Monday, April 4, 2011

Rising from the Depths of Char

Omg. HELLO FELLAS. I am actually updating my blog in like... *counting* 5 months or so.
It has been a crazy crazy long time since I've updated my blog. And suddenly I feel like I have so much things to write about but I guess it'll slip my mind sooner or later =/

Anyways, about my 'academic' life, I'm currently in my 3rd semester at Taylor's University Lakeside Campus. Just so you didn't know, ADP got moved to the Lakeside Campus and I must say I'm quite satisfied with everything they have to offer so far, EXCEPT the food pricing. Although it is understandable that the cafeteria has to charge higher prices due to the rent and stuff. And its such a nice place. And most people would think that Taylor's is a place for rich kids to study so there shouldn't be a problem.... right? WRONG >.> Freaking stereotypes...

Moving on... The classrooms are. Freaking. Cold. At certain points of time of course. At first we couldn't figure out how to make the temperature warmer, but then we realized the existence of a thermostat (LOL), courtesy of my calculus lecturer Mr Phang. AND SPEAKING OF CALCULUS, I THINK IS JUST F***KING SCREWED HIS TEST TODAY -_- The average score of the class was a 2.2 out of 6. Now that is just screwed. Seriously screwed if you ask me.

I am finally taking Biology this semester (I know its kinda late to mention since the semester is finishing in a few weeks time but its related to my major and its my fav sub :D) and I must say I have never been as interested as I was in high school. All these new concepts and theories just sorta interests me, and I can read the textbook on and on (and not remembering what I read afterwards LOL). Bios logos, certainly the study of life.

The other two subjects I am taking are American Government and Malaysian Studies (screw this bigtime). Out of my expectations, both subjects are actually quite similar, just that one talks about American politics while the other is mainly about, duh, Malaysia. Malaysian Studies, is hella boring. My gosh, I wonder how I go through his classes sometimes. Sorry Mr. Izwan =/ As for American Government, I guess its slowly opening my eyes and thoughts in the political world. Ah well, maturity has its ways of manifestation xD

And now for the entertainment part of my life, my Simplez gang (consisting of Nick, Seng Wai, Kar Hoong, and occasionally Zhen Yu) would meet up every Saturday for a game of badminton and most of the time, have dinner together. This is definitely a wonderful past time to have. You meet up with friends, catch up with them, have a nice talk about what happened during the week, and of course reminisce about high school times. You just gotta miss high school at some point in life.
I've also have multiple gangs in college now. During my first and second semesters, I was very much frequently seen hanging out with my one and only original gang consisting of On Tao, Tina, Shin Lin and Teng Hooi. The gang that meets during orientation usually progresses to become a very close friendship throughout the college years. As time moved on I began to get acquainted with more and more people, and it wasn't long before I mixed in with others like Shahriman, Yunie, Mesyaira, Vivek, Yin Ling, Thilagan etc etc.

And now in Lakeside campus, I most frequently mix around with Justin (both Chua and Yeo-ber xD), Alexander HALL, Vince and Mike. Our main interests revolve around StarCraft II, and more recently, MapleSEA (Fornax world). Now that I've mentioned those, its time to move on to my 'profession' so to speak, in the gaming world.

As you might have noticed, yes, I have bought the ORIGINAL StarCraft II, and I have now got a valid battle.net Sc2 account to play from. I'm not a hardcore Sc2 gamer, but I can say that I have quite a bit of knowledge about the game and I do play from time to time with Mike, Justin Chua, Vince and Alex. Sometimes just any two of us can party up and start searching for matches. And recently before Season 1 just ended, Justin and I managed to get placed in the PLATINUM league for the 2v2 matchups, which was a VERY unexpected surprise. I realized that I was better in team play matches such as 2v2, 3v3 and 4v4 but when it comes to 1v1 I kinda suck alot, mainly because I couldn't really focus on so many things at a particular time. And at times, I may even forget to execute vital steps like teching up or researching upgrades, and I rarely scout which is actually my worst bad habit.

Maple-wise, I've decided to open up a new character in Fornax to join my college buds, and its also gonna be a Fighter since I'm more proficient with melee classes (especially Hero), so why not? And if you guys want to play, just add 'SerenityLake' in Fornax xD. To my surprise I could actually get from Lv1~Lv30 in 7 hours without 2x (inclusive of 1 hour dinner time). I do go on my Bootes Hero (ZeroEnergy) from time to time but I won't really be playing it, at least until Big Bang patch has arrived. Stay tuned folks! Big Bang will reach the boundaries of SEA on 18th of May! The only thing I hate about this is that it is released SO LATE! It's released 2 days after my semester break ends (16th). Darn it all. Well that could mean that I can focus more on StarCraft II or Cabal.

Which brings me to my next game, Cabal. I have not been really active in Cabal recently. To be honest, there is nothing much left for me to do especially with all the time constraints. My Warrior, having just average equips, is definitely not really in the shape to go to war and compete with all those overfunded mith amp users. I use it mainly for dungeoning purposes now since dungeons are nerfed, I can just go with two other friends. I have accidentally leveled my FS to 110 for some goddamn reason, and now I can't participate in the 109 tier war anymore. Sigh. I'll just have to settle for 139, and before that I have to get to at least Lv135 as well to be more effecient. Make that the same case for my FB as well (Lv12x). Great, more grinding. I trained up a FA to Lv105 and to my disappointment, it did not performed as good as I had expected. FA is surprisingly more fragile in war than I had anticipated, though damage-wise it was still satisfactory. From that one war, I have realized that my ability to maneuver the FA around was very, handicapped-like. I guess I was born to play melee classes, not magic classes. The flexibility that I always had when playing a WA,FS,FB, or BL, I could not perform it on my FA, and I guess that led to my downfall in that particular war. I wanted to create a new WA (yes, another one) for Procyon 109 tier war so I tried to delete my Blader but apparently now you cannot delete characters that are above Lv100 (my Blader is 126) unless you send in a report via iBox and do some verification. This just pisses me off. I'll just stick with CynthiaCarnage (107 cap WA) then ~_~

Hrmm.... Well finals are coming in around three weeks time. Not much time left, gotta start bucking and gearing up before it actually hits. And for now I still have a Malaysian studies presentation (tomorrow), a Biology test, a Biology Presentation and an American Government mid term exam to cover. All of these in this month of April, before finals (25th). So April is kind of like an unlucky month for me now. So yeah, I guess I'll be going off now.

And for the record, Rebecca Black has made me officially hate Fridays for some odd reason. Maybe because its Fried Egg now? You decide.

Monday, November 1, 2010

Eleven Hints of Life

1. It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return. But what is more painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let that person know how you feel.

2. A sad thing in life is when you meet someone who means a lot to you, only to find out in the end that it was never meant to be and you just have to let go.

3. The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on aporch swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.

4. It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.

5. It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone-but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

6. Don't go for looks, they can deceive. Don't go for wealth, even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright.

7. Dream what you want to dream, go where you want to go, be what you want to be. Because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.

8. Always put yourself in the other's shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the person too.

9. A careless word may kindle strife. A cruel word may wreck a life. A timely word may level stress. But a loving word may heal and bless.

10. The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything they just make the most of everything that comesalong their way.

11. When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're the one smiling and everyone around you is crying.

Credits to Chan Wei Nick, at http://chanweinick.blogspot.com

Friday, August 6, 2010

End of First Semester

Today's the first day of my holidays (well, the last day for final exams but I have no paper). I suppose that college life is considerably quite different compared to high school life, especially since ADP follows the American system of studying. The way they evaluate your performance is different as well (but screw the passing mark of 70% ==).

One of the best things about studying at Taylors is definitely the library and the Mezzanine floor. Well air-conditioned, free computer to use (unbelievably slow though) with internet access and a discussion room. The Mezzanine floor has computers to use too, but it also contains a ping pong table, a small gym and a nice LCD TV that just got added recently. I just go to either places whenever I'm bored.


Some random book I found at MPH bookstore.


Why do they?

Another thing to really talk about is the food. Since I started college, I've been to many of the nearby food outlets and I must say some of them have really good food and I enjoy going there over and over again for lunch :D And well, I guess I'm gonna make a small review.

The Pl@ce Cafe
Whenever I come here, I eat nothing else besides Garlic fried rice and chicken popcorn. Cheap price, clean place, comfortable environment. One of the best outlets in the area.

Pontian Wanton Mee
Best wanton mee you can find in the area. The fried wanton is delicious as well.

Noodle Station
Been here only once, but the drinks are superb, not to mention a clean and cooling environment.

Cassian Kitchen
The mushroom soup here is definitely worth the money, and the fried rice gets two thumbs up from me.

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

A Funny Classification Essay

For this post I'm gonna post a short classification essay (you can use it for your reference the next time you write one xD) that my PASS session leader passed to me. It's quite funny and true at the same time.



Shopping at the Pig

Working part-time as a cashier at the Piggly Wiggly has given me a great opportunity to observe human behavior. Sometimes I think of the shoppers as white rats in a lab experiment, and the aisles as a maze designed by a psychologist. Most of the rats--customers, I mean--follow a routine pattern, strolling up and down the aisles, checking through my chute, and then escaping through the exit hatch. But not everyone is so dependable. My research has revealed three distinct types of abnormal customer: the amnesiac, the super shopper, and the dawdler.

The amnesiac stops his car in the loading zone, leaves the engine running with the keys locked inside, and tries to enter the store by crashing into the exit door. After dusting himself off and slipping through the entrance, he grabs a cart and begins hurtling down the aisles against the normal flow of traffic. "Peaches or potatoes?" he mutters to himself. "Doughnuts or Ding Dongs?" He has, of course, left his shopping list at home. When he finally makes it to my register and starts unloading the cart, he suddenly remembers the jug of milk or the loaf of bread that brought him here in the first place. He then resumes his race around the store while the customers waiting in line begin to grumble, tap their feet, and rattle the rack of Stars and National Enquirers. Inevitably, of course, when it comes time to pay for the goods, the amnesiac discovers that he has left his wallet at home. Without saying a word, I void his receipt and lend him a coat hanger.

The super shopper has been planning her assault for days. She enters the store with a pocketbook on her arm, a coupon purse around her neck, a calculator in her pocket, and in her hand a shopping list that makes the Dewey Decimal System look downright chaotic. With military-like efficiency, she trundles her cart from one sale item to another, carefully organizing them in her basket by size, weight, and shape. Rarely, however, does she make it through the store without a breakdown: either the Charmin has been moved to a different shelf or else some poor stock clerk has forgotten to replenish a supply of Cool Ranch Doritos. Usually the manager has to be called in to settle her down and set her back on course. Then, when she reaches my lane, she begins barking orders: "Double bag the Creamsicles! Twelve-cents off on Jell-O! Don't put the grapes in with the Nutty Ho Hos!" In the meantime, she glares at the prices blinking on the register, just waiting to pounce on me for making an error. If my total doesn't match the one on her calculator, she insists on a complete recount. Sometimes I make up the difference myself just to get her out of the store.

The dawdler wanders in as if he had been looking for the library and arrived here by mistake. He tours the aisles slowly, pausing often to read a box of Froot Loops, squeeze a dinner roll, or sniff one of those lemon-scented rubber blobs of room freshener. However, he seldom ends up buying many of the things he picks up. When he finally strolls up to the checkout, the dawdler likes to settle in for a chat--about my hair style, his bunions, or that nice Yanni tune tinkling out of the ceiling speakers. Although the people waiting behind him in line are fuming, I try to be friendly, knowing that this must be the major social event of the dawdler's week.

To be truthful, most of the people who pass through my checkout are quietly efficient and polite--and a little boring. Though the abnormal ones may try my patience, they also help to make a dull job more interesting. So, for your own amusement keep an eye out for these characters the next time you pull into the parking lot of the Piggly Wiggly: a fellow trying to unlock his car with a coat hanger, a woman fussing at the bag boy for squashing a grape, and a sweet old man who may try to tell you about the arthritis in his knees or the expiration date on his buttermilk.


Credits:
Adapted from:
http://grammar.about.com/od/developingessays/a/classpigessay07.htm?p=1

Monday, June 21, 2010

Blackrock & Roll

唉,这次被三个傻佬迫用华语 update 一下我的 blog. 算了吧,就让他们爽爽下。

最近都发生了不少事。 上个星期六,我跟着家人一起去看 Toy Story 3. 这套戏真得很搞笑, 和 Toy Story 1 & 2 比起来有很多分别. 老 Andy 已经长大了, 对玩具的兴趣也会慢慢地消失. 在全部玩具中,我还是觉得 Buzz Lightyear 最好笑. 他开始说 Spanish 和跳 Spanish 舞的时候,全场人都在哈哈大笑. 我建议朋友们赶快去看这套戏, 你们都不会失望的! (除了 Nick, 还敢跟我说你在戏院里睡觉).

Okay that's enough of chinese gibberish for now. I wonder how long it took me to type that short paragraph. Anyways moving on. At 7.30pm later that day there was a small yum cha session organized by Chin Ken at first, but he was flying to Shanghai that night so the 'honor' of being organizer was passed on to Khing Yuan. Wei Kiat and I were first to arrive at the scene, followed by the trio Khing Yuan, Zhuan Khye and Jun Jie. They were busy deciding where to have dinner, despite the fact there was a nice steamboat restaurant across the street and Gasoline was like few seconds walk away.

We ended up at Gasoline and had our dinner while waiting for the others to arrive. Wan Ru was the one to arrive next, and apparently struggled at the fact that she was the only girl present. Nonetheless, easily engaged in conversation about the JPA scholarships (my results so bad, hear about scholarship wan cry liao). Soon, Zheng Dong arrived, followed by Jung Leang. And there you have it folks, the few who turned up for the gathering. 8/50, super good attendance. It never ceases to amuse me how Khing Yuan can ask Jun Jie about Huan Hee like every 30 mins or so.

Later on we decided to pay one of our teachers a visit. Started off with 叶桂香, but she's on holiday overseas. Then 蔡老师, but according to Cikgu Koh she just came back from China. Then we considered Cikgu Koh, but was told that it was too late at night (9pm+? Seriously ==). Later they said Zhu Jiunn, however according to Khing Yuan she was out with her bf (they called)? So the final decision was to Joyce's house. We left Gasoline at 10.30pm and headed for Joyce's house, sending Wan Ru home on the way.

It was quite awkward I must say, going to a girl's house at 11pm in the night. If her mom came down she would've been shocked to the core. We had a nice conversation before Khing Yuan and Zhuan Khye left. The rest of us left at 11.30 and I went to the nearby mamak shop where my mom picked me and Wei Kiat up.

And let's see, for today I sort of finished editing and rephrasing the essay on food addiction due on Wednesday. Thanks to Juliet for helping. AND OH YEAH! CHEMISTRY CLASS WAS CANCELLED CAUSE THE LECTURER WAS ON MC! Probably on her honeymoon or what since she just got married. And of course, more Calculus homework from Mr. Thaya as usual. Can't complain. And I've set an appointment with my advisor to discuss about the subjects I might be taking next semester. I feel like taking both Moral Studies and Malaysian Studies together. The faster I get rid of it, the more I will enjoy towards the end of the course I guess -.- Seriously, who needs 2 shitty and crappy subjects like that? Malaysia special sangat ni.

There's gonna be a talk on addiction tomorrow that I have to attend at 3.30pm to 4.30pm, which kinda pisses me off. I have only one class tomorrow, that is 9.30am-10.45am. So what the f- am I gonna do from 10.45am to 3.30pm? Geez -.- I'll need to bring my laptop over in this case.

I guess that's enough for the update. Cya real soon.

Monday, May 31, 2010

What Lies Before Me?

Alright, where do I start?

FUCK YOU STREAMYX :D

I was doing experiments in the Chemistry lab last Thursday when my brother rang me up and told me that he couldn't access the Internet. I thought it was a simple problem that he'd never thought of how to fix. Turns out that it was quite a problem and I went through 4 days without internet access @@. So I'd either sit down and revise a bit on my college work or just play Starcraft to get ready for the new Starcraft 2.

Being a college student, I could see that I was more relaxed than before, able to blog like this even though there's an exam tomorrow. Since the evaluation is not 100% based on exams, that makes everything even better. There are still assignments, homework and the lot to help get marks, as well as attendance and participation.

I never imagined studying at Taylors before, but here I am now, a student enrolled in ADP at Taylors. If there was one thing I hate about it, its about reaching there by car. There are always jams on the way, and also the roundabout before turning into the college. My mom can get stuck there for half an hour before reaching the main campus to pick me up. Seriously =.=

Hmm.. what else. Ah, Kar Hoong has just returned from NS few days ago. Last Saturday, him along with Nick, Seng Wai and I went to Kepong JUSCO to watch the movie Prince of Persia and had bakuteh later on. It was certainly good to have him back once again. Now we'll just have to wait for Zhen Yu's return before we have another bakuteh session :D

I'm still not sure whether to attend this year's Asiasoft Gamefest or not. I won't be entering the Cabal Triple Threat for a number of reasons now, but still, the main reason being that its held in a cybercafe. My dad doesn't like me hanging around those places. I'll just have to see by then. Anybody wanna come along? :D

I know, my posts now are lacking pictures. Lately I'm not in the mood to suddenly just snap pictures like I used to do, maybe because I wanna be more focused on work and stuff, or that I'm just being lazier than usual. Either way, more pictures will be posted once I regain my mood for it. Without the proper mood, you might as well not do anything at all since you'll definitely screw it up, like my first warm-up assignment on narrative writing. I wasn't in the mood to think of a proper plot and be creative and the lot. In the end I wrote a piece of crap and got 5/10. For the real assignment, I was in the mood to write, and I drafted the essay twice before printing out a final copy. 14.5/15, big difference.

And I still want a new laptop ):

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Strawberry Colada

Don't ask me about the title. Its random.

I've went out 3 days in a row with friends. Best to enjoy life before college starts :D My orientation at Taylors is on May 13th (very bad date if you ask me). I want Acer 4740 ):

Anyway, on April 23rd I went to Curve with Seng Wai. He drove from college to pick me up from my house and off we went to the Curve. Seng Wai, you don't have to always try to break the 100km/h mark you know x.x We went to McDonalds to have a quick bite and I copied the latest MapleStory files from my pendrive to his laptop. After that we went to watch the movie " I hate Valentines Day ".



To be honest, that lady really creeps me out. She keeps smiling and smiling and she never frowns or turns angry until later in the movie. Freaky woman @@

Later we had late lunch at Italiannies, at around 3pm. The bill? RM83.50 wahahaha.


Penne Bolognese.


Roasted Chicken (He ate it all)


Strawberry Colada


Forgot what its called.


Yesterday, went to have lunch with Nick, Kin Seng, Su Wern and Jing Huey at Metro Prima, in the cafe called GASOLINE. I forgot to take a picture of my Kiwi Snowy, it tastes so darn good.


The bill? Rm95.50. Nick's first expression : Wowowow (in a high pitched voice). The rest of us couldn't stop laughing.


We went to watch this movie later, Kick Ass. Jing Huey couldn't join us, so we went on without her. This movie is rated 18 PL, and yes, it is kinda violent. Imagine a little girl who swears and can kill a whole bunch of guards ^^V

Best quote : " Show's over motherfuckers * Gunshot * "
Funniest dialogue:
Guard: Its alright sir, everything's under control. *Gunshots in background*
* Guard slowly walks across the room, Frank and his son look at the guard *
* Guard reaches for bazooka *
Son: Everything's under control?! THAT'S A FUCKING BAZOOKA YOU DUMBASS!

And this morning, I went to Menjalara park to join Nick and Su Wern in some exercising activities. It has been a long time since I worked out, so I guess waking up early once in a while can't be that bad. I met a lot of relatives today. First my ah yi and grandma at the park. Then I meet my aunty and Std.6 bm teacher at a nearby coffee shop (shocked to the core rawr). Must thank Su Wern's mom for buying me and Nick breakfast (even though I was forced to drink 2 cups of iced Milo...)

Later on, went to Nick's house awhile while waiting for my mom to arrive. Took some of his chocolates and watched a bit of a TV before I left. And now, I'm sitting here dusting off my blog mwuahahaha. Finally something to read eh?

Time to shoot some zombies. Tatas~