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 I was complaining how long and boring this holiday would be, but now that it's coming to an end, I can't comprehend how much I hope it'll just continue forever. Of course, that won't be possible. All good things do come to an end, and this is no exception.
It was great seeing all the gang again, and going out as we used to. These times certainly were fun and memorable, especially so knowing that some of us probably won't be crossing paths for the next few years or so. With years to come everyone is sure to bring about great changes and interesting experiences. I figured I kinda got a camera too late to record most of the times I hung out with everyone, but then again maybe it isn't too late. Many a lifetime frames I missed, but again I'm definitely sure there'll be plenty more coming my way. All I gotta do is to be sure that I don't miss out anymore, and that's what I'll do. Getting a camera opened up a whole new world to me, not so much as to exaggerate, more as literally. Going through the world from the perspective of the lens enabled me to capture many a moments that I believe one day when viewed back will overflow all of us with memories. That does come at a cost though, for now I have dried up my resources and eagerly awaiting for it to be replenished. Spent the lasts of my money on a Canon 50mm f/1.8 II lens. For now, I have 3 items waiting to be delivered, namely my 52mm Hoya UV Filter, Phottix Plato C6 Wireless Remote Shutter as well as a tripod. The seller mistakenly sent the wrong remote to me today, but I honestly recommend him for his reaction and willingness to pay for the postage of the item back to him and also the actual remote which I ordered. Not to mention I owe Cindy Chan Min Zhi RM80. If I'm lucky perhaps all 3 items will arrive tomorrow! 
Well, it's only about 10 days left before I have to go back to INTEC. Not to say that it's such a bad place, but travelling that much is really making me sick. The only consolation I have is for taking Malaysia Airlines back for Chinese New Year. There are things which I'm unwilling to face again so soon, such as the exhaustion from classes, yet sometimes the best and only way to deal with em is by facing them. That way it'll probably be over before I know it, I hope. Two nights ago after going to my grandmother's house, I got an ominous feeling that I'll be sick the next day, and I was right. Just like last year at Jason's house, I felt sick after playing a few rounds of DotA with my cousins. That night was horrible. I kept waking up every two hours with a throbbing head and aching limbs. Somehow I managed to survive till the next morning. I was still too sick to eat for lunch and I only gulped down several mouthfuls of porridge before pushing the plate away. After a sweaty nap, I finally got better and was able to eat without feeling like puking. Yeah I even swallowed pieces of mangoes and grapes! I took two fever pills though yesterday and countless glasses of water. And today I'm feeling as good as new!  Anyway forget that, Christmas is just round the corner! Not that I expect much, cause I totally just don't feel the mood for celebration. Things are rather dull this year. I mean, usually Tzin Yee, Ahma, Min Zhi and Lawrence have the tradition of coming to my house every Christmas eve, but then not this year, what's with Ahma back at Johor and Tzin Yee on her way to Korea now. Not to mention my Christmas tree is stored in the store this year. The outings these year, some were just weird, like the time we went to Bing. The situation was awfully awkward.
Somehow the more I type the more I get depressed. I used to look forward to the beginning of new semesters, but towards the coming sem I just feel, uninterested to say the least. This Christmas, I guess, will probably just pass as another day, with nothing special to look forward to and nothing special to remember it for. I need something to evoke my anticipation! ARRGGHHH!
One more item achieved in the wish list. I possess now in my grasp, my first DSLR! Well a bit of alteration from my wishlist, I got a Canon 500D instead of a Nikon D5000. Why so? Well originally I aimed for the D5000 cause of the lower price tag, but since my dad says it is only a difference of RM200, it's my choice. I'm like way more used to the 500D plus the features are slightly better than that of the D5000, well you know the drill.  Sorry bout the grainy picture, just thought of taking and uploading it at the time of publishing using my sister's Lumix.
It's been only the 3rd day of having the camera, yet my shutter count is almost reaching half a thousand. I figured that's quite a lot! Been taking it out everyday since I got it but then kinda disappointed for the lack of stuff to photograph (I kept wandering the same spots). Along with the camera with kit lesn 18-55mm, I got a Canon bag plus a 4GB SDHC card for like RM1950, lower than the lowest I saw on the lowyat.net forums. Yesterday I went back to the shop, Foto Edar at BB Plaza LG FYI, and got two Hoya UV filters for RM60 each. No I don't need two, duh. One is Binjiji's. Anyway last night I kept fretting over my TOEFL today. First, its because of the identification documents and next is because I was SO NOT PREPARED! Especially the speaking. As usual, I got a stomachache like early in the morning. I had to wake up at like 6.45 a.m.! Damn sleepy, just brushed my teeth and went down for our buffet breakfast with my dad. Ah, I forgot to mention. Lemme cut this short: I received a late TOEFL confirmation ticket, dated for 12/12 which is today. So I had to book my flight to KL and since its holidays, my whole family came along. Spent quite a bit for the tickets and accomodation but oh well, probably the last family trip I guess before I fly off. I've been staying at Radius International Hotel off Bukit Bintang for the past few days and going to Genting tomorrow. I went Sg. Wang and Times Square like countless times but only once in LowYat. Oh well. And yes, which brings me here. I took my TOEFL this morning, wasn't a breeze, but also not as bad as I thought. Speaking part sucks as I thought for sure. Not to mention I was plagued by flu and cluttered the desk with used tissues.I took it at the ELS center at Wisma HB near KLCC. My dad went with me early in the morning and he attempted to walk back which took him like 1 hour. Anyway after TOEFL I walked to KLCC with Ms. Melanie Lee. Thanks Mr. and Mrs. Lee for the great lunch at Madam Kwan's and also for the lift back. Well partially back anyway. There was a jam near Bukit Bintang so I walked back cause I didn't want to trouble them further. At the rate I'm taking photos, my harddisk will probably fill up fast. Time for a new hard disk? Nah, I spent too much already. That'll have to wait. And now, there's roughly only half a month of holidays left. Half a month. A fortnight. Time flies. P.S. Oh yes, thanks Aishah for the call and good luck wish, although it was like 4 hours too late. Haha!
Almost one month has passed, leaving only one more month to go. The days have flew by rapidly, some being interesting, yet others are merely a routine. Sleep have overtaken me, and my time, usually for at least half a day. I've taken to sleeping at 2-3 a.m. lately, something which I intend to change but up till now I couldn't. I've also taken to wake up past noon, having my lunch at 2 almost daily, unless someone wakes me up or I've plans. Oh well. I still haven't managed to finish my university application. Pennstate's is almost done and I intend to submit it by today to meet its priority deadline. The others, I haven't touched for weeks. Now I know why applications are such headaches. The uncertainty of what to fill, and the tediousness of filling in so much information. Regardless, I've just been to PC Fair Kuching by KCBA yesterday at Permata Carpark and again, I'm as disappointed at it as I was when I went of Friday. The absence of the yellow signboard bearing the dark bold font spelling "NIKON" has left me with a bitter taste. I so hoped on finding a cheap Nikon D5000 so I wouldn't have to go to KL to buy end has left me highly disappointed. My sister, on the other hand, was on cloud 9 as she got hold of her 1 TB Western Digital Caviar Green HDD and a 320 WD Passport Elite for her friend. And of course, it's up to me to plug the HDD into our CPU. I bought a redundant power cable and had to go out again to get the SATA interface cable after getting home and pulling apart the age old CPU case. Anyway it worked and that's the end of me dealing with it. Wanted to get a new 2.5" HDD for my laptop but I got a firm no so I had to satisfy myself with the thought of my D5000 in less than a fortnight's time. What have I accomplished in this 1 month? 1. Finished reading the manga Claymore. 2. Kept myself updated with Heroes. 3. Reformatted my laptop with a genuine Windows 7 Home Premium (HAH! No more expiry on March 2010!) 4. Finished reading tens (hundreds?) of copies of Archie comics which my sister bought off kid on the internet. 5. Hang out with Tzin Yee, Ahma and others countless times. (When wanna go beef noodles again?) Honestly, looking back at the 1 month it's clear that I utterly wasted it, except the hanging out that is. Guess it'll remain that way for the next one month. Sadly, my laptop battery has decided to die on me. For the past months, my laptop has been glaring the warning "Your battery is able to charge normally. However it is reaching the end of its usable life." and something that asks me to change it. It's been only so long and my battery died!?! I've been taking the greatest care of it! Sigh. Well now it goes straight to the point of asking me to buy a new one. I asked Dell and they quoted me RM320 for a friggin 6-celled battery! Thanks goodness I found cheaper ones off the net. Like RM100 cheaper. My blog has seen better days than these past months. I guess I'll never get around to making a new blogskin, what's more to updating more often as I once did. I guess sometimes things just doesn't go as planned.
As the title suggests, this would be the last long holiday I will be spending in Malaysia. No more two months break after this, as I’ll be heading off to a new world by August next year. Anyway you’ll probably be surprised, but yes, I’m up at 9 a.m. on a perfectly “wonderful” Monday. The clouds are looming, the wind is howling and I’m chilled to my bones. That doesn’t stop me from enjoying a bowl of laksa with big juicy prawns and a glass of my old time favorite Teh-C-Peng. Yum. I knew the consequences though, which is exactly what I’m feeling now; the sensation of extreme bowel movements causing the desire for business in the toilet. What have I done up till now at home? Well let’s see, besides checking up on Nikon D5000 like daily, playing DOTA on Garena, online and of course, last but no least, playing Pokemon. Okay I can imagine your expressions reading the last part but hey, it’s a nice game! It’s childish you might say, but it’s nice. Been a passion since I was a kid for goodness sake. As for the Nikon D5000, my dad promised me one by end of the year and I’m hoping he’ll hold up his end of the deal. Been looking forward to it all year! Thank goodness for battery. Somehow the electricity just tripped and the whole house went dark! Hah. On the other hand, my laptop battery has been dying on me for a couple of months now. Still contemplating whether I should get a new battery or just bear with it for, let’s say, the next couple of years? Nah. University applications aren’t completed yet. I left all 3 applications hanging cause I couldn’t log into INTEC’s student portal for my credit information (highly efficient indeed). Seems that they have to take the whole site down every time the time come for lecturer’s to key in the marks. Did I mention? All my universities are in Pennsylvania! Well not that I like that particular state but well, just luck. Hah. Also I’m not applying extra universities. If we want to we have spend couple hundred bucks for application plus the trip all the way to Putrajaya for our affidavit, unlike those lucky INTI peeps. So I’m applying to Pennsylvania State University, University of Pittsburgh and also University of Pennsylvania. The last one is like impossible, but since the OSSP permitted us so why not? Doesn’t hurt to try. FYI it’s an Ivy League university. Wooohoo! As for the other two, I’m liking PennState but then I’ll see how things go. Oh yeah, Ms. Lai is applying those two other universities as well. Darn! Hah joking dude! Time for Pokemon! Gotta catch em’ all! P.s - Ohhhh one last note! I’m planning to overhaul my blog this holiday! Any suggestions? I’ll like to keep it simple though, cause I’m no photoshop pro.
Rejoice! The 2 months has finally begun! With finals over and assignments out of mind and out of sight, I can finally heave a sigh of relief. Finals passed by unusually fast. First paper was Cal II, having that out of our way made things easier, or so we thought. Chemistry was okay for me. Then come Biology. It was seriously such a killer. And lastly C++, for which I have nothing to say. Anyway after c++ paper on Friday, the whole Alabama stayed back to complete our reports for Biology. Well thanks to co-operation amongst us *ahem*, we finished one copy and used it as our own. Then there’s Maple project to complete, for which I had to rush to complete. Then yesterday, we went for our biology field trip to UKM or specifically the Bangi Forest Reserve. Well it might be called field trip but we spent most of the time sitting down in the air-conditioned meeting room and eating. The trail in the forest took less than an hour to complete, would have been over in 15 minutes if people weren’t camwhoring and we didn’t have to stop to see plants. Then we went to see some ferns in the fern park. Unfortunately for us it was raining the day before, so the trail was kinda wet and muddy at some parts and it was still drizzling when we walked. Anyway I’ll be going Genting Highlands tomorrow! Will be staying over and going home on Wednesday! Can’t wait!
I’ve been looking through my old posts, reminiscing about past times and memories. One of the major difference I noticed is my blogging style. If you looked through my posts dated 2007 and older, you probably notice that my language was rather, errr…horrible. I can’t remember why but after that I decided to use grammatically correct English for blogging. Secondly, my blogging intervals and topic of blogs. I used to just blog about my daily life, which probably explains why I can blog so often. However lately I only blog about interesting happenings and maybe some personal issues. I remember changing what I blog about because, well, I guess normal daily routines aren’t exactly interesting blogging material. I mean, who cares what I had for dinner or whether I spent the day sleeping? Calculus II Test 3 had just passed on Thursday. I’m afraid I made stupid mistakes, forgetting this and that. Ah well, let bygones be bygones. What’s meant to happen will happen. Anyway that wraps up all the tests for this semester, leaving finals. That’ll start on this coming Saturday, and continue the week after. Meaning there’s only 2 weeks left of this semester. Time really passes. Each and every time I’m reluctant to come back here after holidays, but when I do, the next round of holidays seem to be just around the corner. I don’t really get homesick either, nor to say I know how that feels. I wonder how those people who goes home every week would feel if there were put in my position. On the other hand, would I be happier if I were able to go back every week? I should think not. Each and every time I go home for the holiday and come back there’ll be this period of adaptation where I seriously detest. It might be just a day or two, but I detest it all the same. I used to think that I’ll be able to succeed in anything I do, as long as I just try to do it. Yet I know that is wrong, so wrong especially in academics. I know I can be as good, if not better than anyone else if I just study, but I never am motivated to study. Somehow, I still manage to go in an exam with confidence, however unprepared I am. Is that just a psychological way to tackle my unpreparedness? Probably. Then again, the times it did work boosted my level of confidence. Like what you ask? Such as SPM, with two weeks of study. Even for the JPA scholarship, I keep thinking in my mind if I want it I’ll surely get it. Then even in the first semester here, which I utterly regret for not trying to apply to Ivy Leagues. Somehow again I feel that if I even attempted I would be able to get into one of them. This year end worth of two months holiday is the last long holiday I’ll ever have. The one time to fully appreciate the homeliness of home, the warmth of a familiar town, and the time with my close ones. It’ll be another 3.5 years before I can just go home, and not worrying about when I need to be off again. Sure, there’ll be more holidays to follow, but it’s all for a week, and there’s nothing much you can do in a week. Looking back, I find it funny how my life have changed. I never expected to be able to go study abroad. After Form 5, I never though of applying for any scholarships, nor have I thought I’ll get such results. I was just dreaming off my 6 months worth of holidays, looking forward to how Form 6 would be, of maybe rejoining the Prefectorial Board and MAYBE even becoming head boy. Also, how I would go for STPM and maybe getting into USM. Oh right, before the beginning of Form 6 I had this dilemma of whether to go into Biology or Physics. Before that I only thought about Biology throughout high school, yet passing through Form 5, my interest in Physics grew. Science of particles, atoms, antimatter and especially the origins of the universe fascinated me. Thus, I went in the Physics stream. My parents weren’t so happy about that, especially my dad. Probably he expected me to follow my sister’s footstep, but I didn’t. They were oblivious to the fact that a Form 6 Physics student can transfer to a biology course, but not vice-versa. Yet after a couple of weeks in Form 6, I got accepted for a JPA scholarship, and my major was already decided for me, Biotechnology. That was after appealing. The moment when I had to appeal, I already realized one big mistake. I should not have applied for dentistry. That was never my interest, I only thought for the future. Thus when I appealed, I selected my second option of Pure Science. I wanted to do Physics ever so much, but apparently JPA didn’t think it was relevant. Grateful enough, I accepted the scholarship for Biotechnology. I figured there’ll be chances in the future to pursue my dreams, but now I should just focus on the reality. It’s been more than one and a half years since all that, and I’m still not regretting my decision. This is all for the best, both for me and everyone else. I’m not sure if anyone would read through all that, but if you would, then I applaud you. The one and only thing I’m sure I’m good at is writing. Not just restricted writing, but writing whereby I can let creativity flow, and let my hands just flow freely across the paper or having my fingers clicking away on the keyboard without worrying about restrictions, format and whatsoever whomever wants. Writing is a passion for me. I can’t stand bad writings, in the sense of essay style, not handwriting. Somehow I’ve always been overly particular about grammar and everything. And now cause of these I’m considering minoring in Creative Writing. Well I could go on and on, but for now I’m ending this post. To me, this isn’t just a blog post like any other. It’s more like a recap of my life. The question is always lingering in my head whether I’ve lived my life properly, to the fullest and to what extent. I don’t want to be just another human who trod on the face of the Earth, and pass just like anyone else. I want and need to know that my existence made a difference in the world, or at least to someone.
We’re now going through the last round of quizzes and tests before the ultimate doom. Finals. Today I managed to screw up my Chemistry quiz. There goes my A out of the window. Not to mention countless things I’ve screwed up within the past week. Our days here before holidays are numbered, give it till 30th October, then two months holidays!!! YAY!!!! Well we’re like so damn busy lately though, no time to take a breath even, for me its only now cause I just finished my biology assignment on hominids and having no quiz or test tomorrow I can take the night off. C++ test on Friday though. Did I mention I sing? Guess not. I joined the ACTP’s acapella and we’re going to perform tomorrow night. Some of the songs are really like crappy. Oh well, I’ll finish up whatever I join. Hope I don’t embarrass myself tomorrow night! Practice has been cutting into my schedule although it was rather infrequent but well I managed. Anyway this Friday I’m going on a charity trip for some motivation workshop at Semenyih or somewhere. Can’t recall. Takes up the whole morning but it’s for good cause. Our calculus II lecturer, Pn. Ruzela also invited us to her open house on Sunday but I’m not sure if we’re going or not though. She says it’s near INTEC but I don’t know where. Oh yes, I can’t wait for year end! Or whenever it is. My dad said to buy a DSLR! OMG OMG OMG! Aiming for Nikon D5000. Woohoo!!!! Wanna get it soon though, plenty of events to take photo at. I’m sweltering right now. The weather has been unforgivingly hot and the fan isn’t helping that much. It’s times like this that I wish that there’s aircon!
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Time and again life seems to be filled with despair, yet have faith that there's always hope in the future.
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Name : Kelvin Kho
Age : 18
Date of Birth : 2nd of February
Wishlist
1.) Get CGPA above 3.5
3.) Get more books!
Accomplished Wishes
1.) Straight As' in SPM.
2.) Obtain a Nintendo Wii
3.) Obtain a laptop.
3.) Obtain a Sony Ericsson K850i.
2.) Get a Nikon D5000 kit Canon 500D kit
4.) Pass Calculus I
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I was complaining how long and boring this holiday would be, but now that it's coming to an end, I can't comprehend how much I hope it'll just continue forever. Of course, that won't be possible. All good things do come to an end, and this is no exception.
Anyway forget that, Christmas is just round the corner! Not that I expect much, cause I totally just don't feel the mood for celebration. Things are rather dull this year. I mean, usually Tzin Yee, Ahma, Min Zhi and Lawrence have the tradition of coming to my house every Christmas eve, but then not this year, what's with Ahma back at Johor and Tzin Yee on her way to Korea now. Not to mention my Christmas tree is stored in the store this year. The outings these year, some were just weird, like the time we went to Bing. The situation was awfully awkward. 