Gay act, karaoke & The Star on a Friday

I'm taking theater this semester and its a really fun subject that requires no studying whatsoever. We have an assignment to perform every week and this week the task was to act out the lives of a group of factory workers who lives together in a dormitory room.

What my group did was, a bad tempered man, a cheesy boyfriend, a want-away girlfriend, an introvert drug addict and a gay couple.

I was, one of the gay partners.

.....

Straight after the theater class, we had a surprise birthday party for one of our friend, Benny at the Neway Karaoke Box in SS 17.




We were all in the karaoke box to the surprise of the birthday boy, who was rather overwhelmed with what we did. He said, "for once, I'm speechless". Later the cake was brought in and the birthday boy's face was smashed into it!

Birthday boy(in white) with the face not even his mom can recognize!

We even got a word from the manager of the karaoke box who came and warned, "please don't "play" with the cake anymore or we may ask you to leave this place". -.-
What's wrong with them? Its just a cake, not a snake!


And then I left that place early so I could join the troop to The Star Media Hub in Shah Alam, where the printing plant is located.

Ze gang of visitors. I'm like third from left(behind) while the guy in pink second from right is Ji Chuan.

Have you ever wondered how newspapers are made? Well, I have, but I thought it was just typing and printing on a large scale. But I really learned that making even 1 page of a newspaper is much much more than just that.

There's a whole complex process in printing a newspaper, which includes a super high speed land line, aluminum plates and super huge rolls of recycled papers!

This is where the magic happens. Super long rolls of white paper turns into thousands of copies of The Star newspapers!

Tomorrow

Sunday morning the 25th of October at 3am.

Germany time shall be adjusted back one hour! So I'll be 7 hours behind Malaysian time...

Daylight saving time! Beginning or ending ah?

I am in this?

When I got this e-mail from Hazel, I knew less of what it actually meant. I mean, what in the world could the word 'contribute' in that sentence mean? I'm supposed to be some sponsor for the formation of the new RojakLah Corporation or something?

It took my quite a long time before I finally realized that I've actually been made into the latest recruitment of The RojakLah clan.
Welcome, me!


And so it was Diwali last Saturday. Happy Diwali to everyone that reads this! Basically, Diwali means Festival of Lights, which explains all the lamps lit by Hindus in the temple & at their houses during the celebration.

I had my open house on Sunday, which was attended by almost 40 of my friends, Roy being the only one from The RojakLah Clan. I never knew how it was like to be the host of such a big crowd as it was normally less than half of that.

The dishes served to the pleasure of everyone present were:

Briyani rice

Chicken curry


Dry mutton curry

Fried chicken, the ON DEMAND food of the day


Vegetable salad dressed with mayonnaise

My mom started her work in the kitchen at around 7 in the morning, and she never stopped cooking till 7 in the evening! There were people coming and coming and coming, one after another as the dishes started going less and less and less, finishing one after another.

I really do feel for her. She never complained even after all she did. I don't think you could find many mothers out there who would just cook the entire day & not complain when you invite that many guests. She even sent my brother to buy more frozen chicken which she marinated and fried, since everyone went, "Is there more friend chicken? I want moreee". And their wish, my mom granted, with her magic frying pan!

Apart from the fried chicken, there was something that was highly in demand. Its the symbol of Indians and Diwali. Its arguably the most popular Indian snack that everybody just loves to munch on.

Presenting.....

the Muruku!

Wanna have some taste of this magical snack? Just come over to my house.

I Just Wanna Say..

Hello!

Excuse the shortnessity of the post. I've "about ten minutes" (as the librarian on duty pointed out) before the library computers power down at 8pm.

Hazel & Yihui, nice weather! But as you shiver under heaps of fabric and curse the cold, remember how perhimpunan in the late mornings were; sweat drenched in those thick blazers buttoned up to our noses. Hee... xD

Exams are soon. But then again, aren't they always?

I miss you guys!

Hang out soon (if you're still local la)

And if you're not.. *HUG!*

Autumn

In the beginning, all was bright and sunny and the temperature hovered around 15 °C. Then came the extremely foggy and dreary day...

After which the temperature plunged to a chilly 0-10°C...


And then autumn was here! Season of the red and yellow dying leaves...



And fruit-bearing apple trees...

Hmm... Do my eyes deceive me? Is this autumn? And the news said that cities in south Germany were experiencing their first snowfalls. And Freiburg is in the south! Oh my, are we slow or what.


Anyway, on one of those dark and dreary days I went to IKEA. (Sorry no pictures of IKEA, but you already know how IKEA looks like right?)


And then just as we were leaving, hailstones fell from the sky!



Like fat little Santas jumping and bouncing off the ground...



And then after that I visited my first flea market! Didn't buy anything (waste of my three euros) but if you're really looking, you could probably get really good deals here... Like a winter coat for four euros or something. Plus you get a stamp on the back of your palm in the shape of a key!


The flea market was held at the grounds of a mini fair and this giant distant relative of ours was grinning creepily down at us at the entrance. Poser!



They also have this ride called the "Revolution". This video was taken during the tamest part of the ride, it goes round and round like that many many times and then during the last round it spins the passengers 360° four times on the way down. *shivers*

And finally, here are some random photos.



Hmph. Unsightly tram/electric lines.


Neighbour's house looking quite autumn-ly with the red and yellow creeper plants...



Proof of cold weather. See the mist in the background? At times like these the 10-minute walk up the hill to our house seems extra brutal, especially with the cold wind slaughtering our faces. But then the moment you step into the house and feel your face thawing and your specs clouding up in the warmth... Ahh, priceless.

In other news, first two weeks of first semester has been fine. I have so far survived three successive piano classes with Frau Chen with no nervous breakdowns! The class schedule is proving to be a bit of a problem though. It's slowly becoming a trend for me to agree on a time slot with Frau C then go home/out, THEN remember I have another class at that time, then double back/send a text to ask to change the class time. Haish. Blame the birdy brain la.

I have also been missing Malaysian food. But my cooking is improving! We have a wider choice of dishes now, and the alternative of eating at Hao Zi's place once in a while. Heh.

And! Now that I'm here I realize it's good to be able to speak Chinese cos of the large number of Taiwanese students here. But when I speak to them I feel the pressure to make my Chinese sound 'nicer' or more proper, and then it feels so unnatural. Manglish, my loyalty will forever lie with you.

And! I have had no news from you people for a while. What's up? Post here laa. Or at least short snippets on Facebook. Yesh, I've become a Facebook stalker lately.

Hope you're all enjoying your form6/college/uni lives! And good luck to all those taking their finals now.

=)

UiTM IV

During this past weekend, from the 10th to the 11th of October, I participated in the UiTM intervarsity debate competition. Using the British Parliamentary format (the gist: one debate consisted of four teams of two debaters each- two government teams vs. two opposition teams), we debated on hot topics such as the 1Malaysia F1 Team and the Taliban. For the debate, I partnered with my coursemate Zuhri, whereas my previous partner from the MMU Ramadhan IV, Shafiq, partnered with Kamal, a Med. student. I'd show you pics, but I didn't take any. xD

For the competition, all teams had to participate in the four preliminary rounds, after which team points would be added up and the top-16 teams would move on to the knockout rounds.

The motions for the preliminary rounds were:

This House Believes That Western Liberal Democracies should ban the use of face veils.
This House Would Arm Local Militias To Fight The Taliban
This House Would Not Support the 1Malaysia F1 Team
This House Would Legalize Porn That Depicts Rape

For the finals, the motion was:

This House Would Do Away With Vernacular Schools

(I can't remember the motions for the quarter-finals and the semi-finals. They had something to do with Israel and Iran's nuclear facility, and some other issue. :D)

I had an amazing time! Debate competitions are good avenues to develop your debating skills, network and socialise, as well as gain experience. All of which I feel I managed to do; especially since my input during the 15 minute prep has improved since my previous tournament and I finally don't feel like a social retard during tournaments. Hurrah!

The most memorable debate for me was definitely the 1Malaysia F1 debate. The reason it was so memorable was because we were totally beaten up and screwed by the other teams. Compared to them, our arguments were simplistic! The best parts were when our seniors from the main campus (Meor and Faiz), stood up to give their speeches. During their individual speeches, they were amazing and scathing to the point that we felt our intelligence level was super low.

Memorable, indeed.

In the end though, Zuhri and I didn't manage to pass through the preliminary rounds (sorry, Zuhri!). A UiTM team managed to come out as champions (although I thought the IIUM team should've won. I could be biased though. :D), which definitely pleased the home ground.

All in all, I had a good time. :) With one debate-filled weekend over, I'm now looking ahead to this coming weekend where the main campus will be holding selections for the Royal Malaysian Intervarsity Debating Championship. I'm hoping to at least qualify for the junior category.

Wish me luck! :D

From The Nuttiest Of All

Just look at THAT. I'm downloading a movie now (censored the title but don't worry, nothing indecent) and look! 1554kB/s??? And it went faster after that too, just that I got tired of changing the image every time it went up.

Oh look it's done downloading. It took around... 10 minutes?

Hahahahaha. Jealous edi anot? =D

K have to go now, think my housemate is coming back soon (I'm using his line).

Any more movies to recommend, write here okay!

Miss you people, talk soon!

=)