Happy birthday Jeng Khay =)

Happy birthday to (the friend who used to be) one of my bestest friend, Jeng Khay =)
Today was Jeng Khay's birthday. For those who don't know him, he's an old friend of mine, studying in the same primary and secondary school as most of us in 121D (only Pat and YS were from different primary school). He's a year younger than us, coz he's a PTS student like Ian Zing and Denise (which meant he skipped Standard 4). We got along really well since he came into my class in Standard 5...and we've been in the same classes (except Form 2) since then till Form 5.

The last year in my secondary school would be much boring without him. We made each other laugh nearly every single day hehe. Sometimes he would call me just to spread rumours bout other people haha =P...or for fun coz he's bored. Sigh...juz miss those days long ago. Now we didn't even contact each other for months on end...not because i don't want to, but we got our own lives to live. There's still the occasional 'hi, wazzup' and movie outing when we managed to get together back in JB, but other than that, we're out of each other's lives already.

Sometimes i realise there's truth in those 'junk' e-mails i receive, like this one:

...we may be best friends one year,
pretty good friends the next,
don't talk that much the year after,
don't talk at all the year after that...

Much as i like all my old friends to stay as my friends forever, but this is life - we make new friends and lose old friends. Yeah, it's inevitable. And right now i'm trying to contact 3 of my old friends, but they changed their hp no already. Hope i could find some way to contact them. Really hate to agree to this, but there's no such thing as "Friends forever"...

PS - I even forgot to wish Jeng Khay happy birthday until a few days later...and to think i got birthday reminders for most of my friends on my hp =/. Hope he doesn't mind my late wishes...

-7.00pm, 18 February 2005-

Memalukan mamalia? lol...Catching up with an old friend...

Memalukan mamalia lol...
As of today, the term ass-whooped shall be redefined haha. After our dinner, the guys went down for a round of DotA. Jem, YC, YS, Pat and Paul will be up against Tiong, Alvin and 2 other PM3 guys. It's 5-vs-4, so they thought it would be an easy game. Little do they know the fear that'll be instilled in them after this game lol ;)

Me, Ashok and Leong didn't join them for this game. Me coz i didn't feel like playing and i gotta be careful with my spendings or go hungry for the last few days here. Besides, there's homework to be done =/. The guys went out to play at 10pm, and they lived to tell the story bout how Sand King made 5 of them look like noobs haha =P (they even run away from him though the SK was outnumbered 5-1).

Of course, me, Ashok, Chow and literally everyone else couldn't believe their story. According to them, it's so bad that even Paul's sniper got last O.o haha. And they didn't even get 10 kills by the end of the game (final kill score - 50 to 9). Won't want to go into how the game went (YC got an eye-witness's account of the game on his blog ;) ), but from today onwards, Pat, Paul, Jem, YC and YS shall make up the "Memalukan mamalia" (from one of Shan's fav phrase) team haha. Don't look at me like that...i didn't come up with this, they named themselves that haha..

Catching up with an old friend..
Right before the guys went out to play, Wy Keat called me and asked me to go down to meet him. He finished his SAM course at the end of last year and soon he'll be in IMU studying medicine. Apparently, he's in My Place right then coz his girlfriend wanna meet a friend here. Had nothing to do while his girlfriend's at her friend's place so got me to chat with him while he waited. Nothing much we chatted bout in particular, mostly bout the past, present and future of our lives and how the others are doing.

Me pondering bout my future...
Asked me to join him in IMU too, though i'm still not very sure bout that. Had not been spending much time thinking bout which course i'll take after A-Levels. Medicine would be nice, in terms of job stability and salary ;). My dad didn't mind bout wat i'll be studying (that's wat he says anyway) but he'll like me to study medicine. Said it'll be convenient for me to study in IMU, coz my brother most probably will go overseas after this year. So if i do get into IMU, i'll juz have to rent a place for 6 months before moving into my bro's apartment (everything's there anyway so i don't have to bring much stuff. And the broadband's up and good to go...that's the only thing that matters haha =P).

I've never thought i'll be a doctor (though 'doctor' had been in my list of cita-cita for my whole primary school years hehe. But at that time there's only 3 occupations i know of, Doktor, Jurutera, and Polis =P). Since primary school till a couple of years ago, engineering had been my top choice, but now i'm not too sure bout that. Had thought bout veterinary too, and now i'm looking at medicine. Actually i wanted to be a paramedic, but i don't really know how to get there, so medicine would be my choice for now. Sigh...just me being myself, an indecisive guy ^^. Guess one never know what the future holds...

-6.29pm, 18 February 2005-

Shan...BEYOND GODLIKE?!Our class got even smaller...

Shan...BEYOND GODLIKE?!
Had a DotA game after college again. Sigh...can't they stop playing for juz 1 week? Got pulled along anyway...now they didn't bother to ask me and juz include in the 'going' list straight away. Sigh... ^^"

What's so special bout today's game? Well, Shan reached BEYOND GODLIKE!! Haha...to those not in PM1 this may seems like juz another game. But trust me, you have to be surprised if Shan (even with Chow in the game haha) played that well =P. Turned out that Zi Yang was helping him by the side. (When Paul found out bout it, he threw his mouse at the monitor =/. Looks like someone has to go for anger management courses haha =P. But couldn't blame him...it's really frustrating getting killed by Shan more than 5 times in a row haha).

Our class juz got even smaller...
From more than 26 at the beginning of our course, now it's left with 16 of us in PM1. Sigh. Hoi and Paik Weng deferred to PM14 (June 2004 intake)...which means they'll be resitting AS this mid-year and A2 at the end of the year. Then Wilson said he'll be here till next month before stopping A-Levels in favour of some other studies (i forgot what was it..). Then after college we met Oscar juz outside Taylor's (he skipped college again). Turned out that he's gonna stop A-Levels too and go back to his hometown, Miri to go for some foundation studies. And then that nite, Ashok told us that he'll be deferring too...along with Shanmugam. Sigh. So sad that they have to leave our class...that's 3 futsal players less now. Guess the days of the "unbeatable PM1 futsal team" are finally over hehe...and class gonna get reeeaaally quiet now...

-4.51pm, 14 February 2005-

Wykeen's debut futsal matchWater supply cut! >=(

Juz some side news =P
Last nite the Johorian team comprising Jem, Leong, Yong Chen and Yih Seong beat the Sarawakian team again ^^. Me didn't go coz i was very tired and went to sleep while they play. Woke up at 12am to listen to them bragging bout it haha. Couldn't blame them rite...it's not everyday they get to win against the Sarawakians hehe.

Wykeen's futsal debut match!
From today onwards (hopefully), there'll be a new addition to out futsal team! =). With the Zi Yang's withdrawal from our futsal team (must be that incident that caused it...=/), Wykeen came juz in time hehe.

Went back to apartment at 3pm and i fell asleep right away. Actually i didn't feel like going to play futsal coz i was really really damn tired today. But we don't get to play everyday so i juz decided to go with them coz it'll be quite some time before the next game =/. Played from 4 to 6pm against Paul's junior and Jon's team. Nothing much to note bout it, except i heard that Wykeen did exceptionally well for his first game...though there were some 'slip-ups' haha.

Water supply cut! >=(
Reached back home, after everyone had bathed, and juz as i stepped into the bathroom, the water supply stopped. What the hell?! Why can't they wait till after i bathe? *sob*..they all bully me..*sob* haha. So in the end, i had to go dinner without bathing...but it's the others who suffer anyway haha =P. Came back from dinner and still no water. Had to go to Paul's apartment to bathe. Thanks Paul, Tiong, Yun, Jon, Alvin, Tiong's brother and whoever else's living downstairs! ^^ But somehow our bathroom looks much cleaner haha =P. Maybe i shouldn't complain...at least they have water supply (thankfully...if not i'll have to wait till the next day to bathe =/). Sigh...why must we suffer so much ^^"

-4.33pm, 14 February 2005-

AS results revealed!

Finally we got back our AS results today. It's the 'unofficial' results...as in we only get to see what we got, the certificates will come later. Happy with what i got...couldn't ask for more hehe. Got all As for every subject, even Thinking Skills...surprise, surprise! I don't really have much confidence in TKS, mostly coz my English is not very good =/. But i guess my grandma's constant prayers got answered. She's been praying real hard for me and me brothers to do well in our studies...and so far i don't think we disappointed her much hehe =/

As for the others, well i'll juz give a run thru of their results (correct me if i'm wrong ya). Yong Chen and Yih Seong both got 4As, Paul, Chow, and Pat got 3, and Jem got 2. Not really bad results...but not what they wished for nonetheless. Well, it's only the AS rite...there's always time to study for A2 (minus all that DotA la =P). As for Ashok and Leong, i didn't ask them...if they don't wanna tell why force them?

Had the usual DotA game right before midnite. Then comes the usual post-DotA talk (which strangely, lasted longer than the game itself haha). Talk till 3am before going to sleep. That's bout the usual time we sleep ;).

PS - Yong Chen asked me to promise to belanja all of them if i managed to get 5As. Well, there's no problem on my side...though money's running a little bit low right now (me father asked me to survive on 200 bucks for 11 days...but i used half of it to buy new clothes =P). But Pat asked me to juz blanja them movie some other day so no Pizza Hut for dinner today hehe...(Yih Seong's not free btw ;) )

-4.09pm, 14 February 2005-

Me on the Sarawakian side =P

Me, betrayer for one night...
After 3 days without DotA, the first thing the guys do when they got back is too obvious sigh ^^". Right after our dinner, Paul came up to recruit people to go but only Yih Seong, Jem, Yong Chen, and Leong agreed. Me refused to go coz I juz don't feel like going while Pat and Ashok haven't reach 121D yet. Then Ashok came home, and he joined the Johorian team to play against Paul's Sarawakian team. Actually, they had wanted to play against us for a long time edi but we kept on delaying our inevitable doom hehe.

A few minutes after the DotA gang left me and Pat in 121D, Paul came back up to ask me to take over David's place coz he couldn't make it. He tried to persuade me for a while, then he said those 'magic words' haha =P (he'll pay for me cc lah). Still, I didn't want to go actually coz I juz don't feel like it. Tried to get Pat to go instead but he insisted on doing his homework at home. Sigh...in the end I gave in and juz went along...

There's no free lunch in this world. How true haha =P. For paying for me, Paul wanted me on his side, the Sarawakian team. I don't mind really, but the same cannot be said for the other Johorians hehe. The moment they found out I 'betrayed' them, I got a 3-4 right outside My Place ^^" (to the shock of My Place’s guard haha). Kinda expected it when I agreed to go so no surprise there haha...But I have to say they sound really like going to die after that. Hey guys have more confidence in yourself lah...don't be like Yong Chen haha =P

Another lesson I learnt : Underestimation is the first step to losing. Apparently, the Sarawakian team (including me) didn't expect the other team to play so damn good. John was so confident of winning that he chose a hero he seldom use while I chose Anti-mage to counter Jem's Lich (I expected Lich to be the strongest hero), but that wasn't a good strategy. From the start, I kept on dying to Ashok's Nerubian...so much that half of the time I was dead. Then towards the end, Leong's Medusa got all the expensive items and start killing us like flies. And yeah we lost in the end...let's juz say the Johorian team beat us in terms of teamwork and coordination ;). So much for the pessimism before the game, eh? Hehe...

PS – Sorry Paul, there wasn't much I can do to prevent our loss. Didn't really concentrate on playing (well, I didn't want to go...). And thanx for letting me waste your RM3.50 haha =P

-5.13am, 5 February 2005-

'National Treasure'TV all day long...

Woke up at around 12pm. Ahh...i juz love weekends =P. The only time to get some 'decent' sleep (11 hours is 'decent' to me =P) and wake up in the afternoon. Had lunch with Yih Seong and Leong at Rafi's, then it's back home to watch the first episode of 'The Apprentice' second season. Didn't even catch any episode of the first coz i thought it would be juz like other reality tv shows. But this is kinda different...and pretty interesting to see what kind of ideas they come up with. The first episode requires them to come up with an idea for a boys' toy for Toys 'R' Us, which team 'Mosaic' (what sucky name haha) produced some transformable animal shit. The other team's toy was some transformable remote control vehicle. It was rather obvious who's gonna win hehe.

Around 5pm, three of us went to Pyramid with Hoi to watch 'National Treasure' at 5.50pm. Too bad though there's no car to sit in this time. Somehow, Hoi's bro lost his wallet (which include his IC and driving licence) so he couldn't drive. Sigh...but Pyramid's not very far, and we got there in a cab instead. As for the movie, it's quite good. More puzzle-solving than action, but at least it's interesting. Oh yea, heard a movie on 'The Da Vinci's Code' gonna come out (see the trend?)...i sure hope it won't fail miserably ^^. Not that i don't like the book or anything, juz that i want more nice movies to watch =P.

Had dinner with Hoi at Asia Cafe, then it's American Idol at 10.45pm. It's AI's first episode too ^^. Looks like we're gonna spend a lot of time in front of tv from now on haha. After AI, me and Yih Seong went to Rafi's with Paul to watch Man U against Aston Villa. Surprised to see that Villa scored first =P but then Yih Seong forced us to stay till Man U wins haha (even if it meant staying there till the next match!). But they still win in the end (thank god.. haha) and we went back at 12.45am.

PS - We got by the second day without any DotA ;)

-5.18pm, 3 February 2005-