i'm a bookaholics

went to PWTC book fair yesterday. did a lot of damage to my savings. i am now announcing that i have ALL Ramlee Awang Murshid fictions. not only MIkhail. but i have ALL OF THEM. yes, i am that crazy. spend RM100++ at the book fair. i left my pendrive at home, so i couldnt upload pictures of my 'damage'. currently having 8 newly bought and unfinished books. on top of that i am planning to do another damage to my account by going to MPH warehouse sale next week with Gerald. i hope those books that i want will be there.
take my advice. buy Malay or local books in PWTC. for English books, go to MPH warehouse next week. see you there, or be square.

p/s: the pictures had been uploaded

Offline....

its quite boring to write a blog offline. but i have to make do with whatever i have.
so, i've already lost track of date and day. I am not sure how many days we're in semester break. haha. i know its still early though.
first day of holiday, spend my time driving alone into bukit bintang and visited christian dior warehouse sale in coronade hotel. i almost got myself a RM170 perfume.
somehow along the way i lost my interest. so i didnt buy that perfume. then i just walk, window shopping to and fro bb plaza, sg wang plaza and lot 10. bought myself a cloth at FOS.
got to my mahallah in the evening and start packing real fast. my bro came at night and we load the Ford Ranger until its full. I dont give a f**k about the prohibition of bringing male into the mahallah. i've tried asking for permission in a legal way but they didnt entertain me. seriously, how can they expect all the girls lift all those heavy boxes. nope, i am one who will do whatever i think is right. so i told my bro to lift the boxes from level 3 to the truck. send him off that night and continue packing. the next morning i load the Gen2 until its full, send my keys and off we go to Serdang.
imagine, two fully loaded Ford Ranger and Gen2 is my stuff. yet they expect me to carry it myself. total BS.
at my parents house, all that stuff cannot fit in. i told my mother that i seriously need another place to live. so we agreed that she should make her flat nearby south city plaza available for my accommodation.
the plan is, i will live there and i will let out the rooms (other than master bedroom, of course). i dont want to get all so excited about it. although i love to live anywhere but here (hehe).
the windows and doors had already been measured and some people are coming this saturday to put up grills on the said door and windows. well this is Malaysia. we have to put up those grill. currently my stuff is out under the porch and some of it is in the living room.
cant wait to have so much money to design 'my flat' like a designer. tehehehehe. i'm thinking dark brown like oldtown white coffee. or purple like what i saw on tv. haiiih....daydreaming.
Anyway, my holiday started off with kitchen duty:

tadaa! says who i dont know how to cook? i said i hate cooking. doesnt mean i cant cook. hello! :P
on Monday, i went out in the morning and drive around Serdang meeting my old employers asking for the same job and some new ones. up until now, no news.
I dont remember what i do on tuesday. lol.
on wednesday, went to Alamanda to find job. there are some vacancies but i dont like retails. if i want to work in retails i might as well help my aunt. that way i wont care about the skimpy pays so much. on the same day i planned to go to PWTC bookfair.
i was on sg. Besi highway when a motorcycle honked me. they told me my front wheel is on smoke (not fire. haha). so i pulled up beside the military airport.
they want rm300 for repair there and then. but i said no thank you. i called my father and told him whats happening. so i waited here:

for a very long time at that. pass up my time reading The Sun and Stephen King:

then my father and bro came and a short while later a lorry came.but before that another bike came and offered to repair. my father also refused.
we had to put the car on to the lorry:


how cool was that?
anyway, lots of things happened on Wednesday. after we came back from picking me and Gen2 back from the highway, i followed my parents to Balai because yesterday my sister hit a bike with Ford Ranger.
initially, they agreed with the girl not to make a report and settle outside balai and court. but the next day the girl went to report anyway. so a three quarter lawyer advised her parents to lodge a report too. hehe
my parents arent so ignorant about the law, but we are dealing with the vic and her family who are so ignorant. i am GLAD i took law. because all those drama and theatrics happens (malas nak cerita drama dia) because they are ignorant.
in the end, after some free advices etc, i drafted (again, for free) a settlement between my sister and the girl in front of the investigating officer that the matter is settled without investigation and we will pay all the damage to the bike of RM194.00.
all signatures were put and its settled. the IO read my settlement and was very satisfied (we never told anybody there that i took law). i saved everybody RM300 of compound and my sister's neck.
how convenient is that? no wonder people hated lawyers. they are afraid of the things that they didnt know. afraid of our knowledge. fyi, i didnt come there to save anyone. i came because i want to see how useful i can be. to prove myself to me own self. heck its true, KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.
today, i'm still waiting for Gen2 to be repaired so that i can catch up with PWTC bookfair. i just wanted to buy Ramlee Awang Murshid's Mikhail. i hope its still ongoing by the time the car is ready. on 28th planned to go to MPH warehouse at PJ with Gerald.
other than that is the usual, watchi9ng tv, play games, made my kid sisters life miserable, picking them to and fro the school and kindergarten etc etc etc. mundane stuff that doesnt need reporting here.

next on schedule is moving out of parents house to the flat. unpacking etc. after all is done and if i didnt have a job to detain me i wanted to go Cuti-Cuti Malaysia in Penang. our family planned to go to Bt. Ferringhi. but there might be chance that i'm going earlier to visit Fiza.

p/s: i am now on my way to PWTC to get that book coz the car had been repaired.

to study or not to study?

Hark O my dear friends, verily i am done reading the Chronicles of Narnia and verily i was quite influenced by the style of writing but not quite for this style was only featured in a few pages while for the rest of the story it was just like reading bedtime story to children. Nonetheless i was content with the story. Its amazing that while i am still in my exam period i can still start and finish a chronicle. what i meant by 'amazing' is that it is apparent that i did waste a lot of precious scanty times.

Today i went just for fun to check the result of world top university ranking. it was featured on LKS blog. According to wikipedia.org

The THES - QS World University Rankings is an annual publication that ranks the "Top 200 World Universities", and is published by The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) and Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). The full listings feature on the QS website and on the THES website. They have been running since 2004 and are broken down by subject and region.

The ranking weights are:

• Peer Review Score (40%)
• Recruiter Review (10%)
• International Faculty Score (5%)
• International Students Score (5%)
• Faculty/Student Score (20%)
• Citations/Faculty Score (20%).

lets see how we stand in the world:
UM = 230
USM = 250
UPM = 320
UITM = 356

well not so bad.

UIAM = ?????

what? no UIA? hahahaha....well. whatever man. plus, serve them right for many reasons that only we the students know and also for making us sit for exams on three consecutive days while they gave us only three days revision days.

now back to myself. Thankfully for the first time since i was 19 i didnt suffer from my annual exam syndrome that i had to endure every time its exam. somehow my defensive measure this whole semester worked. when i dont hope. when i enjoy friendship more. i was set free. i am saved. the only time i was down was on the Nov 2nd after my company law paper. the straight exams was very stressful and i became emotionally weak the moment i was safe in my room. the fact that i didnt get to eat rice the whole day contribute to that too. and when i finally went to eat rice that night all the small things nearly brought tears to my cheeks...things like watching Amazing Race contestants reading letters from their families.

the straight papers is not without the good side (albeit very little of it) = we will end the exam sooner than most people. i cant wait for the exam to be over. my last paper was on the 5th. planning on what to do after last paper is very exciting. now i just enjoy the planning and leave the workability later. so what i have in mind?
1) to go to warehouse sale with my mother
2) to join environmental programme in Selangor that a friend graciously invited me to (for 4 days).
3) to Penang
4) to Malacca
5) to read Alexandre Dumas
6) to finish Research Asst task
7) to apply for internship in big law firm
8) to sleep all day
9) watch tv all day

okay okay thats basically most of it. the thing is before i can reach into the doing of all that. i must do my last paper first which as far as i myself see...i didnt study the tiniest bit. u see, those straight exams took my sanity away. the last paper would be LAnd Law ii. quite a dry subject if i must say.now if thy hast hearken my story, i shall take my leave and bade thee farewell. must study!

My day at the Warehouse Sales

people, there are 12 pictures here. here's my story: first i didnt study at all for the whole day and i am so dead for finals. second, i went to zara warehouse sale and mph warehouse sale. before any of u kill me for my irresponsibility or out of sheer jealousy that i even went to those warehouses read my further story. the story as u can see will start with each picture starting from the first one on the left.
1) i woke up nearly 10am. around near 11am Sha called and asked me out for breakfast cum brunch. we went muhamid bandung in pasar besar gombak near ong tai kim. sha wanted to taste the infamous mee bandung there. turn out it was delicous but Sha said she cooks it better. well. as for me it was spicy. i ordered roti canai. the food was ok and the price was ok. if you dont mind the smell of raw meats coming from downstairs of the wet market you may try this place.
2) next we went to Giant supermarket to buy my toilettries when suddenly Sha's friend (er what was her name again?) called and told her that she's already at the warehouse sales that we have decided not going for exams' sake. i irresponsibly and single handedly encouraged Sha to go. and since her conviction is already as thin as the skin of onion (malay phrase directly translated into english) we went to Zara warehouse sale.
3) i understand that Zara sold a lot of pig skin lining shoes and bags or anything made of leather. but usually they didn't mix it up and provide adequate warnings so that we Muslims will not accidentally touched it and have to go to all the difficulty of washing our hands with sand and water - the ritual that we observed. but this warehouse sale perhaps out of all the chaos no longer observe this and simply mix everything together. i know its real busy and all and i tried to be understanding. however, perhaps in the future the organizer could have just put everything with pig skin lining at one designated place. u can throw everything with pig skin there, put signs as usual and don't even have to wrap with plastic. its real sad because when its mixed together not only we can accidentally touch it but we may also lose the opportunity of buying the one with no pig skin element accessories or apparels because they were mixed. put it simply, its like putting vegetarian food side by side with meats but worse because it was mixed together. i just hope that this hiccups can be corrected thats all :-)
4) when we're finished with Zara (i had to drag Sha outta that place) we went to MPH warehouse at nearby building. i was astonished to see how big that place is. and all those books...OMG heavens for book lovers such as yours truly.
5) when i was busy looking for every book that i manage to look at (so many books to look, so little money and time) i saw this kid who were playing alone with herself while her mother was busy looking for books. she opened her read umbrella and pretended that was her tent and walk back and forth from bookshelf switching books to read every moments (more like one or two seconds). i thought that was pretty cute so i took picture.
6) i took a basket and load it with any books that catch my quick interest. adding and discarding them the whole time i was walking in this endless space of books. i took some Austen, Dickens and Twain plus some other books. these are among those books that had to be lastly discarded due to money matters.
(7) and (8) well these are pics that i took just to show u people a glimpse of just how big that place is and just how many books there is. trust me, those were just glimpses.
(9) and (10) so we're finished with our thoughtless escapades and its time to empty our bladder and fill our stomach. we found it necessary to set foot on Palm Square (not very sure with the name) just for the sake of marking our first appearance at the newly built place. well its new because we havent been there since its completion. this building was under construction back when we were studying in matric PJ a few metres away and few years back. the place looked like a half mall and half shoplot kind of building. confusing and boring at the same time. so we decided to forgo our plan to eat there because the place was boring.
(11) and (12) : yes, i almost forgot...what did i get for myself? at Zara i bought two socks. yeah just two socks. i took pride in my coolness in picking stuff at this place. well, i dont actually wear this brand's clothes. i basically went there to see if there is any accessories, bags, belts and shoes that i might like which i didnt. which is why i didnt took pictures because its not my zen place. lol. anyway, i am not sure whats the brand of those socks. i think its Pull and Bear. well doesnt matter, its for my kid sisters plus its cute and neat. next, i bought Dumas and C.S. Lewis. ah, i sadly had bought only these for actually i couldnt afford these at all. i had used my Penang fund that i secretly allocated to go to Penang this coming holiday. see you next time Fiza (sorry if ure reading this). the prices? The Chronicles of Narnia was rm15. The Man in the Iron Mask was RM10. Both socks were rm9.90 each. yes thats cheap and how come it affect my Penang fund? well i have to eat too.......

later, we went back and made a quick stop at carrefour wangsa maju for my toilettries thingy that got postponed this morning and ate at McD. we were wasted and now here i am in my room, reporting.......and done.