A Picture's Worth Thousands of Words

Lots of interesting pictures in Spring, not mentioning a bunch of happening events as well. All in all, let's give Glendale a formal farewell!!!

Bye, bye. (I use "bye-bye" because I heard that we might remain in the same class.)

...

HUA!!!

The Wonder of Biology

Take a look at this microscopic picture that I took in Bio Lab Activity 2.

I, as a potentially skilled and undividedly dedicated biotechnologist, only manage to think of one word to describe this abberation.

Cool...

I guess you wont't find this in engineering classes, eh? :P

(Oops... It is damn obvious.)

The Ends

Everything that has a beginning always pairs up with an ending, similar to Chargaff's Rule [XD]... Here's what has been happening so far.


~Glendale Era is over! Yea... Not that the class is not favorable, but it just that I feel less excitement this time. However, the excitement gradually built up when the finals were coming. Sigh...

~The End of The Agony in The Land of Cendana! OMG, you totally have NO idea how happy I am to leave the ever-dull-and-deserted-eventhough-we-live-there college.

~A Big Wave to Spring Semester! Darn... Bio and Calculus wan "fun" [apply both connotative meanings, pls. XD]


Let's anticipate new beginnings taking place in my life in less than a week!!!



p/s: "The Forbidden Kingdom" and "Escape From Huang Shi" are damn nice! I wanna die like George in Huang Shi...

Idle Period

Pison, since I am in the midst of having final exams for Spring Semester 2008, I'm afraid to say that this blog will remain inactive until further notice.

I'm not promising anything, though. :P

Good Luck to everyone, and wish me luck!

First battle commencing in 1 hour...

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~Blipp~

"I'm Sorry, That is Your Personal Opinion!"

What???


...

[I quit.]

Teamwork is One Heck of A Word (Episode II)

"RUN!!!"

With 13kg of backpack at our backs, the 20 Bravo trainees dashed to the end of the tarred road, the sun blazing fiercely as if microwave ovens had been put on our heads. Prior to the beginning of the race, we had been outlining several strategies to have a record of the fastest team to finish the race, as that was how the judges would determine the champion. Not to be sexist or what, but the girls had undeniably low stamina, which meant leaving them behind while the boys sprinting to the finishing line would result in a time dragging.

Therefore, we divided the boys into two separate teams - one that would go straight to the finishing line and another that would always stay behind the girls, regardless of any situation. The second team was somehow important, as they could encourage the girls to run faster.

In this Obstacle Course Competition, the contestants had to run for 1km to get to the first obstruction. Then, any team who completed penetrating the obstacles would be declared as the winner.

It was not even 500m that the girls stopped running. I was in the second team, which meant I had to do something to get the girls going.

"Faiz, you go and run with Baizura. Joy, accompany Kak Pah. Sayang, come with me!" I shouted to my loyal friends.

Picking Sayang to be my partner was the biggest mistake I had even made.

She couldn't run anymore. Panting in exhaustion, she said that she wanted to quit, which would result in an immediate disqualification of the team. I had to stop, giving her words of encouragement. She nodded, but still, she resisted to continue the race. Stubborn.

I shouted at her, "Who the hell do you think you are? Are you a fat princess that you think I would agree to your whining? Look at your teammates, and think about what they would say if they know that you cause us to be disqualified. Move your ass now, and RUN!"

Reduced into tears, Sayang smiled sheepishly and pursued her running. I was sprinting by her side, chanting Bravo cheers repeatedly and assisting her in every obstacle the we had to go through.

Five minutes had passed.

The sixth minutes was up.

Then, the most unexpected thing happened. The last obstacle was only for boys, and there was no more boys behind me. All of the sudden, the burden of finishing the race was not rested on Sayang's shoulders, but on mine. The game had changed.

How could I climb the 12-feet wall without any assistance? Where were all my so-called loyal teammates? Could this mean that Bravo was about to lose...again?

Out of thin air, a pair of hands appeared above my head, reaching out for me to grab on. Joy and Faiz were still lying on the wall, waiting for me to arrive on the last obstacle. Aware that time was of the essence, I grabbed their hands, and finally made it to the other side.

***

The Camp Commandant stood before the rostrum.

"The champion of the Obstacle Course Competition for PLKN Kumpulan 2 Siri 4 2007...Charlie!...First runner... Delta... Alpha... Bravo," he announced.

Raging in dissatisfaction, the Bravo trainees confronted General Syazali, since we knew that we recorded the fastest time to finish the race.

The camp commandant were silent, waiting for us to stop complaining. When we did, he said it very slowly, "you lost because you assisted the girls..."

...

***

1. Well, even though we see that Bravo happened to be the best team, they paid a heavy price for a solid teamwork. As far as we remembered, there was no mentioning about boys were not allowed to help girls.
2. Winning isn't everything. Although the difference bbetween competing for victory and competing not to lose is the difference between success and mediocrity, losing this race was actually an honor.
3. Life is always unfair. We lost because we showed a very strong teamwork.

"The first you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws out the drive in the winner."

~Edwin Land~

You think? :)

Teamwork is One Heck of A Word (Episode I)

I just bought this book three hours ago at MPH Sunway Pyramid. It reminds me of what has been happening around me lately.

If it were not because of teamwork:

• Rasulullah would not have succeded in the pilgrimage to Madinah.
• My parents would not have produced this brilliant foetus. :)
• My aunts and I would not have accomplished decorating that Christmas tree years before I moved to Johor...
• 9thGeneration would not have beaten the SPM record. This is a very profound example of teamwork, I tell you.
• The Bomba team 2006 would not have made it to the state level. Even though we lost in this significant stage, I guess I have learnt about "winning isn't everything" long before I knew Advanced Composition.
• Bravo Company in Kem de' Bana Jempol would not have been that close...
• Bostonians would not have been able to maintain this circle of friendship, though there are worrying signs of decapitation.
• The Green Team would not have lost in the INTEC HAT with vibrant smiles on our faces.
• Glendalians would have flunked badly in the Parade. We sucked though...
• I would not have been able to dress up as The Death God for Halloween.
• Countless presentations would not have been made possible had this golden word TEAMWORK did not exist.

After reading half of the book, I suddenly appreciate the importance of teamwork. When you are alone, you can achieve so little; however, when you are in a team, you can achieve so much.

I want to finish reading it tonight.

"No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it."

~Halford E. Luccock~

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The Last Speech

Persuasive Speech is always hard. It is deemed to be one of the hardest forms of speeches, as not only that our points need to be substantial, but our body language plays a big part as well.

Since this might be the last speech of the semester, I feel kinda sad. I want more speeches. Hehehe...

I said 'might be' because I might represent Glendale for Speech Night next week...

Having said that, I actually don't know whether I would want to agree or not. What's the use of being so hyped up in the name of Glendale when my other classmates just don't give the damn towards this event, 'goyang kaki' and just study Bio?

Some even boldly said that they would not want to come...

It's not confirmed whether i'm in the competition or not, but if I try to picture the end of the PCO110 tunnel from the reactions that my friends have given, I don't think I want to compete...



Anyway...

My "last speech" title is ...

~Video Games Should Be Integrated In Secondary School Syllabus~

*Wish me luck, people! This speech is worth 20%!*

Technology Boom Disturbance

Now that people have 1500 free messages, they start to irritate those who didn't receive any...

These few days, some of weirdos whose stupidity is incorrigible have been sending me long messages repeatedly, claiming that they wanted to use all the 1500 messages before the expiry date.

Irritating. Annoying.


However, this one is quite interesting:

-skdr m'hlgkn moody-

Before marriage:

He: Yes! I've been waiting for this moment!

She: Do you want to leave me?

He: No! Don't even think about it.

She: Do you love me?

He: Of course! Over and over!

She: Have you ever cheated on me?

He: No! Why are you even asking that??

She: Will you kiss me?

He: Every chance I get.

She: Will you hit me?

He: Are you crazy? I'm not that kind of person!

She: Can I trust you?

He: Yes...

She: Darling!!!

After marriage: Just read from bottom to top...



じゃ, また ね!

The Ambiguity of Strength

If you think that you are well-built and have brute strength, you would think that you are physically strong.




Well, I am not denying that.

Some people even claim that those who cry show that they are emotionally strong.

I'm not denying that either.

You see, the late Steve Irwin once said,

"There were different kinds of strength."

I can see much truth from this 6-worded sentence.

I just fail to understand people who doubt that they are strong enough to stand again.

I just fail to understand people who say that they despise life.

Well, frankly speaking, I have been facing difficult situations at times as well that I feel stupendosly weak.

But, with friends and family members around us, we should have reasons to smile and be proud of ourselves.

Believe in our strength, and we would eventually reach the end of the tunnels that we've been longing for. :)

"It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do. — Elbert Hubbard"

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