Cold as

My parents want me to have the things they didn't have when they were kids. Like, all As on every report card.

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So far, this week has been the craziest.

Monday

10-12 pm : Presentation

Had lunch with Mer and Lily

Came back for physio at 3pm

Had core training (ICF) at 4pm

A 23 pages readings to do for the next day

+ CSI & Brothers & Sisters

Tuesday

9am - 2pm : Classes

Was suppose to go to gym but remembered last minute that I had tutorial at 4pm.

Dinner + Bible study at 6pm

Watched House & Grey's while making notes in preparation for a group meeting today
Finished after midnight

Today

Was supposed to have only one class from 9-10am then go paint tiles for church but had to have group meeting at half past twelve

Therefore, since it would be hard to get a carpark at noon, I'm staying in uni until meeting

Meeting would probably last for several hours

Then I have ICF at 5pm followed by Mosaic meeting at 6.30pm.

And thats the end of today.

Hopefully.

Its getting super cold here. It was 3 degrees! this morning. And apparently its going to rain for the next few days. One good thing that will be coming out of this is snow! ICF is planning to go sledding on 6th of June. I've got to go get cardboards to sled on first though.

My next post will be on the house I'm staying in right now. I just re-arranged my room last week and it really looks good. Lol.

I love the thot up there that I thought I would share with you =))

Am re-reading this book now :) I'm quite discipline. Only reading at night.

I Love Exams

1. No classes
2. It signifies the end of the semester and year
3. Holidays are right after exams
4. A week just to study
5. Being in pjs the whole day

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p.s. I want to thank somebody (either a cousin or a friend) for teaching me LCLY so that I could remember LC [Long Call] came first in the diamond shape graph for the finance exam

p.s.s. Another thanks for my friends in NZ who helped remind me (and don't know it) that ham and wine are related for the cases I learnt for the law exam

p.s.s.s. A very big thank you to all of my friends here and overseas who have been sending me supporting texts (and email) right when I need them =)

p.s.s.s.s. I will reply everybody's email tomorrow. Hang in there!

Phew

Malam is over. Its just amazing how quickly time flies. Most of the first week of holidays was spent doing Malam stuff or looking for a dress for Malam. Malam was pretty good I would say. Everything went well except for the late start (due to the VIPs) and delayed food. But wasn't really our fault as well. Maybe there was a miscommunitcation with the hotel.

I was quite happy though that my friends actually went for the thing. And they said it was pretty good :) I felt relieve! Obviously, my room became super messy during the whole week. Planned to clean my room tonight but it failed. Well, if you fail to plan, you plan to fail which is so not true in my case. Lol.

I slept at 11pm yesterday and woke up at 9 ish - continued reading and fell asleep but woke up at 12pm to my alarm clock. Cooked lunch. Wanted to tidy up my room and do some laundry but ended up watching Amazing Grace, Employee Of The Month and Juno. Quite cool movies. Juno was a bit weird but they had interesting music. EOTM was normal. AG was touching as are most true stories.

Cooked dinner while watching Employee Of The Month. I'm kinda happy bout today but felt bad as well. I then promised myself that I will tidy up my room today no matter what but I'm here blogging after reading blogs and facebooking.

I shall clean my room after the pictures are uploaded. Heh. Urgh - stupid internet don't want to connect. Ish. Then nevermind la. This will be a word post. I'm feeling sleepy mian. And its less than 12 hours since I was awake. Hehe.

I better start cleaning my room. Maybe if I'm still in the mood I'll blog more later.

My printer

Very sad la. My printer is still not producing the correct colour :( Now the yellow colour has been tainted with cyan and the yellow by cyan. Now orange is blue and blue is brown. So sad kan.

during camp, i was humiliated! I won best supporting actress though =)

I finally bought another duvet cover! It is hard to find a King Single Duvet cover okay. Briscoes (NZ's metrojaya home section or like Living Quarters) was having a Mother's Day Weekend Sale. =) Bliss. I love buying cooking stuff and household stuff.

cool eh? i think my niece has a cool sense of humour. might have been passed down from generation. heh.

I'm currently watching Bones with Jas sitting on my bed covered by my blankie and duvet. So warm and comfy =) Then later watch Brothers and Sisters. Mer and I have this routine of texting each other during that show. Its really very fun. Hehe.

I just handed in an assignment this morning. Glad that it is over. Have another one next Friday, following Monday and next following Friday. Had potluck dinner with Anu, Li and of course Jas. Sang Singstar as well. I just found out I love singing. I need to pass this talent on to En. Kikiki.

me + li
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i tot this was an interesting picture. i'm not being sacarstic. i think this might be her next Friendster's profile picture

Btw, my mum said En is getting more and more like me. Which I am totally proud of. The incident was that En has started hogging the TV more and more and letak-ing the remote control next to her. I was so proud when I read about that. =))

Dictionary
letak - place

Camp and what nots

Camp was fun. At first I was quite scared as I would be leading an English group in a Chinese camp. And it is the first ever English group for camp. The talks weren't much compared to conference. But I did have fun cause it was more of a games camp.

Agnis | Joey | John C | Jas | Jessie | Emma

And my group won an award for best drama and something else that was related to the drama. I also won best supporting actress. Haha. However, overall our group got second which was surprising and sad.

WZ | Mer | Lee | Em | Jon | Jas

Jonathan's group got first and Wei Zheng's group got third. At first I thought my group would win cause we won an award for best drama (and we were the ones who finished the fastest as well!) but because Jon's group got the CSI game correct so they won. But for the last few awards, all three of our groups was on the list of choices which I thought was funny.

I went to the library on Sunday night after Mosaic to teman Merilyn as she needed uni's computer to finish her assignment. We stayed until half past 3 when we packed up and went home. We wanted to go to Denny's but I guess everybody else was very tired.

I have two tests coming up on Wednesday and Friday. Its maths first then tax. Not looking forward to tax.

I'll add a seperate post on cave stream and white water rafting. Its a bit mean to put them two together. But I can tell you, both of them was awesome!

The place where the scholars receive their certificates

Also, I went to Shah's graduation :) Cause otherwise Liyana would be all alone. I met Oli and Allen there as well and took pictures with them. Heh.

Mer | Shah | Em

On the Thursday that Jas was away at her field trip, Mer, WZ and I celebrated the invention of Nachos as Irene and Jas (both whom don't like Western food) were away. We found out from wiki that there is a International Day of Nachos which is celebrated on October 21.

To Ignacio Anaya!

Now I'm just waiting for the photos to be uploaded. Its getting so sloww. I also 'sprain or twisted' my ankle. I think. I'll be going over to the clinic soon after I finish this post to have it look over as its quite swollen and at times painful. At first I thought I could tahan the pain but I thought wrong.

finally!

Yup. Thank God we finally found a house. We went to have a look at this place very near the Engineering building. Its a house with 5 bedrooms. There are three other tenants (internationals students) already living there. A girl and 2 guys (and a pizza place). Jas, Mer and I went to have a look at the house yesterday.

The two rooms available are double bedrooms. They have 2 single beds in them. If we share one it will be $200 - $210 but if not one of the rooms is $160 and the other is $10 higher. Its higher because it has more sun and since Jas loves the sun she'll be taking that room. So it includes everything except for electricity which is between $10 - $20 each week. I guess it would be $40 - $80 each month which seems pretty reasonable.

There is unlimited broadbrand! Thank goodness. Otherwise we would have to rely on Uni's internet. SO all in all I think we've done good. Actually at first, I didn't want to share a bedroom with Jas as I would not have any personal space. However, since it will be cheaper I said I did not mind.

After Jas had a chat with her mum though, she changed her mind and we decided to get seperate bedrooms. Actually its not that very much expensive since its quite a big room. Normally it will be $120 - $130 for a double bedroom excluding everything except maybe furnishings. So including $30 for 10GB per month excluding SKY TV (NZ's version of Astro) and electricity will come up to the same thing.

We went to look at another place which is not that near to Uni and its $150 including everything but the bedroom is really small. Also, the internet is limited to 10GB for the whole house and they have more than 5 bedrooms in that house!

The only downside now is that I would have to pack all my stuff again.

I have this US lecturer who is on sabatical from his own varsity who recommended

to read for a first date. Because it has a

but it actually represents something else.

It reminded me of YL as she really loves this book. Maybe she will take up that lecturer's suggestion? Heh.

I need to call New Zelanad Immigration now. So till then..

p.s. We have been looking at a lot of house and we decided not get unfurnished ones as it is really very mafhan.

mafhan - troublesome
i have only one weird word. interesting.

Business Finance: Theory and Management

Company Accounting

Introduction to Macroeconomics

so little things to do so much time

i have a test coming up tomorrow at 7pm and i was watching willy wonka and chocolate factory. i've only studied read half of what i'm suppose to. however nothing much is going inside my head.

there's something wrong with me. i just can't be bothered studying, doing assignments or goin to class. there is seriously something wrong with me.

This past holidays were the best holidays that I've had this year. My first week was practically spend outside. Merilyn, Jasmine and I were practically going somewhere everyday. I played badminton on Thursday night with ICF people. That was tiring.

The second week started with going out again. Somewhere I don't remember. I just know we were going out everyday. Shiraz was included in our outings as well. On Thursday night I went over to Genevieve's place to have dinner and watch Anne of Green Gables with Yuri. That was a long movie. 3 hours.

Friday was spent cooking fish dishes for Merilyn, Shiraz, Jasmine and Emma. One of the dishes got burn but it was still eatable.

I was doing a very Western dinner. So I had salad. Simply make one you know!My almost hangus fish:
My beautiful soup stew fish.
Everything was very fishy. There was also ready made garlic bread.

After dinner we went of to watch PetSoc and their talent night. To say that they were not bad is exagerating. But I would say they have the guts to get up there to sing. Only a few of them were really any listen-able. There was Gloria and gang singing I want to know you more by Sonic Flood and something else by Casting Crowns. There was also two Chinese guys singing Kau Ilhamku by Manbai. And there was this Malay guy singing Tong Hua.

We were all so inspired that we went to sing Karaoke at Lao Ti Fang after that. Actually Mer Jas and I wanted to go sing one but nobody wanted to go but in the end somebody else (from sonoda) wanted to go and we dragged wei zheng and jon to go as well as none of us knows how to read chinese. In the end we had 10 people. We had a group picture but its with somebody else.

Then poor Merilyn had to make 3 trips to drop all of us back. Mer slept over.

The next day went for lunch with my future landlord and his family. Good lunch! That night all of us went for YAG. Meaning the two boys and four of us girls. Then the girls went over to Dennys. Quite bodoh leh never bring camera.

We had sleep over again.
Nope, we did not sleep like this that night. I was in a sleeping bag. By the way the beautiful purple and pink blanket is mine :D

Thus ends our holidays.

p.s. I was inspired by Gen's pretty flowers that I bought some too =)
I admit that my photography skills are not a lot but its pretty right?

p.s.s. I'm currently obsessed with ginger beer.

Working

I got me self a job. Working as a waitress/cashier/kitchen-hand at a food restaurant called Thai Express. The boss and chef are from Thailand. I had my training on Friday (at first there wasn't to be any pay but found out later there was) and it was really tiring. But the waitressing seems familiar. I got the hang of things pretty quickly. And it was actually quite fun. It was quite scary at times when the kitchen was bombarded with orders and the customers were just starring at the counter. There were lots of take aways. Jas and I started work at 5.30pm and finished at 10pm. Nobody was able to picked us up so we walked back. Its about a 30-45 minute walk back home.

I'm supposingly wokring on Wednesdays and Fridays. I've only worked one Friday so far which is my first day. Last week there was the ball and this week there's this Petsoc Talent Night thingy. Interested in coming? Only $5.

Did I mention about Undie 500? I've talked about it last year. I saw real penises. Seriously. My mind feels so dirty. Its not like I actually want to seee but I am a teeny weeny bit curious. Anywayz there was this chicken van which really looks digusting.

chickity chick

we were obviously bored
we skipped all of our classes that day
muahahhahaha

I daren't put the other picture up. Too disgusting.

I have been trying to ask my parents for a car. But the usual (and most effective) reason is its too expensive & money doesn't grow on trees. My dad is (always) all for it while my mum is against it. Let me list you the pros and cons.

Cons

• Money for insurance, cost, warranty of fitness (every 6/12 months), servicing
• what to do with it during summer when i'm back in Malaysia

Pros

• Convenient. I don't have to rely on people to take me to and fro from work, church.
• Next year, when I move out it will be so much easier to look for a place to stay as I wouldn't need to restrict myself to just one place.

I know i know. These are not munasabah reasons. I guess I can live without a car. I biked to work last week and will be doing the same thing today. Hopefully it won't rain caused it rain yesterday and this morning.

i found this picture about my pictures
i love it =)
i'm quite artistic aye? ;o)

munasabah - reasonable

50 years, 50 memories

That was the theme for the Malaysian night. The day started out with blowing balloons followed by a lunch at Burger King. Then a little shopping around the city and back home.

Anu and Mer was suppose to come over at 4pm to do our make ups. Since you know, I'm clueless and all. However, I started showering only a bit after 4pm after Jas' scolding. We were suppose to go back to the hotel at 6pm you see.

The product
Anu did mine and Merilyn did the other two
don't we look beautiful?
even if i'm perasaan

I actually didn't want to put make up. Just lipstick and earrings will do right? Oh well.

Melvin picked us up. We basically didn't do anything but letak-ed the balloons around the stage. We also did some administration.

the three of us at the registration/administration table
basically just tearing out the tickets and advising people to keep the other half for the lucky draw and after party

it was quite fun. as after the guys arrived, jas and shiraz went in but i stayed outside with fish and muiz. after a while, shiraz came out and said something about how lucky i was to have two guys sitting with me - in hokkien. she went away in embarassement (and i in laughter) after i told her fish understood hokkien.

Jas Raz Em Zheng Jon Shah Li
we sat at the table together with three other (sort of) strangers

during the dinner we had performances from Ronggeng Anak Malaysia. basically malay dances.

Us 5

the dinner actually wasn't too bad :D
Love the pavlova

Also throughout the dinner we had lucky draws and advertisements about Hari Raya, Deepavali and Tahun Baru Cina. The ones that they normally play during the festivals back in M.

After the dinner we had pictures taken.

The girls
p.s. Shah bought Li the dress. So bahagia.
p.s.s. I think we look pretty and bahagia together =)

Jon Shah Liyana Jasmine Emma Shiraz Wei-Zheng

The girls and guys.

Lots of pictures were taken.

Had pictures taken with each individual except Shah :D

Five of us. Shah was taking the picture and Jon was Jon.

I quite like this picture. I miss Fish.

Em Mer and Jas at Boulevard
I had screw driver and southern comfort!

And that was it. I came back around 2 something. So sleepy!!

perasaan - self indulgent
letak - put (or in this context 'arranged')
Hari Raya - Muslim's new year
Deepavali - Indian's new year (i think)
Tahun Baru Cina - Chinese New Year
bahagia - contented happy

because i have to

I have been gone for a long time. Its not like I am the one who wants it. I was busy with a test and one assignment and one project. I don't understand why do they call it a project? Its not like we're in the Engineering department. I also have two more assignments due this week.

One which was due on Monday which I couldn't be bothered doing as I didn't even know how to do the second question. The economics assignment is due tomorrow. I haven't started besides taking out the data. I just can't be bothered doing it. Goodness knows why.

I think I'll just do it last minute. Maybe the pressure would make me do something. Hopefully.

I've been watching movies the whole of Monday and Tuesday.

Some of the movies includes:
Catch Me If You Can
Cool Runnings
Evan Almighty
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
Mr and Mrs Smith
License to Wed
Georgia Rule
Sister Act 1
Sister Act 2
Clue

Movies that I'm planning to watch:
10 Things I Hate About You
V for Vendetta
Back To The Future 1
Back To The Future 2
Back To The Future 3
Hot Fuzz
Billy Madison
Cast Away
Children of Men

I downloaded Rush Hour 3 but the quality is not so good. So I might wait until we go to the cinema to watch. I also want to watch Ratouille.

This was when we were at Ancestral. After the Malaysian Cultural Night. Ancestral is like the place to hang out. Especially for those who like bubble tea.


Last week Anu slept over twice. And we haven't seen Li for ages. She's sick anyhoo. Poor her. Poor Shah as well having to take care of her. Maybe we should go visit her?

If you looked properly, you can see that some people never moved at all during these two photos.

Went for the Malaysian ball's weekly meeting. Just updating us. And pratically half of us had nothing to do or input. Might as well do it over email. Btw, there was only 6 of us.

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Now playing: Simple Plan - I'm Just A Kid
via FoxyTunes

I did not sin.

I had a test yesterday evening. I know I did not really study for it because I know I will fail it. I was thinking of cheating as the girl in front of my neighbour's paper was quite open. However, it was too far to read. And I was learning to be 'holy' and all. I was actually thinking up a title for this post during the exam and I thought this was good. Btw, the paper was bad.

I should be updating about my Dunedin trip but I am kinda lazy. I am very sleepy this few days. Don't know why. I think there are a lot of people who are reading my blog whom I do not know about. Oh well. Macam la aku kisah.

I know there are no pictures in this post. Your eyes hurt. I will be showering then I'll be taking a short nap before our flat meeting. To reenergize myself. Aiya have to take out the lamb. Then I will put the answers for my test and write up about my Dunedin trip.

Besides that, I am going to do nothing at all. It is my rest day!!

p.s. what do you think my mum will do if she finds out I bought a car? go ballistic most probably.
p.s.s. since my post has no pictures I made it colourful :D

Dictionary
Macam la aku kisah - Like I care

The end of Bersatu

Yesterday was the last day of Bersatu. At last badminton was done. This time we had to wait for the Auckland people because the guy was playing both in volleyball and taking part in the Athletics which was all going on at the same time. There was this one particular match that I liked. Between Canterbury (CMSA) and Otago (OMSA). Singles Men Final. The guy from Otago walked over. He wanted to keep his energy for men doubles. He was kind of cute too. Heh.

The finals for basketball and sepak takraw was interesting. I was the score write/keeper and I did make a few mistakes. But not really my fault. It was scary when everybody was like 'eehhhhhh wroooong' and started pointing at the score board where I was standing.

Bersatu means unity in English. I did not really see much unity. We were competing against each other for goodness sake! Mana ada bersatu? There might be some among those who knew each other from years before. For me - I did not really make any new friends from the other contingents. I met a few new ones from Canterbury though.

Jas Em Li Shah (Li's bf)

They had the closing ceremony at Grand Chancellor Hotel including dinner. The volunteers had to pay $45 compared to the participants $50. Well, it definitely wasn't worth it. The food was ok nia. The decorations nothing to shout about although the table was done up nicely.

Olivia Liyana Jasmine Emma

I had no mood to take pictures though as I had to wake up at 7.30am that morning. Don't ask. By the way, I found out that there were a lot of Malaysians who speaks Hokkien.

On another note, organizing an event for ICF is not easy!!People had so many demands. I also didn't know booking the day before was not a good idea. How would I know that so many other people would go for laser strike. Then people start telling me that they want to go only after I booked the place. Ashley's friends from US paid for our dinner. I was surprised and actually happy. Heh.

I went to the airport with Jen and Jas last Sunday to send Audrey off. It was surprisingly a touching moment. I almost cried but after I saw Jas' face, I had no mood to cry.

I'm waiting for somebody to pass me some admin pictures. Then i will post it up.

Currently, I am still very sleepy and am waiting for laundry. Then I have to pack my bags for Dunedin. I'll be off tomorrow. Coming back on Monday. Oh I just remembered. Somebody from church is also leaving for 3 months. Sigh.

Is this post too long?

p.s. I found out Xiu reads my blog. And Genevieve just asked me for my address. This is scary. I seriously have to tapis what I write here. Heh.

Bersatu Games Day 2

I was the admin officer in charge of badminton today kan. I did not really arrive very late. But it was really a total chaos this morning. An administration officer job was just to collect the score sheets and sign them and make sure everybody else signed. Very easy right?

However, when I arrived in the hall, everything was still chaos. The person in charge of this sports is somebody from Lincoln. He was very unorganized. To me ler. He's the one who is suppose to have located the umpires and linesmen and have assigned them. But NO. When everybody was ready to go, umpire tak de. Kiam Lang Gin you know.

So we practically have to beg people to umpire for us. Then in the end it was the admin people who susuned everything. One of us also had to go find people for each round which was stupid. On top of that the jadual was in stupid codes. Not in each contingent's name but in a STUPID CODE. And the contingent's name wasn't very long either. At the most 5 letters. Kenapa sangat susah ke nak taip lima huruf? Mungkin ada sebab yang munasabah kot.

Then come to the double matches we have more problems. Because most of the players are playing in either Double Men or Double Women AND Double Mix, there were many clashes. And there were like a few people who had to play 3 times in a row which is very tiring. And not fair.

Actually I didn't really do much. I don't know why. Everybody else just automatically took charge. So I just sat there. I tried to help but nobody seems to need my help. So not my fault either. The other three admin officers 'under' me really worked hard though. Really kesian. They were really pening looking at the schedule. No point thanking them here since they will never ever read my blog.

Oh well. Tomorrow we have 40 matches to be played in 6 hours with only 2 courts. I also don't know how can we finish it. I just want to lie down in my bed now and do nothing.

*pening*

about weirdness

|new computers in uni|

What do you think of them?

the front:

the right

the right right
the leftso slim n cool right? i also want something like that!!

|Canterbury Malaysian Student Association|
*this was everywhere during the first two weeks of uni*
i joined!
i plan to be more active this year. at least i'll have something to put in my CV.
i volunteered to help at the bersatu games this year. apparently its quite a big event and this year canterbury is holding it.
liyana and jas also joined! hopefully we get to be in the same group..

finally, today!
(after they told us we will get it during the first BBQ which was held on the 16th March!)
we got the t-shirts:

front

backi love the back the most =)
so cute!!
do u remember lat the kampung boy?
the comics are quite funny

|the word weird|
a few nights ago i read this book called the Tenko Club. It was an okay book. However, the clearest thing that I remember is how the author used the word weird. Just like me.

In my world, there are a few types of weirdness.
Good weird.
-the name says it all right?-
Weird Weird.
-no right or wrong-
Bad weird.
-baaaad-

here i got proof:

this is a weird weird type of post
just like me
except that i am a good weird weird
=D