Which Hall Which Hall?

There are so many halls to choose from!

http://www.hku.hk/osa/nonlocal_students/accommodation/accug.htm

After talking to Master Fishy, I’ve narrowed it down to Lee Shau Kee Hall (founded in year 2005) and Starr Hall (in year 2001). So, both are relatively new. Hopefully without any paranormal activities in it. >.< I never knew Halls are supposed to be that active. They’ve got so many sports clubs and activities all round the year. And the students seem to be really outgoing and enthusiastic which is really cool. So far I don’t think UNiM’s halls of residence have that much life in it. Well, can’t really compare since they have only like 5 storeys or less for each hall. Lol.

Help me help me! Please give me some comments on which to choose. XD. Both look equally good to me.

Lee Shau Kee Hall (16 floors) – http://www.hku.hk/lskhall/facilities.html

Starr Hall (23 floors) - http://www.hku.hk/starr/about_starr/hall_tour_file/hall_tour.html

Both of them situated on Pokfulam Road. Fishy says: Sounds like PORKfulam Rd.
LOL!

p.s. Fishy still prefers Starr? 23rd floor 摘星樓? =D

Recent Addictions.

1) Ice Lemon Tea Candy

2) Marching Bands of Manhattan by Death Cab For Cutie

3) House M.D

4) Taking 2-3 3-hours-naps per day

5) Lemons.

6) Giving Max’s floppy ears massages

7) Practicing back in, reverse parking whatever you call it. (God I SUCK!)

8 ) Day-and-night dreaming about my future Uni life in HK.

9) Checking my Gwmail account every few hours which I have no idea why since we’re on study break.

10) Blogging about absolutely nothing! (Update: I just remembered my tenth actually. Goodday Fresh Milk FULL CREAM! No yucky low fat. Bleh.)

Final Decision.

I hope.

HKU. Mechanical Engineering.

Thank you for having that talk with me and giving me that one last push.

I Need A Crystal Ball.

Why oh why did I applied to so many universities in the first place? NUS, HKU, University of Southampton and Embry-Riddle have accepted me so far (last one left – HKUST).

The admissions tutor of HKU emailed me today informing me about the entrance scholarship of HK$50,000 per annum (which is about RM25,000 per annum?). According to their website, tuition fees are about HK$80,000. After my mum’s estimation of the total sum that she’ll still have to pay, she says its still more expensive than NUS with the tuition grant. Living expenses and lodgings are really expensive there. Sigh. However, I’d be saving one year, she says.

Met up with the representative of Uni of Southampton. Painted a really nice picture of the campus life there. Lots of clubs and societies, a nice campus, the 1 pound bus fare to london (cheap!), guaranteed single room in the halls of residence for the whole 3 year duration of the course (yay!), and 3000 pounds of award (which actually is quite a lot despite the small figure, exchange rate times seven woi!). Applied for Maths with Acturial Studies. Parents are keen on sending me here because this was their ideal choice of course for me (acturial science). But I am not sure whether I really want to switch courses.

Embry-Riddle’s representative also came to KL last month. Had a meeting with her and she too painted a really pweetty pweetty picture! I could work on campus and the campus was like just right beside an airfield (since its an aeronautical university). Oh the eye candy pilots! =P But then I applied for Engineering Physics and since its aeronautical university, their course modules emphasize more on aero stuff (duh!) like space systems design, spaceflight dynamics, space systems engineeering and space physics. I doubt that I’ll get a job with that degree if I come back to Malaysia. And US and its many psychotic students (not you Master Fishy) are starting to really scare me (VT incident). Brrrr..

NUS. Sigh. It’s the last on my list of preference right now. Somehow, now, I feel like going to a much more different place. There’s not much difference between Malaysia and Singapore culture wise. But its really cheap and I’ll get to come home often since its bus fares we’re talking about and not airflights. Then again, quoting my brother, I really think I’ll get a mental problem after studying there since I’m quite kiasu and the thought of working many times more harder (like 100000x more!) to TRY keep up with the genius brainiacs over there just scares me. I’d have NO LIFE! Nooooooooooooo! And I’d be giving me self pressure as my brainy geniusy cousin graduated from there too, with 1st class honours and was in the friggin dean list and ‘holds the highest record for skipping classes’ somemore! What if I fail my first sem? I’d be the laughing stock of my family! I don’t think I’ll like this kind of life. I mean like, hell! NO ONE DOES! I think….

I really like Hong Kong. The thought of 4 seasons, asians, improving my Cantonese and the quite tasty scholarship. Then again, Southampton and Embry-Riddle sounds fun too! Maybe I’ll get to improve my English, get a little fake accent (hopefully not as horrible as Dr. Woo’s one). =P Apart from the environment part, I’d still have to decide whether or not to change my course. I have no idea. I feel that I’m not really coping with Mechanical Engineering. I like it, some of the modules are interesting, but then again, the thought of having to design a spring cart as my year 1 project in UNiM doesn’t really excite me at all unlike my peers. I guess I can’t do everything I like. What about Maths with AS? Huh huh.. It guarantees I won’t be touching anymore Physics for the rest of my life. >.< I don’t know whether I’m ready to totally give Physics up yet.

How am I suppose to make my decision. Why can’t I have everything! *Guilty of greed* Help me!

Oh, crystal ball, crystal ball,
save us all, tell me life is beautiful,
mirror, mirror on the wall,
Oh, crystal ball, crystal ball,
I’m fading out, everything I know is wrong,
so put me where I belong..

-Crystal Ball by Keane

You Can’t Find Nothing At All When There Was Nothing There All Along.

It’s kinda weird how I always start to blog more frequently when exams are nearing. I guess its an excuse to procrastinate. XD Oh well.

ProE spot test on Monday was horrible. I wasted 30 minutes switching computers. The drawing wasn’t that hard to reproduce. Just that the friggin 30 minutes!! Logging out and logging back in. Bla! I suck. In the end, my assembly drawing wasn’t in a nice exploded view and I had no time to create the table and balloons. Sigh. Yes, its official. I am slow. I have no idea whether I’ve been this slow all along or only recently. Coming to Nottingham really accentuated my slowness coz of all the teasings by my course-mates. I never knew! And NOOOOOOOOOOO! I don’t wanna be slow!

Next week is study week. ‘Holidays’. Right. Then exams on the 3rd till 15th. And then it’d be rotting time again! Yippee! XD
Rot, One Piece, rot, Death Note, rot, Neopets Mindless Games, rot, Blogging, rot, Websudoku, rot, Movies, rot, Mid Valley, rot, Sungei Wang…..
YAY! Lol!

Just found a new love for ‘Death Cab For Cutie’! Their album rocks! Sorta a little ‘The Fray’ and ‘Snow Patrol’-ish, I think? On repeat: Marching Bands of Manhattan. (Janet! Must try! =P)

Gotta get back to Fluid Mechanics, been stuck on page 82 since morning! =P Wait, go down to drink my lotus soup first. Bwahahhahahaa!

Avril Lavigne and Her ‘Best Damn Thing’ CD.

Ya right. THIS CD SHOULD BE DAMNED TO INFINITY AND BEYOND! One of the worst albums I’ve ever listened to.

I had a feeling this CD was going to turn out to be a horrible one just by listening to that annoying single ‘Girlfriend’.

‘Hey! Hey! You! You! I don’t like your girlfriend! No way! No way! I think you need a new one! …..’ – Girlfriend

‘What’d you know, I told you so, you know that, coz I always know, get outta my face, hey hey, you’re not my taste, hey hey …..’ – I Can Do Better

‘Let me hear you say hey hey hey, alright! Now let me you say hey hey ho! ….. Give me an A (always give me what I want), Give me a V (be very very good to me), R (are you gonna treat me right), I (I can put up a fight), Give me an L (let me hear you scream loud)! One, two, three, four! ….. ‘ – The Best Damn Thing

WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF! Oh GOD! What’s with all the ‘hey hey hey’s and the cheerleader perky stuff?!?!?!?!?!?!?

‘I wish you were her, you left out the ‘E’, you left without me, and now you’re somewhere out there with a bitch, slut, pschopath, I hate you why are guys so lame, everything I gave you I want everything back but you ….. ‘ – Everything Back But You.

‘You make me so hot, make me wanna drop, it’s so ridiculous, I can barely stop, I can hardly breathe, you make mewanna scream, you’re so fabulous, you’re so good to me baby, baby ….. ‘ – Hot

‘I’m the one, I’m the one who knows the dance, I’m the one, I’m the one who’s got the prance, I’m the one, I’m the one who wears the pants, I wear the pants, I’m the one who tells you what to do, you’re the one, you’re the one if I let you, I’m the one, I’m the one who wears the pants, I wear the pants ….. ‘ – I Don’t Have To Try

‘You know it’s a game, you know it’s a game, she keeps playing around with your head, playing around with your head, she’s so insane, so insane, she’s the one to blame, she’s the one to blame ….. ‘ One Of Those Girls

Some examples of repetitive and cheap lyrics. Ugh.

Out of the twelve songs in this latest album, only ‘Runaway’,'When You’re Gone’, ‘Innocence’, and the brilliant ‘Keep Holding On’ are worth listening to. The rest are just too (quotes a reviewer from Amazon) ‘Hey Mickey!’-ish. *Shakes head*

I did give this album a few tries but each time it just got more and more annoying. What ever happened to her composing skills? Some one should get Deryck Whibley away from Avril while she writes her songs.

Disappointed. Seriously disappointed. Sigh. >.<

Hope LP’s ‘Minutes To Midnight’ will be good.

Rewind.

Passed up my last assignment of this semester which was a poster on Y-Jack. Celebrated with my friends by playing sportS. Played skuasy (lol! sounds totally ridiculous but cute..=P), badminton and table-tennis until 11 p.m.!! XD Squash totally wore me out and table-tennis was extremely fun! However, I had a price to pay for all that ‘invigorating’ exercise the next day. =P Whole body ACHED like hell! Reminds me of the first basketball practice of every year when we came back unfit and all. =)

Exams are starting on the 3rd next month. I’m doomed. However, not so much pressure this time because I just found out that exam results usually are released the next next semester. Bwahahahahahaha! I’d already have left. But I’m still going to try my best to do well no matter what lar. Hehe.

Dug up all my old CDs and ripped them to this computer. Jay’s first album, D.A.I’s CD which I bought from Japan, ancient Uehara Takako’s CD etc. Listening to them all over again. Miss the past. Parents are thinking of shifting to a condo selling this house. I wish things never had to change, people and all. When I familiarize myself to something, I wish it’d always stay the same, sweet. But it doesn’t always happen that way, does it?

Further studies plans for now:
-accept NUS offer and take the tuition grant
-see whether HKU or Southampton would offer me a scholarship (dreaming, yes.)
-then make a final decision

That’s all.

Waiting Forever.

I’m here wasting time trying to log in to my Gwmail account.

Anyways, I don’t think I’ll be staying on in Nottingham. Got offered to a few other places (overseas!) to do Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Physics, and [Statistics, Computing, Operational Research and Economics]. Haven’t exactly made any decisions yet because I’m still waiting for a few more application outcomes. But by the end of this month, I’ll have to weigh my options, see which one’s the best.

In the mean time, I’ll still have to study like crazy for Semester 1’s examination coming up in May. T.T God I hope I’ll pass Machine Dynamics and Electronics & Electrical Systems (been skipping quite a lot of classes due to last minute lab reports rushing)! Wouldn’t wanna give mum any reason to make me stay back here in Malaysia, not that I hate it here or anything like that, just that I do really wanna see what’s out there.

I am starting to love Semenyih. I’d be missing my coursemates the most if I leave, seriously.

Neo, the coolest chinese drummer with a Dopod (which I borrow almost every chance I get to sudoku!) who drives super duper scarily (he calls it skillful though..er..) and likes to ‘fa qiao’s all the time.
Huey Jing, my one and only gal pal in class who drives just as crazy as Neo does and sangat sangat pedas is never pedas enough for her!
Jian Wen, the funniest and most bball semangat guy who makes every dish he eats look tasty..Slurrrrp! OH YEA! and never will I forget, after Neo’s school drum concert, LESS……. Little bit! (This one only Huey Jing would understand. LOL!)
Khong, the ProE and lab report genius of our Jan intake gang whose room we turn into a headquarters whenever there’s a lab report due the next day.
Chaw Yee, Khong’s wife with a weird taste bud (bread with ice cream and those CNY roasted chicken…ewwww!!) who always gets bullied by all of us and whose bed we invade to put our laptops on to do our reports because he’s just to bully-able…
Jie Qiang, who skips loads of classes..
Not forgetting my TARC classmates, Jen Haw, Jake, who can do a freakishly good imitation of Dr. Woo and Vince, whom I never knew is that much fun too!

I’d be missing the days when we’d have our break at 11a.m. and drink cendol or ABC while waiting for the pan mee stall in Broga to start cooking (which usually takes over an hour). Fooling around, talking crap, doing ProE in the Tiscra lab until late at night.

Suddenly realize that I have been very fortunate all these years. All the friends I have made in my primary, secondary school and college days are great, different in some ways but nevertheless awesome and fun! Thank you guys for always lighting up my life! XD

I have no idea why titled this post the way I did. Oh well, too lazy to change it. =P