Friday, October 30, 2009

I Just Don't Get It!

I looked at the mirror just now at myself. I still don't get it.

1)One night last week, just some days before the general election of MPPUTP(Majlis Perwakilan Pelajar Universiti Teknologi Petronas), a guy came knocking on my door. The first thing he said was not about why I should vote for candidate, but..
He: Are you a chinese? (A look of surprise he gave me.)
Me: Yea.. (Shouldn't you be promoting a candidate, holding papers and stuffs in your hands?)

P/s: Out of 6 candidates, 5 will be choosen. So why do they have to come for the few nights, disturbing people door to door? Kiasu people. They even gave notebooks and choki-choki to bride us.

2)Yesterday at Programming Lab 2. The lab assistant/tutor asked me, are you a malaysian? He's just curious, I think.)

P/s: Man, this is too much!

3) Today at v6 cafe. The cashier uses English for the first time to tell me the price and erm..everything like that happens to foreigners only. But not to my friends.


Do I look like a Malaysian? A Chinese?
This is complicated-ly hard. =D

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By the way, I just knew my 1st sem results yesterday and it was better than expected. Surely, God guided me. Thank God for the results!!

Saturday, October 24, 2009

The Inner Heart Speaks

I must say, since started college life till now, I learnt a lot. Real lot.

The malay pantunI learnt in around Form 1 or two which states "Banyak orang banyak ragam" is so so true.

In college, there are people who study so hard until there is nothing more to do besides lecture, assignments and study. Yes, I repeat, lecture, assignments and study.

There are also people who play so hard. Lol. Played online games until after midnight everyday and burn the midnight oil for finishing assignments and studying for tests.

For your information, my college only offers two courses IT and Engineering courses. Thus, there are certain immature people who keeps saying that THEIR engineering course is harder and they are like more dominant to my course.

Grow up. To these group of people.




Sheesh. This is the first time I celebrate my birthday and Mooncake Festival away from home.

The Dropped Chalk

This is a true story of something that happened just a few years ago at USC.

There was a professor of philosophy there who was a deeply committed atheist. His primary goal for one required class was to spend the entire semester attempting to prove that God couldn't exist.

His students were always afraid to argue with him because of his impeccable logic. For twenty years, he had taught this class and no one had ever had the courage to go against him.

Sure, some had argued in class at times, but no one had ever really gone against him because of his reputation. At the end of every semester on the last day, he would say to his class of 300 students, "If there is anyone here who still believes in Jesus, stand up!"

In twenty years, no one had ever stood up. They knew what he was going to do next. He would say, "Because anyone who believes in God is a fool.

If God existed, he could stop this piece of chalk from hitting the ground and breaking. Such a simple task to prove that He is God, and yet He can't do it."

And every year, he would drop the chalk onto the tile floor of the classroom and it would shatter into a hundred pieces. All of the students would do nothing but stop and stare. Most of the students thought that God couldn't exist. Certainly, a number of Christians had slipped through, but for 20 years, they had been too afraid to stand up.

Well, a few years ago there was a freshman who happened to enroll. He was a Christian, and had heard the stories about his professor. He was required to take the class for his major, and he was afraid. But for three months that semester, he prayed every morning that he would have the courage to stand up no matter what the professor said, or what the class thought.

Nothing they said could ever shatter his faith...he hoped. Finally, the day came. The professor said, "If there is anyone here who still believes in God, stand up!" The professor and the class of 300 people looked at him, shocked, as he stood up at the back of the room.

The professor shouted, "You FOOL!!! If God existed, he would keep this piece of chalk from breaking when it hit the ground!"

He proceeded to drop the chalk, but as he did, it slipped out of his fingers, off his shirt cuff, onto the pleat of his pants, down his leg, and off his shoe. As it hit the ground, it simply rolled away unbroken. The professor's jaw dropped as he stared at the chalk. He looked up at the young man, and then ran out of the lecture hall.

The young man who had stood, proceeded to walk to the front of the room and shared his faith in Jesus for the next half hour. 300 students stayed and listened as he told of God's love for them and of His power through Jesus.

You have 2 choices

1. Delete this and never look at it again.

2. Pass this along to your Christian and non-Christian friends, giving them encouragement we all need every day.

When you choose option 2, you have chosen to STAND UP.

Friday, October 9, 2009

The Moments I Disappeared

If I say I just remembered I have a blog, would you believe in me? Lol.

Well, besides the busyness of college life, another reason which adds up into which I don't blog that frequently is because the hostel's internet connection had gone worse than before. All the mood of blogging just fade away with this kind of lousy connection. Be grateful already if you have an average internet connection that allows you to facebook-ing smoothly.

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One day I was quite boring so I made a brief survey on isotonic drinks with my samples,namely Excel, 7up Revive and 100 Plus.

I discovered that Excel contained the least energy and sugar level but it contains Vit C.

On the other hand, 100 Plus and 7up Revive contained the same energy but the sugar level of 7up Revive is the highest. 7up Revive contained Vit B3, B6 and B12 though.

On my opinion, 7up Revive is the best choice for isotonic drink.

Crazy me, I'm leaving now to study Programming.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Time Really Flies


It's currently my favourite song. Awesome music with lyrics that are powerful.



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Busy weeks had just passed like this. But for now, my assignments and projects are almost all done. And in less than 2 weeks' time, I'm having my finals for my first sem.



Nothing much had actually happened. For the first week of August, UTP was close down due to some positive H1N1 cases. Me, Melvin and Jack stayed at the ministry house of Hope Ipoh and went to a sight-seeing in Perak, Kellies' Castle.



Yesterday, me and my friends went to Gua Tempurung, another sight-seeing in Perak due to a sudden reason.



Kindly go to my Facebook photo albums if you want to look at the awesome pictures captured by me at the two sight-seeings. =) haha.



And below is a picture of fresh strawberries from Cameron Highlands, taken on the day it was pick. It wasn't me who went there though, it's my friends. I wanted to go, but I had Business Test and English Test today.


Saturday, August 1, 2009

Captions of July

This is where I'm staying. Nah, just kidding.
The carpark.
Ok, this is way I stay, Village 6 of UTP.
Upon coming here, i realized how cool Tesco is. Tesco has its brand in most products, in cheaper rates.
Basically, i ate stuffs like these for breakfast, you can't get these in kuching haha.
Lecture rooms. But only for degree students.
The library.
Never know it's such a wonder place.
It's nice and air-conditioned.
Saying goodbye to this fella who's been useful to me since form 2. Using a 570ms now.

The comfy seats.

A lecturer can even play a music-cartoon video during lecture.

And mp3s. Seriously.
That's Sunway Lagoon but I didn't enter.
That's the ice-skating place in Sunway Pyramid.

It looks cool inside Sunway Lagoon from outside though.

Went to 175 cafe during mid-sem break.

The furnitures' nice.

Jonathan, Nazrin, Melvin.
Tried the fish spa. Itchy but nice.