4 weeks, thats how long my new semester had since started. I have to admit that it's been extra quiet nowadays. Usual friends all hanging out in the wonderful Clayton campus in Aussie. What i envy more than anything else is how lightly they are handling stuffs over there. Back here, we got something like reports for every lab sessions we had, but over there, maybe only 1 or 2 reports while the others are just online tutorial quizzes. Those lucky b@stards.

Usual stuffs happening around again. My timetable is fully filled in now. On more assignments or test to add in, i promise to cut my entire calender to pieces. But as said before, this sem, i have less burden now. This is heaven compared to my hellish last sem.

Just this week, i'd attended a seminar, held by NUS-DUKE collaborate programme. The speaker is an American Asian and he was a vice dean of the medical school in the Duke University of North Carolina, USA. Basically, there was a collaboration between NUS and DUKE (frankly, i've never heard of this uni name until now. Maybe it's because i never really bothered to search for uni stuffs from USA). The programme is training out physician-scientist profession. Its actually half doctor, half scientist job, somewhere in between the medicine and science world. Its something really interesting since around this part of the world, you only have your usual either doctor or scientist world. Fusion sounds nice =P. The only drawbacks from this programme is that you maybe a doctor by profession, you can only diagnose patients, not having surgery on them, and you have to sacrifice another 4 years to graduate. If i take pursue this route, it maybe around 27-28 years old before i graduate =(. But the advantage is that, after you graduate, you would certainly and surely, would have to work for the Singapore's General Hospital for a duration of 5 years, which is a good thing since i would not be worry for my jobs when i graduate. Interesting, yet still need a lot of thinking whether should i pursue this route.

The results are finally out, and as expected, the ruling party, BN, lost badly, and when i mean badly, it's far worse that Francis Light cheat his way to obtain Penang.

I usually don't like to talk about politics, but this time, it's very interesting. Many had expected, and some even wished that BN can no longer boss around this time. The reasons are as clear as a baby's soul. Issues like sex scandal, "i can pick whoever i want to be judge" scandal, PPP-MIC bickerings, Gerakan's indecisiveness, AP issues, HINDRAF, BERSIH and etc. Even increase of consumer item prices could be the issue. But the biggest reason that causes the fall of BN is none other than the politicians themselves, being full of themselves just because they won the '04 election with such a huge margin.

Before the elections, whenever i went out or had a chat with friends, many would brought up the election matters, and worryingly, many have less kind words toward BN. Nonetheless, hope that this election failure would wake those lazy-ass-bum politician from their wonderland and work really really hard to win back everything they lost in the next election.

And in connection, it's also worry-some that PAS won the Selangor state since i am currently there =P Who knows what kind of illogical rules and regulations they would put in place, like girls having to cover their entire body? Or even start closing down pubs and karaokes, or even worse, impose strict rules on establishments with a curfew >_>"

Other than the political cloud of uncertainty enveloping M'sia, life in uni had not been kind either. I had subject clashes in my timetable that some are so ridiculous that it had to be replaced with classes either at early 8am or late at 6pm. It's so ridiculous that many of my friends launch a complaint to the course co-ordinator regarding this messup. Why do the uni even offer more and more courses when they have a shortage of teaching workforce and full timetable? I would get frustrated by just looking at my messy timetable.

And speaking of timetable, my semester's 3rd week is coming, and this is the week where i have to start gathering pace in my studies, or else i would end up in the wilderness of knowledge. Pretty much hate it when all the assignments start flowing in.

Back to KL, and what can i say, not a place i missed =P Nothing had changed, most of it. The difference is a newly, or half-newly painted Sunway College (they churn in the old Monash's campus), a modern looking Medan (and a big CC built on top now), and well, more new shops opened at the new wings in Pyramid.

And also, i get the first view of my new hostel unit, or more appropriately, something like my 2nd home. My mum made the entire unit looked more or less like my home in KK >_>" Plenty of food, Astro, fully air conditioned and even a vacuum cleaner. I am of course complaining all this, eventhough it totally increased my comfort. But the problem is more comfort = less concentration on studies = grades drop faster than you can spell out F-A-I-L.

The new semester opened with a silent bang this time round. More than half of my friends had either been exchanged or transferred to Clayton campus. It would surely be very quiet without many of those guys and gals who love to chat and have fun hanging out together. Just have to endure this for half a year, though i am lucky that my gaming partners are still here and in one piece =D

Though, i am still quite happy with this semester. Compared to last semester, this one would be much more relax. I had 3 very very, extremely difficult subjects, all clustered into one sem last sem, but this sem, i only have 1 major subject to face. Compare this, i had close to 30 hours of lectures/tuts/labs last semester, but this sem, i only have 23 hours. As for my lecturers, other than the lecturer for Microbe, others i have no problem. Pretty happy too, having not to face eccentric and illogical lecturers that i had to face last sem.

Last, but not least, 2 days ago, the 29th of Feb, was a significant day, as it was one date that only occurred once in 4 years. Looking back 4 years ago, at this precise date, i was probably doing some morning drills, having classes, and doing GA jobs back in my final secondary years. No wonder people often said how you would miss your secondary years as you progress in your life. Its indeed very true.