Counting down the days to my graduation (unoffical):
12 Days More....
Fai fai....
Cepat....
Faster....
Hayaku....
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Travel Bug
Within the span of 6 months, I've been travelling a lot, within and out of the country.
There was no escaping the Chinese New Year exodus back home. However, I had to come back to KL again on the 3rd day of CNY to prepare for my ALSA trip to Beijing. So a week after CNY, I flew off to Beijing and spent a wonderful week in the lively city. It's cool to be able to celebrate Chap Goh Mei in China where fireworks (I mean pyrotechs, literally) were being lighted everywhere every single minute. I also found out that fireworks are banned in China except during CNY. So people were taking advantage of the festival to light up the skies~ Plus, it's really cheap. You can get a box of pyrotechs for only RM50!!
After coming back from Beijing, I had to travel to UUM the week after for the National Client Counseling Competition. The bus trip took about 12 hours. Yea, imagine being stuck in a bus for 12 hours and the driver just have to stop so many times in our journey that makes the whole thing seemed forever. Well, accomodation wasn't exactly 5-star. It was my worst nightmare...staying in kolej again!!! Arghhh!! There was a dead cockroach in my room!! Thank God the toilets were ok.... We won the competition and thus, a month to Las Vegas...
The preparation to Las Vegas wasn't anything like a walk in the park. It was hell for sure. To be able to secure funds from the university was more like begging on the roadside of Petaling Street. Somehow, I always wonder why students like us who will be representing the university and been receiving oral blessings and public declarations of glory and pride were not supported financially by the university. Was it all just for show? We had to beg all the way to the Vice Chancellor... ok. Approved. However, there was a tug-of-war between the Faculty and also PPP on who's gonna carry the burden of paying for our flight, accomodation as well as the cost of living. In the end, PPP won the battle by successfully shoving everything down the faculty's throat and depriving us of our food money. How are we gonna survive in Vegas... eat sand everyday?
Despite the roller coaster rides in Malaysia, we managed to fly to Las Vegas on a gruelling 17 hour trip, minus the transits. Took us 4 hours to Taiwan and transited in Taipei for almost 2 hours. Then, another 13 hours to Los Angeles and the transit in LAX to Vegas was almost 6 hours!!! We were so pooped we just slept at the airport while waiting for our connecting flight to LV. Viva Las Vegas.
Spending 10 days in LV was no fun at all. It's TEDIOUS!! Everything was just casino, lights, nice buildings, clubs and sand. The whole strip was built on a piece of desert. That's all. The air was so dry my face literally felt like paper by the 3rd day that even the skin around my eyelids were peeling. No fun...not to mention the moisturiser I brought from home wasn't suitable at all. In the end, I had to us my Bodyshop Body Butter to put on my face. The only thing I really enjoyed was soaking myself in the bathtub, shopping and looking at the scenic nightview of Vegas.
After going around these places, I am so dead tired. The flu I've been anticipating to catch after returning from Bejing finally caught on. However, I am still looking forward for my Bali trip as well as my solo trip to Japan to visit my friends as well as visiting the country that I've always wanted to experience since it's totally different from everyone else, not to forget the challenge of speaking lousy Japanese and not being able to read anything in Japanese at all. It's gonna be a huge challenge.
Shikashi, houtouni ikitai desu yo. Ganbarimasu dakara motto benkyou! Akiramerunai~ I will survive even with my lousy Japanese!
p.s. Hey... I didn't even go for any classes leh... Everything Sdn Bhd~
There was no escaping the Chinese New Year exodus back home. However, I had to come back to KL again on the 3rd day of CNY to prepare for my ALSA trip to Beijing. So a week after CNY, I flew off to Beijing and spent a wonderful week in the lively city. It's cool to be able to celebrate Chap Goh Mei in China where fireworks (I mean pyrotechs, literally) were being lighted everywhere every single minute. I also found out that fireworks are banned in China except during CNY. So people were taking advantage of the festival to light up the skies~ Plus, it's really cheap. You can get a box of pyrotechs for only RM50!!
After coming back from Beijing, I had to travel to UUM the week after for the National Client Counseling Competition. The bus trip took about 12 hours. Yea, imagine being stuck in a bus for 12 hours and the driver just have to stop so many times in our journey that makes the whole thing seemed forever. Well, accomodation wasn't exactly 5-star. It was my worst nightmare...staying in kolej again!!! Arghhh!! There was a dead cockroach in my room!! Thank God the toilets were ok.... We won the competition and thus, a month to Las Vegas...
The preparation to Las Vegas wasn't anything like a walk in the park. It was hell for sure. To be able to secure funds from the university was more like begging on the roadside of Petaling Street. Somehow, I always wonder why students like us who will be representing the university and been receiving oral blessings and public declarations of glory and pride were not supported financially by the university. Was it all just for show? We had to beg all the way to the Vice Chancellor... ok. Approved. However, there was a tug-of-war between the Faculty and also PPP on who's gonna carry the burden of paying for our flight, accomodation as well as the cost of living. In the end, PPP won the battle by successfully shoving everything down the faculty's throat and depriving us of our food money. How are we gonna survive in Vegas... eat sand everyday?
Despite the roller coaster rides in Malaysia, we managed to fly to Las Vegas on a gruelling 17 hour trip, minus the transits. Took us 4 hours to Taiwan and transited in Taipei for almost 2 hours. Then, another 13 hours to Los Angeles and the transit in LAX to Vegas was almost 6 hours!!! We were so pooped we just slept at the airport while waiting for our connecting flight to LV. Viva Las Vegas.
Spending 10 days in LV was no fun at all. It's TEDIOUS!! Everything was just casino, lights, nice buildings, clubs and sand. The whole strip was built on a piece of desert. That's all. The air was so dry my face literally felt like paper by the 3rd day that even the skin around my eyelids were peeling. No fun...not to mention the moisturiser I brought from home wasn't suitable at all. In the end, I had to us my Bodyshop Body Butter to put on my face. The only thing I really enjoyed was soaking myself in the bathtub, shopping and looking at the scenic nightview of Vegas.
After going around these places, I am so dead tired. The flu I've been anticipating to catch after returning from Bejing finally caught on. However, I am still looking forward for my Bali trip as well as my solo trip to Japan to visit my friends as well as visiting the country that I've always wanted to experience since it's totally different from everyone else, not to forget the challenge of speaking lousy Japanese and not being able to read anything in Japanese at all. It's gonna be a huge challenge.
Shikashi, houtouni ikitai desu yo. Ganbarimasu dakara motto benkyou! Akiramerunai~ I will survive even with my lousy Japanese!
p.s. Hey... I didn't even go for any classes leh... Everything Sdn Bhd~
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