The Ongster!!!

The long weekend has certainly come and gone.

A weekend certainly well spent around the city of blinding lights. A Saturday spent mainly just chilling. The weather certainly deems it chilling. It was pretty mean of the good ol' weather to keep me cold -_-.

Sunday was the day we all called (well, all Malaysians at UCD and RCSI in Ireland) PMCSA Sports Day. Held at UCD's Sports Complex, we had a day full of fun and frolic, which ranged from badminton and basketball to ping pong and futsal.. Well.. those were basically all the events, but anyway :P...

I played in the futsal team at 1.30 pm.. And naturally, my natural fitness is nowhere near what it could be (which, according to the late Bruce Lee, is without limitations, as the only limitations are those that I would place on myself).

Yeah yeah, well enough of my sermons, and let's get back to the topic. WE LOST! Haha... thanks to a clearly disorganised team in the 1st half (not that I helped matters...) we were 6-0 down by half time, and managed to keep the score respectably low at full time, meaning we didn't concede another goal after the half time. Of course, I suffered a back problem, and severe breathing problems. All of which, have now pretty much disappeared.

Uhm, but in the name of fun, it was FUN. Meeting new people is always an adventure that we all long for. I am content with my friends, but meeting new ones can never hurt and broadens my horizon.

Anyway, fun day aside, I had a nice rest watching NCIS and finishing Disc 4 in one night.

I finished Disc 5 tonight.

Spent the day with Plat mostly, had McD with him and Kenny for late brekkie/early lunch, and had tea with Plat, at New Millenium, a venue that prompted a dear friend to ask if myself and Plat had our own money printer or something :P.

Somehow, I don't really know what to really write at the moment, so I'm just going to crap on at the moment.

Over the long weekend, plenty of things have been food for thought. Well, it has been a rather good period to think things over. To walk it through to understand what I should really be focussing on.

Enough about all that.

Played with the new Mozilla Firefox. A grand improvement, even if its all minor.

I'm freezing. Not gonna write no more.

Nights!

FF IX - Ordinary day

The text of the end of FF IX... Why did you help? The reply is.. There's no need for a reason to help... we've got to keep on living, for the sake of returning to that place someday... That is why I am singing that very song.

I loved FF IX for some reason.. not only the music, but the story too.. Perhaps I am a soft chap for soppy endings. But then, that's Alex. :P haha... Hm... Sorry, been on heavy music youtube lately.. haha....

Rem - Leaving New York

What do you all think about this song? To me, it kind of emanates a special meaning about my love for my home. Although, changing the context from New York to KL la.

I like the chorus alot.

"You might have laughed if I told you, you might have hidden a frown. You might have succeeded in changing me, I might have been turned around"...

That phrase kind of expresses the way I am, with my friends and family. I don't think I can be anyone or anything without the support of my friends and family.

"I told you I love you, I love you forever"...

That.. is a very nice line. Haha.. though that is really pretty much used more or less EVERYDAY!.. bleh... haha..

No.. this song in general, there's a tune to it that makes it stay in my head. It probably is my music preference, but then again, the group that revolutionised the music of America when it was in the doldrums, certainly has come a long way, with its hits such as "Imitation of Life", "Bad Day", "Losing my Religion"... and more.

There are so many pieces of beautiful music that they make.

There's only so much I can go about this though. So you can go figure.

In the mean time, I shall revert to putting tiger balm on my arms as I am feeling itchy... LOL... Stupid bites -_-

PCK RAP SAR-VIVOR

Have fun with an old music video that I found here. :) haha...

Just want to remind to the masses, we DO have daylight saving today, and we thus, gain an extra hour of sleep. I was woken up no longer than 20 minutes ago by Platini, and he forgot, so he thought he was late for meeting up with the whole gang for the ride to UCD, when in fact he had merely woken me up at 7.50a.m..

Anyway, so I just woke up. Going to go down to UCD in my trackpants first to meet up and say hello and then return to get into my real gear.

Yeah, I'm a bit pee-ed off at something. Well.. it's childish thoughts, but telling a person that he/she's polluting a chatterbox is somewhat... depressing. Merely, I'm pushing for an update, albeit that update is hard to come by with all the going ons around RCSI.

I suppose people would know what I talk of, and if you do get it, then yea well, happy days. To those who don't however, forget it.

I've never told anyone to shut up, but yet, for all the people in this world, why do we still have prejudices? We live in a society that ought to respect one another, for who they are, and what they are. Sure, I am a damn active guy online, and offline, but that doesn't give you the supposed God-given right to whack off an anti- whatever at me. That is pretty damn cruel. Whatever it is, I hope you don't see me in that light offline, although you would probably hardly, if ever, see me.

I've tolerated plenty of crap, but you just took it to a whole new level that I don't feel I can tolerate. You ought to know better than to simply slack it off at me on a chatterbox. You don't even know me!

The weekend hath come and gone yet again. Another week gone, another week wasted, or so I would say. Work requires time, and time, is of the essence.

Well, enough of that for now. :)

The weekend was pretty much spent mainly on recuperation. Rejuvenation. Rehabilitation. Hibernation. And well.. much more.

I slept in this weekend, both on Saturday and Sunday, as I looked to recover from sore muscles from playing football on Friday. Very tiring to play outdoor football too la...

Slept in this morning (Sunday), and played my PSP.. finally played it for the first time in a few weeks. Sigh... my perpetual love for Role-Playing Games (RPGs) means that I am constantly glued to one game.

Hehe, on Saturday, met up with the photosoc, and uhm, interesting to listen to the whole thing.. More interestingly though, was the fact that I WAS the only 1st med at the meeting -_-. Sigh. But it was nice to see Edmond, Adi, Steve, Maja, and the lot. Learnt a few things about the EOS 400D too :). How to use it anyway.

Haven't got around to finishing my NCIS. Maybe I'll do that this week. Apart from study for anatomy, I'll probably go through my final 2 discs of NCIS... For those who haven't a clue what the hell NCIS is, either look it up in Wikipedia, or go to www.tv.com (which is most likely a better place to look it up.. since NCIS is a real organisation).

Ahh... had a fun time with Desmond, Lobo and Ravi this weekend. Especially chatting over various things, in particular video games and video systems, and then on to TV shows, and the lot. :)

I have new photos on my camera, although I haven't really posted it up just yet. Gonna wait for a few more days first.

The weather's a bit seesaw-ish. Today was rather... mild. In the afternoon it was Mild anyway, but evenings are cool :). Which reminds me, I better take out the trash first... Be right back!

*takes out the trash*...

Ahh.. back! Anyway, where was I?

Ah well.. lost my train of thought. I'm using Facebook more often now, since I've found a couple of old classmates on the list there.

Just was reading the Star Newspaper, Dr. M saw Pak Lah at Sri Perdana today in Putrajaya. Hm...

Oh yeah, that's right. Based on my parents' opinion, never take Austrian Airlines to Australia, especially when the flight leaves at 3am -_-... It just doesn't work.. Unless your biological clock is seriously screwed, which mine no longer is, I wouldn't recommend it to save a few hundred ringgit. Our health is wayy more precious than that.

Ai yo... lol.. Finally defragged my hard drive on my IBM here, and it really was cleaned up by a program that Lobo recommended. Thanks Lobo! (not like he even reads or better yet, knows, about this blog :P).

Oh yeah. Now I remember what I wanted to blog about all weekend. Hehe... In case you don't already know, I have rather fond memories of some of the MCA events that my dad took part in for charity.. One of which, in particular, was in Ipoh.

And the song was by The Drifters, called, Under the Boardwalk. This was sung by Ah Leong and Ah Keat korkor's, and the thought of them coming on stage to sing it, always comes to mind when I listen to the song. So don't be surprised if you see me singing that song. Because, that song is so great.

Haha.. ironically, that was the MCA Charity event in Ipoh that I thought my dad was wearing a circus outfit... and had a good laugh out of it :).

Ahh.. those were honestly the days. Ah Leong and Ah Keat? You don't know who I talk of..? Then you must ask me in my face. :)...

Hehe...

I have to do another load of washing (my 3rd of the day... going to do 4 loads in 2 days -_-)... So, I'm gonna go off first :).. in the mean time, have fun :)...

Alex

Hehe.. woke up to the sound of NO alarm clocks for the first time in a month this morning. Rather freaky as I was sound awake at 6.50am. Just before the 1st alarm clock was scheduled to go off.

Anyway, apart from that, we had a beautiful day. Haha... I played football with the 3rd meds, their Honkies, the Malaysians Desmond, Lobo and Ravi, and Wee Loon, another guy I dunno the name, and we all played at Fairview Park, in Marino.. Quite a game.

It was.. a showcase of attacking verve. Defensively, we were useless (wait till next week, I'll show you how to defend!). Haha... It was a real fun game. It proved I didn't need to wear shin guards, however, it meant I HAD to wear a long sleeve shirt, and pants that covered all of me, basically... The gigantic mosquitoes bit me twice! -_-...

Overall though, it was a good outing... With more of this, I may find myself fitter... Though I'm contemplating, certainly, about just getting fit and getting away from sports. That may just help me burn off the excess. However, thinking about it, that would make my life pretty boring. Which.. I don't like. When it is too repetitive, I'll get bored and just start not doing it, especially if I find I don't like it.

Anyway, had only one class today, ANATOMY! No lab yet on Fridays... Starting next week though, we'll have card signing, and we'll really have to be on our toes, gonna start studying properly from now on.

I've hurt my pinky. Won't post the picture up due to the gruesome nature (of course, think again when it is ME who defines gruesome :P). Anyway, nah, just kidding, lol it isn't that bad, but it certainly makes it hard to grip a tennis racquet and badminton racquet at the moment.. :)..

Haha.. playing football outdoor again brings me back to the days of the gruesomely muddy field, as well as the harsh hard fields... All of which provided much fun. I still fondly remember what I did when I came on to the field. First contribution I do makes everyone vote me for Man of the Match.. I mean.. first touch I dribble the ball from defense and shepherd it into a shooting chance..? By weaving my way through with subtle touches.

And then, when I had my stitch moments later on, I resolved to alternating between heavy drinking of ribena and playing in defense, protecting Desmond.

Moments later again, when I finally rid myself of the pain, I managed to play the ball up.. and stay back and ping it around the open field to ravi and the other Malaysian... And desmond when he ran up :).

I must admit, the balls I passed were quite nice.. But you have to put it in the sense that... no one closed each other down and pressured... So that gave me the assurance to ping the ball around. I loved those passes. Especially that one to Desmond earlier.. Oooh.. Lobo was standing 4 metres in front of me, and I just quickly sliced the ball over Lobo's head to desmond, who was about a further 10 metres away.

I must say lah.. not too bad. But I need to work on my fitness, and my dribbling with football boots. But then, for my first time back on the fields in two years for the sole purpose of football, quite happy.

Apart from that, after that, me, Desmond, Lobo and Ravi all went to BK for a small dinner (by some of our standards anyway :P)... and it was rather fun! Talked about games, the sports, our cultures.. the lot!

Headed to college soon after to have a look at the PMCSA Badminton "selections"... and so found out from Lorraine that the new full course girl used to be a state player. Ordinarily, I'd be pretty damn impressed by that. But unfortunately, I have mixed with people with National team status. People who played proudly and represented their country.

And besides, things like that don't get me impressed :).

Anyway, ran out of Meteor free sms's and credit, so I'm gonna drop by Dunnes to get a brush, as well as my new credit... recharge that phone! XD.

Anyway, tired. gonna eat my oranges and sleep! :).. Nights! :)

Haha, played foosball today, and played with kenny against Jason and Han.

Haha, I have become a hacker for life. Not a computer hacker. As in a guy who simply hacks the ball up the field to hopefully get a goal.

Feeling sore a bit. Played futsal with Adi and Nick and the others.. sigh. Adi thinks I have improved skills wise. My burst of speed is surprising, considering I have a lugging weight to haggle over...

Anyway, in short, it was good.

Pool on the other hand, sucked ass.

Was thinking of playing ping pong, but I can't.. so I'm not bothering.

May try for futsal on Saturday evening though. See how.

Quite tired, so I won't post too much.

Not going for tennis this weekend. The afternoon will also mark my entry into the Photography society.

Romantically linked huh.. LOL People are playing again! :P haha... Well, there is someone I do like. But ... I haven't as yet told anyone really.

:)

Nyway, tired.

Yeah, I am now only writing a proper post. Apart from the other super-long one I wrote.

Anyway, today, had the HIS case tutorial, and that was damn long. Talked about the case of the lady with the shortness of breath.

The world's driving me bored.

However, I found many new friends, as well as the company of old friends, to keep me from getting too bored. I love the friendships I made. Those I care for. The things that keep me going and doing what I do.

There were accusations that the HSC (Higher School Certificate), the Sydney matriculation in Australia, was being rigged, in the English component. However, these accusations were rebuked in the wake of the investigation that took place to refute these accusations.

On another note, I am writing this post tonight rather fragmentedly.

The coffee bean odour has left my bedroom (finally) and the weather is proving to be a bit temperamental. :P.

I get the feeling of sleepiness alot lately.. Especially in the afternoons. Have to slowly rectify that.

And Lorraine, you DO look like Princess Ashe of FF XII... hm.. I'll get you the poster :P wahhaha!! :P.. just kidding just kidding :P

Anyway, yeah, heard two cats screeching and wailing just about half an hour ago.. before I think, a dog chased them... I dunno what the two cats were doing.. whether they were looking to set a course for reproduction or something :P.

Pharmacology section of 1st med begins tomorrow in the NE module. Sigh.

Just looking through the Dermot Cox lecture notes is enough to freak me out. How many slides he has for 50 minutes :S.

Lol.

Sleepy.

Had dinner with Kat, Plat and Joanne. Quite a fun group. :) Got to know Joanne a bit better. A very interesting person indeed :). Haha.. An ex-BBGS girl, goes to St. John's Cathedral for church, and then is a Catholic.. Hm, I could go on a bit more I suppose :).

Haha... as my title for this post suggests, I suffered from the crazy rain that turned into torrential downpour.

Anyway, 3 birthdays tomorrow. Brendan, Juan and... Danny Yoon's birthday.

Ahh... LOL.. In the middle of a football match on TV at the moment actually. Manchester United vs FC Copenhagen.

The rain today, well.. I won't comment too much, but simply, it was crap. It rained on my parade! IT RAINED I TELL YOU, IT RAINED!!! -_-... It sucked, as when I got home, all my clothes were soaked, and my bag was full wetness too.. Luckily it is waterproof or else... I cry and whine and everything :P.

I let a Malaysian use my locker for the time being. I don't really use my locker at uni anyway, since I do 99% of my studying at home.

When cardsigning starts though, then maybe I'll ask her to complain about her locker problem.

Getting to know people a bit better. Hoong Kheen, Hong, Billy, Zi Fu, Mahesh and Mark all are quite nice and fun. If you don't know them, they're the 1st meds in my group. Others like Syaril and Muzzammil, not bad too actually. :)

Ahh... the pain in my right-ish... abdomen..?.. is coming back... It really sucks...

But yeah, will ask my parents what it could be. Now we can clearly confirm it isn't what we thought it was, but it is most likely something else.. hope it isn't gall stones.

Found this really really funny site about Malaysia... Of course, it isn't quite nice about home, but still, worth a read :P:



At the moment, in between classes, I can suffer verbal diarrhoea.. :P lol... But now trying to keep to myself a bit more.. Though that's kinda hard to do :P.

Hm.. nothing much otherwise lar... Nearly fell asleep... watching football... Ai yah, man utd sure win 2-0 already lah... :P

Hm.. yeah, anyway, need to grab a shower...

Final fantasy XII Kiss me goodbye

Finally the video should work here. Here you go Lorraine! The video! Not the game... kekekeke... you'd have to camp at my place to play and finish it... by the way, Steve paid you one helluva compliment, he thinks you look like Princess Ashe. And to think of it, you do. If you think of it in a certain way, it becomes quite interesting.. we just have to make your hair silvery XD haha... :p

It would be ever so fun :P.. anyway, I hope you enjoy :)

Yes, that basically sums up the day I had today.

Let's enter those basic details.

Firstly, I woke up at 7.25am today to get a bus to college so I could arrive by 8.20 am. Of course, I slept in till 7.30, and then got up and made a hot cup of delicious Aussie milo, before departing for what was to be a 4 hour morning session in town.

I arrived to find in time we had enough players for futsal. Just enough anyway. Thanesh decided he had the handover meeting, so he didn't come, and there were others who weren't there that came last week.

Anyway, I decided I would wear a defender's jersey, seeing I was still kinda exhausted from the pains and illnesses I've had lately. Some call my mood change the last day or two a PMS thing, but unfortunately I'm a guy, so rule that out please =).

Well, Jamie Carragher, of Liverpool, was my jersey, with no. 23 on my back, and wow, for a player who wanted to play defense, I sure ended up a goal scorer with 3 goals.

The first was like a turn away from a defender on the counter attack, and i just strided forward once (is that proper english? I don't know.. doesn't feel like it :P), and managed to get a shot through in between someone's legs, across the goal, which had no defenders.. A goal that certainly surprised everyone.

But it was a nice first goal.

2nd goal, I thought it wasn't a goal, but everyone thought it was, so, oh well. Simple shot.

3rd goal.. I can't remember, but it was a goal!

Yeah, and that was from about 8.30 to 10am.. I was damn exhausted after that.

So, after futsal, I decided to join Victor and his two friends in a bit of ping pong. Note that I haven't played ping pong since the last time I attended the ping pong club with Sharon, Lorraine and Kenneth (which makes it at least 8 months.. AT LEAST).

Not too bad actually, I managed to get some shots, although I kinda hate the new rules that lowered the singles score. It is now first to.. 11 or so I am told. I prefer the old one where you had first to 21.

That was a fun event nonetheless, and I managed to get some glimpses of my old ping pong skill back, although Victor not too bad himself. But my smashes overall are still there, just need to work on my strokes. Must get used to change of pace and playing at fast pace, although I attribute my shabbyness today to playing futsal beforehand, which I think, slows my ability to see fast moving objects and anticipate.

Anyway, yeah, lost all of my games... YEAP I SUCK!

Anyway, after that, I made a lonely trip down to the Temple Bar Market to get some Iona Blend coffee from the Ariosa Coffee area there. My brother has a French press, and for some reason, he likes this Iona blend, which has this real strong smell. But I think its a nice smell.. for some reason.. very tasty smelling coffee.. CERTAINLY STRONG!

And thus I headed home.

Had lunch... 6 slices of bread with Tesco oven chicken, which was quite nice... But over-filling. I fell asleep soon after while watching the Blackburn vs Liverpool game.

And woke up to go to Dunnes.. My brother called me... XD Luckily. Then Thanesh caught me on my mobile phone and asked if I would like to go to tennis with him, which I happily obliged so I could play tennis again.

But he didn't tell me that the night before, at badminton, he had obtained a shoulder joint injury, which he kinda aggravated at tennis.

Oh well, hope that heals soon, in time for the futsal tryouts on Monday XD.

But yeah, we took the taxi there with the final med Adrian, and only me and Thanesh took the DART back to town.

All in all, a fantastic day, looking forward to some dinner now at 10.40pm, watching Match Of The Day at the same time as well as eating some seafood paella.

Anyway, talk to you peeps later! :)

Chao and take care :)

ps. WHAT THE HELL HAPpENED TO ALL THE CHALK FOR THE CUE STICKS!?!?!?! O_O

sighh.. :P

A piece of art so beautiful, that is Final Fantasy XII, is certainly one of many many phrases of praise for a game that truly maximises the capability of the gaming console that is PlayStation 2.

Having played the game for a while, it has certainly come to show what a joy it is to play. The introduction alone is found over the internet, and in youtube in particular, which was recently acquired by Google.

For those who have never or hardly know of the Final Fantasy series, it is a game series that was initially really set to be the final game released by its original company of the time, Squaresoft. Instead, the first Final Fantasy game released turned out to be a sparkling success and thus, we enter the twelfth instalment of the game.

This game takes place in the land of Ivalice (those who played Final Fantasy Tactics would be very much aware of that name), ah.. what the hell.. just read it some place... Its too long to describe.

But I can tell you immediately it is perhaps the MOST beautiful game I have encountered ever. Not only is it a refreshing change from previous instalments of the series, it promises many many hours of stoning and dried eyes and... bigger bums.

Overall, this is one game that really gets my butt to work.

People often wonder why I don't go out often, it isn't that I don't want to, it is because there is something better on offer for a pleasurable experience.

The end song of FF XII is particularly nice, although I don't think it too special.

Here are the lyrics.

You may say my love is all you need to see you through
But I know these words are not quite true
Here is the path you're looking for, an open door
Leading to worlds you long to explore

Go, if you must move on alone
I'm gonna make it on my own

Kiss me good-bye, love's memory
Follow your heart and fine your destiny
Won't shed a tear for love's mortality
For you put the dream in my reality

As time goes by I know you'll see this of me
I loved you enough to let you go free

Go, I will give you wings to fly
Cast all your fears into the sky

Kiss me good-bye, love's mystery
All of my life I'll hold you close to me
Won't shed a tear for love's mortality
For you put the dream in my reality

Kiss me good-bye, love's memory
You put the dream in my reality

*Courtesy of my OST

I must say that Final Fantasy XII really and truly captivates the imagination of my mind. Not only that, it brings a sense of coming home, a return to the old Alex, a return to the way I was before I went to Australia.

Perhaps, perhaps not.

But I really will enjoy the new experience of this game when it is released in English, despite all the translations being made and all the videos on YouTube being subbed by various parties.

Sigh...

I want my old life back. Not really. I like my current life. But... I want to play Final Fantasy XII and be able to enjoy it...

Yeah, I guess it has been a wee bit over 2 weeks since I last posted a blog post here.

I've been spending time mostly thinking about home. About... the fun and the great times I should have had with my family and friends in the course of the whole 4 month summer break that I had. Instead, I guess, I ended up alone, with my coursework, with no free time for my friends, and sparing free time for my family.

Make no mistake, I am relieved to pass my exams, and I do not wish for anyone to experience what I have experienced. But I make it clear that this summer may have well been the one time for me to enjoy the company of those whom I will find hard to visit in the future.

I guess I would say that... for now, I will be leaving the posts here picture-less, as my IBM computer does not support USB 2.0, so it would take a very long time to transfer photos from my camera to the laptop.

Anyway, where shall I start? Home? Yeah, I think home should cut it.

I arrived home in KL on the 23rd of September, and that night, my uncle (mum's brother) picked me up from KLIA, as my parents had not returned from their 9 day trip from Sydney (in which, I was initially penned in to go as well). As I arrived on a Saturday evening, my uncle took me to McDonalds at the Petronas/Shell station near the Tropicana exit for the toll. I was very exhausted upon arrival in KL, due to the gigantuous amounts of jetlag I had experienced over the two days of travelling.

I ended up sleeping in my parents' bedroom, watching TV on the plasma 50 inch TV my dad had bought last year.

That is what I want for Dublin too. Well, something to constantly remind me of the pleasures of home living.

Extravagant, perhaps, but I really enjoyed my time back in KL.

Anyway, continuing about home, on the first day back, the initial plan was for Sunday morning/afternoon be dedicated to visiting Tuck Lam and meeting up with him and Lorraine at Mid Valley. Alas, that did not materialise as Tuck Lam had an exam on the Monday (if I recall correctly), and Lorraine was back in Bahau, packing for her trip back to Dublin.

Instead, I headed down to Lucky Garden with my uncle to grab some food from the Nam Chuan corner coffee shop to grab some lovely Malaysian food... I had my usual chap fun, my mixed rice, a combination of steamed egg, sweet & sour pork, meatball, longbeans (or French beans, one of them anyway), and the fried chicken (makes me drool whenever I remind myself of it.

That day, I mostly relaxed and got over my jetlag as my parents only arrived on the Sunday evening. Thus, I also had a rice meal for dinner on that Sunday night, eating at the same coffee shop, with double helping of Tofu, and chicken rice to boot.

Following which, I went to the airport with my uncle and picked up my parents, which was fun. Especially when you sit in a car as comfortable as the E280 we have (1997 model). By the way, that is a Mercedes I talk of.

The funny thing about the E280 we have is that the car doesn't seem that fast (in fact, it feels slow) at 110kmh. Even my dad says so, when he drives at 150kmh on the day he sent me back (I'll get to that later).

Anyway, yeah, the same Sunday night, my uncle drove back to Melaka. And thus, the mass unpacking of bags began, where my parents bought me new clothes, a new pair of shoes courtesy of a family friend's son whom I am very well acquainted with.

On Monday, the 25th, my dad went back to work as usual, and on that same day, he placed a priority order on my EOS400d... my new dSLR camera which is one of the coolest cameras.. CORRECTION! The COOLEST camera I have had.. It's big too.. *sigh*

But anyway, yeah, well, my dad came home for lunch, telling me that the camera was on order, as it was currently out of stock. The new stock wasn't scheduled to come in till Friday, one day before I left.

After lunch, the ragged day began, with a family trip down to Sungai Wang. Thank goodness I don't have to ever go pay for parking at Sungai Wang itself or anything. The wonders of having a good EQ (as my dad puts it) and contacts is that we have free parking at a building nearby, next to Imbi Plaza. And it doesn't have the sun blasting its rays at the car!

So in Sungai Wang, I learnt that the old DVD shop I frequented had turned into a bag/clothes shop. But, that doesn't really affect me that much as I usually shop for games mainly. My game shop was still happily running its business, and as usual I spent quite a bit there (yeah, those who know me, I don't spend much on DVDs, but alot on GAMES). Looked up the latest PS2 games, Nintendo games and the PSP games. I found out that efforts to create a modified XBOX 360 had been successful, which was great to hear, however the XBOX 360 was prone to crashing as a result.

Well, then I headed upstairs to the IT section of Sungai Wang, where I saw my ol' computer shop, and bought new applications for my computer here, mainly computer games and applications for photo editing for my new Canon. At the same time, my computer shop also has a sizable supply of anime, so I decided to go and take a peek at what stock they had. Surprisingly, I bought perhaps, only, 3 DVDs of anime.

In total, excluding the camera cost, it was nearly RM1000 spent.

Why it came to RM1000? Because I forgot to mention one more thing. I went to Low Yat Plaza to look for a Compact Flash card for my new camera. Bought a 2GB one, although it is going to take a damn long time to upload the pictures to the computer with that one. Then, at the same time, I looked at the IPOD accessories, and I found a MicroMemo for my Ipod which enables me to make an audio recording of the lectures.

I forgot to mention, but I also had dropped by Kamal's Medical Bookstore. Kamal is an old patient of my dad's, so we know the shop quite a bit. I bought my Guyton Physiology, my Ganong Physiology, Page et al Pharmacology, a 6th edition Kumars & Clark, Sadler's Embryology, and Lippincott's Biochem books.

Those two along cost me RM350 at least.

By that time, my parents were fantastically tired too. So was I. We ended up eating whatever we had at home for dinner. My dad was sleepy and tired.

Now, we shall head to Tuesday. Tuesday, I woke up at 11am, having slept at 4am on the Tuesday morning, and immediately accompanied my mum to the bank, as well as to buy more lunch. This time, from the same Nam Chuan coffee shop, I had Chee Cheong Fun and popiah. Yeah, if people ever wonder how I gain so much weight, my staple diet usually consists of food from the coffee shop, without any exercise in the latter point of the day.

Anyway, had lunch, and then, that afternoon, we headed down to Computer Wars in SS (something), and looked at a new mouse (which I proudly posted on my Livejournal blog), as well as look for a particular Logitech ultraflat keyboard for my brother.

Alas, we had to order the keyboard, but the mouse was there. At the same time, we were persuaded to buy a slightly better Compact Flash card at the same time.

Computer Wars has some really nice people, especially one of the workers there is really funny and nice (in some ways, he reminds me of a Barry-ish look...). We bought most of the parts for our computers from that shop, as we get some really funky deals from the shop. And my dad's streetsmartness helps there too. But we're always the friendly buyers of his stuff.

Anyway, we'll come back here another time.

We went home after that, only to get ready for dinner with my family and our family friends.

Went to Overseas Restaurant at Amcorp Mall. The food wasn't too bad, but I suppose there's always room for improvement. Had a grand time with my friend, who was also flying off to Cardiff via Amsterdam on the same day that Lorraine and Xin Yi were flying to Dublin, via Amsterdam. All three were on the same flight on KLM, but I don't think any of them met my friend. Haha..

This family friend of mine, if you look up friendster, he is S@m, on my friends list. A really nice guy, I remember the days we grew up together, collecting coins, stamps, our common interest in games (he likes DOTA). He also knows Jason Yong and Terry Kok.. In fact, he was Terry's old best friend back in Primary School that time.

Anyway yeah, just had a dinner together, seems like both of us seem to keep getting our backsides in hot water. 2nd year in a row that he has had a repeat exam to take.

Well, anyway, we had a dinner and then went home. Rested, I started playing Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, alot on the computer at home, as the internet connection suffered from what myself and my brothers consider to be MALWARE/SPYWARE/VIRUS.

Wednesday, now I woke up at around 11am again, having slept around 4am, in the back room. Went to the bank again, albeit a different one, this one Allianz Bank (dad was an ex-board member there), and deposited more cheques.

That afternoon, I headed down to Sungai Wang again, with my dad, in hope of finding an anti-virus program that could eradicate the internet connection problem plagueing my desktop. However, despite installing 3 anti-virus programs, there was still alot of problems.

So I decided to leave it at that.

I also returned to Sungai Wang to drop by my game shop to use my PSP with a new program that allows me to play the new games up to version 2.71 while at the same time keeping the hardware version on the actual PSP at 1.5.

That was it I suppose.

I can't recall too much of that day.

Actually, I do now.

That night, I had dinner at Klang, a place which had seafood meals. The guy who cooked and ran the place was a friend of my dad's friend. This guy and his wife, he invited me and my parents as well as another couple to dinner here. Of course, I am the only young one, as the others are all in their 60s.

Lovely people, the guy who brought us to the place, he ordered Crab, fried and steamed (mm mm mm), onion rings (which have another name... argh, i forgot :S), fried rice, steamed prawn, and mee hoon.

A very filling meal, which had its own bottle of wine provided by the other couple, and the uncle who brought us to the place had his usual order of Guiness. The host's wife (the uncle's wife), studied at UCD, and did medicine as well.

Well, that was my half of my week in Malaysia come and gone.

Thursday, after so many days delaying, we went to Mid-Valley in the evening, as I had wanted to earlier, but didn't have the time to (and jet lag persisted as well). I bouhgt myself a new supply of highlighters and pens, as the stationery section of the Jusco had reopened. That afternoon, my camera arrived. It was like, WHOA! HOW AWESOME IS THIS!.. hehe..

That afternoon I also took the oppurtunity to spend 5 minutes at the Mont Kiara nightmarket rustling for my Archie comics. I spent RM70 on Archie comics, in 2 minutes, that is fast.

Haha...

Well, for dinner, we were at Mid Valley, where I managed to have my tau foo fah, as well as my Esquire Kitchen dinner.

Up to this point, only on this day (Thursday), did I have lunch that did not originate from Nam Chuan coffeeshop. I went to the coffee shop called Lok Tim just opposite the Nam Chuan coffeeshop to get something to eat with my mum.

Oh yeah, I forgot, on Tuesday, I went to BS Tan Optometry to get my eyes double checked and to order a new glass frame. I collected my new frame on Thursday and to this day, I wear them. It is quite amazing no one actually realised that I had worn different glass frames.

Ah, I forgot to mention too, that up to the 27th (Wednesday) night, I kept in constant touch with Lorraine, haha... kacauing her as usual.

On Friday now, and although technically a Catholic shouldn't eat meat on Friday, I sank my teeth into the food at Nam Chuan as per usual. That was lunch. I collected the Keyboard from Computer Wars on this day, and that was with my dad. I also saw my grandmother (on my mum's side) arrive from Melaka, with my cousin and my mum's brother and sister-in-law. However, it was rightfully stressful for everyone that my grandmother made the trip just to see me.

My grandmother's blood pressure, when she was on her way, hit 200/80... and at the time of checking at my home, it was 170/90 on her right arm, and 160/80 on her left. o_O..

My cousin, she had come by to KL from Melaka for an interview. With Hong Leong Bank I think. Haha. I haven't actually spoken to her for a long time until that Friday.

Yeah well, I was to fly on Saturday morning, so I hardly got two hours sleep that night, as I sorted out my dad's income tax, as well as cleaned up the TV room abit, finished packing and tagging my bags, strapping them. Slept at 4.30am and woke up at 6am. Flight was at 9am, so I went to the airport at 6.40-ish in the morning, reaching the airport within the half hour. Check in was a breeze as the upgrade to business class afforded me more free time.

My parents headed down to Melaka following sending me off while I headed sadly and gloomily back to Dublin.

Unfortunately, I no longer look forward to returning to the land of the cold cold times. The only things that keep me going here are my friends who remind me so much of what home is, and how special it is.

I thoroughly enjoyed my week in KL. I wouldn't give a crap if people called me rich, because what mattered to me was that I enjoyed myself, I enjoyed my company with my parents, I enjoyed the food, the shops I frequent, and the driving, although I did hardly drive due to jetlag.

Well, I arrived back in Dublin, picked up by my brother on a Saturday evening, although, predictably, I was missing home and all the good living I had experienced in that week.

One thing I can truly say about what the repeats taught me. TREASURE EVERY FREE MOMENT YOU GET. Cherish the moment, and enjoy it, but keep alert for anything that may be better.

I certainly loved that oppurtunity to return home. It gave me such a wondrous feeling. I have no doubt that it certainly will be a fun fun time for many more times to come.

Well, now I am back in Dublin, back in the grind of things, working out whether I should join the PMCSA committee this year or not, but I am happy being able to spend time at home following my rearranging of the Sony LCD TV to a more suitable position.

My brother says the new position will prove to be a distraction, but I suppose I could use it to attract my usual friends for some fun and frolic, and certainly for some good ol' DVD enjoyment.

Probably the one thing interesting this week apart from making new friends was a comment by Lorraine, that I had everything. Do I have everything? Yeah, I do, not in a millionaire kind of way, but as in, I have got love, I have got friends, I have got material goods, I have accommodation, I have a car (well, technically, I share that with my brother), I have luxuries. I don't have everything. If I did, I would have a beautiful GF to go along with all of it. And a smashing income. But I don't have either, so I don't have everything.

I know who I'd have liked to have been my GF.. lol.. perhaps a real long time now. But no, i'm sticking to my promise for the time being, the promise I made to family friends, and family, that I'd be single until I graduated. And plus, the fear of relationships not working out is rather great. It always takes two to tango. Until I am swayed on that belief, I think I can hold out for the foreseeable future that I am single.

As to whether I am available is dependent on how the person sways me as a person and friend.

Haha... anyway, enough of my ramblings.

Dublin is boring. But I have also had one great friend in Platini for his warmth and kindness in the face of adversity that we both faced in the last few months.

And of course, many others who kept me motivated and kept me positive.

i regret coming to Ireland for medicine now, but I don't regret making the friends I've made. Ireland is a culture change for me, perhaps a good thing.

Sigh. :)

Hope you haven't fallen asleep by then.

Haven't?

Good.

Because I forgot to mention, that on one of the days back in KL.. I think Tuesday lunch time-ish, I went to TIME Bookstore in Bangsar Shopping Centre, and bought RM 900 worth of books.

Anyway. Well, I haven't much more to update with actually.

I saw World Trade Centre with Plat, Steve and Yo. i met up with friends old and new.

I saw a dead corpse (cadaver) for the first time.

I stick to Ham & Cheese sandwiches for lunch now.

I dunno. I got lazy writing now. :P

Ah well.. Hope you have fun reading this!