Schwork Frustrations

Hehe. Yup. Just as I've expected when I started this thing last April/May. M.I.A for quite some time now, haven't I? Well, I did say I'll try my hardest to keep this blog alive. Here's another thing though, folks. If you've been super duper awesome and actually read my first post, I did mention that I used to run a personal blog such as this one back when I was in high school and one of the reason I shut it down was because there was nothing interesting in my life to blog about. Well, guess what? Now, I have SO MANY things happening that I can barely keep up! There was a week in early November where I was so busy that I barely had any sleep! That's about where I stopped blogging here too because when I tell ya I have no time, I ain't joking. Boy, was that week insane.

So, anyways, HAPPY NEW YEAR!  Yup, that's another year gone and two out of six semesters done for me in Nilai. So far, I'm having a pretty good time. I suppose I should fill you all in on what I was "so busy" about, eh? But it's just going to be another long post and I don't want you guys to feel so dreaded reading all these and at the same time, I have no idea how to shorten everything. But anyways, I've decided that they're

Here and There

For those of you who follow me on Twitter and actually read my tweets, you'll most probably know that I was also involved in the organizing team of the college prom. I was in the publicity team under my lady boss, Michelle along with 3 other pretty cool people as teammates (Steve, Illaina and Hajar). Our theme was "Black Swan" and it was supposed to be not just prom, but also the graduation dinner for the graduates (as it was supposed to be held on the night of graduation day) AND it was also a masquerade ball. Ah, masquerade balls. How classy and mysterious, right? I was also very very much involved in the decorating process throughout the whole thing. Masquerade balls, for me, is just one of those things that you know you just have to do, you know? For some people, they refuse to attend prom by using the excuse "I don't have a date" and to combat that, we initially planned a singles' auction but then switched to speed dating! Even us organizing members wanted to join in the fun of Speed Dating (yup, even those who already have dates. HAHA) And yes, I was super excited about it all and to be directly involved in getting the event together too! That meant my thoughts, comments and ideas would be heard and considered! We did a fabulous job, our whole team but sadly, because of some drama with the annoying school management and all, THEY cancelled the whole thing on us. So, yeah, I suppose my first major college event didn't go as well as I would like it to but hey, can't expect everything to be perfect, can I? Besides, I got to meet and became friends with so many cool people along the way despite the drama and I think I totally put my not-so-good Photoshop skills to a whole new level because I got to design a couple of posters. That's something to be proud of. :)

I did these two posters though the Speed Dating one never got printed out. Still proud. :)

Michelle, Emmy, Shaun and Embrys stayed up til about 3am at the SRC office to finish this up only to receive the news that prom was cancelled the very next day. We had a booth at the school walkway and this was supposed to be our decoration for it. The real thing looked about 123489271049374 times better.

Pullman Hotels and Resorts in Putrajaya. It's by the lake and absolutely beautiful at night, drove pass it couple of times. It was supposed to be our venue. 

So, yeah. Kindda sad if you think about it because we had a lot of great ideas that we may never see come to life. But that's okay, I guess it's the school's loss. Sucks for them. BAHAHA.

ANYWAY, after prom got cancelled, we all went back to our normal lives. About a couple of weeks later was already finals weeks. On the weekend before my finals, my parents thought it would be a good idea to go for a short family vaca at Melacca since dad was going over for work at the end of that week and it was going to be a long weekend. I brought my book along but yeah, like that helped anything. I think I only brought it to calm my conscience. Hehe. We've been to Melacca before but that was quite a number of years ago when I was about, what, 12? Of course we went to Jonker Walk. Jonker Walk is one of Melacca town's big highlights and they sell souvenirs. I didn't spend all that much but got super excited when I found a bunch of dream catchers!!

I know they're not the original dream catchers though. But hey, they look pretty! Hehe. I bought two, one bigger one and the another smaller one. Gave the bigger one to a friend and kept the smaller one to myself.

I only had 3 days of finals since I only have 4 papers to sit for and they were all in 3 consecutive days. Starting with English Composition on the first day, American History and Acting on the second and Chemistry on the last day.

And I've also gotten my results back. Hehe. Super proud of myself. I mean, c'mon an A- for Chemistry? That's really something. For someone who had gotten a C for the very same subject for SPM. :)

With a CGPA of 3.91, the pressure is on for the next sem. :|

Be Seen and Be Heard

"Be seen and be heard", an actor's golden rule, according Mr. Mano. Yup, that's right. THE Mano Maniam. If you don't know him, he's a Malaysian actor and he's been in the business for a long long time. He was in that movie, Anna and the King (starring Chow Yun Fatt, Jodie Foster and a very young and super adorable Tom Felton) and in the highly successful local sitcom in the 90s, Kopitiam. He was pretty much everywhere: on stage, in movies, on TV, behind the camera, teaching in classes. I was lucky enough to have him as my instructor when I signed up for a new course that Nilai was offering (this course was being conducted for the very first time just as I arrived at the school. Talk about timing! And how lucky I am).

The course was for only about 7 weeks with 4 hours sessions, once a week. And then consisting about 50% of our final marks, we had to do a final presentation (yes, performance) for the school (or anyone who wants to come, of course). And let me tell ya, 

Catch Up to Make Up

Okay. Operation Catchup shall now begin! :)

There're a bunch of, uh, new people that I need to introduce you guys to. College years is where one "year" is an equivalent to one semester and one semester is about 3 months and I absolutely despise it because things can change so fast in just a matter of days and things happen so fast. So, there, you should be able to tell that in just a couple of months, A LOT of things had already happened.

You know, I'm officially done with my first semester in college? It zoomed past me, I think I barely had time to blink. Anywhoo, I think I wanna update you guys on what has been going on. And I think the best way to do this is