D'stroy Thyself

"Accidental words could cause conflicts
Atrocious words could shatter lives
Appropriate words could allay pain
Affectionate words could heal and bless
Arrogant words could create distrust
Authoritative words could cause mutiny
Abhorrent words could start revolutions
Awakening words could invoke peace"
Book of D'struction
by lalanandaFRY

"The end of knowledge comes the character building and the civilisation"
by Mahatma Ghandi

"It is an irony that the inventor of dynamites, Alfred Nobel would award his wealth towards peace"
Book of D'struction
by lalanandaFRY

"People who never climbed never fall
People who never tried never fail
People who never made a mistake will never learn"
Book of D'struction
by lalanandaFRY

"Lost money can be earned
Lost health can be cured
But lost time cannot be expiated"
Book of D'struction
by lalanandaFRY

"Who's more foolish, the fool or the one who follows him"
by Obi-wan Kenobi
Star Wars

"Failure is the mother of success 失败是成功之母
Mistake is the mother of learning 错误是学习之母
Illness is the mother of health 疾病是健康之母"
Book of D'struction
by lalanandaFRY

"Forget about yesterday, work today and have a glimpse of tomorrow"
Book of D'struction
by lalanandaFRY

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him"
(Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer)
Épître à l'Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs (Epistle to the author of the book, The Three Impostors)
by François-Marie Arouet, pen named Voltaire

Uni-disaster Sem.1.SUM.Up

Yup! you heard it right! Semester 1 has finally ended!!!

It has been another long long break since my last update. Sorry for that :'( But I'm going to follow as the title says, SUM-Up the last 3 weeks in 1 post. If you have been reading my last post or were walking on parallel sides with me, I have had a 2 week long VACATION a.k.a study break a.k.a "anticipation period" as said in my last post. The first week was a disaster for me (Uni-disaster ripening) over-fatigue pupil (eye), and most of all, no mood what-so-ever to STUDY!!! That should sound terrible enough for a person to sit for the degree exam without Mood, but that is not all. My sleep was also troubled with so many unwanted NREMs (dreams). Some showing all my former and current classmates laughing at my results, others showing my transformation from a pharmacist-to-be to a FARMERcist-to-be!!! With the scorching heat adding to the negative equation, I only had one more choice, to go back to IMU, cool down and get my mood back.

Studying had more fun in IMU since it had nice air-conditioned rooms in the library made with comfortable furniture and glass perimeters (for people to make sure I'm not taking a nap). May Hwa, Chiew Vien and Mar-Jie was also there to lighten the atmosphere and keep my eyes on the words in my notes.OK OK!!! enough of words, now is picture time.

so this is one of Chiew Vien's secret 'studying' techniquesand May Hwa's plug-on antenna which entertained us

During the 2 week long break, I was also forced to brush up my English for the MUET, Most Uhliao English Test. Seriously, I always felt strange why my friends from other universities need not get this cert. while I need both IELTS and MUET...WHY??? But nevertheless it was compulsory in IMU, so I guess the only thing I can do is to 'indulge' myself.

so this was where it happened, SMKBBSPsee that bottle with a blue label there? that was where I satthose are the people waiting for the test, while I captured these pictures

EoS was over before I realised it, but not because it was swift, it was because it was a nightmare I'm trying hard to forget. But straight after the last paper, my dad took me for a movie at Midvalley, something we hadn't done since Quantum of Solace last year. This time we watched Star Trek and it was quite good. I confest that I'm a Trekker all my life, since my dad is the one who made me one. For those of you who aren't Trekkers yet, this movie may make you one... I'm not kidding. If that doesn't convince you, you might want to know that it stars Zachary Quinto of Heroes TV series, John Cho of Harry & Kumar movies and most of all, Chris Pine of Just My Luck and Princess Diaries 2. How is that for a cast? It is also nice to note that the creator of Lost and Alias, J.J.Abrams is the producer and director if this movie. Convinced?

The holiday has just started and I'm already bored. MUET speaking test is next Monday...haiz...another test. Life's test will never end...

lalanandaFRY 8/5/09

Uni-disaster week 14 report

I'm currently having a study break, which also implies that I'm having a 2 week course of "anticipation" before I face the EndofSemester(EoS) examination. But before I talk about the suffering, I want to share some of the happy events during the long interval between week reports. Sorry for being lazy:( ... 原谅我好吗？我应该是定定七桃到忘了时间啦！

This won't be as short as the 3 recent posts (blood donation, photo-edition 1 & 2). Week 12 was fun especially when Physiology lecturer took the helm of the jokes among all of us especially May Hwa and Chiew Vien. He told us interesting analogy.cum.stories which was easy to remember. Just by uttering the words 'salivation'  and 'ring a bell' would make us giggle somehow due to his accent. Then Thursday was our Bioscience class test and I have worked quite hard for it, 但是希望不会功亏一篑... Hopefully can get the exemption la...

Eversince I had the meeting with the first Blood donation comittee on Thursday of week 11, I kept feeling proud that I'm doing something for the society and people since it is not as small as giving my blood but welcoming lots of people to donate their blood too!!! But the work as a member of publicity section isn't that simple because our job is to make people know about this event. Publicity includes a banner, posters, signs and announcement. The great thing is that I've made new acquaintances in the publicity section, Lii Chyuan (vp & head of publicity), Sunn Ren and Jaa Ming, all whom were very very nice people (of course la... buddhist are the best people in the world!!!). Together with the rest of the comittee members, we managed to make a nice banner and cute little black people who would lead students of IMU to the event.

Shaun Fook, Yong Kang, Shin Yun and Siew Huanthose are the little black people I was refering toand this is our group photo

Then in week 13, there was this BioPharm class test.... :'( Dr Arjun wasn't very happy with our results. But now I can only hope that I can pass all my assesments and move on to next semester. The practicals we did in week 13 & 14 was quite boring but I liked it because it was very quick, so I won't mention much.

As you know, I've borrowed a Canon EOS 350D from the Photography club to get some nice photos for the blood donation drive as well as the batch photo you have seen in the earlier posts. I don't know whether it was a blessing or a curse but I kept dreaming of losing that camera until I was quite paranoid. I took the camera from bro.Han Hong on Tuesday with hopes of getting used to it by Wednesday. But one night proved to be impossible to get a hang with a dSLR, something I haven't used in my life (only used a film SLR, point & shoot auto focus and my dad's prosumer). The camera came with a HOYA 58mm UV filter which was extremely dirty and a heavy battery holder which was quite useless since it only contained one battery without any back-ups. 

请多多包涵，我明白我的shuttle speed和exposure的确是差了一点...

Three days of Blood Donation Drive was successful. We have got a total of 202 successful donations. Hopefully the hard work we have done will get to help people to fulfill our motto 'Your Blood, Their Lives'. As part of the Blood Donation Drive Comittee, I would like to thank everyone who had contributed to this success of this event especially the donors and also IMU Photography club for lending the camera to me. I also hope that more would come forward to contribute in our next event tentatively in September (Bulan Puasa is the time when there is a shortage of blood). Once again,

THANK YOU VERY MUCH

may you be well and happy...

Now I'm back to my suffering part...haiz.... Study break is not nice at all. The weather here is scorching hot, notes are boring, MUET test 1 is this Saturday and I'm not experiencing any progress in my hippocampus. HELP ME!!!

lalanandaFRY 21/4/09

Uni-disaster Photo Edition (revised)

If you noticed the last post, the post in P109 blog and Gaik Cheng's facebook, you would see that the two different photos had slight flaws around the front row (Sanjay and Anul moved). So I've just cropped and repaired the photos to create this REVISED version.

What do you think? See the differences?

lalanandaFRY 16/5/09

Uni-disaster Photo Edition

These are the 2 photos we took today.
***click on the photo to see it in a larger view. (beware... it is HUGE)

I've also passed a copy to Gaik Cheng. I believe she would have posted it in the P109 blog and her Facebook page by now.

Ｐ109　SEM.1 ＢＡＴＣＨPHOTO

if you want an original(3mb) or a smaller(1mb) copy of these 2 photos, pls leave a message in the chatbox...

But there would probably be another photography session tomorrow since both of these pictures have flaws. If they are nicer, I shall post them up here again.