Husna told me that you can't comment on TravelPod 'coz they force you to register. What a bother! So here's to say that I don't mind not getting comments that side.
I've been busy - I have no idea why. A day just passes by so damn quickly. Maybe it's all the product I put on my face. I brought 5 kg worth of face, hair and skin products to smother myself with. I've never been one to stick to these regimes but I'm glad I brought them 'coz it's really dry and every time I wash my face I have to go through the whole 3-step procedure of cleansing toning and moisturizing. Add in the amount of time I walk around, forgetting my face towel, looking for my comb, wondering why I was walking around... And I still can't find my comb! Where on earth!
Sigh. Anyway. I'll stop boring you with my self-grooming woes and give you the link to the two travelogues that I've written. Here, where you can see the two kids that I'm tutoring, and here, where I blab about not having a job and stuff. Bye now.
667th post
Ooh the previous post was the 666th.
New update to my travel blog. *click* It's 2am here by the way. Midnight's when everyone's asleep and I get the pc and the connection to myself. Wouldn't be sustainable though when I get a job.
New update to my travel blog. *click* It's 2am here by the way. Midnight's when everyone's asleep and I get the pc and the connection to myself. Wouldn't be sustainable though when I get a job.
Bundaberg Ginger Beer is Nice.
Here's the link to the second post of my travel blog. I actually wrote it yesterday but only had time to update you today. If any of you want to get regular updates of my travel blog you can subscribe to it, or give me your email address then I'll put you in the mailing list. I'll still put in links here, but be prepared that it may not be on realtime basis.
And to all you kind folks that have left a message in the below posts, I have read them all but replying them one by one takes ages (Dail Atas Dail Atas Dail Atas), so I'll just say a big thank
you from here.
Ok then, waiting for a potential call for work to come in, so you guys be good and I'll update soon =)
And to all you kind folks that have left a message in the below posts, I have read them all but replying them one by one takes ages (Dail Atas Dail Atas Dail Atas), so I'll just say a big thank
you from here.
Ok then, waiting for a potential call for work to come in, so you guys be good and I'll update soon =)
Travel Blog Open La.
I've finally set up the travel blog, here. It comes with the option to print out the whole thing later, and also to plot your location on the map, and unlimited photo uploads. Seems pretty good to me.
The dial up here is very slow, and I had to break up tasks to do online into parts and that's why the travel blog took so long. I also did the elementary mistake of not downloading Real Player before getting here (Procrastination. Serves me right.) so my Japanese farm drama can't be watched.
YenYi's place has wireless broadband though, and I will bring my lappy to her place one of these days to download some necessary software.
So far things have been fine here, today's the first weekday of our trip and we made a couple of calls and emails to apply for jobs. They have a burger place called Burger Fuel here. rejected Melissa because she's going to be here for a limited period. We'll manage something.
OK la gonna do the travel updates at the other blog. I'll put a link here everytime I upload something on the other side. Kinda ma fan since we're running on dial-up, so that goes to show how much I love you guys. Muaks.
Again, the link to the inaugural post of my travel blog is here. *Click*
The dial up here is very slow, and I had to break up tasks to do online into parts and that's why the travel blog took so long. I also did the elementary mistake of not downloading Real Player before getting here (Procrastination. Serves me right.) so my Japanese farm drama can't be watched.
YenYi's place has wireless broadband though, and I will bring my lappy to her place one of these days to download some necessary software.
So far things have been fine here, today's the first weekday of our trip and we made a couple of calls and emails to apply for jobs. They have a burger place called Burger Fuel here. rejected Melissa because she's going to be here for a limited period. We'll manage something.
OK la gonna do the travel updates at the other blog. I'll put a link here everytime I upload something on the other side. Kinda ma fan since we're running on dial-up, so that goes to show how much I love you guys. Muaks.
Again, the link to the inaugural post of my travel blog is here. *Click*
Dah Tiba.
Setting up my travel blog. I have decided to host it on TravelPod.com. They let you plot your travels on the map and it's kinda cool.
Going out now, will give you the address of the travel blog when it's fully set up. Cheers!
Going out now, will give you the address of the travel blog when it's fully set up. Cheers!
One!!!111oneoneone
Last Day!!
True to my last minute nature, the bags aren't packed yet, I have loads of stuff to throw into my lappy, I've gotta list down the inventory of stuff that I have so that I don't lose any later, and I can't for my life remember where I put my mechanical pencil.
I have decided to open a separate blog for my travels. It'll be family friendly - friendly for my family whom I have tried to keep away from this blog - so that they can keep updated of my misadventures.
I'm not sure how it'll work yet - whether I'll put a link here whenever I update the other blog, or if I will stop updating this blog altogether until I get back from New Zealand. Will tell you guys when I make up my mind.
Back to packing. Now I can't find my watch as well. Groan.
True to my last minute nature, the bags aren't packed yet, I have loads of stuff to throw into my lappy, I've gotta list down the inventory of stuff that I have so that I don't lose any later, and I can't for my life remember where I put my mechanical pencil.
I have decided to open a separate blog for my travels. It'll be family friendly - friendly for my family whom I have tried to keep away from this blog - so that they can keep updated of my misadventures.
I'm not sure how it'll work yet - whether I'll put a link here whenever I update the other blog, or if I will stop updating this blog altogether until I get back from New Zealand. Will tell you guys when I make up my mind.
Back to packing. Now I can't find my watch as well. Groan.
Two (II)
Oh my god I just witnessed the birth of a cow. (Through the Japanese drama.)
I have got to do a farmstay.
I have got to do a farmstay.
Two.
Just got back from the Press Club. Took my parents there for the first time, where they met up with Zorro and co., and took stock of where I had been getting my innocent brains adulterated for the past few months.
Had fun talking about their kids, New Zealand, various escapades (keeping the code of honour of blogging - not blogging about things expressedly off record but keeping them for further blackmailing purposes), current issues.
My dad asked me with feigned nonchalance if I was really going to bungy-jump. Hell yeah I am. According to dubious web sources, the chance of death is one to 2 million. I've never struck lottery nor has lightning struck me so I'm taking my chances. Oh yeah and some people (off record again) peed their pants while they jumped. Wahahahahhaa. Note to self: Empty Bladder Before Going Up. Plan B: Wear Adult Diapers.
Quite tired now. I'm downloading a Japanese drama of a bunch of agricultural students interning at a farm, as preparatory entertainment of roughing it in New Zealand. Hope it will finish before I leave. Also, if anyone of you are going to backpack, here's a good page of what to pack.
Before I go, let me just plug this for Cheryl, who had to endure hours of listening to shit just to come up with the transcript of the much-talked-about interview of Syed Albar with BBC. I put off watching it for the longest time because I knew it was going to be depressing, and thanks to Cheryl I don't have to. Click here for the transcript.
Going to read the backpacking page to have a rough idea of what to pack now.
Had fun talking about their kids, New Zealand, various escapades (keeping the code of honour of blogging - not blogging about things expressedly off record but keeping them for further blackmailing purposes), current issues.
My dad asked me with feigned nonchalance if I was really going to bungy-jump. Hell yeah I am. According to dubious web sources, the chance of death is one to 2 million. I've never struck lottery nor has lightning struck me so I'm taking my chances. Oh yeah and some people (off record again) peed their pants while they jumped. Wahahahahhaa. Note to self: Empty Bladder Before Going Up. Plan B: Wear Adult Diapers.
Quite tired now. I'm downloading a Japanese drama of a bunch of agricultural students interning at a farm, as preparatory entertainment of roughing it in New Zealand. Hope it will finish before I leave. Also, if anyone of you are going to backpack, here's a good page of what to pack.
Before I go, let me just plug this for Cheryl, who had to endure hours of listening to shit just to come up with the transcript of the much-talked-about interview of Syed Albar with BBC. I put off watching it for the longest time because I knew it was going to be depressing, and thanks to Cheryl I don't have to. Click here for the transcript.
Going to read the backpacking page to have a rough idea of what to pack now.
4 1/2 Days Left.
Hyper hyper hyper!!!!
Something happened today which is kinda good but I have to think it through before I put anything definite here, but all you need to know is that I'm jumping around at risk of breaking all my toes (teak furniture rules my house) before I go NZ and that wouldn't be a good thing after all. My travel insurance will only be effective after Friday and if I'm going to break any toes that will be after that.
Anyway anyway anyway!!!
Cautiously happy - not because of fears of toe-breaking - and I'm just contented to let the euphoria sink in. The worries and concerns can come in later.
I've been quite resourceful today, counting from 12am. I did the finishing touches of the photobook for my family, and sent it off to print at Pixart, all before 5am, and went to bed till 11am, after which I ordered a Dell notebook for my aunt and finalized my travel insurance.
Meeting Melissa tonight to discuss our plans.
Happy lah. =D
Something happened today which is kinda good but I have to think it through before I put anything definite here, but all you need to know is that I'm jumping around at risk of breaking all my toes (teak furniture rules my house) before I go NZ and that wouldn't be a good thing after all. My travel insurance will only be effective after Friday and if I'm going to break any toes that will be after that.
Anyway anyway anyway!!!
Cautiously happy - not because of fears of toe-breaking - and I'm just contented to let the euphoria sink in. The worries and concerns can come in later.
I've been quite resourceful today, counting from 12am. I did the finishing touches of the photobook for my family, and sent it off to print at Pixart, all before 5am, and went to bed till 11am, after which I ordered a Dell notebook for my aunt and finalized my travel insurance.
Meeting Melissa tonight to discuss our plans.
Happy lah. =D
5 Days Left.
The room is finally packed.
It was a difficult process for my mum, who had to tolerate her daughter's stony silence with an occasional nod, as she combed through my sea of belongings and tried to make sense of what was important and what was not.
It wasn't that I wanted to be in such a sour disposition. I didn't, and I appreciate my mum's help, without which I would still probably be swimming within the sea of my belongings. It's just that I felt that if I as much as opened my mouth, I would launch a full-blown tantrum rivalling that of three-year-old brats.
I hated putting my stuff into boxes. It was like confining the remains of my presence into tidy packages, sealing them up and stacking them in the store room, where they would gather dust whilst the world went on without them. Essentially that was what leaving meant, and it is a rude awakening that the world can function perfectly without you. The world would hold gatherings, birthdays, weddings, the General Election, funerals, all without you. You in the box.
I liked my room in its mess, where I knew where everything was. Mostly. Sometimes. OK, when I'm in luck. Now it's spotless and I can't find anything. It sucks.
OK. Enough emo-ing. A lot of other stuff to do.
It was a difficult process for my mum, who had to tolerate her daughter's stony silence with an occasional nod, as she combed through my sea of belongings and tried to make sense of what was important and what was not.
It wasn't that I wanted to be in such a sour disposition. I didn't, and I appreciate my mum's help, without which I would still probably be swimming within the sea of my belongings. It's just that I felt that if I as much as opened my mouth, I would launch a full-blown tantrum rivalling that of three-year-old brats.
I hated putting my stuff into boxes. It was like confining the remains of my presence into tidy packages, sealing them up and stacking them in the store room, where they would gather dust whilst the world went on without them. Essentially that was what leaving meant, and it is a rude awakening that the world can function perfectly without you. The world would hold gatherings, birthdays, weddings, the General Election, funerals, all without you. You in the box.
I liked my room in its mess, where I knew where everything was. Mostly. Sometimes. OK, when I'm in luck. Now it's spotless and I can't find anything. It sucks.
OK. Enough emo-ing. A lot of other stuff to do.
5 1/2 Days Left.
Why so many papers one.
Packing my room up.
Backing up my PC.
Just felt like nipping a write.
Packing my room up.
Backing up my PC.
Just felt like nipping a write.
8 Days Left.
And Kena Tag. By ChindianaTrails whom I cursed at in his comment box, but am secretly pleased at because he saved me from another what-i-did-today post.
5 things in my handbag-
- Keys.
- A free New Vitamin E Moisture Serum sample from The Body Shop.
- A receipt from The Body Shop for the sample that I didn't pay for.
- Pencil case (owned since 2001).
- Camera (Fujifilm Finepix F31fd).
5 things in my purse
- A blood-type card. I'm AB Positive.
- MyKad.
- Ticket stubs of Flute Festival and The System of Cikgu Tuko.
- Money. (Or the lack of it)
- ISIC Card. Hip hip hooray for discounts!
5 things in my favourite room (My Bedroom!!!)
- My bed with its Garfield bedspread. And pillows.
- My bookshelves laden with books I bought from The Big Bookshop Warehouse Sales recently.
- My HP desktop.
- Random cute stuff which I can't resist buying and leaving around.
- The Yuyuhakusho poster that Asa gave me since forever.
5 things I would like/love to do
- Destroy permanently the harddisk of the Sony technician who formatted my lappy.
- Be a travel writer (go Europe and Japan in the process).
- Have a good hearty laugh.
- Take up playing piano again.
- Go to the beach with THE bunch of friends.
5 things I'm currently doing
- Applying for jobs in New Zealand.
- Gathering necessary documents for PhD application.
- Packing my luggage.
- Tidying up my room.
- Procrastinating from all of the above.
And here comes my favourite part of tags - killing them.
I hereby do not tag anyone. Muahahahahhahahaha!!!
Ahem. Not as dramatic as it sounded in my head.
I went for a dental appointment, shopped for GH and YKent's birthday presents and visited my grandparents today. Just in case anyone's interested. ;)
5 things in my handbag-
- Keys.
- A free New Vitamin E Moisture Serum sample from The Body Shop.
- A receipt from The Body Shop for the sample that I didn't pay for.
- Pencil case (owned since 2001).
- Camera (Fujifilm Finepix F31fd).
5 things in my purse
- A blood-type card. I'm AB Positive.
- MyKad.
- Ticket stubs of Flute Festival and The System of Cikgu Tuko.
- Money. (Or the lack of it)
- ISIC Card. Hip hip hooray for discounts!
5 things in my favourite room (My Bedroom!!!)
- My bed with its Garfield bedspread. And pillows.
- My bookshelves laden with books I bought from The Big Bookshop Warehouse Sales recently.
- My HP desktop.
- Random cute stuff which I can't resist buying and leaving around.
- The Yuyuhakusho poster that Asa gave me since forever.
5 things I would like/love to do
- Destroy permanently the harddisk of the Sony technician who formatted my lappy.
- Be a travel writer (go Europe and Japan in the process).
- Have a good hearty laugh.
- Take up playing piano again.
- Go to the beach with THE bunch of friends.
5 things I'm currently doing
- Applying for jobs in New Zealand.
- Gathering necessary documents for PhD application.
- Packing my luggage.
- Tidying up my room.
- Procrastinating from all of the above.
And here comes my favourite part of tags - killing them.
I hereby do not tag anyone. Muahahahahhahahaha!!!
Ahem. Not as dramatic as it sounded in my head.
I went for a dental appointment, shopped for GH and YKent's birthday presents and visited my grandparents today. Just in case anyone's interested. ;)
More computer-related woes.
I don't know if this post will be in time to go up - the apartment has a scheduled power outage at 10:00am but it's 10:24am now and nothing has happened yet.
It never rains but it pours. For the past few days I've been just overwhelmed with the sheer waste of time!!! of juggling the problems of my lappy and my wireless connection. Windows Vista + Sony Vaio is a killer combination. Killer, I tell you. And the greatest thing is that the Vaio C25G that I bought is NOT backward compatible with Windows XP. See here for the troubles that I'd have to go through to downgrade to Windows XP.
So I'm stuck with both of them! Happy lah. Yeah I knew the backward incompatibility from start, but I harboured a tiny hope that Windows Vista is not as bad as they say. Well, note to self. ALWAYS listen to what they say!!! HELL. Windows Vista is a second Windows ME. Shame on Microsoft to stuff it down our throats when it is so unstable. Arrrgghhhh.
I have three computers in my house now, one of whom (my sis's) is down with virus, my HP desktop which gives me relatively little problems except that its network adapter is temperamental, and my lappy who, from yesterday till just now, has been restarting itself and configuring updates and restarting itself and configuring updates in an endless loop. Then it ran normally. And I don't know why, how, what the hell.
Is this how men feel when they say they don't understand women? If so, it sucks. I feel you.
11am already and the power is still not cut off. What's a scheduled power outage if it doesn't go according to schedule??
Pottering off.
It never rains but it pours. For the past few days I've been just overwhelmed with the sheer waste of time!!! of juggling the problems of my lappy and my wireless connection. Windows Vista + Sony Vaio is a killer combination. Killer, I tell you. And the greatest thing is that the Vaio C25G that I bought is NOT backward compatible with Windows XP. See here for the troubles that I'd have to go through to downgrade to Windows XP.
So I'm stuck with both of them! Happy lah. Yeah I knew the backward incompatibility from start, but I harboured a tiny hope that Windows Vista is not as bad as they say. Well, note to self. ALWAYS listen to what they say!!! HELL. Windows Vista is a second Windows ME. Shame on Microsoft to stuff it down our throats when it is so unstable. Arrrgghhhh.
I have three computers in my house now, one of whom (my sis's) is down with virus, my HP desktop which gives me relatively little problems except that its network adapter is temperamental, and my lappy who, from yesterday till just now, has been restarting itself and configuring updates and restarting itself and configuring updates in an endless loop. Then it ran normally. And I don't know why, how, what the hell.
Is this how men feel when they say they don't understand women? If so, it sucks. I feel you.
11am already and the power is still not cut off. What's a scheduled power outage if it doesn't go according to schedule??
Pottering off.
10 Days Left. My Bag! =D
So here it is. My laptop backpack. Black, boring, boring, black.
But not after my dad did some magic to it!
But not after my dad did some magic to it!
Here's the Kuala Lumpur Flag in front.
And here's the side view with both flags visible.
10 1/2 Days Left.
衰。Means "Suay".
Went to the Sony Service Centre again yesterday. They taught me how to restore my lappy (which I have named 小鹿- it means Little Deer), which I did after getting home. Then, Internet down.
...
After some calls to TMNet this morning, which service has improved a lot *applause*, the Internet came back up an hour later. Phew.
Ooh. Someone gay is on TV now. My Gaydar has been buzzing like hell after that trip to the gay club. Anyone who's remotely attractive/uses hair gel liberally/moves gracefully triggers my suspicion.
OK. Going to perform other online tasks.
Went to the Sony Service Centre again yesterday. They taught me how to restore my lappy (which I have named 小鹿- it means Little Deer), which I did after getting home. Then, Internet down.
...
After some calls to TMNet this morning, which service has improved a lot *applause*, the Internet came back up an hour later. Phew.
Ooh. Someone gay is on TV now. My Gaydar has been buzzing like hell after that trip to the gay club. Anyone who's remotely attractive/uses hair gel liberally/moves gracefully triggers my suspicion.
OK. Going to perform other online tasks.
12 Days Left.
So. Tired.
But since I've made it a point to write every day till I leave, here's what I did today, as-is, for the lack of fuel to come up with anything better:
10am: Woke up reluctantly by Mum and Sis laughing over something outside. Dragged my sleepy self up to do research on the documents needed to apply to the CEU, and Erasmus Mundus.
11:30am: Set off to Xenri Japanese Restaurant where the rest of the clan would meet to have a Japanese buffet lunch as a farewell thing for me. Any excuse for fine food.
12:00noon - 2:30pm: Stuffed face.
3:17pm: Got lost and turned up late to the Sembang Tech Ed. 2007 by Microsoft. Talk hadn't started so all was well. Met high school friend Yuen Chi - we were in a website designing team together last time, he's still a techie while I went off tangent - and he is as sprightly as ever. Also met Victor an old LTPian. Talk was okay but too technical and scattered. Or maybe I have lost touch.
6pm: Left Bangkok Thai Jazz Bistro in a hurry to go home to change. Got caught in a jam at Bukit Bintang and a noob knocked into our stationary car. Noob compensates without further ado. We rejoin the jam.
7:05pm: Got to Blog House slightly late. Prayers for Tun Dr. Mahathir started at Maghrib time. It's the coolest thing to see all the religious leaders, seated in a line, performing their respective prayers. Very peaceful and reverent and I felt infused with spiritual energy while they prayed to their corresponding Gods for TDM's speedy recovery. The spiritual leaders hung out after the prayers. Fascinating.
8pm: Family went to pick up YKent for steamboat dinner. Felt my energy waning as I am reminded that I will probably have to go to Sony Service Centre tomorrow to revive my laptop. Sien.
10:30pm: Reached home finally.
11:30pm. Started blogging.
12am: Going to bed. ZZZZzzzzzzzZZZzzZZZZzzzz
*Update*
12:40am: Somehow ended up reading blogs instead. My World's Greatest Dad(TM) just handed me my Cool Malaysian Laptop Bag (Don't wanna TM this 'coz it sounds stupid - for the lack of words caused by drowsiness)!! Pictures tomorrow =D
But since I've made it a point to write every day till I leave, here's what I did today, as-is, for the lack of fuel to come up with anything better:
10am: Woke up reluctantly by Mum and Sis laughing over something outside. Dragged my sleepy self up to do research on the documents needed to apply to the CEU, and Erasmus Mundus.
11:30am: Set off to Xenri Japanese Restaurant where the rest of the clan would meet to have a Japanese buffet lunch as a farewell thing for me. Any excuse for fine food.
12:00noon - 2:30pm: Stuffed face.
3:17pm: Got lost and turned up late to the Sembang Tech Ed. 2007 by Microsoft. Talk hadn't started so all was well. Met high school friend Yuen Chi - we were in a website designing team together last time, he's still a techie while I went off tangent - and he is as sprightly as ever. Also met Victor an old LTPian. Talk was okay but too technical and scattered. Or maybe I have lost touch.
6pm: Left Bangkok Thai Jazz Bistro in a hurry to go home to change. Got caught in a jam at Bukit Bintang and a noob knocked into our stationary car. Noob compensates without further ado. We rejoin the jam.
7:05pm: Got to Blog House slightly late. Prayers for Tun Dr. Mahathir started at Maghrib time. It's the coolest thing to see all the religious leaders, seated in a line, performing their respective prayers. Very peaceful and reverent and I felt infused with spiritual energy while they prayed to their corresponding Gods for TDM's speedy recovery. The spiritual leaders hung out after the prayers. Fascinating.
8pm: Family went to pick up YKent for steamboat dinner. Felt my energy waning as I am reminded that I will probably have to go to Sony Service Centre tomorrow to revive my laptop. Sien.
10:30pm: Reached home finally.
11:30pm. Started blogging.
12am: Going to bed. ZZZZzzzzzzzZZZzzZZZZzzzz
*Update*
12:40am: Somehow ended up reading blogs instead. My World's Greatest Dad(TM) just handed me my Cool Malaysian Laptop Bag (Don't wanna TM this 'coz it sounds stupid - for the lack of words caused by drowsiness)!! Pictures tomorrow =D
13 Days Left.
Today was a busy day.
I went to the European Higher Education Fair in KLCC at noon, not expecting to find anything much but I actually did find something. There's this uni, Central European University in Hungary offering a PhD in Nationalism Studies. Best thing about it is that they're really liberal in giving out funding. Even for coursework Masters students. I'm still trying to find more information about this uni, I only know that they're actually a US-licensed university, received a lot of funding from Soros, and is relatively young est. in 1991.
The other one that I'm eyeing on is the Erasmus Mundus scholarship, for the European Master of Arts in Media, Communication and Cultural Studies. (see CoMundus) It enables you to choose two European countries to study at during the Masters programme. Funded. Yea yea I know I already have a Masters but the travelling part is Too Enticing.
So the good news is I have got some targets for further studies. Bad news is - I need to prepare all the accompanying documents to be sent out later, 'coz I will be in NZ at that time. Within two weeks. I'm so swamped!!!!
Here are the things that I'm supposed to do within these two weeks:
Moving on. After the Edufair I rushed to UM to take my family studio pic. I have a feeling that it will never see the light of the day. I do not have any luck for studio pics. I hated my undergrad one so much, that I covered the digital format with graffiti (with a graphic editor) and disfigured my own face. The hard copy is somewhere in the storeroom collecting dust. (Mum would kill me if I drew a moustache and horns on it - that's why I had to resort to digital means.)
That done, I went home to have a rest and later went to the Flute Festival at KLPAC. There was two parts to it - one was a saxophone ensemble, the other one was a flute orchestra. I love woodwinds!! Liked the sax part so much that I bought the CD. There's another session showing tomorrow at 2pm, go catch it if you can!
OK. Have to go now. Tomorrow's another long day chock full with programmes.
I went to the European Higher Education Fair in KLCC at noon, not expecting to find anything much but I actually did find something. There's this uni, Central European University in Hungary offering a PhD in Nationalism Studies. Best thing about it is that they're really liberal in giving out funding. Even for coursework Masters students. I'm still trying to find more information about this uni, I only know that they're actually a US-licensed university, received a lot of funding from Soros, and is relatively young est. in 1991.
The other one that I'm eyeing on is the Erasmus Mundus scholarship, for the European Master of Arts in Media, Communication and Cultural Studies. (see CoMundus) It enables you to choose two European countries to study at during the Masters programme. Funded. Yea yea I know I already have a Masters but the travelling part is Too Enticing.
So the good news is I have got some targets for further studies. Bad news is - I need to prepare all the accompanying documents to be sent out later, 'coz I will be in NZ at that time. Within two weeks. I'm so swamped!!!!
Here are the things that I'm supposed to do within these two weeks:
- Pack my room up for 6 months of inactivity. (Crazy task)
- Pack my luggage to NZ.
- Backup everything on my PC.
- Amend stuff on my book, meet up with Prof W to discuss logistics after I'm gone.
- Somehow revive my lappy.
- Prepare the docs for applications for further studies. (Have to get the recommendation letters and transcripts certified, research proposal must be done later coz I doubt I have time for it now)
- Deal with the convo aftermath - take back gown, collect scroll, make plaque, retrieve plaque etc.
- Go for dental checkup.
- Search for a job in NZ. (CVs, cover letters)
- Route planning in NZ.
- Go shopping for stuff to bring to NZ.
- Goodbye yumchars
Moving on. After the Edufair I rushed to UM to take my family studio pic. I have a feeling that it will never see the light of the day. I do not have any luck for studio pics. I hated my undergrad one so much, that I covered the digital format with graffiti (with a graphic editor) and disfigured my own face. The hard copy is somewhere in the storeroom collecting dust. (Mum would kill me if I drew a moustache and horns on it - that's why I had to resort to digital means.)
That done, I went home to have a rest and later went to the Flute Festival at KLPAC. There was two parts to it - one was a saxophone ensemble, the other one was a flute orchestra. I love woodwinds!! Liked the sax part so much that I bought the CD. There's another session showing tomorrow at 2pm, go catch it if you can!
OK. Have to go now. Tomorrow's another long day chock full with programmes.
14 Days Left.
Back from YKent's. Tried to clone my hard disk into an external hard drive as backup to extract the data. In the process it hung. Force shut down. Now my laptop can't be booted up. Gonna borrow a Vista CD from YKent tomorrow to try to restore my laptop. Seriously don't trust them guys at the Service Centre. They didn't screw my harddisk back properly and it's protruding.
Though there wouldn't be anything to lose if they fucked up again.
Feeling like crap. Today's not my day. =(
Though there wouldn't be anything to lose if they fucked up again.
Feeling like crap. Today's not my day. =(
HELP!!!!!
Long story short.
MORONIC Sony Service Centre went and formatted my laptop for me, WITHOUT GETTING MY PERMISSION.
My precious photos are inside, some data from my research, music that I painstakingly ripped and catalogued, basically 2 months of my life are inside that hard disk.
Techies out there, please tell me, if there is any way to recover the data within. My OS is Windows Vista Home Premium. I think they performed a system recovery on my harddisk which restored it to factory settings. The data should still be inside the harddisk right?? Just that there's no way to read it?? Is there any software that I can download to extract the data?? Should I not touch the harddisk now for fear that anything will be overwritten??
I am as desperate as I sound. Help.
MORONIC Sony Service Centre went and formatted my laptop for me, WITHOUT GETTING MY PERMISSION.
My precious photos are inside, some data from my research, music that I painstakingly ripped and catalogued, basically 2 months of my life are inside that hard disk.
Techies out there, please tell me, if there is any way to recover the data within. My OS is Windows Vista Home Premium. I think they performed a system recovery on my harddisk which restored it to factory settings. The data should still be inside the harddisk right?? Just that there's no way to read it?? Is there any software that I can download to extract the data?? Should I not touch the harddisk now for fear that anything will be overwritten??
I am as desperate as I sound. Help.
Repository of Drafts
I've been so busy that all my posts are half-done and I don't want to throw them away so I'll just put them up in a single post. 4am now, my sleeping hours are so screwed up.
***
Another one bites the dust, I thought, as he told me that he had a boyfriend. The good men are either gay, or taken, or gay and taken.
Later we went to a gay club. I've never felt safer clubbing and dancing in a sea of men. For starters, Gay Friend #1 took my hand and led me through the crowd. Gay Friend #2 assured me that if anyone groped my ass it would be him, and subsequently initiated my very first Gay Sandwich. There was significant body contact and hell, groin contact too. (Times Two.) It was as sexual as watching whales hump each other (Not very.).
I was exhilarated.
Before we left the club, Gay Friend of Gay Friend #1 engaged me in light conversation.
"Are you a lesbian?" I shook my head.
"Please continue to populate the world ya," he said, in all seriousness. I nodded, with the weight of the entire human existence upon my shoulders.
***
It doesn't take a genius to see what's wrong with the country lah. I'm just quite mad at people who seem to get a kick out of spreading doomsday stories, just so that when doomsday happens, they can say "Told you so, SUCKER!" Yeah. Genius. So great is your foresight. I salam.
There's a difference between rants because you're genuinely upset in the state of affairs, and deriving perverse pleasure in bearing bad news. It shows. And it's sick, while you yap yap yap with the pretense of caring, when you don't, and all you want to do is to get out of the country and then bask in the glory of having the foresight to flee before others did. And where would you be if the country progresses, and you fled for nothing? Hence I have reasons to believe that you secretly want the country to go down. 'Else it'd be so pointless, right?
Please observe my third finger.
***
Raja Nazrin gave me my scroll today =D I was the only graduand from INPUMA, thus was expecting to be rather lonesome, but then I met Liew Chin Tong in the hall! Apparently he was my fellow graduand, and as luck had it, sat only a couple of places away from me. We took pictures outside the hall later.
Special thanks to my most supportive parents, and Melissa Sim and Melissa Tan who beat all odds to come to my convocation. *hugs and kisses around*
***
I am thinking of going for the Flute Festival performance at KLPAC this Saturday. Anyone interested?
***
I am starting to count the days left in KL before I leave for Auckland. There are 16 more days. Two more weekends. 32 meals (lunch and dinner) to meet up with friends and relatives.
Books to read, things to buy, room to pack, amendments to make, farewells to bid, people to hug, food to guzzle....
I know it's only 6 months. But it's a Big Deal for me ok, as the longest that I've been away from home was for three months when I went to UK with my god grandmother. And I was three, so that doesn't count.
***
5am already. I should go to bed.
***
Another one bites the dust, I thought, as he told me that he had a boyfriend. The good men are either gay, or taken, or gay and taken.
Later we went to a gay club. I've never felt safer clubbing and dancing in a sea of men. For starters, Gay Friend #1 took my hand and led me through the crowd. Gay Friend #2 assured me that if anyone groped my ass it would be him, and subsequently initiated my very first Gay Sandwich. There was significant body contact and hell, groin contact too. (Times Two.) It was as sexual as watching whales hump each other (Not very.).
I was exhilarated.
Before we left the club, Gay Friend of Gay Friend #1 engaged me in light conversation.
"Are you a lesbian?" I shook my head.
"Please continue to populate the world ya," he said, in all seriousness. I nodded, with the weight of the entire human existence upon my shoulders.
***
It doesn't take a genius to see what's wrong with the country lah. I'm just quite mad at people who seem to get a kick out of spreading doomsday stories, just so that when doomsday happens, they can say "Told you so, SUCKER!" Yeah. Genius. So great is your foresight. I salam.
There's a difference between rants because you're genuinely upset in the state of affairs, and deriving perverse pleasure in bearing bad news. It shows. And it's sick, while you yap yap yap with the pretense of caring, when you don't, and all you want to do is to get out of the country and then bask in the glory of having the foresight to flee before others did. And where would you be if the country progresses, and you fled for nothing? Hence I have reasons to believe that you secretly want the country to go down. 'Else it'd be so pointless, right?
Please observe my third finger.
***
Raja Nazrin gave me my scroll today =D I was the only graduand from INPUMA, thus was expecting to be rather lonesome, but then I met Liew Chin Tong in the hall! Apparently he was my fellow graduand, and as luck had it, sat only a couple of places away from me. We took pictures outside the hall later.
Special thanks to my most supportive parents, and Melissa Sim and Melissa Tan who beat all odds to come to my convocation. *hugs and kisses around*
***
I am thinking of going for the Flute Festival performance at KLPAC this Saturday. Anyone interested?
***
I am starting to count the days left in KL before I leave for Auckland. There are 16 more days. Two more weekends. 32 meals (lunch and dinner) to meet up with friends and relatives.
Books to read, things to buy, room to pack, amendments to make, farewells to bid, people to hug, food to guzzle....
I know it's only 6 months. But it's a Big Deal for me ok, as the longest that I've been away from home was for three months when I went to UK with my god grandmother. And I was three, so that doesn't count.
***
5am already. I should go to bed.
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