fog

to this world
if you have too many grumbles

fall
and never move on again

why
are human so fragile and deprived

please turn on the TV and look
how many people are fighting bravely to be alive

shouldn't we be content?
appreciate everything even if they are never to be possessed

remember you said home is the only castle

following the fragrance of rice
the river runs along

smile
the childhood dream i know

dont cry
let you be freed with the fireflies

country rhyme
the eternal reliance

lets go home
back to the splendour of origin

something evil... about this place

there, another one driven home... with juz de thesis left to go ="=

there are enough ppl dreading and complaining about this place. well, in fact, almost everyone dread and complain about it. they always say that i'm de only one capable to come to like gothenburg. 一物克一物 u see? i'm so evil that even gothenburg has to 献媚 to me...

people juz dropped out of chalmers to get out of this place. people even get a little insane like my light weight materials coursemate who skipped compulsory classes and labs because "i dont feel good, not ill, u understand?". and now this.

sometimes i feel angry with myself. wot kind of friend am i? to see it constantly eating into them, only to remain queit and give them minimal support?! hav i myself gone cold with de weather? sigh, not tht i could be of any good help either...

inhibitants of sograd desert~ chapter 3

"waaaaak! Mat, help!!!!!" Cardry cried out loud to his elder brother. "i cant stop running!!!"

BANG! he'd ran face first into a cactus... Mat-Ahari clapped his forehead. this brother is such a pain in the... he wondered if they would make it across the Sograd desert without causing him a major headache.

"next time just cast the running spell again. then u'll stop, karate kid." Mat said, dragging his red haired brother onto his feet.

"taekwon! taekwon-kid!" Cardry rebuked. Mat rolled his eyes and shrugged.

"peace! here, i got this when i duelled that smith we met in Prontera that day. happy birthday and i havnt congratulate you on passing that karate test." an evil light lingered in Mat's eyes as he extended his hand to reveal a manteau to his younger brother. 'got' meant 'stole'. but his innocent brother didnt need to know that.

"taekwon! not karate! but gee, thanks~ you're the best brother in the world~~~~~" Cardry already eagerly putting the manteau on. it's their first day back into the desert, and it would protect him from the sand and scorching sun. "how do i look? how do i look?!" "ah, and i got this for myself too~ a merchant was vending it for 30zeny XD" he took something out and covered his face with it. an..... alarm mask.

"happy birthday to me!!! XD"

watching his brother running off to the horizon again, Mat let out a defeated sigh. at least he can trust that he would have enough sense to survive in this desert that they had both grown up in.


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somewhere in the endless desert...

"oh no!! muka~~~! Mat~~~" Cardry found himself was going to run straight into a muka. but as he screamed the words, he found himself stopped abruptly infront of it and landed a solid round house kick on the muka.

to his relief, the muka dropped dead. he collapsed to sit on the floor, heart still beating fast and unable to believe his good luck. he had ran away from his brother again, unabled to control his new skill.

"birthday boy is lucky boy~~ ^^" he decided. it was the first time he'd ever killed a muka. and a one hit kill too! he was pleased with how his attacking power had improved.

as he calmed down, he went to examine his kill to see if there is any loot to pick up. he found a cactus needle lying beside the muka and a red herb not far away. he would show his brother the needle, Mat would have to approve how he'd grown stronger. Cardry fascinated himself with the imaginary approving nods of his brother while he picked the two items up. as he was storing them into his pouch, he saw an archer girl in pony tail came running at the turn of the great rocks.

"hey there." she greeted him.

"hey." he gave her a wave.

"you killed it. it was running away from me, may i have the cactus needle please?" the archer girl asked politely, not accusing him of kill stealing.

(p/s: it's me ur friendly explainer again~ kill stealing or KS is a serious offence in multi player online games. it is a term used for players killing a monster who was going to die under attack by another player, without the player seeking for help. thus "stealing" the experience points and items dropped by the monster.)

"but you cant prove it. you wasnt attacking it when i killed it." Cardry said in return.

"see for yourself, there must still be arrows sticking on it." the archer girl offered.

Cardry turned his head to look at the muka corpse more closely and already saw two arrows half concealed by its dead body. his heart sank. he had believed he killed the muka single handedly. and he wanted to prove it to his brother with the needle.

"aren't you going to give me that needle?" the archer girl annoyed by Cardry's delay and unwillingness.

"prove to me you are able to kill it, or i'm not going to give you the needle." Cardry's turn to be annoyed by the tone in her voice. as if he was a thief. no, he hadn't follow his stalker brother's footsteps. he had became a taekwon.

"you mean i cant kill it without you interrupting?" the archer provoked, "PVP then?"

"just the thing i had in mind." he replied sternly, already in the round house stance.


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"young lady, just wot do you think you are doing to my brother." Mat hissed dangerously at the archer girl as he confiscated the double strafe she sent his brother's way just in time. Cardry, now leaning heavily against the great rock already had a few arrow ends sticking out of his body. "you all right Card?" he added, and actually sounded worried.

"near dead bro... see how many birthday presents this anolian girl forced into me..." reliefed for the second time in the day, he took out the red herb he'd just looted and used it on the injuries. his brother was here, everything would be alright. Mat gave his brother a rough scan, he could see that the arrows were not aimed to kill, most are stuck on his brother's limbs. yet he was furious.

"a girl or not, i'll teach you a few lessons." he declared. he'd not harm her, only to frighten the girl into a few nightmares and steal wotever she had. a lesson, that's all.

the archer girl stood fearless confronting him. a stalker. she knew she'd have no chance fighting against him but she would not cower away. not that she'd have any chance to flee either.

in a blink of eyes, he disappeared infront of her. and before she had decided if her eyes had played tricks on her, her crossbow was stripped off her hands. when the stalker reappeared again, he was still in his last position, wearing his last expression, but she saw her crossbow in his hands.

"you like double strafing eh? now, i'll show you how it's properly done." with a smirk on his face, he aimed the crossbow at the archer. she found herself unable to move, strucked by how easily he had left her defendless in just a second or two. the arrows the stalker had confiscated in her last shot was now flying like two bolts back at her. she shut her eyes and raised her arms across her head in horror.

clank clank~~ the sound of metal hitting metal. one closely following another. she opened her eyes and saw the many belts of her own brother's cladding. "Zeph!" she cried. the assassin cross had dashed out of cloaking to block the arrows with his katars.

the stalker frowned. those from the sin class are not his favourite opponents. yes, he'd defeated a few of them before but every single one of them were nothing less than a nasty fight. but as he studied the sin cross now facing him, the frown unknotted, and was quickly replaced by a wide grin on his face. "Zeph!" he let out a muted cry almost imitating the young archer's. as he lowered the crossbow, he cried another one more loudly "Zephyr my friend!" and a short pause. "you've become a sin cross!"


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Cardry the taekwon

Mat the stalker

Noki the archer

Zeph the assassin cross

Muka



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family reunion XD

well, Mat-Ahari was obviously... matahari 阳 XP
and Cardry car-dry 车干 轩 XD
anolian archer girl Noki = ano + kimi (happy le?~)

and ofcoz,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY XUAN~~~~~~~

in 变态nia! chapter 2

red hot meteors rained down. yells of pain and dismay echoed through the valleys of Geffenia.

"phew that was close~ tht incubus nearly killed me! Geffenia is seriously not a child's play." Silver exclaimed as he walked out of a circle of bbqed monster carcasses, wiping the slimes off his saber. "and they broke my armor." he added quietly as he realised it.

"tht's why we need you here buddy. eat this, it will make you feel better. there's more in my cart if you need them. i'll mend your armor soon." Nocturn threw Silver a mastela fruit without looking. his eyes were fixed examining the diamond ring he'd just picked up from the burnt incubus that nearly killed Silver. The black haired whitesmith who wore a baseball cap was already doing the calculations how much he shall overcharge the jeweller for the ring with such a dazzling stone.

Silver had only joined the party shortly before they reached Geffenia. he came on their request for a tanker from the guild. Sophia the guild master had thought they would need a capable crusader to survive Geffenia. and a capable priest too. She would have sent Grass along with his healing and protective skills if he was around. But as things turned out, half the guild members were on xmas leave and there were not a single priest available. so she looked at Silver. his eyes met her's and knew wot they were trying to tell him. he gently ran his fingers down her flowing purple hair for one last time, and bated her to get some time off during the holiday herself. then, without much delay, he left to join them in Geffenia.

"pls sit down all of you~ Ms. Ya's meteor storm seemed to have cleared the last monsters in this area~ i'll play The Song of Lutie to help you recover~ zai man jiu ting bu dao~ xian sheng xiao jie men gan kuai lai~ gan kuai lai~~" a graceful bow, and music notes started to flow from Jay the bard's mandolin, replacing his silvery voice.

"sing-mumbling weird words again... (/swt) why did Sophie ever recruit a guy as weird as you into our guild?" a sweet smile rose at the edge of Silver's lips as he mentioned his beloved's name. enduring the damage he'd just shielded his party members from, he followed the other two of the party to sit in an arc infront of Jay.

and i wonder if he hears anything he sings himself... his eyes locked on the earphone Jay wore over his silky blue long hair, as he striped his armor for Nocturn to repair.

"well, mr. beat-cannot-die, if it wasnt for Jay's A Poem of Bragi, i wouldnt have cast that last meteor storm in time. then u might really have died..." Ya finally joining the conversation after recovering from the exhaustion of the last battle, teasing her good friend. Silver strugged his shoulders in reply as he helped himself with a second mastela fruit.

"ah, i'm starting to miss everyone. we are away from the guild castle for almost two months now! Noct, you reckon we've made enough zeny to pay the mask maker?" Ya added.

the intention to come to Geffenia was for the valuable loots. diamond rings, golden rings and silver rings from the incubuses and succubuses. they were assigned to get Zeph a gift for passing the class 3 test, a tradition of the guild. decent weapons as gifts is the norm for the first two classes, rarer items are given to the 3rd.

a kitsune mask for Zeph, they've decided. they've already collected the 999 nine-tails required to make such a mask.

"i still think Mr. Zephyr would prefer a dokebi's wig~" Jay remarked cooly, fingers still strumming his mandolin.

"we are about 200k zeny short, not far away." Nocturn replied Ya's question, ignoring Jay's remark, sweating lightly (/swt).

"geez, Jay, you make a fine clown already! spilling freezing jokes like that." Ya found herself bemused, imagining Zeph wearing a dokebi's wig. a deadly assassin cross with a dokebi's wig..... O.O

so, finally home, soon... she could already feel the warmth in the hall of JP's guild castle as she saw the tower of Geffen in her mind's eye.

"ouch! that hurts!"

"deviruchi's re-spawned!" she gasped.

"poke me again with that fork and i'll make you Jay's pet!" Silver treathened the black little devil as he delivered a blow with his saber.

"wot's so bad with being my pet, sir?~" Jay wondered out loud, as he sent a silver arrow the little devil's way.

"nothing. you know, i changed my mind, you should adopt a dokebi. devi fits Zeph better. or maybe that thief boy Ai mentioned in her report..." another blow, and more silver arrows from Jay. Ya finished the deviruchi off with a fire bolt.

"u've got a point there Mr. Silver sir~ i've got myself a dokebi egg when we were hunting nine-tails in Payon Dungeon~ it sure seems to be a good sidekick~ ta wei xiao zai wo pang bian cheng san~~" Jay replied merrily.

Silver sweated.

"ready for more hunting?" Nocturn finally joined them, and passed Silver his now good as new armor. he had no worries for his companions to deal with the singled deviruchi.

"yeah, lets go!"


(p/s: for non-ROplayers, clown is the class 3 job for bard ^^)

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add some visual effect XD

Silver the crusader

Nocturn the whitesmith

Jay the bard

Ya the high magician

Santa Poring

Incubus

Deviruchi

dokebi's wig



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you know why din sophia appear? becoz... i... i've never played sage before and din know wot skills she shall have (/blush).

Jay is a mixture of 阳's game character jay and my game character mozart XD yang created his jay based on de great jay chou XD my mozart was a clown wearing dokebi's wig and had a dokebi as pet XD

lets all go to rune midgard~ chapter 1

well, i'm ill, and hence bored. coz i am to remain indoors (since it's like -12 outside)... that i've done for 3 full days and am damned bored now... ="=
so, this...

it's done for my own amusement, but hopefully u'll still enjoy it ;P

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"Ah hoy u lil monster~ merry xmas~" as he said it, the novice boy flung a dagger at the pink jelly like monster. the santa poring avoided it just in time and bounced onto the boy's face in response. The boy lost balance and fell.

"ouch! i'm gonna kill u!" he bellowed as he regained his feet quickly from the snow clad ground. he attacked again and this time he din miss his target. the jelly being burst into pieces with a single "blurp", leaving its santa poring hat and a candy cane lying on the ground.

as the boy picked up his loots, he heard the annoyed voice of a woman,
"hey boy, what did u do that for?"

he turned and saw a hunter lady with dark brown hair, short straight and slick. she had eyes of the same colour. and clad in white.
"none of your business lady, unless u would let me make u some xmas pudding out of them XD"
he said as he stored the candy cane into his pouch, already wearing the santa poring hat.
"merry xmas~~" he added with a smile, and immediately running after another santa poring bouncing just beside the bridge.

a man stopped between him and the creature.
"oi Ai, you've found urself a rude little boy ei?" the man said with a careless grin on his face. he had green hair like overgrown weeds and wore the black priest's uniform. and... two ice-creams in his hands.

ice-creams in this weather? the boy wondered, and sweated lightly (/swt)

"boy, you dont go killing santa porings in Lutie on xmas day ok? lovers come here for holiday and frozen jelly patches are not exactly the most romantic scene in the world... how about u spare this miserable little thing's life and i'll give you 20zeny? and how the hell did a novice like you get here anyway?"

"hah~ preaching me~ wot is 20zeny to make me stop?! a stupid acolyte promised to wrap me to Morroc and wrapped me here instead and gone disappearing himself ="= i swear he'd get it back from me someday (/ag)." the boy was holding up his fist. "and as you've so sagely pointed out, i will never make it to Morroc by walking. nor do i have enough zeny to travel with the Kafra service. i need to be there for the tesssssst!" the boy made it sound despair and dramatic, yet he was already chasing after another santa poring bouncing along the half frozen river as he finished the sentence.

three jabs. and more pink jelly spilled onto the snowy ground. both Ai and Grass clapped their foreheads annoyed.

"stop it boy..."

"no. i'll only stop killing these little buggers for the loots if you'd escort me to Morroc or pay Kafra to do so." the boy chasing off another santa poring as he cut Ai's speech.

"... i was just going to offer you to join our party." Ai continued with a smile. the smile turned into a muted laugh as she found the boy looking at her with his widened eyes is now sitting on the santa poring he'd just hunted down to make it still. "although u are annoying enough." she added with a friendly tone. she liked the boy's spirit and cheekiness. "Morroc is our next destination anyway. Zeph is there collecting some cactus needles and talons for his poison bottles." the last sentence she addressed to Grass.

"Ai, u heard him. a test in Morroc. this boy is going to be a thief!" Grass protested, he never liked the theif class.

"so was Zeph. you have problem with that?" Ai's voice was dangerous.

"!!! nonononono... no problem no problem at all... thief boys are the best~~~" and an angry women is scarier than a baphomet... he added inside himself.

"so, welcome to our party, boy ^^"

"ah, wow~~~~~~ party with class 2s! it's my first... many thanks :D and that Zeph you mentioned, is an assassin cross?" the boy is overjoyed, he knew only assassin crosses use poison bottles.

"yes, boy. Zephyr had just passed his sin cross test. we are taking our class 3 tests soon too." she motioned her hands to indicate she was talking about herself and Grass. "by the way, i'm Ai from Payon, and he's Grass from Izlude. and your name?"

"Sate, i'm borned in Alberta. hey~ that emblem~~ so you guys are from the Juvenile Predators guild?!" he points a finger to the simple symbol she has on her hunter bow.

"so we are ^^, follow us if you have no place to stay tonight." another smile from her, and they are underway back to the guesthouse. so, he recognized their emblem. yes, a boy from alberta the merchant city would know things like that. and Sate knows more than wot she first gave credit to, so she thought.

the Juvenile Predators, or JP, is rising to be one of the more recognised guild in Rune Midgard. beside Zeph, they already had 3 other members with class 3 job status. Ya the high wizard, Nocturn the whitesmith and finally Sophia the professor, who was the first to achieve that status, and was also the guild master.

"so much for a romantic holiday >_<" whispered Grass sulkingly as he trotts behind the now animatedly chatting pair, still holding the ice-creams. well, it wouldnt melt in this weather anyway.

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woah, i cross dressed myself... and dragged 颖 down with me XD yes, he is sophia XD yo, no one fits in to the row of a swordsman... no tanker... ="= i want a crusader/paladin la...

no wait! i need to put 颖 together with 银~(to be true to our original JP story XD) i can make 银 our crusader, tht would be fitting, woohoo~~~

feedbacks please ^^ i really intend to put evone in (depend on how long will i have the mood to write this crap, maybe this would be the only chapter XD), so in case u duan to be someone, tell me early XD there's no ploat at all, i juz make things up as i write XP

postcard from the north (updated)

p/s: fireworks across göta älv, taken with my nikon coolpix L15 :)

that was organized by Göteborg Posten, the most popular paper in gothenburg. thousands of ppl gathered on the bank beside de operah house, on the bridge that links gothenburg city and hisingen island, to watch the great show at 5pm :)

then ppl take matters to their own hand at 12. no, since 20mins before 12 ^^ go out and you dont know which direction to watch ^^ the whole sky full of fireworks! it's like a competition to see if one can out fire another XD 3 families joined the competition on splintvedsgatan alone! and also ursa major and orion. de sky wasnt exactly clear but both were there enjoying the show :)

the explosion and gunpowder still fills my ears and nose as i type ^^

wish evone hav a good yr ahead :D

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 :)

1 v 1

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.