1+1 = 2

Ah we have all been pretty silly.

Like Mr Rodney King said, "Why can't we all just get along?"

Think about it before you open your gob.

IMU Cup is finally over. It was a great event spanning around 2 months, and I am glad that I was a part of it, winning 2 medals and gaining lots of experience. Then like every event will come the complains, some legit, some bullshit. Some people and batches who don't have much or any experience in the sporting scene just want to make a big fuss out of something pointless. Unfortunately my batch is the one with the most complains. Again. Now don't get me wrong, I TOTALLY want my batch to win - heck I was totally bummed when they announced the cheerleading results and it dawned that our batch couldn't win the overall IMU Cup. However sometimes we just have to draw a line when taking sides.

Table tennis is one of the issues here. M107 (my batch) fielded an illegal player in the team, and hence we were demoted to 4th place instead of 3rd. From a sports point of view, any team with an illegal player should be disqualified and given 0 points. Agreed? A 4th place is already a good enough agreement but apparently not. Now the team comes, however, saying that they didn't know that the girl couldn't play for the team. This after it was already made clear to everyone by the IMU Cup committee which batch of bMed can play. Only the people in table tennis didn't know about this rule while ALL the other sport captains knew. It's pretty obvious who is to blame then huh. Furthermore, ignorance is NEVER an excuse in sports! There was an incident during an Olympic under-23 football qualifying match a few years ago, and a team fielded a 24-year old player. The entire team was DQ eventhough the players and the coach were not at fault. It was the football association of that country that made a mistake in registration. So coming back to M107, how can we not be DQ stating that we were ignorant??

True the fact that the older batch of bMed cannot play in the IMU Cup was not written down in black and white. The President of the SRC - whom I think with all due respect is wrong - thinks that everything must be in black and white for it to be legit. So in that case, I guess we can all write our answers down on our hands, foreheads, ass cheeks, tissue paper, handkerchiefs and stuff 'em in condoms which in-turn stuffed up our anus, and bring them into the exam halls, because it is not in black and white that we can't cheat with those methods. Seriously, I think we all need some sense of verbal agreement and common sense. Which the President thinks is lacking in us. Yes he said that. Pity, guess we are all going to be shit doctors.

Mind you

Let me relate to you an interesting event that I happened to witness this afternoon when I went to Carrefour with the gf. I had to buy my badminton grip, and she wanted to get some biscuits for her bro who is going overseas next week. So we were queuing up and talking about lunch when suddenly a middle-aged chinese man starting yelling at the malay cashier, who was trying her best to ignore him and serve the next customer, a young chinese man. To cut the long story short, from what I gather the man was yelling at the cashier because he couldn't find his credit card/BonusLink card, and he thought that the cashier didn't give it back to him. The yelling got quite bad, and the cashier couldn't stand it and stormed away in tears to her manager's office. During this 2-3 minutes, the younger chinese man, totally amused and bemused by this whole situation, started searching for the card everywhere around the cashier's area.

And he found it in the man's trolley.

By now all of us (ok maybe just me) were thinking what and idiot this older chinese man (let's call him A and the younger one B) is. B then told A that maybe he could be a little more careful and search properly before accusing others. A then snapped and started to yell at B saying that it was none of his business, and just stormed away. Talk about gratitude. B then started yelling at A calling him a coward and asked him to come back and face him like a man. By the way 2 malay security guards were there the whole time chilling by the side. B then started to comfort the cashier, who came back in more tears.

Moral of the story? You decide. Me? I was, for those few minutes, ashamed (and then proud) to be a Malaysian chinese.

Uno

It's been a year now that the gf and I have been together.

=)

=D

But cannot go out celebrate. Too damn busy and tired thanks to IMU Cup. Roar. But it's alright. My batch is top of the table so far! Hopefully we can keep up the good work and win more gold. Starting with this Saturday and Sunday with futsal and badminton respectively. Woo the pressure. =\

Bad-minton

What a terrible disappointment. I don't know what happened and I can't offer any explanations. Let's just be thankful that we are in the semis and that I can play better this Sunday, though our opponents will be tougher. 

4 weeks have just blown by just like that. The endocrine system is done and today starting on repro. Talk about fast. 

Tell you where you need to go

Tell you when you'll need to leave

Tell you what you need to know

Tell you who you need to be.

But everything inside you knows

Says more than what you've heard

So much more than empty conversations

Filled with empty words.

Give me one more time around

Give me one more chance to see

Give me everything You are

Give me one more chance to be near you.

Cause everything inside looks like

Everything I hate

You are the hope I have for change

You are the only chance I'll take.

Light My Fire

IMU Cup continues. Despite the weather being as terrible as it can ever be thanks to global warming. See people it actually exists. Since when did we have rain and a monsoon season in September?? The North-east monsoon - which is the one that affects us - is usually from November till February. I hate global warming.

Anyway, my batch M107 doing quite ok so far. Gold in netball and squash, silver in male basketball and scrabble, 4th for football. Bowling and chess were also played already but I don't know the results to those. All I know is that we didn't win the gold. It's ok. Badminton later on in the evening. 7pm. Nervous. Badminton is the only sports that can get me nervous. The gf said last night that it is because it is my primary sport. I guess so. We really must get into the finals this year. After all we do have the best male badminton player in IMU. Marcus, in case you were wondering.

Watched the US Open tennis till 5am last night/this morning. Great games. Federer looked like he is finally back to his good old dominating self, while Andy Murray was brilliant and now holds a 2-set lead over Nadal, and their game was postponed till further notice due to - don't hold your breath - rain.

Ok I need my lunch.

what next?

There are times I don't know what to think anymore. There are times I don't know what to say anymore. There are times I don't know what to do anymore. Nothing seems to work, nothing seems to help.

Ah what's the point. Concentrate on the future I guess. Badminton on Sunday. PBL in 20 minutes time. Things like that. If there is a one-way train to Never-neverland 'll be the 1st to hop on. Question is, will you stop me and ask me to stay?

Death

Metallica set to release their first studio album since St. Anger in 2003 on the 12th of September! That is like 9 more days only! Hopefully it is much better than St. Anger which was full of crap and commercialized rock music. Early reviews are good, so....keeping my hopes up.

Basketball finals are tonight, this time we want the gold medal. On the other hand I should start studying my endocrine. Maybe just 1 or 2 notes. Lazy though. Lazy even to type in full sentences.

idle mind

Just a little more to the right. And the bronze medal could have been ours. Unfortunately it was not to be. Terribly sorry guys.

Awesome

Busy playing this game on my PSP. Haha re-discovering my love for RPG games again. And Final Fantasy of course. If only the PSP's version of Metal Gear was this good.

Lost. Tired. Just generally don't know what to do. The gf is back in Teluk Intan for 2 days. Just suddenly having the weird empty feeling that hasn't struck me for a long time. Ah bother. There's PBL to do. There is a week of Endocrine notes to read up. Not in the mood. Sad.

Ahh it is a terribly emo night. And tomorrow morning at 7.30am got basketball training. Maybe I should just get an early sleep. Wake up feeling better hopefully. Haih.

It is funny how we never treasure the things we got till they are gone. I know it is a very cliched saying, but it is true. Again and again it will happen.

The next wave

Guess we will have to wait another 4 years for our first Olympic gold medal. Was I disappointed? I have to say I really was, but not because he lost, but the manner that he did so. He really did look like an amateur, weighed down by all the media and the pressure on his shoulders to be the country's first Olympic gold medal winner. 12-21, 8-21. In a finals. That is unheard of until now. Poor Chong Wei. He is not to be blamed I feel. He just couldn't handle the pressure and the crazy China crowd. Where were our supporters?? The ones who keep blaming the athletes for not winning?? Such a pity. All talk no action as usual.

Ah well, maybe better luck next time eh? Congrats to Chong Wei anyway for winning the silver! It is in itself a very great achievement.

Oh and I captained my batch football team to a 5-1 win over Pharm A in the IMU Cup match just now this afternoon. Scored a cracker of a goal from way out - halfway between the halfway line and the goal. Haha! =D Hope we will win tomorrow as well for basketball!! Come on M107, it is our time!!

After watching this movie last night with the gf, I totally recommend this show to everyone. I don't want to be a spoiler so I'll just say that the plot and the overall script was very good, very entertaining and scarily might come true in the near future. In fact some of us are already like that now.

And the main thing on my must buy list is this:
Ahh comic books from Marvel are just awesome. This is the latest crossover production, The Civil War. Costs RM85 for that one book. Thought over it last night after seeing it in the Comic Mart shop in MidValley, and decided to get it soon. How I miss just spending all the lazy afternoons like in primary and secondary school times reading comic and comic. Quite simply put, Marvel rocks.

Sleepy

The EPL kicks off again this weekend. Man Utd's season opener is against the porous defense of Newcastle, though this time around they have Fabricio Coloccini. Rooney is fit to start. Ronaldo is out.

On the local front, Lee Chong Wei is in the finals of the Olympics badminton! Opponent is who else but Lin Dan. Hope we can secure our first ever Olympic Gold heh. We do have a good chance actually, it all depends whether Chong Wei can hold his nerve and make less mistakes.

I want to go out. MidValley. Pavillion. Sunway Pyramid. Anywhere. Just go out and chill and walk around, maybe stay at Starbucks in Borders and read, or watch Wall-E if there are tickets. Instead of everyday training and training and running and training and at the end of the day just crazy tired and KO-ed.

And also maybe mum and sis are coming over this Sunday night until the 21st. Hmmm.

Tired tired tired.

Those are the only words that I can think now.

T'ganu!!

The weekend at the Ma'Daerah Turtle Sanctuary was awesome. Splendid. Not only was it a great time off - it was my real clear holiday without having to worry about the resits or the results. The bus journey was uneventful, and took 6hours, not 8 like what Geowin told me. -_- The place was nice and quaint and quiet, a nice getaway I thought, plus it is so near the sea!

So cutting straight to the chase, the most exciting part was the night patrol duty, which since the gf and I were in the 1st group, took place between 8pm and 2am, though the 1st night we stayed up till 4am. The patrol rangers said that we were very lucky on the 1st night - the night of the 08/08/08 - 8 turtles came out and laid eggs. Wow talk about coincidence. Olympic turtles I'll say. Anyway we couldn't use flash photography but I managed to take a video of one of the turtles laying the eggs. Can't upload it though. Hmm.

But I got pics of the baby turtles that just hatched out from their eggs and they just climbed out of the sand in the hatchery! (yea the babies do have to climb out of the sand from 60cm below all by themselves) We also got to release them to the sea, which really was quite a brilliant sight seeing all the tiny things racing for the sea in a state of energized frenzy.

The hatchery

Baby turtles!

The second night patrol started quite late though as less turtles came up. So we were quite bored and started reading novels and Reader's Digest. There was a group of about 20-30 people from Intel Penang also spending the weekend with us - I though they were a pretty weird group.

The boring 2nd night - so far

Then we got the call that there were 4 turtles coming up. And this one below was the most stubborn and aggressive turtle of the lot. Sitting in darkness and silence for up to 2hours waiting for them to dig the resting hole and egg chamber is just about bareable, but this female decided to change her mind about the hole she dug 3 times! Imagine just sitting there waiting, then when you thought she was ready and we can go nearer and watch (cuz once they start laying eggs hey wouldn't stop no matter what or who) she decides to dig another hole for another 30-40mins.

To make things more frustrating, she only laid 20 eggs. Normal amount 100. But then the rangers noticed that this turtle was different from the other types. It was still under the 'Agar' species, but this one had a longer shell and totally different markings on the shell. Did I mentioned that she was super aggressive?

Was allowed to use flash this time for 'research'

Last day our bus was at 10.30am. Took a few more photos before leaving. Sweet.


And oh, happy 11 months baby. =)

Space Oddity

Resit results out tomorrow 10am. Bus to Terengganu leaves at 11am from Hentian Putra. Yes it is a really tight schedule but it is the latest bus they have in the morning. So I went to IMU just now and asked if I could collect my results earlier - say today - as I'm afraid I might miss the bus. The woman in the AAD who answered my call said, "You can't change your bus ticket, we can't change our policy."

I mean, come on.

They don't even allow me to collect it earlier tomorrow morning. Guess 10am it is. Man this anxiety and nervousness can't be good for my health. ARGH!!

Passion!

Last night was just the greatest night. Ever. Went for the Passion World Tour concert which was held at Sunway Convention Center. A lot of IMU people were there, and there was also many from my church ECF. Geo, Brian and I got there at 3.30pm, which was quite early, and we queued and queued until 6pm before they let us into the air-conditioned hall.

The wait outside

The main screen above the stage

Luckily we all got great seats - right in the middle though it was the last row. Then it began. The slide shows were awesome, and the lighting was dazzling. Then Chris Tomlin got the show on the road. Wow. I listen to his songs and know some of them by heart, but I've never seen him before, so Geo and I thought he was some cowboy singer. Haha!

Throughout the performances, Pastor Louie Giglio gave short yet brilliant and awesome sermons. The message was good, and at the same time kept us all entertained. Heh an entertaining sermon. =p

Anyway Chris Tomlin wasn't he only performer. There was this other rocker dude Charlie Hall. Very cool.
Haha Trisha aren't you jealous? =D Plus I bought the cool T-shirt they were selling. It is very nice but it cost RM60. -__- Ah well, guess it'll help the next stop in Jakarta.

My parents. Same old story. Should have expected this to happen. First Langkawi last year and now this.

Sorry guys for FFK-ing the trip up to Lang Tengah. I really wanted to go on this trip, but there will be other times ok? Haha..

Enough to go to Sem 4 please!

Resits are done! From my point of view I thought it was pretty ok, some stations were quite straightforward. Achike scolded me for using my left hand to give him the sticker WTF, and then later said that I'll pass the station haha. Cool. Htin Aung was ok. History taking I got all the details, only the diagnostic tests for the diagnosis I wasn't sure. One SP was so kind to me heh. It was an Indian man, relatively middle-aged. I was supposed to take his past medical history.


Me: So sir, I will now be taking your past med hist. Were you hospitalized for any previous illnesses?

Him: No no no, before that you must ask me if I have any long standing illnesses! Go on, ask me.

Me: ......erm ok, do you any long standing illnesses?

Him: Yes yes, thanks for asking! I have diabetes, HTN...............


LOL. All these while he had his script in front of him; I should have just knocked him unconscious and took it away. He even told me that he visited his daughter a few days ago who had chicken pox, and now he has the rashes too. Though he didn't tell that to anyone else so I'm not sure if it is of any use.

Praise the Lord.