Ulcers + Headache

I have three places of ulcer in my mouth. It hurts when I eat, especially when I am eating spicy food. Ouch. Like the thorns in the flesh. And my eyes are very tired. I think I overuse them, for games, books and useless things. Sigh... I am going back home next weekend for Father's day. Booked the ticket and then only I remembered I have an ATU night to attend. So I am forced to change the ticket, with a charge of stupidity, RM 100. Then now the hostel authority tells us that we are moving next weekend. Like a dynamite it hits me. Sweat. How am  I supposed to move when I am going back. Headache plus ulcers. Argh... Hope everything goes well. I choose to be optimistic.

Recreational Week

Involved myself in an event organized by ATUSA - Recreational Week. I came up with a team, but I never fixed the name. Somehow, a team member picked a name and handed it up. "Dunno how to play (DH2P)" Sweat. Anyway, we played for fun, and the outcome is "fun" too.

Played badminton on the first day. Has been really a long time since I last touched a badminton racket. My wrist felt so difficult to twist and turned. Sigh... I guess practice nearly makes (nearly) perfect. Anyway, our team managed to get 8 points on the first day. Nice game, and quite tiring.

Second day, futsal. Again, has not touched futsal ball for a long time. Used to play with my brother and his friends in hometown. They are really good. Playing here was a different experience. They were quite rough. And my ankle still hurts. Furthermore, only lionel and me know how to play, so ended up we lost every single match that day. Haha..we laughed about it though. Still, nice game, and quite tiring.

Third day, volleyball. We were quite confident that we could win. We have school representatives, and I know how to play a bit too. Turned out that we lacked of communication. And we lost the second match and out team was out of the way. It was a great experience though. I like volleyball.

Being a Jack of all trades is really fun sometimes. I get to play all sort of things, and I have no pressure of losing. Haha... Still a lot of things for me to learn, a repertoire of fields to venture...

Nora Roberts - The Search

Recently, I finished a nice novel, entitled The Search, written by Nora Roberts. It was quite a long read, as I keep on spending my time on games and movies. Quite a nice book. Recommended.

The introduction goes like this.

It's been a few years since Fiona Bristow moved to Orcas Island to rebuild her life. Within the small, tight-knit island community she's built up a canine rescue center that trains dogs to track missing persons in Washington's cast wilderness.

Other than her work, Fiona wants to be left alone. Romantic entanglements are very far down on her list - and certainly not with Simon Doyle, an artist newly arrived from the mainland. Simon doesn't know that Fiona harbors a terrible secret, and that her past still puts them both inn very real danger...

Back to Blog

Has been a while since I last wrote a blog. Blogging is supposed to help me keep track of my life. I supposed I lost track of my life, and that is why I stopped blogging. Somehow tonight I read someone's blog. It caused feeling of nostalgia in myself. I guess it is time to resume blogging.

So, coming back from Penang, summer continued. With so few classes per week, life is kind of boring. Revisited Sunway Piramid, and traveled to The Curve for the first time in my life. It was a really really awesome place. With all the nice food and beautiful building structures, I felt like spending my night there. Too bad I had to come back. Had a lot of fun, and pancakes. Watch Pirates of the Carribean. A great show it was.

Went for ATUSA election due to my lecturer's call. I have never been a person who will take initiative to hold a responsibility. But at least for the election, I tried to do something. The speech was okay I guessed. Turn out that I didn't get elected. I am glad though, for I can now enjoy my life. There are things, that are a lot more beneficial than organizing things and being representatives for your program.

Addicted to Dota once again. Somehow losing games after games have placed a challenge in myself. I have that ego, and that is what makes me stronger in everything I do. I am not a person born to losing. I am a competitive guy. Maybe in Secondary school I was seriously kiasu. Coming to Intec has changed me a bit. I have let go some of the kiasuness. Not all, of course.

Missing Campus Alive now. Feel like there is something lacking in myself. So used to be around the brothers and sisters in Christ. So used to the praise and worship session. So used to the interesting speakers.

Missing my family. Have been quite a while since I last went home. Home home home. How I miss my bed and mum's cooking. Somehow the relationship issue makes me closer to my parents. At least we are more open to each other. Hope everything will be in good hands.

My eldest sister went to Penang to attend her friends' weddings. My second sister went to Korea, and bought me an ANGRY BIRD shirt. Haha, thank you very much. Brother? Don't know what he is up too. Just know that he kept on playing Fruit Ninja in the lecture hall. LOL.

So much for now. Will be writing again soon I think. Life has been eventful =)

The Story Continues

Well, too much fun made me forgot about my blog. Anyway, time to continue writing my story. After Kedah and the a-bit-too-much food, I went to Penang with four other friends from Intec - Yi Nan, the driver, Joseph, the stalker, Lun Feng, the silencer, and Jun Jie, the dunno-wat-words-to-describer.  A heavy rain poured down the instant we reached there.  A very sad case as we were forced to sit in a mamak shop and limteh.  Penang rain, first time to experience it.

After the rain stopped, we went to Fort Cornwallis.  Took some pictures with the wrongly-arranged cannons.  Next we moved to food-hunting session.  Penang Char Kuew Tiaw tastes around the same as the one in my hometown.  Haha...no offence, but my hometown is always the best in my heart.  Went to a bridge which was a scene in the movie "Ais Kacang Puppy Love".  The view of the vast sea was kinda awesome.  Taking pictures with the sea as the background looked even better.  Found out that all my friends were scared of dropping into the sea when I touched their backs from behind when they were standing at the side of the bridge.

After the sea view, we strolled around a historical place known as George Town.  Nothing very impressive, but the buildings looked nice albeit their old looks.  Yi Nan was the tour guide although he is from Kedah.  Shame on the other three who are from Penang...haha.  Somehow, all the places closed down on me when we went there.  Apparently most of the tourism sides close at 5 p.m.  The unlucky me felt nothing bad about it.  At least I reached the doorways.  A bit disappointed, we moved on to Kek Lok Si.  Maybe it was not meant to be, that place was closed too.  We had no choice but to go to the last place, the Gurney Drive.

Gurney Plaza is a nice place to shop.  We had a lot of fun in the Toys "R" Us.  A bunch of 18 or 19 years old young adults playing the kids' toys.  Definitely NOT ashame.  Bought a Cupido for someone.  And that person liked it very much. =) After the plaza, we moved on to food again.  Heard before that Gurney Drive had a lot of food.  And yes there was.  We were quite full when we left the place.  A big "thank you" to Yi Nan for being the driver.

The next day, we had breakfast together.  The rest of the day was spent with Joseph in the Aeon Seberang Prai, window shopping and movie watching.  Thor, not a bad movie, but the story line was kind of expected.  Then we went to visit St. Anne Church.  First time walking into a Catholic Church.  Really different from Methodist Churches.  Then we went to Celok Tok Kun (don't remember how it is spelled).  Nice environment.  Mengkuang Dam next.  Saw a lot of fishes.  Those two days, I listened to Joseph's dad as he talked philosophy to me.  Haha...thanks Joseph for the hospitality.  Oh, and the fruits.

So, I am now back to Shah Alam.  This semester is really relaxing.  6 hours of classes per week.  4 days out of 7 are free.  Feel like taking tuition classes.  Will find something interesting and meaningful to do... Summer, enjoy myself to the max =D

Pangkor Trip

Finally, spring semester came to an end.  A fun-filled semester, full of assignments, quizzes, tests, activities, outings, joy, sorrow, and most importantly, craziness.  And to pay back for what this semester has done to me, I went for a Pangkor trip with my gang of Intec friends.  We call ourselves, American-Bound Camaraderie Association (ABCA).  You can’t really expect things to be normal inside this group, because there are too many crazy people, some of them definitely from Tanjung Rambutan.

The first day, which is a Saturday, we departed from Shah Alam to Lumut.  It was a very merry journey, with people talking crap most of the time.  Of course, I am always serious…just joking.  We reached Lumut around 1 p.m. and after that we took a ferry and made a bee line to Pulau Pangkor.  Had lunch there at the town.  Moved on to the Coral Bay Resort.  24 people in a Penthouse.  Crazy as we are, there was not enough space…but we left that for the night.  Leaving our luggage behind, we went for a tour around the beautiful island on two vans.  It was a great experience to circle around the tiny piece of land with a bunch of out-of-mind buddies.  After the tour, we went for a beachside barbeque.  Again, it was an awesome experience to sit on the beach and watch the sea and waves and stars as we ate.  Such a soothing and therapeutic view.  I wish we could stay there for a longer period.  But alas, time passed fast.  Went back to the resort and had a nice sunbathing-bench talk with a few people.  Saw some friends went out at 12 something to buy some stuff plus to take a walk.  Turn out that they didn’t have a place to sleep after they came back.  So they slept at the lobby of the resort and had a lot of “fun” with the guards.  Serve them right..haha.

The second day, we went for water activities after breakfast.  A tour around the island (this time on a boat) with a super lame plus hilarious tour guide was enough to make up the day.  We had a HELL LOT OF FUN, trust me.  Went for snorkeling as well, but that was actually quite lame to me.  No offence, the fish just didn’t want to go near me.  Anyway, after that, we had some extreme water activities, namely banana boat, sofa, and burger.  Bet most of you didn’t know that.  Banana boat was the lamest among them.  Kena thrown for no reason.  LOL.  Sorry for the language.  The burger was a torture to our hands, and I was at the verge of letting go in the middle of the sea.  It was THAT extreme.  Too tired to have any more activities for the time being, we rested a while in the penthouse.  At 6:30, we went to watch the sunset.  Not so awesome.  The awesome thing was some of my childish friends scratched some words on a big concrete wall.  Can’t help but reminiscing my childhood pastime.  At night, we had seafood dinner.  Again, my crazy Intec gang never fails to impress the public with some stupid acts and earsplitting laughter.  That day was really awesome.

The third day, some of the people went back early.  I was too tired to send them, so I stayed back and rested.  Missed the sunrise view, but never mind.  At 10:30, we travelled back through the same way we came.  But this time, I travelled north with around 10 people.  And I am now writing this from Alor Setar.  Will continue my story, probably in Penang.  Until then, bye.

Blur

A lot of things happened throughout this week. So many that I am kind of blur. Did a number of things that I never expect myself to do. Feel tired with the non-stop tests, quizzes, speeches and presentations. Now, the end is nigh. March came and went, like how the spring semester came and will be gone soon. Part of me is glad that the sem is ending, a large portion of me wishes that the semester will restart. Time is passing fast. Too fast I will say. It seems like I just went through a time machine, blinking on the 1st of January and appearing in the middle of April. Learned a lot this sem. Slept a little. Transformed a lot, emo a bit. Ate non-stop, weight remains constant. Somewhere in March I took a picture that looks like this.

Someone said that I ponder too much sometimes. I guess what she said is true. Now and then, I think my life is like one of the leaves in the picture. Dried. With a black and white background. But the amazing thing is that my life has been random, as if I were constantly blown to different places by the wind. I mean, people step in and out of my life. What is left is just the memory. One day if my brain is damaged, what will happen to those memory? Fade into nothingness? Blur. Life is too complicated sometimes. Sigh...