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Monday, October 26, 2009

AAAHHHH. I finally will be not so busy this week!!!!!!

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The due date of one of my work is pushed to the week after it's supposed to be due and all I basically need to do is do a bit of research and sketches. NO SCALE MODELS FOR NEXT WEEK and that usually takes ages to do, not to mention a lot of £££ involved.

Ugh but it still means that i need to catch up with my other modules. Because of one module, I had to sacrifice the rest, I didn't bother to do any of the exercises given by my other lecturers. And now I can focus more on them and TRY to start working on my other courseworks.

Starting November, I am trying to balance my time for each of the modules (boring dry useless modules like Transport Engineering I won't bother much)and keep my work, diary and notes up to date. The problem is, Architecture work takes too much time and almost every week, there'd be something that we have to prepare and present. So far we have 4 who dropped out of Architecture, 2 this week. Now there are 13 of us left.

But I'm just going to put work aside for a while. I seem to talk about just that lately.

Straight after my lecture just now, I played Little Big Planet. It's like being lost in my own little world, I can just do about anything. To those who hasn't played the game, it's some sort of platform game where you can put your own marks on the levels using photos, stickers, objects, etc. It's like an adventure game you can decorate yourself. Besides decorating the levels, you can decorate your Pod which is sort of like your home in between levels. You can also customize your Sackboy (the character you play in the game) with costumes, and change his/her looks. You can even create your own levels. Please buy the game so I can add you up and we can play together (apparently we can play sama-sama online). It may be a for 7+ game, but I'm telling you, there are bloody hard obstacles to get through and it can be so frustrating. The best thing about the game is that you can play with more than one friend in the levels, and it's more fun that way. I've just discovered that I can slap my mates, besides pushing and pulling them. Did I forget to mention you can control the head, arms, body and facial expressions of the Sackboy? I can spend a while just controlling the Sackboy's body. Unfortunately, you cannot control the Sackboy to do the Macarena, I tried :(

So I spent more than an hour playing that just now. And now I have absolutely nothing to do here. I'd like to clean up but my body's aching right now bagas main netball yesterday (YES WE FINALLY PLAYED NETBALL IN SOTON) and it felt really great to be able to play again. We're doing it most probably every week from now on, I dooo hope so cos I feel more hyped up to work after that. Also I need some activity to do besides main game to buang stress.

I'm still waiting for a couple of books from Amazon. It's been a week and baru one ada. I'm collecting Lisa Kleypas's books at the moment. My aunt introduced me to them and I'm hooked, she's got great books. FYI, they're romance books so don't bother if you're not interested, I'm a hopeless romantic and I love historical romances. Lately I'm having trouble sleeping, and reading books keep me from rasa kan toss and turn every minute. I hope more will arrive today.

It's almost November, which means I'll be getting Band Hero and DJ Hero soon. I haven't played Guitar Hero in a while and my skills are deteriorating (not to imply that I'm good at it, but I'm just getting from bad to worse) pasal kerusi kami tinggi wah, payah kan main :P

Maybe I'll play Guitar Hero later.

My head is so crammed with boring Civil Engineering stuff. I need to get out and SHOP! I've been holding myself from it and I don't think I can hold myself any longer. I've been doing well with managing my money at the moment I think, only buying necessary items, except for the quite expensive jacket but that was like 3 weeks ago and that's the only item of clothing I bought since I've got back here. I need to splurge, I don't care. I've been so damned good this month, I deserve it.

My behaving so well financially may be due to the fact that I've got so much work to do these past weeks, even grocery shopping felt like a waste of time last week, resulting in me eating Indomee and Maggi only for a couple of days. Now I think all of us in the house are planning to just get the delivery in ASDA saja for our grocery, cos it takes so long to get there.

Omigod, I'm starving, but it feels nice to lie down right now.

On the second thought, I might not want to play Guitar Hero later, my limbs sakit.

I can't wait for the weekend, but it's still Monday :'(

2:51:00 PM

Friday, October 23, 2009

My stomach is grumbling but I'm too lazy to get up.

Mau main game.

10:29:00 AM

Monday, October 12, 2009

Finally went to my Architecture Class.

It was awesome. At first the lecturer, H, was a lot to take in. He was very blunt and curses a lot and I was thinking what a nightmare the second year's going to be with him teaching us. And he was very strict in attendance, and kept stressing how you're not going to get through the course if you just missed one class and was specific on what to bring for the class.

Since I missed the first lecture last week, I just found out that we were supposed to present a model of a house and most of them was already prepared. Luckily, the ones including me who missed last week's lecture was excused as we had a good reason (you'd know if you read my previous post).

As each of my classmates presented their work one by one, I began to change my mind about H. He's absolutely hilarious and I like the way he describes things.

"Eet is very preetty but also so crunchee"

I have no idea what he means by that. He was commenting on one of my classmate's work when he said that. I can't figure out his accent but it sounds really funny when he says "Bloody" or "Crap".

"I didn't bring my work with me today because I've made some changes to it and it's not ready yet."

"You should've just brought your model today"

"I don't want to, because I didn't like the earlier design, I wasn't happy with it. It's like..."

".. Crap?"

And when he likes something, he gets VERY excited and his face turns a bit red. And he loves it when he's being funny. He'd be a very great cartoon character, with his round body, red bald head, white hair and a very large vein on his head. I can't stop looking at it tadi.

He was showing this slideshow of pictures of houses, plans and buildings and the more he goes further into the slideshow, the more excited he got until finally we reached the plans to his own house. Here I think he got pretty hyped up with talking about his house that he actually started spitting until eventually one time his spit fell onto my classmate's head without him noticing (he was sitting down). But he's got a reason to be iski, the interior of his house looks amazing, atu pun baru ia liatkan his living room.

So he gave us 2 things to do for next week. One was a model of a house based on a concept we've chosen from the lecture notes and one was a slice for an artist we need to design complete with roof, basement and fire escape.

I can't wait to get started. Designing 2 houses in a week? It's gonna take up a lot of my free time and most of the weekend. But it'll be really fun. I'd start now if I already have my sketchbook and white cardboard, but the only time I can go and buy them will be on Wednesday :( in the meantime, I'll just try to finish up the minor yet unbelievably boring assignments from my other modules.

I will forever hate Tuesdays. Scratch that, probably just this semester.

Bah, sambung bersihkan bilik. You know with almost 2 weeks being here, I haven't gotten around to do that?

Being in my room's like a treat. You will know why if you ever come here and see my room.

1:24:00 PM

Friday, October 9, 2009

It's been 9 days...

...and about a month since I last updated hahaha.

I'm not going to talk about my preparations on my last week in Brunei to get back here, it's just one big blur.

I started my course this week and I'm pretty happy with my timetable... at times. Let's just say I am not looking forward to Week 6 onwards.

I only had one lecture on Monday. I would've been more thrilled if the class was not early in the morning (hahaha inda syukur). This only happens when I don't have lab classes though and I'm not sure whether I've only got 2 or 8 lab classes this semester (2 or 8 because I'm not sure if I've got my Architecture labs, usulnya ada 6 buting). The fact that I, most of the time, will have one lecture on MONDAYs somehow MADE me more motivated to attend all of my classes. HAHAHA.

Until the fateful next morning :(

Tuesday, I checked my SUSSED account and received an email from my Architecture lecturer about the change in time of the lecture. 10-1 instead of 9-11 the same day and at a different building from where our Architecture classes used to be. But according to my timetable, I had Structures and Dynamics scheduled at 11. So I decided to go to my classroom at 9 just to be sure. I also need to tell you that to get in the building where my classroom is, I need to use my ID card and key in the password. I was told where the building is though I've never heard of it. In the email, the lecturer said it's next to the car park and near the University Road, so I assumed it's this new building (gorgeous) yang baru siap.

So 15 minutes before 9, I left home and it was raining and I didn't have an umbrella. Pakai hoodie saja. I went to this new building, and tried to find the path to get there, because apparently, ada masih some construction work there. I walked around the building to find that rupanya the building atu balum siap... My bad.

So I went to this isolated building, a bit away from the Uni, where there's a car park lagi sebuting. I was already soaking wet at this time and it was already 9ish. But I didn't get it right again. Sooo I decided to look for a map in the Uni of the buildings and had to walk near the Hartley Library to get to it (I am NOT a fan of walking).

I should've done this earlier, I curse my own stupidity.

I found out where the building is, it's near the banks! And it would've been a short journey to get there. So I walked to the building, whipped out my card...

...but I forgot what the password was.

So I had to go back to the Library, log in to SUSSED and read the email again. Then I went back again to the building and keyed in the password.

Access denied.

In the email, it said to see the lecturer if there is any problem accessing the door but again, I cursed my stupidity for not writing down where his room is, so terpaksa lagi ke Library to get it.

Once I got it, I went to his room and told him I couldn't get in (just in case you are wondering why he is still in his room at 10am when he should be in class, another lecturer mengajar that class, not him). He said he bawa me ke sana to use his card. Sekali I explained to him how Architecture and Structure classes clash on Tuesday, he told me... he told me yang the Architecture lecture was held yesterday!

£%£^%*Y(U%(RDR^$)!!!

Rupanya I was supposed to read the email the day before. Panat wah, I didn't even bother to liat the time the email was sent, i just assumed the time change was for the same day :( so I said I won't need to access the building then. Hahaha. But he said my card should work fine next week. Monday, Naq.

Which means I'll have 4 hours of lectures on Monday! And if I were to have labs jua, I'd get a really full day.

After all that, I went to my FIRST lecture at 11. Structures and Dynamics. ML, he has this weird accent (it sounds a bit British but a touch of Chinese here and there) and gets extremely pissed if people is still talking 1 minute after the lecture starts. The other day, 5 minutes after lecture starts, he placed a sheet on the overhead and wrote down "Can I speak now?" and just stood there waiting for everyone to shut up.

The next class I had was DB, he is my personal tutor as well. He lectures Constructional Management ergh. He drones on about contracts (and that's the only thing I bothered to listen) and has really annoying gestures as he speaks and it kind of distracts me while I was trying to listen to what he is saying.

He goes on about the 2 types of contracts. Pauses. Takes a deep breath. Opens his mouth as if he tries to say something. Closes his mouth. Wobbles his head. Looks at the whiteboard. Looks at us. Wobbles his head. Gestures with his hand. Then finally continues to drone.

And you get that most of the time when he pauses, i'm not kidding. Not exactly following those steps, he can even wobble his head after he takes a deep breath. But he usually overdo his wobbling and that's the most annoying part.

What else do I have...

Soil Mechanics, taught be AZ, is the most confusing crap I'm studying. I was seriously happy when I found out Architecture students won't be taking Hydraulics lectures this year (HAHA to other students) but Soil Mechanics is actually similar. I didn't understand what was going on. And I don't know what is up with my lecturer's accent, but whatever I hear is just "odokolobomoogocoboododopobomokoso". It's like the only vowel he uses is 'o'.

"Of yoo look ot tho doyogrom.."

Then I have Transport Engineering. A bit interesting, no annoying lecturers, except that he twitches whenever he speaks but that doesn't bother me.

Engineering Materials seems to be the most interesting one I'm having (not counting Architecture since I missed the first lecture) taught by SM. It's like Chemistry, on the first lecture, we studied Form4 Chemistry and that was alright. I like Chemistry. I do not know why I didn't take that as my course saja. And SM is pretty good. He saved my life last year when I did my Mechanics. Hahaha.

So I guess that was my first week. At home, we're still settling a few stuff, kan memajal our housemate to get a PS3. Haha. See ya.

9:45:00 AM