freeeeeedddd.....!!!

ahh.. me last paper down the drain. i dont know how i feel exactly. its a great relief to have it behind my back. was under tremendous pressure. it was soo crucial. n after sitting for the paper i believe there is a 50/50 chance of passin. i sure hope when me results are published, its favourable.
so now i am freee.. n since i have not make any plans.. am absolutely aimless. wanna try play as much futsal n catch up on as much movies... n then... urm.. mayb more futsal, some parties here n there. any ideas anyone? hehehe...
yea. i should get me a job. hate to say it, but that is bitter sweet reality of life. can loaf of poor pops hard earned cash foreva?!
but first...
oh, match on now. tot i sleep, but since i am up....

all around

da WHOLE family is back again. who would have guessed, the many times the kids have gone, moved out.. n suddenly everyone is living under one roof again. well, i guess at least for this month. funny how its nice, but it also needs readjusting as i was gettin too comfortable. i guess less people allows more control of the facilities in da house. but more people can get things a lil lively... hahaha.
*at least my room remains mine*

so much for me dad calling...
i rang airport inquiries twice, n they said the flight is arriving at 2pm. so went to the airport.. n waited n waited n waited.. n it aint like the airport is next door.. its farrrr away. at about 3.30pm i get a msg from my dad -"leaving now".
'dang'- i drove straight home. was back in the airport at nite.

logic

i got a text message that surely cracked me up on an otherwise dull emotional wretched day.

i texted a fren in a former war torn country (the amazement of technology eh?), my dad is there n heading back, n i have forgotten his arrival time.
.. it goes like this:

me: hey man, how have u been? hope u not takin my dad out to the nite clubs. he's not much of a dancer. please find out when is arrvin tomolo, n let me know.thanx .... (or something along this lines)

me fren: yo bro all the best

cracked me up that reply. isit all the best to find out when me dad is comin? looks like i will find out when pops calls from the airport and says "where on earth are you?"

*i stil cant stop similing.. i guess its mostly coz u gotta know this guy -comedy central he is*

ZĔRkNűllt

i really gotta agree with calvin (click "no"), scientist just dont know how to come up with good names. i just sat from an exam that knows not language, wat kinda word is "decapentaplegic".. sounds like decapitating logic.. but its just a gene to code for a protein. try other like spätzle, or rhombiod, twist n snail.. heck there is even sonic hedgehog.. which unfortunately is nothing like sonic the hedgehog in the good ol sega game. want more genes.. nanos, bicoid, caudal, hunchback.. which doesnt give u a hunched back by the way.. just helps the fly develop.
lucky this greek paper is over, but i am faced with a more uphill task in chemistry.. oh, i am sooo dead. more greek, names that make sense, but reactions that just cant stick in my head.
now i gotta start knowin my stuff.. dansyl chloride, ninhydrin, fmoc, claisen, aldol, peptide disulfide isomerase, theworldisinamess..!! (caughtchya on the last bit)

*there is this one strip i remember from calvin and hobbes where he tries to sell scientific names on the street (as opposed to the traditional lemonade). the link leads to the strips, categorized by subject*

look at the lens..

i just got an email that reminded me of an interesting incident that took place on a nice sunday evening over dinner..
it was at this new fancy "mamak" place nearby, and me future doc fren as his ever realible camera was there to take pictures of us eating. so who do u pick when all the people eating naan n chicken wings ate tradisionally with their fingers?? well, the waiter of course.
with a smiling face, da nice chap picked the camera, faced the lens to himself and tried to the picture, after moments of focusing n tryint to look through the lens, but with no avail to find the object of which he needs to shoot... he tries to snap the pic anyways! unfortunately he doesnt know which button to press, and returns the camera or we would have a close shot of the "technological poor" waiter.
needless to say, this incident enforces the reality of the world we live in, the inequalities and injustice the world stil has to deal with. next time i better remind myself to teach the guy how to work the camera.

*oh, we did get a pic afterall, from a gal sittin rite next to our table.. it turned out nice*

so i have massive exams around the corner. its really gettin to me. i feel da pressure... arghhh!! well, every now n then i take my mind off by playin some games. i thought i try hearts, since i havent played it sincee... *cant remember*. and now i have the satsfaction of TRASHIN da com. good.. feel bit smarter. now back to studyin!

*dishoom*

man this is super funny. click n enjoy!

earplugssssss

with a very crucial final exam around the corner, i is gettin pressured!!!!
too much at stake n too much to learn. time really flies when ur having fun.. especially when i had such a relaxed semester. wonder where it all went??

tryin to get into the groove.. i was forced to clean my fan, i think its been months of dust build up, mom must have been afraid i get chocked by a dust ball or somethin?! (too much animal planet!)

after making da fan shine.. it now makes an incredible squeaking noise. i couldn't sleep all nite. n its been rainin lots, so the weather is cool.. cool enuf for the a.c to b redundant, but not enuf to turn the fan off..(oh i love the tropics)
so finally, those airline earplugs came in handy. stuffed em in my ear n went to bed in absolute silence.. well almost..
like in the chevrolet adv:
"the only sound you hear is your heartbeat"

caught!

what bad luck.. or just plain flirting with the law...

i got stoped over by the cops for talkin on my mobile while driving!! something i alwitz avoid, or make a quick "im driving, talk to u later".. unfortunately, this one time i was engaged on da phone even before i was driving.
talkin and walkin to the car, n just started to drive off...

well, now i have a court date. i intend to represent myself n make a BIG case out of it. if im good.. prob sue the government while i am at it!!!!

too much movies i think..
prob end up paying a whole lot is more like it. *ouch*

sidetrackin

goin back to the risk craze, i somehow stumbled across a nice demo for
Godstorm. can c a whole game being played. now i am gettin itchy.
unfortunately i have to put an order of restrain on meself on risk games n focus on me exams around the corner. so hard to focus.. so hard.
i am tryin to finish up the calvin n hobbes comics on my table.. and am doin it at a very fast rate now, n catchin all the Ali G shows so that i dont have any distractions. dont think its a plan that is gonna work though. i should go straight to da books.
may the force be with me!

mamak with frennies

got this in me email. i like the last line best, but since i is not coffee drinker.. tea, milo-ais.. kacai etc all ok. ice-cream also better.. ;-)

The Mayonnaise jar & Coffee

When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar... and the coffee

A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar wasfull.They agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was. The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into t! he jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with a unanimous "yes".

The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed. "Now," said the professor, as the laughter subsided, " I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things - your God, family, your children, your health, your friends, ! and your favorite passions - things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house, and your car. The sand is eve! rything else - the small stuff. "If you put the sand into the jar first," he continued, "there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life.

If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you. Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your partner out to dinner. Play another 18. There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal. Take care of the golf balls first, the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.

One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the coffee represented. The professor smiled. " I'm glad you asked. It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem, there's always room for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend."

my couz with her fruits

so the brits are goin diet crazy.. n my couzzie is helpin em out. da fruit lady.. hehehe

i also came across a rather interesting website while i was looking for second hand car ad's online. funny how these things creep up. n for a person living in malaysia, its a good laugh. to think one could b so naive?!?

a lil bit of tech around the world pleaseee..

most of the times when i got inspiration to blog, i aint in front of the pc. then i think to my self, ok, i will write this tonite.. but obviously it doesnt happen (notice the long absence)!

among other things i remember is my 2 hour car ride in indonesia. driving down the mountain in full speed, going head to head with lorrys n trailers n even pedestrians. even if i was a cat, would have thought i was gonna that day for sure. but didnt... in the end it was fun. more fun then a roller coaster or the solero shot.. n i didnt even wear a seat belt coz there wasnt any!!!

anyways.. bukittting is stil a lovely place. i wanna go track up the volcano.. anyone interested???

RISK

the risk craze is back. last nite, saw risk GODstorm played.- new twist and more complicated.. so i checked out the other talked about risk games:among them risk2210 a futuristic one and lord of the rings version.

fell i gotta get my hands on em.. (itchy itchy)
but i came across a set of alternative rules

ok back to work.. too much deviation.

a giant hole

i just realized today that our education system here (malaysia is super duper lenient... its dont matter how smart/dumb you are... you just proceed with all the from primary all the way till high skool.!

had to help a young lad of 15 years get through a so called major government examination. for the past 2 hours, i have been teachin him how to multiply and divide! man....
plus he has barely a grasp of addition n subtraction. how did all this go unnoticed in his early years in skool??

so a public school teacher relates that many student in her class (students 17 years of age) can barely read! wow.. to think they made it all the way to the last year of secondary.

the problem is.. it dont matter if u fail or pass of score a string of A's... u move onto the next grade anyways.
wonder why i was under pressure n gave 2 nuts about those government exams????

also playing till the sun went down. n when it was completely dark.. it was time for RISK!

among other things i did while i was missin on da blog world include exploring the water of this island called Pulau Kapas.

..perfect!

parking has become increasingly impossible at uni nowdays. so on days such as today, i take the risk parking "illegally" as my class is only an hour long. there is alwtiz the risk i will be slapped with at $80 fine within the hour...
today however, i parked, got into class.. n it rained heavily. no chance for the predating municipal council fellas to put a ticket on da car. n just when class was over.. it stoped raining.. so i waltzed confidently to car!
if only everyday was like this.

me MD

another reason i couldnt write more today is bcoz i took my MD out of the treasure chest...blew away the months of dust on it.. n tried to charge the super flat battery.
to my dismay.. after leaving it to charge for 4-5 hours.. the battery is still flat. i thought the display was just spoilt or forgot how to function its self.. but looks like the desktop charger is giving problems..

two hours later... with the help of 3 rubber bands.. i get it to work.
now with the help of some strings n a dumbell.. i manage to make a system work (including wires of course) to copy the songs in my pc to my MD.
gone are the days when i could just plug it in n record in seconds.. now everythings is gotten sensitive!!! n these are suppose to be heartless electronic gadets. i wonder if its the time of the month for em????