December

One month has passed since I came back to Kuching.

I said I would blog more often. And the mood to do some actual blogging is still quite festive in my mind- but some days I would sit and stare at a blank Create New Post page and wonder whether Santa knew I had been a bad boy and took all my creativity away.

At first I missed college, and then I suddenly didn't anymore.

It's odd in a way- but I think my personality is such that I can quickly forget and swiftly adapt. According to Queenie and Zeff, that's probably why I don't have much of a guilty conscience. "You forget so easily. So how can you remain guilty over something you've forgotten about?"

I rarely get angry, hurt or guilty at anything. Susu says that I'm indifferent and impartial because "You dont care enough". But in all honesty, I really do find sympathy and empathy to be lacking- these days though, I'm aiming for more compassion.

But no more about me, lets start picturing events:

Youth, the Lame Gang, having gathering in McDonalds in Kuching Airport
Airport? Crazy right.

Taking a Lame shot in Church

Being Lame in Gasoline, Spring

I've been getting more than my fair share of Facebook and MSN at home.

Really starting to get addicted to the internet all over again- today, when Streamyx was down for a couple of hours, I felt terrible. I felt like my body was a shell of its former glory, and my soul taken away from me- disjointed, unconnected, frail. Connection is life.

But also been going out everyday, meeting old friends, getting to know new ones. College groups, youth groups, parties, dinners, gatherings. In the past month, I've probably been to bing! over 10 times!

The hectic fun will slow down once January comes and school restarts.

Time to reorganize, prioritize, and put up New Years Resolution!

College Over, Holidays Start

My A-Levels are done with.

1.5 years of college life flew by really fast. It's been an awesome ride and I feel like my time in West Malaysia was just one long extended holiday. It doesn't feel as all like I've been stressed out about exams or anything!

I did so many things. MC'ed for different events including Graduation Day, performed modern dances, sketches, games... did things i will remember my whole life and those I'll regret my whole life (Some of those sketches are horrible! I cant bear to look back at them!)

Strictly speaking, sometimes a little "self-motivation" is in order.
Self praise IS still praise~ Hehe

Sure, exams are tough and I study like hell for them. In fact, I would say studying takes up the majority of my time, much more than other of my peers. But I enjoy it and don't mind it, especially biology, because I like it a lot!

The natural selection and evolution chapter is my favourite chapter in the whole A levels, also seeing how this year is/was Darwin's "Origin of Species" 150th anniversary, a number of magazines decided to do a full feature!

My Malaysian Studies Lecturer in full glory in this candid snapshot.

Lecturers (and lectures) were often ineffective, but sometimes fun. I will always remember my Malaysian Studies lecturer- a staunch supporter of BN, a Puteri Umno, and wife of a Wakil Parlimen. She would often hammer into our heads the Greatness of the current Government.

Now that Im three months free of lectures, I wonder whether there will be any more joy of sleeping-in in the mornings. Knowing full well that even if I do sleep-in, I wont be skipping any classes anyway. (Theres logic in this paragraph!)

Comparing water from pipe in bucket with (actual) Pepsi in bottle
It was seriously the same color... trust me...

I remember when the water problem was so bad that our waterfilters became the color of my eyebrows within two days. Somehow, I still blame the pipe water supply on the number of medical conditions amongst students in my college...

Which includes cancer, hair loss, loss of apetite, hormonal imbalance, depression, my constantly pain eyes (which is probably due to the haze anyway), fever, diarrhea, acne.

If there's such thing as elixir of life, our water was the direct opposite.

Multi-colored M&M looking rice

The food though, was awesome. Sure, we all ate fried rice almost every day out of 550 days in college! Every day! (One of the first things I told my mum when I got back to Kuching was "Please dont ever cook fried rice... ever again")

But we sort of justified our poor diet with going out every weekend to KL or Putrajaya to get a decent meal and expensive meal. The only reconciliation for our empty wallets was... that warm fuzzy feeling in our stomachs and the thought of "Kill me now, nothing matters anymore!".



And not forgetting, of course, the craziness of friends, which will take up a whole different blog post.

I'll be having holidays until March. What will I do? What should I do? Sit around and rot like an unwattered potted plant... or do something useful. Either way, I will be blogging regularly again!

Either way, I have a car to drive around with now. Call me up!

Lets go out and paint this town red!

Grandfathers Army Days Photolog

I was in Kuala Lumpur last week when we digged out old photos of my belated Grandfather. I never knew he was in the army, and so I was quite surprised to view albums of him in soldier uniform.

Since the quality of the photographs were in bad shape, all I could do was take snapshots using my digital camera.

This is my paternal grandfather (when he is 20-ish)?

He served in the army for a period. Im not sure in what army though,
does anyone recognize the uniform?

Guns are cool!

He was quite the poser, there were many pictures of him posing with rifles.

Second to the right

He was also there during Merdeka day: Actual photo! Just like in the Sejarah books!

I suppose he was part of the formation if he could take pictures from this angle.

Merdeka must have been pretty exciting!

I'm not sure where this is. Perhaps a parade during Merdeka?

Even in the old days, friendship and camaraderie was important. =)

Just a thought, now in the days of digital photos, we never really do develop much. What will we leave behind for our children, and our grandchildren to see? The digital form wont last forever, and if your hard disc spoils or your dvds spoils, then what?

I'm going to look through my hard drive and select pictures to develop into an album! Something tangible that I can revisit in the future. You should too!

Intervention

This is my handmade notice board in front of my study desk!
Homemade as in made from shoe box and wrapping paper and double taped to the wall.
Notice all the SELF MOTIVATION? Hee hee.

Was thinking what an unproductive yet fun week-long holidays I just had.

Ate a lot of good food in Kuching with friends and family! Went to Carvery for buffet, to Riverside Majestic for the Japanese Buffet, Bing! for their drinks and amazing brownies, 175º Cafe for the good food and fish spa. Then of course also ate incredible amounts of laksa and kolo mee from the local coffeeshops around town!

Also spent most of the time bumming at home. I watched 3 Seasons of Spongebob, 2 Seasons of Gundam 00. Spongebob has really mature jokes and Im not sure how it actually appeals to the younger demographic. Have you heard Squidward talking? His English is seriously keng lor. And now I know why Gundam is so popular- its a really good anime series that deals with real life issues like war ethics, morality, peace and justice, but sugar coated with fighting robots!

I also studied half a chapter of Physics applications in 1.5 WEEKS.

So basically EPIC FAIL at studying this holidays. =( I feel quite guilty.

Since A2 is in less than 30 DAYS and my lecturers have not completed the syllabus yet, I will now take the liberty of telling you that I wont be online very much for the next month. I am going to be studying like crazy. Seriously. I am going to live breathe and eat Physics, Bio and Chem until I feel sufficiently brave enough to risk getting addicted to Facebook again.

STUDY ON! YAY!