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Name: Josephine
Home: Segamat, Johore, Malaysia
About Me: One word... WEIRD!
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| Just Outside My Door... |
| Thursday, June 29, 2006 |
Ok.. tonight was waaay weird.. I was chatting to Maybelline and Jivan when I heard voices coming from the living room of my apartment.. One of which belonged to my landlady (whom I stay with, in case you didn't know).. At first they were all talking then they stopped for a while before starting to chant! Their chant wasn't like those you hear at monastaries and temples, but like those you hear on the TV when you're watching some weird documentary or movie on witches casting spells or druids circling the Stonehenge mumbling weird incantations to the moon while a wolf howls in the background.. "Jie Mei, Jie Mei, Jie Mei" was repeatedly said.. Then someone would suddenly knock a piece of stick on the floor three times in the middle of the chant.. Sent chills up my spine!
I could imagine them sitting around in a circle, with candles (Maybelline's idea) and maybe a star of David in the middle like those you see in Charmed, the TV show, and wearing weird capes, pointing long, bony fingers here and there.. Then I could imagine my landlady being the head of the group, standing in the middle of the star of David with a spell book in one hand, and a piece of bloody mutton in the other (she'd be in the middle coz I heard her voice saying some other stuff while the others were chating "Jie Mei" and bloody mutton coz Maybelline thinks they might have been sacrificing something). She raised her voice after a while, then the chanting stopped.. FREAKISH!!! I could be carried away with my own imagination, but who knows? Maybe I should've followed Maybelline's advice and gone out to see.. LOL! How weird a night! |
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| Evolved Primates |
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Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution is beginning to make sense to me. After what I witnessed today, I believe that we may truly be evolved primates, with brains like supercomputers and what not, but we are ANIMALS nonetheless..
Today happened to be the day we get to select the subject of our choice. Select, being a very subjective and deceitful word.. Our selectives are divided into three modules (Bioinformatics, Radiopharmacy and Veterinary Pharmacy) of which we were to "choose" one.. And only 20 people can enrol into any one module. This meant that only the first 20 people (yes, it was done on a first come, first serve basis) FAST enough to signup their names in each one of the respective modules will be the only ones who truly get to "select"! The rest, well, they had to settle for second best, or worse!
After much asking around, we found out that 50% of the class wanted to take Veterinary Pharmacy, and another 50% wanted to take Radiopharmacy. NOBODY wanted to take Bioinformatics!! So since selections were done on a first come, first serve basis as aforementioned, about EVERYONE started running towards the venue right after class ended! It was like there was a stampede in the university! I, myself, almost fell down while running because Zi Yang practically ran me over!
So anyways, we lined up in the hall, and what do you know, only two lines were formed, not three! Then Dr. Arjun comes in and tells us to go out because it wasn't time for us to be in the hall yet. Only after we numbered ourselves did we go out in the manner that we had lined up in. Despite the fact that we already came up with the numbering system, in the end, no one followed and those originally from the back of the line rushed to the front after the doors were officially opened! People started pushing from the back, no one except a minor few were any more civilized than animals!
The pushing was so bad to the extent that many people got hurt and Wai Yin even fell head down onto the floor and instead of helping her up immediately, people were practically jumping over her to get to the registration tables! I was caught at the door for a few seconds, desperately trying to pry myself loose as I was squashed with the front portion of my body pressing against the other half of the door! When I came out surprisingly alive and in one piece, my front and back hurt! The price I paid for "fighting" with my peers for a place in Veterinary Pharmacy, which thank God, I got! Damn, it was way worse than trying to get into the LRT!
Other people weren't very happy with some of the other people who had cut queue and had lost all sense of ethics just because they wanted to get the subject of their choice. Selfish and self-centered would be two of the many words I could use on them! I'm in no position to name names as it did not happen to me, and although it did happen to three of my best friends, I don't think they'd be happy if I disclosed the names of those who totally crapped out in my blog.
Let's just hope the faculty will come up with a better plan for future selectives be it for us or for our juniors so that this kind of nonsensical, animal behavior does not appear and harm anymore people physically, mentally, socially or emotionally!
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Currently Reading  JEFFREY ARCHER - Kane & Abel (1979) |
| posted by Josephine @ 7:15 pm |
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| Penang Pictures |
| Wednesday, June 28, 2006 |
These are some of the pics taken with May's camera during my Penang trip.. More to come once Wen Theng and Kiat Wei pass to me the pics taken with their cameras..
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| posted by Josephine @ 10:31 pm |
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| What Gives?? |
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Wondering what MLM was really all about, Shyh Haur brought me to his company yesterday to have a look see. Men were clad in expensive suits, women in extravagant clothings with pricetags which were more extravagant! A few of his and Wei Chee's peers took to talking to me, sharing their experiences and stuff like that (which btw, sounded about the same to me). Wei Chee even brought a registered pharmacist to talk to me about her experience in the pharmacy world which she will soon leave for good in due fact that she is now fully involved in MLM. One guy in particular, Kenny, he was the last and the cutest person to talk to me about the company's MLM and why it benefitted him and so many around him, trying, like the others, to pull me into MLM. Pinky swearing with him, I promised I'd go to the office again sometime in the future.
Today, Shyh Haur brought me to his company again, though I did mention that I did not want to go. But because I was "reminded" of my promise to Kenny, I was practically pulled in to the office. Kenny started telling me stuff about how time management was the most important thing if I wanted to join MLM while studying (he couldn't understand that BPharm is much too hectic a course) and told me about how a few thousand bucks were nothing in the company and stuff like that. Stuff that would have probably made money hungry materialistic people (or in other words, "normal" people) drool. All the while he was talking, my mind was elsewhere. I did feel like slapping Shyh Haur so bad!
Kenny then asked us to go for dinner at Chilli's KLCC and that he would foot the bill. While in KLCC, he was totally and not to mention, arrogantly, flaunting off the fact that he could pay for extravagant suits from Armani and such. For me, it was a real turn-off! I liked what I saw on the outside, but what he is on the inside made me feel like hurling! The way he and Shyh Haur talked and the others talked, it was like, money is the be all and end all of life as we know it. I felt sad for them, honestly speaking, and somewhat.. disgusted..
Later when Shyh Haur was driving me back to Bukit Jalil, I had an argument with him regarding this. Not MLM but regarding money. I realised (and so did he) that our views on that subject are worlds apart! Me, I don't really care about money. Maybe this is a momentary thing and I could be engulfed in a world full of materialism in the near future. Shyh Haur, he basically thinks that money is happiness. He didn't exactly say that, but the implication he gave was that. He, I realised, is one of the 90% of people in this world who go by the saying, "if you've got it, flaunt it". I don't agree with that. I know many a great men who earns much more than so many others who do not flaunt their wealth, instead live really down-to-earth lives. One of them being the infamous farmer (I think) who is a millionaire, but uses a rafia string as a belt for his torn and dirty pants (Star Newspaper front page news some time back).
Shyh Haur even implied that the more the money, the higher a person's status in public. Hell, like I know who Steven Yim is! And how exactly would you define Bill Gates status wise? Somebody we've got to bow down to just because he's the richest man in the world?? What a load of crap! Sorry, Shyh Haur. I just don't see your point!
Anyways, I realised then what kind of men I am truly attracted too. In other words, men whom I'd consider my ideal life partner material. Men who are down-to-earth. That trait, I believe, will be the last piece of puzzle to create a beautiful picture of a man. "Who doesn't love money?" Kenny said (though it may not be exactly what he said). Who doesn't indeed? But whether a rich man can live and mingle with the peasants while maintaining a certain financial status without shoving the cruel fact that they are far better off financially than these poor people up their arses is a totally different thing altogether.
OK.. that last sentence didn't make much sense but I hope you get my point. Well, whatever it is, I hope one day people will come to realise that not everyone sees money the same way every other "normal" human being does. You definately won't be getting my respect by waving a stack of green paper in my face! In fact, by doing so, you'll be digging your own grave, being targets of people who'd kill for money! Why take the risk? Can't love the wonder money can bring you by lying motionless and breathless 6 feet underground now, can you? |
| posted by Josephine @ 12:58 am |
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| Back From the Dead |
| Saturday, June 24, 2006 |
My Semester 4 holidays are now coming to an end. In less than 48 hours I'll be starting a new year, a new semester in IMU. It has been 5 weeks since the start of my holidays and like the wind, it just passed me by. Maybe I find my 5 weeks too short because I had to go for some industrial attachment at a pharmaceutical company in Melaka during the first 2 weeks of my 5 week break. For the record, I hated my 2 weeks there, and it seemed an eternity for my attachment to be over! But I got 2 days off from "work" seeing to the fact that I got called in for borderline viva. Not to mention, I couldn't celebrate my 21st birthday on a large or grand scale because of the stupid attachment! Sure, I did SORT OF celebrate my birthday with my friends from uni on the last day of our finals, and with my family on the night before my birthday. FYI, my finals ended on a Thursday, my birthday was on a Sunday.
Well, enough about that, I actually wanted to blog about a more fun event. In fact, the best week I've had in a very long time! Namely, my trip to the Pearl of the Orient... Penang! I don't have any pictures of my trip as of yet, due to the fact that I haven't gotten my hands on any of them!
Well anyways, here's the story...
Kiat Wei, Engmin and I were suppose to go to Singapore this holiday but because both their passports expired and Engmin refused to do one because she had not gone for facial yet, we cancelled our plans. We then thought of going to Genting but the rooms at First World hotel were fully booked/occupied. So then, after some thought, plus Maybelline telling me about the dragon boat race going on (which btw, was in May), I decided to go to Penang whether or not Kiat Wei and Engmin wanted to go. Anyways, Kiat Wei decided to come along to Penang with me, while Engmin declined, saying that it was too far to travel.
We (Kiat Wei and I) took a train from Segamat to KL on Monday, 12th June. Our train reached KL two hours delayed because (as we found out from Su Lyn a little later) our train had knocked down an Indian woman and she had died. May her soul RIP. Well, anyways, since the train to Penang was to depart from KL at 8.45pm, we had about 3 hours to kill so we decided to go to Midvalley first. Cutting the story short, we missed the train to Penang because the stupid commuter was late!!!! Kiat Wei decided to blame the commuter coz we didn't wanna stoop to blaming each other lol! So since we missed the train, we were like, what the heck? Why not spend some time in KL and take the next train up? FYI, there's only ONE train up to Penang everyday! Before we actually decided on that, we did think about going up to Genting and stuff but that's a long story.
We spent day two, which was suppose to be day one in Penang, hanging around in KL. We first went to KLCC then to 1 Utama (Magdalene drove us there) to watch "The Omen".. Scary show.. *Shivers*.. Well, anyways, we left pretty early because we were scared we'd miss the train again! Thank God, we were ONE hour early! And then at 8.45pm, a long 8 hour journey to Penang began..
At precisely 5.55am, Kiat Wei and I reached our destination, Butterworth. Sze May and her eldest bro picked us up from the station and then we went to Wen Theng's place to pick her up. The first stop we made after fetching Wen Theng was at a roadside "loh mee" stall. For the record, all the famous and best Penang food places are at the roadside!
After our very early breakfast, we went to the jetty to take a ferry down to Penang island. The last time I went to Penang was when I was about 4 years old, and I distinctively remember the sea water being clear and had lots of fishes swimming about. Now, the water is dirty and slightly murky and the only aquatic animals that could be seen were jellyfish.. *yucks*.. May took us to her grandfather's place called "Gold Coast Resort" where we stayed a night. Anyways, at about 9.30am, if I'm not mistaken, Daniel came and picked us up from May's grandad's place and brought us around Penang island, where we visited Kek Lok Si temple, then ate asam laksa (which btw, wasn't the original and best asam laksa since Daniel didn't exactly know where THE asam laksa was), then we headed to the Botanical Gardens (lots of monkeys there), Air Keroh (I think) Lake, went to a Burmese and Siamese temple (again, I THINK!), drove around places like Fort Cornwallis (is it spelt like that?), City Hall and other places.. We then went to Gurney Plaza to watch "Benchwarmers" (and btw, the tickets said cinema 10, but I lead my friends to cinema 12! SUPER EMBARASSING!!) and there, we met up with Daniel's girlfriend, Veen Win. She then brought us around another part of Penang while Daniel went to work. The next day, May's second brother brought us out. The first place we went to was a dim sum shop and Kiat Wei and I were kinda shocked and dissapointed at the fact that they didn't have any other drinks BUT Chinese Tea!!! *CRIES*.. We then went to get some "Kuih Tambun", then went to the Toy Museum, which btw, was super nice!! We also went up some hill to this one place called urm.. Topical Fruit Garden I think? Kiat Wei and I shared this "hog plum" fruit juice while May and Wen Theng drank jackfruit juice! I can't remember what May's bro drank.. After that, we went to Khoo Kongsi, a temple for the Khoo family dieties and ancestors, went for cendol (supposedly Penang's best, but tasted exactly like the one in Segamat), then went for "Char Kuey Teow" where we waited for about 15 - 20 minutes but every bite was worth the wait, then drove across the bridge back to Seberang Prai over to May's place to drop her bro off, then went to "Kao Ung Nia" temple in Butterworth, bathed at May's grandad's house (she forced us to), went to dinner, and off to the train station.. LOL! How's that for cutting a long story short? Went back to KL, then back to Segamat on the same day.. The End.. Hehe.. Well, actually, some interesting stuff took place on the train back to KL and back to Segamat, but I don't think I wanna blog about that now... Hehe! Till next time! |
| posted by Josephine @ 6:30 pm |
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