Yultide Boredom

It's that time of the year - it's Christmas time! Kids out there enjoying their presents, youngsters out there have great time with their friends, families gather and spend the season together. And me, being left out and soberly alone. Mind the word sober. My friends and I had extradited a couple of beer bottles into the campus. I was reminded that that any form of liquor is illegal in the campus premises. I was too ignorant to take note of that fact. Talk about teenage angst. As I have mentioned earlier, I had a blue Christmas and still sober (I had wished to get myself drunk at the moment). Then as any other (usual, boring) occasion, the holiday is an excuse for us to playing dotA till late (or rather the next morning). I can't imagine how more pathetic my life is, here inside this campus. My friend just told me this,

"I'm a 19 year old dude. I spent the Christmas eve with a couple of beers and playing dotA. And that's about it."

Life can never be more boring and pathetic than these accounts of my sad Christmas. But hopefully this boredom taboo is short-lived. New Year is coming up and I will not spend another sucked up holiday in Kelantan. After making terms with my friends, I had made a rendezvous with an old friend of mine in Penang. Let us start this new year with splendour and joy. Penang! Here I come!

Ps: First Christmas away from home.
OnTrack: Oh Holy Night (Kelly Clarkson)

Lessons Learnt

Back to school. The classes resumed after a month-long hiatus. And it doesn't more exciting than that. The schedule for this semester is much tighter than the previous one, facing more assignments and those boring-useless-tough-and-everything-in-betweeen subjects that I've taken this semester. On another issue, the previous semester had also proved my lack of commitment and effort in my studies. Facing such heavy blows of bad results from examinations, somehow I began to change my campus lifestyle now. A small gradual change, my only hope is that it is not on temporary basis (which is likely to happen). However this does not stop me from my passion in gaming which increased triple-fold on the weekends and also my love for blogging. Mind me for not blogging for quite some time. The physical factors of the campus prevent me from blogging on a regular basis. To add insult to injury, the campus server had imposed a webfilter. Translation? No form of downloads are not allowed. That is goodbye to anime and mp3s to me. Even Java-based internet radios and software downloads are prohibited. WTF?! The boring life here had gotten even worse! Figuring that the absense of download would speed up the internet. Wrong! It's even slower than ever. Imagine all of these had happened only in the first week of class, I begin ponder those that would come in the future.

Ps: Blogger beta is out! So?
OnTrack: Manatsu no Yoru no Yume (Suga Shikao)

Sneaking Out

Everyone is busy on the task given by the lecturers regarding signing up to new accounts, posting a forum and even some introductory about Mac OS X. Honestly I rarely use Mac myself - had been a fan of Windows for a long time already and relieved that Windows came up with Vista. And I am surprised that there are some students who still does not have an e-mail. This is unexpected, I had the thought that everyone is staring to become internet savvy upon entering university. If I have to bicker, then it's about the internet use here. The FortiGuard application is giving a very hard time for the students here. So much of being oppressive.

On Playlist: the WORLD by Nightmare (Death Note OP)

Kelantan Touchdown

Back to the place which I really want to avoid. But it just can't be help. My campus is here. The worst place to be in just gotten worse. The internet, with its usual antics of having interrupted connection, now have a more strict web filter. The server managed to cut down porn (which is good) but to the expense of mp3 download. Heck! And there are the usuals. The lack of food choices (with an unreasonable price tag), the sole mall of the town (nowhere else to go), and the pathetic people. No offence but from my view, it's a spot on. I can't help to notice the people standing by the airport side in order for them to enjoy the fantastic (and majestic to exaggerate about) view of airplanes touchdown and lift-off. No fault there but it's so pathetic that people actually made it a family outing. You have to witness for yourself to see the large number of people who are airplane-admiring. There are even makeshift stall available. People without anything to do. Just pathetic. As though that was not enough, I also managed to spot people picnicking inside the campus. I don't think Kota Baharu is that small. My only wish is that the local people's ideology will not influence my judgement at the end of the day.

On Playlist: My Love (feat. T.I.) by Justin Timberlake

Back From Vacation

It has been awhile since I have blogged. Don't blame me, I am on vacation - one week escapade to Kuching. Now it is the third week of my holiday. The holiday is almost over. Wow time really felt short. In fact, I am blogging at the hotel's cafe, having a B-list (probably lower) performer singing in the background. Well I am not staying in a five-star hotel anyway. I had be complacent enough having some performances while I am blogging. Kuching had been great though I was not having the same shopping mood as I had in KL. Yet enjoying some great time in Kuching is quite suffice for me. This annual getaway was extra special when we (my family) accepted some visitations from some long-gone relatives. First was my aunt with her Swedish daughter. Kind of awkward - I don't speak Swede anyway. But it's nice to know that you have some European relatives. That's cool. Then my uncle's family from Labuan, originally from KL. Other than that, Kuching had been plain fun.