34th Post: New Beginning

It's been sometime since I flew to US, and I'm finally ready to make a new post. I guess I abandoned this blog for far too long that I myself nearly forget about its existence too. Well, this is my first post with pictures (from my own camera), yay~ Well, anyway, let's start with some photos from my campus.

One thing that I like about the campus is there's much greenery around, but that also mean more walking to be done...

This is supposed to be the sculpture of Marquis de Lafayette, the French general whom our school was named after.

The building behind the trees is the Library, I like it a lot though it can get very crowded at times.

This is the dorm I'm living in right now. Love its location in the center of the campus.

My dorm's front view. It was named Kirby House, supposedly a rich person who donated a lot of money to the college. There's a few other buildings named after him as well.

My room, how it looked like after I arrived on campus for a few days. It's much messier right now.

I ventured into a small town just below my college (did I mention that my college was on a hill?) on the first weekend.

The view of downtown from the hill.

The dreadful slope that I had to walk up and down twice a week as I had a class in a building downtown. Maybe I should petition for an elevator (like that's ever gonna happen).

The town square, with some stalls around it selling various stuff.
Well, I guess that's all for now. I know it'll be a looong time before I update again. So, farewell folks.

33rd Post: Fruitful Conversation

It's been a long time since I last blogged and I'm still not in the mood to blog, yay~ so today I'm just gonna paste an epitome of a fruitful conversation that I had on msn and let it do the work for me. For the privacy of the participant in this groundbreaking conversation, I shall nickname him/her 'Radio', I hope you enjoy this as much as I do. We were discussing the places that we can go when I return to Kuantan by the way.

Me says:

if tak jadi lagi, then go tc la, 100% sure won't fail, plus we can go there anytime as well....

Radio says:

yahor wahhhahahh tats da only beach we cn afford

u brin ur snorkellin gear la

we snorkel n look at da sampah under da sea

Me says:

isn't there a simpler way of doing it, we bring our own sampah and throw it on the wave and let it roll back to us(while staring at it) then we throw it again until we get bored

Radio says:

wah..ur life at help nt tat gud ke?ur leisure activity v kesian n lonely..nvm wen u cm bek we'll accompany u throw sampah n watch it roll bek den throw it again..again n again n again...........................

Me says:

excuse me la, there's no sea in kl ok... u're the one who suggest we watch the sampah first and I'm only making it easier for you

Radio says:

i wana experience snorkellin n u suggest we throw sampah on da beach n watch it rooooooolll bek leh.......

da main point is snorkellin nt watch sampah rooll here roll there la

Me says:

excuse me la, the main point for snorkelling is to watch coral reef colourful fishes, not to simply dip your head into the water and watch sampah, u can even do that in your bathroom...

Radio says:

i dun hv a bathtub,so i still wan snorkellin muahahaha

its nt da same as swimmin e

totally diff things laide la.........hv to wear mask n wear foot pad deleh

Me says:

but what's the objective to wear all those stuff in the 1st place? it's not just to go to deep sea is it? the coral reef is the attraction la~

Radio says:

cheh if lik this u wear goggles oso same ma,y wear a mask?

Me says:

u can choose to do so if you're so adept that u can withstand the water pressure under the sea

Radio says:

snorkellin nonid to go under da sea da......we snork on da surface ny la

Me says:

I know that but the thing is can u stare at the coral reef for a long time without drowning? that's the use of that mask la

Radio says:

u cn resurface n dive bek,its simpler than wear mask actually....

Me says:

for people like me who's not good with water, I'll have to do that every few seconds, can't even see the shape of the sampah clearly la

And that's the conclusion for this conclusion-less conversation.

32nd Post: 2010's First Post

After a period of time known as eternity, I've finally decided to update my long abandoned blog. It's been some time since I finished my dreaded exams (which I screwed up *proudly), but I'm just too lazy to write anything...

And I still don't know what I'm going to write in this post after I've finished my 1st paragraph... My recent exam? One word sums it all: TERRIBLE and that's it. (Ok la, not all of them but at least for few of the paper la) I would rather not dig into that wound any further. My 2010 resolution? I'm not really the type that's so particular about 'yearly resolutions' and it's February already, perhaps Chinese New Year resolution? Get many Ang Paus!! (In other words, money ;P) Anyway, I prefer to just go for it when I think of something rather than planning them at the beginning of the year. Maybe I can talk about what I'm going to do in this year?

After getting myself enrolled in the longest A-levels in the history (2 years instead of the normal 1 and a half year or even the intensive 1 year course), I'm finally going to graduate from HELP in a few months time, yay! Frankly, A-levels is a very dull course and the time I spent at HELP is largely forgettable except for a few activities. Furthermore, the food around HELP is torturously scarce that my taste buds is dying from all the fast food and mamak's 'XX goreng'. From all of these, I guess you can conclude that I'm rather happy to leave HELP in general.

So where I'll be going to after this? Attending another university for my degree of course. Let's start with the universities offer I got. First, I got admitted under Early Decision(ED) into a liberal arts college in US, Lafayette College. Usually when I mentioned this, people's first reaction is: What course ar?. I'm tired of explaining this already so I'll let Wikipedia do the works for me :D

"The “liberal arts college experience” in the US is characterized by three main aspects that demarcates it from undergraduate experience in other countries:

(1) smaller size than universities, which usually means more individual attention is given to each student;

(2) residential, which means students live and learn away from home, often for the first time, and learn to live well with others additionally, the residential experience of living on campus brings a wide variety of cultural, political, and intellectual events to students who might not otherwise seek them out in a non-residential setting;

(3) a typically two-year exploration of the liberal arts or general knowledge before declaring a major." Quoted from Wikipedia under 'Liberal Arts College' section.

Here you go. I've received financial aid from them that is enough to cover my tuition fees plus some living allowances.

Now move on to the offers that I got from UK universities. The courses that I applied is Geosciences by the way. I've applied to 5 universities and 1 rejected me and yes, the one that rejected me is one of the most prestigious one in the world: University College London(UCL) which ranked no.4 in the world according times. Sob... Never mind that, I've still got another 4 conditional offers from Manchester U, Edinburgh U, King's College London and... miraculously, Imperial College London(ICL) which ranked right below UCL. But the condition is that I need to get 3 As in A-levels... == difficult la. But I'll be able to get JPA scholarship straight away if I'm able to satisfy ICL's condition.

Even so, I guess I'll still be going to US if nothing goes wrong. First, I'm ethically bound to enroll at Lafayette college under the ED contract. Second, I'm not so keen on the idea of having to work for the government after I graduate. Third, I'm' very interested in LAC's education system. Hopefully I'll make use of my remaining time here fruitfully and make a good transition to my university life.

Well, I guess this is long enough to compensate for my lack of blogging for such a long time, not that anyone cares. Until next time, for whoever is still checking out this dusty blog...