My Ties

Am home for one week and everything is good.. I got good food, less expenses and time to myself.. And today, my ties had a nice spa and sunbath..

Checkpoint

I have reached yet another checkpoint of my university life.. Semester 7 was over and soon it will be semester 8, our last in IMU.. In a blink of eyes, i have already spent 3 1/2 years in IMU.. It was just like yesterday when we had our own orientation.. Then we organised an orientation for our juniors.. A year after that, we looked at how our juniors oriented the grandjuniors and the cycle continued with our grandjuniors orienting our great grandjuniors..

Flew back to Kuching today after spending a few days with Xinni in KL.. It was a bit weird as both of us headed to the airport together, checked in and boarded the plane at the same time.. The only difference was the destination.. She took the plane heading north to Penang while i took another one heading south east towards Kuching..

I still have another two weeks to go before i finally embrace my last semester as an undergraduate.. Shall i clarify here that i don't actually work in the hospital during my attachment.. Different from other courses where attachment means 'to work', i am going to be in the hospital to clerk cases. In another words, i will be looking for real case scenarios to study on.. So, it's not about working there but to expose ourselves to our future workplace..

It's going to be tough in Sem 8, but i believe each of us in B107 will be tougher..

Aloha sem 8!!! Nice to meet you....

My second BNF

Three and a half years ago i got my first BNF, the 49th series... I got it for free after registering with the Malaysian Pharmaceutical Society (MPS)... I bet most of us from B107 never really appreciate it, perhaps because we got it for free.. Humans are weird... We don't appreciate things that comes for free but when u spend your own money on it, you'll definitely appreciate it more..

Now, i really appreciate my BNF as it made me RM99 poorer... BNF59 i love you so much!!

Uniqlo so unique

It has been a while since i last blogged.. This is how i always start my entry with and i did it again...

Today i went to Fahrenheit88, another new shopping centre in town.. The previous KL plaza was given a facelift to become the current Fahrenheit88.. To start with, the opening of Uniqlo today was the main thing that has actually brought us there.. Uniqlo was not that unique afterall.. It's just like another Giordano, Cotton On or perhaps topshop.. Somehow, the marketing team did a great job in publicity and managed to drag so many people there including aunties and uncles..

So, I reached there at around 10.50am, 10 minutes before the opening.. When i looked at the entrance of Uniqlo from pavillion, indeed i saw a lot of people, but still, it was acceptable to me..

But as we walked through the main entrance of Fahrenheit88, something wasn't right... The queue outside was actually only a small part of the whole crowd.. And the line stretched to the inside of the building.. Believe me, the crowd almost took up the whole ground floor...

I wasn't actually that into Uniqlo.. Been to one of the franchise in Singapore and it was so so only.. But i do like some of the clothings in Uniqlo.. Almost left with andrew for lunch after looking at the crowd but in the end we joined in the hype.. Had a nice 4-5 hours of queue with bunch of friends before finally entering the shop..

Well, we've got quite a good bargain.. I managed to buy some clothings for myself and xinni..

And there were two things that i salute Uniqlo..

First, i would like to have their marketing team if i own a company next time.. They have really suceeded today..

Second, they managed to poison Malaysians' mindset into thinking that they are living in a four seasons country. Yes, a lot of them bought jackets of one inch thick and shirts that actually generate heat in Malaysia.. Good buy....

10.10.10

It's 10.10.10 and i guess KC should have predicted this post coming.. He is kind of into psychology lately after reading so many books on business instead of caffeine.. He is becoming so good in it that he can decipher almost everything that comes to him.. The latest being a lingerie advertisement poster for minoshe.. I enjoyed and it sounded so true..

So, why do i mentioned so much about KC? I was looking back into my older post with the special dates.. So, in 08.08.08, he commented about me being 'syok sendiri' by talking without using my brain..

In 09.09.09, i didn't get to ask if i have changed..

So now, on 10.10.10, I want to ask, have i improved? I hope i have.. lol... But seriously, i think i have learnt a lot for the past few years in IMU.. I have learnt to be patience, sensitive to certain surrounding, certain people, to be selfish at times and tonnes more.. I think i am prepared to embrace the reality, the adult world.. It's gonna tough but no worries, i am still learning each day..

Till then, hope i still blog when it's 11.11.11... *Will try to capture the moment of 10.10am on 10.10.10 tomorrow... :P

*Captured.. fuhhhh..... I only had one minute to do all this.. To those who have missed it, you still have another chance... 10.10pm on 10.10.10 tonight.. lol.....

Books

Reading books was not my cup of tea.. I still remember my sisters used to be book worms.. Every weekend, my dad will bring us to Sugarbun (KFC alike found in Kuching), not to eat but to borrow books from the small library there..I wouldn't be exaggerating if i say my sisters had read all the books there.. Despite endless efforts from my mum and dad to persuade me to pick up reading, i just don't read..

I believe this kind of things cannot be forced.. It will come naturally or it might not come at all.. I started reading when i was in early secondary school.. At that time, i read newspaper, starting from the sports section.. Slowly, i began to read the front pages to scout for interesting headlines.. And later on, i follow politics too.. Now, newspaper is like an addiction to me.. When i am rotting in my room having nothing to do, i will be refreshing new portals and online newspapers every now and then, only second to facebook and blogs..

Last few weeks, i bought my second book in my life that has got nothing to do with my studies.. It was during the bookfest in KLCC convention centre.. And also my third and fourth books.. The first book i bought was few years back, written by a famous speaker from my hometown.. Till now, i still don't read story books.. And i don't think i will in the future.. I prefer books on facts or discoveries or reality.. Remember i was awarded 'kepo king' in my class? So i think i have to keep to it.. I read to find out interesting stuffs..

Back to the books.. The first was a random stories on Malaysia.. It was written by a local lecturer from USM and was voted first by Star reader's choice award.. It was so so only.. Nothing special about it..

The second and third were self-help books.. I don't know why they called them self-help.. Maybe because they are meant for people who needs motivation.. I bought them because i find them interesting.. Anyway, i am doing fine now and i am not too desperate for motivation..

'Letting go of your Bananas' teaches us to get rid of our failures, or anything that prevents us from succeeding analogy to ridding rotten ones from a good bunch of bananas.. I thought it might be good for me as i tend to blame life for being unfair.. I used to complain a lot on my life.. I complained for not being given a scholarship.. I complained for not getting accepted into local uni.. I complained for being treated unfairly by the goverment.. Lots and lots of complains.. So, yeah.. Life is unfair.. If you cannot change it, live it...

The third book is the best among all... Everything mentioned in it was so so true.. Even the caption itself has caught my attention.. Here it goes.. 'the secrets to success in business or in life aren't secrets at all. They are principles, values and strategies that most of us already know, recited from our parents and grandparents. In a word - obvious. But because of that, we overlook them' And that's the title of the book, The Obvious.. The lesson that i got from the book is certainly more than the RM9.90 i spent on it..

Previously i didn't get what people say; reading will get you thinking.. Now, i think i understand... It's like a biological on-off switch to get my brain working..

To those who read a lot, please continue.. But there is this one thing that might not be in the book which i believe is true.. Don't be taken away by the title or description of the books.. You don't just read to be successful.. You practise, you try, you fall and you try again... :)

blogs, BLOGS and blogs...

If you have been following my blog long enough, you would have noticed that i complained a lot on lack of reading materials.. As in blogs lar.. Not that there isn't any blog to read but i am particularly choosy in reading blogs.. I am not into blogs which tell about how many times he/she goes to the toilet a day, what he/she eats for the breakfast or when he/she is going to die.. Neither do i bother reading blogs which are filled with pessimism or emoness.. Not always, at least... No hard feelings bloggers out there as each of us has our own blogging style.. I respect that.. And mine isn't any better because i too, feel that my entries are overly negative sometimes..

What types of blogs do i read then? Weird ones, yeah i do like.. I prefer people who has different way of thinking.. To think like no one else.. Motivational ones are ok if he/she is not too vain.. Best are the ones which share their experience in life..

Was moved to blog tonight because i came across another interesting blog, one that suits me.. I couldn't stop reading, one post after another.. It's a bit weird because i am reading backwards, as if i am travelling to the past..