So it’s been more than 3 years since I graduated from college. If I can go back to that time using Doraemon’s time machine, I’m so gonna send out this graduation announcement card to my relatives and friends. Too bad, I didn’t feel like celebrating it at that time.

Yea right, say bye to instant noodle, limteh-ing session at mamak stall, late night sleep, early morning bus, design projects, hitting shopping malls no matter there is big sale or no, and many more. Time to say hello to resumes, job searches, interviews, stressful day, office politics, money, blablabla.

Yea, graduating also means celebrating the last tuition payment. Pfiuh!

Btw, I found those unique cards from Oh So Beautiful Paper.

Finally I had a reunion session with the ex-housemates during my short visit to KL three weeks ago. Yes, this is our first meet-up after more than 3 years of graduating and walking through our own separate way.

Us, back in 2004 and 2005. Oh so long long time ago! See, I still have ‘fat / meat’ all over my arm and chest. Can I have them back puhlease?

It was on Monday, March 1st 2010, and we planned to have dinner together. I chose Sunway Pyramid to be the meeting point cause I wanted to look for luggage sets there. There were so many choices of cafe and restaurant there and I landed my choice on Full House. Yes, Full House has opened a branch there, no need to drive all the way to Niu Ze Xui and get lost liao. *happy*

Although we haven’t met up face to face for years, there wasn’t any awkward feeling. We still able to connect to each other though not as deep as before. One interesting thing is, Hokkien is still our preference dialect. But my boy and I did have a little problem in understanding their KL’s Hokkien. Probably because we haven’t heard the accent and words in ages.

Another interesting fact, we were the last customer to leave the cafe! *thick skin mode on* Well, we’ve paid the bill before 10pm but continued the chit chat session cause conversation just started to warm up. Until the Boss, or whoever he is, pulled down one of the gate, then only we knew it’s time to leave!

Well, it’s a great meet-up session. I hope there will be more in the future.

After so much consideration, it finally came to this decision that I’ll be back to university and continuing my degree. Hopefully at the end of July’s intake, when I will be studying while continue freelancing to afford my living cost yadayada.

I’ve made 2 trip to the university, with the second trip on last Saturday when I went there early morning 8am something with boyfriend, settled the registration thing and waited until he was off from the office at 2pm something

No, it isn’t the campus but the cafetaria and offices

Something to be noted here, I was waiting in the marketing department and having a conversation with a lady whom also waiting there. We talked in Malay mixing with English. She asked about my status or something like that, in which I replied,”I dah graduate” (read: I already graduated). But she heard it as,”Eh? I takde duit?” (read: I have no money?) lol. My pronunciation s*cks, results in a misleading. Bleh.

It will took me another one and a half year (3 semesters) to finish the degree. Tuition fee is sky high, I almost fainted down when seeing the numbers. Foundation fee (in 2004) used to be RM10,000 only for 1 year and now it is RM16,500 for 1 year foundie. Whew..

To continue degree, 1 semester is at RM9,775. Total 3 semesters = RM29,325 excluding additional fees such as personal bond (refundable), security deposit (refundable), medical fee, resources fee, admin fee, yadayada. I regret that I have taken out all those refundable fee otherwise I wouldn’t need to pay those anymore.

This time around, I’ll be paying everything myself as my parents still have to prepare for my brother’s education on next year. Besides tuition fee, there is a few things that I’m worrying about such as accommodation and laptop. Obviously I can’t bring my Dell PC from hometown to here. The only choice is to use the old-five-years-old-Acer laptop first until I can afford a better one. I might need to upgrade the notebook computer memory since it is only 512RAM. Open a huge file in Photoshop and doing another stuff in Illustrator, it will crash and lag. Sigh.

As a help, I will be applying for scholarship. The normal scholarship (open for all) will be opened on June, while the scholarship specifically for Indonesian, 10% to 50% – of course I’m aiming for 50%, is opened now. It is not just submitting documents but applicants are required to create an artwork with certain theme on A2 board with deadline in the middle of May. No 3D artwork but 2D. Gotta get my hands dirty with drawing and painting!

Lady luck, please stand on my side. Santa, please fulfill my early Christmas wish, you know how I want to get this (at least) 50% scholarship so badly.

Wish me luck!

Last Saturday was a special day cause my brother was going to perform (read: sing) on the stage (for the first time!) along with his friends. Alright, it wasn’t a mumbo jumbo event but the school was having a singing competition. And no, he didn’t join as a contestant but just to fill the agenda and cheer the audience. But still, they have a certain attire which is black/white t-shirt. Luckily the teacher didn’t demand them to wear a tuxedo. Pfiuh.

The singing competition has started early morning 9am and he sms-ed me when his turn (and his friends) was about to come, which was around 12. I quickly went to the school with my Mum and recorded the performance with my digicam.

They had 2 songs in hand, both Indonesian songs. The first song was “Cari Pacar Lagi” (direct translation: Find boyfriend/girlfriend again) by ST 12. What a weird name of a band, I didn’t even know that this band exist.

This is the screenshot from the video

The second song , “Racun Dunia” by The Changcuters, received a greater respond from the audience (read: students). Almost everyone went OOo.. UUU… AAaa.. whatever screaming voice whenever they sang this part “Wanita racun dunia..Karna dia butakan semua..“, means woman is the world’s poison.. cause she blinded everything.. (Something like that, my translation s*cks. )

It was oh so merry and crowded, I felt as if I was attending a small concert. lol. The joy of being in high school!

*Ranting mode on*

I’m not sure if lazy is the best word to describe them, probably irresponsible is the right word, but whatever. I have no intention to write this post until boyfriend told me that he couldn’t online. Not because of the lousy connection from Streamyx, but because the housemate (also the house owner) hasn’t paid the internet bill! This is not the first time. Sigh.

I really don’t understand what is going on in their mind. If they can afford going clubbing, buying branded shoes that cost hundred Ringgit Malaysia, etc, why can’t they afford to pay bills on time? Why do they prefer to put it there for months then only pay when the internet line/electricity/water has been cut? Do they get a discount price if doing so? Paying bills is just a click away nowadays. It can be done from home (thanks to internet) as long as your Bank account is not empty.

Now, looking back into my past experience with housemates (male, female, gay), I can see that they have a few things in common: Read the rest of this entry…