Vice Versa June 26, 2008

I’m so damn alone in my house tonight and so I get really bored easily. So I decided to share a joke with all of you. Taken from my previously downloaded E-Book, 101 Hilarious Jokes. I’m still halfway through the E-Book, but it is totally superb! Anyone here who would like to have a copy of the E-Book, please drop me a message at tiarazakaria@yahoo.com or you can just leave your comment here. Now, please have a good laugh.

French Computers

A language instructor was explaining to her class that in French, nouns unlike their English counterparts, are grammatically designated as masculine or feminine.

“‘House,’ in French, is feminine – ‘la maison’ and ‘Pencil,’ in French, is masculine ‘le crayon.’”

One puzzled student asked, “What gender is ‘computer’?”

The teacher did not know, and the word wasn’t in her French dictionary.

So for fun she split the class into two groups appropriately enough, by gender and asked them to decide whether ‘computer’ should be a masculine or feminine noun. Both groups were required to give four reasons for their recommendation.

The men’s group decided that computers should definitely be of the feminine gender (‘la computer’), because:

1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic;

2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else;

3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long-term memory for possible later retrieval; and

4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.

The women’s group, however, concluded that computers should be masculine (‘le computer’), because:

1. In order to get their attention, you have to turn them on;

2. They have a lot of data but they are still clueless;

3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they ARE the problem; and

4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you’d waited a little longer, you could have gotten a better model.

Haha. Thanks for reading anyways. See ya soon.

Momento June 24, 2008

This evening I will have my last paper for the 3rd semester final exam. And on Thursday, I will go back to Kota Bharu. What a relief. This semester started with me and some of my fellow classmates came a week late and ended up being warned by our lecturers. Not to mention, I had skipped lots of classes for this semester. Let’s say that this semester was my worst record. Haha

Still 3 semesters to go before our practical posting. We have been impatiently waiting for that. We used to always nagging about being in the college. But deep in my heart, I’m so gonna miss all of my classmates then. Well, it is still another year to go.

One thing for sure, we are gonna do something that will make us never forget this time of our lives. My classmates have organized a trip to Kota Bharu on August. At first, I laughed off the plan but when I was told about the trip’s objectives, I did not hesitate to go. It is going to be fun, I suppose.

On the other hand, I should admit that I don’t really like this college but I’m so glad that I’ve been given a bunch of superb cool classmates that always make me smile and laugh. Thumbs up to those guys. I could never ask for another set of classmates. Never ever. I’m so gonna miss them, till we meet again next month. Cheers guys.

Now playing: Daniel Powter – Bad Day

Show Off June 16, 2008

Ooh Aahhh.. David Villa.

My new toy (according to my sis). Bought it last weekend. Been absolutely happy playing with it, so far. I’ve been crazy about football lately (actually, I’m always that crazy), so I decided to have those football wallpapers. And I’m gonna download loads of them in the future.

Thanks to the lovely guys, Hafif and Boy of Thunder Match who had helped me in getting this laptop. With the powerful AMD processor and 2GB of RAM and also 160GB hard disk, it really makes me proud. Will be pampering it the best I can. It also has an integrated 2 Megapixel webcam, which I don’t really care about because I’m not a webcam freak. I used to have a PC when I was studying at Universiti Tun Hussein Onn some 2 years ago, which has only 512MB of RAM and 80GB of hard disk. The 80GB hard disk still has lots of free space although my little brother installed lots of softwares and stuff in it. Imagine what my new babe of 160GB hard disk can do. Oh yeah, I’m so psyched. By the way, the old PC is now at my home back in Kota Bharu.

Thanks for viewing. I would love to wish a Happy Belated Father’s Day especially to my darling Daddy, Mr Zachariah… I love you so much. You are my angel. Also to all fathers in the world.

I gotta split now. See you then.

Initiate June 13, 2008

I finally got my last semester’s final exam result on Tuesday. My GPA slightly decreased compared to the previous semester. Do you want to know how much I got? Em.. Last semester’s subjects were lot tougher than before. Probably the most stressful semester ever, so far. In fact, I wasn’t studying seriously at that time. I devoted myself to having fun every weekends and only did my revisions on the study week. I’m a very lazy person, you know. Oh well, do you still want to know? I think I’ve had enough with all that reasons. No, I won’t tell you. But it is 3.5 above so I wouldn’t complain much about it because 3.5 is my personal minimum target.

Taken with my good old Nokia 6600.

I’m gonna go to Lowyat Plaza this Saturday. Went there last month to help my friend looking for her new laptop. And now I’m gonna get one for myself. Full credit to my far away sister and my parents for the financial help. I owe you guys lots! Speaking of my sister, she called me last week from Glasgow. I wanted to hear my nephew, Danial, speaking in English. I got to speak to him, and asked him to talk to me in English but he told me that he couldn’t do it. Maybe he was a bit shy. Or maybe it was what my sister told me that he was busy concentrating on playing Playstation. Oh how I miss that thick Penang accent. Still fresh in my mind when he used to always come into my room and asked me if he could play the computer games. I also got to talk to his little bro, Demyan. The cutest boy in the world. Aahh.. I was so happy to hear their voices, while knowing the fact that they are thousands miles away.

Oh I will sit for my final exam next week. But hey, I don’t have an idea when will I start to do some revision. I hope to get 4.00 though, because as a matter of fact, this semester’s subjects are all about what I used to learn when I was in my SPM. Yeah, it is boring you know. I even skipped lots of lectures session, mostly in last week. No way, I have to think decently. I got too much things to care about this coming weeks, particularly the Euro 2008 tournament and lots of TV shows to catch. Man, what should I do? LOL. See ya later.

Malacca Phase 2 June 9, 2008

The 2nd phase of my trip to Malacca and also the final entry about the trip. Lepas ni takdak dah. Ahaha. Went to Bandar Hilir, where we had A Famosa, Stadhuys Building etc. I remember that I used to climb up the steps to the hilltop of A Famosa when I was 17. Oh now I couldn’t do it anymore. Couldn’t bear the scorching hot sun. Nothing much to tell you, so just enjoy viewing these pictures.

I love the colour of this building. There are lots of souvenir shops along this street.

Christchurch Melaka.

Ini Clock Tower kan? Entah. But the place around the tower is very beautifully decorated with colourful flowers. I saw a newly-weds took their wedding photos here. Memang chantek.

The A Famosa. Can you see the stairs up there?

Memorial Pengisytiharan Kemerdekaan Tanah Melayu.

Let’s go to Dataran Pahlawan Megamall. A shopping heaven. Luckily I managed to control myself. :p

Teletubbies. Kids dig that.

I’m proud of my roommates.

Enemies Die. Terrorists Win. Haha. The World War aircraft.

Taming Sari Tower. That big round thing carries people, you know? You can see the whole Malacca from up there. RM20 per person.

What is the name of this park? I don’t know. Just passing by.

Bye. I’m going home. Ahahaha. See ya then.

Malacca Phase 1 June 5, 2008

The last time I went to Malacca was in 2004, when I was 17. Never thought that I would be able to visit Malacca again. And now I’m 21 and blessed with a roommate who hails from Malacca, therefore I got one more chance to score another experience of visiting Malacca.

My 2 days’ stay in Malacca was worth every while. My lovely roommate, Ummu was generous enough to provide free accommodation and tour for me and Mila, also our roommate. We went to places such as Mini Malaysia Park which we spent about 2 hours covering all the traditional houses there. The place was so big, and we had to walk under the scorching hot sun.

So this entry will cover some of my the 1st day of the trip where we visited the Mini Malaysia Park in the afternoon. Those are the pictures of some of traditional houses. I got so excited when we stumbled upon Kelantan traditional house. Each houses had their state flags as you can see them in pictures below. Oh and we paid RM12 per person for the entry ticket. Find more about Mini Malaysia Park here

Oh now what?

See, I’ve told you. I was oh so excited.

This is Brunei traditional house, if I’m not mistaken. Can’t remember LOL.

Terengganu house.

This should be Cambodia house or Myanmar. Which one? Go figure it out yourself.

This photo had been printed out and was stuck on our room’s door. Haha.

Once again, I’m clueless. Can’t tell you much about this pic. Sorry.

We were in Perak’s house, I suppose.

We went to the Malacca River on the night for some sightseeing. And what I can tell you is that the view was so gorgeous. The place was all covered with blue lights and there was some sort of an amusement park there. There was a Ferris wheel, Malacca Eye which I initially wanted to take a ride on it but there was too many people waiting for their ride. I guess we wouldn’t get our turn to ride on it as it was fairly approaching the midnight already. But we got to ride on Pirate Ship, the bouncy bouncy swinging ship that made me so dizzy and nearly wanted to vomit. Damn.

Ooh.. Feels like in Venice. Haha.

The Pirate Ship. Really took my guts away.

Myself with our lovely host, Ummu Hani.

We also went for a window shopping at Mahkota Parade. Sadly, no pictures were taken. I saw my former school’s bus, Sultan Ismail College which was parked somewhere near the shopping mall. I decided to take some pictures of it but when I ran to get to the bus, it was gone. Sigh. What were the SIC students doing there? I never got a chance to ride on the bus though.

Oh well. That’s all for the first phase. Come back later for Phase 2. Eh, I should say that there are more pictures of this trip in my Flickr. Feel free to view them. Sorry for the late publication due to my laziness to compile those pictures. See you later then.

An Unexpected Assignment June 2, 2008

Few days ago, I told my friend, E, that I’m currently developing a strong passion in photography and how much I love taking pictures. She was like “Oh great, I would like to have your service!”. And so I responded in agreement.

On Saturday evening, E SMSed me.

E: Hey Ya. Are you free tomorrow?

Myself: Oh why? Do you want me to go somewhere with you?

E: I want you to be some kind of spy for me, can you?

Myself: Huh? Spy? Where? What? How? etc..

E: KB lah. I want you to help me to snap some photos of a woman.

Myself: A woman? Sure, I don’t mind. Even if it is a guy, I would still don’t mind. Haha. But what it is all about anyway?

E: That woman you are about to take her pictures is currently having an affair with my dad. She had my dad under her “bomoh” spell. And so my mom asked me to get her photos so we can reverse the spell onto her.

Myself: Oh OK. This is going to be fun and adventurous! Haha. But I tell you what, I’m not going to be responsible for any unwanted consequences or trouble that may be caused by this thing. OK, I’m on it.

E: Good, we will meet tomorrow morning.

And so on Sunday morning, I went to the woman’s workplace in Kota Bharu city centre. I had to play my part as a student who was conducting a research about NGO, which the woman’s workplace happens to be one. And I also told the woman that I needed to take some pictures of every staff at the office. Oh.. what a liar I was! We met the woman though. But it was E who took the pictures. I was busy interviewing the manager of the organisation. And so E had successfully taken the woman’s pictures. Hell yeah, I’ve told you already. I’m not gonna have anything to do with any of the possible bad consequences afterwards. Haha. What an unexpected assignment.

P/S: I should have posted the Malacca entry first. Haha, I’ve broken my promise. Will post it later. Sorry.