Blog Quickie: Volume 2

Yup, another quickie blog. Take note that every of my quickie is posted online from the library. Meaning? I have no pleasure to update this blog myself from the comforts of my own room (actually my friends' room, wifi signal in my room is quite sparse). Well, the truth is I have skipped class for this post. I have no mood whatsoever to go to class today. In fact the only purpose of me going to class this morning will be giving out notes as I have been obligated to. What to do? I am the course leader anyway. Nowadays (for the past couple of days), I really felt like an ass. Still got another assignment to polish up and another one which is halfway to completion. Later after this, I will have another discussion (in which I could not possibly run away from since I am, yet again, the shephard of that flock) and tonight a full dress rehearsal for my upcoming sketch for the Mooncake Festival Night on this Friday. And again need to stress this out... I STILL HAVE ASSIGNMENTS TO DO! Next week, I will have a Malay Language Debate (the main objective of the discussion later on) and the week after OSPE (On Spot Practical Examination) that is not my cup of tea because I HATE ANATOMY and Dr. Farid! On following week, I will another CA (continuous assessment or in other words, exam) for Biochem and yet again Anatomy & Physiology. OMG! So, I'm gonna say this simple prayer; "Dear God in Heaven. Help to keep my sanity through the coming two weeks, so I am not tempted enough to think of suicide. Amen."

Roundup

"Escape from my hectic days..."

I need to escape from my hectic days today. Yes, I finally made up some time to go online and pst a new blog. Though I might expect more blog quickies in the future, I will try to wrap up everything (assignments, reports) ASAP! I'm not so used to work under tremendous pressure, since the amount of workload really gotten me worried - big time. Still, I took the opportunity today to blog this out. Nothing much today, skipped church (over here in Kelantan, Friday is treated as a Sunday - a day of prayer, reflection and meditation. In my context, a day for break) because I got some extra co-curicular activity. Most of my friends are going to the weekend camp for their Buddhist society. Conclusion? Reclusively alone. Okay, gonna wrap things up with this week's pics. Enjoy!


Getting ready for the big day...


Though it turned out into a no-crowd puller...


My friends on duty for a vegeterian stall. Working VOLUNTARILY!


Nighttime during HTD


Hard Rock Cafe meets ancient China.


Dumm, dumm, dumm...


My roommate giving his approval of satisfaction (though I really doubt it).


Santa came early this year...


And now, kids get to play with their toys.


A different cup of tea.


Me... on cleaning duty.


Music Buzz: Bai Se Feng Che by Jay Chou

Blog Quickie: Volume 1

"Some room for me to breathe"

Phew! Just finished two reports and in completing stages to my assignment. I did all of these in barely a week. At least this exlains my absence in blogging these past few days. Yes, now you do notice how busy I am in these recent days. At this moment, I am posting this blog from the library (I don't have much of a choice). I really squeeze some time to do this. But I am not bothered anyway. After wrapped up my biochem report, there's some room for me to breathe. But after this, I'll be back into my busy status yet again as more reports are coming, needed to be done and another damn anatomy assignment from the damn lecturer. FYI, this is the second assignment under the same subject. WHY? One is enough what! Despite of all these endless rants, I still go for it and trying my best to complete it before its deadline. When I'm done with my assignments, I still have my exams for me to fret about. Ouch! As busy I may sound, I still managed to find some time to play Warcrart. I stayed up till 5am playing DotA simulated Warcraft gameplay. Really reminds me of the good old days. Need to log out now, I need to catch another class later. P/s - Sorry that I couldn't really report in the HTD last weekend and I also didn't check out the wushu tournament. My apologies! I might post some pics later in the future. Photolog! Photolog!

Music buzz: Hakou by Suga Shikao

Monstrous Me!

"Crazy I may sound, yet I am sane enough..."

This weekend is about me being compulsive in every action. For starters, I've been eating a lot which went against my own principle of controlling my diet. I had no intention of filling up my stomach to the max. But, the temptation was too much for me to bear. So I kept on eating just to satisfy my beast-like lust for food. I took two meals for evey lunch - I considered on that since I didn't took my breakfast every weekend morning. Reason? I always wake up late and too lazy to get out of my room. Well, it's not like I am being a NEET (a person who isolate themselves from the world by lock themselves up in their room) or something. But simply on that reason alone, I took a ridiculously big amount of food under the name "LUNCH". Then, there's the usual weekly weekend outing. This time I am all alone - everyone got all of their hands tied up for the Hari Terbuka Desa (HTD) which is the campus open day. Well, my expectations for HTD was very high. Trust me, it's utterly boring that it kills you. And today is the last day. Apparently there's a intervarsity wushu competition going on now. Will report on that on the next post - including the HTD. Where was I? Oh yeah, shopping. As I have mentioned earlier, I went out alone. I took the opportunity to shop the hell out of me. But a piece of my advice - being a shopaholic such as myself, there is no pleasure to shop all alone. Had to do it anyway. I bought the usuals - food supplies, facial necessities and a new sandal (I desperately needed that one). I also get to try a dish of tom yum spaghetti (I did out of curiosity) and finish off with the ever wonderful, heavenly marble cheese cake. Indeed I have spent lots of money. And there is nothing better to end a heck of day other than to have a night walk back to the dorm... in the rain. Crazy I may sound, yet I am sane enough to share this bizarre experience in this post. By the way, check out Uje on his words about Merdeka. Worth checking.

Music Buzz: Tui Huo by Jay Chou

My Review: Still Fantasy (by Jay Chou)

Still Fantasy is the seventh album by this Taiwanese star. Since his breakthrough in the American music industry, Jay Chou had been well received as his popularity begins to pick up momentum. In fact, this album is the first to be adapted with official translation to all of the title tracks. Thank God for globalisation. I say I'd be proud for Jay Chou. His state of stardom is very much important to act as an Asian ambassador especially his native of Taiwan. Besides his music is everyone's cup of tea since he is able to fit in various genre in his collection of music. Ballads, pop, hip hop, R&B, you name it. Jay did it all, though I prefer for him to do R&B and pop most of the time. Now back to the review. I must warn you, listening to this album for the first time will spark any interest yet. But as you proceed to the later tracks, you sense a familiar feeling of his music. You know that this album is not a rip-off after all. The opening track, Ye De Di Qi Zhang (Twilight's Seven Chapter) was a subtle one. Let's say it a oh-not-so-bad track. Then we have Ting Ma Ma De Hua (Listen to Mama's Words), which follows through. I gotten clueless. As ridiculous as it may sound, it is a good one fortunately. There are a few hip-hop oriented tracks but from the fifth track to the eighth, things gone to a better change. Nicely composed and somewhat very nostalgic as the tunes are very familiar as the previous albums. Despite the possible failure there, the type of music blended into those track are delicately redefine, making it a fresh new view to his music perspective. Also another track to look out for, Mi Die Xiang (Rosemary). The adapted music is something from the '50 ball dance music... waltz or anything associated to it. I find it rather amusing, mainly on Jay Chou's effort in "redefining" his music. If you want something similar to the grand-styled classical, the last track won't disappoint you. Ju Hua Tai (Chrysanthenum Flower Bed) is not something you might expect as far as I have described it. You need to get a peek to know the best bits of this track. By and large, Still Fantasy is what it suppose to be - Still Fantasy, a fantasy enthralled music with various genres to fit in the dreamland as it is. The familiar tunes are applauded to reminisce the greatest of his previous achievements of the previous tracks. Somewhat to be an album of dreams. Check out the official English-based fansite; www.jay-chou.net for more.

Best bits: Xin Yu (Heart's Rain), Bai Se Feng Che (White Windmill)
Best to listen to when you feel like crap. It'll cheer you up.

Exam Over!

Boredom kills...

I put my sooul search aside... I need to stop being so emo. I'm gaining back my old self in a gradual way. I really need to stop being so selfish and try not to hurt other as I would hurt myself back eventually. And I don't like it. Okay then, away with my emo rants...
Well, exam is over now. So glad that it's over. Even though I was really looking forward to it but when I finally get through it, I was rather disappointed. All that I had in mind was to go out or have some fun or laze myself with all the animes I manage to leech out from Max... sorry Max if I kill you off violate you or something. Kelantan here can be so boring at times. A good way for you to spend off the boredom is companionship. If you keep yourself isolated, you can go bonkers out of boredom. So how I spend my "quality" free time after the exam? Ouran High School for starters before indulge to Click. I watch it for the second time already but this time with my roommate. Up till now I am still freaking bored. I am online now but the connection now is so bad I felt like giving up already. Needless to say, boredom kills. Come to think of it, I still have no idea what to do after this.

Listening to: Yoru Wo Kakeru by Spitz

Lost

How would you go without turning back?

The past few days had been tough for me. As I am going through my exams (worst part is that all of those exams are packed in a single day), I am plagued with an inner conflict - something I have not experience for quite some time. Certainly, I have my high and lows in my emotional roller coaster - in short, being emo... But this one just popped out without any conscious sense to it. I had spent most of my time thinking. But deep thoughts are difficult to obtain. Especially if you are in a circle of friends. As they say, a friend in need is a friend indeed. All I really wanted is some space, some room of privacy, some moment to be alone. I had tried my best alienate my self from the rest of the world - being invisible from any co-existance. Yes, my self-conflict is that bad. Something laugh upon this is that I began to have more awareness of this issue after watching an anime introduced to me by Max. Honey and Clover. And boy do I really indulged myself into it. It's just another lovable anime with deep, thoughtful meanings... then there was one episode just hit on mind. I have been trying to run away from all troubles in my life. I am coward. So I took a desperate attempt to disengage myself from the world that I am trying to adapt to. Yet I go further apart, I began to feel a big void within me. Inside my true self... hollow, empty, alone. How far have I went? How far am I apart from reality? What am I missing? Missing... yes, that is one of the answers which I managed to hold on to. In my period of loneliness (my attempts to avoid any social contact), I went on without looking back. But I did. Beacause I know I had to turn back. I know what I've been missing so far. It's companionship. My friends. I truly miss my friends. Near and far, old and new, special ones and acquaintances. I truly appreciate them all. I had smiled whenever I think about it. However, just when I felt joyous after conceiving the answer of my personal issues, I realise that it is far from over. Friendship, though precious, is not the ultimate truth of life. Again, as the wheel kept on its motion on spinning, I went through a full circle - not finding any satisfactory answer to this dilemma. As melancholic as I sound, personal issues as this one is preferably not to be discussed for public viewing. But I need to shout this out. I need to throw this one off my chest. The heavy burden is still there but at least I know that I have acknowledge my vulnerable self as I seek for the truth.

Good Old Days...

As much as I want to update my blog, this desire was inhibited by the absence of internet connection around my block. I am actually updating this a block away! But does it really matters anyway? And so I am updating my blog. Now back to the real thing...
I still remember when air travel was hassle-free. I had no worries since I know the air crews will try their best reach the destination on time. It was an era where punctuality is a crucial asset in the airlines' credibility. Now the time factor seemed to be negligible and sorry became cheap. No passion. No sincerity. Flight delays become a national crisis recently as the government begins to intervene into this issue due to the outcry from the people (the passengers or better suited as the rightful consumers) reaches the ears of the ministers and the parliment. I was victimized in this dilemma. But one must experience it first-hand before doing any justification. Yes, once they had announced the flight delay, I kept on bickering on my misfortune for having to wait for the aircraft's late arrival. All this while, I always point my finger to the airport authorities and the airline staffs for their failure. This view remained static until my 4.00pm flight to KB (that was slightly delayed too). The airplane halted its motion to the runway, we waited for about 10-15 minutes to give way for the busy air traffic of KLIA. Then it struck my insights of this problem. I noticed that all MAS fleets were given priority to clear the runway while the AirAsia fleets had to subdue to the directives from the control tower. I recalled that KLIA is a dual runway airport but the other had to be closed to give way for repair and maintainance. Having to handle dozens of flight in an hour really push the airport authorities to the limit as they try to make way for all fleet on their handicapped airport. The impact was inevitable. Flights were pushed to unprecedented delays as more plane began to taxi on the tarmac and some lining up for take-off. So back to square one. No one to blame to. In relation this (actually not related at all, a totally different issue altogether), AirAsia is acknowledged of having misplaced drag queens and aging hotties in their armada. But not today. I actually a hot one (more to cute looking actually) in my KL-KB flight. I was pleasently surprised. Not to sound perverted but this fact remains that AirAsia had some trump cards on its own and inflight hotties are included. To be frank, in years of my flying experience, she was the second good-looker air stewardess that I have seen so far. The first was from a not-so-distant past of 2005 on my Miri flight from Labuan aboard MAS. God have mercy!
p/s: Just in case you didn't notice, this air travel-dedicated post has evidently suggested that my holidays was put to an end and I am back to pit-hole KB (as if Labuan was not tormenting enough).