Has not been posting for the past few days, alot of things happened too fast and too soon. It has really been stressed back few days, especially with the big envelope of UUM. My parents keep on convincing me to go study at UUM when I’ve made up my mind to go NUS. It has certainly been torturing when you have made up your mind to do something but yet people keep on pushing you to another thing. Anyway, glad that it’s over. I’m really going to NUS. Is this going to be the wise choice? I’ve no idea what the future beholds for me. I’m going to be at Singapore for 7 years and when I’m finally out of it, I’m gona be 27 years old. That’s so old…

Anyway, I got a Swatch Irony Chrono YCS461G for RM 475. Used my salary to pay for it. Too bad it wasn’t a new unit, it was the display unit with a few scratches here and there if you try to examine it under the lights. But what to do, this is the only one that I like and there are no more new units available.

YCS461G

By the way, another thing that makes me ecstatic is my blog is actually being featured on kidchan’s blog. Which is to say, kidchan actually dropped by my blog. Wow, this is really one of the wonderful things that happened to me in my lately dreadful days. Thanks for dropping by and the words of encouragement. Will work hard in order I could reach my ultimate goal.

Anyway, the weather is really killing me. Way too hot once I stepped out of my room. Tomorrow will be a busy day. Gona finish up my toastmaster CTM manual project. So, better get my butt out of the internet and start writing on my last speech to be presented tomorrow.

一路向北
词:方文山 曲:周杰伦 编曲:蔡科俊

後视镜里的世界 越来越远的道别
你转身向背 侧脸还是很美
我用眼光去追 竟听见你的泪

在车窗外面排徊 是我错失的机会
你站的方位 跟我中间隔著泪
街景一直在後退 你的崩溃在窗外零碎

我一路向北 离开有你的季节
你说你好累 已无法再爱上谁
风在山路吹 过往的画面全都是我不对
细数惭愧 我伤你几回

後视镜里的世界 越来越远的道别
你转身向背 侧脸还是很美
我用眼光去追 竟听见你的泪

在车窗外面排徊 是我错失的机会
你站的方位 跟我中间隔著泪
街景一直在後退 你的崩溃在窗外零碎

我一路向北 离开有你的季节
你说你好累 已无法再爱上谁
风在山路吹 过往的画面全都是我不对
细数惭愧 我伤你几回

我一路向北 离开有你的季节
方向盘周围 回转著我的後悔
我加速超越 却甩不掉紧紧跟随的伤悲
细数惭愧 我伤你几回
停止狼狈 就让错纯粹

after some long contemplating, finally i’ve decided NUS it is… so here I come NUS…

This is such a big decision to make. I’m really in a diverged road junction.
Remind me of The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost.

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth; 5

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same, 10

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back. 15

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. 20

Local Uni results is out.

should I be glad or should I be sad?

I got 2nd choice out of my 8 choices. Accountancy in UUM where not much of my classmate got accountacy course.

This is making me harder to decide which to go for, NUS? or UUM?

Blessing? or Curse?

Back from Tioman and took around 100 shots. The weather aint so good for the few days during my stay, I got lucky only on the first day on arrival to actually shot a Sunset. Here’s the best of all to me as the boat in it portray the loneliness and shows that nights is going to fall soon, where everything will come to a rest. Love the hue and ambience of this pics. Anyway, my friend pointed out saying that it’s abit underexposed. Will take this as a lesson and a big step in my photogrpahy skills as this is shot manually. Enjoy.

Going for a holiday to Pulau Tioman. Have to drive to KL to catch the Mersing bus at 9am. So, I will have to start my journey from Ipoh at 4.30am. Better hit the sack.

Just finished packing, so beach, sun, and sea, here I come. Gona stay for 3 long days, woo hoo… I’m ecstatic in a euphoria state…

When I’m back the local uni result will be released, so good luck all you people out there…

Happy fathers day!

We are half way there… Half way from 2005 and half way to 2006. Can’t believe half a year has passed and my accomplishment until now is still ZERO.

Anyway, I’m working on something big and it’s going to be a big turning point in my life. Hopefully it won’t end up just being empty talking. There’s a lot of planning need to be done and I want it to work according to plan.

By the way, all you anonymous bloggers out there, here’s a warning to all of you. there’s someone out there searching for the trace of some anonymous bloggers. This few words appeared quite often in my referers. so beware!

Wow, don’t you wish to get into a Uni like the Coventry University in UK which actually send you the lecture to your 3G phone and so that you don’t have to get out of bed early?

Lessons are filmed using digital cameras, edited down into 15-minute segments, then sent to students with 3G phones.

Media Production tutors Harold Fricker and Eduardo Carrillo hope to offer the service, currently being piloted, to their 200 students at no extra cost from October. They believe it could be used all over the world. Mr Fricker said: “There are always lazy students, despite most being dedicated to the course and committed to working hard.

“There are those who prefer to stay in bed for an extra five minutes and others whose minds wander in seminars. This technology provides a safety net. If they do miss some of the lecture, they can get the most important parts of it sent to them, if they have 3G technology.”

Via [Mirror.co.uk]
Wondering when will this be implemented in our country…

Calling all fellow bloggers, spread this news in your blog to help our malaysian top rally driver Keramjit Singh to defend his APRC title. Please do so if your blog has a high traffic unlike mine, hopefully there will be some big company that read about it and is willing to give him some sponsorship. The Star published in one of their article saying that Keramjit might not be able to defend his APRC title because of lack of funding.

Lack of funds have derailed Malaysian rally driver Karamjit Singh’s (pic) hopes of defending the FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship (APRC) title.

Karamjit is not competing in the Rally of Rotorua in New Zealand this weekend. Under APRC regulations, a driver has to take part in a minimum of two rallies in the Pacific and three in Asia.

Karamjit had already skipped the first two rallies of the season – Rally of Canberra in April and Rally of New Caledonia in May.

The 43-year-old driver even shipped his car to New Caledonia last month but was forced to pulled out after he could not raise enough sponsorship money.

The remaining legs of the eight-round APRC championships are in Japan (July), Malaysia (August), Indonesia (September), Thailand (October) and China (November).

A dejected Karamjit added that he could not understand why he had problem securing sponsorship despite having won the APRC overall title three times in the last four years.

“This is the first time in my career that I have to give up a title just like that. The organisers were hoping that I could defend the title. They are certainly disappointed with me,” he said.

“They knew our team had financial problems and were willing to subsidise our participation fees. But we still needed money for other things like tyres and to pay the mechanics.

“My only hope now is to get sponsors to race in the Rally of Malaysia in Johor (Aug 19-21). This is our home rally and the top drivers are coming.”

Last year, Karamjit won four of the six legs – in Australia, New Zealand, Japan and India.

Karamjit added that he was still trying to secure additional sponsorship to enable him to finish his campaign in the production car category of the World Rally Championships (WRC).

“I have taken part in three races (New Zealand, Cyprus and Turkey) and I need to complete six rounds. This is the condition stated by the organisers,” he said. “If I did not take part, I can be fined US$3,000 for each round.”

Money matters aside, Karamjit said that he was more worried about the sanctions that FIA may bring on him.

“They can suspend my licence. If I am under suspension, how am I going to earn a living?”

Karamjit and his new co-driver, John Bennie of Scotland, achieved their best finish in the WRC so far in New Zealand where they finished fifth.

Don’t Give Up Keramjit Singh…

There’s alot of people commenting or posting blog on the recent hot topics, Top scorers fail to get scholarships… I guess this is really nothing new anymore as it’s happening every year… Some even insulted the poor boy for being arrogant during the interview, well, how sure are you? I guess it’s just not right assuming that he flunked his interview with his “ohh, I own the world attitude…” I mean even if he does, he can afford to do that right? He has got the A’s to prove to everyone… More so, we don’t know what happened during the interview, how could you add salt to his wound? Anyway, I have friends who’s a school representative debater, who of course speaks well and obtained 12A1 and 1A2 out of the 13 subjects he took failed to get JPA scholarships in the year we finished SPM. Only after the appeal he got through… So, you know what happened…

There has been a sms spreading around saying that the local uni result is gona be out yesterday, and 20,ooo visitors are attracted to the emoe website just yesterday alone. I guess when the local uni results is out, there will be another news headlines saying that so and so didn’t managed to get into the uni or courses they want despite of the meritocracy system, and then so and so Minister will stand out and show that Bumis stats outnumber the others and he will say that those with 3 syllables name doesn’t performed as well as Bumis and he will say “they should be satisfy with the increased number in the intake of Chinese into local unis”, and that they should keep quiet instead of being ungrateful. This same scenario will be happening years after years… Sometimes I really find that Malaysian education hibllarious. I mean, according to the dictionary, we clearly know that Meritocracy is “A system in which advancement is based on individual ability or achievement”. If it includes quota for different races, is it still meritocracy? No, it isnt as it’s no longer based on individuality ability or achievement anymore. I was being accepted to NUS the top university of Singapore but I don’t even dare to put UM as one of my choices when I fill my form. Anyway, I guess I can’t say so as I’m not having the perfect result.

Anyway, I’m not writing another post on racism, but I’m writing for those local uni’s or local gov website. I really wonder what does the webmaster does everyday… I mean you can just simply go into one of those site, and you will see their design… I’m sure everyone won’t forget JPJ’s flash intro, and tons more. Most of those website especially those local uni website is so Frontpage generated design. I really wonder whether they are still using the Frontpage as their html editor or not. Can’t they just make it webstandard or html valid? ok, that might be too high demand but at least they should make it more interesting, don’t you agree? Like, maybe get a better camera to capture some professional looking photos and edit them properly using Photoshop instead of resizing without even bothering about the photos are distorted with big heads and long body. Some are even blurred because of zoom in resizing of VGA sized photos maybe?

Their feedback and enquire systems are worst either. When I wrote to UM, enquiring their confusing qualifications requirement as quoted,

Ketua Penolong Pendaftar,
Seksyen Kemasukan dan Rekod,

Dear Sir/ Madam,

I’m writing regarding some enquiries in the undergraduate programme
MC01 - Sarjana Muda Teknologi Maklumat. Below is the requirement as
displayed either in the http://www.emoe.gov.my
or
http://202.185.111.137/SKR/UnderG/stpm_tekno_maklumat.htm

1. Lulus dengan sekurang-kurangnya Kepujian dalam salah satu mata
pelajaran berikut di peringkat SPM/setaraf;

• Matematik
• Matematik Tambahan

dan
2. Lulus dengan sekurang-kurangnya Gred C+ (NGMP 2.33) dalam mata
pelajaran Matematik T/Matematik Lanjutan T/Fizik

dan

Gred C+ (NGMP 2.33) dalam salah satu (1) mata pelajaran berikut:

• Matematik T
• Matematik Lanjutan T
• Fizik
• Biologi
• Kimia
• Ekonomi
• Perakaunan
• Perkomputeran
• Pengajian Perniagaan

refering to the 2nd requirement which is Passing at least with a C+
Grade (NGMP 2.33) in the Mathematik T/Matematik Lanjutan/Fizik which
means to say only Science stream students can apply to this courses as
Arts stream students can only take the Matematik S subject.

but looking at the 3rd requirement which is at least a C+ grade in
either one of the following subjects, Arts stream subjects such as
Perakaunan, Ekonomi, Pengajian Perniagaan which only the Arts stream
students can take are listed as well.

So, if I am an Arts stream students interested in pursuing this
programme, it would be impossible for me to fullfill the 2nd
requirement listed.

Hopefully there will be a solution to my confusion as the application
to the IPTA is going to start soon. Thank you in advance for reading
this email and a reply from you as soon as possible is much
appreciated.

Thank you,

Yours sincerely,
Me

And here’s their reply,

This course is open to science students only

Yup, you didn’t read wrongly, that’s all he replied me. Imagine me writing such a long mail and my expectation upon their reply, it’s definitely disappointing. Not even a salutation, not even a thank you or signatories… What sort of formality of replying is this?

Unlike NUS, here’s one of their reply when I enquired them on the delay of my matric application postage. anyway, I couldn’t post the whole email here as I’m not allowed to disclose that email for another purpose, so here’s the format of their reply. btw, before they replied my email, right after the received my enquiries, they send an automated mail to me with the following content…

Dear Enquirer,

Thank you for your email enquiry. We will reply to you soon.

Meanwhile, we strongly recommend that you visit our websites which
provide useful information on admission to the university. These are

http://nus.edu.sg/admissions/undergrad for information on our
undergraduate courses, admission requirements, tuition fees, financial
assistance and other admissions-related matters.

http://nus.edu.sg/oam/publish/brochure.htm to download our undergraduate
brochure.

http://nus.edu.sg/registrar/nusbulletin.html, the online version of the
NUS Bulletin, for detailed information on our undergraduate courses.

From December 6th - 9th and 14th, come to NUS for our series of Faculty
talks. These talks will explain more about your desired
course of study. Please visit our web site at
http://www.nus.edu.sg/admissions/undergrad for the schedule.

Our friendly NUS “tour guides” will also be on hand to take you on a
tour of our campus on December 9th afternoon.
Sign-up for the tour and stay for a night on December 9th in our very
own Prince George’s Park Residences, to get a taste of campus living.
Please visit our web site at http://oam.nus.edu.sg/tour/ to register.


With best wishes,

Office of Admissions, NUS

This is an auto reply. Please do not reply to this email.

And here’s the reply

Dear Me,

Thank you for your interest in the National University of Singapore.

Kindly note that ….

*More Content*

We hope this information is useful to you. If you require further
assistance, feel free to write back to us. For ease of correspondence,
please reply to us using the history feature which will reflect our
previous correspondences.

Thank you and have a good day.

Regards,

(Name of Person In Charged)
NUS Office of Admissions
http://www.nus.edu.sg/oam

You do the comparison yourself, I’m sure you will know why we failed to be in the top of the Best Uni in the world if compared to others. Don’t give silly excuse such as “We didn’t make it to the top because our work is mostly done in Malay, they didn’t evaluate those work published as they are in Malay”… Just look back at the way you build the website that represent you for the world to see and your reply to your enquirer. Shame on you…