A Glimmer of Hope

With my Thermo and Applied Mechanics exam down the drain, I suddenly saw a small glimmer of hope when I saw the Strengh of Materials mid term. Phew, the questions given are much more easier than what they have in the textbook. Although I made 1 or 2 mistakes, i can finally breathe again as I'm able to answer most of the questions. As I gave a sigh of relief, my mind wondered again at the prospect of next week. Another hellish week will start. With Monday a holiday is a small relief, I can spend more time on studying.

Today we did a small practice for the play that we have to do next 2 weeks. This is for the kesusasteraan course. And this play is worth 30% of our total course work. Therefore, I had to put in more effort in it. I got a small role in the play, which I'm truely grateful, but I'll try to contribute more on other aspects. The lecturer said that if the group gets 25 marks then all would get the same marks. All members must act.

The role I got had only one line. Its relatively very very light to other characters. During the actual play, I think my role would be at the computer managing it and other backstage work.

One Hell of a Week

Tomorrow I'll be having my Thermodynamics mid term. Had very little time to study it as it was announced this very morning. Most of my friends doesn't have any motivation on studying it. Who's fault is it? Well in my opinion, both the students and lecturer are at fault. For students, its low motivation. For the lecturer part, "Damn it. You could told us ahead of time and tell any student. Rather than relying on the stupid LMS. For those students who doesn't have any access to internet what will they do? If the internet is down how bout them?"

This lecturer doesn't consider the student's best interest at heart, rather his actions so far has been troublesome for us. I'm not really enthusiastic about studying this subject anymore. And then this Friday I'll be having my Strength of Materials mid term. This is another subject where I don't know how to study. The lecturer is a newbie. And I really meant it. She doesn't know how to teach and she only read text from the notes which originated from the textbook. We can't really tell what kind of questions she'll set. Easy? Hard? I'm placing my bet on "Out of this world".

Thankfully, our Fluids lecturer who had planned to have his test tomorrow postponed it to next week and also agree to let us delay the handing in of our lab reports to next week. Our math mid term is also postponed to next week. Wow. It seems like everything is shifted to next week. Well, originally we should have our math mid term before the convocation holidays. As our lecturer, Dr. Yeoh said before, if we had our exams earlier less lessons would be included in it. Majority of my friends wanted to have it before the holidays. However, its not the majority of my friends that win, but the other half of the class wanted to have the exam after the holidays. As if they didn't realize the stress and workload that was pilling up after the holidays. (Baka)

MY Workload for next week :
1. Math mid term
2. Fluid test
3. Lab report
4. Tiong Hua's essay
5. Japanese group presentation draft

I felt that this week is hard to go through. I wouldn't want to think about next week. It'll be like hell. Oh, wait I'm living in hell now. It'll be worse than hell. Pray hard that I'll past next week.

One last thing, will our government change in 3 weeks time or will it remain the same?

Cooking up a Storm

Its the opening ceremony of our house kitchen. We cooked fried rice for lunch yesterday and the overall results : its not bad. Its been a while since i fried my own rice, and it tasted ok i guess. Still edible. Had no trouble with my stomach. LOLZ. Everyone took part in the preparation. We did a little shopping the day before. I went to buy some eggs before we started cooking. The cleaning process was OK too. We did our fair share and most probably we will also cook this weekend.

Here's a little funny quote I took from Ef ~ A Tale of Memories.
"I can cook but the end product can't be eaten."
This is a nice little phrase for those who can't cook but this sounds a lot nicer.

Another news for those who watches a little anime. The popular anime Full Metal Alchemist is confirmed to have a 2nd season. This is not a rumour. Its true but the release date I haven't confirmed it yet. Will be looking forward for this show.

Gamers Paradise

As one can see from the above, the living room of my house has become a mini cyber cafe. Its almost a weekly event where Friday or Saturday, friends from all over will come and gather in this small room to play games. Currently the top game is DOTA. Normally we would start to gather around 9pm and the game would normally start around 9.30 when all the members had gathered and all the equipment had been set up. Due to the shortage of cable, some had to connect through wireless. Normally the game progresses without any problems and here is where to fun starts. Considering other housemates, the sound made while playing is controlled to the mininum. Although there are moments where it can be a little bit noisy, we tried to keep it down.

Gathering in a place to play dota is not a foreign thing to us as we had done so way back during our 1st semester in Sabah. Most of the players are engineering students. We can see now why the bridges in Malaysia always crumble. In the 1st sem, everyone had to gather in a small room which is barely able to fit in 10 people and the room is fully packed. The condition seems to improve for us and we would play until 2-3am. Although I know staying up late playing games is very unhealthy for me,but it can't be helped. LOLZ. =.="

Turning 3v1l

Yesterday a friend of mine introduced me a game call KuWakChai at kuwakchai.com which is a gangster type mmorpg game. This game is pretty much similar to what they have in facebook except for one thing that I loved. Its in ENGLISH. I know, I can't read Chinese and it sucks. Seeing that most of my friends are playing the chinese version in facebook and I can't join them. Well, its kinda like an alternative for me. Even I can't mix with my uni buddies on playing the kuwakchai in facebook, i can now join my other friends back in semenanjung for this game. The overall concept is not bad and it has its merits.

Although is a holiday, my progress in my studies are quite slow compared to what i planned to do. Should be able to catch up for certain subjects, however there are a couple subjects which I can't seem to get their notes in my head. Its been a terrible road block for those subjects and quite a few friends experience the same thing.

One last thing for 2day, planning to buy a new mouse since my current mouse is giving me some small problems. When i left click it once, sometimes it would act as a double click and would activate some programs that i don't want to or enter other website. Its not a major problem, but it can be quite irritating.

Shoes Blues

Its been quite a while since my slipper has a crocodile mouth. My left side one. Thinking that it could last till i find a new slipper which suites my taste I kept delaying the purchase of a new slipper. However fate forces me to buy a new one as the stripe on my right one broke off. Now both my left and right slippers suffers heavy damage and i had little choice but to find a new replacement. Got a new one at 1 Borneo's Giant. Cost me bout RM15. Although its not really what i wanted, it will have to do at the moment until I find what i want. Took pictures of it to upload it here but the quality of the pictures are ............. unfit to be uploaded.

On a happier note, this semester I was able to find more time to do more exercise. Been taking fencing training every Saturday and played basketball yesterday. I'm definitely having a much more healthier lifestyle compare to my last 2 semesters during my stay at Sabah. This also includes the food I'm taking. While in the hostel, the food is #@$%#&@$!!#$#%. I can't really describe it. Comparing it to the food i'm eating now, its like heaven and hell. I'm taking all the correct nutrient i should take and its a big difference.

Quote of the month.
Its by my lecturer, Dr. Harimi
"Correcting a mistake with another mistake makes 2 mistakes."

Limit Break

One of the main reason I can put this next post into my blog is because of the freaking low amount of people reading this blog. Which is a good thing for me as this is actually a complain bout my life. Therefore this is a prior warning to those who doesn't want to waste their time on this post.



Well, its a known fact that life is damn unfair and I've been tolerating it for a very long time. Not to boast or anything, but I'm sure that my level of tolerance is quite high. (Thanks to the training I received at home.) However, there are a few things that I don't like to tolerate. Its when people eat back their words and don't follow an agreement. For certain reasons, Activity A is banned through out the day and is only allowed at night from Sunday night to Thursday night. Before this agreement was affirmed, I'd done it during day time, which nobody was supposingly be at home at that time, but due to unexpected circumstances, they went home early. They reminded me to follow the agreement (one of them said it in a way where i truly wanted to punch him in the face) and so since then, I've been following the agreement to what it really meant.

However, those stuff that can't be done by me, can be done by them. They done it during daylight, which nobody was at home(its the reason that THEY, themselves said can't be used for Activity A) and also they done it during Friday and Saturday night. They said that I can't do it, but for them its OK??!? WTF!!! How come its OK for them but when it come to my turn its always a NO. "Oh, must be fair." , "that time nobody using." When I give the exact same reason, they become rubbish but when others said them, they became valid reason.

Is it because I remained silent for too long? Is it that I'm easy to bully? My rights and priority ALWAYS come last. No matter where or when. Let it be at home or outside. I really don't like and don't want to start any argument therefore i kept silent all those times and bear with the unfairness. However, I'm reaching my limit. People are always like that, freakingly SELFISH. They always put themselves first. If possible, they will try to take other people's space. The more I step back, the more they advance onto my space. Compare to what I did at home, I've really sacrificed a lot here and done Activity A to a level far below what i set as a minimum where its been very very hard on me.

When one of the ingredients for Activity A became paralyzed, they would be first assuming that I'm the culprit and asked that if I'm doing Activity A. Its the holidays now, and it means that active users of the ingredient for Activity A(Ingredient B) mentioned above will stay up more late than usual and use Ingredient B. Trying to understand their situation, I've also stayed up late to where the point they wouldn't use Ingredient B to a certain extend. I realized that other users are also using Ingredient B for Activity A. The best part is that they didn't use any limiter. Its also an agreement where in order to do Activity A, a limiter must be imposed to reduce the effect on other users. However, due to certain users that didn't use any limiter, my rate of Activity A has truly gone down the drain.

I wanted to complain, I wanted to shout out loud and claim back some of my rights. However, I had a feeling that what comes out from my mouth will be treated as rubbish and with utmost unimportantness. Its always been like this and most probably will continue. Can anyone out there teach me what i should do? I'm stuck with this status and its only a matter of time before i crack open my head.


Lesson of the day : Never put too much trust in a person. There is always a chance that people will betray one another. I've learnt it the hard way. This also implies on family members. People will back stab you when the time and conditions are suitable.

This case is different for everyone. However, my experience has left a dark mark in myself making me never to put 100% trust in one person. There's always a limit for trusting a person. Being betrayed is very painful and this is merely a precaution step to minimize them.