New Year

2010 has not been a good year...

Failed my professional paper... TWICE!

Under academic probation for the first time ever...

Dengue fever and admitted to hospital for one whole week...

Have been quite closed off from others... especially Y3S1...

A lot of things just didn't go as planned... :'( Here's hoping for better things ahead in 2011...

Paper leaked...

There's something happened in my uni lately which made a lot of people furious.

Let's break it down what happened first. On a Friday there was a Financial Statement Analysis (that's one of the subject I am taking this semester) mid-term test. But before the test there have been some talk about the test; there are two sittings for the test to accommodate the students with different timetables so that they can find a suitable time to sit for it. At that time, I thought that they will have different set of questions for the different sittings. But the lecturer did not let the students register beforehand (they do not know how many people are sitting for the paper for the different sessions), and they hand out the same sets of questions for both sittings. Funny eh?

So naturally some of the students mentioned this to the lecturer (the paper obviously leaked) and the lecturer was not happy about it. Hence the retest. Now, many students are not happy because they have to retest... obviously again.

The right way, I believe, should have been that there should be no two sittings in the first place. If cannot accommodate, just do it on a Saturday or something like that...

Anything to blog?

Tests and presentation all over already.. yay!=) Now have time to sit down and blog...

*signed into blog
*ponders on what to write. Nothing comes out from my head

...

*signed out again

Time flies... it's Week 6 T.T

Wah... wah... week six already leh... why is it so fast??

Amuses me when I saw my coursemates discussing the upcoming tests for the next few weeks on Facebook, which kinda goes like this:

"Eh Life Con 2 on Week 7..."
"Not on Week 8 meh... I remember she told..."
"FSA on Week 8 la..."
"I thought it's on..."
"No.. no... there's three subjects on Week 8..."

=) makes you wonder why isn't anyone complaining during our secondary school days when during our final exam we have two papers on the same day with less than an hour break in between...

FIFA World Cup

Yeap.. the biggest sporting event on Earth is here... FIFA World Cup 2010!!

It has been a long time since I catch any football... the last time I watch (purely for fun, that is) was Euro 2008, which was held around this time also (remembered cuz I just started my university studies and I was staying up late for a few matches... hard to believe I actually got into Dean's List at the end of that semester=.=)

No lah... really no time for that. The first WC match I watched was the Japan-Cameroon group match while I was at a dinner celebrating my coursemates' birthdays. I have to say that I really did hook myself into the game. But then that was it. There's so many things for me to handle now (studies)... No time for WC yet...

Anyway, for those football fans there... do enjoy! Cuz WC's here for only once every four years!!

Stress Stress Stress....

It has only been Week 3 but now I am stressed up like hell... I am only taking 5 subjects this semester compared to a few who are taking 6 subjects... but I am so stressed.... Does anybody feeling stressed out like I do? T.T I'm falling behind in so many subjects... wait.. all of them!! Cham lo...

A Conversation in the Uni Office

I was at the campus office the other day and I overheard this student talking to one of the officers there:

"Miss, my address has changed. I need you to redirect my uni results to my new address..."
"But I believe UTAR has sent it out already..."
"Har? (frantic) When was that? But my address has changed already wo..."
"I think that was last week..."
"But I would not be able to receive it wo.. my address changed already...how to receive it..."
"You can check with the Exam Department..."

Haha... I bet this student has been placed under probation.. and he didn't want his family to know about how he is faring... hahaha... Looks like he can't run away from this then=)

My results=(

This is a thing from the past but then I still need to point it out... my results for last sem was terrible!=(

Just less than 0.01 below the 2.0000 GPA mark and now I'm under probation (now I/you know why they insist on putting so many decimal points on our GPA... they are very particular about it...even if you get 1.9999 you will still be under probation...) I wanted to write in to exempt me from this rule but they said it is of no use... well, not that I expected them to help me...

Still haven't finalize my timetable yet... this is frustrating.=(

Year 3 Sem 1 Here I Come

I just wanna calm myself down with just a few days before my new university semester starts. This time I do not have much baggage coming into a new semester unlike previous semesters... Y1 busy with the photostating of my notes la... Y2S1 busy with the new house in Setapak la... Short Sem busy with my P exam la... Y2S2 busy with my FM exam la (note: fail liao tim T.T ) So, this semester I can start afresh with less things to 'fan' compared to previous semesters...

Most probably I am allowed to take only 4 subjects since my results was very bad the last semester around... if you are a UTAR student then you know how the university works... I was even thinking of taking six subjects next semester so that I do not have to take 5 subjects next semester... Now looks like this is not going to work...

This semester also marks the end of my stay with my current housemates in PV10. I want to thank all my housemates in Pv10 for making my stay with you all an experience. Thanks for the joy and laughter... and the help that the 4 of you gave me throughout the year. There were good times and bad times... the memorable moments that we shared will always have a place in my heart=) (e.g. throwing cakes around=p) At the moment I will be travelling to and fro between campus and Bandar Sunway... maybe time consuming but I hope things will go well later on... Might be moving to a place... but depends on location and rent lo=)

Have been relaxing myself for the last few days... Looked at my results >> checked back my exam papers to see if need to appeal against grade >> doing some soul searching on why did i get such results >> how to improve >> how to arrange my new timetable.. etc... etc...

My message to Actuarial Science students reading this: I learnt something this semester-- when you are studying, concentrate on your studies.. and by studies I meant your current studies. I spent the first few weeks concentrating SOLELY on my FM professional exam and neglected on my uni subjects until after CNY break... I found it very hard to catch up. I really thought I could but that was not to be the case...

Let's talk about the future... leave the past be the past...

Hopefully will be able to update my Facebook account more frequently this semester=) Was reading my housemate's twitter account and was quite captivated.. until I decided sticking with Facebook is much better=p

I believe a lot of you will start your new semester soon or july/august... anyway good luck and all the best=) Oh, and being a final year student while all my other high schoolmates have graduated and began their work made me realize one thing... treasure your days now or you will regret later=)

Mid-Sem Update

Ok, you can argue it's Week 8 already and it has passed the mid-sem cut-off point... but still it's not too late to have a look back at the last few weeks and start planning (differently) for the next remaining six weeks...

Firstly, I haven't blog about my FM results. Why? Because I have failed the test=( Sad. Ok, that's beside the point. What's worse is that after all the FM SOA things are settled... I started studying the things for this semester. I didn't go out much last CNY week... I couldn't catch up all the things in the one week (and you know la... CNY week who got mood to study wo...)

Then I was like... ok lah... still got time ma... man man lai... arrange time wisely and so on...

Ok, after all that was done. I started studying... cannot catch up la... And it's not because I don't understand... it's I don't think have enough time to do more exercise/tutorial/comprehending... stuff like that... It's like can only go through like 1 time only... not enough de le...

This morning was Macroeconomics test. Terrible. Two nights before went drinking. The day after woke up early for class and study until almost 12. Then cannot tahan. Hit the pillow and fell asleep. This morning was still in sleeping mode and went for my test at 8am.

=(

On holiday mood?

First week of classes are the most relaxing ones... It's no surprise that often can you hear students in lecture halls talking about playing football, watching movies, hit the mall and so on.... 'cuz most of them meet after the long holidays and you can't blame them for having high energy for some crazy entertainment. Furthermore, there's nothing on the lecture hall tables, except probably the handphones for some occasional finger-pressing exercise...

Now, who's fault is that? hmm....

Poor me, let's hope time flies quickly and let me done away with my test quickly please!=)

To Skip or Not to Skip?

It's the first week of lectures, and I don't blame anyone who has high expectations on these lectures. After all, the lecturers' style of teaching, the atmosphere, and the subject matter itself are under tight scrutinizing from students alike. Wonder what's on their minds these few days... Hmm...

'This subject is boring... I am going to skip this one...'

'Hey there's XXX tutorial on Wednesday too.... yay, I can skip the lecture AND the tutorial on that day too...'

Welcome back to the notorious uni way of life.

New Semester

New semester. New beginning.

Yeap, i won't differ the view that the arrival of a new semester only serves as an excuse for the majority of us to set new semester goals, new resolutions... when in reality 'new semester resolutions' are unheard of, really. And I am not referring to the three-word term itself.

'Work smart, play hard... get good results...' the same old resolutions sem after sem. Let's face it. Predictable and boring. But sadly true.

So, what's your aim for this semester?=)

Bye 2009

That's it... 2009... Another year has passed... another year to be welcomed...

Well, wanted to write some extraordinary things which happened this year... but then thought about some happenings which aren't so good, which are not good to be remembered...

Anyway, let's just leave it like that...

Let's treasure the happy moments in the past one year, forget the unhappy ones... and look forward to a better new year ahead!

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year!!=)

Passed SOA P/1 Exam!!

Yay! I finally passed my first ever SOA (Society of Actuaries) professional paper!! Of course, it is not one grand achievement... it's just the first of a series of paper which we (actuaries wannabes) need to sit for in order to achieve our professional actuary status.... nothing to shout about really...

I'm not trying to brag about myself here but then just some experience... (you can visit as08.freeforums.org to see how the previous batch of candidates fare...) from yours truly...

Just know your prob 1 and 2 well (as well as the last few chapters in the P manual, even though for myself there's no question from Chapter 9 and 10 of that manual) and try to have your mind clear before the exam, relax yourself, don't get panic... then you should be ok. Of course, you need to have ample preparation before the exam, and a bit of luck will help too (I heard my friends got some tough questions....)

I burnt midnight oil for the exam so I'm not the one you look for for any studying advice...=p

Anyway if you are planning to take the exam in future, good luck and all the best!

New Semester

I have finished my Business Law assignment... phew! Now suddenly have an urge to update my blog after such a long time... hopefully it will be interesting=)

Yeap, new semester it is right now. In fact it has been 4 weeks into the new semester. Man it is so hectic. Probably it is because I am taking at the same time the SOA P/1 exam in a few weeks time =0 and I am not really prepared at all at this time!!

Been spending quite a lot of time in my room at my apartment at Setapak... Daily itenery would be waking up, go to lectures/tutorials... come back, eat, drink, study, sleep.... wait! Have been hooked on this Hong Kong Cantonese drama "Born Rich" (fu gui men)... 45 minutes in front of the monitor (without break!) I didn't want this to be the case (ngo hm siong der)... but looks like I am really hooked... 41 episodes leh!!My results took a nose dive last semester. Have been changing the way I do things.. hopefully things change for the better=)

Results

Results are out (long time ago...). Sad T.T

Then again I can only took the blame. I actually expected it... given how I prepared for this final this time around....

Now I am hearing news that if we are to get First Class Honours for our Bachelor Degree then our PTPTN loan would be converted to a scholarship starting next year...

My first reaction was... oh dear... (not even a slight sense of hope or happiness at the beginning... just a feeling full of regretness...)

After calculation... I can only achieve this if I were to get into the President's List for all next semesters... (that is, getting GPAs of around 3.8 3.9...)

Walaoe....

No hope d lor.... T.T

Finals Over

This post should have been earlier but anyway... here it is now...

Finals are OVER!!

What I learnt from this finals? (or this sem...) Well, probably I will leave it until the results are out...

Prob and Stat II

I don't know if the questions are tough or not... I just know that there are many questions on the Prob and Stat II which I overlooked... reason?

(BTW... this one's for those who sat P&S2 this morning...)

The answer was just too long! For the first part of Question 5, the answer which Dr. Toh gave was like a full page of an A4 foolscap paper! I was thinking... Would not come out gua....

And of course, it DID come out... with the wording of the question EXACTLY the same as the one given for tutorial...

(Reminded me of Discrete Mathematics and Application which I took during Year 1 Semester 1... same question for test and finals.... 10 full marks...)

Then again during the last half an hour I was flipping through the question booklet over and over and over again... So unlucky that for each question there is roughly the same amount of things which I could not get the answer to! And yeap, I DID panicked.

No point crying over spilt milk. Need to get over it and start studying for my next subject...

Oh, btw... this time's finals have been terrible so far... but then I don't want to talk about it yet...

Finals

Hey there... It's been so long since I have updated something.... Mainly because I am in the middle of having my finals right now, which will end on 23th September.

And exam = nothing but study study and study... =( That's not really good. And I am not really sure if having housemates whom are not so tensed up as me really helps... Hmmm.... Everytime I leave my room/relax with them I feel relaxed... but after a while I start to worry about it...

Ok... just ten more days...That's not too bad gua...

7 objective questions, 20% of entire grade

This is the first time in my entire twenty-something years of existence in this planet called Earth that I encounter a situation whereby the fate of whether or not I can improve the grade of one of my subjects by FOUR GRADES* comes down to a quiz which consists of 7 multiple-choice questions.

*depends on current grade

Those who are taking TOI this sem knows what am I talking about.

This is a bit too much.

Looking back at Week 12

Week 12 passed. Actually I thought it would be so horrifying 'cuz there's

1. Theory of Interest test on Monday
2. Microeconomics I assignment to be passed up on Tuesday
3. Probability and Statistics II test on Wednesday
4. Oral Communication and Interpersonal Skills presentation on Friday

which have been scheduled for the week.

It turned out...

BADLY in almost all of them.=(

But then again my mind was concentrating on one thing at a time (for example, started studying for Prob and Stat II test only after finishing my assignment....)

Anyway... I don't want to bore my readers with a lot more academic stuff so hopefully I would be able to write something more interesting now that quite a lot of burden have been lift off me....

Oh Dear...

I thought the problem with me was my verbal communication (and I think I have been constantly working on it, since... the day I was born?=) I didn't know that some things that I do that can also be... offensive to others?

I am sorry if I offended anyone with what I said/did (regardless when was it). It was purely unintentional. =(

Moved to Setapak
New places, new life
New beginning, new start

So many things happened
Some good some bad
Some memorable ones some not

Rode bike to yam cha
Big dinners at Dong Jing
Throwing cakes at midnight

Met new people
Became friends with those closest
Others just acquaintances

Tried new things
Played pool went drunk
Sleep late skip classes

Day night hunt food
Tried new places found few good ones
Found good ones got tired of it soon

Classes some from 8 some till 7
Skipped boring classes
Skipped classes with excellent lecturers too

Five more weeks to go
Four more semesters after this
A future lying ahead before me...

Go enjoy life!=)

It was Wednesday morning, when my mom texted a message to me, which goes something like this...

"Grandpa's seriously ill, if you are able to it's best that you come and visit him..."

Of course I immediately phoned to ask what really happened... but it wasn't until in the afternoon when I decided to skip classes altogether (Calculus tutorial and Microeconomics lecture) and took the LRT down to PJ where my mom picked me up. After dinner, our family went to the hospital... but somehow my maternal grandfather was under doctor's care...

In other words, I wasn't able to see my grandfather even though I have travelled so 'far'... hmm...

Well, FYI, my grandfather is in his 80s now, and from the relatives at the hospital in Cheras, they told us that there is water in his lungs, and he could get some kind of illness if this is not cured... Water in his lungs as a result of things such as salivas running down into his lungs when he is sleeping...

Went back to Setapak that night, but I was able to visit him again on Sunday this time at HUKM (he got transferred there...) He was so not like the last time we met him a few weeks ago... he was so weak.... could hardly utter a word... us the family members surrounding him... But then we all know he is strong and he is going to get through this with the help of his family members (including me...=)

Well, wasn't trying to tell a story initially but then the message is clear... treasure your life now or you will regret later...

Watching Transformers for Free??!!

For those of you who attended the U6F gathering at MV two weeks back then you will know what I am talking about... For those who do not, do not get too excited about the title of this post...

Yeap, there's the other 'price' to pay as a result of not paying a single sen for watching the 'blockbuster movie of the year' (as they would call it...) what else but getting a refund after a 'just-make-you-wanna-throw-your-tantrum-right-away' moment at the 'right' time (the climax, that is...)

Here's the low-down:

One activity during our gathering was watching Transformers 2: The Revenger of the Fallen movie (or shall I say, the main and only activity...). Had lunch before that at Burger King. By the way, the queue was so long... by around twelve noon all the seats for all the timeslots on that day (Saturday) right until the early morning of the next day has been fully booked!

Ok.. not surprising at all...

For the synopsis... go checkout yourself... don't want to spoil the mood of those who have not seen it yet (what keeps you from watching it until now wor?=)

The thing is that at the climax (I am 150% sure it was the climax!!) at the desert scene... suddenly the scene started to pause and continue and skip... paused and skipped!!! The sound system also... paused, skipped and then continued.... paused, skipped and then continued...I don't know what the **** is going on on the screen in front of me!! Everyone started screaming and yelling and cursing... Gosh, if I have the vulgarity ability I would have yelled them loud at the top of my lungs too!! I heard someone wanted to cry also... just imagine how the emotions of these avid Transformers movie-goers felt when they are 'treated' with this kind of 'service'!!

Ok, a bit too much over there.... -.-"

You can check this out with my fellow classmates on what happened that day... what a shame for the cinema... I don't think the 100% refund given to us (wait, they didn't even offer... we need to go to the counter to ask!!) did us any justice at all... but then we could understand if they are running on a tight schedule... what to do?

At the end of the movie when the credits were rolling they didn't even on the lights, and no people were waiting at the exits... hmm... I was telling my friends: are they keeping us in here by giving us another round of free Transformers 2 movie? Haha...

Anyway, I still think the first Transformers movie is better.. I don't know... maybe it's what they call it 'sequel syndrom' or something....

Fire Drill

Wow... fire drill today... I don't think there's a single one during my one whole year studying at PD Block in PJ.

Some photos... I also don't know why I post this here... I was thinking: fire drill only ma...=)

My New Studying Technique

Since I fared so badly for my last sem, it's time to reassess my studying method/technique...

** No more will I waste too much time on my tutorials

Wanted to actually put "no more doing tutorials..." but I suspect this might actually land me in hot soup... =S

I will still finish my tutorials on time, just that it will be last minute... that means, I would have completed my tutorials without understanding it... but will spend time studying it after the tutorial myself...

I still think giving answers to us before we start doing the tutorials is more effective for us to learn/study compared to giving the answers later. That means it's better than, for example, letting the students copy the answers during tutorial group without much time for us to reassess our work during that brief one hour.

Here's one interesting point which I want to point out to support my point: Out of the five subject last sem, the three subjects with the highest grades are Probability and Statistics 1, BA 2, and Linear Algebra... And all I did for those subjects was to study other people's answer... =)

Gave it a try starting this sem, and it kinda worked (with Calculus that is... since it was the first subject with a quiz i.e. this week...) Will grasp the studying formula quickly... and apply it to other subjects as well...

I Really Need to Settle Down!!

Week 4 already lo... still not yet settled down le... settle down as in fully in the studying mood...

Monday morning I took the LRT to Wangsa Maju, and then took the taxi to PV10... Nope, no one was awake when I walked in... I happened to woke my housemate up just to ask him to open the main gate for me... because I don't have my key with me... (and I thought they really have woke up much earlier...)

By the time I put my things back to place, washed my bedsheets and clothes, took the dry clothes in and fold them nicely, took the washed clothes out, swept my floor, ate my lunch, washed the dishes... tidy here and there.... That's it! One half day gone!!

What la... that's almost what's happening for many days already... time which can be spent on studying (My 'studying rate' also somehow slower... is it only me or everyone's the same?)

Dunno la...

Unwell =(

I'm not crazy I'm just a little unwell...

No need to panic, no need to be worry about me... just that I have been having itchy throat and phlegm for a few days now... Yeap, went to a doctor at Prima Setapak yesterday... was given some medications... now feeling better.=)

I'm Just Not That Into the Mood Yet

It's already week 2. Tutorial classes for a few subjects have already started this week. Looks like everything is going to be in full swing in just a few days time (next week)... And yet I still have not really settled yet... not yet into the mood yet. I am pretty sure that it's not because of still having the holiday mood... I think it's just that I have not really fully settled down living in my new place, attending classes in a new place and so on...

Then as the 'group leader' (I won't be one when tutorial classes begin...) I am supposed to give out the notes to those under me and collect money... good thing I am not responsible for photostating them... It can be very troublesome when most of us are not taking the same subject combinations...

Believe it or not, I have not started studying at all, do any tutorial... yeap! Am going to try to kick start the habit this weekend... Hopefully since I am staying back at Setapak this weekend, this will help to make me concentrate on my studies... for the first time after such a long time!!

Two weeks have passed by... two weeks living outside from home with friends... even though they have been staying up all night... I have been able to close my eyes and doze off to sleep early. Early as in just after midnight. =) Yeah, I know. If my parents know that my definition of early is 12 midnight they will scold me gao-gao!! Once they found out I slept late, they would give me a lecture while in the car to campus, from Sunway all the way to PJ!!

Okay, so far I have been taking in one day at a time without much pressure. But I know I have to start my routine cuz if not I will not be able to concentrate on my studies. For the last two sems I made a mistake for not putting myself in the study mood early when the semester begins... mostly because of things that I need to do... Now, there's just not much pressure... even though I know I got tons of things waiting for me to make up for!!

My first week at Setapak

So, as all of you know by now, I am currently staying at PV10, which is a condominium off Jalan Genting Klang in Setapak, KL. Am living in a single room, with my housemates whom are all my Actuarial Science classmates...

First let me talk about my accommodation here at PV10. It was okay la... Most of the AS students also chose to stay here... but the thing is that the food here is a very big problem... only got one mamak and one chinese stall leh... I really cannot imagine myself eating here for the next two years! Luckily one of us most probably will have transport from next year onwards... looking forward to that!=)

First week... yet still have not went to the swimming pool... wanted to go there on Wednesday... pool CLOSED!

Next is classes in Uni... Since we have done away with the fixed tutorial groups thingy... I scared things will get a little bit messy. Of course the first (bad) thing which I found out here is that there is no photostating machine/service provided! Why last time got now don't have one? I know last time got vendor... why can't the university look for one and replace this instead of just leaving it like that? The students have the right to access to facilities such as photostating machines, and not put all the weight to one course rep.... I really pity him, but I don't know how to help since I don't have transport and there's no photostating services near my place... I was so hoping that there are facilities here in Setapak after the hell I have been through at PJ... Urgh...

Today is Friday... going back to Sunway straight after our last lecture finishes at 4pm.

Bought quite a lot of things this last two weeks... wah... $$$ all gone like that... My parents did warn me that my expenditure will be very very high if I were to stay at Setapak, compared with travelling all the way to and fro from Sunway... It's either time or money... can't have both=) I chose time, and I shall not regret it...

I am still HERE!!

Hey everyone=)

After such short yet fast-going weeks have passed by, it's now time for me to start my whole new semester (and life... seriously!) in Setapak, Kuala Lumpur. It's now just about half an hour before my very first lecture of the semester -- Theory of Interest!

Wanted to just sit down and type out about what happened to me during the past few weeks, but I guess I just don't have the time! In a blink of an eye, it's time to 'worry' about what's happening next! (Correction: no worries, I want to just study hard, play hard this semester!!)

Oh for those who still don't know, my semester results last semester...

Urgh!!

Ask me personally if you really want to know what did I get for last semester. All in all, the message that those results are giving me is quite clear.... study SMART!!

Wait, wait... let's talk about what's to come..=)

My aim for this semester? 3.6. Yeap, that's enough to make the Dean's List. I have been 'taught' to sleep late by my classmates last semester... go to McD to study for a 10-mark test.... until 1 in the morning! Hope that's not going to happen again! No last minute thingy...

I really hope that I can organize my time much better this sem, even though by the look at my classes, that's quite hard to achieve, not impossible though.

It's going to be the first time that I am living alone... and when I say alone, I mean it... no more grandma cooking dinner for me... I took a lot of time settling myself during the first few weeks of the new semesters previously... This time I guess that will be a longer period of time.... I really hope that I can be in the study mood as soon as possible.... Guys (housemates), please help this 'kid' out....=)

So, a new life awaits me... As usual, I hope that everything will turn out... well, if not perfect. And I wish I could really enjoy my last two years of my university life... (Urgh... too dramatic aren't I??)

Finals: Business Accounting II.... Finals are Over!

Finals are OVERR!!!

Yeap, you heard me right. It's...

OVER!!

Woah! I had this feeling thoughout that this time's exam period is so much longer than the previous one in Year 1 Sem 1... Nevertheless I really liked it... it gave me so much time to prepare for each and every single one of the papers...

Business Accounting II was 'easy'. (I actually was trying to find a better word to describe it... so not to offend those other people...) I mean, come on... AGAIN, there are questions on the exam which was so damn similar to the ones in the tutorials... can we safely assume that this is going to be the case for all the accounting-related papers for the semesters to come?

One paper down... that means left with... NONE!! That was it! Year One Semester Two is over. In less than three weeks a semester awaits us all, in a totally different environment.... Setapak, Kuala Lumpur. I actually can't wait for my new semester to begin in Setapak... I know for sure that for all of us, it will be so different from the way we lived in PJ.

Tuesday went for Paintball session with my classmates and some from T5... (All together twelve of us)... at TT Sports in Subang Jaya. Yeah, RM60 was quite expensive... But what the heck... I had a heck of a good time there... with these friends we got to know...

I actually was disappointed by the way I played that day actually...

I know almost all of us have not played paintball before but I sucked big time compared to the others... Maybe it has something to do with me not wanting to hurt myself... (Yeah, I think I was one of those people who didn't really got badly hurt... YA-Lah... I got scars also ok?! Wanna see??)

I enjoyed it very much. Thanks, you all!!

Will post on my plans and what happened during my semester break later...=)

Finals: Probability and Statistics I

Prob and Stats was quite easy la.. Only after sitting this exam did I come to wonder why now the papers always require us to choose questions to answer. Is it much easier and better for us to do all those as compulsory questions? Or is it better otherwise?

Don't know la.

At least this one I have confident of getting much better grades than the other subjects.... hehe...

Had consultation with Ms Lim my accounts tutor. Quite hard to concentrate... cuz after exam ma... =)

Finals: Fundamentals of Linear Algebra

Those past-year papers preparation did really helped.... helped to tell me that it is just not enough to study enough for the exam... it is vital too for me to have a clear brain for the paper. Paper was at morning. Arrived early to prepare myself... for don't know what... cuz can't really study can only revise and look through...

Aiya... let's just go straight to the point. Of course not good news...

That 11 marks were supposed to be mine la... MINE!!!!

It took me the last few MOMENTS to figure out how to do the questions... If they had given me two minutes I could have got 11 marks more... (wah, that's exaggerating a bit...) Ya what! The proving question is such that you know or you don't know. 11 marks or NONE!!

Couldn't complete the whole thing on time... I think there are witnesses... I actually continued writing after the time was up... on the question paper la of course...

What did I learn from this? Cuz I still had a few questions with three to four marks... but I have a 11 mark question which I definitely know how to do but unluckily got stuck in the middle... I wanted to continue trying for the 11 mark question but no matter how I still got stuck...

Back to the question. What did I learn?

Some days are meant to be unlucky.

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Finals: Critical Reading and Thinking

Walaoe... next time for afternoon papers I will not come early to school and study already... by the time I sat for the exam my brain has already tired out already... really!!

'Cuz I thought coming to school early will enable me to study things and remember much better... instead of burning the midnight oil the night before... So as you might have guessed it... I studied too much (I guess) and as a consequence, the moment I looked at the questions the first thing I remember I did was:

YAWN.... *O*

Next time know la... if morning paper remember to sleep early.. but if afternoon I don't care what time I sleep and what time I wake up... as long as I am not late for the exam!!!

Btw... it is okay, but then because of terrible time management, I only started doing the 40-mark essay 45 minutes before time's up. Not really good that is.

Intermediate Calculus: TERRIBLE

Had my first exam paper for this semester this morning. How was it? Terrible.

The last two questions was easy. Immediately went to do the two questions upon finishing browsing through the entire question paper. Skipped a few parts for the last question... I thought to myself: OK, maybe I can have some time after that, then I will continue doing that question.

Then went to do Question 1. The volume and the surface part was ok. Didn't do the first part, also due to time constraint. Want to thank KY for calling me up the day before to ask me that question. I ended up didn't answer his question, 'coz I don't know also. So, after that I went to try the question and found out the method of answering the question. I think around that time KY smsed to me saying he got it already also. Ta-da! Lucky me!!

I couldn't finish Question 4 also. Stuck!! I was panicking actually at that moment wondering whether to continue with that question or change to question 2. Why the examiner has to consider the WORST 4 instead of the best 4 questions when it comes to calculating the marks??

Forcast result? I should be so SO THANKFUL if I were to pass this subject. Really!!

Year 2 Sem 1 Timetable

So, the timetable has been out there for almost one week already... and guess what? I didn't even went to have a look at it!!

Wait, I did. I actually woke up early on Friday morning before 8am, and I actually can already see some of my classmates online already (yeap, waiting to go into the system and book their places...=) 8am was the time to start register for classess. I wasn't on my computer at the time as I was preparing to go to campus... go back to campus because of two things: One was to study of course, but the more important thing: CHOOSE OUR TIMETABLE!!!

I thought we have already decided that morning we come early to campus and sit down and together choose our times. But at the end, no one turned up!! I desperately called everyone, not because I could not log in, but I just don't know what are their plans... I start to think that all things could be easier if we just sit down after our calculus thing on Thursday and plan over it...

Only when we found out that the classes we want are all booked do I hear some people write on MSN... "Ha?? Thursday one class only ah? Why other people can have all Thursday clear??"

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That's it... 14 weeks have passed by just like that!!!

Today there isn't any classes going on. With that, the teaching weeks for this semester has finally came to an end. Next up is the study week, and then the finals!! =S

To summarize this last whole week... it was just all revision lectures. For the first time also, I have 'managed' to skip Business Accounting II... At first I didn't want to since it was the last lecture for the subject... I mean, you can skip other lectures.... but why on earth out of so many lectures, one would want to skip THE LAST LECTURE of them all?

Instead of attending BA2, we had lunch in Shah Alam at this roasted pork restaurant. Not bad the food.

That's the only outing which I attended this week... I freaked out when Dr. Leong was discussing the past-year questions during lecture on Tuesday... HA??!! Questions like that also can come out ah? DIE LO!!! How to do???!!

Ok... ok... no more wasting time.. (Look at Thursday when you guys spent like... half an hour chit chatting outside when classes have ended...) no more.... need to study...

My target? 3.60 GPA. That means getting on to the Dean's List... Wow... Let's all go for it!!

Week 13 at a Glance

Attended the first Welcoming Concert Committee meeting on Monday. Well, except Shi Wei, Jie Yan, Guan Han... all of the other people who were there were unfamiliar faces, not to mention that I do not know them. But I have expected this from the beginning when I accepted this responsibility as the secretary... I have already preparing myself that I need to work with people whom I do not know before... to get things done...

Talking about accepting responsibility...

I was at Bentong, Pahang to pay respects to my ancestors (Qing Ming) last Saturday. We were waiting to be served lunch when Guan Han called me on my cellphone and asked if I want to be in the committee... Well, after a few questions about my post and a moment of deliberation myself I decided to take it up... also after I knew who will be helping me out in my duties (I heard Shi Wei and Jie Yan both from T6, are also in the committee...)

Ok, back to the meeting. It ran smoothly. I just had to check with Guan Han during the meeting in front of everyone about the proposal things... 'cause I was still very blur. After a few days I received the sample of it in my email.... WALAO!! So long ah!! But if my understanding is correct, then all I need to do is to compile their stuffs and submit them to the DSA... or something like that la...

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Had our Prob and Stat I lab session on Tuesday. All of a sudden the memories of us having our programming practical every Friday came to mind... except that this time, everyone was like so relaxed and things like that... I was having this feeling that we are having a computer game class or something like that....haha...

There's this stupid thing about the assignment... Weeks ago the lecturer gave us the website address and asked us to download the programme from this website. Since there was still so much time we/I thought we will wait for a while first before doing anything. It turned out that none of us actually was able to download it (not that I know of)... and it ended up that (almost) everyone was planning to finish their assignment in the campus' computer lab.

So, have I done MY assignment yet? Nope, as of Friday evening... and probably won't be so soon either as everyone seem to be planning to do it only on Monday... I wasn't really happy with it at first because it seems last minute to me... But we were able to do things together complete and effectively even though it was all last minute, weren't they? The accounts assignment, the calculus assignment...

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Wednesday stayed back with the gang for group study at SS2 McD. I know you guys would love to study until late till the wee hours of early morning... but I just cannot tahan neh!! Sorry if I 'forced' you guys to go back early... =) Thursday I had my Toastmasters meeting so I didn't join them all... and guess when I heard that they went back? Around 2am!!

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Friday was the Linear Algebra quiz/test. It was ok, even though I pretty sure I screwed up the last question about orthogonal component... or something like that... Went to PC Fair also... during my way back alone from KLCC met my CHS classmate whom we have not met for a very long time... Yuan Cui! Wah, her 'story' about taking the LRT every day for like 1 1/2 hours... I cannot accept it though... I guess the time spent was just too much...

Week 12 at a Glance

On Monday went to SS2 pasar malam with them all. Gosh, somehow they are tummyfull just after taking some portions of food bought in the night market. I need to ask them to wait for me as I went to call prawn mee at the famous food court near the pasar malam site. I guess I really need to change the eating habit of mine... I am still that kind of person who, my friends say, "will suffer if I do not miss my dinner..." I won't lie: I really need dinner if not I will not be able to sleep.

On Tuesday a lot went for the buffet somewhere in KL. Of course, I did not join them. At the end kinda felt guilty.... not as in not going for the buffet but just not go up and study upstairs... I just couldn't get what the BA2 lecturer was saying in to my head...

After class went to this sale/bazaar thing at Bangunan Harmodal which is near to our campus. Nothing much which I was able to buy... Not that I don't want to buy...

Wednesday was full of classes in campus but the thing was that I was still able to 'make myself busy' by deciding to go to McD Sect 14, David's house for a while, and then McD SS2... Until the early hours of the morning... Wah!! Cannot tahan... Don't get me wrong... it was not that I don't want to join you guys on the other table... it was that I cannot tahan staying up so late le...

Friday had our Probability and Statistics I Test 2. It was just alright. I hope that my first part of the first question was correct though... if not the whole question one will be wrong le... can't imagine how many marks I will be missing...

Week 11 at a Glance

Let's just go straight to Tuesday. It was my first time eating at this restaurant called Fireman at Jaya One. I was surprised actually why suddenly we will be going there to have our lunch (is more like enjoying... I didn't really eat my stomach till very full...) It's not like we have classes after this... We have never gone out for lunch using transport in between classes... at least for this sem from what I remember...

The food was quite good. Only on that day that I realized that actually there is this 'secret' place underneath the steamboat table thingy that we the customers are able to put our legs in... =)

No pictures unfortunately.

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Friday was our Intermediate Calculus test/quiz. It was ok... I didn't get the last question though... a few marks must have lost from my hands...just like that...

Week 10 at a Glance

Wah.. this week really spent too much le..

Wednesday. Debate! Luckily it all worked out, even though for my part it was all too last minute. During the debate it was ok ba... I think so la... Immediately after that I didn't think about it... Not that it's not good... just that... there's so many things to worry about... for example the Linear Algebra mid-term...

Talking about that mid-term on Friday ah... SO DIFFERENT from the way it asked during the quiz... proof this la... proof that la... Even our tutorials don't have those kind of things... if not mistaken...

It was only on Thursday that I realize that there's this special promotion every 19th on each month at this restaurant 1901 (hence the date) where you can actually buy hot dogs for RM2 each!! Mmm... yummy! But we were forced to wait for about ONE HOUR!!! Well, by the number of workers there compared to the number of customers who came all the way just for the hot dogs (guess who =) it is not surprising it took so long. While a number of people who just can't wait went for lunch at Esquire, the rest of us just hung around...

Is it worth the wait? I think so... but if it was so long I could have just planned something to do beforehand...

Went to the UTAR Idol on Sunday. Of course didn't go there just to watch those people do this do that la... G-Han performing ma... Arrived I think 1 1/2 late... I saw the signboard...

"Sorry, tickets sold out... Please come again next year!" 0.0

Then I asked the two girls at the ticketing counter. They say they still got some tickets... (Phew...) so paid and just go on lo! Funny thing was that moments later when I came out to answer a call, there's nobody there already! Basically this means that anyone can just go in without paying!! Hmm.. food for thought.

G-Han didn't really win.. but he did put up a great show that night. Didn't caught any photos, neither did a few of his T6 supporters or KJye(so which means only 2 from T7...)

Week 9 at a Glance

No test, no quiz, no assessment, no whatever testing testing.... (for Pengajian Malaysia there is... but why bother? Nothing to do with me also... =) It was so long since I had a week where there is none of these things... why can't every week be like this ah?

Wednesday enjoyed myself watching some of my T7 classmates debating... it wasn't until at the end of the debate when I realized that next week will be our turn... scary =S

Oh, Friday I had a great time myself enjoying with the 'gang'... hope that our birthday boy KJ enjoyed himself too. Immediately after they all took their Pengajian Malaysia quiz/test/whatever... I followed them to Sunway Pyramid, to Red Box for Sing K session. Then dinner was at the Yuan Steamboat Restaurant... (Interesting to note that while the restaurant is so near to my place, I have only been there for one time only before this during my 5S6 reunion dinner in 2007. )

Haha... if I still can recall what happened while we were at Yuan:

G Han introduced to us this game, where the losers will need to clear the dishes on the table... (hey.. what a way to clear the table eh?)

Took photos photos and photos...

And the whole loud cheers cheers thing once every while... ^^"

Will upload photos soon.

Week 8 at a Glance

Accounting project and Calculus mid-term!!

That short introduction summed up what happened this week... The accounting project was to be passed up on Wednesday... but we managed to start and (almost) finished it up on Monday... that's 20-mark project finished in ONE DAY!! Talking about efficient...=)

Well, after classes on Monday (I didn't go for any classes on that day, I came after all classes were over for the day), we went to Y Loong's house to do our project. That's immediately after 2pm when the last lecture finished on that day... straight away went to pick up G Han and then headed to Y Loong's place.

Do... do... and do... Do our project... Of course finished it up just in time la!=)

First time ate in Sushi Station that night... ok lo... not bad. I didn't know that there's this thing as a restaurant serving sushi and provide steamboat as well... at an all-you-can-eat pricing. Hmm... imagine how creative entrepreneurs can be nowadays...=)

Wednesday was our Calculus mid-term... It was okay... I managed to 'somehow' finish it just in time... but I have some problems with the time allocated. It's not proportionate... Consider this: 1st test: 6%; 40 minutes. Mid term: 20%; 60 minutes! The rate was that in the first test, we can spend up to 7 minutes figuring out an answer to a one-mark question.... for the mid-term we are only allocated 3 minutes!! And they don't call it mid-term if the questions ain't harder!

I liked Thursday the most... I only have to attend a one-hour lecture and that's it! After the lecture we went to Prince Restaurant at SS2... then went to Mid Valley and watched Love Matters.

Well, not my cup of tea though...

I am actually surprised at how some people can actually withstand so many hours without food... I ended up eating more than I could imagine when I arrived at PJ that night...

Friday was the CRT lecture and the FLA replacement lecture... and that was it.

One week has passed so fast.

There's another week to look forward to...

Wait...

Stop.

I don't want to think about next week =S

Week 7 at a Glance

It's time for another recap of what happened for the past one week (did I hear someone saying: not again??!)

Funny as it may sounds: we are having three tests and one project to be passed up in within one week....

Friday was Prob and Stats Test 1, followed up with replacement lecture for Fundamentals of Linear Algebra. Actually I was one of the people who kinda agreed that the replacement be held after the test... just because the lecture is just time for us to copy the notes from what was screened on the white board... I know a lot of people disagreed with the time because they need to study for the Business Accounting 2 mid-term test the next day... But I just don't feel like studying straight away... especially after the way I fared for the Prob and Stats test. Anyway going through the lecture after the one-hour-and-ten-minutes test is ok for me, because usually for like me, I don't really fully understand what the heck is going on... and I just didn't bother to look at the notes which I have copied after that... promising myself to take a look at it after the Calculus mid-term on Wednesday.

Saturday was BA2. It was easy actually. I don't know... as in, I would really freak out if I didn't fare good in that. Immediately after the mid-term there's the replacement tutorial class for BA2... and just like the replacement lecture the day before, I really couldn't pay attention what was going on... because... the mid-term is over ma... why can't we rest a bit first??=)

After the class, we hanged around a bit before decided to go to Sungai Wang Plaza. It is actually very embarassing for people like me, who lives in the Klang Valley, but don't know where is the shopping centre... Can't blame me la... so far away from where I stay.. we don't usually go there... and furthermore I don't have proper transport...

Why Sungai Wang Plaza? Well, coz we want to sing K ma... at Green Box. (:0) (First time heard of Green Box... I know got Red Box... got Green Box also meh?)

Another week passed by... thus meaning? Calculus mid-term closer than never....=(

Our Half Day Trip to Setapak

People have been discussing about everything Setapak... life in Setapak... the new (better facilitated, I hope) UTAR buildings in Setapak... accomodation in Setapak... For those of you who have not known by now... my Actuarial Science batch will be continuing our studies in the Setapak campus (Kuala Lumpur campus, for university official use...) So, it is only right that we 'went up there' to look at ourselves our future 'home'...

WC drove us all in his car to Setapak right after the Business Accounting II lecture on Saturday. Well, not exactly straight to Setapak... we kinda detoured our way to David's house, and then we had our lunch at Sushi King at Section 16. By the time we started our journey it was almost 4pm... Adding the chaotic traffic jams in the streets of Kuala Lumpur (I think there should be a faster way to get to Setapak other than Jalan Tun Razak??) It took us ONE HOUR!Hmm...

Ok... better get straight into the topic...

We actually saw a few buildings... forgot the names... one of them I remember was PV10... ('coz one of my classmates have decided to stay there later...) Not bad... But didn't take any photos though =(

So far what we heard is that one unit there is about RM1200... for 7 people... But we are still considering other options...

(Come to think of it... this post is like nothing when there's no photos in, rite?)

Excited about going to Setapak... there's definitely better than PJ!!

Week 6 at a Glance

Wow, time flies and it is now week 6 already!

Notable events which happened this week included dinner at this restaurant in Millennium Square (no, not Millenium Court...) called Picadilly. Nine of us went there after our Accounting tutorial class, which finished at 5pm. But then we didn't really went there straight away after... we kinda go round and round and round... coz we weren't sure where to have our dinner=) I believe this is the first time I have entered a fancy restaurant (may I call it 'fancy'?) since a long time ago...

Oh, it's a very high class place I look at it. Millennium Square that is. But there weren't many restaurants that I saw... maybe I have not walked through the building properly...

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Friday was the 10% Fundamentals of Linear Algebra quiz. Truthfully told I think I did okay only. I wasn't sure about the last question... will update on it when I get the result.

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Oh, somehow I felt like I have been boggled down with a lot of things this week. Don't know why. There have been a lot of talks about accomodation in Setapak. No matter where you go, whether it is in the lecture hall, or tutorial room, or in the canteen or study room, there's a high chance that people are talking about this topic. Who is going to stay with who... where to stay... How much is this? How much is that? etc... etc... Well, a few of our class are going to Setapak to look at their potential accomodations this Saturday (today) after the Basic Accounting II Lecture... Will update on this too... I actually don't ask for a lot... juz that our place should be easily accessible, have all the necessary things nearby... that's ok with me.=)

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Meeting with UTAR Dean and Heads of Departments

On my last post I mentioned about a UTAR meeting which I almost didn't go for... coz I wanted to join the guys for lunch on that day, but somehow because I was busy packing back the projector and laptop to ICTC... so I thought... haih, just stay back la... then I saw Guan Han rushing into the meeting room... Only then did I realize that I was supposed to attend the meeting! Luckily..

Anyway, it was actually a meeting in which we can voice out our opinions to the party concerned... But the people there just told us to complain it using the BQAA (I couldn't remember what does it stand for...)... as in

"Oh, just voice it out using the BQAA form...."

"Log in into the BQAA..."

"Use BQAA to inform us about it..."

"I guarentee that we will reply you in one to two weeks' time..."

At that moment I actually thought that one week's time was too long...

Wanted to voice out about the printing services... Someone asked the question before me.. I guessed I kinda got the answer I wanted to know... i.e. UTAR is looking for a vendor right now.

But the thing is... is that I am pretty sure that the university only started looking at a new vendor company... last week!! I saw the huge mailbox for tenders for the services at the PA block this week only.. with the due date I think was last Wednesday!! Must have overlooked about this area... because only a handful are staying back here? Hmm... something to ponder about...

Aih.. UTAR... UTAR...

Oh ya!!!! Need to post about this one guy who was so... don't know how to describe... the way he voiced out to the UTAR staffs during the meeting...

"Is extra-curricular activities important?" he asked.

"Of course it is.."

"Then what happened to our Activity Day? With our timetable arranged as such how to do things? (he raised up and showed the timetable to the panel...)"

Walao.... must have really caught the panel by surprise...

Week 5 at a Glance

So, another week has passed, inching ourselves closer to the finals.... Wait! Guess now we are all drowned into a pond full of mid-terms, quizzes, tests, assignments, projects... Urgh! How frustrating!! Oh talking about frustrating... how come I have overlooked at a simple question which I have read through in the notes?! I couldn't solve that problem in the quiz this afternoon... It, together with a few silly mistakes must have cost me a lot of marks... (at least, a big percentage of the overall 6 marks).

Classes resumed on Tuesday after the holiday. Break time was spent doing Business Accounting questions (Wednesday: on mahjong paper...) (hmm.. fun!!) It turned out that from now on questions in each tutorial will be handled by each group which will present their mahjong papers with solutions written on it... And then next still need to explain it to the class! (I felt like I was in some kind of public speaking class, explaining why is it better for a company compared to sole propreitorship...=)

Missed a lot of 'class gatherings' this week.. hmm...

Oh, and to cap it all off on Friday(today) all class reps and course reps were to have a meeting with the deans and heads of departments after 12pm. Will blog about it soon.

My Thaipusam holidays

So, what did you guys do during the 'holidays'? (3 days ma... if count Friday then it would be 4 days...) Just barely one week after we had our week-long break, we are (at least for myself) drowned into the 'holiday season' again...

I went back to my home on Friday night (after watching Red Cliff 2 with the guys and girls).... That night I remember I stayed up until like 1.45am... why? I need to catch up with my Idol series (yeap, I am a Idol fan) and Monday's episode of Lost (great show!).

Went to Ikea on Saturday morning with my parents. Luckily the special of the day was our favourite: Meehoon!! For those we do not know, Ikea's Meehoon is only RM1, and it's a reasonable price and delicious as well, got to try it out! Plus since we arrived there before 9.30am, we were offered coffee for free, with free refills too! (Mmm... makes me hungry now...)

Wanted to walk around a bit at the area, since it is not possible for me to get there often since it is so far from my house... But my father brought me to see a dentist, wanted to get me a retainer. Getting it on Saturday morning, so guess you guys will all be seeing me wearing the retainer for quite some time=).

Originally was supposed to watch until the end the Grammys... But half way... no-lah! Better go and study Calculus...=(

Photos: Distant Cousin's Wedding 31/1/2009

(Pics above) Pictures from the Wedding Night

(Pics above) Bride's parents' house

(Pics above) Teluk Cempedak, Kuantan

Photos: Chinese New Year 26/1/2009

A (Distant Cousin's) Wedding

If my memories serve me well, I think I have not been to a Chinese traditional wedding for a very very long time already. So, when words began to spread that one of my distant cousin is getting married and their parents have invited us for the celebrations, my siblings and I were hoping that my parents will agree to travel all the way from KL (or rather PJ) to Kuantan, Pahang. And yeap, they informed the family early about us attending... even though at that moment my younger sister and I still weren't sure if we still need to go back to school for the Friday... (my younger brother graduated, in case you didn't know about it...)

As mentioned, the whole wedding thing takes place in Kuantan. We stayed in Kuantan for two nights beginning Friday. A little bit about my 'distant cousin': Well, I don't think we call her 'distant cousin', but rather just 'cousin', isn't it? My relation with her is like this: My uncle's (father's mother's oldest brother) granddaughter is getting married to an American. The Church wedding in the US was over, but they decided to have another Chinese ceremony here in M'sia (or rather, Kuantan). And yeap, the groom's American parents were also invited.

There weren't many things which happened. We did got together for a large group photo on 2nd day morning, and then the 5 of us family went to walk around Kuantan town (nothing much to see=( and also Teluk Cempedak (that place very nice!)

That night (Saturday) was the wedding dinner in Hyatt Resort. Photos will be accompanied. Check out our attire=)

The next morning was the tea-giving ceremony. Old fashion way, as in the new couple kneeling in front of their parents to present them tea. Not only their parents, but also their uncles and aunties as well...

It was nice to be able to meet with a lot of my uncles and aunties after so long. My family is very big; my grandmother is the 12th among 16 children (go figure why so many!)... maybe it IS a blessing to be born into such a huge family=)

Back to School!! (or rather, university...)

Finally after one week of holidays, it's back to school time!!

I guessed I was just like everyone else, trying to accept the fact that classes start again, and there will be non-stop of classes to attend to (and make up for), tutorials to complete, tests and quizzes to prepare for, assignments and projects to 'look forward' for... and of course, the list goes on and on... =S

There were so many things which happened during the Chinese New Year week (even though the first part of the week was boring, in which all I could remember about was rushing to finish my homework...) On Friday, my family and I went for a three-day two-night stay in Kuantan... will post about it later.

I don't think a lot of people knew about this but I actually screwed up big time the day I went back today.... The notes for the lecture in the afternoon wasn't printed out for everyone!! For my part, it's a misunderstanding, but I would accept that it is my fault, and I have learnt the mistake... Anyway thanks a lot G-Han for helping me out on the notes...=)

Oh, and tonight it is the first time that I am staying away from my parents (away as in not in the same house la...), at least for as long as I can remember. Will be boarding the public bus from KWSP to Asia Jaya, and then hop on the UTAR bus which will directly send me to the front of the PD building... hopefully within this week I will get used to this mode of transportation. =)

Ok, too long for a post for a day, huh?

Happy Chinese New Year!!

As the title suggest, this post is specially dedicated to wishing you all

GONG XI FA CAI!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Today's the second day of lunar new year. And yet now at around ten something I am already back home... hey, I was back home also last night...

Unlike many of my friends, there's no such thing as going back to hometown for me, or for my family for that matter. With both my father's and mother's parents living in the Klang Valley, and with our family visiting them in almost a regular basis normally, there's not much difference about visiting them during the new year, maybe except about the ang pows (ang pows, ang pows, ang pows!!) or the greetings and the snacks prepared for us... =)

I am not even sure if I was the one who is not really overly excited about this new year. While waiting for my family to get dressed and prepare to leave for the reunion dinner on Sunday, I was downstairs, desperately trying to finish my linear algebra tutorial before we leave!! (Come to think about it, there's so much more which I haven't even started looking at!!)

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I like Thursdays and Fridays... only one hour lecture on Thursdays, two hours on Fridays... lots of free time for myself!

Arrived early in uni, even though lecture only starts at 10am. CRT lecture that is, the only lecture of the day.

A weird feeling though... we had just attended only ten days of classes, and the next thing is that we are going back to our hometowns, enjoying ourselves again!! What about the things which we have studied during the last few weeks?

Immediately upon reaching home, I forced myself not to go to sleep, but instead brought out my Linear Algebra tutorial and continued doing it. Wah... I was so left behind!!

Wait, still got Accounts, Calculus, Prob and Stat x_x

Maybe it's a fortunate good thing that my hometown is here in PJ and KL(Cheras)... I don't need to go here and there like the others... save time...

Photos: T7 Reunion Dinner 21/1/2009

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It's Thursday... which means I only got one hour of lecture only... ONE HOUR!!

What a waste of transportation fees just to get from home to uni and back home. Maybe from now on would skip that one stupid lecture hour on Thursday!

We went to a chicken rice shop at the ground floor of a flat for lunch. Not bad, but still I think the chicken rice at our canteen is still the best; for only RM4 you will get roasted chicken with rice, with additional one bowl full of rice on top, along with beansprouts to go along in the same dish. It is so big when you look from the outside.... it definitely worth the money.

Anyway, went back home and had a good nap. =)

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It's Wednesday, and it's of course the most hectic day in the week. One lecture and all five tutorials in one day.. FIVE!!! The only difference this week was that Calculus tutorial has not begun this week.

There have talks about what to do after the last class at 5pm, coz many of us will not be here starting tomorrow until when classes resume one week later. Anyway at the end of the day it was decided that we will be having dinner at New Paris Restaurant in SS2. (Have not been there for like ages....) Before that a few of us went to YY's place and just.... what did I do ah?

Oh yeah, we went there and hung around. =)

No fixed time on when the dinner was supposed to start, but then we went here and went there... by the time we reached there, it was like almost 8.30pm already... but then the food have not arrived yet la...

It was like some kind of class reunion... but then 14 of us, all but one from T7 attended. Anyway really enjoyed it la...

... and was really full when we left.=)

Will update with photo(s)...

Y1S2-Wk02-D2

Now having two-hour break; in Computer Lab.

There's no water for the second day in a row here in PD Block (I don't know about other UTAR buildings...) Thankfully the smart me decided to bring water from home... =p Looking at the current situation, it is understandable if people were to begin guessing how many days will this be the case... hopefully it will not get on my nerves, as well as everybody else's.

No need for me to describe the 'scenary' inside our toilet.... (well, I meant the boys' la...)

Got the notes from Dr. Tan SL, our Calculus lecturer. Ah, another thing... when will the WBLE be set up properly, completely???!!! What is it that takes it so long to be done? This morning after my Fundametals of Linear Algebra lecture I went to see Dr. Tan SL, who graciously helped me to photocopy a set of the notes just for me. He gave the newspaper which he was reading to me, asked me to wait for fifteen minutes (because there's problem with the machine...) and then went in to the office and later came out with one set of photocopied notes for me.

Really a hassle la... what's the use of WBLE then?

Y1S2-Wk02-D1

*Y1S2-Wk02-D1 Year 1 Semester 2 Week 2 Day 1

I realized during our lunch break that nothing much has changed about me... at least in terms of my conversational skills. But afraid not, I am not here to keep on talking about my weaknesses, i.e. I got this problem la... I got that problem la... no nagging here.

Oh, something really really frustrating, and which I really hope will not happen again tomorrow or ever again... what's the problem with UTAR water drainage... water distribution... or whatever you call it... system? This is only the second week and already problems such as these have been cropping out... is this going to be the case for the rest of the semester??!!

Oh, something funny and interesting too happened today, during Intermediate Calculus class. Our lecturer, Dr. Tan SL came in with a surprising hairstyle (wait, read on...) I was thinking that he has already decided on a new hairstyle, a punky one! It wasn't until, I think, he wanted to scratch his head, when only at that moment he realized that he has not combed his hair this morning!

"Anyone got comb ah? You got a comb?" If I am not mistaken he even asked it from a few of the girls in my lecture class. =)

Funny.

Y1S2-Wk01

*Y1S2-Wk01 - Year 1 Semester 2 Week 1

Tada... my first week of this semester went by like a blink of an eye... so fast, and one week has gone!! (or should I say: so fast, one week left and then it's holiday!!)

New semester means new subjects, and new timetable. I am quite happy with this sem's timetable, even though I know a lot of people in my tutorial group would not agree with me. (for reasons such as classes from 8am for Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and classes until 5pm on Wednesdays and Thursdays (excluding extra classes/tests which will be announced later as the weeks progress on...) But for someone who has been waking up at 6.15am for almost his entire school life... from Form Three up until Form Six and during Y1S1, I think I would rather have classes early in the morning at 8am rather than having classes in the afternoon after lunch... There's so many things that I can do in the afternoon when classes are all 'dibereskan' in the morning session...

Since we have classes every morning, it means we can't have basketball games though =(

Okay, enough of the timetable... no matter what also can't be changed...

With classes begun again, I was able to meet back my friends, classmates, coursemates, college mates... almost all of them I have not contacted for the last few months. Did I accustom well after the 1 month/3 month (depends on how you see it...) sem break? I think I did, judging from this week.

Some things don't change... T7 going for lunch/'yam cha' outside/far far away whenever there's chance... Maybe it's because tutorial classes have not begun yet, and so we have much more freedom... Monday was at Old Town near PA Block, Wednesday lunch at Sec 17 and then 1U, Thursday at SP Corner, Friday at McDonald's...

There's not photocopying machine left in all of the UTAR blocks here in PJ Campus... maybe except the one in the library... So, really there's not going to be one, not even ONE, photostat machine in my block??? Does this have anything to do with sidelining us the remaining students here in PJ from such basic amenities... just because the building will no longer be in use soon?? Good that a formula has been worked out between the class reps... we will take turns to photocopy notes to all... that means me (or rather, the photocopy guy in my class =) only need to be in charge one week in three weeks... hmm...

Year 1 Sem 2 Here I Come!!

This is it! After losing myself in the last 3 months, my school life will be starting again!! As I am writing this I am looking forward at what's in store for me in the new semester. I pray that the upcoming months will be a 'safe journey' for me, hope that the new semester would be just as exciting and adventurous like last semester's, if not more. Even though so, I am not putting to high my hopes on both of these things, or on achieving anything for that matter, as this upcoming semester is no Year 1 Sem 1... I expect it to be very much hectic than the last one (thanks to my seniors who scared the heck out of me with their stories of their second semester =p)

My aim this semester? To make it to the President's List! Honestly, I didn't really cared about this list at all (I didn't really know the list exists until I think a few days before/during the exam period when ppl started talking about it...)

One thing I found out during last sem was that even though quizzes, tests, midterms are indeed important, I don't think I should overly emphasize on them... I mean I should just listen carefully during lectures, study my tutorials (I don't think doing it first before going for tutorial class helped... changing strategy: study the tutorials and notes only after the tutors give out all the answers... and also will not copy the notes... will borrow other ppl's notes to save time)

Note: the above method may not be applied to certain individuals... in fact, I am trying out this method of studying this semester...

Sleep early! I need to be in bed by 11pm (I doubt I can close my eyes till 12 midnight I guess...)

On a more personal note, I hope that I can really improve on my character, my interaction with my coursemates. There is one thing that I regret now... I probably should not have taken the LAN subjects for short sem. I should have worked or something like that. Or maybe shouldn't... I don't know. I guess that the three months can really be used to improve my conversation skills but then I think again... can I change within a definite time limit... like three months? I think it takes more than that... it's more like a long term commitment... But I often wondered if I can be more vocal or a bit talkative a bit... ever since I was small, my parents often told others that I am that kinda person who don't really talk much... now almost 21 years old, ppl still look at me as some kind of quiet person who don't like to talk...

I planned to continue to study for my SOA paper but I really doubt I can do it. Lousy as it seems after I kinda knew I would not be able to make it for the Jan 09 sitting of the P/1 paper, I was already thinking of sitting it in 2010!

This few days (today is the day before the 1st day of new sem) I have been staying at home packing for my new sem. It really does help to calm yourself and make sure you are mentally and physically prepared for the new sem. I know the school will be taking a break again just after 2 weeks for CNY... A lot of ppl will not be fully settled down and concentrate during the 2 weeks... can't really blame them as they have just gone through 3 months of holidays... and just when they got the hang of the routine of going back to school, they will be enjoying themselves again after just 2 weeks (*note 'they' as opposed to I... coz I stayed back for the short sem...)

That's for this January 09 Semester. Will thought of it all again when my Y2S1 sem starts in June 2009. At that time, will evaluate my progress again. I may be expecting/hoping too much this sem. I don't know. But it's good to know that I am not here to just enjoy or live my university life, but there's some goals in life which are waiting for me to achieve too!!

Photos: UTAR

Photos captured during Short Sem, after computers are removed from the rooms...

The computer room next to library

Internet Lab

Internet Lab

Moving Out Soon

Went over to my grandma's renovated house in Section 5 and cleaned up a bit, the house which will be my residence for the next four months...

Wah, it was so new... you won't believe this house has been here for like the past forty years or so!

Will update you with pictures... when the house is not so 'empty'...

=)

04.01.09 - Last day of Sales everywhere.... so what?!

Here Sales, there Sales... everywhere sales sales....

Went to buy some stationary, while my Mom brought my sister to buy some things for her new school year (she's Form Five, btw; and my bro is still figuring out his pre-u plans for this year...)

So, actually did I buy anything else? Nope. Nothing very obvious... (such as clothes... watch... etc.) Maybe it's the economic crisis or something... =)

Contact Lenses

Contact lenses have been at hit for college/university students of late. People generally wear contact lenses for about the same reasons... want to look younger/cooler/mature/self-confident.... etc...

Sheng Hung asked his Mom several times before, about why she wants to use contact lenses, even when she's at home. She answered him, that she's old (as in mature) enough, and besides it's not really a hassle (plus, it made her look better... Sheng Hung think she thinks so, and he agrees too!!)

Since even a few of his friends in secondary school have started wearing it, Sheng Hung thought he should have a try at it too! While walking in Sunway Pyramid one day, Sheng Hung decided to ask one of the shops a few questions about contact lenses.

"Hey, is it really troublesome ah?"

"Is it really easy to wear or not?"

Questions like that la.

The lady in the first shop told him to give it a try, by offering a pair of contact lenses for trying out. First of all, she washed her hands, and asked him to do so too. (For hygiene reasons...)

Okay, that's done.

Next, she opened up one of the sealed containers with one contact lens... (btw, his eyes are 450 at one side, 525 at another...)

"Pull your upper lid with this finger (show)... and then hold your lower lid with this one (show)..."

SH tried to do just as demonstrated. It was tough but after several tries he kinda managed to get it right... but as in like almost ten minutes later la...

"Now, put your lens just straight into your eyes..."

Okay, this is the part. SH knew it before that this is going to be hard, in trying to keep his eyes open. No matter how hard, he can't keep it open, just as his finger was about to stick the lens in.

"Okay, let me do the first one," the lady told him. She 'grabbed' his eyelids tight and stuck the lens into his left eye.

O.O

Okay, it's his turn now. Long story cut short. Did he manage to do it?

Nope.

Again, the lady helped him to stick his lens in for his right eye.

Wow...SH can now see clearly!!

Okay, time to take those contact lens off. She first told him the method to do it.

"Just take it out using your thumb and your finger...."

No matter how hard he tried, he just can't keep his eyes open when his fingers were about to touch his eyes.

Urgh... what a 'torture'...!!!

The lady, somehow, got the lens out in a blink of an eye. And till now SH can't seem to understand how she did it.

SH could feel a bit of disappointment. How did the others do it?

"Well, not everyone is able to wear contact lens... it happens that for some are easy, some are hard..."

"I mean, glasses are so convenient..." she continued.

Oh yea... right (sarcastically...)

01.01.09 - First Post for 2009

Happy New Year 2009 (again)!!

In conjunction with the new year, from this day onwards, I will post any entries up to my blog from a third-person view.

"Huh?" you may ask. Basically what this means is that instead of using the word 'I', I would instead use words like 'Sheng Hung' or 'he' or 'him' in my posts.

Oh well, never mind if you can't understand. You will notice the difference later as I post.

Goodbye 2008... Hello 2009!!

Wow, so I have survived to write my last ever post for the year 2008! =)

This year has been one heck of a year, truthfully told. I took the giant step by entering university, marking a whole new remarkable chapter in my life. Time flies and before I knew it, I am already entering my twenties... and that means I am no more a teenager! Somehow, I still feel like one though, and that's thanks to my wonderful T7 classmates, who are a bunch of lively friends (who I missed so much now, and I can't wait to see them come school reopens...), who made me feel young always... =)

Today may be the last day of the year, but it's still never too late to list down some new year resolutions, which I hope I can achieve before the end of next year. One of them definitely would be about my ability to speak, my conversation skills, my communication skills. I'm actually getting tired of being labeled as someone who doesn't speak much, a quiet person, a 'lone ranger'.... I'm not denying it, to a certain extent I really admit myself at being such a person... But I am still trying hard to shed myself from that characterization... I think that I have been trying to do so for as long as I existed... hmm.... Not much progress I have achieved eh?

If everything goes on as planned, I will be moving out in the beginning of next month. Surprised eh? Yeap, I suddenly realized that I didn't mention about it before, but if everything's going as planned, I will be moving out hopefully before the beginning of the new semester next year, and stay in Section 5. Why Section 5 you may ask? Why on Earth Section 5? Well, the simple answer is that there's the place where my grandparents are living right now, so moving with them will kinda like taking care of them in case of anything, as a company for them.... I wasn't been able to stay put there during my last semester because the house was undergoing renovation, but now it has been all completed, and hopefully I will be able to update this blog with some of the pictures which I have taken on the house.

Stepping into the new year means that it's been almost one year since I graduated together with my Form Six friends, and three years since I graduated with my 5S6 friends... (wait, I graduated twice! =) It's really nice to know that I am still able to keep in contact with some of my friends, but I felt like time has changed, and people move on in their lives... I haven't been contacting with them as often as I do last time.... Felt bad actually... really bad... Got to keep in touch with them much more often next year...

Hopefully the coming year ahead would be an exciting year ahead for me (and for everyone). I look forward to face each and every challenges which will be thrown at me, overcoming each and every hurdle which will be placed along my way during the course of my next year, and cherishing each and every moment of it.

I can't wait to start a new chapter in my life, and continue to fill my days with memorable moments, as in during the last twenty years and two months of my life.

I can't wait to continue my never-ending process of bettering myself, to become a better person, and be someone who I really can be proud of myself.

I can't wait to continue my journey, to achieve my dreams of being a respectable and professional actuary.

I can't wait to achieve the various goals which I have set for myself during the course of the next year, to score good grades in my university subjects, and hopefully get on the President's List!=)

I can't wait to achieve the many many things which I have dreamt of before, but have not been able to achive so far.

Hereby, I wish everyone:

Happy New Year 2009!!