time for some pictures

the internet connection's painfully slow so this is the only photo i could upload for now. this photo was taken at michelle's aunt's house and that little kid behind is michelle's cousin. she's very very adorable!

ah, the connection speed's picking up a little bit so here's another photo. in case you don't know, that's the flag of ireland. coincidently, the flag of ireland is just in the view from my balcony.

that's me with the flag in the background.

i guess that's all for now. connection is back to it's turtle speed so i'll show you guys more of my photos in intec some other time.

this blog will never die

because it was never alive. it's an inanimate thing. how do you suppose it to come alive? thus, this blog will never die.

as for me, i'm still alive. breathing in the fresh air of shah alam. or you could say the aromatic air in shah alam's KFC. hmm, the temptation! but i shall resist it for the sake of surviving the days till i get my allowance from JPA.

life's quite fine here. we students stay in 5 floored apartment blocks. each unit apartment will have 2 bedrooms, a kitchen, a living room, a laundry-balcony and a toilet. each bedroom will be shared between two students so each unit aprtment will house 4 students. students from the same programme will stay together so that means that those taking a levels will stay with others taking a levels while those taking ausmat will stay with the others who are also taking ausmat. michelle took ausmat while i am doing a levels but...

we are roomates! yeah, you heard me right. we registered late and they just conviniently shove us into a room.

another goodnews would be that the unit apartment that i'm staying in is shared by 2 other person only. the other housemate moved away to her friend's apartment so there's left the 3 of us only.

the weather is unexpectedly fine here! quite cool as there are many trees around shah alam. rains occasionally too and when the sun's out, it didnt feel that hot because it was always windy.

i guess have to end my blogpost here as it's getting quite late. that's all for now. see ya!

leaving tomorrow, 5 minutes after today ends.

i think i'm done packing.

wait, i have to be done packing. i don't have the luggage space for anymore items! infact, i exceeded my luggage allowance of 15kg already! oh, and i haven't even buy my wheatgrass supplement. and my pork floss too. and i want to bring my ridiculously big mug.

but there's hardly any space left in my luggage...
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i have good news and bad news.

good news is that i'll be leaving tommorow instead of today. bad news is, my flight's at 0015 hours or equilavent to 12.15AM. will be arriving in kl at around 2AM. perhaps i should look at the bright side of this. at that time, in the dead of the night, there wouldn't be as many passengers as any other time and thus, less likely to meet any foreigners who might contract the H1N1 virus!

2007

My cat.
she came after my second black cat, salem, went missing. My mom bought her from Sunday market and gave it to me as my belated birthday present.

Only the cat in the photo is my birthday present. The rest were my dad's retirement gifts which perked my cat's curiosity.
a cat's not a cat if it's not curious eh?

Archery.
Photos were taken during the 7th Annual Christmas Shoot. After knowing this sport, I can't decide whether I liked playing badminton more or archery!


Chess
No more vacation in 2007 since all the chess tournaments are held in Kuching.

At the civic centre during MSSM Interstate Competition.

my opponent was the previous year's (2006) sarawak champion in the under 18 girls category. this is one of the games when my luck took a turn to the better.

Photography Workshop.
joined this for the sake of the certificate at first but the workshop is actually quite fun too.


Permai Trip.
Organised by the Koperasi Club. I got badly sunburned after returning from this trip but it was all worth the fun!

that's me, buried alive.

Independence Day.
So, these are some of the pictures from year 2007. It was a year full of both good and not-so-good memories. both of which i'll remember.

2006

Hartz.
Pn Tan chia-ed our whole class because we managed to collect quite a large sum of money during the 2006 St Teresa School's Food and Fun Fair Festival.

Notice how everyone looks so much different from how they look like right now? People do change in the course of time.

Terengganu MSSM Interstate Chess Competition
My first year representing the state for chess competitions. Honestly,I've never thought that I'll ever be playing chess at National level. I'm grateful that I'm given the chance and thankful to the teacher who trusted me.

Check my archives if you want to read more about my trip.

sadly, these are the only photos from year 2006 that i have now in my laptop.

experimenting with my new Nikon

nice?

Mantoux Test

"is it going to be painful?"

"YES", she answered sternly.

i went to the A.T.A.S (Anti-Tuberculosis Association of Sarawak) clinic for my mantoux test this morning and by now, the bump is flattened already. flat, not a slight buldge at all.

so fast meh???

back from the bookstore

i lost my dad's reload card.




















it was in my pocket together with my car keys. it must have dropped when i took out the keys. went back to search for it but to no avail. hehe, got a good lecture from my parents about how this little experience would teach me to be more careful in the future.

at the bookstore

slowly, or if you would like to say; at a turtle's crawling speed, i pulled into the parking lot, making sure there's enough space for 3 people walking in a row at once on both sides of the car. yes, i took up two parking spaces. i'm just doing every driver a good deed by occupying two spaces so that none of their cars would be victimized by me.

my dad asked me to buy rm30 reload card for him so i went to the digi store before going to the bookstore. i never knew that digi gave discounts for reload cards. it was sold there for only rm29.50. any digi subcribers who want to save 50 cents, you are welcomed to drive all the way here to semarak. and on the way, make sure you remember to fetch me from my house for lim teh.

anyways, i proceeded to the bookstore afterthat and explained to the photocopy girl about the JPA stuffs that i want to photostate before i went browsing for stationaries. i was walking in between one of the rows of shelves when i met the tauke-neo of the bookstore.

"miss chong!" she greeted me in delight. perhaps because i've brought a lot of business to her shop all these years. (actually, my dad knew her)

and from that small greeting of hers, there start the lengthy conversations.

my mandarin has improved i must say. yes, she spoke to me in mandarin for the whole while. i was down with flu at that time and had to figure out what she was saying with my already exhausted brain. she finally finished intergorrating me and left to do her work.

i met her again, just standing by the photocopy machine where my documents were lying on top. and we talked somemore.

it was perhaps the longest trip to the bookstore i've ever had.

drove home in a shorter time than when i drove there.

am still sick with flu. perhaps i should pull off my pranks one of these days. find some people with masks on and purposely sneeze within a one metre radius of them. then standby and watch their reactions...

i think i would better not. who knows if they might become too paranoid and decided to strap me to a bed before carting me away to the general hospital to be quarantined for suspected H1N1 case.