All I can taste is this moment

It's halfway through the week, and time is flying by pretty fast. College life is going well, and work is slowly creeping in ... I don't mind the slow way it creeps in, that way I can get used to it in small stages. Haha. Orientation Night was ... meh, boring the first couple of hours. Tried to keep ourselves occupied by 'adventuring'. Which meant going to the back of the courtyard overlooking the highway. Heh. The dance floor time was fun though.

Yesterday a group of us went to Pyramid for lunch at KFC. 'Twas fun. Kent couldn't stop laughing about something ... can't remember what. I started laughing too, because his laugh is contagious! It hurt. I felt like my insides were going to explode. xD
Then when we were about to leave the carpark, Sharine made a sarcastic 'ah' noise. Which Azhar said sounded sexual. Us girls (Sharine, Sammie and I) disagreed ... seriously, everyone makes that noise all the time. Then we turned to Kent, who agreed with Azhar about it. Later, which was earlier today, even Suzuki said so! :\ Must be a boy thing.

Other stuff, Fahmi sent out an invite so that we could get all the NS people together ... on an outing to Genting! But not many people could go so it was cancelled. :( Hamizah and I were just getting excited. Hoping to get it on in the next few weeks.
Speaking of NS, Yen told me that Zizan told her that Sheda told him that she discussed with Cikgu Gee for a reunion. Phew. xD So I told One, who went to talk to Sheda about it. So it's:
Cikgu Gee discussed with Sheda who told Zizan who informed Yen who contacted Sara who told One who called Sheda to talk about it.
Haha. I love that sentence.
So One talked to Sheda and find out that she and Cikgu Gee are headed to Kuantan today to have a chat with Zizan about it. Which is pretty sad 'cause One can't make it ... and she's our girl squad leader. Man, if they were having it closer to home, I wouldn't mind going either. Hoping to contact them later today to see what they've decided on. I hope it's a good time and I can make it. :)

Driving is going well. Hopefully I can take my JPJ test next month on the 14th. Can't wait to get a license.

Oh! And I have a laptop now! Papa walked into my room last night and just ... gave it to me. And I'm all: ....... O_O
Haha. Well. Since that there's no class tomorrow, I'm gonna work on getting the laptop installed with all my stuff. I have yet to name it. ^^

Well this is a pretty long post. xD Just wanted to get everything out there. Excuse my ranting.

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My computer is fixed!

No more baby elephant computer monitor! Now it's a sleek flat screen.
I shall call it ... um. Shelly. Because it's flat like those strange discy shell things you find washed up on the beach.
Strange logic, but I just like the name Shelly.

So, I've been incredibly busy this week. Haha. What with college kicking off properly, I never really felt the absence of my baby elephant.

So. College is fun ... seriously. Of course nothing much has started and we've not much work so far ... but my classmates are fun to hang around with. In fact, we went to Sunway Pyramid on Wednesday ... had lunch at Delifrance. It's amazing how many discounts you can get with a student card. Had a very filling meal. John managed to save us from paying extra because of a technical error on the bill. Pening kepala over getting people to give in the right amount of change. Our tax came to RM12, it was insane.

Then we went ice-skating. I went back early so I didn't get to join them bowling. But I still had a blast ... haven't been skating in years!

Photo yanked from Carmen's blog.
So these are a few of us ... the ones who went skating anyway. A lot of people didn't go skating. xD No matter how much we tried to pujuk them. Anyway, left to right, Nigel, me, Suzuki, Azhar, John, Carmen, Fira and Joan. No, Nigel's not taking foundation with us, he just popped in to enjoy the skating. :P

Notice the blue gloves? I got a pair myself ... and I like them loads more than the ones I got years ago. They're cute! xD But I think the orange ones are nicer ... Michelle S. had an orange pair, really nice colour.

Also, I learnt how to skate backwards! It's all about shaking your butt. Yeah. O_o A bit awkward at first but got the hang of it. Kinda reversed into someone who was tying her boot on the ice-rink (no I have no idea why she is tying her boot on the ice rink) and fell on my butt. Which ached when I got up in the morning. xD

Regretting not bringing my camera. I could have taken photos of everyone. Argh!

On Thursday, went out with Nad, Aidil and Sophie. We were very hungry. xD I dunno why, we just had huge appetites that day. Sneaked hot dogs into the cinema, where we watched Talentime. The cinema was very empty. Sophie was blur during the dramatic scenes and spoiled the moment. Hahah. And we kept commenting on how the school students had no name tags and stuff. I think we annoyed all the other people in the hall.

Anyway, the movie was quite nice. Almost cried once. xD But the scene changes were kinda choppy and the ending ... potong steam. Yeah. But overall, not bad.

Going to watch the Cats musical tomorrow! Can't wait! :D

Listen to the thunder

I actually sat in a car's driver's seat today. And drove it. Geeheehee.
Ya I kinda sucked. xD Knocked over a tiang while side-parking and kept rolling backwards when it came to the bukit. I did bukit like, a hundred times. Only the last two times, I managed to get down the hill without killing the engine. So that's something. :D
Now I'm done with that, I am offically an L license holder person. Ha. Only I don't have the card yet 'cause they can only get that done by Friday. Hmm. But still! Progress.

Oh, and the family modem got struck by lightning yesterday. Which was ... depressing. xD Now we have to wait for Uncle James to get us a new one ... and hopefully get me a new monitor. He calls my current monitor a 'baby elephant'. I used it back when I was 9 and got my first Neopets account. That's how old it is. If you dig into the contents a little deeper, you can actually find Papa's initial jersey designs for Letua. Back before the cycling team even existed. Hahaha.

Taxi!

I really want to blog about prefects' camp, but I'm waiting for the super-cool photos first. We went to Eagle Ranch again, and Mz. Quek got her daughter and niece to take photos while all the 'roonies ran around doing stuff. The pictures are INCREDIBLE. I'm going to get my hands on a CD and upload some in future.

In other news, Mr. Louis Palmer visited the school on Monday, the day after camp (also the day where my entire body felt like lead). He brought his solar-powered taxi along with him. I've got photos of that too, but I have to get them from other people first ... hah. Anyway, he made a pretty big impression on the lot of us (all the form 5 science classes and one form 4 science class). I know for a fact that many people have added him to their 'idol' list.

He is indeed very cool. Listen to this: Bored schoolteacher buys bicycle and cycles across Africa. A couple of years later, he buys a little aeroplane. Then, when he realised that global warming was taking its toll on the world, he got a bunch of people to help him build a solar-powered car. And now he's driving it all over the world. He said that when he arrived in Malaysia, it was raining, hard. And someone told him: "Sorry about the rain. It's hot weather right now." And he's all: "=\ Uh, hot weather. OK."

Which is true. Global warming at work, folks. I'm leaving the link to his website in my 'Webs on the Net'.

Today, a whole lot of the form 5 and 4s went to UM to watch the TESL fourth-years perform for their course project. The lighting, props and music were brilliant. I want lighting like that for drama competition. But TP isn't all that well-equipped, so oh well. But I really didn't get the ending to the second drama. Any SA-ian who understood it, please leave a note on the Conteng Wall.
<--- :) Drama on the other hand is coming along fine. We came in at 22 minutes, which is awesome considering the props people were moving slowly at the time. We're aiming for the speed last year's team managed; we were so fast, we got the heavy-furnitured scenes done in less than seven seconds. Moving on ... Mama bought Eclipse for me. She went around all over the place, looking for the flipping thing. But apparently, it's sold out in all MPH outlets and Kinokuniya. Borders only has one copy left. Only a month ago, the shelves were bursting with them. Seriously, guys! When did it get so popular? xD

New things

I have a new CPU! It's all black and new, and it hums. <3 Unlike the old CPU, which growled like some small dog when I switched it on. This one hums. Thanks muchly, Uncle James.

It's way faster now too. Everything is easier to load! I celebrated by watching Watership Down on YouTube. Makes me want to re-read the book. The movie is very pretty animation-wise, but it went too slow. I got restless.

Ooh, I want to see if I can watch Land Before Time. I'm on a childhood movies kick.

In other news, school starts tomorrow.

Dang it.

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The hols-cutting update

CPU has officially kicked the bucket, and Papa just realised that his eldest does not know what 'back-upping your hard drive' is. xD So he explained and bought me a pen drive so that I won't have to sit around whining about the half-dead computer not letting me finish my work. Acu showed me that I can name the pen drive (its birth name was KINGSTON) so I've named it JAQUE. It is officially asexual. If I refer to it by gender, it's purely for convenience.

As for the CPU, Uncle James took it, rescued the hard drive and is bringing a brand spankin' new one over in a few days. So, yes. I won't have to worry about my elderly CPU anymore. Alright!

In other news, drama is going quite ... OK. We'll have to work hard till the end.

I've done a lot of drawing lately. Mostly Avatar fanart. Even if my scanner was connected to a computer right now, there would be no art-dumpage because well ... I'm always a little stingy with fanart. The last time I drew characters over so obsessively was back in my Harry Potter phase. But Avatar is so much fun to draw. The fire nation kids in particular. And Katara's hair-loops. xD

Enjoy what's left of the hols, everyone.

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