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It's all the same.

2010-04-26T12:54:00.004+01:00

Here's me wearing fake eyelashes!

rawr.

I bought this set of 60 fake ones for like £1ish and this was the first time I've ever worn them. You won't be able to see this but the inner ends of the eyelashes just won't stick arah my eyelids. I don't feel comfortable wearing them and I wonder how some girls tahan wearing them everyday.

Okay I'm done.

Easter Hols.

2010-04-18T20:03:00.005+01:00

Well, it's been ages.

Here's what I've been doing this Easter:

BruNotts Easter Games. Went to London first and stayed at Zizi's before heading to Notts, where most of the Hakunas reunion :) it's been soooo long since I've seen most of them, so kami sampai tangah malam main CRANIUM! and managed to catch up with them. Nyaman rasanya cerita-cerita sama them. Even jumpa Fiizah, Fiyyah and Nass :D

Talking with Yum and Fiyyah made me realise how much I miss art and Cikgu Masnah (ehehee). I've been wanting to buy this big box of art supplies from Argos and this drawing kit since 1st semester of the 1st year tapi takut I just won't be using them often. Unfortunately, that has happened to me a couple of times. I bought this awesome thing where you can colour your hair by just sliding the uh.. thing along a strand of hair. I've only used it once and now it's collecting dust somewhere in the room.

Another reason why I decided not to buy the art supplies is because there's no freakin' space for me to put them. One thing I learnt was to not store things under my bed. I'm horrible at organising stuff. I'd just end up stuffing everything underneath it.

The first few days of the holiday, I spent them cleaning up my room and that included removing whatever's under my bed. It used to be so cramped I had a hard time stuffing my luggage bag under it. I discovered that most of the stuff underneath the bed are just unused shopping bags. So banyak sampai barely muat kan masukkan bag wah. That's when I realised how much I shopped last year. Haha.

It had been fun, cleaning up and organising. Ada a good reason to go to Ikea :) Now I've got everything in the room sorted. The shelves and drawers are put into good use, nada lagi random junk arah the large drawers, just clothes. Underneath my bed are just extra bed stuff and two sliding boxes where i can store more clothes. I've even managed to get my accessories organised, curtains changed and tried to brighten up the place a bit with some wall stickers and poster. After throwing away all of the expired food (sniff), the room seems to be a bit larger I guess. My studying place pun macam siuk sudah, inda bari malas kan go there to study. I think it's because I've got orange file holders now and they just look so cool. Haha seriously.

I'd post up some pictures of my room now but my camera and phone's not around. Guess you won't be able to see the cool orange folders.

Anyways, got a bit carried away. I still wanted to talk about BEG. Kami main netball! SIUK! :D

...

I guess reading Zizi's update arah Hakunas is enough anyway. HAHA.

After Notts, wanted to go to London again tapi inda jadi, daytrip pun inda jadi. Prolly go there after exams saja lah. Spent most of the time di Soton and unbelievably managed to study and do my courseworks. GASP. Finished my Stats coursework and I've 2 questions left for Soils to do (I've been meaning to finish them since Thursday but somehow start tia malas, haha). I hate Soils and I've been trying so hard to get what's up with the ground. Macam belabih wah, banyak conditions and stupid assumptions. Soils isn't my friend.

I have the Design project to think about though. And there are 3 of us in one group when most of my coursemates are in groups of 5. Seorang ani patah kakinya pasal ia mabuk sekali terajun arah tampat tinggi, so ke sekulah pun payah lah. The other one ani payah kan di contact, kalau terjumpa and ditanya, cakapnya 'been busy' saja. So I'm a bit worried with the project.

It's not that I spent most of the time studying pulang. I've developed a new hobby, main make up. I've a huge collection of make up that I almost never use and started playing with them and looking at Youtube for tutorials. Makin lama makin siuk so.. I'm a bit ashamed to tell you this.. I bought over £100 worth of make up lagi. Okayy, I just hate it when I don't have the exact colour of whatever the girls on the tutorials use and I can't stop myself whenever they recommend stuff. I guess it's kinda worth it, looking at those many many eyeshadows and eyeliners makes me oh-so happy. I'm bringing most of them ke Brunei! :D In fact, aku bagas main make-up lagi ni :) I like doing tutorials yang I'd never EVER consider wearing in public. I saw this tutorial with a Spiderman theme and I'm dying to try that out! I'm still waiting for more of my new eyeshadows to arrive. On average, I check the front porch 6-7 times a day for my parcels. I'd get soooo giddy whenever I hear the doorbell or whenever I hear the door to the front porch closes. And I love the feeling when I receive more than 3 parcels at one timeee. Okayyy I'll stop.

Besides make-up, I've been shopping online for books. The last ones I read were the the ones from the Forever trilogy by Jude Deveraux. The first book was great but the second book and ending of the whole trilogy pretty much sucks. They left me confused, so depressed and wanting more explanation on some parts of the story. Yesterday, I finished reading the first two books and was so depressed sampai menangis-nangis lagi tu. HAHAHA. Paksa Afiq bawa liat movie (Beth Cooper). I finished the whole trilogy today. I recommend you to read the first one. The second and third mana saja lah.

What else have I been doing?

Went to Bournemouth two days ago and it was absolutely lawa there. Despite having sore feet bagas pakai new boots yang I kept insisting I should wear that day jua, we had fun browsing through shops arah the town centre, walking along the beach (developed an interest to surf but I doubt I'd be able to), strolling along the park and gardens but the best bit is feeding the many many squirrels. I had taken a video on a particular one yang bangang berabis. Whenever kami panggil ia, it kept putting its hands on its chest, like it was saying "Me?". Cute ah.

It doesn't feel like Uni's starting tomorrow but I think it's cos most of my modules have already finished so I've only got like 3 hours per week of lectures. Hopefully I can manage my time working on the project as well as studying cos my first exam starts 3 days after my last coursework is to be handed in. Jahat ah dorang ani?

I guess I'll stop here, I've made a long post already. Will update only God knows when..

10.36am

2010-01-13T10:14:00.002Z

It's 10ish am today and already %$£T%G%$.

I have a report due tomorrow on a particular building currently under construction and I was supposed to have a meeting with anyone working on it (contractor preferably) in order to do this report. I had a meeting supposedly with this person last week. I had already made plans for that week to concentrate on this report saja and do the rest of my courseworks this week. You have no idea how comforting it is for me to have everything planned before getting ready to study for the exams.

Sekali I went to that meeting to find out this is not the dude yang I needed to jumpa. Instead, I had a meeting with the project manager and I couldn't ask him much about the construction phase sekali limited tah saja the questions. I made a mistake of contacting the people arah city council instead of the construction company. So I tried to arrange a meeting lagi, this time contacting the right people, long story short I managed to arrange one today, one day before the report is due. Haha bari kusut sudah tu.

The meeting's at 10.30am, soooo tadi I called a taxi to take me there. On the way to the site, I got a call from the person who I was supposed to jumpa. He said he couldn't make it and asked if it was okay to meet esuk pagi saja. £$>@>£"!!¬!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Apa? Pasal snow kah? Get a cab! Meet somewhere else kalau payah, I just needed to ask some questions what!

So I agreed jua esuk. Cuba saja lah. The report's due at 4pm anyway, I doubt I'd be able to do a proper report, just masukkan what that guy cakap saja ni.

Nasib jua alum limpas uni so I beranti arah uni saja, wasted 5 pounds when I could've just walk to uni (it's just less than 10 minutes to go here). So here I am at the library, blogging with this orang sebalah ku yang inda beranti kurik idung. Mihir ah. Nada kan ku pakai computer sebalah ku ani lagi.

It's good thing I've got to meet my lecturer soon. Inda jua buang banar duit ke sini. And I have to return a library book yang sudah overdue. HEHEE.

Guess I will be missing some lectures tomorrow, again.

In about 30 minutes, kana bomb ni oleh my lecturer for designing a crappy slice, which some sort of a living space used in countries like switzerland I think. I haven't gone too far with my architecture work because of the other courseworks due since buka skulah. I have 3 things due esuk, one which I might just antar one question saja, atupun pasal Afiq buatkan. Hahaha :') Talur eh, but I have to sampatkan the meeting walaupun esuk. The coursework is 30% of the module ;'(

Kays, need to stop blogging. Kan print AutoCAD drawings dulu.

Buka Skulah.

2010-01-04T21:45:00.003Z

It was the first day of school and semangat sudah kan datang the early lecture. Woke up at 7am and I wanted to mandi, but suddenly recalled that night di London when we watched The Orphanage.

Tomas.

Inda tia ku jadi ke jamban, ergo I didn't go to the 9am lecture. HAHAHAHAHHAA.

I needs to do my coursework. I need to study for my exams. Adangtah main Miss Bimbo and stop watching Big Bang Theory and Gossip Girl.

I am currently in a phase where I just want to watch Disney movies. I have a small collection of old Disney movies. I find myself reciting the lines as I watch the movies and I didn't know I can. Listening to the songs keeps me happy. Its a nice change in the living room especially, where now I don't have to hear the sounds of guns and shouting soldiers all the time.

Call of Doodie

2009-12-04T10:51:00.002Z

Haha I'm seriously addicted to the game. I wouldn't be if the guys beranti main (ada dua orang ani labih 2 days of main sudah) :P let's just say the TV's 80% on everyday, yes, even tangah-tangah malam because I know that certain someone ada main jua buang stress kajap masa belajar :P

One more week til the holidays, plenty of time to play. Hahahaha. Mau dapatkan that best akimbo shotgun. If that will ever happen.

Black boots.

2009-11-15T10:01:00.002Z

I can't believe I'm awake so early in the morning on a Sunday just to do my coursework. In an hour's time, I'm supposed to be off at the Uni for a meeting with my groupmates on it. And I'm spending this precious moment calculating stuff that will determine who knows what. Serves me right to volunteer to do the calculations for designing a traffic signal in a junction, ku copy saja groupmate ku punya answers lah, he's doing the same thing anyway.

I'm supposed to be sleeping right now.

I bought a pair of boots yesterday. I never thought I'd buy boots sebenarnya cos I was always used to wearing sneakers. It was oddly unsettling when I go to kadai and tried on boots. And FYI, boots pretty much look the same to me, so if you happen to notice how ridiculous my boots look, please tagur cos I do not have any fashion sense when it comes to boots and I would appreciate your honesty. HAHAHA.

I'm pretty happy playing Band Hero now, I'd be much happier if someone buys me DJHero :)

Looking forward to playing netball later :D

Mango Pudding

2009-10-26T14:51:00.003Z

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

:):):):):):):):):):):):):):)

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 :'(

Now that's a short post.

2009-10-23T10:29:00.001+01:00

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

Mau main game.

Architecture Class

2009-10-12T13:24:00.002+01:00

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.

Air Tebu

2009-10-09T09:45:00.002+01:00

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.

Money in the Bank.

2009-09-07T19:33:00.003+01:00

I'm currently wondering what I did today to make my left arm unable to function properly without causing a sharp pain on it.

I wonder if its possible to tie my hair with one arm :S hahaha.

Time for sahur.

I know you want me to want you i want to.

My Lips Like Sugar

2009-09-03T17:28:00.003+01:00

Why is it so difficult to fall asleep?

I'm heading off to Miri tomorrow and I can't have just 2 hours of sleep, I can't :(

My mum's driving tomorrow and she won't let us sleep in the car cos she needs us to entertain her while she's driving.

I looove online games. Haha.

She said that he's the one who can't stay here,

A mystery, a poetry,

Something we don't know

Heee saidd that she's the one who can't sleep here,

A mystery, a poetry,

Something we collideeeee...

Oooooohhhh oohhhhhh.

Now hold me tighhhhtt *sniggers*

A tale to tell.

2009-08-27T15:41:00.003+01:00

6.00pm: We (me, my siblings, cousins and my brother's girlfriend) started to prepare for sungkai. We had this hot plate and a few marinade dishes all set sudah so we started cooking.

6.25pm: The food on the hot plate was not cooking, we realized that the power connected for the hot plate was not working. So were the lights at the next room.

6.28pm: My maid's husband came to us in a panicky voice, " Api! Ada api di luar!" The first thing in my mind was the fact that my little brother was asleep upstairs, tampat near the place where my maid's husband was pointing. I couldn't even comprehend what he was saying after that.

6.30pm: The house terblack out.

6.30+ pm: Did not have a proper sungkai since we didn't get to cook much. Turns out the panel untuk karan (i'm sorry, I just don't know these things) angus and my maid's husband and my driver tried to put the flame out.

7pm: We decided to have our masak-masak at my nini's place di dapur belakang, had a hasty meal as we had terawih after that.

My tummy feels weird now. I'll just have a proper meal masa sahur lah.

We're having the panel fixed as I'm typing, the internet connection is pretty unstable now and we just had a short blackout as I was typing just now.

If you're wondering how I got the time for each event accurate awal-awal, I kept looking at the clock, tunggu sungkai, lapar wah. Hahaha.

So I pretty much had a sucky sungkai today.

Ambuks.

2009-08-03T04:55:00.003+01:00

The reason why I just can't walk to my granddad's place, ada tah tu duduk-duduk ampir tampat sampah, giving this fierce face and the more i yell and stomp my foot to get rid of it, the fiercer the face, making me retreat back to my house.

The closest I have ever been near a monkey was this one time when I woke up at around 6-ish AM on a school day by a knock on the window. Turns out it was a monkey, exposing his gigi and it took a piercing scream to get rid of it. And I swear, that happened three days in a row for some reason. Ia tah pulang bangunkan aku skulah. Don't know what made it stop knocking on my window, it would've been a better routine to be woken up a grinning monkey. Mati kali ia after the third day ah, inda ia dapat lagi buat duties nya atu.

They've been a nuisance to us since we started living here. I've got my granddad, 2 of my cousins' families living nearby and yesterday during lunch at my granddad's place, my cousins and I shared some stories about them stealing stuff like mangoes from our trees. And the annoying bit is that they only took a bite sekali buang tia

My cousin sorang ani ceritakan how he bought a slingshot and have been trying to shoot the monkeys tapi nada kana saja. My other cousin, being so unfortunate to have his house sebalah hutan, told me how he tried to soak the mangoes with lada, Sasak when the monkeys suka tia pulang. Buang durian at them doesn't help either.

Rice cooker pun pandai tia jua dicurinya ani wah. Berparty kali dalam hutan atu. And once, the monkeys even watched my cousins have their lunch from the kitchen window. Probably been watching them cook rice to know how the rice cooker works. I suggest next, ampaikan tah extension, curinya kali tu jua. Pakai power supply dorang tapinya.

And stealing isn't enough for them. They even pernah swim arah my cousin's swimming pool lagi tu. Yatah my cousin kan bagi sabun tu nanti arah his swimming pool ah.

We're still thinking on how best to kanakan these ambuks. Bari sakit hati wah, mangoes half-eaten, sampah everywhere arah the road, my cats kana kacau oleh dorang.

Oh, forgot to mention we managed to capture one of the ambuks. Kept it in a cage. Frenzied at first but after a while, we managed to tame it, sometimes he entertains us and we give a banana. Is never without his purple blanket. We call him Jimmy.

Not, alum lagi sehari, pacah tia cage nya ah.

We're onto them, especially you, Jimmy.

Untitled.

2009-07-30T14:35:00.003+01:00

These past few days I've lost myself in playing video games. There's this unknown thing that keeps bugging me that wants me to be mentally, physically and emotionally exhausted and nothing I've done seems to satisfy it that it's driving me crazy.

I've always thought that playing video games is like a therapy for me.

I feel so restless and uncomfortable, that something's wrong that I just can't seem to get to the bottom of.

I wanna be in a happy place now, somewhere I can only dream of. Cos bad things are always around the corner.

Sam Bourne

2009-07-27T15:11:00.003+01:00

The Righteous Man by Sam Bourne.

I recommend.

I'm off. Gonna read The Final Reckoning next.

Everybody's going to the party, have a real good timmme!

I hate this part right here.

2009-07-19T15:46:00.003+01:00

I think it's time for me to update:

FYI, I'm in Brunei now, and a month has passed..

Home. Bits here and there have changed but it feels familiar somehow. Like they've been there before I left. Most of the things were where I left them 9 months (then) ago. As for the ones at home, still the same old silliness :) si Syer makin bising pulang. Haha. And Danial makin bising.

"Hello?"

"Hello? Siapa ni?"

"Eh, mana buleh bagitau"

"Kaka tau ni eh. Si Adik ni!"

"*sniggers* Au. Mana Danial?"

"Kajap Kaka panggil. Eneal! Wazif telifun Eneal ni"

so I eavesdropped.

"Hello? Apa?........ Terabang sudah..... Au..... Terabang sudah Spongebob. Ultraman inda..... Ok bye."

Can't help it. Banyak wah cerita adikku ani. What my brother refer 'terabang' atu was this Spongebob balloon. My sister accidentally released his balloon into the air. How I wish I was there to see his murderous face after that.

So I drove by myself today for the first time, with my body all stiff and hands clutching the steering wheel tightly. Haha. Inda lagi pandai buka headlights tu masa balik. I was all "Why are these people braking arah the highway ani?" Oh yeah... headlights. Btw, guys, sorry I tarus-tarus balik tadi ah, I had to go, I wanted to say goodbye tapi you guys bermain. Had fun playing tadi ;)

Currently listening to: I Hate This Part.

The world slows down but my heart beats fast right now.

I know this is the part where the end starts.

Still pretty psyched about the latest Harry Potter movie. I do want to watch it again. But now, I won't bore you with my Harry Potter babble. Probably would spend hours talking about it.

I need to bring Bambi to the vet ASAP. Do I have to wait until Wednesday to go to Rimba to get her checked? Bari sasak bah tutup saja atu. I spent loads on Cobus the other day, and I have a cat who's sick and another one at risk of catching it from his sister. I'll be broke if I bring them both to the private vet :(

I can't take it any longer

Thought that we were stronger

All we do is linger

Slipping through my fingers

Okay, so this song is on repeat. I admit, this song is getting into me. And I can't seem to stop listening to it.

But will we sleep once I tell you what's hurting me?

Okay i feel the need to throw something now. Or probably scream. And I have no idea why.

`jsdnioefhaihfihsifbabcx

!!!

Goodnight.

Shopping.

2009-06-12T00:26:00.002+01:00

FREEDOM! WOOHHOOO!

that was 3 days ago.

now sambung shopping for my family, family saja. cousins jgn tah eh :P

i'm so glad, i've got like 10kg more to go into my luggage, i was stressed out masa packing tadi, and i thought it's bye bye to boots shopping paradise. or superdrug paradise. atau apa saja yang ada beauty products. i think that would be the time i'd be able to really buang stress. it's like a therapy for me. i've already got this shower gel that i can't wait to try. cool aku ani eh.

i forgot to buy bajus for my amahs. kesian jua, balikan tah saja baju sebuting seorang lah.

oh, buy sims3. game of the month for me. kalah guitar hero. hahaha. at times guitar hero better pulang.

HEHE!

okay, i'm gonna clean up my room now.

Exams.

2009-06-08T05:07:00.002+01:00

My eyes are strained from looking through the past year papers. BAYI I can't read his handwriting. 'Given' looks like 'Gwen'. And I had a hard time understanding this one whole paragraph, banyak 'is's and the sentences did not make sense until i realised that they're mostly 'i.e.'s.

!!!!!!

Really can't read anymore. I've got 4 hours left til the exams. BRING IT ON.

rapist search

2009-06-01T23:22:00.001+01:00

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAA THIS HAD ME IN TEARS.

2009-05-31T23:14:00.003+01:00

I'm having a break from studying.

Currently in misery. This is not just because of the exams, but I just feel like I've chosen the wrong course.

I can't kid myself, engineering's not my thing, being in MS made me consider that as a possibility as a future career. Haha.

I just thought that, since I like Architecture, this might mean I would like this too. But the only module yang I could look forward to was just Architecture, while dreading the rest knowing I will have absolutely no idea what my lecturers are talking about. At home, I would be doing my Architecture work first before any other, provided that my other courseworks were not due during that week.

I haven't been enjoying the stuff I've been doing at all. I know no one's loving doing to their lectures and doing their assignments but c'mon, I should've had a blast during that Constructionarium. Or getting anything positive from it, personally.

Just thinking about my studies makes me depressed. If I were to try to talk about what I'm learning, I doubt I know what exactly I would be saying. The words would just be all jumbled up in my head with me going @$£¢#$^*&!≥‘≠! shear stress, hydraulic modelling, bending moment diagrams, lateral strain, torsion, dimensional analysis, buckingham theorem, product of inertia. $££$^%$&((?>£ª¶!

What I would have wanted was to take an Art course, if not Architecture. I could be doing my art coursework now, not getting frustrated with the moment of inertia or all those beam calculations. It's depressing to think about that.

I've gots to face the fact. I'm all about this stuff. Usai paip, bina struktur... bye bye hopes and dreams to just sit and marahi students yang shading dorang terlampau galap atau pucat atau lukisan dorang terlampau lampuh lapas atu suruh dorang ubah sampai lurus sampai keratas dorang haus sama terkuyak. That would have been a nice career, being an art teacher. How I miss my art classes. Took it for granted sometimes, but despite doing my work all alone in that one room, pretty much enjoyed myself.

I would like to menyumpah cikgu ku yang bayi ani giving us more coursework to do in the midst of the exams. Well, before the exams pulang. I mean, it's bad enough that after Constructionarium, there were still lab classes to go to and reports to do (fortunately, i was lucky enough to have finished my lab classes and handed in my reports before constructionarium HA) sekali he gave us another work to do which is some sort of a report to do about the Constructionarium. Then, he sent us another health and safety assignment sheet which, thankfully, he cancelled pasal ia 'kesiankan' kami with the workload we have besides studying. Sekali, right after I finished my coursework Constructionarium atu, when I thought I could finally focus on just studying, cikgu atu gave us another work to do, a test which needs to be handed in next week (I've got 6% of the module mark just for attending the lab heehee). Bayi wah Si Cikgu A. "Darah Bernilai" ah. HAHAHAHAHAHA I just got that. I think I'm going to join his 'appreciation' group arah Facebook.

If I had taken an Art course, I wouldn't have known him. I know he hates me, underneath that plastered smile of his. He is onto me. Hope we won't be having him next year. Pasal notes nya bida jua.

Darah Bernilai *snigger* Counting the days til the exams. So wanna get it over with. Mau shopping, mau liat movies, mau dating, mau makan bisai-bisai, mau buang stress, mau main game and mau balik Brunei.

Damn the exams.

2009-05-27T01:11:00.002+01:00

UGH my tummy hurts, my knee hurts, I've just covered about 60% of hydraulics.

i want to sleep. i am sooo hungry and i am limping.

kusut eh. wants to complain about my course but doesn't want to be too whiny.

BAWL!

red bull.

jai hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ohohohooohh!

Constructionarium

2009-05-16T23:26:00.017+01:00

My week at Norfolk:

Constructionarium. It's this project we're supposed to do for a week, working under Laing O Rourke, a construction firm - build a mini engineering structure and my team's got the Barcelona Tower. People say it's apparently the easiest one as it looks really simple and we ended up being the first to finish our project.

A week of waking up at 6am and finishing at around 7ishpm, with only half an hour of lunch without internet is crap. After just an hour of break to shower and have our dinner, again we have to meet up to have a group and give some feedback to our lecturers and senior civil engineers.

Our team consists of 24 students under a Laing O Rourke engineer, Paul. Being the tiniest in the group does have its disadvantage. What I did for the week was to sit on planks, hold on unsteady structures, carry strings and wires and clean up the site for safety reasons. Carrying a piece of string 20cm long was a laugh. Kana pandang randah wah di sana. I keep getting "Are you sure you're okay with carrying this .....?", "Do you wanna carry two instead of three?", "Hey ____, do you wanna help Naq with holding the ___? It's a bit high". Kurang asam.

After a few days of feeling small (literally), sasak jua sudah, start tia angkat yang barat-barat like the steel fences, dig holes, untying wires... hahahaha kesian eh.

This is the stuff we need to wear at the Construction site, along with boots, and these boots are really cool. Bet any of you can step on them without hurting my toes cos they've got these steel caps in them. Awesome tapi they cut through my ankles. And those supposedly goggles. Pretty much useless to wear cos I still had some sand blowing into my eyes. Damn the weather was cold and windy.

This is the reinforcement for the foundation of the tower. Afterwards we put this baby inside the hole we dug to be poured with cement later.

Ani shear links we made to be put into DAPs (i still do not know what that stands for but it's just placed on the ground to connect to the tower using a cable). Here a lot of whacking is involved which, to my resentment, i didn't get to do as I was busy supporting a plank where the shear links are hung to be connected properly.

At the end of the day, concrete is poured into the hole and foundation of the tower's done :)

This is where the DAPs are supposed to be. There are 6 in total around the tower. The strings and poles are used to ensure that the DAPs are placed correctly in the middle.

Again, this is the pouring of concrete into the DAPs and the first formwork. That's the first column of the tower.

Placing the DAPs into the excavation.

This is the reinforcement of the first column. The reinforcement is to prevent the formwork to pacah easily.
This is another group of the team. They're doing some surveying to ensure the DAPs are dug at the correct position. I forgot to mention that our team is divided into smaller groups, one's doing the formwork and reinforcement (Group 1), one's doing the DAPs, superstructure and excavation (Group 2) and one's doing the leveling and surveying (Group 3). I was in Group 1 at first sekali migrate ke Group 2 pasal Group 1 inda siuk and requires more physical work and doing stuff involving heights so yeah, not something Naq could handle.

Lagi, pouring concrete arah the 2nd formwork. This stuff is usually done at the end of the day pasal we have to allow the concrete to dry.

Ni nah, digging yang I did. I'm never in the picture though, probably would look stupid doing this, basar bah dorang ani.

That guy yang menunjuk atu is Paul, ia yang guide us throughout the project without actually helping us do our work. Biarkannya saja kalau kami salah, especially with the surveying where we found out coordinates kami salah after finishing the foundation so terpaksa make new points on the second day.

This is what I did as well, measuring and writing things with the marker. Bloody fun.

DAPs, nicely hammered, measured and marked by our group.

The DAP after concrete dries.

This is the next task our group has to do, the superstructure which was drilled to the tower at the end of the Constructionarium. I think this was the fun bit, it's like some big jigsaw yang we had to figure which goes to where and screw the pieces in place. Took two days to finish.

The scaffold and people fixing the superstructure in place. This was the last thing we did and everyone got to be at the top of the scaffold, except me cos I'm such a coward. In my defense, it was cold :P

Here's everyone with the finished tower :D that weird thing is a cardboard penguin someone nicked from an older structure yang some previous students buat. It was actually raining as well, which is why we were all wearing those raincoats, which we get to keep.

I did learn some things while I was there, it also made me realise that I may be more suited as a consultant than a contractor, if I am going to pursue a career in civil engineering.

I guess that's all I'm going to say, getting pretty tired now (By the way, managed to get darker bagas working on the construction site atu). Watched the season finale of the last season of Prison Break dah. Not satisfied. Not going to say why here.

HAHAHHAHA. Funny video of the day.

Spore.

2009-05-02T11:29:00.009+01:00

Some messed up Pokemons in Spore.

This is one's pretty Fked up. My favourite haha.

PIKACHU:

The Good

The Bad

The WTF

For more, click here.

And this is how I'm going to end this post:

That's one happy Mewtwo.

Have a nice day :)

Running through the Monsoon.

2009-04-19T19:01:00.008+01:00

I WANT THIS LOOK.

Not.

I had a hard time believing this person is a guy. The first time I watched the music video for the first time last year, pikirku bini-bini. 'Monsoon' even sounds like a girl singing.

And that's his twin brother. Identical I think. Now he looks more like a guy.

I still can't get 'Monsoon' off my head. That was why I wanted to watch the video again arah Youtube. That's how I found out about Bill, arah comments nya ah.

I've taken a liking to Tokio Hotel. I've downloaded all the songs. Haha.

erah here!

2009-04-19T02:32:00.003+01:00

yo naqiah. guess siapa ni? :)

i hope the skin is okay. and your about me, panuh kan eh. masukkan gambar kaka kah. haha. lapang wah. eh kaka, read this! HAHAH

HEHHEEH. okay, bye kaiyah!

-erahlicious.

Meow.

2009-04-15T13:32:00.004+01:00

You're mine one day.

Another 3 years to go and I'll bring you back home.

Or any other cat that looks like you.

£500 ganya, mana banyak tu. Hahaha.

:'(

A week left.

2009-04-11T22:40:00.004+01:00

I only have about a week left til school. Where did the 3 weeks go? :'(

Coursework Progress: 2% hahahahhahahah.

The plan was to finish the steelwork questions before going to London, then do the concrete questions di London, then do Structures and Materials and study for exams during the remaining holidays.

I'm supposed to be doing my Structures and Materials now. Ahhh, will be really busy next week. But it's fine, it's sorta gonna be like a warm up for what I'm going to be facing once the Uni reopens. Probably by then I would have gained some momentum and wouldn't be as malas as I usually am last semester. And with the motivation of completing one coursework after the other, I might have the constant thirst of civil engineering knowledge pouring through my veins, itching to strive for success and compete with my classmates. HAHAHHAHA sure.

I'll start studying tomorrow, I must. Must not be distracted with games and shopping anymore. I will watch Fast and Furious. And Dragonball even though reviewsnya bida. And several other movies.

STEALTH! grr

Went to Thorpe Park, Surrey with Afiq, Fatin, Nas, Deebs, Iqbal, Ezul, K-rol and Alli hari atu (probably more in detail arah Hakunas blog nanti, Fatin might update it, I don't have any pictures ;P) and the first ride we went to was that thing.

Probably lost my head when I queued. I thought the guys were checking the ride out. I remember thinking "Are we actually doing this? Are we actually doing this?" and still walking without any hesitation (Si Afiq is reading this and ia cakap he kinda dragged me hahaha). And while we were queuing and the first time I actually looked at the ones on the ride, barutah I started panicking. Palui lah.

I thought I'd vomit or pee or faint but after the ride, my legs were just wobbly. I didn't look down throughout the ride, I would've died if I did. But it was fun, I didn't regret it :) tapi after knowing that we could actually see some bits of London riding the Stealth, probably think twice about riding that again. Hahaha.

I didn't get to go arah the teacup ride though :(

Riding that thing, the wind probably must have taken all the things I have learnt in Uni with it. I dunno how to start my work again.

I'm so tired, just got back from London (thanks to the London-ers for letting us stay there :) ). Just did some shopping for my family and cousins there. Balik ke Soton with our luggage really full with things (to my siblings, au banyak barang kamu sudah ni hahahahha).

I think I'll stop here. My brain's a bit dead.

I miss MY cotton. Mana iaaaa? :(

Meet my new friend

2009-03-18T22:27:00.001Z

This is Virgil Mastercard, heir to the Mastercard fortune :)

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Naq likes.

2009-03-15T15:54:00.001Z

I'm buying the DVD. Hahaha.

Walk to the Uni

2009-03-14T23:17:00.005Z

How do I get rid of this underline?

Haha I did it.

How do I make the colour to be default?

I dunno :(

So I get out of the house. In front of me, is a house with a moving van yang constantly ada some sort of garage sale. They sell things like mattresses, sofas which costs like 20 plus pounds (I might exaggerate a bit here, but it's close enough, I think), sama bedside tables which costs like 5 pounds. I don't get why everyday ada-ada saja tah ia jual barang ah. It's been like that since October. So I turn right and this is how it looks like:

It's pretty depressing to look at, I know. But it has its good days, when it's sunny. And masa ada this round old man (I don't have his picture, tapi pokoknya bulat lah, with his thick clothes lagi tu) yang control the 'traffic' here masa the kids walk to school (there's a primary school here, so occasionally rasa kan tandang the kids sini. Hari atu ada lagi yang melating said 'hello' to me. Cute hantap nyanta).

So I walk straight saja, passing through this house yang under construction. You can hear the workers pasang radio nyaring-nyaring. Si Afiq even said ada lagu Lingka pasangnya. Rupanya ada seorang Lingka keraja sana jua.

So I continue walking straight, (passing a house yang selalu ada kuyuk sitting by the window and barking at people yang lintas the house) til I reach the Hidden Pathway. Seriously, that's what it's called. Check arah Google Map, it's there. This is a shortcut to the Uni, tambus ke Engineering buildings and Library so I always use this Pathway lah.

Above is the Hidden Pathway. Whenever I walk here alone, I always check siapa-siapa saja in front and at the back of me. I feel safe if there are more than 2 people walking here, just in case someone wants to beat me up, I can scream for help. What I really hate about this place is the path is narrow yatah kalau ada kuyuk bari sasak ani. And I hate it when the owners let their dogs roam around arah this area, cos it is quite a good place for a dog to stretch their legs if they malas ke park. So yeah, so far nada kuyuk yang kan gigit lah. That's why I always wear the ugliest pair of jeans I own when I go to school. Haha.

After the Hidden Pathway, I turn right and this is what I see:

Just walk straight and there's the Uni. That tall building is the Engineering building, tapi atu Afiq's building, mine's next to that, though we never use it for classes. School office saja. When I reach this area, I finish one song from my IPod, I pasang once I keluar the house. This is actually a good area to live in pasal ampir Uni but unfortunately, we couldn't find any here :(

Here is one of the houses yang ada as I walk towards Uni. So yellow :) kerita pun kuning. Haha.

Once I reach Uni, it usually takes me like around 10 minutes to go to the building where most of my lectures are in. So yeah, it takes a longer time to walk in the Uni to my class than going to the Uni from my house. HAHA. So approximately it takes 2 and a half songs til I reach my lecture theatre :)

So I shopped today. Hahahahaha.

wordy post.

2009-03-12T16:48:00.003Z

Okay, 3 assignments left. But for now, I wanna RESSSTT.

It had been quite tough, lots of work and clashes. First off, let me talk about the thing that kept me really busy for a week: the final review for architecture. We spent like weeks designing a house and drawing plans for it and all of my work was screwed and i had to design a new house during the last week before the final review, so I had abandoned my other work just to finish that cos helloh, it's 75% of the module.

Here's the final design. it's not much to look at but it has a pretty cool interior, or so i like to think. Hahaha. So anyway, we had to present our designs during the final review and it made me so nervous as it doesn't feel like a normal presentation, which I am also usually terrified of. Ani we had to lakat-lakatkan all our drawings and designs on the wall and talk and explain about our houses with 3 lecturers commenting and criticizing as we present. Esh.

So I didn't have the time to print out my work before the presentation so I asked to be excused during the class to print in the library. But unfortunately, I did not know how to use the stuff there and I think I broke some machine to topup my credit untuk printing.

So I walked back to class without anything to present. I brought Afiq's laptop (cos that's where i did my work pasal my laptop too cawer to use for the presentation) and my A4 drawings and decided to just use them to explain. I felt so horrible cos I did not have enough time to prepare that way.

So one by one, my classmates present their work. At last, tinggal me and my classmate, who did not have anything at all (and I mean no drawings, design, etc) so it was my turn to present, but then it was already almost time for the next lecture so my classmates had to go and I had to present arah my 3 lecturers saja. I told them that I will be presenting my work using the laptop and my drawings and they said it was alright. But then, baru jua I start speaking, Afiq's laptop abis battery. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

SO, they must've seen my face all kesian and one of them comforted me by saying "don't worry. we won't cut marks because of this. it's not your fault. we ran out of time and at least you were prepared to do the presentation (menyindir my classmate who was still there asking some stuff arah my other lecturer). just email your whole presentation to carl (my other lecturer) by tonight"

HAHAHAHAA. so i did. unfortunately, the file was so big that I didn't realise that the email failed to send. after i sent that email, i fell asleep and woke up at around 9ish. luckily i checked my email and found out the thing was not sent to my lecturer so i tried to divide the files to 6. but failed. so i broke down. sekali si afiq buatkan while i bawl, thinking i will never send the thing on time. the files were sent around 11ish. sampat jua before midnight. thanks, fiq :)

now architecture's off my mind for the year. except my field trip to holland masa easter, which i don't think i'll come.

abis architecture, i had to think about my problem sheet on structures and materials which was not much of a trouble. the problem is i found out quite late that my numerical analysis programming was due in two days (prior to the day i found out about it). i was so stressed that nothing can absorb lagi arah my head. So, i buang stress by shopping, finally :)

so today is the day numerical is due, and i couldnt finish it, i'll focus on the maths part of it saja nanti lah. next week, i mean, the test. must do well.

i do not want to go to the constructionarium meeting tomorrow. arah one of my old posts, i meantioned that i though i will be doing the footbridge, which i will not. i'm doing barcelona tower :(

so in this group, we had to divide into groups and each group works on different areas on the tower. i'm under the sketching group (duh) and i did my work 2 weeks ago. i good girl :) so i think i'm gonna just give my drawing to one of my groupmates and tell them i can't make it to the meeting tomorrow.

oooh, i can't wait for the holidays, though i'm worried about my workload during the holidays. my friend said that the coursework for one of the modules might take the whole cuti to complete. eksennya kali. kan takutkan. if cematu, im bringing that thing everywhere i go.

ooh, wordy post. sorry to bore you with this. happy easter!

I lub I lub I lub.

2009-02-27T12:20:00.004Z

How I miss watching this movie. I know it's getting old now since everyone loves this movie, but this is one of the movies that really touched me.

I love everything about the movie. Mandy Moore and Shane West are really well-suited for this movie.

Sweet :')

I think I'm gonna listen to the soundtracks now.

Facts about Engineering. HAHA.

2009-02-24T15:36:00.003Z

An ENGINEER is one who passes as an exacting expert on the strength of being able to turn out, with prolific fortitude, strings of incomprehensible formulae calculated with micrometric precision from extremely vague assumptions which are based on debatable figures acquired from inconclusive tests and quite incomplete experiments, carried out with instruments of problematic accuracy by persons of doubtful reliability and rather dubious mentality with the particular anticipation of disconcerting and annoying everyone outside their own faculty.

"A scientist can discover a new star, but he cannot make one. He would have to ask an engineer to do that." — Gordon L. Glegg, American Engineer, 1969.

"Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet." — Scott Adams.

"For an optimist the glass is half full, for a pessimist it's half empty, and for an engineer is twice bigger than necessary."

"Clothes are the lowest priority for an engineer, assuming the basic thresholds for temperature and decency have been satisfied. If no appendages are freezing or sticking together, and if no genitalia or mammary glands are swinging around in plain view, then the objective of clothing has been met. Anything else is a waste."

"Q: What is the difference between Mechanical Engineers and Civil Engineers ?

A: Mechanical Engineers build weapons, Civil Engineers build targets."

Engineering Terminology MEANT SIMPLE

What is said = What it means

1) A number of different approaches are being tried. = We don't know where we're going, but we're moving.

2) An extensive report is being prepared on a fresh approach to the problem. = We just hired three guys... We'll let them kick it around for a while.

3) Developed after years of intensive research. = It was discovered by accident.

4) Modifications are underway to correct certain minor difficulties. = We threw the whole thing out and are starting from scratch.

5) Preliminary operational tests were inconclusive. = The darn thing blew up when we threw the switch.

6) Test results were extremely gratifying. = It works, and boy are we surprised !

7) The design will be finalized in the next reporting period. = We haven't started this job yet, but we've got to say something.

8) The entire concept is unworkable = The only guy who understood the thing just quit.

9) We need close project coordination. = We should have asked someone else.

Alternate: Let's spread the responsibility for this.

TOP TEN REASONS TO DATE AN ENGINEER (according to an engineer!)

10. The world does revolve around us... we chose the coordinate system.

9. No "couple" enjoys a better "moment".

8. We know how to handle stress and strain in a relationship.

7. We have significant figures.

6. We have taken a course on the motion of rigid bodies.

5. Projectile motion... need we say more?

4. Engineers do it according to specification.

3. According to Newton, if two bodies interact, their forces are equal but opposite.

2. We know it's not the length of the vector that counts, but how you apply the force.

1. We know the Right Hand Rule.

TOP TEN REASON NOT TO DATE AN ENGINEER:

1. T-shirt and jeans are their formal dress. Hot dog and a six-pack is their seven-course meal.

2. The only social life known of is to post and talk on the net.

3. Flames like a monster and speaks like a pussycat.

4. Works from 6:30am to 7:30pm daily. No morning kisses and no evening walks.

5. No matter how hard you cry and how loud you yell, he just sits there calmly discussing your emotion in terms of mathematical logic.

6. Only listens to classic rock. Hates everything from Bach to Prince.

7. Touches his car more often than you.

8. Talks in acronyms.

9. Can't leave that damn pencil off his ear for a minute.

10. Will file a divorce if you call him in the middle of debugging.

YOU Might BE AN ENGINEER IF...

* —You have no life - and you can PROVE it mathematically.

* You enjoy pain.

* You know vector calculus but you can't remember how to do long division.

* You chuckle whenever anyone says "centrifugal force".

* You've actually used every single function on your graphing calculator.

* It is sunny and 70 degrees outside, and you are working on a computer.

* You frequently whistle the theme song to "MacGyver".

* You know how to integrate a chicken and can take the derivative of water.

* You think in "math".

* You've calculated that the World Series actually diverges.

* You hesitate to look at something because you don't want to break down its wave function.

* You have a pet named after a scientist.

* You laugh at jokes about mathematicians.

* The Humane society has you arrested because you actually performed the Schrodinger's Cat experiment.

* You can translate English into Binary.

* You can't remember what's behind the door in the engineering building which says "Exit".

* You have to bring a jacket with you, in the middle of summer, because there's a wind-chill factor in the lab.

* You are completely addicted to caffeine.

* You avoid doing anything because you don't want to contribute to the eventual heat-death of the universe.

* You consider ANY non-engineering course "easy".

* When your professor asks you where your homework is, you claim to have accidentally determined its momentum so precisely, that according to Heisenberg it could be anywhere in the universe.

* The "fun" center of your brain has deteriorated from lack of use.

* You'll assume that a "horse" is a "sphere" in order to make the math easier.

* The blinking 12:00 on someone's VCR draws you in like a tractor beam to fix it.

* You bring a computer manual / technical journal as vacation reading.

* The salesperson at Circuit City can't answer any of your questions.

* You can't help eavesdropping in computer stores... and correcting the salesperson.

* You're in line for the guillotine... it stops working properly... and you offer to fix it.

* You go on the rides at Disneyland and sit backwards to see how they do the special effects.

* You have any "Dilbert" comics displayed in your work area.

* You have a habit of destroying things in order to see how they work.

* You have never backed up your hard drive.

* You haven't bought any new underwear or socks for yourself since you got married.

* You spent more on your calculator than on your wedding ring.

* You think that when people around you yawn, it's because they didn't get enough sleep.

* You would rather get more dots per inch than miles per gallon

* You've ever calculated how much you make per second.

* Your favorite James Bond character is "Q," the guy who makes the gadgets.

* You understood more than five of these jokes.

* You make a copy of this list, and post it on your door (or your home page !)

Posted by: Afiq :)

Undecisive

2009-02-19T14:54:00.002Z

Things to do:

Maths assignment

Structures and Materials worksheet

Numerical Analysis programming on sections

Complete Structures and Materials notes

Read up Hydraulics

Submit Surveying readings with groupmates

Restructure house for Architecture

so what am I doing playing Movies?

Cos it's so much fun :) but I promise I'll do the work.

Anyways,

Go to Maths lecture and do my work there. Meet up with my groupmates who I am not even sure attending the lecture. Walk to Uni and tire my legs with 15 minutes of walk. Haha.

Do work at home (cos the lecture's useless) in my room where it is much comfortable, warm and peaceful. Let groupmate text cos I did tell him to let me know if they want to discuss about the readings.

I was pondering about that when I walked out of the house and decided to choose the latter and had to walk back. So here I am, back at home! Hahaha. Okay, I'm gonna do my work now :)

Disappointed.

2009-02-16T14:24:00.006Z

Yeap, that's how I feel right now when I came back from my Hydraulics lecture to find that I've got a package from EBay. Hahaha.

This was what I bought. It's supposed to project the time arah the ceiling.

Night Light Clock with colorful night light: green,blue,yellow,sky blue,purple,red.
Projector Clock: normal time can displays on the wall (it can last 6 seconds when you press the button one time)

Okay, I blame myself for not reading the description properly about the size, tapi nada jua the clock projection or the night light. Buang duit, nasib murah. The seller's soo gonna get a bad review on this.

Note to self: Don't trust barang Hong Kong. Hahahaha.

The bright sight: I sold my camera and got the cheque today. I broke my camera when I was taking pictures masa snow so I'm buying a new one, and the one that I planned to buy makin tinggi bidnya. Sob! :(

Anyone wants an egg sized pocket clock? At least the clock's working. Haha.

Siapa mau ni?

2009-02-12T17:32:00.002Z

Oh My God.NECA Cult Classics 12" Inch Good Guys Talking Chucky Action Figure (Non Mint Box)

Item Description: Based on his classic Child's Play appearance, this 12-inch Chucky figure comes complete with voodoo knife, hammer, and bat. He has rooted hair and an angry expression! Push his button and he speaks key movie lines such as "Hi, It's Chucky," voodoo chant, evil laughter, and more!

Manufacturer: NECA
Year: 2006	For Ages: 13 and up

Lies. I can see that it's for ages over 17.

Houses.

2009-02-12T12:03:00.002Z

Most people would be busy by now looking for houses for the next year and I thought that would be something that I won't have to deal with anymore.

At first, everything was already planned. Me, Afiq and this one girl were to live in this 3-bedroomed place nearer to Uni for only 190 pounds a month each. And the place is very decent and clean and I loved the place already. Sekalinya the girl had to bail out pasal ada some problems (not involving us tu ah. Hahaha) so we had to find another housemate and eventually found a guy.

Sekalinya this guy ada some problems tia jua and it would be easier if me, Afiq and this guy to find another housemate :S we are not even sure if this guy will jadi tinggal with us pulang, we will just have to wait and see.

We are waiting for Iqbal to confirm whether he wants to stay in the halls or sama kami saja. Hahahaha.

That's one thing. Sekalinya 2 days ago we found out that the landlord yang punya the nice 3-bedroomed house ani is horrible, sampai orang yang tinggal di rumahnya kan pindah this month. He doesn't give the deposit back (I'm not sure if it's for a good reason pulang) and he almost punched a guy. I'm not sure if the landlord is a dude though. Hahaha.

So yeah, now we are looking for a house OR just stay arah our current house. If we do find a better one, yang cheaper and ampir Uni, okay lah. This Saturday, we'll be viewing a couple of houses yang located near the Uni so I hope we can find a better one. We'll see. But it's nice that now a lot of us Bruneians will be living nearby :)

And I thought that bit was settled, now it's just getting complicated :(

And I got my crappy coursework results back. And I don't wanna talk about it.

I love my new hoodie :) and I wish Numerical Analysis class later will be cancelled.

Black and White

2009-02-07T11:05:00.005Z

There's just so much I want to say.

Maybe some other time.

Civil Engineer

2009-02-06T13:01:00.002Z

I really can't see myself in a few years' time. What sort of work will I be involved in? It's just that when I go to the lectures, I feel like I really can't see myself doing the things that i am learning. Certainly I am not capable of being involved in construction work. What else is there? I was looking at the form given last Monday on the Constructionarium (more about it nanti) and there was a question on what area in Civil Engineering I might consider. Not the construction part. Local authority? Design? Other sectors?

I dread the Constructionarium. It's actually a big project where we will be involved with real engineers to build a model of a real construction work this May. I can imagine myself wearing one of those oversized engineer suits and doing all those construction work with those big people. BIG human beings :'(

I can't even carry some of the equipment we used when we had the surveying lab classes, what am I gonna do in that Constructionarium?

Brewery Wharf Footbridge

The Brewery Wharf footbridge was built in 1992 by Ove Arup and partners. It is a good example of

how showcase project can help rejuvenate an area and attract more people. It was originally

built to connect ‘The Calls’ of Leeds city centre to a new visitors centre for the Tetley’s Brewery.

Since then the area has had further change attracting both residential and commercial

developments.

Basic Structure

• The structure is a cable stayed suspension bridge spanning a clear distance of 10m.

• The deck is a reinforced concrete slab pre-cast in 2 sections supported at 2.5m intervals, 1.5m

wide.

• The supports are tension cables attached back to a 4m high slanting concrete tower at one

end of the bridge.

• Further cables from this tower then reach back into the bank attaching to an anchoring

foundation.

• The pad foundation for the tower is then braced back to the anchoring foundation via a

ground beam

Site layout at the start of the week

• Your site is level with a 0.75m deep channel running through the middle.

• You will be provided with a crane to lift the concrete deck sections into position and attach

the cables.

I would like to learn how to operate a crane though :)

This Constructionarium will probably give me an idea on the possible areas that I might be interested in. But it's going to be a dreadful week :(

Celebrity Look-alikes

2009-02-05T17:29:00.004Z

WILL SMITH

BRAD PITT

ROONEY

ROBIN WILLIAMS

RICHARD GERE

SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY

OZZY OSBOURNE

MARILYN MONROE (MACAM SCARLETT JOHANSSON PULANG WAH)

MEG RYAN

MADONNA

MICHAEL JACKSON (MY DEAR GOD!)

BRITNEY SPEARS

KYLIE MINOGUE (ANI MACAM HILARY DUFF)

MICHAEL SCHUMACHER

JULIA ROBERTS

TRAVOLTA

HUGH GRANT

HARRY POTTER

ELTON JOHN

EDDIE MURPHY (AHAHAHAHAA)

JOHNNY DEPP

ROBBIE WILLIAMS

OBAMA

AUSTIN POWERS

AUDREY HEPBURN

PIERCE BROSNAN

ROWAN ATKINSON

MARIAH CAREY

ORLANDO BLOOM

PARIS HILTON

VICTORIA

CRAIG DAVID

DAVID BECKHAM

NAQIAH AZIZ :)

Friends

2009-02-03T13:47:00.003Z

I feel sooo kusut now. I'M SOAKED. I just wasted a pair of jeans walking to school to find that the Architecture class has been cancelled. Or maybe the lecturers thought the Uni's closed because of the snow.

I could've rehat at home til my next lecture which is at 4. The bright side is that I did my model house already so I won't have to worry about doing that for next week :) but I think my model's cawer. One of my classmates has a sketchbook with his model and all I have is some cardboard crap :( maybe I'll work a bit on the model to make it look neater. Maybe.

So I started watching Friends this year. Ketinggalan, I know, it's just that I missed most of the earlier seasons that I just don't bother watching it. Sekali Afiq pajal-ed to watch and after lots of nudging (he's very insistent :P), baru tah I watch. Haha I remember watching the first ever episode in Afiq's car di Empire Cinema, makan KFC (ahhh, KFCCCC). I never regret watching Friends :)

I've got Friends on most of the time. Arah my laptop ada, arah TV pun kadang-kadang pasang (Thanks for the boxset, Fiq :)). It really helps me with unwinding and even keeps me from being too stressed when it comes to studying. So yeah, if you come to the house, that's probably what you always here around. I play them when I sleep also so I get frequent Friends dreams, seriously.

I can remember some of the moments I found really hilarious:

"PIVOT!"
Joey's laughter when he pretended to laugh at Chandler's 'joke' when Chandler asked Joey if he had told Monica about him being upset that Monica thinks Jeffrey's the funniest guy she's met.
"EE! is for how Extremely normal I find it that you two are together" when Ross pretended he's fine with Joey and Rachel being together.
"Wow! My flat is twice this size!" Si Amanda the fake British woman when she went in Monica's apartment.
"Yeah! I'll press one!" When Ross dialed the condom company when he found out he made Rachel pregnant.
"You beautiful little weirdo!" What Rachel said to Emma after singing "Baby Got Back"
Monica saying "My god, Chandler's making his sex face!" when Chandler arm wrestled Ross.
The second last episode masa Rachel talked privately with Monica and they were schreeching undistinguishable word and Monica said "What?"
"...Ross.. and his cat! And his Julie!", Rachel's face when she said this arah The One Where Ross Finds Out.
"She is a slut!" Rachel on her sister Jill when Jill was in Ross's apartment.
When Ross had a date with a really dirty (literally) girl and Monica came and asked if she could clean her apartment.
When Joey asked Ross to hit him and when he expected Ross to duck when he punched him. HAHAHAA.
"Was that place... the sun???" arah The One with Ross's Tan. Chandler's comment on Ross's tan.
"A moment on the lips. Forever in the hips" Amy's comment on Joey eating.
When Rachel kissed Ross arah laundry and Ross hits his head.
Phoebe's dance arah The One Where Everybody Finds Out. And "I'm looking forward to having sexual intercourse with you" HAHAHAHA blunttt.
"Take off your sweatpants and let's have some fun" guess who said this? :P
"... weird turtle man?" what Chandler thought Ross was at The One with The Holiday Armadillo.

I can't list down all of them. Banyak wahh. Watching Friends is seriously the best way to cheer you up when you're down :)

Pictures masa Snow :)

2009-02-03T12:17:00.001Z

SNOW!

2009-02-02T15:12:00.000Z

It's finally snowing di Southampton! I woke up around half and hour before lecture starts and hurried to get ready, sekali Afiq gitau "Naq! It's snowing di luar!".

It seems like it's snowing arah a lot of places at the moment. I thought the snow will be gone by midday but it's now 3.16pm and still snowing. I just hope sampai malam snow, me and Afiq didn't get to gambar much tadi cos school starts TODAY!

I'm too lazy to put in some pictures here but maybe someday, Afiq doesn't know this yet but I added a head on his large snowball and made a snowman :) HEE. Pasal awal-awal si Nela ada added tangan sana so I don't want to leave the thing headless.

I think I smashed my camera tadi, since my hands were so numb bagas gambar-gambar and I dropped it.

I have pretty Polaroid pictures of us arah snow though :)

I hope it snows all week, but I doubt it. It's really rare to snow here in Southampton, I didn't expect it would snow at all this year. My feet are soaked.

It's nice sitting here, eating cookies. Now I'm just waiting for my guy to come home :)

Twisted Sunshine. HAHA.

2009-01-31T19:59:00.000Z

I've changed my blog layout :S

Kuno masih

2009-01-31T14:42:00.000Z

Okay, I'm like having a problem with changing the layout of my blog. I can't get the ones yang downloadable pasal I do not know how to extract the zip files. And and and some of the layouts appears to have a problem with macs. Aku sakai masih mac bah.

And there's something wrong with my blog when I use Safari, or am I the only one? :(

Yellow

2009-01-30T02:54:00.000Z

I'm not up for making an intro post, I'm not even sure if I am ever gonna let anyone know I have a blog. Hahaha.

I'm glad to have a week break after exams before the second semester starts. It has been a while since I felt so bored. And strangely enough, it feels quite good to have nothing in your mind. I hate having to think about all the courseworks to hand in and the things I need to study. I hate having to wake up early and walk to school especially on windy days. And I hate coming to lectures which I find pretty useless since everything discussed there is posted on the Blackboard. I have one weekend left of boredom ganya :(

My favourite module so far would have to be Architecture. There are only like 13 of us in the class so it is really informal. It's the only module yang I pay a lot of attention to. My current assignment's designing a house based on an architect whom I studied about, Peter Eisenman.

Apparently, this dude likes to mess the structure up and designs building which does not follow the function of the building. In other words, he focuses in breaking up and manipulating the structures of the building in a way that he wants to express. For example, his house yang I studied, "House VI" involves intersection of four planes and manipulating them to form some sort of house. Usulnya macam berantam wah, cos the bedroom does not allow a double bed (there's a wall separating 2 single beds for the married couple living in the house). HAHA.

Anyways, I'm supposed to be designing a house following his philosophy and principles and I find it rather fun, antam-antam design rumah, rather than what my classmates are doing now, design rumah and pikir-pikir jua how to make the house function as a house. HEEHEE. I can even create an X-shaped wall or a tiang from the ceiling or whatever. Or a cone-shaped kitchen. Go Crazy.

My last 3 paragraphs were a waste of 70 seconds, right?

I don't want to go to school. I don't want to go to school. I don't want to go to school.

I'm getting a BBQ chicken wing. Let's see how long it will be til I make my next post, shall we?

The First Post

2009-01-29T19:08:00.001Z

Naq is bored so she decides to create a blog.