A New Year, A New Beginning!

It's Chinese New Year. Wishes all people prosperity and happiness in the year of ox.

People, ANG POWS!!!!!!
The more the merrier. And please, make sure it's loaded! Not empty.
恭喜发财！！！

新的一年，新的开始。

我朋友叫我用华语来写一个post。她还要我用最少一百个字。So, 我尝试看能不能 lo。

新年要到了！我在这里祝大家。。。

• 一帆风顺
• 心想事成
• 龙马近精神
• 吉祥安康 万事如意
• 和气生财 合家平安
• 事事顺利 步步高升
• 生意兴隆
• 财源广进
• 新年快乐

哈哈。。。不知道我写的对不对。。。不管了。。。

Anyhow, Happy CNY...

Thought of the Day

There are many benefits and advantages being Malaysians, but not for music fans for the rules and regulations imposed on the artistes, especially female, who want to hold concerts here are ultra-strict. A female artist must be covered from her shoulders to her knees and is prohibited from doing the following actions: jumping, shouting or throwing of objects onstage or at the audience. Talent may also not hug or kiss, and their clothes must not carry obscene or drug-related images or messages.

The ideal costume for the ladies

As if these gila (crazy) rules don't scare them away, those conservative Muslim groups would held protests and all, trying to get the concerts banned. They would sent their protests to the Government asking for the show to be cancelled, claiming that these concerts are too obscene, too sexy, clash with our traditional value, insulting eastern culture, belittling local artistes, cause losses to the nation's economy (HUH???), and, here's the best part, supporting Israel's war policy. WTH...

The party behind all the protests

Here's are few artistes who had faced trouble when trying to please their fans here:

Beyonce

She was deemed a bad influence on moral values and dress sense of Malaysians. She had axed her show in protest against the strict dress code and over fears of a Muslim outcry over her show. According to report, she also balked at Government rule over sexy outfits and running and jumping on stage. Basically, she refused to wear overall, be motionless and sing. The irony was that she performed in Jakarta, Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country over Malaysia.

Gwen Stefani

She faced the same situation when she first planned to have her concert here. In fact, I think she had it worse. A group of 10,000-member National Union of Malaysian Muslim Students had protested that her revealing outfits and cheeky performances clashed with traditional Islamic values.PAS also blamed her for promoting promiscuity and corrupting the nation's youth. Yet, she went ahead with her concert (with costume change and all) and pleased her fans. Her respond: "I've been in the music industry for 20 years and this is the first time that I'm facing opposition from people who have misunderstood me. I'm not a bad girl."

Avril Lavigne

Too sexy. Seriously, Avril, too sexy? And the promoting wrong values just day ahead of our independence day (her original date was 29th Aug but was pushed forward to 28th)...as if we're less independence when she's around.

Mariah Carey

Even the great Mariah Carey can't had her way when she was trying to hold a concert here. While she managed to secure a permit, she was clearly not happy about the rules that throughout her concert, she had ZERO costume change.

Rihanna

The latest artist who face problems when trying to have her debut concert here. According to PAS federal Territory Youth Chief Kamaruzaman Mohamad, her brand of music is insulting eastern culture, her concert causes losses to the nation's economy and by allowing it, we're supporting Israel's war policy! The fate of the concert remains in uncertainty.

Mr Kamaruzaman, the joy-killer

The reason I wrote this post is because of what I read on the comic section of The Star today. I was ROFL reading this.

Gambling III

Die lo, I'm turning into an addict and my room becoming an underground casino.

Last night, we played from 11++pm til almost 5.30am, 6 hours of nonstop transferring my money to other players. Yes, I lost, again.

Throughout these 6 hours, we had played quite a number of different games such as Big 2, blackjack, poker, etc. If we had stuck with a single game, I don't think we can last that long.

Anyhow, after that, I tried to get some sleep as I have to wake up at 8am to do my laundry. Even though I'm quite tired, I was rather restless.

With just two hours of sleep, I had to endure 9am-6pm classes, a total of 9 hours in a row (I skipped the first class though). Super sien (boring) the whole day. Almost fell asleep during one of the class.

Now, just safely reached home, my eyes were getting heavy. I guess it's time to sleep. Getting ready for CNY!

Gambling II

I just one should not brag about one's winning. Otherwise you lose back your winning. I learned my lesson now.

That's what I'm doing these few days...

Gambling

Haha, last night i just won RM 50+ from my friend. So syok!

Maths Quiz

1.45pm
Right now, sitting in cafe, just came back from Maths Quiz. No, I'm not the participant. Rather, I'm the helper for the event. Damn shit ah, I woke up at 6am in the morning just for the stupid thing. On normal day, I'm not awake till like 9/10am. If got morning class, just skip la. Hehe.

About to go even though not really awake

7am look like 1am
getting to work?

The sky still dark-and it's almost 7am-when I walked to DUP (Dewan Utama Pelajar aka Students' Main Hall aka exam centre) where the quiz was held. And guess what, I'm the ONLY person there. NOT A SINGLE MATHS QUIZ ORGANIZER WAS THERE!!!!! WTH...I'M SO GONNA KILL THAT FELLA WHO TRICKED ME!!!

DUP...looks how empty it is

I SMS-ed that fella, asking why he's not there when he's the one who told me to go before 7am only to be told that examiner (which he was) had to arrived before 7.15am! WTH...

15 min later,

7.07pm
Damn the Tekun (my hostel's name) WIFI connection. Around 2 something, it cut me off, leaving my post hanging. After much unsuccessful tries, I went back to my room to take a short nap. Set alarm at 4.30pm only to wake up at 6.30pm. 4 hours nap! Wonders how I'm gonna sleep tonight?

Anyway, back to the quiz. 15 min later, he showed up. Then, followed by others. It's strongly support my believe: puntualiality is a virtue not valued by us Malaysians.

The moment the others had arrived, things were getting busy and chaotic. For them, at least. While they were moving here and there, I was standing at a corner, watching things unfold before me. Not that I don't want to help. Just that the department I'm in-refreshment-only began to work when the foods had arrived. I did help out, OK.

I'm so free til can take pictures

Once the participants arrived, which were high school students from around Penang, the atmosphere was getting much alive. Most of them were pretty excited to take part in it. Around 9am, all the students and teachers accompanied them entered the exam hall to be briefed. All the organisers and helpers also entered the hall, except us from refreshment department as we have to prepare food.

Revising?

Soon after, when the students had their quizzes, the teachers came out to had their refreshment. An hour later, the students had theirs. In between these two, we had ours.

Students' nasi tomato...these extra fews were eaten by us refreshment people...hehe

Even between break also they had discussions

Those from the refreshment department can leave once we finished cleaning up the places. And we finished before 12pm, few hours earlier than the rest. Hehe. But we didn't go back. We went into the hall, watching the students getting ready for Round 3.

I must say, when I had children, I'm considering to relocate to Penang because these Penang students are so competitive. They really go all out. Even though in Round 3, they can discuss among their teammates but from what I witnessed, most of them tried to solve the questions on their on. That's rather sad because the time allocated for each questions are very limited.

And boys, their Maths skills are really amazing especially those from SMK Jit Sin and SMK Chung Ling, Penang. They're really good. After the questions were shown ala slide show, it took them only a small fraction of the time given to produce the answers. And most of the time, it's the right one too. Oh, by the way, it's a Siapa-Cepat-Dia-Dapat round (don't know how to translate, don't bother to).

Even I, the Maths undergrads, can't even compete with them. Out of 20 questions, only 1 I managed to find the answer faster than them. Using a new method they can't possibly know at their stages (I went through the same education, that's why I know) unless they had devour themselves with Advanced Calculus.

3rd round
Even teachers took pictures of the questions!

Overall, a nice 1st half of the day. Talked a lot even if I had to use my extremely limited Mandarin. Had to mishmash with Cantonese and Hokkien whenever necessary. I'm gonna improve on my bloody mother tongue.