Free from exam~!

Exam is over~! University life has almost come to and end.

Broke my own record this morning. For the very first time I requested for an additional answer booklet to write my answers. A-hem... I wrote a lot, even more than requested.

Well, I did not mean to write that much. But the instruction is too general. I just wrote everything so that I will not miss out anything. Lastly, I left the exam hall half an hour earlier!

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Went to my practical school after that. Waited outside of the pejabat for more than an hour as the principal was eating at the school canteen and talked to someone in her office after that. Gggrrr... Finally the penolong kanan met us and gave us some briefing regarding our teaching in the school.

I will be teaching Form 4 students. One class of modern mathematics, and another class of chemistry. I will be given teaching periods of PE or co-curricular activities as well.

It will be the school mid-year exam from 3rd of May. It will last for two weeks! After that will be a week of discussion before the two weeks' school holiday.

What is the conclusion???

I will only start teaching in June!!!

MUAHAHA~~~~~

Photos

Photos of the picnic session days ago...

Sunday Morning

By the lake in UM, early in the morning around 7.30am.
The tallest building is Menara TM.



Scenes in campus.
Green green grass and tall tall tree =)


The weather is so nice today!


Faculty of Education


Millennium Court, the place I have been staying for almost 4 years.


Last but not least, first birthday present for my 25th birthday.
A teddy bear with handmade cake!
Thanks, my friend~!

A long day

Back to room after attended the workshop which is about my teaching practice. Dead beat after listening to talks and watching videos for the whole morning...

TK came PJ this noon and he drove me to find the school which I will teach soon. The school is located in Section 5, surrounded by bungalows and Bukit Gasing. It is actually quite near to MC and I think that it will be better if I continue to stay here. However, I will have to wait until I meet the principal and get my teaching timetable before I can have my final decision.

Went to eat the very famous Ipoh nga choy gai fan (chicken rice with bean sprouts) at Jalan Gasing after that. Proceed to One Utama after that to catch a movie.

We watched Just Follow Law. A nice movie which reflects well about the attitude of some civil servants. Eg: use "rules and regulations" as excuses to drag the progression of some application, knock off 5.00pm SHARP, pushing away the responsibility to other departments, etc.

However, there are also some touching scenes when Tanya (whose soul is trapped in TengZui's body) realises how much her mother actually loves and dotes on her, and also when TengZui (whose soul is trapped in Tanya's body) realises that his irresponsible attitude has made him a terrible father.

Family is important. There is nothing which can replace that kind of unique relationship. Seeing the scenes in the movie, I have to wipe away my tears secretly.

A typical Jack Neo's production. Realistic, fun, humour, yet touching.

Wonderful Saturday

Had a wonderful Saturday, though had insufficient sleeping time.

Woke up at 8am to call the Air Asia regarding the problem I encountered last night in the online booking procedure. I booked 4 tickets from KL to Sibu on 28th of July. No itinerary is given even though the money is credited from my account. Their call centre is lousy. Kept letting me wait and listen to their advertisement as all of their sales agents are "busy due to the poor services and lousy network plus the problematic booking procedures overwhelming responses to their promotion".

I woke up early in the morning as their call centres operate from 8am to 9am. I made four calls, but ended up listen to more than 3 minutes of advertisement and still did not get to the sales agents. Gggrrrrr...

Luckily I found an email in mailbox with an attachment of the itinerary. Well, I did check my mailbox several times when the initerary page did not show up after the payment is done last night. But there was nothing there! Finally I discovered that the email is sent to me at 3am, about 5 hours after I made my booking =(

So, I proceed with the other two bookings, one is from Sibu to Kuching on 30th of July, and one is from Kuching to KL on 2nd of Aug. The former one is same like what happened yesterday where payment is done but did not lead me to the itinerary page (but this time I get the email 5 minutes after I made the booking). The latter is okay and finally lead me to the initerary page after I made the payment.

Anyway, I have to say that they are actually doing great promotion where air tickets are FREE and only need to pay for the tax. It costs me only RM170 to fly from KL to Sibu, from Sibu to Kuching, and from Kuching to KL.

Shall I ignore the unpleasant and traumatised booking experience as they are giving me free air tickets?

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Planned to continue sleeping after I have settled the booking thing. But I could not sleep anymore as I am totally awakened by the booking thing. So, I decided to do something to save my computer.

Well, it has significantly slower performance and a lot of unwanted pop-ups even though pop-up blocker is on. Is it due to adware or spyware and dunno-what-ware? (I am kinda idiot in computers so I just try whatever I know.)

It seems better after I downloaded and installed an adware scan and removal program. I ran several scan and many "rubbish" is detected and deleted. Computer's performance improves after that =)

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Mona dated me for lunch. She came to pick my up with her company car, a big green color Unser. We went to the Johnny's Restaurant again for steamboat. But this time we only ordered a steamboat for 1 pax plus another set meal as we want to try their nasi goreng belacan.

Their menu is nice. All of the food is nicely shown in pictures. Everything looks appetizing and so tempting, which makes you have the urge to order everything!!!

The food is superb! Ate to my heart's content again!

I am already falling in love with the restaurant~~~ Haha...

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Went to the English class after lunch. I was so tired, as I slept late and woke up so early. Luckily the class is interesting. (Or maybe I should say, the classmates are funny!)

We have to do group discussion again. This time is to give explanation and instructions on doing an experiment. My fellow classmates will be my students. But Alvin told us to pretend as naughty students who will kacau the class and ask a lot of questions in the class to interrupt the teacher.

So, I really did my best to be the naughtiest student in the class. Hope that my "teachers" will not hate me =p

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I was exhausted after the class. Went back to my room immediately instead of joing my friends for dinner. I intended to nap for a while. But then Mona asked me out again, for dinner this time.

Well, she wanted to bring me to SS2 to try Yong Tau Foo, which she mentioned to me in the noon. Her invitation shoke all my sleepy bugs away =p

So, we, together with her colleague, Karen, went to this restaurant (I did not notice the name!) which sells Yong Tau Foo. What is interesting with this restaurant is that it is halal, which means that Muslims can also try the chinese cuisine here. This is a great point for improving interactions in a multi-racial society.

The food is nice. Yong Tau Foo, deep-fried dumplings and especially the honey chicken. Yummie~~~ My stomach was nearly burst after I finished everything.

Hmm... I have had so much fattening food today. 罪孽深重啊……

But eating is indeed a great thing in life!!! It is the best enjoyment in life other than sleeping and travelling!!!

Burp~! I am so full~~~

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Went out with Joan, I-Vee and KaiHo in the night. We went to watch movie in One Utama. Cinema on Saturday night is really congested. We watched Pathfinder, a movie about a legend of Dawn clan.

The movie in quite nice, with a lot of scenes which are really terrifying and exciting. Killing is something common in that time. People kills for self-protecting and also taking revenge. 怨怨相报何时了？Avengeness will only bring to more killings and hate. People knows it but people still do it. A really horrifying contradiction. Is that the human nature?

Was lost in the car park after the movie. We parked the car at new wing of One U but ended up watch movie at TGV at old wing (as we could not get tickets in GSC new wing). Took some time to finally reach at new wing.

Had supper at Nasi Kandar Kayu SS2, where we had roti tisu (which I named it 巴黎铁塔 as it is much more bigger and higher than any usual roti tisu than I have seen) last time. But we were all too full to eat anything. So we just ordered drinks and crapped together.

It was 3.30am when KaiHo and I-Vee sent me and Joan back to MC. My long but wonderful Saturday has come to an end.

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I had a long, long sleep and woke up at 2pm today =p Bought newspaper to read about the flood in Johor. Sigh... This is the third time of flood in Kluang in not more than 1 month.

When will the rain stop? When will the flood end?

Sigh...

Saturday

Bought a big packet of kiwi fruits last evening. There are altogether 14 in a kg. Well, that is really a lot for me.

I am not a big kiwi lover but it is just that the fruits look tempting to me when I went to Carrefour yesterday when leaving office earlier. I was intended to buy some pears or oranges but they are sold at very expensive price =(

So I have been eating kiwi since last night. The sourish taste is special and make me feel hungry very soon. I think that kiwi helps digestion to act faster =p

But I should not eat too much kiwi then. Why? Because I will feel hungry all the time and definitely will eat more food and gain more weight. Haha...

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The English this afternoon is not bad. The instructor, Mr Alvin is a skinny young-looking guy who is actually 34 years old. He even let us check his identity card for his age since we did not believe that.

The class focuses on speaking and listening. A pre-test is given where we have to answer a question in a minute time, just like what happen in a beauty pageant!

My question is, "If you were given a chance to dine with a celebrity, who will the celebrity be and why?"

OMG! What a question! I am already a big girl and no more in the age with all the fantasies about dining or going out with any celebrity. My mind went blank when given the question.

Lastly the name of "Amber Chia" pop into my mind. I said that I want to dine with her as I want to know what does she eat to keep her body slim and her skin so nice =p

The class is interesting and much more better than what I expected. Looking forward for the next class =)

Homework

So soon that the four-day break is over. I am back in KL last night about 7pm. It took me four and a half hour to reach KL from Kluang, one hour more than usual due to the heavy rain (very, very rain until you cannot see the road in front!) and terrible traffic on the highway.

It's Wednesday and I have class to attend in the morning. And I just realised that I have long forgotten about the homework which is given in the last class which will due today!

So, I am working hard on it now. Luckily it is only an easy task =p

Last Paper

Final exam is over~!!! Holiday has started officially~!!!

Second and Third Paper

Finish another two papers today. I am very lucky that what I read eventually come out in the four exam questions of Leadership. Cheers for my very accurate prediction!!! But I only need to answer two questions so I only asnwered a question about leadership and another question about relationship leadership. Muahaha... I wrote a lot, and crapped a lot too!

For the 80 MCQ of Computational Chemistry, the questions are nearly ALL SAME to the questions in past year paper!!! Woohoo~~~ I only spent half an hour to finish answering the 80 questions.

Haha... Never feel so happy after exam.

Second paper

Spent a whole night practising with the past year exam questions for Educational Statistic. I have pain all over my body after sitting and writing in front of my table for long hours.

Woke up early this morning and repeated the same procedures. It rained heavily while I was on my way to the exam hall. I was half-drenched when I arrived at the hall. And it was damn freezing in the hall as the air-conditioner in the hall is producing cold air at a freaky low temperature. It was so difficult to write under such a freezing condition.

Anyway, I still able to answer everything. But my hands were almost numb, as it was too cold. The exam is not difficult. I should be able to score well in it =)

I can finally pack some notes into my pink box. It is meant for the notes which have retired!

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TK is going home tonight. He asked me whether want to tumpang his car back home or not. At first I do think of going home but later I find it quite a waste of time and money. As I will just be able to stay for not even two days at home and I need to pay him for the petrol. So I was still considering about it this noon.

When a friend of mine knew that I might be going home for the weekend. She asked in a damn surprised tone, "How can you go home? We have exam next week ler.. You really should not go home... "

Ya, I know that exam is coming. But so what? Tell me, which law state that one cannot travel home when exam is coming? Must I be holding the book and read it for more than a thousand times until I can memorise everything from head to toe and from toe to head? For me, that is really ridiculous!

I wonder what is the purpose of having exam... Is it the one and only one important great event for a semester? Everyone is taking it as something SO important until they give up their sleeping time, shopping time, and other leisure life just because "exam is coming!"

I am not saying that it is not good to read books. But, if one only read when exam is around the corner, what is the point? Is it for gaining knowledge, or is it just merely for getting good results in exam?

I do my work pretty well all the time. I have my own pace in maintaining my performance. I know what I am good at, and what I am weak at. So, please do not tell me that "exam is coming so you must read your books", "exam is coming so you cannot go out", or "exam is coming so you cannot sleep too much", as if sleeping or going out to buy something or watch a movie is something sinful.

I hate listening to all those craps telling me not to do this or not to do that just because "exam is coming". Life still have to carry on even with or without exam, isn't it?

I do have my side of rebellion. So I will never read crazily for the notes over and over again as if I am going to memorise all the single words and vomit them onto the answer sheet during exam. That is not my style! I will still sleep a lot as usual. I will still spend plenty of time on internet as usual. I will still go shopping or watch movie as usual. What's wrong with it?

I would prefer truly understanding of what is being learnt rather than just memorising everything without understanding them. I have my own pace of preparing myself for the exam. Please do not regulate me with your view or your way. I will only find it irritating.

Yeah, go ahead to read and memorise every little words in your books for a million times if you are going to write all the same words in the exam instead of expressing the idea that you understood in your own words. But please, do not ever tell me to follow your way of learning. (Oh! That is not learning! That is memorising!)

I hate it, I really hate it.

First paper

It is 9.45am now. In not more than two hours later I will be sitting in the exam hall, dealing hard with the questions in the exam paper. (Or maybe I will be staring at the ceiling thinking hard for a solution or maybe just day-dreaming there as I cannot answer?)

I am quite tension now. It seems like what I remember is disappearing from my mind little by little. That is not something good as I do not remember much in the first place!

I better don't scare myself like this. Anyway, good luck to me~!

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*edited at 4.20pm*

The chemistry paper is over, finally. The organic chemistry part is not as difficult as imagined, I am glad with it. But, the part of inorganic chemistry is totally confusing! I might be fail to score any mark.

For physical chemistry part... Mr J asked a lot about definition, which is my weakness. I even so careless to calculate the equilibrium constant wrongly!

Sigh... I just hope that I will score at least with B. Otherwise it will make my CGPA drop terribly...

Maybe I just should not think so much with the already-cannot-amend result of my chemistry paper. I need to work hard for the paper on Educational Statistic tomorrow!

Jia you~!

Big family of SEP students

The students who are doing Bachelor of Science with Education in University of Malaya.


My fellow coursemates who are living in MC~!
Front: (from left) Shelley, Jovita, FL, SingYee, Sharon, Jennifer
Back: (from left) Joanne, ShirLi, me, WF, ML, ChuayYan
(Joanne is not part of us! She just buat kacau!!)

Presentation

It's my group's turn to present about the topic of stress management this morning. So, here is a photo of my group members: FL, ML, WF and Zanna. (Ok.. I am not in the photo as I was the one who took the photo.)

We made it as a broadcasting of TV show "UM Hari Ini" where Zanna as the host who interviewed doctors (FL and WY), counsellor (ML) and a secondary teacher who suffered stress (me). That is fun!

Encik Megat is pleased with our performance as he can finally see something special and different from the read-from-transparencies way of presentation of the five groups before =p

We are great~! (Allow me to show off a bit please...)

Pesta Tanglung UM 2006

Pesta Tanglung UM 2006 is here~!

There will be some autograph sessions of 曾国辉 (tonight) and 宇恒 (Wednesday night). Many of my friends are so excited for this, but sorry not me. I am not interested in the autograph sessions. I hate squeezing in the congested crowd, especially when they are none of my favourite singers =p

(I like Jay. But I don't even go to his concert when a friend offered me free tickets!! It's not that I do not support him. But I just do not like being squeezed up in the crowd. I am a weird person, don't I?)

Here are some pictures taken at the exhibition section of the Pesta Tanglung. The exhibition is mainly on Chinese culture.


Opera costumes, and tea set.


Traditional incense to be burnt to God, and traditional food such as rice dumplings, glutinuous rice ball, and mould to make "ang-ku-kueh" (aka red-tortoise-softcake... lol )


Pictures of the four beauties, and a big lotus-shaped lantern.


Cheng Ho, and his ships =p


二十四节令, lanterns, and lion dance.

self deceiving

Who will approach you in a sense of concern when seeing you with the kinda negative nickname or personal message in msn messenger?

Two of my contacts did so today.

Evelyn (my cousin who is two years older than me) send me messages when seeing my personal message is = in self deceiving mode = this noon. She is pretty worried with this negative statement.

And also JJ, when seeing me used back my very old nickname about the mad world and my personal message sounds i am mad as well...... . He told me that "anger will people age faster " as he thought that I was angry over something. Hmm... He misinterpreted what I mean with the word "mad". I just want to bring out the idea that this is a crazy world and I am crazy as well.

Oh well, nothing serious actually. I am just feeling lost in my current and future life. I really have no idea of why am I being so busy all the time. (At least, I THINK that I am busy.) I have tonnes of work to be completed. But I just have no idea for what the hell am I busying for. So there is nothing I can do but just to deceive and convince myself that "Life is going to be better tomorrow!", "Tomorrow will be a better day!", "There is always new hope tomorrow!", and bla bla bla... But deep in my heart I know that things just will not be better tomorrow.

Sound contradicted, right?

But, who is really clear in mind with what he/she really want? Who is really doing the actual things to pursue what he/she intended to achieve? And, who is really leading the kind of life that he/she desired to?

I THINK (actually CONFIRM) that I am not. Do you?

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So another week is over. It is going to be the 12th week of the semester soon. Life is still dull, and meaningless.

(I am so keen in posting pictures in my blog recently. Why? Hmm.. I am just trying to make my life more colorful and not so dull with only words, words and words.)

Here are some pictures of the lab work I have been doing recently.

Potassium dichromate and oxalic acid were measured, grounded into fine powder, and mixed up in a damp mortar. In seconds, they will react and become black-greenish solid.

This is amazing! Orange color + white color + some water will turn out to some blackgreen-ish things! (Well, I DO think that chemistry is amazing at times.)

Then some ethanol is added and the mixture is heated on a hot plate until it dries up and solidifies.

(Hot plate is a great invention. But I miss the old days in seconday school lab work with Bunsen burner... Lab is kinda fun with Bunsen burner!)

Finally, ground the solid into fine powder. And this is the potassium dioxalatoaquochromate that I have produced from potassium dichromate and oxalic acid.

* applause *

Proudly present to you my product!!!

(I am crazy liao...)

So I am going to use this product for the next determination steps in my experiment. The names of the compounds formed in this experiment are sooooo long that I even lazy to type it over here =p

And one more thing, the lecturer wants the lab reports to be handwritten. He wants to prevent us from "copy and paste" from other's work.

$)*^&%$!#~%$&*#)*%

What kind of ridiculous reason is that? I can also copy people's work with my handwriting!

Stupid!!!

Monday again...

Was shooted by Mr J terribly again this morning. Monday and Wednesday mornings are never good as he will sure step down my self-respect in a terrific way =/

Encik Megat has gone missing. He did not come to the class this morning. So was my group member, Zanna who was supposed to come over to discuss about the time for our next discussion.

Went to BCBB to check my saving account. UM management is really weird. Yeas ago, they use BCBB for transaction with PTPTN and school fees. But since last year, they change the bank to Bank Islam. So all of the UM students have an account at Bank Islam and the school management will bank in the money from PTPTN loan to the accounts at Bank Islam after they deduct out the school fees. But the weird thing is, they refund the balance of our extra-paid school fees back to us to BCBB account!

Proceed to SKR (Seksyen Kemasukan, Rekod and Pendaftaran Pelajar) after that to query something about my next semester. But I was told that they will do things according to faculty. So, I have to go back to my faculty at last.
Finally everything is settled. I went to library to do my lab report. Sigh... A handwritten lab report has eaten up much of my time!

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Was sitting near the faculty canteen while waiting for the 2pm class. I took some pictures of the scenery around the canteen.



Dr. Sharifuddin is missing again! It seems like he never like me to be in his class as he will sure disappear without reason or cancel the class when I attend his class. But when I absent, he will conduct the lecture as usual! This is really something kinda hard to explain, huh?

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Finally able to complete the report for the first laboratory on Diels-Alder reaction after writing for almost 4 hours.

I still do not understand that why the lecturer insists us to handwrite the report. (To avoid "copy and paste" from others' work?) That is really quite a waste of time!

My hand is in pain now after writing for the whole day. It seems like I haven't got the chance to write so many things for quite some time. I do enjoy writing a lot in the past. I write diaries, I write song lyrics, and I also write letters or cards to my friends. Maybe people are just too rely on computer now until we already forget on how to write proper things without a computer. It's so pathetic, isn't it? The advanced technology has made people to become lazier and lazier.

Going to start work on another lab report. But I am so tired now. I will do it tomorrow then =p

Pesta Kokurikulum (Day 2)

It was the opening ceremony for the Pesta Kokurikulum this afternoon. (It's so weird that the Pesta started yesterday yet its opening ceremony is today!)

I went there as my lecturer made the opening ceremony at 3pm and closing ceremony at night compulsory for us. Then I have my duty for the exhibition booth from 5-7pm. So I just stayed there from 3pm till night.

The air-conditioner in the hall is really very freaky superb! I was almost frozen to death inside the hall even though I was wearing my thick jacket!

There were more visitors compared to yesterday. I spent my evening and night there. Anyway, I did not waste the trip. I had fun there with my friends =)

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Here are some photos taken at the exhibition booths...

Jawi writing looks interesting to us. Its calligraphy is even more complicated. They use a pen made by bamboo (being cut into the shape of a pen with special angle at the tip) and also ink. Anyway, there are some ready-made marker pen available too in the market.

Well, its booth is just next to us. So we had the ladies at the booth to show us some simple Jawi writing. It's really not easy, but interesting and fun!

My Malay friends told me that it is actually very hard to make Jawi calligraphy as to write it in normal way (paper and pen or pencil) is already quite difficult, as they seldom use the language.

This is a nice picture that I like a lot. You can see the harmony scene in understanding each other's culture between different ethnics. So there is really no need to specially publish a book named "Ethnics' Relationship" for undergraduates. Just do not set up too many regulations from stopping us to exchange our values and culture. And please do not make it sound so sensitive when it comes to things about different ethnics. Problems will only occur when there is no understanding.

Here is a photo of my fellow coursemates who are also taking the same co-curricular subject with me. From left behind is Azah and MeiLing, from left in front is Azilah and me.

I spent some time translating and writing out their name into chinese words as we were too bored at the exhibition booth during dinner time as there were very less visitiors then. (And they wanted their chinese names to be written properly on the paintings that given from the people-in-charge of the chinese water color painting booth!)

It's kinda difficult but interesting to let them understand a little bit about chinese words. And they do think that chinese words are beautiful!!

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There was a competition for stage performance among puppet theatre, Chinese dance, traditional dance and Indian classic dance. Here are some photos taken during the stage performance session at night...


Praktik Dikir Barat

The story for the puppet theatre is kinda ridiculous and meaningless. They played a show entitled "Cinta Lanun" (Pirates Romance). Frankly speaking, their puppets are not really well-made but they are just so cute.

Anyway, the actors were able to bring a merry and cheerful atmosphere for the night. It brought a lively opening to the performance session.


Chinese Dance


Traditional Dance


Indian Classic Dance

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It was about 10pm when the festival came to an end. The winner for the stage performance goes to Indian classic dance AGAIN!! (Ya, they win the champion in every semester!)

Had all of my paintings including those drawn during class back after the exhibition. There are all my hard work!

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So, everything is over and I will not need to attend co-curricular class starts next week anymore =)

But... The stupid English class will be started next week. I need to attend the class from 3-6pm every Thursday =(

Another week is over. Time to enjoy the weekend!! Not forgetting to complete all my work.

Happy weekend~!


* Note: Most (nearly ALL) photos in this blog are taken using my SE K700i. Special thanks to it~!