My first semester as a grad student in UPM has come to an end. It is now time to move on. Sooooo much has happened in this semester alone, that I cannot possibly remember and record them all. It seems like in this one sem, I've had more activities than my entire life put together. I thank God for more friends than I can visit,which is a luxury.
Anyway, my scholarship money finally, finallycame in on 20th April, and I can eat like a normal person once again. It came in just when my bank account was drying up to zero, and so now my debt to my family is also cleared.
I have promised my brother and mum to go back to Melaka before Mother's day next week, and I plan to make a sushi cake.
Things in the lab are going slowly, with my chemicals and specimens ordered but not arrived. Today , sadly, most of the TSF juniors are already home or are going home tomorrow.
So tonight, I am alone, because Amy is back in Taiping and Jasmine is working late.
I am alone for the first time in days. Actually, what a relief. I just need the rest after whats been going on this whole week.
On Monday, it was the outing to Hoi Toing steamboat and barbeque with the UPMers,who are leaving soon, where we discovered that Guna can eat ice cream like MPSJ truck can swallow rubbish.Also, UPMers are crazy cooks who try to to fry Or-chean on a tiny space of hot stone and some other stuff I won't mention. Next morning, a lot of us had hang-over from consuming too much butter.The next day was labour day.
Labour day for me was literally that, labour day. Because some 30+ of us from TSF were volunteering for FGA family sports carnival in Shah Alam. There was a million and one things going on. I was mainly manning the storeroom counter(which doubled as TSF volunteers hang-out place/information counter/discount voucher hand-out booth/makan table/place to look for volunteers to do hard labour)During my break time, I managed to eat something from the African Fellowship's foodstall, called 'moi-moi' which is crushed and steamed beans with meat/fish. Tasted something like 'otak-otak'. Also manages to play some game-stalls, pay a visit to the Youth Church(YC) body art booth(where I got an orchid painted onto my arm for RM2),
buy some readers' digest for real cheap(3 for RM1) and some glassware for the house. Also managed to try some Durian flavoured jelly and homemade peach yogurt. All the 90+ home fellowships in FGA each set up food stalls, game stalls or jumble sale stalls. Really loads of stuff going on. Once i managed to poke my head(actually my whole self) into the foyer to watch the African fellowship live worship-lead and they all danced at the same time, all 50+ of them. We Malaysians mostly stood at the side and clapped, but there were a few sporting ones who joined in the dancing. Guess its not in our culture. Nevertheless, it was a culturally enriching experience. I also manged to squeeze into the indoor stadium to watch the semi-finals and finals of the inter-HF futsal games. Violent and testosterone pumped, man. Everyone seemed to be sweeping everyone off their feet, literally. I think at one point fighting almost broke out.
Anyway, at the end of the day, everyone made-up and all worshipped together at the final prize giving. I am in regret because I missed the swimming event, and tennis. There were many other games as well, can't remember all. Oh... and I missed the dunking pool sessions where they were dunking the pastoral staff one by one. Anyway, when going back, somehow the TSF volunteers managed to get a whole 44 seater bus to ourselves. "Ourselves" here refers to 12 of us including elder Chan, who was the only guy. So what do 12 TSFers do when they get a 44 seater air-cond bus with microphone for a 1/2 hour trip back to church? they sing karaoke of course! Even the bus driver uncle was very gung-ho and kept on requesting more. haha.All in all, we volunteers spent 14 hours at the carnival site.
Yesterday was movie marathon day at Cheng Eu-Jynn's house, but before that we(me,Eu-jynn, Adrian Chan, Wendy n Amelia) stopped by TIMES bookstore warehouse sale in PJ near the Colgate -palmolive factory . Managed to buy 2 book for RM23. And at the same floor was a Guardian's stock clearance sale. !Cheap!Cheap!Cheap! Finally only managed to watch 2 and a half movies. For dinner, went to Tesco Damansara to grab Pita bread, roast chicken, sardines and 10 other things, sat down on floor and eat as though we were in "lord of the Rings"(as Eu-Jynn put it). so, that was yesterday. Really take my hats off to Wendy for having a nose for bargains.
Thats it. I type this already I feel tired out.Plus I never mention the stuff that happened before Monday.
Ciao.
Currently watching: Nothin. Too busy running around with friends.
