my beloved life
Monday, March 27, 2006
1:09am.. yes, its already a monday morning, yet Im still typing this post.. haha! too bored i guess.. In exactly 10 hours time, Ill have my Business and Econs stats practice test.. Of course, as the man I was, I did not study for it, focusing on watching the Commonwealth Games final day action.. Much can be said about this edition of the Commonwealth Games which was held at Melbourne.. Malaysia surprised the rest of the contingents with a gold on the first day with weight-lifting.. Overall, Malaysia, in my opinion, did fairly well.. Golds in badminton were expected, with 4 golds coming from the all-Malaysian finals in the Men's Singles and Doubles.. we also grabbed Gold in the women's Doubles and Mixed team event.. 2 golds came from Lawn bowl.. However, the star for Malaysia, no doubt is Bryan Nickson, who competed in the men's 10m platform and men's synchronised 10m platform.. Competing against opponents almost twice his age, he showed a display that amazed everyone.. while he might have lost out by being 6th in the men's 10m platform, it must be reminded that his competitors are way more experienced and all of them had dived amazingly for the event.. imagine their scores are actually almost perfect in some dives.. in the men's synchronised 10m platform, he and his partner(cant remember his name!!), though did not threaten the Gold medal winners, they were not threaten as well by anyone for their silver medal spot.. they too had dived some of the most amazing dives the history have ever seen.. on the last dive, they were that good, they scored the highest score in the whole event!.. Yes, they were
that good!
Honestly, Im not sure why, but I was hoping for the 'Negaraku' to be played on the podium whenever there was a Malaysian competing in any event.. Yes, I admit, I am very patriotic when it comes to Malaysia in sports.. Somehow whenever I see any Malaysians playing in any event, I will automatically root for them.. Even if they had no chance of winning, its just that feeling that is so great in supporting your own country's representative.. Even when I went to watch the friendly between Manchester United vs Malaysia a few years back, even though almost the whole stadium were rooting for Manchester United, my friends and I strapped on a yellow head band and wearing the yellow shirt and waved the Malaysia flag.. Yes, we cheered strongly for Malaysia.. So much in fact, that some of the Manchester United fans who sat behind us actually started cheering for Malaysia with us!! haha, I will always remember that incident!.. Anyway, this was how Malaysia fared in the whole Melbourne Commonwealth Games 2006 :
Not too bad.. 8th in the whole Games.. 7 gold, could have had more if the squash team did not disappoint and the near miss in weight-lifting where Malaysia lost out on gold by just 1kg.. well, it was still a great performance, so
MALAYSIA BOLEH!!
Anyway, watched the closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games just now.. I personally felt that the performances was kinda odd.. But there was this one song I absolutely love and I've just downloaded and playing in my comp now..
Casey Donovan - Better To Love.. the Live version was better i feel, but this is fine anyway.. While I was searching on the net, I found out that she is the Australian Idol!.. How come people here in Malaysia knows of the latest American Idol, where the country is thousands of miles away, while the only Australian Idol we know is Guy Sebastian, where the country is juz separated by Indonesia?.. weird don't u think?? Wonder if those people in Australia know that Malaysian Idol even exist!??
3:09 AM
Saturday, March 25, 2006
It was the first assignment to be handed in, management assignment.. Boy it was DIFFICULT!! I know im not in a position to rant about it, since I did leave it to the very last minute to complete it.. It was a real struggle, failing to find any related articles even though You try REALLY hard and spend countless hours is mentally torturing!.. And to even read every single article that you find might be useful, but find out that nothing in the article can be used!.. it will drive anyone mad!
Yes, Im not exagerrating it!.. Just ask every student that took management to tell you the difficulty of this.. Not only is there articles we have to find, we also have to comply to the rule that the journals have to be
recent! It is totally insane!.. To even find a journal article is difficult is difficult enough, let alone finding something that is recent!..
For 2 nights, Wednesday and Thursday night, you can see everyone online, that is because everyone is finding ways and means to write the essay!.. for that 2 days, everyone's mind was only thinking of 1 thing,
Management! Of course, thursday night i went to Asia for some foos to release some frustration =P, but that still does not contribute to the late nights..
Anyway, thank God its over!.. the minute we dropped the assignment in the box, a huge sense of relief ran through our minds!.. for me, its exactly like the feeling of handing in the last paper for SPM! absolutely soothing!.. I know this is only the first of many assignments that I have to face for the next 3 years, but its still nice to feel this way! Once I get used to it, then I wont get this kinda feeling, coz it would have been a norm already..
So, last saturday, went to catch Underworld 2:Evolution.. It was a brilliant end to the story.. Who would have thought that Marcus was the first true Vampire, not Viktor.. and Who would have thought that Alexander Corvinus was still alive, cleaning up the mess that his sons, Marcus(later turned into a hybrid) and William(first true werewolf!) had made.. and Michael's power really is limitless.. I shall not say any further, in case there are people who have not seen the movie.. What i CAN say is, GO WATCH IF U HAVE NOT!!!
3:28 PM
Friday, March 17, 2006
Yes, as the title goes, Im gonna talk about
MY bad influences on my friends.. This is quite a serious issue for me.. I was gonna like write my good influences on my friends first before the bad ones, then i thought for a very long time before concluding that I
have not influenced my friends in a good way in any manner!! Sad but true..
Lets not talk about the past first.. Just last Tuesday, even though my class actually starts at 4pm, For the kick of it, I came at 8.30am! Well, I was really REALLY planning to spend my time finding journals and doing some work in the library.. Obviously, i DIDN'T! played ping pong with Darren from 9.30am onwards.. as we play and play, then we realise that Darren had lecture at 11am.. but he proceeded to skipping it! Later, Aaron came too.. God knows why all of a sudden I had a strong urge to go Asia!!.. Even though they both were very reluctant to go, i practically FORCED, yes u heard it.. FORCED them to go!.. When we went there, Aaron told us that he had to go back to Uni for his management group activity.. I don't know why I started telling him to skip it for somemore time in Asia!! And so he ended up skipping the activity!.. When Im thinking and typing now, words cannot describe how guilty I am for influencing them this way! Its like Im playing with their minds and all!!.. What have become of me!? I cant control my urge?? I've become such a DEVIL!?
Not only that issue actually.. Past history has also revealed that I
AM a bad influence.. Example, getting Bryan to be addicted to Foosball.. Before he actually knew me, he was this fella who was hardworking and also in the library studying.. After knowing me, gone were the days where he was very diligent and hardworking, it was replaced by a guy who hangs out in the foosball table so often that his studies suffered.. YES! it was me who influenced him to do so!.. ME!..
Of coz, there are a lot more cases of such that supports the fact that I am a bad influence to my friends.. Maybe I should stay away from them, so that they will not be influenced by me.. Maybe if Im not hanging out with them often, then their studies will improve.. Maybe, I should just disappear from them, so that they will live a better life..
(Confused and blur in the mind right now on this!)..
12:35 AM
Friday, March 10, 2006
My apologies for not updating, its not that i don't have time to update, its more of coz life in Uni now is like a routine.. Everyday class, work, home.. guess its gonna be this monotenous for the next 3 years, luckily i have friends like Bryan and Melissa, making classes less boring.. Cheers guys!!
Juz realised that this is the third time that i have to apologies for not updating regularly.. well, this phenomena(wah so serious!?) may go on for the next 3 years, partly due to the insanity of assignment deadlines and the difficulty of finding the right articles in journals that are necessary for the assignments!.. Seriously, the process of finding the right article in the right journal is not as easy as one thinks! Its not as easy as typing the journal name into the box in GOOGLE and click search and vola!, the article is there(Puan Nor, 2006)[have to learn how to cite properly in essays right? =P]..
NO! As i experienced on thursday, it was not at all simple!.. in fact, it seemed impossible!.. Journals that were recommended in the Unit Outline are clearly useless, or maybe i did not fully understand what the question exactly wants(dumb me!).. Anyway, Bryan managed to find a textbook that had the info that we need, unfortunately the cited articles are from journals from 1971-1972.. Of coz, we were unable to locate the journal in the library, so all the effort gone down the drain,
AGAIN! Honestly i was extremely frustrated, even though i know it will not solve anything, and im not the only one who will face this problem.. But i cant help but feel totally hopeless and useless in doing stuff like that, its like i cant help out in anything even if i try my best.. sorry Bryan and Melissa for failing u guys!...
Anyway, its been awhile since i played competitive tennis.. Due to the lost of my great pal Mr. Leow, who has gone to Perth to further his studies and his tennis career, i had somehhow lost the initiative to play.. Plus, no one stays near me plays tennis, except Adam and Dom.. But not to offend both of them, I need some of the same level or higher to play with if i want to continue to be competitive.. On top of that, i cant afford to train every week anymore, coz now one class is 60 bucks fully on me.. therefore i have to practically save up money from every week in order to pay and play.. Yes, it is
that sad now my tennis career.. Furthermore, my right ankle hurts every time i push myself, so pain that i had to wear ankle guard.. and most of the time this affects my overall performance.. Maybe this is an indication that my un-illustrious tennis career is actually coming to an end..
The End.......
10:42 PM
