New semester, new challenge

Just another day spent at the college, the first week of second semester is over already. Too fast, too furious. It was a pleasant week at college, as we, the A-Level students, are the only ones that has begun classes 1 week earlier than those of other courses. It feels like the whole college were only occupied by us.

“ That made me enjoyed the serenity in ICSJ -- less noise, less people, more books to borrow, more computers to use. ”

I used this opportunity to borrow 2 bloody thick and heavy books about programming (C++ and Java) from the library. I don't know why I did so as the second semester is going to be a hectic semester for us, a total of 9 weeks before finals, now 8 more to go. Where do I get the time to learn programming now? Oh well, as long as I'm interested..

“ Anyway, if I were to comment about our timetable for this semester, I would only give one word: SUCKS! ”

Not because of the freaking long classes, I've gotten used to it, but then again, it's the classes for Friday. I'd always hoped that classes can end before 1pm on Friday, but instead our class ends at 5pm now. Bloody hell, freaking class ends at 5pm because there's a 3 hour gap from 12pm-3pm for the Malay prayers time. Oh good lord, is there not any day that I can return home earlier? I hate to deal with traffic jams, like today, it was so terribly jammed from LDP Sunway toll plaza until Bukit Jalil Highway. Abnormal enough as I never had such a nightmare during first semester where there were 2 days when class ends at 5pm. Wasted my valuable 1 hour staring at the car in front while crawling.

Back to the point, we were told by our Economics lecturer that our first test will be 2 weeks from now. That's just 'awesome'! I can expect that more and more tests will fall around that time period. Let's see how well I can cope in my studies in such a short period of time. Speaking of this, the results of my first semester finals is phail, with Economics and Malaysian Studies getting B. I won't bother about M'sian Studies results because our coursework marks sucks big time. Anyway I pass it as long as I didn't fail. It's over. But Economics, I've freaking studied it for 1 week before the finals, sacrificing and risking other subjects, yet not so desirable results. It's really THAT hard to score in Economics eh?

Well, it's my path, my challenge to overcome, since the day I've taken A-Level. 4 subjects are really a pain in the back if one doesn't use time wisely.

“ Thinking back of SPM days when we used to take 11 subjects, that's nothing compared to these 4 subjects eh? I suppose. ”

But I'm still myself, one who lacks motivation and self-discipline to study progressively, instead of doing unnecessary things at the wrongest time, e.g. trying to pack programming knowledge into my already-full-memory mind. That's just digging my own grave.

Using this chance, I would like to wish Malaysia happy 52th anniversary of independence. May our country continue advancing and development in the correct direction (although I remain skeptical about this). For those who want to attend the celebration, remember to wear high-quality masks and be hygienic to reduce the chance of infecting swine flu. For me, I'll just sleep until someone or something blows me to kingdom come. Heck, I'm LAZY.

In an unrelated matter, I'm going to the Premiere Screening of Final Destination: Rest in Pieces in 1 Utama next Tuesday night! My sacrifice wasn't in vain after all ^^. Wish me that I'm not going to rest in either peace or pieces during the journey.

NUFFNANG ROCKS!

I Don’t Want to Rest in Pieces like Final Destination

Nuffnang is giving free tickets to Premiere Screenings again! This time they are giving free tickets to watch Final Destination: Rest in Pieces. Oh my god, when I heard about this, immediately I told myself that I must get the free tickets in order to not rest in pieces.

First of all, I have always been having accurate premonitions. I had one right away after getting to know about this event. I can foresee that, without the free tickets, I can't watch the movie in cinemas as I'm flat broke. Without the fixed seats in cinemas, I could rest in pieces if I were to watch it in front of my computer some day later. Why? The following scenes were in my premonition:

Freaked out by the unexpected

According to Newton's Third Law: To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. And ZOMG I've lost balance from my reaction!

And then, bang my neck on the hard solid wooden table below and SPLAT!

Moving closer to have a look at my body:

I certainly don't want to die like that, I still have a long way to go. Heck, I haven't even reach 1/6 of the human lifespan! I still want to:

1. date a girl,
2. do the you-know-what thing,
3. be a father, and
4. be the President (of the house).

These free tickets ought to make me learn the way to cheat death earlier than the others. Therefore, my life is in your hands, Nuffnang! :o

*Sorry for the quality of the pictures, I could only make it with my really obsolete 1.3MP webcam..

First Amongst Equals

As everyone knows, or in case you don't know, the title of this post is New INTI's motto. I've just become part of it. What?? How dare the author of this blog claim himself to be the first amongst equals, with crappy results of his? Well, maybe not in studies, but in watching Orphan.

After having this new kind of experience, it's hard for me to not brag a little about it. So first of all, due to the bad timing, I had to watch the movie with my dad. Things never go according to my wishes anyway. Whatever, that's the last resort if I wasn't going to waste the tickets.

Just a glance of the tickets, don't bother the quality because the info is now useless anyway.

I was a tad too late to line up to collect my tickets because the last exclusive Orphan merchandise had just been given out to a few other bloggers just in front of me. Sad. Whatever, I didn't put much hope to get these stuffs and just wanted to get the tickets ASAP. Again, inedible grapes are sour.

By the way, to my observation, out of the 100 pairs tonight, I can approximately estimate that 95% of the pairs were BF-GF pairs, the remaining pairs were like of the same sex: boy-boy or girl-girl, which I assume that they are close friends. I'm the most special one, the only 1% that was paired up with my dad. Besides I think we are the pair that has the largest age difference. Congratz to me. Zz. It's tough to see other intimate couples enjoying a thrilling movie together, while I felt so lonely even my dad was beside me. Zz

I'll just skip the story. This movie is rated 18PL so it's unavoidable that there will be some censored scenes due to you-know-what-reason. Orphan is a thriller revolving about the life of this not-so-little girl named Esther (Xian please don't misunderstand ^^) and her new family. Well, to cut it short, she's a nightmare to the family. I think I didn't spoil this movie as these 2 sentences didn't mean anything lol. So to find out what's wrong with her, remember to catch this movie in cinemas at 20 August.

As a conclusion, although it wasn't an enjoyable movie session for me, it's past. What I enjoyed was that I am one of the first Malaysians to be able to watch this movie even before it's been released! Finally I'm a first! No one can admit first even if I admitted second, ahah. For those who were unable to or didn't want to go with me, your loss. Such a rare chance for me to bring someone to a free movie session, think me cheap because I only invite people for a movie when I didn't need to pay anything. Whatever.

Nevertheless, I hereby thank Nuffnang the invitation to this Premiere Screening. You've broaden my eyesights with these kind of events and I'm looking forward to other events held by you all in the future. ^^ (provided that if I can still remain creative and most importantly, being lucky.) Ciaoz

omg

You know, I can actually win something by posting some stories in the Nuffnang blog. Evening just now, I received an email from Nuffnang saying that I was invited to the premier screening of Orphan at GSC Midvalley 9pm tomorrow. Want to know what I actually wrote? Here's the link. My post is the 8th from the last if the total post still remains at 146. You'll see my name anyway.

But the problem is, who on earth will be going to this event with me? I know, girls are afraid to go out with a boy that late, I understand, whatever. Boys are obviously not interested to go out with another boy that late, I, too, understand, whatever. This means, I'm mostly going on a solo mission, wasting the other ticket. Or, forfeit both tickets altogether and give the chance to other Nuffnangers, which won't happen because it was such a rare scene for me to actually win something and I'm not best known for my generosity.

Everything is in bad timing. My Form 6 friends only start to have their exams when I'm having a holiday now. When they are having their holiday I'm suffering again. Or else I won't be having a headache now for not having a partner to go with me. Sucks.

Well, this is the downside for not having much friends. Having good things that I wanted to share but no one can share it. Sad.

Anyway, I still have half a day to decide. For now I'll just have to know the returning route first or else I'll be sleeping inside my car beside the road. I had just forgotten about the threat of H1N1. Wish me luck.

*Do let me know before midnight today if you are serious to go with me.

Cleaning (again!)

Alright, I think I'm going to end threads about cleaning once and for all. Today (I mean yesterday), out of boredom, I decided to clean up my most "beloved" one: my computer. That's right, I've cleaned everything from the monitor to the CPU, but not that thoroughly until cleaning every piece of hardware inside, which I will only do to dead machines. The thing I've gotten rid of is, of course, dusts that accumulated since the last time I've posted about cleaning my computer.

Except for this time, I've put the keyboard as the hardware that required thorough cleaning. Well, I think I've not cleaned it for more than a year already. Why would I want to clean it anyway? Keyboards just look perfectly normal on the outside, but let's not look at it that superficially. If you'd paid attention to the spaces between the keys and the "bank" of the keyboard, you can see that there are so many small debris apart from dusts, from hairs, to food and even dead bugs.

Because of the dirtiness of my keyboard I had wasted more than an hour to remove most of the debris and hell I didn't even completely clean it due to apparatus limitation. Anyway I'm going to cover the basic steps of cleaning your keyboard in this post in case you don't know how to do it.

First things first, you have to pick each and every keys out, using your own hand (if the keys are easy enough to be removed), or the better choice, a flat-head screwdriver. As you can see, if you positioned your screwdriver like this your keys will be easily picked without using much force. If you have to pick them forcefully, that means something is wrong, but it depends on your keyboard. Keyboards having different kinds of key contacts might need a different way to pick the keys, so you have to know your keyboard well. I'll not be liable for any damages done to your keyboard ==

After picking your keys, you, of course, start cleaning up the inside of your keyboard.

Partially cleaned...

It should be an easy job if you had a dedicated keyboard vacuum, but if you already have it this post is meaningless to you anyway. By the way, if you don't have a keyboard vacuum, I assume that you are rational enough to not use a conventional vacuum cleaner that you use on the floor to clean your keyboard, right? You can use a wet cloth, or like me, use a combination of wet cloth and this "bug" here to maximize the cleaning effect.

Talking of this bug, it operates with 2 AA size cells and is very useful to suck up dust and small debris on hard surfaces such as tables and in this case, the keyboard. Of course it didn't manage to suck up everything so I have to use the screwdriver to move the dirt a bit before sucking them up. With these removed it will be a lot easier for you to wipe the internals with a wet cloth (actually, not that easy too due to the "porous" surface).
Cleaning the bug is pretty easy, just open the cover below and wipe off all the dusts and debris trapped on the filter with a cloth or just your finger. Done.

Finally, when you're satisfied, just simply reinstall the keys according to their arrangement and there you go, a cleaner keyboard that looks more refreshing, without any strategic improvements. Well actually, it might keep pests or insects away from your keyboard lol if you always eat in front of your computer. Who knows if they do make their nest inside it? Especially if you have those high quality gaming keyboard that easily cost a few hundred bucks, you won't be that generous to share your keyboard with them, will you? ;)

Godspeed.

Semester break

Yeah man, after 3 months of non-stop studying (I mean going to college la), it's the end of my first semester already. And I can enjoy 1 WEEK of holidays before continuing to suffer even more, because the second semester is a short semester and I think we will have to have classes until 4 or 5pm everyday. Zz.

It sucks. But I think it's not as suck as my finals. Honestly, I performed badly, luck was not with me. I had to rely on my TRUE SKILLS in answering the questions, that's why, I wrote loads of crap and didn't have enough time for almost every paper for some reasons. Don't know if I still can retain the scholarship or not..*sigh*

Anyway, what should I do for this whole week of holiday? Play? Sleep? Study for second semester?? I have no idea. I got thoroughly bored with every game by now, which includes Facebook. But even if I don't play I will still waste my time on the internet, which means sleep deprivation still occurs. And what the hell study for second semester? I'm that lazy. OH YES! My Rubik's Cube! Finally got the time to master it after buying it for nearly a month =="

Again I have to say, time flies eh? This semester just passed in a blink of eye. At the starting of college days when I didn't have any friends until now when I STILL didn't make any true good friends but still troubled by something undesirable.

Well, what's past has past, I have to look and advance forward. Prepare for the challenges in the future, in the meantime, more coffees to be spammed at a later date.

Lost

Why? Why am I viewed as a 'special' one when I'm an introvert? Is being special a sin? Do I like being 'special' at the first place?

I always thought that I can focus on revising for my semester finals after my Malaysian Studies' presentation, and I can relieve my mental burden since asking me to go out presenting in front of the class is a nightmare to me. I gave my best, but the harder I try the worse off I am. Anyway, the presentation is now history and our "group" got 8/10. I don't know if I caused the deduction of 2 marks or not, but that's not my main concern and also not what I am going to talk about in this post.

So reflecting back to the questions at the opening, obviously I'm troubled by my introversion again. It will be a long post, not interested then leave ba.

Today, I felt uneasy since the moment I wake up, predicting something bad would happen to me. And yeah, on my journey to ICSJ, I made a lot of mistakes which could be fatal, but I still reached there safe and sound, but there was no parking near college premise. Eventually, I found one 'nice' spot just around the corner of Starbucks Coffee, so I parked there without hesitation due to my perfunctory observations of other cars parking there without any aftermaths. Paid the parking fees, and off to class.

Right, there were actually no classes and attendance was bad as people tend to stay at house to study for their finals or do what ever they want. Cut the crap short, I spent nearly half day at the library alone until breaks' over and I have to go M'sian Studies class. The same situation: <25% attendance, no class. I still went in anyway because I just know I won't study if I went back home earlier. It was a big mistake.
Some classmates from another section came in after me, they chatted with the lecturer. All of a sudden, they started finding profiles of other students in eCAMPUS and criticizing or talking whatever shit. Not everyone was 'chosen', but to my surprise, I was in the list. Of course, they turned down their voice when they were discussing about me, but no one knows that I'm good in eavesdropping (now I've compromised my specialty).

I think they were actually thinking that I'm deaf because I'm an idiot in communicative skills. But they were trying to discuss me when I was in less than 3 metres away from them, besides I'm sensitive to my name. I heard them mention me, so I continue looking my book lo, but paying attention to them. They lmao-ed when they saw my profile (I know, I wasn't prepared when the picture was taken). Then talks started, 'lan si', 'ji bai'(自闭 in Cantonese, a.k.a. autism. And yeah, I'm sensitive) was among the descriptions I can hear.

Most interestingly, they actually discussed which group of person do I talk to. Hell, is it that fucking important? I will only initiate a talk with people who have common interest(s) between us. I was labelled autistic for this. I will clarify this once and for all (who am I clarifying to? None of them has my contact!), introversion is not autism goddamnit. If I were to be an autistic person, none of you will actually know my presence because I will just sit at the most corner of the class instead of at the middle rows(although lonely). You can talk to me and I will reply you if I know how to, but of course not talking to me just to ask things from me every time.

Anyone knows how long was the time for me to have my closest friends currently? It took at least a year for EACH of them, yet still the bond was eroding.

5pm, class ended, went back to my car, and found out that I was summoned by PDRM for improper parking. So many cars around and only me hit the jackpot. So these were the bad things that was going to happen to me eh? Ok, I've hit my toll. I'm physically exhausted from sleep deprivation from the pressure of presentation and these mental blow. I drove very carefully back home to post this meaningless rant.

Why did all these events crush me at the same time? Now, I'm so heavily suppressed in the valley of darkness. Now, I have no more intention to study. Now, I've not only lost my aim to live, but could also lose my will to live anytime.
And don't worry, I strongly disagree with the captions.