The roommate post

Whenever I'm in school, I'm living in a dormitary.

And in dorms, it's common for you to share a 'house' among people, or other students for that matter. Same goes to me, my living facilities is being shared among 4 people.

Initially when I freshly moved in (the first day), there was this one other kid in the house. This Vietnamese kid, but come nighttime, she would stay at her friend's place, and I'll be alone.

I know this because when I first stepped into the 'house' with my family, she was there with hers. My family being a tad bit social asked questions. So I know. She has a friend (senior) here, I assume she's living with her.

On my first night in this rural facility...I'm sure as hell that I'm not going to stay alone in this new environment. Luckily for me, I have a couple of Singaporean friends living on the same level.

Mind you, when I enter, the dorm is practically a ghost town because everyone is on summer vacation. (-.-)

So I spend a night at my friend's place, when deep inside I'm like damn you roommate. Haha who wouldn't, you have so much shit to do (unpack and clean) yet, you're scared to live there alone because it's new and strange, you've prepared yourself that yay you have a roommate, but when night comes she ain't there. So damn you girl.

This goes on, but comes the 2nd or 3rd day, I'm like screw this, I'm just going to live there alone. Because it's so tedious to carry my bedsheets and pillow to crash my friend's place. 

So, live by myself I did, for about 2 weeks or so? Until the short summer vacation starts, and there's 2 other roommates who came in and live with us.

My lonely days were horrid (food poisoning and being sickly), but other than that it's fine. It's not that scary as I thought it would be. 

Oh, during the span of my lonely days, the Vietnamese kid moved out, like seriously wtf.

I know this because her room became slate clean and her luggage ain't there anymore. -.- It's okay, I've been alone from the start and I don't even know her so whatever. Screw it.

Anyways,

The summer semester starts and I suddenly have a +2 new roommates! YAY!

They're Indonesians, and unlike my ex-roomy, they actually lived in the 'house'. So no more lonely days for me. Haha.

Although on some days towards the end of the summer vacation, I find myself alone in the room (what's with me and being alone man). But like I said, it's cool.

They came back. HAHA

They're nice and all, I'd like to say we got on pretty well because shortly after, I was invited to celebrate one of my roomy's birthday together with their clique. So I'm like wow thanks.

We did a planned birthday surprise for her during sahur, (it was Ramadhan for most part of the summer semester). That went well. 

I wasn't really awkward because they're nice. They speak in English to me (I don't know why), and Indonesian with one another (ain't awkward because I understand what they're talking about).

One of my roomy(the one who we held a surprise for) is really nice, she likes to engage in a conversation with me, so aww. Someone wnats to be my friend. ha

Here are some of the photos of the said birthday surprise.

I couldn't finish my slice of cake because there's lots of cream on it. And I have a strong dislike against creams. (FML)

I just can't bring myself to eat cream, like eww so disgusting.

Roommate 2 will come up soon enough.

Earlier this year (2014)

 Froyo with these peeps.

We took a whole lot of photos during this sesh.

But...
I don't know where the pictures have gone (it's not from my phone)

No worries though, because I doubt I will forget their faces anytime soon.

Ramadhan 2014

A throwback to the shitton of photos that we took during ramadhan 2014.

Not everyone was here, even so, we all had fun.

These photos aren't from my camera, because my phone was too crappy for the job.

We used Khai's phone, and these photos were being Whatsapp.

I wanted to delete em after posting a few on social media, but....mottainai kara~

Like too precious.

 So I made it into an ugly collage!
Everything was transfered into my computer and I don't have any collage-making apps on my computer.

And I did look up for any collage-making app on the internet, but it was so slow, or lousy.


So I photoshopped everything in. Simple.
Hurr

 Ugly face, and ugly faces everywhere.

 Chill pills with these girls is the best.
Our tummy would be hurtin' at the end of the day because we laughed too much.

Everyone are dorks.
Really.

Graduation trip planning!

/back post

 To trip to JB we took; to chill, to plan about our 'future' graduation trip, to psycho liyana to join in our trip.

 The destination wild that we choose is~~~
SARAWAK!

For a serious wilderness-venture.

Graduation trip / SABAH / SARAWAK post up soon!

This post precedes a shitton more of back photos.

A realtime update (PART 2)

Moving on, with a new enviroment, there's a need for me to adjust and adapt to that new situation yeah?

Yes, but my body didn't get that note. Here's how:

During the week of school, there's an international students orientation week (thank god that it's only the international students, i swear I'm not prepared to mingle and make friends with Malaysians just yet, I dont know why) Okay so, on the last day of the orientation week, there's a day where its called 'KL tour', where they'll bring us around KL to see some tourist spots or whatnot. I swear I was looking forward to it because I don't go to KL often and I don't know much about the tourist spot, and most importantly I've paid RM5 for a museum tour.

On the night of this KL tour, something poisoned me, and I had a series of rushing to the toilet to take a dump and bouts of nausea and hardcore vomitting. It was a horror I swear. I swear to God it's one of the worst things to experience when you're alone in your room (at this point, I've yet to have any roommate #foreveralone). And on top of that, I've never gotten food poisoning before, so I was really scared, like what the hell is happening man. Why am I pooping water and puking things outta my body.

I was feelikng like shit the very next morning, I thought I should just go, because of my RM5, but the random and frequent episodes of diarrhea made me go against it. Luckily for me, it was a Saturday and the clinic is still open. And thankfully, I've a friend who has a tummy ache as well, so we went to the clinic together.

On the bright side, I didn't know medical facilitues here are for free. So yay. The doctor gave me some med and packets of salt, for me to mix it with water and drink it because I'm as dehydrates as a date at this point. But those packets of salt taste like shit. I can't bear to drink it, it was disgusting, despite the orange flavour. Took all of my other meds, and I was getting better (as compared to the night before).

The puking and occasional pooping still persist though, much to my annoyance. I went back to Singapore during the weekends, and during my way back, at the Malaysian immigration, I felt the primal urge to puke. I was panicking because I don't have any plastics at hands. Thank god for other Singaporeans (aunties to be exact), I asked them for a plastic plus a nauseating face (they always have plastics, dont they). The aunty quicky rummaged her bag for one. And true enough, I puked a teeny bit soon after. Eww I know. And the guy at the counter goes on to be a jerk and ask me questions on my visa, like bitch, can we not do this now? I feel like slapping him with my plastic of vile looking puke. Trust me, I would.

Got home safety and feeling less like a turd. The next day, I went to a proper clinic. Oh I forgot to mentioned that this comes with an annoying stomach cramps. I'm not the one who gets stomach cramps during menses or nearing-menses, so it was torture. URGH.

So first week of University ended pretty badly with me falling severely sick.

And being sick doesn't stop there.

Around the 5^th week, I developed a sore throat, that sore throat soon evolved into a coughing fit. DRY ANNOYING COUGHING FIT. That lasted for a week and entering its 2^nd week now.

And again, I went to the doctor in Singapore to get my meds. I'm in the midst of recuperating so....I hope I get well soon. And God, I'm having a head-splitting headache since morning.

Dear body, I hope you adjust to this primal state of living.

A realtime update. (PART 1)

I'm currently in University, super early as compared to my other mates, here's why and what has been happening to me ever since.

I've graduated from Temasek Polytechnic on the 30^th of May 2014. And 11 days later, on the 10^th of June, I'd have to enrol for my undergraduate study. Didn't become a student immediately like others of my international cohort because I didn't bring the relevant documents needed for the registration.

My fault, mom was really pissed at me for it. Reasons because (it's really stupid): I didn't believe the enrolment guide on the things to bring. Apparently, we were supposed to bring all of our original copies of our academic certificates, and I'm like: why in the world would you need that? You've accepted me as your student and I'm left to enrol for your university. So I packed a few photocopied certificates.

So yeah, can't register, thank God there's a Singaporean association and another kid who has forgetten (legit) to bring his original document, thank God I'm not alone in this. We were given 2 days to get those documents over to the University. So my family and his family planned it out. In 2 days time, we're officially students.

Mind you, on the day of the registration, we brought all of my stuffs, luggage and boxes. So my mom was pissed cause she thought I had to go back to Singapore and can't register, so we came here for naught (I thought so too, and was like shit, I'm screwed but I didn't show it, else I'm more screwed. Felt like crying cause I messed up real bad this time, but I just went like...GG liao).

Thankfully, the University allowed us to check into our hostel/dormitory (Thank you God). That's a relief ain't in. Haha. My abode....isn't exactly the way I pictured it to be, I pictured it to be totally run down, like seriously, even though I'm in KL, it's still in Malaysia. And the location of my University isn't really in the city centre, it's somewhere atop mountains and some secluded forest surrounding it. So one might expect a rundown abode, but nope. My abode is pretty....good.

There's two spectrum to my expectations, one is really bad. And the other is really good, like seriously high class or something. Because truth be told, i wasn't really looking forward to studying here, mom did. I'm the type who listens to their moms. Like I'm fine with it if my mom is fine with it (yes).

I wanted to go to the UK, so naturally, and I already did applied for some and got accepted in. But my mom totally rejected the idea, she didn't even bother looking at the prospectus that came into the mail. Like seriously, Uk has got to be really welcoming, having bothered to send an international mail to prospecting students. Isn't it expensive? And so is the fees to teh school.

So I did loads of research on the Univeristy that i got accepted to in the UK, and man their dormitory is so cool. They have their own personal pantry for every room/shared room. Over here, no personal pantry, its fine. But there's no communal pantry even, and that's an inconvenience. Like seriously. In most Universities (around the world), the least they could provide is a communal pantry shared amongs 5-8 rooms with 3-4 students, THE LEAST. But nope. In our shared abode, there's none of that sort, you can't even bring your own portable stove or cooking equipment along (fire hazard they said) but whatever. It's inconvenient to go down to have your breakfast. And it's really inconvenient (for me anyways) to go out from my room just to wash my mug or wash my hands (a tendency that I have).

Nonetheless, my dorm is pretty good apart from having to climb 4 flight of stairs to reach my room. On the contrary, people have always mentioned about how small their dorm room is, how cramped it is and space-saving things/methods are a life saver. My room is pretty spacious I guess, or maybe I have yet to horde stuff into my room. Not yet maybe. One thing I've yet to hrode on is....clothes. Seriously, ever since University starts, I have a shortage of inner wear whenever I go back to Singapore during the weekends. And also, whenever I wanna go out, I can't sit and ponder which combination looks best, which clothes to pick, because....there's not much choices to choose from.

On top of that, I can't really wear the clothes I wore during polytechnic, because I might get compound(fined, seriously) for it. The University I'm in is an Islamic University so i can't really wear most of the clothes I wear in Poly. Funny because I've always thought I'm conservative in my poly days, but my mom said no, just no. Whatever clothes you wore in Singapore, no just no. So....my choices are really limited. During the first day of school, I swear I looked like a hobo. Like seriously, I look like a hobo every single day because in the name of modesty and Univeristy dress code, I'm wearing clothes that I don't really wear. It's unfashionable. Fashion police, please fine me. Fashion terrorist I admit.

I hope i get used to this. Some people said that i looked really young, I could only laugh and reply “It's because of my clothes isn't, I look like a loser in this” and they said “oh no” and I replied “ yeah really, everyone looks like shit (didn't use this word actually) during their freshmen year”

Seriously, from my observation, MOST PEOPLE LOOKS LIEK SHIT DURING THEIR FRESHMEN YEAR.

They'd be wearing unfashionable clothing in that year, but their fashion sense progresses upwards throughout the years in Uni.

So, you can count on me. I'm totally looking forward to that progression.

OSU!

TRAVEL DIARIES: BORNEO

My phone is exploding, these the videos that I took while on vacation.

For keepsake purposes mostly.

The theme song to this holiday is Almost Paradise.

It's the OHP for a popular Korean drama: Boys Over Flower.

During our vacation, there will be instances where we will ride a boat to islands and small commercial flights to exotic isolated places. Who gets on a boat and airplane everyday man? 

So, the theme song is appropriate. Also, we're relieving an inside and years old insider's joke.

From top:

1) Song: Almost Paradise
This was when we're about to take a flight to Kota Kinabalu from isolated Mulu. There was not much people and we're not known to get embarrassed easily, so yeah, we did it.

2) Song: Almost Paradise
Cliche scene, cliche video. Step cliche, but we're not actually cliche or appear vogue or elegant in any way.

3) Song: Mika - Celebrate
I love MIKA, so I had to put him in somewhere. At this juncture, I've been uploading lots of Almost Paradise videos (on instagram) (the ones I uploaded here are not uploaded in order so yeah)

4) Song: Almost Paradise
This was actually the first video that was filmed during our vacation. This was at some bridge at Sarawak, there was no one else, so why not. The scenery is excellent, all the more welcoming ain't it?

5) Song: No song.
I asked my sister to take OOTD's of myself, instead, she accidentally took videos. But, I guess, it turned out pretty well.

I'm back.

Due to many turns of events and rites of passage,

I have time to revert back to blogging.

My pictures are mostly lame, I know.

However! This picture:

vvvv

This is the kind of presents/souvenirs that I will get for people. Forget about getting fancy props or decoration piece, I'll get something that I think you might need. Something that will be used often or eaten. After all, I wouldn't want my presents to go to waste and unused. Because it happened many times before, back in the day where I have some unappreciative friends or maybe my gifts were so lame to ever be used.

Meh.

Unrelatable to the above texts,

This is the interior of an 'executive taxi' in Malaysia.