Delaqroux inc.

In case some of you havent noticed, i have started another version of this blog up in blogspot. This is due to the fact that IPBA’s Streamyx server has been changed to KPM’s Schoolnet where most sites like Friendster and Facebook are blocked. Therefore, posting up blogposts over Friendster’s blog is a lil hard to do when i’m in IPBA. Luckily, KPM, being suckers never heard of Blogspot (at least, so far) so yeah, it’ll be much easier if i’m to have my blog there for frequent postings. In any case, most of the posts will be the same as those posted in my Friendster’s blog but of course, i added a lil extra posts in there as well.

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-Dark A. Delaqroux
Delaqroux inc Updates 2k8

Delaqroux Inc Updatesssss…….

….at this point of me
typing this blogpost, daryl just claimed that he mistook a dude for a
girl… and upon realizing it, he admit that the dude…. is hot….

and he said "i’m not being gay.. i’ms admiring beauty without looking at the gender…"

and he did said earlier, "after reading the ‘No Bra’ manga, i do admit that guys can be hot"……

HOLY MOTHER ****ER!!! WHAT THE F*CK!!!???

Delaqroux Inc Updates on the fourth day of SBE..

And
on that day, nothing really happened. We went to observe one class and
that’s it. Nothing new. No interaction. It was a lower grade class so,
yeah, i expect that the student to not give much response to English
teaching.

However, Dark wont make any blogpost is there nothing
worth talking about right? Yeah, apparently, as we thought that the day
is just gonna end with nothing interesting occurence, we were forced to
attend a staff meeting in the staff room and the meeting took around 2
hours. By the time the meeting ended, it was already 3pm (the school
ended early every Thursday to make way for staff meetings so yeah, you
do the maths) and guess wat? It was raining…

If there’s one
element in the world that we always count on but still at times, we
sees it looking back at us, laughing; it will be "faith". Yeah, we had
to walk quite a distance to the nearest bus stop and it was raining.
Thinking that we had a good guide teacher (aka Madam Victoria), she
might for once show some kindness and offer us a ride at least to the
bus stop. But, nooooo… she’s nowhere. @#$%.

And so we began
our walk. We could have waited but Reva, being slightly anxious to get
back to dorm as our assignment deadline was on the next day, and Me,
being a guy who always find some excuse to had himself to walk in the
rain (like the one just now), we did walked in the rain… and the rain
grew heavier… Thanks God… And lucky us, the 89 buses had an
interval of 30 minutes for one after another. Like some kind of a lame
short story on a good day turned bad, we missed the bus.
As the rain
grew heavier, the wind went haywire. Yeah, 4 soon-to-be-teachers
denying the law of physics and taking cover underneath one umbrella
might not really be a good idea. Notice that i said that we walked to
the bus stop- not "bus stand". There were never any bus stands. Just
the side of the road where the bus stops… Damnit.

And so we
waited. Desperate, we just boarded a different bus and this bus
apparently, uses a different route. Of course, it dropped us close to
ipba. Only that it was an unofficial stop. In other words, we had to do
a lil hiking before we can start walking again back to ipba. (I’ll post
a pic up here soon to show you our hiking ‘trip’). To add up more
obstacles, it was still raining. Evem heavier this time and denying
physically logic rules of sharing one umbrella no longer applies in
this situation. By the time, we reached back ipba, we were soaked,
hungry, tired and sleepy… and we were even the last SBE group to
arrive back in IPBA. Yeah.. soaked, hungry, tired, sleepy and
last-to-reach-IPBA SBE Group…

We sucked…

Delaqroux Inc Updates.

I want my life back.

Well, i do
enjoy going for the SBE programme more than attending mass lectures.
But going all the way to Kota Damansara just for some six hours of
school observation (actually, it wasnt even six hours of observation-
half of the session we spent hanging out in our SAL room), totally wore
me out. I mean, seriously, woke up at 5 am and coming back at 4pm,
slept for two hours to 6pm, at dinner at 8pm, do my assignments all the
way til 11pm aaaaand… repeat stuff all over. Gosh… am i goin2 be
stuck with this schedule once i actually start my career..?

That’s gonna suck.

But
on the second thought, there are some events on my second and third day
of SBE that made me feel inspired to be a teacher all over again. Well,
the first was observing Madam Aznizah’s class of Form 4 Alpha. It was
quite a cheerful class and at first, we thought that all we had to do
is just sit at the back of the class and observe. But then, madam
Aznizah totally opened the whole classroom for the four of us. In other
words, we are free to mingle around the class and observe the
classroom’s layout or interview any of the students. That was something
unexpected. But then, the cool part is that the students instead,
interviewed us. It all started out with Reva (whom i suspected was
drunk on coffee) who, without any hesitation, just stood up and start
walking around the class. Guess she was the ice breaker. And then
Shen-Ann followed. After awhile when Reva was entirely occupied with
her own interviewing (yeah, the students ended up interviewing her
instead… pfft.. typical) I saw a bunch of students sitting in the
corner of the class and I started my interview session. Turned out that
my interview of the small group of students become bigger and yeah, i
actually had fun talking with the students. In the end, the whole class
ended up talking with us and yeah, that was cool.

The second
class that we observed wasnt really loaded up with interaction as they
are basically just doing revision for the day. However, as we waited to
attend our third class to observe, Madam Aznizah paid a visit into our
SAL room (more to like a surprise visit actually- she caught me with
the cane and i was poking reva with it.. ahem…) and she asked us to
help out her two classes in their SAL activity.. So, in otjher words,
its like taking over two classes at the same time and both of the class
wasnt really top-notch disciplined classes as well…

So, i was like, DAYUMN!!

It
was 3 Efficient and 3 Fluent (it’s actually Fasih but i simply
translate it to English XD). Surprisingly, 3 Efficient was more than
esteemed to accept us and ask for our help on their activity. Of
course, some of them were a litte naughty and slightly testing out
capabilities but they are esteemed in learning (probably as we were
observing them). 3 Fluent however, some of the students are a lil bit
problematic and they are more interested in acting cool and hitting on
Reva and SHen-Ann. And to think that they’re just 15 years old- 4 years
younger than me and i should have all the privilege of ****** them with
a broom stick into their *******. sigh… if only i could, i would be
very happy.

Happy me… wakaka.

Well, in all, it wasnt
really that bad. We just ignored the problematic ones and focused more
on the ones that really seem to enjoy learning (although they are still
slightly hyper and just wouldnt sit down and finish their work). As a
matter of fact, what strucked me was that; though these students arent
quite advance in their learning compared to the upper classes, some of
them actually tried to reply to us back in English language. So, in
other words, as how much teachers in SMK S4 often regard them as being
hopeless, maybe its just the teacher being slightly too pessimistic. Of
course, i have just been here for three days and i’m not really keen
with teaching’s curves. but i do believe that school is not simply
build on discipline, teaching and learning. Sometimes, i believe it
does has a lot to do with having faith to one another- both teachers
with the students and students with the teacher. Maybe i should do more
observation on that…

Delaqroux Inc Updates!

I still have a few posts left unposted around in the draft section. Maybe i’ll post it up one of these days. But yeah,

There’s
always this constancy that, when Darkie havent post for a long time and
suddenly he did and it was long one, he’s either high, emo or most
importantly; very, very, very pissed with something. This is another
good example of that
case. Expect vulagrities, racism, swearings
and a hell lot of materials that you may disagree or you find
offensive. If you still complaining after reading my warning up there,
then here’s something simple to reply to you: "F* OFF"

So how was the first SBE like?

Yeah,
i’ll be telling you what happened in just a few moment. But most of it
will slightly be racist (if you wan2 put it in that way) so yep, here
it is.

First of all, the school was nice. My previous school’s
blocks arrangement was all in a mess so i never actually had the
experience of studying in a school where the compounds are connected
and arranged in such way that you can still travel from blocks to
blocks without having to go all the way to ground floor and travel by
the pathway. Apart to that, studying in a primary school that was
nearly 15 years old and in secondary school that aged as far as 50
years old, SMK Section 4 Kota Damansara seems spanking new. Obviously
something to be expected out of a four years old school.

In any case, here we arrive to the main section! Meet the Fourians!

yeah, fourians.. stands for SMK S4-ians i think… yep.

First
of all, there’s the usual dominating barbaric malay male students group
which makes a whole lot of noise with random shoutings, hell lot of
swearings and major disobedience towards everything and everyone.
THere’s a group of shy chinese performers on whom we approach to ask on
what are they performing and they ended up freaked out and fled away,
and there’s bunch of chinese guys and indian girls who just watched us
pass by without any comments. Well, truth to tell, i was expecting
Shen-Ann to get a hell lot of attention when she got to the school.
But, i was wrong. Note that such statement of expectation being
rhetorically answered with an "i was wrong" will bring up the next
question of "who then?". Well, in this case, the answer to that shall
be Reva and thus, we arrive to our actual main section.

Meet the Indian guys…

Yep,
loud, despo for attention, loud, sits in a group of their own of tamil
speakers, loud, and just a lil too overdose of desperation to attract
passing by girls… and yeah, loudly. Well, for an ethnocentric indian
or an indian who are
not all that, you might say, "we aint like
that". And for those who lived and grew up surrounded by indian
community might end up asking "aint that normal?" In this case, i shall
have no say for the first point. However, i would like to differ for
the second.

Have you ever met and indian guy that, literally, squawks? No, SERIOUSLY, they squawked!

At
first, they are Indian students with all these despo attempt to attract
Reva’s attention. In the beginning, i thought it’s tolerable. But as
the day goes on, the desperation becomes a lil too haywire. Putting the
point of squawking indian guy aside first, there’s the Raptor Indian
guy. Remember those scenes inside Jurassic Park where the guy is
looking into a cage and a velociraptor from inside just sprung towards
the guy, hitting the cage bars in the process and roared? Well, an
indian guy did that despite he is actually having a class inside the
room. We were passing by the Self Accessment Learning room and
literally, an indian raptor guy did that.

So, yeah, wtf…

After
so much more despo attempts, we decided to try out some reverse
psychology. Instead of walking away and ignoring them, what if we
acknowledge them? Perhaps, start a friendly conversation or just smiled
at them. Probability of that
solution will work to lower down
their despo level might be around zero to negative zero point one. But
we thought it was worth the shot. So here’s what happened.

Indian Guy: **speaks something in Tamil with loud voice to attract Reva**
Me: Try la if you want. Just try asking them where the library is.
Reva: **turns to indian guy** Um.. mana library ye?
Indian Guy: **talks loud Tamil to friends**
Indian Guy: **looks back at Reva**
Indian Guy: **still in a loud voice**
Indian Guy: Tingkat 3, naik, belok kiri… SQUAWKK!!!!

So, yeah! We were like "WTF??"

Indian Guy: Cikgu baru ke?
Reva: No.. thanks ya?
Indian Guy: SQUAWK!SQUAWK!SQUAWK!SQUAWK!SQUAWK!SQUAWK!
**All of us escaped in a hurry**
Indian Guy: **from the distance** SQUAWK!SQUAWK!SQUAWK! **and yeah, it continues**

So, seriously, people; WTF??!!

I
kinda pity Reva. I mean, of course, one or two flirty attempts to get
your attention is tolerable. But the whole day of SBE Programme? I was
starting to get pissed off myself too. We cant go anywhere around the
school with Indian assholes whistling, screaming, singing something in
Tamil which sounds like twisted intestines’ farts coming through their
mouth, and yelling something in Tamil towards Reva. At one point of
time, i feel like just blurting out to the PK HEM on asking him "why is
all Indian guys in his school are such assholes?" Still keeping this to
myself, i even feel like asking Madam Prema to change us to another
school. But then again, we might just end up with another squawking
fucking indian raptor guy instead. Sigh… Assholes… Lee and Ann
wasnt taking it seriously and so does Adam and Daryl.

But in a
way, i seriously feel pissed with the Indian students in that school.
Maybe what Ann said was right. I do grow up with my sisters and my mom
so maybe i grow a lil too empathatic. Well, that’s better than being
‘friends’ but stupid that you grow retardedly insenstive, i think =)

Anyways,
apart from the Indian assholes around, we did enjoy the day. We didnt
really observed any classes so far but the interviewing and the
layout-observing was okay. lolz. At one point, i kinda feel relieved
when, after all those Indian guys screaming at Reva, she still end out
saying that she preffered having SBE than mass lectures. Oh well.

Well, title’s a big spoiler this time dont you think… nah, what the hell….

Delaqroux Inc Updates

With the passing up of MS assignment, the air around the college has chilled down by a tad- enough for us to breath again. What’s more, the group presentation for ELTM is over as well so everything’s cool in the meantime. Now that just leaves the ELTM written paperwork, LNL assignment and the CM assignment to be handed in… huh… talk about a lil air to breather before the real toxic bomb drops in… Damn.. In any case, i teamed up with Reva, Shen-Ann and Irrina the past few days for the ELTM group task. And come to think of it, i’ve been friends with Ann and Reva for a long time already and this is actually the first time that i’m working with them instead of just joining them for crappy leisure hangouts. Contrastingly, i worked with Irrina plenty of times before yet i am still having difficulty trying to remember her name when i see her or trying to remember how she looks like when people mentioned her name to me (Irrina, if you’re reading this, i… uh… i have amnesia! Dont blame me for my lack of remembering people ability! DX)

Aaaanyways, yep, it was cool working with Ann and Reva… (or Reva and Ann… just trying not to make Reva feels not getting enough priority) Reva seemed to get pretty jumpy as the presentation deadline drawing in. There will always be the time when Son Goku from Dragon Ball Z turn super-saiya or unlock-hidden-potential crap when he gets serious. I guess Reva have her own way too. And, Ann, on the other hand, just remained blur throughout… and sleepy… oh well, she might actually been really stressed out to but i think she might had hid it thanks to my constant lempang-ing her in the head everytime she’s not paying attention.. Sorry Ann… ^^"

In case Ann and Reva (or yes, Reva and Ann) are reading this, yep, it shall be time for me to kutuk myself now before both of you all start doing so or in worse case scenario, gang up to kill me. I know, i was always late for discussion and yesh, i was late during the actual presentation oso. So, si, me sorry… now we’re even right? Bleh…. =3="

In all, it was cool working with Ann, Irrina and Reva.. (or again, Reva,Irrina and Ann). Both Ann and Reva will be going to MacQ so i guess i might end up teaming up with them again for some task. Yes, Reva will always be drama-ly jumpy and Shen-Ann will always be blur and sleepy.. But, i kinda look forward to working with them again any time soon =)

Dark Delaqroux Inc Updates 002!

Haha. It’s much easier to keep track of how many blogpost you have made when you just started your blogsite. It goes all the way when you feel all motivated to make a countdown of your posts, lost count halfway through, you tracked it back but you cant find back the number where you left off, and, in the end; you choose not to make that kind of post count no more. Okay, it’s just my usual random ramblings before i start my blogpost. Doing that keeps me back on my typing mood and yep, so now it begins.

Today was the day of new intake of juniors in our college. Of course, not all of them are our age anyways. There are still the KPLI which are much older than us in TESL Cohort 5 but, being among the oldest of the oldest IPBA population here, the senior-ism is still there. For a bunch of us here; we chose to play by the rule that goes; "Juniors are juniors and seniors are us. As long as they know how to be good friends; they’re friends" (I am playing by this rule as well, and proud of it). Regardless, some of the others here choose to stick with the conventional barbaric senior-ism style that goes "Juniors are juniors and we are thy seniors; we need to show em who’s boss". This second rule, however, to me (along with all those adjectives that i just used), is a total a waste of time. Though i am not well informed or knowledgeable of any plans cooked up by the fore-mentioned community for the juniors, i do heard from a little black bird that they have some ‘warm-welcoming’ plans for the juniors tonight. Cant say that i agree with such way but, nah, convincing them to call it off is like you against the whole HEP unit (For first time Delaqroux’s blog readers; HEP stands for "Students’ Affairs Unit" and the people under that team was nothing but a bunch of pain in the ass who seem to care more about finding the students’ wrongdoings rather than understanding the students’ affairs. Technically, one term sums HEP up; "Douschebags Council")

Back in my (Gosh, starting to sound like one of those war veterans) days, the ‘warm-welcome treatment’ that we got wasnt that scarring. We were put in some room, Hitler holocaust cramming style, not being able to sleep for the whole night, have to endure some psychological treatment by the seniors and stuff. At that point, i didnt know what crossed my mind but i volunteered myself to get into the ‘confinement’ room. lolz. Guess it was somewhat a mental breakdown. Nobody pisses me off when i dont feel like getting pissed. I ended up in the ‘confinement’ room with a few more seniors, answered some lame interrogations and escaped mental-scarring-free (I even fell asleep when the seniors were talking to me XD). When i told this story to people and even for the people who witnessed the time i volunteered myself, everyone said that i really put myself in the crocodile’s nest. Gosh, i dunno whether was i being brave, blur coz of lack of sleep or just plain dumb… Glad to get it all over with, nonetheless =)

Anyways, one of the major key event of the whole our-time-as-juniors experience was that i was in a hell of a thought-ocean throughout the week (um… yeah, though-ocean.. something like a see of thoughts- but slightly in different way of saying it. heh ^^"). For one thing, i keep on thinking why did i ended up in this course? Why am here and what am i supposed to do now that i got myself stuck in this place? I am quite sure that everyone must have been thinking the very same thing but the fact that I (yes, shoot me) didnt really missed home that much, made me cloud my own head only of that identity search matter in an over-dose scale and that was super painful.

Up til this point, i’m not too sure i got my answers to all that questions. Everything seems crowded and crammed in my head. Ecspecially for the fact on what am i going overseas for? To study; yes. To find my true identity; hmm… you can say that.

But for now,
one single purpose for furthering my studies in Australia that i can think of right now is that i dont want anyone there to be alone…

haha. whatever that means, freak.

whattatuist!! (what a twist) :p

Normally, if i am to make a blogpost, i rather be alone in my own little corner of the world where i believe that is the best atmosphere for me where i can reflect perfectly on whatever am i writing about. However, tonight, i am writing this blogpost for a special someone that God have blessed me with, and, though i do feel slightly awkward, i am glad she is right here next to me right now as i continue filling this blank page with my emotions… entirely about you. And this blogpost will talk about how i appreciated her moments with me since the first day i met her, how glad i am to have her with me and how special special she is to me. Not to mention; how i wish she’ll be there for me forever.. unfortunately, fate always have her cruel twist; tonight will be our last night together..

I wish i can make the normal shoutout to be as euthusiastic as usual for her… but i just cant tonight.. In any case, this is Delaqroux Inc Updates… My last night with Gloria…

Our moments together was short but it was sweet- every moment of it. Our first meeting was in MidValley. I was supposed to meet her a few times earlier but most of the time, i was somehow reluctant to do so. However, i’m glad that i finally made the right choice to meet her personally.. and, God, was she the sweetest little thing ever to grace Your earth? Until that point, i’ve never missed a chance to have her with me. I know that "to have you with me" might be slightly an over-dramatizng phrase. Then again, that is the only phrase i can think of to describe how i want every moment of my life to be spent with her- and how i cherish every each of them when i did.

For one thing, i dont think anyone realizes how different you are. I do, Gloria. As a matter of fact, i strongly believe that none of them out there who is in any way comparable to you; how distinguishable you are from them, how outstanding, how unique and how special you are when compared to all of them. And all those moments i had with you are also in no way possible to be matched with those with anyone else. I still remember one night when i had you together with me and you reminded me of how life is; bitter at first sip, soft and sweet as it goes along… Just like coffee.. I remembered every word of yours. Since that night, i treasured that reminder and it kept me alive ever since… and it’s all because of you, Gloria. For one moment, i believe i continue to live strongly again entirely because of you.

As i am writing this, i am sorry how i was so selfish the past few weeks. I noticed how i get myself too busy til i nearly forgot to spend time with you. I had the chance to see you yesterday but i chose not to just due to some lame excuses. Yes, i regret being so stupid and selfish.. Nevertheless, i’m glad i came back to my senses today and i can never be glad enough that you still want to be here to be with me in my life.

Although, it is the fact that it is just for tonight..

My heart really stopped the time you said that you will have to leave me this coming Friday. I cant recall how many times have i apologize for me being selfish and how i begged you to stay. But i guess life is just like that.. Sweet moments always comes but not to last forever. I know that you cant help it and neither do I. I guess i just have to stay strong by myself from now on… But the question is; how can i? Who else can replace this addiction of mine towards you? Who will can fill in this emptiness in my life when you’re gone? And most importantly, who will be there to remind and motivate me to continue living this life when i’m standing at the edge of my own grave? I know, life is just like a cup of coffee; bitter at first sip, but soft and sweet as it goes along. But it just seems the other way round up at this point.

Gosh.. if what you’ve been saying all this while is true, then i do hope that i am now at the point of "bitter at first sip"…

Please, help me to stay believing that it will go along soft and sweet soon…

I’ll miss you and i’ll forever love you, Gloria Jean..

Dark Delaqroux ‘08
-Last night with Gloria-

I promise i would do,
Everything you want me to,
I promise i would say,
Whatever coz i feel this way.
As how much i wish the day can wait,
Is as much as how i wish the day wont be late,
As how many "i love you" i would say to you,
Is as many times you had said "i love you too"

Summer breeze bringing in all the love song,
Perfect day and nothing can ever go wrong,
Cheery birds singing along the church bell,
But nothing can describe how my heart felt,
Or should i say undescribable it is all the way,
It’s so unbelievable but we’re getting married today,
May seem a cliche but i promise i would never,
Stop loving you today, tomorrow and ever ever after.

I promise that i wont be a second late,
Like the time on our very very first date,
I promise that i wont never ever you wait,
For me to prove all the things i had said.
I will use all the lines that i can remember,
Like "i’ll promise you a happily ever after"
But i will say it with Shakespearean artistry,
For "i shall loveth thee til another eternity"

Summer breeze bringing in all the love song,
Perfect day and nothing can ever go wrong,
Cheery birds singing along the church bell,
But nothing can describe how my heart felt,
Or should i say undescribable it is all the way,
It’s so unbelievable but we’re getting married today,
May seem a cliche but i promise i would never,
Stop loving you today, tomorrow and ever ever after.

"Song for Mussita"
Delaqroux Inc. 2008

Okay, just gonna make a real short shout out here. Apparently, i was checking the latest episode of Epic-Fu on Youtube just this morn and guess what? For once, they actually featured my mash up for the Epic Fu logo! Whoo! Of course, it’s not like you won a prize or anything but nah, its just cool to be noticed isnt it?… Okay, okay, fine.. Darkie’s an attention seeker- so what?

Anyways, here is the mash up:

It’s much simpler compared to the other mashups and practically, i just dumped everything in. But the cool thing is, i made a graffiti over Epic-FUs website background and i never got it posted under the logo mash-up thread. Yet, that lil baby of mine was also featured on the Epic-Fu video. Weee! XD

So, yep, for those who never actually know what the hell is an Epic-FU or Mix.Epic-Fu; they just got in a whole new ’season’ so its never too late to join the internet pop-culture club. Check it out!

Epic-FU (One Episode for every fortnight): http://www.youtube.com/user/jetsetshow
Mix.Epicfu.com (the official community website and discussion thread): http://mix.epicfu.com/

P/S: "and these two mash-ups by Dark Delaqua…" (Zadi, 2008) Delaqua??? DX

Delaqroux Inc Update and yyyeah.. its nearly the end of the hols and the start of the new semester in college. Me, unlike some people who are always in fear when it comes to changes, cant wait for the new semester. I mean, seriously, last semester was dead boring. Its like a repititive game forced to be played over and over.. no, not like DotA, more to like Tetris.. Multiplayer tetris where you’re supposed to stack up hundred of blocks to make the blocks beforehand dissapear and you repeat by putting even more blocks to make more blocks dissapear. The only reason why you’re not quitting the game is because there’s another sorry sucker as the second player and you dont want to lose to him in such a lame game. Its more to like a endurance game rather than a hand-to-eye coordination game… So why am i talking about games here? Well, it have sumthing to do with this blog where I, humble Dark A. Delaqroux, will recap on what had occured in the 1st semester in IPBA. So, let’s begin

NUMBER 10: THE INTERNET WARFARE
Living in such a modern world of education and yeah, our new dorm; Block One, one cannot live without the basic necessity and in this case, the net connection. Sure we tried registering for Maxis broadband only to find out that the connection sucked big time. Thus, we got the modem refunded and we bough a 30metres LAN cable instead to connect one of the LAN ports in the common room and lead it all the way up to our dorm’s wireless router. Living in level 5, its near impossible to even catch a speck of 3Com wireless network so we figured out this brilliant plan. Unfortunately, some people werent really happy about it. In the end, we were stuck back with Maxis broadband, lower powered package, less payment, everybody happy.. i guess..

NUMBER 9: 01-18-08 (THE CLOVERFIELD INCIDENT)
Sigh… who can ever forget that six legged monster rampaging around New York city and you watch the whole movie from a first person view of an escaping civillian. Well, group of civillian actually. Of course, there were complaints about the movie being stupid; anti-climax ending, shaky camera (Its a movie from an amateur cameraman’s camera- duh?!) and the fact that the origin of the monster wasnt told anywhere in the movie. However, i agree with all those comments but in terms of realism, the movie win big time. You’re a civillian, why not worry about how to run then actually worrying where the monster comes from? Just run like hell.. thats how life is. Enjoy that.

NUMBER 8: MASS LECTURE, MASS-ER BOREDOM
There have been a few questions on why am i sitting all the way at the back throughout the semester. Apparently no, i am not in any way associated with the student subgroup of Backbenchers in any way. The only reason why i am sitting all the way at the back lies right where you put your glasses, people.. In front of you. Mass lecturers are dead boredom. For one thing, sitting at the back row render yourself almost invincible to the lecturers up at the front. In other words, you can sleep OR if the lecture arent really that efficient (which apparently i found most lectures not that efficient at all), why not open your laptop, connect to the net and study by yourself? It works damn better than listening to some presentation that doesnt make much sense and @#$% yeah, thats what i’ve been doing all this while and that’s my secret study plan. I didnt do all that bad the last exam so yep, that study plan worked. When the lecture gets boring, the bored goes self studying! HAH! >8D

NUMBER 7: THAT’S PHILOSOPHY
Who could have missed Dr. Raja Gopal? Well, one thing for sure, i’m gonna miss him. For one reason, yeah, there are at times that his lecture can turn into a whole session of philosophical talks. But when you look back and take a lil ponder, that’s what lectures are supposed to be. From what i see it, first semester’s lecturers are a lil bit sticking-by-the-coursebook type. Dr. Raja’s lecture is one of a kind lecture that you can leave your philosophy book at home, pay attention in class and you’ll reap a helluva benefits for your studying and living. I admit that there are times when i didnt really pay much attention to his lectures but mark my words people, open up your ears in his class and you’ll get something useful in. Afterall, classroom is not a room with fourwalls but tomorrow is inside… **gopal smile**

NUMBER 6: THE FOOD NEVER GETS OLD IN KG BARU
With Preena’s Annalakshmi switching from Mid-Valley to God-knows-where, we are having a food crisis issue. Laugh if you want to but this food crisis leads to a bigger problem among us. For one thing, it leads to some socializing problem among us. Whenever it seems like we need a place to gather around for some friendly socializing (and yes, cheap food), Annalakshmi will be our gathering spot. So, with its dissapearance, we lost a gathering place. But thanks to Alia Nor Dodgson who presented Kg Baru to us, we found a new kickass gathering spot. We dont really know the name of the place for sure (keep forgetting), but one thing for sure; the Western food there sure whips up your taste spine and all the coffee they serve; it can make even the Wild Wild West spell "cow" with KAW. Okay, i know i’m not making much sense. So, just try it out for yourself. And Preena, if you have to keep showing off your Sharalan everytime we go to Kg Baru, dont blame me when i will have to take my Angelina to show her off next time ok? Two can play that game; remember that. >8D

NUMBER 5: DEFENSE OF THE ANCIENTS
It seems like almost every night in IPBA for last semester was one helluva warfare. Yep, DotA season is back in IPBA and there are lots of newcomers showing up in the battlefield; Holy Ballista (Adam), Lelouche (Daryl) Kurita and Adik (some PISMP guy), there are also returns of old veterans into the warfare; Devil May Qroux (yours truly.. wakaka. I was playing Dota for two years so that makes me veteran no?), ^_^ (Loong), Peacemaker!!! (Naveen) and even some seniors whom we call our sensei and inspiration to improve our Dota play; Youchi (Taufiq), ShinAsuka (Shin-Asuka.. we dunno his real name) and Your Mama (Chai). Aside to that we learned that there are constant wars going on in SS2’s cyber cafe and we got our ass whooped last time and yeah, we know we shall big back for revenge…

NUMBER 4: FROM TEACHING TO FLYING
And just last month, the total of Cohort 5 students dropped by one with the departure of Naveen Supramaniam aka our ‘Peacemaker’ (DUH!!?? LOLZ) Aaaanyways, yep, although he was our pain-in-ass at times, sometimes pain is good so yeah, we’re gonna miss him. Well, if his reading this blogpost, read what it says up at your T-Shirt, Nav, "dont forget to look back". Coz if you do forget, well, i will have to some Peacemakers in your plane, bro. That oughta make you look back eh?

NUMBER 4.2: SENIOR SEND-OFF
And back in February, if i’m not mistaken, the Cohort 4 senior left Malaysia for their 2nd year in their respective overseas twinning universities. Well, i’m not gonna say much stuff but i do regret not knowing them that well way before they left. Hmm.. guess the racial difference still kicks in at times huh? But then again, i still feel lucky that at least, i still get to know them even for a short while before they left (and even AFTER they have left). Funny as it may sound, but nah, at least there’s nothing not to be thankful of when it comes to knowing a nice bunch of people even if they’re miles away from you.. Missing and looking forward to seeing them again: Lucille, Kelsey, Eva, Felicia, Nigel (Tahi Keramat??), Sze Wei and everybody else if i forgot any. good luck in whatever you’re working on! XD

NUMBER 3: LEAGUE OF UNORDINARY GENTLEMEN
With the first introduction of male playing female role in last year’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream play by the cohort 5 , it seems like Thisby arrived, made a big impact (and a big laugh) and left but not without a trace. As a matter of fact, the trend on male playing female role was set in quite a large scale among us. First with.. ahem.. someone playing Thisbe, soon Daryl was found playing the role a blind horny.. i mean.. innocent lady, Lip Vi with another women role (He got BOOBS???), Shogi with some gender-confused Hip Hop girl and Lee playing Chang Er (i think thats what her name was), a goddess in the Chinese Mooncake legend. Additionally in last semester’s English Day, Adam joined the badwagon with Jem aka Jemilah. The only funny thing is that Jem was never a girl… he- or otherwise, Adam- is gay.. LOLOLOLOLZ XD

NUMBER 2: THE WAR IS IN YOUR HAND
Thanks to the introduction of handheld gaming by Alex, Adam’s younger brother, i was intrigued to get my hands on a PSP myself. I mean, for RM700, its like multiple gadget in one; a gaming console, a PDA (with WLAN connectivity), an MP4 player and an MP3 player- all in one. With the right upgrades (and yes, the right budget) the PSP can be upgraded to a camera, a GPS system and even a phone. But to the most of it, although, yes the biggest hype right now is the PS3-X360 console war, my lil PSP at least helped me connect back to the gaming world ecspecially after the brokedown of my beloved PS2 back in late 2005. Moreover, Daryl and Adam might be getting themselves a PSP each and yep, its multiplayer warfare in your hands! XD (p/s: yesh, i sound geeky in this post.. sorry ^^")

NUMBER 1: BTN BRAINWASHING
Something that we seriously dont look forward to this year is, of course, the goddamned BTN camp. For those who are unaware, the BTN camp is like summer camp but before you start saying "what’s wrong with that?", this is not like that summer camp. It mainly can be described as a mini national service programme, minus all the socializing activity, social work activity, leadership activity, physical activity, communicative activity, inter-racial bonding activity, self-actualization activity and inter-college activity- only an extra plus plus on the brainwashing activity. In that camp, most of the time we are.. skkrrrytsxpst…. as.. *static*… and th.. sssriktcspqqrxt…. *static*…hate ea… sstqrrkcchptsqkk… **CONNECTION LOST**

**CONNECTION BACK ONLINE**
So, yep, thats about it for last semester recap. Its like a whole new-year to us here in IPBA and hell, am i look forward to it (jz please, let it not be another crappy semester). Furthermore, around 8 more months and i’ll be fine on my way to MacQuarie University.. and that’s when life REALLY going to get interesting… ^^

p/s: all the above stories are not chronoligically arranged nor in a top-ten manner. The ten to one countdown is just for the fun of it. Dont mind me ya? lolz :p