PROFIT!!

Yay! Our stall was a success!

We earned 1.7k, which exceeded our expectations (we thought we could only get 1k).

We had lecturers from SAM, ICPU and the LAN. Too bad Mr Karamjeet from CAL didn't come; if not we could make another hundred :( Mr Krieshler from Student Services also sat at our machine... and then all the staff came and tried dunking him :) Damn he's popular... so popular that we probably made rm100+++ from him :D Mr Munin our mentor also attracted the students... haha you could see the cameras clicking and students lining up. Since it was for charity I paid rm10 to dunk my Spec Maths lecturer, Mr Woon. Haha dunked him once...now just pray he don't sabotage my exam results :P

Students also sat on the machine... some students put their friends on and then dunk them... one girl wearing skirt got dunked...and then her skirt flew up! o.O In between the lecturers my classmates sat on the machine... 4 guys, 5 girls. I also sat... the moment I got up... my class lined up! They're willing to pay money to see me dunked lol. In the end kena dunked 5 times!!! Soaking wet when I got out...drip drip drip

But it was so fun! Hahaa and it did give my classmates a chance to dunk me :P

PS: Today I sat with Ee Wei and Ee Ann in the library. I have known Ee Ann for a few years and I know Ee Wei by name. I always thought that Ee Wei was the quiet type, studious and so on...you know lah. Then today as I was talking to her... And then she told me I said something bad about someone! *gasp* I seriously don't remember, but apparently it took place in 5E when I was talking to Wei Vern...and the worst thing is I don't remember saying it and that 'someone' was from 5E!!!! OMG!!!! Ee Wei is so cruel! Behind her innocent silent outside she is evil inside! I was so mortified and yet I couldn't help laughing...OMG THIS IS SO SICK!

Tomorrow is the SAM Charity Carnival. Charity Nite was last Friday in MPH, and tomorrow the charity drive will end with the Carnival. My mentor has pushed our class to do the dunking machine - if not we lazy class would not do anything :) Anyway I dunno what the other March SAM classes are doing, perhaps nothing. After all, we just finished our Mid year last week, who of us actually have the time to plan a stall?

Last Friday after the Accounting paper our class had a meeting, where the teacher practically twisted our arms to get us to plan the stall. So me, Azfar and Lean See was supposed to find lecturers to sit on our dunking machine. After one hour and a half of running around me bumped into Mr Munin (our mentor) and he told us our dunking machine is....GONE! OMG! We actually booked St John's school dunking machines, but celaka they rent to someone else d >(

But by Monday (today) Vern Ming managed to get another machine, PLUS arrange transport. It touched my heart to know my class can be efficient *sob*. So today the machine arrived, and they guys set it up. Meanwhile with the stall back on me, Azfar and Lean See ran around finding lecturers, and confirming attendance. We even had to go to the main office to ask the programme directors! Anyway, today everything is settled, from banners to flyers and lecturers and the machine. Woot! Cheers to E4 for making this happen in 4 days!

So anyway we have around 15 lecturers and admin from Taylors for our dunking machine. From SAM, we have Mr John, Mr Yap, Mr Yap no2, My Kevin, Mr Woon, Mr Yong, Mr Munin. From ICPU, only Mr St Germain (he's hot!). CAL, we have Mr Karamjit. Pn Norah from LAN agreed, and we also have Mrs Hoe and Mrs Chong from the SAM office, Mrs Mary Ng from the CAL office, Mr Thou and Mr Krisler from Student Services. This promises to be FUN!!! I also wanted to ask Dr Shantha, unfortunately, she's always not in the staff room whenever I pop in :(

Our stall is next to the guardhouse, you can't miss it (unless you're blind -_-"). So come to our stall nya~! Satisfaction guaranteed! Oh and of course you can dunk any student from E4, and you can drag your friends to sit on our machine also!

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF 27th JULY 2007:

1. End of the March Intake Mid-year. Prepare for the next (or the next next) week's unveiling of the results.
2. Watched The Simpsons Movie. Typical Simpsons show; funny and silly. Perfect way to end a crazy week.
3. First time I bought popcorn in 4 years! hehe
4. Another time when we can see Metrobus show its erratic-ness.
5. Wore green again! my favourite~
6. Stupid Charity stall. Not that I mind doing it, but when everything goes wrong... *
7. A quiet night on the internet perusing manga and anime without anyone scolding me. Oh the joy~

AHAHAHAHAHA
Second last day of the mid-years.
I've completed the 'devil paper', Specialist Maths. I have no comments at all about it.
Right now I'm happily laughing at the Legal and Bio students who are taking their papers (Psych and SM is on the first exam period, Legal and Bio second).

I've really run out of things to blog about. I'm sure my exam life is not very interesting at all to the readers, much less to me. So forgive me if I just go on and on in this post. (warning: there'll be many pictures!)

I'm used to travelling. I'm not air-sick (unlike mom) and land-sick (like Wei Vern) although I do get dizzy on a boat. Travelling can be quite fun, especially if you don't worry much about it and get past the packing stage :)

For the first time in my whole sheltered life, I actually travelled alone. Okay, not exactly alone, but without my parents (or relatives). It was quite fun, actually (although my mom made it sound like I was leaving forever or something). If you haven't tried travelling with a group of people your age, you should. It's much more fun and relaxed (no nagging parents!) and less stressful.

So I left on 9 Dec 2006 (just a few days after SPM!) to another country. The group I was in had 3 guys and 6 other girls. We just got to know each other one day before, although I had been chatting to Hansen (one of the guys) for the past month.

While waiting for our flight to Singapore the others whipped out their dictionaries and phrasebooks. And then we began our No.1 lesson in learning a foreign language: learning swear words ("Look! Look! Here is how to say *sonofabitch*!" "OMG! There's a whole page of swear words in here!" "Hey, lemme see!")

After a 3-hour transit in Spore we went on to the second flight, this time to CDG, Paris, France. Oh yes, a loooong 13-hour flight sitting in a cramped space.... We landed at Charles de Gaulle at 6am French time. There we experienced our first misfortune - we missed our next flight due to unforeseeable circumstances. After many phone calls and arguments with Air France representatives it was decided we would remain in Paris until Tuesday (it was Sunday). So we spent our one day there exploring Paris by foot and metro.

How did the musical notes appear???Eye of the World Wheel and the Egyptian ObeliskThe Louvre

It was winter in Paris. No snow as yet, but the temperature was around 5 degrees. It didn't deter us from seeing the sights, though :P

On Tuesday we made our way to Madrid, Spain. Marcel met us at the airport and brought us to the AFS Intercultura office. We were given a briefing (due to the fact that we missed the orientation 2 days ago). The guys (Kumar and Hansen; Prem was already in Zafra) were then collected by their host parents, as their foster homes were in Madrid. The rest of us were to leave the next day to the further areas of Spain. We had our first taste of Spanish food that night - tapas and tortillas.

The next day Denise and Yen Ying left on the bus to Oviedo, a town near the Atlantic Sea. Phui Yi took the bus to the north too, but to Basque country. Me, Alithea and Yi Peng took the train to the east and Bella took the fast train to Sevilla, in the south. It was a five hour journey to the east coast of Spain. Yi Peng got off the train halfway, as she was to live in Zaragoza, a windy town 300 miles from Barcelona. Me and Alithea continued on to the last stop, Barcelona Sants. Alithea went with her host mother, a English professor, to the village of Santa Margharita; my host mom, Silmara, took me to the town of Segur de Calafell.

MwAHAHAHAHAHAH

2 papers down. 3 more to go! Continue the hard work!

*sigh..............*
Exam in less than 2 days... I still go online... seriously I have no sense of what's right or wrong. Spec Math guarantee fail already, English and Maths if can get A I am lucky, Accounts if never get A can go kill myself, Economics... if don't get C... (fill in the blank).

Ish get back my Economics Common Test 3 paper, I feel so sad... I just ngam ngam pass... got 10/20, or 50%. Like that sure my end-year marks kantoi already. And just when my mom said if i do well for my mid-year she will give me a present... there goes the present out of the window. Considered lucky if I don't get grounded and retain the rights to watch TV and go online.

Tuesday is Math and English...oklah not too bad... at least 2 medium papers together, not 2 super-hard papers.... Wednesday Economics... one of the cruelest Arts paper around... Thursday... the devil paper, Friday... relax :)...
Economics... very confusing... 2 hours to write an essay, do 3 short-answer questions (SAQ), 25 multiple choice questions (MCQ) and 2 extended response questions... When you sit for the paper... you have NO TIME to think... just write and write until your hand drop off. If you stop writing/go to sleep/go to toilet/smile at the teacher... you are either super-smart, cool, or just plain crazy.

Anyway... good luck to all SAM March Intake 2007 students... Let's try our best to be the best... Let's beat all those SAM January students...heheheh...

A FRIEND - Charles Hanson Towne

Around the corner I have a friend,

In this great city that has no end;

Yet days go by, and weeks rush on,

And before I know it a year is gone,

And I never see my old friend's face,

For life is a swift and terrible race.

He knows I like him just as well

As in the days when I rang his bell

And he rang mine. We were younger then,

And now we are busy, tired men:

Tired with playing a foolish game,

Tired with trying to make a name.

"Tomorrow," I say, "I will call on Jim,

Just to show I am thinking of him."

But tomorrow comes - and tomorrow goes,

And the distance between us grows and grows.

Around the corner! - yet miles away . .

"Here's the telegram, Sir. . .

'Jim died today'."

And that's what we get, and deserve in the end:

Around the corner, a vanished friend.

The poem is touching... Yes, it is one of those poems that circulate around the internet and spam our mailboxes. But this poem so clearly reflects our relationship with our friends. As children we have lots of friends that we spend a large amount of time with. Yet, as we grow up, and become more busy with school and work we tend to ignore them. How many times have we said "later" or "next time"?? Time waits for no man. Nothing can replace the friends you have. In fact, we should not be anti-social. If you see someone who's not close to you, or you barely know the person, take the time to say hi, or wave your hand. It makes a difference.

NO MAN IS AN ISLAND UNTO HIMSELF.
How true is that! Communication is one of the most important skills one must have to survive. Humans learn to communicate in order to defend themselves, to find food, to perpetuate their lineage. That is why we usually try to conform to society rules. To ignore the rules of society is to invite ostracization. Humans take comfort in being with others. Wouldn't it be too lonely and terrifying to face the world alone? As a child, we have our parents to support us. As adults we have our friends, and later our partner. As old people we have our children. Being with friends helps to create warmth and laughter. Being alone is to invite sadness, depression and melancholy. That is why friends and family should be treasured. A small gesture, a smile is enough to brighten everyone's day.

The next time you see your best friend, think of how life would be without him/her. Then think of all the things that he/she does that makes them your best friend and confidante. Then treasure every moment with them, for time thrown away cannot be gained back.