Trip, and More Trip~

The last week burned a lot of holes on my wallet T.T

We went for the movie 2012 last thursday. The whole cinema was full and luckily my friend asked his brother bought the ticket for us first.

The movie was...ok. It was more of CG Feast. The plot is ridiculous to a certain extent and hard to take the movie seriously. But those destruction of various places were done pretty nice....really great to look at. But I certainly hope end of the world won't come so soon :P

And then friday, we had a liquor party again cause Astley brought his younger brother along. The little guy definitely has the potential of a great tanker ^^

We played poker too. Man, the game was really addicting. It's like you can't stop once you start losing and try to win some back...scary. Luckily we didn't play big XD

Saturday was rather uneventful.

But Sunday? Another story. I don't know what's up with my housemates as they suddenly came out with the idea to go to Cameron Highland. It was raining so then we changed last minute to Ipoh (again).

Nothing much to do, just eating at the "Dong Gu Teng", a food court with lots of stuffs....

Speaking of rain, it has been raining everyday these few weeks. A pain to dry my clothes. And I think I'm getting the flue...sigh. Sometimes raining too often is quite troublesome....

The Graveyard Book

It's raining nonstop today. There's nothing much to do except siting in front of my pc and surfing the net. And now I'm running out of web page to surf...so, why don't I update my blog? I've been planning to update with a review of this novel I've finished reading recently. It's just that I got sidetracked a lot. Heh.

Anyway, this is the book and its title is The Graveyard Book.


It was, I think 3 weeks or more ago when I visited Borders Book Store. I actually had other book in mind to purchase (ahemspider-manahem), but the novel caught my attention, somehow. It was cheaper (35.90) and the title plus synopsis attracted to me. Also, the novel is written by a guy called Neil Gaiman, whom I know is a fantastic writer and happened to write Whatever Happened To The Caped Crusader, one of my favorite Batman stories.

So I picked the book to the counter.

The official synopsis goes something like this...
Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod's family . . .

Sounds interesting right?

I finished reading the novel in 2 weeks time (could have been shorter if I want). The story is broken into 8 parts, each a stand alone story and linked to create a bigger one. The characters are fascinating. The main boy Bod (short for Nobody) is one interesting fellow. The whole book is on his growth into a young man and you can see his change from a adventurous rebellious boy into a thoughtful young man who finally able to stand on his own.

There's a range of nice support characters too. There's Silas the caretaker, who is a badass vampire. A pair of kind ghosts acting as his parents. A werewolf. Ghost of a Witch. Death itself. That's a lot right? Each is unique and drives the story in own way....

I think there's some metaphor for life and death somewhere in the story, or so I heard from the reviews. I think it's a nice coming of age story, with the main character growing from a toodle into a young man. The ending is particularly bittersweet....yeap, so read it and find out.

Oh...the rain has stopped but the night still feels cold. So I think I better call it a night. Sweet dreams!

Selfish People

Think I should write these down when I still feel the anger.

It's really annoying you know? There's this little thing called PPStream where you can stream live video. People say it's the best thing EVA!!!!1111!!!

It's the best thing ever if you're the one using. But when you are sharing one internet connection with multiple housemates...pls be more considerate la.

PPStream eats away most of our connection and we are left with extremely weak internet speed. Facebooking, youtube, check mail and everything become a pain. You are building you happiness on our pain!

I dunno why after we told you on and on again and you still din listen. Stop looking for new shows!!!

It's all right if you are currently 'chasing' 2 or 3 shows and watch like 2 hours per day. But stop looking for new shows and some unrelated shows when you are too free. Pls be more considerate lah!!!!!

Really really annoying

My Lonely Corner

Well, it just occurs to me that I still feel left out sometimes.

Not so bad actually...just feel so hopeless about it.

And there's lots of things...sometimes there's a lot of things you have done, but people never seem to appreciate and recognize it. It's like they turn a blind eye to it.

I guess it can't be helped. I guess I'm already get over it. I just have to survive by myself.

I am strong now.

Pay Money to Suffer

Heh, that's what I think on this latest trip to KL on last weekends.

It literally came out of nowhere. A housemate said want to go KL for a vacation or something and everyone agreed, and I got pulled into it along. Oh well.

The destination for the trip is Sunway Pyramid because some housemates don't want to go shopping, but just want to play. Sunway Pyramid was chosen because of the ice skating. They were pretty excited for it.

Not me unfortunately. And my sixth sense was proven correct. Ice skating was an absolute disaster for me. I couldn't play well at all and all I could do was crawling using the wall. A plain waste of money (RM30 btw)

Sunway Pyramid definitely looks different now. During my last visit to there (when I was standard 6!), it was quite small and nothing much there. Now it looks so high class and huge!

Anyway, we had TGI Friday for dinner. I've been looking forward to this and very interested to try the restaurant. It was costly, but, hey, once in a while right? We made the wrong orders. We should have share a set per two person. The quantity was too much!!! It's like we paid money to suffer the wrath of overwhelming food!!! At least now I know when I go for a second time, I will share with another person

Saturday night, the housemates wanted to go clubbing. I would say they have became quite crazy and alcohol crazy. I didn't join them as I went to my relatives' house to stay over the night. My God, the house was huge and really comfortable. I particularly love that private mini theater room with bluray. Awesome. I want that kind of house in the future too!

We spent the rest of our sunday trip on shopping spree. Buying clothes was the plan. Damn. I was getting fatter and it was quite difficult to get some nice clothes that I desired. In the end, I only bought two, and one of them couldn't fit me....looks like I need to buy again sometimes....

Something funny occurred when we finally returned back to Kampar. One housemate locked the door of the house which none of the house residents has the key!!! We had to break the door knob to enter. Break and Enter!!!

Overall, quite an ok trip, not much planning and didn't travel enough. Guess conflicts of ideas and interest will do that. I want to go to KL again, preferably with less people (9 in this trip) so we can coordinate more and go more places....

Becoming an Entrepreneur?

Hi guys, what's up? This is the third semester, a short sem actually. Naturally we would think it will be more relaxing and more time to well, um, play. Too bad. Unfortunately, while we just study 2 subjects, we have double the classes. So, we still are quite busy....sigh

Now, about the classes. One of them is the IT for Management. Seriously? How many times we have to study IT over and over again? Plus the lecturer and tutor are not helping. They are not very good at teaching and we just doze off when they are putting us to sleep.

But Entrepreneurship, now we're talking. That's one interesting subjects. Frankly, the lecturer is not very good. But the tutor is wonderful. He can make the whole class interesting with his teachings and the way he teaches, it's definitely out of the box. He's like an entrepreneur himself!

On a side note, UTAR system is really frustrating. There's multiple timetables and it's unknown that which is correct which is wrong, and then conflicting time too. Stupid UTAR.

Oh well, this sem is full of sunshine ahead!

Holiday Chronicles

Wahaha, so I've designed to change my blog name to *drumroll~* "A Lazy Guy's Blog"! Fitting, isn't it? ^^

Hehe. Anyone, it's the end of my second term holiday. I'm heading back to Kampar to suffer another term tomorrow. It was a 3 week term holidays. I had tried to write about my activities over the holidays, but my laziness got the better of me. Isn't that always the case? I had planned to write more about my Semester 2, but guess what? I was too lazy to write about it too.

Ok, ahem. Back to the topic. the 3 weeks holiday was pretty uneventful compared to my first semester holiday. Mainly because I had no transport. I could only use my mum' bike during the night or on weekends. So I was trapped in my little apartment most of the day, online-ing, eating and watching TV. I guess I gained quite a lot of weight these 3 weeks. T.T

There were still some interesting stuffs. I went to Genting Highlands with few of my KTAR friends. To tell the truth, it was just an ok trip. Mainly I'm not that kind of guy who enjoyed thrill rides. I really enjoyed the cool weather there though. Imagine Malaysia has 4 seasons and sometimes it's cool like Genting....Anyway, it's also the first time I went into a casino. I must say, it is a terrible place. Smoking, some not so nice and friendly looking people, and gambling. My 2 friends went ahead and gambled. I looked at them losing money...in the end lost about RM300. Scary place.

Oh ya, we went to the Genting Hotel's restaurant for RM50+ buffet. Not exactly worth it....nothing exotic. Should've gone to Penang buffet....

Let me refresh my memory a while, oh ya, there's still went out with another group of former KTAR classmates. It was nice catching up too. I hope we could do some gathering next year during CNY. It will be fun~

So the new semester starts now. I'm really lucky to able to pass all my subjects last sem. I must be more hardworking this sem.....Gambateh!

Wow...a kinda positive post for once :D