Oh my goodness I'm so blur.

I can't get any worse.

I woke up this evening (after a long nap), and went to take a shower. I took a nice long warm shower, and then came out and was surprised that the room door was closed and the room was dark (I think, or were the lights on, I'm not even sure anymore.)

Then I proceeded to (turn on the lights if it wasn't on) dry my hair blablabla. And then I walked out of the room and "Eh? Miss Tan not at home? She went out ha.".

But it was normal if she went out for a short while, maybe to the laundry, maybe to Diong's room, maybe down to get some things from somebody from the foyer. But then I sat here, for like 15 minutes to half an hour or so, and I'm like...eh...where's this girl? I look to my right (where she normally sits) and uh oh. I notice her keys. Did she forget her keys?

So I asked Diong, eh do you know where she is? And he's like "nop".

And that was when I realised why the room door was closed. I opened it, looked into the room, and there she was, peacefully sleeping under the covers.



Oh, and happy independence, my beloved home country!

Canberra turning into Gotham?

I recently heard this saddening piece of news.

Apparently a lecturer was assaulted by a person (I'm guessing student) with a knife late one day around 8.30pm.

The outcome, I do not know, but the lecturer was not harmed (not seriously, anyway).

But the fact that these things are happening, that I now have to watch my back while I travel the safe streets of Canberra, I do not like. I love this place, for the security it provides me, for the safe environment, amongst many other things.

And if one day, should it turn unsafe like big cities such as Sydney or KL, I might fled town and run to an even more remote area. And THAT is something I definitely do NOT look forward to.

=(

So cute.

The other day, CP came back to Canberra, to say hi and to pick up some more of her stuff (I think).

She came with Kenny from Melbourne, and they drove here in a cute little Smart car, full of advertisements!!

But I've never actually seen a Smart car up close with people in them. I usually see them parked by the road or driving by.

And whilst I didn't have long to bond with CP during her extremely short visit, or long to say "HI!" to Kenny who was driving, or long to admire the cute car as there were cars coming behind, I DID manage to get this (and CP might just hate me for putting it up *wink*) :

Haha! So ngam!

These few days I've been running around searching for extra jobs due to my extremely high load of expenses from the payment of airfares.

And then I sleep really late, as my time at home is spent working on my huge amounts of assignments that continue to pile up.

And as I am trying to give my head a rest from reading my Sociology brick, I decided to flip through the comics in the papers today.

I browsed through them, and then decided to have a look at the horoscope. And that was when I had a little giggle:

"As financial issues affect Taurean emotions at the moment, it is likely you will do as much as you can to bring in a more satisfactory income. Efforts should bring results."

I can't wait for the "results"! =)

Sigh...

I just came across another blog post defaming the effort put in for Malam Gemilang.

At this point, I really can't be too bothered anymore. The event is past and gone, what's done is done.

But sometimes, I just don't get it. Oh, and gosh this person complained oh-so-much about nothing, which makes it much much worse than xxx, I dare even say. On that note, thank you xxx for your apologies and for your acknowledgement of the effort put in.

And, truly, sometimes I think people do NOT deserve what they're getting.

Having read the many loads of comments on that post alone, I guess I'm not alone in thinking so. But I did have a good laugh.

And in light of everything...

here's what the Project Manager - Mohd Aimran Mohamed sent out through email. An appreciation to each and everyone who contributed to the wonderful event. I just figured they should be recognised not just amongst ourselves.

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Dear all committee members and head of performers for MG 2008

Congratulations on the wonderful team work in MG 2008! It was certainly a night to remember. I had so many VIPs complimenting the event and said they enjoyed it very much.

It was success of small2 successes we have from every committee. Therefore a combined big success! En Fadil, En Sharifuddin, Colin Mackenzie were really enjoying themselves that night. The lecturers of ANU and many of the Permanent residents praised the committee for smooth flow of event.

Special thanks goes to:

1. Aznan - for his ticketing and registration team
2. Wei Ling- for her well management of various performances
3. Afiq - for travelling all around canberra n sydney transporting stuff
4. Puteri & Zhafir & her team - for their creative ideas in decorating NCC
5. Chi Yao - who has worked hard with organising raffles and will be working hard to clear the claims
6. Faris - who made sure the food was nice
7. Hazel & Sher Reen - for keeping people informed of the event. great persuasion, publicity and marketing!
8. Felix & Acap - for their job well done in controlling the AV during the night
9. Sze Huey & Yeam - for able to get sponsorships and many raffles prizes this year
10. Azwann & Izzudin - the man behind the scene, manage to control crowd and performances superbly!
11. Xin & Will - for their great emceeing!
12. Yeam & Ejaws - basically .... for the exciting videos =)
13. Bob, Amanda, Maha, Hana Mai, Justina - for the handling of dances. great choreography!
14. Eriziana - for managing the academic awards
15. Izzudin - for handling the here in my home band
16. Zaza - for the background of Welcome to Malam Gemilang and selecting sound tracks to be played
17. And of course - the sketchers, dancers for hang tuah the legend and Here in my home

I do apologize if I have said anything wrong, caused too much trouble and taken too much of your time for this event. It is certainly a great experience working with you guys and I hope everyone had a good experience in organising such event. Nevertheless, I do hope next year's MG will improve and be a better one.

Thanks guys!

Aim
Coming together is a beginning
Keeping together is progress
Working together is success

In reply.

Dear xxx :

If Malam Gemilang only meant Malaysian food buffet to you, I don't know how you have the right to be criticising all else.

It was a night to celebrate our independence, you said so yourself, and yet if you went only for the food, where do your loyalties lie? Where do your priorities lie?

If you put Ursula Ball above a celebration of the independence of your country, and couldn't even muster up the effort to dress up for it, tell me, where do you stand on giving out comments about how the night turned out.

The opening video was not meant to be confusing, if you did even mildly listened to what the MCs said. It was meant to showcase our cultural diversity, a mix of what our country has to offer, a mix, a blend, a confusion - in that sense, of the wonders of how we come together as a country.

Non-existent mic problems, my dear friend, is something that is an externality. As students we do not have our own top notch PA systems. We rely on what our tight budget can get us, and for what we had that night, I thought it pretty well.

Yes, your sources were right, it was the FIRST time, for us all to be on stage to sing "Here in my home", but try gathering all those people at one venue at one time. As a student yourself, I'm sure you're aware of what commitments we have to our studies, to our assignments, to our classes. And personally, aside from the forgotten lines, and save my horrendous try at rapping, I'd say we managed to show our unity, as a group of Malaysians, as a group of friends.

Shoddy deco. Again. We were on a tight budget. Unlike ISD decorations, which definitely didn't look like it was their own effort (not a negative comment), ours were at least our own effort, our own hard work. Be supportive of your fellow student friends. Take the time out to appreciate that they spent time working on those decorations amongst the loads of uni works that they had to deal with.

To err is human. To forget lines, when you're a narrator and have an entire story to tell, is normal. Normal narrators do not even appear on stage, and have the entire script right in front of them. Heck, I as the MC couldn't even remember a single line of my own. And Akram took the trouble to memorise 90% of his lines. Does his forgetting one line tarnish his remembering his 100 others? No. But apparently in your eyes, it does.

While it wasn't supposed to be that much of a casual event, it WAS meant to be a comedic Malaysian show. And if you didn't get that, well, you're the one who's lost. Or did you not notice the many comedic acts we put in? Did you not notice the funny acts? And costumes are supposed to complete the act, not make it formal. How else would you play a part of the Sultan if you don't dress up as one? How else would you show support for your fellow mates if you don't even bother to dress formally for a formal event when it's strictly stated that the dress code is formal/traditional?

Curtain failures. If it's one of our worst faults, I must definitely commend Akram for making it hilarious. He definitely turned what could be a panic attack into one of a light mood, one that entertained the crowd - entertainment is called so for a reason.

More so, an event run and managed by a student body, on a tight budget, CANNOT, IN ANY SENSE, be compared to an Olympic event, which would definitely be supported by the government and the country. Try scaling things down a little, to a more sensible scale at least.

And just to be a pest, it was $49. The committee did NOT charge you that extra dollar, just so more people would come. But NO, many did not even bother to show their support for their country. Their reasoning - I spent lots of money during the holidays. I went to the International Ball so I don't have any more money for this. One of these were your own words.

Tell me, how do we shape up and be capable of better when many of you won't even show your support for your friends, lest your country.

My dear friend, before you comment about others, do reflect upon your own actions first.

Do realise that this is not so much of a comeback to your post, but more of a voice for those who worked hard. And more so a reply in the hope that you realise the amount of effort they put into everything and appreciate them for it. You're right in the sense that we can be better, but we've all got to start somewhere. And now, we can learn from our mistakes. =)

A night of blunders and wardrobe malfunction.

That night was last night. The night of Malam Gemilang.


Of which I was one of two hosts for the evening.
Of which I embarrassed myself on stage.
Of which I first sang in front of a crowd.
Of which I first rapped, like ever - quite a failure I must add.
Of which I forged many closer friendships.
Of which I learnt that racism in Malaysia manages to spread itself to Australia through it's supposed dignitaries.
Of which I learnt that no matter how hard I try I can't please everyone.
Of which I learnt that I TRULY TRULY have ZERO luck in raffles.
Of which I paid a hefty price to be hungry and heat up a cold pie once I reached home.
Of which I realised sometimes things are just not meant to be.

But I had good fun. I definitely did.

Gifted.

I came across an IQ test on a friend's Facebook profile page, so I decided to go do one.

I googled and found a site with a free IQ test. So I did it.

The result: my IQ is 134...which translates to Gifted, of which only 2.3% of the test takers achieve.

I tembak-ed the last two answers, so I also don't know whether those two were right.

But ahahahha! Gifted! Fuiyohhh...

=0

Fall For You.

If you haven't heard it yet, it's about one of the most current emo love songs playing on the air.

Go have a listen to Secondhand Serenade - Fall For You.

It's nice. Really.