Black Monday

Well, Literally Criticism quiz was shifted to the week after mid semester break. Why did I need to waste time studying for the quiz instead of completing my assignments? I wish our lecturer could announce that earlier. Not only that, Ms. Fairuz gave us a pop quiz today. I was shocked. I didn't do well in section B, which is the test on grammar.

Tired

After Sunday service today, I helped washing the church van with another two brothers. Since there were two tough guys, I just had to sweep the inner of the van, wash the dirty clothes and splash water to the van when they done wiping it with washing powder. What an easy job!

So tired today as too much of energy used and lack of sleep.

Planetshakers!

I was a little bit excited as Planetshakers worship concert has finally arrived! After having lunch, 4 of us headed to PJEFC Heritage Center in Petaling Jaya by a rent car. The concert started at 8.00pm. You can never imagine how powerful the live band is! Rock and roll! I enjoy the musics. However the musics volume was too loud for my ear drums to bear in the small hall. It took me sometime to adapt after the concert is over. I was a little bit late to update because I arrived at hostel at about 12am.

I wanna go home!

I was in my church's prayer meeting just now. We are having this on every last Friday of every month. Today's prayer meeting was a little different from the past one, as we are talking about our families. The video clips shown during the meeting was so touching. I miss my family already. I'm so regret that I cannot get myself home in this 1 week Diwali holiday.

Relax

After 3 days of continuous outing, I stayed at hostel for the whole day. Yesterday's trip was too tiring. I slept until 10.30 this morning. It is good to have completely nothing to do in the hostel. I actually spent most time chit-chatting with my housemates and laughed like mad. I cook pasta for them too. They said they love it. Today is a relaxing day for me.

Hot Springs!

It was a joyful trip to Sungai Klah Hot Springs with fellowship's friends!

I've went there for some times before but I still enjoy it very much as we had lots of fun there! I personally enjoy the scenery there. It is surrounded by mountains and trees. The weather was quite hot. I shouldn't have soak in the hot springs because I got a serious headache afterwards. It was so hot! I only feel better after I took medicine and drank a bottle of 100 plus.

KL again

I went to KL again today. The main aim is to interview an oboist of RTM Orchestra for my EC II group assignment with my group members. We stayed in Angkasapuri from 3pm to 6pm and then we headed to Times Square as my friends want to do a little shopping. While for me, I just did window shopping. I feel proud for myself because I can withstand the temptation of my shopping desire. I didn't buy anything, again! Haha!

A little incident happened. Three of my friend and I nearly had to stay a night in KL because we were told by another friend that all bus tickets were sold out. We ran like mad from monorail station to KL Central and we finally managed to catch up a ETS back to TM or else we would miss the Sungkai trip with our fellowship tomorrow. Thanks God!

Outing

I visited Sunway Pyramid and SS2 night market with six of my friends today. This is my first outing with them and it is quite enjoyable. Their craziness and humour have delighted my day. I didn't buy anything except food. I don't want to burn my wallet again before December. What disappointed me is the night market. I thought there would be much extraordinary stuff and food as in the famous night market in Cheras.

An Ordinary Sunday

As usual, I spent my morning in the church, napped in my hostel in the afternoon and then attended a cell group in friend's house at night. I'm so much so appreciate that I didn't get seriously tanned after the sun-baking yesterday. My friends got their faces and necks red and tanned. Pity them. I learned a lesson: sun block is very important for Malaysians especially for those who have to stand under the sun for more than 1 hour.

There is a little down in me today. I have many unsolved questions in my mind.

Sun-Burnt

Taekwon-do practice from 9am to 12pm! We were like salted fish being sun-baking at the field for almost 3 hours! 'Credit' to the hockey tournament which occupied our gymnasium, more freckles grown. Fortunately, I applied SPF130 PA+++ super sun block to make myself not roasted. The good news is, we have no more practice until the mid semester break!

The Taekwon-do master told me that he wants me to participate in the pattern competition. He praised me for my nice movement, thought that I have some basics or I was a dancer. Oh definitely not! At the beginning of our practice, he said that my movement was totally wrong. Then I was allocated to one of the instructors to practice all over again. I can't dance at all! I can't even remember every movement of the patterns!

He must have mistaken me for the wrong person.

Holiday!

Rejoice! I'm free of class today since SLA was cancelled! I spent the whole day sleeping, fb-ing and youtube-ing in my hostel. Oh, I finally have time to pick up my guitar practice after dumping it aside for some days. Finger ache again. Sigh... By the way, 1 week holiday will begin after tomorrow! I'm so excited!

Every child is special

My Student's Learning and Development lecturer let us watch a movie (I don't know what is the title) during the lecture. It is a very touching and meaningful movie for me. It is about an Indian boy who has Dyslexia. He has difficulty in reading and writing but with his great imagination he draws well. His teachers and even his father don't realize his problem and keep misunderstands him as mischievous child. His father even sends him to boarding school, that makes him feels very miserable. Eventually, a passionate temporary teacher in the boarding school helps the boy to reform himself.

This reminds me of a fault I did years ago. I was once being so impatient to those students who were group as 'weak' when I was a substitute teacher. Not only that, I was once being misunderstanding to a special child in my family. I was so stupid. I feel really sorry to them. Sorry...

Every child is special. Some cannot study but they have other talents.

I'm dead serious of polishing myself for the rest of my degree years in order to become a good teacher, an educator.

Rain drop or tear?

After lunch, I took my friend to the musics faculty to practice songs for the fellowship on this coming Saturday. It rained so heavily when I was about to head back to hostel. Pity a junior, I and my friend actually went out to buy a pack of rice and sent it to him in the campus in the rain. All because I have a motorbike and he needs to walk. I think he feels touched. Haha...

Fooling

I am so exhausted today. I have never been squeezing my brain so hard for a long time. I tried very hard to memorize all the definitions for the Phonetics and Phonology quiz but frankly I did not do well. Now I'm so regret of not studying properly.

On the other hand, I feel so much relief when I know it is not my group's turn to present in drama class. I thought my group is going to present a topic this Wednesday but in fact I had remembered it wrong. It is supposed to be a topic following that, which means we will present by the time we come back from the Deepavali break. How silly I am to make myself nervous for the mistake.

I kept yawning in the lecture just now. Perhaps I shall off to bed earlier.

Busy busy busy

Completed one presentation today, one more on this Wednesday! I have a quiz tomorrow but I only start revising today. How lazy I am! This week will be the busiest week ever since the beginning of this semester as my schedule is so pack. Everything is worthy because the whole next week will be holiday! Enjoy!

Full

I and my friends cooked for my cell group just now. Their feedback are good, which make me happy. I never feel so full in my stomach this semester.

I learned something today: do not judge a book by its cover, see through its content. After much working for the whole day, I'm so sleepy now but I still have assignments to do. All the best to me. Bye.

Taekwon-do again II

Taekwon-do again today! I think I'm really not gifted to learn it because my every punch and kick is so soft. My left arm cannot bend normally and it makes me look so freak. I can't even remember the patterns although I've practiced for so many times. I'm so frustrated.

A Conscious Day, maybe

Being unusual, I woke up at 8am this Friday morning. Well, I was responsible for checking, printing and submitting my SLA group assignment. I was kind of blur as I didn't even notice some of the mistakes until one of my group member discussed it with me. =_=

After submitting the assignment at the faculty, I went for article hunting at the library with two of my coursemates. Journals are too long, so we only managed to get articles from newspaper. Want it or not, we might be presenting on Monday.

Then, I had my SLA lecture on 3pm. It was hot out there, hence sitting in one of the air-conditioned lecture hall would be just nice. The comfortableness made me doze off at the beginning. You probably won't believe that a twist on your arm's skin will make you 100% awake. Please be noted it is not pinching using fingers. It is twisting using both palms. Imagine how painful is that. I requested my friend who was sitting beside me to give me a hand, as I can't do it myself. It worked immediately! I could pay full attention to the lecture!Just that a reddish thick ring appeared on my arm for the rest of the lecture. What I want to say is: No next time!

It is freak, right?

Reminiscence and Occupied

I was interviewed by my coursemates during Student's Learning and Development class about my grandparents. The lecturer wants us to discuss how grandparents can influence children's development. That somehow reminds me of my grandparents who love me very much than I can imagine. I feel regret because I couldn't do anything for my grandpa before he passed away. I shall repay all that to my grandma. I miss my parents too. Can't wait to go back home in the following week!

Time is really insufficient when it comes to assignments and presentations peak week. I guess I have to burn the midnight oil again. Go! Go! Go!

Literature

Topics on Oedipus Rex have just been finished presenting in Critical Appreciation Class today. I am still kind of blur with this drama. In fact I don't like literature. What we are studying in Drama and Literary Criticism is just...too ANCIENT for me! It is hard to be understood. I've never thought of taking literature as my minor but the English Language Department make it as a compulsory. What to do? I HAVE TO 'love' it anyway.

I bought myself a new guitar today. I'm happy.

Time is not enough

Wonder why I blog about Phonetics and Phonology almost every Tuesday. I can't transcribe words into phonetic alphabets correctly, not even one word. Gosh, there will be a quiz next week! How how how?

24 hours seem to be not enough. I wish the day could extend longer so that I could do more things in one day. I gonna be fast. Assignments and presentation are due soon!

Impromptu speaking

I still can't get rid of the tension while speaking English in front of the class, even in a small group of people. My heart pounds like it is going to bounce out from my chest once I start thinking of what to say. I need more practice deadly! Everyone please communicate in English with me!

Sleeping beauty?

I don't know why I'm so tired today. I kept napping all day long. It is really an unfruitful day. I did nothing but rest. I gain nothing but also spent nothing. Good or bad? I don't know. All I know is I will have a sleepless night. I don't feel like sleeping at all. =_=

Taekwon-do again

It was Taekwon-do again today. We had 2 and a half hours lesson as to replace last week's. There is 1 more hour to replace on next Saturday. I begin to dislike this torturing and tiring practice because every time I will sweat like nobody and have legs ache afterwards and that ache resist for a few days. I can't imagine how am I going to stand this for another 10 weeks.

Moody

Mood is swinging today. I'm not feeling motivated to do anything. Thinking that tomorrow I'm gonna have 3 hours of Taekwon-do II class makes me feel even worst. My passion is gone today. Perhaps I need a rest. Everything will be fine tomorrow. Tomorrow will be a busy day, hopefully not a tiring day.

My Secret Recipe

Since I bought some ingredients yesterday, waste not, I cooked lunch and dinner. I made rice noodle with ikan bilis soup for my lunch. Making the soup takes time but it tastes good. To make it more nutritious, I added cabbage, carrot cubes and sausages. Yum!

I feel a little proud of myself for the dinner. My fried french bean with egg was a failure before I learned it from pastor Chin. Now it tastes just nice. Stewed chicken with potatoes is my first try although I often eat that at home. I just couldn't expect that it can be just as nice as my mom's cook!

Spending zero cents today brings me pleasure! Well, I shall try cooking something new tomorrow. Wahaha!

Blame the Weather

Today, I only had an hour class in the morning and then free for the rest of the day. This is in deed a very good chance to go for shopping. I and three of my friends went to two hyper markets nearby Tanjung Malim. I both some commodity and of course, food. Feel happy.

I'm not feeling well today. My old injury on my toe relapsed. It was so painful. Meanwhile, migraine visits me again. I shouldn't have caught the rain drop. Sometimes it is unavoidable as the weather is so unpredictable. This moment sunny, next moment it rains cats and dogs. All right, I guess I should rest earlier. Au revoir.

Yoohoo

Yes, I had English Phonetics and Phonology class again today. I love this course! I love learning sounds or precisely, pronunciation. It is hard, I never know that producing the correct pronunciation can make me bite my own tongue. Need more practice I think. What worries me is the exam, we are required to transcribe English words into phonetic alphabets. I definitely have to work harder.

For dinner, I cooked myself pasta. Cooking has become easier as my landlord has finally bought us a gas stove. To have a healthy diet and to economize, I shall cook frequently rather than eating at outside. If only I have time to spare...

About food

I have no idea what to blog today. There was nothing special happened. I have no special mood. Hmm... Let's talk about food. I enjoy eating therefore I munch and swallow slowly. My favourite food is sweet corn which I used to call it Jagung. I can have only Jagung as my meal. Apart from that, I love spaghetti, milk and cheese too. I hate onion and garlic. It is because I don't like the taste and smell of them. I'll never eat them unless they are fried. I'm sorry if it bores you. Haha...

Wonderful Sunday!

It is Sunday again! My Sundays are never empty or wasted roaming in shopping malls. Spending my whole morning learning God's words in Sunday service and practicing choir made me feel so contented. By the way, today's cell group was so great. We confided our problems and we prayed for each other. I have no idea how much I'm being blessed. It is so great to have such lovely brothers and sisters in Christ! Give thanks with a grateful heart to our God!

Logos Hope

Logos Hope docked at Port Klang from 28th September to 24th October. Since my Taekwon-do II practice was cancelled, I visited this world's largest floating book fair with my friends. It is a fully air-conditioned deck and offers a wide range of books. Most of the books are cheap but it was quite disappointing for me as there are only a few books for language and literature study. I only managed to buy a few devotional books. Anyway, it is great as I could experience an international event.