Educational Talk

Monday, March 1, 2010
An educational talk was held at my place yesterday afternoon. It was organized by Universal Studyline. I decided to attend it since I was so bored at home and also to see what's up their sleeve. The talk was way shorter than I anticipated. The supposed-to-be-four-hour-talk was done in less than one hour and another hour was spent for personal discussion with those that attended the talk. Yeah, you can already guess that this talk is utterly pointless. Fortunately, the guy giving the talk prepared a list of loans and a little information about scholarships for us which make this excursion a little fruitful. Well, its not quite useful for me since I knew most of the organizations offering these loans and scholarships but I think it's a great effort. Other than that, what he talked about was all crap.

Disclaimer: What's written below is just my opinion. Don't read it if you don't like it. :)

After attending this talk, I really felt that there are many more effort to be done to make the educational talk to be effective in terms of giving information. I think the person presenting the talk should prepare more information us, the students and also, in most cases, the parents. When I say "more information", I meant their advices and maybe even their own experience regarding the scholarships, loans and also what people expect to face if they take the course that they can share with us so that it will be a more fruitful talk rather than the infos which can be obtained through online means such as the CGPA marks needed to take the course, the entry requirements and so on. I know these informations are basic and should be included in the talks but what is the whole point of having this talk if all that the person ever told us in the talk was only these informations? I already knew that taking medicine require an extremely stupendous result and even students with straight As might not get a place in public universities especially for non-bumis. So, there's no point for them to point it out again and again and reiterate every now and then in their talk as if students went there with zilch knowledge about it. I mean, come on!! Students all over Malaysia are attending the talk after doing some research and know all the minimum requirements for them to take the course and they know very well what they want or interested to do. That's why they attend a talk to get a more detailed infos which cannot or are hard to be obtained through online means, which is real life experience. One more point to note, the atmosphere of talk should be livelier than just sitting there for hours listening to the facts. I find it quite sleepy when I listen to people in the talk saying out whats written on the screen without any additional information with a hypnotizing voice! Maybe the organiser should invite lecturers with a loud and clear voice and also some sense of humour to make us less sleepy. Hahaha. :)

The talk I went yesterday was a total failure. The person did not even made enough preparation and he didn't even have sufficient information and knowledge to give a talk. When me and my friends went for the personal Q & A session, we asked him about the public universities regarding which courses is best studied at which public universities and the person just kept on changing the topic to the oversea universities. He talked as if studying oversea costs a mere trifle. Eventually, we all got annoyed since we all came from medium income family and we do not have the means to go overseas with our parents supporting us financially. It will be a huge burden for our parents to do so. I sincerely hope that in that person's next few talk, he will prepare more information so that the same thing won't happen again to other people but I think my hope will be bleak. After all, the person had already gave the same talk to 2 other places before coming to my place. Another suggestion of mine to whoever hired him for the talk: get him fired for the sake of all students!!

Generally, not all educational talk are useless. There're also some good educational talks being held all over Malaysia together with the education fairs and I really appreciate these talks. Anyway, much efforts are still needed to reach the whole purpose of the talk.

Well, thats all for now. I just wanted to wish everyone a happy belated chinese valentines day or also known as chap goh mei to all chinese couples. Its March now!! Cheers~ :)
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SPM Result Date

Thursday, February 25, 2010
About 2 hours ago, I said that the SPM result date are yet to be confirmed but now, the real SPM result date is officially announced!! A letter was received by my former high school regarding this date and its confirmed that our result will be out in 11th of March!! Actually, I kinda figured it out a few days back but I still want to thank my friend, Liyana for 100% confirmed me with this news.

Well, thats all for now. We still have one fortnight to enjoy our holidays before the starting of a really hectic life. So, enjoy yourself! :)


STPM Result, Released!

Thursday, February 25, 2010
STPM results are released in this morning! I just want to say congratulations to all those STPM-ers that achieve stupendous result. To those that worked really hard but still cannot pass with flying colours, don't be disappointed, try to work harder in your studies later. Anyway, I wish all of them to succeed in their future endeavor.

SPM result date are yet to be announced by government. Nonetheless, the release of STPM result indicates the nearing date of SPM result date! For now, we'll just have to wait for government to confirm the date. Well, that's all for now.

Bad Day

Thursday, February 25, 2010
Yesterday was a really bad day for me. It was a disaster that I won't even bother mentioning as my mood will start to swing whenever I started to think about it. Nevertheless, I think I will feel better if I write it down to share it with everyone instead of keeping it in my heart. Okay, here's the sequel of calamities that happened, but I must warn you, don't read this long passage if you dislike pessimistic story:

I was supposed to take my car driving test today. At least that's what my car instructor told me before CNY. I trusted him but he lied to me. Yes, I did not take my test yesterday. I was told by my car instructor that I was not ready to take it. What the...? I really wanted to scold him at that time since its his fault for not teaching me car parking a few lessons before the test eve. Instead, he asked me to drive around Proton City, which is totally unrelated to the test, for a few lessons for unknown reasons. Yeah, I know he wanted me to master and get used to the whole driving thing but I don't appreciate his effort. I have plenty of time to practice after getting my license P. So, my test was delayed to March 10, which is 2 weeks away from now and whats worse is that I will be getting my result on the next day. I'll just have to wait for another 2 weeks which make it one and a half month since I first learned car driving. Arrrrr.... I'm really sicked of waiting! This whole delayed-car-driving-test-thing really vexed me but thats not the end of my bad day.

In the late afternoon, which is about 3pm, my mum came back from her work and scolded me for being lunatic and obsessed with my computer, again. Well, its not the first time, nevertheless, it still hurts me whenever she said it especially when she said that I didn't help her do house chores when I always do what she asked me to do and what I'm obliged to do. So, I just turned off the computer and went straight to do the house chores with a really bad mood. After doing all the house chores, I went to have my dinner. My dad was already eating by the time I sat down and started to have my dinner. While I was telling him the most probable result date, unbeknown to me the reasons, he just started to criticize my little sister's lazy and lackadaisical attitude in studying. I was really pissed off at that time. After doing all the work and feeling exhausted, I still need to hear all this gibberish stuff which is utterly useless for me while I'm enjoying my dinner. Then, like a bolt from blue, I heard my dad saying that he wanted to cut my internet line. NO WAY!! INTERNET IS MY LIFE!! Then he said he wanted to ban my TV into oblivion and cut all the telephone lines. Fortunately, he said he will only do so after I finish all my scholarship applications and college registration. This phrase really saved me from going into madness. So the dinner didn't went well and I have zilch appetite to continue eating. So, I'm off to prepare for the gathering which I will attend that night.

The only good thing that made me feel better is this gathering with my former POL teacher, Mr. Chong and my friends. I complaint and talked about all those bad things to my friends. I felt better after doing so. I really want to thank my friend who are willing to hear my ranting and grumbling and console me. I really appreciate it. The gathering was great as I had not met my teacher for quite a long time. There's a chinese saying "unfortunate events don't come alone" which aptly describes what I went through.

Well, thats all for now. Hopefully tomorrow will be a good day for me. No matter how hard life is, we still have to move on...

P.S. I can't even help my friend to solve his love problem. I'm really a failure today... Sobz..

Desire To... Read!!

Wednesday, February 24, 2010
I feel a surge of desire. A desire to read storybooks! Yeah, I know it sounds crazy but I really feel like getting myself a nice storybook and sit down to read it. So, just now I went to my room and searched for any storybooks that I bought but didn't managed to read. To my surprise, there were actually quite a number of storybooks that I didn't read which I bought a long time ago. Well, its not only me that bought all of them. Some of the books were bought by my sister. So, I just piled them up and wait for tomorrow to start reading! I'd better start finishing them because I have a list of storybooks that I really want to read right now. ^_^ Speaking of reading, I really want to thank nickvl, a recommer that sent me a copy of Dan Brown's newest novel, The Lost Symbol. I'm a Dan Brown fan. I fell in love with his books ever since I started reading Da Vinci Code. His books are just too fantastic and I was fascinated by the way he plotted the stories. Despite the similar storyline, I actually liked all of his books. Thanks nickvl, I really appreciate it since this book is so expensive when it's released last year.

Beside reading storybooks, I found myself actually spending quite a long time playing piano pieces in these few days. Yiruma's piano pieces are my favorites. They're just so soothing and well played. I played a few of his pieces before, nevertheless, there're still some that I never heard before. So, I just spend some time listening to his pieces while surfing the net. What a genius to create such nice pieces! Hopefully he can make more piano pieces in future. Well, thats all for now. Gonna go bath and get some sleep now. I'll update myself next time. =)

SPM Result, Feb Or March?

Sunday, February 21, 2010
There's been rumours about the date in which spm real result will be announced. Some say it will be announced in late february whilst some say it will be in mid march. Actually, I believe the real one will be in march rather than late february because it seems to be more logical to think that the result will be announced when all first batch NS trainees finish their training. Anyway, I don't really care about the date in which our result will be officially announced. Of course I prefer it to be earlier but our destiny had already been set the moment we finished spm or even earlier-when we finished answering the question papers. So, its just the matter of time for us to reveal it. When the time comes, I think every student will wish to get it another day later as it'll be nerve wrecking!! I even started to feel nervous every now and then. Haha, I hope I won't faint on the spot where I will receive my result due to nervousness. To think back, I was actually quite nervous when I saw my friends received their pmr result. The first few of my friends missed straight As because they scored B in BM or Geography. That even made me more nervous! Haha, luckily I didn't black out when I got my result. The waiting is filled with various feelings and high hope but its all worth it when I got my result. So, I wish for the same when I get my spm result in about 3 weeks time. It may not be straight 1As but I hope it will be a satisfying result. I'm prepared for any result thats worse than what I anticipated. (But no Cs!! That's my principle, hahaha :D)

Well, thats all for now. Any update on the real date will be announced in the newspaper as well as the news. I will also post it on my blog when the time comes. For the meantime, lets just wait patiently, enjoy our free lives and of course pray hard.

Silent CNY

Wednesday, February 17, 2010
I'm back! After staying at my hometown for 3 days or more precisely 2 and a half day, I'm back home! As expected, this year I will be celebrating a rather silent CNY with my friends. Initially a group of about 20 people are reduced to less than half. Most of them went back to NS yesterday while some of them started working. Since I came back at yesterday's evening, I missed the chances to spend some quality time with them. With a lesser amount of people, the whole "visiting-friends'-houses" session were quite silent and boring. There were lesser people chatting around, lesser people to play with and of course the incomplete feeling that I felt as this will be my first CNY without them. Maybe my hopes are too high for this year's CNY because I thought it will be the most enjoyable and merriest year of all as we all finished SPM and there is no constraint for us anymore. Well, I guess this is what people meant when they say " things don't work out as what you expect it to be".

Enough of these pessimistic statement!! Its chinese new year!! To be honest, this year I have pretty good luck in gambling! I won pretty much money. Hahaha, at least this cheers me up. Hopefully this good luck will carry on until my result is out and continue for the rest of the year. I really hope I can secure a scholarship to prevent myself from adding more burden to my parents. Its about 3 more weeks until the moment of truth! Let's wait until then but before that, I will be having my car driving test on next Wednesday. Wish me luck yea!

P.S. I didn't mean to boast or offend anyone about the whole gambling thing. Just take it as a joke yea? :)


Chinese New Year & Valentines Day Eve

Saturday, February 13, 2010
Today is Chinese New Year and Valentines Day eve. What does that indicates? For us, the teenagers, we'll be collecting ang pau as we're still not married. Hahaha, its so good for us but its the opposite for married couples and our parents. Well, this year, we'll be celebrating both this meaningful event on the same day!! What a coincidence. According to Chinese Zodiac, this year will be the "Tiger" year. What a fierce one for the year I'm going to get my SPM result. So lets make the tiger look cute. Here's some picture that I can share with you all. So, I'll just wish all Chinese a happy Chinese New Year and all couples a happy Valentines Day.
Happy CNY!!
Cute Tiger!! ^^
Not to forget Valentines day!
Speaking of V. day, of course there'll be lots of chocolate! =)

My Preparation For CNY

Saturday, February 13, 2010
Its been very long since I got a haircut. From what I can recall, I cut my hair way back a few days before spm exam and that was more than 2 months ago. So you can imagine what my hair will look like: its like a small bush growing on top of my head. My sisters joked it as bird nest which really ticks me off. So, thats the story and reason I choose to cut my hair which I planned to cut it only a few days before I will get my spm result.

I went to the salon after having my lunch and as expected, its fully booked but I managed to squeezed into the barber's "schedule". After waiting for an hour, I found a chance when the man supposed to have his haircut went out for some shopping. So, I consider myself pretty lucky. Unfortunately, that was pretty much the only lucky part of this whole process. Before the barber started to cut my hair, I told her to not cut my hair until too short. I guess she was too busy that she misheard what I told her and continued with my usual schooling hairstyle which is the really short one. As I didn't wear my spectacles, I can't see the process of my hair cutting because everything looked blur. After cutting she asked me if I'm satisfied. So, I wore back my specs and saw this short "product". I was speechless, nevertheless, I never told her she misheard because what is done, its done. Even if I complained, it will be meaningless. After I went back home, I spent quite a while in front of mirror trying to find a solution to make my hair look not so short. Maybe I'll try to put some gel on my hair some other day. It'll be crazy and take a very long time as I never had any experience with it. >.<

So, it was another gloomy day for me. Luckily, my friends consoled me during the gathering session. Its good to see many of my NS friends back to TM!! Most of them became thinner and "darker". (Haha, no offence... ^^) This gathering most probably will be my only chance to see my NS friends as I will go back to Kedah for another 2 days and you all will go back to your camp when I'm back at TM. So, thanks for showing up yea. =) Okay, thats all for now.

Digging Up Old Unposted Article

Friday, February 12, 2010
Its been long since I've been active to update my blog. Now, I'll post a series of updates on my life and the big days coming really soon. Here's the post I typed quite a long time ago but forgot to post it. After some digging up, I accidentally found it and so here I am, posting this article to share with everyone else.

In our lives, we will come to a point when we will have to make decisions on what we want to do in our future. Its crucial for one to make this decision correctly because if this matter is taken lightly, one might regret the choice he/she made later in future and for the rest of his/her lives. Did I sound too serious? Well, it should be. Unfortunately, this decision has to be made while we are still teenagers, which is why this matter is a headache to many students in Malaysia. Although there are some minorities that actually knows what they want to do, there are actually many that do not know what they actually want to do in future despite some of them knowing the subjects they liked the most while others have absolutely no idea what they liked and what they want to pursue in their future endeavour.

Well, if you ask me, among all the subjects I took and studied for spm, my favorite will be additional mathematics, physics and chemistry. So, automatically my choice of career will be engineering. After doing some research on engineering, I found out that many people say engineering courses are for people that like to solve problems. However, I am not sure whether I like to solve problems or not but I'd prefer engineering over medicine, art, agriculture etc which leaves me no choice other than engineering. So, I guess this is it. This will be my choice and no regrets!

Well, Chinese New Year and Valentines day is just around the corner. I wish every chinese a happy chinese new year, every student a happy holiday and every couple a happy valentines day. Cheers. =)

Canon In D (C Major)

Monday, February 8, 2010
Canon in D, a nice piece by Johann Pachelbel, is quite well known in the world of music. I'm sure almost everyone that played piano would've heard and played this piece. Recently, my online friend sent me a very soothing version of Canon in D. Since I was so bored at home, I decided to play this piece and also send it to my online friend for spending time chatting with me. So, here I am, posting this video to share with all my friends also. =)

Well, this is my first time recording myself playing a piano piece. I made many mistakes while playing it especially at the end part. Hopefully everyone can enjoy it and any comments will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Canon In D (C Major)
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Its Just An Analysis

Friday, February 5, 2010
Busyness, define it. What I find most interesting is that I am not that busy in these few days and yet I felt I am somehow busy. Did you ever felt the same way and wondered why? Maybe my sisters' hectic life make me felt so? Ridiculous... So, I'll just analyse it why this phenomena happens in our life here.

To make my life less boring, I always try to make it busy. The easiest way is to engage myself in house chores. Yup, I do house chores for at least 2 hours per day. Its not too long but quite tiring. Then, I also attend car driving lessons. It only last for an hour but my feet will feel numb after the lessons. I started playing guitar recently and had a hard time pressing the string as it hurts my fingers. So, had you guys and gals noticed what is common for all these activities? Its TIREDNESS! You think you are busy because you are tired. Haha, I know I got you or maybe you just realized it now after reading my conclusion?

Despite all that, I still feel boring at times as there're not many friends in town that I can visit and talk with. I guess this is the time when online friends play their role huh! Well, thats all for now.
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