CONVOLYMPIC PART II ( SAT )

Saturday was a little break from convo. Brought Agnes’ parents out for breakfast in Ayer Hitam then went up Kek Lok Si to have a look and take some nice pictures. Hehe. Met some seniors and frens. Seems like whole penang is crowded with friends and their family.

From Kek Lok Si

Then we went over to Gerogetown for Penang Laksa and TeoChew Chendol which are among the must have in Penang. The weather was a little gloomy and it drizzled a little.

Teochew "Chendul"

Then we headed back home, took a rest and got ready for photoshoot in the evening at Santiago Bridal House, Georgetown. Agnes had 2 sessions, one with family and another with friends. So it’s kinda crowded at the studio. Everyone was trying to look as good as possible. After that they had more photoshoot on their own since all were still looking good.

Poor bear

It’s pass 9 when we finally decided to leave. And we headed to Jelutong for dinner. Back home, took a shower, transferred some photos, charged up all batteries preparing for the next day. Tiring 2nd Day.

CONVOLYMPIC PART I

it took me quite sometime to had this posted up. i'm a little lazy and busy anyway. i'll try to keep up again. hehe.

It’s been a tiring weekend. Finally it’s over. What a relieve. I can’t imagine when it’s my turn next year. It’s started off with Engineering on Friday afternoon. I followed HL over from campus. I had to collect flowers for my senior and fetch Agnes’ parents while she had to tidy up the place for them.
After dropping them off at home I headed off to USM main hall where lots of my friends where already there. This is my first time attending a convocation. We had to wait till the whole ceremony to be over which was almost 6. We walked around the bazaar, took a drink and waiting for time to pass. Then when it’s almost time ppl started crowding in front of the hall eagerly waiting for the sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, and friends. It took my quite some time to get to my seniors. So is everyone else. It was so crowded that even gathering at the post office is not good enough. Front, back, left , right? Everywhere filled with ppl. Then photo taking with whoever we met.
Luckily I borrowed Momo’s new cam, Sony A200 to take some nice shots. I’m not too familiar with it though but still manage to get some nice shots. Ryan also brought his shooting away. I hanged around till almost 8, picked Agnes’ with her parents and took dinner in Queensbay. Tiring day 1.

familiar face i met

Congrats to all seniors

6 of August is the date. I hereby wish her a very happy n wonderful birthday! I may not be able to celebrate with her on this very memorable day but my heart will always be with her all the time. We'll postpone the celebration to some dates later. Hmm. I haven't decided on how to celebrate with her yet this year. Postponing the celebration bought me a little more time. Buying her a present is also another thing to think about. Well, anyway i'll just keep all these secret for the time being. Hehe.

Happy Birthday my dear! With Hugs and Kisses and Loves from me hoping that you'll have a wonderful time this year round. Being always cheerful and lovable.

Always Loving You, Jihouh

Happy Birthday Littlest Sis!!

Just creating a short post to wish my dear littlest sis a very happy birthday. I almost forgotten all about it. Luckily dad reminded me. oops. Paiseh. Littlest sis she is. As she's the youngest and physically the smallest. She's currently in form 3 but i think she looked more like a primary school girl. haha. ( so bad of me ) Anyway I also take this opportunity to wish her all the best and good luck for her PMR which i think is just around the corner.
Study hard k.
Erm. Thought of buying something for her but i'm not sure what. we'll see.

生日快乐!

Life so far...

Life so far i think has been great. Although still back in campus and still studying as like the past 6 semesters, but i think so far this is the most wonderful semester of all. I think this semester is truly different from the rest. Probably because have more outings gua. Hehe. I think this is partly due to the amount of ppl driving car in campus, especially coursemates ( which includes Lian ).

Lots of outings have been going on since the beginning of the semester.( which includes paintball, movies, tao etc ) Though i took like 18 units this sem, 3 for audit, still i think so far it wasn't that bad as compared to last time. probably things haven't really started. Projects, assignments, FYP are among those very taxing work load. It won't be long but enjoy while we can. Hehe. I'm suppose to be studying and mugging my book tonite as tomorrow was suppose to have OM test. Since the have some seminar going on, lecturer decided to postpone the test and life suddenly become so relaxing. GY suddenly took off to Kl, penangites some already took off back home after today's class, and for me went watching movie with some course mates( Ryan, Lian, CH, Sim, MF, BS, KK, ). Things were decided after class at 4 and we took off at 5. That was spontaneous. Went pacific for dinner then The Mummy at 730pm and went hang out in Jawi , New Town Coffeehouse. Pretty nice movie, hilarious too and among the few movies where you are able to see Jet Li being the bad guy.

New Town coffeehouse is similar to Old Town Coffeehouse type, with pretty decent price too i think. I took a cup of iced mocha white coffee which cost me RM 2.80 for it. The toast cost RM3 but it doesn't looks as nice though, looks oily to me. But somehow we hang out the till almost 1am. Haha. Life was like so relax. This is what i call being a final year student. We chit chat about all sorts of stuff, though i don't remember spending that much time with this gang of friends before this. I guess it's good to mix around more.

Anyway, breakfast tomorrow has already been planned. Another busy day i guess.Breakfast, follower by a seminar, then squash in the afternoon, and i might be hopping over to the island in the evening. I wonder how long these kinda life will last?

Paintball Fun!!

Seohli was recruiting ppl to go for paintball. I was hesitant at the beginning but after some thoughts I finally joined in. I wasn’t too sure of the location though seohli gave me the address there. I went over to the island before heading for paintball. I thought of probably meeting up with them somewhere along the Juru exit but somehow rather inconvenient. So o ended up wikimap the location and try my luck.

Permatang Tinggi

Wasn’t too bad though, get there based on the wikimap and when I’m almost there I saw banners of the paintball arena. I thought I lost my way when turning in to a narrow road which can only occupy a car at one time but glad I was when I saw the game field. I saw CS there being the first person and me being the 2nd person. While waiting for the rest I just stood by look around getting excited and can’t wait to play the game. It was something new for me though.

When the rest arrived we were all very excited to begin it. Before beginning, we actually need to fill in a form. Then seohli and choyyin busy were negotiating with the boss. He was quite a nice guy. The boss was quite firm with the price he offered. RM 280 for 2000 pellets. According to Pao whom I think was quite a frequent paintballer, said that the deal was pretty good. So we were satisfied and getting ready to start the action. 19 turned up including me. So seohli did her homework by dividing us into 4 teams. We were briefed a little on the safety of the games. We were provided with air guns, face mask, long sleeve army like shirts and vest for team recognition. We looked cool in those, but the smell was a little stinky.

There were few game fields there. One that we played has many obstacles like wood shelter, oil drums, trees which I think was pretty cool. We played among each team and tried our best to shoot the opponents down. It’s very exciting though as it’s real shooting and you will get shot unlike those in CS, where everything is virtual. Choyyin took me on the feet in the first game. *sob sob* So those got shot will need to move out of the field.

Another field is full of PVC type blown up tubes in various shapes and sizes. I find that field in harder and more challenging as you have less cover and more open to the opponent. So you really need to be good in shooting ppl down and prevent from being shot. Throughout the game Pao and Teng was really indeed very good shooters.
We finished our pellets but we still want for more. So another round of negotiating, purchased 1000 pellets and free 1000 pellets for birthday *kids*.

Towards the final game, everybody enter the field together. So it’s really madness with 20 person in it. Haha. Fun ! fun ! and lots of fun ! Shooting ppl is fun. Being shot is also fun. Haha. Some got shot on the head, on the face, arms, legs, and even close to *there* . That was close. I think the record holder for the receiving the most shot goes to Pao. He was like the undying Rambo always charge towards the enemy.

So all in we each had to pay RM 36 which I think wasn’t too expensive. After that we headed to Juru McD for dinner. Tired.

Guess who? should be an easy one. haha

Food, food and more food..

 I was picking up Agnes after work on saturday from her new work place in Pulau Tikus. Then we went for lunch at this shop nearby. I browse around for food available and one particular stall caught my attention. Roti Babi it states. Curious i was. It sounded so not halal. Probably it's just the word. Pork bun doesn't sounds that bad right? hmm.. But roti babi just give me a sight of a pig between breads. Eww. Anyway, we looked at the menu and decided to try it.

It turned out not too bad, sort off 2 pieces of bread sticked together with some fillings ( minced pork with carrot, etc )  in it, dipped in egg and deep fried. It has a variety of fillings on the menu, pork, sambal , cheese , etc.. On the average each cost bout rm2.50 each. Not too bad. 
That was side dish actually, I ordered a large spicy noodle. It tasted spicy. Just okay, but it really cost me quite a lot. rm4.50 for it. I'd prefer the "san wei mien" in nibong tebal which is larger, nicer, cheaper. Pretty much of the same. 

Polylane Cafe

Menu of the day

Roti Babi

Spicy noodles

Then in the afternoon, we went hanged around in Prangin Mall looking for a new pair of glasses which took us quite sometime before heading off to Queenbay for Dark Knight. Pretty cool movie. *clap clap* Watch it and you'll know it. 

We tried the always smells good tomyam which just makes you drool whenever you pass by the shop. It's somewhere on the 4th Fl if i'm not mistaken. And they serve steamboat and noodles. We ordered a tomyam maggi and a plate of rice with pieces of deep fried fish. The tomyam was okay but the rice is kinda weird especially sauce that comes with it. Tasted like diluted tomato sauce. But it goes well with the tomyam soup. They should serve it with the soup instead. Total cost rm15+

Tom Yam

Gosh, I'm just eating and eating and eating, nothing else. I must start going for exercise. Anybody care for a jog?
Besides, money just flows out fast... I'm broke.. Still haven't buy my books yet. sigh.

Best Rojak In Town..

I was driving down to the penang island last friday with JC n XY, and we drop off Lian at butterworth as she's going to SP. After dropping Lian off, JC suggested that we go to try out a rojak nearby. So off we went.

I've tried quite a number of rojak from various places. But i think this is the most unique and unbeatable one. It has 2 stalls there selling the same type of rojak. The typical rojak that we eat are a plate of mixture of fruits or other stuffs with mouth watering rojak sauce covering it with some ground peanut on it. 

The one thing about this stall is that they provide unlimited amount of sauce. They serve by the satay celup style or more familiar to those from other places , Lok Lok style. They place a variety of fruits, yau char kuai, fishballs, quill eggs and sotongs. You can select at your own liking. Next we have 2 bowls of rojak sauce, spicy and non-spicy. The kind lady even added on lots of ground peanuts in them for us. The taste of fishballs covered with rojak sauce all around is just superb. That's what I call the best rojak. Pretty much of the stuff goes along well. I ended up eating almost 10 sticks of them. Each cost 40cents , even a small cup of liong fun after that also just cost the same. 

Bout RM4 for the best rojak is definitely worthwhile.

Little shop selling rojak

The wide variety of stuffs available

2 bowls of sauce , we ended up with just half left

Delicious

isn't it just mouth watering?

Tao, Juru

Tao, a familiar place, but not so familiar. It's my second time there so i could roughly imagine what to expect ( food wise ) This time we had about 15 of us so we could actually order more stuff and more variety of it. So the whole night was like Food , Food, and more Food and even more Food!! I was stuffed up to my throat by the end of the day. I think for a big group outing it's quite a fun place but not for a 2 person outing ( if u know what i meant, *grins* ).
We reached about 6. Maybe earlier. Started ordering like there's no tomorrow. The food this time actually came faster than our mouth could handle. But we still manage to keep up to the pace. Haha.
*In the manager's mind : Damn, we are sure getting a huge loss tonight. *

I skipped a little on the food part which Choyyin had put up on her blog.
*it's time for me to change a camera*

Discussing over *seriously* how to eat the amount worth.


In between commercial break, Cheezzz


Evil grins, wonder what in his mind

Gosh, what were they up to? Can i have a peek too?
sorry i hadn't had time to photoshop it. so just assume the boxes are *there* la.

After eating, definitely it's time to take a nap. Zzz...


I wonder what have they captured?

Left : trying to catch a pic
Right : trying to pose

Choyyin getting bored..

Some nice lightings from the room

Ice cream craze

This is Tao

Final Year Project!!

Well i've just read up choyýin's complaints and worries about FYP. I guess everybody's worrying about it which includes me. Some people trying to implement some online system and making us their white mice. I think this shouldn't be the way. Previously topics were selected by students and they can approach the lecturers and consult them about the topics and so on. I think that would enable us to actually have more understanding of what we will be doing for the coming 2 semester. HELLO!! this is final year project which is onsidered the most important project throughout our 4 years of studies in the university not any minor assignment or project. Why put our FYP at stake to test on their *sure to fail system*?
Their reason is that students would tend to choose lecturers rather than topics of their choice. Well i think this shows that students are smart enough to worry of themselves and choose wisely. Besides if all the lecturers were good enough there wouldn't be such problem occuring. And they are doing the selection by pointer priority which the student with the best pointer gets the first priority. Piece of crap i would say. However what's been arranged by the school, we'll still need to follow. Just hope for the best. I wish everybody the best too.

Pure boring..

It's been almost 24 hours since i'm back from malacca. Got stuck back in this campus. Gotta take a morning bus back as i din't manage to purchase any night tickets. So here i am back early. One thing i dun really like about taking morning bus is that it's very hard to sleep. though i slept most of my way but still i was awaken a few times. Unlike night buses which i can really sleep from the moment i step into the bus right up till the parit buntar bus station. Anyway this time wasn't as bad as the previous time which took a very much longer time as the bus stop for a very long time in kl. (bad experience, Only take the normal buses KKKL)
My trip back home got me a short break and shifted some stuff back which includes a cupboard and an iron both for agnes' usage in her newly shifted place. One thing that din't come back with me is my dear lappy. I sent it for servicing but (they are very slow in doing their job) I can only get it back on mon. Luckily i had Ryan helping me to transport it back. Else i'll be more miserable till the next time i go back home.
Life without my lappy is horrible especially when the first thing i need to do when i came back was to register online for my final year project. Then i need to print lots of stuffs, search for online resources, notes, and not forgetting as entertainment, watch movie, chatting and blogging. I need to last till Ryan's back. Counting down...
Luckily ... i still have my mobile with me. I can go 3g. though the connection a little slow but still i manage to do some of my stuff online( most importantly registration). However i'll be stopping the service soon as it's a little expensive to maintain since i already have internet service in my room.
Can't wait to have my lappy back..

Back in SH3052

I kinda miss the house i stayed in penang during training. It not may not be big ( 2 rooms ) but it feels cosy and comfortable. It's quite fully equipped, has sofa, tv and an aquarium too. Hehe. Feels just like home.

Morning view from my window there

Now I'm back in my 3person room hostel. which still looks the same as 4person room. Don't know what's the point of it. Probably so they can charge you more. I'm staying at the ground floor though. I'm worried of ppl coming in grabbing stuff and also not forgetting *cute little kitty* who might come pay their visit. Feels kinda hot lately. I wonder if it's the weather or my room.

End of Training, Beginning of Studies Again

Finally the long waited 11 weeks of training is over. But towards the last week, I wish it could be more than just 11 weeks. I'm beginning to start enjoying my training but yet it has come to an end. I've really learned quite a lot from this not very big company. With the guidance of my supervisor, a man with few words but i've learned lots from him. Everyone in this company is quite friendly and nice. Even the once very serious, cold blooded looking manager, always seems to be busy and occupied wasn't as bad as it seems. Only towards the last week we manage to interact a with him by presenting to him what we've been doing for the past few weeks. Serious discussion, and questions & answers, was a little scary at first though. But it all went well.

During my training in the company, i'd been interacting with several workers which includes some operators and machinist, most of them were very nice people though. I've also learned quite a handful from these people, their jobs may look simple and but being in their position myself has given me a different view of their job.

Getting dirty is unavoidable in this company. I smelled like grease and coolant everyday after work. But i kinda start missing the smell of it. However 11weeks is really short, but that's the time i have in the company. I really enjoyed my training period in the company, although there are some boring times but on the overall was enjoyable. It wasn't as scary as i thought in the first place. Hehe.

What's over is over. I need to start to adapt to yet another new campus life, My final year. I hope everything would be great though i'm already starting to worry about lots of stuff.

• Shifting - done ( tiring )
  
• Course - Registered ( online )
• FYP Title - Still reviewing ( have my choice of title in mind )
• Training Reports - Yet to start ( soon )
• Financial - Struggling with my pay ( waiting for PTPTN )
• Blog - Updating now ( receive complaints for not updating )
• Classes - Started today
  
• Computer - keep dying on me ( overheated ), gotta get it fix this weekend
• Back home - high chances this weekend
  

I just hope everything goes smoothly as usual for my final year.
^_^

Life Is Complicated

The more you think it is perfect,
The more you know it is not perfect.

The less problem you hope to face,
The more problem will come to you.

When you think you have just solved a problem,
Another problem will started hitting on you harder still.

When you think you know a lot,
You will find out that you are much stupider.

When you think that you have learn a lot,
You will find out that you know the least.

When you think that you are very lucky,
Bad luck will start coming you way.

When you start enjoying your life,
You will need to start a new one all over again.

When you think you will lead a simple life,
Things will just gets complicated.

New member of the family..

Tadaa..

I dun really like cats though. Cos they usually make a mess out of everything. Then sometimes they will sneak into the house to steal some food which reallly pisses us off. But lately the mother cat gave birth to these 2 little kittens. So they were quite cute and we couldn't bear to throw them away. So we just let them stay at the back of the house and give them some left over food.

Puurrrs......

Dumpling Festival..

Yippie. I'm back in mlk again. my 2nd time during my training. hehe. just because of a longer weekend so got myself back. Too bad i'm back alone this time. Agnes has her MAB going on so she's gonna be busy.
I've just meet a couple people back here. Not many though. Some aren't around, even my sis ( enjoying life in genting ). For the second time i came back i've din't met here. Avoid me on purpose. =.=
Anyway, she left something for me for my birthday. Sweet of her. But i wasn't expecting anything moreover things like that.

cute?

Back to the main topic, so happen this weekend is dumpling festival. You can find dumplings at any corner of mlk. Market pasar malam, jonker, i haven't check in tesco yet though. hehe. I like dumplings. We have like 3 kinds of dumplings here. The typical Bak Chang which has pork, dried mushroom, water chestnuts, some have dried oyster, dried prawn and etc. Another type is the Nyonya dumplings, it's a little sweet, has mince pork, winter melon and etc all minced and stuff in the dumpling. Some people doesn't like it as much but i'm fine with it. hehe. The other is 'kee chang' kinda yellowish, tasteless little dumplings. People usually eat with sugar or some with kaya.
So we wanted to buy some dumpling to eat at first but prices really hikes up. Previously was like rm2 plus then rm3. This time they were sold at rm3.50 each. Sad Sad Sad. So daddy and I decided that we made our own dumplings. First time. So excited. lol. So we bought our stuff and whatever is needed and headed back home. Prepared everything and getting ready to wrap dumplings. My dad was pretty good in wrapping. But I am struggling to get a tetrahedron dumpling rather than a kinda flatten pyramid or some other odd shapes. Opps.
We bought the stuff but couldn't really estimate how many dumpling can it make. We did the first round, and came up with 17 dumplings. Done with the glutinous rice. But we still have about half the rest of the ingredients. So we decided more glutinous rice and more dumplings. Hehe. and we ended up having about 35 dumplings.
The results, not too bad. I'd give myself 8/10 =P

Glutinous rice

Dried mushroom

Dried oyster

Pork

Water chestnuts

Finally the dumplings

TGI Friday's !

Last weekend, i went to TGI Friday's in queensbay mall! Quite a nice surrounding. Cosy and the waiters were quite friendly. We sat down and went through the menu and decided on what to eat. We took a set meal which comprises of an appetizer, main dish and a desert. We also add on another main dish and a drink. Supposed to be a belated treat from Agnes. Hehe. I'm not speaking more, i'll just post some pics of it. Food were fantastic.

The appetizer

Margarita

The main course

Strands of melted cheezzzzz

Err..


Feast time *munch munch munch*

Delicious.. *drooling*

The finale dessert *burp*