Private University

Since last Sunday,I was in deep thought for the title of my new blog post. It was about a retreat I attended over the weekend, organized by the IET YMS (Younger Members Section) Malaysia. When one of my lecturer said something offensive to us students today, I finally had this idea of putting the title "Private University" I will come to the lecturer part of the story later. Let's make the mood happy by talking about the retreat first =)

This retreat, I can say, is not totally for us to enjoy, relax and have fun. Well at least not for me. Before departing for this retreat, Matthew (Chairperson of IET MMU Student Chapter) revealed to me the proposed program flow for the retreat. For example :

Saturday (21st Feb)

3: 00pm – IET Briefing + Overview

8.30pm – Breakout Session 1 – “How do you want IET to assist you or your club for further success?”

10.00pm – Presentation

Sunday (22nd Feb)

9am – Breakout Session 2 – “What can you contribute towards the success for IET Malaysia”

10.30am – Presentation + feedback


ALL I FREAKING SEE IS ONLY PRESENTATION + DISCUSSIONS ON IET IET IET IET IET. >.<" I mean seriously, I din expect to prepare soft skils to a retreat, in A famosa Resort! Our Honorary Secretary, Chee Yen drove 4 of us down, representing MMU Cyberjaya IET Student Chapter. Throughout the journey, we did talk, but eventually I slept off. And, yeah talking about sleeping, my god, I realized lately I have been so sleepy headed. Every break, free time, I will jump onto my bed and snooooze all the way. Bad huh? Too bad then, lol.

Continuing the story, we were the first to reach there, and later other student chapters also reached. In total, there were 6 student chapters participating in this retreat. They are MMU Cyberjaya, MMU Melaka, UCSI, Nottingham, UTAR and INTI UC. Each student chapters are required to send only 4 representatives. So, out of the 24 participants, there were only TWO girls. MISERABLE. PATHETIC. *sighs* 1st thing we did was to listen to the briefing given my Chairperson of IET YMS Malaysia, Mr. Kwong. He's a funny and friendly person. So okay la, give him face I listened to his talks and briefings throughout the retreat. Next was ice-breaking session. Boring, so I'll skip it. Next up was the BBQ session, a.k.a dinner for us. Overall, the BBQ was not that bad, one drawback was I only eaten 3 chicken wings (2 only actually, another was half raw lol), 3 long hotdogs and 3 short hotdogs. That's it. Definitely not enough to fill up my stomach. So were others in MMU Cyberjaya. Hence, what we did was, we went out after the presentation to a nearby mamak stall to continue our "postponed dinner", at the same time watching football. Not bad, this is what I call retreat XD

Second day was relatively a short one. There was only one presentation and followed up by a farewell lunch. I finally got my chance to go out and present our group topic infront of everyone, "thanks" to Matthew. =.= but it was okay, and I enjoyed the presentation, because everyone was concentrating, more like a two-way presentation rather than a one-way presentation like what the lecturers do nowadays *runs away* We proceeded to lunch at Pizza Hut after the presentation. It was an enjoyable lunch with all the student chapters and we discussed about the whole retreat. Gossiping I should say. Luckily 4 of us had our own table and we gossiped all the way. For example, situations on living together with the few student chapters in the same house, and also characters of other student members from other student chapters. *evil* I wonder, did other student chapters gossip about us? =)


PHOTOS!! Only a few, too bad. And I've yet to get those snapped using Matthew's and Sooi Loong's phone. Once I get them, I will edit them here.

Presentations. Group by group basis.

And there, our MMU Cyberjaya Chairperson, Matthew. The one in white T.

Loooooooking up into the ceiling.

The participants, the crowd.

After breakfast on the second day. I took this.

Finally, our group photo before leaving the house and A-famosa Resort.

So, going into the second part of the story of this blog post. I went to a class this afternoon and the lecturer gave the whole class an exercise to do. As usual, we (our whole gang) did not revise, therefore we do not know how to attempt the questions. So we chit-chatted about our plans for the week. Not long after, the lecturer left her seat and started walking around the class checking our work. Finally she came to us and checked. Blank, white papers were the only things she saw, and before leaving she added "Scratching head? Don't know how to do?" She then proceeded back to her seat and "lectured" us. She said "If I'm your parents, I will vomit blood. And do you guys know that you can count yourselves lucky to study in MMU. Compare your fees to local universities, and ask yourself why are your parents paying so much to let you study here? Your fees are almost 3 times more expensive than the tuition fees at local universities. So, please buck up and study well. The future is in your hands. Seliously."

That's exactly what she pronouced "seriously" Omg, you are a lecturer, in an expensive private university and you can't pronounce "seRRRRiously'? Plus, my friend said that if he was her english teacher, he will vomit blood. Well, true. Frankly speaking, the things she said above, I typed it out in proper english because along the way there were other pronounciation mistakes other than "seliously".

But, what she said was true. Actually. MMU tuition fees are very high, compared to other institutions. Yet, we are slumbering and slacking. I was one of them too this afternoon, and when I think back now, I'm at fault. Not the lecturer. All these have to stop. My results since the beginning of my degree year have not been improving and now it stands dangerously at the border of getting a good CGPA in the future, or slump downwards. Its my call, and I hope I'm aware of it. Now.



p/s : I forgotten to bring my towel to the retreat. My sandals were torn, so I only brought sneakers and wore sneakers throughout the whole retreat. And, 4 of us shared the same shampoo for the 2 days. Oh yeah, what a retreat XD

Why'd You Have To Wait?

Its been almost half-a-year since July 2008 that I last blogged about anything here. I owe this blog so much. I kept on delaying and procrastinating all the posts I had in mind. Honestly speaking, I enjoyed myself too much for the past two semesters in my second year too much, until I totally neglected the need to update my blog. Right now, actually, I'm having a hard time to think about what to write. There are lots of stuff happened, perhaps I'm having a blogging rust.

Its already February 2009, and I'm already in the final semester of my second year of degree. Time flies...super quick. Lotsa ups and downs over the past half-a-year.
Right now, the second year of my degree will be the most memorable year of my life. Many crazy stuff happened. Crazy. I'm having an awesome group of close friends. Had so much fun knowing these people =)
Deep inside, am hoping it will continue albeit things are getting a little messy now.

Anywayyyyy...

This year, I finally had the chance to taste American Lobster. YUP, American Lobster. My first time okaayyy. I'm not that well-to-do unlike filthy rich people eat lobsters everyday. *grins*

I stayed at my sister's place for a few days before school reopens. And after the movie Inkheart, my sister's bf took us to Pantai Seafood Restaurant in PJ area for dinner. The moment i stepped in, some spider-like living thing caught my eyes and it looked expensive. Its Alaskan King Crab and you would not believe the price. Well, its my first time again, to see that crab and that pricing, live! It was still in the CNY mood that time, so the hole restaurant was packed and we'd had to wait quite a while before we got seated.

My sister told me her bf has eaten several times in this restaurant and the food quality here is very nice. I was like whoaaa your bf so rich can eat here se-ve-ral times. LOL =)

We ordered "Pak So Kong" fish, Baby Kailan and the ultimate dish Cheese-baked American Lobster. 3 dishes, just nice for 3 of us. After dinner when the bill came, the 0.9 kg American Lobster was RM150 so altogether, the bill came around RM250. Wooots. Overall, it was not the price that matters, it was the joy and satisfaction xD because the lobster is just too gooood.

Alaskan King Crab. RM298 per kg o.O

RM228 per kg for this Snow Crab. I've never heard of this guy before.

Australian King Crab. RM328 per freaking kg. Freaking scary.
How much will it cost for one of it's leg? RM32.8? =.=

American Lobster.
My foodz =)
In my belly xD

Gallery of seafood. Expensive seafood.

Cheese-baked

Above : Flesh
Below : Shell

What's left of my share.

Pantai Seafood Restaurant. Jalan Cempaka PJU 6A, Kg. Sg. Kayu Ara, PJ. Give it a try =)

I'm going to stop here for now, will continue ranting about other stuff nx post. =)

Home Sweet Home

I'M BACK IN TAIPING!!!
*chong king starts jumping here and there non-stop*

Home sweet home. I reached back home yesterday at 4.30pm. I'm just so so so so glad that I'm back home after 2 months plus away from home, since 21st March if I'm not mistaken. The first thing I did was to EAT, obviously. I just feel so good. Later that night, my parents and I went out to EAT again. Yeah, I think I live to eat for now. *grins*

I've listed out the "to-makan-list" in Taiping, and I will make sure I will eat all of them. There were Irene Rojak and 'Tong Sui', Salted Chicken, Hawker Center Claypot Chicken Rice, Taiping Satay.....the list goes on. *drools* And my beloved mom made one of the must-eat food in my "to-makan-list" --- the Chilli Chicken. Simply finger-licking good. Thanks mummy.

Er...this just shows how much I've enjoyed Cyberjaya food eh? =.=



For university students, what's the first thing you do when you reach back home during semester break besides filling up your tummy? SLEEP OF COURSE! I'm so sleep deprived for the past 2 weeks due to exams, exams and exams. Madness. But something happened.....

I woke up today. I stretched out to grab my hand phone to look at the time. Nope, battery died. So I slowly crawled out from the bed and walked downstairs like a zombie to have a look at the wall clock. The moment I saw the clock.....I went...

WHHHHAAATTT

THHHHHEEEEE

*YAWNS*

HHHHEEELLLLLLL!!!!

!@%%$!@&$##@!$#@!

I can't believe my eyes. The clock was showing 6.35pm. Gosh. I went to bed at 12.30 am last night, and I woke up at 6.35pm!!! I slept for *starts counting carefully* freaking 18 hours. I broke my own record for the longest sleep for 14 hours. Dang, I still couldn't believe it until now when I'm writing this post. Tell me who to blame for this LONG sleep? Another weird thing was, my parents were not mad at me, instead they asked me: "Good morning, slept enough already? So do you want to have lunch or wait for dinner?"

Sweat. I hope this sleep will be the longest one and no more next time. I try not to break my own record again. 18 hours of sleep somehow filled up the hole I created due to the torturing exams.

But I still need to say this :

18 HOURS OF SLEEP!!!
18 HOURS MAN!!!
OH BABY!!!
*grins*

Sleeping is just too nice.
Don't waste it unless you can't help it.

My laptop is not repaired yet and I don't know when can I get it to the service center to be repaired. For the time being I'm using my dad's school laptop. Luckily my dad is having school holidays. If not I will be watching TV, eating and sleeping all the time. I'm also leeching the unsecured wireless from my neighborhood. So I take this opportunity to thank him...er..for not locking up his wireless network? *grins* The wireless network is steady today, so I grabbed this chance to post. I hope the wireless signal will stay strong, and I will continue to post and update. *smiles*

p/s: I love Taiping. =)

A Visit To Penang

This post supposed to be written like er ages ago, but my schedule has been very packed since I came back to MMU after the 1 short week of midterm break.

OK, as promised, this will be the post about the best food I had so far for 2008.

The food post starts.

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This visit to Penang dated back to 22nd of March. And now is already 5th of April. OMG. Lousy blogger. Anyway, here were the few events during the trip to Penang, one of my favorite places to chill.

My sister came back to Taiping on Thursday (20th March), so we planned to have a short family outing since everyone's back home. Honestly, at this stage, I gotta admit, its hard to get all 4 of us back home together at the same time. Except CNY. =) So yeah, we planned and decided to visit my aunty in Penang. So off we go, to Penang, with the results of election still HOT. LOL.

We stayed at my aunty's place and after we reached Penang, we "chilled" at her house until 5 in the evening. I watched a few episodes of The Amazing Race Asia 2 before that together with my sister. God, Paula is a cute hottie. That's why I started watching TARA 2 *grins*

5.30 pm. We got ready and started our journey to Teluk Kumbar, er somewhere at Bayan Lepas. Is it? I have a bad sense of direction for your info. Anyway, we are heading to Teluk Kumbar Seafood Restaurant. The restaurant is just a normal house-type restaurant, situated by the sea. Nice. "Taste with Jason" once again visited this restaurant before. And I can tell you that Jason was so right about the food there. Simply yummy. I will elaborate more along with the pictures that I took. =)

The photo of Jason and the boss of the restaurant.
I got to know this restaurant through Jason's food show.
So penang-nites out there, next time you go there, tell me and I will tag along =)
*slurrpss*

View of the big wide sea and the fishing boats.
Its been soooo long since the last time I visited the beach =)

My sis was like "Boy..boy..faster take pic of me with the beach and the ocean!!"
With the peace sign. =)

Bro and sis and boat and ocean. All perfect.
Except that I cant smile nicely, holding my small camera single-handedly is tough.
Ahh...I need to train more. =P

The small satay stall beside the restaurant selling my favorite satays for now. =P

All the cooking pros in action at the kitchen.
Or are they just lepak-ing? I curi-curi took this picture, so I can't tell.

Packed with hungry food-loving customers.

Take a look at this 'creature' in the water.
Its quite blur because the water was bubbling here and there.
Try to guess what is it? Hint: Turned out to be the best dish on the dining table. =)




AND HERE I PRESENT TO YOU THE PICTURES OF THE FOOD THAT WILL MAKE YOU DROOL NON-STOP! (as promised in the previous posts)

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1st dish to arrive : Kuah-less (Sauce-less) Satay. Cool or not you say. No sauce lehh.
Within 2 minutes I ate 4 already. *evil*
Very the nice, the satays were already coated with spicy sweet sauce.
CK's rating : 9/10

2nd dish : Belacan Kang-kung.
This is a common dish in every other restaurant, but NOT this one.
The belacan is this restaurant ada special sikit, lebih wangi =)
CK's rating : 7.5/10

3rd dish : 'Kam Heong La-La'
Fuhh..this is the best 'Kam Heong La-La' I've ever tasted.
Very the 'heong'. Very the 'Kam'. After eating you simply go singing la-la-la... *laughs*
CK's rating : 8.8/10

4th dish : Sweet Spicy Crabs. (I forgot the actual name, its sweet, its spicy, so yeah.)
Although there were only 2 crabs and they were small, it was enough for 5 of us.
The crabs were very fresh. Thumbs up.
CK's rating : 8.8/10

5th dish : Steamed Fish
This pic was taken late and all bones left.
I nearly forgotten about it because I'm all into the crabs and the 'la-la' =P
Fish was fresh. Well steamed. Simply yummy.
CK's rating : 8.2/10

Final dish and the best dish among all : (I don't know the English name for it)
It was so big that it was enough for 5 of us.
The meat was unbelievably fresh and succulent. It was steamed perfectly.
Yeah, just the perfect dish to end the course.
CK's rating : 9.5/10

Naked, revealing the fresh succulent flesh.
Oh god, killing dish. *drools*

Empty dishes with nothing left.
Kering-kontang.

*Thumbs up*
=P

After dinner, we headed to Queensbay Mall. Mom and sis decided to do some shopping over there. Dad and I had nothing much to do, so both of us practically went walking here and there without any direction. We went to the IT shops, Harvey Norman, Jusco, Tag Hauer, Royal Selangor, and The Body Shop. Weird.

Ferrari + Shell was having promotion on their products at the same time. There was a Ferrari F1 car on display and it was simply AWESOME to be able to view it up close. And did I tell you the Shell models are also the same. AWESOME. *twisted* They are way better than those girls at the Sepang F1 grid. But, who cares, as long as I can see them at Queensbay Mall, chun-ted already =P

Here are some photos I took on the F1 cars. Again, I don't have the pics of the Shell hotties. Lalala.

Shining-ly nice. Simple as that. =)

Top view of the Ferrari F1 car from the 2nd floor. Gorgeous.

Can't resist to take a picture with the race-winning car.
The car looks nicer right? =(
*laughs*

That's not all after Queensbay. Around 10pm we left Queensbay and headed to Tesco, near E-Gate (this time I'm very sure I'm correct about the place. *blueks*) My aunty wana update her Tesco points. Nothing much to say about Tesco because I'm already verrrrrrryyyy tireeeeeeeeeeeeed, I can't walk anymore so I sat down at one place, resting. No pics were taken. My phone was resting with me. =P

Next morning we started our journey back to Taiping early in the morning because my bus to KL was at 1.30pm. So yeah, after that I was back to Cyberjaya already, and started a massively busy and disastrous week. Sobs. That I will tell more in the next post. Let's make this post all happy.

Till then.


p/s:
MMU Career Fair 2008 had just ended 2 days ago. The event went smoothly, and it was all good. I'm waiting for the photos for the event, and then I will rant about it here. I'm glad that the event is over. Back to my usual life, no more emails, no more phone calls, no more meetings, no more complaints, no more stress =) However, I missed the fun we had during the 3 days of Career Fair. Thank you to my friends that helped me out during the Career Fair 2008. I love you guys. =)