oh yea cheow wei, happy a little belated b'day!!!!!!! hope you have the best in life for the years to come...

now in school so couldn't post my braces pic, forgot to bring it. that day, nivea came to our school and we were given free gifts and one free printed pic. if we want another picture then we would have to pay RM2 for it, so i saved this photos in my pendrive instead.

the nivea fair was held in the school's hall. we got a bottle of lotion and a deodorant. i love the lemon grass smell, not too overpowering and not too subtle, just nice. two weeks later clinique also held a promotion in our school. had to skip the malaysian studies class just to listen to them talk fill the form then get the $200 gifts. there was a lot of people attending the session alone. couldn't my hands up fast enough to answer the questions, because if someone answer correctly you get to win the eyeshadow worth $55. haizz.. nvm that is what greed brought me to...

the next day when we had our malaysian studies class the teacher just called out my name. i was in shock and could feel my heart beating. damn and be damned why am i even the first to be called out? loads of girls went to the promotion and i was the first to be called out?

" why weren't you in class yesterday?" silence, i could just feel it eating on me.then i told him i was in class. then he asked,

" then you disappear for the last ten to fifteen minutes is it?" i really wanted to laugh out the predicament i was in. he kept talking, my mouth kept twitching, the irony of it was we were allowed to skip other subjects (which i never skip)but must have at least 70% attendance in malaysian studies class. the system can only be described as stupid...

then he called out stephanie's name (the girl who is sitting beside me), she raised up her hand and he said in disbelieve,

"you also kah? you also disppear for the last fifteen minutes of class?"

i was already giggling. she hesitated for a moment then said,

"i fell asleep in class so i didn't know you called my name"

which is worse...

"fennie" his voice boomed out.

my friend sitting on my right raised her hand. i saw him just raise his brows in wonder.

"you also?"he asked. by that time i think he was really enjoying our guilt. bad bad teacher... haha..

"i went to the toilet sir.." fennie just said.

haha.. i couldn't believe we actually got famous with this escapade. stupid kind of fame but still stupid...

anyway got to be the judge for the coming debate next week. no need to talk in the least but fennie and i are going to bully ah long to be the chief judge so he would make a closing statement.. so bad..

oh yea forgot to tell you all i passed my undang-undang. went for the driving practice last sunday. had to take the two hour journey by bus to butterworth since there was a major traffic jam on the penang bridge. i thought it was hard but it was kind of okay until i got to the hill part. my mind kept playing back and back again..

"free the clutch but keep your legs poised there, step on the accelerator and immediately break when you reach the 'tiang'..." at first i panicked and the car slipped backwards. second time i pulled on the handbreak i freed the clutch so the car "die fire (in chinese)". third time, i went over the yellow line. fourth time, i went too fast over the hill so off i go circling one round to get back to the hill part again.. don't know how many times i tried that even the instructor got frustrated and ended the session 15 minutes early. he kept calling me "amoi amoi, apa yang kamu buat ni?" i think he actually got scared sitting in my car.. haha.. not so bad la, just jesting...

when i get home i'll write more, maybe finally be able to post my braces pic, don't show it to everyone (which i am doing by the way).

i wanted to keep two different parts of my posting today and will do it about two times per week. and yes, i finally get to wear normal clothes to school. about the chemistry class, the lecturer said that by the end of the year only half the class will be present. they didn't actually drop the subject but we are allowed to choose if we wanted to attend the classes or not. the bad thing is we have to take an extra subject for one semester and that is moral. i don't really know why they call it a moral class but it is actually the malaysian history. the worst thing is the subject is in malay...... all the malaysian citizens have to take up the subject. we even need to pass moral to get our certificates.
every subject is divided into three parts which is the tutorial (homework time!), the lecture (boring speeches where the lecturer just come in and talk) and the lab work. if you don't do your homework nobody will care anyway, because the teacher just give but never receive homeworks. i like going to the lab though. our microscope alone costs about 3600 malaysian dollars. we have a new type of the pipette pump where you just need to push the scroller up with your thumb and press the soft button at the side to release the solution. and the labs are clean, clean and clean. mainly because the teachers keep complaining about the slightest stain in the lab! our chemistry lab even has a shower stand to clean of any acid when it is severely splashed on the clothes.
the thing that i don't really like about the school is the long school hours. true to what yoke khee said, my classes starts at 8 in the morning and ends at 3 to 6 o'clock in the afternoon. maybe it is the newness of everything or maybe it is just my emo part, i actually missed md, i miss walking to the canteen with yoke khee, chai eng, supa, nisa, cheow wei, ying hee...... and a whole lot of people. i missed sitting together in the canteen with all of you and talk about boys and stuff. the most funny thing is i even miss wearing the tudung with you all and see the tudung droop down on our foreheads or seeing our hair jutting and poking out at the sides. haha now that i think of it, i even miss the hunger pangs that chuan ho puts us through while waiting for his belated meals... sorry chuan ho no offense!
everything's fine here, i even went shopping in the 70% sales yesterday in metrojaya. haha, grace will really scold me for not heeding to her advice but i only bought 3 clothes. i bought a black hush puppies shirt with a little puff at the sleeves and small flowers at the hem and 1 white sleeveless top from pop soda and 1 yellow t-shirt also from pop soda. and you know what i only spent about 20 brunei dollars for them. quite worth it because (bashfully) i have too much sleeveless shirts and only a handful of t-shirts. oh yea, and we can actually wear sandals and very very short skirts to school. but then being the good little girl i am, i wear long pants, t-shirts and spectacles to school. (this is when we say bu yao lian). haha...

hi, i didnt really write anything these few days. so sorry about that. well, i'm going to start with the most interesting news first. late last night my maid was sleeping in her room when she suddenly heard the tiled floors making a grumbling sound. she was always terrified of tsunamis so she quickly ran out of the room. when she was safely outside her room, the floor just suddenly exploded, creating a big crack on the floor. my aunt was sleeping in the living room and just heard the sound of glass crashing to the floor. she initially wanted to go on sleeping but then my maid came to her and repeatedly soothe her chest with her hand and said
'saya takut loh...'
my aunt asked her what she was afraid of, thinking she just broke a really expensive piece of glass or so, but then the theory wasnt plausible since we kept no priceless ornaments in our house. she then followed her to her room and then saw this big hole on the ground. when my maid pulled out her mattress, the tiles on the crackline were forming a line ridge on the floor with pieces of shattered tiles beside it. it really shocked the daylights out of mom, my aunt and my maid as well. feeling scared mom called dad at the dead of the night and you know what dad said?
he said that when they were preparing the area for construction, they actually have to pile the ground first in between the two important beams of the building. without even waiting for the soil to settle, they sped up the construction of the building. so when the time comes for the soil to actually settle, the two important beams sink to towards each other, raising the soil in between. so the 'explosion' was actually one part of the evidence of poor planning. he said before this happened, the pipes will burst a little causing the pipe problems, with the water seeping into the floorboards. for the first time i was actually really really glad that dad is a great civil engineer, if not i would actually let my global warming, tsunami and end of the world thoughts run away with me. and to think that i was actually sleeping like a baby at the time it happened really frightens me.
granny told my maid that if she didnt wake up on time, the floor might actually 'gobble' her up. trust granny to make people more scared than they were at first. mom, aunt and maid just laughed after dad told us that the settling of the ground rarely happens again.