Zephyr's Rhapsody

Chinese New Year 2010

2010-02-21T14:06:00.016+08:00

Today is the 8th day of Chinese New Year, but i'm still in new year mood, hehe. This morning, the management group and the RA of our apartment invited a group of lion dancers. Sis, bro and I went down to watch how "youngsters dressed like cartoon lions shake their heads and butts" (as according to Dad who don't really like lion dances). There were already 40-50 residents crowding near the guard house, most of them being Chinese, some Mid-Easterners and a few Indians. Around 12pm+, the performers arrived. Here are some pics:

A pair of lions!! (Both male. I think.)

Lions dancing into the shade.

(afraid of the scorching sun, too)

Lions bowing down, allowing ppl to molest them.lol

(some aunties even touched the whole lion body, they say it's for luck. Cheh)

I was enjoying the lion dance when Ms. Medusa and her camera got in my way.

Lion terhantuk kepala.

Head of Security lit the firecrackers which

punctured my eardrums.(ironically, he is an Indian)

Lions afraid of fire. like duh.

After the performance near the guard house, the lion dance group and the crowd went inside to the club house and later to the RA's office. Me, tired of the stupid heat, went home and watched from the balcony.

At the RA office, they lit some fire crackers again (the Indian guy did it again - -). Some Mid-Easterners kids (Afghans, Iraqis or Iranians, i didn't know/care) playing football nearby ran away like dogs when they heard the noise. Maybe they thought they are being showered with bombs, like back at Afghanistan. HAHAHAHAHA!!! Not funny. Btw, i just finished reading The Kite Runner by Khaled Hossenini, an author with bright future. Bought it at MPH with the voucher i got from college, so it's free =) About the plot, hmmm, all i can say is that it's quite touching at some points and at the same time it exposes the raw and genuine feelings and thoughts of a person, how a guy will act under jealousy to hurt his best friend (only to find out later, his half-brother), how cruel the Talibans are, and how an Afghan sees the world. Nice book indeed.

Anyway, by around 1pm+, the lions went home to their dens. And i went back to mine.

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Going back to college in a few days to start my degree in applied finance. Yesterday, i went to register at lakeside campus with my family. Saw the total fees for 3 years, god, why is it so expensive just to learn something? Got 50% tuition fees waiver only, so it's still expensive. (T T) Nonetheless, i'll apply for World Class Scholarship again and hope i'll get it this time. Hope 3 years will fly by fast and i'll come out and work so that i can pay back Dad his money.

Hope i'll be his best investment.

Resolution de 2010

2010-01-22T20:50:00.006+08:00

To see a world in a grain of sand,

And heaven in a wild flower,

Hold infinity in the palm at your hand,

And eternity in an hour.

~William Blake

End of The World

2009-11-14T08:48:00.018+08:00

Today Semester 2 of TBF is over. After finished the stupid Moral paper, i had lunch with 2.1 classmates and headed to MV for the movie 2012 with old classmates. How ironic, just escaped from hell, went to watch the end of world.

While waiting for the bus at Subang Parade bus station...2 guys and a girl in red T-shirts came down from a bus with Cokes in their hands. They walked around the bus station casually and the girl walked near me. Then they started drinking their Coke and did the "brrrrrrr" thing while vibrating their bodies like they were having a convulsion attack ( you know, the ad?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCtjnfrZaEM) I stared at the girl blankly and she got awkward, haha. Then they started to give free Cokes. Coke still taste better than Pepsi.

Reached MV, met with YC, Jun Wen, Jason, Sylvester and couple CK and Hoe Yan. Couple sat together elsewhere while the singles sat in one row.(sad huh?)

2012. Greatest disaster movie of all time. They originally wanted to name the movie "Noah's Ark" but 2012 sounds better(right?). The Mayans predicted that the world's gonna end in 21/12/2012 and it really happened. Earthquakes, volcanoes erruptions, tsunamis...the CGI effects were great. Facing a disaster, or more precisely the End, the true faces of human are revealed : although some were selfish, at the end the humans helped each other to save humanity.

Tibet monk hit by Tsunami

Christ the Redeemer statue down.

St Peter at Vatican City down.

Director Roland Emmerich destroyed famous religious landmarks, except one. The Kaaba. Then you get this from http://www.islamicaweb.com/forums/tv-movies/14577-2012-creators-too-afraid-destroy-kaaba.html . "2012 creators too afraid to destroy the Kaaba". How narrow minded. Oh comon, it's only a movie. We have people who "approached the director hoping to get their famous landmarks trashed too, like Taiwan's Taipei 101" and these guys somehow managed to interpret it in this way. Lame.= =

The best scene :

The sinking of California. (and also Tsunami in front of Dr. Helmsley's father's face at Genesis)

The best lines :

1)"Engine. Start."

(From the Russian tycoon in a Bentley. i LOVE this part!)

2)The aircraft hit something while taking off.

Co-pilot : "What was that?"
Pilot : "I think we just hit the Eiffel Tower."

(And both laughed bitterly)

The best character :

Charlie.

Zephyr's Movie Review : 4.0 / 5
Overall, this movie is great. Exciting, thrilling throughout the 158 minutes and touching at some points. A lot of metaphors, like the aircraft carrier smashing down on White House, "Africa's now the Roof of the World" and also US seeking refuge in China (just like in the latest economic crisis). The 1.0 point lost is due to some little details that they forgot. Like, after they said "all land communication's gone, the Indian guy still can call Dr. Adrian and say goodbye. (From India to China somemore.)

p/s : to those who think i've spoiled the movie by giving too much details, go to hell. xD

TBS's Smoking Hot !!

2009-11-02T20:37:00.007+08:00

Today TBS was burned down to ashes.

Nah, just kiddin'...but there was really a fire. According to the lecturers, it was caused by some blown fuse at lvl 2, 4, 5 and 6. Me and some of the guys were busy harvesting our resources in Tycoons (lolz) and suddenly whole computer lab blackout.

Then the computer department guy walked in and said "Fire, pls get out." in a matter-in-fact tone. I thought, just another fire drill, lets take our own sweet time...then i saw the smoke outside the room.

I took the lift down (yeah, i know we're not suppose to do that, but who cares? Even a lecturer also took it along with us..) Everyone was standing accross the road looking at the building and taking pictures. Idiots. I took some too. Hehe.

The firefighters and some policemen came to control the situation..but this happened

Brainless girls = =

Lazy firemen

Anyway, after few hours, they finally opened the building and let us in for our listening exam. Damn, i thought they are going to cancel it. But it was quite easy though...duh

Newspaper Quiz Competition

2009-10-12T15:44:00.011+08:00

Today i participated in the final round of the newspaper quiz competition @ K-Web..

In the 1st round, 13 of the contestants had to answer 3 questions each and the top 3 will go into the final. Choose your questions from no. 1 - 39 and answer whatever question behind the number..

My 1st question, i picked no. 1. Surely they'll put the easiest questions in front right? Wrong. Who was the terrorist who got released by some North American government last week as and exchange....blablabla? I was like, huh?wth??! Then, they gave me 3 Arabian names and stared at me as if they are asking me about my hobbies. I stared back at Justin (the emcee), searching for any tip on his face or his eyes (or his eyebrows lol), but he just grinned back at me. (Remind me to give him one in his face later..) Anyway, at the 9th second(we were given 10 sec) i simply shout out the only "pronoucable"Arabian name in the list: Amir Sharif(or something like that). And Justin replied: Awww, that's incorrect.= =

Can't recall my 2nd question; it was something about a company's policies on investment...or something like that.zzzzzzzz

Other questions picked by other contestants were also quite tough, e.g.
Who's the Portugese footballer who injured himself in the World Cup Qualifying Rounds?

a) Cristiano Ronaldo

b) Roger Federer

c) Del Potro

Yeah, quite tough right? How un-LUCKY to get these kind of questions...

Another one:
Which part of Indonesia suffered huge damages during the Earthquake?

a) Jakarta

b) Padang

c) Jawa

Wow, another hard one....= =

Anyway, watched the final of finals on the audience seat until 3.30pm and went home...got a consolation prize of a Taylor's aluminium water bottle and a RM50 MPH voucher, better than nothing...btw gratz to Kok Guan, my friend from group 2.2 who got 1st place. =D

As a conclusion, Taylor's should organize these exciting activities every year to inculcate newpaper reading hobbies in students. = =

Pathetic Attendance

2009-10-06T11:18:00.002+08:00

19 students attented this week's BCP Lecture. Cool huh?

Girls and Brains.

2009-09-16T15:47:00.002+08:00

Girls've got big brains coz they think too much. Complicated, emotionful creatures...

First Point One Outing

2009-09-11T22:59:00.012+08:00

Today's the last day of mid-sem exams, moral and english. Moral finished at 12noon and english will oni start at 3pm so whole 2.1(well, almost whole) went to pizzahut...Oh btw, 9/11 is oso JK's b'day, so we juz celebrated it there. While waiting for the pizzas... The 3 gays in action...

This is wat happens when gurls have cam n time...

Cuties..Frankie's the cutest!!

John dun shy shy lolz!

After finished pizza, sat for English paper until 4pm..Then we go to Sunway Pyramid, to celebrate the end of mid-sem exams(and also JK's b'day-again)...Reached there 5pm but the show we're watching-Gamer(NICE!!) oni starts at 6.45pm, so went to have teanner(tea+dinner) @ Wong Kok...Nah, actually Phoebe and the girls dragged us there coz some still hungry.(busy taking photo @ Pizzahut juz now, didn't really eat now hungry lol) Birthday offer there: one big(i mean GIGANTIC) glass, no, bucket of milk tea for JK.

Waiting for orders....

JK and his Giant Milk Tea!!

After 5 minutes...empty(no la, we divided the milk tea)

6.50pm, after losing to Edward and Howard in that stupid Mario Racing game, we watched Gamer. Really nice movie with lots of actions and 18sx, not to mention those 'f' words..Gave me an impression of 3OO and The Gladiator...from the future.
Me luv it=)

After finished movie, lagged at the walkway for a while, then all went home..Nice outing guys, shud do this more next time...And thanks to Howard for driving me home=D

p/s: Photos stolen from Dawn's and Phoebe's FB(with permission of coz xp)

Decaying boy

2009-09-03T21:41:00.003+08:00

yc says: monday holiday?
Jenson PCS says: duh
yc says: haha
yc says: kalau...i ask you sunday go play futsal...what would you say?
Jenson PCS says:"stay away from this will-be-sitting-for-his mid-sem-exams-on-tuesday
but-haven't-even-started to-revise-and-long-time-never-play-futsal-until-
legs-become-besi-buruk poor boy"
yc says: haha
yc says: ok then
yc says: some other time
Jenson PCS says:sigh, i'm decaying

=(

15 Malaysia

2009-08-22T00:27:00.007+08:00

Yeah, i guess most of you guys have probably heard about it. 15Malaysia (http://15malaysia.com/) is a short films project, consisting 15 short films made by 15 Malaysian film-makers or movie directors.

They've brought up various controversial issues : races, religions...

Really look forward to see how they voice out their opinions in an artistic way, unlike those public demonstrations out there.

My favourite so far is Potong Saga, Chocolate's to deep for me to enjoy...(hehe, what to do, i'm simple)

Support them, the 15 true Malaysians (plus me become 16, xD minus yasmin become 15 back=(

The first one, Potong Saga.(lolz, really sensitive...but i like it >xD Enjoy!)

(Strange, 1Malaysia and 15Malaysia; a difference in only one number...Yet an enormous gap exists between both)

Babies

2009-08-18T11:42:00.003+08:00

Lolz, never really notice that babies are such humourous creatures..

Edward showed me this during BCP class :

Everybody luvs babies =)

Dad: RM10k Poorer

2009-07-27T16:28:00.004+08:00

Last sunday afternoon, my dad received a phone call from Citibank. The officer asked him if he had spent about a total of RM6000+ using his creadit card this morning. The officer then read out all the transactions made from the records: Harvey Norman-RM500, Puma- RM300, PizzaHut- RM200, Nike- RM400.... OMG, as he read down the list, my dad go lower and lower. Dad then checked his wallet, and found out that 2 of his creadit cards were missing ( Citibank & Ambank) and he also found a stranger's Maybank card there! He then recalled, this morning, dad and mom went to Bkt Jalil to exercise. And dad left his wallet in the car despite mom's warning. What luck! Usually, dad always bring his wallet along even when he exercises. But on that fateful morning, he felt like leaving his wallet in the car. He even joked with mom about the 'good' security system of Proton Wira. After they've finished exercising, the wallet was still there, cash, id card, everything was in their places. But because the thief replaced the creadit cards with another card, they didn't notice anything. Not until the officer from Citibank noticed unusual patterns of money-spending by the guy who stole the card and phoned dad to check with him. That time was already 4pm in the afternoon, like, 7 hours later. Idiots! They should have called earlier when they detect those unusual transactions. Dad then called Ambank, only to find out that the goddamned son/daugther-of-a-bitch used up another RM7000+ from his Ambank account. And the useless Ambank officers didn't even bother to investigate despite the out of norm transactions. If Citibank didn't call dad, he'll be few hundred thousands poorer by now. Luckily, that asshole only managed to spend a small portion from dad's account. Dad then lodged a police report @ Brickfields and just treat the RM10k+ as donation for charity. = = Heck, with RM10k+ i can order 10,000 roti canai/a number of iPhones/new PCs/almost pay the whole tuition fee for TBF. Hope that thief choked on the his pizza-MY DAD'S pizza!!!

I freaking hate thieves.

Confession of a Ginger Hater

2009-07-21T10:58:00.001+08:00

I hate ginger. But mum says i won't like fried rice without ginger. And she's right. And i hate it when she's right.

Econs Lecturer VS Adorable Students of 1.1

2009-06-24T14:01:00.012+08:00

Today in Economics tutorial class…

Ø Econs. Lecturer - Mr Ang
Ø Adorable students - Students

Mr Ang : Monopolistic competitive firms may organize meetings and work in alliance to maximize their profit. For example, D’len, Francis and Yee Khun might go into a secluded underground room and close the door to discuss about something.

Students :Oooooooo!!!( With dancing eyebrows.)

Mr Ang : Can’t you guys stop thinking of those things?! Anyway, it is not necessary that they are product-selling businesses. They can also provide services to…

Students : (Laughter) Yeah, services!!!

Mr Ang : (Shaking his head) (Students nowadays…) Their firms can be…

Students : (Roar with laughter again) Oh yeah! They are firm alright!

Mr Ang : OMG, you guys are really inclined to certain topics! Ok, I shall use the term‘organizations’ instead of ‘firms’ to stop you dirty-minded monkeys from getting excited again..

Students : LOLZ, ORGANS!! ORGASMS!!

Mr Ang : (Speechless, laughing together.)

(At the end, Mr Ang was resorted to using ‘syarikats’ to replacing ‘firms’ or ‘organizations’ for the rest of the session.)

Talk about combo dirty remarks.

My adorable Economics lecturer/tutor- Mr Ang
(Picture sotlen from FB)

Longest. Presentation. Ever.

2009-06-23T12:01:00.008+08:00

Today, i've reached one of the most important milestones in my life, all thanks to my accounting lecturer at Taylor's - Ms Tham. Last week, we were told to prepare a presentation of 15 minutes to explain our findings from the group assignment where we were required to interview a business. Everyone(well, almost) dressed in formal. We drew for our turns and my group were the first group to present. Then the nightmare started. As we presented, we were constantly interrupted by the lecturer who asked us tough questions like a machine-gun. Not only that, she brought up some of her old, ancient, vintage, antiquated, out-dated, pre-stone age grandmother stories, which she tells us on every lectures and tutorial class without fail. We started the presentation at around 10.05am and finished at 11am. 1 hour of presentation!!For a pathetic 5%!! and this wasn't even EWE. But to tell the truth, 1 hour=45 min of her stories + 15 min of the real presentation. Anyway, we+she used up the whole 1 hour slot of accounting and the others have to do theirs on the other days. Serve them right, wore formal clothes for nothing today, lolz! anyway, i think we did okay for this presentation.

p/s: sry JK for causing the you the embarrassment, lolz!

Finals Exam's coming!!

2009-06-23T08:55:00.007+08:00

The timetable of final exam.

One more week to the finals and i'm still blogging here. Why can't i just concentrate on studies-just for one week??How to get tertiary merit scholarship from Taylor's next year? 90% average marks=full tuition fees waiver=almost RM70k+ !! Somebody please wake lazy me up!!!

Bad Econs Marks

2009-06-18T15:30:00.008+08:00

Today, my econs. lecturer gave us back the results of our group assignment and also last week's 5%quiz. I got relatively low marks. Felt very low. Felt even lower when i found out that YK got higher marks than me-although he's wasn't very good either. OMG, one more week and i'll sit for my final exams for the 1st semester and i haven't even figure out what the hell is a monopolistic competition in econs. Scholarship student huh? Scholarship my foot...But then, this jolted me up and i'll start the engine now. Whoever reading this, open your eyes wide and witness the resurrection of Jenson!!!(this means YOU).

Identified culprits of my downfall.

My brain.

Stop the Nonsense.

2009-06-17T15:48:00.001+08:00

Why create chaos? Why embarass yourselves?
Wait for another few years and the world's yours
-If you win our hearts today.

Boys and Jokes.

2009-06-17T15:18:00.008+08:00

Lung Wang-Never tell him a joke, he won't understand it.(do not burden his brain)
Jason-Sometimes i don't understand his jokes.(But will laugh anyway)
CK-jokes(fake a laugh for him sometimes, will you?)
Jun-Wen-Will laugh politely even if a joke is not funny.(A joker's dream listener)
Wai Zack-the dirty joker.(the dirty & yellowish ones)
Keh Guan-dirty joker II.(a close buddy of YZ, what do you expect?)
YC-Don't copy his jokes, he doesn't like it.(Talk about copyrights...)
Lester-Tells cold jokes.(i mean the real chilly ones)
Syl-Laughes at any jokes-even non-jokes.(i just love this guy)
Chun Siang-The Joker.(Drink at your own risk when he's cracking a joke)
Shahril-No comment.

EWE Presentation

2009-06-16T11:50:00.009+08:00

Finally, I've finished my English Week Presentation at Taylor's Mezza floor. Our's on the first day of the first week, the 3rd group. Out of 4 groups presenting on that day, 3 business ideas are restaurants. Needless to say, our blind restaurant, Night was the most attention-catching idea.(at least to the judges). Dining in total darkness, cool huh? We were even considering the possibilities of opening this restaurant after we've graduated! Our board's design was not bad, huh?(thnks to me, xp). Threw it in the dustbin at mezzanine floor after the presentation anyway, I dispose anything that is useless to me...duh

Presentation Board.

My Team-JK, Yuuhi, Edward + a CEO.

Life in College

2009-06-16T09:22:00.005+08:00

Nearly 3 months in Taylor's University College by now. Met a whole new bunch of friends : friendly ones, helpful ones, talkative ones, cold ones, hot ones and the bad ones(further descriptions are unnecessary.) Business Foundation is not really tough, but then it's only the 1st semester of a foundation program. Calmness before the storm...Lecturers were good, so far. The lifts in TBS were fast and relief points smelled okay. Went for a few scholarship interviews to get an internship program + 4 years of free education but the world outside prove to be tougher and harsher than i thought. I hate all those lady HR managers who interviewed me. Picky and choosy, just like buying vege at the market. But then, that's what they're suppose to do - to choose the best for their corporations and companies. I'm not the best. T.T

Companies who didn't want me T.T

21 World Class Scholarship receipients. I hate each and everyone of them.