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Thursday, May 23, 2013
Two cents
went out with friends to sunway carnival mall for furious 6. Well the movie is not bad but im not that into it, really. Too super-hero style. Before this, it was a surprise for Johnson Ling. Just lazy to jot down here. Video has it all.
It was in the car where i feel different. i just don't think it is right peeps. You are not being rational enough. Treat people like how u want to be treated.
Life's hard man, im struggling, just so you know.
3:21 AM
KOREAN INTERNS + UUM + AUSMAN = WILD EXPERIENCE
[18th May 2013] [10.30am] Butterworth bus station. i met with an EP main campus and 2 beautiful korean interns, and departed to UUM. Nur Dina Zaulkiflee and Lee CheeWai is leading our car from the station to uum. i was so glad that i get to know interesting people from main camp at this beautiful morning, and we have good time chatting in the car. We speed up and reach around 120 to 130km/h on the highway and eventually my car was overheated until the max level. i have no choice but to stop the car by the highway. Cheewai and dina stop by and passed me a GPS. i told them to leave first. open up the hood, i can see steam around engine part. called my dad and my mum's fren, and they told me to wait an hour for engine to cool down. All of us get out from the car and sit by the highway, under a shade, with my hood open. i wan the engine to cool down ASAP so i use manila cards to fan the engine. was thinking to get water from the river to pour onto the engine, and luckily i did not cuz the engine will crack if i did. 30 minutes passed.
[12.45pm] polis bantuan is here, well, i didnt call any of them. One guy came out from a 4WD and ask me whats the prob. i told him i was waiting the car to be cooled. he inspected the car and told me it is cooled down. checked my tangki, water supply, and found out the water run out due to a leakage from the tangki under the engine. he filled up the tangki with water and ask me to start the engine. i feel the aircond is getting colder, indicates that the system is cooled down. he ask me to drive slowly if i want to make it to UUM. i shake his hand and leave. the car eventually get heated again but i was able to make it to UUM
[2.30pm] and it is 30mins behind the opening plenary. when i was worrying my car cannot cool down in time, cuz i parked under the sun, there comes a heavy rain. thank god. [5.30pm] we leave UUM. i was so blur that i drive to north and i was supposed to go south. switched on the GPS. we dont know how to use it. we cannot find any houses there but i was able to spot out a pair of slippers infront of a look-like-nobodys-home house. EP get out and ask for the direction of KL, which is the way we want to go - south, and turn out to be the opposite direction from where we came out. thanks to the weather, the wind was actually helping the cooling system of the engine and we are able to make it to main camp at
[8.30pm] with 80-90km/h. goodbye to 3 new friends, i am late for AUSMAN. i called vincent ong and i told him the wild experience i have with the korean interns. i ask him for the route to sunway hotel and he said jalan macalister....... phone battery dead before i know it is at macalister or somewhere near there. i study GPS cheewai passed me earlier as hard as i can, and finally figured out. J-A-L-A-N-M-A-C-A-L-I-S-T-E-R. "300m at the junction turn left, at the junction, turn left." on my way. things getting wrong, drop by caltex and ask. jalan Burma. i reroute the GPS and start the engine. "You have reach your destination, Have a nice day." i was at a junction, wondering to left or right, i decided to take left. turn out to be a wrong decision, i cannot find a tall building cuz a hotel is suppose to be tall and obvious. go straight for a while and ask people around, they said it is the other way round. U-turn and keep going. it was not the correct way also, so i stop by a bak kua shop and ask. the owner said shes new in penang so she dont know. come out from the shop i was one indian uncle and i ask him. Jalan Dato Keramat. Reroute the GPS, jalan datuk keramat is at selangor. well the one we heading to is DATO and not DATUK keramat, thats why i cant get it. the uncle and his wife are kind enough, they said they wan to lead me to sunway hotel. i said thank you for a million times. so here i was behind his car viva, silver, xxx 1759 plate number. i was planning to take photos with them after i reach hotel, out of nowhere 2 cars overtake me and in between on the indian uncle and my car. The epic thing is both the car overtaken, are both silver viva which is so identical and i got confused. here comes a junction where we can go left, right, or straight. 3 of the cars leading to different direction. but i cleared my mind, if i were to lead the way, i would drive slower and give light signal earlier. with this in mind, it turns out to be the left one. i followed the car. and it was a big mistake. it is not 1759. i found a hawker stall, and they tell me it was the other way round so i u-turn again. stop by a bus stop and i ask a chinese uncle with white hair, i thought hes so old already he will know exactly where is sunway hotel. manatau he lagi blur than me, plus he can't listen well, i had hard time communicate with him. after going the way he pointed me, yes i got lost again. saw another petrol station, i parked beside the mart in the station. when i come out, one uncle shouted from 50m away: "You cannot park your car like that!" so i drive to him and ask him wheres sunway hotel. he picture the visual really clear and i got to the place quite easy, and i saw sunway hotel sign on a junction, and i thought i can find the entrance in front but the hotel is actually in the junction which i should turn in just now. and hell this is a one-way. i take another round komtar just to get to the junction again.
[10.05 pm] i got into sunway reception, they thought i want to get a room. i keep explaining aiesec award night but none of them get it. person in-charge come out and check the function list, and ask me whether is it from USM. i nodded and i heard familiar voice. its Juno Tey, Gan Yong Han and Chooi Wen. And this is how i got late for AUSMAN and missed out everything before prom king and queen. show me any video and photos taken during AUSMAN — with
Vincent Ong and
4 others at
Sunway Hotel, Penang-Malaysia.
3:14 AM
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Revolution
5th of May. Pakatan vs BN. Will be witnessing malaysia's revolution in less than 24 hours. To my future children and grandchildren, your papa or grandpa is living in the revolution =D tell you more 30 years later
[Updated] Result: Pakatan lost.
[Updated] In present day, Anwar Ibrahim is sent to jail.
2:41 AM