Intoxi'Kath'ing Whispers

Haha.. going to make it compulsory to say goodbye to each year that passes by. Memorable Moments of 2007 January : My 21st Birthday!!! Enough said right... Had a party at home. Yay! February : Did not go round to visiting my relatives this year, especially my dad's side as we had to come back to Subang. (Dad had to do something). So, obviously, our ang pau income also dropped drastically. March : Hmm... nothing memorable here enough for me to remember... April : Had my exams? Nothing exciting going on obviously... May : Went to Pulau Redang with Uni friends! Had fun snorkelling and stuff. Got sunburned. (Duh) June : Donated blood for the first time. Still am proud of it. Yay!! (Mind you, I am very scared of needles, so it is a big thing for me. Will I do it again? Uh...). Went to Kuantan with another group of Uni friends, supposedly to see turtles.. But the turtles didn't want to see us. :( July : Classes? The adrenaline rush of running from hall to hall? Library to Cant...

Aahhh!! Stupid house printer had to choose this perfect timing in ruining my project report!! I have no idea what's wrong with it. It still has ink but when I print more than one page at one go, the ink disappears! So, I now have to go through a gruelling time-waiting game with it. Five minutes of wait, print one bloody "beaver's dam" page. Grr... Eight pages to go. Help. Okay, the paragraph above was not originally part of my blog today. But I just had to let it out. What I want to say about today are my food likes and dislikes. Haha. It just came to me. I have funny food tastes for a Malaysian. Know why? I dislike eating durians . I like the smell, yes, but I seriously do not like partaking in the ritual of tantalising my bud with its aromatic creamy flesh. Sorry. Once, my family decided to have durians for lunch ! (They are all durian lovers). I was like "What?!" Yuck!! Not surprisingly I threw a tantrum... Was in my teenaged years I think. I don't c...

Yay! Today was my last day of industrial training. Had loads of fun. Here are some pictures of what I was doing. But it's not really good or descriptive of what I actually and really did. At least you get the rough picture. Pun intended. By the way, outside the lab, is a sign saying, "No photography". But then, who gives a "beaver's dam". This is the column with which I started my column chromatography using silica gel 60. A closer look... I didn't do it so well.. thus the colour is not even. When it's well done, the colour will be even and you can see even coloured bands appearing too. A fraction collector. You just leave it be and it collects your fractions for you. Another fraction collector. You must put in the weight which you want it to collect though. Then it won't overspill. Test tubes containing my fractions. See the colour change? Cool huh? Hehe. Top view. Another collection of fractions. Colour is becoming darker. Look from right to le...

Lack of sleep leads to tiredness. Tiredness leads to impatience. Impatience leads to irritation. Irritation leads to frustration. Frustration leads to short temper. Short temper leads to angry outbursts. Which lead to words being said impulsively, unmeaningly and spitefully. Which leads to hurt and unseen scars. Hurt that is not easily forgotten though forgiven. Scars which will never be removed. And a distance between the hearts exist. No longer close as before.

Tomorrow will be the last day of the fifth week of my industrial training. And then, yay, three more weeks to go!!! After that, holidays and Christmas !! My favourite time of the year. Haha. Time really flies by quickly. Just one month plus to go and sayonara to year 2007. Can't help but feel sad, nostalgic and a bit reluctant . Reluctant for time to run past me. Reluctant to grow older another year. Reluctant to start the same routine all over again. Classes, exams, you know, the works. I have always, ALWAYS loved the end of the year. Especially the month of December. It feels like you're saying goodbye you know. As if another one of your life's chapter has finally come to an end, closed and put aside. With no other use except for remembrance, lessons and experience . Well, wish as I might, I can never stop Father Time from doing his work. NO matter how hard I grab on or hold on to time, it just slips by my fingers. So, what I will have to do is just run along with it. Yu...

Warning : Biased opinions ahead and maybe sexist remarks as well. With occasional outbursts! Do not read if you have a weak heart or want to retain a good image of the me that you know. Haha... Oh ya, long post ahead too. Nowadays we have so many social networking websites popping up like mushorooms after a heavy downpour. It's hard not to be involved with them when everytime your friends keep inviting you to join. I don't usually join every Tom, Dick and Harry sites that my friends invite me to. No matter how many times they send emails saying "Please join or so-and-so will feel that you don't care." Bla bla bla. Cut the crap. ( Not my friends' fault, it's a computer generated invitation, whaddaya expect?) Friendster, Facebook, Multiply . These are some social sites that I've joined and learned to love. I keep updates in there and I go 'busybodying' around as well. Usual right? In these websites, friends or people who add me are people that...

I have started my industrial training . During the last week, I was put in charge of some machine called rotary evaporator and my job was to get the mangosteen skin extract . The mangosteen skins were first soaked in methanol (an alcohol) for days, filtered for the liquid and then only is it poured into the evaporator machine to get the extract. In this machine, the methanol will evaporate and later condense into another beaker. The methanol after this is useless thus it is thrown away. While I was doing this process, I asked my supervisor where I should dispose of the methanol because it is obvious you can't just throw it into the sink. She said. "Sink." Oh, I thought to myself. Perhaps they do it differently in here. So I followed and happily just poured the methanol down the sin k next to me. I did that last Friday. Today, as I was going to dispose of another batch of methanol down the sink again, my supervisor saw me and asked, "That's methanol...

Sigh. Dah la I was sad enough yesterday.. Then today I went to check and see whether my finals results came out already or not. Well, what can I say? I suppose I am just too numbed for words. Sat in front of the computer, staring at the screen, stoning... The grades barely registered into my puny brain as my view becomes distorted with tears. First thought I had in mind : What's the use of doing your best when everytime whatever effort you put in, the output just comes out like s***? Think my expression must have shown as my mom thought I failed that subject which I had to resit for. Well, thank God I didn't. ( Something to be cheerful about :D ) Man, I am so not a science person.. I just don't know what I want to do.. Even taking this course was like a gamble. I just registered myself as a backup for local U. Not with the sole intent of studying this course.. I thought since they gave it to me, I'll just take whatever that comes my way. Looks like this step I have tak...

I am actually feeling quite emo at the moment. Don't ask me but I am also curious as to how the word 'emo' became a substitute for feelings like sadness, down and depressed. Well, anyway, I am feeling all these feelings at once. Eesh. Maybe it's that time of the month.. Drving me crazy by putting my hormones in a merry-go-round. Stop it.. Sigh... Will continue how I feel in another post.. Once I'm feeling better.

OK.. which shall I start on first? tick tock tick tock .. OK!! First : My gym experience I've never been to a gym, never put a foot in at their doorstep too. Reason : I am not much of a sports/active person. So it was only thanks to a generous friend who had 7 days passes to California fitness that I had my first experience in a gym. (Tee, thanks for sharing it with me!) Hari pertama : Had to register lo.. bla bla. Tried to get us to sign up..haha. Gave excuses.. but quite valid ones. Went for two hours of excercise on the 'monstrous-looking' machines/equipments. (Sorry, I'm a kampung kid when it comes to these things.) Di Er Tian : One hour workout.. getting used to the equipments now..haha. Later, one hour hip hop class known as Street 101.. Instrcutor was quite good looking but his name was a bit odd, SUNNY...heheh. The Third Day : No workout on machines, gave 'them' a break from my meddling hands..haha. Went for two hours of classes. First, aerobics . S...

Went to a friend's house for BBQ last night.. From the light drinking (of Tiger beer, Coke, Pepsi ), it graduated to the heavy drinking (of Jack Daniels, Bacardi Limon and Red Label ). Things, people do or say when they have had more than they can handle, or when their alcohol intake has reached their peak. Or when they just stupidly force themselves for the sake of it... sorry, but it's true . ~ They vomit at the roadside, drain. ( Woe betide the houseowner should one fail to reach the bathroom in time ) ~ They start to talk incoherently. ~ They start to spill their inner most secrets like I have a crush on who and who, I hate who and who, I did it with who and who ( This is the best time, I tell you, haha ). ~ They start to say words like f***, deepshit, fork becomes f***, f***er, a***hole and whole lots of other nonsense which I deem too degrading to put in here. ~ They start to make funny noises. ~ They tend to walk tipsily. And sometimes knock into you. ~ They start to do ...

h - honourable o - optimistic p - peaceful e - earnest Yup, that's me!!!

Today was the last day of my finals!! Well, during this whole examination period I had the 'luxury' of driving to Uni. Nothing occured, I drove safely, reached uni safely, reached home safely. Today... something extraordinary happened to me while I was driving. And I can guess that this happens to, like, a very small percentage of drivers who drive daily. On the federal highway, being the slow coach that I am, I drove on the most left lane following a lorry in front of me. I kept a safe distance, remembering what I learned during driving lessons about distance for 4 metres per second.. sth like that. So there I was happily driving at 70km/h (Yes, I know. It's slow!!) behind the lorry. Out of the blue, some tube like things fell down from the lorry, on to the road, directly in front of me!!! I got the shock of my life!! I couldn't really stop.. and I couldn't switch lanes as there were cars and these tube things were rolling everywhere!!! So know what I HAD to do? I ...

Something cute/ funny happened on Thursday.. I always park my car on the tiny piece of land outside my house. Yesterday as I reached the front of my house, my neighbour's orange male cat was sitting in the middle of the patch of grass blocking my way. It didn't budge when the car came. So I moved the car nearer to the cat with hopes that it will move.. IT DID NOT EVEN LOOK AT ME!!! So I stopped the car, got out of it and went to chase the cat away. This cat must be one perverted cat la. It was looking at a female cat right across the street. It didn't register my presence even when I was standing directly behind it. It was so intense on observing the female cat.. for whatever reason I don't know la... (like peeping tom-cat only) After saying 'shoo' to it SO many times, I finally went and gently tapped its tail with my foot. Hahahaha. The cat got a shock and ran off.. all the while its head was still turned at the female cat's direction... P...

Finally!!! All mid term tests are down.. Three more lab tests to go.. Two weeks more to study week.. Three weeks more to finals... Five weeks more to holidays... and freedom!!! Oh no... my industrial training.. crap what am I going to do about it? Stupid hospital...

Do take the time to view this video. Listen to what the 13 year old girl has to say. It is very true and in tune with the present and future of the world. Very inspiring... Please let me know if you can't view the video... thanks!

Today, I had the ‘good luck’ of experiencing driving in heavy rain for almost an hour plus, on the way home from campus. ( What, Kath? Driving to Setapak?? ) Yes, me. Haha. I could have left earlier and not get caught in the downpour, but I went for a little outing with my Uni friends.(Not that I’m complaining, enjoyed myself) So by the time I left, it was close to 5pm. Thus, not only was it raining heavily, it was also the time government workers left for home! Great.. Seriously, I just realized how bad the roads are near UTAR. It was flooded… and my car being the ‘low’ type could have stalled right in the middle of the road, in the middle of the downpour, in the middle of …well, KL. Driving in the heavy rain is definitely not a fun thing to do. It was very stressful but an ‘eye-opening’ experience. Haha. (Pun intended) Right before I hit MRR2, I was already caught in the jam. Luckily drivers were courteous and I could come onto the highway. Dahla I’m half blind but thrice today I wa...

Not to sit next to in trains!!! 1. People who talk a lot, nonstop . (Felt like asking the person to shut up) 2.People who talk so loud , their every personal secrets can be heard!!! (Hello? We don't need to know that you didn't brush your teeth this morning! Gross...) 3. People who have body odour . (No offense, but I cannot take the smell, really felt faint and wanted to vomit) 4. People who do not know how to keep their elbows to themselves. (They keep jabbing your sides with them!! Ouch..) 5. People who are big-sized . (Again, no offense but I always seem to end up sandwiched between two BIG people, it’s uncomfortable!) 6. This is for the ladies. Men !! (Perves, there are a lot of them out there!!!) P/S : Not all men ya.. 7. People who obviously do not know anything about hygiene . (They dig their noses, pick at their teeth all the while sitting next to you!! *Shudders..*) 8. People, men again, who like to grab their *ahem* crotch .. for whatever reason I ...

One day, as I was walking out of a shopping mall toilet with my friends, a little boy ran out from the ladies toilet, shouting something, the whole world could hear him. He shouted, "Ba ba!! Ma ma lao sai!!!" (Daddy! Mommy has diarrhea!!) Immediately, me and my friends burst into laughter, but discreetly la. ( duh ) After our hearty chuckle, heheh, a thought just came to me. This kid is as innocent as can be. To him, diarrhea is something as normal as sneezing and that there is nothing to be ashamed of. Well, having diarrhea is normal.. but how many of us would shout it out for the whole world to know?? Correct? I like relating innocence to kids.. it just makes sense!! Not that they are naive, just innocent. To them, there are no bad people, everybody is just like them and equal. There is no 'colour', no bad-mouthing, no evil. If they don't like you, they will tell you straight to your face with no harboured evil feelings. They mean it purely from their hea...

Aahhh!! I have no idea why I am so busy! I have reports yet to finish, answers I've yet to search for online, assignments yet to be done, clothes not ironed... and the list goes on and on! I don't want to complain.. but then I do WANT to complain. So shoot me. Here I am nearly drowning in my pool of work and there I see my sister happily reading a novel by Zoe Rice, an activity which I'd much rather be doing! She has the time to even go shopping at One Utama!! Wah...She has even watched dvds borrowed from her friends.. movies I'd like to watch as well.. Pan's Labyrinth.. Can't remember what else.. Kath, shut up! You aren't supposed to compare!! I can't help it!! Haha. Not your fault sis.. just that she's in the same semester as me.. with a beautiful timetable (no classes on Wednesdays!) Same Uni but then she's taking PR and I'm taking Biotech. That's the difference I suppose.. Sci-ence.. *sigh* It had better be good after all the...

This is about what happened when I donated blood just this Wednesday. I am no regular donor, in fact it was my first time because I am damn scared of needles and injections!! Ever since young, I always gave problems when it came to getting injections be it BCG or Tetanus.. whatever. I used to cry a lot, my doctor scolded me once. He said, "I have not even poked you yet with the needle and here you are crying already!!" Sorree .. I can't help it okay? Thank God I didn't cry in form 3 and standard 6! Would be way embarrassing ! So, I have no idea from where this courage of mine came from, which made me want to go and donate my blood! It's like sending myself to the slaughterhouse! I suppose the presence of my friends there posed as a catalyst which really pulled me to this donating thing. I am glad that I did it though. Because, I have finally been able to gather up my courage and face my fear. Proud of myself!! *laughs heartily* Oh yeah, I didn't don...

I do not know what I am feeling right now.. I suppose I feel kind of sad.. haha. Three weeks of holidays just passed by too quickly. It's like I haven't even got myself into the partying mood yet and then here I am getting ready for the full force of workload to come crashing upon me in a few day's time. I still feel like I am in dreamland where classes are not starting yet. It's all just a dream. But it's not unfortunately.. Oh well, at least I have a longer break at the end of the year! *cheers up again* During my hols, I managed to catch up with some friends, watched some movies and also watched pirated movies... Sorry! I finished a book, Silence of the Lambs.. really satisfied.. haha. *grins happily* I feel kind of lazy like I usually do every time when term starts.. bad habit this is. This term's timetable ain't too bad, to me that is. But we still have long breaks in between.. Eesh. Three days in a row with eight o'clock classes.. :( Can't ...

Here are some cool tests which I took at a website. These are the results! Whether they really represent the real me or not.. it's up to you to decide..haha. So, what do you think? True? For me, some are, some are not. P/S: I do have brown eyes and my favourite colour is blue.. :) You can take these tests too. No need to sign up or any admin thingy. Just plunge straight to quiz you want. Have fun.. http://www.blogthings.com/ Your Eyes Should Be Brown Your eyes reflect: Depth and wisdom What's hidden behind your eyes: A tender heart What Color Should Your Eyes Be? You Are 2: The Helper You always put on a happy face and try to help those around you. You're incredibly empathetic and care about everyone you know. Able to see the good in others, you're thoughtful, warm, and sincere. You connect with people who are charming and charismatic. At Your Best: You are deeply giving, altruistic, and humble. You devote your life to others while caring fo...

I was looking through pictures which we took all these while. Here are few of the mind boggling pics as to why we would even bother to snap them..haha. Enjoy! Assortment of Lindt chocolates!!! Yum! A face made up from veggies.. You got the chilli, onion and also rice.. Haha. Nope, this is not the gingerbread man. It's the pancake man. Made by my sister. I ate it thereafter... mua haha.. Cappuccino cheesecake from Secret Recipe.. Don't know why my friend stuck the fork in it like that though. :P Can you guess what this is? If you can, you've got a good eye. It's ice on a red table cloth. Cool? Cool. I am going to search for more and load them in here. :)

I have so much to blog about I do not know where to start!! Firstly, I have only one more paper to go for this examination period! Hooray! Studying for exam is really tough. I feel so stressed out that I eat and eat non-stop!! I had chocolates, ice-creams, pisang goreng all during my three weeks of study period. :P Anything edible that I found in my house went into my mouth and then my stomach. ( the journey after that... you don't wanna know ) As a result, I seem to have grown a little rounder at my face (and tummy!!).. :( And I don't exercise!! Have to start doing my situps at night again. Hopefully, I will lose this 'fat' when the holidays starts as I revert back to my normal eating habits. I was feeling quite down during my study period as I felt I couldn't pull myself together to work. I always seem to be sleeping everytime I start to study. During my break, I watched a cantonese series on TV. In this episode, there was a particular dialogue which caugh...

10 Things I wish for to come True 1. World peace (Don't all beauty queens use that? So unoriginal ) 2. World peace (No, seriously, I really want this. Look at the current world now) 3. World peace (I told you... I mean it) Hmm... speaking of world peace, just the other day my sister asked a young kid about what is his dream for this world. He said, "Herpes" ( is that the correct spelling ?) I was like "Ha?!!" So my sister asked again. He said the same thing.. "Herpes." I was like, man, what would a 12 year old boy know about herpes?? I didn't even know what masturbation was about until I was 15!! I thought masturbate was masterbed, the bed you sleep on! *smack myself on the forehead* We asked him again, this time we told him to say whatever he was going to say syllable by syllable. Boy: " World.... peace...." Do-ing!!! Sweat...

I know, it's such a paradox isn't it? First I had a title named crying, now I have another post with the title laughing. Haha. But seriously, read on and you will understand. (I hope) I like to laugh. And I really can laugh a lot. I do not know why, I was just born that way. Simple things make me laugh. People may say that "Simple minds are easily amused." But, I beg to differ. I just see things from a different point of view which turns out to be quite funny. Laughing can be good to your health, as it helps to circulate blood in your body. It also makes you appear younger.. (proven testimony here) hehe. :P Unfortunately, laughing a lot has put me into a kind of situation where I do not want to be. Because I laugh a lot, some people think of me as a person who does not know much of her work, a playful, not serious person and a silly (read : immature ) girl. This is just because they do not know the real me. I am very serious in my work, always and will ever be....

S***! It is really damn hot right now. Stifling hot, not even a breeze or a wind. This kind of weather makes me want to sleep instead when I have so much work to do. It’s so hot, my mood is not there to do my work. I end up sitting at the computer typing away. It’s been a while since my last entry. Been busy as a bee, with midterm tests all going on and assignments to hand in by the dateline. Finally, these have all come and gone, and now, my main worry is my final exams. Before that, let me update you on what has been happening in this month. Firstly, my DSL router got struck by lightning. One of my sisters didn’t pull out the cord after use and it was raining heavily that day. Now, I am ‘internet-less’ and I seriously feel the pinch and loss. I haven’t really realized how much I depended on the internet. I used to think that I will be okay without internet, but now I am beginning to think otherwise. So for now, my only main access to the internet is through my campus computer labs. T...

The word 'idiot' has become a very much a part of my vocabulary nowadays. Perhaps it is due to some uncanny and scrupulous people I meet in the train, bus and yes, even in my campus. I have already complained about the train passengers a few times, that I know. So I won't bore you with those details. The people in my campus is the highlight of the day! In campus, when we go for lectures in the lecture hall, it is the norm to keep place for our friends. One of my friends met with an accident last year, and this has caused her to go around in campus using crutches . She has difficulty going up the stairs (slow as well) and lecture halls as you know it are built stadium style with rows of seats ascending upwards towards the back. So we basically will keep seats in the front row for her convenience. As there are five of us in our gang, two of us will normally keep five seats as we are two of the early ones. Another two arrive just in time for the lecture to start. (I am se...

Yes, I am already 21 and still single ! Why, am I telling you this, you may ask. Because I get loads of people asking me when am I going to get a boyfriend! Hello? Boyfriends don’t just drop from heaven okay?!! Hmm… maybe they will if I pray a lot. Hehe. I get it from my friends... I even get it from my grandma! Can you imagine that?! Someone, who I think of as a traditional and old-fashioned thinking lady asking me, a supposedly hip and modern girl, when she is going to get a boyfriend! Ahh!! Let me tell you what she said. Grandma : Yar yat sui lo! (You’re 21 already!) Zhong mei wan dou korkor zai ah? (Still haven’t found a bf yet?) Me : Ha?!! …… What is this??? Ha! I was talking with a few of my friends last Friday. Some of us are still single. So I told them my analogy of why we were still single. Each girl has her own destined knight in shining armour (I know, too many fairytales :P). The knights in shining armours are most probably lost in a dense and thick forest in a s...

These are bottles of alcoholic drinks I took at my friend's house. We had a drinking party. But I didn't drink though. Not this time anyway. I am allergic to alcohol . Haha. Which really is a good thing to me, as I have a valid reason not to drink the next time. Seriously, the agony you have to go through after consuming alcohol is not worth the money and time you spend for these kinds of drinks. For me, that is. To each man, his or her own. One man's meat is another man's poison. :) As you can see, this is a Vodka. This... is the famous JD whiskey. Tequila... The one and only drink which I drank and later found out that I am allergic to alcohol. This is a Bacardi. Another brand of Tequila. I, of course, kept my distance from it. And finally, these are the glasses into which the drinks are poured into.

I am feeling very 'emo' today. I do not know why. All I know is, the minute I got up to get ready for classes, I started to cry. Tears just started to roll down and I found it a bit hard to stop. This is seriously weird la k, early in the morning, crying. Aaiii... but then I do have quite a low Emotinal Quotient (EQ). I find it hard to control my feelings. I can be very patient, yes. Even if people scold me for NO reason (parents excluded), I will just smile and look at you like what you said doesn't hurt me even a bit. Even though IT DOES! But I seriously can take it as just a normal conversation we are having. There are things though, especially things that I really care about, that will make me cry if it's bad.  Crying to most people is seen as something lame, a loser. But to me, it is very therapeutic. Everytime I cry, I will immediately feel better and be able to see things through, clearly. It enables me to see things through another perspective. And sudden...

Boo-hoo!!! I am 21 years old already! I feel old.. I know most people would probably be cheering and rejoicing at their new found 'freedom' but to me being 21 is not really fun. Well, not fun YET anyway. It does not seem to make such a big difference to me in my past, present or even future life. I don't go into clubs(plan to though), I don't really gamble so much that I would die to get into a casino. It's just like a normal ageing thing to me.  Firstly , I am among the first among my peers to BE 21!! That is one reason why I feel OLD.  Secondly , I can no longer behave like a small kid and blame it on my teen tantrums.. Hehe. Thirdly , I have more responsibilities at this age, namely to vote for my country's wakil rakyat when election time starts which is like two, three more years to go? Which reminds me, I must get myself registered soon.   Fourthly , being 21 means you are one step closer to being 30! And I can't simply imagine myself being a...

Classes started last three weeks ago. The very first day itself, I already had a lab report to do. Ah!!! I am still in a holiday mood/mode. I cannot seem to get myself to work. I have not started studying or revising yet. I have to, soon. Tests are coming. As I blog this, I am still campus, waiting for my last lecture which starts at 4pm. Had nearly four hours of break just now. Just spent my time finishing my report, chatting with people and surfing the net for fun. Oh ya, remember the one month job I mentioned I did in a local U? I got my paycheque already. Finally! Guess how much all that work is worth? Haha. RM 204. Not even enough to take my family out to Friday's or sorts. That's what my mom said anyway, haha. But it's true! I do not care though, I am just so thrilled that I have some dough!!! Yay!!! I hate, no not hate, fear chemistry equations, concepts, anything to do with chemistry especially the chemistry lab report. I am always confused about what I am doing!...