Medical Check Up Done... What A Harrowing Experience...

Finally, I received the e-mail from Canadian High Commission to do my medical check-up. They sure take their own sweet time to do stuff... especially the receptionist there. So I got to the HCC, took my medical form(waited for 1 hr, taking just took me 5 minutes) and headed to Klinik Segera in City Square.

A small clinic situated in a shopping complex, I wasn't expecting much from this clinic. Heck, to get an X-ray done, I had to walk across a busy street to the other side, go up 2 floors, and search for an X-ray specialist clinic to have my X-ray done. (By the way, it sure is a freaking small X-ray clinic)

Once its done, I had to walk all the way back to City Square again... walk across the busy street again... all this just to do the check-up. Guys in HCC better approve my application for visa for making me walk so much. At the clinic, the usual test begins... first the height, then weight, then eyesight, and I gotta say that I am gonna need a new pair of specs. The chart looks really, really blur to me... That's all I'm gonna say.

After that, doc took my bp, then checked my nuts... I'm sure most of u gonna say, "What?! CHECKED YOUR NUTS?!" Yeah, that doc sure checked it, don't know whether its alright or not. Hopefully their functional, because I still wanna have babies and stuff...

After nut checking, I was free to go! Now, I gotta wait again... this time for a notification to get the visa(finally!) if I do get it of course.

After that experience, all I can say is:

"Waiting is the beginning, the end, and everything else that is betweem them"

MapleStory... but at a 100x rate...

I just went back to mapling again but this time, its not the usual slow leveling up kind of MapleStory, its at a 100x rate... Talk about fast. Anyway, I played it for only 2 days and now I am a level 90 ranger. Sounds kind of weird because back in the old days, to level from lets say level 50 to 51 would have taken me at least one week, so imagine the rate at which this game is going.

Furthermore, the game has less people, there's only 3 channels, thus making the game less lagging. However, I still lag at times so I'm still trying to figure it out. But the lag won't be able to affect my game I think. After all, I am a freaking gamer!

Although I have only been playing this MapleStory(called Weedstory) for 2 days, I have already felt a little bored with this game. Because it doesn't change the fact that I am still doing the same thing that I do in the old Maplestory, which is training. And more training until I finally am bored of training. At that time, I will just abandon it and go for another game I guess.

Thankfully, in this game, there are several friends that I know, that is, not just any random guy or gal that I meet in the game. So, for now, training with them will be my main motivation for playing the game. But after that, who knows?

"It will always stay the same... when nothing changes... only time will tell..."

Flu and Cough... zzzzz...

Dang, just as I was about to get comfortable at home, the flu bug hit me smack rite into my face. Have always hated that bug and have told it to stay away from me but it never listens... Anyway, now here I am lying in bed on a nice Saturday, when I should be downstairs watching tv... haha.

Then I just say in the news that 2 of our national swimmers also came down with flu. Hmmm... sounds suspicious I would say because other than me and the 2 swimmers, many of my friends have either caught the flu bug or are recovering from an attack. Seems to me like the bugs are putting their heads together and launching a full-scale attack. If that is the case, then we've gotta do something bout it! Can't have them critters spreading their 'thing' all over the place!

Wait a sec... I sound as if I'm gonna have war... but this is WAR! I wanna get better because if I don't, I might not get the study permit! Argh~ I hate this flu... making me feel so miserable... Looks like I better stop now and rest more... DAMN YOU FLU BUG!!! (and by the way, thanks for bringing your friend, the COUGH, with you!!!)

When I get better, I'm gonna... hmmm... not sure what I'm gonna do but I'll think of something... Muahahaha...

Anyway, just a small reminder to those reading this blog:

"Those that fall, will rise again... if they are strong enough..."

BTN camp - brainwashing or enlightenment?

Just recently, I went to this camp. Its called Kem Biro Tatanegara(BTN for short). Anyway, before I went to this camp, there are the usual rumours bout this camp, about how it was a brainwashing camp, how it was to ensure that the scholars sent there would return to their country... even my aunty said repeatedly, "you must come back to Malaysia..." to imply the purpose of the camp... ish ish~ this just portrays the image that the camp has on the public.

So, with a heavy heart, I went to the camp, expecting to be drilled the things that everyone has said... about having to come back to Malaysia. I expected threats, saying that if I don't come back, they'll hunt down every family member known to me. However, this wasn't the case. During the 5 days, 4 nights camp, all we did was learn more about the country, about the constitution, about ourselves as Malaysians... This was not what I expected and therefore came as a huge shock to me.

During the whole camp, all was not prison-like, although the absence of handphone networks did make it seem like that. We were, as they said cut off from the outside world, but soon, I found out that there wouldn't be time for us to connect to the outside world as all of us were kept busy with work. Work here doesn't mean manual labour but we had to study! Or so it seems because on the final day, we had a test and those who have studied will tell that it is actually quite pointless to study. Haih~ all the times spent poring over books which should have been spent for sleep...

But to tell the truth, this camp is not that bad. The 'agenda' that we thought this camp had was all just a misunderstanding. There was no such thing as brainwashing, but I prefer to call it enlightning, because all this camp ever did to me was make me realize how important it is to safeguard our country, to uphold her 'kedaulatan'. Finally, it dawned on me the importance of sending our scholars to this camp. It was not to force them into coming back to Malaysia, it was to make them think for themselves, whether or not they want to come back to Malaysia... because it is after all, the scholars choice to return isn't it?

So I guess I'm all for this camp thingy, even though I wasn't at first. Now, I end my thoughts with this simple saying,

"He who does not have a light, can still see in the dark, as the light in his heart, will shine through always..."

Start Of Something New...

Its been a while now and I finally decided to start a blog. Phew, sure is tough to start something since this has been put off for like a year or so. And when I come to think about it, I have this habit to put things off. Finally it dawned on me about what my mother has always been saying to me which I so strongly deny, that I am a true blue procrastinator... or in her words in hokkien, "lu chin jia gao chien (eh lo)!!!"
As I sit (or lie) here typing this blog, it made me think... what made me want to stall for time? Was it because the work that had to be done is awfully hard? Was it because I had other important things to do? Was it because...? So many was it because questions that all had the same answer... NO. It was not because of any of that. It was just because I was lazy! Too lazy to move an inch, because I was kinda like hoping for it to just pass. Sometimes it did, sometimes it didn't. However, on occasions that it did, I remembered feeling pretty bad, cos it was after all, my job and therefore was mine to finish.
As I went through college with this behaviour/attitude, I found that I got into a whole lot of trouble because of this. Assignments being rushed, homeworks done in a slipshod way... it's a wonder that I manage to graduate from college. Still it is not until now that i finally realize that this kind of life cannot go on... that it will eventually come around and bite me back in the ass...
So now would be the best time to discard this habit and start afresh... hopefully it ain't too late...
"Its is never too late... unless you are standing still, not progressing..."