There is this guy i always bump into in the student council office because (I think) he is one of the committee members of clubs & societies division.

You see, the editors office is situated at the other end. if i go thru the student lounge, i will reach the editors office first. however, i always go in thru the other door, which i have to go thru other offices before i reach the editors office. i like coming in thru this door because i will always bump into the other student council and their committee members. if i go thru the student lounge, well, i will see the frequent lounges only. boring..

eh, sorry. didnt mean to digress.

ok, the guy i always bump into.

i always thought he is adorable.

whenever i pass by him, or he pass by me, which ever, we smiled. just smiling or sometimes, i courage up a "hi!".

since going to the orientation bash (i went as the senior to bully the juniors, yep) i got into talking to him and found out that he is actually a sweet, fun guy. i got to know his name too.

uuu~ *elated*

so its all nice and fun, whenever i see him i go "hey *insert his name*!!"

today, i found out (from another friend), i keep calling him with the wrong name.

His name is Bob.

I keep calling him Ben.

*smacks head*

damn pai seh (embarrassing) OK!!

and to think that he has yet to correct me.

haiyo!! *hides face*

I passed my semester 1, 2008, final exams.

I FREAKING PASSED MY SEMESTER 1, 2008, FINAL EXAMS!

I PASSED WEI!

I DEFINITELY PASSED!!

PASSED!!

WEEEHHOOOOOOOOO~

I was terrified to check the result when it was first released yesterday. Got scolded by a few friends for chickening out every time I went online to check the results. haha I have finally check it.

It is not something I can be proud off, I didnt get the marks I wanted, but alhamdulillah that one subject that I was really afraid I might fail, I passed.. alhamdulillah, thank god

alhamdulillah, without HIM (referring to the big man himself *points heaven*), I dont think I can manage. He has prove his kindness yet again, to me. He never fails to remind us his love, kindness and his existence around us actually, it is us who sometimes, always, forgets HIM.

alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah

You will definitely hear more from me complaining about assignments and editing work! OK, Semester 2, 2008 starts 14th July, here I come! -___-U

Lets have fun and enjoy the rest of the year, lets endure the stress and the work load together! WEEEEE~

BRACE YOURSELVES!

:D

I received news that a friend is getting married soon. I'll be receiving her invitation card soon.

*sigh* There goes another friend thats tying the knot.

LOL of coz i am happy for her. Just the fact that friends are getting married one by one and yours truly has never been in a stable relationship. pathetic...

why worry? well, truthfully, i wouldnt careless if this matter come up a few years back (while i am still in school) or last year even, but a recent get together with a close friend got me thinking and now i worry. haha! lame..

this friend has never been bothered about relationship. that, made us both the remaining singles in our circle of friends and we were both quite happy with it. but she recently voiced out her eagerness to finally be in a relationship, to later on settle down. she said "I am ready!"

when i first heard that, i had to press the pause button and hit rewind! :O

a second hearing confirms her seriousness. she said "it is about time to think about it. dont tell me you do not want to get married. we are not getting any younger here.."

ugh

i wouldnt be so bothered if it comes from my other friends; i can usually brush off the comment but this time around, it lingers on till today, because this one particular friend had said it instead. this one friend that has never cared, this one friend that will usually say "gosh, the night is still young!" (she use the phrase as a metaphor for us still being young and shouldnt worry about such things).

what? forgive me for thinking about this, but dont tell me you have never thought of these things before? Life is short, really and time do fly by fast. It is already July now, its going to be 2009 in five months time. Before you realise it, it will be 2010!

At the same time, you have your grandmother nagging your 30+ y/o single cousin and soon-to-be 30 y/o single cousin about getting married and settling down. She will then look at you and say "So, how about you?"

er..

*sigh* no worries here. i know i'll get over this soon, for the time being, it is a thought that i am unable to put off. damn it. grr!!

anyhoos, watch this!



ouch!
aww, they're adorable!


oh on another random note, please please pleaaaaseee god send over some of those yummy older boys over to the university or at least my way. the ones that keep crossing my path are of younger boys. -__-U whyyyyyyy?

ok ok. I should stop already.

This semester break has been really awesome for me. but the sudden line up of activities (because i am involve with the orientation week, I am already in uni one week earlier than my friends) is really, really draining me out!

It was on our way to Langkawi that I heard a little boy asked his mother, "Can we walk on clouds?"

He was seated in the seat behind mine. I know the boy was fascinated by the big fluffy (almost yummy) clouds he saw from the airplane window (I was too!). He was excitedly pointing out shapes and exclaiming, entertaining the whole cabin. well, at least for me since I was sitting by myself.

I cant really remember what the mother replied to the boy, but I remember thinking, "Yes, we can. You just got to believe."

Believe really, really hard.




It was some sort of a family holiday, but Dad couldnt come along because he was working (was on his way to, er, Japan I think). Our main purposed was to visit the youngest sister. She is currently studying in a boarding school in Langkawi; MRSM Langkawi (I think its MARA Science Junior College, Langkawi).

I came across this today;


Here is your single's love horoscope
for Sunday, June 8:

Not all relationships are tricky and complex. Some of the simplest bonds are the deepest. Take time today to appreciate the stable people in your life that let you be yourself without judgment.


Taking this opportunity to express my gratitude towards everybody because I dont think I have ever tell you enough..

Words suppress my feelings but I truly appreciate each and everyone of you that had touch my life directly or indirectly (through actions, advices, even blog entries). From the real life friends to the online friends that I've made through LJ/Blogspot/ Arashi online community (you know who you are) that has been there for me without fail through my ups and down, together with me through my roller coaster emotional cycle ride;

Jason Mraz - I'm Yours (Live in Korea)


Best live version of I'm Yours so far, in my opinion. Am loving the clarity of his tone and his melodic little kiss..haha! Credits too, to the guy who plays the Toca (or as Mraz puts it, Mr Toca. LOL). He compliments Mraz's voice so well (or it goes the other way round? haha)

Singers who can sing live with a very _________ (prominent? fill in the blank with appropriate adjective of your choice) stage presence makes watching/hearing live performance worthwhile.

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I had the chance to attend 2008's Mesyuarat Majlis Perundingan Pelajar Kebangsaan (direct translation would be, National Congress of Student Council Meeting maybe?) today. It is an assembly of student representatives from government and private universities in Malaysia to raise and discuss issues concerning students in the higher education level. It was held at Marriot, Putrajaya, from 9am to 1pm. I was there with three of my uni-mate to represent our university.

I admit that I was a little bit too excited. Partly because of the fact its a national event and it was chaired by Najib (Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister) and and I felt important! Haha!

Overall, quite a number of issues were able to be raised and discussed, Najib and Khaleed (Minister of Higher Education) did mention that they will look into the matters and hopefully immediate action would be implement. Both ministers were impressed on the level of awareness of the student representatives, which i think is good, because there are speculations saying that today's students are ignorant to state matters.

However I was disappointed that the meeting was conducted almost entirely in Malay (there were one or two student representatives presented their research in English) knowing that there were international student representatives attending the meeting. I guess the small amount of international student attending the meeting made it unnecessary for the meeting to be conducted in English because the majority of the attendees are from government university, anyway. I hope this changes soon tho, at least consider the fact that there are international student representatives in some of the university in Malaysia.

then again, probably its just me. Other people attended the meeting were probably alright with it. oh wells..

I also thought that the meeting ended sooner than it should seeing the fact that Najib were rushing through the meeting because the ministers were in a hurry to go to another meeting (Parliament). please take note that i am aware that the meeting was in a good span of three/four solid hours but it was seemingly short because of najib constantly and quite obviously trying to get the meeting go on faster. get what i mean? The presentation time was fine, it should be maintain 20 minutes per presenter or something like that but I'm sure some of the students attended would agree that the floor should have been open longer for more issues to be discuss.

then again, probably its just me. Since I was excited at first and when it finally ended it wasnt to my own expectation. oh wells..

the meeting was quite an experience for me. I may have my own opinion on some of the elected presenters, i may not agree with all of the issues raised and I may not agree with some of the ways the issues were discussed, but I am glad that (and lol, I am aware now that) such meeting is being held by the government for the students.

At least, if there are no immediate respond from the government, we can always complain (another term for raising an issue) again in the next meeting. If they would stop such meetings because of too many complains from the students, well, a student representative should know where they can find some support *wink*



Otherwise, I had amazing company the whole time! :D

I dont usually do cross-posting, this is an exception. (similar post can be found here)

Ok, random thoughts that crossed my mind while watching Iron Man yesterday.

*shakes head* these are not spoilers. But you can skip this post if youre that kind who do not like to read anything related to a movie that you want to watch but havent.

1) That part where Tony Stark gets into the newer robot suit after the robot suit was finalised, upgraded and painted. Yes, at that particular part of the movie with all the special effects showing the other robots helping him to suit up, i could here Barney's voice: "ROBOTIC SUIT UP!" (in reference to How I Met Your Mother) you only get this if you watch HIMYM

2) Ok, then the other part where Tony Stark was trying to get out of the suit but facing difficulties, a momentary made up conversation of Tony and Jarvis the computerised butler crossed my mind.

Jarvis: Sir, you got to stay still
Tony: Oh hurry up, I NEED TO PEE!

3) and that part where Jarvis was doing some calculation for Tony and he got a little annoyed and said "I know the math!" So it crossed my mind, if i were to be in the suit, and Jarvis was giving me those calculations, obviously important -

Jarvis: Its down to (add your own weird ass math equation), miss.
Me: oh. *thinks* okayyy, that adds up to 19 or down to 17?
Jarvis: *rolled electronical invisible eyes*

then again, if my math is that bad, i wouldnt be in the suit in the first place!

hehe (:

This blog post would only be relevant to you if you watched the movie. So, for those of you who have not watch the movie, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR LA? get going and watch the movie already! its a movie you do not want to miss.

Who says a good movie cant be enjoyed at a cheaper price? Student card discounts rocks! Yeah baby!

Miriam, this has nothing to do with your ranting out about having a clean house.

OK, that aside, I'm angry, frustrated, disappointed, sad. Yes, all of them rolled into one marshmallow ball of feelings.

Why? Over a stupid argument about privacy, my own space, my room.

I mean, c'mon, it is my room. It may not be (yes, i agree) the cleanest place on the face of the earth, but its my room, my own space, my little private world, my sanctuary, did i say its my room?

Its mine la, so let it be. let me have it the way it is. isn't it already enough that im leaving by your rules? i don't dirty it, i picked up after myself, i clean whenever i can (sometimes when i feel like it but still, i do the damn chores), i keep it clean, keep it together, i dont mess it up!

so why cant i do whatever i want with my own space? have my own privacy?

why do i have to live up to other people expectation of my own room? ITS MINE! FREAKING GET IT INTO YOUR HEAD? why do people have to judge someone by the looks of their own room? SO WHAT?! i am untidy, i am unorganized, BUT ITS MY ROOM! the only place where I CAN BE untidy AND unorganized! i have to be tidy and organized living in your house, i have to be tidy and organized in school, college, university, at work, marriage!! i have to be tidy and organized when im at other people's place, home, city, country. and i have to be tidy and organized in loads of other crappy people's expectation of being tidy and organized.

SO WHY CANT I BE DAMN UNTIDY AND UNORGANIZED in my own space, MY OWN room!?

doesnt everybody has that? their own space? it doesn't matter if its a room or just that small tiny spot at the back of your mind, its still yours, and you can damn well do whatever you want with it. you can keep it clean, you can turned it inside-out, you can dirty it all you want! thats your right, AND YOU KNOW IT!

im freaking old enough and I AM ENTITLE to my rights.

ITS MY ROOM!

its not like i dunno how to clean up! Its not that there are not enough of those tidy-ness and organized-ness crap you put into MY BRAIN. I know when to behave. I don't do it when im with others la. No, of coz not. i respect other people's intolerance of untidy-ness and unorganized-ness, I FREAKING DO! but its MY ROOM! its not like i can do it if i live with another human being. since im alone, in MY ROOM that you had given me, SO LET ME HAVE IT THE WAY I WANT IT TO BE! which is MESSY!

i am messy. I AM!

THERE. the whole world can judge me now.

first of all, if youre, lea26karla   please click the cut below. if youre not, please proceed. do not click on the cut if youre not lea26karla  . of coz nothing will happen. its just that i trust you not to click the cut if youre not lea26karla  . go on, proceed, dont think of the cut anymore.. yeaah... thats it... read the rest of this entry. which is not that much really.. (haha, this should be enough to get lea26karla  's attention)


moving on..

*clears throat* ahem..

i am going to Johannesburg, South Africa tonight!

its really last minute plan. only last week dad decided to book a ticket for me to follow him. it was only on friday/saturday that my ticket was confirm. and im flying out tonight!

technically my flight is tomorrow, because its a 1am, 6th Feb 2008 flight. its a 11 hour flight but here's the best twist, i'll be reaching Joburg (i have to use the slang now, dont i since im going there..hehe) approximately 6am, 6th Feb 2008. its that time factor. i will not bother explaining it coz im bad at it, you just have to figure it out yourself ;) hehe

and its only a short trip. i'll be staying at Protea Hotel Balalaika Sandton for two nights and on the 8th Feb 2008 afternoon, i'll be heading back home already. shucks.. ): but its definitely better than nothing. definitely my getaway before uni starts this 25th feb.

im still having trouble believing its febuary already and uni going to start soon. -__-U it was different for me last year, coz i cant wait for uni to start and i thought the semester break was waaaay too long! but this year!!! im having a ball~ not that i got to do anything interesting, its just the fact of being able to relax and unwind and not do anything.. yes, i appreciate this semester break more compared to the last one. *sigh* oh wells..

oh and yes (: i've packed! hehe. yep, ready and set to go! cant waitttt~~ *bid silent prayer for a safe flight to and back*

see ya peeps *hugs*

p/s: HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR TO ALL!
May the rat-a-tat brings you prosperity in every way; love, health and wealth!