we, the public are asked to stop giving money to beggars to discourage them from begging. It's even believed that they are syndicates involved in transporting beggars to beg in street corners.

This really makes me think, what have this world come to? Even the kindness and good-nature of others are exploited, used as a way to making money. Are we supposed to walk away from street beggars the next time we see them? Not thinking that they may really need our help?

Shutter

Today, Ginn and her gang planned to watch 'Shutter', or was it 'The shutter' I'm not sure. Anyway it was a Thai horror movie. Usually I would not have watched a horror in cinema due to the disappointment I get from watching a few Korean, Thai and even some Japanese horror movie. Besides 'Ju Onn', I think the rest are really boring. If it wasn't because of the recommendation from a friend of mine, I don't think I'd have watched it. And so, today we; Ginn, Jas, Jers, Hui and I; caught the 5 o'clock show. Given that today is a weekday, there were quite a number of people watching this movie. Not that every seat was occupied, but at least there was at least 5 to 6 groups of people there.

The movie was not bad, with a good story line and sound effects. I got frightened at a few scenes where the ghost pop up out of nowhere; the basic requirement of a horror movie. Wonder if it was the latest trend, but recently, Asian horror movies nearly always involve the ghost crawling out of somewhere; the t.v., the ceiling, under the bed, the locker, etc,etc... In the viewing hall, I took the seat next to the aisle as Jas and Hui said they wanted to sit between people (HAHA what a laugh!!). Jas sat beside me and it would be more fun watching her than the movie. When the sound effects changes to indicate that something's going to happen, Jas would pull up her jacket she had to keep her warm up to the level below her eyes so that she could only get to peek at the screen. Then as I sat up higher to look at the rest, almost everyone of them did the same (HAHA, it really was a funny scene, just like tortoises). I wonder what would have happened if I'd shouted beside Jas ears when she was peeking so hard at the screen. Maybe she would have jumped so high she'd grabbed the ceiling. (Muahahahaha- damn evil! :~Þ)

Anyway I would have enjoyed the movie better if it wasn't for the irritant we had sitting on the row at the back of us. All through the movie three chinese, two girls and one guy, were chatting as if they were the only people watching the movie. One of the girls would close her eyes every time we come near to a horror scene and the guy would be narrating to her what's happening on the screen and trying his best to scare her. *$#!T*!! If she was just to close her eyes, then why the hell did she come to watch the movie for? It'd be better to ask the guy to watch it then tell her the story later. Then the other girl would act like a heroine by telling her girl-friend when a horror scene is coming. In my opinion, these people are either too free or have too much to spend.

Arts and Graphics Dept.

My batch, P1/03, is at our final semester here in Malaysia and it's a tradition that we have a convo magazine to show our accomplishments (or so it should have been) throughout the 2 and a half years in Malaysia. Ginn and Mark were both voted to be our Editor and co-Editor respectively and I'm sure they'd do a good job.

Just yesterday, I was asked to give my contribution into this magazine as a member of the Arts and Graphics Dept. Sounds nice huh..?? There are three of us in this dept and I'm not so sure if I'm up to designing. Well, I've always wanted to do designing, for I myself like arts actually but whether I'm capable or not is another different story. Still I think I'm better off now than being in the team in charge for getting sponsors because I'm as good at persuading others as a chicken knowing how to fly. I'll try my best and hope I won't be disappointing anyone.

Anyways, I know I should at least do my part. It would be a big burden for both our dedicated editor and co-editor to carry this heavy load on their back.

Hash Run

Today I had to force myself to wake up at 9 in the morning; even after only 5 hours of sleep, definitely not enough for me; to get myself ready to go home. I could not stay in vista for the weekend even if I wanted to as I have promised my dad to sign up for the hash run of Shah Alam Club. The hash run is one of the activities they have in the club and it’s quite fun. In this event, the hash committee would decide on a route for the members to run and the person in charge of the route is known as ‘the heir’ of the hash run, or at least it sounds something like that, I’m not pretty sure. Anyway, the routes set usually involve jungle tracking and are usually very interesting. Sometimes the jungle tracks involve routes not often taken and are covered with overgrowths which makes the tracking difficult. It is during these runs in the jungle where I get all those scars on my feet, contributed by our friendly leeches. Those nasty critters are really great; they can smell blood a mile away. Then, to make things even more adventurous, members are suppose to follow paper trails set along the route which sometimes ends in various parts of the route. This is when members are supposed to look for further trails of paper to lead them to the end of the route.
I think other clubs have their own hash runs too. If they do, they should be about the same? Maybe?

Today, the hash run took place in Bukit Cahaya, Shah Alam. Each run is held at different places, I myself joined runs in Fraser’s Hill, Bukit Gasing, a place in Shah Alam which I have forgotten the name, and Bukit Cahaya. It was a gloomy day and the sky was not in a good ‘mood’ when we reach the place. We started the run in a rain not too heavy, but still enough to make you shiver. Today’s run was set by a frequent hash runner and therefore, the jungle route was quite tough. The whole run took about one and a half hour. Then, as usual, after the run, all members who took part will gather in the Shah Alam Club for dinner, provided by the club. They say the most important part of the hash run in more on drinking beer after the run rather than the run itself, but I doubt this is true. There are members who join the run for the adventure-cum-exercise while the others do enjoy a little drinking after the run. I myself had a glass of beer during dinner. All in all, the hash runs I had had, was really enjoyable and the dinner, … well we can’t expect much since it’s given free. Sometimes we get good food and sometimes we don’t. I think of the hash run as an activity for the family and also to meet others (even tough the group is always the same and contains only a small amount of members).

Tonight, on my way back home, in the car, I can’t help noticing how beautiful the moon is in the dark sky, full and bright. I took a few picture of it with a digital camera when I got home. The results are not so satisfactory. However, even if it’s perfect, I will still not be able to post it in this blog. Why? Cause, I still haven’t figured out how to use the ‘hello’ program to upload pictures into the site. Damn, must make it a task for myself to learn how to use that program.

Start work

Up until today, the first week of the semester was quite free and there wasn't much lectures for us. Thus, yesterday I found time to go to the climbing gym with Amy. I completed 4 5c routes but after the 4 routes, my arms got tired and even when I tried, I failed to complete any routes after that. I need to improve on my endurance. Anyway, yesterday was an enjoyable day since at least I completed some routes and got some work out in the process.

Up until today we've been having few lectures and one cal sessions, which require us to revise on two lectures using a computer program. Then today we had an overview of a subject we are having, drug and disease 3, and got to know the massive assignments we are going to have. I know at once after the overview that I cannot let myself carry out this assignment like I used to, which is doing it last minute. So that's why I'm now here in the computer lab right after lunch trying to get information on the assignment I'm required to do.

This semester IS going to be tough as one of my lecturers state it was. I think I'll have to put in more effort if I want to get a first class or second class upper at least. I made a promise to myself never to put everything last minute again. Just hope I can keep that promise...

Great!!

Learnt something new just now and I'm quite excited about it. I've learned how to put a chat box in my blog and also how to FINALLY put a picture in my blog as well. All thanks to my friend Mr. Mark and Mr. Cho (crazy fan of Malaysian Idol). Besides, after republishing my blog, I realised that the blog I said not published was there after all... the one about my first day of the semester.

Well that's all I have to write this time. Just got excited about the stuff I did to my blog and since I'm still in the computer lab, wrote this in as well. It's time for me to go now, back to my apartment across the street. Bye²

It happened again!!

Yesterday, I took about half an hour writing a blog in the computer lab of IMU and the bloody thing can't be published again. The screen just showed "publishing in progress" in what seems forever, without really publishing it. Hmmm... I'm really getting fed up. However, maybe I should start writing a blog in microsoft words before coping and pasting it on this create blog page just in case it should happen again. Don't really know whether it is the connection's fault OR the server's fault.

Anyway, lectures have started and everything is tougher in this new semester. I just hope that I can make it through. We have five subjects with thick module notes and tiny letters. Now, maybe this is the reason why mostly everyone taking this course have to wear spectacles. This would be the last semester before we would go to Scotland for our final year. Then, life will get worse... Well, I'll be looking forward to that.

First day of a new sem

Hah, finally, the new semester 5 has just started. I don't have to bare with all those boring days which I had during the holidays at home. Only during the last week of my holidays when activities started to stir up. My friends in k.l. started to have time to go out at night and IMU coursemates started to come back from their home towns. Therefore, the last week of my holidays was the most enjoyable week. Even yesterday night, the last night before studies started, some of my coursemates and I went 'yum cha' and chatted until 2 in the morning. Then when I reached home in Vista, I sat in front of the PS2 playing GTA San Andreas until 4 before going to bed.

Today, the first day of sem 5 and we had a lecture already. I guess this sem is going to be tough since quite a few of them needed to resit one of the subject we had last sem. Think I'll have to start working hard and not fooling around so often anymore. I just hope everything would be fine and I would be able to get this degree without any "unwanted" problems.

After this sem, everyone who passes will be going to Scotland to complete our final year of this degree course. This part of the course is going to cost us a big amount of money since everything is going to be in pound sterling and the course itself is going to cost about 15,205 pound sterling. Thinking of the amount of money my parents need to cough up for my course is enough to make me study harder. I hope I have the willpower to do it. Anyway we'll see how thing would turn out this semester.

Back from Ipoh

Just came back from Ipoh last Sunday. I tried posting a blog Monday night but however there was an error loading my blogspot posting page and thus, ended up posting tonight. I was in Ipoh for the last whole week. Went there with my parents as they had some chores to do there. Ipoh is some sort my fathers hometown. My ancestors from china settled there and was in the tin mining industry. When I was younger, I had always looked forward to going back there as I was the only child in my family and it is back in Ipoh where I have my cousins to play with. However, we have all grown up and everyone have their own things to be busy with. So, nowadays I go back to Ipoh to visit my relatives and to enjoy the great food they have there.

Back to last week, my family went back to Ipoh the Saturday before last and there they stayed until Tuesday. When my parents where there, I stayed with them in my aunt's place. Then when they left on Tuesday, I stayed on in my friend's place in Ipoh town. This friend of mine is actually one of my batchmates from IMU and he is known as 'ah pa', which simply means father in cantonese, by everyone who knows him well in my batch. This nickname was given due to his fatherly appearance, not that he looks old. Anyway he is actually a year younger than me. Ah pa's family is in the alcoholic beverages business and they live in a shophouse in Ipoh town. It is six stories high, with an elevator to allow it's residents to travel between floors. I stayed in this place for five nights before heading home to k.l. on Sunday morning.

Ah pa's family consists of 7 members; his parents, three elder sisters, and a younger brother. All of them were very friendly, especially his eldest sister, a very jovial lady who help runs the family business. All of his family members were in ipoh except for his second sister who works in k.l. Everyone treated me very well, almost too well that I felt pretty embarrass myself. They brought me to all kinds of places to eat and ah pa's mother cooked her best dishes mostly everyday when I was there. Ah pa later told me that his mom don't usually cook dinner. And on my last night there, his father treated me to an expensive seafood restaurant. I really hope that I didn't trouble them much when I was there.

Everyday from Wednesday, when Ah pa and I have no other plans, we would go down to the shop and sit there reading the papers and sometimes, I would chat with his elder sister and also observe what they do there in the shop. Then there are times when ah pa would bring me to the shopping complexes in Ipoh and also visit friends of ours in Ipoh. There was really nothing much to do in Ipoh as it is a small quiet town. However, I enjoyed my stay there very much. At least there I have people to chat with and company unlike here in k.l. where everyone's too busy.

Ah pa decided to leave with me to k.l. on Sunday morning as he wanted to visit the computer fair held here in PWTC. However, he has planned to go to Melaka on Monday with a friend, our Miss Melaka. I did not go with him as I just came back from Ipoh and furthermore I'm going up to Genting with my parents on Thursday. I really miss ah pa's family in Ipoh. However, I really would not want to stay on longer as they treated me too well and it's not really good to owe others too much favour, which I might not be able to pay. ;-)

Wednesday

Hmm… coming online this late and writing up a blog at this time seems not to be very desirable. I have to refer to everything in the past tense as I would be writing about yesterday. Anyway, yesterday at about the same time, I wrote a blog about how depressed I am about my Pharmacy Practice 1 class test results, but as I was to publish my post, the connection broke. What happened then?!? Well everything I wrote was lost and I got fed up, switch off the computer and went to bed.

Anyway, yesterday (wednesday) I went climbing again in Summit with Amy. In fact, I just came back from dinner with the other climbers there and I'm really exhausted. Anyway today WAS better than Sunday. At least I made it up a few easy routes and my hand was not numb after the climb today. However, my hands are still weak and needs loads of training. I think I will be climbing more often from now on. Maybe once or twice a week if my schedule allows it when the new term starts. Today during the climb, I discovered that the palm of my hand sweats alot during the climb. Making my grip slippery. Wonder why my palm sweats that much. They don't usually do. Hmmm..... Enough wondering, today I got to know a few of the frequent climbers there, introduced by Amy and her boyfriend Amos. They are frequent customers of the gym, some of them worked or still working there. I just have to improve on my climbing skills, and needless to say, my strength.

Well another day has past, and this means it's another day nearer to friday. The day my end-of-semester exam results are going to be released. Damnit, even by writing about the results now gave me tachycardia. I'm worried, very worried if I ever need to resit those papers and yet I'm also excited, hoping will come and pass quickly. I really just hope that everything will be going well. Hope today's connection will not break when I publish this....

Rock Climbing

Finally, after 2 weeks into my holidays, I've done some decent exercise. Today at 2.30, I met up with Amy whom I've not seen since the last day of our end of semester exams. Talking about exams, the bloody results are coming out this coming friday. Can't get my mind off the fear of having to resit for any of the papers. DAMN!! Anyway back to today. I met up with Amy in Summit as we've planned to do some rock climbing. It was since umm... let's see, too long ago when I last did rock climbing. I enjoy this sport as it really works you up. This sport requires strength, endurance, and also skills. The other thing i like about this sport is that climbers have climbing expeditions once in a while to interesting places. However, I'm up to that stage yet. I'm still just a beginner, still far away from the very good climbers they have in the gym, that's what they call the place in summit.

I was in Summit climbing until 6.45 when Amy has to head home for dinner. I didn't really enjoy climbing today as it was since a long time ago since I last climbed, my muscles are no longer up to it and I ended up not able to complete most of the routes they have there. Besides, my hands were all numb when we left. My hands were so weak after that, I can't even hold anything properly. My parents went out for a wedding dinner, and so I had to cook my own dinner. I had a hard time getting things done, I even broke a porcelain spoon when I couldn't grip it properly when took it out. I have a bad feeling that the muscles in my hands are going to ache for a very long time. Well, no pain no gain. Anyway i'll be going climbing with Amy again this coming wednesday. Not going to give up so easily.

My first blog

Well, this is my first blog here and i'm still pretty unsure of what i should write. I was introduced to this place by a friend, Ginn, and, well the idea of putting my thoughts online was a bit weird. I don't even have a good command of english in the first place! But WTH, since i have nothing better to do anyways, this might be a good chance for me to improve on my writing skills and, who knows, my english maybe?

Since the semester break started, i haven't had much accomplished. Or should i say, i have not done anything useful during the break. Besides sleeping, playing computer games, reading (rereading harry potter actually), online chatting and helping out around the house (when i'm told). So nothing productive really. Getting to know some of my friends got jobs and attachments to the hospital really made me feel useless. But... i've thought of it, since i've studied and going to study my arse off, why not take this chance to take a break, it's not like i haven't work before, and this break is only one and a half month long. At least during this break i got to read my comics, watch my animes, and other ridiculous stuffs i don't get to do during my studies.

Hmmm.... well it seems for someone who's 'pretty unsure of what to write', i've written too much already. Maybe i can keep this up after all. At least now i have something to work my brain up a bit, rather than letting it rot during the break.