A Kluang Christmas

The food thr neutralised ALL the toxic effect accumulated from 1.5 wk of ktsn food. Or rather, surplused it!! Yay!

Wei Wei brought me to

• Kluang Station (haha yay I finally get 2 sample 1 of Yi Lian Everyday's Food blog's food.)
  

  Toasted Kaya & Butter-ed Bun n Kluang coffee n half boiled egg which was half boiled 2 perfection!! The perfect correct degree of runny egg white n yolk spill out into the plate whn u crack the egg into 2 halves. Slurps!

• Kluang Parade's Thai Seafood
  

  The no.1 spiciest n best tomyam ever tasted (by me) in Msia. It beats Penang laksa (HAHA). N b4 I left I saw the person adding a scoop of cili padi into the tomyam soup. FIRE!!

• Wei Wei's home delight! :P
  

  Her mum cooked Pan Mee, Wei Wei cooked Wanton and generally, her homecook meals r the bestest after my mum's :D

• Kluang Parade's Tako
  

  Some Japanese seafood thingy. Tako balls or sth. Crunchy fusion of tangy seafood flavor n veg. crunch munch!

• Hawker Food area (dunno the name)
  

  Pork Rib Porridge with tons (well more than KL's of Kch's) of mince pork and lean meat and Petaling Street's porridge texture.

  
  

• Kluang White Coffee
  

  Which I din enter. Haha! Just take photo 4 fun.. lol.

• Eat all these everyday and u'll be as adorable as this Totoro.

And Wei Wei's family consisted of reli warm n fun ppl :P

• Her cute youngest bro.
• Her toothy grin other bro.
• Her shopping loving sis.
• Her tomyam love-spicy-food-kau-kau sis.
• Her cool sporty mum.
  
• Her 500% tolerance level dad (too bad no pic!)
  
• Her granny who asked me whr I'm from and stuff. Cool.
  

I visited the rubber and oil palm plantation. Swak no such thing marh.

The rubber plantation! Looks like a scene from Winter Sonata without the snow filled ground and if u cut my face off from the picture. Grin.

I always tot they hang the container to collect rubber at the mid level of the tree. Now only I noe the place it at the BOTTOM. Lol.

N I always tot they carve the tree like berpuluh-puluh kali (like how they draw it in Geog text books in form 1). Now baru I found out actually the max num of times u can carve is twice. To get more rubber latex flowing out.

N I din noe oil palm trees can grow reli TALL…. N look like coconut trees whn they grow old. Cz the flakes on the tree trunk eventually fall off as they age.

Only took photos of the young oil palm trees (cz only then my face can be seen just a level below the leaves) and cz the flakes on the trunk r so unique :P

We were suppose 2 wake up at like 7am to c ppl menorah getah in the morn but it rained on fri morn so it gave us excuse to go back to sleep wahahha. On sat morn it actually rained for only 15 mins maybe but it was also an excuse to go back to sleep. Lol. So in the end din c lo.

Stayed from thurs evening to sat noon. Thx Wei Wei 4 the hospitality and great fun!

Blessings

today seemed like a day filled with blessings i wish it could go on n on (haha kiasu).

minus the 1st 2 lectures whr the 1st 1 told me i need 2 go back n study as in realllyyyy study (heheh) and the 2nd 1 telling me that Medicine n Society is going 2 make Sem2 a looooonnnggg 1, it was fulfilling.

i tot i'd hav lousy results 2 spur me 2 work harder in sem 2. now i hav not-lousy results 2 give me pressure 2 live up 2 expectations (self n non-self) 2 also spur me 2 work harder in sem 2. lol.. bt at least no hypocrisy involved. hehe.

i definitely did not achieve wad i did in sem1 myself. just as i did not win VC cup or survived 3 tournaments myself. bcz i had the most awesome God n cool angels of family n friends who helped me all along the way. :)

i want thank:
- my God for showing me He's there with me.
- family for their prayers n support. for not giving me any pressure even tho i keep telling them i'm going into medical sch not 2 top but 2 survive.
- friends for all the help n prayers.
- debate teammates who put up w me thru study week 2gether n helped me so so much thru the group study, answering random ques, giving lectures haha, stressing out 2gether. it reli helps knowing thr r also ppl who're going thru it w me.
- wei wei for being the best roommate ever.
- all friends who helped me survive 1st sem. - pbl mates, lab partners, coursemates, basically every1 hehe.

i love u all!!!! thank you thank you thank you!!

i also had a great shopping so-called spree (lol i reli had a so called spree i just shopped n shopped n bought grins...) at 1U w Elaine, Kah Yan, Sze Ying, Min Jie. christmas decor at 1U is great! :P i had the best lunch ever in this week, i mean, best meal ever (cz i had 2 hav dinner at hostel's cafe this week) bCZ! i get 2 eat it straight from the wok! :D i mean, the cafe never serves its meals in woks. EXACTLY. lol.
(picture Manhattan Fish Market- tho no, i did not hav lunch thr hehe) - blame blogger. i wanted 2 put up photos bt it just doesnt allow me to!! -

so dat closes my chapter for 1st sem.

i granted myself a truly enjoyable break today. haha. so tmr, pia study!!!!!! fuyoh. no more chillax-ing! LOL.
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shortcomings

my posts will basically be a bit dry bcz blogger hates me. haha. 4 sum reason i cant upload any photos here.

bt ANywayy..

life has bn good. lol. minus the fact that:
- results for sem 1 isnt out yet. i tink i will barely pass with Cs. yargh must study harder this sem... (n what am i doing here muahaaha)
- lectures everyday r piling like mad. each 1 hr lecture= 3 chapters of bio i used 2 hav.
- i am a lazy easily distracted loser. NOOOO..... no no i cant admit i'm 1. i'm not a loser. i just prefer not 2 bag the winning glory. :D
- i feel like going home everytime sum1 mentions about going home 4 hols. argh cant wait 4 cny..
- i want 2 play squash..
- i hav not bn reli studying despite the fact that i stare at Marks n Lippincott every nite.

in short:
- i am happy bcz -i'm going shopping tmr
- bcz thr's a whole load of breaks like the lonnnngggg Christmas wkend plus new yr break!
- bt i stil need 2 study so that i dun end up getting 2.00 flat in 2nd sem. eheh.

despite the fact that thr's 90% of a chance i will get 3.00 flat or below.... n i shud be thankful n get on w life n study harder 4 next sem, i tink i will stil be disappointed if i get a 3.00. hypocrite! haha.

2nd sem

bcz i am so sick of trying 2 upload photos into my proper blog post, i gave up n just published it w/o the photos. it has bn the 10th time at least i tried publishing w photos n the error thing pops up. give up!!!! ARGH. ok nvm lol.

its the 1st day of new sem.

it started off pretty well.

i accepted n gratefully looked 4wd 2 new pbl sessions w diff ppl. i walked into intro of new sem w enthusiasm. things looked reli fine. things sounded reli interesting. ppl n frens were back n it was good.

n then. at the end of the day, i found out yet again my pbl changed. ok. change of mood. a little i guess.

n then. whn i reached back in kt i tot, its not so bad afterall.

n then. now. i'm here. n i was suppose 2 be looking 4wd 2 studying metabolism n refresh the Crab cycle n glycolysis i learnt in f6. n i just feel so so sick of... of... i dunno. just a sinking feeling of sth i hav no idea y. its the 1st day of 2nd sem n i'm feeling moody?? sth wrong w me sth wrong w me.. groans..

miss home no doubt. but that isnt the reason.

i. just. cant. wait. 2. get back my studying spirit again.

ok studyyy.......

A Journey of 6 months a thousand miles away

Contrary to the saying a journey of a thousand miles begins w a single step, I dun tink KL is reli a thousand miles apart from Kuching, but bcz I'm stubborn I won't admit it isn't.

I finally hav the time 2 sit down n comtemplate on past misgivings, the things I've done wrong, the ppl I've hurt, I just wan2 say sorry bcz I always mean what I say, bilif me, the sarcasm was intended and saying its sarcasm was just an excuse. HAha jk.

This is the season to be jolly, for the many many reasons besides the fact that Christmas is coming, I'm stil on hols, AND tmr is the start of Human Rights Debate(HRD) which I'm actually suppose 2 be reading up on the issues n stuff right now n not blog.

1. Accomodation
   

• Rmb I talked about how the termites came to visit me 1 fine day n took portions of my books back s souvenirs? HAH the termite busters came to terminate them during my study break. However, come to tink of it, since they sprayed my whole shelf with termicide (whatever u call it) I'm even worse off now cz I din feel like using the shelf anymore for my food stock OR risk putting my books back n hav termites taking free souvenirs from me again. (super Msian termites)
  
• N another rather interesting fact was how my room literally bcame a jungle or cave in a tropical rainforest bcz after the ppl came 2 kill the termites, it rained heavily the next day's afternn n tadah!
  
• ROOF LEAKING
  

  But tinking bout it, God was telling me that, if I could survive termites and roof leakage in the midst of study break n exam week, I can survive anything else. WHOOPEE! (but that doesn't mean I wan 2 hav 2 survive anything else more drastic ok)
  

  
  

1. People
   

• Those I met but has left
  

  1^st, Mar-jie. 2^nd , Wye Li. 3^rd, Bunny, not cz she left UKM but cz she left for home for HOLS like 2 or 3 wks before my exam, n wil stil hav hols 2 or 3 weeks after my 2^nd sem starts.. the world is round!! (as oppose 2 fair n square) bt since I dun hav 2 take pprs like Bhasa Inggeris or hav lectures in malay medium, or hv class from 8am-5pm everday, I dun hav the right 2 complain.. Right? (Bunny is taking Pharmacy.) I miss those who left. God bless them. MJ even turned up during NHSD!!!!! :D :D :D
  

• Those I met bt wil be leaving
  

  This applies 2 seniors who're in near graduating yrs!!!! N dinosaurs (as the debate ppl term those who've graduated) who tirelessly come back 2 train this bunch of juniors.
  

• Those I met and will be my comrades for the next 5 yrs
  

  Really amazing, cool, funny ppl. My roommate who puts up w my mess (which reminds me that I hav not swept the floor heh heh), my floormates who lend me their baldi-baldi sekalian during tropical rainforest season, my PBL mates who put up w my nonsense and lousy chairing – I noe that u guys just let me b chair 2 save my face la wahahha, my batchmates who're a cool bunch of ppl who dun sideline me even tho I'm a hopeless banana (I stil insist on learning canton wahahha)
  

• Lecturers
  

  Many of whom we salute n respect for their knowledge and ability 2 force us 2 study by telling us formative assessment results will be taken into account in future. NOOOOO…….. *mock horror*
  

• Church friends and leaders
  

  Who has given me endless support n strengthening my faith in God n 4 putting up w this less committed individual.. eheh..
  

1. Debate
   

• Sth that has bcome such a big part of my life here. Thx Cher Linn! Thx Lee Fang! I was here in the 1^st place bcz of these 2 ppl, n bcz I was looking for avenues n ppl 2 justify my lack of oral communication (n laughter) during Minggu Mesra Pelajar (cz I can't translate sarcasm lol).
  
• Training -à English Speaking Zone Debate à Vice Chansellor Cup à slack slack slack train sumtimes read sumtimes decided that we're not superhumans 2 go 4 royals during exam week àdebate training camp à sum1 started the idea of going 2 royals in the midst of exam, contemplating its feasibility à suddenly all 5 kiasu ppl joined royals à studied like MAD drg 4^th module àKL ppl staying in KTSN drg study wk bcz of debate (Haha) àexam week whr major pprs r over à went 4 ROYALS! :P à sat for OSPE/OSCE my practical ppr à rushed back 2 watch seniors in finals! :P à training for 1.5 days for 13 motions for NHSD à NHSD (Kevin n Pau got top 10 best speakers WOOHOO!) à got sick à spreaded my disease to John, Kok Joo, Qian Yi, training for Human Rights Debate à I recovered, but I tink the rest have not, 100% eheh.. , n here I am!
  
• Basically I love the nature of debate, the analysis involved, the ppl whom I reli shudnt just regard as ppl, but rather as reli good friends, whom u can count on, who share ur passion and above all hav a great sense of humour, bt also twisted minds. Haha. Some 2 a higher extent naturally. Lol.
  

1. Exam
   

• Its whn u're at the last straw of reading anymore Genetics or Chromosomal Diseases that suddenly there's a knock on the door and Voila! Prisca appears w a Gummy Bear delivery from my 2^nd yr buddy, Ee See. That defining moment contributed to 10% of things-that-made-sense that I wrote in my answer sheet in Genetics paper the next day. Grins. This Gummy Worm looks like a chromosome. (sorry I am such a nerd I cant come up w anyting better 2 say)
  
• It's whn the weather is so against u (haha) that u just get so fed up, n whn tropical rainforest conditions worsens, or whn things get reli membosankan that Wei Wei was there for me to crack lame jokes n laugh together about a person singing 5 times a day, or when friends come knocking on the door that enlightens atmosphere.
  
• It's whn u're driven 2 finish studying certain topics, bcz u noe during lunch n dinner u're going 2 spend time discussing debate stuff. (actually in the end not 100% was spent on debate stuff hahahahhah.) that at 11.30am or 6.30pm u get a msg that tells u how inviting the smart café is compared to st*p*d McDonald tables.
  
• It's whn in the middle of the night, u get 2 bug a friend n complain n just say how the world is against u cz u cant finish studying not cz u're stupid bt bcz the scientists discovered too many irrelevant stuff n force us 2 study them 2 boost their egos.
  
• N finally, its whn the major pprs r over, n I go online from Kah Yan's room telling the world on msn that I dunit 2 study anymore knowing for a fact I stil got OSPE/OSCE on coming tues, n PPD the next day wahahah.. n finding out in NUS, the welfare committee gives out cincau n mango pudding 2 the hostelites during study wk.
  

1. Quality of education
   

• It's great. :P See, we even had Dr. M to give 1 of the demonstrations in HUKM (Karyotyping thingee in Pathology n UMBI) n bcz there's only 1 of him, n so many of us, evry1 damn kiasu 2 get his autograph. So short ppl dun get 2 see wad's going on in front. Lol.
  

  
  

1. Holidays
   

• Being a thousand miles away (yeah I still insist it's a thousand miles muahhaha) makes the heart grow fonder of home. Seriously. I would hav cried if I got unimas n hav 2 spend the rest of my uni life, working life, wadever old life in kch, kch, kch, maybe get transferred 2 betong, then back 2 kch, kch, kch. Ok yeah point made. Hehe. So even though I'm in kl, the fact that I complain about not being able 2 go home whenever I want, bla bla bla, the fact is, I stil love studying here. Hehe.
  
• N whn I get 2 go home, time is so so precious!
  
• But whn I dun get 2 go home, or choose not to, I hav awesome ppl here 2 accompany me. Heh heh. Sorry ppl, u hav 2 put up w me whenever I dun go home drg hols muahahha. Thx everyone thx thx thx! :P
  
• For now, my mission is 2 visit Malacca, Johor, Ipoh. Or else, getting ppl 2 come 2 Kch! :D very ambitious plans 4 next hols lol. Which I tink, wil also be filled w debate stuff.. ehehe.. *can imagine roommate fainting at the word debate again wahahaha*
  

So yups. Basically explains my journey. Which has yet 2 end. HRD!! Petaling Street!! :D (I'm now staying at Hotel Malaya, Petaling Street for HRD) Food paradise! :P