The new semester reunion..

It's somewhat like a tradition already where the new committee of the G12 group to organise a reunion party for the seniors. a steamboat is normally prepared together with the traditional loh sang dish. since all of the members who joined the G12 group is all students, so you can expect a lot of commotions here and there. lets take a few examples..


The aftermath of the loh sang event, with a little of the yee sang on the floor.


that's my bowl getting ready to sweep everything left on the table.

To me, university life is very fun, entertaining at the same time stressful. stressful because of the reports, assignments, presentations and other things. but if you really push yourself to do things right after the assignment is given, you'll find that you have a lot of time for your own things. and this time can be used to study, do other club activities and stuffs like that.

well, lets not go off topic, about the reunion dinner, we had steamboat, it's somewhat like a good way to get bonded together. i don't know how it seems but everytime when someone wants to get bonded as in to get to know each other after a long time of not meeting each other or just want to celebrate something, steamboat is the way to go.


Here is a photo of someone preparing the steamboat soup for everyone else to enjoy. That's Ethan, lighting up the stove to heat up the soup.


and of course, steamboat without the food is just soup. so, the new committee prepared some food for us to enjoy. it's nothing much to some of you out there, but it's very heartwarming for me. it's the thought that counts. although i'm like an outcast, i still enjoy the time here. outcast here means that i'm a little different than almost all of them there. after all, this is THE famous G12 chinese group. everyone here speaks chinese fluently except me. so hence me being the outcast.

And like every steamboat event held among students in UPM which i've experienced, there is bound to be a bit of food snatching.
Here's one picture which explains just that. it's not a very good photo but it does deliver the meaning. not much photos of people snatching food was taken because I myself is involved in snatching food from other people.


there are also people who sits patiently and wait for their food in their pots to cook instead of going around and raiding foods. well, this is kinda boring, so to me, raiding and blundering other table's food is one of my preferred choice.


Lets not forget about our vegetarian friend over here. He's the former president of THE famous G12 chinese group. He served G12 for a year, he also succeeded in bringing up the group's name to glory by having which i believe to be G12's first Pesta Tanglung which is open for everyone to see. Since he is a vegetarian, this means he decides who gets what and what goes in the pot. this includes the chopsticks and the big spoon for getting those fish balls out. to put things simple, he owns the whole damn table. no one dares to raid this table, and anyone who does so will suffer the wrath of not only from the former president himself but from the rest of the group. hahahahaha hope it sounds dramatic.


And after everyone was done eating, this is what's left of the food. it seems that everyone is very hungry and it's like everyone guy/girl for himself/herself.


this reunion dinner is not only about food, there's music to accompany the feasting. There's even a small section where anyone who can play a piano/keyboard can go and have a little fun. although the keyboard is not hooked up to the speakers, it too attracted a lot of attention.


THE great G12 chinese group is so great, that even one of its former member which have decided to leave UPM to take up pharmacist in IMU even comes back and enjoy the reunion dinner. it's very nice of him to come back and join us. although i'm not really close to him or whatever it is, it is still nice and warm to find people who have left K12 or G12 to come back and enjoy the dinner. even those who had moved to K10 came back for the reunion dinner. this really is a REUNION dinner.


This is a blurry photo of a random girl from the reunion dinner. i decided to take this photo because i want to start spamming photo taking using my phone, but i've lost all interest in it and i end up taking only a handful of them. but nevertheless, it's a blurry photo because she decided to move aside and i moved the phone together to capture her in the photo.

this blog post came up late cause i've forgotten that i'm blogging about this halfway. anyway, it's been a long time since i've posted a blog post which contains more than 10 photos.

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Lets enjoy a short video from those days where G12 was promoting it's pesta tanglung event. everyone back then was very hardworking and everyone pour in their blood and sweat to make this event a success. as usual, me being the outcast, i didn't contribute much to this event. how i wish i can be a little more useful to the group instead of being somewhat a dormant member.

sit back, relax and enjoy the short video. it's nostalgic to watch this again. it brings back memories from then.

Spectroscopy... One of the few subjects which will drive you crazy

Spectroscopy chemistry class for this sem started on the 2nd week of the semester. The first week, the lecturer was sick and the class was cancelled. This means my class is lagging behind on 2 classes or 3 hours worth of lecture. Then on the 2md week, the first class was the introduction class.. So this means another 2 hours worth of lecture class has gone to waste. Some of us might think that's fun but it's not fun anymore when you need to write a lab report and you don't have any clue what is the spectrogram or proton NMR trying to tell you.

I can't seem to understand how to read that nmr spectrogram even if i study in myself. I'm a nub and nowi feel like i bigger one. Lets hope that i'll be able to understand that thing in the near future.

Proton NMR spectroscopy : a machine which is only capable of telling you how many hydrogen is attached to the neighbouring carbon atom.. Sad case eh? Cause that machine cost 2.2 million and this is just the mainstream one and jot one of the high end one.

Doing the right thing..

Doing the right thing can be either painful or either pleasurable. it depends on the method and also the impact from doing so. Doing the right thing here means doing something for the benefit of a certain party. that certain party can either be a whole group, a whole population or a single person. but the thing is, doing the right thing is basically doing the right thing. it's some sort like a text book answer to decisions which should be made.

Being silent is one of the things which i think can be considered as "doing the right thing" however, this sometime is not a very good thing to do. some people might think that it is ok to keep doing whatever they are doing because you never raise any objection against that person. so a little hint should do the trick. but if that person is dense, then it's a different story.

Sarcasm is another way of "doing the right thing" but it's rarely usable. some people might be too offended but they fail to realise their mistakes, so this method is not really usable. it creates more problems rather than to solve problems.

life is all about doing the right thing. do a lot of right thing, and you might have a good impression on your friends. doing too much of it will make you famous and will bring some undesired attention, for example, the slightest mistake you make will forever ruin your image.

Doing the right thing.. got to do it correctly and also at the appropriate time

The damn irony..

My hostel is very nice. a small room, a single bed, a table, a laptop, a speaker, a headphone, a room mate, and a lot of friends. very cozy and also very friendly. it is sooooooo friendly and safe till you can even leave your room keys to other college mates, just in case you lock yourself out of the room or you want to take something from their room when they are away. you can even leave your laptop on the table switched on and they won't touch a damn thing. they won't even touch your money and also they won't even touch your paperwork. the worse they might do is just sit on your bed and make the whole bed messy. but the damn bed is already messy to begin with. so what's the difference ?

But recently, i discovered that someone which i know have already breach my personal space. this personal space is a little too close for comfort. after what has happen, how can i trust that person anymore ? what happen to those trust which are already enforced over the period of time we get to know each other ? with a single action of yours, i lost all trust in you. i don't feel safe leaving my highly personal stuffs lying around. i don't feel safe when i leave my room to go to the bathroom or to the canteen without locking my highly personal stuffs in the cupboard.

i feel betrayed, disappointed and also shocked. it's like i've just been stabbed in the back with a freezing dagger. i look highly upon that person and i respect that person. but all of this has gone down the drain and it's quite hard for that person to gain back my trust. i tried to disregard what others say about that person but looks like what others say is true.

realise the irony? you can leave a 50 ringgit note on the damn table and you'll be able to find it to be lying there after you've been gone for the whole day but you can't make sure that your highly personal things would remain #untouched# even if you just go out to take a piss in the toilet.

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#unread would be a better word

My intersemester break

it's been a long time since i've update my blog. to keep it short, i'm not going to blog about my chinese new year experience. why ? cause it's always the same thing every year. very happy, very enjoyable, very profitable and also very fun. most of all, there's a lot of surprises. what's the surprise ? i got a C in my inorganic chemistry. i thought i will definitely flunk that subject but somehow with some miracle performed by my brain, i got a C. then the other thing is i got an A- for my analytical chemistry. i was aiming for a B+ because on the final examination day, i got a very bad case of fever. i left the examination hall with 2 question completely blank. and i still manage to get an A-. i left early cause my hand is shivering beyond control till i can't write anymore. oh and those 2 questions are basic questions which i've neglected when doing my revision. you know, the part which you didn't study will definitely come out in the finals while the part which you've studied didn't. it's very weird and it never cease to baffle me everytime i sat for my finals.

it's also a long time since i've drove outstation. yeah. since my dad got the automatic car, i rarely drive outstation. if it wasn't for the automatic car, i think i'll drive like more than 2000km already. first it was penang, then it now malacca. how nice if the car is a manual car ?

i've reformated my laptop once again, this time it's from a 32 bit windows 7 professional to a 64 bit windows 7 professional. i've just realise that my laptop is capable of running a 64 bit operating system. hence, to take advantage of that, i've upgraded to a 64 bit OS. then i've increased my ram to 4GB which is the maximum capacity supported by my laptop's motherboard. i've noticed a slight performance gain when multi tasking between games and also internet browsing. it's a little more smoother. running multiple applications is also slightly faster. although in the realm of gaming, there's hardly any improvements. this is because the limiting factor for gaming on my laptop is the graphic processor, and not the ram itself.

well, that's all for now. i'm planning to upload photos to this blog but i'm now blogging using my uncle's computer. i'm lazy to unpack my laptop and use it. i'll do so when i'm actually hardworking enough to get the thing set up..

kudos. :D

what the hell

What the hell, you know the time when you just walk around campus, you meet people you've seen somewhere, and they don't care about you, don't say hi to you, don't give a damn about you, but the strange thing is they really can talk behind your back.

I thought they don't know me at all, but why the hell are they talking behind my back ? is it nice to talk behind my back ? we met and talk like only once in a whole sem or what but they can talk about me behind my back.

Seriously, why ? is it nice ? i'm trying hard to not talk about others behind their back and they do this to me. Don't forget, i can talk behind your back if i want to. but i try not because it's not good.

seriously, i'm pissed.

Right after the finals...

the exam week is finally over. funny how it feels that time actually slows down when we are waiting for the examination day and it suddently speeds up when we are actually sitting for the exam. man, how i wish i have more time to do my exam. it's a shame that you know that you can answer the question, but you just don't have enough time. that's the biggest problem some of the student face. some of them have too much time at hand that they can finish the paper before the time limit and just leave.

never mind that, now that all of my exam has finally ended, now i can focus on reading those books which i have bought a few months back. it's also a shame to buy those books but never find time to actually read them. Just now i've just starting to read a book... finally i'm getting something started. i've started to read around 80 pages of that book already. it's a small start but it's a great one.

now i'm downloading Vandread and also Vandread - The Second Stage. i'm trying to relive those times when i watch that anime on TV just before going to school in the afternoon. it's very nice to relive those times. it seems that i can almost feel the situation at that time where everything is just fun and games. not much thing to worry. everything at that time is not that hard. the hardest decision i have to make at that time is which god damn formula i must use for that physics question.

a lot of things changed back in klang. building which was once under construction is not occupied, shops which are once there have closed down or shifted, and roads which are once very ugly have been repaired. it looks like it's been a long time since i've travelled around in klang. lots of things have changed. but there's one thing which doesn't change, the traffic problem from the "bulatan 100" till the bekerly roundabout. damn that god forsaken place.

well, it's good to feel that i'm finally back home. but i missed my university life and also my friends. they are like brothers and sisters to me.

Time to end this blog post with a short video

About new year resolutions

i've made a few new year resolutions at the end of the year 2010 that i'll accomplish in the year 2011.

first, i promised myself that i'll get better from the skin problem that i've been facing. well, that's almost complete and i'm proud of it. just that it's tedious to maintain the condition which i'm in right now. very stupid, very tiring, and needs a lot of commitment.

second, i promised myself to at least pack on a little muscle. well, the only thing i've been packing is fat around my waist and a little muscle on both of my arms. well, that's because i've been pumping iron when i'm free. but the study week is not helping me in putting on muscle. i practically wake up, study, eat, sleep and play games. not productive at all.

third, i promised myself to gain weight by packing muscle. but the thing is i'm still stuck at 71 kg since the mid of 2011. so yeah, that's a failure. but wait, i pack on a little muscle and also a little fat around my waist. but where's the weight gain ? that's odd..

fourth, i promised myself that i'll be a little more patient in doing things. ok that's a failure. don't ask me why because it's hard to be patience with a lot of things happening around you. it's like asking you to drive behind someone who has lost his way. very slow and also very misleading

fifth, i promised myself to play less games. but the thing is i've been playing more games during the final weeks of my semesters. so yeah, that's a failure.

so what about the new year resolution for the year 2012 ? well, i'm not planning to have any. because i don't see why i should have them when i can't even keep my promise to them. so i might as well start a weekly resolution since every week of my next sem is practically the same. it's lab report every week and also some occasional assignments. so yeah, this year, the year of 2012, i'll start a weekly resolution instead of a yearly resolution.

that's better.

The birthday surprise from my kolejmates

my kolejmates decided to set me up for a surprise birthday gift. they made me play a little game of treasure hunt. the only thing here is the treasure hunt is confined only to my room only.

i'm so touched for what they have done for me. i felt so glad to have friends for them. K12 friends, i'll always remember all of you forever. we will not be 4 years friends. we will be friends for life. i wish and i'll hope that we will stay friends forever. you are the closest thing to me as a brother. although we are not brothers by blood, we are brothers by hostel !!

K12 HUAT AH !!!

Study week... what purpose it serves ?

Study week have been in place for students to get back home and study. hence it is called study week. lectures are all put on hold to allow students to study for the finals. but the thing is that this study week allows us to do practically anything and also everything which we desire. depending on what we choose, study week can either benefit us or also kill us. personally, i'm using study week to get my short notes straightened up and also to catch up on those sleep cycles.

study week for me is one of the time where there's nothing else bothering you. there's no assignment, there's no lab report, there's no lecture to disturb you. just you and nothing else. so it depends on what you want to do with that week.

my friends here are playing games during study week. they are playing old games to entertain themself. it's fun to see them play such games. i do join in once in a while since i've never actually owned a PS1 game console before. so playing it makes me feel quite youthful. it's a sad thing that i've never owned a PS1 game console before but i don't really feel that bad cause i've made it through those years without it. but one thing is for sure, i grown up with computers.

other than playing computers, my kolejmates and myself took this time to eat some "homecooked" food. i feel this is very nice as its different from others. eating together with your friends while sitting on the floor, forming a circle, is fun. it's not something you can do it at home. it's different. i don't mind doing this. and the best thing is some of us uses a mug or even a cup to eat rice. you don't find that anywhere else.


This is my dinner from a mug. :D


This is what we had for dinner that day.

it may not be much but it's very nice to eat such way. again, i would like to say that this gives me the feeling of having brothers. they don't let you do stupid things.......... alone.



something nice to finish the blog post.