Once again, it's been a month since I last updated. And what have I been up to in this time? Let's see:
- exams (1 of which sucked BIG time :P)
- finished up last project of the earlier mentioned sucky subject, in 2nd week of holidays (BLEK)
- went to KL for a week with Mike for a real holiday
- got and FINISHED 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'!
- learnt how to play RISK
- got my results :P
- doing FYP in school
So yup, some of us finished our project in the 2nd week of holidays so it was pretty crappy for us :P. And just a few days later, Mike and I went to KL to shop till we dropped, almost literally. Haha! Spent a lot of money on books (no surprise there!), Pirates stuff, some clothes and well, some small stuff can add up to a lot of money. My total expenditure (excluding airfare) was just below RM1000. Luckily we stayed at my uncle's place so we saved on accommodation. An event of interest was that we went to watch 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix' at GSC 1 Utama and the film got burnt just as the exciting part started(I never experienced this even in Kuching -_-||) but they were very efficient and replaced the film within 10 minutes. I went to the toilet in the 10 mins and came back to see that I'd missed some of the crucial action :P. Ah well, it was just RM6 (coz b4 12pm) and the cinema was really very nice, with yummy caramel popcorn tho I don't really like caramel. Oh and we had to sit through 1/2 hour of trailers and advertisements.
- exams (1 of which sucked BIG time :P)
- finished up last project of the earlier mentioned sucky subject, in 2nd week of holidays (BLEK)
- went to KL for a week with Mike for a real holiday
- got and FINISHED 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'!
- learnt how to play RISK
- got my results :P
- doing FYP in school
So yup, some of us finished our project in the 2nd week of holidays so it was pretty crappy for us :P. And just a few days later, Mike and I went to KL to shop till we dropped, almost literally. Haha! Spent a lot of money on books (no surprise there!), Pirates stuff, some clothes and well, some small stuff can add up to a lot of money. My total expenditure (excluding airfare) was just below RM1000. Luckily we stayed at my uncle's place so we saved on accommodation. An event of interest was that we went to watch 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix' at GSC 1 Utama and the film got burnt just as the exciting part started(I never experienced this even in Kuching -_-||) but they were very efficient and replaced the film within 10 minutes. I went to the toilet in the 10 mins and came back to see that I'd missed some of the crucial action :P. Ah well, it was just RM6 (coz b4 12pm) and the cinema was really very nice, with yummy caramel popcorn tho I don't really like caramel. Oh and we had to sit through 1/2 hour of trailers and advertisements.
with Samuel, my cousin whose family we stayed withThe Pirates of the Caribbean stuff that I got were actually pretty hard to find, since almost everywhere just focused on Spiderman 3 and Transformers. Even Harry Potter stuff, besides the 6 books were rare, unlike before. Anyway, there was this really really cool one, a model of the Black Pearl that stretches out to 2 1/2 feet, which is HUGE. There are lots of hidden features like springtraps, compartments and etc. So I got 1 file with Will Turner's face on it, 1 DVD file also with Will, and a miniature model of Will. Obviously you can tell which character I like best. But I also bought a promo set of posters from the first Pirates movie and the book "Bring Me That Horizon: The Making of the POTC" which shows the making of the whole trilogy. Basically my whole trip was lots and lots of walking around shopping centers and spending lots of time around books, toys and CDs/DVDs.
the Black Pearl boat that stretches out to 2 1/2 feetOn the 21st of July, the day all Harry Potter fans were anxiously waiting for, I woke up early to go get the final book. But I wasn't crazy enuf to wake up too early so I reached Popular in Tun Jugah at 8 since I had to be in school by 9.30am anyway. Geez it reminded me of my KL trip when we had to follow my uncle to work at KLCC so we were there by 8am where the shops were still closed. I met some Swinburne ppl who were there by 6.30am -_-|| and I read the newspaper that there was quite a few ppl who rushed in at 7.01am. When I was there, I saw 2 girls outside already a quarter thru the book. Anyway, I got a free Harry Potter/Popular shirt in a Bloomsbury (the publisher) paper bag and a contest form and of coz the BOOK~! It was the adult version coz Mindy and the others thought I'm an adult already. If it wasn't for them, I probably wouldn't have bought it till much later when the price dropped. Actually the price has already dropped from RM109.90 to RM83. Tesco and Carrefour started selling the books at Rm69.90 and thus 3 big bookstores, MPH, Popular and Times refused to sell the books, except those who'd already pre-booked. So now they're starting to sell it again but at a 20-25% discount.
I read a few pages in the morning but spent 2 hours plus in the afternoon b4 church. Mike and I then spent a very quiet Saturday night just reading as we were really keen to find out what happened. I read the actual book and Mike read the pdf version. Anyway, I spent about 8 hours in total reading and finally finished it at 5am. What to do, it was exciting and I just had to find out what happened before some idiot spoiled it for me.
As for results, as expected that stupid subject CSE got me a P!!!..Grrrrr.. but I did fairly ok for the rest of the subjects. D for Photonics and also FYP and HD for Eng. Mgmt 2. But at least the GPA for FYP was 4.0 and there was a slight improvement in my semester GPA and CGPA.
I've been going back to school with CY to do our FYP project. It's quite stressful in the sense that we're still not very sure on what to do as we have quite a few options to try. Also, it's not like I'm such an expert on electronics :P. So have to be very cautious before making any big decisions. So, with the first 2 weeks gone, 1 week of holiday in KL...then busy doing FYP, helping to organize Rotaract's installation, doing my dad's documents and maybe his website....it really doesn't feel like a holiday except maybe at night. But I really want to have a weekend trip with my friends tho, especially since a lot of them will be graduating soon :P. And I have so many movies/series to watch, but not much time. Haiz....I'll just have to try lo...
I read a few pages in the morning but spent 2 hours plus in the afternoon b4 church. Mike and I then spent a very quiet Saturday night just reading as we were really keen to find out what happened. I read the actual book and Mike read the pdf version. Anyway, I spent about 8 hours in total reading and finally finished it at 5am. What to do, it was exciting and I just had to find out what happened before some idiot spoiled it for me.
As for results, as expected that stupid subject CSE got me a P!!!..Grrrrr.. but I did fairly ok for the rest of the subjects. D for Photonics and also FYP and HD for Eng. Mgmt 2. But at least the GPA for FYP was 4.0 and there was a slight improvement in my semester GPA and CGPA.
I've been going back to school with CY to do our FYP project. It's quite stressful in the sense that we're still not very sure on what to do as we have quite a few options to try. Also, it's not like I'm such an expert on electronics :P. So have to be very cautious before making any big decisions. So, with the first 2 weeks gone, 1 week of holiday in KL...then busy doing FYP, helping to organize Rotaract's installation, doing my dad's documents and maybe his website....it really doesn't feel like a holiday except maybe at night. But I really want to have a weekend trip with my friends tho, especially since a lot of them will be graduating soon :P. And I have so many movies/series to watch, but not much time. Haiz....I'll just have to try lo...
