Listening to : Josh Groban - Starry Starry Night
Feeling : Nostalgic, actual physical pain

I was just enjoying a quiet night in today after workin till 6am the day before on something i didn't even have to submit ( and because i cant really move much anyway after today's fencing) , when i decided to clean up my 250 gigger. I also updated my photo backups - and flipped through a couple albums. Hahaha - suddenly missed all you crazy Linstead people again - sigh . Thought of putting up some of those classic ones, but there were just too freakin many. (louder sigh)

Had our first proper MSA commitee meeting today. Apparently to warm up my bootsies for MNite i'm in charge alone of the Raya/Xmas celebration thing in 4 weeks - a quick 15 min skit, and the odd performance . Hope i can make sense of the random ideas in my head for the skit.

Another overdue update.....

Last week has been kinda busy, interesting AnD fun! Lets see...where to start -ooh how about a little rant to warm up. Jac, for the duration of the next rant you are a SINGAPOREAN, aight!

Freaking Hongkeys!!

Good god in heaven - what the fUcKiNG HELL is wrong with those people!!! All the hongkeys i've ever met through Oundle, Imperial and Warwick are outright utter abberations of human nature!! Seriously - they go all out to stand out - from fuckin annoying fake accents, dressing to the point where even vivienne westwood would even say " oh puh-lease dahling", dragonball hairstyles and whatnot. They are of course bitterly clannish, refuse to speak english unless its a life-or death thing and talk like they got loudhailers for nostrils and ALWAYS sit on the outer empty seat on buses and trains.

There are quite a few Warwick blogs ( all students are encourage to keep blogs on campus servers) that condemn their unwillingness to conform and the quality of their english, and a few of my M'sian friends have also noted icy 'cari pasal' stares of death from said hongkeys whenever they are seen with some of the pretty-ish hong-kong girls. They are also soo short on social graces - they chew like open wood mulchers, have halitosis that can melt a biohazard suit and they have no concept of what a queue is. wAArrgh - instead of spending their money on their oh-so tacky digs and LV and Gucci they should hire a whole army of finishing school instructors to whip them into passable humans. Jeez

Aaaah that felt good. Now we return to our regularly scheduled blogging... ( okay jac you can start reading again)

A Week In Words

Thursday - Pretty much relaxed day. Caught up with some Management and Manufacturing reading, and went to the International Society's HEAT event that night - arabic, salsa, greek, bhangra etc. Wasnt as fun as the last HeAT during orientation, but that was party because despite intense badgering, the only person Nadia and i could get to go was Taib. All the others bloody didnt come or FFK.

Friday - A helluva long day - was out from 1100 to 2300. Started out with another CAD lab, then lectures from 2-6 with one break in between. Then Taib and i had to go straight to meet up with the other fencers for the fencing social - all you can eat chinese in coventry. Pretty darned good for 12 pounds. Got back stupidly stuffed.

Saturday - Slept in, then lepak in Coventry with taib - he went to get a haircut, but ended up hair-cutless but with a new pair of shoes- hahaha. I just checked out the asian market there and got some stuff to cook dinner and instant noodles. Rained the whole bloody there tho. That night made thai sweet basil beef, sayur campur and rice for dinner - Wave, kiok sin, nadia and cheryl joined. Plans to meet up with some other jokers for drinks later didnt work out due to some ' communication ' problems - hee hee hee. Tesco was closed to so no one drank. Sadness.

Sunday - Woke up late the next day - just in time to get some 'work' done, and then went to the gym with Nadia. Suey like kok - the minute i left the hall it started raning like mad, and the second i got there it stopped. Ahh....forgot how shiok it was to bukak puasa with a nice swig of water when you're dying on the treadmill.....Cooked again that night ( baked pandan chicken - no oil - not nearly as pandan-ish) for the same party sans Kiok.

Monday - Kinda panicked when we all learnt that the Aesthetics of design coursework was due that day. Sommore couldn't finish it before 12 because of the Warwick MSA AGM. Luckily many ppl had problems with the online submission so i hope they'll be lenient with it. Finally - my knowledge of artists and designer products came in handy.

Also learnt about the AGM at the very last minute - went there just to see how it went. Had absolutely no intention of running for anything - until i saw that there was a post specially for running Mnite and their other cultural events the cultural officer. So on the spot i cooked up a bloody cock speech ( actually used only half of it) and i got the post! yay! I'm not gonna let the fact that it was 3 ppl running for 2 spots take away the glory but there - haha at least the other winner was last year's one who ran again. At least got someone to clean up after me! Semangatness!!!

Tuesday - normal-ish - got my new epee from leon paul(sweeeeet). Normal lectures, normal work . Can't wait to christen my epee tonight with some serious bruising!!!

Thats it for now.....the next week should also be fairly interesting, what with the first commitee meeting and Soul Nation on friday...yay

Feeling - tired but full
Listening to - Khia - Lick It Good

LUummpHAAR my procrastination is kicking in again - leaving behind some maths to the very last minute for my tutorial tomorrow. Oh well - at least its pretty doable calculus. And some stupid Excel skills thing i finished in a half hour. Supposed to start after my chinese takeaway and an episode of Samurai 7 but now i guess its after i finish blogging- hee hee hee...

The weekend was quite alright - made it to casa Pinky around 10-ish ( which was strangely overrun with slugs outside) . Aside from the normal silliness we just watched Zatoichi and White Chicks with a BK break in between.

The next day i amazingly managed to do all my essential shopping before noon - picked up the odd stationary and chocs at Selfridges ( gave the Mens dept a pass) and got some schweet new kit at Leon Paul - a pair of proper fencing shoes and a ganas Podznyakov saber( jealous ar jac?:)). Caught up with Darren, Fong May and her sis for lunch( didn't eat, of course) and then raided Harrods for some krispy kreme just in time for breaking my fast. Rounded off the day with a sweet japanese dinner with them too ( fINAlly ate at that hidden place at Picadilly Circus) .

Actually managed to leave early-ish the next day. Met up with (introducing)Nadia at Euston to catch a train back - would have left a little earlier if sOMeONe kept her wallet herself hmnn? Too shacked to do any work by the time i got back.

Normal boring monday. Normal boring TopB. Supposed to come early for the fencing session today for team tryouts for an away match on Weds , but because of the IMechE talk we had to go to i was kinda late and they'd already picked the sabre team by then. Wasnt a total loss though - out of the three they picked i beat two, and somehow i managed to give the third a cut under his glove. They'd better bloody well consider me for the next match then.....

And that pretty much sums up the last coupla of days. Too tired and too lacking time to be particularly funny or rant-ty. BtW guys if its rants you want, do check out marcus and roger's co-blog - haha wickedly bitchy for a site just ran by two guys!! ( no i'm not simply putting up the add - sure mati one...hahaha) . Till my next post.... i'll just leave you with the mental image of Tao singing the song i was listening to....

My back, my neck.....

Bleurgh - obviously, a whole day in the cold cold rain at Alton Towers yesterday didn't do much good. Woke up with headaches and a bitch of a sore throat - obviously felt fookin 'orrible. To top it off, my wisdom teeth have picked this moment to come out - praying like hell its gonna be pain and problem free.

Speaking of waking up, i was so dead tired after the day out and fencing too, that i slept through both my alarms. Luckily, i happened to open my eyes as the clock was at 8.55 - i had a 9.00 lab. Clocked a new record - from bed to lab in just about 6 minutes....... just threw on some random clothes and ran like fuck...luckily it was only a solidworks CAD lab, and i was wayy ahead on that particular assignment......

I guess i'll be coming down to London Friday night cos Leon Paul closes early on saturdays, and thats the main reason i'm coming down this time.....hmn....who to crash with ar?

Feelin - aching in places i never knew could ache ( body wise, not any syrupy wishy-washy emotional aches)
Listening to - Kanye West - Jesus Walks ( bum - bum - bum bumbumbum)

Hockay i have a lot of catching up to do again, so bear with me as i do this in my lazy-ass reverse chronological style again...



Adrenaline Overdose

Skipped a tutorial today ( yes i told my tutor in advance and YEs i did all the work) to go for the Warwick Msoc's day trip to Alton Towers. Schweet amusement park - mostly it was pants but they had some good roller coasters alongside all the normal fair-ish crap. Noteworthy mentions -

- The haunted house , where some pillock thought it'll be cool to convert into this laser tag-ish thingy - its like a normal rail ride through a haunted house, except you're busy shooting laser taggers at lights all over the place which is kinda stupid because you don't even notice any of the typical haunted house pop-ups and shit - like they'd actually scare you anyway. And you get points.
- Hex, where you sorta tour part of the old castle 'under restoration' , watch cheesy dramatization of the legend behind the 'curse' on the family who lived there, and end up in a room where they spin the seats and the whole ROOM in a tumble dryer style so that is seems like you're doing complete turns around the room.
- Air and Nemesis - vicious roller coasters - the first straps you in in a crawling position so its like you're flying, and the latter leaves your feet dangling, and its bloody fast and violent. We rode both twice.
- Oblivion - another roller coaster that only has one drop...but its a long vertical one....yeeks.

Despite it raining pretty much the whole damn day, we also got on a load of other rides and had oodles of fun.....

Got back just in time to go off for the fencing session. Beat the team's tresurer and drew with the captain at saber - go me! Need to get a new saber now tho - my blade's got more kinks and bends than a talmuddic jew's sideburns...which means..ANOTHER LONDON RUN!

On top of my game, so far!

Getting a little more into work this week. Had an actual workshop lab, and some math and concepts( mostly the physics and mechanics) work. Totally pimping at the CAD solidworks lab, and doin sweet on the circuit simulators as well. And i'm soo gonna own at the aesthetics of design module i'm taking - its basically the basics of a-level art again with a skosh of engineering considerations- i'll be needing some pretty specific art stuff which i cant find in bloody coventry, which is another excuse for a LONDON RUN!! Just hope i can keep this semangat-ness up. Ganbate!!!



Campus Nightlife?

After the first week, you pretty much know what to expect of the union, and realized that only like, its only worth going like once a week on certain nights, or sometimes two. If nothing else you can always chill at other peoples rooms.....or join hallmates and the fencing team drinking. Man i've got seriously crazy people in my hall....haha the last two drinking games i missed, when i got back one feller was crawling half naked on the floor and one feller was totally passed out in the common room. But they're quite a bit nicer than most of our Linsteadian hallmates.....

Alrighty i better go get some freakin sleep - bloody 9 am lab tomorrow. Night y'all - probably see you all again this weekend hmmn?

The vertical drop at Oblivion - this shot doesn't quite show you how long it really drops! 

Part of the happy M'sian crew at Alton Towers - Darren you'd love em - all but one are from Taylors! 

Feeling : Happy-ish, but dead tired
Listening to : Anuar Zain - Semua Untukmu

God I love that song - don't really know whether its the lyrics or the melody but i've been listening to it loads over the past couple of months. Funnily enough, i remember someone telling me that i looked kinda like him ( ages ago, before he presumably stopped cutting his hair and sold all his razors to raise money to make his recent album) . aaAAnd thats the bit of random Amar rambling for today..

Just got back from London and finally finished unloading and unpacking all my worldly posessions on this side of the world. Sorting and tidying up is an adventure for another day i say. Got into London around Saturday evening ( damned coventry buses and london tubes) , and took the 2200-ish train back Sunday. Lu and Yi Shan were nice enough to help out carrying the last shipment of my effects from Gloucester to Euston station.

Quick summary of the fun-fun adventures over the weekend :
- Hiccuped right through from friday morning until sunday afternoon. Whoever put that bloody curse on me better own up - i have my eye on you Naruto fans....
- Got ushered into the kitchen to help cook dinner as soon as i arrived at Casa de Pinky. Hospitality.
- Scared Vivian by leaping out of the closet in their room. Fuckin classic.
- Sibuk-sibuk a bit at IC's international fresher's lunch-thing. Didn't actually eat lunch though.
- Had lunch with the big D and the F to the M at Ikkyusan, Chinatown.
- Had dinner with Lionel, Charl, Yi Shan and Lu at Nandos while the others went to Four Seasons

Feeling : overly smug with myself
Listening to : Terror Squad - Lean back

I guess i should be living in fear right now. Had such a good time at Soul Nation on friday night i'm bound to have some major bad luck coming my way if my karma is still how it is. Waay better than the orientation thingy last week. Music was not as good, but its alll in the company innit?;) Tried to get drunk again. Still failed after a snakebite, a smirnoff, tequila, 2 aftershocks and a coupla other random drinks. Oh well - i have more fun dancing sober anyway aiiii?

First week here wasnt so bad. Being the repentant little boy i went to every single lecture and seminar no matter how boring or irrelevant it was. Got a little headstart on the reading and assignments too. Still no course material covered in the lectures yet though. Think i'm gonna like how the course is laid out.

Of course, my parents also wont bloody quit about telling me to mix with the locals too, so i did. Buwahahaha showed 'em a thing or two - had really fun drinking games Monday night. Gotta teach you this one game called '21' . Some really nice, fun people in my hall. Feeling less and less devoted to the idea of moving out.

Sides that also attended the teams fencing session. Bole la....but my legs hurt like fuckin hell after that - serves me right to leave them on the freakin couch over the whole of summer. They still hurt today, but i somehow made do at the union. No doubt they'll still protest when i haul them off to london Saturday for a final stuff run. Hahaha i'm counting on you guys to kick me out by saturday night....pleasse?

Well thassit i guess. Sorry for the curt, short update. Its almost 4 am and i AM fuckin tired. See y'all later...