Fourth and fifth day

Yesterday and today the lectures finally go on as usual, no more class cancelled. Some of the teacher was nice, some was serious... but all of them are dedicated, and they don't teach just for the sake of getting their pay, which is a good thing.

Today got to know some new friends, Indians and Chinese, but only males. Hanging along with them feels not the same from my first batch of TARC friends. Maybe because different attitudes or different timeline. Whatever the reason is, I will stay with them for two years, thus I need to adept... by hook or by crook.

This semester they won't be any usage of computer labs, but a lot of projects. Sad to say soon I will be too busy like the rest of the TARC students, and won't be able to hang out with my friends or blog frequently liao. Oh well, at least this is better than me wasting time doing nothing at home! XD

Tomorrow should be a free day, but then some kns lecturer skipped his lecture this week, so will be replacing it tomorrow, on a Sat!?! Damn... how a single person could drag so many problems to so many people... sounds percuiliar, ain't it? -_-;

Three days, no more strike!

Today got two lecture. First lecture AGAIN the teacher did not show up. So took the opportunity to choose class rep. It was weird cause usually the teacher choses the class rep on the first day of tutorial, during my times. Maybe cause this course rep cannot stand people keep sms and calling her, she wants the class rep to take the responsibilities pula... swt.

Unfortunaltely, although I wished, I wasn't pick as a class rep. Oh well, being a class rep means u need to fork out a lot of money for phone calls and sms. Maybe it's a blessing in disguise that I didn't make it? Anyway, my class rep is a girl, which looks a bit cute and pretty... so pass la! XD

The second lecture finally was our official FIRST lecture for the week. It was introduction to illustration. I thought illustration was Illustrator, the software. Mana tau it was the drawing class again. I thought Multimedia Design no need draw!? -_-

Looks like this Pn. Nik is quite a serious teacher, and she graduated from MARA. Saying 100% coursework is exam marks, our fate totally lies in her hands, swt. And she wants us to buy those stuffs that I bought last time when I was in MIA... sigh, feels like MIA all over again! Oh well, at least I'm a bit senior, hope I could excel in this subject! :P But before that, need to use a lot of money to buy those art materials again... ouch!

Second day...

The course rep doesn't answer my call, so I called the assistant. He said there's a lecture at 5pm, when I'm getting ALREADY getting ready for the 1pm lecture, as told by the course rep yesterday. So I wait for 5pm...

I went early to check the timetable again, this time I finally understood the freaking confusing timetable. But then it says there's a class at 6, not 5! So I called the assistant again, and he said no class cause the 6pm one is Language class, not Lecture... *tuut*!

So wasted another day doing nothing, tomorrow class at 8am, horay... -_-;

Official first day of TARC

Last week the course rep told us to check our timetable from TARC website, but to my dismay, the site only show timetables for SBS (business) side. No other alternative, I went to TARC around 9am to check the timetable on the notice board. To my horror (but expected), there were hundreds of students trying to get their timetable too...!


Took me nearly half an hour just to get the freaking timetable, but only the time, not the venue or subject. And to make matter worse, I could only find the timetable for lab and tutorial, can't find where's the freaking lecture timetable! So I went to the last resort of calling the course rep, who then told me today there's a lecture at 1pm.


So I tapau chicken rice and went back, with a stomach ache. Luckily no class then! So... I wasted some time Mapling, and around 12.15pm, I called the course rep again, to know where's the venue (forgot to ask earlier). It was lucky I called from home, because then she told me the office suddenly last minute cancelled the lecture! I asked her when and where's tomorrow lecture, but she could only say it's at 1pm, don't know where.


Then she says she's busy and couldn't look at the timetable then. Poor Nalina, she even told me she had around 50 sms and calls today, maybe asking for the timetable like me. Imagine need to reply back 50 sms, how much do that cost?! Being a course rep, you need to fork out your own money too, kesian... Still I thanked her and hope she could deal with it like a real... woman. But I need to call her back tomorrow to know tomorrow's lecture... at least I called, not SMSed! XD


P/S: I hope TARC could be better well organize. I know with 250,000 students, it would be hard. But still...!

On the third day of mass call...

I went late cause send bro to LRT,
But there was another more late than meee.....

On the third day of mass call...
A young girl sat next to me,
Never seen her again after she went to peeee.....

On the third day of mass call...
so front I sit I could see clearly,
but alone, I feel so miniiiii.....

On the third day of mass call...
the teacher was humorous and friendly,
they even play games with thier hand and kneeee.....

On the third day of mass call...
After lunch alone I went CC,
Cannot stand (for the next class) I became 'Mr Skip-pieeee.....'


So nothing much today, but go class, the funny teacher taught us about time management and how to relief stress, those stuffs. Then I feel the next class would be useless too, so I skip it (since it was taught by the same teacher and I already took my attendance). The End.

Second day of Mass Call

Today was nearly late, so when I entered the hall, DK D, the side where the Multimedia Designers were supposed to sit were nearly full. No choice, I sit the most behind, beside a guy (which looks so pretty I thought was a girl). Then the seniors started to shout their voice out, because there was no speaker on.


Looks like they will be selecting a Course Rep. I don't want to be it, cause if the teacher was late, you need to run all the way to the admin to ask if the teacher took leave or not... everyday. Since no one volunteered, the seniors starts to pick people randomly. I sort of pity them, being randomly chosen to do what they don't want to do.


Then suddenly a thin guy with specs walk up, towards my direction. Then he ask me 'Can you go down?' I was stunned... 'Me!?'. Kns, I shouldn't have laughed in my heart earlier, now I'm one of them! So, reluctantly, I walk down the long stairs, with nearly 200 people watching me. After that each of us need to introduce ourselves. So being the idiot I am, I said 'Hi, I'm Jason. I live in Tmn Melawati. I'm good in English and BM, but not so good in Mandarin. I know Cantonese too. I like to play basketball and... DOTA! Thank you'...


Yes, the crowd laughed, a bit. And I don't know who cast a spell on me to say those idiotic words. But because of that, I was luckily not picked, and 1 Indian with 3 Chinese became the committee members. Later a lecturer came to tell us about the ups and downs of college life, and he WAS the teacher I knew from my old school. Looks like he is bound to teach me in one of my classes, sooner or later. How will I say 'Hi' to him then!? -_-;


At least now some of my future classmates will know me, since I was the most 'obvious' among all. Sighhh.....

Mass call TARC 2008

Woke up earlier than the alarm clock, today was an important day. It's the mark of a student from SSH, going to start a new beginning in the big big world of college... TAR college. Studying among students which are way younger of age, what will the day's adventure brings?


When he reach the main hall, there was quite a number of students already in line to enter the big building. Strange thing is, the male line is way shorter than the female's, thus enabling him to get his new TARC clothes and kit in a matter of minutes. Luckily the clothes still fit, but then he regrets not wearing a belt with his loose jeans! Walking slowly, he enters the hall.


Soon he was seating between two guys on the right side of the hall. There's a tall dude sitting in front of him and his ear piercing looks... painful. The hall slowly was filled with students and finally full. Two young people host the event and luckily they wasn't as boring as the crowd, which is either shy or haven't taken their breakfast.


Mostly introducing the VIPs of the school, it was really a boring session. Luckily the Head of SSH was a funny dude, although he wasn't 'young'. Some of the jokes he said was 'This 2 week will be Speaking English week. I hope you all will try your best to speak in English because even when DOTA-ing, you type in English right? When you 'piak' the enemies...' Looks like the old also knew of DOTA, nice...


Saw one of his old teachers which shifted from his old school, he was shocked that he was not using the same name frequently used then. But one of the experienced lecturers, he was teaching Creative Arts and Hospitality. Rare chance he will be teaching him, he thoughts... When the SSH VIPs moved out of the hall, they began to disband too. Thought of finally able to go home, when he stepped out of the hall, there was another school tour he was supposed to join, but this time among Multimedia Design students only.


Feeling the need to know his future colleagues, he entered the tour, which was badly done by the unserious seniors. It was Speaking English week, yet sometimes they use Mandarin to describes the buildings around. If I wasn't a senior myself, I would have been more clueless after the tour. Some was even asking each other questions regarding the admin stuffs, although they studied two years there. Two words... Unprepared 'Seniors'.


Finally the tour is at its end, he will need to go for another event tomorrow at nine. This time they will select the Course Rep, which he doubts he wants to be among the 200++ students. He was glad there was some cute and beautiful girls in the course too, but he didn't spot any within his preferences to his dream gal. Maybe time will tell if this course could heal him from his old sickness in the heart. Maybe.....

Celebrating Oon's bday

Last Sat went out with my fav group of TARC friends again. Daniel sent me to Sg Wang, where I then guide SG and Oon to Pavilion's Red Box karaoke. Daniel also going there but with his group of ex-colleagues. This Red Box was more 'classy' than the ones in Sg Wang or Lowyat, in which before we go in we were given hand tags as prove to enjoy the buffet dinner.

WingC and Jimmy was inside room 6, and the 2 of them have already started singing. I have no energy yet, so went straight for the buffet table to see what's in store. Although not many choices, still it was good enough. The good ones were fried rice, lamb, chicken, che cheong fan, cakes and a variety of tit-bits. There were also a potato and cashew nuts desert which taste ok. The other foods that I didn't eat were crabs, squid, crams (lala), pumpkin soup, mixed vege and salads.

The water was free flow too, and until 3pm (extended one hour from the other Red Box) I drank 2/3 sprites and 2 iced milo. No need to say, I ate until I nearly can't move anymore, and then sang some shouting songs like 'It's my life' and 'What I've done' to release the 'power' stored inside, lol. Not bad, and everyone was enjoying it too. Daniel just came and went back singing Chinese songs with his colleagues. We sang 50/50 Chinese and English songs that day, good!

After that we take a walk in Pavilion as it's my first time there as well as SG's. Not that huge as expected, and it's like a bigger KLCC only. Saw the fascinating fish spa which cost a whooping RM35 for half an hour. SG wanted to buy a new hp but didn't know which to buy. Soon she was brainwashed by Jimmy (and a little help from me) to buy the cool IPhone, which is still not officially launched in Malaysia. Over her real budget, she really wants to buy it... desperately, haha... Oon went to read some books, so we parted there.

Then we went to Wangsa Maju while Daniel still hangs around in Pavilion. Went to try the 'Ho Chiak' recommended flavored ice drink. When we wanted to choose which flavor, there were only 3 left among 12 or more choices. So fast finished!? I choose the soya+longan, which is quite nice and cost only RM2.50. WingC belanja us, hehe...

Then went to the park near old SP's house. It's now better, with no water puddles for mosquitoes to breed. As we sit around, we chat about all kind of stuffs (the best moment of the day). The topics was random, from SP, Oon, Daniel to CY, Sum and YL. Most of the topics was started by me to keep the conversation going, and it turned up pretty fun, with gossiping and 'secrets', hehe... Daniel joined later but he missed a lot, especially the part about him, haha...!

Around 7.15pm, Jimmy and WingC has to depart to Section 10 of Wangsa Maju to attend a wedding dinner from one of WingC's ex-colleagues. Me, Daniel and SG went to try out the newly opened HYK restaurant, which specialize in Prawn Mee. It was really expensive, especially in a student populated area like Desa Setapak. Still, since we was there for 3 hours, it was ok. Strange thing is there was no Gov tax and Service charge, although printed in the bill. Maybe it hasn't been implemented... or they thought we are students? XD

Then second round in BRJ, which WingC and Jimmy joined. Chat for another 3 hours (even David was in the conversation!) and we finally disbanded. Planned to go Genting this coming Sat, but Sunday is Father's Day, will the plan still go on? I hope so, cause there's nothing better than going out and enjoying with friends like them! :P



P/S: Mass Call TARC starts tomorrow... my heart is beating fast, I wonder why?

5 more days to go

Yawn... boring and nothing to do at home except house work and more house work. After so long of vacation, finally the time has come to start my school in TARC for the 3rd time... this time the final one, which is Multimedia Design. At least starting from 20th May I will be able to blog nice things again, rather than nothing to write about (except when I go out).

College life... when you have nothing to worry about except studies and pass your exams with good results. Sure there are projects and assignments, but there are friends who will be there to help. No worries, just study, do work and exams, that's the life of a student. When you're a student, you want to work ASAP. But when you work, you want to study again. Now I have learned my lesson and will try my best to enjoy and study well before I face the wrath of work in the future.

Better late than never... choong forward ah! XD

Rice price hike

Last week went shopping with my mom in Giant, I was suprised the price of rice has gone up from RM4-Rm20, depending on brands. Since there is still a lot of rice there, we didn't buy any cause it's expensive. Then when we went to Jusco, the place where they put the sacks of rice to sell was nearly empty! We asked a staff and she said starting tomorrow, the price of rice will raise according to the stickers on the rice bags. We compare the prices on the stickers and the price tags, it was a stagering different of RM10++! So we bought 2 sack of rice, the max amount limited to each customer.

Many of us who didn't buy rice wouldn't know that the price of rice has increased by so much. Although the supply of rice is sufficient, nobody says about a price hike, did they? It's expected since the price of rice outside Malaysia nearly doubled but it only rised 1.5x here. Luckily the price of Nasi Campur or Nasi Lemak didn't rise... yet.

On the other hand, we are very fortunate compared to China and Myanmar which are suffering from earthquakes and tornados. Thousands die or starving to death, while we only suffers money lost.

Human actions        Weather change    Rice insufficient   Price hike
(global warming, -->  drastically   -->                 -->
pollution, etc.)

So eat less beef as it is disposing more global warming effects than chicken! :P

To dump nuffnang or not...?

I was like 'WTF!?!' when I saw how little Nuffnang paid me... I thought some of the advertisement was on a time basis, which means the longer it's there, the more I was paid. But looks like it's not... cause so long only got less than RM1!!!

Then Daniel advice me to shift to adverlets... should I shift? Hmmm, any opinions out there?


P/S: Man U won the Premier League! I know they can do it. Now to beat Chelsea once more on May 21st for the Champions League... go go Man U!!

Karma strikes when you do bad things

Ok, I know most of you don't believe in Karma (you should watch Earl), but don't you believe that for every bad thing you do, there is bound that something bad will happen back to yourself. For instance if you rob, you will get jail. If you kill, you will get death sentence (or jail). If you don't get caught, then God may punish you in some way or another...


I had a friend who once thinks that he owns the world. He thought everyone will believes what he says. All his saying is right, he can even turn the wrong seems right. He cons, cheats, lies and deceives. Although it doesn't seem much harm at that time, he never wakes up and continues some of his bad traits now. So what happens in the end? He lost a lot of friends and now lives alone by working and playing games everyday. Kesiankan? That's karma... :P


That's why I try to live everyday being as nice, as much, as possible. Doing good will make you feel better and... sleep better. Doing things that harm people in one way or another will make me feel bad (how long depends on how serious), so I rarely do it. Be the best you can... but in a good way. You don't need to step on flowers or people just to be better than everyone, do you? So be good... and I will pray that good fortune will be with you. ~Cheers~

Random cute pics, haha!

New banner, haha

Kena complain (who else) that Firefox cannot see my banner properly, so waster 1 hour doing this banner. Yes, it sucks, it's funny looking... but me noob ma! XD

Will try to make a better one... later....... zzzzz

SO birthday celebration gathering

Last Sat went to Mid Valley Megamall to celebrate Daphne's and Anna's birthday. Me and Daniel move out around 1pm++ from our house. As we are early, we went to find Comics Mart and I bought myself a tournament pack (Magic) while he bought some sleeve protector. Should have asked Daniel to pick as the cards inside were not so good...


Then went to see some fashion show at the bottom floor, from the top floor. Hugo and some other dude was there taking pics of the models. After it is done, we went to the pet store to see some animals, then straight headed for the cinema to watch Ironman at 4.15pm. Angeline was late because somehow she stained her dress and need to go back and to change. There were around 7 of us, and we were late around 10 min.


After the show we split up. We went to buy a cake (chocolate) which doesn't really taste nice. Somehow there's the smell of plastic or bubblegum flavor inside, yuck! (We only eat it later) After that we head for Chilis, but we need to wait to be seated as they don't allow bookings. Need to wait around an hour, so we went for another fashion show before dining there (luckily it's fashion week). David joined soon as he just finished his work.


Chilis... for the first time. They say the food is a bit expensive but in large servings (reminds me of Murni), but I was shocked when most of the food was RM20-RM30, not including drinks. Oh well, first time Chilis, make it worthwhile! Ordered 'home-made chicken', which was quite fulfilling, but in the end I was full thanks to David's side dish (he belanja us). The orange juice was luckily bottomless, so I refilled it for 3-4 times. After all of us finished eating, it was the photo shooting session. I think we were the most noisy and 'bright' table among all, because of the laughter and flashes from the cameras.


Also meet Daphne's brother, which I think is quite a successful GD-related-field person. Even Eve (Smilegal) was studying Multimedia Design, which I will be studying soon. A small world indeed. Chatted with Satkuru and noticed he was not as quiet as the first meeting last time, haha. Daphne was a pro in English and quite an 'artist' type... plus she was the only one who hugged me, haha. Overall I was shy myself, thus didn't really chat with the others although there were around 15-17 of us at that time.


The dinner was freaking expensive, added with the cake plus the 'not enough money incident' (suddenly short of RM50 when collecting money), cost me nearly RM50 just for a dinner. Although the services was alright, eating at Chilis was really not worth it, for me at least. When we left, the shop was nearly closed. Some of them decided to yamcha, but since Daniel doesn't want, I followed his decision. A crazy and memorable night, I arrived home around 1.30am... syok!

The danger of drinking people's water

I have always followed my mom advice not to drink people's water, especially if the person drank it with their mouth before. Most people think that it is really no problem. Not like you will contact HIV or any dangerous sickness trough water, right?


WRONG! There's a lot of disease and sickness that can be contracted trough water. Some of the mild ones include fever and sore throat. The bacteria and virus will be in the water, and when another non-sick person drank it, there is a chance they will 'kena' too. I had an uncle that contracted Hepatitis B from her daughter, which genetically transferred from her mother's side of the family. In other words, she's a carrier... and now my uncle is hit with liver failure from Hepatitis B, and need to take medicine for a long long time.


Although dangerous illness like Hepatitis B could be prevented through immunisation, how well do you know it still work? Maybe a booster could help, but is it 100% effective? Accidents could happen anytime, else it won't be called an accident, would it? So, better be safe than sorry... prevention is always better than cure. ~Cheers~