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This (INTI Academic Award Ceremony) has been more than a week ago.
But during that time, it was nerding season, so no time (read:lazee) to post. =P
Anyway, it was an awards ceremony to honor those who did well in their respective programs as well as those who were graduating.

In our (AUP) case, those who achieved a 4.0 GPA were on the President's List and those who had a 3.5 GPA and above were on the Dean's List.
Sounds canggih la, but all we got was a piece of cert.
Heeee.

Lookie! All the umm...important people with funny interesting regalia.
Their walk into the hall was called an academic procession. XD i think.

And of course, while waiting for our turn to get our award, we had to exercise the camera.

This picture is a result of the photographer who can get 49.5 for Cal2 but has tremendously shaky hands. No skillz.
HAHAHAHA.

(Look Maylyn! Your earrings! =D the black and gold ones.
Though you can't really see them here, but yes i wore them on that day. =D)

Above are some of the people whom i see on a daily basis.
Rachel, Crystal and Beng Yen.
3 Acturial Science to 1 Engineering.
Outnumbered but enjoying the company nonetheless. =)

Rachel. =P
Priceless photo.

So this is a sample to show you what we do on stage.
Name gets called out --> go up the stage --> get piece of paper tied with ribbon --> smile for the camera --> moment of fame is over

A last shot with some more friends before we all went to makan. =D
And qhy miss the opportunity for free food?
XD it was good too!

That kinda made me sound like a glutton.
Yikes!

Numb

Funny.
How i used to agonize over low marks and stuff like that..
Now, even when my cal 2 and physics test results are less than stellar, i'm not very bothered by it.
Not depressed.
Not upset.
Not...feeling.

Physics test 1- 22/40
Calculus 2 test 1- 24/50 (25% allocated to this test. You do the math. Not gonna count.)

There you go.

Sure, i wish i had gotten better scores.
But wishing won't do anything to my scores, no?
At least i got some marks. =)
Some people got negative scores for Cal 2..just because 10 marks were deducted for not writing their class sections. Yes, Negative. Less than zero.
*shudders*

Lately, i've been thinking..
I'm not sure if all this nerding is worth anything at all later in life.
I've been nerding for more than a week.
Now that my cal 2 and physics has great room for improvement, does this mean i need to become more of a recluse, study 24/7 and say NO to all fun activities?
I already say NO to many activities.
Pshhh.

Is life in US gonna be like that too?
I hope not.
And i think not. =)

Recess

Refocus.
Grow.
Learn.

Be our guide, our strength, our hope, our comfort in the days to come.
In all the pain, draw us close.
Help us.
Please.

I know it's for the best.

Walking on the narrow road is never easy.
Yet, it's the path we walk on.
The only one to take.

Cartoon

[insert numerous 'smack forehead' emoticons]

Karyn says:
hahaha, looking at multiple aiyo emoticons is funny
Karyn says:
like they smack forehead all the same time

Kiran says:
HAHAHAHAHA

Karyn says:
XD
Karyn says:
watch it!
Karyn says:
XD

Kiran says:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA CARTOON LAH YOU

some time later...

[insert rabbit-banging-head-on-wall emoticon]

Karyn says:
there
Karyn says:
XD
Karyn says:
don't you love it
Karyn says:
haha
Karyn says:
it's like a sloooooowwwww motion thing
Karyn says:
like the head sloooooowllyyy goes bang!

Kiran says:
hahahahha!!!
Kiran says:
do you need to describe every emoticon???

Karyn says:
maybe
Karyn says:
=P

and this is why friends make you smile. =)
eventhough you're miles apart. (though technically, i'm about 45 mins away from this girl now. =D)

Oreo biscuits and sweets

Look who's in the news!

FOUR science stream students from Kolej Disted-Stamford have obtained five straight As in the international Cambridge A-Level examination which they sat in Nov.

The top achievers are Ng Yon Hon, Khor Suy Siong, Kiranjeet Kaur Harjit Singh and Yong Yun Xiu.

Ng, who also emerged the world top achiever for Advanced Subsidiary Mathematics, said he was overjoyed at his academic success.

“I did maths exercises regularly and practised answering the past years’ papers,” said Ng, who plans to study engineering in Singapore.

He also said he owed his success to his brother who was also a former A-Level student of the college.

“I received coaching in maths from my brother from time to time. He also motivated me to do well in my studies. I also feel great to have completed the A-Level programme in just one year,” he added.

Kiranjeet, who will be taking up medical studies, believes it pays to study hard.

“I also received constant encouragement from my parents,” said Kiranjeet whose father is a lawyer and mother a teacher.

Two A-Level arts students Chong Yee Lean and Wong Te Jie obtained 3As and 2As respectively.

They were among the 23 DISTED students who scored excellent results of 2As or more in the exa-mination.

Taken directly from thestar online, 20th February 2009.

My mummy!
Awwww.
I know Sneha's as proud of mummy as i am. =DD

Why you hide behind in the picture wan.
Show you pretty face ma.
Summore mummy giving out sound advice. So nenek kebayan-esque. XD
But that picture must have been quite a while ago.
A levels results out so long ade. -.-

Mummy's coming to KL real soon.
To study how to chop people up into pieces. =P
You can come visit me in Nilai sometime!
And bring me Oreo biscuits. And sweets.
Just like in Disted.
Heee.

Home and everything familiar

Yup, BTN is confirmed.
20th-24th April.
After those 5 NS-like, 'menyemai sifat-sifat patriotisme dalam sanubari diri' days then we'll get to go home (or lepak, for those who aren't planning to go home).
Semester break!
Yeay!
=)

Can't wait. =)
Home.
Ahh.

I'm crying out for more and more..
Fall in this place.

Fresh touch. Each and every day.

Crossroads

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,


And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost

Be gone, ye blahh-ness!

So my weekend dates with Mr. Calculus wasn't proportional to my application of knowledge in the Calculus test...

Question after question, i solved in the past Saturday, Sunday, Monday and this afternoon.This one time i really put a lot of effort in maths and yet..test 1 might possibly be going down the drain.
Come what may, i'm gonna try to not let it affect me so much cause there are more important priorities in life other than calculus. Or physics. Or econs and chemistry.

Right, enough of gloom and doom.

On to another interesting (or not) aspect of my day-to-day life when i'm not writing funny symbols and computing alphabets.

As i was saying..

Yesterday, my towel went from purple to blahh.
Yes, blahh is a color. =P
You see, I put all my laundry into the washing machine..and when i took them out again my towel became blahh. Just like magic. -.-
Apparently the color on one apparel of mine decided to run.
And i can't figure out which one was the culprit cause the blahh-ness has this yellow-brown tinge, which doesn't seem to belong to any of my clothes.
I was pretty certain that the colors of all those i put into the washing machine wouldn't run. Apparently i was mistaken.
A pair of socks, towel and my lovable Happy Tree Friends shirt are now all blahh. =(

Hmm..
My house-wifely skills really that bad ah?? XD

Such is the life of a test-quarantined person.
Almost half a post dedicated to laundry.
Hahaa.

Tis' the season

Tis the season..to be not so jolly.
It's the time of the year where Australian Unis open their doors to welcome fresh intakes.
Bah. Friends are leaving or have already left for Aussie land.
Even the JPA seniors left already..on Valentines Day in fact.

.....

At exactly 4.04 pm today, i received a call from Adelene.
She's leaving for Melbourne tomorrow.
=( and i won't be there to send her off. =(

The Adelene whom i've met in JXC piano classes back when we were 5 or 6 years old and used to write letters to back then.
The Adelene whom we met again for awhile in Form 2.
And the same sweet Adelene that i met again in Disted during those 6 months of A levels.

The Adelene whom i had lunch with ever so often in the sad Disted cafeteria when others had classes.

The Adelene whose house i visited many a time (and even locked ourselves out of..I'm so sorry, auntie!!).

The Adelene who took me and Lynn swimming at PSC.
The Adelene who would subconsciously write sentences and doodle while she studies.

And all those talks about clothes, shopping, food, studies..and how we have no clue what CSP was going on about in Mechanics and Mathematics. Lol.

And the nonsense we do with Kiran and Sneha in classes.

Take care, my friend.
May you continue to be the salt and the light of the world when you're 'down under'! =)
Who knows, we might meet again in our job field a couple of years later. Hee.

Feeling the love

While people back home (or anywhere else, for that matter) are out celebrating Valentine's Day with friends, loved ones, family...

I have a date.

Ooooh, yes.

A date.


Ahem.
This is none other than Mr. Calculus with Analytic Geometry 2.
And i willl be seeing Mr. Physics as well. When Mr. Calculus lets me, of course.

Crystal says it's two timing. =P
But hey, a girl's gotta do what a girls gotta do.
Calculus test 1 is on tuesday, Physics test 1 is on thursday.
With barely enough time in between.

Help me.

Anyway, Happy Valentines Day everyone.
=)

Same ol' same ol'

Back to school.
Back to tests, assignments and lab reports amid early morning shrieks of 'Faraaaaaahhh, Farraaahhhhh!'. Hahaa.
The same ol' routine doesn't inspire me to write much.

It's 3 months before i see Penang again.
Don't think i'm going back anytime before that.
It's time to put my survival skills to test.
Plus, there's the BTN camp thing going round the rumour mill.
BTN=Biro TataNegara. Something like NS in 4 days.
During the first week of sem break.
That should be quite interesting.
Lol.

Econs is as interesting as ever.
Mr. Physics Lecturer has thought us to feel the amazing-ness of Physics.
I learnt in Chemistry that one reactant is 'reduct-ed' and the other is oxidized in a redox reaction.
And Calculus classes makes me hungry. =P

Happy Meal

Everyone, meet Doggie aka Diggoe.
My furry friend since i was a young toddler.
Yes, i hug him to sleep.
And yes, it's a he.
Don't ask me why but it's just a he. =P
I brought him to Inti the very first time i came here and he goes back home with me when there's a semester break.
Some might argue that he doesn't look like a dog..or he's a cross between a bear and a dog but i say Diggoe's a dog and that's final. =D

See, he has a dog-like tail!

Now this is Francis.

Francis Oblongata Chong the Third to be exact.
I know, he has a very cute name. =D
He's real soft too. =DD

And there's more!
That's Frost-alicious doing a head stand.
I love squeezing his butt and wings. They have beans in them! ^^

Fredalina, my flippy-floppy bunny. =D
She has beans too! At the tips of her hands and feet.
Fredalina's really nice to hold in your hand and shake it around cause...she can flip and flop. Hahaha.

It hasn't even been a week since all 3 came to my care. I only met them last Wednesday night.
But currently, only Francis is with me in Inti. The other two are back home, guarding my bed. Hahaha.

How Francis got to Inti, you ask?
Well.
He boarded Air Asia with me.
Not in the suitcase like Diggoe used to do, but on my lap.
Then, i took him on a bus from the LCCT to Inti.
Carried him from the bus stop all the way into S block.
And now he sits on my bed.

Excuse me while i put many photos of my fuzzy friends. =P
Francis pretending to be emo.

Frost-alicious being all super-hero like and Fredalina, the damsel in distress.

Someone loves the camera. Hahaha.

And these two are slightly loco. =P

The How-To of hugging Francis.
Thank kiu, model. =)

From now onwards, Francis will accompany me to sleep each night.
Cause Diggoe has gone for a long long holiday, which he will not return from for quite some time. ;) No worries, he's in good hands.

I <3 my fuzzy friends.
Thank you, Diggoe's safekeeper!
Very very much!

LALALALAAAAA. =D

Saturday morning and afternoon was spent on the island of Jerejak. =)

While waiting for the ferry...
Early morning hunger pangs had to be squelched.

And this is how you eat from a maggi cup.
Observe her style and poise.

And of course, cameras were handy tools while we waited.

First event of the day. =D

Arrow and the safety gears.
We each had 5 tries to land an arrow on the board.

Before.

After.
My arrow hit the black ring. =D
*clappity clap*

Mummy's turn. =)

Behold the Wall of Terror!
The outer walls are for beginners and the middle two are for pro climbers.

A very eager mummy. Hahaa. =)

Spider Women in training.
The guys reached the top in a flash. Almost as if they've had had some sort of training before hand. Hmph. Guys. =P
Whereas us girls slowly picked our way up the colored footholds and handholds with help from the guide.

A lot of us reached the top in an euphoric state. Yes yes, there was a definite burn in the upper arms. Dunno about the guys, but i think us girls felt our limbs turning into jell-o towards the top.

The must-have pictures to prove that we were successful in our climb. =)
Then came the descent.

Felt like a mini version of the Genting Solero Shot.

If you would like a serious butt-numbing, lactic acid-inducing workout session under the scorching sun, then i suggest you go for the bicycle ride. You will definitely feel the loveeeee. Trust me. =D
The track was looongggggg and bumpy. No proper roads, just sand, gravel, rocks and...other unidentifiable stuff.

At the end of the bicycle trail was this dilapidated, unused jetty.

And the former prison.
We cycled almost halfway around the island to see this two things. -.-

After that loooong ride to and back from the old jetty came something less exhausting.

But before we got to the firefox starting point, we first had to cross...
The Swaying Bridge of Doom!
XD

We meet again, safety harness.

WWHHHHHHEEEEEEEEE!!

And some more photos for proof. XD

I think the games section of Jerejak is seriously understaffed. There were only 3 guys manning the entire area. They don't have a fixed station but instead, they only go to the stations when people are there to play.
Imagine, one of them could possibly have a day like this :
Archery-->Firefox-->Rock Climbing-->Firefox-->Archery-->Firefox-->Rock Climbing--> and so forth

Anyway, after all that sweating, these two were still game for some very animated rounds of ping and pong before heading home. The rackets and ball were provided, which i thought was very nice. =) also which i was amazed at cause people didn't 'accidentally' take the equipments back with them...fully knowing how our people can sometimes be...not so courteous.

Once back home, it was time to recharge the batteries.

And that's it. Summary of half a day at Jerejak. =)