papa sent me these

1. Have you heard about the proposal between KIA of Korea And SUZUKI of Japan to set up a joint venture company in Singapore to build a hybrid car which will be named KIASU?

2.Have you seen the Made-in-Malaysia car 'Kancil'? You know, that very little 600 cc car ??? Well, Dr M really wanted to sell it to the US , So when Dr M paid a visit to the White House after Finishing formal discussions with George Bush, Dr M checks with Bush to find out if there is a way To sell the Kancil in the USA . After having looked at the brochure, Bush said, You know, I think this 'Kernchill' is too small for us Americans. Not one who gives up easily, Dr M persisted and finally Bush offered, 'Ok, take this number down. This guy is my good buddy and he's also the CEO of the Biggest compact car distributor in North America '. Dr M was satisfied with the meeting and return to Malaysia. The next day he called the number and a lady answered, ''TOYS R US', Can I help you?

3. There are three major races in Malaysia - Malay, Chinese and Indian. The Malays have the political power and so they set Up the party UMNO, which literally means 'U Must Not Object'. The Chinese, on the other hand, controls most of the Economy and they called their party MCA Which means 'Money Conquers All'. Then there are the Indians who have no say in Politics or economics. They set up their party called MIC. Hence, Every parliamentary meeting the Indians would ask: 'Must I Come?'


ngeeee!!! papa lucu. :P

before this my dad dont even know how to work the internet. now he sent me more and more jokes online. although all he need to do is hit the forward button, but he never failed to keep his girl from becoming insane.

rindu nak balik rumah. dan rindu kucing-kucing saya. tapi mereka sudah tiada.

tiba-tiba teringat lagu "bila aku sudah tiada". sedih..

two more

two down two to go.

i'm down with fever two days ago. couldn't get up and study. so i spend the whole day lazing around on the bed. not being able to sleep too because its so damn hot outside. i really wish i could go for a swim but i cant because the cold water will only make my flu worse.

i finished half an hour early today so i decided not to wait any longer and bolt to exit the exam hall. its warmer outside but im grateful pulak this time since i got blocked nose sitting in the cool morning aircond of the huge lecture hall. i think that's going to be my last time sitting in the lecture hall. in about two months time, i wont be calling myself a student anymore.

sedihla pulak leaving the academic world behind. but come to think of it, i wouldnt risk another year to pursue masters. its not that easy you know. so i have decided to stick to the first job i could get in the market and work my ass off to pay for the study loans. i think at the age of 22, i already owe the government about MYR22k. wow. that's big.

i went to the movies with my girl, Zatil recently. she get to pick the movie since she's the one who asked me out - and so we watched Jangan Tegur. shitlah. i personally think this movie is better than Jangan Pandang Belakang. No stupid-stupid screaming. with improved sound effect and a better visual effect of the hantu flying / floating in the corridor. it didnt look like the cheap invisible string set that you get to see in "The Making of...". but it did look real to me.

tapi aku, biasalah. bayar movie RM7 tapi tengok movie nye 70posen je nampak. :P
most of the time i kept my handphone plastered to my face. or i'll hug Zatil's hand till she pushed me away. the beginning of the story dah seram gila. suara-suara orang baca Surah Yasin. alahai. and the first scene pun dah start ada kematian malam and arwah nenek Bai ni terpaksa dikebumikan esok pagi. alahai, this scene is the one that they used in their teaser poster. smart gila! time Bai tido tu kan, ada gambaran nenek Bai ni kat blakang dia, and of course like all muslim mayats do, adala ikat kain putih dari dagu sampai kepala tu. syaitan. aku jerit je memanjang.

tapi tu bukan part paling best, part yang paling mengerikan, Natasha lari masuk bilik lepas nampak Bai kat bilik study dia. time tu Natasha ni nak kejutkan hubby dia, Pierre Andre. hantu tadi dah pusing-pusing tombol pintu dah. Natasha cuba kejutkan hubby dia lagi. then tiba-tiba dari pintu tu suara husband dia tanya kenapa dia kunci pintu. huwwwwwaaaaa! then sapala yang baring kat sebelah dia atas katil tuuuu???? waah, time ni aku jerit macam orang gila dah!

part favorite aku ialah time Bai ni kene rasuk ngan jin siam tu. the did a splendid job on that scene sebab Bai mengarut cakap Siam time ustaz confront dia. fuuh, this is a step forward for Malsysian film. takla bosan sangat tengok pompuan menjerit macam putus cinta instead of macam kene rasuk, ye tak?

yang paling last tu time Natasha plak kene rasuk ngan jin tu. badan dia jadi biru beb! ala-ala exorcise la. Ada parut kulit melecet and terkopek kat pipi dia. bagus, bagus. they did made an effort untuk perbaiki kelemahan pada Jangan Pandang Belakang in this film. a round of applause.

lepas ni nak tengok confessions of a shopaholic. Sophie Kinsella did well on the books but i wont put high expectations on the movie. books are definitely better than movie. and that applies to TWAAY jugak.

for you readers yang i dah berjaya divertkan untuk membaca TWAAY hasil tangan halus kawan saya si tukang masak, Edwan tu, you'll definitely love it. and at some point i thought of turning it into a movie. but it wouldnt be that good sebab bukan semua orang boleh bangkitkan perasaan yang mendalam bila baca suasana yang digambarkan dengan perkataan berbanding dengan cuba letak perasaan tu kat muka. confirm-confirm tak dapat.

jadi, bagi kawan-kawan yang dah habis baca TWAAY sampai habis saya ucapkan terima kasih kepada anda kerana sudi membacanya. i have started reading TWAAY sejak first year in UMS. sekarang dah nak grad barulah habis. So usia TWAAY ialah lebih kurang 2 tahun lebih.

reason that i love reading TWAAY is that it gives me hope for a happy ending. not that movies dont provide me with that satisfaction, but i think TWAAY's storyline is somewhat real and it can actually happen in real life. walaupun endingnya takla happy, tapi saya rasa, cinta itu ada. cuma kita perlu cari.

tapi bila cinta sudah ada depan mata, janganla diabaikan. it wont kill to make an effort to keep it alive. it wont kill to make an effort or to ACTUALLY show that you care or love.

but then again, i'm just a human being. semua ni ketentuan Allah Almighty.

kadang-kadang saya ada rasa putus asa. kadang-kadang saya ada perasaan ragu-ragu. tapi awak yang datang dalam hidup saya, offer me a chance to be happy again, jadi saya harapkan awak pegang janji awak itu. sebab sekarang saya rasa saya sangat perlukannya untuk terus hidup.

mengapa ya ada manusia sebegitu?

firstly, i proudly announce that my thesis is complete. yeay! i handed it in like 2 days ago and spent most of the time catching up on sleep afterwards. the exhaustion just started to kick in. R says im like Nobita. i MUST have my afternoon nap or i'll go cranky. :P iya bah, iya bah. while i was writing my thesis kan, i'll wake up really early to start writing. then its 4pm already and my eyelids start to feel like lead. so i snuggled into the comfort of my somehow-always-cold blanket and doze off.

and after about 2 hours of nap, i'll chain myself to the desk again. typing away whatever it is on my mind. (alamak, i forgotten to include 2 reference books that i used in the thesis. frick!) and then its 1am already. mengantuk lagi. oh, ini tidak bagus. i still have tonnes of work to do but im always sleepy. so i tried energy boosting drinks. or so lah. i started off with teh tarik. YA! saya sudah boleh minum teh tarik. yeay! tapi teh sahaja belum boleh. milo? ok bah, order saja. coke? yes juga. rasanya dah 2 tahun terpaksa puasakan diri daripada minum semua tu. not to mention langsung tak boleh sentuh makanan ringan berperisa chocolate. sedihnya. tapi sekarang sudah boleh so, jom minum! hidup saya 4 hari lepas sangat pelik. i sat in my room the whole day not bothering to go to the cafe and eat. i only stuffed myself with bread and jam. i thought that if i starve myself on heavy carbs like rice i can tahan la sikit. it worked a bit. but every now and then i must take a 'twilight' break for bread and jam. aha! yes, yes. satu lagi alasan untuk baca novel itu. :P saya sukakannya tapi tak akan jadi fanatik ye edwan. jangan risau.

sekarang saya tengah bercuti. tido pukul 1 pagi dan hidup semula pukul 12 tengahari. tapi lepas ni saya akan study rajin-rajin tau sebab isnin ni ada paper Geologi Sekitaran. ramai juga yang call saya bertanyakan samada saya ada nota lengkap untuk kursus itu, confirmlah tidak. sebab encik ismail bukan pernah bagi nota pada orang pun. kalau ada pun nota senior-senior yang dah lama.

junior-junior sekalian, bila senior dah bagi nota tu hargailah. janganla korang jadi macam kacang lupakan kulit. ada juga cerita-cerita yang saya dengar dari rakan-rakan, dulunya si junior ini tak pernah nak bertegur sapa. tapi sekarang tunjuk baik pulak bila mintak diwariskan nota. janganla macam ni. kalau tak berani atau malas sekalipun nak cakap dengan senior, senyum sudah memadai. ini tidak, bila bertemu di mana-mana buat-buat tak kenal pula. tapi takpelah, mother nature has its own way to work things out. satu hari nanti orang yang buat hal tu akan kena batang hidung sendiri. so beware lah ye?

sedikit pesanan, jika anda diamanahkan simpan rahsia, simpanlah. kalau sekali orang dah tau hobi anda ini suka membabble-babble kan cerita orang lain, huah, saya yakin dahi anda akan ada cop BABBLER. walaupun tak nampak pada zahir nya, tapi mana-mana individu yang pernah kena confirm-confirm akan nampak tanda di dahi anda itu. awak patut bersyukurlah kawan-kawan awak masih menerima awak seadanya walaupun diorang pun pernah awak bocorkan rahsia mereka. apa yang awak inginkan sebenarnya daripada membocorkan rahsia orang ya? publisiti? tak jugak. populariti? tak jugak. the only publicity yang awak dapat ialah semua orang tahu awak ni mulut besar. popularity, oh, jangan cakap, confirm-confirm awak akan dikenali sebagai babbler. kawan-kawan rapat awak pun sudah confirmkan dengan si teman ni tentang perangai awak. tapi saya bangga dengan mereka sebab masih nak berkawan dengan awak. kalaulah saya, mesti dah serik nak berkawan dengan awak. sudah-sudahlah tu. janganlah buat lagi. orang ikhlas berkawan dengan awak dan amanahkan rahsia pada awak, awak janganla rosakkan persahabatan dengan sikap awak tu. gossiping memang best, saya tak nafikan itu. tapi cuba awak fikir kalau awak yang digossip-gossipkan itu. best tak? tak bukan?

pelik ya. mengapa ada manusia sebegitu?

Behind The Scenes

I think I woke up too late this morning. I promised myself last night that I would wake up early to continue writing my thesis lab results and analyse them. The dateline is tomorrow by the way. But I couldnt get myself to really finish it all up and get my reward. Ah, yes. My reward. An evening out to the movies and maybe some shopping spree with R. :)

I'm currently reading 2 novels. I have just reached Chapter 9 for Twilight by Stephanie Meyer. I haven't watch the movie since the cheap DVD i bought rosak. Cheap. :P Edward Cullen is dangerously handsome - as described by the author. Sumpah I tak tengok lagi the movie but I do imagine Edward Cullen is R, just in different skin tone. Ahaks, don't think I'm racist ya. Because I know that would be the first thing that came through your mind too.

The second novel is Behind The Scenes by Anita Notaro. I borrowed this from the library and I think the due date is tomorrow. Which I will also have to remind R that his books is also due tomorrow. Behind The Scenes is a story of Annie, a struggling artist trying to make it to the silver screen, and Libby a well-known celebrity chef who just lost her husband and refuse to get back on her feet. She depended on her husband too much that she didn't even know how much money she has in her own bank account. Her husband - David English, is a famous and should I say freaking rich businessman. He died of heart attack.

I usually read Twilight during my thesis writing break, and read Behind The Scenes before I go to bed. I have the habit of reading before going to bed. Even if it's the buku ilmiah - Sedimentologi by Felix Tongkul or Geologi Petroleum by Sanudin Hj. Tahir - just to get the waves in by brain tuned to sleeping mode.

Honestly, I prefer Twilight now since it involves romantic stuff and I repeat - a dangerously handsome and literally dangerous Edward Cullen because he's a vamp. Not really a vamp because he haven't really told Bella Swan what type of bloodsucking creature he is. So, please don't spoil the ending if you're deciding to comment on this post. Save it for yourself.

Thesis writing is in progress. I have advanced from doing corrections on my map and from the writing I did in Project 1 to discussing my laboratory results. Sometimes I think it is just ridiculous that I had to adjust my findings just so the graph will look smooth, or eliminate certain data which I couldn't explain the nature of it just so I wouldn't have to explain it in the discussions. Not good, right? I know.

I'm looking forward for the internship. I will be supervised by two Geologists. My work will be involved in Core Analysis and Geotechnical Laboratory Analysis. Pretty much like what I'm doing for my thesis right now. So I guess it's nothing really new. Except for the fact that they have better equipment and super efficient software as compared to doing it all manually in uni. Seriously, last Thursday I cried in the lab because my Falling-head Permeability test failed miserably. I have tried to detect the leakage - any leakage possible but still the water just flowed out. I was furious that it brought tears to my eyes. Luckily I was alone in the lab. And so, I had to adjust a little bit of the data. I can't possibly wait for the experiment to succeed. It's not human error. It's just faulty lab apparatus.

Which really frustrates me because the uni has been spending tons of money on maintenance i.e: cat pagar yang masih nampak sangatla cerah warnanya, or cat bangunan canselori yang dulunya cantik berwarna putih merah dengan warna biru, oren dan pink yang amat hodoh. The uni looks great from the outside but seriously people, the lab apparatus is like shit. Makmal potong batu tu, time budak-budak sibuk nak buat thin section tu jugak diorang nak renovate. Time cuti dua bulan dulu tak buat apa-apa pun. Luckily I did my thin section for Project 1 that I don't have to worry about it any more.

I haven't gone out under the sun for about a week already I think. So I'm planning a swimming trip on Monday evening - God willing - and maybe a picnic by Likas Bay in between papers and after the VIVA. And maybe a karaoke session, a bowling match, a pool match with R, a movie marathon and maybe a trip to the islands? (macam sangat tak mungkin je dalam masa yang suntuk ni)

And I still haven't booked my ticket to Miri or KL. =.=" aduhai...

Sudah April

it's April already. time flies bah. i'm counting the days to pack and leave kk to go back home for a short break before i leave town for about 10 weeks. im accepting the industrial training offer from Orogenic GeoSolutions in Bukit Jelutong, Shah Alam. if luck is on my side (plus excellent performance throughout the duration of training) they will offer me to work with them. YATTA!!

i have always wanted to travel and work in the peninsular. not that there is no job for me back in sarawak but i think - i'm still young and this is the best time for me to travel and see the world. (from Sarawak to Peninsular kira overseas lah jugak kan? :P)

these two weeks im torn apart. really. i had another offer for internship from ENSR-Aecom. an environmental impact assessment cum consultancy company lah. its located in Damansara - yes - and i have tried asking around for a room to rent. my junior - Inthiram - told me that the cheapest he can find so far is MYR350 per month. but he has no idea how far it is from ENSR. and the allowance i can get is MYR600 at most. macam mana nak hidup dengan MYR250 je sebulan.

its not about the allowance la. its about the place to stay je sebenarnya. the company is actually quite big. ok, not quite, but really BIG.

http://www.ensr.aecom.com <--can check out their website here. im honored that they find me as the best candidate among all 16 of us who went for the interview a month ago. but i feel guilty to reject now since:

1. the country manager called me personally asking if im still interested to join their internship programme.
2. the project manager who came to my uni and interviewed me called me the night after the country manager called has been super nice to me contacting me by email and text messages asking if i have already made up my mind to join the company etc.

my fault lah jugak sebab macam leading them on to my acceptance of the offer. sigh. dad was in town for the last 3 days. so i went to see him. we had lunch/tea at NewYorkNewYork 1Borneo and try to sort things out. turns out daddy wants me to jumpstart my carrier in exploration and production based company in the oil and gas industry. i was actually quite okay with anything that goes beacuse due to the economic crisis, you cant "pilih-pilih kerja" that much you know. once you have an opening, go for it! and most importantly i dont want to become a sister's friend who graduates in geophysics from USM but end up teaching back in Sarawak. NO. NO. NO. so my mind is made up. well, most of it dad helped me weigh the pros and cons of joining either company. i told him how guilty i felt but he says its all part of the working world. okaylah.

im not sure if my final year project has any value of some sort. because i know i didnt put 1000% effort in getting it done. i dont understand why - that when most of my friends who handed in their results for the supervisor to check, the supervisor would then adjust the findings to a value close to theoretical value. i mean WTF! why would you bother to ask us to carry out the experiments - especially Proctor and Permeability yang amat susah itu - and in the end just change the value????? might as well just give us a set of numbers or datas to choose from and come up with a solution and write a whole fucking 500pages thesis about it. sigh. yes, i cursed. then again, i dont give a damn about this Project 2. why should i sacrifice the other 15-credit hour subject for this 3-credit hour project? (for my juniors who's reading this, jangan dengar cakap saya. kadang-kadang saya ni gila juga orangnya)

i missed going for a swim with R. we would challenge each other to jump into the pool or hold our breath as long as possible under water + tickling each other + kissing underwater. yeap! just a smooch anyways. not the sloppy french-tongue-kiss ya. haha! most of all, im going to miss Luna - my bunny-chan. my joint-venture partner Mama Bella has yet to decide who's going to take her home. its either she's going to follow me on a plane to Sarawak or to be posted to Semenanjung with her Mama Bella.

decisions..decisions..decisions...

so yeah, Orogenics it is. :P


http://www.orogenicgroup.com <-- (n_n)

friends doing industrial training in Semenanjung particularly close to me, we'll set a date for lunch+bowling+movies ya?

;)