study hard..play harder

test?

assignments??

study?

homework??

what else?

the flow of study....

It seems like everyone are super-stress right now. (If we refer this to the economic cycle, now is the time of boom where the level of stress is at its highest peak.)

With exams and tests all happening these two weeks, there are so much things to do and yet, so little time.

Well, usually when I'm stress, the place that I go is the shopping complex!!

Buying a pair of new heels or a new top is like an antibiotic or panadol to me because it really cure my tension

Unfortunately, since now is the recession phase of the economic period, I'm going through a really depression phase of my life.

Not having enough money to shop!!

URGHH!!

It's more than enough that I'm stressed about the tests and my studies and now the absence of shop-till-you-drop time is killing me!!!

Back to main business, I think I really need to manage my time table at this moment. It seems like my life has been turning upside down. Everything is in mess. Probably because my mind is already tangled up with those important events happening within these two weeks. We already had two tests last week. This week there's two more tests and for English, we have to do our oral review for the documentary as well. Besides, this week also me and my group members are going to edit the videos for the documentary. We hope that we are able to complete the documentary project on time.



While reading the paper given by Mr Derick, and after having the discussion on Bowling for Columbine, I realised that my general knowledge on current issues are lacking. It's not that I didn't read the news or anything. I did read newspaper and have some ideas of what's happening all around the world but maybe, perhaps I should read more about the issues, from different point of views and think about it more in details. Like Mr Derick says, we should peel it off, make our own opinions and views regarding a certain issues and interpret it. Observations and interpretation is very crucial in analysing issues. Since we all need to do a review on the documentary, I think I'm in a very desperate need of reading and searching for information. Well ,I think that's my problem I need to solve right now. READ...READ... and READ and oh yeah...do some research too.


Studying in college now is totally different from what I've been through in high school for the past five years. In school, we've been "spoonfeeding" by our teachers and everything seems pretty easy and simple. The only thing matters to us back in school was the mid-year exam and the finals. Well this is from my point of view, ( some people may look at this differently ) Even that, some of us were not that concern about it. But now, everything is important!! tests, assignments and also some do-on-your-own extra research. Eventhough our class hours are not as much as those in schools, I still find that my time table is packed! That includes the study time as well. Now, proudly I must admit that I study more often than I did when I was in high school. It's a positive change for me and hopefully I will not be as lazy as I was during school time. And I have to always remind myself that life in college or university is not as easy as in school. They are totally different, indeed!!

so, friends, classmates and all ausmat students...

study hard

play harder

:D

WEEK 2

Typical Saturday.

Sunshine in the morning.

Documentary.

One Utama.

Romantic atmosphere.

As we all know, last Saturday, was a V DAY. Yeah, v day!! Huh? So, what's the big deal if you're single. Enjoy the day! Therefore, I had my usual typical Saturday with my friends and enjoyed myself. We started the day off with our project, that is the documentary.

Saturday
14.02.2009

09.15 : woke up, had my daily drugs(nescafe) with some cookies, shower.
10.05 : went to Jynn Jyh's house
10.10 : went to Mr Lee's house ( primary character for our documentary )
10.10-11.15 : interviewing the primary character, did some filming.
11.30 : went back home
12.45 : had lunch
14.00 : went to One Utama
14.30 : bought movie tickets ( Bride Wars )
15.30 : had tea-time with Nad at Secret Recipe-oreo cheesecake
17.40 : went to GSC
19.00 : went back home ;p

Making a good documentary requires various skills. We need to analyze, observed, interpret and conclude the information we obtained regarding the specific issue.
When we were doing our trailer, I discovered that we need to observed every single reactions and response from the interview that we've done. Besides, after observing it, we also should be able to interpret and analyze those responses as well. I believe that's the purpose of doing the documantary right? To enable us to see or view things on a wider range. It may sound simple and easy, but, in fact, it's simply complicated. I'm pretty sure after this, the making of the documentary will be much tougher.



Love is in the air. Do not get frustrated when you did not get anything especially free Walls' ice-cream. So, to conclude, while other people woke up happily on Valentine's day, I woke up happily too to find out that I was not late for the documentary project.
Also, while me and Nad was buying the movie ticket, other couples had already booked their tickets ( early preparation, people!! ). While I was window-shopping with Nad, we also had romantic views surrounding us. Couples everywhere, wearing same T-shirts, with lovey-doopey wordings, flowers in the girl's hand and love is in the air. There was one couple wearing this "love" shirt. The guy's shirt wrote "LO" while the girl's shirt wrote "VE" and they walked together side by side so as to show the LOVE~~ ;p
What's frustrated me the most was when Walls' ice-cream put up an ice-cream stall at the new wing first floor. They were giving out free ice-creams but only for couples!! it was very much frustrating since i'm an ice-cream lover.
Then I decided to have a slice of Secret Recipe cake with NAD!!
Oreo cheese cake was marvellous!! Love you, Nad!!

Since love is all around this month, so does the movie!! The movie revolved around love in friendship. Well, let me just tell a bit about the movie I've just watched, BRIDE WARS. Starring Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson, the two best friends shares the same dreams and hopes since their chilhood time. Growing up together, they shared almost everything and went through most of their time together. One most important dream that they shared, is the WEDDING.
They always dreamed of great and perfect wedding at the Plaza Hotel in June.
Unfortunately, their wedding was accidently set on the same day!!
So, guess what happens next? The war started and it affect their lifelong friendship.
Moral of the story?
Don't get married on the same day with your best friend! ;p
Overall, the movie was good.

hectic pace of my life

Exciting experience or dangerous??


Safety precautions in Chemistry lab??
Have you ever heard of it?
Definitely yes! ( even if you're not a science student! )
But we rarely give much attention to it. ( this probably due to ignorance of students nowadays )
This week, we had a Chemistry practical class where we had to carry out an experiment. This was our first Chemistry experiment this year.
The aim of the experiment was to show conductivity in both ionic and covalent compound.
However, the most important thing that I discover from this experiment is the need to obey the rules and regulations in a lab!
Well, based from experience in school's lab, students do not bother much about the rules and they even tend to break the rules. Besides, by having lab assistants who always assist the students in conducting the experiments, students are irresponsible and do not care much about the consequences they may face as results of their actions!
The experiment.
We were divided into our own groups consisting of three students in a group.
Practical manual were given to each of the students and we were supposed to follow the procedure given.
I was clueless at first, even after I have read the manual! Maybe because I have not carried out any experiments in a long time. haha.

Well, basically these are some reminders for all students. Perhaps we should read back the rules in lab and try to follow it to avoid and prevent any accidents or any form of injuries. I find this very crucial after several "fire performances" in the lab.

Rules and Regulations In Lab ( my own version )

• do not wear high heels, sandals, flip flops! ( first important thing you should remember )
• wear lab coat even though it is very hot. You will need it as to protect your beloved t-shirts or colourful blouse from those corrosive chemicals. Also, to protect your skin!
• make sure you know how to use the bunsen burner. Or otherwise, you'll end up burning and killing yourself and your group members!
• use tongs when handling the crucible and lid
• make sure you know how to connect the ammeter ( which ever kind of ammeter ) or otherwise, more time will be spend on exploring the connection of ammeter instead of the real experiment.

Overall, me and my group members( Ainin and Firdaus ) were able to finish the experiments and luckily, no accidents or any form of injuries. Good job. Also, this week, we had Physics experiment as well. Standing wave and harmonics. Finally I understood the concept of those fundemental frequencies, standing waves and resonance clearly.

English Lesson

In English class on Tuesday, we had a book review presentations. Each group has to present their book review in the form of collage. Since, we all are future architecture students, I can say that our work has some elements of arts in it. "Creative", was one comment from our physics lecturer when she saw our presentation at the back of classroom. Even though our work was impressive, still, we had a lot of things to correct.. the content, spelling error, grammar mistakes..etc.

Documentary

Last weekend, my group members and I went to One Utama Shopping Complex to shoot for our documentary project. It was a tiring yet a whole new experience for all of us. Before doing the interviewing process and such, I never thought of the difficulties of interviewing people. However during the interviewing process, I realised how tough was it to become a journalist and interviewing people everywhere! We were rejected several times and most of the time, people ran away from us when we told them thet we are going to record the interview. I must say we were a bit frustrated at first. Eventually, we managed to interview few people that day. We also did the trailer for the documentary. It was a quite challenging task to compress all your ideas in a 30-seconds video clip. Even though it was just a 30-seconds trailer, we spent almost 4 hours doing it. And proudly, we named our production team as WHATEVER productions. Hopefully, we are able to continue our work for the documentary smoothly. :D

Major Issues In Life..

We always heard that girls and women are very concerned about their weight. This is one major issue they faced in everyday life.
And yeah, as a normal teenage girl, I do take GREAT CARE of my weight too ( i guess so..but not that serious as those supermodels ).


You must be thinking that the need to take care of weight and perfect figures are a must for girls and to achieve this, girls will have some stupid crash diets that they believe will make their body look more curvy and attractive. The truth is, most of the times girls follow the WRONG diet!! and they didn't even realized it. This is the MAIN reasons of the increasing rates of bulimia and anorexia (only among girls and not boys!) Here, let me just share some information regarding the issues. ( this is based from my observation )

why do you think girls care much about their body figures and weight??!

• to wear those latest designed clothing ( skirts, dresses, baby-Ts, skinny-leg jeans, hotpants..etc. you name it )
• to wear those trendy clothing and look perfectly fit in them
• to make sure their body look attractive enough and is similar to supermodels
• so that people won't criticize their body shape ( as a girl, we care what people's thought of our body figures )

( so girls, choose the best reasons for yourself!! :P )

stupid crash diets that most girls follow and end up being in hospitals!!

• zero carbohydrates ( no rice, bread, pasta..etc..)
• zero protein ( no meat, egg...etc..)
• zero fats and oils
• zero sweets foods and junk food ( say NO to chocolates,cakes, icecream, lollipops, chips,..etc..)
• zero to caffeine ( say NO to starbucks' choc chip frappucino with extra whipped cream on top..haha )
• only eat Jacob's crackers and non-fat milk
• lots of diet pills and those so-called-organic drinks which will burns 'all' the fats!!

in conclusion, i don't really know what they eat after all but one thing for sure, they ended up in nearby hospitals when they fainted due to lack of food!

what do I think the best diet for girls?

• take carbohydrate in moderate amount ( you can eat rice once a day, it's no harm..and students you need sufficient energy )
• take the right amount of protein
• eat a lot of vegetables and fruits ( it contains a lot of vitamins..duh !! )
• it's OKAY to eat chocolates and cakes and ice-cream as long as you don't take it too much. Chocolates does not make you fat!! it's the laziness to exercise that did! Don't hesitate to eat those marvelous sweet stuff once in a while!
• drink lots and lots of water. Good for your body and health. also, it prevents from dehydration and constipation :P

Well, the diet will of course depend on the individual itself. One must know their state of health so that the diet won't affect their current state of health badly.

As for me, I do not a have a specific diet that I follow, but, I do eat healthily. And I'm too a big fan of chocolates and cakes..( yummy!!)it's one of my favourite. But, I'll make sure I exercise at least once a week. Therefore, I won't get fat or even gain more weight. We need food for our body to function effectively.I also must admit, I take care of my weight due to the optimum standard weight that we all must achieve. Or otherwise we are considered either underweight and overweight and I'm not going to jeorpadise my health for the sake of my body figures. Health is much more important.

So girls out there, be careful!!!

Do not kill youself for the sake of a perfect body shape. The important thing is that you need to take care of you health first.

It's okay to have a slice of cheese cake from the Secret Recipe and a single cone of Baskin Robbins. They are INCREDIBLE!! love them a lot :D

Bye!! :D