Saturday, July 26, 2008

Of one or many?

Hmmm it seems that a few or maybe it's just one has taken an interest in spamming my blog. Please go and find smth more constructive to do. You can go study or you can try to earn money. You can go plant wheat or padi since thats like ur only capability or u can go out and beg with that fucked up face of urs. I dont care.. just drop dead from my blog. Thank you!

And if u're waiting for a response from me on the cbox then i suggest u pratice patience for:

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Go and hv ur fun u uneducated brat. =)

We were all....

I hv to wake up at 6 to attend some talk in the main campus which lasts till 4. Ceramah Budaya Akademik.. Wow. How nice! How Grand! How fucked up! 1 out of 500 and i got lucky, why cant i get as lucky when im buying toto damnnit?

Anyway, dad visited 2 days ago and brought me out for dinner! Seafood at bukit tambun which was D.I.R.T. cheap! 3 pax ordered 9 dishes and it came out to about RM99? Hmmm, i had *takes long breath* scallop, prawns, oysters, fish, shellfish, small octopus, and 2 plates of noodles. It was the only edible chinese meal i had since coming here.
Dad did not come empty handed thankfully. The most important thing he brought me was my sci calc. Surviving 3 weeks in an ENGINEERING campus w/o a calc was smth! And since i asked for another pillow, he got me 1 too and my scout shoes and my mom gave me lots of snacks and sweets. No complains there!

On another note, some of u might've known that i was asked to give a speech last friday nite. I had 2 days to prepare my speech and the only help i got was "Talk bout anything, talk bout the orientation." Dont feel like eff-ing any1 at midnite that time so i just accepted it. Anyway if u're interested to find out what's in my speech then read on else u can click the x. =)



A very good evening to the Honourable Dean of Civil School Engineering, , Deputy Dean of Graduate Studies and Research Professor Madya Dr. Badrul Hisham Abu Bakar, Lecturers, School Staff, Facilitators, seniors and fellow students. I, David Yap as representative of the yr 1 students am greatly honoured to be given the chance to speak on this historic event.
Ladies and gentleman, the Greek Historian, Herodotus once said, “ It is better to have a stout heart always and face our share of evils than to be ever fearing of what might happen” It is with these words in mind that I selected Universiti Sains Malaysia and look where I’m standing today!
First and foremost, we would like to extend a foreword of thanks and gratitude to the Honourable Dean and Deputy Dean(s), Chaiperson(s) and Chiefs of various bodies for gracing this event with their presence and also to the facilitators whom without which the events of the past week will not have happened.
We were taught on the first night to not only listen but to the pay attention to the words spoken to us and the lesson that I present to u today is to not see and accept right away what people want you to see but to able to think and decipher the bigger picture.
Ladies and Gentleman, we were all born engineers! Since the moment we were born, we were already building bridges. The very first bridge we constructed was the bridge to our mother’s heart and what a marvellous piece of engineering it was as it can only strengthen and will never crumble! Soft skills ladies and gentleman, is crucial in our life. How so? Please spend a moment to ponder my next question; how is friendship and relationship formed or maintained and what is their importance? Let not then the bridges we construct be made of straws that might crumble under the weight of a brick, for of all worldly possessions, a friend is the most precious. Let those bridges be like the one we formed with our mothers and let us wield this skill when we build physical bridges in the future!
Nevertheless, we cannot spend all of our time on building bridges and this is where time management sets in. I am lousy in managing my time, especially when im sleeping. Oftentimes I’ll just off the alarm and go back to sleep. On the contrary, I think the rest of you are already very adept in managing your time but for the past week, I believe we all have further honed our skill. With academic classes in the morning and assignments to juggle on top of having to attend orientation which lasts till midnight, good time management skills is vital to ensure that we are able to juggle between responsibilities without any neglect or sacrifice of either except for those who skip classes or orientation then they wouldn’t hv done much polishing. ;)
Ladies and gentlemen, Sustainability! A concept formulated essentially to conserve the environment but actually acts to harmonise things between nature and mankind. And although it is imperative, it is IMHO that harmony between mankind is far more important. We owe our very existence to a group of people who worked together to overcome all odds stacked against them by Mother Nature to not only live but to thrive and prosper. In this modern day, we are constantly thrust into groups and teams and I do not have to look far for an example, this orientation itself has 10 different groups! If members of a group could not reach an understanding, they can not work together. Then how can the team prosper and aim to achieve success? Congruently, every team requires one sole leader for too many cooks spoil the broth. However, that is not to say that team members need to follow exactly as they are told, for the leader is never always right. Team members are required to be active and to be able to use their own judgements on every matter. It is necessary to follow but it is more important to be able to lead when necessary.
I believe that I have overstayed my invitation and might have started to be a bore. But before I get carried off this stage, allow me to speak for all year 1 students that we are truly proud to be a member of this family and we promise that we will strive to our very best to achieve excellence. For we are usm and usm is us! Thank you and enjoy the evening.


The lesson that i presented was what i got during SR. We scouts know the lesson as the pen =).

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

You want my life?

It was the 28th of june but i hv no idea where i am! It damn right wasnt kl, for there werent enough tall wait a minute.. there aint no tall buildings to be seen! Eff-ing kampung. It was the 28th june and im registering into USM today!
What happened the night before, lets not talk bout it. The only thing was i crashed my car and it was badly damaged. Apparently the whole door has to be changed but while my mom was telling me that she wasnt angry. Not even a hint of anger or disappointment! Queer...very.
The first 3 nights were terrible! Horrendous! Suffering! Torturing!
I live in a 4 man room and it's HUGE. So huge that im running out of space to put my things! The only solace is that i hv only 2 other room mates which leaves 1 bed empty which means more space which actually means more cobwebs or insects which means that everytime i enter my room a flurry of activity greets me.
Talking bout insects, there's one we call 'cali'. It's shaped as an ant but it has wings and is striped red and black. The thing bout this 'cali' is that the liquid it squirts or emits when it's dead is corrosive to the skin. The sensation is akin to burning and if u touch the woud with ur hand then ur hand will get it too. I am so damn happy that i get to live in a 'cali' infested block. My board and wall already has 'cali' corpses.
THE HEAT CAN KILL. Well not directly. But it does get very hot somedays and since im a city boy i cant sleep when it gets too hot. Even with my clothes off and the fan running at a speed of 4 (5 is good but too noisy) i sometimes find it hard to fall asleep! Twice there was a power outage and yours truly woke up just in time to watch the fan stop spinning. Looking to his roommates, he marvels at their ability to sleep non-chalantly. Might they be feeling cold?
Heat is one thing having a short bed is another. Bed's suppose to be 6 ft but since im only 5 ft 10 and i dont think ive grown, there should be an excess of 2 inches rite? WRONG! My leg protrudes outward by at least a foot when i sleep and im forced to either sleep diagonally or with my head touching the damn wall which has a yellowish, black colour to it. Real clean!!
The best of which is having cold water. Yeap, cold water to drink, cold water to wash my face in and cold water to wash my balls when im already feeling cold! It's 7 in the eff-ing morning and when i raise my hand to turn on the heater it aint there! Every morning is an attack of conscience; " To go in or not to go in, that is the question!" Of coz every time i end up pushing myself into the shower and get it over with as quickly as possible.
But after a week, im already liking this place. No it doesnt hv hot chicks nor does it hv much entertainment but the surrounding and the atmosphere, it's smth that i feel is suited for me. I feel very much at home and i thank myself for choosing this place and i thank god for being able to get enrolled in here.

Tuesday, July 08, 2008

What's UR CGPA?

Thursday 03-07-08

After undergoing orientation for about a week, actually today’s just the 4th day and tmrw will be the last; we finally have some free time to ourselves. We’ve been tortured with speeches and presentation in which some could really bore u to sleep! Then they did what normally would hv been done, introduce us newbies to our campus, stating how good, how grand the campus is. Really very much like how we did it in VI except that we were doing it to recruit boy scouts.

This orientation’s easy for me coz I’ve heard that it’s worse in other uni’s and besides I don’t think there’s anything that could be worse or best SR Month. The only thing I find dissatisfactory is the fact that there aint no hot water, I hv to do my own laundry, my beds so short my legs protrude over it and it’s curry…curry and more curry.

I am gonna tell you guys bout my living experience here but not yet! I’ll do it soon but for today I’ve smth to say\rant\emo about.

The people who come here most of them chose to be here because to them USM is truly one of the best universities in Malaysia. I did choose to be here but I wasn’t sure if I’ll get accepted. Getting in for me was a massive stroke of luck whereas they KNEW they’ll be stepping into this campus. They CGPA ranged from 3.5 to 4.0 except for a few specials who scored lower. And where do I stand? At the damn bottom!! I was forced to calculate my CGPA again and it’s a miserable 3.1. How the fuck did I even get accepted? DO I deserve to be in here?

I’m deeply embarrassed to talk bout my pointers but all I can do when asked is to eat my shame and swallow it into my gut and reply as non-chalantly as I possibly can and wait for their reaction to stay still for a moment before they try to change the topic. However, most do not ask bout my pointer.

Am I inferior to them? NO effing way! But do I feel inferior to them? I do. For the first time since the day I collected my results I can truly say that I regret. I might hv said it b4 but this time it’s lethal. Im asking myself right at this moment that if I wasn’t dota-ing so much and wasn’t so arrogant to forgo tuition for certain subjects might I hv performed better?

But it doesn’t really matter now does it? I’ve done what I’ve done and all I can do now is to live with it, live with my shame and regret until I am able to banish it from myself and turn a new leaf.