July 10th

7.08pm

...Passed every subject...

including Japanese!

Results day

3.40am
could wait for the official results release on July 11th...
but I just couldn't...
decided to request it earlier...
staying awake in bed with that thought...
till i doze off...



10.05am
Turns on the laptop to access the student portal



10.10am
seems to be having problems logging in...
wrong password...
I log in this website almost everyday last semester...
and now...
i can't even get the right password...



10.15am
after numerous atempts..
decided to reset the password...
but all that was needed was my enrolment paper with a library barcode...
search everywhere for it...
no luck...



10.20am
found the enrolment paper...
stashed away with my passport...
at this point...
i noticed why i couldn't log in...
i pushed one extra number..



10.23am
logged to student portal...
hand seems to show signs of numbness as i move the mouse towards the unimail tab..



10.24am
pauses for few seconds as i stared at a new mail....
entitled ' History of Results '
clicked....and the 'blackjack' game starts...
one side revealing the subjects name...
another side covered with a envelope...
slowly....i slide the envelope down....
millimeter by millimeter...


"give me 3 pointy heads!! "
i thought to myself..hoping for H1
"or anything besides N+!! "


as it reached the first subject...
Japanese 1A...
" !@#!# now I don't care about the pointy heads, just gimme a P "


what was shown wasn't a P...
nor was it a H1....
it wasn't a N+ too..
it was a bloody asterik *




all that for nothing...
resubmitted my request...





the 2 hour wait begins.....

okay...
i know i havent been updating much...
YES!! especially now since I have all the time in the world right?
why no posts?!?!


forgive me laaaa....
results coming out on thursday...
i'm afraid....
afraid i might have to spend chinese new year over here if i fail any subject =X

"please....japanese...please......all i want is a pass..."



~Jian

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KUALA LUMPUR: Private investigator P. Balasubramaniam, who disappeared with his wife and three children last Friday, has been located.

Sources said police here with the help of Interpol traced his whereabouts to an Asean country but declined to name it or say when he would be brought back.

P. Balasubramaniam

CID Director Comm Datuk Mohd Bakri Zinin confirmed this but declined to reveal details.

It is learnt that the private investigator is fine and left the country on his own accord, contrary to reports and rumours that police were behind his sudden disappearance.

Last Thursday, Balasubramaniam rocked the nation with a statutory declaration alleging that Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak had an affair with murdered Mongolian Altantuya Shaariibuu. He was then represented by lawyer Americk Singh Sidhu.

However, in a press conference called less than 24 hours later, he made a second statutory declaration retracting all those allegations. He even appeared with a new lawyer.

Immediately after the press conference, he left with that lawyer and was never seen or heard by anyone.

His nephew and his original team of lawyers lodged police reports over his disappearance as well as his sudden decision to retract his first statutory declaration.

During a candlelight vigil in Brickfields here last night, R. Kumaresan said his uncle had contacted him on the phone saying that he and his family were safe but would not reveal his whereabouts.

“My uncle called me at 11.30pm on Monday and told me that he was okay and passed the phone to my auntie who also said they were fine.

“But when I repeatedly asked them where they were, my uncle told me that they could not talk freely and ended the call,” he said.

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My Take:

Who thinks Najib is involved with the absence of Bala?
Threats...
forcing him and his family to go into hiding...
Do you think thats possible?
Well,
one thing is for sure...
for me that is


I definitely agree with Bala that DPM had an affair with the mongolian model!
( for background story please refer to DPM v Model link )

now...now,
being the next in line as prime minister,
having a link to the Mongolian model would really jeapordizes things...
wont it?
so what do we do?
we eliminate the threat....P.Bala


" Hoi, leave the indian alone la!
continue having ur affairs!
and when u're done with them..
just use another C4 blow them up if they know too much "


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Gaylord
a Melbourne Indian restaurant

no idea hows the food like...
never tried it before...

JAPANESE EXAM WAS CRAPPY!!

damn hard!!!
but...
put that aside for now...
tremble only when its results day...

finally had my buffet dim sum today!!!
been wanting to go for few weeks...
they only have it on monday to wednesday!
unfair right???
anyway, its $17 per person...
dim sum here in australia aint cheap! =p
but since its buffet...its time to make full use of that $17 bucks =)

dim sum back home...


things here are just different....
no complains though....

all 10 of us actually sat there for 2 hours 30mins!
just for a simple branch =.='
think the next time, we'll get ban from that restaurant..
ate a total nearing to $400...



lets do the math...
$400 = RM1.2k worth of dim sums in one day!
a lil over the edge =X



okay...
another update soon with more picss!!!
sorry for my inactiveness the past week...
been relaxing so far..days after exam =)

thats all for now...
~Jian

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Saturday, June 28

5.45pm

PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim’s 23-year-old assistant
Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan lodges a police report against him
for sodomy at the Travers police station in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur.

10PM
About 1,000 Anwar supporters gather at Quality Hotel
in Shah Alam after news spreads about the sodomy allegation.

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Mohd Saiful, a student leader at a local university and Anwar's special assistant during the March general election, made a police report that he was sodomised by Anwar last Thursday.

Asked if she was implying that Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak was behind the allegation, Dr Wan Azizah said it was just speculation.

“I mean, the picture is (was taken) at the Deputy Prime Minister's office. That's it,” she said.

Asked whether the allegation was another political conspiracy against Anwar, similar to the one in 1998, she said: “Very much so. This is a second conspiracy, a political murder that has been committed against my husband. An attempted murder politically.”

On whether the allegation had any relevance to the allegation linking Najib to Mongolian Altantuya Shaariibuu's murder, she said: “You can link it because it's another diversion from the issues we are facing in our country. This is a political diversion.”

Dr Wan Azizah, however, could not tell when the pictures were taken and did not disclose who forwarded them to her handphone.

Asked why Anwar was not present at the press conference, Dr Wan Azizah said he received a death threat a few weeks ago.

“He is in a safe place to protect him from danger. We have reason to believe that Anwar's safety is at risk. We received death threats. We were given the advice to take care of Anwar's life,” she said.

On whether Anwar would lodge a police report on the death threats, she said they would discuss the matter with the lawyers.

“We have to protect ourselves at the moment. A lot of Malaysians seek his leadership. Therefore, we have to protect him not only because he is my husband but also because he's the leader of our country,” Wan Azizah said.

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KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has denied any involvement in the sodomy allegation against Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

“I am not involved in the case in any way,” the Deputy Prime Minister told reporters at Parliament lobby here on Monday.

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whats hitting the malaysian papers for the past few days...
some things only happen back home =)

In another couple of hours...
i'll be sitting for my japanese exam...
the last paper for this semester...
the clock starts ticking...
counting down..
the hours, minutes and seconds...
before i finally break free from this cage...


though i need a miracle to break free...
LOL

Japanese Exam

Aust.Time
Begin : 2pm
Finish : 4.30pm


Msia Time
Mula : Pukul Dua Belas Petang
Tamat : Pukul Dua Setengah Petang

after that...
i'm off to dinner with LayAi, Mun, Carlos, SzeYee, Peter
then a fondue party at Jaslyn's place
hopefully i can make them both =)

"believing in miracles for just this once..."
=)

~Jian

Few days back...
i came across this article from Kok Blok (http://k0ks3nw4i.blogspot.com)
an article about virginity...
what struck me about this article is that he argues..
" how virginity is bothersome, pointless and meaningless... "
got your attention?
read on and find out his thoughts..

"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind

to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue."

Voltaire

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Back on the trip in March, during one of the 12 hours plus train rides we endured between the cities we made our stops, talking was the most logical way for us to spend our surplus time, and if you've ever travelled with anyone for any length of time, you'd find yourself spontaneously loosening up before too long - even if you weren't very close to them to begin with. You want to get to know a person beneath the obvious? Invite them along on your vacation, get trapped with them for a whole day in a moving train carriage and prod a little. Every human being, I find, is a full bag waiting to spill. Everybody wants to be heard.

One recurrent conversational topic was about love and relationships, something we all can identify with (regardless of whether we have it or we don't). Somehow after a few hours, the topic morphed into one centering on virginity and what each of us thought of it. Unsurprisingly, views were schismatic - and are basically polarized into two camps. One is for it, and the other thinks that it's better to be done and over with.

One guy thinks that virginity is paramount and said that he will only marry a virgin - or to put it in his own words; "I like my presents unopened." I won't bother listing out his reasons and arguments here because (1) I am sure everyone knows what they are, and (2) I won't be able to reiterate them with much conviction because I - well, I have a differing opinion on the subject. So I'll only talk about what I think.

I think virginity is bothersome, pointless and meaningless.

I was a bit surprised by myself when I said those words in that train carriage chug-chugging in the evening through the Indian countryside because prior to that moment, my vocal views on virginity were one of conservative conformation. I'm Asian. Sex outside of wedlock is evil and immoral. Blah and blah and blah. It's funny how one's mind can change so drastically without one noticing until that mind starts speaking again.

I remember a friend, a girl, told me that she lost her virginity to her boyfriend, after holding out and denying it for many, many years to all her previous boyfriends. What she said about that was this,

"I used to think that virginity is something very, very precious, and must be protected no matter what until the day I get married. It's only after I lost it that I see just how worthless it is."

Those words rattled in my head a lot till it came as a sudden revelation to me that virginity is (or will be) just like my sixteenth birthday. I don't know why it was significant but everyone seems to think it is in some ineffable way. No one seems to give much thought to all the other teen years. Why not fourteen or fifteen or seventeen? Why bloody sixteen? I remember looking forward to my own sixteenth birthday, being all excited and anticipatory of some magical transformation of my sixteen years old person or some secret knowledge which would be telepathically telegraphed into my sixteen years old mind - or something! I don't know what. No one ever specified that. And when my sixteenth birthday finally came for real, I felt just the same as I was before I was sixteen. Nothing changed the least bit at all.

Like what I said in that train carriage about virginity that evening,

"Virginity is a lot like a person's sixteenth birthday. It seems like a big deal before you reach it. But once you're there... Meh."

I think that the concept of virginity - especially of female virginity - is terribly unjust. It is used as a standard marker of a girl's virtuosity or purity. If an unmarried woman is virgin, she's clean, good and loved by God but if she's not, she's some promiscuous skank who is dirty and used. I find that that standard leaves much to be desired. Say if a virginal girl is raped, what does it say about her morals? Is she still virtuous or pure? A lot of people would say that her virtuosity is unsullied because she never had sex till it was forced upon her, but is no longer pure because she had been violated. I find that incredibly insensitive and degrading, and this is precisely the sort of thinking that puts so many stigmas on the women who have undergone such a horrifying experience - as if they haven't been punished enough just for being a victim.

Some would even consider a virgin who was raped to be neither virtuous nor pure! No shit! They still stone rape victims to death in some parts of the world.

Anyhow, I agree that rape really have no bearing on this discussion, but it does reflect a bit of just how most people view women, including the women themselves.

Discounting that, what about those who have willingly given up their virginity premaritally to a person they thought they love or used to love? Can we consider them to be promiscuous or loose (no puns intended)? Again, most guys do. I used to be just like that. I used to like my "presents" unopened too. I used to think that girls who gave up or would give up their virginity before marriage are sluts. It isn't until recently that I started to realise that if a person have truly loved a girl before, he would never ever think of her as a "present" - an object, a thing. I think all guys are guilty of this, at least for some part of their lives. Anytime the loss of virginity is mentioned in the same sentence as "dirty" or "used"; that's objectification in action. That's a failure to see a woman as a real living, breathing person - one who is capable of making mistakes at some point in their past.

Heck, I don't think I even consider that a "mistake" on the women's part. A woman's body should be her own and however she wishes to express her love and that shouldn't have any bearing at all on any relationships she gets into afterwards. A lot of guys will disagree with me, with variations of the same old chauvinistic arguments which demean women. I believe I am above that now. In case anyone starts running with scissors with just a gist of what I'm aiming to impart here, I would like to say that I'm not preaching promiscuity or infidelity here. I believe that wanton or unprotected sex with multiple partners is bad and I advocate sticking with the one you love as long as you can. All I'm saying is that virginity need not be such a big damn deal.

So in summary, let me just say that I don't give a fuck whether the person I'm marrying next time is a virgin or not. But if she is - well, more power to her!



P.S. On a related note, some guys think that it is their prerogative to control what their girlfriends wear on the pretext that it's to "protect" her. To a certain extent, it can be true but the tales I heard of some guys going as far as to only let their girlfriends wear formless T-shirts and pants - that's just another form of reducing a girl to the level of property. I think it's perfectly fine for a guy to dislike their girlfriend dressing in revealing clothes, but he ought not to think that he has the right to prevent her from doing it. Or as a wise person (me) always says, "Just let her wear the clothes she likes now, before she's too old to wear them."

P.P.S. There's this T-shirt quote I read once that goes, "Virginity is a disease, and I'm the doctor."

P.P.P.S. So, a show of hands if anyone wants to hear my thoughts on abortion, homosexuality and slightly burnt food?

Kok Blok (http://k0ks3nw4i.blogspot.com)

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My Take:

yes,
its unfair to classify a lady
whose virginity has been forcefully taken away from her to be considered,
as some would say "tainted"
or being labeled someone who has lost her virginity.

i believe, and i hope most of you do,



VIRGINITY is something which can't be lost...
can't be taken away...
VIRGINITY is something which only can be given...
and can only be given,
once..



to me,
if a lady was for instance, raped, her virginity is not taken...
her virginity is not lost, not stolen,
virginity is not an item...
it'll be still a part of her,
remain within her,
until she decides to give it away full heartedly,
and of course, voluntarily...



saying that,
those people who actually label virginity as a present...
or labeling a lady as a present for that fact...
well..lets see...
i have no words for them
guess their heads are all f**ked up to even come out with such comparisons...
i recommend psyc help =)


as for Kok Blok,
i'll agree with you...
saying that its unfair and unjust to classify those whose
virginity has been forcefully taken away from them to be
no longer pure, virtous or whatsoever..



you express yourself well through that article....
however,
i believe...
you've made one big mistake...

saying that "virginity is bothersome, pointless and meaningless..."
now that is really pointless and f-ed up..

virginity is something that belongs to every woman..
something which is a part of them...
saying that they're bothersome, pointless and meaningless
is simply saying that...
the extra 'weightS' you carry at your crotch every day ever since u were born are bothersome, pointless and meaningless...


dude....whats up with that?


so yea...
VIRGINITY is something special....
they're not pointless..
like how the 'weights' are not pointless,
how they actually bear mens' future..

the conclusion is...
i can't sum up a word to represent what virginity means to a woman..
i believe...
a lady has a right to give her own reason or her own representation..
on what her virginity really means to her..
its not for us to decide...



~Jian

okay...
my semester exams were held at the Royal Exhibition Building..
its far from one of those exams hall we have back in Malaysia...

the REB =)

hmm...
don't remember any of my past exams venue back home...
having a fountain...

last year...
in front of my exam venue...
was


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.....

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Asia Cafe...
well..at least they serve food..
ain't that bad...

and the blue container for students to leave their bags..

rules here are different too..
the minute you get in..
you're suppose to start the reading the paper right away...
its not like back home where u'll be fed with information all the time...
what time the paper starts...ends...when you're allowed to read..
if you read before reading time you get penalised...
none of those here..


back home..
during the major final exams..
usually you'll get 1 or maybe 2 absentees..

here...
you turn left...you see a few empty seats...
turn right you see a few...
turn behind...you see alot..
several exam subjects are not hurdle exams..
means..
you won't fail your course even if you fail your exams..


somehow the exam atmosphere here differs...
sometimes...few minutes into the exams...
you hear a student shout " f**k! " a few times...

we don't have that back home do we..
we don't have students goin " Ya Allah! " back home...
we really don't ..its amazing...

okay...
the first morning after my exams...

" i still have one more paper to go....i still have one more paper to go... "

anyway...
few of us decided to made sushi for lunch =)




cucumber...crab sticks..chicken...fish eggs..unagi...


my first attempt went really bad...
so bad till I won't post a picture of it..
the following attempts went well though =)


so good till we even decided to have a sushi competition between Benny and I
the judge?
Dave of course...
the only one among us who was having an exam that day ahahh..




in the end...
i was declared the winner...
not bad eh?

to engage me to make sushi for parties, events or whatsoever..
please call 0430#####

looks good eh?



after lunch...
finally had time to shop for my winter clothing over here...
the ones i brought from home wasn't thick enough for me to survive..
bought a hoodie from FCUK..and thats my winter shopping....fast and simple =)
went for a drink at starbucks later with Rachel and Michelle..
" I'll go OCF next week!! =) "



dinner as usual after that...
and i hate to say it...
but Dave, Aaron, Kun, Yong and I... all got hooked on to...
Facebook Poker for a while...



thats all from me.. =)
more updates soon ya!! =)

signin off with a pic of Yong...and his huge Toblerone..

out!


~Jian

Semester 1 Exams

Accounting
Economics
Quantitave Methods/ Business Stats
Japanese

YES!!
I'm finally done with exams!!!!


left with japanese on the 26th..
but...
not my core subject =p
just a breadth =)
and it should be less of a hassle compared to the others =)


im back to blogging!!!


updates this weekend...
and don't worry laa...
wont be a news article =p
pics included =)


~Jian

402 points, so you achieved position 23825 of 1033641 on the ranking list


You type 502 characters per minute
You have 92 correct words and
you have 1 wrong words

92 words

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Semester 1 Exams

Accounting
Economics
Quantitative Methods
Japanese

!!! last paper tomorrow !!!

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~Jian

Semester 1 Exams
Accounting
Economics
Business Stats
Japanese

YES!!!
one down!!
3 more to go!!

pics gonna go up this weekend!
have a taste of the exam venues here!

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McDonald's, others stop serving, selling raw tomatoes over concerns about salmonella

CHICAGO (AP) - McDonald's, Wal-Mart and other U.S. chains have halted sales of some raw tomatoes as federal health officials work to trace the source of a multistate salmonella food poisoning outbreak.

Burger King, Outback Steakhouse and Taco Bell were among other restaurants voluntarily withdrawing tomatoes from their menus, following federal recommendations that consumers avoid red plum, red Roma or round red tomatoes unless they were grown in certain states and countries.

McDonald's Corp., the world's largest hamburger chain, has stopped serving sliced tomatoes on its sandwiches as a precaution until the source of the bacterial infection is known, according to a statement Monday from spokeswoman Danya Proud. McDonald's will continue serving grape tomatoes in its salads because no problems have been linked to that variety, she said.

The source of the tomatoes responsible for the illnesses in at least 16 states has not been pinpointed. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said at least 23 people have been hospitalized, and no deaths have been reported.

The Food and Drug Administration warned consumers in New Mexico and Texas as early as June 3 about the outbreak. The agency expanded its warning during the weekend and chains began voluntarily removing many red plum, red Roma or round red tomatoes from their shelves in response.

Tampa, Florida-based OSI Restaurant Partners LLC, which owns and operates eight brands including Outback Steakhouse, Carrabba's and Bonefish Grill, said it stopped serving all raw tomatoes other than grape tomatoes on Saturday evening. The company also instructed its restaurants to discard salsa and other prepared foods containing raw tomatoes.

Miami-based Burger King Corp. said it had withdrawn raw round red tomatoes from most of its U.S. restaurants. The company also removed the variety from all its locations in Canada and Puerto Rico and from some restaurants on other Caribbean islands.

Burger King said some California restaurants were allowed to continue using the tomatoes because they buy from growers in states the FDA has said are not involved in the outbreak.

Orlando-based Darden Restaurants, which owns and operates six brands including Red Lobster and Olive Garden, and Denver-based Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. also said they'd halted serving tomatoes, with Chipotle posting a notice to customers on its Web site that its tomato salsa is temporarily unavailable.

Taco Bell Corp. pulled tomatoes as well, the Los Angeles Times reported. Messages seeking comment were left by The Associated Press for Louisville, Kentucky-based Yum Brands Inc., which owns Taco Bell.

Bentonville, Arkansas-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the largest grocery seller in the United States, repeated a statement Monday that some tomatoes had been removed from its shelves. Wal-Mart initially announced the action Thursday.

The FDA is investigating the source of the outbreak, agency spokeswoman Kimberly Rawlings said.

Rawlings said the FDA's "traceback'' investigations typically look at similarities in illnesses reported to the CDC by state health officials.

Investigators work backward to find the source of the contaminated product.

Salmonella is a bacteria that lives in the intestinal tracts of humans and other animals. The bacteria are usually transmitted to humans by eating foods contaminated with animal feces.

Most infected people suffer fever, diarrhea and abdominal cramps starting 12 to 72 hours after infection. The illness tends to last four to seven days.-AP

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!! MY SAY !!

STOP EATING RAW TOMATOES FROM FAST FOOD OUTLETS NOW!!

if the US is withdrawing raw tomatoes,
people back in Malaysia should definitely follow...
lets face it..

fact of the day:
we all know Malaysia has a lower quality control over its food stuff...

or lets hope that the tomatoes dont reach Malaysia
=)

PSD scholarships: Increasing non-bumi quota not good idea

PETALING JAYA: Increasing the quota for non-bumiputras for Public Services Department (PSD) scholarships without increasing the actual number of scholarships has drastically affected the bumiputras, the Umno Youth Education Bureau said.

Its chairman Ahmad Ikmal Ismail said while the bureau agreed with the Government to give more scholarships to non-bumiputras, it did not agree with the way it was done.

“The quota for non-bumiputras has increased from 10% to 45% but the number of total scholarships has remained at 2,000.”

Ahmad Ikmal said this meant that scholarships were being taken from the bumiputras to be given to the non-bumiputras.

“We object to this move because it now means 700 scholarships for bumiputra students are gone,” he said.

Ahmad Ikmal said a better way would be to use the New Economic Policy concept to increase the number of total scholarships so that the bumiputras were not affected and the non-bumiputras got even more opportunities.

“For example, if the 'cake' was increased to 3,000 scholarships, using a ratio of 70:30, then bumiputras would get 2,100 places while non-bumiputras would get 900 places,” he said.

Ahmad Ikmal said although it would require more money to implement, education was an investment that was needed to develop society and the country.

He added that there were also instances of well-performing bumiputra students who failed to obtain scholarships from the PSD.

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!!My Say!!

over 50 years of independence....

celebrating harmony and integration among races...
BULLSHYT!!
i quote,

The quota for non-bumiputras has increased from 10% to 45% but the number of total scholarships has remained at 2,000.....
scholarships were being taken from the bumiputras to be given to the non-bumiputras....
700 scholarships for bumiputra students are gone...

wahai kerusi besar...
sekarang baru tahu maksud
"susah susah dahulu....senang senang kemudian..."
dulu tak perlu berusaha untuk mendapat ni sekolarsip!
tak perlu mencatat prestasi yang cemerlang pun boleh dapat..
asal tu BINtulu dan BINTImulu wujud dah cukup!
saya ada ramai kawan dari BINtulu yang tak dapat korek banyak emas ni dari lombong..
tapi, mereka masih dapat sekolarsip!
kawan lain saya yang tak berasal dari BINtulu dan BINTImulu berusaha kuat..
mendapat banyak emas dan khazanah...
tapi langsung tak dapat...



eh chairman of UYEB!
now only you know how hard is it to obtain a scholarship?
you can actually say that scholarships are being taken away from the bumiputras?
do you know..ever since 50 years back...
how many scholarships have been taken away from the nonS?
by increasing the Nons quota to 45%...it is still lower than the bumiputras percentage..
i can take that...
ketuanan melayu right?
your country....
i give...


700 of scholarships are being taken away from the bumiputra?
thats a very small figure!
look at the bright side!
you actually have scholarships to be taken away!


you even added that they are instances well performing bumiputras who failed to obtain the scholarship...
what about the non-bumiputras?
how many u see in the papers...
obtaining full aces...
high marks...
representing the states and their schools in various activities...
countries too in fact!
and still fail to obtain a scholarship??
COUNTLESS!!


what else must the nonS go thru?
after finding that Hang Tuah is a chinese not a bumiputra...
u remove him from books...
erase his history...


must we actually wait till the discovery that one of our...

mahjong
"waaah!! 3 bamboo! pong ar! "
" like that also can ar! so lucky wan you! "
"kay la! i almost sek wu di!"
"u throw em (5) man ar? qi! "
"9 bamboo? yes! i can....aaaaaaGGGONG! "
"gong your head! i sek wu first! "

.....is actually a non-bumiputra before we can obtain equal rights?


can we just be fair on the education side of things?
politics? don't bother...
our minister works so well in covering things up over the news (BBC Hardtalk)...

To those who appreciate music....
Another great clip from this year's Britains Got Talent




Madonna Decena
~singing I will always love you

Okay i know this blog is suppose to be "out of order" for a week or two...
but...
this i gotta blog about!

TODAYS STAR NEWSPAPER (19/5)

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Dr M quits Umno

ALOR STAR: Former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad announced Monday at 12.35pm that he is quitting Umno, citing a lack of confidence in the current leadership.

He said this during a talk here on Monday.

He has been critical of his appointed successor Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, blaming the current Umno president for the party's disappointing performance in the 12th general election.

The ruling Barisan Nasional coalition, of which Umno is the largest component party, won the March 8 election with a simple majority, and saw four more states join Kelantan under Opposition rule.

Dr Mahathir urged other party members to quit too, as a way of pressuring Abdullah into vacating his post.

However, he advised those who do quit not to join any opposition party, adding they can all rejoin the party once there is a change in leadership.

Abdullah has so far refused all calls for him to step down, and said he would defend his presidency in the party polls in December.

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HOI...

dear PM of ours!
listen lah to the people!

the election results tells it all..
so many people no confidence in u anymore la...
all go for opposition...


YES...
u've done so much for the country...
but now is the time u step down...
don't make us, RAKYAT suffer the consequences of ur actions...
step down while you're still the PM the malaysians consider you to be..


like that...
sama sama we happy mah!


now only u happy...
where can la...



Jian out!

"benkyoo shi masu! benkyoo shi masu!"
(study! study!)

Its getting cold over here...
and its not even winter...



a cup of Starbucks would be great...



and a bigger comforter....



the blogging will stop...
temporary....



as I dive into my pile of books...

i really cant wait for snowboarding....



what can I say...



its gonna be my first time...



snowboarding....




its gonna be my first time...




seeing snow....

so till...
the next week or 2...



my blog is...




take cares people!


and you all back home!
HAPPY WESAK DAY!!


oh ya...
before signing off...



the Dutch are creative people...




~Jian

Feeling hungry??

Get a free BigMac just by doing the chant!!


like these people!














and if u're really good at it...
like me...
you can win urself RM10,000!
I've won the competition!
but..
too bad...
the judges say I must be in Malaysia to win the RM10k!
so they decided to give away my RM10k!
go ahead!


try!

if you don't win the RM10k...



at least you get a free BigMac...

"humiliation is the road to success! "
or so they say...


=)



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strictly guys....
with the strippers..
at Urban Nights

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I'm officially done with my major assignments!!!
NO MORE!!!

all thats left now...
is my exams!

June 10 Accounting Reports and Analysis
June 11 Introductory Microeconomics
June 12 Quantitative Methods
...
.....
...
June 26 Japanese


i really should have reconsidered taking japanese!
instead of holidays starting on the 12..
it now starts on the 26th...


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anyway..
last weekend..
went for a club's grand opening..
"Urban Nights"
at Hotel Exchange..

and...
it was the worst club i ever went to in Melb...
no atmosphere...
small place...
its grand opening only had...150 people?
we went home after 2 hours..
a weekend night wasted =P


so far though...
my weekdays have been all planned out...
normal routines...


" sleep eat gym basketball study assignments "


and yea..
this is one of those days where i really dont feel like blogging =)


i need to find back my inspiration ahahah...
my way of doing things...

see ya duing the weendends..


Jian

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Financial Bits:
The Perfect Business

Interview With
ROBERT KIYOSAKI

author of
RichDadPoorDad,
Cashflow Quadrant etc.
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Heres something from last year Britain's Got Talent..
nice vids =)




Michael Jackson




Connie Talbot
sweetest girl!!

been really busy...
but...
ive still got time to finally squeeeeezzeeeee in a haircut =)







anyway...
i'll fast track my weekend..
Aaron's parents came to Melb few days back..
staying for 5 days..
they were really nice..
treated a whole bunch of us dinner at a place called Shark Fin House on Friday...
the last time i had a chinese cuisine was during the eve of chinese new year..
and..
damn i really miss those moments..
THANKS uncle aunty for dinner! =)


and on Saturday...
it was off to the movies for..

IRONMAN!!

well...it was my first time watching a movie here in Melbourne...
the first thing i liked about the cinemas here is....
THEY CATER FOR PEOPLE WITH LONG LEGS!! THANKSS!!!
unlike back home...
GSC's leg space is really crap..but..
definitely better than TGVs.




The last time i watched a movie at TGV - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
I had cramps...
my knee was practically touching the person's head in front of me..



alright..
back to the movie...

don't worry...no spoilers ahead =)



IRONMAN was nice..
way more than what i had expected from a marvell movie..
so no complains for me =)


time for assignments =)


till next time...
hopefully with a longer entry...



see ya in 5..

friends stopping by Melbourne for 1 week...
JienHoong, KahHo, TatRen decided to spend time in Melbourne during the semester break..
the last night...
had a gathering at my place...
Ming, Peter, KahHo, TatRen, Jia-Li = knocked out..
Ray, JienHoong = survivors...
and where do I stand? no where...decided not to drink that night...had 9am classes the next day..
thanks guys for cleaning up the mess! especially the pukes!


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trip to the beach...
ever since i got here...
i never did go to the beach..
so few of us decided to go last week..
exciting moments?

Aaron slipping into this....

he can actually fit in spaghetti straps!

encounter with a giant dog..

without a doubt...
the largest ive seen so far!!
too bad we couldn't get a clearer pic of the whole body for you guys!
but that wall is at least 8ft tall!

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surprise party...
it was Marie's birthday on Saturday...
a long time neighbour of mine back in Malaysia..
together with Pei Jean and Benny..we went to verf for the surprise party..
needed a passkey to go everywhere in verf..
so without one we were stranded out in the cold for a couple of minutes..
everything turn out well in the end..
had like few people telling me how they thought i was my brother...
"u look like my friend" ......okay....all cleared up in the end =)

HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY MARIE!!



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champions league semi finals and NBA playoffs...
the match between MU and Barca starts at 4am here..
all of us couldn't wake up..sleep through it instead..
the next match we vowed to watch!



NBA playoff between SanAntonioSpurs and PheonixSuns..
together with dave, aaron, kun and yong..
'da pao' lunch to watch back at College Square..
what we had?
Ultimate burger meal with wicked wings - the best choice in KFC =)



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GAINING TO 74.82KGS FINALLY!!
from being 67kgs since i got here after recovering from a sickness..
im finally gettin there to 78KGS! 3kgs to go!
play hard! eat hard! study hard! work hard!




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ANZAC day..
something bout remembering the day when Aussies and NZs join forces in a war..
thanks for the quick thinking Aussilands!
thanks for the public holiday on Friday!
really needed it!



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freezing my ass off here...
6 degrees yesterday night!! shyt!
not cold for you? not yet winter?
sorry bout coming from a country which averages around 28 degrees everyday!



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that sorta sums up my past week..
so what now?
gotta buck up and start studying!
someone shock me into reality that my final exams for the semester is just 5 weeks away!

we rock on from 9pm till 2am on weekdays!
or at least...try to =)

got 1000 words assingmentS to hand up next week as well =)

see ya in 6 days!



~Jian

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basking on Swanston street..
by drawing a picture using only crayons!
work of art?
not really...
he comes back everyday....with the same picture...
coloring the same spot...
did he really drew that??


now this...
is a work of art..
a new picture everyday..
drawing only with crayons...on the sidewalk...
rain comes..there goes his drawing...
a new pic comes up the next day...

off with overdue tags...

and some randoms at the bottom..

Tagged by Sheryl!!!

Instructions:
Remove 1 question from below, and add in your personal question, make it a total of 20 questions, then tag 8 people in your list, list them out at the end of this post. Notify them in their chat box that he/she has been tagged.


1. At what age do you wish to marry?
Ideal age would be at least 28-30..nothing younger..


2. What is your most favourite thing to do?
its all books and brawns = reading and working out


3. If you have a close close close close friend since childhood who loves to take away whatever you like, including guys/girls, and he/she always wins, will you still consider him/her your friend?
if the person is a close close close close close*99 friend... they wouldn't do..if they do..they're not that close =P


4. If you can have 1 dream to come true, what would it be?
heres where it all gets cliche...my entire family....healthy and happy...


5. Do you believe you can survive without money?
No


6. What are you afraid to lose the most?
those around me..and yea...my WEIGHT!


7. What do you feel like doing, right now?
damn im feeling hungry...wheres dinner!?


8. If you meet someone that you love, would you confess to him/her?
sure


9. List out 3 good points of the person who tagged you.
sweet funny socialable..


10. What are the requirements that you wish from your other half?
no matter what everyone says...
the looks matter! =)
dont try to deny it gents!

which follows by personality...


11. Which type of person do you hate the most?
two faced...


12. What is your ambition?
for now?? no idea =) in time... =)


13. What is the thing that will make you think he/she is bad?
i don't get the point of this question =.='


14. What do you think is the most important thing in your life?
refer to question 6


15. If you have a chance, which part of your character you would like to change?
even though its not often...but yea...speaking without thinking....


16. Who is the person that you can share all your problems with?
must it be only one?!?!? =(


17. How do you see yourself in 10 years time?
making my first million...age of 28 baby!


18. Do you think you get hungry because you’re cold, or cold because you’re hungry?
.....
i get hungry all the time...

19. What's your all time favourite candy?
i hate candies....
can i just add i dont fancy chocolates as well?? =) ahaha

20. If you could jump to any place in the world right now, where would it be?
HAWAII!!!!


I tag:
-Nep
-Pris
-KahHo
-Bro
-Suzzane
-PeiJean
-YiLyn
-SzeYee

Nep! ur tag is next =)


moving on...

check this animation out =)
done by YiLyn =)
for her assessment ahaha! =)

on another note...
due to mounting pressure...
heres another pic of Yusuk..




updates on my life during the weekends!


take cares!!

~Jian