Behold my sexy people, today is a memorable day coz Tham Ying Hui had just used her Maybank ATM card for the first time ever! And I didn't just use it for some shopping spree or because I ran out of cash, it was to pay my tuition fees! Plus, I got to sign that receipt thingy! *Sniff* I'm so damn proud of myself.
So, I was practically in a cheery mood this afternoon, thanks to that and also to my Malaysian Studies midterm paper, which I obtained 37/40, when I received an infuriating phone call within the 10 minutes of reaching my hostel room. There I was, humming to whatever song I had in mind at that moment when my phone rang and who should be calling but my former unspeakably-selfish and self-centered Nigerian presentation partner, Joyce. The world suddenly dimmed before my eyes.
"Er..hello?" I tried to keep my frustration under wraps.
"Hello. This is Joyce here. Where are you?" You should have heard her accusing rudish tone when she spoke the words 'Where are you'. It was as if I've chickened out on her or something.
"In my hostel room."
"When are you coming down (she meant Block C, the School of Music)?"
"I'm not sure. I'm having my lunch now. Why?"
"I want you to help me save something from the Internet." You want me? You WANT me? Hey, haven't you heard of the word 'please', woman? Seriously, she didn't even bother to ask whether I was free! Not to mention she said it in a matter-of-fact tone, which made me even madder. What am I, your slave?! Yeah, dream on, bitch.
"Oh. I'm really not sure when I'll be coming down coz after my lunch, I have something important to do (like, stay away from you?)."
"So when are you coming down?" Now she was starting to piss me off. She actually sounded threatening. To be frank, I really felt like slamming the phone shut right there and then.
"Sorry but I really don't know. I can't confirm the time now."
"OK. OK." Her tone was like, 'Fine. You don't want to help me? Fine. I'll find somebody else'. HAH. As if anyone wants to help her (wait till you guys hear about how she treated my friends and me, when I was her presentation partner).
Paused for a moment. "OK. Bye." And I quickly shut my phone before she could utter another word. My mood officially ruined.
I still can't comprehend why couldn't she just bloody learn how to use the Internet. She'll be needing it for assignments and presentations for the next 4 years, for God's sake! She can't just keep troubling people to help her look for notes everytime she needs them! Plus, she didn't even thank people when they did help her (e.g. me). It was like we HAD to help her because she's an International student or some shit. Argh. Thinking about her makes me angry. So I'd better end the post here.
P.S. FYI, Joyce is NOT an adolescent-turning-into-adult teenager like me and you, she's a supposedly 'mature' adult in her late 20s or early 30s, aka woman. Honestly, you would think she understand the word 'self-taught', but apparently she doesn't.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Course Selection Week
My head is cracked open and my brain juice is drained dry. No, I'm not having my finals yet, which is rather troubling, seeing as how my brains might not be able to function by then. Thank goodness it's over, though I'm not really please with my choices. I mean, how can I be, when NONE of the electives offered has anything to do with music (OK, maybe Film & Arts Appreciation has a little to do with it, say 5%?) and everything to do with what I want to escape from? Here, take a look at the freaking list:
-Accounting Practice
-Economic
-Introduction to Business
-Quantitative Methods
-Computing Essentials
-Computing Studies
-Office Application
-General Physics
-General Biology
-General Chemistry
-Basic Concept of Mathematics
-Introduction to Probability & Statistic
-Algebra & Trigonometry
-Calculus
-Film & Arts Appreciation
-Writing for Academic Purposes
Can you see my dilemma, people? I mean, what the fuck ARE these?! My parents are forking out money for me to study MUSIC and not ELECTIVES that have practically NOTHING to do with music. GAH. So, I set a rule when I was about to choose my subjects: NO classes on Friday, which didn't help much since most of the Friday time slots are for tutorial classes and I can opt for other tutorial time slots. In the end, after asking everyone the same question every single day and almost every time we met ("Which electives are you taking?"), I went with the crowd and chose:
-Film & Arts Appreciation (about half of my class is going for this)
-Accounting Practice (either this or Economic)
-Introduction to Probability & Statistics (I really need the credit hours)
Ironic, isn't it? I despise maths so much and yet, out of the 3 electives I picked, 2 are maths based. *Sighs* Next semester is going to be one hell of a torture.
Ode of Joy (an oxymoron to my post)
-Accounting Practice
-Economic
-Introduction to Business
-Quantitative Methods
-Computing Essentials
-Computing Studies
-Office Application
-General Physics
-General Biology
-General Chemistry
-Basic Concept of Mathematics
-Introduction to Probability & Statistic
-Algebra & Trigonometry
-Calculus
-Film & Arts Appreciation
-Writing for Academic Purposes
Can you see my dilemma, people? I mean, what the fuck ARE these?! My parents are forking out money for me to study MUSIC and not ELECTIVES that have practically NOTHING to do with music. GAH. So, I set a rule when I was about to choose my subjects: NO classes on Friday, which didn't help much since most of the Friday time slots are for tutorial classes and I can opt for other tutorial time slots. In the end, after asking everyone the same question every single day and almost every time we met ("Which electives are you taking?"), I went with the crowd and chose:
-Film & Arts Appreciation (about half of my class is going for this)
-Accounting Practice (either this or Economic)
-Introduction to Probability & Statistics (I really need the credit hours)
Ironic, isn't it? I despise maths so much and yet, out of the 3 electives I picked, 2 are maths based. *Sighs* Next semester is going to be one hell of a torture.
Ode of Joy (an oxymoron to my post)
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
A totally random post
Halt! Tham Ying Hui's blog is NOT dead. Here, a totally random post, since I don't have any juicy stuff to blog about other than I just scored full marks for my Malaysian Music quiz again (I shall not highlight or bold or underline the word as it may be offensive to a hell lot of people) and, in contrast, feeling a little depressed that I'm stuck here in Malaysia having quizzes for 3 consecutive days while my bro is currently in Spain sight-seeing and enjoying the time of his life, not to mention achieving his goal to obtain an Honourable Mention (meaning he scored full marks for at least one question).
Anyway, thought I could amuse you people with a list of the dumb/silly/retarded things I've done these past weeks:
1. Woke up feeling all groggy one morning. Without much thought, I grabbed my stuff and went to conduct the morning ablutions but just before I headed for the washroom, the better-to-be-safe-than-sorry me locked the door, which was fine, until my right hand unconsciously slipped into my pyjamas pocket and searched for the keys to jingle about...and felt none. Shit. My other pocket proved empty too. Double shit. In the end, I had to put on a so-what-people-do-silly-things-all-the-time face and went down to the lobby to ask for the extra keys from the MALE guard, with tons of pairs of eyes on me and my cartoon-covered pyjamas. Ugh. I nearly died of embarrassment.
2. It was a chilly and breezy morning that day. So, I sat at my desk, which was right by the window and admired the distance mist near the rows of bungalows (even if the mist was a little too thick and low to the ground) while pinching my nose and trying to identify an oh-so-familiar stench. As I was leaving for my classes, I met one of my dorm mates and expressed, "今天天气很冷hor? 你有没有看到mist?"
She gave me a puzzled look. And I continued, "可惜有一种臭味..."
"Err...那不是mist...那是dengue药..."
HAHA. Riiiiiighttt.
3. So I was sitting and leaning on my chair, which was oddly cool on my back. I was enjoying the patch of comfortably cold feeling on my back when, after quite some time, I realized the back of my chair was supposed to be plastic and not metal. I turned around and found out I was leaning on my wet face towel and I had to leave for class in 10 minutes time. Crap. And I was carrying a sling bag, which didn't do much good in covering the square wet patch on my back. Well, at least it wasn't on my behind...
4. Till now I still can't figure out how to twist open my Dove body wash bottle. You know, the one that looks like this:
Anyway, thought I could amuse you people with a list of the dumb/silly/retarded things I've done these past weeks:
1. Woke up feeling all groggy one morning. Without much thought, I grabbed my stuff and went to conduct the morning ablutions but just before I headed for the washroom, the better-to-be-safe-than-sorry me locked the door, which was fine, until my right hand unconsciously slipped into my pyjamas pocket and searched for the keys to jingle about...and felt none. Shit. My other pocket proved empty too. Double shit. In the end, I had to put on a so-what-people-do-silly-things-all-the-time face and went down to the lobby to ask for the extra keys from the MALE guard, with tons of pairs of eyes on me and my cartoon-covered pyjamas. Ugh. I nearly died of embarrassment.
2. It was a chilly and breezy morning that day. So, I sat at my desk, which was right by the window and admired the distance mist near the rows of bungalows (even if the mist was a little too thick and low to the ground) while pinching my nose and trying to identify an oh-so-familiar stench. As I was leaving for my classes, I met one of my dorm mates and expressed, "今天天气很冷hor? 你有没有看到mist?"
She gave me a puzzled look. And I continued, "可惜有一种臭味..."
"Err...那不是mist...那是dengue药..."
HAHA. Riiiiiighttt.
3. So I was sitting and leaning on my chair, which was oddly cool on my back. I was enjoying the patch of comfortably cold feeling on my back when, after quite some time, I realized the back of my chair was supposed to be plastic and not metal. I turned around and found out I was leaning on my wet face towel and I had to leave for class in 10 minutes time. Crap. And I was carrying a sling bag, which didn't do much good in covering the square wet patch on my back. Well, at least it wasn't on my behind...
4. Till now I still can't figure out how to twist open my Dove body wash bottle. You know, the one that looks like this:
Yeah. So I had to screw open the whole top to get some soap everytime I bathed. Who knows, I can be doing this till the soap runs out.
5. I came back from the gym, all panting and coated in sweat, thinking of resting for a while in my room before taking a nice cool shower when I combed through my bag and realized I left my keys by the sink, in the bloody gym, which was in Block A. Eff. So my poor legs had to bring me all the way down the slope, up 4 floors to the gym, told the guard I was just retrieving my keys, snatched the keys from where I left them by the sink, walked back down 4 floors and then huffed and puffed my way back up to the top of the slope which was my hostel. Worst still, the lift was shut down by that time (it was after 6pm) and I had to heave myself up 4 more floors to my room. Talk about exercise...
I know, I'm so damn capable of being retarded...
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Something to look back on and smile, or more like laugh
On last Saturday (5th July)
We, the 6 infamous sluts of 5s4 (poor Jing Hua couldn't make it), had just unintentionally unearthed the perfect recipe for the perfect outing/get-together: an equal mixture of
(1)Crapping
(2)Annoying people around us by crapping like nobody's business
(3)Doing absurd things which make people give us THAT look and then us giving them THAT finger (hmm...we haven't got to this part yet)
(4)Intoxicating ourselves with 5-star caffeine intake, such as Starbucks and Coffee Bean
(5)Cam-whoring at every corner with funny/weird/artistic poises
I know we could only tick 4 out of the 5 ingredients, but, heck, there's always room for improvemnt, right? Anyway, I'm rather lazy to blog the outing in detail, though I draft out what we did 5 days ago.
So, at around 12pm, we gathered at Amanda's place (well, at least for me, Lucy and Eu Chern) and left half hour later. Reached MidValley Centre Court at the top most floor and met Chee Kin halfway down after screaming his name to notify him we had arrived (read: we were at the 4th floor, or was it 3rd, and he was at the ground floor). I know, mad. Then, Joanna found us and off we went for lunch at the Manhattan Fish Market. Sorry, still no photos yet.
After lunch, we headed to Coffee Bean for our monthly caffeine intake while we crapped. And it was here where the wild cam-whoring begun.
Eu Chern, me and Lucy
Joanna, Amanda and Chee Kin
Us girls
Them boys
The 6 of us
Normal
Abnormal
Normal
Abnormal
Sane
Insane
Sane
Insane
Lucy's point of view
Eu Chern's point of view
Fishy-fishy
Kissy-kissy
Lucy loves me
Chee Kin's lips inching closer to...Amanda's hair?
Addicted cam-whores
Eu Chern
Kimora Lee Simmons
Stoning
After draining our coffee, we went roaming about aimlessly, pausing once to take a pee and, what else, cam-whore.
From lightest (me, yay!) to darkest
In the ladies' room
Before
After
Potential hookers
Somehow, hours of wandering about later, we ended up in Borders. We started out with glancing casually at books but ended up (surprise, surprise) cam-whoring. Big time. I got a feeling our last few 'Drama Series Cover Page' shots scared the parents and kids away...
Me and Amanda
Lucy and Amanda
Lucy and me
Save the pillar!
Lucy, the 'graceful' Queen
Funny why Kimora wants to be Paris
I think Lucy's pointing at the cow's snot
We look so shiny and angelic
Some form of stoning
Family portrait
Lucy and Amanda
Me and Amanda
Poor creature
1st attempt...the silly me had to go and smile
2nd attempt...people were starting to stare at us
Purrrfect...May I present you the advertising poster of our new drama series "Kimora 'Joanna' Lee Simmons and her wanna-be's" and also our Photo of the Month
Chee Kin was the earliest to leave, though we left soon after. Joanna and Eu Chern went to CHS while Lucy and I piled into Amanda's car. Here are some photos we took before we left (what's new?):
Lucy, Eu Chern, Joanna and me
Minus Jo, plus Amanda
All girls
Without me
"Flames to dust, lovers to friends, why do all good things come to an end?" Nelly Furtado's All Good Things seem such a suitable song to what I'm feeling now. I sure hope the high-ness I absorbed that day will sustain and keep me alive for the next 4 weeks. Till then, adios, my sexy sluts!
On last Sunday (6th July):
Did karaoke with Amanda, Shien Yin, Xiao Chin, Shi Ning and Jing Lynn. Everyone was high. I wasn't. And I only have myself to blame. Cam-whoring was rather fun though. Check the pics out...
Amanda and me
Shien Yin
Shien Yin, Amanda and me
Jing Lynn, Xiao Chin and Shi Ning
Xiao Chin, Shi Ning, me and Amanda
The 6 of us
Shien Yin and Xiao Chin
Jing Lynn
No idea what Shien Yin was doing...
Celebrating Jing Lynn's belated birthday at Amanda's house
That's all folks!
(1)Crapping
(2)Annoying people around us by crapping like nobody's business
(3)Doing absurd things which make people give us THAT look and then us giving them THAT finger (hmm...we haven't got to this part yet)
(4)Intoxicating ourselves with 5-star caffeine intake, such as Starbucks and Coffee Bean
(5)Cam-whoring at every corner with funny/weird/artistic poises
I know we could only tick 4 out of the 5 ingredients, but, heck, there's always room for improvemnt, right? Anyway, I'm rather lazy to blog the outing in detail, though I draft out what we did 5 days ago.
So, at around 12pm, we gathered at Amanda's place (well, at least for me, Lucy and Eu Chern) and left half hour later. Reached MidValley Centre Court at the top most floor and met Chee Kin halfway down after screaming his name to notify him we had arrived (read: we were at the 4th floor, or was it 3rd, and he was at the ground floor). I know, mad. Then, Joanna found us and off we went for lunch at the Manhattan Fish Market. Sorry, still no photos yet.
After lunch, we headed to Coffee Bean for our monthly caffeine intake while we crapped. And it was here where the wild cam-whoring begun.
Eu Chern, me and Lucy
Joanna, Amanda and Chee Kin
Us girls
Them boys
The 6 of us
Normal
Abnormal
Normal
Abnormal
Sane
Insane
Sane
Insane
Lucy's point of view
Eu Chern's point of viewFishy-fishy
Kissy-kissy
Lucy loves me
Chee Kin's lips inching closer to...Amanda's hair?Addicted cam-whores
Eu Chern
Kimora Lee SimmonsStoning
After draining our coffee, we went roaming about aimlessly, pausing once to take a pee and, what else, cam-whore.
From lightest (me, yay!) to darkest
In the ladies' room
Before
After
Potential hookersSomehow, hours of wandering about later, we ended up in Borders. We started out with glancing casually at books but ended up (surprise, surprise) cam-whoring. Big time. I got a feeling our last few 'Drama Series Cover Page' shots scared the parents and kids away...
Me and Amanda
Lucy and Amanda
Lucy and me
Save the pillar!
Lucy, the 'graceful' Queen
Funny why Kimora wants to be Paris
I think Lucy's pointing at the cow's snot
We look so shiny and angelic
Some form of stoning
Family portrait
Lucy and Amanda
Me and Amanda
Poor creature
1st attempt...the silly me had to go and smile
2nd attempt...people were starting to stare at us
Purrrfect...May I present you the advertising poster of our new drama series "Kimora 'Joanna' Lee Simmons and her wanna-be's" and also our Photo of the MonthChee Kin was the earliest to leave, though we left soon after. Joanna and Eu Chern went to CHS while Lucy and I piled into Amanda's car. Here are some photos we took before we left (what's new?):
Lucy, Eu Chern, Joanna and me
Minus Jo, plus Amanda
All girls
Without me"Flames to dust, lovers to friends, why do all good things come to an end?" Nelly Furtado's All Good Things seem such a suitable song to what I'm feeling now. I sure hope the high-ness I absorbed that day will sustain and keep me alive for the next 4 weeks. Till then, adios, my sexy sluts!
On last Sunday (6th July):
Did karaoke with Amanda, Shien Yin, Xiao Chin, Shi Ning and Jing Lynn. Everyone was high. I wasn't. And I only have myself to blame. Cam-whoring was rather fun though. Check the pics out...
Amanda and me
Shien Yin
Shien Yin, Amanda and me
Jing Lynn, Xiao Chin and Shi Ning
Xiao Chin, Shi Ning, me and Amanda
The 6 of us
Shien Yin and Xiao Chin
Jing Lynn
No idea what Shien Yin was doing...
Celebrating Jing Lynn's belated birthday at Amanda's houseThat's all folks!