My Day

My birthday just passed. I'm 19 now. WOW!! HAHA. I dunno what to say. I feel the same though. And no I don't feel older although I get few messages saying "Selamat Hari Tua" and all. All I can say is, age is just another number. if you feel young then you ARE young. Just live your life to the fullest right? Oh and thanks again to my fellow GG family who had to go through all that to celebrate my birthday. Thanks also for the Nissan GTR. I'll be racing with that yellow Ferrari 458 soon. HAHA.

Students VS Assignments

     Being a university student, we can't deny the fact that we are constantly burden with tonnes of workloads in forms of homeworks, exercises and assignments. Furthermore, all of those usually are marked and credited in our course weightage, which is sucks because there're just too many assignments (especially drawing...hehe). But then again, having a lot of assignments and stuffs probably have it's advantages. Here are some i could think of :

• alot of assignments lets us study and find the solution to the answer more. Provide that we do not copy anyone's answers.
• alot of assignments gives us the opportunity to work in a group and as a group.
• alot of assgnments means that each assgnment will carry only a small amount of percentage

     i cant think of any other reasons. These reasons already prove that having alot of assignments are good. But how about the disadvantages. Here are some :

• If the student doesn't understand the lecture, alot of assignments will make the student prone to copy more.
• If the student doesn't understand the lecture, alot of assignments will make the student become more lazy to do their work and thus results to copying in the end.
• If the student doesn't understand the lecture, alot of assignments will make the student do it at the very last minute (because he/she is lazy)

     i can't think of more but as you can see, the disadvantages of having alot of assignments usually comes from the individual and doesn't effect the overall class. Because it's all up to the individual to do the work or not. And if he/she gets bad results in the end, there's nobody but themselves to blame and point their fingers to. So, a note to self, focus on the lectures, revise what was learnt at class, and DO NOT do assignments at the very last minute.

Astro Fest 2011

     My family and i went to the Astro Fest on Saturday (12/2/11) which is located at Technology Park. My auntie, who works there got a Family ticket so that's how we're able to enter the place (we need tickets to enter it, and only staffs can get the tickets). We reached the place in the evening around 4.30pm. As soon as we get there, we find some foods first because we actually didn't eat lunch yet, and since everything's free over there, my mom don't need to cook lunch then.

     There're alot of games for children and adults. There're games such as Dart Throwing, Hoop the Hook, Wheels of Fortune and other stuffs. There are also rides for children. Oh, there's Rock Climbing over there too, which i tried and it's very exciting. Pity i didn't take alot of pictures. Then around 8pm, there's a Lion Dance show which is quite cool and then there's some amazing fireworks going on at the end.

     The nightime event is the one people are waiting for because Malaysian artists will be performing live over there. There're 2 stages located far apart from each other. It's up to the people over there to go to which one. I can't remember who came. But my family and i went to the stage where Faizal Tahir  will be performing. But i missed the opening show at that stage which is performed by Amy Search and his bands because i was at some place else. Atleast i was on time to watch Faizal Tahir perform while i recorded it. hehe... After Faizal Tahir perfomed, next performance is from the band Meet Uncle Hussein. But i didn't record this one because i was tired of holding my camera phone to record Faizal Tahir's performance. haha... The show ended around 10.30 pm and it's time to head back.

My family at the entrance

Yeah !! That's me rock climbing

oooo...hehe..
P/S: ignore what i look like bald headed..haha

I missed Amy Search performance because i was waiting in line
for this guy to write my name in Caligraphy..

I have one more extra thing to say. I finally got a guitar. yippy !!

Left is mine, right is my sister's...huhu

                                              

                                

Birds of a feather flock together

 Meaning
      
       Those of similar taste congregate in groups

Origin


     This proverb has been in use since at least the mid 16th century. In 1545, William Turner used a version of it in his papist satire The rescuing of Romish Fox:

"Byrdes of on kynde and color flok and flye allwayes together."

The first known citation in print of the currently used English version of the phrase appeared in 1599, in The Dictionarie in Spanish and English, which was complied by the English lexicographer John Minsheu:

Birdes of a feather will flocke togither.

The phrase also appears in Benjamin Jowett's 1856 translation of Plato's Republic. Clearly, if it were present in the original Greek text then, at around 380BC, Plato's work would be a much earlier reference to it. What appears in Jowett's version is:

Men of my age flock together; we are birds of a feather, as the old proverb says.

Plato's text can be translated in other ways and it is safe to say it was Jowett in 1856, not Plato in 380BC, that considered the phrase to be old. The lack of any citation of it in English prior to the 16th century does tend to suggest that its literal translation wasn't present inThe Republic - a text that was widely read by English scholars of the classics well before the 16th century.

In nature, birds of a single species do in fact frequently form flocks. Ornithologists explain this behaviour as a 'safety in numbers' tactic to reduce their risk of predation. In language terms, it was previously more common to refer to birds flying together than flocking together and many early citations use that form, for example Philemon Holland's translation of Livy's Romane historie, 1600:

"As commonly birds of a feather will flye together."

source:

 http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/birds-of-a-feather-flock- together.html

* i dunno why but suddenly, this idiom just appeared on my mind this morning (or was it yesterday morning).

My New Look

My new look. Yes, i have a new look. Some things had change. My hair. it's gone. You heard me. my precious woolly hair is gone. i've change from a very long AFRO CURL to a BALD headed gangster...haha. it's so funny to see the shock faces given from all my friends. they can't believe it at all. one of my international friends even took a picture of me. how silly. it's just a bald head. like there's no other bald headed people around here. well, on the bright side, my head feels lighter and much cooler, especially if it's windy. haha..

Online...Finally...

     It's been a while since i post anything. Haha...that's due to the poorly developed internet access at UTP. And they call themselves Universiti "TEKNOLOGI" Petronas. My Maxis broadband's not helping either. oh Maxis.. although i have some unpaid bills but that doesn't mean you can disconnect it entirely (apparently they can..lol). But then, i paid my bill just now and i still can't connect to my broadband. WTH?? i have problems with my Maxis signal on my cellphone too (at UTP), but here in KL everything's just fine. Haih ~ in UTP, it's like i'm in the middle of nowhere or something. Now i just have to go to my nearest CyberCafe to go online. how sad.

     i also just realised something, it's February already. my favourite month. damn..time sure flies fast, when you're having fun...haha. it's been alot of fun due to being around with a certain group of friends who always have something to do together. But that's not the point. The point here is we are getting older and supposedly more matured. But that doesn't stop us (GG..hehe) from being all goofy (mainly me...lol) and all immature (sometimes not always). You guys are the BEST !! huhu

     Also, recently the results for my 3rd semester in foundation is out. Alhamdulillah i got what i aimed for and now i must do what i promised myself to do if i got it. But i'm not telling...hehe.. And a certain someone also promised to join me. so, when i get back to UTP you  better had done it...haha..


     Ermm, there's nothing else to say here, so Happy Chinese New Year, eat alot of oranges and enjoy the holidays.

I got one from my neighbour...huhu