Leaving 2008...

Prologue: During my last 24 hours day back in Kuching before I came back here to start yet another new semester, she commented something that makes me thinking...and occasionally still thinking it now...

"...everytime I read your blogpost, it feels kinda noisy inside my head."

Hmm...maybe I used too much of exaggeration and CAPSLOCK and Bold. Or maybe I rant like some deranged lunatic way too often.

Within more or less half an hour, year 2008 will finally come to its end and another new year will open it doors, hopefully full with hope and dream and more achievement than before. But before that, lets have a little short review about 2008.

Overall for me, most of the thing that happen in 2008 was thing that I wish that I can forget as soon as possible. IT'S BAD. Demoralized. Disillusioned. Deranged. Defeated. Denial. Is there any better word that I can actually think about to describe year 2008 better? It makes me wonder, why did I done to myself throughout the whole year? And what did other people did to me? How? Who? Why? When? Where? There's so many question that lingers around my head right now that I can't help to feel EMO again. In fact, I was still emo during my dinner time before I came back to my room. Only after that I am in my room, alone, I can actually breathe properly and rearrange my thought. Maybe this is because that I am much more honest when I am facing myself only, when my presence is felt the strongest.

At first I really want to blog everything out and while doing it, releasing a Pandora box full of angst and despair. But then I think: what's the point anyway, most of you guys have your own problem as well and will be too busy minding other people's rambling and such. And then there is time constraint as well cos I promised myself to finish this before the clock hits 12am. So in the end, this post had turned much more neutral.

Will I change? Will my luck change? Will everyone else change? Time will tell. GOOD BYE 2008...and HELLO 2009.

...and dang, I missed it by a minute! lolx

Farewell 2008, Welcome 2009. This is ZheRong, greeting from his room in front of his laptop along with everyone in my MSN contact list. *And thank god that the connection maintained long enough for me to finish this blogpost*

Epilogue: And since today is 31st of December, a couple of us went to Baskin Robbin to get ourselves oh-so-nice-in-hot-tropical-sun ICE CREAM in conjuction with Baskin Robbin's 31% discount promo. And as usual, it is packed with like-minded typical Malaysian, eager to snap up any chance to get cheap stuff. In the end 7 of us decided to share a quart and as usual, the tantalizing ice cream is filled to the brim. Mmmm... we went straight to McD to avoid the crowd and enjoyed our icecream....nomnomnomnomnom.

HUGE, isn't it? lol. Here, take a bite!

...and with the rumbling fireworks from a far and random uni looney howling from some other end of the hostel, checking through all the New Year wishes in form of sms and MSN chat (should be around 10 at last count), I wish everyone of you, from Kiribati in Pacific to Little Diomede, Alaska, USA but mostly concentrated around Malaysia...

A VERY FRUITFUL, EVENTFUL, MEANINGFUL, JOYFUL and COLORFUL NEW YEAR.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009.

Fillers: LOL Deviantart.

Prologue: The despair continues...and turning worse every single moment...

So on the other day during my second lecture of HBT206: Producing and Editing Translation, Dr Hasuria touched about the purpose and significance of rekabentuk and rekaletak in the process of editing etc. At one point she mentioned about the usage of correct graphic illustration etc in the design process and she made a comment about good arts that you can find over Deviantart. (Sesiapa yang kaki internet *MEMEME* akan tahu Deviantart. *nod head wildly*) Dr, you really know your stuff! *thumbs up*

So today when I stumbled upon this on Graphjam during one of my B&O session over Istimewa, I can't help to let out a chuckle. And this is why...


more music charts

LMAO.

Epilogue: I think more and more emo post will come up after this judging on how the situation goes...ただいま、絶望中. And the connection over at my room still sucks as always. It can disconnect even when its full signal. Such a paradox.

Impending deaths awaits: Timetable blues and OMFG courseworks.

Prologue: Woot! FINALLY, AFTER ONE WHOLE SEMESTER OF ANTICIPATION, I CAN GO ONLINE IN MY OWN ROOM!!!! Even though the speed wasn't stellar *despite showing strong signal hmph* and I can only online when there's little people onlining, it is better than non-existant wireless signal last semester. This blogpost is done in my own room. I think I will not step out of my room again. lolx!

Despite how hard I tried to persevere and adjust my timetable, my free Friday is still gone into dust...Now the initial slight happiness for the timetable is gone...and once all the tutorial timeslots and one recording time falls into its places, the illusion of empty timetable is gone in the wind. Just look at my updated timetable.

So here's the picture. *Finally* Anyway, there is gonna be one more slot to be filled which is the tutorial for DevPsycho...which also means that one more hour will be gone from this list. Arrgh why there is so many days that ends in 5pm!!!

To add in the dispair, the first day of lectures which only touched on course outline is already overwheming. For HBT214: Simultaneous Interpretation, we have additional 1 and a half hours tutorial AND recording session and since this is 100% courseworks based, there will be weekly tutorial homework as well as recording excercise and this contributes 50%. Another 25% comes from midterm and final test and the last chunk of 25% comes from group project. Yikes yet another group project!?

Group project which I clipped on my HBT214 course outline.

The more shocking one will be HBT207: Producing and Editing Translation in which we are greeted with this:

Pretty unbelievable, right? While other people received a piece of paper or two as their course outline, we have a booklet for it...and it worth two bucks of photostating fee.

So what's in the booklet anyway? Course outline, full detail of the courseworks (and this is 100% coursework...AGAIN.) as well as 5 FULL TEXTS taken from various sources (magaznies, novels and even which will be use as our weekly excersise. For the weekly excersise, it's not just about translating only but we need to edit the work of our friend and give our own assessment about it. My feet was shaking already whenever I look at those 5 text given. But Oh boy, the whole torture thing doesn't end just YET...another component of the assignment consist of student seminars, in which basically means every week, one group will take over the lectures and present their work according to the weekly theme. And the theme is different each week so basically everyone is scrambling to form a group and rushes to the office to register for the theme they wanted. Just to add in a snag, Dr. Goh (who is our course coordinator) makes it compulsory that the group member must reflect, in his own words, "kemajmukan masyarakat Malaysia" and when you heard these words, you know the drill. Trading of members between different group occur on the spot just to fulfill the need for "menunjukkan kemajmukan masyarakat Malaysia". Last but not least of course, 2 reports, in which one of them is about the importance of world knowledge in the realm of translation and another comphrehensive report detailing about the editing of translation that we did for the weekly excersise...

...AND I ONLY MENTIONED 2 PAPERS ONLY UNTIL NOW. There are 2 papers left in the pipeline which is HBT207: Terminology and Lexicology and HBT203: Law and Translation II. Please, don't add in more surprises...This is already way too overwhelming already...

Just to add in the information though, I finally succumbed to peer influence and decided to jump ship to Development Psychology. I switch group for my Japanese as well to accomodate my Psycho and just to fill the Friday up since it is already not free with the recording in the evening...

Epilogue: Food for happiness?! Will I fall prey again to binging due to prolonged emo-ness?

Swiss roll bun thingy with ham and meatfloss, courtesy of SzeSze. *thanks a bunch!!*

TangYuan from Sarawak Chinese Student Community. A taste of home...

Looks like I am gonna lose out again in building healthy eating habit then!

Breaking dawn: Alive from Pearl Island.

First picture of me of the semester, taken while walking to Istimewa to have my first B&O session of the semester. Yes, I am still alive despite sleeping without bedsheets and pillow for the past night.

Right now at this moment, I am having my very first B&O session of the semester, at where else that you can expect me to be, Istimewa Nasi Kandar.

Roti kosong and a simple iced water. I think I will lay off Teh Ais or Teh Oh Ais or any sweetened drink for this semester, as a part of my little effort to change my diet. Looks like my blood check report does have its influence on me...

Breaking dawn...my first sunrise over Pearl Island this semester...taken around 7++ am from my room. And immediately I missed the Kuchingite sun that rises and sets earlier as well as chilly, rainy weather over Kuching...the weather here over the Pearl Island is way too hot!

I wish that the ray of hope will continue to shine on me, just like the breaking dawn this morning...good luck for me for my soon-to-open semester...

Epilogue: Meanwhile just as an announcement, I *FINALLY* got my license. THE REAL THING. After so much waiting and tribulation, all the toils and wears that inflicted on me through these time...Too bad I didn't have much chance driving around real road during my time at Kuching but definitely I will be driving when I go home for my chinese new years holidays. No more stranded at home because no transportation!!!!

And this is my photo on my P license...and yeah, its the same photo as my passport. All hail freedom of mobility!!!!

Counting down...

...the moments before crashing head to head with reality again.

It's less than 6 hours to go before I leave Kuching on a jetplane (to be precise, AirAsia) and flying back to Penang to start the 2nd semester of my 2nd year in university...

...and I still can't shake off the lingering anxiousness and fear right now.

What's wrong with me?

The reality right now is way too close to run away from. And definitely it's not just about starting next semester with full 20 units...

Last couple thing to do before going to the airport:
1. Tapao Kolo mee for Benjamin, who decided to stayed back in Penang for this hols.

*CHECKED* This was taken when I eat kolo mee with Ben. LOL I tapao 3 so both of us ate 1 and half pack of kolo mee. We divided the charsiew evenly for the 3rd kolo mee. LOL We are just a bunch of pork eater!

2. Packing up the last of my luggage (including figuring out how to pack the kolo mee and white pepper that I will bring back as souvenir)

*CHECKED* Taken at the airport.

3. Have dinner and TangYuan with parents. (yeah Winter Solstice is around the corner and my parent decided to have steamboat as dinner)

This was dinner actually and we ate the remainders of our steamboat lunch. Mom cooked butter prawn as well as barbequed duck for today. Love my family so much!!!

*CHECKED* A bowl of TangYuan.

I hope I can survive next sem, not just in academically but as well as physically and mentally. I seriously need strength for this!

CRAP Now I am feeling emo already.

Epilogue: And I feel that I am in a sinkhole already, when I am the only one among my circle of frens taking abnormal psycho since all of them decided to jump ship and taking development psychology instead. OMFGZ I am left alone to fend myself? Now my mind turn abnormal already!

*Edit: Continuing the story...

I reached quite late at the airport due to last minute packing of luggage (the cause: the white pepper kolo mee, my new shoes and a couple of t-shirts that I almost forget to bring back). And the moment I reach the check in counter, I was immediately in shock...

Flight AK 5951 bound to Penang. And here I was stuck at the end of the line...Anyway, a lot of familliar faces of USM from main campus as well as engineering campus are on this flight as well. Looks like every Kuchingites USM-ers are on this flight to checked into the hostel the next morning. Anyway, still waiting in line and spotted HueyLan on the other line. I took the 2nd counter because it look shorter than the first line. But little do I know the problem that is waiting in line for me...

So I waited. And waited. AND WAITED. And the line is moving at snail-pace!!!! And soon HueyLan at the first line are passing me with their line processing fast. I think it was a newbie that handles my counter will attribute to the snail speed. Not too long after that, I was fuming in anger already by the fact that I am still waiting in line at 7:50pm, exactly 20 minutes before the scheduled departure time!!! And by the time its my turn to check in, the first line are almost done with the passengers to Penang and ready for the next flight bound to KL. As soon as I checked in my bag, I grab my bag and made a mad dash (really running) towards the departure hall, going thru the custom before rushing to boarding gates. As soon as I descend from the escalator, the boarding announcement for flight AK5951 was made and I rush even faster, to gate 1 at the far tip of the airport.

Phew, made it just in time and not before long we started boarding...but still it doesn't change the fact that I stuck at the end of the line and decimating the choice of seats in plane just because of the REALLY slow ground staff...

Leaving on a jet plane...glimpse of AirAsia's A320 in their striking Bank Rakyat livery, taken while walking across the tarmac for boarding at Kuching International Airport. And I was stucked in the aisle seat with no view at all, with a blue bag on the floor with dractically reduced the already limited legroom. Cattle class it is. Even the flight was kinda suck with bumpy ride and the announcement from the flight attendant sounded not properly done. Delved into my manga as well as inflight magazine through the rest of the flight.

After one kinda rough descend to Penang International Airport from the sea side of the runway, we finally landed safely at Penang International Airport. Another glimpse of AirAsia A320 in Bank Rakyat livery. Love the orange line in dark blue look! Again took a mad dash to reclaim the luggage...and again my bag comes out pretty late WTH. After claiming my bag, went straight to the taxi counter to book a cab back to hostel. And by luck, I bumped into Charles, a friend of Benjamin and we share the same cab back since we head to the same direction anyway- Desasiswa Tekun! Thank god I bumped into him because I saved RM13 buck for it. Either way, immediately had a taste of Penang as soon as we hit the road: fast and reckless driver!

But we still reach Tekun safely...I was greeted by Benjamin at his doorstep, who can't wait for my kolo mee lolx! We had our kolo mee supper together before I head back to my room to unwind and catch some snooze. But maybe due to kolo mee or lack of pillow (save for a small, sofa pillow left by previous tenant of this room) and bedsheet as well as the hot weather, I didn't sleep well...and the stupid rooster just have to croak at midnight WTH. (or izzit early morning already? since the sun rises later in this part of Malaysia...) And ohh, luckily they fixed the clogged pipe at the washroom at my cluster. But for some odd reason, some stupid cat decided to take our toilet as it's place to take a dump...dollops of cat poo littered arnd the sitting toilet and the toilet is reeking shit even not though no one used it for the whole holiday! Looks like its gonna be yet another shithole cluster again this semester...

Continues in the next post...

In a limbo: Academic year 08/09, 1st Semester Full Exam Results.

The title is self explanatory. So, ladies and gentlemen here's my report along with my commentary on my Academic year 08/09, 1st Semester Full Exam Result. Before that take a look at my semgred and cangred to give yourself a picture on what exactly happen for my result.

Semgrade...

and Cangred. And look at the flashing MSN chat window! A lot of my juniors pop in to ask how I did in my exam...Sorry to say, it not what they (and I) expected...

Commentary: I AM NOT SATISFIED. PERIOD. (AND IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT not scoring above 3.5 *only scored 3.45 this semester* for this semester or declining Cummulative GPA *slide down to 3.56*.)

Good news: CMM221 *crapsubject* is as expected (a measly B-) but I do glad I didn't went down further. LAE200 Spanish was indeed a pleasant surprise cos I got an A instead. LHP459 and HBT103 falls within my expected range, which scores A and A- respectively. All these small good news however had been overshadowed by two not exactly expected result: LLJ300, my Japanese minor which was suppose to my forte had slipped down to A- (I think my assignment mark *I passed up my last essay on the last day of class after being long overdued!!!* as well as a lot of minor mistakes in exam drag it down...Oh well.) and the biggest snag comes from HBT112, in which I only scored a meagre B, which fall out of my expected range of grades. Edit* OK, I take it back now because I am less ANAL after hearing from Ben *who didn't went back for hols* that I got a decent grade from that group assignment. Which also means I screwed up in exam. I don't understand at all. What and how did I screwed up? *sigh* The ANAL-ness turned into regret instead...But nevertheless, I still need to consider carefully whether I should be partnering up with THAT PERSON again...that person is very HARD to work with...

Either way, my semester grade for this semester fell below 3.5, the standard for Dean's list. I still have a small glimpse of hope however if they take into the account of Cummulated GPA instead of GPA of particular semester only cos my current CGPA is 3.56 which is still above 3.5...*fingers crossed* But other than that, this result definitely send a very strong signal about my whereabouts in academics, that I need to start to pay real attention in real thing that needs to be paid attention of...Seriously hopes that next semester will be give me mercy...a 20 units semester!

Epilogue: And whenever I think about going back to USM this Saturday, I am left in despair....it's too close!!!!! I don't wanna go back yet!!! *scratch wall*

From the eyes of a canary.

Prologue: An attempt of self-expression in the name of creative writing. lolx

So there was canary, who longs to go out from his cage.

But he can't.

His ever-present caretaker are caring but over-bearing.

His attention was always divided between his sibling canaries and his daily chores of taking care his own cage.

His wing wasn't strong enough.

His heart wasn't resolved.

Even when the cage is open almost all the time unlike not long before, he still stayed back in his little cage, retreating to his small space.

Whenever he look at his fellow canaries flying happily out in the open sky, he can't help but to let out a sorrowful sigh...

His fellow canaries occasionally flies over to his little cage, take him out of the cage and fly through the skies with them.

For a moment, he really felt a genuine happiness.

He do knew that canaries, cage in or not, still needs a company.

But whenever he sees his fellow canaries flying around the wide open sky, enjoyed themselves by savoring on the berries and socializing with each others on that huge tree, he again let out a sorrowful sigh.

"What about me?"

"Why you guys left me behind?"

He was occupied by the same dreading thought.

His song turns slow and melancholic.

For a while, his sky looks grey even when the sun shines brightly.


After a while, his melancholic song was finally heard...

His caring but overbearing caretaker responded by deliberately averting her usual over-bearing gaze over him for just a moment.

He took the cue and flown out of his cage with his younger brother canary, anxious to fly the sky.

He flies around cautiously, but the sky wasn't as calm as he think...

He lapses into a couple of mistakes, and his landing was off-centered.

His flying skills need to refined further but nevertheless, he glad he made it back to his cage safely...

And he brought back a little souvenir for himself as well.


He can't wait to make another solo flight again for the next day, when his fellow canaries finally noticed his absence and approached him for an outing.

At least for now, the lingering greyness of his sky had been replaced with more colors and he feel that he hope that he can add more into it...

*Edit: But not before long, he realized something...

He suddenly remembered that his caring but over-bearing caretaker decided that they will bring the canaries out to have a feast, for him as well as his younger brother canaries.

Then he was divided.

His caretakers had rarely splurge on luxury. They never like much about it anyway.

But once in a blue moon, they do it for the canaries.

So he had to made a decision.

And he made it.

He apologized to his fellow canaries for not being able to make it.

His heart was slightly aching for having to do this decision.

And the sky above him...turns into a paler hue...

Epilogue: So do you guys know what am I trying to express here? You will know most of it through all my recent plurks! And I bought myself a new headphones because the one that I have right now which was bought the previous semester was spoiled at one side, ruining the sound experience.

And I hope I can be less melancholic...but there are so many circumstances in life right now that tend to push me back into melancholy, leaving me in despair. The suffocating pain in chest and the lingering negativeness...I wonder how long will I stand before I finally succumb to depression...and definitely, it is not good. *Emo-ness is in hanging low...*

Snippet: Online course registration and timetable.

Prologue: Attention USM-ers! Online registration of courses for Semester 2 Academic Year 08/09 is now open. Please login to your HealthyCampus account for registration of courses. Please download timetables of respective school to arrange the timetable for all your registered classes.

I AM GONNA DIE NEXT SEMESTER!!!!!!!!

Well, just see it for yourself. 20 units on the hardest sem of 2nd year? Wise, VERY WISE. The only thing that I can pray right now is that Abnormal Psychology is not too hard to balance off the relative stress of other subjects...Otherwise, it will be ME that turns ABNORMAL instead.

Current state of mind after seeing the odds: Grey.

Epilogue: And as time of returning to Penang hence starting yet another semester of agony is ticking even closer than ever, the degreeness of despair is climbing up at an even higher speed...please, give me more strength! Not to mention motivation to blog something better as well.

ps: LOL Sorry YangLip, I fell into state of emo again. This is so hard...

*Edit: Ok lar, now it wasn't as bad as it looks in the first glance. Feeling slightly less emo already.

No crashes of lectures so arrangement of timetable was a breeze, and I got a free Friday *FINALLY TGI Friday!!!* (...IF there's no tutorial class on Friday lar.) Only Wednesday and Thursday are slightly irking me though: 4 hours gap between morning and evening class?! I hope there will be tutorial timeslot filling up those time gap cos otherwise it gonna spoil the flow of the day...and LLJ 400 class got yet another 7pm class...sigh...

Academic year 08/09 First Semester Provisional Exam Result.

Attention USM-ers! The provisional exam result for Sem 1, Sidang 08/09 (Full time student) is out! Click here and type in your Exam serial number and Identification Card Number to check on your result. Optionally, login to your HealthyCampus account to check as well. (As I type this blogpost though, they haven't updated the HeathyCampus yet) As it is only provisional, it will only shows pass or fail on respective subject and the full result with grade will be out on the 19th of Disember. The online registration of courses starts on 13th of Disember till 21st of Disember so make sure you register the subject that you need to register with the correct code.

As for me...take a look yourself...

*took a deep breath...*

SCREW BACK AT YA, CMM221!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOW I AM FREE FROM THE EVIL CLUTCH OF CMM221 AND I WILL NOT SEE IT AGAIN...FOR GOOD.

*HAPPY SPAZZZ!!!!!*

*REGAIN SANITY AFTER EUPHORIA*

Anyway, I passed all my subjects which means I need not to repeat any subject for any future semester. Next hurdle: FULL RESULT. Please give me at least a decent grade!!!! *fingers crossed*

So that's all for my really short update. Tune it next time for more! Bye-bee!!!!

Epilogue: NO!!!! TIME IS TICKING AWAY!!!!!!!

SanJing's birthday...and what do I get from it.

So I went to SanJing's 21st birthday party last monday.(Happy Birthday, SanJing. Finally 21 years old already ya, girl! Got your key of freedom already!)

We had a buffet full of all kinds of food!!!! So full!

And here's the birthday girl, SanJing, cutting her birthday cake!!!!

And of course, the CAKE! nomnomnomnom.

SanJing got herself another chance of cutting the cake because PeiYi's birthday present is a cake as well!

So here comes another piece of cake!

And then HueyLan also bought the marble cheese cake that she baked herself to SanJing...and another treat of cake!

So when I am full of cake, SanJing's elder brother offered a can of bear and of course as a gesture of politeness, I drank it and thinking, why not?

But not long after I reached home, the hang over starts to hit me...I am flushing red and feel drowsy...

Before I head over to toilet and PUKE. *BLERGH!!!*

Wasted all the cake that I ate...*sigh*

Lesson learned: Never drank liquor when you are bloated because of having too much of food.

Now I should be worried about that bottle of Vodka that is still waiting for the Xmas party once I am back in Penang...

Epilogue: Everytime I think about how time flies and not long before the holiday ends...I am in despair. No please let it be longer the holiday!!!!!!!!!!

Passport. I GOTZ IT.

Prologue: So bored. And I need more idea to blog!!!!

Ladies and gentlemen, yours truly had reached another milestone of my life: I got myself my very own PASSPORT (FINALLY) !!!! So why do a person who never took a step out of Malaysian border needs a passport anyway? (the closest instance of it: Malaysian-Indonesian Border Checkpoint at Tebedu!) The main reason for having a passport is because that I planned to go for student exchange next year and I am a little worried that it might be a little too rushed if I do all the documentation and such only after I am accepted to go on a student exchange. (despite the fact that the application fee for passport will be halved with the official acceptance letter from foreign university as a prove...informed by Ms. Chuah just now...Oh well) However, there's another more personal reason for the application of passport: I am actually anticipating future plan of travelling to regional places for example Thailand or Singapore and it will be much more convenient for me if any plan pop up from time to time. In fact, I was slightly left in envy when Ms Chuah and Ms Chong went to HongKong this hols to visit XinMi and I can't join them because I don't have a passport...So in conclusion, it is better for me to prepare for any future travelling to make sure that I will not miss out on anything in my university life. Huzzah.

Anyway, lets have a peek on my very own passport. *dokidoki* No worries, no sensitive information that will threaten my identity will be shown anyway so here goes!

Tada! Inilah Pasport Malaysia!

My photo in my passport. My mom says that I looked ANAL in this. Well...I do look anal here...

With the permission bestowed by His Majesty, we can identify ourselves across the world with this passport...

...well, except that one place though. So we can't visit ZionistLand then?

*Fingers crossed of being invited to any future travelling plan!*

Epilogue: Everytime I think about how little time that I have back in Kuching is ticking away before I head back to start yet another excrutiating and mind-torturing semester, I am left in dismay. For the very first time, the feeling of not going back to Penang is actually growing stronger...I need more reassurance than ever now...

Kuching High School.

Prologue: I know it's a lil late to do this tribute and might even sound repetitive, but please do bear with me and I believe we all love Kuching High too.

I am sure all Highian's and ex-highian heard about this already in the news these couple of days...in fact, it's in the front page of local news...

SMK Kuching High - Keadilan, Kegigihan, Kejujuran dan Kesederhanaan.
古晋中学- 公仪诚朴

A fire broke out in Kuching High around noon 2nd of Nov (Tuesday), razing down all of Junior Science Lab building and reducing it into ashes before spreading over to the adjacent School Administration Building, destroying most of the wooden second floor.

The fire in full blaze. (footage from Youtube)

I only got this news late at night when a MSN chat window pop in as soon as I sign in...and it's all the way from Russia by Dominic. (lolx) Anyway, I was indeed shocked by the extent of damage of the fire when he sent the photo of it over. Luckily my mom (a proud Ex-Highian, btw) didn't wake up late at night and bump in to me though, she would have loss her sleep. And she was shocked as well the next morning, when the story shows up in the front page of local news.

Later on the next day, I decided to do a little visit back to Kuching High (while having a lil tour in Kuching city after finishing the application for my passport earlier in the morning) to check out the extent of damage.

So here it is, the main gate of Kuching High after walking up the Mathies Road. (*note: I don't know what feature that I accidentally switch to, but somehow colours of photo turns out a lil...weird. Oh well.)

What's left of the fire...

Luckily is not the whole building that was burned down and the front part and the right side of the building is still left intact...

A look at the school hall...and those group of people over there? Some VIP with reporters. Hmph.

Apparently they have a little addition on the wall at the side of Block 6. Definitely replection what's Kuching High is throughout the year.

I will sorely missed the junior science lab block and as well as the library which located on the 2nd floor of the admin building...the junior science lab has a vast collection of preserved specimens of animal and literally jar over jar of preserved creepy crawlies such as centipedes and snakes and some other random animal lined in the old glass cabinet. The most amusing specimen however is a jar of premature foetus. YES, WE HAVE DEAD BABIES. IN JAR.

Another fond memories that I have over junior science lab is during our first exposure to alkaline metal, namely lithium (Li), sodium (Na) and potassium (K). The experiment if I am not mistaken is about the activeness of each metal's reaction with water, one of the characteristic of alkaline metal. Our science teacher (What's her name again?) showed us the activeness of lithium reacting with water by scraping a tiny fragment of it and put it on the surface of water...and the metal travelled around the water surface randomly and vigorously. Next one is the spontaneity and explosiveness (exothermic, right?) of its reaction by putting a small fragment of it on top of a petri paper floating on a surface of water...and the petri paper burned before being extinguished by the water. Of course, this is one amazing discovery of science for us so we convinced our teacher to put in BIGGER fragment of lithium. And she did. It was hilarious because all of us rushed to other end of the lab and all of us were joking about whether we will blew the lab or not. After applying bigger fragment of lithium, our science teacher rush back as well, waiting for the magic moment to happen...the whole petri paper on water COMBUST, resulting in firework-like effect and flinging burning fragments of paper on the first row of lab table. Even though we need to clean up the scarred bits of the lab table in the end, we had fun. LOL.

As for the library which was located on the 2nd floor of the admin building, I remember I always hang out at the library, reading the outdated Guinness World Record on the shelves as well as lugging out the huge National Geographic Atlas from the shelves, oggling at all the maps and looking for new places etc. It was indeed a sanctuary for me back then. I wonder how many books that were saved from the fire...

Anyway, what's the most interesting thing that came out from the incident is that how fast every ex-Highian that I knew, here or abroad receive the news. Just look at his, hers, hers, hers and of course on facebook, this and this. Guess we all love Kuching High after all. lolx

So all highians! We all know what should do right now, right? Let us rebuild what we had loss with every effort that we have big or small. Kuching High boleh!

Kuching High School Song

We are students of Kuching High
We are builders of Malysia
Glory to our Kuching High
Glory to our country
Be sound in knowledge
Be kind in nature
We are students of the school
Be healthy in mind
Be healthy in body
We are citizen of Malaysia
Glory to our Kuching High
Glory to our country

Ikrar Pelajar SMK Kuching High

Maka kami
Pelajar-pelajar SMK Kuching High
Dengan ini berikrar
Akan berusaha bersungguh-sungguh
Menjadi pelajar yang berdisiplin
Mengamalkan nilai-nilai murni
Dan berbudaya cemerlang
Dalam merealisasikan wawasan Negara
Kami bersedia
Menghadapi cabaran serta bersedia
Menerima teguran dan bimbingan
Untuk meningkatkan prestasi akademik
Dan kokurikulum sekolah kita
Kami juga berjanji akan sentiasa
Menjaga dan mengharumkan
Nama baik sekolah
Sekolah saya yang tercinta
Kita boleh! Kuching High boleh!
Kita boleh! Kuching High boleh!
Kita boleh! Kuching High boleh!

ZheRong kinda missed Kuching High...and he is now blogging about it...while evading housework! lolx!

The thing that my beloved hometown Kuching has.

Prologue: The infrared in my lappie is finally working!!!! Apparently those unknown device in the device manager is indeed the infrared! I am a much happier person now. *leaping in joy*

While Pearl Island aka Penang currently embroiled in a certain issue in which can be observed from this, this, this, this, this, and this, I came back to my beloved hometown of Kuching and decided to have a little observation, from my home area to downtown Kuching.

And all of this are what I saw around Kuching:

Some lorong near to my house. BTW, Kota Sentosa, the place where I live is a suburb of Kuching and a part of Kuching proper but its not exactly close to the city centre...

...which means the establishment of the asylum that left Kota Sentosa or formerly known as 7th Mile infamous since a very long time.

The warning sign at Kota Sentosa Market.

The water (Lembaga Air Kuching or Kuching Water Board) and electricity (SESCO) bill. Interestingly, SESCO bill is written fully in English in front, from the label to the instruction etc. While LAK bill is written predominantly in BM, the piece of advice about usage of water etc are done in English.

SUPP's signboard over their 7th mile sub-branch, taken while I went over to the post office to pay the bills: BM, Iban, Mandarin and English.

Public toilet at Petanak Market, the place of my Kueh Chap outing with Owen YangLip B-Shan and SanHui a couple of days ago.

The road right beside Padang Merdeka around the historical heart of Kuching. Went downtown to have a little visit a couple of days ago.

One of the small sideroad linking the Main Bazaar Road (along the riverside esplanade) with Carpenter Street (亚答街), one of the oldest area in Kuching. But somehow, I can't seems to locate the roadsign for Carpenter Street itself. Hidden by the shops' signboard I suppose.

Another sidestreet of Carpenter Street (亚答街).

Interestingly, the other end of Carpenter Street near the Star Cineplex is named and end as Ewe Hai Street. And the Bishopgate here refers to the sidegate of St Thomas Cathedral connecting Carpenter Street back in the olden days.

So what's the conclusion of my observation?

WHY SO SERIOUS?

And I believe its pretty obvious on how old it looks the roadsign in the historical heart of Kuching that I manage to highlight. So, I rest my case.

Epilogue: And I don't like the way this guy here drawing comparison between Penang and Sarawak. He is implying...something.

Either way, more blogpost will come with more photos within these few days so look forward to it ya!!!!!

ZheRong is happy because his laptop is back in shape and he got himself a passport...