Finally I have time to blog. Too many happenings happened in the time I was away from this so-called e-activity.  Life is still the same, still as hectic as ever.  Tests, assignments and presentations really caused me having ceaseless nightmares. Frankly to admit, I’ve lost the momentum and enthusiasm to blog, mainly due to my lacking of reading and writing (my new year resolution of reading twenty novels is hard to reach already). Let me briefly highlight the main happenings in this few weeks’ time.

Passed my first actuarial examination, Exam P/1 finally, but failed the second, Exam FM/2. Quite relieved about it as I only managed to prepare Exam P/1 in one month’s time, in between I had seven tests, quizzes and assignments in total. I was quite excited when I saw the screen with the message “Congratulations! ….”, quickly I grabbed the pencils I used to do the exam and calculators and ran out of the exam room. Until I signed out that time, then only I realized I shouldn’t take out the pencils, they didn’t belong to me, and I apologized to the in-charged officer. She smiled back at me, and reassured me it was okay. I called my parents and texted my friends once I reached the lobby (I was having my exam at a quite classy place, Sheraton Imperial Court.) to tell them the “glad tidings”. *exaggerating* Went loitering in Mid-Valley straight after the exam (not loitering actually, I had purposes of getting there-to get my book, do some grocery shopping and get some blouses). Shuzhen gave me a surprise when she texted me telling she was in Mid Valley too, where she was supposed to attend Public Speaking lecture. Shuzhen, GinHwa and Alan “interrogated” me on the exam and mainly about my feelings. They didn’t believe when I told them I was happy but not to the extent of cloud nine. This is what Shuzhen said, “come on, can you please not to stay cool always?” Seriously, I don’t think this is anything to be proud of, as I failed FM/2. Anyway, Shuzhen treated me to eat scallop porridge and XO chocolate bar. *thanks Shuzhen*

Okay, to be frank, I admit, July 24, 2008 was my day! I will remember it. It signified my first step in the actuarial long and bumpy path.

After P/1, I resumed my piling work in UTAR, gave my best to catch up whatever I missed. The good news is I have been doing okay (perhaps I don’t expect much from myself in UTAR’s exam anymore?). Another bad thing to comment is my gang (Shuzhen, Alan and GinHwa) always has our meal in JayaOne after the test on Wednesdays, it doesn’t only burn a hole in our pocket but also shoot up our weights. @@ *blame JayaOne of having so many nice food*

I still haven’t gotten rid of my bad habit which is carelessness. Perhaps it’s incorrigible (another new year resolution unreached)? I left my whole bunch of keys inside my room on one of the Mondays. But the point was I was not panic at all, I just asked my housemate to open main door for me to go out . @@ The reason I could stay cool was I knew Alan has scissors to cut the padlock. *smile* *sweat on me* I was touched when Alan, GinHwa and Shuzhen purposely came to help me after the class. Alan hammered the padlock out. If he just gave me all the tools, I’m sure I couldn’t get it open. He is really skillful in hammering the padlock (as a result of having a few experiences as mine @@). Yea, I use the word, ‘hammer’, the scissor was too small to cut my padlock. After that, we went to the night market in SS2. We couldn’t resist the aroma of durian hitting our nostrils, and so we were STANDING to eat the durian by the stall without second thought of our image, only to realize when Shuzhen asked how if we bumped into any acquaintances. We only ate two durians, and they cost us RM25.

Two durians are definitely too few to satisfy us, the gluttonous eaters. The durian fever still went on. Last Friday evening, we went to eat durian again in SS2. But this time, we were “smart”, we ate at a place which let us eat as much as we could with only RM10 each head, only to recover from our ignorance, when we only managed to eat some. We did try to throw in as much as we could, but later I warned them not to take our lives for granted, our lives definitely do not worth only that 10 bucks. *laugh*

The same afternoon last Friday, Alvin treated me to eat in KFC, as a reward I passed P/1 (after two weeks of the exam, unquestionably, because both of us are so busy). *thanks Alvin* A secret here, I’d been fighting hard just to get this meal. As I told him, I’m really short-sighted, I just strive for the short-run profit. *kidding* Anyway, I still owed Alvin a debt of gratitude, as he always reminded me from time to time about the meal before the exam. A great friend, no? This was the first time we chatted face-to-face for so long. As Alvin claimed we had just talked face-to-face in less than an hour in total since we know each other. Strange huh? But of course, we did chat on msn far more than ten hours. I’m smiling when I’m typing this, I feel that it’s quite odd.

The same day, Dharmen called me to remind me that he counted me in the futsal competition in UTAR Sport Carnival. I felt cheated when I went for training on Saturday. Dharmen told me beforehand that I was just the reserve, all I needed to do was to sit at the bench watching them play. This is because each team was required to have at least a female player, and his girl friend would be the main female player. To my dismay, his girl friend didn’t show up during the training, and I was required to play. I started to feel something amiss, and so I “questioned” him. Then only he told me his girl friend would have a Taekwondo competition on Sunday. In other words, I would be the key player; I needed to play every match, with no substitute. I was in quite a distressed state, as I had a test on Wednesday, and a presentation on Thursday (which is today), the worries gnawed at me the whole Saturday night. The main reason was I never listen during the lecture and Shuzhen had not yet gotten her ingredients ready for the demo speech. But as the Chinese idiom goes, “a ship will sail in straight when it reaches the dock”, things came naturally well. I did okay for the test and the presentation, though I fumbled a bit during the demo.

The first runner-ups

I joined UTAR IDOL 2008 Organizing Committee to get to “decorate” my resume next time and of course to know more friends. This was the first time I joined something out of academic activities. And guess what one of my new friends told me?! “In my impression, you always attach to a girl, and just bury yourself with your book during lectures and break time.” Gosh, I’m not anti-social and nerdy, ok? Explanation implies hiding the truth; I shall let them to know me day by day, to let them know how friendly and how wild I could be… wahahaha…..

Mainly these are my highlights in these few weeks. Now I’m just waiting for final to come and preparing for the coming actuarial exams (damn, I’m behind the schedule!!!).

p/s: see how incoherent my writing is?!!! I need to read more novels!!!