Challenge

If there is a choice, do you want to be 1st or last ?
A good question is to ask, 1st of what? Or, fall behind of who ?

Once upon a time, I used to running with zk in menjalara park. I remembered that time we just promised ourselves to run as much as we could.He want to slim and I just wanna get some fitness. Yea... at 1st I really cant jog, imagine his big belly (no offense) also win me haha!! Till that there is 1 time I run longer distance than him, and we actually ran the most 8 rounds that time. Being fit that time,we outran "ppl" when we ask them go jog haha... we didnt bothered to try harder. And I think that was the max we achieved. 8 rounds might be approx 1.5-2km... Why didnt we try harder ? The answer is simple, if you run with your friends you lead and feel contented, nobody run more than you. Why bothered to run anymore?

Now coming to imperial college... Imagine wo, that time I took lifeguard course and some more go for instructor, I consider myself ok ok la. Having the long time carved in my mind assumption that people that study( who nerds) they wont be any fit de.... Yea it might be probably true in my circle, in malaysia, in kl maybe. Thats why, most of malaysians got a complete lousy education anyway.
Story: I go ask my friend who study A levels in singapore and a girl who is from sarawak to go run in hyde park lo. Lets challenge, maybe because I think I can catch up anyway ma. ( Since 10 years of my school life, people same education standard with me, we have at least same physical status, or most of the time I wins haha) So, we started running... running.... watching that they are further away from me, I feel really tired and stupid. Until I felt really short of breath, cant see them already, noticed that I have really never run this much before le... I think about 3-4km. Haha back in Malaysia I never could run 3-4km from scratch or suddenly.

Realised that I was completely trashed... sad. Then that day I asked my other friend from my course to run with us again, again I ended last. Lol cant even finish running the whole course, which was about 2miles(3-4km) again ( approximately I think is 1.5 -2 times running around the selayang park). !!! oMg, I think i am seriously lousy here... sad.

When it comes to studies.... What do you think ? It might be simple to study a little and come out top a class, yea right...but here, I think I did put some effort in my studies, come out when I got my results, really I got nothing to say. =.=!!! If I can study 2 hours last time and come out with an A in A levels, here I study the day I was taught the topic until the test I studied another night for it, came out 56% (mayb its long since i ever get so low marks ady le).... Wah... swt.

The lesson of the day, its a 180 degrees or ( π) difference. Completely different phase of a new life. Maybe its time to take a challenge; when you never fail you never will try harder. And perhaps, its good to always lose and always thrive to win a better opponent.

Remember now my friend ts and william is training for badminton. Why suddenly train for it de? Lol, lost in match la of course. Ooh.. now I see, its so "lose face" if you keep losing and therefore you want to win; everybody have this instinct or to fight back. It always feels good to win and feels terrible to lose. 1 thing to say is persistence and passion. How long will this feeling lasts? Very short time only la....

We always say never give up, but who never gives up? Haha so I thought of my other friend now, zk. He is a person who gets interested in everything. He almost wants to try everything, and I see he didnt keep it up "all" !!of the time. Lets take it a challenge, we shall see who is successful in doing whatever he/she believes in. Right? Next time I shall see william and ts winning tournaments, (or you have quit already) ?lols. I did train for badminton, but I never win before.... I remember that time my dad asked me to train a sport that I can master at, I just reluctantly went training. Now found out that, I still lose here in imperial college malaysian society....aih. *regrets*

A good story quoted from Mahathir when he came to give a talk in London a week ago.... He says:
"
Once in his uni, there is a guy who believes in fortune alot. So in the 1st year final exams, he went to ask a fortune teller how he will do in the exams. The fortune teller told him that he is gonna fail. So he said, since I am going to fail, what for I study? And of course he didnt study and failed. On the following year, he went to the fortune teller again. He asked, will I pass this time? The fortune teller said, great, you will pass this year! After the good news he said, since I am going pass this year what for I bother study ? Of course he didnt study and fail the year... "

Malaysia

1 month; over.....
I knew 1 month is always very short and that marked the end of my easter holidays in malaysia. Still remember that tuesday, I walked myself to tube station with my very light but damn ass big luggage bag. Then so scared that I would miss the flight(my first time taking a flight alone..lol) I arrived rather early, 5.10pm to airport for a 8oclock flight. Being so noob, I lined up in the check in line, then after a while i saw 1 sign wrote there "online check in" on the other side, oh no, wrong queue because i checked in online. Luckily i did print out the online receipt when my college printing service was rather lousy that very day. Then still figuring whether did I miss anything I need to bring back.... chocolates, bla bla... ..

Wah that day also I walked myself out in snow, (my first time touching snow lo) to buy some easter eggs and print my electronic air ticket. Then went back, go check in online and they send me email asked me to print out my online receipt, then walk out to print again.. and still snowing lighty. Then went to have lunch with my cousin, although we are studying in london only met him the 2nd time... =.='''

Staying alone in the departure area was so boring, I kept looking at the time and checked whether my gate is opened but I still didnt know my gate yet... abit nervous... Then 1 random guy ask me whether I am flying to seoul or not. Do I look korean ? Because he was nervous and didnt know what was the gate he was suppose to go too.haha. Now liquid is allowed. So another thing that I did was keep going to the toilet area for water dispenser, and also to occupy my time. I fished out 1 pound coin from my wallet and twisted 2 chewable toothbrush from a gachapon machine liked thing. William said wan try ma looks cool .. but i still c it on his wira dashboard. -_-!!AT LAST I saw my flight number and gate no. boarding now... but I too saw 1 sign, "pls be aware that it may take up to 40mins to get to ur respective gate" wtf ? shit ar .. boarding now means must be there in 15mins.. walao ... walked fast fast... ceh reached there in 5 mins and I have to wait for 30mins there to board a boeing 777 (according to Aaron Lee our "pilot to be" its quite high tech but smaller nia).
This time around I am used to the entertainment on board and quickly sit down to watch as much movie as I can. I remembered last year in september, I didnt have mood to watch any movie and sitting on a plane for a long journey for the 1st time, I was not quite used to it. Reached Dubai for a transit.. kanasai, damn sien walked here and there....

Ok, Malaysia time. As I stepped out into KLIA I felt damp and soaky air. Since when malaysia smell like alot of algae floating in the air ? lols. Then I looked at the sign boards ... wah damn long didnt see malay words liao, it wrote "tuntutan bagasi <---" but didnt say luggage collection or what, just said "arrivals hall". Then when I turned left... no more sign. ha ha typical malaysian, so pro .. we no need sign 1!! Then I went to search for the tequila tick siang asked me to "help" him buy at a duty free shop. After I found it, I went to pay. That fella said passport please.. in a blur malay slength, I kinda cant get what he said, then I asked him again twice.. swt. Ahh, back to malaysia for first time in 2008. First thing I felt terribly hot. Imagine wo that day I wore the same pants and shirt out the snow, now all my glands on the surface of my skin was like itching so badly that sweat is like going out in a big pressure. (Can see red spots on my skin) What I did for the 1st thing ? ha ha sleep until the next day 7pm until my mum back from school asked me "wah u haven wake up ar ??". Then I called every1 I could for a mamak(argh so missed it). Sorry la hyau ... cause u to crash ur car just to give face to me .. ha ha and shibin to suffer stomachache after the crash . ha ha ha ha! I adapted to the malaysian climate much quicker than the dry London 1. Although London was much better city, I still felt a pleasant,unique, nice and warm place to stay in Malaysia. First of all food. Really no where in London serves a better meal than a nice spicy supper where friends can sit down in a big table, order drinks and chat the whole night with spacious area while talking loudly without needing to care about your behaviour. The next best thing, after the nice satisfying supper, just sit into an air conditioned car, and blast your way home! (but not like hyau la of course ^.^) *Analogy to london, instead of mamak, head urself to a senior's flat, drink until ah ma also cant recognise then after that found out shit!! I need to walk 40mins home while taking care of bunch of drunk ppl with urself dizzy. Then walk 2 hours using the long "enjoyable" way. Its actually freezy cold 1 le in the middle of the night, why walk 2 hours? not 40mins meh ? Because i told u "drunk" ma... drunk already walk back malaysia also can.

2nd:- still london food suck. You can pay up to 20 pounds for a meal of roasted duck and imperial seafood pot in a chinese restaurant.Good food?I would say great for a person who stay there half a year and forget about where he came from. Wah I use this amount, I go watch 2 movies 2 outings + buy 1 padini t-shirt (dunno why kim hung has tis sudden strange obsession in shopping nowadays... super swt) then pay fuel and tol fees to gua tempurung, pay also to get in "grand tour" and after that go ipoh eat kao kao ,enjoy a thick aroma white coffee (with ICE ar! of course not HOT 1) !!
OR one might have to open a packet of ipoh old town white coffee, go kitchen boil water, say hi to few ang mohs, thank mr. sm ken for belanja me 1 packet of white coffee from malaysia; then sit down there in a small room sipping HOT coffee... put on headphone (not speaker) and play a 5 on 5 very smooth without lag dota game.

Anyways, I do still prefer to stay in Malaysia. Because I think I have this "malaysia" borned in me. Sometimes its hard to make oneself to behave so well in London. Come back, just say.. aiya tis is malaysia la! Drive a car, recklessly (乱乱来）who cares? idk, but dont until hyau extend la.... Then go where also can... eyes look here look there.. london dun hav meh? Ask mr. sm ken, for a Misato (japanese restaurant in chinatown) recommendation. Once he said, that meal there was satisfying, why ?he said "One leng lui hk girl sat bside me, and I keep looking at the mirror opposite me ".. lols. Ask mr bc again... diu .. we went there saw nth! ha ha

Malaysia:- go carefour buy stuff, saw 2 ppl there choose grapes, pluck here pluck there dig until the whole grape like his grandfa plant de like dat. In london sainsbury, I remembered I said a sorry to everytime my trolley near is another trolley. Back here, I said 1 word of sorry to an asshole who doesnt have a dick, he scold until like my dad fucked her wife, and wan me to compensate his pet/wife bitch who didnt noe how to drive a waja properly....

Malaysia is still good.... weekend can go curve 1u midvalley.... pavillion also I havent been there. Night go mamak or pool; Can use hotlink sms alot of ppl; battery charge once a week in london charge once in 3 days here. Can have cheap padini and hang ten shirt offer, then ask a girl to help you buy a couple's tee for 20% discount. Get stunned when ppl hand over to you xpax promotion sheet . Go bathe yourself with sweat without worrying how much you've got to pay for a futsal match. (even if u wan to get irritated and on fire very easily also worth it... haha). Wake up see sun afternoon hear thunder. Wear as sexy as u want or dont wear also wont die(of freezing). Go cinema watch movie can eat popcorn. Drive around and complain fuel expensive instead of tube and bus expensive. Go eat dried fried pork belly rice (gon chau far yok) instead of fried rice with maggi perencah and some taste the difference jumbo king praws (expensive like shit). Go clubbing and date girls. Go work also can kao girls.. lols. Dived in to the warm waters of lang tengah instead of falling into the cold hyde park pond while ppl laughing @ malaysian monkeys chasing football. Watch astro also dont know what channel to click. Go london can use hotlink go malaysia cant use mobile world. Drive myvi instead of gazing at lamborghini in a showroom.

1 word of conclusion. Go uk study wor who dont wan le? I am very lucky ....

Easter

Happy 19th birthday to me! Got egged on my head and of course a slice of 20 pounds cheese cake on my face. haha..

Easter's here, meaning we are almost done with this academic year, no more new topics and all left is just exams. Cant believe still I have a feeling that I had just reach this place. Yet its been half a year already. Half of my free time spend during Malaysian Night 2008, some to just hang around, some was spend dotaing doing assignments and revising... just felt like its a short period of time only.

Yay, I am going home again for the 1st time ! Its really the 1st time for this feeling of returning to some place I grew up for past 18years. Actually not really looking forward to it. Perhaps it will be a little foreign to me now. I wonder how it will be like to burn my skin under 30C where I just step on the ice out the cold weather here. I see snow for the 1st time today!

I am tired, physically and mentally, aih .. .feel much older. Shall c ya all soon!

2007

Recipe of the day: Vegetable Salad

Its our christmas potluck super dish. First, buy fruits cheap and whatever you can find at sainsbury (local supermarket) we got pineapples, melons, apples, grapes and strawberries in syrup. Then get a packet of corn flakes and some sunflower seeds, and also salad dressing.... oh mayonese (too bad.. free for us cause will, me and ken decided to "use" a brand new mayonese in my kitchen)

HOw to prepare:

Firstly you need to make some croutons which is our ulti recipe. Cut all the fruits into cube sizes and mixed them in a big pot. Then crushed some corn flakes into the pot and further mixed with all the ingredients. Lastly add some croutons on top of the salad... (why some? becoz its so nice to eat, so keep some for urself). haha!

Wow, a dish made by me william and min ken during xmas potluck 2007. Vege salad,idea originated from the cerebral hemisphere of Ken, I modified it.

Figuring here how to insert a stupid equation in my report using microsoft word marked the end of year 2007. Since its near the end of 2007, suddenly I realised that I had gone pass a lot in this year.

2007 has made a big big change to my life. Although I really didnt like this year alot, it changed me. From the dream of being able to study abroad, I woke up here in a cold winter morning in London. Sometimes there is this strong feeling of me still very close to a naive form 5 student who doesnt know what it really means to take care of himself. Its been so long since I stepped out of school, into having to take a stupid 3 times public transport transit from college back home....

I dont like 2007.... I had to face dilemma, problems and make decisions that I never knew before. I feel the need to get stronger and gain power in order to stand still in this game of prey and predators.

My year begun with 2nd term January Edexcel A levels exams. We had to study very hard because if we do well in the unit 3 and 4 that means, the hardest unit 5 and 6 wouldn't treaten our A's . Well, whatever crap, my unit 5 and 6 was actually better.... Then it came to cny, me and tick siang declared our own 1 week break.. hehehe..

Month of February March and April was some pissing off period, where everything was tedious, chaos and even worst met some bitches and son of theirs. I dont understand why people get so birdie once they got money and power. Bad bad months... Emotionally very unstable.

Just that I didnt have mood to study due the previous incidents that happened, final exams was drawing near. Arghh... didnt see the point to study. Seriously went mamak alot especially with zk and will. Only few days before exams, managed to sit down to study. A levels final was taking so long which was more than a month. The only motivation was to get 4A... I didnt managed to get straight A since UPSR.

At last reached July, yay!! A levels exams over. Forget all the idiotic months and have some fun. I remembered I went to One U to shop with tick siang and zk for our A level's ball outfit. From tops to the feet, we were shopping like aunties.

Group photo of A46B taken in the A level's ball. Cant imagine that we had been in a class for actually 1.5 years already! Hm... in this pic ky and seok actually stand together le ... is it fate ? Not long after this ball they pak tor, but cant escape the sharp eyes of ts!!

Then comes the Langkawi trip. It is so fun.. and yea, its our last A46B class trip. That ts say he wouldnt drink, but he drank until hugging toilet bowl as his "one night stand". And we played volley ball on the beach, haha played till everyone got injured by the hard ball. We too went fishing in the dark, till it rain and Ray Mun caught a small catfish. 6 days 5 nights was of course too short for a great time together. Dont forget also, the car we rented, everyone can show off their driving manual skills, or at least prove that they dont have kopi O license. Who used 3rd gear to balance up a slope ? pro sial....

A waterfall in Langkawi, eh y we didnt take any pics near the beach ar ?

Whole family smile! (全家福）

Of course we wont forget brother keng yih, 3 ducklings that was spotted by Ms Lai. Bak Kut Teh time means call ky. I wonder if the old klang road sign is still so "misleading" or not le ?? I wan to eat Bak Kut Teh, although now i got a friend who lives in klang I will still choose to eat bak kut teh in ky's place de.

Wah all dai ko dai lo also in the pic.

Of course I know fun time travels faster than the speed of light. I got to decide where should I be studying. Zk asking me to go Russia, ts said Nottingham.After nights of contemplating, I picked a place I never thought of I can go. SOon, we recieve messages asking us to attend fare well. 2-3 months of fun had ended with movies mamaks, pools..... I remembered first was stephanie, then boon, then jeff, then zk then mine.

F4; non college,school but any other activities + mamak and pool gang.

Genius group. Imagine position 1,2,3,4,6,7, in the class also in tis gang. Genius or not le ? Wa I m the only traitor who left 1st after spm.

Still some of my best buddies in secondary school. Includes tsi ngar joanna uwen william and jeen yi, (not affliated with any groups).

I hope I did include faces of everyone who came to my farewell le. Its time for me to fly away! And thats the last day in 2007 in Malaysia.

Airport without tears, 不流泪的机场。 I have to revert back to those form five short hair look.

Oh.. now a 3 months more in London, so fast le .... dec holidays means report time. I got 3 reports each 2000 words, sien. Anyway trip to manchester!!

Me and will standing in front of University of Manchester Me and boon (Uni of Manchester)
To all MU fans, nah ... we are in old trafford. Will's left hand see see .. middle finger coming out
Me and will in the city centre of manchester
Oh china town! Together with Boon's fren Joshua

Hohoho .. christmas time. I still remember our bbq xmas dinner back in 2005 le. And then bbq in Jacqueline's house 2006. Forget bout setting up fire, getting thinner. No more goin to carefour carrying christmas tree, and no more calling up ppl.

Back in 2005 scene during zk house party.
Of all we planned, we ended up play cards, and its the best party game.

Finally 30th of dec 2007, Melissa's birthday, bye bye 2007 and happy birthday Melissa. Will is in the pic... the only non uk student.

4th of Dec

Recipe of the Day: Croutons

Ingredients: Some bread that you cant finish and it has actually expired but "still look ok??!" , oil, garlic, salt, pepper.

How to prepare:

1. Toast ur bread until it is slightly brown
2. Cut the bread into cube sizes and place into an owen tray.
3. Sprinkle salt, pepper, fine chopped garlics, alot of oil if u wan it tasty and crispy, evenly onto the bread cubes.
4. Place into the owen and bake 100C to 130C for more than 1 hour. ( This is an energy wasting recipe. But i dont pay for electricity bills haha !! )

This is croutons. Some crispy bread tat is sometimes put on salad or mushroom soup. I love to eat it just like dat. Like some garlic crackers, nice!

Nice clean kitchen.

Same nice clean kitchen. BUT its not my floor kitchen. My floor kitchen is way cool!! with leftover of cereals pasta for 1 week or more. If u r a microbiologist or a fungus enthusiast feel free to visit my floor @ LG !


A view from 7th floor of mech eng building in the evening (its 3.00pm only le)

Well this 1 is taken at 4.00pm

Ah wells, hooray for those who finally finished sitting their stpm....

Somehow I remember 4th of Dec is the day we actually finished spm some 2 years ago. That time still, I have to go for a stupid KTJ interview and didnt have a chance to go out celebrate with bunch and bunch of friends.Before interview I have Sabah trip briefing, then rush all the way down to Seremban. The interview was totally crap and i think I didnt know how to talk much, furthermore 1st time talking with angmohs... haha ( which now everyday I can talk to them). Then randomly meet that zk which i think the S class is not tat suang him 1 (last time).. Suddenly coz I neva had a chance to celebrate, we decided to go midvalley to watch harry potter on the following day. What it turn out was, we went midvalley so damn lot of times, ( everytime not becoz the seats sold out or we were too late to watch the show u noe la his pro timing....) at last I get to watch harry potter!.

Some most talkative gang of all time. Headache to all the prefects. And perfect 8gua gang.

Sabah trip! Nice beach!And I caught a fish just below from where we were staying. Haha!

6 Days of trip was so short, 2 years just gone, wah it was just like yesterday.

Then we organised some xmas party... how it turn out?? It was actually a greedy plan of me and zk.( when we were shopping for aaron's birthday party present during form 4 we actually got extra $$ to treat ourselves )*hehehe* Back about the party.. the greedy plan was becoz we will be collecting money from ppl who attend, the more ppl we get the more extra $$ we will get haha ... But end up we got -$$ .... mathematically we got $$ if we only consider the magnitude of it.bla bla... his parents were kind and subsidised us.

Guess?? Ya its fat boy lying on my bed, just before the xmas dinner 2005. Hmm..tat time not quite noe who r u yet.

Things change so much then, I went to HELP, A levels, then without even realising I am now typing this blog in London.

This is my most special form 5 gang. From left, ron who duno swim where already... back to his oceans. The twins bin hao beside me and right hYau. Haha stpm over already, good luck and best wishes to all of us no matter which part of the world we are in.

Miss every1 and things back in Malaysia. You guys will always stay in my sweetest memories and thanks for great friendship that accompanied me in my secondary school life. Well now its time for u all to leave smkb also. Enjoy and we will hope one day we will gang up and meet each other again.