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I have just came back from church over at Jalan Gasing. I haven't been to church in KK for like two years now, but ever since I've reached KL I've been joining Mag and the others to go to church. lol. I'm even joining cell groups together with Lyod and the others. I don't know why. Maybe I'm just a 跟屁虫. I go where others go. Yeah.

Had pizza for dinner just now over at Dominos at Jalan Gasing. Mag, if you're reading this, please remind me to pay you back the RM17 that I owe you... yeah. I ate alot as the other two seemed to be... not that hungry. After that, we had decided to wait for the bus to take us back.

While we're waiting for the bus to KL Sentral, there was this police patrol car that stopped at the bus stop opposite our bus stop. And guess what, the policemen had actually requested everyone at the bus stop to show their Identification Card for checking! This is when I started to panic because I didn't have my IC with me at that time as I left it back at the residence - it is an offence to not have your IC with you in public. Mag told me to escape if the policemen were to cross the road and approach us. Luckily, they didn't. After checking those that they were checking, they left the scene. I was laughing at myself then...

However, what do we know about the police here in Kuala Lumpur? We boarded the U66 bus to KL Sentral, and there at the station, several policemen were there randomly picking passerbys to conduct a check on them. We were like surprised to see that the policemen were so hard working and had even wonder what was the occasion. Again, I was lucky not to be picked on. lol.

By the time we reached the residence it was almost... 10pm. Yeah.

What the title said.

I am not sure why but I've been quite emotional recently, i.e. I become emotional very easily for no good reason. I've been thinking too much. Besides that, I also easily misunderstand other people...

I don't know lah, but maybe its with the people around me here. It's like they're playing with my feelings by being nice to me now and then ignoring me the next day.

But on the other hand, I also think that, actually, the problem originates from myself. I tend to ignore other people unintentionally as I usually drift off into a daydream in class or just anywhere. Suddenly someone attempts to talk to me and I tend to not get what they were saying as I was in a world of my own so didn't reply them. Maybe they thought that I was ignoring them, which gave them a bad impression of me.

But let me tell you what - I don't really care.

However, I am also aware that I have also to prevent myself from being too standout, as in I should not make myself the attention of others by making others worry about me, especially my roommate and new course mates... I'd feel guilty.

But really, they're just acquaintance, well, for now.

On the other hand, dad's coming to KL this coming Wednesday for a training. As I don't have class that day, I'll be meeting up with him. Maybe then we can talk about the broadband package I had mentioned in my last post. It appears that the last time when he outright rejected my proposal he was in a bad mood due to something my sister did - she borrowed her PE shirt to a senior of hers and yet couldn't get it back. =\

Even though one of the subjects I've taking this year is Contract Law, I am unable to think of a solution to jedi_amara's post.. But from what I can see, it's the other side's fault here. She was the one who forgotten to add the postcode. If this were brought to court, JA should be able to win, but it's pointless, really, looking at the costs.

Today's a yay day. On Thursdays we have 3 tutorials (each 1 and a half hour) and 1 lecture (2 hours).

Let me introduce to you Ms. Cirami, our Legal Method and Systems lecturer. She's good, and I don't mean it. Most of those I have met have mentioned that her lectures and tutorials are the most boring amongst all the subjects. She reads from her powerpoint presentation, and I mean like, if she's going to do that, she might as well put it up on e-learning and let us read by ourselves. Many of my classmates have fallen asleep during her lectures. Even Lilian whom I was sitting next to just now, she was eating her kuih while asking a question to Ms. Cirami, and Cirami didn't seem to be bothered! ...Cirami reminds me of Chin Chui Khim, yeah, my old Chrmistry teacher in high school. >_>;;

I'll be going to watch a movie tonite with Desmond and the others and they say we should go earlier so that we can come back earlier..so I'll stop here.

Like I have mentioned in my last post, the only place that I have internet access is the school library. There are a few downside of the computers in the library - Adobe Flash is not installed, and therefore I can't surf any sites that require the plug-in, i.e. Youtube and Nuffnang. Besides that, a few websites were blocked and a 403 "Forbidden" error would come up if I were to attempt to surf those sites. So far I've only seen two websites being blocked: all communities on livejournal.com (community.livejournal.com/[the communities's name]) and urbandictionary.com (urban dictionary). Oh yes you've read it right. ALL LIVEJOURNAL COMMUNITIES ARE BLOCKED. For goodness's sake. Yes, I can read community articles through my friends' page, but I'll be unable to leave any comments at those communities. This is making me a really unhappy person. But I'll live with it. For now.

(However it seems that's not the case. I've noticed a few of the computers here in the law library can be used to watch Youtube videos, play Facebook games, and even play DoTa. >_>; )

Class is starting to gain momentum. I am starting to feel pressure. It's not much as of now yet but I can already anticipate more coming right around the corner. But more or less I am now comfortable being amongst the people of my class. Many of the people who attended lecture with me looked reaaaaaaaly familiar, and they looked like people i know.

As it is a law class, and as law is quite involved with politics, quite a few have openly stated that they are interested in joining politics. One Lilian Kong mentioned in her self introduction that she had worked for a brief period with Tony Pua, MP of PJU, while another Amira told everyone that she has a grandfather who is or was a politician. Even the person sitting next to me from Kelantan (he's a Chinese) said that he is also interested in joining politics and start of by becoming a political secretary to a politician (from Kelantan? in Kota Lama or Gua Musang maybe).

Happy Birthday, WN (xxwnxx_love)!

Reading Zulkifli Noordin's article makes me shiver. As recent as last night a few churches here in Kuala Lumpur were attacked by molotov cocktails and explosives over the use of "Allah" as the Bahasa malaysia translation for the word "God" in Christian publication. One of their arguments is that Christians are trying to midlead Muslims that God is Allah and that Jesus (Isa in Muslim context) is the son of "Allah" (http://zul4kulim.blogspot.com/2010/01/dakyah-yang-menyesatkan.html), of which to them, Jesus is just a prophet. Many of my friends are thinking of not going to church tomorrow to avoid any incidents. You know, Malaysia's a wacky country.

To those who don't know it, I'm now in college and I'm reading Law. The course's a three year course, 2+1, 2 years locally here in HELP Uni College, and the final year in one of their partner Universities in the UK. I'm taking five subjects this year which include Legal Skills, Constitutional & Administrative, Contract, Criminal and Legal methods. Right now I'm still trying to get myself used to not having a computer whenever I want (I can only use itin the library), and trying to get myself to be more... attentive in class. Some lectures go on for three hours without a break and I may fall asleep, really, especially with boring lecturers.

....and I've got my first homework already, today.

Either way, dad called me last night (oh yeah, I got myself a handphone! I didn't have one before) and told me that he has booked a ticket for me to go back to Sibu for CNY on the 13th of February. At least they've given us a week off for CNY.

Yesterday after class I had joined Desmond, Gwen, Mag and Lester to 1Utama over at Bandar Utama. Spent almost 6 hours there. We had to take a taxi back as there were, no buses. 1Utama's a really big shopping complex, comparable to 1Borneo I think... There's a cinema in it, and an arcade there too. Glad I came with them, bust I have to say that the amount of money I've spent there was waaay out of my daily budget. I got myself book 1 of le.Gardenie over at MPH for RM7.50 and I am planing to get the other 3 books too. The story's quite nice, actually. It's a coloured manga so i think that the price's worth it, unlike some that goes without colour.

Things here at Damansara town center are damn expensive. You can't find a meal of 3 ringgit unless you go for roti canai and teh tarik for RM2.20 at the mamak stall. =\

Hmmm... that's it for now.

Right now I'm updating using Desmond's laptop in his, erm, room, here at HELP's Residency at Damansara. Oh yes, I'm in Kuala Lumpur now. I've came over here on the 29th to get myself registered for college here at HELP Uni College. I've checked into the residency on the 29th and class would only start on Monday. The rental's quite expensive, but, what to do?

The residency's location's quite strategic. It's located just opposite to the small town of Damansara (pusat bandar Damansara). The nearest LRT station is the Bangsar station and I only need to take a bus to reach the station.

On new year's day, I decided to go to the city for some shopping. I needed to buy some shirts and a pair of shoes. I had nowhere to go, or at least I wasn't aiming to go anywhere. I took the bus to the LRT station and from the station, I found out that KLCC is just a few stations away on the same line my station was at. So I decided to go to KLCC. The fare was RM2, quite expensive compared to the bus fare in Kota Kinabalu, but it was much cheaper than the cab.

At KLCC, I went into this Isetan shop and found out that they were having this sale where they are selling "Fukubukuros". I bought one for RM50 and got seven really nice T-shirts. They were nice, very nice, in fact, and I could wear them to class. I then bought a pair of sport shoes for another RM50 at a Bata stall. There's a Kinokuniya bookstore at KLCC too and I went in there and bought "The Vanishment of Suzumiya haruhi". The OAV's coming out and now that I'm in college far away from home (far away from my computer), I won't be able to watch it. T_T

I kinda knew that Desmond's going to study in HELP too but I never really knew that he was really going to do so. It was until today that I saw him together with Magdelene walking to the residency that I knew he's also studying here. That's good, 'cause it's better to have someone you know far away from home, right?

That's it for now. Maybe I won't be active anymore, unless I get myself a notebook or a laptop. The internet service outside the residency's too expensive and I can't afford them. I'll see how it goes...

This few days is quite... boring as usual. I've been staying home taking turns to use the computer with my two other siblings. When I'm on the computer I'd be playing MapleStory or reading blogs. When I'm not, I'd be playing my DS.

I've sent my UEC and SPM results (certified true copies) to my agent, Mr. Teh, who's helping to apply for college at Kuala Lumpur. That was before Christmas. A few days ago the college has replied with their offer letter in my email. After a discussion with dad and mom, we've decide to accept the offer for the January Intake. Class would start on the fourth, so it would be a bit of a rush. We've already book our airtickets to Kuala Lumpur on the 29th to process the registration and look for accommodation.

Life's getting more and more boring by the day. =\

I've been helping out with the book-selling in school since Tuesday. I should be proud of myself for volunteering (yes, that's volunteer's work) to help out the school, although I am no longer studying there. Last night during dinner dad told me that I shouldn't have helped at all and that I am merely being "used". Yeah right, that's something I do not need to be told - I know it all. I do feel happy that I can help.

But somewhat I do not feel like I am a part of them (my ex-classmates, also helping with the bookselling). That made me felt more as if I'm being "used". I can't help the feeling.

Yesterday my glasses were stepped on by my sister and it broken. The frame of the glasses was ruined and I had to get myself a new pair of glasses. I couldn't drive the car today as although I'd gotten a new pair of glasses from the shop, I was not used to it yet. Even as I am writing this in front of the computer, I am still not wearing the new glasses.

Yesterday I went over to a cybercafe to join my ex-classmates in a game of "left 4 dead" (or was it death?) 2. In the end I hadn't joined them as I was just a newbie in this sort of first-person shooting game.

Mom told me that she might help me look for a job as a typist at a press office so that I can work temporarily. I don't mind, really. In fact, I'd be happy to do something during the period between right now till the day I further my studies instead of just staying at home fighting over the computer with my sister. As I'll be helping with the book selling till this Saturday, I might be able to start next Monday, I told my mom.

It's now into the second week of my school holidays. My sister's UPSR result was released last Thursday and surprisingly, she did quite well with no D or E and even obtained an A in Mathematics. Good for her.

Last week mom had went over to SMK St. Francis Convent School to apply for my sister to study in that secondary school next year. She wanted to go to K.K. High School, but apparently, the state education department had refused to put her into that school and place her over at St. Francis instead. Well, St. Francis's a good school in my opinion, an excellent girls' school in fact. Dad mentioned that Wong Kwok's daughter Susan Wong, now a successful entrepreneur, also went to St. Francis. My sister should be happy that she was able to even obtain a place in such a school.

As for why she didn't applied for Tshung Tsin the secondary school which my brother and I entered, my mom had the opinion that my sister didn't have the potential and it would only be a burden for her to enter our school, even if she did manage to pass the entrance examination. I have to agree with mom.

Last week I had had a visit to this JM Education Center for a higher education counseling. That was so lame and I thought that I would never have to go for such counseling. The counseling ended up much better than I had thought. I told the counselor what I was interested in and he recommended me a few choices. He had also advised me to wait for my actual UEC result to be released before making any application.

I had my first car accident a few days ago. I had driven Ephraim back to his house and when I was reversing my car, I accidentally hit the car's left door on the gate. It left a bad scratch and the door couldn't be opened from the outside (although later it seemed to be okay). Mom were fortunately not mad at me but she was already thinking of who to contact to get the door repaired.

Yesterday mom had taken a leave from work as we were "locked" at home. We had to ask for help from the next door neighbour to get the keys. We were finally able to open the door and as mom had taken a leave, we decided to take our washing machine out to get it fixed. At the store, mom decided to trade in the malfunctioning washing machine for another second hand one - it was an older model but it looked sturdier - for RM200. Then, we went over to the town area to order my sister's new school uniform for next year - for about RM130. Then we stopped by Karamunsing Complex to get a new badminton racquet for my brother who has been playing badminton with his friends. It costed us over RM200 and mom was not really happy about the price tag, and because we had spent a lot in a single day that day. lol.

Basically it was boring. Today we had a blackout at around 6PM so we decided to have dinner outside. The blackout lasted for around an hour or so. This was like the umpteenth time a blackout had occured this year. The state government plans to build a coal power plant to deal with it but environmentalist have opposed to it, saying that it would pollute the environment. However, it seems that the government is going to bulldoze through the plan with only minimal opposition in the state assembly (57 BN members vs. 2 opposition members, lol).

It felt like I've wasted about 5 hours of my life going to school with no aim at all after the exams. There weren't any class at all and the teachers hadn't even entered the classroom and it was chaos the whole morning. Only till around 10 minutes before the recess time only then Ms. Chuang our form teacher had bothered to come to class and gave us a lecture on our year-end class dinner. She was wanted it to be a dinner where parents would be invited, but our class apparently didn't want the parents to be there. LOL. She took her sweet time telling us what she had thought of and by the time she had ended her "speech", the recess time was over. =\

Then, we were told to practise singing our graduation song and the theme song of the year-end class dinner by the graduation committee members. I applaud their attempt and commitment, really, although I have to admit that I am one of those who didn't want to cooperate with them. :D

Till the end of school, I spent most of the time in class thinking of what to write for yamaki_anime. Most of my classmates were chatting with each others, others were playing Monopoly at the back of the class, and I had even saw someone playing with his PSP. I should have brought my Nintendo DS to school to spend the free time - there weren't any teachers anyway. >_>

Tomorrow we'll be having the first rehearsal for our graduation ceremony. I hope it won't be as boring as today was... yeah.

I attended the prefect board's farewell party last Saturday night. It was a great party and everyone who attended it wore nice suits and dresses. Some had even had makeup on and had their hair done at a salon before going to the party. I wore to the party the same batik shirt which I wore the previous two years as I couldn't find my other dark green shirt. The atmosphere of the party was grand, thanks to the presence of the members of the electronic club who were helping out with the lighting and the musics.

The principal of the school, vice-principal, discipline master and our teacher advisors were present at the party too. The party started with a few speeches by the head prefects, outgoing S3&S2 prefects' representative, the principal, discipline master, etc, and then after that it was dinner. The food was kinda disappointing.... the lamb was so hard that it was like chewing on rubber. Besides that, there apparently weren't enough food at all and a few who attended the party had to go empty-stomach till some food were tapaued for them.

There were several performances during the party by the S1 and S2 prefects that had really entertained us. Among them were by four S2 prefects, performing the dance on Wonder Girls's Nobody MV. It was something like this:



Ian Chhoa, an S1 prefect, had performed the song "Fugainaiya" on piano which brought back memories of Honey & Clover of which the song was the opening theme. There were lots of mistake but it's still nice. After the performance he told me that it was an impromptu performance and that he had made many mistakes. I agreed with him that there were definitely many mistakes but he nevertheless did well.

Later after the principal and the other school administrators had left, the party continued on with more activities. One of the activities was a "catwalk" contest where eight pairs of prefect, each pair consisting of a male an female, would go onstage and do some "catwalking" and modeling. Then there's event where Gedeon was forced to announced to everyone who Chan, the ex-commander, had fancied. He hesitantly told everyone a pseudonym "sasa" and said that that was all he had knew.

The party ended at around 10:30pm. I was given what I had wished for - a DVD with anime stuffs. It didn't contain what I had expected but as I'm a lazy bum I'll let it go.

This marks an end in my high-school life. I'll be graduating from secondary school this coming Saturday and I hope I'll be able to obtain a full graduation cert.

The reason I had suddenly thought of writing on my LJ is because I wanted to rant about the fact that there weren't a single soul at all at the Elin Forest Party Quest, despite the fact that MapleStory had released it only recently. All I wanted was the earring that gives +1 to +2 to all stats!! The earring can only be obtained through the PQ.

Nevermind that. Now that I'm here I might as well talk about my recent life. It's been two weeks of school holiday now and I've spent most of the two weeks time at home. When I'm at home, it's either playing MapleStory or playing Phoenix Wright and Apollo Justice on the DS Lite. If someone were to ask me what have I achieved during this school holiday I'll probably proudly tell him or her that I've finished the Ace Attorney series. :D

Besides that, last Tuesday, I followed my fellow prefects on a Training Course at a remote village, Kampung Natai, which is an around 40 minutes drive from Telipok town. There was a river that we could swim in just next to our campsite, and a waterfall which is reachable by tracking from our campsite for around 15 minutes. It was a 3 days-2 nights course and there weren't any electricity nor any water supply. We had to start our own fire using dead tree branches and bath in the river. We set up our own tents where we were going to be sleeping in at night. The main course was the second day's jungle tracking where we had to track a 7KM jungle course and prepare lunch in the middle of the course. It was a good experience, nevertheless.

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Does most anime series name their whole series after the name of the last episode?

The anime series, "Welcome to the NHK" was, how should I put it... fabulous! The story was neat, the background music used in most situations were very suitable, and the second ED theme was pretty nice too.

Well actually, I have been wanting to watch this anime series for a long time. The truth is I've already read the manga online and listened to the ending song a long time ago but never got the chance to download the anime series as I used to have a bad HDD space problem. After dad bought a 300GB harddrive the problem was solved indefinitely.

A long time ago, I found out about the existence of this anime when I was looking up information on (Tsubasa Chronicle) Sakura's voice actress, Yui Makino. It seems that Yui was also the voice actress of Nakahara Misaki, the main female character of "Welcome to the NHK" anime series. I then started searching for details of the series and found myself rather interested in it.

Basically the anime series tells the story of the life of a male hikkikomori, Sato, and his fateful encounter of a young lady, Misaki. Misaki, seemingly for no reason at all, started to help Sato in various ways, including giving lectures for him to gain courage to return to society. The story goes on with Sato meeting various people from his high school days and getting involved with their matters, including involving in online gaming, creating a H-game, being cheated into a multi-level marketing, joining an offline suicide party, etc.

The reason I am hooked onto this series is because the story is so close to reality and the characters are so pitiable. There are many conversations between the characters that I find quotable and usable in real life, e.g. Quote by Misaki: "Sexual harassment warrants a one million yen fine!". Besides that, I can feel the closeness of the story to myself, unlike some other anime series where the story seemed so far away. I mean like I can feel that even I may end up a hikki myself if I were to lock myself in my room playing computer the whole day.

o_o

Makes me want to laugh at myself for making this post. The real truth is that I was already spoiled as I have already read the manga and I knew what was going to happen in most of the situations. I have to comment the anime creators for following the mangas so closely that they didn't even missed small details. How should I say, they'd even elaborated it! Like say, the construction of the net at the cape to prevent people from dying if they were to jump of the cape, they'd even add a new character: the taxi driver.

NHK is definitely one nice series. I'm out.

Tomorrow's gonna be a hectic day. The Bazaar General Meeting is finally gonna be held tomorrow after several postpones. I'm going to present the forum tomorrow too, the PB's.

I've watched up to episode 14 of Clannad (after story). Clannad has taken the whole "family" thingie a step furthur - Nagisa's pregnant. A whole new family's about to start. I should be happy about it, but instead, I feel a bit... awkward. Maybe I'm still not prepared for this. =\

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/4/5/nation/20090405211932&sec=nation

Like Tony Pua said, "Hee Hee Hee..."

No big deal. She can come back. The people she'll be serving are Barisan people, not those who voted for her in the last election.

I didn't go to church - I didn't want to go. This morning I helped mom chop down some palm trees in front of our house so that she can bring some palm leaves to church as it was Palm Sunday. I was quite tired at that time as I have not slept the whole night playing a new game on my DS but being a filial son, I had helped. :D

The new NDS game which got me hooked was "Lux Pain". The game was quite nice and it was addictive. There's voice for some of the dialogues and that gave the characters some extra personality. In spite of that I noticed a few spelling mistakes and translation error in the game as I played it.

Dad just reached home - and just went out a few minutes ago for dinner, with mom. Neither of us siblings decided to go as dad was quite impatient and couldn't wait for us to get ready - I was in my pyjamas and I wanted to take a bath and change into another clothes. He just couldn't wait. =\

I'm pretty impressed! I never expected the male version would be this nice!

The computer's back and it's... smooth! It cost dad around RM800+ to buy a whole new motherboard, a new processor (Intel Pentium dual core), a 1GB RAM, a 320GB harddrive and a new internet modem but I guess it's worth it. I told dad it would have been better if he were to buy a whole new computer (which would have costed RM2,000+) but I guess the upgrade's better than nothing. Now that I have more space on the computer I'll be going on a downloading spree - I'll start with Clannad After Story. XD

I attended the "Bengkel" (workshop) for the Driving Licence yesterday. I went alone without Peng Jing Wen as I was told by him that he had already attended the workshop. You know, somewhat I pity the instructors that have to pick me up from my house from Penampang and then drive all the way down to Menggatal where the driving school is located - a whole 20km or so.

I have a Chemistry test tomorrow and I think I'll be dead.... the end of the story.

P.S: Altogether 15 candidates contested in the Bukit Selambau by-election in Kedah - I wonder the outcome. NTV7's poll shows that 60% of its viewers wants the Election Commision to restrict the number of candidates contesting for a seat. In my opinion let them contest, it is up to them - it'll no longer be win or lose, it'll be more of whether you'll be able to retain your deposit.