How To Train Your Dragon. Yet another great movie by Dreamworks. The dragon "Toothless' really is a cool and cute dragon. I think mostly of the people in the cinema (including me) easily felt in love with it.
A funny movie filled with action, cute dragon and some sweet moments too. And a little heart breaking moments too if I may add. The animation were brilliant and so were the voices/sounds. Definitely a right package for a good movie. The 3D is a bonus even though the 3D effects weren't as beautiful as Avatar.
I was quite surprise that the lecturer came almost on time - just about 2 minutes late only.
And she wasn't happy that some students came late.
Hmmm a punctual, on time lecturer that doesn't like us to be late. She is probably the most serious out of the 3 lecturers too. Not many jokes were said to lighten the mood. She do seem friendly though.
She went through with us about the topics that we were going to learn. I thought that we were saved from another introducing ourselves section. Too bad the slide on the screen read "ICE BREAKERS" after she was done with the brief intro to the subject.
Name, hobby, ambition, school name. Sounds quite simple right? It would be if there wasn't a complication - she banned many hobbies. Watching tv, playing computer games, talking, eating, sleeping and the common hobbies were banned by her, including listening to music, which is my hobby. What la...
And I was the first person to be called. And that leaves me no time to think of a new 'uncommon' hobby.
I stammered when it came to my hobby question. Until a heard a voice beside me giving me an idea.
"Reading story books... and novels."
Phew...
When everyone was done, the lecturer asked for my name again. "The guy in front of xxxxx. What's your name?" "Paul." "You came early today right? I mean before the class started?" "Yea." "Ok you are class rep." Class Representative?? Like a class monitor? Oh no... not good... "Ok."
So I had to wait outside the Academic Staff Room for her a few minutes before the each of her class starts to lend a hand in carrying her things. Not too bad I guess as this might last for only 2 more classes.
Helped her carried her things and laptop to the staff room when the class ended, earlier than expected.
I drove to college today with my mum beside and friend behind as there were less cars during this timing (around 9 something).
1st class today was Study Skills. The lecturer was bubbly and cheerful. But today's class wasn't an introduction to the subject that were going to learn (like yesterday), it was more like asking us to introduce ourselves.
She asked us to say 3 fact about ourselves - except 1 of them have to be a lie, and the rest of us will have to guess which one is the lie.
And the worse part is... we have to do it 1 by 1... in front of the class of 28 people.
Sure sure... I probably could have lots of facts that are unexpected and not many people would guess it. But revealing secrets now doesn't seem like a good idea.
So I thought of a few that I can reveal.
I was the second last person to be called to go out (not sure if that is a good or bad thing).
"Firstly, I can play drum. Secondly, I can solve a Rubik's Cube. And thirdly, I can move my ears."
But they managed to guess correctly as most of them guess the first and second choice.
Played another game where we have to say out our name 3 times while simultaneously doing an action... and everyone has to follow it... and keep repeating everyone's action. Aiyo... really zzz... like kiddy game only. We did so many times the action, I wouldn't be surprise if this is as good as an exercise as a 30 minute jog.
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Lunch at Pizza hut together with another new friend too. Total RM10 per person. Hopefully there are other places around that has nice and cheap food. :D
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Intermediate English started at 2.00pm. Just like the previous 2 classes, the lecturer came in about 10 minutes late. But although this lecturer was quite funny, he can be quite strict at the proper time too. Reminds me of my Form 2 English teacher...
What to expect? Introduction again. Haiz. We had to say about 3 things - our name, least favourite movie and the qualities that we looking for in our future spouse. Ok...
Had another ice breaker after that too.
Well these ice breakers and introduction are kinda fun... and boring too at the same time.
So I can't decide if I rather start on the studies or have these introduction.
The alarm went off as I tried with great effort to wake up. For the first time in months, I felt that feeling of going back to school once again. 6.20am I peek at the watch before lazing around the bed for a few more minutes.
Me and my friend reached around 7.50am. Good thing we are on time. I don't want to be late - especially for the first class.
Walking down the long corridor would probably burn some calories.
Found the room, sat down waited...
It was quiet... too quiet...
Had to speak in whispers.
The lecturer came in at about 8.10am. He will be teaching us for 3 weeks only on Finite Mathematics. He is actually quite nice - the kind of lecturer that I would prefer.
As he explained to us, I heard movement of the other students and saw most of them taking out their pen and note books to copy down any important details. I quickly imitated them.
Finite Maths - harder than Add Maths but easier than STPM level - that's what he said. He gave a quick summary on each topic that we would learn. Mostly its topics that we learned before in Add Maths/Maths... just harder and more complicated. I tried to recall back the things I learned before. I hope nobody finds out my SPM results on Maths and Add Maths - it might give me more pressure to do well in this subject.
After explaining all 12 topics (which we have to learn in 14 weeks only! omg!) he gave us... homework... 20 questions starting from very easy to hard. Haiz. My brain have to work to solving Maths questions already - not that its a bad thing...
"Ok, class dismiss." I was nonplussed by the lecturer's announcement. I glanced at my watch... 8.55am... but I thought the class was from 8-10am...
"Huh? Finished already? Really?"
The other 20 odd students were packing up. So I guess it really means that we are free to go home now.
Kind of hard to believe. A supposedly 2 hours class shorten about 50 mins. Lol. Nice XD
Good start ^^ Nice lecturer, interesting subject (well for me it is), and not too long class. Haha.
Orientation day in Help. The same kinda scary feeling swept me as soon as I entered the college main doors - just like last week when I registered. We (me and 3 other friends) ticked our names before entering the theatre to wait for the lectures to begin.
10.00am - The lectures started. Blah blah blah. It was quite boring stuff to me and I struggled to focus and I struggled to keep my eyes open.
11.45am - They took us for a short tour around the college.
12pm - Lunch break.
1pm - We were late to reached back to the theatre and the lectures started already (and I really didn't mind much). Felt bored again. At least some lectures were a bit interesting and funny.
3.45pm - Finally its time to choose our timetable for the classes. We had to pick the classes using their computer and their computer is just... cacat. Had to click the mouse many times before it could be clicked. The 1st pc that I used hang at loading so I had to use a different pc. Zzz. We took pictures for our student cards and collected them afterwards. Damn my picture sucks big time. But we had a good laugh at all our "special" photos on our student cards XD
For 3 weeks starting from this week, my classes will be on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.
Not too bad right?
Until the 4th week onwards...
Our classes will be on every weekday... almost the whole day on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays... haiz... might have to wake up at 6 something in the morning like school days again?
Hope it would be fun though...
Hope everything will be alright...
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Starting at Help college tomorrow. Orientation will be held tomorrow.
And the stupid, horrible nervous feeling started washing all over me... again...
Seeing the number of times that I got nervous, I wondered why I wasn't used to it yet...
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On a lighter note...
I got my best friend back. So it wasn't a whole disaster. It wasn't a regret after all.
I see your face in my mind as I drive away 'Cause none of us thought it was gonna end that way People are people and sometimes we change our minds But it's killing me to see you go after all this time
Music starts playin' like the end of a sad movie It's the kinda ending you don't really wanna see 'Cause it's tragedy and it'll only bring you down Now I don't know what to be without you around
And we know it's never simple, never easy Never a clean break, no one here to save me You're the only thing I know like the back of my hand
And I can't breathe Without you, but I have to Breathe Without you, but I have to
Never wanted this, never want to see you hurt Every little bump in the road I tried to swerve People are people and sometimes it doesn't work out Nothing we say is gonna save us from the fall out
And we know it's never simple, never easy Never a clean break, no one here to save me You're the only thing I know like the back of my hand
And I can't breathe Without you, but I have to Breathe Without you, but I have to
It's two a.m., feelin' like I just lost a friend Hope you know it's not easy, easy for me It's two a.m., feelin' like I just lost a friend Hope you know this ain't easy, easy for me
And we know it's never simple, never easy Never a clean break, no one here to save me, oh
I can't breathe Without you, but I have to Breathe Without you, but I have to Breathe Without you, but I have to
I had been trying to focus on not panicking. Well, all was going well until this morning. Apparently my heart didn't want to agree with my brain.
I decided to take my results last (for reasons that I'm not sure). Maybe because I needed more time to prepare myself to face my results. I was really worried that my History will Galus... worried if I have done good enough for my Chemistry paper... BK... omg... the only person in school to take it... will I be the only person to fail it too?
With a deep breathe - or maybe I was holding my breath, I couldn't be sure, I stepped forward as no more classmates could delay me from taking my results.
"Ah, Paul."
The certificates were handed over first before finally, the teacher held my my result slip to look at it for a while. I saw someone going behind him to peep at my slip. Grrr.
The teacher handed over the slip faced down. Some people started crowding around me and I knew as I could not avoid them - they would probably keep asking about my results anyway if I didn't show them.
So I turned over the slip without much hesitation. My eyes immediately focus to my History result first before scanning down the list to see if there is any 'G'. None. So far so good. I could breathe easier a bit then. My eyes move more slowly as my brain tried its best to process all the results into the memory storage. I guess it wasn't really working at its normal rate yet as I forgot most of my results as my friend stole my slip from from me.
"Wait. Can let me see again? I haven't see finish. I need to see properly."
I counted the As this time as I went through it. Hey not bad! My brain started functioning well again and my breathing eased.
It was much better than I thought. To be honest, it was unexpected. I was surprise with a few of my results. There were better than I expected. I looked at the 'A+' words again as though they were shinning in gold.
Grinning to myself, I took my handphone out to make two calls...
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Pizza hut, followed by karaoke for most of my classmates but a handful didn't want (including me) so we went to the CC followed by arcade. Ended the day with bowling.
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Thanks to all that helped me out, my friends for studying with me and helping me out. Thanks to my family and teachers.
Thanks to my tuition teacher that helped me out so much. I managed to get A+ on my Maths and Add Maths is mostly thanks to her. :D
Thanks to all the wished that I received.
Thanks to anyone else that I forgot to thank.
And finally,
special thanks to you who helped me out with almost all subjects ^^ You actually helped me learn topics that I haven't learn before from teachers. Thanks for the free tuition XD I really appreciate it. You played a big role in helping me get these results.
The path was chosen. I was not going to give up. I wanted to fight to the end. No matter what the consequences are.
It was a hard choice to make. But I've already made the choice. In the end, I had reached that final 'battle'. I won the first part. I did what I could. Now... the final result does not lie in my hands... In wasn't just my 'battle'... I had done my part... Now, its your turn...
Nobody said it was easy
I'm sorry. I know its a really horrible timing.
I apologize if I had hurt you.
So take your time...
As long as you are happy, I will be too...
Love is irrational, I reminded myself. The more you loved someone, the less sense anything made.
I was always happy to be around you. And nothing will ever change that. I enjoy every moment with you. So please don't let anything worsen our friendship.
As many times as I blink, I'll think of you tonight...
Time Square again. Wanted to see Alice in Wonderland 3D at first. But the plans had to be changed...
"Welcome to GSC. How may I help you sir?" "Alice in Wonderland." "Sorry, that movie is fully booked for 2 days."
-.- Omg...
So went to see Solomon Kane instead. Haha. Another 18 and above movie for me. WARNING SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!
This movie was without a doubt scarier, more violent and more interesting than Book of Eli. The story is alright. And this main character is cool too. This movie is abit related to Christianity too as the main character was nailed to a cross(like Jesus). SPOILERS END....................
Overall, its was ok. 7/10
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There was something new at Times Square. Ice Age near Cosmos World. It was quite interesting. The Dinosaurs and prehistoric anaimals inside were made quite real. The sound effects and the way they made the place was great too. Might be a bit scary to some people though ;) But RM12 might be a little to pricey for that short entertainment.
There were some events outside TS including some free LAN games being played. Too bad there was no DotA or I might be tempted to join XD
The path was straight forward. Simple without any challenge. Even bad luck would probably drive you easily to success...
That is so not my case...
It feels like a very difficult level to complete. There were plenty of tough obstacles to pass, many conflicts and problems that can cause you to lose your mind... The 'reward' to completing it is very good. It is much more than worth the time and effort to going through the difficulties. This is the only thing that will drive you further to weather the hurricanes. But it isn't easy to achieve success. In fact, the chances of succeeding is quite low... very low...
Besides that, there is a downside even if you managed to complete it. Lost, depression, sadness, anger and wild emotion is just a few examples of the negative outcomes.
There is an alternative route though. A path leading away from all these challenges. A 'quit' button... It is the way to quit and leave without any harm or any damages done. In the midst of hardship, the alternative path stands out clearly and tempting - a light could have shine down on it to give in an extra effect. Surely giving up now wasn't bad at all. Surely it is better than risking to cause so much damaged.
The 'reward' glint far ahead of you. The thought of losing all hope always seem to disappear when you think of the 'reward'...
So close yet so far...
The path straight is not a piece of cake. Hope of succeeding in the end is fading away in the clouds. The thought of the damaged done brings you another shudder.
The 'give up' path lies just beside you... warm and comfortable, leading away from all the complications...
The rain fell from the sky as if a giant was pouring buckets and buckets of water down... Strong winds were howling, trying their best to uproot the trees... Lightning were flashing like mad, as if aiming to zap a target... Thunders were blasting like explosions going off...
It was around 6pm. I was still in the office and my mum had to drive to pick me up from the office when I finished work. Rain is nothing. Its the lightning which is dangerous. I dashed upstairs quickly as another lightning flash beside me... or it felt like it was beside me.
Home sweet home...
Not quite...
At around 7.30pm, 'pop' goes all the lights and electricity. Blackout... Damn it! I hate blackouts! Especially during the late evenings to early nights, when its too early to sleep and its too dark to do anything...
Fortunately I almost finished my dinner so I swallowed the last few food.
What to do... nothing to do expect listen songs. Even my phone was drained down to its last 10% battery.
...
Waited until 11.30pm but still no luck. Haiz. Have to try and sleep in the 'microwave'.
28/2/10 Went to time square today with my friends. We watched an 18 and above movie too. Haha.
This movie is a bit related to Christianity. Its quite meaningful and a bit touching. But besides that, its so boring! Too little action. And the action is too fake. But they did make the main character quite cool though.
Oh bought a super belated present for Ming too. Better late than never right?
p/s If you don't want it, we can take back our present anytime XD
