The REPORT!

Disclaimer: This is a report I wrote for my club so it’ll be long-ish and detail-ish. The details are not that accurate as I wasn’t at the hall at all times/wasn’t paying attention. So, skip the writings and to the pictures you may. =)

It’s that time of the year again where people gather together on the last Thursday of November for a memorable thanksgiving night. This year 2009, thanksgiving falls on the 26^th of November.

Less than 2 months ago, a newly formed club, American Eagle did not plan to just sit silently and witness this exciting day turn mundane. Collaborating with the Techno Science club, another club of the ADP department had made the organizing of an exhilarating thanksgiving dinner with Charity as the theme, an absolute success.

The clock on the wall showed 5 o’clock, when the preparations were almost done. A little bit more decorations to be put up and some band rehearsals would make it complete.

Half an hour later at 5.30pm, the invited children from the Nur Salam orphanage arrived at the entrance of the hall of HELP’s residence where the thanksgiving dinner was held. They eagerly formed a line before the reception counter to receive a goody bag each, which was kindly sponsored by UNICEF, before swarming into the hall adorned with colorful balloons and ribbons.

While the children were being seated at their respective tables, chattering and giggling away, the committee members were busy ushering guests and VIPs who arrived a little later.

At 6 o’clock sharp, hosts Shannon Goh and Michael Campton put a halt to the cacophony and cheered up the guests with their jokes before moving on to the welcoming speeches.

The thanksgiving dinner officially started after our very own Head of Department Mr. Ho; Ms Rani, the advisor of American Eagle Club; and Edwin Low the president gave their respective speeches on the stage. The long awaited dinner was then served after 3 lucky draw prizes were given out to the lucky ones.

While the children queued up for the food, bands and performers were getting prepared to give the large crowd a mind-blowing performance.

First up was a sexy modern jazz performance by 2 girls, donned in vests and fedoras, popping and locking to the beats of the music, which ended a few minutes later with a thundering applause.

Followed up was a singing and acoustic performance by Green Eggs and Ham. Despite being occupied relishing the wonderful dishes the buffet had offered, the audience sportingly took some time off the food and swayed to the rhythms of “Use Somebody”, a song by King Of Leon and “Chasing Cars”, a catchy song by Snow Patrol, which were performed.

Up next, there were interesting activities and amazing prizes up for grabs for the kids, now that their tummies were satisfied. Standing side by side, the kids were given deflated balloons each. In order to get the prize, they had to compete among themselves to be the first to inflate and pop the balloon. It was so much fun seeing how those little kids struggled to keep the balloons in place and pop them.

The next activity was even more exciting as it involved toilet tissue wrapping. After the kids were broken down into 3 groups and provided with toilet rolls, they embarked on a frantic search for a subject to wrap. Michael Campton, the host was held victim by the first group and was stuffed with toilet papers to look like a pregnant lady. Although the activity ended in massive mess, it was worthwhile to see how much creativity was brought into play by the children with just wrapping alone.

The last activity for the children was singing performance. Prizes were to be given to those who had courage to sing a song in front of the audience. Those who love singing started whispering ear to ear for an agreement of a suitable song before heading to the stage. Soon, melodious voices sounded across the hall as the kids swayed their body and sang to every word of their favourite song. The audience was utterly awed and mesmerized by the kids’ performances.

Finally, the last performance for the night was by the ministers of comedy. As they performed, Aunty May went from table to table, gesturing the audience to clap to the beat and kept the party going. When that could not make the night any merrier, she decided to invite people from tables to have a dance with her on the stage. Aunty May definitely made the audience choked with laughter.

Before the night was brought to an end, hampers were given out to the Nur Salam orphanage as charity, which was the theme of the dinner. Another session of lucky draw ensued, which brought the audience to attention. This time round, the lucky draw prizes were bigger, eventually bringing more joy to the lucky ones and greater disappointment to those whose numbers were not being called upon.

The night came to an official close right after the lucky draw.

 

 

 

OKAY! Pictures Time!

Qing Han happily playing with the kids! =)

Jeremy posing when he shouldn’t be there.

I KNOW WHAT YOU’RE THINKING! QING HAN IS IN EVERY SINGLE PICTURE! Anyways…..

I don’t like camwhor-ing.

Datin Jeesha! =) Where’s your hot dress?! HAHA.

Mr. KUMAR!

Ms. Rani! The teacher advisor of American Eagle Club and Techno Science?! o.O?

OKAY! SO THIS IS FOR YOUR NECK, YOUR THIGHS, YOUR BELLY, YOUR BUTT, AND YOUR BOOBS… There you go. 5 vouchers for the new Ukimono. =)

I’m not going to eat you Elaine…

That’s all! Heee~

Jennifer’s Body

When I first heard about this movie, I told myself it’s a must-watch movie and I’ll kill myself I were to miss out on it. It’s like the most anticipated movie this fall because the well-known hottest American actress Megan Fox is going stark naked in Jennifer’s Body. I can already imagine guys pointing at posters of the movie as they passed by and dreaming about that very day the movie is being released in the night.

However as days gone by, I heard bad rumours about the movie spreading fast like a wild forest fire. I began to have a second doubt about the movie. The must-watch movie had turned into one of those movies that are not worth watching. Since Megan Fox is starring in the movie and she’s going completely naked, it’s obvious that she’s going to be the only limelight of the movie and all else would be trivial and insignificant.

Anyway, I watched Jennifer’s Body yesterday with Clement. Lucky for me, he couldn’t find himself a female date so I was second on his list I supposed. Not that I’m gay and it’s good to watch movies like this with a guy, no? Met up with Mae and Elizah before we entered the cinema hall.

So what can I say about Jennifer’s Body?

It’s a hoterromedy = Hotness + Terror + Comedy.

When you see Megan Fox in Transformers, she’s already super hot. But in this movie when she’s draped in tight spaghetti stripes and super low waist jeans/undies, your brain goes “BOOMS” – Ms. Ris Low. The kinda hotness does not have the same degree as putting your licked forefinger on her body and it’ll go “pssssssss”. It’s way beyond that that it can make you regret doing the mentioned act. You’ll get a burnt finger and start crying for your mommy, that kinda hotness.

To be honest, you’ll go completely blank during and after the movie. You wouldn’t know what just happened or what’s happening cause you’ll be dazzled by Megan Fox’s hotness. And when the movie is over, you’ll have the wtf feeling cause you’ve not gotten enough of her hotness.

As for the Terror part, it’s a little freaky because a hot actress like Megan Fox is bloody all over and altogether she looks like a man-eating maniac with her razor sharp teeth sticking out like a hungry predator thirsty for blood. Trust me, it’s not hot when someone that hot is so monster-ish.

The Comedy part was okay okay, at least it’s not some cold jokes that make you shiver more when you’re already that cold.

So all in all, I wouldn’t recommend you this movie if you show no enthusiasm in girls like Megan Fox or you’ve seen enough of her body! =) OR you’ll be wasting 2 hours of your time sitting through a boring movie that has not much content. Karyn Kusama is smart to smudge her lousy movie with hotness. That’ll win audience all right. 

Everyday Life

So I have been busy with my life and have never bothered to keep track of them. This fine day, I’ve finally broken out of the cocoon and started composing my life journals.

Maybe stating myself as busy is more of an overstatement when comparing to those in the US, but I am busy. Try embroiling yourself in a situation where you have 5 out of 7 days of rest, ample time to spare for siestas and wouldn’t mind waking up to the sweltering heat of the afternoon sun almost every single day. Owh, then you’re left with 2 days to get busy with life, which is tantamount to 32 hours a week only if you plan to have 8 hours of sleep.

32 hours to finish up one week’s work, isn’t that busy? Anyway, I just hope that I could focus on completing my part in the Balanced Scorecard assignment I’m working on currently and get over with it quickly.

On a happier note, I have been having wonderful weekends for almost a month now.

On the 3rd of October, I went to a friend’s house in Kota Kemuning along with my family and had the best moon cake festival celebration ever. Shortly after a hearty dinner of homemade nasi lemak, we armed ourselves with lanterns and candles for reloads and took a short stroll to a park nearby. It was night time and the air was a little chilly but a bit hazy so the air wasn’t as fresh and pristine.

At the park, there were kids running round the park, some playing with candles and waxed them to the graveled pathway, and others chasing each other at the playground while their parents stood aside, dealing with the lanterns. My friends, very much like myself found playing candles/fire much more interesting than lanterns. Hanging our lanterns around an immature palm tree, we started lighting up candles while shielding them from the breeze that whizzed through the park. Then it drizzled a little but that didn’t hamper us from having fun after so many years. Before we went home that night, we ate mooncakes and drank Chinese tea just like how anybody would celebrate mooncake festival.

On the 4th of October, my high school friend Kah Soon drove his brand new Honda city and picked Michelle, Chuan Chuen and me up along the way to Cineleisure. It was Kah Soon’s birthday on the 1st of October but because it fell on a weekday, we decided to postpone the celebration to the weekend. A fine Sunday morning it was when we hit Cathay Cineplex. Approximately 10 minutes later, we regretted buying the tickets.

It was Far Cry, a low budget film with hardly any contents starred by unprofessional actors and actresses, we were watching and I almost cried for help. The movie was on v-fib all the way, even during the fighting scenes. Trust me. It was so atrocious that any other movies ever filmed would have been better than this one. I was totally speechless when it ended.  

I give Far Cry a mere 2 out of 10 for their effort, which obviously did not bear any positive results.

On the 10th of October, 5 days before my mom’s birthday. We had an early birthday celebration for her at Sushi Tei in Tropicana City Mall. Japanese food is one of my favorite, in fact, my whole family enjoy eating Japanese especially Sashimi that goes well with wasabi. We ordered Teriyaki steak, Unagi Kabayaki, Salmon Mentaiyaki, 3 plates of Ebiko Sushi, 2 plates of Sashimi, 4 bowls of Sushi Rice, and some kind of grilled chicken with rice (forgotten the name for it).

Boy, was it a delicious meal! I relished every bite of it so that the taste could I remember for days. Here are some pictures of the food we ordered.

Guess what?! We celebrated for my mom once again on her birthday itself, October the 15th. This time, we went to Italiannies at The Curve. It wasn’t crowded that day despite the Deepavali holiday or whatever holiday it is. I’m a little ignorant about holidays nowadays because I’m no longer in high school and I only have 2 classes a week soihave5daysofholidaysaweeknomatterwhat.

So yea.. We ordered Lasagna A La Ravina, Chicken Parmigiana, and Penne Bolognese. The atmosphere was wonderful until they started playing the music like some kind of pub and it was noisy. We had to talk over the cacophony to make each other understand what we were saying. Then frustrated mom asked one of the waiter to lower down the music but they ended up switching it off.

Those are the birthday celebrations this month. Other outings were Friday movie outings with Aaroni, Qing Han, Jie Hwa, and Bryan. We had watched a couple of movies like Gamer, Ugly Truth, Surrogates, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and Pandorum.

Gamer was so unrealistic and inhumane. You either pay to control or get paid to be controlled. It’s a sick movie. Some perverted bastard could hire you, for example, if you’re a sexy lady, bring you around and make love with strangers while you’re unconscious. Or some immature child could hire you, if you’re an inmate, control you in a gory battle where if you were killed, you’ll be dead forever. No resuscitation or whatsoever to bring you back to life. I hope we’re not seeing our future right there.

 Ugly Truth was awesome with pretty Katherine Heigl starring as Abby and handsome Gerard Butler starring as Mike. I love how they put words in a way that it’s obscene and funny at the same time. Totally a brilliant adult comedy.

Surrogates was of something similar with Gamer but better. This time it involves robots in lieu of real human body and you’re totally in control of your own substitute(s). You could perform dangerous stunts like skydiving, bungee jumping and etc. without having to consider the risk of death while having the ability to gain pleasure from what you’re doing. But to own a surrogate would cost one a hell load of money.

Okay. This is one happy animation. An ambitious scientist who persevered to make his every endeavors in creating a machine that would contribute to the world worth while. He worked hard in his crib out in his father’s yard since young to invent something useful despite often being ridiculed at by his peers. Finally, he successfully invented a machine that could turn water into any food one could think of. That’s all I would disclose. Telling the story further would make this a spoiler.

I love the story of this movie and it’s not scary at all! So for non-Horror movie lovers, you could include this in your list. =)

That’s how I enjoyed half the October away.

Crazy Beginning

A lot had happened recently but I was a bit laid back about putting it all up in my blog. With my latest post due sometime a month ago, you could already guess the number of chill pills I have been consuming. So, I’m here to haul it all up the ocean before everything sinks deeper and fades away.

If you are someone who keeps track of my barren blog, you definitely know that I had been working part time jobs on and off throughout the previous semester break, which had earned me quite an amount of pocket money. I was coerced into putting a halt to my sudden urge of working when college reopened, which was something I actually looked forward to.

On seeing the miserable ADP timetable, I was gravely disappointed at the number of subjects offered this fall semester. However, when I gave it a slight thought, I couldn’t help but empathize HELP, as dedicated lecturers as Ms. Yap and co. had turned or are turning their backs on the institute. Leaving behind a pillar-less crumbling tower, which is not only facing a shattering end but also an imminent danger of bankruptcy, sadly to say.

4 days of waking up early and attending a full 10 hours of class each day, gave me more doubt of what not to take than a comforting assurance of what subjects to take. As an ending outcome of shopping around and choosing subjects, what I got was exhaustion instead of a decision. I sought help from Ms. Mamoorian, who is the admin of Drake University via E-mail and later found out that the only subject I could take was Accounting 2. Ridiculous ain’t it? How can someone take only one subject in a long semester? Unless that someone is as jobless as Riz.

Political Science wasn’t that bad, especially when Mr. Ho the Head of Department was the one conducting the class. A retired lawyer Mr. Ho shared many of his first-hand experience in class, which I found amusing despite the exaggeration of having to make friends with the ministers of the Malaysian government and even some former president of the United States. Frankly speaking, I was this close to registering the subject as I was pretty convinced that it would be an interesting class. I didn’t in the end after I got a reply re-confirming that it was absolutely unnecessary for me to take it even as an elective. So Accounting 2 it is.

I really couldn’t imagine me wounding up being a couch potato at the end of this semester since last semester had already made me a lot lazier than my first year in college. So I gave myself a little motivation and continued my job hunting stint! Having ample time to spare, once again I was spending time trawling through forums, searching for “lucrative” part time jobs. =)

After sending out about 10 resumes to 10 different agents, I received notifications about interviews via phone calls and sms pretty soon enough. Without further hesitation, I accepted a promoter position at the DiGi specialized store at the Tropicana City Mall outlet due to the reasonable pay and the simple job scope. Never did I know that I was being lured into a Trap of Boredom.

There was literally nothing I could do in the shop. Allow me to enlighten you. My job scope was to promote DiGi postpaid lines and that I would receive a commission of as high as RM 20 after successfully selling 4 lines in a day, the subsequent lines sold would earn me as much as RM 5 per line. Since Tropicana City Mall is a new mall and is nothing compared to any other shopping complexes in the Petaling Jaya district, the number of shoppers were pathetically low each day, even during weekends. I ended up helping DiGi users, mostly foreign workers reloading credits into their accounts.

I felt like a retarded freak who had never embraced any from of education, doing something that only required the least amount of brain work. It was so boring and a complete waste of time that when my friend invited me to a gathering the other night, I smsed and lied to my agent about a family emergency as soon as I hung up the line, ditched my supervisor who was happily playing bejeweled back at the shop, and left work an hour earlier for the gathering. God blessed the night, it was awesome.

The following morning was Fawesome when I was told that some client decided to put the store on hold temporarily, which in English means I do not have to work in that hellish place for some time. But even if I was asked to go back later on, I would reject it anyway.

So, I’m unemployed again! =)

The Pencil

Before I hit the hay sack the night before, I realized something seemed to be amiss because the night was still at its dawn. I wondered for quite some time before concluding that today is going to be a big day for me. A really gigantic humongous one that is definitely going to freak the hell out of me and that I’m bound to be tormented until I beg for mercy/pee in my pants. *works the same*

Thinking of that, I couldn’t stop shivering with fear. With my teeth chattering and my legs weak and numb, I prostrated myself on that heated bed of mine, not being able to move another inch till morning. I swear I was literally frozen inside out despite the hot surroundings and the layers of comforters being laid on me. At the same time, I had an insomnia attack, which I thankfully recovered from it moments later.

This morning, I was awaken by a huge jolt. When I say HUGE, I really do mean it. It’s not a usual slight jolt on your shoulders when your mom wakes you up in the morning or a nudge you get when your irritated maid screams you out of bed. It’s a rather unimaginable and an illogical one. Yes, my teeny cubicle was struck by a magnitude 5 earthquake that threw me out of bed. I landed on the ground with a stud. Ouch!

A few minutes of jam-driving brought me to HELP at around 8.30 in the morning and there, I could finally breathe. The freshness of the morning air had gotten me fully awake and I was all set to roll. Frankly, 2 and a half hours of Linear Algebra revision right before the paper at 12 wasn’t at any bit adequate! By 11, revision wasn’t done and with the air-con blowing towards me, just made things worse as I started to panic!

I almost went unconscious when the question paper was flipped open as the clocks on the wall ticked 12. Before I could even catch a breath, I was swiftly taken off the ground. I worked my ass off for the next 2 hours although I was suffocating. The tension-filled room tighten the grip on my neck that it almost broke my spinal into two.

Now that everything’s over, I could finally take a break!

- Pencil

Hope you get this post. =)

Craving For More!

Some mammals especially the grown ups, just complain too much, talk more than necessary at inappropriate times, bombard questions excessively and incessantly at times, and set hellish restrictions on you uncontrollably. And I’m speaking of the mammals we see everyday, from dawn to dusk. How hard you pray you weren’t there or better still, invisible when all that happen. Wouldn’t that then make world a better place to live in and reality more pleasant than before?

I’ve not been blogging very often this month unlike previously. Thoughts have been kept close to my heart and have not been expressed wildly. Maybe it’s because I’m still not at the end of my tether just yet, seeing that the number of subjects I’m taking this semester isn’t at any bit stressful at all. So thoughts, hide like you have agoraphobia! Never come out you shall until I say so. Hah!

6 days ago on a Friday evening, me and 5 others - Chloe, Aaron Choi, Calv, Riz, and Matthew Cher were having dinner at Nirvana in Bangsar before heading to Jalan Solaris for some Haagen Daz yummy-licious ice-cream! It wasn’t a perfect planning but all went quite well aside from the slight delay of time, which granted us only 2 short hours for ice-cream. 

 

Anyways, we were supposed to meet up at 6.30 but people started showing up only an hour later. Poor Calv and Matthew who were there an hour earlier had to wait hell long for us, sorry. My first experience at Nirvana was screwed up because I had to restrain from ordering meself a hearty meal! I had to save some space for ice-cream yo! After dinner, Matthew left us for church. And 3 others – Edwin, Peter, and Eka joined in shortly after he left! =) So, 6-1+3 equals 8 of us!

Upon arriving at Soho KL, the Paradise of ice-cream, dessert, and buffet, I was surprised at the sight of the number of people in the double-decker teeny-weeny shop. I expected a larger shop and way more people to be there, sitting in couples or groups, savoring every spoonful of ice-cream as it melts in their already salivating mouth. *drool*

Because of the LIMITED time we had, we were kinda in an ice-cream race as we competed among ourselves for the most scoops of ice-cream eaten. Sitting a few steps away from the counter just made everything much more easier and faster. Unfortunately, nothing could be done to speed our metabolism rate up for more ice-cream! We were in desperate NEED of empty stomachs, or at least, I was!

You can already imagine that at some point, we weren’t actually indulging ourselves with those sweet stuff, but were literally forcing them in, especially during the final call. Struggling to make our money worth that night wasn’t a good idea at all because our stomachs failed on us! Bad tummy, bad tummy. We should have taken our dinner earlier, then we would have more time for the ice-cream, no?

Anyways, the ice-cream was delicious, BEYOND delicious to be exact. They have a wide variety of flavors, comprising of Macadamia Nuts (My favorite), Mango Sorbet, Mango & Passion Fruit, Strawberry, Strawberry Cheesecake, Tiramisu, Rum Raisin, Vanilla, Chocolate Chocolate Chip, Coffee, Green Tea, Raspberry, and a few more. You can eat till you drop/puke for just RM34 people and STAY for as long as you want! That’s considered dirt cheap if you are an ice-cream fan. =)

Nice, nice, yummy, yummy ice-creamsss!

So, don’t go FFK-ing me at the last minute next time, you know who you are! As the saying goes, the more the merrier! I hope the next outing would be better!

The Second Day

I have been sleeping in a non-air-conditioned room for days now in response to Earth Hour. I believe the sacrifices I have made so far and would be making in the future would be able to help heal the world. The truth is, my beloved air-conditioner broke down and no one’s calling the repair man. So, I was stuck to using the ceiling fan and a stand fan, which are both switched on to a fan speed of 3.

This morning, I woke up to a cloudy morning. I felt like falling back to sleep but my 8 o’clock class prevented me from doing so. Which I later grudgingly get out of bed. As I walked down the street, I smelt a scent of gloominess.

Indeed. Arriving at college, the faces I encountered weren’t of any bit chirpy. Maybe it’s the upcoming finals that’s giving everyone so much pressure. I bet all ADP students would agree with me that the course assessments are inhuman. A-levels, B-Psych students always get a week or two off before finals as their study breaks.

ADP students on the other hand, not only do not have study breaks but we are often tortured with extra assignments, quizzes and presentations right before our finals. Those “obstacles” came at the right moment that it’s as though the lecturers did that on purpose to keep us preoccupied so that there wouldn’t be any time spared for us to prepare for our finals. Which means, they want us to fail our papers.

It has been hours since I started waiting. I have always told myself that waiting is a bliss in disguise. It truly is when you think of it from a different perspective. I loitered about after my class, which ended shortly before 10. Had lunch with my sister and played cards with my friends. Tinesh even founded some interesting rule for the Big2.5 game. Awesome.

It was drizzling and I hate it when it drizzles. Those annoying little rain drops just keep falling on my head! Why don’t You just pour it all down at one go? I stared at a puddle of water and watched every single rain drop as they fell. I was waiting yet again. The rain wouldn’t stop then, as though it was trying to wash my hope and faith away. But I persevered.

1 and a half hour later, my dad finally arrived.

 CONFUSED, Sean

 

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It says: “You are a sensitive individual and enjoy the closeness of a romantic relationship. Although you would prefer not to be apart, you have the sensibility and strength of will to survive a long-distance romance until the time came that you could live in the same city.” – Could You Survive A Long-Distance Love Affair?

Dear Nuffnangers

The invention of sophisticated electronic gadgets, especially the technology-wonder mobile notebook/portable desktop, and the advent of WiFi and now WiMax, have never made blogging any easier. Anybody, regardless of age, gender, race, or ethnicity, could tramp across the globe with a notebook in their hands, and they would be able to blog about anything they wish to without having much difficulty.

The availability of sites such as Blogger.com and Wordpress.com, have allowed people to simply create a blogging website within seconds. On top of that, Blogger websites have showed progressive improvement in their blogging systems that it had simplified the process of publishing posts into just a few clicks away. With blogging made efficient and easy, it’s no wonder that the number of bloggers have been increasing incessantly year after year.

Few years back, Timothy Tiah was just a student of University College London who dreamt of working in investment banks because it was supposed to be a lucrative and over-paying vocation. Now, standing before us is the co-founder of Nuffnang, which is Asia Pacific’s first blog advertising community.

After a brief but intense introduction by hosts of the event, Tiah started off by first introducing himself. I was rather shocked to find out that he was a former student of HELP. It has been 2 years Tiah gave talks to people of the business sector or in conference but never has he given talks to students. This gave us HELP students, privileges to attend his talk, which I found it amusing and mind-blowing.

Sharing his life experiences enthusiastically with us, Tiah lessen the looming intensity in the room as he cracked some jokes. Which soon, turned the stranger-like environment into a rather friendly one.

As the presentation moved on, Tiah enlightened us on the inspiration and idea behind the famously known Nuffnang. It all started with Timothy himself having a guest book online. He later embraced blogging into his life. Tiah’s first blog was shared with a friend where the both of them would blog about jokes to make each other laugh. It was the gradual increase of traffic to his blog that aided Tiah in finding out that blogs also do share similar potentials as other mass media in advertising merchandises and events.  

Tiah was in his final years of university when the idea struck him. He consulted his friend as the they both worked out the pros and cons of starting a business like that. As for the name “Nuffnang,” they didn’t really had a brain-storming session on it. Tiah wanted to call it “Pixels” at first, which was quite brilliant of him because advertisements in Malaysia were measured in pixels. However, his friend begged to differ, thought otherwise and gave Timothy 3 reasonable reasons as to why they should call it “Nuffnang” instead. The discussion culminated with Tiah giving in. So, “Nuffnang” it is.

Tiah was proud that he made a wise decision back then to put his investment in the “Nuffnang” business and not on his education for the Masters. Although he specified that the success of “Nuffnang” was only 30% effort and 70% luck, I doubted it. Being the first to step foot on the blog advertising community wasn’t any easy at all. Determination, perseverance, and hard work were very much needed than luck to put things into place, because you won’t have any reference to refer to and you would have to face an uncertain risk of failure. Of course, cooperation was also one of the factors that granted success its pathway.

I couldn’t stop feeling flabbergasted as Tiah explained to us his road to success.

Then came Q & A session. When asked whether or not it is okay to take blogging as a full-time job, Timothy Tiah warned us strictly that it would be safer to take up another job and not to rely solely on blogging as the source of income. According to Timothy, we would never know how long this trend of blogging would last. Take Frienster for example, which used to be the hottest website where teenagers like us hang out online, unfortunately, Friendster is now being replaced by Facebook and Twitter. Hence, you might be earning bucks from blogs today, but who knows, blogging craze might just die out tomorrow and that would cut you completely off your income source.

To wrap up this post, we shouldn’t blog just for the money or the traffic we would get in return. However, we should treat them as an added bonus and blog for ourselves, to express our thoughts. As that would make blogging all the more exciting and fun!

Genting Trip!

Needless to elaborate much, the two words and the OBVIOUS title above say it all – me and a bunch of college mates went to Genting Highlands indeed! However, it was about a week ago on the 15th of May. Sorry about the “procrastination” I would say, because I was waiting for all the Genting pictures to get to my hand, and it finally did today! So, here am I blogging about the Genting trip! =)

It was actually Jeremy’s idea to go to Genting after the ADP finals and he just dragged Edwin and me into organizing and planning the trip. However, Jeremy and I became inactive after awhile due to some personal reasons, leaving Edwin as the only ORGANIZER! We have to give credits to him though because he did quite a good job although not all things went on smoothly as planned. =P

Edwin had us all waiting at the Pudu Bus Station as early as 8.30 in the morning only to find out later that the RM42 package we wanted was unavailable there. Adding to our disappointment was that the next bus would only be leaving at 11. Leaving us without a choice, we went to Titiwangsa by KTM to catch the 9.30 bus.

Yes, we got the bus tickets but unfortunately, not all of us got a seat for ourselves. Squeeeeeze we had to. =) After about an hour of bus ride, arrived we did!

Off we went to Pirate Ship after getting our hands tagged. Too bad, it was temporarily closed for maintenance, making Go Kart our first FUN ride!

Yes, we were required to wear that fugly bath cap that made us all looked like some quarantined patients of swine flu! =(

My go-kart was so slow that my grandma could even walk faster than it without a walking stick. The peddle was pressed to its maximum, but the go-kart moved forward at a speed of 10km/h just as before. It was a boring and frustrating ride! Seeing others picking up speed, I couldn’t help but watched with envy.

Anyway, the guys decided to ride the Solero!

While the 3 of them had fun experiencing free fall, Chloe and I had fun riding the Ferris wheel.

Then we went for some swings to swing off all the stress!

Fun swing we had and some shouted for an Encore, I shouted for a break instead! =D That little swing made me feel a little nauseous.

While Edwin, Peter, and Jeremy had their second boring round of swing (it’s obvious that you guys are bored!), Aaroni, Calvin, Chloe, and I went for the Carousel!

Next, Cyclone – Malaysia’s first roller coaster ride! Had fun torturing Aaroni with my screams! =)

Bumper Boat – The most awesome ride in Genting! *only if you brought along a bunch of awesome friends* =) Poor Edwin had a bad time because his boat had some insy-winsy problems, which turned out not quite insy-winsy! Haha.

Me thanking the Lord for the water He granted me. My jeans and arse were all drenched in salty, stinky water! It took hours to dry.

After some awesome “bumping,” we decided to have our lunchy but there was this red London bus attracted us! Took pictures we did!

Then came Shannon, Qila, Nikko, Ern Teck, and Rushdi! Took more pictures we did!

Hoodies got famous and were joined by others! =)

Second round of go-kart after lunch! This time round, my go-kart was super awesome! Enjoyable ride indeed!

Second round of Bumper Boat and it was as awesome as the first ride!

Had a whale of time at the Bumper Boat! To the Pirate Ship!

We parted after all the screams and ecstatic shouts at Pirate Ship. All went to ride the Rolling Thunder Mine Train except for Aaroni, Calvin, Chloe, and Me. The whole thing was complicated! At first, we decided to ride RTMT but Aaroni, Calv, and Chloe stayed behind to capture some photos. They lost sight of us and decided to take another train ride *I don’t know what it’s called* instead. I went to find them! Saw them but failed to catch up with them. I ended up in a train all by myself. Called Chloe and we sat another round together. =)

Hate to say this, but it’s time for us to go back!

While waiting for the bus …

In the bus …

In the monorail …

Is there more? Sad to say, we came to the end of the day, tired but satisfied! =)

Photo Credits : Calvin, Chloe, and Jeremy!