Weekends

23rd Feb 2007 (Fri)

Many things happened. I'll briefly blog about them.

We went to the museum. It was my second visit but there are still much to explore. The museum is simply unique.

24th Feb 2007 (Sat)

Had CNY lunch. Food was good. Certainly worth my 5 bucks =D


Later in the evening, there was a carnival in front of unilodge which saw many interesting things such as these two freaky creatures..

and these 'jaws'. They went around looking for people and sang for them. Gosh, they sang really well. Such nice harmonisation.

Balloons were distributed as well. I see no point of taking the balloons but they did make these three gals happy. Good job, balloons! L-R: Wei Ling(Penang), June Chen (Singapore), Mellisa (KL)

25th Feb 2007 (Sun)

I crashed over in Asma Hadi's place last night which means that I slept outside Ursula for the first time since I arrived. I was helping Zarifah reformatting her laptop and it was too late to walk back. Hadi, if you're reading this, I wanna thank you so much for letting me sleep on the bed while you, on the couch. Very courteous of you.

On my way back to Ursula in the morning, I wondered what happened to these trolis.

Later in the morning, Malaysian students had a session with The High Commissioner, His Excellency Dato' Salim Hashim. Hope I got his name right. An open-minded man with good sense of humour. That's what he is and I respect him for that.

He gave a speech and managed to keep me awake all the way. Amazing. Of course he did that by inserting jokes. And for the first time after the countless months, I sang Negaraku together with the rest before the session. Felt a sense of nationality while singing it.

Dato' Salim (Left) and Abang Radzi (Lecturer who is also in charge of looking after scholars)

We were given nasi lemak for lunch. It was nice especially for me who hasn't tasted it for so long. But the sad case was the absence of chicken rendang. They provided fried chicken instead. Tapau from Kingsley(KFC-like fast food) one somemore.

The next interesting highlight was the first MSO (Malaysian Student Organisation) meeting. We had ice-breaking games which was a bit chaotic during the initial period (because of the massive number of people). But overall, it was fun. I even got a chance to sing Da Cheng Xiao Ai. Unbelievable...Sze Huey and Afiq initiated the whole process by going, "Shin Yau, Shin Yau" when the emcee asked, "Who else can sing?" Gosh, my hands were trembling during that moment. My fear of standing in public is still so overwhelming.

Upon finishing the games, the students nominated and voted for the First Year Rep and..erm they chose me. Flattered(because of the vast majority) and worried(because I don't know what I've got myself into) at the same time.

Oh, meet Barney Ong. He's Amanda Albert's cousin. Small world isn't it? He's a perfect example of a happy go lucky type of person and is extremely fun to hang out with.

The majority of the MSO committees. Besides me, the rest are second years.

It's always nice of have in informal picture =p haha..like this one.

Thanks for reading. Catch you all in the next entry.