Sunday, 28 September 2008

19th till 21st September - T7 Pangkor Trip

Wow... I didn't post this up soon enough... Okay, hopefully I still remember the 'millions and millions of things' which happened during our trip to Pangkor... let me see...

This trip to Pangkor have been talked about for a few weeks prior to it. But for me... you know la... not really in the mood at that time since there's this final exam thing going on...

The trip was a memorable one to be really REALLY honest, especially for me, whose last 'REAL trip' was with my classmates almost three years back with my Form Five classmates in Langkawi. No trip after STPM. Anyway...

Day 1

The 14 of us first gathered at the McD restaurant at Petaling Street before we made our way to Puduraya. By the way, this is the first time I have been to Puduraya... probably because it was at night, and so there weren't many people at the bus terminal... But my view of Puduraya all along has been that of a very crowded, dark one... Guess you really need to be there in order to experience it for yourself the environment...

Okay okay, should not be talking to much about this... Where am I?...

Oh yeah.. we took off from Puduraya almost exactly on time... 11.59pm. By the time we reached Lumut it was almost 3am in the morning. Some of us went to the restaurant which was still open to customers, while the rest of us just sat at some 'dataran' near the shore and played 'dai-dee'... for me I just watched them playing coz not clear how to play after not playing for so long... (but later I played at night and I won on my first game...haha=) )

We waited and boarded the first ship to Pangkor. Next we went to our hotel by two vans, which was located next to the beach at the other side of the island. It was still very early at that time, I think it was about eight or nine something... a few of us took a nap almost immediately after they settled down their things.

We settled our elective selection, surpisingly, here in Pangkor in our room 0.0 (I just followed what the others chose... obviously...)

We headed back to the Pekan Pulau Pangkor (PPP) for lunch. I had chicken rice btw. (Still UTAR's Chicken Rice is the best... afforable too...) Walked around PPP and I was wrong to think that it is some town exclusively for the nelayan community and the visitors... There ARE people who live there and stayed there for years... I wonder why they want to exclude themselves in this lonely little island out of nowhere... Don't know for others but for me I was surprised to see internet cafes and banks and stuff like that here... no traffic lights here though...

Later that day played a bit in the water. Dinner was at an open air restaurant. After the dinner the few of us who sit inside the van was taken for a 'memorable' ride up and down the hills of Pangkor... closing the car lights while driving... I for one was excited all the way... thankfully we had a skillful driver... haha... will try it the next time if I ever will go there again...

Played cards together in our room later that night. I think I was wrong during my first time as the 'MC'... got to remember so many things and I got messed up =( I think a few of you knew about that...

At night when everyone was about to sleep a few of us went out by van for 'yam-cha' at a shop... It was a very quiet and breezy area, nice place for 'yam-cha' but I didn't try to food though... I ate a lot before that during dinner. And then when we went back we all were so tired that we just fell asleep right away once we laid our heads on our bed..

Day 2

The fourteen of us went for a boat trip, discovering the various places and islands around Pangkor Island. Went for snockelling and banana boat (it wasn't fun at all when you don't have your glasses on... for me my glasses was like 4.50 for one side and 5.25 for another... that's really bad already...) Had lunch, and next was a trip to some temple...

I wasn't sure what did the others do after that, but I followed a few of them for a cycling trip all the way from one island to another... Walaoe... really tiring. Btw, it's RM2 for one hour, and RM6 for 24 hours (Strange eh? Can still get it back the day after.. also, they did not charge like 'wang pendahuluan'... don't they get scared that the bicycles will at the end of the day, be unreturned?)... I don't know about the others, but a guy like me who has not been on a bicycle for like almost centuries... I actually felt a bit of pain after the whole journey.. But I woke up the next day feeling ok...

Oh yeah... during the trip the captain of our boat recommended/suggested that we try one of the restaurants by the beach... which we later did that night. I am not really sure how the workers there felt when they saw us arriving at their restaurants to have a meal there... I mean, 14 of us young adults... arriving as such a big group at a place where only romantic couples and visitors from overseas have their meals... Everyone turned their heads and looked at us as we 'swarmed' the place... haha....=) And not just that... we were quite noisy, in fact, really noisy actually, at least for our table...

Later that night went out for 'yam cha' again at a food stall near our house... wonder whether these guys really do go out so often during normal uni days for yam cha... can't do this on a regular basis la...

Day 3

It was the last day already... felt weird coz I really don't wanna go back so early but then felt like we almost toured the whole island already? Maybe I was wrong... But anyway we had brunch (no breakfast or lunch)... and boarded the 12pm ferry back to mainland. Reached mainland half an hour later, and then boarded the bus back to Kotaraya.

All in all, I had a great and memorable trip. Sure can't wait for our next one during our next semester break...=)


(Wasn't in a lot of pics...)

Final Exam at a Glance

Err...It has been so long since I posted something up in my blog... Hopefully I can still get back to my blogging habit. Anyway...

Thought I should start by telling you about my exam week 'experience'...First time having my exam in such a large hall.. I remember the last time I had it was during my piano exams YEARS AGO.... (during primary school). During secondary school, my school exams and government exams (i.e. PMR, SPM and STPM) were also conducted in classrooms. Since I was so afraid that I will get nervous looking at people answering the questions, I decided to sit 'almost in front'...don't know whether it had worked or not...

Anyway, I have written a few notes about the individual exams on my myspace blog... go check it out.=)

Wednesday, 10 September 2008

Study Week at a Glance

The week from 2nd September till 5th September was the semester's study week. There's no classes... meaning to say that we actually don't need to come to school (why I still keep calling UTAR a school instead of a uni ah... but call it school is not wrong right?..) But I DID went back to school... to 'study' la of course!! (But I wonder did I really study anything while in the study room with people chit-chatting and stuff like that...hmmm...)



Anyway, I studied with a few people, who later on I identify them as my' 'study group partners'... (I didn't ask them to come, they just come as they wish...) I found it much more easier to study, instead of just studying on my own back in the days in secondary school. There are so many things that, if I study alone, I will not pay attention to. Also, when I have problems or questions, I got an answer straight away at the spot... I guess some/most people tends to study differently when they are in university as compared to during the school days.... guess I need to follow the flow too!!



But yeah... I like the way how study week turns out... They should kinda put more study weeks in between teaching weeks so that we can catch up with the syllabus much more faster and easier... So, that we can study more 'effectively'... A yes vote for more study weeks!!

Monday, 1 September 2008

Week 14 at a Glance

Monday 25th and Tuesday 26th: Finally again a huge burden was lift off my shoulder... the programming project. For this I got to thank my groupmate K.Hua a lot for doing so many things... I practically did nothing... haha... The whole weekend was about doing this thing as mentioned... But with no result... Monday after school they all went for karaoke... of course didn't join them... stayed at home studying the programming things... which at the end of the day was a waste of time since out tutor didn't look at our code, or even asked us to explain, or ask us to modify.... I wonder how many marks do I get...

Tuesday 26th: After our last BPW tutorial class we all went to Section 14 McD for some food... (for some it's lunch for some it's tea-time...) It was so surprising yet so great that Ms Wee, our BPW lecturer and tutor was able to take time to be with us at McD.

Wednesday 27th: After so long I have heard about this restaurant in Section 17, I finally got the chance to have a meal there (particularly at that particular economical rice stall)... RM3.80. Not bad... compared to the one in UTAR..

Thursday 28th: There supposed to be a basketball game but was cancelled because of bad weather... which means for three consecutive weeks in a row I didn't go for any basketball game... wonder when will we be able to play again..

Friday 29th: Last day of class... but the important thing was the Discrete Maths paper... terrible... Just one mistake and I lost a lot of marks... my mistake I admit... because Dr. Chin was right that I don't understand the working (I think there are ppl who just blindly write down what they have memorized in the notes...) That's like three marks off... half a grade gone.. =S

Saturday 30th: Went for an eye-check and my eye power increased. I attribute this to the previous week when I got to do so much on my laptop... Regrets... regrets... Later went for steamboat at Restaurant Telepon near LDP with T7 groupmates (and also some not from T7...)...Why nobody noticed my new pair of glasses ah? Anyway then later followed them to Ikano to celebrate Merdeka together...spent time just walking about Cineleisure... then after countdown all just went nuts spraying each other... haha....

Spent overnight not at home...

Sunday 31st: Study... study... study...