Rusty?

Eh... what word is that already ah?
oh yea..... forgot d.

Brain rusty.......Yes, it happens to me. I have this tendency to forget some of my words. I guess I have to tune up by the hard way. School was more fun in 1 Belian, even though there are some people there like Qi Hong, Sam, Wei Liang, Nicole and Jamie. But I still think the class is damn weird. It's like no body cracks funny jokes or makes lessons interesting. The long lost laughter are ought to be found some where...... Anyway, a girl in my class did this class banner, which looked quite cool. The Batai looks nice, but the 2, looks different, doesn't really match very well. Anyway, it's quite unfair for almost all the posts in class to be all taken up by the girls. The monitor is a girl, the assistant is, the treasurer is, the secretary is, the head of cleanliness is, except for one, the head of happiness (that's the direct translation, maybe you call it the person in charge of the notice boards.) is a boy. Almost all monopolized by girls.. UNFAIR.........Forget about it, they shake their legs like the big bosses, rubbing shoulders with the teachers like the dirty old politicians. Come on, the class monitor just said that she loves the class teacher after 5 days? I thought to know a person needs time. That one is like fast forwarded maybe. Well, just got to embrace the weirder 2 Batai. I feel like an inept person in class sometimes. Life is like so different.

Anyway, I learned a few Hakka words today. The dialect is quite different. I heard my dad speaking Hakka before, but I did not learn any from him before that. Jit Haw thought us some words like- "what are you talking about?" becomes 'ni gong ma kau?' something like that.

Flashback

-2008-

January- It was the second time stepping in SMK DJ. The first time i went inside there, it was for a piano theory exam. I used to dislike the tables and chairs, and I still do. In fact, the tables looks like an enlarged stool.
By the way, DJ, here I come.


February- Chinese New Year.I couldn't remember part of it. But of course I do remember the yee sang.

My birthday. Anyway, I'm not telling you the actual date. Small and tiny...... quite cool.


The road party. The DAP guys had this party. There was two roasted lambs too..... It tasted great with peppermint sauce.

cool huh...

Spoilt for choice.....

Owh no..... Exams were pretty soon. First term exams............
Does anybody love Exams?
I guess not.

The Papers

March- Nothing much happened in this month. Frankly, I could not remember any occasions in March. Maybe just freaking out.. waiting for the results..

April- Yes.... sports day. On the 27th. We were practising hard every week during house practice. Unggul, Go!

Yes, and of course, the Jog-a-thon.

And also, Mr Tysern's Farewell party.

May- Exams again....... Mid Year this time. (Mayday!!!!)

16th May- Teacher's Day
Nothing Much this month.
June- Drawing and painting art works. They all looked fabulous to me.
Nothing Much, just plain school life.

July- I don't even have a single idea on what is happening.

August- National Day on the 31st Aug. I remember holding small little flags in the school hall, having a little 51 celebration. But i remember during that time, it was like a sardine can in the hall, hot and stuffy.

September- I went up to the stage to receive my awards. I got the first for my Geography map, I was the only solo team there. And the third for the national day drawing competition.

October- Went to Kuala Selangor for a fill trip. Only a few chosen people went. It was fun.

Yes, the one and only mud facial treatment. Could not resist to wash the thing off immediately.

In the swamps... Shoes ere all filled with mud and dirt.

Exams- Final term
I was very worried, heart pounding faster and faster every second.
At last, OVER.

November- Had a farewell party. Very sad and precious moments.

December- Christmas!
I decorated a with washed wall with snow flakes and candy canes.

30th- Got to know our Form 2 classes. The school did not stream line us according to our result, as a not top ten pupil is able to go to Angsana, and I got to Batai. The only thing I hope is that I have better teachers than the others. Everything was scrambled up like mixed rice- 杂饭 .

Count down to 2009.
That's sad. It's the end of 2008.
3, 2, 1, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

blue to green

About a week a go, my mother brought me to the bookshop in school to buy the form 2 books. Excluding the textbooks, the other books managed to make a two feet tall pile.

Yes, this tall

And they changed the buku nota 's colour to green instead of blue. Weird huh.... There are so many other colours on Earth, and personally, I hate green. Maybe they think that changing the colours could spice up our work...? But at least we don't have to face blue everyday. Anyway, this made me think of the universal indicator, changing form blue to green.

Greenish note books.

Knife sharpener?

Oh, it was Christmas afternoon, when an old guy riding his old bicycle, cycling around the neighborhood, shouting 'mo dou....mo dou....' in Cantonese. Well, it's the first time I'm hearing that. Surprising isn't it. Since he was there, and my mother wanted to sharpen a old knife, she let him in the driveway and started his job. He sharpened one big knife for 8 dollars, which was quite worth it, because he spent about 35 minutes sharpening the knife non stop. He sat on his wooden stool, placed a hand-pedalled sharpener. He even got rid of the rust from it, and that was why my mother did not used it for some time. In the newspapers, there was an article about this guy in Ipoh, who sharpened knives for people. People queued up just to let him sharpen their knives. Actually, the old man who went around my place, was as professional as him. And he comes to your house, instead of you going to queue up. It was something special and unexpected that Christmas afternoon. Oh..... about Christmas, I had "nasi lemak' for breakfast at Lake Club and a few sandwiches for breakfast with my family. That evening, we went to my uncle's house to visit him and had lunch with his family.

p/s: the picture was found from the net. It looks something like that, but it isn't the guy who came to my house.

May this blessed Christmas, filled with joy bring happiness to everyone.

Happy New Year anyway.

Frustrating

There is nothing much to be done this holiday. That's what I call a 12th degree boredom. What's more frustrating is that there is some one, who is acting like some jack ass (some one who is nameless.) Damn sien mann... Whole day pester people with annoying stuff. What ever la. Forget about that. (It's not worth it apologizing to that kind of stubborn, Rock-hearted person.) Wasting effort and time. Off my mind. Christmas is coming really soon, well, something exciting awaits me. Time really do fly.

Oil Prices down tomorrow

Petrol and diesel prices will be reduced by another 10 sen per litre effective tomorrow, the government announced today.

According to Bernama, the price of RON97 petrol will be reduced from RM1.90 per litre to RM1.80, while the cost of RON92 will drop from RM1.80 per litre to RM1.70.

Diesel price will drop to RM1.70 per litre from RM1.80.

This is the seventh time the price of petrol and diesel has come down since August.

With effect from the same date (Dec 16), subsidies for petrol and diesel for fishermen will be reduced to 13 sen per litre from RM1.43 to RM1.30.

Christmas

It's Christmas Time Again
(by Bob Lazzar-Atwood)

Put your problems on probation
Run your troubles off the track,
Throw your worries out the window
Get the monkeys off your back.
Silence all your inner critics
With your conscience make amends,
And allow yourself some happiness
It's Christmas time again!

Call a truce with those who bother you
Let all the fighting cease,
Give your differences a breather
And declare a time of peace,
Don't let angry feelings taint
The precious time you have to spend,
And allow yourself some happiness
It's Christmas time again!

Like some cool refreshing water
Or a gentle summer breeze,
Like a fresh bouquet of flowers,
Or the smell of autumn leaves,
It's a banquet for the spirit
Filled with family, food and friends,
So allow yourself some happiness
It's Christmas time again!

Hillslope development.

Too Steep la!
People are really fed up with the recurring landslide tragedies and the subsequent blame game by politicians. They are accusing one another to seek whose responsibility was it. Frankly speaking, that's the best part of what the Malaysian government can do. Residents are furious over new development in Medan Damansara, and from what I could see is the hill slope gradient is far to steep. The building project by Selangor Dreding Berhad Properties are building 21 luxury bungalows costing 10 to 15 million each. But, redsidents protested and they had to bring the construction job to a halt. Currently, in the press, SDB is doing land stabilization to that hill slope. Impossible
it will work. I think a primary school kid would even say building houses there, Impossible.

And, about the Bukit Antarabangsa landslide incident, this hopeless Ahmad Shabery Cheek even state that it's not right to hold the government solely responsible for that disaster. I think it does not workthat way. In the first place, who approved the building of houses there? MPAJ. People involved, Khir toyo. Yes. They pocket in the most money, and they should be declared as the most corrupted city council. Yes, Mahathir's crony. And, a total of 99 hillside projects had been approved by the Selangor government under then menteri besar Dr Mohamad Khir Toyo, Parliament was told.
That's a picture of Khir Toyo. Corrupted chump of Mahathir.