Well..

Getting lazy to update, again.

Got loads of stuff to post up but I don’t think I’ll be doing it anytime soon. Will let ya’ll know when I get to it.

Oh I am such a lazy bastard

Liquid Paper & Taylors

Would you believe that Pentel sells its liquid paper/correction fluid at RM5.60?

RM5.60

I really find it hard to believe. I guess from now on I’ll just stick to cancelling or crossing out my mistakes.

Anywhoooo, Taylor’s is constructing a new lakeside campus somewhere in PJ. The first intake of the college/university will be in January 2010. Well wadya know? It’s perfect timing for our batch!

Some breathtaking previews:

That’s a stage!

View from outside the campus

Parking area

The lake

School?

So everyone’s back to school and everyone’s in the exact same class. Whopee. One of the best things about going back to school is getting to wear the all so comfortable Sri KL socks. No kidding, they are by far the best socks I’ve ever put on! Personally, I prefer ankle socks so I would fold my socks back on themselves till they actually reach the ankle length. Normally I’d just wear black ankle socks if school socks weren’t so darn comfortable. So, that’s sort of  like my ‘indulgence’ of the going-back-to-school thing.

There’s something else I decided to do differently this year, how I organize myself in school. I have decided to write everything that has to be done on mini Post-Its, creating my own to-do list. Its only the second day of school and the only thing I can see on my table are little yellow papers with tasks attached to them filling up the empty spaces on my desk. It helps, though. I expect this Post-It thing to last about a month or so before I finally get sick and tired of reading from sticky yellow paper.

Nothing else is new in school. Everything is exactly the same. Half my teachers are the same ones who taught me last year. What about class teacher? Oh, same. Neat Freak, Mr Stephen. So far, he is the only person I’ve ever met you is a TRUE perfectionist. Chairs must not squeak when they move. What! You don’t expect them to ‘glide’ across the floor silently. That’s just one of his ‘musts’ and they only get worse. I’ll update another time, my yellow friend(post-it) tells me that I have work that needs to be done.

Vietnam? Yes, Vietnam.

I got back from my trip to Vietnam on Monday. Went to Ha Noi and Ha Long Bay. From the 4day 3night trip, I have summarized the following :

Vietnam is :

• 1 hour behind Malaysia time
• 3 and a half uncomfortable hours away by AirAsia
• north-east of Malaysia
• more polluted than Malaysia

Vietnam has :

• great weather – I went during ‘winter’ and the temperature was 13-18ish. Didn’t see the sun until the last day.
• french buildings – One of the first things i noticed was the tall skinny buildings because Vietnam was once French territory.
• more motorbikes than cars – For every 1 car there are 3 bikes. Every family has an average of 3 bikes. Alot?
• under-developed roads – Honestly, I didn’t expect much anyway.
• four seasons – As far as I know, only Ha Noi and Ha Long Bay have it (Ho Chi Minh doesn’t).
• an interesting language – It almost sounds Cantonese!
• clean toilets – Despite them being under-developed, their toilets sparkle with cleanliness.
• bad drivers – Yes, worse than Malaysia( imagine that!). Vietnam made me wish bikes didn’t have horns.
• Bobby Chinn Restaurant – There is only one in the world, in Ha Noi! While we were there, a man with a black leather jacket turned around to face us and boom! Bobby Chinn!
• designer outlets – Yes, they do. Shiseido, Vincci, Adidas and such.
• street sellers – Pretty much like your typical DVD seller at AsiaCafe but they sell fruits and such.
• very patriotic citizens – When Vietnam won the Suzuki Cup against Thailand, hundreds of motorcycles flooded downtown Ha Noi and they sped through the streets ignoring everything else. They were holding flags in the air as they rode by banging pots and pans while singing the national anthem as well as shouting “Vietnam is invincible!”

When in Vietnam, DO NOT :

• stop in the middle of the road
• stop on the sidewalk
• hold any expectations
• run( no matter where you are)

Fun Facts :

• If you stop walking on the sidewalk, you will be shoe-shined and get CHARGED for it at a ridiculous price.
• 80% of Vietnamese men smoke.
• The most common English words Vietnamese use are ‘taxi?’, ‘banana?’, ’shoe-shine!’ or  ‘i fix shoe?’
• Local ‘kopitiams’ or serve food on the low tables on the pavement. The chairs they use are bathroom stools.
• If you don’t hear a vehicle horn every 2 seconds during the day, you’re not in Vietnam anymore.

Pictures :

Taxi? Yes, this is it.

Count the cars. Good, now count the bikes.

Downtown Ha Noi after Vietnam beat Thailand

Bobby Chinn

Banana? Yes, she made me buy them afterwards. I’m such a sucker.

ANOTHER new blog?

I guess you could say so. You could also say that I’ve run out of ways to pass time.

So I’m fairly new to this whole wordpress thing, don’t expect much for now. Gone through Blogdrive, Blogspot and Friendster Blogs and now I’m here in WordPress. I thought I’d give it a shot after hopping through a few WordPress blogs which turned out to be pretty neat.

One thing : I ain’t gonna write a journal. Posts only come up when I have something to talk about. Which means there’s absolutely no rush to update!

So, welcome to my WordPress page!