Another Sunset

'Hope is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul

And sings the tune without words

And never stops at all.'

Welcome to Deakin

And what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.

  It's about time I said this, I have finally graduated, after a year and a half officially in college and another half which I never completed. Honestly, that photo had nothing to do with my days in college or anything I'm about to write, I just really wanted to post it, ha ha. 硬硬来. *lame inside joke about forcing everything down*

  As you may have seen, I am incapable of writing anything serious, or at least sentimental. But oh well, this will do. One and a half years in West Malaysia have not been easy, mostly because of the fact that my home is over the ocean, and I'm extremely not used to the place ahem. Worst part ever, every Friday I have to watch everyone go home, by bus or some of the super lucky ones, by their parents' car. Really jelly, because if my home was in West Malaysia, my parents would probably pick me up every Friday too. But meh, the plane is still a plane, it's not a bus I can take to go home every weekend, because I POOR. Anyway, somehow time passes pretty quickly, eventually, and now I can finally say I HAVE GRADUATED FROM COLLEGE. To all of my friends who are already in uni and thinking I'm forever in college, ha! I am future uni student now. At least, I hope, fingers crossed, toes crossed, eyes crossed.

  For the whole time in college, I've always been in class D, no not my grade pls, as in literally my class, D for Dowerin and later, Deakin. And honestly it has been pretty awesome, I've met nice people and had good lecturers tsk tsk. Deakin was tollay the most awesome class ever, and the we pretty much live by the phrase - Cuti-cuti Deakin. Simply put, we had lots of free time ahem. And the timetable is pretty much, well, loose ;) Though that doesn't really stop me from sleeping excessively and also super early.

  Well, I've went to many places (to procrastinate tsk tsk) because I'm a sakai from East Malaysia where we live on trees, especially the Cameron Highlands last minute trip which was supposed to be for research but we ended up eating strawberries all day, and the research topic wasn't even related to strawberries, not even close, it was about green tea. Not exactly the model student I know. The result - brought back a piece of leaf which isn't even a tea leaf and holiday brochures from the travel agency. Haha. Ahh good times. It kinda reminds me of JZhong, kinda. But really, Cameron Highlands is pretty awesome, if the bus ride up there doesn't kill you, tollay took me like 7 hours to get there by bus. *extremely exaggerated figure, actual time taken is plus minus 5 hours* The most awesome thing to do, is to have steamboat dinner at Cameron, because the weather is cold and it's cool (literally). And there was this awesome Japanese restaurant opened by a gweilo called Kougen and I actually went there twice in two days. Or maybe it could be due to the lack of food in that particular area, but still, it was really good.

Got this cool notebook from the graduation dinner  awsm.

  Anyway, I am now home with my soul, and my dorm is now non-existent since I cleared everything and carried them home, LITERALLY CARRIED. Weighed like 40kg, that's like carrying another person home. And I just realised how freaky that phrase sounded. Okay, don't mind me. One of the highlights of the year was sports day, which should rightfully be called sports night, because it's held at night. Why? Just because. My course got FIRST runner-up this year so we were all partying the night away, considering the fact that we got last place last year. By partying I mean, watching Running Man and eating Chipsmore at my place. Ahh Running Man, the show that keeps us up at night watching together celebrating post-exams, or in some cases, pre-exam. Gee, I am a terrible example. 

  So in the end, college life is officially over. Let my holiday hobo life begin! It's kinda hard to summarise everything that happened in college, but well let's just say that it was an eye-opener, figuratively. I still have Asian eyes. 

Now I shall regain my orang KK status, no longer orang KL woots!

p.s This is not a guide to an actual college life.

Grab Your Copy of Student Debt Living!

Airline companies, YOU DA HORRIBLE

LIKE DOLAN, LIKE DOLAN AND GUUBY.

I am a subscriber of this magazine since I entered college.

Wish they had a section for 'How to Get Free Flight Tickets'

or at least 'How to Disguise as a Someone's Luggage'

Yeap, pretty much extremely desipo at this moment.

College is where money goes to burn. Psssssss.

If I was seeking attention

Fact: You can't get any discussion done unless everyone is on the same page. 

Second fact: You're not getting any studying done if you're on the same page, for two hours, since yesterday.

  Someone said the world is going to get dark in three days because of some catastrophe. Well, I believe that catastrophe is called 'SACE Mathematical Studies exam'. Have a nice life everyone. 

Credits to pleated-jeans, thank you for describing my life.

Flipping Things Inside Out

I'm having a mid life crisis! O NO.

Finals are near and time is limited and I'm still thinking about so much crap that is not exam-related

GOD BLESS MY SOUL.

I'm making myself depressed.

And when I'm depressed, I find that staring at this picture helps.

Not sure if it's a universal thing, or I'm just a sick person. Ha ha. 

But really, it's very funny. Come on.

Though most people say Adventure Time is a highly not beneficial cartoon.

They used to say the world was flat, but how wrong was that. 

Adventure Time has sick humour, but it's funny, IMY GLORIOUS TV AT HOME.

Oh, if Adventure Time is not your thing you could try listening to Lawson's soul-touching voice.

Listen to Standing in the Dark, now go and let him touch your soul. 

Like The Script. 

Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch, or pulling aside a bearskin rug in order to access a hidden trapdoor in the floor, is merely a quiet way to spend one's time before the candles are extinguished on one's birthday cake

And day turned to night, and night to day.

Another adventure in Bukit Bintang, since the last one with Crystal at JW Marriott wearing pyjamas to breakfast, seriously. Stayed over at Vicky's place for the weekend aha! VERY HIGH YI SIA.  Reminds me of that time we stayed at Sabina's house with Josh in the same room trying desperately to sleep, except this time it's minus Sabina and Josh. 

Most important thing to remember when going out with Vicky - We would always end up doing crazy and ngong stuff. Well, on Friday went over to IMU to watch her pingpong match, it was nice though I'm not really sure how pingpong works. And IMU looks like a pretty good place to study, maybe kinda tiny, and it's infested with ex-TTSS people, like TTSS KL campus. And they were having dektzi dektzi party that night, in the examination hall. Definition of super party. 

Our party starts with this staircase.

Spot the mistake. Really, look again.

So that night we skyped with Sabina, Josh and Crystal, using 3 skype screens only because Josh is with Crystal and I'm with Vicky. Haha, at least it wasn't 6 screens like last time and everyone was screaming and everyone's line was lagging and all we heard was well, screaming. Oovoo fail.

Went to Pavilion the next day. And Times Square. And Pavilion. And Times Square. Really sot, why did we keep walking back and forth between those two malls?! Haha. Coincidentally, we met Ding Dang, the Chinese singer, not Doraemon. Technically it was a fansigning event, we did not actually 'meet' her like we knew her or anything. So we 38 and listened to the concert. Guess what we did, we kept trying to take pictures of ourselves, with Ding Dang in the background lol! Vicky said it's to prove we were actually there, haha! Well, at least it wasn't a really big event, like some K-pop star, ahem to be continued. 

She was punctual, did not expect that, aha.

Main point is the background okay.

About the k-pop star... On the next day we went to Sungei Wang, and there was coincidentally another star event. Which kinda made it seem like we were chasing celebrities, but we were not, it was an accident okay. Well this time it was some Korean actor, and the place was super infested with K-pop xiao mei mei fans. They were desipo. So we did not stay for that one. They were too desipo to fight with. And they had violent tendencies. As in they kept shoving us. It was horrible. And we also kept trying to get photos of us with the poster in the background, because it's proof hahaha. 

Main point of the weekend: Auntie Anne's chocolate pretzel stick thing. We had like three of those, and two of them were in the same day, at the same time. Seriously that thing is heaven, heaven that costs RM4.90. Cheap heaven for people like me. Cheap. And the fact that I realised that I have to get out of my 'stupid phase' tsk tsk after the weekend, eye-opener much. 'Guys will change before and after' Haha! On or off no difference anymore. ;)

'再痛的痛哭泪水 换不回 一点点感动'

And nothing mattered anymore.

DIY in College

How to do dishes:

1. Put dishes in sink
2. Fill them up with water and soap
3. Convince yourself they need to soak
4. ???
5. Profit

How to kill cockroaches in dorm:

1. Find cockroach
2. Spray with bug spray
3. ???
4. Leave dead roach on floor for forever until housemate cleans it up
5. Profit

Sigh, super insomniac these few weeks. Welcome to the nightlife, again, haven't been here since high school days. Stupid forever headache, pls go away. :(

Twenty

Didn't notice the date, aha.

Band days, too awesome.

Without band, it's like extra time just came out from nowhere, ha ha.

50 ways to say goodbye

Lame joke of the day, not by me.

Fact: Bugs die because they can't get up if they are overturned. So when you use bug spray on them, they don't die from the poison, they die because they slip on it and fall upside down, and die. *ba dum tsss* 

This post is dedicated to all the orang UK I know. Except that one which I broke up with and no longer know *tsk tsk* Goodbye forever ;)

I find that Crystal and Joshua have the funniest story ever. Same primary school. Same high school. And then *deng deng*, same uni. Congrats you guys are bonded for life. Oh, and the fact that we all left KK on the same day is also really weird, September 20 - a date to remember. Too bad, can't party at the airport and wail and drink screwdriver after that. Like when a certain someone left. Okay, it wasn't that bad, we had pineapple pizza at Tanjung Aru. Which was good.

So, before everyone left, we went dektzi dektzi partying at Jarrod and Rawlins, which Tham mistook that we went for clubbing at Times Square, ahem. We are not that full of life, we went home after Jarrod and Rawlins, before 11pm, and went to bed. And Jarrod and Rawlins isn't even a club, it's a bistro thing fancy restaurant place with extremely purple atmosphere and a toy pit thing place with lots of toys for children. Really, most of the photos turned out purple. The hue was too purple and saturation was high with low lighting, okay what am I saying, I don't speak photography. Jarrod and Rawlins had awesome food, awesome fish which tasted like fish and the heavenly vegetables. We had two tables and the second table was a vege buffet for Josh because apparently they had a lot of leftover vegetables. Which was awesome. THANK YOU CRYSTAL BECAUSE I KNOW YOU ARE READING THIS, IN UK, WHERE THE TEMPERATURE IS LIKE MY FREEZER.

KK Times Square (ha ha noticed how I had to include KK in Times Square, because KL has a Times Square too), is an awfully boring place. Really. All they had was rows of clubs and parking lots. Clubs and parking lots, really, not how I pictured TGIF to be. Except when I went there it wasn't even Friday, ahaaa. Well let's just say it's a boring place if you want to go hang out because there's only dektzi dektzi music. Then you'll end up like that clubbing episode in How I Met Your Mother where everyone ends up screaming to each other because they've gone partially deaf from clubbing, ha ha. That was funny. Fun fact: I have never been to Times Square after so many years, besides Megalong Mall, which till this day I still don't even know where it is. I AM REALLY NOT AN ORANG KK ANYMORE O NO.

Back to the point,  I am breaking up with you. guys.
Well no, not really.

By that I mean the timezone is a bother. Timezone is problem, problem is timezone. Timezone affects texting. *Well, technically countries affect texting* Affects Skype. Affects whatsapp. AFFECTS LIFE. I so lifeless with no friends now. Life negative. I will adjust my timezone to the UK timezone during the holidays, I will sleep and eat 8 hours later than Malaysians. That should solve it, because it's three against one and one does not win in majority decisions, ha ha. Well no sappy emotional chunk of iluvu letter for Joshua and Crystal, because I already did that here - NOT A PRANK. So I am rededicating that post to you guys because it is emotionally and physically exhausting to do another one. So yeah, happy friendship or something like that. I give you an A+ for friendship, and effort, effort always counts. 

Anyway, since I am now here in MALAYSIA alone, when are you guys coming back with Sabina so I don't have to live like a hermit?!

p.s. I just found out Train is a band, oh my glob, I used to think Train was the stage name of that singing dude. All thanks to a song I heard at McDonalds. Life never the same again. 

None taken

No offence, technically that means I'm going to offend you but please don't get offended. Ha ha, nahhh.

  At some point awhile ago, this picture pretty much sums up how I feel at that instant. And guess what, I was criticized for saying that out loud, because apparently it makes me a meanie. But really, I didn't mean it in that way. Anyway some people should try to be more constructive instead of stalking social media, or just minding their own business. I mean, if you want to offer something comforting in a depressing situation, checking peoples' Facebook status the first instant and then liking it is not really appropriate, or helpful. Okay, harsh. Sorry bha, I can't help it. You can't stop meh! So unless you have been through this situation, the picture would seem funny to you. Ha ha, good for you then. 

  On another note, gangnam style is all the craze now, this is unacceptable. Especially if you play it at school events. Being rich doesn't mean you can score chicks, according to Joshua's version of the lyrics. Oh wait, I just accidentally ironic. 

-8 hours + 2 days

HAPPY 17TH BIRTHDAY TO SABINA, QUEEN OF AWESOMASIA

(On Sep 3)

Because we are forever 17, 17 again! Note: 17 is presumably the perfect age because one, you're young but not too young, two, you're old but not too old, which mean you get awesome freedom, somewhat like Hannah Montana's best of both worlds *cue music*, oh and 17 is when you get your drivers license. But that only applies to everyone except me :( Since we're not exactly 'sentimental' people, there won't be any long touching and tear jerking birthday wish or anything like it. Or even any explanation that this post is actually supposed to be belated. Ha ha. But in memory of you, this post is typed in purple. 

So yeah. That's pretty much it.

P.s We lost the bet, twice in a row. Lye Kok Shiuh now owes us money. 

Something blue

  This will be, or should I say was, my last holiday for the year, excluding the end of the year super long sienzz orhx period before uni. YES, I am finally going to uni, bet everyone thought I was never going to uni, well you.thought.wrong. 

  In memory of a certain someone, it's sushi making time! I'm not sure who, but I guess all of us were pretty close with this certain someone. *wink wink* We almost cooked one whole kg of sushi rice which was probably enough to feed an army and cure hunger in a small part of Kota Kinabalu, maybe in the OneBorneo region. But we didn't. We did not eradicate mass hunger or feed the army, because we ate everything. The truth is, we only cooked half kg okay, we're not monsters or rice buckets. 

  Anyway, since we were all cheapskates and insanely crazy with the roe thing, we kept trying to save it and put like 20 biji of those roes on each sushi, some sushi even had to share. The roe is expensive okay, and it is very nice. But thanks to being cheapskates, the leftover roe was wasted because we left them in the fridge too long and they went bad. Also the same case with the raw salmon because apparently Joshua is the only one who eats them, and sorry but I am not a big fan of raw salmon either. They are squishy in my mouth. And Crystal tricked me into eating this big piece of it by stuffing it in the sushi, bshsh. Oh and she also came up with the ultimate sushi which was stuffed with crab meat, roe, raw salmon and as little rice as possible. Ultimate saltiness. Ha. Ha. 

The Ultimate Sushi Maker

 Then we went to have bandung cincau at that Anjung Selera place, where we proceeded to set satay sticks on fire because the atmosphere was 'too dark'. We are not arsonists by the way, technically we didn't set the sticks on fire, we just dropped them into the candle.

P.s. Another certain someone complained that my blog has super low quality pictures, well for once I have HD pictures, even if they are taken blurry, ha! Don't get used to it, this is a one time thing. 

'Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue' 

Oftentimes, I find that I am watching too much HIMYM that my life is starting to turn out like it. Please don't quote HIMYM, it makes me sad. 

Ninja Go!

It's everything you wanted, it's everything you don't

It's one door swinging open, and one door swinging closed

Some prayers find an answer

Some prayers never know.

That is not true. All prayers get their answers. 

Today's youth was an eye opener. PTL! :D

Marjory Stewart-Baxter

Salad Fingers has got to be the weirdest and sickest thing I have ever watched. Even more disturbing than Slenderman. 

Salad Fingers

Blargghh

It's ironic how I'm supposed to be a lawyer without a law degree, but I can't solve my own problems. 

So let's just say that there were events that happened that weren't supposed to

And these certain events haven't made the holidays very great

So in the end, ever have one of those days where you just can't win?

Save the date

“Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch, or pulling aside a bearskin rug in or mder to access a hidden trapdoor in the floor, is merely a quiet way to spend one's time before the candles are extinguished on one's birthday cake.”   -Lemony Snicket

Onion Rings

So, for some reason, whenever I think about the Olympic rings, the only thing that comes to mind is: Onion Rings.  

  London Olympics opening ceremony is tomorrow! I'm super anticipating and desipo to watch it, times like this make me wish I had a TV or unlimited internet, or both, or both and be in London, oh well. Though I think nobody's gonna be able to top the Beijing Olympics ceremony for a few more years or decades or century *Asians*. If only I had a TV, how awesome would it be. And I just realised that this year's Olympics is pretty low-profile, I mean I don't even know what buildings they built for it. Either that or I'm just really disconnected from the world, yep I guess that's it. Maximum hermit arcana. With myself. 

I am so outdated much. 

Apparently they built a stadium and aquatics centre and that other thing.

AND THAT SABINA MET LEE HOM AT THE TORCH RELAY. LIKE FOREVER AGO. 

NI ZE GE! TOLLAY LIKE RIDICULOUSLY PHOTOGENIC GUY

DUDE, YOU SHOULD SELL THIS PHOTO AS AN AD OR SOMETHING.

Somebody please live tweet about the ceremony or live status update about it so you can describe what is going on to me because I have no TV to watch it. Or even better, buy me a TV and Astro subscription.

  Meanwhile in Kota Kinabalu, my computer/technology technician dude is celebrating his birthday. In simpler terms *pun intended*:

"01001000 01100001 01110000 01110000 01111001 00100000 01000010 01101001 01110010 01110100 01101000 01100100 01100001 01111001!"

And no one ate ever again

  Last Saturday I went to Bon Odori, again, it's becoming this annual thing for me. Hopefully not next year, I'd rather not still be in this place by then, tsk tsk. 

  Anyway, guess what, THEY DID NOT HAVE DANGO THIS YEAR! Although I did mention that the dango was a lie and they tasted horrible, but still. Thanks to Clannad, I have always been wanting to try dango, not the white ones with soy sauce like Bon Odori last year, as in the three coloured ones that slightly resemble a discoloured traffic light, by that I mean white, pink and green. 

  I got there late this year, bsh, so I had to swim through a crowd of people desipo to buy food. I saw this pretty sad sight where an aunty wanted to buy something but there wasn't much left and they could only give her one pack instead of two which she wanted, then she kept saying it's just one more, awh. This year's festival was pretty weird and honestly not as awesome as last year. I ate Korean food at a Japanese festival, whut. They sold Malaysian drinks like those at pasar malam. Some dude even asked me to buy Taiwanese mochi. Okayy.

Too cute, just the way pedobear likes it ;) (Okay that's sick)

  So, what's the most awkward thing there? Every single girl over the age of 15 wearing a yukata, speaks Cantonese. Oh wow, I never knew the Japanese spoke Cantonese. Ha ha, nah, they were probably just trying to blend in, blend into the culture by sticking out like a sore thumb. But there were some Japanese children there, pedobear alert! Oh wait, that's not the most awkward thing, this is:

What is this dude, I don't even. Really, I don't even.

人之初，性本善。人生的意义是什么？

Seriously after heavy editing, I could literally hang this photo up in my dining room together with my moyangs. Which by the way Joshua, Sabina and Crystal thought was really funny and sat there staring at them while they stare at us eating. 

  If you want to see more photos, please wait at least ten years for me to upload them on Facebook or call my hotline to lodge a complaint: 1-800-crappyphotos.org.com.my@yahoo.com, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. Yes, I took a few blurry photos filled mostly with strangers heads and weird signboards of food. I never was a good photographer, ha ha. But often I am the only one who carries a camera, with the exception when I'm out with Sabina. 

Tell Me I'm Funny

Here's the greatest, and possibly shortest, fairy tale ever:

  Once upon a time, I survived SAM with flying colours. Then I lived stress free and happily ever after. The End. 

  Oh, go to college they said, it's like a party life they said. They lieeeed. I'm the most hermit and hobo person ever. And not to mention broke, that one's very important. So hey, I'm finally down to the last semester! Considering that I have never finished any proper education ever since primary school, that is a great achievement, tsk tsk. Still, I wish I could have graduated, like officially graduate from TTSS, oh well. Nostalgia forever haunting me, I still miss those days so so much. Senior years were way too awesome. Funny thing that I sometimes thought I was in S2 Zhong when I was actually in S2 Xiao. Ha, epic fail. 

  Anywayyy, Bon Odori is on this coming Saturday, which is pretty awesome and I desipo to go. Last year was extremely awesome but super infested. Bon Odori's this Japanese festival for, something. I hate crowds, does that make me antisocial? But well, there'll be fireworks which are pretty much something I'd kill to watch, because you know, what reason would there be to dislike explosives in the sky?! 

  So in order to kill time, have you read about Higgs Boson? No, I'm not going to explain it because I don't know what it is. But Joshua and I have come to the conclusion that it's the same as Van der Waals force, except they're trying to change the name into Higgs Boson particle by introducing it as something new. *actual definition of Higgs Boson may vary, we don't get it either*

  On another completely unrelated note, there has been these super lame Thor photos circulating on Facebook. I could die from the lameness, ha ha. 

For example:

OMG TAK BOLEH TAHAN THE LAMENESS

もののけたちだけ

I will update tomorrow.

Because I'm hungry. And you know it's no good to do anything on an empty stomach, hek hek.

And I am addicted to Mononoke Hime Soundtrack.