Social Space

A Social Space was open somewhere in August this year, situated next to the cafeteria. It’s a place for students to have fun during their leisure time. Chess, Carom, Table Tennis, Foosball and Pool are made available for students. Everything is free of charge except for the Foosball and Pool. Both Usually the Foosball and Pool are not occupied by students because they both cost RM3 per game, which is very unreasonable.

Little plastic people on a field.

There are 2 Table Tennis tables made available and usually both will be fully occupied during peak hours.

Glossy little globes on green velvet.

First week of holidays

Holidays has just begun. Not exactly if you would ask me. Counting from the buffer week until my holidays ends, it will be 7 weeks altogether. Those included 1 week of buffer, 1 week of study leave, 2 weeks of exams and 3 weeks of holidays.

To be honest, I’m not enjoying my holidays like I used to. I’ve signed up for Technical Assistant a month ago and now I’m a trainee and am required to complete a minimum of 60 hours (within 1 and a half month) of hands on training (not including workshop). Allowances of RM75 will be given to us upon completing the required hours. Those who failed to complete the minimum hours will have a slimmer chance of being qualify. Then after the duration, an in course test will be given to test our learning level – how well we understand the role of a Technical Assistant.

Being a Technical Assistant is nothing compared to a Librarian. Of course both roles are created to serve the welfare of students. As a Technical Assistant, there are much to learn such as PCs maintenance, quality check, ghosting, setting up PCs for cooperate training and the list go on. After a while, it can be a daily routine. I hate daily routine. I prefer to do different thing each day. When problems occur, it would be a challenge to solve them.

Besides that, I managed to make lots of new friends – weird ones, mean ones, shy ones, playful ones, nice ones, friendly ones, sweet ones, flirty ones and etc.

On yesterday’s meeting (Wednesday), the lab chief appointed a guy and I to organise a dinner gathering that will be held somewhere in December. Being the first time to organise an event like this, I’m absolutely clueless on how to go about doing it. It’s not easy to get everyone to agree with the plan and we can’t give in to everyone either.

Cultural Night

27th August 2003 (Friday). The SARC of APIIT organised an event called "Multicultural Night", a night where everyone will be wearing their own culture customs. The event started at 7.30pm with the arrival of the guests followed by fashion show, cultural dance performance and so forth. There were freebies for the early birds – a package of shower foams and shampoo. Foods were also served during dinner.

Our last class ended at 3.40pm that day so 5 of us drove 2 cars to a classmates’ place at Sentul Timur and expected to arrive back at college by 8.30pm. But due unforeseen circumstances we arrived at 9pm. We didn’t manage to have dinner so we had supper after the event.

The event was well organised and fully sponsored by the college and advertisement from various companies. The place was very packed when we arrived. Hardly could find any parking nearby. Quite some numbers of classmates attended and some of us wore our traditional customs. There were Batik, Cheong Sam, Sari, Baju Kurung, and many more. I was wearing a traditional custom from Cambodia (the one in yellow) (not my traditional custom anyway). Of course some wore plan casual attire.

(All photos photograhped by Emily)

New Shoes

A month ago, my boyfriend and I were hanging out at the shopping mall during sales season. There were lots of cheap items and the prices were very reasonable after discounts. Many items were selling out fast because they were limited

It's about time for me to get a pair of running shoes for jogging. My boyfriend offers to buy me a pair of Reebok shoes. This is was my first branded running shoes that I've ever had. Usually my parents would buy me shoes from Bata - Power, instead of Nike, Adidas, New Balance, Reebok, and the list go on. To them, as long as it's wearable it's good enough. But it's a bit unfair that now my brothers get to have one and the excuse I get from mum was "Dad never buys shoes for them". Like who says so?

Beautiful, isn't it? Both pick and white are my favourites colour. I like shoes that have white colour because it makes them look clean. One disadvantage is that, it gets dirty easily.

Back in Action!

I apologise for not being able to update this site for some time. I know some of you've been coming back weeks after weeks to hear some interesting stuff. In fact, I have lots of things to tell - pictures, good things, and bad things. You name them...

At the moment, I have one more final exam before my holidays start. Most probably I will try work on the other site "Months in Italy". I'm sure you guys can't wait for me to activate that page. But bear with me, I also have to complete a 60 hours of "Technical Assistant" training in one and a half month, which I will tell you more about it once I get some hands-on experience. :)