Wednesday, March 26, 2008

"to travel is to live" says andersen

another very different trip...
did hans christian andersen's (安徒生) write "the little match girl" after such a snow storm?
the sculpture of the little mermaid was naturally the highlight.
so was andersen's museum.
so was the canals that flow through another ancient and yet modern european city,
in de name of copenhagen.
























oresund bridge links sweden and denmark.
next up, copenhagen's little sister - malmo.
1hour bus ride away.









Thursday, March 20, 2008

60 Earth Hour

come my friends, my family and ppl i love, lets hold it against global warming...

switch off your lights for an hour at 8pm 29th March. it's as easy as that! already 2100 malaysians have signed up for the event, we are ranking 7th in the world. many more participating without signing up. business and organisations joint too, including SM Yu Hua!!! nO, fer, be proud of your school!

see how the message has already spread around the globe~



global warming is not something for the future generation to worry about. it's already here... ever since the birth of "elnino" and "lanina", it has always been around us... from the long term draught in australia, the terrible floods in europe and china in recent years, to the snow storm that raded middle east and china this year, the rain in abisko in christmas (the place i saw aurora, it is crazy to rain there during xmas >.<), and just in our neighbourhood, the johor flood! do we need to wait until it visit us at our front door to take action?

pls sign up at http://www.earthhour.org

just a simple flick of the switch~ 1hr without lights. do spread the message, and keep it in mind...

Monday, March 17, 2008

season opener~~~

bright start for macca!!!! i'm grinning i'm grinning~~~~
we are top with 14 points~
WELL DONE LEWIS AND HEIKKI!
though heikki can now consider himself the latest member of the unlucky streak of finns in mclaren... and nice move on alfonso!!

funny, macca without nando lolonso feels like the same old macca again! ^^
wot an eventful race~ only 6 out of 22 cars finished!
wanted to giv my version of de race report but it would be very very very de long... :P

anyway, i wanted to kill the CCTV commentators and translators... not only they commented and translated wrongly on almost EVERY important occation/incident, but their voice also make the original radio conversations/press conference inaudible... @.@ they cant even distinguish between Super Aguri and Honda (kinda reminds me of msian football commentators who cant make out nesta and inzaghi)... and they thought car #2 was kimi.... who was the WORLD CHAMPION last year then?! pening....

sorry for kimi but... he did make two good saves to earn that point :)

recommendation if you hav some time to spare, an 11-yr-old's work~
http://www.readstupidstory.blogspot.com/

Sunday, March 16, 2008

sportzzzz

天将降冠军于我厂也,必先伤其球员,连平四场,苦其塞程,三打红军,行佛乱其士气,只要我厂坚持,我厂必得双冠。

wah... arsenal fans adopting my 《生于忧患,死于安乐篇》... LOL
f lamps is on crazy form for chelsea...
f elnino keep scoring for some-not-important-one else... 20 already~
c ronnie keep scoring for us... lost count already~

anyway, it's been a great 2 days overall ^^ 2hrs of futsal with homo sapiens yesterday~~ 2 classmates and 7 unidentified others. 3:3 with small goals for an hr and 5:5 with normal sized ones for another~ joy~ joy~

then got invited to a guy's house for dinner after de game, i think his name is 向东... a friend of my classmate qinling. he's from sichuan 四川, so naturally we had 川菜: 回锅肉, chicken soup sichuan style, and another broccoli dish~ wow~ i thought those stuffs only exist in restaurants...

went swimming today with aik yean (with my very sore legs, wot timing~). it's nice to be students, which means futbol and pool are FOC ^^ then we cooked dinner at my place~

then ofcoz the qualy! kimi's fuel pump!! why did u go kaput?!!!!! his bad luck is back? no way no way NO WAY! nvm, 16 -> 1 is on, another miracle race to be recorded tomorrow! macca is going strong tho~ lewis' on pole ^^ then it's kubi and heikki, not a bad line up to fill the top 3 ^^

p/s: found a piece of cake in my fridge today... must be karin popo's kindness again ^^

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

tired...let me babble a little in my mother tongue...

我累。。。
我要睡。。。

今天的tailored materials 很厉害下~
一个quarter的课,一共才读4天~(其实应该算3天半,追大选半天不见了)
每题都写答案,每题都不懂对不对=.=
这次不会将好运射中将多题了吧。。。拜神啦~

polymers。。。怎么办?怎么办?
两天半,再来一个奇迹。。。

一个quarter读书6天。。。没有药救的学生。。。
两科都上90我请secret receipe lamb stew。。。反正不可能。。。
没吃过,不懂作末突然很想试一试。。。
跟瑞典的食物比起来算便宜了。。。
昨天买到10克朗(RM5)的烤鱼,一个人只可以买3盒那种。。。
感动下。。。快7个月不知鱼滋味了。。。
可能就多亏那条鱼,才把今天的考卷填完了。。。
明天要去买3盒,用来准备polymers。。。呵呵~

楼上的婆婆好人咯~
知道我在读书,大前天拿冰淇淋来给我加把劲,前天烤鸡晚餐填饱我的肚子,昨天又特地泡咖啡切蛋糕来给我提神。。。吃完了才想到要拍。。。
作末我整天遇到将多贵人的?弄到我好像很无良将。。。

right~要继续努力了,不要辜负婆婆的一番心意。。。

Sunday, March 09, 2008

hail all malaysian voters!

turning west from kelantan, right from kedah, penang, perak, selangor and almost half of N9's seats have gone to the oppositions~ wowwowwowwowwow~~~~~~
there goes 2/3 majority in parliament.
history in the making...
anticipating ^^

stay safe tho.
rebuild the country step by step...

a bit of comparisons to end this post.

DAP
2004: 12 parliament; 15 state
2008: 28 parliament; 72 state (to be updated)

KEADILAN/PKR
2004: 1 parliament; - state
2008: 31 parliament; 40 state (to be updated)

PAS
2004: 7 parliament; 36 state
2008: 23 parliament; 83 state (to be updated)

BN
2004: 198 parliament ; 453 state
2008: 136 pariament; 306 state (to be updated)
(2004's parliament including all in Selangor and N9, all but 1 in Kedah, all but 3 in Perak)

Thursday, March 06, 2008

in point form

  • exams!!
  • nO, i'm proud of you ^^ dun worry too much, just be yourself and everything will be fine~
  • how come i din know they sell 腐竹before... yum~~~ can cook for many many meals ^^
  • yang, sleep lo......
  • exams!!!!!!!
  • ma, sorry and dun worry, wont happen again :P
  • got a kaki to travel europe~ she definitely looks like sticking ^^ will probably introduce her later :)
  • CR7 and cesc are flying~
  • june, i know u wont die with a bit of sore throat but take care~ autumn coming down there? more clothes? dun let anything interupt ur last 2-3wks! ^^
  • i hav exams!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • my god... miss you so much...
  • 如果受了伤就喊一声痛,真的,说出来就不会太难过。不去想自由,反而更轻松,愿意感动孤单不忐忑。生活~生活~会快乐也会寂寞,生活~生活~明天我们好好地过。
  • exams...

Monday, March 03, 2008

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak!!!

ahboon! a mom!!!! and registered!
RIBUAN CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
T.T gan dong ING.....

ahboon de girl scout head...
ahboon de suara merdu...
ahboon de reliable shooter in our basketball team...
ahboon de joker...
ahboon de mom!!!

wish you, ur baby and ur boyboy (is that going to be his official name? we've been calling him that for so many yrs now...) all de best, all the happiness and bless ^^

Sunday, March 02, 2008

why do we need titles?


here here~ a better look at zorro~ cute? ^^

dun ask me why am i still up and blogging at 4am... coz i'm telling you now.

just finished that report about Giant Magnetoresistance. dun ask me wot is that... coz i basically still know nothing about it after writing some 2000++ words on it...
due tomorrow? nej, tomorrow is sunday my friend. or should i say today, since it's already 4hrs pass the arrival of sunday. anyway, i dont really know when is it due... something is telling me that it's on exam day... that's 10th.

i'm dead... this quarter... need a miracle to pull of a couple of 5s.

Uta, de lecturer who gave us this Giant Magnetoresistance study and the 15mins solo presentation is again reminding me of harry potter. this time of filch. she hates students like filch does... met a senior who graduated from our course at afterwork on Friday. she didnt forget to mention wot Uta did to their batch... something not really nice... actually it's also not really nice of me talking about her like this... since she's been kind to me in person at least :P

staying up late to complete assignments, complaining about lecturers, whinging about exams... i'm REALLY a student again! ^^

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

gan cheong again

in chalmers, we sort of have a cycle of 5 relaxing weeks and then 3 weeks of total gan cheong... thanks to the 5 lazy weeks, de 3 gan cheong ones can be really stressful >.< ponteng to do assignments, praying for presentations to be scheduled later, and wondering when shall one start studying for exams >.<

anyway, the word "enjoy" never leave my hedonistic life :P
after south gate yarra river bank in melbourne, it's hard to find another study spot that can better it. but there's one just around the corner, Kyrkan in chalmers student union house ^^

Kyrkan is ofcoz swedish, it means church. it's a common place with loads of sofas, armchairs and discussion tables for students to work or hangout. told LL that it kinda resembles the Gryffindor common room in Harry Potter and she requested for pics. so here they come ^^

Kyrkan from my favourite armchair

looks cosy? ^^

the view from my favourite armchair

the scenery outside de window beside my favourite arm chair. obviously taken in a rainny day. when the weather is good, glorious sunshines pours into this side of the hall thru the dropdown window. one can enjoy an afternoon nap under de warmth of the sun like a neko-chan on its favourite chair in the house ^^

Kyrkan from my favourite armchair after sunset

another look at it after sunset. yes, on the same chair, see i work long hours ^^ and de bloke facing de camera is really good looking... :P

Friday, February 22, 2008

zorro and a bit about school

thought he deserves some mentioning :P
zorro, my landlady's little companion, a 1-yr-old pure white toy poodle :)
(not quite the same as Rainbow Frank... if one recognise de name...)

as oppose to being nothing more than a stranger to gobby, de dog i grew up with; zorro and i have been in pretty good terms ever since de first time we met ^^

he's an active little devil... can walk and run for an hour and is still full of energy... thus 85-yr-old karin popo cant always handle him and i got the chance to walk him every now and then. walking him is a joyous thing to do. ppl on the streets will smile at you and some will stop to talk :) but i dont really enjoy it when he licks my face as he does in the pic :P

my little friend zorro

he visits my room once in a while. likes to scratch my pants when i do the dishes outside at de laundry room. guess i'm de only living tissue in the house who is childish enough to play silly games with him :P

ok, that is zorro. as for school, Polymers and Tailored Materials are the chosen subjects. i practically knew nothing about polymers except for things they labelled as "background" in the fist lecture, takutnya... as for TM, it's a really fun subject ^^ with nanotechs, nobel prize winning topics, and materials at the developing frontiers. love electives ^^

relationship between the master students are developing with time. we kinda dont care about the Erasmus exchange students as much now, since some of them left us last xmas.... T.T but the new Erasmus ppl from all around europe still brings a lot of spice into our lectures ^^ they are kinda agressive to lecturers, lol ^^

having lisa (yes, lisa again ^^) and anders as groupmates for the polymers course this quarter. we started our discussion on Fat Tuesday, a traditional swedish festival. Semlor were on our table after de discussion. a kind of sweetened almond paste on bread, with a lot of cream stuffed in between. i mean it when i said a lot, i was frowning at it while finishing all... lisa left most of hers untouched.

met anders at redbergplatsen this morning, where i switch from bus to tram to chalmers. realised that we've been living so close by and yet never meet each other for the first 6 months. that's probably because he usually cycles to school when the weather is not threatening. but it's still unbelievable since we have de same classes and hence leave home at roughly the same time... and gothenburg's weather is life threatening most of the time :P

funny enough, we met again at olskrokstorget on the way home =.= he had an interview while i was staying back to do some work. and we both practise the weird liking of switching trams in redbergplatsen in the morning and olskrokstorget in the afternoon... life is full of unimportant wonders...

a month had passed since term started. there's a lot to catch up if i'm going to write about school :P sorry for always posting nonsense and the lack of updates :P but it's really getting long and i'll leave this post as it is now :P

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

~springing life~

freebies like pens, keychains, candies... are usually given out in exhibitions. here's a feel of how environmental sweden is. this, i get from the career fair ^^

little xmas tree

had to buy de pot and plant it myself tho ^.^

after the snowy weekends, temperature surge to double figures for the first time in... well... 4 months maybe :)

and here are wot de plants have to say about it ^^

budding

budding

new leaves

spring is definately coming :)

Sunday, February 17, 2008

photos

continue to test the L15 around my place~

this one might do something if photoshoped :P
modern photography tool which i know nothing of...

basin


happy with how these 3 below turn out ^^

washroom


it was snowing again this morning, de world is marvellous when it's white ^^

snow @ doorway

snow @ doorway

this one's to show mom de bread i'm falling in love with. baked with lingon berry~ a kind of berry that only exist in north sweden. if you remember it's the juice i drank in IceHotel up north in Kiruna.
2 slices off sebuku roti

btw... got this piece of news today. one of my photos has been selected for inclusion in the newly released fourth edition of Schmap Gothenburg Guide: (woohoo~~)

Nya Ullevi
http://www.schmap.com/gothenburg/entertainment_rgryteeast/p=282225/i=282225_1.jpg

if you remember this picture ^^

Friday, February 15, 2008

CHARM career fair

career week in chalmers (really big apparently, karin popo told me it was on tv...). getting a job here, parttime or fulltime, seems to be mycket hard! wish to do my thesis work in another country, or even outside gothenburg is good enough, or simply getting one is fine...

many biggies came, including a few of favco's suppliers and clients... SKF, ABB, Siemens, Maersk, Shell... and when a bored manager from Aker Kvaerner heard that i had a friend who'd been to a conference in stavanger (the city of oil and gas in norway where this company is based...), he was so happy and conjoured a citybook out of thin air and started to talk about the place for 15mins... out of all of that, the only two pieces of info i managed to absorb was that the pay for fresh grad engineers in norway is something more than RM20000 a month... 0_0 10 fold of msian's... and the 2nd being that unemployment rate in norway is 1%... sounds more like the number of ppl who doesnt feel like working... no wonder the norwegian guys in my class are always partying...

btw, happy belated valentine's :) although it's still 14/2 here.

Sunday, February 10, 2008

travel plans

malmö/copenhagen anyone? otherwise i'd like to go there next month during de easter break :P

kicking kimi-land away... i know there will be ppl who'd like to see helsinki. so many of you are so kind to promise a visit, but none giv any exact plan == mainly becoz i'm going back in de summer? ^^ and distrupts most of your plans? ^^ hehehe...

### ###
!nyhet! (which means 'news' in swedish)

looking for summer travelling kaki~~
common, consider it!!

destination: somewhere in europe/north africa?, preferably including madrid-barcelona
dates: 27th May 08 - 16th June 08, anything in between would be fine
style: backpacking, budgetted
budget: visa + air/bus/train/ferry? tickets + RM200 per day (max approx.)
criteria:
- all experienced or virgin backpackers are welcomed!
- most important is to bring a pair of keen eyes, some humour and a big heart ^^
- a good pair of walking shoes/sandals might help too ^^

interested? pls leave a message or contact me ASAP :)
we can work on de details together~~
### ###

well, it's hard to find a good europe kaki...
i'll leave this advertisement here for a while and then might start to look for random kakis if there's no reply.
if none work out, it'll be a solo trip, woohoo~ ^^

Thursday, February 07, 2008

~CNY is in de air~

it's 10.42pm msian time and i can nearly hear de waves of remote noises from the heavily-banned fire crackers ^^

happy chinese new year folks!

tomorrow's lecture called off~~~ de timing is perfect~
and it's a great feeling when without any promotion, swedes and iranians actually remember to greet you happy chinese new year ^^

calling home now~fingers crossed and lets hope the line will not be congested~
steamboat party tonight :)

Sunday, February 03, 2008

chalmers big jump

you cant hold events like this in my uni without me! the best snowboarders and skiers in sweden gathered in chalmers for the grand price of 10k kronor.

big air snowboard

big air ski

outdoor, and it decided to fall freezing rain today... not hail, freezing rain... i dun understand wot's de difference... we've had snow, rain, hail and now freezing rain in the pass 48hrs... anyway, the temperature was in the negatives... and batteries drained like water in de amazon...

a pretty wicked board~

there are a few more on flickr that would not look good in this size. as usual, click to enlarge the above.

aside, mom, dun worry, i look perfectly normal when i feel normal... see my starry eyes ^^
normal de me

nah, half potrait as promised.... sorry ah, baru bangun punya face... 2/3 thru winter, tell me how much weight have i gained?
baru bangun de me