Disaster. Over?

One hour passed since I came out from the Sports Hall.

Where I had my final exams.

Final Paper.

Maths006.

Finally, this semester is over. I only had 3 final papers which lasted for less than a week. Well, couldn't say that I didn't have enough time to study.

Still, things turned out, BAD.

Kind of a disaster.

Ah....

My first paper was Accounting on last Friday. Once again, I was kinda fooled by what our Professor said. As far as I could remember, he mentioned that cash flow statement will be hard. And it turned out the other way round. Cash flow was peanuts and the managerial accounting section was dead hard, dead long. For me at least.

I couldn't finish the paper. And I wonder how much was left not-properly answered.

Second paper. The one I'm afraid of most. Business Statistics. The paper which the Professor claimed that it's good enough if you can score a C.

That was on Monday. The paper was relatively easy compared to what we had for our mid-term. Everyone came our from the lecture hall with a huge smile, "Ok ah..." or even, "So easy....". As for me, I do agree that it's easy. BUT, there are still some doubts and questions which I'm not confident in answering.

Last one. A few hours ago. This is supposed to be the least-worried paper.

Wohooooooooo....

And I think this is one of the worst maths exams I'd ever had.

Exams.

It's over. Not forever though.

Only 3 papers and I screwed them all up. What happens the next semester, and the next next semester, and the next next next next .................

Can't imagine.

And I have friends facing 5 exams in 5 consecutive days.

Pui fuk.

HP Pavilion dv4

Hmm...this is what I'm currently using..

Pretty cool features, enterntainment PC, Windows Vista Premium.......

Well, I bought this from the HKUST Notebook Ownership Program, at a very reasonable price. About 2000HKD discounted from original price? and I had to wait for about 21days after ordering it.

It is a pretty efficient laptop I could say, faast speed, huge RAM, Nvidia graphics card blah blah blah.....but the thing about computers are, problems happen very soon~~~~

About after a week of arrival, the sound card could not function. Well it was okay after I restarted it, but still, weird. Besides, when I make a video call from MSN, the mic and sound is not detected, which till now is still, unsolved.

A month later, the startup grew slower and slower. I guess that's because of the expiring Norton Anti Virus. Hmph, I wonder why don't these computers come with a proper anti-virus software. So I had to uninstall norton ad bring AVG freeware in.

A month plus later, the system stopped at 0126hours. Without reason=.= As in when I woke up at 8am, it's still 0126hours!! Ah....this means I have to press the stupid switch for 10seconds to shut down my laptop improperly, which I HATE aloot.

Last month, this happened again.

Well, this laptop is just about 2 months plus old leh.....

So the conclusion is.....the laptop/HP is not good enough? Aih......

Anyway, this is something I NEED, to survive.

Hehe, Can't imagine myself not switching on my computer and logging on to MSN though.

So who cares about those problems...as long as I still have the basic basic functions....

End of November

Time flies.

And I really didn't expect myself to leave this place blank for like....3+ months?
Hmm....sorrylah Alan, Eng Hwa and those who had paid frequent visit to this long isolated blog as I've been disappointing you guys whenever you click on to this link.

Well, so you can guess how busy is my life here. It's near to end of November now. Mid-terms has passed, tonnes of assignments has been due, most presentations over, now down with one final presentation, final recommendation report and FINAL EXAMSsss....

Oouch, sounds kinda sad.

UST Campus~~ Streets in Mongkok
I guess I'm supposed to describe life in Hong Kong. And how have I been so far.
To be frank, I don't feel that there has been any major changes to the hyper active Sherlyn, BUT, many of my friends here said that I looked more and more fatigue day by day, as though I haven't sleep for weeks or even a month? Haha, well don't worry, bet you guys can still recognize me when I come back. Hehe.
Night view from the peak(blurred)
Hong Kong is all about fighting for more time. You just don't feel that there is 24 hours in a day.
Time is just not enough. Imagine having 4 assignments on-going at a time, a final exam, a presentation, a campaign and the list never stops. Owh, and your engine is expected not to stop too. Haha. Busy, busy, busy. There's only one more week of classes ahead and it's back to study study study time. After a successful group presentation ^ ^
Okay, I should say something positive ; )
It was pretty fun in the orientation week back in end of August. We have 10 Malaysian freshies in HKUST(My Uni-The Hong Kong University of Stress and Tension, whoops, Science and Technology), which there are 2 from the island, 3 from Butterworth, and the rest from the other states. Owh, one thing to note, my flight was delayed for 2 days because of the No.8 Typhoon Signal and I missed the best typhoon which will seldom happens in HK!! And I was stuck in KL with no one, no money, no extra clothing and no phone! Hahaha....you can't imagine how miserable those two days were. After reaching the campus, I managed to meet all Malaysians in the first few days and we bond pretty well.

Orientation@ Repulse Bay~The Malaysian Girls

The International and Mainland Students Program Office organized a series of orientation activities for all the international students which includes visits to some famous tourist spots in Hong Kong(of which most I've been there before), some interesting talks, as well as a free dinner at Jumbo Floating Restaurant! Malaysians Say Cheese!~ At the Jumbo Floating Restaurant
After a week, school term starts. At first, we still manage to arrange time for some sports games e.g. badminton, ping pong and swimming. I think that lasted for the first 3 weeks? And I guess you know what happened next...hehe. I'm registered to 5 subjects, Accounts, Business Statistics, Business Case Analysis, Calculus and Organizational Behavior. And NONE of these subjects are EASY to score.=(( Grading system here is totally different from what I use to have in TARC. They'll grade you according to the mean of the group's score. Which means, scoring 85 doesn't guarantee you an A and scoring 65 doesn't mean you will have zero chance of getting an A. Confusing? Haha. it's Normal Distribution. Feeling kinda lazy to explain all these here, nudge me at MSN if you wanna know more.

Studying here wasn't really enjoyable at first. That should be caused by the difference of culture.

[Gotta leave at the moment, busy schedule=.=]
[update later]

Okay, continue updating.

I have locals, taiwanese, chinese and english as my lecturers. Bermacam-macam.
Who's the best? I guess it's my accounts professor, the Taiwanese.
He's quite humorous and his lectures are pretty interesting as he taught quite alot real life cases which I find useful learning.
For the rest, sadly, I could say that they're slightly below my expectations. Well, maybe this is just the first semester of my first year and things are just getting started so I'll still need some time to meet with "geng" professors. That's what the seniors say.
Diversity: Internationals, Locals, Mainland BBQ at the UST BBQ pit~Cold Night
I've met with people from different regions different continents of the globe. But still, I'm closer with most Malaysians. Haha. Anyway, locals are quite friendly and they have SUPER DUPER high spending power. However, when it comes to academics, only a portion of them will make you feel satisfied with their work. As for the mainland students, I guess 95% of them are SUPER DUPER diligent. Library is like their second home. Studying is their life. Some of them are friendly too, such as the one I had in one of my group assignment and business case competition. A few of them are super "kia-su-s". I MEAN SUPER. And as for international students, most of the westerners enjoy university life, beer, parties, Tsim-Sa-Tsui and Lam Kwai Fong .....
Mid Autumn Festival Steamboat Happy Birthday to ME^ ^
Me? I managed to keep my uni life busy(Yaya, we all know), balanced friendship between diversity, and not enough sleep for many many many days! So far, there are activities that I'm happy to be involved in. Being in the Rotaract Club and being part of the sub-committees in organizing a Science Day for the underprivileged kids was really meaningful. As I never had chance to be individually involved in such larger scale community service, I really learnt a lot from this experience. To see the kids smile, to see them listening to what you actually say, to see them bringing back their "science products", to see their eyes telling you that "we had a nice day" is really memorable. Wine appreciation
MadLab Science Day for Children
Besides, I also registered myself to the International Service Trip which aims to help in reconstruction work of schools in the mountainous areas of YunNam. In conjunction of this trip, we had a fund raising event which lasted for 3 days in campus. It was also a good experience as we were to asked to raise HKD10 donations for a pen to be given to those children. At first I thought this will be quite a tough task as most UST-ers are busy and are neither interested nor responsive towards any booth-set-up activities, but in the end, it ran smoothly. The response was really positive and satisfying and we managed to achieve our target~~Yay, all prepared for the trip!

What worth mentioning about me studying here is the huge difference of tertiery education life in UST and in Malaysia. Within these 3++ months, I've been involved in numerous self development talks, from the CEOs, from theatre artists, from career development center, from company executives and the list goes on. The opportunity of self enrichment and learning additional non-academic skills are never ending. I've even learnt wine tasting, negotiation skills, and even forex, metals and futures tradings. Owh ya. a stimulation was even prepared for us for this trading activity. I also managed to secure a place for the preliminary round for International Student Trader's Trophy and the 2 hours session was really enjoyable. There was also chances for mock interviews where challenging interview questions will be addressed and instant feedback will be given to your performance. So far, I'd also attended 2 company visits which includes Cathay Pacific and Firm Town Gas. Cathay Pacific's Building is SUPER COOL!~~~~and i had a HKD160 buffet luncheon at the top of the CX tower with some of the CX executives. Wooohooooo....Although super expensive, but the experience is worthwhile.

One more interesting activity I'm involved in--Air Cadet! Hoho! I've been to Saikung for hiking once, and lately a 2 days-1 night camping with fellow cadet officer trainees(that's what we call ourselves!) First time sleeping in a Mongolian tent, and camping at a place between the mountains near the ocean with no water and electric supply, only TORCHlight~~~Other than that, we were taught basic aviation knowledge, and some radio telecommunication skills. Who knows, I might have a chance to fly my own private plane or helicopter in the future! Hahaha.....
Hiking Trip at Saikung
Well, weather has changed from summer, to autumn till now, between 13-18 degree celcius? A lot has happened for the whole semester, and this blog is just a summary for it. I hope this gave you a picture of what has happened to me here?

Hehe, exams lining up in mid-dec! Wish me luck guys!!!
Owh ya, I MISS PENANG FOOD! and all the people there too!!!

Faces Steak Garden

Haven't been to this place for a long long time.

The first time, which is a few years back, I went there with my whole family. Knowing that they have not bad and not expensive food as well as not bad environment, I know I'll come back next time.

Well, I'm not really a regular customer of that place. But I visited this place most often last year. Haha, to be more precise, I'm more to a half-worker of the place. I used to sing with a partner there.

It's quite a good experience actually. Some people do listen to you, and some people will just make noise behind. Some will make dedications, and some will request for some really hard to play songs. Sometimes, we'll be the ones bringing a little joy who came to celebrate birthdays at that little place.

About a quarter of a year, I've been singing there. I enjoyed most of the time being there. When we're able to sing what customers requested for, and when we just sing like nobody's business. Haha.....But the boss was, pretty yim chim(stingy) I could say. And from the top, we could see that the customer service is pretty, unacceptable,most of them are foreign workers, without proper training. Anyway, it's not under our scope to care so much accept when the boss starts to violate employees' rights. Our pay is given after every half of the month. And when there's 5 weeks in a month, they'll only give you the pay of 4 weeks!! Ridiculous and unacceptable. That's why we stopped singing.

Haha.

So I still drop by when there's some occasions or some gatherings with friends. And nothing has ever improved. Till a day, they changed their menu. Food choice less, and food prices increased. It's kinda bad, and I heard they change their management. So since then, faces became a no no visit place to me.

After a few months, there I am again. Just to see how the singers are and how is business going on.

It turned out to be me, eating lotz of french fries and a whole huge glass of erm...what do you call that? Arnold schwarzenegger? Or Christina Arguilera? Haha.....can't really recall, a just know that it's a mixture of 4 fruits. There was only 1 guitarist that night, not much customers, and all workers are Chinese. Hmm....the singer was not bad la, at least.

Maybe I'll still come next time, Maybe.

Step class today.

Gloomy............... But the sun is actually shining behind.

Morning BodyStep classes are moving into the worst period ever.

Only 1 member or even none on Thursdays 7am, 2 or less on Mondays 915am. What happened.

Some say it's because of the summer holidays and most of the members are on vacation. But I just don't think so. It just felt kinda weird, and a little sad too, seeing the classes....'die'.

Sometimes I do wonder whether it's because of me, the newbie? The one who only cues when I do the moves not before I do the moves. There're always complain, when you're new. That's just, unavoidable. Hmph.....

But what I'd heard was Fridays crowd has decreased dramatically too.....Argh. What's wrong. Members got injured at their knee after they do step and they're afraid to do it again? How could we actually solve this problem? Hard right.....correct them on the techniques?
Argh.

I miss those days, when Kim is the soul of BodyStep every Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. And I know it's really hard to bring it back.......

Sunday, Family Day

It has been quite some time since me and family went to Butterworth to my cousin sis's place. As I still have my graduation photo taken by so called professional photographer not collected, we decided to go to Butterworth and to visit cousin sis and family.

Reached Penang Jetty and there were a lot of cars. And it started raining heavily. It was pretty cloudy in the morning and it started pouring as we get close to the port. The lining up took quite some time and there we go on board. We noticed leaking in the roof of the ferry. Several leaking spots and the floor is wet. It looks as though it's raining in the ferry.

*There's a lil river in the ferry!*

Then we reached Butterworth Jetty and it was still raining non-stop. Went to the photo studio first and I found that the frame and the wordings that I paid extra for is not what I expected. The wordings are not directly printed into our photos but is attached with the frame of the photo. That means it's the same for everyone. With no name of person, no course of study and no grade of graduation. Pretty disappointing as compared to what UTAR offers sis. One 4R photo of the slide on the day was taken loop sided as well. Overall, I could actually choose not to take the frame. After all, it's just diploma right....Haha.


And then we head to cousin sis's house. She cooked holiao as our lunch. Holiao as in fish, soup, duck, vegetables and pork leg! Haha...and to families had lunch together. It all tasted pretty good and I got quite full after lunch. And we started the chit-chat session with lotsa laughter. I felt kinda sleepy after all the nice food but havta do quite a lot of talking which kept me awake. Talked about some of my products and I'm pretty glad that she's willing to use it. Haha so some business done before we left butterworth.

Dad decided to take the ferry back to Penang. And the queue was really long at Butterworth jetty. It took us almost 1.5 hours to cross back to Penang. Reason? Not enough ferries? More and more consumers started using ferries to go across mainland after the huge price rise? Well, actually one of the reason is one of the ports broke down. Haha, don't really how to put it in words but, haih, it's pretty sad to see this happen. And it's pretty frustrating to wait in the car doing nothing for 1.5 hours. Why can't the government just develop properly something which is profitable? I just don't get it.

So it was near to 7pm when we reach the island. Went to Red Garden for dinner, food was expensive and proportion was too little. Inflation!

*Cham peng at RM1.50!! Like I'm in KL mamak stalls...*

Haha....so I ended my day. It felt pretty good spending with my family, and good food! Even though we had some time wasted in between.

A Post

I know I'm being really quiet, nowadays. Maybe I just need a little rest?

I guess I'm supposed to post something here.

Whatever it is, just something.

Have been out of touch for more than a week.
Felt guilty to those people who...erm.stop by quite often to check out for updates?

Haha. Have been a little busy with some random stuff lately. Just a little actually.
Follow up on stuff regarding my studies in Hong Kong, movies catching, friends meeting, classes replacing...blah blah.
Very random. And yea, working at FF.
Owh and one more thing, I got hooked up with this not really famous online game-Highstreet5. It's a game similar to Audition. Haha. Quite fun actually, and the songs there are updated. Enjoyable, although I'm still a beginner at level 2.

There are some changes going on in my life, here and there.
And I really feel that I'm really goinna leave this place in like just a month plus few more days.
Feels weird. Though I'm not packing up anything yet.

A little announcement.
To those who don't really know what I'm talking about.
I'm leaving for Hong Kong to study in The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Leaving particularly in August 21st. Penang International Airport.
So I'll see you in the airport 1.30pm if you're free? Hehe....

Okay, told ya I don't know what to say. I'm crapping.
I'll update more often kay...I promise. Just to let you guys know that I'm still alive.
Hoho.

Cheers!

It's a bad bad day

I was in the ferry. Saw this bird. Not a crow. It could still walk and fly, but I realized after a moment that it has lost the claws of one of his leg, only the other leg supporting him...~~Spirit of living~~

Caught with flue a few days ago. I thought it was not serious.

Appointed last minute to replace classes again.
And I thought I'm fine with it.

I didn't want what happened last week to reoccur, I asked Sam to inform the members that I'll be replacing the class.

Was working 7 and 9 hours last weekend. A bit sad that I didn't get to go to the annual MATTA Fair in PISA. Although I know that I won't have chance to go for any vacation this year.

I woke up early this morning. Prepared and revised my choreo. But my stomach is telling me something is wrong. Argh...I know I'm not feeling well.
But so what, class has to be continued right?
Too bad I missed the chance to go for McD breakfast with Maylin and Jeanni before class starts.

Bibi's Yoga ended 0916hours. Which is, 11 minutes later than scheduled? So my class did not start on time. Which I think, will cause me into trouble with those Pilates aunties.

As I expected not much people came, but I didn't really prepare for this few. Starting to think of whether I actually made this mess?
Owh, and before I start the class, I rushed to the loo once again to,....ahem ahem. Oh gosh, how am I goinna teach.
It's tired needing to explain why am I teaching instead of somebody else. Anyway, class started at 0925hrs.

The first 2 tracks were pretty good. But not for track 3, everyone still seemed pretty confused. Argh.....I wonder how could I make them do it correctly.... I just don't want them to give up. But when you can't follow you'll automatically stop right? Track 4 was fine. But my running nose got bad after that, and to make it even worse, there is no tissue paper for me to sneeze it off. Okay, bare with it till track 5, where the mic kong-ed off. Track 6, I'm starting to run out of energy. There was even moments where I felt I can't breathe and I'm fainting.=.= Sweat huh....I started talking less and lesser till track 10. Lucky that I did not faint till the end. And class ended 1025hrs. Kitty came in and placed her belongings directly on top of the sound system without waiting for me to clear up. But I was too tired and flu is not doing his good job to stop making me feel unwell. Argh....I'm like even walk properly after the class. Dizzy dizzy dizzy. Janice served me with some Vico and I slowly recover.

It was not a satisfying class, at all. And I'm pretty disappointed with myself.

Had to shower and settle the rest of my list of things to do. And my locker key is LOST!! Argh...searching high and low up n down, where could I put it. As I was not as conscious as I'm supposed to when I came out from class, I thought I left it in the studio. Sneaked in to the studio in the middle of pilates and it was not around the sound system area. Not in the lost and found area and not anywhere in the changing room. Oh god oh god how could this happen. Wasted quite a lot of time searching and at last after Kitty finishes her class I found my key understage area where all the dusts and power points are for the sound system. How could it end up there? Well, would not like to elaborate. Just feel thankful that it's still there.

Went to get some of my stock and went to the jetty to go to butterworth to buy train ticket. Randomly parked my car as usual. As I don't have enough cash I had to search for an ATM machine first. And surprisingly there's not even a single ATM machine all around the bus terminal and train station. So I had to walk a distance to Maybank. And it was 1300hrs. Sultry HOT.
The purchasing of train ticket was smooth, except for the lady on duty was sleeping when I arrive. Malaysians at work...you know la. So when I was about to walk back to the jetty, I saw the next ferry has arrived. So I rushed to exchange money. I brought out RM1 for coins exchange. He gave me 2 50cents. I have another 50cents in my wallet. So I gave him back a 50cents to exchange for smaller value coins. But he said it's not enough and blah blah blah and asked me to bring out another RM1 for exchange. What the......okay by the time all the blah come and go, they closed the entrance gate. The ferry was still there, just that I couldn't enter!

Gotta wait for another one and I really hate when this happens!!

Back to Penang. 1400hrs. Look as though it's goinna rain. And a few minutes later it did. Traffic was congested. Some buses were driving recklessly. Lunch hour, school dismiss hour. Everywhere seemed to be busy. Got a little frustrated when Jeanni told me she didn't tell Logan about me goinna meet him. Argh...never mind. I couldn't make it on time anyway. And the most important thing is....I'M REALLY HUNGRY! I need some FOOD!

Okay, went to Nyonya for my brunch. 1430hrs. Didn't expect Maylin, Jeanni and Sam to come over too. Hehe.

Then, I received a call from a KL number. Wondering who is it, I answered and I found out that it's Kelvin. Hmm...he asked me for a favour. Not hard to do if I'm in a good mood. But at that point of time, I just wanna say no. It could be troublesome. I don't like dealing with banks and I hate dealing with TARC. But still, I have no reason to reject him. And that makes my face even darker than before. I'm so so so so not in good mood, and I need to SLEEP!

So after brunch, I went back too FF for the talk. Big boss was busy so I just dealt with Jaafar. Things got sorted out. Nothing much to be argued. God knows who's right and wrong. Unless I get a time machine to witness what actually happened on that night. I do hope that this won't end up like what I expected it to be, a trap, a shitty trap. So I went off after that. To the bank.

There were so MANY people in queue. Which made me even more.....*?!?!*

Two things to do, get back my refund for the graduation gown, and buy Kelvin's bank draft. 5 more numbers before it's my turn. And I'm losing my patience.

Never mind. What pissed me is when the personnel said that I'll be charged RM2 for the refund of the bank draft. When I asked why, she said because you're cancelling the bank draft. ARGH? Why are banks like dai yi longs? RM2 is not much but what for?? It just doesn't make sense. Haven't you guys already collected RM5 buta-buta commission when we first bought the bank draft? Then now? CHARGE AGAIN? What the hell. Imagine that just to attend my convocation I have to buy 2 seperate bank drafts, each charged RM5 commission, which makes it RM10. And after the return of the gown I'm supposed to drive back to that bank and be charged another RM2 just to get back the money that originally belongs to me? So RM300(The bank draft amount) actually became RM 288 in like what? 2 weeks??? Damn.

After getting Kelvin's bank draft, I drove to TARC. Not much people at this hour. 1610hrs.
Bursary office is still open thank lord. After signing and everything, the lady told me that RM10 late payment will be charged to this bill. **^^%#$#^_*+)(&)%@?? But I don't have my wallet with me!!! My job is just to walk to the freaking office and hand in the bank draft and get the damn receipt and LEAVE! Not to pay any MONEY!! But the lady insisted. Saying that if I don't pay, the bill won't be processed and Kelvin's name will be cancelled off from the school. After much argument and investigation on why the students doesn't even know that they have to settle the bills and late payment imposed after whichever date, I had to DESPERATELY walk back to my car which is parked freaking far under HOT HOT sun to get a freaking RM10 for late payment CHARGE!! Owh, and after going back with the SO IMPORTANT MONEY, the lady told me that the system has already been closed and she can't produce me the bill anymore. WHATTTTT? It's written there office closed 4.30pm and you tell me that your system is closed 3.30pm??? What is this? And you tell me that you guys need to close account? Will the supermarket open until 10pm but tell the customers that the Point of Sales system is closed at 9pm because they need an hour to count money and close accounts for the day and you can only window shop some groceries after 9pm????

THIS IS TOTALLY RIDICULOUS!

I need to get some sleep dude. Dah la not feeling well, some more let me face all these shit. Yea I really wanna rush into the toilet and grab whichever bunch of shit that comes to my eyes and throw it to all these non-sense making people!

Okay, it's my bad day. Finished grumbling about it.

What's wrong with me? Aih.......

At last something good.
Happened before I call it a day.

I own a Diploma...

Hoho...not that it's really a BIG THING...

But this is kind of the day that I've been waiting for since I started this course.

So what could I say about TARC is....

A safe environment to study?

Yea, the campus could be considered big as compared to other colleges in Penang, the lecturers are....ahem, not badly qualified? The papers are pretty standard and not that hard to fail? And you can resit for what ever times you wish to if you do not pass? (Haha.) The campus is located in some place not congested with traffic but a little hard to get large variety of food. What else? They have most of the basic facilities a college is supposed to have. They have cheap canteen food. They have good and really affordable bus service.

As they say, quality and affordable education.

Good slogan.

To be honest, I enjoy my first semester of college life pretty much. Having to cycle to college and cycle back home to take a nap whenever I want, and having pretty experienced lecturers in the lecture halls and tutorials. But things started to change during the second change, just a slight change. There's some problem with our accounts lecture. Hmph...it's almost like, self study. When it comes to the third semester, things got a little lazy as we only have 2 subjects where 1 is 100% coursework and only another to study. And I started my full time job as a part time job seeker. Anyway, greatest satisfaction from my 1st year of study in TARC, my CGPA of 4.0.

Second year, 4th semester. I relaxed myself on the subjects. We had 6 subjects, everything goes harder. But still, manageable. And there comes the twist and there begins my little hatred for TARC. They changed the grading system after our examinations and before the results come out. Without notification. Oh god, how can you actually do that? It's so unfair when students aren't even aware about the new system when they're preparing and sitting for the exams! Yea, that affected my mood, a LOT. And so I began to lost my full interest studying in TARC. All I'm thinking is finish it soon finish the course faster. I just can't wait to end it. Lecturers are not up to what I expect, a lot of things have been going crazy and blah blah blah....And so my results for the 5th sem dropped like hell. As though I almost lost everything. Yeah, if you know me you would know that results are important issues in my life. I did not ACE. And I did way worse than just not ACE-ing. Hmph, that made me wanna complete the course even sooner and faster. All my interest was focused on leaving the campus, and not stepping back again. Sounds pretty sad huh....

Well, let me just tell a bit about the bad-ness of TARC. THE STAFF!

I don't mean the lecturers. I mean the non-lecturers. Those people sitting in the office.

They are really really really....ahem. Are like people selling stuff at the pasar malam or people selling hawker food. Or even worse.

They work as though they are their own boss. They have stone made mouths, maybe movable, but totally not smile-able. They treat students like....treating 2nd grade naughty boys and girls running around the playground. They talk to you like you owe them a million thousand dollars and a piece of 1000 hectare land. In short, no working ethics, no customer service, no manners.

I'm really really really particular about this. Cause I work in a customer service line and these people are like a decade elder than me and they can't treat people properly like how I could?

Oh ya, something special about them, they could actually laugh loudly and chit chat happily like teenagers with their own colleagues.

Wouldn't really wanna elaborate more, but I had total not so good experience when I was studying and TOTAL BAD experience one day before my graduation day with the staff. How I wish I could transform transparent and get a rotan to whip on whichever part of them I love for like maybe 10 times would be great? Or maybe transform into Harry Potter and use magic on them?

God, they are from jungle! Oh one more thing, some of them actually own a Master qualification? With attitude like UPSR students.

Based on this, well I'm so freaking glad that I have graduated from there.

A place which provides quality and affordable education.

So true, nothing mentioned about friendly staff, maybe they are just affordable staff.

Okay, let's talk about my big day.

Hoho.....1st time wearing the whole suit. L size somemore. It didn't take for me to wait till it's my turn to get up on stage for my scroll. Pretty glad. I graduated with distinction.

So the most important thing about these events is the photo taking session.

There are a hell lot of people around the whole college. 2000 people or more than that?

So I walked and walked around. Cameras clicked and clicked. This is quite memorable. Everyone is happy. My dad, mum and sis came too. Go to my spaces to view the photos.

2 years passed since I finished SPM. So fast. And I'm goinna move on.

Guess I'll meet better people and greater experiences these coming 3 years?

Wish me luck.

Oh ya, I own a diploma which qualifies me to apply for jobs which requires a diploma!=.=

Dinner Time!

Haha...I'm pretty used to having dinner at like...

this hour?

Well, it's not that I don't want to have dinner at proper hours. But with me working part time and uncertainly, and with my job with times I don't even get to enjoy a moment of break, dinner is almost impossible. Especially, when I mean mum's cooking as dinner.

I kinda miss the times when me and sis are still schooling. The times where mum cooks every night and the whole family enjoys dinner together. The times where me and sis will compete on who eats faster so that we don't need to wash everyones plates. Haha.....kids.

And there was a period of time when mum seldom cooks. Reason? Cause sis's not around, I'm working and mum eats little and dad eats lotsa rice but little dishes so it's pretty hard for mum to estimate the amount to cook and here it goes, outside food. Almost everyday. Until the uncles and aunties of the hawker stalls know us.

So we began to feel sick about outside food. Moreover, it's not healthy.

And I began to miss mum's cooking.

Hahahaha.....

So mum went back to her kitchen about a many months later.

And yea...her cooking is undoubtedly, still nice.

I appreciate how she can cook for us, even if I only get to taste it as my dipper(dinner+supper)?Hahahahaha...

And ya, as I'm goinna leave very soon, I'm sure goinna miss those nice dishes.

Yumm Yumm...still dinner time:D

Fast Food @ Sunrise Tower

The beautiful Sunrise Tower in Gurney Drive, where these 2 fast fodd restaurants are located.

I had lunch at Pizza Hut Sunrise Tower with some secondary school schoolmates. Well the gathering was pretty great as I haven't meet them for quite some time, and this is definitely the time for some updates.

We chose Pizza Hut just because we can't really find any other good and affordable but not McD food inside Gurney Plaza. And Pizza Hut has the value meal thing which is pretty much satisfying and not too expensive. So we walked to Pizza Hut for lunch.
And.........the service in that restaurant was....

really BAD!

Aih. At first, no one actually attend to us when we walked up to the dining area, we had to find tables and seats by ourselves. Fine, since business was quite good and they looked quite busy.

There were no clean tables which could fit in 5 people at that time. So we sat down at an uncleared table and we need to ask the waitress to clear things up. Fine, they are busy.

There were 5 of us. And the waitress only brought us ONE set of menu. Owh I guess the menus are too heavy. Fine, we could share afterall.

We took quite some time to decide what to order. That's not a problem. The problem lies in we seemed to be invisible to any of the staff there. No one came to us for our order for like 15 minutes? Then we waved and called and even lightly shouted at them? Only they kam luan(willing) serve us.

Walao.....this is first class service.

We were really really hungry by then. The waitress wasn't really polite when she took our order anyway, but who cares, I just want my food. If you've been to Sunrise Pizza Hut, you'll know who are those people working there.

It didn't take too long till our food arrive. The new flavors for the Sensasi Delight meal wasn't really nice. I've tasted all of them and I really prefer the original recipe.

Hmm, I ate 4 pieces of personal pan pizza and stuff crust, a bowl of mushroom soup with a few pieces of garlic bread, plus some lagsana which my friend couldn't finish and in the end another extra piece of pizza! Owh ya and I nearly ommitted the my drink. Poof... Totally loaded.

For a person like me, I'll make sure that everything on the table is cleared before we leave. So I finished up all the food and felt so uncomfortable after I reach home. Aih.....=.=

The last complain about the service, the can't even smile a little when we were about to settle our bill.

Slow Slow Slow. That's the normal pace they work.

This is not the first time I'm experiencing this. It's just getting more and more disappointing.

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Now we move to the fast food outlet just beside Pizza Hut Sunrise Tower, McDonalds.

So what's wrong with them? I did not dine in at that day. But I was pissed off some time ago with their service too.

I used to fancy this outlet of McDonalds when I was much younger(I mean when I was a kid). Simply because it looks bigger than other in-shopping-mall outlets and it has a playground at the second floor. Haha.

One day, roughly 3 months ago, I was on my way to the bus station at night and was pretty hungry so I decided to take away some McDonalds to eat in my car. The queue was long that night, as expected, it's Friday night. So I lined up. The service was, I could say not fast. But still I waited patiently till it's my turn. They had some sort of coupon promotion that time where you can get a free a la carte listed when you purchase any large McValue Meal. So I used the voucher along with the Kids Club Card (where you get a free fries or sundae for every RM5 purchase). The first waiter did not say anything and went to prepare my food after my order. Suddenly another person came to attend to me saying that if I were to use the promotion voucher I can't use the Kids Club Card anymore. I stunned and I told them I have been using this in other outlets, both Gurney Plaza and Prangin Mall which seems to be accepting this, and they gave me a lame reason saying that the rules have changed. *!!*

Then I requested a drink change. Instead of Coca Cola I wanted F&N Orange. As I was in the rush I didn't have time to check my bill and when I got back to my car, I discovered that there was an extra charge for the orange! Instead of the soft drink orange they gave me orange juice which is not what I wanted!

First class service.

A day before the promotion for the coupon ended, I went to Gurney Sunrise again to use it for Breakfast Meal. It was 1055hrs and they say breakfast time is over. Fine then, I asked for a comment form to write about what happened before and the lady told me they don't have such thing as a comment form. *????* Then what the heck is the comment box and notice for? Argh...a notice asking for feedback and comments was really posted up there! Okay fine. Then I saw another notice outside the glass door stating that due to the high demand of McMuffins they are currently out of stock and to apologize for the inconvenience, they will extend the voucher promotion till 15th May(Originally 30th April). Guess what, when I asked my colleague to buy me the McD breakfast on the morning of 12th May, the staff said that the promotion has already ended!!

Oh dear, this is how the fast food restaurants work.

No one really cares actually, cause business is so far so good. Right?

Redbox

Yay...have been wanting to have a singing session with my singing pals long time ago...
Finally, we managed to set a time suitable for everyone.
Well, it was nearly cancelled for some reason at first.

So I called to book for a room at 1pm, asking whether we're still entitled for the K-Lunch package. Surprisingly the person told me no more and when I argued that it was stated in the website that K-Lunch is available from 11am to 2pm, she said that I could come at 1245hrs and we can get the package. Fine then. Feeling pretty excited, I informed my friends to meet up at 1245hrs.

I actually reached there about 1250hrs. And to my surprise again, the person told me that we can't get the K-Lunch package anymore. I asked them why and their explanation was the last call for lunch is 1215hrs. Isn't that just ridiculous? I argued that the person who made the booking for me asked me to come before 1300hrs and I could still enjoy the lunch. But they insisted on not giving. Argh.....you know why we need to fight for it? Because lunch is RM9++ per person WITH LUNCH and the non-lunch thing is a tea-time package which will cost RM14++ per person with ONLY 2 DRINKS! Okay, and none of us had lunch before we came here=.=
So what, you know how did they counter back when I say that it is stated in the website that K-Lunch is from 11am till 2pm? "Owh....that's not the correct one!" 0.O??
BRAVO! 1st class service I'll call this.
http://www.redbox.com.my/redbox/eng/comp_service1d.asp. Just refer to this address!!

So since we're already here, we had no choice but to continue with our original plan.
Anyway, the singing session was pretty fun. I found out that I haven't been updating myself with new songs lately. Couldn't even tick out 10 songs that I can sing from the new songs list. Haha, sad nia.
So in the end, we had 3 hours of singing, a few minutes of watching Michael Jackson's "Thriller" MV, which was taken more than a decade back, 2 glasses of student drinks without any food, a few toilet trips, and 3 hours of starvation.=.=
Well, we enjoyed spending time with each other in that big room which could fit in more than 10 people they assign to us. When the bill came, I saw our check in time which was 1259hours. HAHA. I could still complain them for not giving us the lunch package when its not even 1300hrs yet....
HOHOHOHO....evil me.

We rushed out from Gurney for food after that. Had some hawker food, had a little chit chat, had a little emotions, and we head back home.
Everyone will be leaving each other soon. Very soon. 1 going to Singapore NTU, 1 going to KL UTAR, 1 going to HKUST, another one, still striving her way to future. Actually that's when the emotions came in.

I had a lot of thoughts after that.
A lot.....things are changing. Everyone is changing in their own way.
Everyone is....growing up.

Why la Neway is not opening a branch in Penang.






VS

Updates?

I don't have much to do nowadays.

No more 4 jobs in a day, no classes to teach, no classes to attend.
Basically I'll just wonder around. At home, or somewhere out there.

But since petrol is RM2.70 per litre(!), I'm restricted to areas around Island Plaza, or maybe furthest 1-stop. Don't feel like travelling since June 5th. No mood actually.

In fact, there are pretty much tasks lining up for me.

Like learning BS72 and past releases choreo, gain some extra knowledge, survey on some electronic gadgets, play some music, earn some extra cash(Yea, I kinda need this~)??

But things are going really really slow.

Maybe I should blame the internet connection at home. When things get stuck here and there, I just don't feel like continuing whatever I'm doing.

Maybe I should also blame the freaking hot weather. When I'm sweating for no reason, I just feel like locking myself into my air-con room and sleep.

Well, ya. I've been lazing around since I came back from KL.

Waking up everyday morning to drop my mum to school and go back to my bed to sleep until it's over the time I'm supposed to be awake is my routine. And what is meant by the time I'm supposed to be awake is 0900hrs? Yeah, and I took my own sweet time till almost half of a day is over.

I'm too lazy to move around. Ahh....just go away lazy bugs.

What am I waiting for?

Yeah, to study I think.

Or simply just to keep myself busy.

Not having more than 3 jobs at a time made me feel uneasy. O.0?

Haha....true enough. I'd rather keep myself hooked up with schedules of work, rather than sleeping too much everyday.

Yea, you've not mistaken. I've been sleeping too much nowadays. And the more I sleep, the more attached I am to my bed.
It sounds so un-Sherlyn.

I seriously gotta start my engine. Doing something really productive. Instead of falling asleep even when I'm halfway writing a blog...=.=

Haha. Good luck aights....



Gotta find the correct pair of keys to get my engine working....

A little change

I'm not really the kind of person who cares sooo much about my appearance.
I mean as compared to most of the girls my age. People tend to care more about beauty, fashion, facial and the list goes on.
That's simply because I'm always and predicted forever pretty busy caught up with work and activities all around leaving me with no time to even choose the best suited facial foam to use.

As I'm quite free nowadays. I chose to indulge myself a lil bit.

Made an appointment with Slimming Sanctuary on Wednesday. Not for a slimming session of course, hehe. Went for a facial session. As usual, the staff there loves giving lecture and hard selling before starting the session. Before that, I went for a jacuzzi session. Hoho, it was quite fun actually. First time sinking myself into a tub of goat milk water for massage.....It feels quite good. So I was thinking if I could have this set of machine at home too=.= In the future la...
Then the facial session. The staff was quite good. But as usual, it's so freaking painful when she clears the blackheads. Argh...what to do. They have been deep in there for months.

The next day. I went for a hair cut. It has been nearly 10 months since I got my last haircut. That was rebonding actually. Hmm....
But I didn't know which salon to go too...aih. Great headache. I'd never have a permanent place for my hair cut. Have always been trying out here and there. Trial and error.
Went to ask around some of the salons in Prima Tanjung, and the Extreme opposite PCGPS. Who knows Extreme has been closed for renovation pulak...=.= In the end, I decided to go to Hair Impression in Komtar.
Well, for the sake of $, I chose the juniors for my haircut. Originally it was a quite good-looking guy looked quite confident attended to me. Manatau he handed over me to another younger guy, who really has those typical junior looks.=.= Kek ki nia... Nevermind lo, since this is what I will get for what I pay.
He tried to be confident. Started a little chit chat, with the hair wash, and he asked what I want. I wanted a better looking hairstyle, a little shorter than the length I had, a hairstyle which looks good even I don't tie it up. When his senior came to ask me, I told him to give me a hairstyle that suits me. So the senior started teaching the junior what are the methods to cut my hair. Well, that makes me feel a little, just a little uneasy.
From time to time, the senior will come back and check his 'work'. After the first layer, he did not consult his senior on how to continue and continued cutting the same way. Till his senior came and say "You cut it already?..."=.= "Yea, I thought don't want to let her wait too long..." =.=|| That's his reply.
So I knew that I won't get the hairstyle the senior wanted to do.
Aiks. So just pray that it won't turn out too bad?
Well, there's not much difference actually. Except for the shorter length. That's not what I really want. I wanted something that looks different from the front view. But they said that if they cut my fringe, my hair will curl up, and yea I know it will look even worse. Aih, so I've just gotta accept this.
Who ask me to be so stingy. So that's the quality of haircut I get.
Why la on earth do I need to have such such such such freaking thick hair...pong pong like that. Yer....

Haha, so this was the last two things I did for a change. Will go and have an album photo shoot sis bought me as last year's birthday present next week. Hoho....looking forward to it.

It's Hot!

Global warming?

I guess so.

It has been days .... so HOT~MELTING~~

Can't believe myself sweating when I'm writing a blog or doing whatever in front of the computer. At 11pm.

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Where are all those clouds....

Even sleeping does not solve the problem. I can even sweat when I sleep.

I need an air-con in the air. (Which is, something not good to our environment....)

But it's just too hot!

Can't imagine myself being in a country with four seasons. No, I should say with summer!

Woo-hoo....the temperature will be like 40 degree celcius?

Burning...burning....I'd rather die.

Being in my car is like a disaster too. For those who know what car I'm driving, I guess you know why.

Besides driving you around, it functions as a microwave oven too! You can simply get free sauna for how ever long period you like...Cool huh....

The conclusion is, I need some huge clouds to just cover the sun a little. Maybe a little will more or less help. It would be even better if those are dark clouds...

I just can't stand this temperature!

Father's Day

It was supposed to be Chili's.

But apparently we need to wait another hour just to get a table.
Haha, so Dome we head to.

This is sort of the first time I'm taking Dome's Food? Dad told me I had once before in Island Plaza when I was really young. Well, who remembers that?

So I guess the photos will speak for it :D

The gravy was quite nice, the portion is a little too little, but well, I'm satisfied.

Ther's hell lotta vege in this tuna wrap!! Haha....great for vege lovers~

The soup was not bad, but I prefer the one from Ingolf's Kneipe

This is quite tasty too....Hoho. Creamy.....

Yumm....yumm.

Cheers Dad! Happie Joy Daddy's DaY!

This drink is quite nice...But aren't we supposed to order coffee in Dome? Haha...

Yay! I love celebrations...cause it always comes with good FOOD. Hoho....Love ya Daddy!