Saturday, August 22, 2009

1st Ramadhan of 2009

Delivering pamphlets
As mentioned in the previous posts, I can't sleep after sahur and proceeded to folding teh pamphlets for delivery and started the delivery at 7am. Since I was fasting, I decided to do the delivery in a leisurely pace and walked most of the time, hence I spent almost 3 hours delivering junk mail and ended up really thirsty.

Central Market
After the junk mail job, got home.Everyone was still sleeping. It was my job to buy the chicken. Thought of asking one of my housemates to come with me to CM but since they all stil sleeping, and if they wake up it will take time for them to shit and shower and the CM will close by then. So went there alone, got 8kg of chicken for $20 which is cheap and walked around CM, trying to ignore the fragrant smell of bread and bubble tea that's gnawing on my stomach.

Nap at The Village
Naturally, since I was at the CM, I was nearer to the Village, my official second home..haha.So crashed there for Zohor, wanted to play Wii pong but felt so sleepy, I guess the thirst and fatigue from the morning junk mail job got to me and I slept till 4pm.

Al-Khalel Mosque
The plan today was to break the fast at Khalel with my housemates.Hussen has some dinner with AMBC and Nik had a fast breaking date. So only Lutfi came with me. So roped in Apam and Syuk along with me to Khalel. It seems almost all Malaysian students were there tonight, but only five stayed behid for tarawikh. The food was awesome as usual, the salad thingy was refreshing and the lamb dish was perfect not to mention the fragrant rice sprinkled with olive oil.One serving was enough for me although there were plenty for seconds. Some sheikh says they will provide more food tomorrow and asked us to come...but Khalel is kinda far away and I'll exhaust this week's fuel supply if I go tomorrow. I'll have to pass..it'd be the City Mosque tomorrow.

Moreh
Sent Lutfi home and wnt to teh Village with Syuk to pick up my laptop and the chicken bought earlier. Had a lot of talk while eating vanilla ice cream with chocolate chip cookies but nature of our topics which will be kept to ourselves due to the seriousness of the discussion. But it was a good chat to close the firts night of Ramadhan of 2009.

This night will dissolve into another memory.

Welcome Back Ramadhan.

Friday, August 21, 2009

Again

Currently
Yup, in a few minutes, I will start fasting in Adelaide for the fourth year. I can't sleep, despite working working out a the gym from 3.30-5.30mpm.....but I feel very refreshed. After too much noise and lights being switched on and off( my fault for sleeping in the living room..dunno why..feel like sleeping there)..i decided to have an early sahur, fold the brochures for delivery in a few hours, wait for subuh(finally) and watch some anime( and write this entry!!!).

The only exciting thing that occurred to me this week is this e-mail
Hi gang,

I've finished going over the draft you gave me (Martin, it's the copy the guys would have emailed you with).

You've done a really great job; this version is worlds ahead of the last version. It reads well, it shows coherent thought and good depth of information presented. Of course, it still needs to fill in some areas, but if you write it at the same level that you've written the rest of the report, it should attract a good score.

One area that I didn't pay close attention was the wear component design; I trust Martin would be able to give better feedback on the technical content.

Come harrass me sometime to give you back the marked copy.

Erk

After all thos sarcasm and jabbing statements he make continuously everytime we're working in the lab, Erwin finally gave us some praises..hooray!!.But I am still sceptical about his feedback, he did say our prelim was OK but he gave us bad marks anyway....so still need to be careful.

Final Year Presentation
And another exciting thing is I AM GOING TO HAVE MY FINAL PROJECT PRESENTATION ON RAYA!!! AT 130PM IN SOME GOD FORSAKEN ROOM IN ENGINEERING SOUTH!...WHAT A RAYA I'LL HAVE THIS YEAR!!!.

Something to lookf forward to
Our Gold Coast trip has managed to gather a gaggle of final year losers and a couple of lost first and third years who are so lame that they've never been to the Gold Coast while other juniors have been there like 2 years ago!!! It does not matter...we have booked 2 awesome apartments in front of Miami beach(yeah each of us are gonna have a bed to our own..no shitty backpackers or cramming 12 people into an aprtment)....so WE WILL PROBABLY BE THE ONLY GUYS AMONG ADELAIDE'S MALAYSIANS TO HAVE A PROPER GOLD COAST HOLIDAY..YEAH!!!....NO 'BUDGET BUDGET'..IT'S AN ALL OUT HOLIDAYS SINCE MOST OF US ARE GRADUATING..YEAH!!!..WE'RE GONNA ENJOY OURSELVES!!!

Gym
Met Mat from Gepp Cross at the gym today.....and some other guy I dunno. His first day at the gym. So invited him9and the other guy) to do workout on Wednesdays and probably Friday during Ramadhan...we both believe we can shed 10kg in 4 weeks..banzai!!!!Will be looking forward to it.

Assignments
Naturally for any engineering students, it's piling up. Did some stupid law essay yesterday with Neo, Tawakal,Apam,Acap, and Alif at CATS. Didn't like it but since it's not mathematical or need MATLAB, I'd prefer the essay anytime over the MATLAB assignment for Advanced Topic for Aerospace Engineering.Wrote a proper answer to the first Law Assignment question and seems I was probably the only only one in my group to actually di anything that Marius(my group mate) says he loves me...ewww. hope they give a really good peer review for my stuff...heh.

Saturday, August 08, 2009

Into Week 3 of my last semester.

Last week, while delivering pamphlets, I was barked at by a f****** dog and then some f****** bogans began to shout Asian insults at me. This job getting on my nerve. But I like it because I work alone and Salmat pays me on time...no need to have some assholes shouting orders at me or have my pay delayed until the end of the year.So far I have made $350 delivering pamhlets for 4 weeks which is not bad and I enjoy the 'physical rewards' walking/cycling around Norwood or running away from Bogans.

Last week too I picked up Faris and Syitah along with the laptop Abah bought me.When I opened the laptop, it was a CQ40 Compaq with the label Intel Pentium. I thought my Abah bought a Celeron laptop but apparently the system information indicated that my laptop uses a Intel Dual-Core T4200, which is the same as the Core 2 Duo except with 1MB L2 Cache instead of 2MB.It is a good laptop and I am grateful for it. Another stuff to pawn off If I run out of of money..hehe.Based on the price tag I can get 700-$800 and the specs are certainly better than the junk at Harvey Norman.

I also started going to the gym. I did not register with the gym. I used Besut's card because he is now too busy to go the gym...hehe.Been to the gym 5 times already and enjoyed every second of it.I've been working out at nights after which I would do some work at CATS and then proceed to the Village for a shower and some Wii therapy. The Wii is certainly addictive and it's good I put it there if not I will not leave the house.

Suraya, Arip Robotik and Lebau graduated last week. Saw Suraya and Arip and as usual Lebau disappeared to some unearthly dimension. It was really good to see your friends make it through.Pilfered the cakes at the grad ceremony tea party, met Erwin there , snapped lots of pics and see Suraya leave Adelaide from the Equinox room as she and her family proceed to pick up a rented car and drive to Melbourne immediately.Gilo.Meanwhile, Arip was also with his family, they are all like him, quiet...hehe.He'll be back this comong Monday before he returns to KL on Thursday for good.As for Labu, sent him off yesterday.Finally met him.

As for me, currently I am very lazy. The final project is going on as usual. I am so busy that I feel being busy is normal or is it because I have not received much assignments yet. Whatever it is, I look forward to finishing my degree at the end of the year. Beruang has invited me to go to the Gold Coast and we are now attempting to gather about 5-6 people to share an apratmrnt for 4-5 nights in the Gold Coast after the exams on November.I will look forward to that too..after that..I will join the cruel society in search of jobs and money. Life is pretty straight forward after all.