What a Difference a Day Makes

Song of the day: Jamie Cullum - What a Difference a Day Makes

I just realized that I have not blogged about an important event that had passed weeks ago.
Yeap. NLDS.
Brace yourself. This entry is gonna be a long, long one.

Apart from that, I forgot to mention about my 21st. Sadly, I was in the midst of exams and could not really go all out and celebrate it with a bang. Oh well, there’s always the 22nd. Hehe. Nevertheless, it was memorable. Thanks guys.

Straight after exams, I felt like I was on a bullet train. Everything was happening so quickly that I barely had time to sit back and chill. Yours truly was appointed to be the assistant chief delegate for UM’s NLDS delegation. Basically, it’s similar to being the assistant class rep. You look after the welfare of your teammates.

Our pre-NLDS was held in 4th College, UM. For 2 days, we prepared ourselves physically and mentally for the big event. Here are some things that I remembered from pre-NLDS:

1. Hauling my luggages up the slope towards 4th college lobby thinking that I was late.
2. Playing an ice-breaking game that involved us standing on the chairs and making animal movements.
3. Dancing, dancing, roll-calling, dancing, roll-calling, preparing props, more props preparation and eating of course.
4. Laughing in stitches because the sketch was so damn funny the 1st time we saw it.
   Alif’s boobs were D-cup sizes and are very pointy.
5. The bus driver promised us breakfast on our way to Penang but only stopped halfway through in Tapah rest area.
6. Whole journey was more or less in slumber until woken up by Mich’s call that said their car had caught up with the bus.
7. The bus was taking a joyride through USM as the aforementioned bus driver was lost.
8. Hauling luggages up the slope (and stairs!!) towards our designated hostel (sound familiar??) while enduring HOT-TO-GO from our male friends whose hostel happened to be just 5 minutes away from the lobby (Bloody hell)

That was just the appetizer. Now, the highlights of the main course.

1. Meeting loads of people whose names I can’t remember. But there are a few that stayed in my mind and hopefully in future, will be able to get to know them better.
2. Punishments galore: UM’s coin-passing, human pizza, condom-egg, butt slapping, eating biscuit from groin area (yikes!)
3. Roll-calls galore: Banana and papaya, A for Ayam, North and South, Boogara, Papa Shark, Father Abraham, Lost Season 1, Negaraku
4. SQUARE DANCE galore: Buttons, Hot Stuff, Shi-Shok-Shok, High School Musical, Hey Ya, Cotton Eye Joe, Ma-hi-Vee, I’m so Excited, London Bridge
5. Gala Dinner – food, food and food (at the end, UM vs UUM in roll-calling)
6. Samurai Game! Scary at first but damn cool at the end (I died because of Rock-Paper-Scissors. Sweat)
7. Challenging World View – someone asked me to explain what is masturbation [another sweat]
8. Getting pulled out unwillingly to dance by 3 guys and I screamed (sorta)
9. Sitting right in front hence could not fall asleep during boring sessions (best seats in the house??!)
10. Telematch – my knowledge of countries and their capital paid off rewardingly.
11. Global Village – lots and lots of slapstick comedy sketches
12. Aaron getting seduced to dance on his 1st day (His expression? Priceless)
13. Too many gay going-ons and cross-dressers
14. Walking back to hostel for most nights (what a torture on the feet!)
15. Fun, Fun, Fun and more Fun!!
16. Sleep-deprived

NLDS 2006 was certainly beyond any expectations and I had tonnes of fun. However, all good things must come to an end (plus, my body was so lethargic and needed some rest). After saying our goodbyes, we headed out to our respective hometowns. For me, it was not the end of the Penang excursion. Here's what I remembered from post-NLDS:

1. Sleep, sleep, sleep and sleep.
2. Eat, eat, eat and eat: Popiah, Char Koay Teow, Cendol, O-Chien, Rojak, Chee Cheong Fun, Hokkien Mee, Laksa
3. Rene's Auntie's Fabolous Condo with view overlooking Tanjung Bungah beach.
4. Joy-ride through spooky parts of Penang
5. Hanging out at the beach: Jet-skiing and horse riding (my 1st time on a horse!)
6. Short lepaking at Penang Hill (missed the tram ride up!)

All in all, it was an exciting, fun-filled but tiring 1 week. On my bus ride home to Ipoh, I slept all the way. Figures.

Since today is the eve of 2007, it is only fair that I reflect on my 2006. Overall, I had a pretty good year, much of it was because of my dear friends. They made it great. Thanks you guys. I started it watching fireworks in Penang and I will end it partying in KL in a matter of few hours.

My new year resolutions?

Lose weight, think more of others and play harder!

It's not the end but rather the start of a new beginning. Have a good one, people!

You Gotta Be

Song of the day: Desiree – You Gotta Be

The time is 2pm. I am currently writing this through my desktop at my designated work station which is situated strategically right in front so that everyone in the department would see me. At the moment, I have nothing to do and hence am writing this (In actual fact, I’m writing this so that my colleagues will think “Oh, she’s typing something. She must have work to do.” Hehe.). So far, it’s working!

For those uninitiated………….

Phew. Off again. I had to go down to the 3rd floor to get some files and scan some documents. Looked like my initial scheme did not pan out well after all.

Let’s try again. For those uninitiated, I am currently doing my internship in KPMG (One of the BIG FOUR Accounting firms in the world!!) which will last for 2 months. Today is currently my 4th day of work and so far, it’s going well. That is, no one has scolded me and called me a moron for being so clueless.

My humble “office” is situated on the 6th Floor dubbed the “Corporate Tax Services” department. This department looks pretty boring (and in actual fact, it is) because all you do is just sit down with a whole bunch of files around you and stare at the computer while trying to compute tax for some big shot client. Plus, they make you work like a dog as my colleague kindly told me she once only left the office at 1am!

On the 1st day itself, I knew it. I ain’t gonna be working in some tax department in the future. This ain’t what I wanna be doing later in life. No way, Jose. I want my career life to be out-there-meeting-clients and not sit-down-stare-at-computer. That moment, I thanked God that I was majoring in Finance and not Accounting. Poor real-life and soon-to-be accountants everywhere. I had no idea your life was so freaking boring.

So what the hell am I doing here? Wasting my precious holidays away, sitting here, and trying to look useful? Good question.

In some ways, it is kind of fulfilling. At least I know I’m not wasting my 3 months away doing absolutely nothing useful and being a lousy “sampah masyarakat”.

However, I only earn RM25 per day. Yeap. I know. Even waiters earn more than me. BUT….. it’s the experience that counts ma. My CV has been boost up (Did I mention KPMG is one of the BIG Four Accounting firms in the world?) and I get to be an employee in a multinational company!

The time is now 4.20pm. In about an hour, I will be free!! I will be meeting up with a couple of KDU pals in Chili’s MidV to reminisce (over and over again) about our very special college days. So, what else is new?

As an ending note, just like to put in a word of advice to all students out there: Enjoy while it lasts! Working life sucks more than student life though at the moment you may disagree. Believe me. I know both worlds. I can’t wait to be a student again.

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