slept late again last night because i was watching the live telecast of the formula 1 race. then woke up in time to attend my class but i was just too lazy to get off my bed. futhermore it's raining outside so i decided to attend my class an hour late. i was lucky to attend that class because the lecturer suspected that a lot of students will skip class and ask their friends to sign the attendance and she called out random names from the attendance list. those who signed but was not there when their names were called would have another 2 hours of absence added to them. *relieved*

felt quite happy today because i noticed someone that i just got close to recently is worthy of being called a friend. he was there to lend a helping hand even though i didn't ask for it. been making a lot of wrong choices all my life and it makes it hard for me to trust a person at times.

anyway, i've been getting a lot of funny dreams, even while taking an afternoon nap! had one today before i was woken up by a phone call from my mum. darn. it was a nice dream though, the kind of dream which i wished would become a reality! if only i can watch it till the end. hehe..no, i'm not going to mention it here so dream on! (pun intended). don't know whether i can continue dreaming from where i left off when i sleep tonight. *crosses fingers*

i was waiting for chee ying's call yesterday because she and ai luang were coming down from cyberjaya to hang out in melaka. they called me around 8pm and say they were travelling down and they haven't taken dinner. so i thought of having dinner with them because i have no time to hang out with them on saturday as i was going to mid valley megamall, kuala lumpur for the axn anime fest thingie. anyway i was waiting until i can't wait anymore and went for dinner alone. met up with them after watching survivor 7 and went for a drink until around 2am. slept at 6am because i wanted to finish harry potter and the order of the phoenix. and i was supposed to wake up at 8am! by the way, i still prefer harry potter and the goblet of fire as my favourite in the whole series because i think the 5th book was to draggy.

so after 2 hours of "temporary blinding", woke up and was on my way to KL in no time. talked to gek suan along the way because she was feeling down while stopping once in a while to tease eileen and ee lin (confused? sometimes i do too..but only when speaking their names). reach there around 11 something and the crowd was already so big even before the gates to the event were opened. so me and my god sisters huwi yin and gek suan plus diana went for lunch first. then we met up with hong aun and kenny who were taking part in the cosplay competition. i became their assistant (more like clothes hanger) while they dress up in their costume. the end result was kinda nice and they do attract a lot of attention. makes me feel like cosplaying too at that time. after watching them perform, i had a good feeling that they are going to win something. sure enough, kenny came out tops and hong aun 3rd. now for some benefit of being a clothes hanger... *greedy thought*

anyway, i did sort of win something in the event. it was a giant poster of the online game ragnarok online. got it by going up the stage (holding 2 digicams, wearing 2 watches and a sling bag on my shoulders) and answering a simple question. i don't really fancy that poster but somehow many people grew green with envy when they saw me having that poster. gave me a reason to be proud of myself. hehe...

on another note, i saw someone (2 people actually) which i don't really fancy seeing at that time. ironically, i was telling gek suan in the bus that i had thought that i might saw them there. it's not the first time in recent months that what i say became reality. scary! here are few instances :-

case 1 : huwi yin was gloating on finishing her exams before me when the exam timetable was drafted. i told her that maybe she will finish later than me when the final timetable was out. it happened, but later this was superceded by the next thing i said and in the end i finished my exams a mere few hours after her...

case 2 : many people received tips for their database systems final exams from a certain lecturer, and the question and answers from the tips were similar to the final exam paper. as a result many people did well while those who didn't get the tips did not do so well. i didn't care much about it. and then i saw thye shin while shopping at tesco and i was telling him that maybe somebody would complain and we would have to re-sit that paper. it happened.

case 3 : i insisted on lending my jacket to huwi yin for her missionary camp but she refused. i told her she might get sick from the cold of the night. it happened AGAIN.

case 4 : perhaps kenny and hong aun won because eileen asked me to say that they will win...


edited // forgot to mention that the mc for the anime fest was damn cool. he managed to hype up the crowd with his spontaneous jokes and acted together with the cosplayers. even managed to keep his cool when a rude cosplayer smack him behind the neck. respect!

perhaps my biggest weakness is that i sometime annoy (or even hurt) people with what i say without me realising. and most of the time i don't mean to hurt or annoy. it's just that i don't know that it was misinterpreted by the listener. i'm trying to be more careful nowadays but i couldn't help it at times. as a result, people tend to avoid me when i made a single mistake. and maybe because of this reason, i am always reluctant to say what's on my mind.

i finally understand why my blog looks weird in certain computers. i was having my tutorials for computer programming II when i discreetly visit my blog page. and it appeared oddly on that particular computer. then i realised that the computer i was using at the time was running internet explorer 5. it seems that my blog page only works best when displayed on internet explorer 6 or mozilla.

sad to say that most of my classes this trimester is...boring. the lecturers are boring and most of the time i couldn't understand what they were saying. and i have to attend the lectures in a jam packed lecture hall. man..why didn't the hold the lectures in a bigger venue? *grunts*

wanted to blog yesterday after coming back from work but i was too tired. didn't even stay up to watch manchester united vs arsenal. and i've forgotten what i wanted to post here last night.

anyway, i slept at around 11 something and woke up this morning with yet another memory of a bad dream. new trimester starts today, and what a way to begin it being late to class! quite happy to see some faces, not so happy to see some other faces. oh well, guess i'll have to live with that. oh, and i was extremely happy to be in the same assignment group with a group of girls that i'm really interested to know in person. hehehe...

yeah, i know my blah-board sucks. i like huwi yin's one though. it's translucent and it's in blue! the only thing missing is a scroll bar. no, i don't think i'll incorporate it into my blog. at least not yet. i might find a better one which fits into my sidebar. so i'll just stick to my current one for a while.

i got my salary for my part time work yesterday, and i was excited! it's not my first salary though. i've worked in genting highlands casino before and the salary was way higher than this time. that was 3 years ago. the feeling of getting my hard earned money was almost forgotten, but it's back now. it was a small amount, but i'm happy!

i can still remember the first time i use my salary to treat my friends. i treated wiyang, edmund, sin yi, chen min and jit king mcdonalds because they never stop talking about its hello kitty! soft toy promotion at that time. after that it was joon liang, ganesh, cheng kiat and affryll's turn at kfc mahkota parade. it was a different feeling when you are using your earned money to treat your friends. there was a sense of satisfaction. and i'm still waiting for these guys to do the same to me. (hint! hint!) this time, i've already promised to treat some people...and i'm not mentioning it here..hehe.

i've just started with harry potter and the order of the phoenix yesterday night after i got it from huwi yin. i couldn't stop reading after i start because i was so anxious to know what happens next. as a result, i slept at 5am in the morning...

i was channel surfing on tv after coming home from my lunch with huwi yin when i stumbled upon the repeat broadcast of an episode of Edisi Siasat on ntv7. i've been paying attention for some other juicy story after the same program aired an report on Universiti Malaya students making out under the stairs (which i missed!). this time, they aired a report on tranvestites (aka pondan/bapuk/mak nyah) prostitution in my hometown! thus the famous place for tranvestites in malacca is revealed to the whole of malaysian tv viewers which was previously only well known among most malaccans. not really something to be proud of but i've been showing the place to my non-malaccans friends when i happened to drive them around that area during their 'business hours'. among the highlights of the report include a raid by the authorities on their premises. some managed to lock themselves in the car and drove off while some tried to hide in toilets. some of them had cuts all over their body in their attempt to escape. the reporter also mentioned that some are caught buck naked. i don't even want to imagine it. it was also reported that some of the tranvestites have well paying day time jobs, most of them in beauty parlours. anyway, although the authorities did manage to nab some, there's nothing much they can do to totally eradicate this menace because there are no specific laws to give a heavier sentence. the most they will get is a fine of RM1000 which they can easily settle. so until then, we malaccans just have to live with it.

today can be considered the last day of holiday for me because i've decided to work part time tomorrow, saturday and sunday. and tomorrow the new season of survivor starts on ntv7!

p/s: huwi yin, hope you had a nice meal before going off to the camp. and make sure you enjoy yourself in the camp while i work...

something is wrong with my 'internal' clock. i never fail to wake up automatically at exactly 11am for the last week. most of the time i would continue to sleep because i don't think i would have much time to sleep when the new trimester starts.

i really hate it everytime i have to check for my examinations result. the exam unit always tell us that result will be out on so-and-so date, but everytime when the date is here, their server will be closed for maintenance, technical problem etc. i mean, i understand that few thousand people will be checking their results online at the same time, but they should've anticipated it. it is WAY better if the server is slow than totally unreachable. i've been trying to retrieve my result since 1pm to 5pm today, and i still couldn't login. finally i gave up and use their sms services instead. ok, why didn't i use the sms service in the first place? simple reason. i've been paying dearly for my tuition fees, and now i had to pay another premium rate for getting my result? 2nd question, why do i want to know my result so quickly? answer : i need to decide whether i can work part time for the rest of my holidays. if i were to fail a paper, i would have to study for that subject and take the supplemetary paper.

so here i am, ranting about the inefficiency of the exam unit after i got my result. i anticipated that i would at least fail one paper, but luckily, i passed all! i don't think my GPA will be good though, considering that i had a lot of 'unhealthy' things going through my mind one week before the finals. *sigh* guess i'll have to work hard in the coming trimesters.

on another note, wiyang's blog has been updated with a new layout and a tag board! and he asked me to tell everyone reading this that he likes my new layout. *grins*

yay! tag-board finally working. although not as nice as the last one (without smilies) but at least it fits into my sidebar nicely. thanks to eileen for lending me a tiny bit of webspace. i've tried searching for free webhosting site which can support CGI in order for the tag board to work but i couldn't find any. hehe..by the way, within minutes of getting the now called blah-board to work, it was bombarded with messages from wiyang and eileen. hehe...i don't mind. at least it is active. not many people know about my blog anyway.

my pet sis huwi yin came back to melaka yesterday, and i had lunch and dinner with her and also jin and eileen. eileen gave me a pair of sunglasses i so badly wanted and i was happy for that! but then again, i'm not wearing spectacles so i need some time to get used to wearing one. even wearing it for a short time makes me feel a bit dizzy. thanks eileen ..for the dinner treat too!

i realised that many simple things reminds me of "someone". a place, an animal, a tv show featuring certain artistes, etc. it happened for a number of times yesterday. now i fully understand what some people are going through. it never occured to me that i would experience it first hand. for so long i've been hearing it from someone else and now it's my turn. ironic, isn't it?

just updated my blog layout. it still needs a little bit of touching up, and i hope i can get that tag-board up again.

wiyang said my blog doesn't look nice...at least he said i should change the colors. well, i'm not in the mood to sit down and work on the layout of my blog, so i'll just procrastinate again. hehe...oh yeah, bon voyage wiyang! have a nice flight back. too bad we didn't spend much time hanging out together. no choice lar. you came back at the time when i'm having my finals. and most of our classmates were not in melaka anyway. see u online!

i've went back to work for the camera shop in mahkota parade (pakard photo) on friday and thursday. the boss doesn't have enough manpower so he summoned me to work for him. he actually asked me on tuesday morning, but i already promised wiyang and joon liang to watch pirates of the carribean that day. back to my work. since i don't know how to sell digicams (i wasn't trained to like the other part timers) my job was to help out wherever i can. but then i got a little bit bored and ask one of the permanent workers to teach me how to use the photo printing machine. and once i got hold of it, i can't stop printing! i like to see other people's photo, especially those from other countries. you can actually see the difference between pictures taken by a malaysian and a foreigner. i don't know how to describe it, but somehow the pictures taken by those foreigners are more natural and they really how to choose a nice angle to take a picture. there's this lady (my guess is she's either from US of A or Australia) who wanted to print photos taken from her vacation at bali and boy, were the pictures nice! she even have underwater shots of marine life! she told us that some of the underwater shots were taken by her. in contrast, malaysian people like to take pictures of people posing. sometimes, i'm guilty of that too!

i've printed some photos for myself discreetly too, since i realised that the annoying boss is having a vacation at langkawi! no wonder everyone in the shop is so happy and relaxed. too bad the printing machine was a bit spoiled. some of the photos came out pink when it should be white. oh well, it's free so i can't complaint much. *grins* i managed to sneak out some unwanted photos (mistakenly printed) as well. those are pictures of a ...err...beautiful girl! hehe...

oh well, i kinda look forward to work there again. maybe this coming monday. it depends. i enjoyed working there with those people. they are funny and nice people. they don't scold me for making a mistake since they know i'm new. but some customers did say nasty things to me. typical malaysians. i'm really impressed with some australians who are very polite. there's once when every worker in the shop was busy and couldn't attend to a few aussies customers. when we apologised to them, they simply smiled back and said "don't worry, i know you're busy. take your time". malaysians have a lot to learn from them.

my final results are coming out soon, and i think i have to prepare for my supplementary paper soon because i have a strong feeling that i will fail my digital systems.*sigh*

i wanted to blog here after i finish working last sunday but i was too tired to type. another reason is that i suck at telling stories using words. it's so much easier if i say it out rather than typing it out.

anyway, i stopped working as a balloon guy since sunday. i kinda enjoyed working as one though. most of the workers there, be it permanent workers or part-time workers are nice people. and they wanted my job! well, they helped me blow up the balloons and tie it to a stick whenever they're free and i just go out and distibute them. turned into an instant KID MAGNET. well, some teenage girls came to get balloons from me too. not to mention a few middle age woman. hehe...totally enjoyed the attention that i get. by the way, some people even addressed me as "uncle"! come on lar..i don't look THAT old. i learned a little about the business world. and i am able to see certain things from the businessman point of view. for example, i don't really like it when people ask me whether i need help whenever i step into a shop. and now i knew the rationale behind it. it is a very simple way to prevent theft. when a shopkeeper attends to you, it shows that they noticed you and the chances of you stealing will be very low. so now i've experience in 5 different jobs. croupier, waiter, housekeeping, promoter and balloon guy.

the other day the subject of relationship suddenly came up when i was talking to one of my friends who also worked in the same shop except that he is supposed to sell digicams. he had a relationship before and after they broke up the girl still maintained a good relationship with him, as a friend. he helped her do a lot of things. projects, assignments etc. but when the girl got a new boyfriend, she started to treat him badly. he was upset and disappointed nevertheless, and i saw it with my own eyes (the girl also worked together with us) how she disrespected him in front of so many people. i don't get it sometimes. when girls are in a relationship, they always expect their boyfriends to be loyal to them and hope that they treat her nicely. and usually, it was the girls who dump the guys. they think of us as something they can wear and take off anytime they please. and when a relationship ends, people are bound to blame the guys. i might sound like i'm anti-female but honestly i'm not. it's just that recently i heard a lot of stories which is so similar to the situation i mentioned. it even happened to me dammit! and someone told me today that he feels that some girls are extremely friendly when they are single and available (they send u cards, they sms and call and they remember your birthdays) but when they are with someone, you are totally invisible to them. what gives?

came back from genting 2 days ago feeling tired because i didn't have enough sleep during my stay there. maximizing my time there..hehe. didn't really play all the things there because i lost my enthusiasm. just simply play some light ones and watched a movie. went into the casino alone one night because nobody wanted to go with me. it was not so special for me anymore because i worked in there a few years ago and it's still the same as it is when i left.

yesterday i suddenly got the urge to work part time and i found a job for 3 days. the reason for working is to spend my time earning a little bit of cash and also preventing myself from thinking something stupid. i hesitated a little bit before deciding to give it a shot. at first i thought the job was to sell digicam because they have some sort of fair going on in mahkota parade. but the manager told me that he needs to train me in order for me to sell digicam but since there isn't enough time, he'll assign a special job for me : distributing balloons. he told that i was supposed to be in charge of the atmosphere. so today i started working and the hardest part was tying up the balloons! i don't know how i cut my finger. but at the end of the day i had sore fingers from tying all those balloons. today wasn't such a bad day because there's wasn't such a big crowd. i'm expecting a very big crowd tomorrow because it's saturday! i hope i can get some help tying those balloons. anyway, it's kind of nice looking at those kids smiling happily after i give them a balloon. and i get to know some new female friends too..hehehe..