End of Gamma year, 2007/2008

Phew! Final Exam's over! This is the end of my gamma year in MMU. Orientation Week for June intake 2008/2009 and internship coming up after my one week break. I don't know what to expect from the Orientation Week this year as the number of students double that of last year here in Cyberjaya campus. Internship up after Orientation.

Back to my exam. After finishing my final paper, Research Methodology, I went to Alamanda Putrajaya straight away. I wanna use my complimentary voucher from GSC Alamanda that I won from the DJAN Best Jingle Award as the due date for that voucher is 31st May 2008.

Went alone there but I was lucky to meet Ken in hostel. That means I don't need to take a bus to Putrajaya Sentral. Even though I don't need to wait for a bus from MMU, the bus to Alamanda was making a big round in Putrajaya and I'm late for the movie. The guy at the GSC counter was asking numerous time if I'm watching it alone. Well, watching movie alone is not weird, right? I bet there are many others doing that too... I hate the fact that I can only watch movie with an asterisk beside the movie's name and I decided to watch Iron Man.

Iron Man is good. I love the futuristic theme of this movie. Impressive! You gotta watch this movie yourself. I recommend this movie.Worth me going there just to watch the movie.

Had dinner after the movie. Had a Ice-creamery waffle as a treat for myself. I love this waffle, hot waffle combined with cold ice cream. What a perfect combination.

For now, I'm busy packing stuff as I'll be going home tomorrow. Yay! I miss home! I never realise that I had a lot of things here in my hostel room! Had a hard time packing now.

~Let me go home, I had my run,

Baby, I'm done, I wanna go home.~

Keat Yee back to packing.

Final Exam Blues

MMU final exam is from 12th May till 24th May 2008. This explains the lack of updates on my blog.

Stress level is super high around the campus. Everyone is so busy studying.

Will not be updating my blog till my final exam over on 23rd May 2008.

That's all for now.

~KEAT YEE back to studying.~

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?

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.~

What A Shocking and Hectic Week

Many things had been happening lately and it really makes me think a lot...

In this week alone, I had 1 mid term exam (having exam now even though mid term is 3 weeks ago), 2 presentations, 1 assignment submission but it did not break me down. I still go on, without much sleeping time, wake up late everyday... all just to finish all the work. Even the National Day holiday and weekend are spent on doing work.

No going out at all during the weekend, but hey, this is more important than shopping. I don't like to to shop when it is too crowded, where you need to line up to pay and try on clothes, push around to walk, or walking behind a slow person... you know what I mean.

There will be 2 assignments submission next week and 1 Advanced Managerial Statistics quiz.

Wow!! Work is really stressful as the assignments need to be submitted at almost the same time. I did not sleep much - 3 hours for Wednesday itself just to compile my group's wotk and edit it. Every day, I had been sleeping late. How many times I had vowed not to have last minute work yet everytime I still need to do last minute work... Whose fault is that? Me? My group mates? Hope fully by next semester I won't have last minute work again...

During the Consumer Behaviour this week, my lecturer discussed about the blogging phenomenon and he asked us why people blogged. He wonders why people would even care to read something in blogs that is not related to them. I told him that it's related to have their own identity. The discussion went on and he suddenly said that bloggers are people who do not have the courage to voice out.

When I heard that, I was so shock. But then the lecturer said "No offence" to me because I am the only one who admits to be a blogger in the class. I'm sure there are some other bloggers who did not even dare to admit they blog. But I don't agree with what the lecturer said. Not all bloggers do not dare to voice out their words. I blog because I want to reach out to friends and keep in touch.

Speaking of friends, I received a shocking news from Wen Jian. He will be leaving for UK next week!! That's a little too late for us to know that. There is not even a hint from him that he will further his studies in UK. Chee Wei is the only one in my Form 5 gang that I am still close to who stays in Malaysia. How could I hold back my sadness hearing that news?

First, Lien Ghee left for Japan, then Nean Hua to Taiwan, now Wen Jian will be going to UK, later Yuen Mei will be pursuing her studies in the US. It will be years before I can meet them again. Things will change by then. People change, the environment change. Hopefully we will be still be close by then. Wish them all the best for their future undertakings.

That's all for now.

Gonna back to my work again.

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.~