College Festival - The Orange Invasion!

Phew! Exam's over... for one week I'll be free from exam... yeah, one week ONLY... No more coffee drinking and sleepless days for one week! Suffer just for the Financial Management subject! I can't really sleep just to finish studying it with me drinking coffee but coffee seems to have no effect on me as I still feel sleepy but it all worth it cos I managed to cover all topics. Except that I think I don't think I do well for Macroeconomics. Whatever. Gonna work harder for finals now.

Anyway, so many things have happened since I abandon my blog for almost one month as I am too busy sitting in front of the computer blogging for hours.

First up, College Festival 2007 which is from 5th March ~ 9th March 2007. College Festival is a festival organised by the Hostel Committee for hostel residents. There's stalls, talks, concert and auction. Since I'm a Hostel Committee member, of course I'm involved in it. You can never imagine how ORANGE it is during that week (orange is now almost the official colour of CF)

And here are some of the pictures captured:

Fire Drill

This is the first event for College Festival on 5th March 2007 12.05 a.m. to mark the start of College Festival. There are some students that who are not willing to bug from their room when we scream 'Fire! Fire!' or might standing in the hostel area waiting for their friends.

Know what I told them? I told them this is an emergency. If it is for real, they will be burnt alive. They only move after hearing what I said. Stubborn. Now you act like some donkeys waiting to be chased. I'm sure that they will run for life if this is real.

Fire engines and police cars are here for real. Cool eh?

Police and fire fighters in action.

They pull out the hose and even water the hostel building as if it is a real fire emergency which we do not have a chance to experience in secondary school.

Fire fighters who are responsible to rescue victims.

The College Festival 2007 Committee

Ken... the Special Task Bureau Assistant Manager... all the photos of College Festival courtesy of him.

Attempt in cam-whoring...C'est moi! The Interfaith Talk Bureau Manager clad in the official T-shirt of College Festival (yeah, it's orange)!

Aghilan, Food Fiesta Manager in his attempt to cut Ken's hair....

Not successful in cutting hair, he tried to be a killer... (Aghilan, you are such a great poser)

The CF committee with officers from Jabatan Penjara for the rotan demonstration... you never realise how scary the rotan process can be till you see the videos and pictures.

I'm in charge of the Interfaith Talk, which is an event where there will be speakers from 4 main religions (Buddhism, Christian, Islam, Hinduism) in Malaysia talks on a common topic.

I almost gave up on this event, as I can't find all the speakers one week before the event! Imagine that! Luckily I got all the speakers by Friday days before the event.

7th March 2007. Interfaith Talk: The Existence of Evil - the topic. This is the first time I be a leader for an event. I only realise that I had much more to learn before I really qualify to become a leader. But I am relly grateful to have the chance to lead people.

My committee did a good job, helping me with last minute work that I realise need to do from the ex-officio for College Festival which is also the moderator for the talk.

Unexpectedly, students' representative from UNITEN present as they never confirm the presence with me in advance. They said is because the invitation letter is misplaced and they only found the letter few days before the event.

UIAM's SRC (Students' Representative Council or MPP) confirm their presence real early with me... They are really interested in the Interfaith Talk I guess.

The event went quite well, and my committee rocks! All girls team except for Terk Rong which is the thorn among the roses, haha. Yeah, and the girls never know about him being my assistant cos he's wayyy to busy to even attend my meetings.

Picture says a thousand words. And here it goes:

Interfaith Talk (7th March 2007)

The crowd of the talk!

My committee: (Front row, Left - Right) Zilla, Siew Hong, Soo Ling, Kai Sien, me (Back row, Left - Right) She Leng, Li Ling, Pei Hong, See Ching and Wei Shin

The Speakers: Buddha speaker, Christian speaker and Hindu speaker.... and the moderator, Thulaisi.

Tharan, the emcee for the night who is also the Programme coordinator for College Festival. He's the one who helped me the most! Him here with the 'Sleeping Buddha' pose, sexy eh? Haha, just kidding.

Tharan with the girls. How does it feel to be surrounded by girls?

Us committee posing for photos again... This is really an all-girls team ...Girls rock!

I would like to thanks to the girls, Tharan (for helping out with the vegetarian food and emcee for the night and also guide me along the way).

And also the committee for College Festival 2007. You guys rock! Nice to know all of you. Can't forget the days where we had meetings till wee hours in the morning and the problems (budget, internal problem) that we faced before the event and also the long post-mortem sessions each day during the event.

That's all for now. Will back with more updates!

~KEAT YEE signing off.~

One More to Go!

Today's there a mid-term exam.

And guess what, the exam starts late! The lecturer who is responsible for the exam prepare things late! He just went to the exam hall minutes before the exam's supposingly starting time of 5 p.m.!

He's taking his own sweet time walking there...walking leisurely and yeah, I am there, waiting for the exam to start and nervously studying the formulas as I afraid I'll forgot it but I can't seem to concentrate. AND we only start the exam at 5.15 p.m.

What is supposedly to be a 2 hours exam from 5 to 7 p.m. became a 1-hour-and-15 minutes exam. Even my assignment group members asked me why I meet them before 7 p.m. as it is supposed to end at 7!

There's a guy that is sitting next row keep peeping at people's answer sheet. AND he's looking at mine as well. I had to keep protecting my question paper and answer sheet so that he won't see my answers. DAMN, you wanna try to get answers without working it out?

NOOO WAYYYYYY!!!!!!!

AND I heard some people out there said that they had to work hard peeping at people's paper too.

NAH!!

Why can't all these people work harder to improve themselves rather than just doing nothing to improve their knowledge, skip classes, sleeping, just lepak around or maybe idly lying doing nothing at all? You are wasting your parents money this way! If you think you can't cope with studies after so long, maybe you can start working rather than wasting time in university gaining nothing.

This is not the first time people trying to peep my paper. In the previous times, the person sitting next to me in the lecture hall (we are sitting in close proximity, just the seat next to me in the same row of chairs as all the seats are attached together) for Microecnomics exam during last semester just look straight away at my paper and I don't even realise it! AND I thought no one is looking as we had a different sets of questions and I was too busy working out for the answers. Actually, the questions in all the paper are the same, just that the order is shuffled. DAMN!

There is the other time where we had a quiz during tutorial class for Mathematics during the first semester here where there is a foreign student sitting at the front row turn his head around and look at my paper as I mark my answers on the answer sheet! I hate this! I only got to realise it too late as the guy already got all the answers from me! (without me realising all the while until the end of quiz)

Whatever. One more exam to go tomorrow and I'm free from exams for one week... just one week and more exams coming up... sighzz.

Now back to dig in my books. Eat with books, sleep with books, dream of books.

Exam Week

I'm having 3 mid-term exams this week - Tuesday, Thursday and Friday for subjects of Statistics, Financial Management and also Macroeconomics. I'm gonna die. Lack of time to study and I can't even really understand that damn Finance subject! Damnit! Lame subject!

Add to the pile is tutorials submissions and assignments. DIE.

Now back to work. Will blog more after this deadly week....

That's all for now.

~KEAT YEE signing off.~

Chinese New Year in MMU

Well, 4th March 2007 was the Banquet dinner that is organized by the CNYE committee. I was one of them. I was in the group that was in charge of the food for the banquet but on the day of the event itself, there is shortage of manpower and therefore some of the committee members had to become waiters and waitresses for the day. The guest-of-honour for this event is the deputy minister of finance, YB Dato’ Dr. Ng Yen Yen and the vice president of MMU, Prof. Dr Chuah.

The event start of with the first dish, a must have for Chinese New Year, Yee Sang. I’m in charge of taking out the dishes, but luckily, I only responsible for the first 2 dishes which supposedly to be served all at once, but I’ll be in charge of pouring tea to all the guests with 3 other girls. And things go well for the night except that a dancer hurt her leg after accidentally step on a thumbtack while dancing.

Well, the event can be considered a success. I almost gave up to be part of the committee of this event as I had other commitments and also want to concentrate on my studies but I did not because I don’t like to give up on task that I took up even though I make not like what I did.

But to tell the truth, I don’t think that I will be part of it again, because I had experience in this event and wanna try something else, and also the bad experiences related to it and I think there’s a lot of people that almost gave up on being part of the committees as they also had bad experiences like me – bad organisation, cancelled meetings without informing me, and the organising committee failed terribly to had the working committees (working committees are the people of lower ranking in the committee and do all the jobs where the organising committee did the planning of an event) to see the vision as they did.

Yeah, I do made some friends but based on the feedback that I heard, the committee members did not get satisfaction from being part of the committee. I had satisfaction from organising other events, but not this though.

I vowed that I will be the one who will be sitting in the hall, enjoying the food rather that being the one serving the guests next year. My cousin was right, it’s hard to enjoy being part of the committee is no fun and she’s right in some way. No point elaborating this further. Sorry if I offend any of the CNYE committee members but that's a fact. But I did not say anything bad about anybody here right? So don't hate me for it. At least, I'm brave enough to say what I don't like rather than people that keep it inside their heart.

Well, a picture says a thousand words and below are some pictures taken for the night.

The venue of the event before the arrival of guests. Peaceful and clean.

The Deputy Minister of Finance, YB Dato' Dr. Ng Yen Yen (3rd from right), the guest-of-honour to officiate this event.

The top view of the hall where you can see so many people wearing red clothes. Red = Chinese New Year!


People having their cheers.... YAAAAAAAAAM SENG!!!!

The Chinese orchestra performing with the traditional Chinese musical instruments.

Dancing troupe performing traditional dance.

Another dance which tells a story about a love story... forgotten what the story is all about...

A drama telling a story about the children wanna send their mother to the old folks home but pull out at the last minute after realising the happy times they spent together.

The group that is responsible for the 'Banquet Dinner' plus the organising committee.

The Banquet committee. Had a good time working with you guys and nice to know all of you! Can you see me? I'm the fifth person from right on the highest standing row.

That's all for now.

~KEAT YEE signing off.~

Lien Ghee Is Back from Japan!

Lien Ghee's back from Japan!

And of course, sure we'll take the chance to ask out and we had the privilege to be one of the earliest to meet her. Luckily we met her early, if not, she will sure be tired of talking about her life in Japan cos everyone sure will be asking about that. Chee Wei and Wen Jian and me will be meeting her at Times Square on Friday (2nd March 2007).

It's been a year since I last met Lien Ghee, before she went to Japan, and time passed so quickly and after one year we met again! Wow, so excited to meet her that I sacrifice my time to commute between Cyberjaya and Times Square to meet her. I'm not going back to home for the weekend as I had another commitment here in my campus: CNYE Dinner Banquet on Sunday (4th March 2007) night, which is the last day of Chinese New Year, or Chinese's Valentine's day or Chap Goh Mei.

Back to the previous topic, I started my journey from Cyberjaya at 9.30 a.m. Waited for bus for about 15 minutes before getting onto RapidKL 429. Reached Putrajaya Sentral bus stop after 15 minutes. Took the bus E1 which costs RM 4. Half an hour later, the bus reached KL Sentral at 11.15 in half an hour.

After got down from the bus, I went to look for the Monorail station. I thought that the station is supposed to be inside KL Sentral as the name of the station is KL Sentral and after looking around, I found the station outside KL Sentral. Damn, if the station is not in KL Sentral, the station shouldn't be named KL Sentral! You can't blame on this, this is the first time I took Monorail from KL Sentral. Whatever.. I got to Times Square anyway.

Waited there for Lien Ghee to arrive and after that, we walked around Times Square as Lien Ghee wanted to get a pair of shoes for herself to change. After getting a pair of heels (which cost only RM 10!) we went to Shin Restaurant in Sungai Wang, a Korean restaurant, to have our lunch. Food there was nice, and we really enjoyed it.

Met with Chee Wei after that and watched a movie titled 'Protege' by Andy Lau, Daniel Wu, Louis Koo, Anita Yuen and Zhang Jing Chu. A quite nice movie to say, and it is up to my expectation. Wen Jian will meet up with us after the movie, but we can't contact him (dunno what happened to his phone line) but I guessed he will be in Borders as he went to MPH in MV to search for a book and yeah, my instinct was correct.

We went to a cafe named '69 Sixty nine' and hang out there. The place is nice, with some old furnitures as the concept of their cafe. We get to catch with each other on what's happening only to realised that I had missed out a lot on their lives. But luckily we can still talk to each other happily and all of them still the same except that they had new experiences in life.

About 6 p.m, all of us had to go home and I alone again back to Cyberjaya taking Monorail, which is crowded with people, because people going home at that time. Missed 3 trains before I can get onto one, and back home again with Rapid KL buses E1 and 429. The buses fare only costed me RM 5 only for travelling to and from KL as the bus passes can be used the whole day. Reached MMU at 8 p.m., exactly 2 hours of bus trip.

I had a good time that day, since it was a year since I met Lien Ghee and Wen Jian (no choice la, he's such a busy guy, hard to ask him out). Can have a good laugh and sharing about our life. These are the people that I can hang out and talk for hours. Too bad that I don't have the pictures taken that day. Will sure upload it once I got it.

That's all for now.

~KEAT YEE signing off.~

Happy Chinese New Year Part II

Continued... Part 2 of Chinese New Year post.

1st and 2nd day of Chinese New Year will be for visiting relatives house as usual. And even though I vowed that I would only eat one piece for every type of cookies, I can't keep to it, and I eat more than one for each and the temptations to eat them are so great as I never tried it all. And the most that I ate when I went to people's house, probably is crackers. Sure gaining weight from all eating all these. Sighzz, how could I keep to my vow of not eating much, if not sure I will become a big, fat girl!! Grrrrr...

And yeah, then there's the meals, ate reunion dinner and lunch and also the sumptuous meals that my mum prepared sure do not help in weight control. And yeah, after back to university my stomach feels better as it is 1. in small portion and 2. just ate bread for lunch (too tired to think of what to eat as the choices here are limited).

3rd day of Chinese New Year, sit at home, with my mum's youngest sister, grandma, and my uncle and aunt (my mum's sis) came with her 4 daughters in tow. The home quite lively with those young children, hehe. They would be screaming and also talking and also approach you to give them cookies as their mum would not allow them to eat those cookies to prevent them from falling sick. Dinner at my home was nice, I'm not bragging, but my mum's cooking is delicious all the time!

4th day of Chinese New Year (21st February 2007), went to 'bai nian' at my friends' house, start at 12.30p.m. with Lai Mun's (where I had to go there by taxi with Kok Keong as my parents are not in), wait for Sharron and Took there. Then to Sharron's, and meet up with Yuen Mei there and Lai Mun back to her house as her friends will be going to her house.

3rd destination, Kok Keong's house with more Wei Song and Kwok Bing joining in for the 'bai nian', played a few games of cards before going to my home with 7 of us in Wei Song's car.

From my house, went to Wan Teang's house and dropped Took at Carrefour (relief for us as the car became a little more spacious). Wan Teang join us to go to Ming En's house before all of us decided to head to Times Square for movie. As Wei Song's car (a Kenari) can't accomodate all of us and fearing traffic police, they persuade me to ask my parents to borrow their car. Thanks my parents for being so generous to lend their car.

Back to my home to get the car with my sister joining in too and then go to Yuen Mei's house. 8 of us (me, my sis, Yuen Mei, Sharron, Wan Teang, Wei Song, Kok Keong and Kwok Bing) head for Times Square with Kok Keong driving Wei Song's car and Wei Song driving my parents' car.

Wonder why Wei Song did not drive his own car? Well, Kok Keong did not really drive usually but he drove Wei Song's car numerous times so he drove Wei Song's car while Wei Song is experienced in driving so he drives my parents' car in order to avoid accident. Yeah, us girls did not drive usually so we can't drive the car and Yuen Mei was the only who drive to shopping malls a lot of times yet she doesn't want to drive as she fears of bumping my parents' car.

So we are there, at 8 something, went to cinema straight away to get the tickets for movie, we can't watch Protege (which all of us interested in watching) as Wei Song watched it already, get tickets for 'Ghost Rider' where we will be sitting on the first row (the nearest to the screen)!!!

Went to Sushi King for dinner, don't feel like eating, so just order a ramen where all of them ate dinner set. Watched the movie, and decent one, not too interesting. Reached home at 12.30 a.m. without a scratch on my parents' car, haha...

*Thanks to my parents for lending their car and also to Kok Keong and Wei Song for driving, had a nice time which took my mind away from the work in uni that makes me stressed out.*

6th day of Chinese New Year (23rd Feb 2007, Friday) went to Nean Hua's house with Wan Teang as Nean Hua will be departing to Taiwan on the following Monday to pursue he dream of becoming a doctor. Wished her all the best, and talked with her. Luckily I did not cry this time when she went off as I tend to cry when someone I'm closed with going overseas. A sign of growing up maybe?

**Nean Hua, may your dreams come true.**

7th day of Chinese New Year, did nothing but just sitting at home and watching TV.

8th day of Chinese New Year (25th February 2007), my brother's birthday. Went to 'Dae Jang Geum', a Korean restaurant wiith my family to celebrate it. Ordered food portion of 4 yet 5 of us had a difficult time finishing it. The food portion is large compare to Chinese's, that I wonder if an average Korean woman can finish it? But the food there is quite nice, ate for the third time there.

First went there with my siblings and cousin for BBQ, and second time went there with Yuen Mei (where she had a fetish for everything Korean) but I didn't really eat anything, except for sharing a big bowl of rice with rice, vegetables and meat in the bowl and is stirred.

That's what I did during the Chinese New Year break before things back to usual here in MMU. Somehow I feel so stressed from all those activities that I participate in which taking its toll on my studies. Regretted joining in all those activities even though it sure boost my interpersonal skills. Whatever, hope that all the events end soon and I can concentrate on my studies.

That's all for now.

~KEAT YEE signing off.~

Happy Chinese New Year Part I

Happy Chinese New Year everyone!

The start of Chinese New Year on 18th February 2007 mark the arrival of year of Boar, the year that everyone considers to be bringing wealth.

Wonder how did I welcome the arrival of new year?

Well, my family and my 8th aunt’s family went to Genting Highlands like last year. Went early in the morning to avoid crowd at the Genting Skyway and reach there at 12 something, check in to Highland Hotel, and the room is nicer compare to the room that we stayed last year.

Went for shopping at First World Plaza and my family get to buy clothes there for new year. It’s weird that we buy clothes there even though there are more shops in KL compare to Genting. Haha…

Bowling next and yeah, I am the weakest among the 5 of us who bowl if the youngest person there (which is only 13) is not considered. I only managed to carry 7 pounds ball and my thinner cousins can even carry a 10 pounds ball!!

We got to eat buffet dinner at a restaurant named “Coffee Terrace” for a whooping RM 66.70 net per person. But it was worth it as there is variety of food to choose from – Chinese, Western, Indian, Japanese, Local Favourites and Nyonya food. We ate till we are full, back for rounds of food after taking breaks.

I ate till I feel like I am going to throw up, even the fruits are not helping, cos I can’t stop eating! The food was amazing! I SWEAR I’m not going to torture myself by binging myself with food next time. I had been suffering from indigestion for the whole week since that meal – eating reunion dinner and also snacks and biscuits. For one week, my stomach still felt unwell.

After the dinner, we went back to our room to get rest for a while before the fireworks presentation at 12am sharp to mark the arrival of Chinese New Year. I slept in my room while watching television – meaning I’m too tired. Went to witness the fireworks presentation at 11.45 p.m.

It starts with firecrackers burning on 18 poles (if not mistaken) and then there are the fireworks from the roof of Highland Hotel. The fireworks was better than last year’s, and the part that I love the most is where the clusters of gold sparks bursting at the end, and the sparks purple and green falling down like rain in the middle of the presentation. Alas, too bad that I did not have any pictures of the fireworks. I think pictures will not do justice to how nice the fireworks even if I had any of it.

After that, we went to where the adults will go when they are in Genting – the casino! Went to Starworld (the name of the casino) first, and me and my cousins were blocked by security staffs as we looked young and our ICs were checked and yeah, I’m looking too young for the casino, huh? Then went to the other casino, Casino de Genting where there will be a dancing troupe performing and yeah again, ICs being chacked.

But what happens in the casino is a little different from what I saw in the drama ‘Dicey Business’. The dealer did not talk to the gamblers and the game went on silently without any communication. But they are sure in calculations as they can know the pay for each player is the player wins. Amazing!

I can see the dealers were really pale-looking probably from sitting for hours inside the casino and inhaling second hand smoke. Gosh, the guys there were really fair, and probably due to lack of exposure of sunlight. Poor dealers, they probably die from all those unhealthy exposure in the casino mainly from the second hand smoke. The moment I went in, I can ‘detect’ the smell already.

Well, reality is different from dramas of course, yet I still keep comparing it. But one thing that is really similar, the casinos will be full of CCTVs. And yeah, no pictures were allowed to be taken in the casino. There are people playing roulette, poker, pontoon, baccarat and also dominos. The casino is so advanced now that they have roulette where people can place their bets electronically.

And there’s a show there where a Russian troupe dance to tunes. But mind you, it is an 18-years-and-above-only-can-see dance. They dressed sexily as their outfits for dances.

Highlight: There’s a social dance where the woman wraps her body with a thin, white cloth and there’s a horny uncle stands in front of my 8th aunt at the right side of the stage and then moved leftwards and stands beside my mum, then move leftwards to the left to stand right in the middle front of the stage. Well, all of us were all sure that he tried to take a peep of her undies as the woman keep turning her body and lift her leg and there’s a chance to see her undies if you stand near enough. New insight to you guys who are underaged there are so many things that might happen in an adult-rated place.

Back to room at 3 something in the morning and went back home in the morning to prepare ourselves for the Chinese New Year. Genting Highlands is sure a nice place to celebrate Chinese New Year. Hopefully I can back there next year.

Hmm, I should bug my cousin for the pictures taken there so that I can post it here.

That's all for now. Shall continue with part 2 which is overdue.

~KEAT YEE signing off.~