Congratulations Fafa

Congratulations to Fafa on his wedding!!

Yesterday was Fafa's wedding at UIAM in Gombak. Went there with OCs in a MMU bus. I'm so excited about it as it is the first wedding for OC 08/09 and it was the first time I attend a Malay wedding.

What's better is that we are expecting double happiness this year - we have 2 OC weddings this year, Fafa's and Edry's.

So touched to see 2 people that are bond together by marriage. It's a promise of a lifetime, a promise to be together through thick and thin and share of undying love between two person.

Wish Fafa and ber wife happily ever after. Can't wait for the first OC baby to be born!

The bride and bridegroom with the OCs

On the other note, congratulations to Edry and his wife for your marriage! May you and your wife be happily ever after =) Can't wait for the OC babies from both of you~

Edry (front row, black shirt) and wife with us OCs

It's so wonderful to see people found the love of their life and bond together on this special. I wonder when is mine?

Post-Orientation Blues

Yo peeps! I'm back again after 2 weeks of not updating my blog. It's because I was part of the Orientation Committee 2008/2009 with 2 weeks of trimester break is spent in MMU. One week for OC Binding Camp and one week for the Orientation Week itself. Mind you, OC stands for Orientation Committee and not Organising Committee or Orange County. I need to clarify this as some confused over the meaning of OC.

Well, I looked forward to be OC for the second time after the great experiences that I gained last year. This year is more special as this is the first intake Cyberjaya accept IT and Engineering foundation students. Foundation students reminded me of my brother as they are of same age.

I was really tired during the Orientation Week but the freshies were my inspiration to continue on until orientation ends. They are the reason why I wanted to join OC in the first place and I still have the same belief to get me going on during the Orientation Week. The freshies had been real great. I managed to get quite close with some of them.

The only thing that I regret is the lack of time to bond with them. As there is lack of LDK session this year due to rehearsal on the first of Orientation the prepare the freshies for the Opening ceremony which falls on next day. Besides that, Orientation starts on Sunday instead of the usual Saturday. That means one day less to bond with them. And I was the station master for the Night Hunt accompany them to all the stations in the Night Hunt as I'm an ex-OC while my OC partner was inexperienced.

But I was proud of my freshies for being the first runner-up for the Night Hunt and also their great sketch for Performance Night. It's really great to see my group of freshies for bonding closely and the prize proves that you all work together as one. Too bad I can't be with you all for the Night Hunt. Great job to my OC partner, Sayyid for guiding them during the hunt.

Group 19 freshies,

you all are the best and I love you all. Wish you all enjoy university life and keep on improving yourselves to achieve something great in future. It's nice to know all of you and I've learnt from all of you and hopefully you all learnt something from me. Cheers!~

And to all the OCs, be PASSIONATE in everything you do. Passion is not merely a word from your mouth, it's the burning desire in you.

I'm starting to miss the times spent with freshies and OCs. I think I'm having Post-Orientation Syndrome or defined by Mr Richard Thomas Fredericks as Post-OC Emotional Trauma (P.O.E.T. in short). And currently I'm suffering from triple attack of flu+cough+sore throat. Hopefully I'll be well before internship starts on Tuesday. *fingers crossed*

With Passion,

Keat Yee

Break the Ice for OC 2008/2009

Walking to SBA, the walkway seems familiar. Laughters can be heard. The excitement is there.

21st April 2008, Orientation Committee June Intake 2008/2009 Ice-breaking session at SBA.

Familiar faces can be seen and new faces are the latest addition.

I actually kinda dragged to attend the ice-breaking because it will be an awkward for all of us to meet for the first time, at least it is for me. OC 2008/2009 will be a new different committee, but of course I still miss the time with Orientation Committee 2007/2008.

It's time for new encounter and well, I went with an open heart. Ice-breaking was good, with the ex-OCs being noisy, of course, especially the gays! Jega, the Prom King is the target as people were jealous of him being a Prom King :P

Things will be different this time around. Unlike last year, where there are around 80 OCs taking care of 400++ freshies; there will be only 70++ OCs to take care of almost 1,000 freshies. Wonder how would it be?

People keep wondering why I want to apply to become an OC when I need to go for internship in June, well, it's because it will be my last chance of becoming an OC since I'll be graduating next year. I don't know if I would get a place next year so I want to give it a shot this year around.

The journey of OC 2007/2008 has ended but it is just the beginning for OC 2008/2009.

Orientation Committee for June Intake 2008/2009

Happy Birthday to me!

Happy 22nd Birthday to me!!

27th January 2008

My family celebrated my birthday in a restaurant. Or should I say, it is just a family, with no birthday cake. If we were to have a cake, my mum would have to finish the whole cake when my sis and me back to hostel. It was supposed to be a happy dinner but the dinner was somehow ruined by some unexpected events.

Firstly, there was a wedding held in the restaurant and we have no choice but to sit at an open area. It was raining and water droplets was blowed to our area. We shifted place to closed area where there's a table available. The services by the waiters and waitresses were bad too.

As there is a wedding banquet held in that restaurant, the food was served quite late. We waited for almost one hour just to eat our dinner. There are even a few times of blackout occured. My brother was really unhappy with all these events happened. To add in to that, he developed allergy the last time we ate there. My brother said that he would never go back there for a meal at anytime after these 2 encounters, haha. However. the food there is quite nice.

28th January 2008

My sister asked me to go to Old Town with my room mates. It was supposed to be a 4-person outing but it turns out to be a 14-person outing to Old Town.

The banana split that my sis and my room mates bought for me. Thanks. I love it! :D

Clockwise from bottom left: Mei Kuan, Syawal (if not mistaken), my sis, Ai Ping and me.

When I was talking with my friends, I heard people singing Birthday song. I was surprised as I thought they will only celebrate my birthday during the OC Supper will falls on my birthday. Thanks for giving me a surprise because I thought that my birthday will be the same as last year's where I just stay in my room, haha.

Me and the chocolate cake... Yum yum

Clockwise from top left: Zeek, Ping Ting, my sis, Ken, Naveed, Sim Kiat, Ging Ging and me.

Top (from left): Mei Kuan, Ai Ping, Su Yi, Jega, Zeek, Ping Ting, my sis, Ken
Bottom (from left): Syawal, me, Ging Ging, Sim Kiat, Naveed

29th January 2008 - It's My Birthday!

We went to McD in Sri Kembangan/Equine Park to celebrate the birthdays of January OC babies.

Us camwhoring before going to McD.

The cake... Happy Birthday January OCs

Me and Ken, the January babies... Ken was born on 23rd, 6 days older than me. Yay! I'm not the oldest among my friends born in the year 1986.

Valerie was dipping some cream on my face or was she trying to kill me? Haha...

After Valerie dipped some cream on my face, I did the same thing to every guy there. Girls excluded but Valerie is an exception, haha... They all must have thought that I went crazy... Thanks to all the OCs that celebrated my birthday. It's a memorable one.

Happy Holidays to Me!

Happy New Year 2008 everyone!!

New Year celebration for me this year is quite simple as MMU final exam falls around the new year period, so I did not go any Countdown event to welcome the year 2008. Instead, 12 of us (me, Ken, Tharan, Nicky, Shuk, Alvin, Suyi, Das, Din, Zeek, Wee and Abdul) went to Putrajaya which we decided after a heated-up online conference. There was a slight jam as roads were blocked for fireworks presentation. Cars were parked by the roadside in Putrajaya making it even worse for cars to pass by.

I was in Shuk's car and he went into the wrong route but finally we found our way to a place beside Palace of Justice. We were in time for the fireworks presentation, and after that, we took photographs and gosh, those people sure like to take photographs as we spent a long time there taking photographs. Thanks to Shuk and Nicky for being the photographers. Zeek did some filming for a 'I Am Legend' trailer and the process was quite funny. I would never fail to laugh everytime I see the unedited recordings.

The fireworks in Putrajaya... picture courtesy of Shuk.

The group pictures in Putrajaya.

Tharan, me and Ken... Part of the so-called 'pap-pap' gang.

After taking pictures, we went to a mamak stall popular for their fried yee mee in Seri Kembangan for our supper. We reached Cyberjaya at 3 a.m. but us in Alvin's car (me, Alvin, Tharan and Suyi) were not in the mood to sleep so we went to a park in Cyberjaya to have a chat. We talked about our lifes and some of the stories that were told were very interesting. It's like a drama, a fiction, something that would only happen in movie really happened in real life. I would keep it a secret as promised. We only went back to our hostel at 5 something in the morning.

New Year passed, final exam is over, and now it's time for me to say,

"Bye bye books, welcome holidays!"

The second trimester of the academic year 2007/2008 of MMU officially ended! The trimester had been a roller-coaster ride for me. Work hard, play hard and no rest. A day before I have my first final paper, my parents pay a surprise visit to Cyberjaya and bring me and my sister for dinner and bought us some food. Nyam nyam. A simple dinner and food... it might just some small things for everyone, but the care that was sowed inside was the motivation for me to go on with my studies.

Starting from the second week of the trimester, things have been hectic for me - DiGi Boot Camp, RMMU 70's Nite, DiGi Youth Street Festival, OC PD Trip 2007, OC Supper, DJ Club weekly on-air session, Cyberpreneurship group project, the up-and-coming E-Nite, OC Supper, New Year 2008 celebration.

My body and mind had been real tired for these 2 months. 2 months without a break! Pressures were mounting up as time goes by. For the first time, I had allergy reaction due to unknown reason. Things were almost out of control and I almost broke down. This is the most tiring trimester for me, and it's a relief that it's over.

This trimester had been a real different compared to other trimesters I had been through. Since the start of my studies here in MMU, I never really have any close friends. I always wonder if it is because I am being too independent or because I build a protective wall around me or because of the difference in mindsets between me and the people that I know.

Anyway, I feel happy that I finally found some friends that I can hang out with - the SDCians and the OCs had made me feel that I belong to MMU community finally. And my life in my hostel room is never boring thanks to my room mates - Mei Kuan and Ai Ping. We can share about anything under the sky. Where can you find room mates that can share anything with you?

The memories that were shared together with all of them will be carved inside my heart. It's cool to have them all in MMU. I shall not forget them when I leave this unversity...

I wonder how will my life be if I did not join Orientation Committee, would I able to find cool people as cool as them...Will my life be Boring? Dull? Colourless? or... Interesting?

Photoshopped Photos Specially for Friends

It's time to put my Photoshop skills to good use. I learned using Photoshop, Flash and also Dreamweaver software during Digital Media classes in my first trimester for this year. Paid RM 906.00 for this subject, the most expensive subject for my course so far, of course I need to gain something out of it instead of just study the subject for the sake of getting good grade.

It's hard to master the Photoshop skills but somehow it is a really interesting software to use for editing pictures. Been addicted to it lately, trying to explore new features. Of course, my Photoshop skills are not good as the FCMers for sure. I'm just a noob compare to them, haha, but it's enough for me to survive.

*Drumroll*

Presenting to you my work specially for my friends.....

Friendship for life... A farewell for Yuen Mei who went to the US to further her studies. I used whole day to edit it, even till wee hours in the morning where my mother complained that I sleep late just to edit picture. My friends like it, so the hours spent on doing this was worth it.

Hardergayy!!... OK!!... Specially for Tharan to cheer him up as he was feeling unwell lately. Don't feel offended by Tharan's gay pose though as this 'hardgay' pose is a norm for us OCs (Orientation Committee 2007/2008) haha. How 'hardgay' can you be?

Dialogue (l-r: Das, Ping Ting, Tharan, Ken, Chee Wei, Alvin)... Specially for Tharan as well, hehe. This picture is one of my personal favourite so I thought of putting something in the picture to make it more interesting. It took me a long to think of the dialogues as well as arranging the talk bubble, haha. Good thing that all of them like this picture. Hours spent on it was worth it as well. It even became Das' Friendster display picture, ha ha.

I'm gonna improve on my Photoshop for now and explore more possibilities and squeeze all my creative juice to explore new features and effects, hehe. It's nice to be creative sometimes when you have the ideas, but it's hell when you are at bottleneck.

That's all for now. Back to books again.

Hopefully I can come up with more nice work. It's fun to see the end results. Everyone, have fun exploring Photoshop!!

Keat Yee is Back!!

Keat Yee is Back! Keat Yee is Back!! *Clap hands*

Yeah, Keat Yee is back after an almost 3 months hiatus... I had not been updating my blog since September due to the hectic schedule as I was busy with assignments and then studied as I had my finals in October. After finals was my holiday, but I was too lazy to update my blog because I wanted to have a rest after a hectic semester - sleepless nights because of completing assignments, study for exams, presentations - AND I also suffered from writer's block once again.

Back to new semester, the schedule is as hectic as ever, with case studies every week for one subject, then busy with DJ Club activities, Yellow Army and also Orientation Committee trip. I do not have much time for myself as also family, where I went back to my home for only twice in 5 weeks. I used to go home almost every week, but this semester I think I had only seen my parents for less than 100 hours. Thus, my blog is abandoned as well.

The last time I went home was on 30th November but my parents was in Singapore that time. So left my brother, my sis and me in the house. I cooked the breakfast and lunch for them but it was just some processed food and it makes me missed my mum's cooking. I can't even remember the last time I ate my home-cooked food.

Enough of that ramble, back to some recent happenings. I just went to Orientation Committee 2007 Port Dickson trip which is from 7th December 2007 to 9th December 2007 and I came back to Cyberjaya feeling unwell. I have flu and also allergy which make me feel unwell. I thought my allergic problem will be over in a matter of days. Instead, it became worse that I need to see a doctor yesterday as I can't stand the itch anymore. Red spots covered both of my legs and hands for now.

Today, I felt so tired that it's hard for me to wake up. Thus, I did not go for a Yellow Army task which I had promised to go for. I felt dizzy this whole afternoon and I talked crap to my room mates without realising it. Luckily, a Nando's waiter lighten up my day!! I went to the Nando's stall in MPH carpark to collect payment from them and then helped my room mate to buy her food at the Nando's stall. The waiter gave me a pack of rice and coleslaw for FREE and he even gave me a cold drink instead of the normal drink! What a nice guy!! Even though it is just some small matters, but I do appreciate what he has done! If it is not for him, I might have been gloomy and flushed-out this whole day.

More updates soon where I will be posting pictures of activities that I had participated in which consumed SO much of my time. It's been a long time since I have time for myself...

That's all for now.

~KEAT YEE signing off.~