High Performance? Yes We Are!!

25 January will be a day to remember for all JENANIANS. Deputy Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, which is also an Education Minister announced 20 High Performance School or Sekolah Berprestasi Tinggi (SBT). An our beloved school, is in the list. After the dissappointment on being left out in the cluster school system, now our school has returned to the glory day when we are well known as one of the top school in Malaysia.

Fifth from Left: Sekolah Menengah Sultan Abdul Halim

One of the main advantage comes with the SBT status is the school is given autonomy to run the system, from the core business of producing the first class students until giving the school administartion with the full control on the hiring and firing staff. The power is enormous, gigantic and the responsibility to live up to the expectation. Hopefully, they will rise to the occasion and deliver.

Some of the major advantages:

• Flexible in teaching and learning, as well as the syllabus for core and elective subjects.
• Can determine the medium of interaction in the classroom.
• Extend the schooling period.
• Excellent students may be able to finish the schooling a year early.
• Additional budget ranging from RM500 000 to RM1 000 000 per year.
• Can deploy staff according to their quality and skills, not on seniority.

Image and data from Berita Harian Online. Click for the actual article.

After the announcement, almost all of us JENANIANS cheers with the news. And then we started to leave comments on Facebook, tagged every JENANIANS we know in the pictures and the news articles about SBT. We don't finish there, in the class, I sat besides my friend since Jenan years, Zulfariezi Che Kob and start discussing about the SBT and it didn't stop there, we reminiscene about the good and oh-not-so good moments in Jenan. All the bad things we do (I don't have many so Bapir is the champion), all the girls we know, the teachers and the principal and so much more. Even the story of Kak Mah also surfaced. Hehe. I miss Jenan, we miss Jenan. Here is some pictures I gather from Facebook about my earlier years in Jenan.

Geng Masjid?

Geng Masjid? Not that pure because we have Nuha and Didie in the picture. Hehe

 

Langkawi Trip 2004

I can see at least 3 future doctors, 1 future big bad lawyer and 2 good looking teachers. Hehe

 

4B 2003

5 Ceria 2004

 

PMR 2002 Perfect Scorer

If you can see in the last picture, there is a writing on the wall and everytime I passed by the school, I can't help but to look at the writing and determine to prove it. I'm a product of JENAN!

'DI SINILAH LAHIRNYA PEMIMPIN'

Educational Talks

Hye guys, you see, I rarely talk about education. I scored so-so in every semester, I hardly study (the only time you guys can see me studying is the last 2 weeks of every semester, which goes by the name study week), I'm usually daydreaming in the class (but I never sleep in class, rarely), not too good participating in class discussion and not a good presenter.

Okay, this will be my last semester in UUM, after this I will be shipped back to Penang to finish our final year plus practical. I only have 4 subjects (plus co-curriculum) which means my class hour is 12 hours per week (plus 2 hours for co-curriculum which will be dragged to 4-5 hours according to activitiy we are force to do). It is supposed to be very light and I will have more time to focus on each and every subjects. But until this point I haven't give my 100% to academic purposes yet, because of a very simple reason, we haven't receive our allowance yet. What is the connection? Well, without money, we are in distress and we can't focus on anything, especially academic stuff. So lets pray for our allowance to come in and I'm ready to focus on my study. I promise (after I get the allowance I will splash the money on a brand new pc, which I will spend endless hour watching HD movies and playing Football Manager 2010)

So here is a sneak peaks on my subjects that I will have to endure at least until April, with the task I'm supposed to do throughout the course.

Co-Curriculum - Social Service

Well, don't puke. I know how bad it sounds but believe it, it is worse than it sounds. Okay, the first things that irritate me is we are already in the sixth semester and still need to attend Ko-K (nama manja). In UUM, all students need to take Ko-K, for four(4) semesters, and usually the students will start taking it from the first semester and they will finish it in their fourth semester, or some people started in second semester and will finish in their fifth semester, top. But we, as weird as we can be, start taking Ko-K in the third semester (because we spend our first and second semester in Penang, we were the offshore students) thus we only will be able to round up our Ko-K this semester. Pheww. We are the oldies and still dress in Ko-K attire. Apart from that, our Ko-K tasks are too demanding and need a lot of money, time and commitment. First, we have to do some tasks, which required us to go to two schools, a primary and a secondary school and do some 'Fun with English' day. Second, for our official outdoor activity (goes by the name Kegiatan Luar Kampus, KLK) we have to organize and participate in more in depth social service where we will go to some 'kampung' and held various activities, especially in giving more exposure about the usage of English to the rural children. That will be in February where we will be going to Kampung Kuala Kerpan, Jerlun, Kedah and stays with the 'kampung' folks. I will enjoy it, I promise. The third one is we are going to handle the Co-Curriculum integration day, and I still don't know yet what we are having. I offer my condolescene to all party that involves, at least I'm not responsible to handle any of these things and I'm relief.

VERDICT: SUPER LAME

Moral Issues

This is my minor paper that I have to take. Minor means another subject that I can teach in school, my second option. We have the chance to choose either to take Physical Education or Moral Education as our minor and I chose Moral Education and oh boy, I regret this. Why? Because all the papers for Moral Education is totally uninteresting, harder to score than PE papers, theories and philosphies I need to memorize and all the people behind those funny thoughts such as Immanuel Kant, Lawrence Kohlberg, Noam Chomsky, Howard Gardner, Karl Heinz Rummenigge, Marco Van Basten, James Stewart, Paul Newman, Bakhtiar, Amarol, just to name a few (and some are not philosophers). The papers are quite the same but with different name and lecturers throughout the years. Back to this paper, it is suppose to be the last and hardest paper of all moral papers but still, we are discussing the same thing and to my surprise the assignment is also the same as last year paper. I'm sure I will recycle my previous assignment for the second time. Duhh. The only positive note about this class is it is a mass lecturer class and I can see some decent girls on the lecture halls and I'm happy just to attend the lecture and spend my 3 hours per week looking at those girls while chatting with my friends.

VERDICT: SO LAME 

Action Research

We learn about how to conduct research. But not just ordinary research where we distribute questionnaire and tarbulated the data and finally come out with rather unflattering finding such as '90% of male respondents only shower once a day' but we need to play an active role in that research. Don't scratch your scalp yet. Explanation: We find a problem, we come out with a hypothesis, we conduct the research and at the same time do some intervention to the research subject based on our hypothesis. We observe and look at the end product, if our hypothesis is prove, the intervention is going well and we score. If the end product is not we desired for or no improvement, the hypothesis is wrong and we need to start over. Kinda confusing, I know. We need to go and find a school, do some teaching and conducting a research based on our teaching. It is sure a very messy and hard task, but we are up for it.

VERDICT: LAME

Measurement and Assessment In Education

It's a 3-hours lecture and during the noon. This subject is about how a teacher should measure and assess the performance of the students, mainly about preparing and calculating the test and examination. We as a student hates examination right? In this subject I learn that the teacher is feeling the same way too. The teacher needs to prepare ample question, from various topics and various difficulty levels, and put them appropriately and accordingly. After the exam, the teacher needs not only to mark, but turbulated the data so the teacher can improve the next test. Whoa! No examination if I become the Education Ministry, hehe. This subject takes us back to our SPM year when we were fighting tooths and nails with Add Math subject.We have to do lots of calculation and I'm not good at calculation at all, but still that keeps me awake in the class, so no complaint. The project of this subject is we are required to come out with a perfect test scheme, from zero to the end. Viola. Looking forward to the ending.

VERDICT: QUITE LAME

Sociolinguistic

What is sociolinguistic?According to asnwer.com, sociolinguistic is the study of language and linguistic behavior as influenced by social and cultural factors. I'm pretty interested with anything that has to do with 'socio' but the word 'linguistic' doesn't go well with me at all. But hey, I'm interested, at least a bit. We learn why we the human being speaks in some way, about the dialect and accent. And why the same old person talk differently in different surrounding and with different people. Why Nazmi, the ill-famed boy from Besut speaks general BM with other people but suddenly will speak in Bahasa Terengganu (Bahasa Terengganu is a language, Nazmi, 2010) when he knows that lady is from Terengganu, just an example. What excites me is we have to do a project, some sort of research. We work in pair and have been given four topics to choose from. Gender difference, code-switching, greetings and leave taking, and taboo words. You heard me, TABOO WORDS. Yes, I pick that topic instantly. I need to go around, sneak around with a notepad and maybe a voice recorder just to collect every single taboo words being spoken around. For example, I will pick a guy who have a proven track record of having a wonderful way of conveying words, especially when in frustation and anger. Okay, I will have a go at people who often curse and swear as part of my research. I will take down note about his/her gender, upbringing, situation, the audience and everything that is related to the research and brake it down on why he/she speaks that way or utter those taboo words. If he/she utter the taboo words in other language other than English, I need to translate it. For example, if my respondent is uttering 'pegi mampos la wei'. I need to translate it to 'go to hell' and explain why the respondent utter such words, the build up, the situation, and does the respondent says the same things with other group of audience. I need to scrutinize it bit by bit. And if the respondent says 'butuh', I will translate it to 'male genitalia' and the rest, you know the drill. Hey I don't mean to curse but this will be on my assignment later so why not I share with you guys right. I'm pretty excited to start this assignment and stumble into this websites noswearing.com and International Cursing and Swearing Dictionary that will probably help me on this project. And if I do this well enough, I might get an A for swearing so much in my academic writing. Hehe.

VERDICT: AWESOME!

So there are the subjects I will face in the next two or three months. I was thinking on writing a little bit shorter but I just love to give the details, I don't really know if you guys love it but hey, I love to write. This entry is longer than Anis Izatty shortest entry so maybe I need to tone down a bit after this. Hehe. If you found the vulgar words offended, I'm sorry but I can help but to get excited on things I'm looking forward to do. So leave your comments and see ya!

Footnote: I love Barney Stinson and he's my idol. Check his blog on the latest link I added, at the bottom. I'm officially addicted to 'How I Met Your Mother' series.

  

101 2010

Yep, it is 10th January 2010. I took 10 days into the New Year to post an entry. Not too late to wish Happy New Year 2010. And yes, if you ask me how old I am, I will answer you “I’m 23 this year, but wait until September to formally claim that”. Geez, I’m getting old, so does everybody right? Teenage life is a distant memory. Welcome to adulthood, more responsibility and needed more money. Bla bla bla.

2010 is my last year of experiencing varsity life (at least as an undergraduate). Very short lived by the way, only 2 years not like other people, but I’m grateful of that. What I’m looking forward this year is to be back in Penang in July. Penang, here we come. Back to civilisation perhaps. UUM is not a bad place either. But still we prefer Penang. 2010 might not be as colourful as 2009 perhaps but I don’t mind though, I think I have enjoyed much and suffer much in 2009 so eventless 2010 doesn’t sound too bad.

For the 1st 10 days of 2010, I spent much time in the room, comparing to my roommate who only come back to change clothes and sleep, he is very busy by the way and it seems that I have 29 hours per day. I have watched close to 25 movies these 10 days alone, where I can watch as mush as 4 movie title in a day, that tells you a lot right on how free I am. I guess that will go that way until the end of the year. On a good note, I won’t miss any box-office movies anymore and can catch most of the good TV series (I missed Prison Break and Gossip Girl altogether since Season 1, pity me).

So nothing much to say, just hoping this year will bring me prosperity burger and I will become financially stable, at last. On the love-relationship part I don’t expect much change but I’m a bit content with my situation now so no problem for me if thing stay this way. However, if the situation does change, to the better, I will be grateful for that. So have a joyful 2010! Tschutzz.

Don’t Look Back In Anger

Don’t Look Back In Anger – 2009 in Review

So here we are, on the last day of colourful 2009. Another year past by, another one is looming and we are hoping for nothing but good fortunes. In 2009, the great MJ pass away, Lance Armstrong made a come back, Malaysia football team won a gold medal (at last), Liverpool emerge as a title contender and sink deeper within months, Kris Allen is the 8^th winner of American Idol (which I can confirm you that in 2050 if I wrote this kind of entry again I will mention the winner of American Idol 49), Fahrin Ahmad dumped (again), government decided to phase PPSMI by 2012, Malaysian is so hook up with the word ONE (ONE  Malaysia, ONE Food, ONE  Bazaar, ONE  Toilet etc.) and many eventful events that will take me years to jot down every single things that happen in 2009. So let’s scale it down and see what happens to me instead, shall we?

This year started with a bang (so cliché). There’s a monkey on my back calls responsibility, to serve people, to sacrifice everything for the good of others, and yeah to tell you the truth, I do enjoy my time with all the responsibility. It’s hard to juggle between study and extra curricular activities that take a lot of time, money and passion but I survived, I think. Love life? Started with so much hope but like always, hit stonewall in the process. Dead end. We broke up in February. I was in the period where everything turns upside down for me. Where should I start? My car broke down and I forked out my own pocket money, RM 1.5k to repair it, even though it wasn’t me who drove it and it happens during orientation week for new student and I gave my car for people to use, HEP refuses to pay. I was hit with a strong fever for two weeks and it turns out to be a dengue fever and admitted to hospital for 5 days. It was the same time I had a big problem with her and eventually we broke up shortly after that. I was carrying the pain and the only thing I really crave for is her to be by my side, and sadly, she wasn’t there. (Click here for details)

After all the negativities, I finally can get over the bad patch and moving on. I started to go out with girls again, have some fun, flirting around and etc etc. Hehe. I lay my eyes on a new girl, pursuing her with unmatched efforts but still to no avail. Haha. Unlucky in love, that is me. But still I cherished my life though; in pursuit of happiness I’ll do anything, anything. And suddenly I found my purple patch. I went to Bali, had a little sightseeing, then I was chosen to represent UUM to a homestay programme and youth forum in conjunction of Conference of Commonwealth Education Minister (CCEM 17^th) in Melaka and Kuala Lumpur. I was not chosen at first but after some withdrawals, I sneak in and seriously, it was the best thing that happens to me this year. It was an international event, Commonwealth level and I’m not only representing UUM but also Malaysia. I meet lots of new friends, gathers new found knowledge, built up my confidence to a new level and so much more. And to put the icing on the cake, later that month I found that my exam result is out and I got the all time high score, and I’m on the dean’s list (Click for more details). For the first time ever and seriously I think that will be the last. Haha. You can punch me if I got another. So all I can think of is, ALLAH only tests us as far as we can take, ALLAH will never let us carry something that we won’t be able to handle. In BM, ALLAH tidak akan sekali-kali menduga hamba-Nya lebih dari yang mampu ditanggung.

After 360 days (nearly a full year) of serving the people and university, do all the unpaid duty, we were released from the duty on 10 October 2009. I was relieved; the monkey that I carried throughout the years is gone. No more waking up early to go to HEP or other offices, no more staying up late to attend countless meeting, no more skipping classes for events, no more. But that means, no more happy trips, no more glamorous banquets, no more conferences, no more rubbing shoulders with Datuks and Tan Sris, no more front row seats, no more first-class treatments all the way, no more. (Eh, it seems that the good things are more than the not-so good things that I’m waving goodbye now, aha). But it is the period to remember, where I never had that before and hopefully won’t stop here, InsyaAllah. I do had a post-MPP jitters where suddenly my discipline is up for question. I skip classes a lot after relinquishing the post, I don’t know why but heck; I should not let it happen again. I did my examination without proper preparation and the result is as expected, drop a bit but still in average, average me. Hehe. And then it comes to the longest holiday I ever had as long as I can remember. It is a usual holiday but this holiday seems so awfully long. I’m home for one whole month, broke and had nothing to spend so I shy away from the civilization and keep myself in my home for entire holiday. The result? Taraa, big, inflated and even rounder Udin. Hehe. No worry though, I learn enough from ‘The Biggest Loser’ and I will put the knowledge to practice, I wish.

So that’s it. My colourful year in my colour blind eyes’ point of view. What I cherished the most this year is I found a true friend which I can share problems and thoughts and comfortable to spend time together. And another thing is I might find my wifey-to-be, if not the person itself but maybe the personality . So let us see what 2010 have in store for us. Till we meet again.

RED Is The Colour

Eventhough I'm a colour-blind, but for some it is an open secret that my favourite colour is RED. At one point in my life (spanning over whopping 2 years) I only buy red apparels, nothing but RED. Pathetic, I know. So when I know about the campaign, I'm interested to know more and how we can help. It is call (PRODUCT) RED (click here), a project which is a brainchild of U2's Bono and his friend. It is aim to help to raise money for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Simply put, to help our brothers and sisters who are suffering from those diseases, mostly in Africa so they can have a better life. How they work? Simply by getting world's renowned brand to create and sell their special edition products in the name of (PRODUCT) RED. Then some/most/all the profits will go straight to the fund. For example, if you buy an iPod Nano (PRODUCT) RED, which cost the same as usual iPod Nano, the money generated from the sale will contribute to the fund and it will helps billion of people who are in dire need of help. So visit the website to know more okay. Actually, that's my contribution so far because I have not buy any (PRODUCT) RED yet, maybe in the future if I stumble into it.

So, December 1st has past 2 days ago, maybe some of us know and maybe some of us don't realize that 1st December every year is declared as World AIDS Day, and being celebrated around the world. The (PRODUCT) RED I mentioned above also one of the project that is significant to the World AIDS Day. Today as I read The Star newspaper I realized that we take HIV/AIDS for granted. We know how deadly the disease is yet we have not taken any measure to curb it, as we can't do anything about it. Some shocking fact from The Star, from the research conducted by Bayer Schering Pharma in conjunction of World Contraception Day. Research done in Malaysia sampling 200 respondents aged 18-21.

• One third of Malaysian aged 18-21 have already had sex.
• One third of 200 respondents have had sex before the age 21.
• 30% did not talk about contraception before sex.
• 30% did talk but with certain difficulty.
• 50% of the girls have already had sex without contraception

You can check the actual article here.

So now, based on that I can assume we (teenagers/young adults) have indulged in a lot of pre-marital and unsafe sex, which is against our culture and religious. I have friends, which openly confess their involvement in such activities. I know it is now common among us now, no matter you are Malay, Chinese or Indians. Okay, it is clearly against our religion and culture, but please, if you are actively involve, please consider to limit the damage by practising safe sex. Wear protection, such as wearing helmet while riding a motorcycle. If you subsequently 'slipped', your head is protected for more serious injury, you got what I mean. So here I'm not promoting free sex or pre-marital sex, I'm opposed it because it is against my religion. But if you happen to happen to practice it, make sure it is safe. If you feel buying condom in 7 Eleven is embarrasing or no vending machine selling condom in Sintok, you can always buy those stuff online and it will deliver to your doorstep. Nice idea? Okay don't ask me which website offers such services. Hehe

And another thing, if you are actively involve in the games without using contraception, please brave yourself and surrender yourself to the nearest clinic that offer confidential AIDS test. Some of the clinics even have pre and post test counselling to make sure you are in the good shape before and after getting your result. So what is the need to go through this nerve wrecking test? Well, as i said before, if you have indulged in such activities that put yourself vulnarable to AIDS, this test will determine where you stand. HIV positive or negative. If you are negative, good for you, stay that way and spread the awareness to others. You can say to girlfriend/boyfriend, 'Hey! I'm HIV negative and I'm raring to marry you' for example. On the other hand, if you found yourself HIV positive which means you are carrying the disease, please bear in mind that it is good you know it earlier and not spreading it to others. There's treatment for the disease, they haven't find the cure yet but the treatment can slow the disease. If you have contracted the disease, please make sure you control yourself by not spreading it to others. That's the reason why the test is important.

Again, I'm stressing here that I'm not promoting pre-marital sex. I just feel like sharing it to you all because we Malaysian always feel 'this' and 'that' topic is taboo and so sensitive that we prohibited everybody to talk about it and what happen? the problem get worse. So take my advice, say no to pre-marital sex because it may lead you to suffer from HIV/AIDS and it is irreversible. Think before you do anything okay. An hour of happiness and joyful can drive to years and never ending sorrow. And if you wanted to do that badly, please use protection, at least you do your part to limit the numbers contracted with HIV/AIDS every year.

I'm thinking of getting 'Purity Ring' like The Jonas Brothers, haha. C'mon, I ain't no saint.

Thanks for reading, do your part in creating awareness about HIV/AIDS, leave your comment please.

Image from  http://www.coconino.az.gov/accesshealth.aspx?id=9160

Been Missing For Awhile...

HOLIDAY

 

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VERY SLOW INTERNET CONNECTION

RARELY ONLINE

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DAMN BORED

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MISSING...

*THE ONE I SPENT SO MANY EVENINGS TOGETHER

*MY ONLINE FRIENDS, YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE

*FORMER LOVER, NOT THE PERSON BUT THE LOVE

*SOMETHING, DON'T KNOW WHO OR WHAT

*MY BUSY-NESS

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HOPES

*GOT SOMETHINGS TO DO

*MORE MONEY TO SPEND

*NEW SEMESTER TO START REAL SOON

*SOMEBODY TO SAVE ME 

 

entry ape neh?? 

 

I Wanna Watch This!

Well, well, well. I have 9 days gap for my next paper so what I do everyday is spending my time in front of my PC, playing games, listening to songs and craving for good movies. I watched 'The Ugly Truth' the other night and it is hillarious!

But the truth is, I miss watching movie at the cinema, good cinema. I miss GSC Queensbay Mall and all I can get here is Jitra Mall Cinema, which is kinda okay (better than nothing). I think I'm craving for horror movies right now, and to watch it in cinema should be good, it will drain the blood out of me. Anyway, what in cinema right now that I wanted to watch is 'Phobia II', a Thai horror movie which I watched the first installment and I shall say it's kinda good. I think I might have the chance to catch it in cinema, but I need someone to accompany me of course!, girls, no less than that.

This movie is something that I really wanted to watch actually. Is there any chance we can watch it in Malaysian cinema? Let's hope it will grace our shore sooner or later, until then, enjoy the trailer first.

Anyone want to accompany me to the cinema?? :-P

Study Season Is On!

Yay! I might be quite late but still wanna wish my friends out there good luck for your final examination. Some of us have already started their exam while some of us still waiting for the glorious date to come. I have a supposedly one free week to study (our study break has been taken to replace the H1N1 emergency break, but the lecturers are smart enough to end the 14 weeks of class a bit earlier, kudos to my lecturers) but I have make myself busy with an event, which we agree to announce it and promise to ourself that it will be our last project. So while I was busy running the project, my fellow friends has started their study earlier and I feel ashamed I only managed to properly start studying on Friday, which is 3 days shy of my first paper. But worry not, nothing to be concerned with, I will try to catch up and look awesomely confident to sit for the papers.Hehe

In case you are wondering, that is a snapshot of how my first official study session went on. We went to a nice place to study, ordered 2 ice coffees (which turn out to be 4), french-fries (double as well), one chicken nugget and one prawn noodle (if I'm not mistaken). So we spent almost four hours there, while she completed almost 10 mind map but I only managed to finish reading 2 articles which is a long way to cover the topics I supposed to finish. But still, I am happy with the session and hope we did it earlier. Way to fun and joyful (albeit it cost us some money, a lot of actually) with the music and environment that can't match my room. Hehe

So good luck for your exam ya, may you excel in your exam. I am pretty sure if you are lost in the exam, once you remember my smile, it will remind you of what you have studied. Ish, tahyul neh. Hehe.

And for my other friends, especially you Shikin and Zyra, may you all pass with flying colors and please pray this examination period will end soon so we can enjoy like before.

Take care and good luck!

Who Is She Eh??

From Left:

Lin, Dayah, Fath, Munirah (Slightly In Front), Nisa, Awal (Me), Putri, Unknown Entity (Suddenly Jumping Into The Picture)

 

From Left:

Unknown Entity (About To Attend Lecture I Think), Munirah, Chi Chung (MPP UPM), Putriana, Awal (Me)

I have collected many pictures from various sources for our grand dinner (MPP 08/09)to make a video presentation. I Stumbled across these pictures and I was wondering who she is. In the first picture she suddenly jump into the picture and pose together with us as she is part of our MPP, which is definitely not. In the second picture we took picture with Chi Chung which is  from UPM but she appears to be on her way to lecture yet manage to strike a pose in our pic.

So if you know who she is, know her whereabouts, please do let me know because she is still at large and might be dangerous to the crowd as evidence in these two photos. Hehe

TO ASHIKIN: Don't get angry with me okay. It is for fun with no intention to cause distress or tension. Purely joking. The truth is this picture make me smile. This is a proof  I know you before we met in Genting and we are meant to be friend. You caught my attention when I overheard that you watched a Man Utd match. I was thinking "COOL". Hehe. Thank for being my friend, Nurul Ashikin Bt Selamat.

The Tale Of U-Turns

Familiar with this road sign? We often encounter it in the middle of congested town. Where people take the u-turn to return to the previous road or take the road that is not accessible before. But we often use it for the first purpose, right?

For some people in some circumstances, there is no way they will take that route again. Why? Because they have been there before, they have faced the problems lies with the route taken, they know well the good and the bad. They have stayed there longer than they should hoping that the bad will one turn good, but it never materialized. There is no turning back. What lies ahead is far more greater and wonderful, so why need to take that torny road again? Some would say. I hope my words goes well with you my friend, zyra. Sorry to dig up this old story but I think it will make a good story. Hehe.

Yeah, in this world, this type of u-turn does also exist. Sometime can and sometime can't, depend on your situation, the circumstances I can say. If you are driving heavy vehicle, you are not allowed to turn but if you only drive a car or a motorcycle, it won't be a problem to make turn. So in life, we often face this kind of situation also. Maybe at first we don't think we will take or will have to take that route again, because of the situation we are in. But after the situation change, we might consider taking that route again, we might be appealed by the chance presented to us, but then again, we have to think carefully, what vehicle we are driving right now. Whether it permits us to take that turn or not.

This is basically what I'm dealing with right now. Hehe. 

 

And the last one, the most look after sign in the road I shall say because we tend to miss the turn earlier on and will look for another juncture to turn back. Or we regret leaving that route and want to make a swift return and hope the route that we leave is still in the good condition and will welcome us. Or we take the turn because the route seems better than what lies ahead or what we have been through. There is no problem to take that turn dear. U-turn is design to cater some purposes, and it seems more positive than negative.And it seems to suit you well now, and we are 100% behind you. Don't afraid, no matter what happen, you always have something to fall back into, and we promise you we will never let you down, always there. So for Shikin, this entry is for you. Hehe.

So, that's all. I have been thinking about putting this down since Aidilfitri, now only have the chance and resource to write it down. For my 2 friends (Zyra and Shikin), I put the story of you two just to make this entry more dramatic (I'm a drama queen, remember?). Do let me know if this entry doesn't go well with you ok.

So long, and goodbye.

(Zillion of thanks to my roommate cum photographer, Mr. Fikri. Hopefully the pictures won't offend anybody or make people sleepless at night)