still feeling gloomy and pissed this whole day while working. time passes very fast for me because there were many customers. even though i got my salary today, it still doesn't lift my mood a bit. simon did try to cheer me up after he knew what happened. i must admit that i do miss his antics. i enjoyed working whenever he's around. the last few days he wasn't around because he was forced to look after other branches.

a lot of things happened at my workplace today. 2 customers came and complained about our service. almost broke into a big argument, i must say. and then there was a big commotion when a bunch of malay guys (who was supposedly banned from entering the complex, according to a guard) smashed the glass beside the escalator with their helmets. they were caught by plain clothes policemen just after a few minutes. stupid.

all this while i thought she came from a good family, but i was wrong. i didn't know how come i got the urge to ask, but what she told me almost brought me to tears. halfway thru the conversation, i decided to stop asking because even though she doesn't mind, i feel that i couldn't bear to hear it. she told me that her mom practices favouritism towards her kids, and she was the one getting the least love and care. but in the end, all the other children refuses to take care of their mom and left her alone. now she was the one who takes care of her. and what would you feel when your own mom tells you that the food you cook is "like shit" ? she cook for her because she was afraid that she might get hungry and this is the kind of "compliment" she gets? now that she is moving in to stay with her sons at their new house, she doesn't give a damn about her mom anymore. i wonder if this would happen to someone in the future...

on another note, i realised that she never talks about her husband and yet she always talks about her 2 sons. and so i stupidly asked and was told that her husband went overseas to work and abandoned her and her two children. yet she is a successful single parent. she loves her children very much and vice versa. life is so cruel sometimes...

p/s: name was kept secret on purpose.

i am seriously pissed when i wrote this. within one week, the car i was driving was broken in twice. today is the second time (the 1st time was monday). this time the loss was greater though. the thief stole the cd player and my bag which contains my 128mb thumb drive. i even lost the SHE cd which was in the cd player! at that time i felt like injuring the culprit real bad. if i were to catch i won't let him go until i see his blood.

i've been running some kind of bad luck streak these few days. the whole incident ruined my day. i was supposed to post something other than this. what is wrong with those people?

feeling very excited today because i managed to sell quite a number of items. sold 2 digital cameras, one walkman, one cd walkman, one minidisc walkman, two normal cameras and a few other accessories.

other than that, i don't have to pay anything for my lunch because auntie gillian's friends brought some ketupat, fried chicken and some rendang chicken and beef for us to feast on. seems like i get to celebrate hari raya as well!

today is not a good day for me. after work, i proceeded to my car parked at the basement of mahkota parade to go eat dinner with kenny before going back. when i got into my car, i realised that some one managed to get into my car and ransacked it. he got away with some small change which i keep to use on parking metres. *sigh* all the risk and trouble for a few ringgit? give me a break man! and he still have the courtesy to lock my doors after stealing...

when i reach home, my dad told me that my streamyx is down. even the phone line is down. luckily i still have another phone line and i was able to go online on dial-up.

one funny thing happened at my workplace these two days though. some of the customers mistakenly thought i am the boss' son. reason : all the other workers are wearing uniforms where as i'm not. hehe...i feel funny when they tried to ask me to give a discount...

today i started working part time again. and i managed to sell a digital camera! previously i didn't try to sell any because i didn't really know how to talk and coax the customer to buy. and now i'll have some extra money to buy new year clothes...hehe..

i was driving to campus yesterday for my last exam paper when i noticed that the hitz.fm Ford Escape Cruisers stopped in front of the mmu main entrance again to give out freebies. so i hurriedly parked my car and rushed over to them with the hope of getting some stuff. they have this contest called ambi pur : guess the scent where they will select 5 person to join and the winner will get a RM100 ambi pur hamper. the contest is a simple one. the person will be blindfolded and he/she has to guess as many scents as possible in 30 seconds. the winner even stand a chance to win a trip to tanjung jara resort, terengganu worth RM2000! they only need 5 contestants, so one of the crew said that the first 5 persons who can show her car keys will join the contest. i happened to be the 5th person and boy was i excited. but then, out of nowhere, a rogue 6th person enters the fray and someone needs to pull out. because i can't afford to wait (my exam was starting soon) and nobody seems to want to voluntarily pull out, i decided to let it a go. but i so wanted to get that hamper! i was telling it to everybody because i was the legal contestant! *sigh*

fast forward to today, i woke up at 2 something pm (i slept at 6am) and went to get a haircut after my lunch. after the haircut, i got into the car and heard on the radio that the cruisers are still in melaka and they stopped at bukit baru. without much thinking i decided to drive there to try and get something. i was hoping that they will recognize me as the guy who had to pull out yesterday because of exams and let me join the contest. but i was disappointed upon reaching because the contest is already under way. since i'm there anyway i don't want to go home empty handed. at least win something major like a cd or t-shirt la..so happens they have blue's latest album and those who want it need to sing at least a paragraph of any of blue's songs. 2 girls went for it, and yours truly decided to give it a shot as well at the 11th hour. i sang the chorus of the song you make me wanna because that's the only song i can remember. in the end, the crew asked the crowd to vote for the winner. i think you are smart enough to guess who got the cd, else i wouldn't post this here right? *grins*

i login to blogger and something attracted my attention. it was this piece of news. hmm..makes me wonder whether i have any offending stuff in my blog that i don't want people to know of.

anyway, my discrete structures exam wasn't so hard as i expected it to be (yay!) but i hope i get better marks. yesterday, after spending the whole day at the campus' library, i went home to relax for a while before getting some sleep. had a crazy chat with wiyang and edmund which managed to ease my mind a little bit. it's amazing what sort of jokes you can come up with when you are under pressure. so wiyang got a heavy teasing from the both of us, but the only thing we miss is his face expression. if only we are able to conduct video conferencing. but then again, my family would hear everything. and also, me and edmund was not able to show our coherency. hmm...still prefers yam cha. hehe...ahh..the good old days...

wiyang screwed me for spoiling his enthusiasm to watch matrix : revolutions. ok, i admit. it's my fault. i just couldn't help it. but just so you know, that was my initial reaction. after some reading and some deep thinking, i realise there were many subtle explanations for the ending. it was an open ended ending after all.

sometimes i felt that having too many friends and aquaintances has its disadvantages. at times, i really don't know how to act when i'm out with a group of friends and i keep bumping into other friends. you know, when you see other friends of course you will talk to them a bit. this might annoy if it happens too often. another problem is, sometimes 2 or 3 group of friends ask me out at the same time or ask me to watch the same movie. i'm very bad at tackling these kind of situations. i just don't have the heart to reject but yet i am unable to attend to them all. i might even unknowingly hurt their feelings by rejecting. worst still, they might not even want to ask me the next time they go out because they assume that i don't have time for them. perhaps this is why some of my friends refused to invite me out when i so wanted to meet them and so free. it hurts when i find out later that they were having a good time whereas i am staying at home. oh well, guess i'll just have to live with it.

yesterday was wee how's birthday and we went to kfc at jusco to celebrate. after that, we went to yamcha at cahaya dinar. i was touched by siew eng's story about her family. she came from a broken family...sort of. her mother died when she was just 10 years old and her father just left her and her siblings to take care of themselves. she told us that whenever she fights with her siblings, it was almost always life threatening. she told us that she was physically hurt a few times, and she even tried committing suicide. yet, she managed to study quite well and made it into university. now that she's older, she began to appreciate the people beside her. her story undoubtly made us realise that we are so lucky compared to many other people. it's just that we didn't know. i felt a little bit guilty for having such a bad first impression of her. the yamcha continued until 3am. and i reached home at 5.30am because i need to discuss with kea loon, wee how and zhenjian about our timetable for the next trimester and also our programming assignment which is due on 11/11/2003...

and to answer wiyang's question at his blog :

i don't have time to meet edmund because i'm busy at that time. i have time to know the girls because i'm busy spending time with them to do our recycling exhibition. furthermore, we attend the same class sometimes and it's just natural that we meet more often in campus... so, don't lah jealous, ok? i'll introduce them to you if i have the chance...hehe...

i watched matrix : revolutions on its simultaneous world wide zero hour premiere and it was...ok. not really that great but ok. the ending doesn't live up to my expectations but the action scenes were breathless. there was so much going on on screen that i'm glued to my seat. anyway, i still have that bad taste in my mouth until now. i don't know how to describe it but...perhaps they shouldn't make the sequels at all.

i went to the movie with kea loon, lay wei, chin chin and ching yin (i think i've been spending quite some time with them recently). after the movie we decided to yam cha. at first we were going to lepak at daud but in the end i brought them to somewhere near my house. and since it's already so near my house they pestered me to show them the location. they managed to have a glimpse at my brothers as well. so there we were, chatting at the mamak place until i realised it's already 3am. it seems that everytime we go yam cha together, we are sure going to end up going back at wee hours of the morning. but then i suddenly thought of continuing our chat until around 6am and eat dim sum as our breakfast. lay wei agreed strongly and so it was decided. 6 am came and we had our light dim sum because everyone was kind of full and lay wei wasn't feeling well. i reached home at 7.30am (been out for 12 hours!) and fell asleep around 8am....

i think i did ok in my discrete structures test yesterday. at least better than the 2 tests earlier. thanks to kea loon and siew eng for being a good tutor! i'm sure i won't be able to do the test if it's not because of them. i missed the whole week's lecture and tutorial on this subject because of sickness, and the test was mostly on the chapter i missed.

after the test a whole lot of us went to eat and drink. guys only drank because we ate our dinner already. those who went were me, kea loon, wee how, zhen jian, lay wei, ching yin, chin chin, hui yen, liyen (joined us later), siew eng and sen hui. we talked and teased a lot until the shop closes. after that everyone was still not in the mood to go back and so we sit by the roadside and continue talking. later we decided to go for a second round of drinking (not liquor!). we continue to talk and also discussed about our plan to visit penang and butterworth during the last week of the trimester break. in the end we decided to call it a day after 3am. and i was supposed to go to campus at 8am!

this morning i did manage to wake up at 7 something, but i reached campus at around 8.30am for the MIVEC opening ceremony. the function ends at around 11.30am and i decided to skip all my classes today and have some beauty sleep...

the past 5 days is like hell for me. it all started on monday. i woke up with a runny nose. normal, i thought, because i have a sensitive nose. then it developed into flu. later that day, i realise that i start to cough a lot. so basically, i was sneezing and coughing the whole day. i wasn't even able to concentrate on anything. luckily it was the first day of ramadan and it was a holiday so i had no class that day.

tuesday. i decided to skip all my class today because i need to finish my computer programming assignment by 5pm and hand it up. i'm still coughing and sneezing so i couldn't concentrate on my work. me and my partner didn't manage to fulfill the requirements of the assignment because it's so hard to code. furthermore, we still haven't eaten since monday night's supper! so we decided to hand up what we had done around 4pm and headed for lunch. i couldn't finish my food because gastric striked...

wednesday. i skipped my morning class because i wasn't feeling well when i woke up. still coughing, still sneezing and later that day, i had fever. and because i starved myself for far too long on tuesday, my gastric pain just wouldn't go away. i skipped another evening class because i couldn't stand it anymore. went back straight and slept. so now i cough, i have flu, i have gastric pain and i have fever.

thursday. skipped all my class. not feeling any better.

friday. went to consult a stomach specialist which happens to be my relative. took a test to determine whether i have the helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) bacteria. result : negative. cost of everything : RM211. and that's discounted! all that for a negative result. sigh...

saturday. no more fever, no more flu, still a bit of gastric pain. new addition : frequent headache. went to mahkota parade today to get some photos developed for my friend. and then i went to buy tickets for the global simultaneous premiere of matrix revolutions on november 5th. bought david tao's CD and some comics too. went yam cha at night with my form 6 classmates. so glad to see and talk to them again. suddenly realised that some of them are graduating soon and we might not have the chance to sit down in one big group like this and talk again. time sure flies...