of laptop, coffee bean, convocation & glam night

a cold war has been ensued between my toshiba laptop and me, which means i am deprived of my daily facebook-ing and my random surf, which also means that i am now spending more time reading then clicking, which also means i sleep earlier and although i still wake up late, my liver, lungs and colon are definitely healthier nowadays.


that just showed the impact of the internet and technology in my lifestyle. i used to poke fun at my friends who love scrubbing their pets in pet society, everyday, without fail until one day, when i started using facebook to kill boredom. and, i turned into a facebook addict. minus the facebook, i still spend most of the hours reading blogs and visiting random sites. it's weird, you know. sometimes, you spend so much time with the internet, up to the point you don't even know what you want to surf for anymore, but then, you just refuse to let go off your mouse.

ok. end of the introduction.

happy! yes, i am happy to be able to hijack yee ling's desktop. muaahahhahaa!

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the fact is i miss my laptop a lot. and it's kaput, just when i have so much to say, and, i don't have anywhere to channel all my thoughts and expressions. a lot of things happen within this short period of time, including the worsening h1n1 pandemic that "granted" us with the unexpected 1 week break, the day where i finally decided to try surfing the net in coffee bean and that same day was the day where my laptop started to get cranky. imagine this, you are in coffee bean, there's two ang mohs typing swiftly and their laptops are those of the cool and super-minis, and then, you found out that your laptop fails to operate, so you ended up pushing the laptop's power button 5 to 6 times only to see those horrible and painfull sight of vertical multicolour stripes on the screen, and then, you heard the customer behind you talking about h2n2 virus, acer and sony laptops-computing stuff. paiseh kan?

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the convocation. one of the happenings in upm recently. it's happening because it's the grandest event for all the graduates and secondly, it has caused traffic jam in upm main campus.

i like to see the seniors in their marroon robes. i especially like it when graduation caps are tossed high up in the air. it feels triumphant and successful.

bouquet of flowers with graduating teddies were everywhere. gift shops are on economic boom and are happily making profits out of juniors and family members around these few months, every year.

if you notice one thing very special in my uni is that, the malays love to have picnics here. it's a trend, i think. when i first came in to upm, i saw a lot of malay families spreading blankets, with tubs of food- i guess sambal sotong, fried noodles and syrup-some on the parking space and some on available green spots. i am truly amazed by this culture-the family bonding.

happy and proud parents, and close friends, waiting to snap pictures with the graduates-this adds to the cheerfullness and excitement of the event. it's a moment filled with warmth.

to my direct senior and to my sis who will be walking down the aisle to receive her scroll today in unimas, congratulations!

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yes, i still have more to express here. something about yesterday's event, our course night. the theme was "a night we gather, a lifetime we remember"-quite a meaningful phrase and the dress code was smart and beauty, but i think "smart and beauty" is the theme, more likely because the guys and the girls (or should i use ladies?) really dressed up well for the occasion. everyone is looking good in their own styles. the juniors really shocked us. what a glamorous batch! all dressed to kill.

with the help of my dearie coursemates, i finally own my first dinner dress. my gratitude goes to tzy chun, especially for enduring with my pickiness when it comes to clothings. if i have a stylist, my stylist will surely go bald for constantly tugging and scratching his hair whenever i rejected the dresses he chooses for me. know why? if you pick a dress with multicolours and abstract patterns, i'll tell you that the dress looks like my house curtains or my bedsheet. if you pick a dress with flutter sleeves, i'll tell you that i hate the sleeves. i don't think i am cut out for these sleeves. i like only polo t-shirts and jeans and bermuda shorts, and crocs (crocs are uglily beautiful!). therefore, i admit, i am quite monotonous, it's either black or white or checked pattern when it comes to preferences for dresses.

still, i wore a black dress and for the first time ever, i think i really dressed accordingly to the dress code. it's ok. wearing a dress is not as terrible and horrifying as i first thought. therefore, no regrets in buying that dress. it's a tad too expensive for a non-earning student, but it's worthfull. the fabric is nice and of good quality, but what's important is that, i felt happy wearing it. i may not look very pretty in the dress, but it's comfortable and i felt confident when i was wearing it. it feels not that bad being a girl. yesterday, i really thought that being a girl is wonderful: girls get to wear beautiful dresses. [though i don't behave like one. hohoho]

oh, my dear sis! hurry up! get a good guy and get married quick! so that your little sister can still wear that dress of hers for a second time before she generates more fat.

sigh, why does the clock ticks so fast when it's fun time?

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