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Back To School?

May 16th, 2008 · 9 surrendered

Streamyx was so bad yesterday… At night totally no line. The line was only back after I made 5 calls! Well… Not to blame them, as my phone is not near my computer so I had to troubleshoot it first before calling them back again, you know… To give them the error number, they insisted on the error number. Only during the last final call to log a final report as all attempts failed, when they were processing the report, out of sudden the line came back.

For those of you whose been following my blog for the passed years, I’m sure you know that I want to get a Master degree from overseas very badly but due to various circumstances, I didn’t go for it. Now, I found a course in a local college that offers part time course that seemed interesting and quite flexible I should say. It’s not a Master degree but a diploma which is totally unrelated to what I’m doing now and my previous education background. It’s Diploma in Early Childhood Education! Hahaha… How’s that? Shock? Irene and children seem not quite right, frankly I’m quite afraid of children especially those that started to know how to talk! :P Then why I want to go for it?

1. I did consider about taking this Master degree in the UK as my result of my degree can’t let me go for other courses that I want due to my bad result :P Second Lower Class Honours, it sucks hahaha… This is the only Master degree that accept an honour degree like mine hahaha… The problem is that it’s in UK. No money… Also there’s a responsibility and commitment that I can’t let go like nobody business.

2. My dad told me about this course few days back and I decided to find out more about it yesterday. It’s from USQ, it will take 2 years to complete the diploma. Classes only on every Saturday and Sunday afternoon, 4 hours per day, 8 hours per week which isn’t that bad. Only 2 subjects per semester. Seems quite relax as my previous e-learning is much hectic than this which was 3-4 subjects per semester, everything had to be done on my own, there’s no physical class, only a scheduled chat session with the facilitators in UK and could only interact in forum with my e-classmates.

3. I might be able to use this as a stepping stone to gain an Aus PR as I can go for my degree in USQ if I want to and then after studying there I can try to apply for PR. At least there is something to start with. This is just a plan only… Will I be going? That will be another story in the future.

4. I don’t like night time classes, it’s not easy to find day time classes for part time studies.

5. The syllabus looks interesting.

If I am to go for this course, then…

1. My weekend afternoons for the next 2 years would be gone!! I can no longer hang out with my friends. This is the usual time I am able to hang out with them, night time usually they have their own activities.

2. I will miss various public events that are hold in the weekend for the next 2 years! I’m going to be so outdated!! :p

3. I have to fund my own studies. The course fee is about RM12K+, installment is available. There’s good and bad about it which is one of the thing I’ve been pondering about that make me can’t decided whether I should go for it or not. Will explain later.

4. My dream of getting a DSLR will have to be postponed. No more money for this. I need the money for my course fee.

5. My travel plan to UK and other places might not be able to be executed due to my studies, exams, assignments, works and there won’t be money to go also! I won’t be able to plan early holidays and go anytime I want just like now. My Penang trip on 16th-20th October(anyone want to meet?) will have a bit of problem, I’m worry that it might clash with the exams as the exam time is end of October -.-” Obviously I will miss 2 classes. However, I asked them already, they said if exam clashes I can rearrange my exam time but then how to enjoy like this!?!? *LOL*

Oh dear… There goes my social life… :( For 2 freaking years!! These are the factors that make me don’t know how to decide. How!?!?

Categories: Heart Matters

Mothers’ Day @ After Three

May 15th, 2008 · 7 surrendered

I got a lot of it from people that don’t really know me. I didn’t care a damn but when it’s coming from you, I’m really disappointed. All these while I thought you understand but you are no difference like the others. I’m wondering what on earth am I doing here hanging on to it? If I’m also doing what you are doing, you think it will still be here? The answer is NO! I’ve been helping you giving excuses and try to buy time for you ever since you started your new lifestyle. You are tired, I’m not?!?! You’re the one asking for it and now you blame it on me for not able to help you!?!? Summore giving me such kind of statement like anybody else!??! I’m really really PISSED!

Well, it’s not really for a Mothers’ Day celebration though, just that dad said that he wanted to try out the food at After Three, that’s why we went there. At least mom didn’t have to cook for one meal :P Hahaha… I warned my parents that the service is extemely slow but food was OK. Who knows this time, it’s opposite. It was faster and food was *thumbs down* than previous visit.


We sat down and started to order. Wanted to order western food but it’s not available, only available after 3pm. So ordered some local food. I ordered iced green tea but they gave me hot green tea. So I told them to change it. They changed and *point to the photo*, is that green tea?!?!? I drank it and it didn’t taste like green tea, more like some syrup drink, wheatgrass but not that thick. *SHRUG* Since the price for these two drinks are the same, I don’t care, lazy to ask them to change again. Tell me, do you think this is green tea? So green…

Now, the food. No wonder many people complained about it and said that they will not go back there anymore. You see and you will know. I really don’t recommend this place, the quality really *shake head* not worth the price.

Left: Fried Chicken Chop Noodle(RM4), the presentation almost made me fall off the chair! What kind of food served like this in an eatery!?!? It’s worst than the normal kopitiam! This is my first time seeing food served this way! Portion was damn small and NOT NICE! A bit spciy but NO NICE! Thank you very much.
Right: Singapore Fried Bee Hoon(RM5), expensive! Thought what’s so special? The bee hoon came all the way from Singapore??!? My mom can cook better than this according to my dad.


Left: Chicken Curry Nasi Lemak(RM5), at least this presentation was better than the rest with the big drumstick there but waited for it for ages, we almost finished our food and only this came. Taste wise? Nothing much to rave about, just better than all the rest that we had ordered.
Right: Curry Noodle(RM4), at least the drumstick was big. The noodle portion was quite small.

So yea… I won’t go back there anymore unless I’m not the one paying for it *LOL*.

Categories: Food Porn

Facestat

May 14th, 2008 · 4 surrendered

What is Facestat? I found out about this from jangbokjae.com. I decided to give it a try. It’s really interesting. You can upload your photos and then let people judge you. See what they see from you. Just by judging your photo. You can also be one of the judges to judge other people photos.

The result can be quite accurate, quite amusing too. It’s pretty interesting to know what your first impression is to people. Especially if you like to post your photos in your blog, people will judge you from what they see in your photos. If you are wondering what they see in your photo, you can use this as a guideline. If you don’t like the result, then don’t post the photo and find another photo hehehe… However, I still can’t find a way to delete my uploaded photo in my account -.-” Hahaha…

I got my result. Let’s see… This is the summary of the result. You can see the attributes that describe you on your photo which I didn’t show it to you here because I forgot to screen capture it. When I realised it, I’m too lazy to do it :P

Please click to read more as there are many duplicated photos of me *LOL*, I don’t want to scare you away with the photo, I don’t like that photo :P *LOL* [Read more →]

Categories: Interesting

WHAT THE F***!

May 13th, 2008 · 10 surrendered

YAY! Going to Penang!! 16th-20th October 2008. Anyone in Penang? :P


Few days ago, there were only some tyres there. Now! It’s pilling up and becoming a mountain of tyres soon!

What the f***! What’s wrong with these people?!?!?! I think we will be seeing another bout of dengue fever in this area again soon! *touch wood* I really hope whoever is doing this thing will get his whole family down with serious dengue fever.

For those that you know who you are, this is the time for you to shine and prove it to us that you are far more effective than you-know-who. Take this chance. It’s an opportunity for you. It’s in your hand now, don’t push it to another counterpart, people are putting high hope on you. If the bout of dengue fever started, people will be blaming you but not others.

Damn it to whoever that dump those tyres there!

Categories: From My Angle

What’s Your Style?

May 13th, 2008 · Nobody Surrendered

My style, I’m sure many of you know that I don’t go for very fashoinable style. I always play safe and don’t experiment with colours hahaha… That’s why you seldom see me in bright coloured clothings :P I prefer something that is simple, elegant and casual that can be pulled off easily. I don’t buy something because it’s in the trend now but I’ll go for something that I believe can last for quite sometimes.

I like Katherine Heigl’s style. She is very pretty too! She always wear something that is not too much. Simple and elegent is the key. I like her character in Grey’s Anatomy. Watched 27 Dresses also not too long ago, will talk about this movie in other post.

75x75What’s your style? I’m sure jeans is the most basic in everybody’s wordrobe. Dockers is no stranger to all of us. If you are living in the US, you might want to join the Dockers contest. It’s very easy. You just need to create a 30-seconds videos and submit them to NBC. The best video will be telecasted over the TV in Tonight Show with Jay Leno! WOW! Imagine the viewers that will be viewing your video.

Quickly get your video camera ready or your digital camera or some software to create the video of Dockers. You might get some ideas on how to do it with my post here. Do a video about your style, show how you can pull off your Dockers with your style. Just let your creativities flow… Flow baby… Flow… Once you’re done and submitted, let me know and I will sure vote for you!

All the best! Good Luck!!

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Categories: Take A Break

My Fourth Nail Art Project

May 12th, 2008 · 2 surrendered

This time, I’m experimenting with darker colours instead of the previous soft pastel colour in the passed 3 projects(1)(2)(3).


Black and metallic purple hehehe…


This time I did my fingernails too! :P

Since I tested the black nail polish before buying it, I decided not to wash it off and then stick the 3D nail sticker on it. I seldom polish my fingernails as I always like to eat with my fingers. This time I only did the pinky fingers of both nails as I don’t take my food with my pinky fingers *LOL* Left pinky finger is black, right pinky finger is metallic purple. That’s all hehehe…

Categories: Girl Stuffs

Happy Mothers’ Day 2008

May 11th, 2008 · Nobody Surrendered

Today is Mothers’ Day. What’s your plan for today? Me? It’s just another day, we don’t celebrate things like this hahaha…

Anyway, you can join contest at tHe Spring(left picture), it’s free, just grab the paper that you can find there and start writing your message to your parents, be as creative as possible. Then wait and see you will win the grand prizes or not.

This is the cake my dad bought on Friday hahaha… Just bought it for fun as it came out fresh from the bakery. We actually buy cakes anytime we like, it doesn’t have to be some sort of special day.

Anyway, Happy Mothers’ Day to all the mothers out there!

Categories: Bulletin Board · Public Events

AIDtoCHILDREN.com

May 10th, 2008 · Nobody Surrendered

Humour me please… Saying a blog sucks is the same as saying the taste of the readers sucks too. If you don’t like a blog just shoo, don’t have to write any comment and no need to come back but why la you so like to comment and come back to a blog that you don’t like? Too free is it? If you think a blog is not as smart and as good as you, then go visit a smarter and better blog unless you are no smarter nor better than any other smarter and better blog out there. No wonder la… Got what I’m trying to say? I got confused myself too*LOL*

Here’s a site that you might want to visit, AIDtoCHILDREN.com. The concept is just like freerice.com that I blogged before except this is giving .25 cents to children in need for every correct question.

See?!?! The vocabulary is so “deep” -.-” I managed to go up to level 4 and then kept sliding back to level 3. Worst even went to 2. Hahaha…

At the end I manage to accumulate 20.25 cents. The money raised by this site is donated to World Vision. Go and do some charities if you will. You don’t have to pay a single cent, you just need to spend some of your time and at the same time improve your vocabulary.

If you are wondering, I don’t get paid for this post, just want to share it with you as John Bennet left a comment telling me about this site in my One Life at tHe Spring post the other day.

Categories: Interesting

Frontier(s)

May 10th, 2008 · 8 surrendered

First of all, for those that are not into horror movies or faint hearted, please stay away from clicking on the links in this post. If you don’t listen to my advise, don’t blame me for not telling you earlier. Click them on your own risk.

For those that just got to know me, I’m sure you will be surprise that I like Horror Movie. Hehehe… It’s strange that I can figure out how the whole movie is even though the plots might be twisting here and there and people would complain that they can’t get the story but I could!

UnknownFrontier(s), heard of it? This will make all the horror movie fans jumping up and down, it’s unrated and uncensored! That’s why you won’t be seeing it in any big screen but only selected theaters and you can get them in DVD on 13th May. It’s showing now but I’m very sure you won’t get this in Malaysia. Oh well…

Saw the trailer and it reminded me of House of Wax, you remember the one Paris Hilton was in there that only appeared a short while then got killed? That’s the one. The scenes were quite gory and it did make me squirm. Frontier(s) is much gory than this! You can imagine people like me could actually feel the effect when watching House of Wax, it’s much worst in Frontier(s). I’m sure you won’t dare to open your eyes at all!

If you like horror movie like me, I’m sure you will find Frontier(s) interesting.

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Categories: Review It!

Irene(Sweet Surrender) @ Lake Park

May 9th, 2008 · 10 surrendered

Ahem… Vain post coming your way :P Hahaha… People have been asking where’s my post about the photo shoot I did on 20th April 2008 at Lake Park as I’m always known to be the kiasu one that want to blog about anything first *LOL* I can’t find time to post them and at the same time, I don’t have most of the photos with me. I can only “steal” from the photographers’ websites *LOL*

The photographers were Allen, Alvin aka Pazuzu, Edwin, Jimmy and Shen.

Before that, I would like to remind you that I’m not good at posing and I’m camera shy. It’s true! I got stiffen up in front of camera especially when I need to pose for more than 5 seconds *LOL*. So whoever doing photo shoot session with me, you must have sharp eyes and be very alert else you won’t be getting good photos of me. They managed to take some good shoots which mostly are sort of candid. Since most of them know me and took my photos before, they know what to do. Hahaha…

I’ll just show you one photo that I like from each of them, you can view more at their websites/blogs:
This is from Allen, well… I’m not sure how many photos he got, he just showed some in his blog so I just picked the one that I like. It’s taken when I’m posing for the others. Hahaha… You can view them at his blog. He also posted some behind the scenes photos and extra features for this photoshoot session. They are funny!

This is from Alvin aka Pazuzu. I did a catwalk :P Then turned to the camera hahaha… You can view more photos in Alvin’s Multiply. There’s one photo that he tested with his wide angle. Hehehe… My legs are so long in there!

This is from Edwin. I sat at one of the stairs at Lake Park and they started to shoot! Hahaha… You can view the complete album in Edwin’s Multiply

Photos from Shen. He said that I’m loud :P hehehe… He thought that I’m very quiet type hahaha… Now you know… I can be very loud at times hehehe… His Nikon D300 is really “HUGE” :P Plus the lens, it’s LARGER… I want this kind of lens also!! *LOL* Wait till I get my own DSLR but the lens cost about RM3K+ *FAINT* Where got money to buy? All in all weighs about 3Kg summore! Man… heavier than me :P You can view the complete album at Shen’s Multiply


Lastly, from Jimmy. Hahaha… He used his compact digital camera only :P Well… Since he said he always want to get girls to be his model for photoshooting, this is the chance for him *LOL* I’m the white rat. When he got his DSLR, you will see more girls in his blog! Hahaha… You can view some of the photos in his blog

When will I get my DSLR?!?! Not now… No money… Sigh…

Categories: Me, myself and I