Of Meh Lays and what nots

I was watching a programme on Discovery Travel & Living channel yesterday. It was called Bizzare Foods: Asia. I didn't find the host, Chef Andrew, good though. One thing is that he didn't really know how to taste the food and also failed to get names of certain things wrong. I'll only comment on the part where he went to Penang, Malaysia.
A few things he said which was, well....you'll get the picture once you read them:
He pronounced Malay as Meh Lay.....what's up with that?
Ikan bilis became Eye Can Bilis....sheesh, get your pronunciation right, dude.
He said that belacan is nasty looking.....Nooooooo, it isn't!
Peking duck=Pay King Duck?!
Coagulated pigs blood is the most unpleasent thing. Yeah right, don't eat lah.

Well, my English lecturer didn't go ballistic today. *phew*

The week

Boy...what a week! A hectic one it was. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this week would be better than the last. I'm dreading tomorrow's English class. Who knows how ballistic my English lecturer is gonna be tomorrow. Should I not go? Haha....unlike me to skip class unless I'm sick. Oh well.

Had a haircut on Friday. My mum went with me and my hair style was practically to make my mum happy. My mum kept telling the guy cutting my hair that I (ME?! I don't wanna look like a guy!) wanted it shorter when it was actually her who couldn't stand my hair being long. The guy looked like he was thinking, "Wah, this girl cannot think for herself one!"

I've been sneezing non-stop today. Is there someone talking bad behind my back?! Haha...I'm not supuerstitious.

!@#$%$#@!^&^&*^

I HAVE GOT A CRAZY ENGLISH LECTURER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She just nhad to ruin my (and the whole class's) day. I think being a PhD holder has taken a toll on her sanity. I LOATHE her! Another 7 more weeks with her. Don't know how I'll be able to tahan it.

I'm darn sleepy. Slept at 5 a.m. and woke up at 6.30 a.m. the same day, no thanks to my group mate who did not have the sense to follow instructions. I've got a presentation tomorrow. And I need SLEEP!!!!!

Good night!

An unsuspected thunder

Whoa. An unsuspected thunder! Scary~~~~
Rained real heavy just now. Sounds like it's gonna rain again.

And I'm supposed to be doing my assignments. What am I doing online then??? I feel so lazy. That's how one feels when one wakes up at 12p.m. Hahaha.

Wanna share some videos I uploaded a while ago.

Chicken Little Trailer - Very CUTE!
The Numa Numa dance, that's what some people call it.



A clip from Little Britain - Extremely HILARIOUS!
From Series 1 Episode 1. Listen to the riddle (cracks me up everytime I watch it).

Eh???

My mum just told me that my sister's friend saw me yesterday in college and that she smiled at me but I did not smile back (she said I was looking in her direction). To be honest, I DIDN'T see her. I guess my brain must've been half asleep or the scope of my vision has narrowed to, maybe, 90°. She should've came in front of me and waved into my face. That way, I would have noticed that she was there. So people, you know what to do if for some reason I'm looking in your direction but don't seem to know you're there. Just come in front of me and wave INTO my face.

Congrats Liesl, for getting straight As in your UPSR exam!

Jia Ying, I know you don't read my blog, but I just wanna say, I'm sorry to hear that your grandmother passed away.

Just wanna share a GIF I made not too long ago (my soompi avatar). Hey Rach, cute or not? I saw the screensaver, didn't download it, though.

Canggih.....

Hah! My college seems to be on the way to canggihness. New mouses (mice) in the CITC and optical ones! First they upgraded the computers in the CITC to Windows 2000 and then put wireless access around the college, which unfortunately, doens't have good connection, especially in the library. Now this. I wonder when they're gonna change the computers in the library which are super old. Soon I hope. Or we'll keep getting corrupted files whenever we use it to save stuff.

Another blood doantion drive in college, another 450ml of blood gone. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining, I LOVE donating blood.

Yet again!

Great! My Internet connection just died on me, yet again. I had to switch on the other computer to check the ruddy router settings. I found out it was the router's filters that were blocking my notebook from accessing the Internet. It just has to ONLY block mine. Why? I don't know. I am seeking to find out why. I had to disable the filters so that I could access the Internet once again. I hope this will not happen again but I doubt that it won't happen again. *sigh*

Some photos

Just wanna share some photos

A grapefruit (my second one in all my life, so far). Given by my mum's friend. Must've been expensive.





























A picture of my mum, who is computer illiterate.

Untitled.....

Feeling really tired. I finally got my 1st eight-hours sleep for the week. *Yawn*.
Now my head is buzzing with assignments, assignments and more assignments. A feel of college life for you people who think it's a breeze being in college. Bleh! It ain't, not when your other group members depend on you too much especially for English.

A funny thing I heard from my friend the other day. He said he his group members celebrate after finishing an assignment. Wow, these people sure have lots of money to spend. Imagine how many celebrations they hae each semester? I've never heard of such a thing.

Just the other day my Internet connection died on me, only on me but not by siblings. Why of all computers it had to be mine? I quote (boka, soompi) an explanation of what (might have) happened:
"computers are crazy things, sometimes they like to change their own settings... your computer probably has a particular address that it likes to use when in a network, whereas the other computers on the network might not care what address they use and can use any address dynamically assigned to them by the router... i.e. when you turned your comp off or rebooted, the router somehow thought your computer had moved out of the address and let one of the other computers in so when your computer came back, it couldn't get in..."
Thanks to my brother for reserving an IP address for my computer, now I can use the Internet again.

Cleaning your PC

Wanna know how to clean your PC?
Click on this link.
Thanks to CK92842 from Soompi forums for it.

Jogging.....more like strolling

I went to the park today after goodness knows how long I've not been to one. I went to Taman Aman, a park located just right next to the Taman Paramount LRT station. I went there to exercise. Yeah right, seemed more like I was strolling in the park. I only jogged almost one whole round of the park. What an accomplishment!
The park was nice. There were many health conscious people there, especially old uncles. Most people go there to walk (brisk walking), only a few were jogging.
I should go jogging more often

The Sims

I have lost my The Sims CD as well as the expansion pack!
I wanna play it! Argh, where oh where could it be????????

English

I'll start off with my English tutorial. Had a class yesterday. I just had to sit (had no choice) in between two people who would not stop asking me questions throughout the whole class. We were doing grammar and our lecturer was asking us for answers. For each answer given, these two people kept bombarding with questions on why the answer is what it is. Boy, was it frustrating. Imagine trying to listen to the lecturer and having a person on each side throwing questions into your ear.

Had English language lab. I found it quite fun.

The first aid unit came into the lecture hall today to promote their blood doantion drive. The guy who was explaining was really funny. Funny in the sense of not being able to pronounce words correctly. Imagine, above became aboove; involve became invoolve. The two mascots were extremely hilarious this time around.

Damned English

I can't stand my English lecturer. Why can't she accept our ideas? Now my group has to find another topic for our English assignment after wasting our 3 weeks. Sheesh. Why can't she accept the problems we tought up of? And now we are given less than 2 days to find information, write down headings & come up with interview questions. This is really frustrating. Reminds me of the frustration I was facing when I was doing my MIS assignment back in Dilpoma. Gotta go find information now instead of hanging around here.

Career Fair week & User interface

Had a long week. Had two days of classes up to 7 p.m. and one till 6 p.m. The ones up to 7 p.m. was because of the career fair. But the career fair was "educational". Not all the talks had much substance. Some were just to promote their company/organisation. After the talks, I am certain I don't want to work in any of the Big Fours nor do I want to do auditing.
I went for a public speaking talk yesterday to see if I could learn anything to brush up on my public speaking skills (as I am a poor public speaker). A thing I learnt is about making eye contact. One of the speakers was talking about it. She gave three tricks. She said only to use them if we were going to have a heart attack and die.
The first trick is to focus on the people at the four corners of the room. Make eye contact with them at random order, not in a continuous sequence.
The second is to look at people not in their eyes but in between their eyes.
The last is for people who are short sighted. Don't wear your spectacles/contact lenses on that day unless you really are almost blind without your glasses.

I have just changed my computer's interface. I love it!

(click images to enlarge)
Before & After

Belated prezzie

Got a belated birthday present from my brother and sister yesterday. Finally, I've got the 6th Harry Potter book. RM69.90. Thanks you guys. Personally, I wouldn't have bought it yet. I would've waited till the price went down to RM49.90. Now I don't have to buy it. Yeah!

Shattered!

What a way to start the day. The tinted screen in front of the monitor just had to drop and the glass just had to break. Why me? According to my brother it already looked broken the last time he dropped it. It seems to have something against me then. This got my mum into a bad mood. Great! Now I have the whole day, or more likely the rest of my life, to feel GUILTY!

Scratched

I have been scratched, though it looks as if the scar is a trail of puncture marks. This was due to my carelessness. I forgot I was carrying papers which have a string with metal pieces holding them together. The result is this:

Here are the CULPRITS:

Yay!

Got my notebook today! Yippee. Now my brother can't simply restart it as and when he wants to.
A Dell Inspiron 2200. I got a really good price for it. RM 3,040. Thanks to my Gor-ee (fifth aunt) for allowing me to use your credit card!

Specs:
Processor: Intel® Pentium® M Processor 735 (1.70GHz, 2MB Cache 400MHz)

Operating system: Genuine Windows® XP Home Edition

Memory: 512MB 333MHz DDR SDRAM

Monitor: 15" XGA TFT Display (1024x768res)

Hard Drive: 80GB Ultra ATA Hard Drive

Optical Drive: Internal 8xDVD+/-RW Combination Drive

Graphic Card: Integrated Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 900™ up to 64MB of shared system memory

Network Card: Integrated 10/100 Fast Ethernet

Wireless Solution: Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200 802.11b/g 54 Mbps MiniPCI Wireless Card

Modem: Internal 56K Modem

Service: 1-Year Limited Warranty


Went to college today for a group discussion. Thought it was a complete waste of time. Hardly got anything done. My tutor is really bonkers. I think being a PhD holder has made her like that. Haha. She only gave us one day to find information on our assignment. Another thing is that we want to go for a talk this Wednesday but she won't let us. She told my class rep,"You go and change the time for the talk. I won't let you skip my class." What's up with her? Can't she replace the class? Man, she's being really unreasonable. Gotta go check out the e-learning thingy before she starts banging us for not going.

Daze

Whoa, I nearly missed a class today. It's a lucky thing my class rep SMSed us before it was too late. I had no idea that English tutorials start this week. Didn't tutorials usually start on the 2nd week? *Sigh*
I got the SMS at around 12.30p.m. telling me that English tutorial was at 2.30 p.m. Luckily I was already awake. Had a shock when I got the SMS. I'm still recovering from it. I can hardly remember what happened during class, apart from the fact that my lecturer is really cerewet.

Was the dream a sign that something like this would happen? Well, it wasn't exactly the same but it's somewhat similar. Hmmmm.......