My summer holidays is coming to an end soon. This week is my last week of almost 3 months of holiday. And while i am pondering how my new semester would be, i too looked back at what i did for my entire summer holiday.

Compared to my last summer holiday, this time round, it's not having repitition of actions and chores for the entire holiday. During my last summer hols, how i remembered i spent an entire month finishing all games that i can grab my hands on, then how i am tormented mentally for having almost nothing to do for the next 2 months.

This time though, my first 2 months were spent daily for my industrial training. To recap everything, though dull, sometimes boring and commonly sluggish daily routine, the training did let me taste the experience of working in real life. Though training, there is a sense of responsibility for whatever actions you have taken since it involves the patients and money. Overall, its an excellent experience, in term of both my academics and preparing me for what lies ahead of me.

As for the last month, i practically spent it almost everyday at home. What else can i do? All, if not almost all, my friends were either still in uni or could not comeback even for CNY. Lonely days just passed by. There's even no CNY gatherings like i usually had back in the old times.

On the bright side though, i'd finished FF12 finally. After 120++ hours, with almost all quests done and almost all items obtained, i finally finished this accursed game in which it kept me waiting ever since starting it last summer holiday. An achievement for me since i've finished every FF series there is out there, excluding those from Nintendo handheld consoles.

For my CNY celebrations, it seems to be more like CNY cele"dull"rations. Only scored 1 open house, and thats all. Nothing else. No gambling, no greetings, but at least there are still ang pows still in store for me.


And from here, it brings me to ponder about angpow designs. Some angpows are designed creatively and inspirationally,


Some just cin cai cin cai design and mass produced it


And some have the old traditional taste in it.


As for how much i got this year, i haven't actually opened them at all =P Maybe next year, i guess.

Another thing was that i've never seen any lion dance performance at all during this entire CNY, until the one and only open house, hosted by one of my father's friends.

The truth is, i am never fond of extra loud noises, especially firecrackers. Not that i can't stand them, its just, i just don't like them for those ear-banging cracking sounds.


At night, 2 interesting stuff happened right at my doorstep.

The truth is, my life is and was.......literally, quite unlucky for some time now.

Let me rant off my unlucky times nowadays

My new Samsung YP-9A mp4 player that i just bought earlier this year is rendered useless since i've lost it's line-in cable. Searched the entire city(KK) for it and none of them would sell that cable seperately


My older mp3 player................mysteriously had some cracks on it's screen >_>


My laptop seems to have the "over-heat" symptom again, in which when it occured the last time, the entire processor had to be replaced.

My room had been a storeroom when i am away. Even when i am back, i can barely even walk to my table.

My poor old PC also have overheating problem, probably courtesy of my sister (in which she never admit it)

My exam results were bloody terrible. Some marks given were pretty biased.

My TV only could show black and white for the entire 2 months when i played my PS. Only recently it's back to 'almost' normal.

My work had been quite boring. The work itself is not boring, but just the volume is damn low.

My external HD had been busted already.......................300++ GB worth of anime, movies and mp3s all gone with the smoke.


My sports day experience is terrible this year. Boss won't allow me to take early leave, only could sneak out.

My CNY had been quite dull. Open houses? Till now, nill.

Almost all my friends are not around here yet. Want to go out yum char also cannot (T_T). Worse, the usual dalang are not around too.

I have to re-find old books and notes for my upcoming semester again after my dealer lost her stuffs in the airport.

Went to have a denture checkup last week and the dentist found abnormalities with my teeth. Apart from my glistening, white, strong and sturdy sexy teeth, it seems that my wisdom tooth is causing some havoc with my dentures. One won't come out and another is still halfway out. By my age, all should be visible. Dentist advice is to have an operation in order to prevent more deformities caused by the growing wisdom teeth since instead of growing vertically, it seems to be in a horizontal position.

There are more unlucky rants that i want to rant about, but ranting alone had exhausted my rant-a-tion and take a rest.

If you are not those kind of person who thinks negatively like me, maybe you should just leave this post alone.

In other case, some boring photos are being updated, mostly from my lab training period.

Surely the Year of the Rat gone off with a big bang. But for me, somehow, the "bang" was just simply missing. Open houses? None. Glorious dinner? None. Gambling?? Haven't for the mean time. Till now, the only places i'd been going for greetings were my grandparent's places.

When i was still a small kid, i would be very eager to celebrate CNY. I would even try to stay up till midnight to listen to the fireworks blasting away. Sadly, since there is a law around, no more such merry experience. Only occasional bangs could be heard. Whats funny though is that i'd been over-hearing conversations that there was a notice passed around stating that a fine of RM50K would be slapped on anyone's notty butt if they were caught "playing" with fireworks. The funny part is that.......................those fireworks were said to be sold by people from Customs itself (?!?!??!?!) This is not my accusations, but just something that i heard of.

On the other hand, there is a taboo that i made up myself, stating "Never go out for Dim Sum anywhere one the first and second day of CNY, and if do so, never late" after some unpleasent experiences from past years. Yet, even though warned by me, my parents never seems to listen. Today we just went out for Dim Sum. I wanted it to be early in the morning, but my mum nagged about it to be late in the morning. Luckily though, she did not opt for Shangri-La anymore like she used to. Four Seasons was the place. Full house, extra tables placed outside, but seated quickly. Yet, the service was terrible. We ordered for steamed stuffs and the waiter kept of ensuring us the it would be brought to our table, until we took a peek at the counter and saw people rushing for those newly steamed stuffs immediately.

But nonetheless, nothing unwanted happened at all during CNY, so might as well happily greet you all out there Gong Xi Fa Cai.

Finally, my industrial training ended on Thursday. Seems that some staffs there did not even knew about it, but well, just like how i entered, i would also disappear like the wind =P

As said in the past blog, a trainee cried on her last day of the training. So did i? Of course no. I am a man, i won't cry ( well, at least not under this situation ). But it would be a lie if i said i care nothing from there. Been there for 2 months and it feels kind of sad to just leave after getting to know everyone over there. Gonna missed those people.

And when the time came, i went into the boss's office to bid my goodbye and ask for my evaluation report. Unluckily, that fella never knew that that day was my last day and never prepared anything =_=". Well, had to come back tomorrow.

And thats tomorrow. Went back to the lab with JEANS and T-SHIRT on for the first time (this lab is strict. Other labs where my other friends worked at could wear casually. How unfair). This time, i bid farewell to everyone, thanking them for all their help and their patience towards my clumsiness.

Finally, i am free to enjoy my holiday for real =) First thing of the day, to Karamunsing. My PC was already jam-packed with stuffs that i downloaded, but never really bothered to look at when i was still working. And since my external HD had been busted, awaiting guarentee response back in KL, and my other one is also full, a new HD must be around.

Bought a Hitachi 320GB sata HD at about RM240, in which i had to bargain hardcore-ly since that salesguy was so damn "honey" mouthed. Don't wish to buy 500GB or 700GB or even the insanely 1TB HD yet as i await the lovely PC Fair in KL next month or so >=)

As for other stuffs, my ol' sec school, STTSS, sports day begun on the 31st, right on my last day of training. Could not visit there early for the bazaar since my boss won't allow me even for a half-day holiday >_>". But what is him to stop me /gg Sneaked out around 11am, but by the time i reached there, the atmosphere started to soothe away. Met other ex-prefects there too, but mostly my 1-year-younger-juniors. Only SimSim was there from my batch. Others? I have no idea.

Ever since main-gathering-organizers like Ah Wah, Ah Lo or Alan are no longer in KK, it's hard to have a gathering to comeby nowadays. I myself am not sure how much ex-prefects are back in KK right now, except for SimSim. But hopefully we could have a big gathering during CNY.

And no, i did not attend the official sports day opening ceremony today that is going to end soon later. Reasons? There are no friends around to go with, and even if there are, i don't know who is around.......................gotta start making prank msgs to them to find out.