Sunday, August 28, 2005
Pencils and Deutsch!

Today was great, although I STILL have tons of work to do.

Atikk and Baba came over to have German tuition with my sister! It was so much fun, and at least we all learnt something. Yeyy.

My sister was in a foul mood this morning after madrasah because some asshat took her $3 pencil. No seriously, if I paid THAT much for a pencil, I'd be upset and pissed too. Worse, it happened at MADRASAH. Where people were supposed to be nice and compassionate and whatnots. Mana belas ehsan??

I was so pissed on behalf of my sister also! Read more about it on her blog! Goto Links and click sis, duh. Or you lazy poks can click here.

Seriously, the guy must be as good as David Blaine, because one moment the pencil was there, and the other, it was gone. POOF. Plus he managed to commit this horrid act of theft without me noticing. How cunning!

Well I hope you get herpes and kaposis' sacorma, whoever who took it. Because I was hoping that you'd actually return the pencil to my sister after class. You asshat. Its not about the pencil, its about honesty. Plus I did make it obvious that I was reaching for it, but my arm was too short.

Bad luck will be yours until you return the pencil. Why would he want my sister's pencil anyways? Gosh, some people are seriously desperate.

I wish I knew voodoo. Eh, but first I must know who took the pencil right?

Damn.

Saturday, August 27, 2005
Wishes and Hopes.

I've been busy with the Open Mic Night.. Make that super busy. I spent this morning at the Science Library trying to study. I ended up using up all the 3 hours pouring over my Math Tutorial --Logic, something that I'm almost convinced I don't have.

Haha.

The lecturer rocks. He really captures your attention, so MA1100 is a great module, but requires time for you to absorb. Logic Logic Logic.

I met Justin and Choon Han today!! AHHHHH. I MISS THE SA PEOPLE. I SWEAR. I MISS MY CLASSMATES I MISS EVERYONE. It fealt really great to catch up and whatnots.

Its so weird that we are all in the same school but don't get to see each other. Well, Aik Hoe and me are in the same Fac but I haven't seen him since school started. That explains.

I just hope S14 will meet up soon, because I'm getting withdrawal symptoms. I miss the aura of intelligence that emanates from Marcus the smarty panty genius boy. I miss my two Pikaball warriors. We used to play Pikaball every waking hour in class. How childish, but we actually had a mini tournament, where I was crowned Queen of Pikaball, so don't play play. Anyone wanna play Pikaball please tell me.

In the meanwhile, I have Open Mic to work on. I'm just happy that publicity emails are already out, and the team is working just fine. Plus I am comforted by the fact that should anything go wrong (choyyyy) we have the seniors to fall back upon. I am actually touched that they care so much about us. Bahhh. What's wrong with me?! Why am I getting so emo.

I was so touched by my group mates that I seriously felt like crying. Haha. They were all so helpful and co-operative. Ahhhh. I love them all lahhhh.

After the first week of proper timetable, school's looking up. Lab was great, tutorials are great. Got to know a few more people, got closer to some others. I'm really happy now. Only drag-- MA1102R Calculus module. Oh God, whoever in the right mind would take such a #$%#@^ module. Oh wait -- I guess that would be me. And Ain. And Gamar.

Lectures are so bad that Gamar has taken to ponning lectures proper. I still try to pay attention, I refuse to pon because I am known for my meticulous record of not ponning lectures in my 2 years of JC. I tainted the record by ponning one chem and German lect. Argh. Won't happen again. Promise.

Hello. I'm the nerd here. So its apt that I behave in a nerdy manner. I love being a nerd la, period. Nerds rock.

Ain has taken to sleeping in Calculus Lectures. Either that or she'll be planning what to wear everyday for the next ten years. Or she'll check out guys. And list them out -- top ten. I have the privilege of knowing the codenames. (sometimes even deciding them) But heck. This module really sucks.

Since the food at Science really sucks, I am constantly roaming NUS for good food. SA has the best Malay stall in the whole wide world, I swear. Saints would agree. Anyways, not important, I was checking out the Arts canteen because I had Deutsch tutorial at Arts. And I bumped into Amin.

I have been wondering if its him or not. Whether to wave and smile or not. Because if its not him, I'll shrivel up like a raisin, in shame. Haha. How dramatic. So this time, he smiled and wave first, so I guessed that kinda confirmed it was him. Haha. Oh, Amin is a distant relative of mine. His mum and me have the same grandmother. The same one that passed away last October. Sigh. Well at least I can stop feeling bad already, for not acknowledging him.

Okay, for jiwang's sake.

lydia halim irwan suff zat raph hody hunkkk edward justin marcus linda stace seek moots suran i really miss all of you to bits. I haven't forgotten any of you --how could I? Please meet up soon or a blackhole will form in my heart, sucking me deep into the abyss and I'll cease to exist, thus cannot go for Open Mic and I can't get my degree and it will all be like really sad. So, with the exception of miss australia chua nur lydia, please meet up with me soon.

Ahh. busy busy. I am not used to this vigour yet. Study and planning. InsyaAllah. I seek His help always, for it is only Him that can help me. I plan, He makes it happen.

InsyaAllah, Amin.

Wednesday, August 24, 2005
The most devastating thing in the world.

And it happened today. I took my Traffic Police Driving test today. And although I had tons of work to do, I just feel like I have to blog this out.

Okay, when people u know take the test, they fail because of several reasons:

you: wah, why you failed?

testee 1: Oh, I hit a pole, twice.
testee 2: Oh, I mounted a curb.
testee 3: Oh, I didn't stop at the stop line.
testee 4: Oh, I didnt check safety.

Sounds reasonable right? Well for me,

the response would go along the lines of..

Me: Oh, I drove too slowly.

LIKE WTF. I swear the examiner was trying to find fault with me, the poor private student. Because I noticed the "Delay in moving off" was fully ticked. I questioned him, I asked why he ticked it. He said "Oh, you drive very slow"

HELLO UNCLE, IS YOUR ENGLISH THAT BAD?

Delay in moving off means, when the traffic-freaking-light turns GREEN, you wait for 5-6 seconds or even longer before you actually foot your accelerator.

I don't think "drive very slow" is a good arguement to substantiate that.

So I said (in a cool and composed manner), "Hey, thats not what it means. Wah, like this you're just trying to find fault with me.."

He just freaking walked away.

ARGH I'M SO ANGRY! I know if I say that one more time a certain someone (or people) will bite me. I've been saying that the whole day.

I feel so sad at the same time because I had a perfect circuit. I had perfect safety checks, something which I usually forget. OH GOSH I AM SO PISSED.

Okay I am really sorry for this rant. But many thanks to the people around me who helped contain my frustrations. Even better, to actually accompany me for lunch. And calm me down and tell me that its okay. Love you guys.

Okay enough said. My circuit was perfect and thats that. Cheh action seh. Padahal, padahal. License haven't get. wth. Haha. Well that's really sane of you, amy, to contradict yourself.

Tomorrow's LAB DAY YEY YEY YEY. For a start we'll be wearing really cool lab coats. I so look like Einstein's wife. But that also means more things to bring, etc etc. Means I will have to bring my bongggg. Yeyy! Bonggg will get to see NUS! (It has seen SA inside out)

Okay lah. Enough of bad days. I look on the bright side. Maybe if I had passed today, and I were to drive, probably I would have gotten into an accident or something along those lines. So, redha Amylia, redha.

Just please, God, let me pass in November.

Amin.

Friday, August 19, 2005
Hit

I have been so busy with school that I have absolutely no life. By the time I reach home and fiddle around with my lappy, its already close to midnight.

I take back all my words -- saying I wanna start school and study and whatnot. Its so texing.

It so doesn't help that I have a Math Lecturer that I don't understand. He teaches Calculus, something that I am reasonably good at. I find it so sad that no matter how hard I try to concentrate, I just can't understand him. Because the way he explains makes me feel stupid. HE slurs every other sentence, making everything sound so easy.

I am suffering. Haha.

Ahh. PB has kicked into action. I was made Project Director for the Open Mic Night event that's happening in about 2 weeks time. That's a huge responsibility. InsyaAllah we will make it a success. Amin.

Now I have to work on the concept paper which is to be done in Malay. AHHHH HELP ME!!! How do you expect me to do something in Malay when I was the one who thought bangga=happy!!!! I found out the real meaning only in JC1

Haha.

Cacat, cacat.

Nevermind. Its worth a try. But I think I have to type in a footnote, apologising to the reader for having to tolerate my nonsensical malay.

Deutsch is fun! My younger sister is my German tutor. And she rocks at it since she's been taking German as her Third Lang since sec1. German lessons are the funnest. Because it is such a relaxed class, I dont feel that much stressed.

Atikk and Baba are going to have German lessons with my Sec 2 sister. HAHA. Luckily she's MY sister.

Alright. Back to work for me.

Tchius!

Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Bah.

After a long 8 month hiatus, I am finally back in the act.

My gears have been engaged.



Feels so good to be studying again. Stress is beckoning, though.

I was at the Seni PB meeting yesterday. I am actually impressed at how the JK has a plan for the whole of this Academic Year! Activities are nicely spread out and this means we are going to be busy busy! I got myself involved in 3 activities, almost joined Taridra, but hello Amylia, you're lost in Calculus lecture, remember?

Argh. I can't believe this. Me. Not understanding MATHS! When it IS supposed to be MY passion. I am going to put the blame 100% on the lecturer. Haha. How convienient. No, but seriously! Ain slept (and had a dream), Stace slept, I almost dozed off. When I NEVER sleep in Maths lecture!!

Whatever lah. I'm just pretty excited about all the upcoming events. Yeyy!

Okay la. Back to the nerdy-werdy stuff.

Like they said yesterday, you'll be surprised at how much you can stretch yourself.

Saturday, August 13, 2005
I survived!

Yessssss! I survived the FIRST week of freshmenship -- whatever that means.

It feels so good to have the weekends, but the drill is the same. Homework calls. Plus Mr Wong DID say that in order to do well for university, I have to work as hard as I did in JC. Which means, I, Amylia Bte Abdul Ghani will have to be a mugger toad once again.

Woohoo.

I miss my class. We used to stay back and study together in the school cafe, forming a muggers' society, which I was a president of. Haha. I am such a NERD.

Uni life is so different. In a bad and good way. Well, for starters, the lectures don't give two hoots about us. They don't care if we have printed our notes, or attend lectures, or are attentive during lectures. They just ramble on and on. That is so sad, don't you think?!

Haha. So much for behaving like an adult.

The notes are so un-detailed, if there's such a word. Most of the time I have to do my own readings to find out more. That's something I really must get used to. The library will be my playground soon. I AM SUCH A FREAKING NERD!

The good, is we meet new people and the seniors are really nice. I mean it IS comforting to know that there are people who survived particular modules, and did well for it. And seniors are always there to tell you about what they went through. So I guess it compensates the bad. Haha.

Oh well.

Time to study!

Thursday, August 11, 2005
Sad. Whatever.

I feel so sad by the things I see.

I feel so sad by the things I know.

Even though I know I shouldn't have seen it,

I can't help but stop.

Stare.

Ponder.

The tightness in the pit of my stomach.

You will haunt me forever.

Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Homework and mosaic 05!

Can you freaking believe it?!

I have homework.

And the questions, are pretty ridiculous, if you ask me.

"Why are there 89 elements and 14 radioactive ones?"

HUH?! Like that call question ah? Haha. I am prying open every single inch of cyberspace. Its crazy. Anyways, I refuse to blog about boring stuff like homework.

INSTEAD!

I SHALL BLOG ABOUT MY ten seconds or so of STARDOM!

Okay, please pardon me. But seriously I felt soooooooooooo honoured to have a smidgen (haha ayam ain jatuh) of my blog in the Freshmen Orientation Video! And they quoted ME! Of all the magnificent writers in the world, why must they pick me?!

Okay to be fair, they picked a few. Atikk was one of them. The video was aired during the NUSMS Welcome tea, mosaic 2005.

Ya all of you must be throwing peanuts at your screen and whatnots, thinking to yourself "Aiya such a small thing also make into such a big deal. Only some school video what, not newspaper or something.."

Haha, sorry lah. I just feel really honoured.

But Damn, I should have copyrighted the blog man. Then they would have to pay royalty to me!! Then everytime they burn the CD, must pay more royalty! Not much la, 5 bucks per copy will do. HAHA. I'm just kidding, of course. Relax la.

But oh man. I AM really honoured. Many thanks to the person who picked my blog and quoted me, out of the many.

Haha. But still, damn, royalty. I would have made Donald Trump jealous by now. Haha. I'm kidding.

Okay cheerio, I got homework to do. Someone who has the answer to the question, please enlighten me. Its driving me crazy.

Monday, August 08, 2005
Not quite a great start to school

Maybe its my rusty brain, or my frozen engine, with a broken accelerator and my foot jammed hard on the brakes. My body is not ready for school. Neither is my mind. I got up on the wrong side of the clock, thinking that lectures start at 9am, when it was printed clearly on my timetable that lecture was at 8am.

Lucky I had my Science friends sms me in the morning to confirm the time. Plus, I had the venue printed wrongly on my timetable as well. I know! How screwed up is that?!

But I wasn't late, since I live like 20mins away from NUS.

Luckily.

Lectures were B-O-R-I-N-G, or maybe my system isn't up and running just as yet. Instead of listening to the lecturer, I was busy taking notice of the behavior of the people around me. I always do that in a new environment. To see how things function and stuff. This mostly happened in the Calculus Lecture, which, the lecturer had an accent which was a cross between chinese and japanese. He was hard to understand.

So anyways. It was highly amusing to take notice of the way people around me behave.

1) the cool latecomer
This is the kind of guy/girl who comes in fashionably late, walks across the FRONT of the LT, says "hey!" to the lecturer and take his/her seat.

2) the eater
The kind who comes into lecture as if its a mini picnic. Usually fully equipped with coffee and snacks enough to open a second co-op

3) the chatter
Comes into lecture and starts chatting with everyone. Loudly.

4) the friend attention grabber (me)
Waves like mad to a friend on the other side of the LT to grab her attention.

5) the attentives
Usually PRC scholars or just scholars (( no offence la okay )), seated comfortably in the first 3 rows of the LT. Eyes on screen 100% of the time.

6) the wannabe attentives (me)
Eyes on screen for the first 45mins, after that, eyes begin to close or wander around to look at other people. Then eyes look down all the time, busy messaging other people.

7) the furious copier
Eyes on screen 100% of the time, hand copying away vigorously.

8) the wannabe furious copier
Hand moving, but upon closer inspection, he/she's either doodling, writing song lyrics or planning what to wear for the rest of the week.

9) the kiasu laptop boy/girl
Seated, listening to lecture, with an opened laptop; wallpaper of a scene outside his flat or something. Duly connected to IVLE or CORS ready to bid for tutorials or download lecture notes simultaneously as the lecturer is talking.

10) the wannabe kiasu laptop boy/girl
Seated with an opened laptop. But chatting to someone else on MSN.

11) the construction worker
Always sleeping. Poor thing, late night at the construction site huh.

12) the cute-people watcher
Eyes wandering around to catch a glimpse of cute looking members of the opposite gender.

13) the fidgetor (me)
Always fidgeting, scratching, moving butt every minute or so. Very restless.

14) the nerdyy-nerdyyy.
Goes for lectures with 20 people max. Studies about boring stuff like satellites and boasts to friends about how cool satellites are and that they can name every single satellite and its creator.(thats why the lecture has only 20 people.)

Which one are you?

Friday, August 05, 2005
Frumpy, frumpy and frumpy.

Why am I so frumpy today?
I don't know, must I really say?
Maybe its the weather, or no pay,
But I sure know it is damn gay,
To feel really frumpy today.

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Haha, okay that was cheesy.

But maybe I'm hit by a huge magnanimous wave of PMS or I'm getting the Pre-Uni blues. I think its the former. I was planning on going for the PBMUKS meeting today for kebajikan. (and seni) But in the end I changed my mind because I didn't want my frumpy-ness to be spread or noticed by the other freshies or seniors. I mean, we barely know each other and first impressions DO count. So I was afraid I'd appear moody and unsociable. Haha.

Ahh, as I was telling Atikk and Baba, the seniors are soooo going to hate me because I missed the first meeting. I hope they don't hate me and like ban me from joining PB or something.

You see! The frumpyness is causing paranoia too. Argh. Have you actually seen me like this?

Bertenang Amylia, bertenang.

Maybe its the impending period. Argh. PMSPMSPMSPMSPMS.

Thursday, August 04, 2005
Of puzzles, geniuses and foul moods.

I am happy because people actually bothered to work out the thingy on the previous post.

Haha, it was so nice to see so many people trying out the Einstein puzzle. Received a few emails from people I don't know (and SMSes from people I know) asking if they've got the right answer. Actually the answer can be found on the net!

Also, this led to my discovery that I am living among geniuses. Haha, because all of them could solve it, and I couldn't.

Damn.

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And..

I am in a foul mood because my driving instructor annoyed me big time.

Half the time in the circuit, when he was standing outside the car watching smirking at me as I parallel-park or reverse-park or doing directional change, I seriously had half the mind of running him down with his pathetic Toyota Corolla. (no offense to those of you whose parents or self owns a Corolla. I'm referring to my instructors' car, and his alone.)

I am in no state of mind to type out his sacarsm because I am still seething with anger. Okay, make that rage.

But it was something along the lines of

Wednesday, August 03, 2005
Brains, brains, brains!

I stumbled upon this puzzler a few years back and I stumbled upon it again. Before I start to imagine its some divine sign or something, I'll post it on my blog.

Apparently sources claim that it was originally written by Albert Einstein. But whether it is or not, its still a very interesting puzzle. The author (aka Einstein) also claimed that 98% of the world could not solve it on first attempt. Those who could were the ones with 98th percentile IQ or higher.

What rubbish. Because while I was struggling (because I intelligently mixed up my right and left. Sheesh and I'm supposed to take a driving exam?!) to solve the puzzle (for the 2nd time, when i stubled upon it again), my younger sister solved it in under 20 minutes. And I simply refuse to believe that SHE has a 98th percentile IQ among the people in the world. Considering the fact that she didn't know that Bugis had an MRT station (okay, although that was like 3 years ago)! But still!

Yeah and in the end I gave up whilst she was happily doodling away and telling the whole house that she rocks. I did the puzzle again today, and FINALLY I solved it. But its not fair because I watched how my sister solved a portion of the puzzle.

So, have fun people. Tell me which one of you has a 98th percentile IQ too.

Get a pen and paper ready. It'll be handy.

Here goes.

So there are 5 houses in 5 different colours.
In each house lives a person with different nationality.
The 5 owners drink a certain drink, smoke a certain cigar and keep a certain pet.
No two owners have the same pet, house colour, smoke the same cigar or drink the same drink.

(you get the drift don't you)

And here are your clues.

1. The Brit lives in the red house
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets
3. The Dane drinks tea
4. The green house is to the left of the white house
5. The green house owner drinks coffee
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall raises birds (tsk don't think dirty lah!)
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill
8. The man living in the house smack in the middle drinks milk
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the one who smokes Dunhill
12. The owner who smokes Bluemaster drinks juice
13. The German smokes Prince
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house
15. The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water.

The million dollar question is..........

Monday, August 01, 2005
Bid! Bid! Bid!

Round 1C has long ended but I still feel the excitement. Alhamdulillah, I got all the modules I bidded for. But one thing still leaves me curious. How many points exactly did I 'pay' for my modules?

Please note that I am the kiasu type; the sort that uses ALL 600 points to bid for 4 modules.

So I logged onto CORS just 5 minutes ago, and voila!




Woohoo! I 'paid' 4 points for all my 4 modules! Its a great saver, and so maybe I'll have more points to bid for more popular modules next Sem.

Ahhh, all that bidding made me feel like Donald Trump. I might be obsessed with him or something.

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I was in town today to find clothes for my new husband. I haven't thought of a name for him yet, although people call him Acer. Okay enough acting cute, its giving me gingivitis. I went to buy a laptop case for my lappyy, while walking around town in my flats. Argh. My feet hurt like mad now, and its happily decorated with blisters.

Yeah, and now my flats are bloody.