UPS. H1N1, fever and quarantined. Water problem to be solved

it's been one month since i blog. *sigh* lots of things happened during this one month. so brief update is on the way

1. UPS result is out. it sucks though. >.< i got B for bio and chem, D+ for maths and A for English. my pointer was like 2.4? thanks to my maths. i think chemistry was okay, but was rather disappointed with bio. i didnt expect an A, but i expect higher that B la. as for maths, all i cared was that i passed that subject. did i mentioned before what happened to me during maths paper? well, to cut the long story short, i was zombie-dized on that day. i had severe mental block. i cant even recall what does 'real roots' means. i did partial raction halfway and then i went blank and dont know how to do the next step (i got full mark for similar Q during quiz though) it's not like i dont know what to do, i just cant recall how to do. let me give you an analogy. i'm hungry, so i'm supposed to eat right? so in this situation, i get the food, put it in my mouth. then i got blank. i know im supposed to chew and swallow, but i cant recall how to chew my food. that was how i felt when i did partial fraction. and there was question about squaring both side. so i square, but i didn't bother to square the numbers in the modulus. what i'm trying to say here is that, i was not careless, i knew what mistakes i did without knowing it was all mistakes. meaning to say, i did the mistakes consiously. will anyone tell me what could possibly be the reason for that to happen? but i'm glad that i got an A for english, although it's not taken into consideration in our pointer. more than half my class got E. *sigh*

2. there was at least 3 positive cases of h1n1 in my college, and recently there's a new case in my block, which makes the total cases to be 4. due to these positive cases, the whole college was quarantined, but not closed. so we were all 'prisoned' in the college for like 2 weeks. woah.. that was long you know! and since there's this h1n1 out break, every got sick. its like the whole college is sick. everyone will either experience cough, flu, fever, sore throat, or somekind of sickness. as for me, i had the worst fever experience plus flue and cough. i had fever for 5 days. it started on tuesday, which i ignored. by tuesday night my temperature rose to i think around 40 degree. the next day, though it subsided, i went to the GH. they checked my temperature and it was 39.3. i was showing h1n1 syntoms u know! Thank god i was not quarantined. the doctor acutally prescribed me 2x4 paracetamol a day! my gosh, crazy oh! then i got 4 days MC until saturday. when i first saw it, i was like, wth? 4 days? common man!! by friday i tried to get up and attend class coz my fever subsided but i could only manage 1 hour of class. by noon my head was spinning, very dizzy and i wanted to throw up. so i had to go to the GH again. *Sigh* my parents was so worried that they paid me a visit, although we were quarantined. well, how to get well eh? imagine i was already that dead sick and there i was, water hunting and doing my laundry at 11 pm. (dont tell my mum that, she'll kill me)

3. last but not least, i'll talk about water problem (i have to leave after this, got MUET practice). anyway, yeah.. we didnt have water since sunday 2 weeks ago. so we had to go water hunting and q for hours and hours for water. but lately things have been slightly better. at least the water tank at the ground floor got water, so no need to hunt too far. the good news is that recently, this mr puad sumthing, the timbalan menteri pelajaran, visited our college. and he promised to solve our water problem in one month's time. well, lets just see how true is that. it's left to be seen. well, i have to leave now.

college vs national service

ah, it's been a long time since i last blog, again.

so anyway, today's topic is college vs national service. and this post is HIGHLY recommended to those who are selected for national service next year. why? well, simply because if you refuse to go to national service, then forget all about college (especially if you have the intention to enter labuan matriculation college). i'll tell you why.

you see, i've been through both of it. so i can give a rough comparison between this 2. very easy de!

1. food:
ns: you get 6 meals a day.FREE. lil breakfast, morning tea , lunch, evening tea, dinner and supper. and you get 3 types of fruits, vege, chicken and fish everyday, different style, and very nyummy. well, at least my camp was superb. best of all, everything is ready for you, you dont even have to think of what to eat, just take your tray and food and shove them down you throat. and your tummy will be pleased.

matrix: you have to boil your own water, think of what to drink and eat for breakfast. then no morning tea, unless you are willing to spend more money. same goes with evening tea. lunch, well, you have to choose to eat either vege, chicken or fish. then dinner, the same thing. and the worst thing, you see the same kind and same way of cooking of chicken almost EVERYday. to the point that, even if you eat the chicken cooked in different styles in every different meals, you will still think that you ate the same thing yesterday. in fact, you eat so MUCH (its uncountable now) chicken that you forgot the fact that you are eating chicken again. that is one thing. another thing is, sometimes the riced is half cooked. very depressing. never mind the fact that you are actually paying to eat raw food. and if you something to drink, dig your pocket deeper. everything needs money.

conclusion: NS got good, free, food with variety. matrix have lousy, you-have-to-pay and i'm-eating-the-same-thing-again food.

2. water. (very HOT topic)
NS: you get to shower as long as you want, and do your laundry as long as you want, EVERYday. provided that there's no activity at that point of time. plus, you do your dishes at a decent place. and you dont need to worry about washroom

matrix: water is major problem. its a norm. we have been experiencing poor water supply for 1.5 months already. i hope the water condition will improve when i go back there. the last 1 week i was there, was a real hell. everyday have to takung water and carry the water all the way up to my room. and then got 1 day, the Q is so damn long, and by the time it was about 5 more pails away before my turn, the water dried out. and then have to go water hunting. some of them went water hunting and carried their pails of water all the way from the lab, from the track, from the astaka, from the washroom near the main gate, from the boys block, in short, from anyway you can find water. well, never mind about the water hunting. but what's worst, is the fact that you have no where to do your business and the toilet really stinks due to no water. EVERy drop of water is valuable. oh yeah, one more thing. you have to buy drinking water, and most of the time, the RO machine is out of order.

conclusion: NS you have reasonably clean washroom, no water problem, FREE drinking water, can shower and do your laundry as long as you want, plus got dobi service. Matrix you have to face major water shortage problem, get extra muscle for carrying water up the staircase everyday from god-knows-where, save money to buy drinking water, stinky washroom, no dobi and lots of laundry to be done.

3.classes and studies
NS: you attend class or LDK (latihan dalam kumpulan) from 8-12.30, with a half and hour break in between. in the afternoon, you have 2 hours break and then physical activities. just attend the class, have fun (though you might be sleepy) and dont need to worry about exams and homeworks.

matrix: class from 8-4. 1-2 hour break in between. very hectic. and lecture hall super conducive for sleeping. seriously!and then after class, you clean up, do your laundry and have dinner.then study, finish your tutorial, some times got extra class. and worry about mid sem and finals.

conclusion: NS, no need to worry about studies. matrix so many things to think off.

aiya.. i very lazy to blog liao. so anyway. you see my point? national service is so much relaxed. you just go there to eat, sleep, have fun and let the time pass. "makan tidur makan tidur sampai bodoh" (quote camp comandan or was it cg elango). there's nothing much to be worried off. where as matrix, you have so many things in you head and its very stressful. so my last words to those selected for national service next year: dont complain, it's good to help you to adapt to KML aka KMHell (Sir Saad's quote)

english tutorial and jokes

yo again people. today is a happy day for me. one thing i like about tuesday is because it's the most relaxed day in college. on top of that, my 2 hours of moral class was cancelled, hurray!! so, my tutorial mates and i went and had our early lunch at 11, and before 12 we were already in the library. and yippy! since i brought my laptop to study with me (my lecture note is in my laptop maa), i took the opportunity to try the internet out. and alas! i got online for the first time since i came here. the wifi was seriously not bad, well.. there's nothing much to do online also ma.. so it was not bad. and guess what, i got hooked up online and forgotten about studying.. ahaha.. so much so for carrying the laptop with me in my giant laptop bag around the campus. but i guess it's worth it, coz i got to get online and posted the 2nd june post :)

anyway, i HEARD that there will be somekind of talk about MUET (malaysia university english test) tonight at 8pm. *sigh* i plan to study and suddenly now i have to attend this talk.. why cant they do it on some other days? i have maths quiz tomorrow and biology quiz the next day people, and i'm still far from finishing my revision.. huhuh

anyway.. there are some jokes i came across in the past few weeks that i think is worth sharing

L-lecturer. S- student

scene 1:
L: if you eat papaya continuously for 2 weeks, your boobs will become bigger ( or did she say breast? nevermind.. just get the idea)
S1: does that work on guys too?
SS :*laughs*
S2: boys eat banana!!
SS: *laughs louder* (i bet someone was tempted to get underneath the tabble and chairs)

Scene 2:
L: okay take 5
SS: yay, take 5!!
L: okay, those of you who wants to go to the toilet, you may go now. the toilet is burning; especially the guys'
Me: *what? burning? er..okay whatever is she talking about*
L: girls, you can go siram the bunga (water the flower)
Me: *ahhhh! now i get it!*

p/s: you guys get the joke ka? i think most of the class didnt get the joke.. haha, they are not witty enough ba!

hint: the way the firemen put out fire is similar to how guys do their business :) that's why the washroom is said to be burning.

Scene 3:
Me: ..... even S1 is very quiet this week
S2: oh, you mean the high spirited one? habis spirit already maybe.

i dont know if you people find the jokes funny, but they do help to not just put smile on my face, but also laughter. till next post then

p/s: please dont expect any photo for the next god knows how many post.. haha..limited time to go online ba!\

The 1st Month In Matrics The Unedible COW Experience

ahhh! it feels so damn good to own your own laptop, especially when you are away from home. nevermind the fact that i dont have internet connection is this sad (well, a little sad) place. at least i can express myself by blogging and thus avoid myself from going insane.

today i went to the cafe to get myself some dinner, which i'm currently eating. when i first saw this particular meat i wonder what is it, coz it does some how smells like lamb. so i asked the kakak at the cafe, and the kakak at the canteen say its COW. well, at least she knows 'cow'.. but the cow i'm eating, is not edible, which means i stopped eating it now. it's so darn tough i wonder how on earth do they *** actually swallow that thing down their throat? hah! so much so for expecting a good dinner, wasting my RM 1.50 only!

***i think u guys know what i mean.

anyway, this is the 4th week i'm here, and you can consider it the 2nd month i'm here, in KML. which stands for Kolej Matrikulasi Labuan aka Labuan Matriculation College. well i'm assuming that you know why havent i be posting for the past about 1 month. obviously i was too busy preparing for matrics, and once i entered here, i'm totally cut out of the world. except the fact that i have a handphone, thank god!

so well, what have been happening for the past 3 weeks? 1st week we had orientation aka minggu pengurusan pelajar baru (mppb). it wasn't as bad as i expected. except the fact that we have to "compress" ourself in order to fit in the 2.2k students plus god knows how many facililators into the suffocating hall. the hall was an earthly hell and oven to us, the aircond didnt help much in anyway. i had to go against my principle of 'dont shower late at night' coz it is just pointless to shower if you were going to sweat like dog in the hall. i ended up showering at 11pm every night. my mum would kill me if she knows that! and we have to wake up at 4 am, rush, run, shoove food down our throat and our stomach, forget about shower and sit for hours and hours until our ass gone flat for 5 continuous days. by the end of it, we were like dead log and really looking forward for the outing day on saturday and sunday. enough said about the orientation week, at least it wasnt as bad as i expected. here's the link to the college blog on mppb, you should check it out.. really interesting.. well, at least the photography was great. http://www.kml.matrik.edu.my/mppb-2009/

the first week of lecture and tutorial, i must admit that i do experience a little culture shock here and there. i felt like i'm in oversea and in college!! yeah, indeed i am in college. it's kindda fun to watch people rush into the theatre-like lecture hall, grab their sit and listen for 1 hour. then rush to another tutorial room and to the next lecture and so on. and the fun is doubled when you actually experience it :)

that is during the day. and then at night, people going to the library, studying, full or high spirit and ethusiasm. there was even a LONG Q! i was totally speechless! i think the most powerful culture shock i experience here is due to the fact that everyone is studying, or at least pretend to. i must say it puts some pressure on me! i do enjoyed the 1st week of lecture and tutorial.

then second week came, and more tutorial work comes in. and lecture is going on a fast pace and biology is driving me nuts. god, this is only the 2nd week of lecture and i'm already struggling like this! tutorial work does gives me some headache, especially when i cant seem to just get it right, how frustrating! and alast! the friday came, and i was more than happy when the chemistry lab class was cancelled. and double the joy people, because i finally get to travel back to kk on friday!! well.. i must end this post here, because it's time for me to get back to work. so till tomorrow or the next post comes in, then i'll post about something more interesting.

why am i such a great friend? and rants

hi all, sorry for not updating for a long time. it has been like what? 3 weeks? *sigh*
well, nothing INTERESTING came up, so nothing to post lo..

anyway, i was clearing my stuff (still, 1 week oredy) and i found a love letter from my darling.
it's interesting, and put a wide smile on my face.. guess who is it from? that person wrote the following :

why are you such a great friend
1. you remember my birthday (and makes sure u dont forget yours)
2. you have an annoying smile (but funny all the same)
3. you are sarcastic (means you're not dull)
4. you like to make sure i smile everyday (xoxo)
5. you like my father (this is amusing)
6. you listen patiently to my rants. (patience is virtue... yeah yeah)
7. you quoted quotes to me (informative what)
8. you are approachable (haha) ---i think the person is running out of words.
9. you know how to make me speechless (Seriously!)
10. you're simply a bloody great person to start with (lol)

for people who actually knows us, this is an easy guess :)

anyway, in case you all are wondering why i didnt update, the reasons are as follows:
1. lazy
2. nothing interesting to blog
3. busy, matrix ba! oh yeah, i dint get ipta..hehe
4. dunno what to blog
5. busy downloading movie
6. mum makes me watch boys over flower with her for like 4 days? or was it 5 days straight. so cannot online, and lack of sleep! haha.. reminds me of form 5, watch drama with my mum from 8pm to 5am straight.. so much so for spm.. haha
7. ..... i run out of reasons.....

anyway.. on 17th april, i went to piza hut.. and the person serve us (my dad and i) pizza, lasagna together with cheese powder, the one in the lil small plastic bowl.. so we had our meal and chit chat, happened that we didnt finish half the cheese powder. suddenly, one of the 'waiter' came to our table, grab that lil plastic bowl of cheese powder and gave it to the person few tables away. can you believe that? my dad and i just look at each other, speechless. i cant make up my mind if that was funny and amusing or shocking and annoying. yeeeee! so not hygienic oh!! it's not like coffee shop! can you imagine those people on the other table enjoying my dad and my amylase enzyme? fross. poor guy. and... my dad went straight to the washroom when we came back.. you can guess why. if there's anything to blame, i'll blame the cheese powder

Nightmare and Sweet Dream: Matriculation and School Academic Award

Part One: Nightmare : Matriculation

tick tock tick tock tick tock. the clock is ticking away. finally it was 12 pm. means that we can go to www.moe.gov.my to check if we get excepted for matriculation or not. too bad the link was not up yet *curse* so i continued chatting and sharing the suspend and agony and torture and nightmare with dear bel and raymond. should we check or not? aiya.. takut laaaa!
then raymond goes: YES! sia dapat! or something like that.
then bel goes: thank god!
then i go: mana kamu check nie??? sia tia nampak link punnnnnn =(
and to my horror it took ages to load the page. think moe web page almost crash or something. haha. and finally i key in my ic number, close my eyes, and hit ENTER. open my eyes and TAHNIAH. that was the only word i saw and registered in my head, i didnt bother to read the rest haha. and thus, my nightmare has ended.
conclusion: i got excepted to Labuan Matriculation College, 1 year program. now i'm thinking should i take living science or physical science? anyone care to drop ur opinion?


Part Two: Sweet Dream: School Award Ceremony.
i reached the dewan kebudayaan, where it was held at about 8.10am. well, we are malaysian, so dont care about punctuality. although MY invitation was 8.00 am, i didnt bother to be punctual, coz passed experience told me not to do so.

anyway, it was great, meeting old friends, old teachers, new teachers (not that i bother to talk to them.. segan bah) i THINK we were very noisy, but no one even bother to shut us up. frankly speaking, i didnt bother to hear the speeches. though it seems to be 'quite interesting'. well at least the part that i over heard were interesting enough. nothing really much happened la, everyone were busy with camera, busy updating each other about each other's ups and down, busy sms-ing to check if they got matrics, in short everyone were busy in their own world.

halfway through the ceremony, i went to the washroom and ran into jason's mum. she was at the mirror, looked up and saw me.
and i went hi aunty!
and she went hi yvonne *shut the water tap and turned around*
so i held out my hand (without realising) expecting to shake her hand. and guess what i got from her? something about cant-just-shake-hand,-must-hug. lol. before i went home, i saw her again, said good bye and got another *hug* well, what can i say? she have always treated me like a daughter for the past at least SIX years. so that explains the old rumours between me and jason. haha.

anyway, i personally think that the interesting part was when it was our turn to take the award.
when cg jenn was smiling widely at me, and i simply dont know what to say.
when pengetua was ON the stage, mouthing something at.. i dont know who (she seems to be looking at me, but i think i'm imagining things)..
when cg claris asked me stop at one yellow line and then 'run' to another yellow line with my heels
when tan sri asked me some things for so long until people asked me what happened. pengetua and him with their *shocked* face. cant blame them.
when i walked down the stage, speechless.
and when cg jimmy said : yvonne! *looks and points at my heels* jaga patah!

oh, btw, the form 5 guys performance was cool!~ love it =]

p/s: dont ask me how much $$ i get. and no, i'm not gonna spend it, its going straight to my saving acc.

Drop By In School

yesterday i went to school to get the school mag and some sijil, but it turned out that 1. cg richard LOST my name, so he didn't prepare my sijil PEKA and 2. cg seri forgot to follow up another sijil for us. so i only managed to get the school mag.

and the thing that i anticipated will happen, happened! well, you see, i have no choice but to meet cg flavia in the staff room to get the school mag. and that was when and where my horror nightmare began. she asked me if i'll be attending the hari anugerah on friday, which i say yes (after yada2 to my mum coz the school didnt bother to contact us, not until i finished yadayada. pity my mum) anyway, then she said MUST wear formal ah! and i told her i have no formal outfit. and we argued and argued. lol, it's yvonne after all. asked me to wear baju kurung. teacher, the only baju kurung i have, is baju sekolah >.< asked me to buy in donggongon (okay???) . asked my to buy in city mall (sounds wayyy better). asked me to wear skirt. aiyo, teacher my skirt very short.. dont think it's appropriate la.. *sigh*


oh by the way, the block form 4 that looks like a chinese temple with all the reddish family tone have some touching up done. the pillar is now PINK. can you imagine that? suprisingly it looked good. BUT funny lol.

the bangunan pentadbiran is still the same old pinkyreddish, the colour of my camp. sheesh. but the staff room have new curtain. BLUE. nice. but it 'shocked' my eyes. i had to squint my eyes for a few secs to get used to the staff room.

then i went to KUM and i noticed the PUM is painted with new.. murals? is that the word? but i didnt bother to have a good look or take any pics.. coz wel, too many students. but i noticed that now more students ponteng kelas and go lepak2 la.. sheesh, didnt happened during our time. we were such good students oh!

and guess who i met in KUM? cg tita. yes. the one with BIG specs. the one who taught us science in form 1. who was bias. hahaha.. gagal pun boleh dapat credit! the one who loves to give quiz and the one who yada yada alot. she's replacing one of the teachers for the time being. i must say she's a great teacher, coming back after few years of retirement. i bet she's like60+ now! and i was surprise! really! she actually remembered my name. i was like impressed. " i remember my good students" she said. lol, i almost laugh. me? good student? hahahaha!!

anyway, i have to go prepare early dinner now. going out tonite to get the *curse^^* baju formal.