Why?

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Panic At The Disco Hostel Room

It just dawned on me that Inti expects to see great achievements from our class. Since our class was the only one to fully have scores above 1800 for the SAT mock, the head honchos(including Dr. Lim) definitely want to see good scores for our real SAT 1 and SAT 2 test. Not to mention they probably want to see MOST, if not all of us flying off to Ivies/Ivy Standard unis.
*gulp*

Ok, sleep first.
Work tomorrow.

=P

ENL 101 (7B) July 2008

Before the Raya holidays, the fourteen of us from ENL 101 Section 7B came up with some ideas to put together something special for our US trained professor.Thanks to Jie Min who managed to get the shirts done within one week. And thanks to Crystal for her forsight and saving us the trouble of doing another 'assignment' today. =D Plus, our litttle compilations is so much nicer than just writing on plain white paper. Heee.

So after we all came back from the Raya break, we rushed to get everything ready. Including taking several shots like

This

and this

All in all, we manged to catch Dr. Lim by surprise today. We gave him our 'project' which was actually a compilation of our personal thoughts and expressions for him, we sang him a song, we each got a hug from Dr Lim, we listened to his wisdom words for one last lesson and...

How can anything be complete without pictures?

Our pre-Raya stroke of inpiration successfully presented.

The orchestrators.

The real person himself and his name.

There're still more photos but we've yet to synchronize all of it into an album or something. Heh.

Like Crystal said, ENL was the only class where we knew each classmate by name (in full!) and the only class where we could interact openly. Come to think of it, Dr. Lim was the linchpin of the class. In the early weeks, our constant fear of being scolded for not following his instructions fueled our cooperation with each other. We compared and discussed assignments to make sure everyone did the same thing (so if we 'die', we 'die' together. XD)

Soon after, the bonding and everything seemed to come naturally. There was this gradual development of mellowness in class (which i think affected our professor too) and often, all of us would leave class feeling happy. Hungry but happy. We didn't really bother with how late Dr. Lim's classes would end cause usually he has so much wisdom to impart on us. After class, we'd often hang around a bit more just to listen to him talk about life experiences, US culture and stuff.

Today, he told us that he treats each and everyone of his students like his children. And he wants all of us to work hard and get on the Dean's List or President's List. Then, he'll come witness us going up on stage. So sweet right. =)

Good thing i never switched to some other class at the start of the semester. It's been such a great deal of fun knowing these bunch of classmates and lecturer for these 2+ months. If i were to be given a chance to do everything again, i wouldn't change anything..except mebbe my first Class Assessment scores. =P

Thank you, everyone.
Viva la ENL 101 (7B)!

Haha.

Conditioned Taste Aversion

There's this term that i learnt in Psychology called 'conditioned taste aversion' (signs of Psycho taking over my brain?). It happens when something you ate made you sick and you become revolted by the particular food. Which was what happened on Monday night. I had economy rice (from the china stall in the cafeteria) for lunch and by night time, the lunch threw a ruckus in my stomach.

Diarrhea + vomit reflex = sleepless night

Throughout the entire night, images of my lunch kept replaying in my head. The more i tried to not think of it, the more persistent the image was. And the more the image played out in my mind, the more i felt like vomiting. 5 times of diarrhea and countless times of vomit reflex without the stuff coming out is so not fun. The worst part was when my stomach muscles contracted so hard, trying to push out food from my esophagus but nothing came out.

Went to see a doctor the next morning and subsequently lost RM 40 from the recently received allowance, just for him to confirm that it was food poisoning. Bah. Missed Psycho class (which i didn't mind one bit) and ENL(Prof. Lim showed a slide show of his time in US ok!).

Now there's assignments and tests piling up like a mountain. Am starting to wonder if it was wise for me to sign up for the November SAT 2.

I want free stuff also!

High Fashion Handbags Without The High Price.

Seems like a pretty good deal to me. =)

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I GOT MY ALLOWANCE!!!!!!

YAAAYYYYY! =D =D =D
No more sad pathetic state of scrimping and saving. Can go shopping!! =P Kidding kidding. Not like i'm going to waste away 6 months worth of tax payers' money. I can be miserly when i want to. XD

Felt so over-elated when i saw the sum displayed on the Automated Teller Machine (ahahahaha..effects of csc) screen. I bet fellow sufferers feel the joy too. =D Mum and dad are now officially free of paying for my expenses..except when i'm back in Penang. Heee.

O yeah, HAPPY BIRTHDAY DARREN!
Though i doubt he reads blogs..much less mine.

Oooh yes, that's Darren/Kia Haow. Credits to JyoLyn for the picture. =)
Yes, he's wearing some 70-ies style spectacles. Without the lenses. Only guy i know who likes dressing up and going shopping for clothes. Hahaa.

An interesting fellow he is.

Sigmund Freud

I dreamt that one of our juniors showed me the front cover of MGS REVIEW 2008.
Does this signify that i miss Pn. Leong?
O.O i hope not.

Anyway, i miss those days huddled in front of the computers in the hot and stuffy AVA room. Was exhausting editing and reprinting stuff but it was fun nevertheless. Goodness knows how many stacks of A4 paper we wasted reprinting because of slight errors and perfectionism kicking into overdrive. And those agama insights that we garnered whenever there were Agama Islam classes conducted in the AVA room. XD Now if only the school was bigger, then ed board can be upgraded to at least a proper room instead of computers mounted on..a row of shelves? That's how sad our ed board is.

On another note, i wonder how the ed boarders fared with Mama Leong this year. =P
The magazine should be out soon. I mau tengok!