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Friday, 13/10/2006

Followed my dad to his office this morning since I wanted to take PUTRA LRT to Kelana Jaya to meet my gang. We were to go to 1 U today for karaoke. Reached the station at 9.05 a.m. well ahead of our determined time 9.30a.m. and met Meng Xian plus Suk Kuan coming out from the same train. While they slot out to wait for the others, I had some business to do and headed off to the washroom (Btw, do u know they started CHARGING people 20 CENTS!!! I thought they only charge passengers in KLCC and Masjid Jamek? Damn!!!)

There were 3 cubicles and 2 of them were already occupied. The only one left had a faulty door. The door was too big to fit through the door frame and could only close partly. I couldn’t slot the closure into the gap. Anyway, I did what people normally do in cubicles. Suddenly some guy pushed open the door, assuming that no one was in!!! Luckily my reflex was quite fast; I got up immediately and pushed the door from my side to prevent him from seeing "un-seeable stuffs". Phew!!! Talk about strangers intruding into ur life. Is there no moment of peace for someone to answer nature’s call???

We crossed the bridge to wait for Esther on the other side of the station. A suspicious looking guy followed us across the bridge but we just ignored him. But, we caught him staring at Suk Kuan’s bag every now and then. Eventually he left on a motorcycle with someone. Esther came 10 minutes later and drove us to 1 U.

Reached at 10a.m. Tou San wasn’t there yet so we headed up to the arcade to spend the time. While playing we saw the SAME GUY at the LRT following us around. Whenever we play a game, he would be lingering around, scanning us up and down. I caught him looking at Suk Kuan’s handbag again and he was a real nuisance. Luckily there was a security guard patrolling around, so I went to notify him about THAT FELLA. He said that he will make him disappear… True enough, the man left the arcade, only to resurface a few minutes later. Knowing that we wouldn’t be able to shrug him off, we took extra precautions to avoid any untoward incidents.

Tou San came about 10.25a.m. We played a while longer and headed off to NeWay for Karaoke!!! Ee Ling had booked a room earlier, so we headed to Room 1. Initially, everyone was pretty shy and didn’t want to sing. Besides, the remote control was so "not user friendly", so we had difficulty choosing our songs. Eventually, after much vocal warming up, everyone became very semangat and screamed our head off!!!

We had already prepared lyrics with Pin Yin for Mandarin songs; among them David Tao, Jay Chou and Teresa Teng. When we were singing Jay Chou’s Huo Yuan Chia (Fearless), we were so pumped with adrenaline that while singing the chorus Huo Huo Huo Huo Huo Huo Huo Huo, we were jumping up and down, some of us on couches while screaming the words out loud!!! We were simply the loudest group among the many rooms there…Haha…It was simply awesome singing songs like Yuet Liang Dai Biao Wo De Xing, Tian Mi Mi and Xing Fei De Yi plus other songs like Coast to Coast, Uptown Girl and many others. My favourite for today was Tragedy and Too Much Heaven…Walao…I really wasn’t myself at that time. That was FUN FUN FUN!!!

We left NeWay at 2p.m. Since we still had time, we went to the arcade again. Played Time Crisis 3 with Tou San…I really suck in shooting man…I dunno how to coordinate between shooting, reloading, aiming, choosing weapons and dodging enemy bullets. Funny thing is that Tou San "died" faster than me (I wonder how? I wonder why? Hahahaha…)

I wanted to play Para Paradise 2 BUT a guy was already dancing on the platform. I’ll give it to him; he WAS SUPERB!!! He could dance without mistake for a combo of 300++!!! I thought he would leave after the first round but he went on for another round; this time he chose the "Invisible Mode". Eventually he left and I went on to dance. For the first round, I chose to dance 3 separate rounds. I thought that a round would be enough but after dancing, I was so fired up and went on to another round. This time, I chose the Non Stop version and had a field time swinging my arms around in tune with the music…After that, I was sweating and so filled with indescribable happiness….Wah Wah Wah….Hahahaha… Too bad we didn’t have enough time, or I’d had proceed with a third round…Haha…

We left in Tou San’s car for IMU. Reached around 3.55p.m. I rushed to change my shirt and put on my tie before Mario and Nadeem comes in for Pharmaceutical Class Test Feedback. Only about 20 ppl came today as most of B105 had already balik kampung.

I never had so much fun in a day since Cross Dressing during Orientation. Overall, it was a great day well spent with great friends in a great karaoke set up. The only thing that can be improved further is the food served in NeWay. It was erm how should I say, below par? One of the dishes served there had already gone bad and was smelling kinda foul and weird. Perhaps we chose the wrong food (Japanese Mee) over food like BBQ Chicken. Well, we’ll make sure we chose a better food the next time we go to NeWay again and I hope very soon!!!

By the way, did anyone realise that today’s Friday the 13th?????

Thursday, 05/10/2006

The first thing I realised when I woke up this morning was palpitations. Why? Cause I’ll be having Microbio Lab Exam at 10a.m. later today and there’s still loads I’ve yet to cover. Worst still, I’ve just found out last night that Mario came in to class to give some tips for this practical, which I missed. I didn’t know that we had to memorise the composition of each medium as well…

I headed to the library the moment I reached IMU. There’s this particular Practical Microbiology book that I wanted to read before siting for the exam later. Went to the Red Spot section only to find that someone had already borrowed it (Damn!!!). There wasn’t any other book that was useful, so I thought there was no point to stay there. At the entrance, I bumped into Vinegar and found out that he was the fella who had borrowed it. Hmmm…Can’t say I’m surprised…

So, read for a while till about 9a.m. then headed up to the 4th floor to discuss further with the gang. Had quite a few laughs regarding Cetrimide, Chocolate Agar, MgCl, Potassium Sulphate, Belgium Chocolates (You guys who were there, faham-faham lar). Headed to MDL 7 at about 9.50 a.m. to find out that I was supposed to be in MDL 5.

I sat opposite Laura and was given Nutrient Agar with some white dots growing in it. For some reason, I thought that Nutrient Agar was just the general name for the medium and it didn’t cross my mind that Nutrient Agar IS the actual medium for bacterial growth. I panicked, trying to rack my brains to recall what kind of bacterial would give white circular colonies BUT nothing came to my mind. Out of desperation, I took off the cover lid and took a sniff BUT i inhaled TOO HARD. It was a really stupid thing to do which I regretted immediately since loads of bacterial spores entered through my nostril into my airways!!!

I coughed and spluttered since it was really irritating and was worried that they might actually stick to my airways. Dunno whether I imagined it or what, but I suddenly had nose block and my eyes started to stream. Anyway, I stared at my petri dish for a while and decided that it was useless. I just didn’t know how it was possible to guess the organism without first staining it. So I performed Gram staining. When I put the processed slide under the microscope, I could see the colonies under 4X. And 10X. BUT when I turned it to 40X, the colonies went missing!!! So I thought maybe I’ll try my luck at 100X just to find them GONE as well…So I worked backwords, viewed under 40X (no result), under 10X (no result, somehow) and I was like "Oh, shit!!!" view it under 4X, still missing…

I glanced up at Laura to see that she also faced the same problem and started to redo her Gram stain. So I repeated Gram staining and left the safranin solution a little longer this time. Luckily I could find the damn colonies this time and proceeded to answer Question 2. But there was still Question 1 which I didn’t know how to answer. Thanks to Laura, she whispered to me the answer. Then Wai Leong also came over to "discuss" with us without Mario finding out. Why? He was so engrossed in chit-chatting with the new lecturer to notice us…Muahahahahaha…Anyway, after the lab exam, I started sniffing and my eyes smarted once in a while but was so glad that it was finally over!!!

Today when I was travelling back by LRT, I saw this LaLa Mui. She LOOKED SO HORRIBLE!!! She had a "coconut cut" for her fringe with ugly frizzly hair. She carried a HUMONGOUS bag with black and white spots like a New Zealand COW, wore torn jeans with ripped ends at her knees. If you think that was bad enough, she wore black stockings that stretches up to her knees inside white shoes with sparkling purple shoe laces!!! And she has the THICKEST eye shadows I’ve ever seen, giving the impression that she hasn’t been sleeping for the past few weeks…Really…some people just have no DRESS SENSE…Haiyoh…

Tuesday, 03/10/2006

Woke up rather early today since had to rush to IMU to print PowerPoint for PBL later today. Reached IMU at 7 something but eLab 1 was still close so just hang around until about 8.05 a.m. Went up to 3rd floor and printed the slides. Unfortunately the aunty in the photostate shop hasn’t come yet so can’t photocopy for my PBLers. From past experience, she’d normally open shop close to 8.30 a.m. so I thought I’d just wait it out for her and hopefully I can get it ready before Dr Er enters the PBL room.

Waited till 8.29 a.m. but the aunty hasn’t arrive yet (Or perhaps she was hiding in the dark having breakfast at the back of the shop Hehe…Xp). Anyway, I just thought that I’ll have to give the hard copies to my PBLers tomorrow instead. As I was walking to the Room 34, Dr Er was just walking down the stairs towards our room. I noticed that Ying Wa was still photocopying in the library, so I thought I’d give it another try with the aunty (Maybe she had opened her shop, who knows?) So I excused myself from the class (Dr Er was already in the room) and headed towards the shop downstairs…

My heart leaped when I saw light emating from the shop. When I reached the shop, Alen and Joanna were also waiting to photocopy their presentations. Since there were only the 3 of us, I thought I could get mine done without my PBLers having to wait too long for me. To my dismay, the aunty walked ever so slowly from 1 photocopier to another, taking her own sweet time (Hello!!! I’m kinda in a hurry here!!!) She passed Alen his and I handed mine to her (Time: 8.38a.m. Never mind, I was still early, I can still make it on time) She put my notes into the copier. It churned once and then made FUNNY sounds and the paper "seems" like had jammed. Grr-ee-aat! Just what I needed at that time.

I asked the aunty whether my paper had jammed or what, and was told that the copier had run out of paper (Phew!!! But there’s more…) She "glided" slowly back into the back room to grab a new stack of A4 papers. I thought she would put it directly into the feeder (Don’t we always, when we worked part time in offices back in Form 5?) but NO, she rustled the paper left, right, right, left (Time: 8.42a.m.) straightened it back into a stack and repeated the process. Then I thought that she would put it into the feeder but to my dismay, she turned the paper the other side, made a FAN out of the stack of paper and proceeded to left, right, right, left AGAIN!!! Being trained in BPharm to treat obstacles as an "ice cream treat", I took many, many deep breaths but didn’t rush the aunty (I don’t wanna make her waste even more time. Time: 8.43a.m.)

She FINALLY placed them into the feeder and I could hear the reassuring noise of the papers being stamped with ink. (I wished that Canon would invent a copier that can photocopy faster). Anyway, when she had finished making 8 copies, I was thinking "Surely her staples would have enough staplers in them, now wouldn’t she? I can’t be that UNLUCKY right?" But guess what, when she was halfway stapling my notes together, her staples ran out of staplers!!!! As she "glided" ever so slowly back to get fresh ones, I was already rolling my eyes in disbelieve. Of all times! Of all days!!! (Time: 8.44a.m.) I handed her the money, took the notes and sprinted at top speed back into the PBL Room 34. Halfway running, one of the IMU cleaners couldn’t resist smiling as I zoomed past her.

Went into PBl room out of breath. Everyone was already waiting for me, seated at their own places, looking at their notes with me turning red in the face. I looked at my watch: 8.45a.m. Haha, damn Pai Seh man…My tie was too long, so I adjusted it while Swee Ting presented her slides but found out that my tag had caught in between my tie. I wanted to just leave it initially but my name tag was so obviously lopsided, so I had to redo it all over again which was rather distracting since I was the only fella who was moving around so much during people’s presentation…Haha…

I think being able to monopolise all photocopying rights among IMU students had made that aunty very complacent. Someone should really start another photocopying business there and start slashing prices (Hint, hint Tou San). Then only would she wake up and work faster. Can you imagine how much she earns per day???