It’s been a month since I updated my blog, and I dare say during these 28 days, my life really experienced a drastic change. Right after the Sports Day, I started my Bachelor of Applied Finance AND I finally got my self-owned white MyVi. I seriously can’t believe I am in university now AND i own a petrol-consuming vehicle. I guess these are the significations of me turning into an 18-year old adult.
So let’s start off with the shorter one, which is possessing a car. The day I got my car is also the day I announced my independence! It’s as if I get to go anywhere I want as long as I know the directions without the control of my parents. Before this, I had to get permission from them in order to visit my friends; and the worst thing was they had to send me there, which I don’t like it as I would feel guilty and tired of their complaints (not like I don’t get to hear them yelling at me thinking I’m still a new driver though). That’s why I wasn’t very sociable in my school days and I had few friends since I’m staying really deep inside the unreachable Bukit Rimau enclosed guardhouse area. Even my friends always complain that they had to undergo complicated and unnecessary procedures before getting into my house.
NOT ANYMORE NOW!!
Lately, I became so sociable that I drive to my friends’ houses and also take them around the lovely neighbourhood almost everyday. Because I have transport, I even offered tuition to my friends and I can’t express how much I love teaching people. So, any Form4’s who needs ADD MATHS, CHEMISTRY or ACCOUNTS tuition can feel free to register through me.
The only drawback of owning a car is about the maintenance of it. Since it’s a new car, I got to be really careful in my driving, not to knock onto anything and depreciate my car badly. And since it’s white in colour, I have to clean it often and I really spent lots of time washing and wiping it because it gets really dirty and black especially when it rains and the dust sticks after the rainwater dries up (how I hate the person for insisting to buy white since it’s the cheapest colour that Perodua can offer, and due of that I have to spend so much of my precious time washing the car).
Next would be the influence of university education on a person who takes things so seriously. That’s me, of course. Degree course is so different compared to my previous foundation. There’s no more spoon-feeding by lecturers, and the lecture notes provided are all too simplified. This means we have to go through the immensely thick text books in order to extract information for our learning. This isn’t very pleasant because I read books slowly and I have to waste so many hours just to complete a chapter.
Thanks to Marketing, I have to utilise my whole Sunday just to study for its quiz which happens every Monday. Therefore, my weekend is gone: half spent on completing homework, another half spent on studying for the quiz and washing MyVi.
Besides the overload of work given to me, I have to cope with some kind of anonymous force which constantly directs a tide of waves of people assuming I’m the know-it-all geek. It’s just my second week and supposedly, nobody knows who I am in university. However, it seems that half of my new classmates come seeking me for guidance and directions on academic purposes. Is my personality too obvious or is someone out there spreading rumours about me? I really don’t know.
IT’S NOT LIKE I DISLIKE HELPING PEOPLE, IT’S JUST THAT I NEED TO KNOW THE REAON BEHIND IT, THAT’S ALL. SO DON’T MISUNDERSTAND!
Now, I sort of understand why certain people would prefer living far away from the city or more like away from their jobs. BECAUSE experiencing a life of 24-7 answering questions through SMS and MSN about work (studies in my case) non-stop is so suffocating!
The only thing I enjoyed at Taylor’s now is the fact that Li Jhuin is always studying and this at least proved that I’m not the only nerd who studies during breaks.
THANKS FOR BEING MY COMPANION, LI JHUIN!
And so, I came up with the plan of using the advantage of my new car to overcome the disadvantage of my university life. To take a break from what I described as the Tsunami of work, my solution was to hang-out with friends who I don’t need to mention “work”. Basically, they are my juniors but I prefer to acknowledge them as my good buddies because I feel stress-free when they are around.
Last week was the best because it was school holidays. Although they weren’t mine, I still get to spend more time with them compared to when they are not having their holidays. Furthermore, action-pack movies have become part of my stress-reliever and it’s so fun watching with “non-colleagues”.
So, this was the first movie I watched since the commencement of my degree with my family – Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li. My rating would be 5 out of 10 for this. This is a show rated 18PL, which means for viewers aged 18 and above with a combination of two or more elements, ie. a program with excessive sex-scenes and excessive violence. My mum was offended when she found out about this because she thought that it would be a waste of money since my sister isn’t 18 (neither am I yet). I just told her that it would be alright, and it eventually did at AEON Bukit Tinggi’s TGV Screens.
This movie is well below my expectations because I was expecting half of the scenes to be filled with fighting and in-game character skills. This was totally opposite from what had been described at the viewer’s review shown in The Sun. Unfortunately, nothing much turned out and I was severely disappointed.
I also don’t see a reason why they rate it 18PL when there are no explicit scenes. That misleading rating kept me preparing for those moments when I would feel intimidated and not know how to react whenever I sit beside my parents. So I guess my first above-18 movie experience can’t be considered as one, sadly.
The second movie I got to watch was Dragonball Evolution. It looks like I am a fanatic of game movies but I’m not actually. Just so coincidentally I decided to watch this movie when none’s at the right time. This is one of my best enjoyable moments as I get to go somewhere after class with my best pal, Calvin Soh Boon Kuang. This occurred on last Wednesday right after Accounting lecture. I was so looking forward to this when I can test my driving skills in taking a first-time trip to Sunway Pyramid and coming home safely.
My ratings for this movie is 8 out of 10, which is an A1. Speaking of this reminds me of SPM and congrats to all SPM 2008 scorers. Back to Dragonball, it consists of more amazing fighting scenes, rather than just fists and kicks. Moreover, it has a better storyline than the other movie. Most of all, watching it with Calvin and spending the whole afternoon there was the best.
Surprisingly, we met quite a number of Kota Kemuning students appearing around Sunway, such as Alex Oh and his gang, Benjamin Lim, Wei Yoong, Mary, Amanda and her cousin brother who I can’t remember his name. It’s as if Sunway Pyramid is the only hang-out venue for KK teens.
This is the exciting trailer for the movie.
This is the next movie that I watched on the next day, Wanted 2008. I know this movie is slightly outdated, but the ratings are the best as I would give 9 out of 10 for it, partially thanks to its creativity in bullet shooting and its violence. I watched this at Chee Hong’s (high school acquitance who’s actually my neighbour) house on Thursday. My original intention was to help him update his computer after all our effort of reformatting each other’s computers for weeks. But cool, he downloaded the whole High Definition video through Ares and I get to watch this stupendous movie with him. I would say this show as a must-watch for those who haven’t watch this 1 year old movie yet. Not to forget, there’s Angelina Jolie in it, and she’s really “hot and cool” there.
Here’s the trailer which shows less than 10% of the actions in this movie.
After that day, I thought I was back to my reality life of studies till their next holidays. But I was quite wrong when I get to have some fun time with my tuition students after our Add Maths class. Amanda, Mary, Elaine, my sister and I went for a drive around my Bukit Rimau neighbourhood seeing all the beautiful bungalows and we dropped by the Matahari clubhouse which is relatively small compared to Kota Permai, the one they usually go. Nevertheless, they seemed to like the swimming pool slides as it is the one and only features that Kota Permai doesn’t possess. It was really hillarious when we sang Right Now (Na, Na, Na) together in the car until I sent by sister off to Cikgu Tan’s class.
That is all for my dreams in reality, and I got to get back to work aka studies. Thanks to Alex Loh for introducing Windows Live Writer, making it much for convenient for uploading photos and videos during blogging.
Wishing everyone (school students back to school; SPM leavers into their new intakes; degree students rushing for their assignments) happy studying, including myself!!
P/S: Sorry for the lack of visual media this time! And congrats for reading this far, haha.
