wot did the sky do to my lake...

but lets start with splintvedsgatan, the street i live... de last of this series of 4 is my fav :)





this is härlanda tjärk as of today, the lake in the woods i've been visiting often enough... it had been below the freezing point of water for more than a week, and it snowed juz this morning. and these are the combined effect.

someone made a whole to test the thickness of the ice...

security ppl skating around to make sure no problem...

trails left by skaters. this was ofcoz taken in the middle of the lake :)

and some great sceneries :)

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basketball la~
多少年没有这样和路人甲一对一轧球了 O_o
那家伙过来踩场不要紧，竟然用流川枫脚底过人那招过我咧~~~~~
害我一开球就回敬他一个三分 XD

ish，只打了20分钟，没有打得很放，不过还是很开心 ^^ 球场上的感觉都还在 :)
那家伙竟然和我一样，也是锈到够力。还以为中学过后找不到脚打球是女生的专利，原来不是 XP
呵呵，其实上次150人gathering的时候有几个人分别问我怎么没找人打球，受宠若惊一下~~看来有希望哦，下次回去试试主一次，看成不成 :)

超想念你们wei~~~我的死队友。。。XD

附送故事一段：

话说那天在隆中华独中前场 篮球场。。。
ahboon控球从左边切入，她面前筑起了一道防线，我只好从篮下绕过，到她身后去接球，我是控球后卫呀。。。她把球传给在三分线外的我后，忽然把手张开，挡住了两个对方的球员。。。

“出手！”

我大脑也没有反应，在无人防守的情况下，照着练过数千次的射球动作出手了。
球，应声而入。
我转头望向裁判。jabar举起三只手指，手腕往下一摔，记录员记下了我生平比赛中射下的第一个三分球。

我还沉浸在那个完美的配合里，ahboon过来祝贺我，我谢了她给我制造的机会。开球几秒后，中场休息的哨声响起。我们领先那一球 ^^

小后记:
jabar（凯川的哥，记得吗？）本身是俺偶像咧 ^^ 他那时候在校队打得分后卫。最记得有一场，陈福良（那时候的控球后卫）截到球传给他，counter attack时对方有个球员紧咬着他不放。结果instead of counter attack最常用的上篮，他竟然急停在三分线外出手。那个对方唯一的防守球员跑过头来不及转身，眼睁睁地看着那一球入。。。
我的三分球是学他的，让他判我的第一个三分进球，也未免太幸福了吧 XD 死队友，你们是最棒的你知道吗？^^

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250th post~~~ hip hip horray~~~

scanning de job market.
ter-found a very nice job in prai~ ABS manufacturing company! raw materials wei~~~
not the car ABS la, the polymer Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (nvm...), that sort they use to make Lego's. my future supplier XD (remember my toy shop?)
and they are actually looking for MASTER DEGREE HOLDERS ^^
and it's problem solving base de job ah...
and my thesis is going to be a polymeric material based one... i... i... i... nak this job la T.T

and Prai Free Industrial Zone, isnt there where xiao jiu jiu's factory lies? o_O

anyway, i'm going to keep their contact... see if they'll want me if i start bugging them since i start writing my thesis report until i grad, wakaka...

then hor... most of the ppl are actually looking for materialists working in plastic and semicon related industry... somehow it reminds me of my dear ericsson... ="=
also, there's one that's employing materials engineers for nuclear power plant design in kobe, japan XD provide free language training somemore~~
oh? ON semicon and xyratex favco's neighbours oso looking for ppl??

eeek! juz went into the ABS company de website, 越 see 越 high XD they actually make fire retardant grades and composites out of it instead of selling pure ABS~~~~ "Resin ABS Gred Rintangan Penyalaan" "Resin ABS Gred Diperkuat Gentian Kaca" XD
world wide sales market, manufactured in prai and chiba (东京湾的千叶啊). then compounding and moulding somewhere else... very high wei...
and... and... and they 竟然 take into account enviro concerns... T.T my enviro course, the iPod Green remember? we thought de front cover could be made of ABS...

tell me why dont i graduate now?
then i'll at least get a shot...
anyway, there are quite a few interesting ones, including from the oil and gas industries :) our old clients ah~ hehe

night out

it's the most beautiful night i've seen in gothenburg.

yean cooked 汤圆 for 冬至 malaysian style
i cooked 饺子 for 冬至 chinese style ^^
hooiching brought pasta sauce, so i cooked some gnocchi to go with it too.
our small celebration was held in MC2, yean's office ^^
it was a nice little gathering, it wasnt until 9.30pm that we part.

had to wait 20mins for my transit bus. i decided to walk.

typical of december, the warm advent lights spill out of every window. some windows have stars shining too. tho the soft lights are not strong enough to mask the stars that for once blink brightly on the cloudless winter sky ^^

i was heading east, as tht's de part of gothenburg where i live. orion, the icon of the winter sky, was constantly on my right, like a guardian who has always been and will always be there. i greeted it with a smile, and kept tilting my head towards it as i walk with my creative zeb stone plus enchanting my ears with musics. oh right, the stone plus is named "kiki" becaused i got it the day i first saw cesc ^^

i was slowly realising that, as i was heading east, right = south. so, that means, ursa major (北斗七星) should be on my left (north)?

i tilted my head left, skywards ofcoz. yes, not as bright as orion, but it's there! it's de first time i've seen them both on the same sky! ^^

still unfamiliar with the constellation, but definitely nice to have it there. so, as i walk, i was tilting my head left and a while later right, and then left, and then...
two guardians.

^_^

blue collar friends in sweden

let me quote wot anders said
"when i'm worrying about if i can get a 5 for my exam tomorrow, they are worrying about things like... oh no... in his case, he's NOT worrying about, getting fired by his boss..."
his truck driver friend is happy that he got 80% compensation for the month and is not worrying about it.

his friends from skövde, his hometown ~100km away from gothenburg, decided to visit him on the weekend before his exam, which was on monday. 5 of them, all half drunk when they arrived, came with more beers and noisy musics.

"i've been here in gothenburg for 4.5yrs and out of all these time, u guys' decided to visit me before my final exams?!!" the visit was a stayover. he decided to retreat to the kitchen to continue solving his mechanics of material tutorial questions and only joined for a few hrs. as he said, he was aiming for grade 5 ^^

among them, there's a painter who's actually paid handsomely. recently spent 1500kr in a strip club and now only has 1000kr left for xmas presents and stuffs (here, evone get stressed b4 xmas bcoz of the presents)... and he'd lend 1500kr of those from someone else, so his account balance is actually -500kr. wot kind of reasons shall he give his grandma when he goes home empty handed for xmas...

and a guy who'd like to drink and make trouble. and he's out of job also, so it's more likely now for him to drink and make more trouble...

another friend was visited by her body builder friends. again stayover. again exam week... they were basically lying absolutely naked in the kitchen, with those body builder oil all over their body. and so she had to encounter some not so inviting sights evtime she goes into the kitchen for a drink or some refreshments...
but at least they are not making noise...

and there is one of my own who's the ronaldo type. bcoz he's got nothing before, now that he's got money, he wants evthing. oh yes, blue collars here earn 3x my salary before i quit. good thing is he's not as rich as ronaldo and there's still control... car, smokes, girls and a lot of other materialism indulgance... but at least marijuana is now gone from his life...

another one who's a chauffer. listening to him talk to whoever that is always on the other end of the phone makes one wish to be in another place on earth. tht angry tone and a topic that is always surrounding Money. "NO I TOLD U I DONT HAVE ANY MONEY!"

ofcoz there are nice ones too.

a ship welder lady. de job title itself is cool enough huh? and she's bloody brilliant i tell u! she's from romania and when i met her, she'd mastered basic swedish in 2 short months! and although her days always start at 5am, her eyes still beams at 8 in the evening :) and that absolutely positive attitude towards evthing is juz joyful ^^

we were joking about francesco totti and his working class accent and the whole list of stupid things he said XD but yes ofcoz he's one of the best footballer no doubt. and a pretty one XD

working class, wasnt i one before? ^^
oh yes, i was a waitress, and i was a paper distributor...

hand itchy

sometimes...
a budak juz nv grow up....

and i heard that song in gothenburg!!! >>>
malay u know!!!



poster presentation was great ^^
exam was awful XD
wot do they prove?
i'm not myself
XD

when one first learn to capture the emotion of one's audiences...
to make them laugh, to smile and nod, to draw their attention to serious stuffs, and make their brows knot, and to observe all these minor changes of the audiences' emotions as you manipulate them like the fine movements of puppet strings...

i thank my audiences...
for taking me to this new territory...

Lucia Day

i broke my alcohol ban again... d'oh!
hehe, for the swedish glögg, a warm wine with nuts and raisins they drink on Lucia Day. worth while reason? it should be another one on my unfinished-business-list. i missed it last yr coz i was so focused on exams XD

wherever there is free alcohol, there is a queue... XD
ah~~ this place is called "the canyon", fittingly ^^ and this will be the place where we'll have the poster presentation. with the lights on ofcoz ^^ we only had candles today, the picture is taken with 0.5s exposure time.

glögg wine and saffron bread for breakfast, anyone? ^^

there's saint lucia with candles burning on her head.... and the star boys with pointed hats~ they were singing "santa lucia" the swedish version.

the choir singing~ ^^ this is how dark it truely was ^^

ppl dressed up for Lucia, @the tram stop

there are two other lucia celebrations that i'm invited to, at lunch time. basically ppl juz jump from one celebration to another and eat saffron bread and pepparkakor the ginger bread biscuit and drink glögg for the whole day. we also got a coupon to exchange for glögg and pepparkakor somewhere in town. but... my celebration will end in the morning, exam wei!!!

oh, about tht poor guy in my group, some of you have pity for him i learn? pity is a poor substitution for friendship, but anyway... he contacted the lecturers and they will let him pass if he write some extra papers :) tht's good to know. still, he called 7.xx this morning and asked if we have a lab at 8... *faint* i wonder if he knows exam is next week...

the snow has started again outside de window...
yoshi, study study~~~

tmr last day~~~~~~

wase~~~~~~ i'll miss going to lectures~~~~~~ T.T

today show u my almost private pool ^^ good for meditating and drowning~~~ XD


should thank björn@xabi alonso for turning me into such a speaker like himself ^^ i actually enjoyed this morning's presentation! :D another valuable skill i pick up in sweden then ^^ i shall always remember him everytime i do a presentation in the future :)

we have a teammate who dragged everything pass dateline and kept promising us "tomorrow". and indeed we only handed in our report this monday, when the due date was last wednesday. so we decided that other than the presentation slides he promised to play a part in, we better prepare another version without him, and with major modifications... erm... lets make it entirely new version... of his part. end up he didnt finish his slides and didnt turn up to the presentation session either. as expected. relief was actually the dominating feeling we had. coz without him, we are actually given a chance to give a decent presentation XD

after the presentation, the lecturers had a private talk with us about the report. "which part did the other guy wrote?" and we told them which. and he replied "because it is totally unrelated to ur product..." he gave us a concerned stare. "we know..." was our answer. then they agreed that for that part, they will grade us base on the presentation "which i enjoyed very much", in his words. phew... ;P

u know why i so seldom tell a bad story here? becoz it will always have a chance to turn into a bloody good one like this one XD and even if i always laugh at things like these as they happen, listeners dont always agree that they are funny :P

a poster presentation as final exam for the biomaterial course. i'm so excited about it XD we hav a 112cm x 100cm board to fling all our imaginations and creativity on~~~~ high high high~~~~~ i'm already thinking of spray cans and graffitis~~~~~ XD

calm~ calm~ we also have a final exam for the light weight material course on the same day.... tht, i need to work on...

waaa... my course work part finish liao la... tmr... i mean nxt week... should include the exams XP it's so nice to have julie and mats and antal as my last lecturers... b4 coming to this crazy country, i really cant imagine joking with and pating lecturers' shoulders and talk about how nice astra tech's chocolate tasted...

more snowy days ahead. nice. :)

野运会

wild mushroom olympics XD
i'm one of the relay mushroom-torch bearer that spreads wide on the surface of the Earth ^^


see link below for the event:
http://www.ulementmag.net/wmm08/

went real torch-bearing yesterday. post pics when they are sent to me :) i met two more malaysians ^^

writing for the sake of writing :P

hooray~ ericsson says 40000-50000kr :D but nothing on paper la... and we were stupid enough to forget to ask if tht's for one or two person. though we think it's most likely for two, then after tax oso not that much... but i'm happy with any kind of money la XD at least din waste effort to find the job :) and our job scope is quite interesting, supervisor oso quite interesting XD

dieing process commenced. already underslept. still refuse to let off lepaking, coz it's de only way i know to refresh my mind, other than sports ;) somehow more alcohol consumed, damn, din i say stay clean til after exam? 11 more days to go. then oppposing a thesis on biomaterials, a co-curriculum activity~ then see if got time to go to arctic again. a bunch of ppl expressed their interest to join, so no worries of a solo trip mom and dad ;P 25kr train tickets for ppl 25 and under wei~ my last yr of enjoying that privilege dy~

oh yea, i decide not to join them to eastern europe just yet. i wish to go there in the summer... hopefully... someday... ah, prague... vienna... maybe a concert from the world reknown vienna philharmonic orchestra in the musikverein golden hall? maybe when i'm 60 or 70, i'll appreciate them more...

2 more weeks...

so quick... de days... no... sometimes it seems painstakingly slow... so is it slow or quick?... i really dont know...

anyway, finally results came out. time must be ticking really quickly for my lecturers in that course then XD despite all that lepaking, and thesis job searching, and trip planning, and escaping from exam hall, i got scary results. tsk tsk, am i not a genius? also, have i no shame or modesty? XD

i'm now considering the remaining work load of this quarter... i'll probably get very close to death by the end of these two weeks. and then my courses in chalmers will end.

oh, let me quickly find a song to replace that rainy one... there! iris by goo goo dolls, it shall do for now :)

yean belanja me lunch for you-know-why ^^ she then took me to the docks in west of frölunda, where she now moved to, for the first time. she probably didnt know that it was one of the most wonderful presents i'd ever have :) as for your blessings from the other end of the world, i'll clung to them when things get less cheery XD thx!










at night, karin threw me a small swedish party for the same reason. it was so swedish whole and whole, i dun think i'll be able to forget it for the rest of my life. and that, i think, was her intention from the first place ^^

i was a child of the house.