Terminal 4

Leaving On A Jet Plane
by John Denver

All my bags are packed
I'm ready to go
I'm standin here outside your door
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye
But the dawn is breakin
Its early morn
The taxis waitin
He's blowin his horn
Already I'm so lonesome
I could die

So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you'll wait for me
Hold me like you'll never let me go
cause I'm leavin on a jet plane
Don't know when Ill be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go

There's so many times I've let you down
So many times I've played around
I tell you now, they don't mean a thing
E'vry place I go, I'll think of you
E'vry song I sing, I'll sing for you
When I come back, I'll bring your wedding ring

So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you'll wait for me
Hold me like you'll never let me go
cause I'm leavin on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go

Now the time has come to leave you
One more time
Let me kiss you
Then close your eyes
Ill be on my way
Dream about the days to come
When I won't have to leave alone
About the times, I won't have to say

Oh, kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you'll wait for me
Hold me like you'll never let me go
cause I'm leavin on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go

But, I'm leavin on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go

...

p/s: Thanx to another phone call back to WC (not water closet), I no longer need to bunk the night. WC allows me to check in on 28th itself. Relief... Now, FLY FLY FLY!!! I'm leaving on a jetplane...

MARK the 27! (IV)

Three unfavourable solutions (not sure I would call them such or not). The next day, #4 came along:

I called up WC again (hoping that a different officer answer my call). This time, a woman's voice gave me a sign of relief. Knowing it's definately a different officer, I relate to her my problem again and expressed her that I really hope to move in on the day I arrive. Thankfully, this was her reply:

"It's ok. You just ring up the warden on duty when you arrive at the gate. Although we don't prefer late arrival, but evening at such time should be fine with us. Meanwhile, I will inform the warden on duty so that he or she can expect your arrival."

With that, the "no" was made "yes" again. Although things have been kinda fine at this point, I gave no chance to risk by ringing up a number of seniors and my housemate to inform the warden in charge.

MARK the 27! (III)

"Unfortunately you will not be able to check in .... as you are arriving outside of our opening times. Enclosed is a link to alternative accommodation providers for the night. You have been booked an arrival slot of ...."

Those words dropped like a thousand tonnes of bomb in my Inbox as soon as I was out of bed this morning. The first thing that crossed my mind, DEEP SHIT! WHERE AM I GONNA BUNK? THE FOLLOWING DAY IS THE OFFICIAL REGISTRATION DAY!

Dropped outa bed and immediately, I did a few things:

#1: Called up Nepline Travel and attempting to change my Amsterdam-Bristol flight. They informed me it's impossible cuz my transit period will be too short if I changed to an earlier flight. A minimum of 3 hours is needed? And I was like asking myself, which idiot created this rule? Then the other half in me slap me in return: Which idiot would ask this kinda question? How if your flight delay? Oh ok... Yeah. I had been an idiot for some time. Then I checked KLM website. There's a flight at 12.30pm and there's still abundant seats. Screw that fella! Not intending to call back cuz I doubt it can change the situation=leave it to last resort!

I popped a second question asking the check in bag allowance can be extended to 30kgs since KLM allows 30kgs. That guy promise to call me up in 30 minutes time, and I have been waiting for the past 2 hours. No intention to call back ~waste money. Gambling with the extra 10kgs!

#2: Tried calling the other 3 girls who will be flying with me. Negative response. Neither of them picked up nor return call.

#3: Send a few messages to the seniors there. They gave me promising response. *relief* A second thought crossed my mind. It's way of a hassles to bunk in their place. P suggested that I call up WC instead of the Dominion Group (which handles the accomodation of WC)

Right, I will call them up and see what awaits me this afternoon...

FURTHER Suggestions?

MARK the 27! (II)

"A good long hours from KLIA to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. 10 hours of transit in Amsterdam before another 85 minutes flight journey to Bristol International Airport."

A few questions to ponder:
1. Must I stay in the airport throughout the transit? It's 10 hours!!! 10!!!!

Well, thinking on the good side, AAS is one of the best airport in the world

2. If yes, what am I likely to do in Amsterdam? Man!!! It's Amsterdam!!!

Reminds me of Eurotrip

3. What currency to be used in Amsterdam? Is GBP fine aside from EURO?

Since I do not have any and not planning to exchange any~minimizing the exchange rate cost

4. Will I be able to move in on the same day considering my late arrival?

I emailed the student hall, and they take at least 3 working days to respond, AT LEAST!

5. Will I be able to purchase some of the necessities considering my late arrival?

Char, might need your help on this

What I can do now? I have changed what I can changed. I "pioneered" the new journey for Bristol-bound students (they used to land in Heathrow to taste the coach or train ride... Good long 2-3 hours)

I'm left with waiting... PATIENCE

Revamped(-ing)!

Over-friendliness vs Bitch

-You greeted me with "nice to meet you"
-You spoke of WTF for at least 4 times (though nothing to do with me) right in front of me
-You pointed out middle finger in front of me (though not to me)
-You smoke like nobody's business
-You turned me off in your well rehearsed euphemism

Is this over-friendliness or being a bitch?

What The Fuck could be a norm among the teenagers' talk. But you don't quote it to the person you've just met although you're not speaking of him or her. And the middle finger thing. While you consider that cool, you make people wonder of your home upbringing. Forget about your efforts to mimic the states and Brits, but try reward yourself a bit of respect. Being a university student doesn't grant you the ultimate pass to generously spit these kinda phrases. The last thing you would ever consider for getting on people's nerves is a slap in the public! While you equate being mean to friendliness, I bet people would be more than happy to label you a bitch. So don't!

Smoking is cool? Reconsider that because you're talking to a med student. We know the cons more than you know the various alternatives to blow your smoke!

English is your cup of tea? Supposed if that's so, do consider you're chronologically younger and thus show some respect! both to yourself and us.

I tried my best to define you in an optimistic way but I could only revolve around "bitch" and "slut". And I appreciate your over-friendliness (if you would prefer me to define that way).

MARK the 27!

Take that down. It's an important number!

1. The day I'll be travelling across time zones.
2. The day I'll be released from being grounded in the country.
3. The day everyone would say Thank God, he's gone for good.

The OLD RM1 coin

Think you have seen it all? Think you are born early enough to tell your next generation that you saw or held the phased out Gold RM1 coin? Now take this!

It's the size of our current 50 cent (approx) and of course it's silver

OH MY GOD!

1st OMG:

-Nathan Road-

I bet that guy must have pay a fortune for this plate. My first words were, "OH MY GOD!" And that's what it reads, totally tally with the words anyone would utter out upon encountering such case. I'd love to have such plate in the future =D

2nd OMG:

-Sterilized every 2 hours-

This is mere at one of the shopping centers in HK. I doubt our hospitals (regardless ownership) have done anything near that. The buttons have no less human contacts than money, which makes it an ideal breeding habitat for germs and microbs. The first questions that anyone would ask, who would fork out the cost? Well, if you spend less on the unneccesaries (which everyone of us would know), you would have probably cover up the cost for the next decade, not a lot just extra income from one of the personnels.

Here in Malaysia, there were significant history evidences to show that Malaysians wear masks when they go out.
1. The Jerebu era
2. When we were visited by SARS pandemic

But if you happen to see people in HK wearing masks, it is not about pollution. It's about responsibility and self-consience. They wear mask because they are sick (flu etc...), they think for others by preventing the airbone sickness from infecting the rest of the community. How many of us Malaysians are willing to do so? Fork out extra money to purchase the mask and take extra effort to wear it despite all the hassels?

Should we look into health quality of Malaysians more seriously these days (whilst media put us in the idea that our living qualities at above decent level)?

I KILLED THE MONSTER!!!

Yeah!!! I brought the scrambled 4 x 4 x 4 devil into its original tame characteristics. Awesome!!!

...and as usual with the 3 x 3 x 3 trick, you have this.

p/s: who wants to take tuition?! :P

Loosing mother tongue?

"那个方法比较 efficient"
when I should have said 那个方法比较有效率

I would have spit that out easily in my daily life. While Malaysians would considered that a norm, I find that such occasions are threatening my Chinese. I'm sure it won't go to the extent that I can't read or write Chinese but these days, I can hardly sentence my thoughts 100% in Chinese. It has to be topped with English or at times Malay. My TOK knowledge would have tell me that at times, this is what you call the lost of words or meanings during the translation of language. But as I come to realise that I experience none of such case with English, I can only jump to one conclusion, my mother tongue is slowly be replaced with English. On one side, it's better to converse more in English these days but loosing my mother tongue? And I'm heading UK soon. Should I start taking up mandarin classes?

Rubix 4 x 4

Attempting this over the successs of 3 x3 but it certainly was harder than I thought. Managed first layer in a fraction of time but no idea to proceed. Any tips?