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Tuesday, August 26, 2003
Yesterday evening, I was off to Sheraton Imperial Hotel to help out with the Cardiff Uni, Pre-departure Briefing. It was a fun time, as I met up with prospective students whom I will surely bump into next year as well as the friends I've made within the Malaysian Society. The parents were all very anxious and kept asking me a lot about life there as well as the things their sons/daughters need to prepare before going there. I explained everthing to the best of my knowledge and helped them out as much as I could. I know how they are feeling right now, being freshies venturing into an unknown place. They are all anxious, curious, worried yet excited and wait in anticipation for their departure dates.
I know for sure that they will love the life there and will have a good experience. Despite the worries of their parents, I'm sure they will turn out fine and will adapt well to the Welsh culture and the weather! hehe....Met quite a few interesting characters during my short stint as the welcoming receptionist! haha....one guy came and said he was going to Birmingham Uni, but we told him that the briefing was for Cardiff students!! Dunno from where he got the info to come yesterday, maybe he was tricked by his friend or something. Some students even got their course names wrong, writing Electrical Engineering instead of Electronic Engineering. I mean, come on, aren't you supposed to know very well what you are studying? We had a good laugh though.
A few are coming to do law from HELP this time, though I only met a few of them yesterday. Are they too lazy to attend it or what. It is the same every year for HELP law students, not many turn up at the pre-departure briefing. Too smart for their own good, huh? *sarcastic look*
Saturday, August 23, 2003
Been hacking non-stop last nite.....my sickness progressed to the coughing phrase now, as usual. *sigh* *cough* *cough* It's so irritaitng to be coughing after every 5 minutes.....sheesh!! Hurry up and get well you....
Just talked to Aki, who will be fliying off in one hour's time. She dreads going back, but then she HAS to do it. No running away...but then, it's not THAT bad, Aki. See you there very soon...and keep me posted as to the happenings there, don't forget to sms me ok?
Hope I get well soon. Tomorrow am meeting my aunties and cousin, having high-tea! Yay!! *grins* Gtg now, before I start hacking my dear lungs away....*cough*
Friday, August 22, 2003
This morning, slept in late.....aaahhh, feels so nice to lie in bed. Feeling not up to my normal self, probably cos am sick. Throat is better, just coughing a little now. But it's nice to rest and do nothing. Just now had a nice long chat with Aki. She invited me to be her blog crew member! hahaha.....but have to get my frontpage first. Aki will be flying off tomorrow back to her "hell-hole".....but then I reminded her that her hell-hole will have the nicest shopping, and her uni's network from which she can have a hell-of-a-time downloading her beloved animes. Nothing compared to my uni's firewalled network, from which I can't even send files through ICQ. *grimaces* Aki, you're lucky la ok? Plus, Bristol is much bigger and has more things....although I still love Cardiff....hehehe =)
These days, more stuffs pre-occupy my mind. Certain things which I have to worry about. Though I am not suppose to worry about. But then will have to get on top of it and banish the thoughts from my poor brains, which have been suffering for sometime. I wanna have Harry Potter as my friend, so he can help me do some magic on certain ppl......turn them to bugs or slugs! hahaha.....ok, that was evil, but then it cannot become real anyways. *sigh*
Well, am off now. Nothing much to say.....
Thursday, August 21, 2003
Arrrghhhhh!!!! I just lost the whole new post which I was typing. I saved it but now I can't find it!! Sheesh!! What a dumb thing blogger is.....it can't even save a post, so now I am gonna try my best to retype all that I was remember from my post just now.
Yesterday I woke up with a sore throat. Could feel my left side of my throat sore and swollen. But still had my voice. Was thinking whether to cancel my lunch appointment with Aki and her friend Joo. But then after some consideration, decided to go on with it cos it's been months since I have met up with Aki... plus she is leaving this Saturday.
Reached her place at about 12.30 and then chatted with her and while showing her my photos over the months. Nice of Aki to ask her mum to make me honey tea to soothe my throat. Waited for Joo, and he came at about 1.15pm...drove us in this 4WD to KLCC, to Aki's fav restaurant, Nippon Tei and ordered myself a chicken yaki udon. It's been a while since I had yaki udon, the last time was at Tenkaichi, Cardiff. It was delicious, and I dug into it when it came. During lunch was talking about Aki's views about marriage, choice of life-partner and raising kids. We had a hard time convincing Aki to change her views as she is very determined on her stand. Joo was trying very hard to change Aki's mind, but I know that she is unflinching in her views and won't be so easily influenced. Anyway, we hope that Aki will keep our advice at the back of her head and maybe someday she will see our point. =) I can see Aki shaking her head vigorously now saying "No! NEVER!!" hehehe.....Aki, I know you too well, don't I? *grins* Hmm, I surprised myself and Aki, as to how well I know her. It's like I know when she is angry, what is is irritated at, what she is thinking about etc. etc.......hehehe, maybe we were twins in out past lives or something!
Anyway, my first meeting with Joo. Found him a nice guy, thoughtful and a gentleman. He treated Aki and me as well. I felt kinda bad cos it's not like I know him very well....but yet he insisted on paying for my lunch. Well, maybe he was being nice to Aki's friend....hehehe But anyway, thanks Joo for the lunch. =)
Watched the last episode of Police Station No. 7 last night. Found the ending quite abrupt....the director ended everything in one last episode, like he was rushing through the show. Everything bad happened to Yip Ka Sing and his family all at once. Too much of a coincidence is you ask me. And also didn't like it that Poh Yin had to go to prison for accepting the bribery money. I mean, she is innocent and was co-erced into accepting the money. She is such a sweet, innocent, obedient and nice girl, too nice to be jailed. Really didn't like that part of the show. Probably, the moral it's trying to teach us is that no matter how innocent you think your actions are, if it is a crime then it is a crime and you will have to be punished for it. Tonight will watch the new series stariing Lisa Wang.
After this will be watching "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" thanks to Aki. I know I'm outdated, that shows been out ages ago. But I missed it so am gonna watch it later. I enjoyed all of Harry Potter's books and am reading the 4th book now. Very interesting and just can't put it down.
My throat is a bit more worse than yeaterday. Too lazy to talk so I have been keeping my mouth shut since this morning....hurts everytime I talk or drink water. Sheesh! Hate the feeling! *makes face* Explains why this post is exceptionally long....need an outlet to express myself.
Before I forget, need to congratulate Aki, on her new website. She has put in immense effort to put it up and it looks very proffesional and cool now. Red, hot, fiery would be more appropriate! hehehe......good job, Aki, and hopefully it will be better as time goes by.
Got to go now.....Harry Potter here I come!!!
Thursday, August 14, 2003
Yesterday was caught in the most raging thunderstorm since I dunno how long ago. Went shopping with my mum at 1 Utama and when we went back it was raining cats and dogs!! We could barely see the road when we drove back...the rain was ferocious! And after that I actually felt cold in Malaysia without any use of air-conditioners.
Made a pact with myself that I need to finish the 1st Harry Potter book as quickly as possible and achieved it minutes ago when I finished it. Yea, I know I am way out-dated, the book has been out ages and I only discovered its delights a few weeks ago. But then better late than never I guess. The book is truly well-written and witty...keeps me turning the pages without stopping even for toilet break! hehe...when reading it, I feel like I am actually there with HP and his friends in Hogwarts, probably the movie helped me to better imagine the wicked sneering face of Draco Malfroy as well as feeling Prof. Snape's piercing eyes on me. It's was a very good read. Will advance to the next book tonight. Hope to finish all 4 by the time I go back to UK. Don't want to lug them all the way back.
Hmm....been burying myself in the book for so long, need a good break...probably play the Sims for a while now! yay!! *grins*
Wednesday, August 13, 2003
Yesterday met up with the Cardiff bunch...had quite a nice time, rounding KLCC and window-shopping. Though I did get some stuffs, just a book, recommended by Aki, "Picture of Dorian Gray" and a scrungy from Teddy Tales. Hmm....my friends said that I grew thinner and my tan has gone...hehe, am so happy *jumps for joy*. I don't wanna look like Justice Pao's sister!! =) Though I dunno about the thinner part, I was afraid I might put on weight cos of the good food here and also lack of exercise...not much walking to do here. But anyway, it was nice to see them again and catch up. It is merely just 3 weeks since I saw them but then it seems like a long long time. Think we all miss each others' presence as we spent a substantial amount of time together everyday back in UK. Until when one person in the group went back to KL, we very much felt the absence.
Then last night went back for dinner with my extended family. It was to celebrate the Hungry Ghost Festival...just some tradition that all of the family must go back and have dinner together. Played with my young cousins, who are growing cuter and smarter everyday. My youngest cousin, is very cute!! Has chubby cheeks that you just want to pinch!! And he is a food-greedy kid! Just mention the word "eat" or "food" and he will look at you longingly and ignore whatever else he is doing. His sister is much more of a chatterbox being the inquisitive 5-year-old she is. After dinner, showed them how to play some tunes on the organ. They were so delighted and highly entertained. Kids are really easy to please sometimes, especially when it's something they don't know how to do. When they look up to you starry-eyed, you get this lovely feeling and feel soo happy just the same. They can just make you melt! *laughs*
Tuesday, August 12, 2003
Been watching lots of series, have to catch up on 10 months being deprived of any TV series. Police Station No. 7 is a nice series, Seven Sisters also a funny one. The characters there are sometimes rather funny and cute... at night have been watching Baby Boom, a Singaporean TV serie. I must say, they aredoing a rather good job. Their acting is realistic and also reflects the typical Singaporean beahviours and outlooks. Zoe Tay is good as the new mother of quadruplets, going through the rigours of motherhood and marriage. I don't quite like Gurmit Singh's character as the flirtatous guy, Adam, who has affairs left, right and centre when he already has a loving wife and 3 kids. He is really one who plays around with women, although he claims that he can diffierentiate between the main course and the dessert....yea right! Now his wife left him and he has to cope with a silly bimbo, with the figure of a stick insect, taking care of his 3 kids....well, he discovered that stick insect has been abusing his children, and he has now sensibly packed her out and chased her out of his house.
Sigh.....it will not be long until I have to go off back to UK. In a way I like it there but also there are certain orrather MANY things I will miss. But that is life....can't have my cake and eat it, as always.
