My Soon -To-Be "New' Home

I'm gonna be living in a HOSTEL

Alright...before you guys start hurling me questions like "What? How can you possibly stay in the hostel?" or "Are you out of your mind?" or "Are you kidding me?", let me explain ok?

Reasons why I chose to stay in the hostel :

1) I can make friends with oth new students..which the management of the hostel arranged so that all new BPharm students will be living together.

2)They provide furniture and some light cooking equipment, so for the time being I don't have to buy them yet.

3)There is a female warden who checks up on you everyday and when you get sick you can ask her to take you to the doc.

4)I get to mingle with ppl my age or probably in the same class whereas in private accomodation my housemates could be just anyone.

5)They will automatically pay for my water and electric bills so I need not worry bout them while I'm trying to settle down

Reasons why I'm not thrilled by living in the hostel :

1)There is a curfew and its at 10pm....why is it so freakin' early?How bout leisure time out with friends?

2)There is no internet line in the hostel. I have to walk to IMU and use its library where it opens til 10pm exactly the time of my curfew...and might I ask...wat if I need to do my assignment and I need to use the internet til l8r at night? have they thought of it?

3)The corridor and the staircase is kind aspooky where the lights are a little dim...i mean whats wrong with the structure of the building...why do we need to go up 2 flights of stairs before reaching the lift?I mean it is a pretty long corridor and at night i can only imagone it being dark and deserted...my mum's worried bout being mugged or confronted by a stranger...but I'm more concern bout meeting the dead-yet-alive beings.I need to go to a temple and pray and get some amulet or smth.....laugh all you want but my imagination has the tendency to run when i'm alone in dark deserted places.

So ppl...what do you think?pros and cons...

My Trip To KL

I went to KL last Friday. My sole purpose is to get to know IMU better..well can say I'm a little disappointed. It wasnt as impressive as I thought it would be but on the other hand,its not bad either.
Its a 5 (or is it 6) storey building. Fully air conditioned...a lot of lecture halls....this office that office...lol..lotsa hardworking-ready to piah(work hard) til death ppl. but the dress code is abit silly tho reasonable...no baby T...no jeans...no spagetthi stripes...i mean i practically have to cover myself up...aww...how to kao chai (pikat lelaki..Ruvy, the translation is for you)?

This medical student showed me around and telling me bout the place...he was really helpful and now I got his contact number+msn+email..so i hope that when I get there he can help me get used to the place.

Grumpy,Grouchy!

Well, ts the time of the month again just that it hasnt arrived yet, but will be here soon.I'm like so irritated right now and I don't even know whats the cause of it. For Kc who'reading my blog everyday, to answer your question yes,I'm like this every month so when you feel that I'm not my usualy self and I tend to get a little bit cole well, you know what's coming.

Just snapped at my Granny who was lecturing me about how girls should know how to cook lar,clean the house and waking up early.I mean come on lar...I've been waking up early for like13 years already non stop for every year. And right now I'm having smth like a break and i wake up at 9 smth 10 smth not too late i think.Pretty reasonable I guess.And bout cooking? I can do a little bit of this and that....and where did that girls shouldknow how to cook come from?What is this the 1800's? Might as well not persue a degree and get married a few years back rite...then I'll be feeding this brood of kids...sigh.

And here's my mum nagging and saying I should be teaching my sister and not go out often........for crying out loud, my sister is 17 if she cant study on her own and her future blows up its her own fault alright. I already tried teaching her and she just isnt interested.I mean her Water Margin is too important for her to sacrifice not plahying with it to do some studying.If she wants to screw her life by not being able to think for herself at this age...well......her lost! I'm fed up with my mum telling me I should do this do that just to get her to study.if she's so persistant go do it herself man.My sister is utterly hopeless and a stubborn computer games playing freak. smart,fast learner but she doesnt appreciate and make use of them whats the point?Her future..her business...her problem. When i already try my best and she dont give a damn why should I even bother anymore.As if I don't have problems of my own.

The Only Friend

The Dummy

In that forgotten part of town
Where wasted hopes and dreams abound,
A wrinkled man with life near end,
In hopes to have at least one friend,
Fashioned bits of wood and things
And made a dummy run by strings.

He sat alone for hours on end,
Conversing with his only friend
And found delight within the fact
That he controlled it's every act.
He told it how he never had
A chance, since all his luck was bad
Although he'd tried so to succeed -
The dummy nodded and agreed.

And how his journeys in romance
Had never given him a chance,
And wasn't it a crying shame
That he was always held to blame
When everyone knew, oh so well,
That life is but a living Hell,
Controlled by lust and power and greed?
The dummy nodded and agreed.

With patience that would rival saints,
That dummy sat through all complaints
And, with each little expert tug,
He'd droop his head or bow or shrug
And give some comfort to the man
Who held his lifelines in his hand
And helped to fill a lonely need
When he just nodded and agreed.

Senility increased with time
As did the old man's phantomime,
And feverish fingers pulled with glee
The dummy's dance of misery.
They never left each other's side
Until the day both stopped and died.
We found them lying, hand in hand,
The dummy - and his wooden friend.

It Came!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh my gosh!I got my acceptance letter from IMU this morning and they want me! And I tot i might be one of the rejects slinking away this year doing nth while waiting to try again next year.My classes will be comencing on 16th July and i have to pay my first semester feees by end of this month.The problem is I havent gotten news from the public U yet so i'm like kinda in a dilemma.I have to pay RM16900 by end of this month if I want to get in by July.Oh God! Beter hurry along there with the public U application thing.

Anyway, I'm thrilled but kinda unsure...gona be leaving my home for the first time to live on my own...a little scary but I think i'll make it.Hehe.Problem is i'll be leaving my friends behind namely Wei Ching,Shu Xian,(Sara and Ruvy, you guys are gng to the States so we ar eleaving one another). and yeah,the one that I'm most reluctant to leave wil be Alvin...sigh....gonna miss you a whole bunch.You better not cheat on me ya while I'm not with you or else!Lolz.

Pharmacy,and Mian said its tough.-Gulp- Have to work hard then..gosh you guys....have to fit in with the oths..new surroundings new atmoshere..meeting new ppl....feeling insecure. Sigh....well its time to grow up i guess...to leave my roots and planting them at another spot.

I could use some words of encouragement here tho....hehe.

Worrying For My Interview

I have already taken my interview a week and a half ago and they are suppose to reply me by 14th May....and the deadline is drawing near. Whether I got accepted or not they'll let me know but currently I know nothing.I think I did alright in my interview and Sara this is especially for you since you wanna know the details of my interview

Venue: Dorset Hotel

Time :11.30 am

Interview by : A Pharmacist and a Doctor

S@Serena, D @ Doctor, P@Pharmacist

D opens the door for me while I walked in

S : Gd morning!

D&P : Hello, good morning to you too.

S took a seat in front of them

P :So from what I see in your academic results, you're a bright student and your teacher

gave a good comment about you. Tell me about your co-curricular activities in school.

S :Well, I am quite active in my Music Club,Maths Club and Table Tennis which I was the

President,Vice President and AJK respectively. I represented my school in the Recorder

playing competition for a number of years and I also represented my school in this

national Maths Quiz. Besides that, i am also the President of the Resource Room namely

The Board Of Librarians. I also represented my sports house in 4 x 100m as well as

the long jump....even though i'm rather small. (Laughs quietly)

D :Haha, yes you're rather petite. So why do you apply for Pharmacy?

S :Well, since young I'm interested in knowing why ppl get sick and how does the medicine

work. At first I would like to be a doctor so that I can know more but aft thinking bout it

aft SPM, I decided I wanted to do smth which is behind the scene you know, like a

pharmacist's job is to understand the nature of human body but yet knows more bout

drugs and their abilities.

P :I don't get it, what you're saying is opposing what you said in the first place. You're

Interested in curing ppl and the way to do it but you don't want to be a doctor?

D :No, what she meant was she wants to be a pharmacist because she wants to learn the

same stuff as doctors but she likes to work behind the scene not out in the open treating

ppl.

P :I see.Sorry for the misunderstanding.Tel me what qualities do you think a pharmacist

should have?

S : I think a pharmacist should be patient as the field of study is tough almost like that in

medicine.He/she also must be willing to work hard for being a pharmacist involves

long term studying as science and technologies advances and more types of drugs are

being discovered.

D : Here at IMU we don't spoon feed our students.Most of the time students have to be

independent.Why pick IMU in the frist place?

S :I am aware of that and it is similar to Form 6 where the teacher flips through 30 pages

in 40 minutes and expects you to know the entire 2 to 3 chaptersI'm prepared to self

learn as I'm already used to doing it in Form 6.and to answer your question, I'll have to

take us back in time to when i jsut recieved my results for SPM. That was the time I

decided I wanted to do Pharmacy. then i also decided to take F6. And then pops the

question on whether i should take Phy/Chem or bio/Clem. I opted with Phy/Chem

cause certain unis accept Phy students to take up Pharmacy. And if i don't do well in

STPM then at least i have a back up plan and I can do engineering to. So i need to scout

around to see which uni will accept me with Phy. And I heard bout IMu from my

friends and from education fairs. So I learned that IMU is quite a premier Uni in Kl

and you do accept Phy students and thats what made me decide to pick IMU.

D : Tell me something about youself that is not in the application form.

S :Err...well I do have this bad experience when i was younger in about Form 3. i used to

have this birth mark on my right cheek.And boys used to tease me and there was once

in a camp i attended Iw as the only one without a dance partner.I used to think guys are

mean.But aft I remove the mark I began to see things differently and with more

confidence.

P :So in future whenever you come across smth similar what do you think is the ebst way

to oversome it?

S :Based on what I've been through, i think it would be wish to laugh it off and to take it as

a joke.This way when they know you don't take them seriously they'll just drop it.

D :Thank you...that is very interesting.You may go now.

I got up thanked them and turned towards the door

P :Hold on a minute. This is a plastic bottle. Besides storing water what else can you do

with it?

S :(Oh shit) Well, you can always cut it into two and use it to plant smth just place some gel

into it.Or u can cut holes and try to make a flute.Or u can make a little lantern.

P :Anything else? (I hate him)

S : Err......

P :Its alright u can go.Thank you.

Just When I Thought Things Were Looking Up

My second anniversary with Alvin was on the 8th of May...it was a smashing day with lotsa fun,laughter and plenty of dirty jokes....but before you guys jump to any conclusions let me explain.We went for bowling with some of our friends namely Benjamin, Jaryn (Sara you know her),Marcia Lopez and her boy Sharanjit,Shalinee and Baljit and the both of us.The dirty jokes were all aimed at Jaryn and ol' Benny.

Alvin made lasagne for me...it was superb...manifique!!!! (Is it the correct spelling btw) and also chocolate truffles...all home made...awww...its incredibly sweet of him and i tot that therre is no way I can love any oth guy...maybe i cud you know one day have a Mrs. Tan title. -blushes-

Anywayz, my mum called me when she was out to dinner with her friends.And guess wat? She wanted Alvin's d.o.b.Apparently her one of her friend has this knowledge of numerology and can somewhat predict the future.

Here are the contents (Well most of it) :

Me
I'm a hot tempered person and if I get really mad, I'll screw just about whoever i wish without caring who....even if its my boss. She aslo said i'm a bookworm and I stress a lot whenever it comes to education. Nevertheless, she said in future whatever I do, it'll turn out well and I'll always get support be it from my colleagues,my boss or ppl who works under me.

My pesky sister
She's equally hot headed but with none of my ability to dare screw ppl.She's stubborn (I can see that long ago and I need no fortune telling for this) She's lazy and she hates studying (true) However when she grows up she'll be successful (Its not fair) but she must marry someone who is less successful for if not the marriage won't last...for my sister will be a proud woman.

Alvin and I
We are not suitable for one another..our element is opposing one another with me being threatened by him. According to her, he is of the Wood element while Earth is my element. She said that we are not destined to be together and that if we end up marrying I'll be controlled by him and i will have no free will of my own.

There ya have it ppl. What do you think?I gave it some thought and decided not to let it bothers me for I believe that wat we do in future are determined by us with the aid of God and his consent. I mean she cant possible ask me to interview every guy i like and see whether his element matches mine which is the element of Fire.

So Alvin, if you're reading this, don't worry bout it alright...have some faith and we'll see how things go. And yea, i forgot to tell you that she said that your career might not be great but in the end it'll turn up well.So don't give up.