Personal DNA

Suddenly I am very into all these personality tests. Piggy found one and I did it. This is how my personality DNA looks like:

Polling

Today is polling day. And it is my first. I have seen how my mum did it previously, but this is my first.

We went there at 8.15m. Sounded early but in actual no. When we were there, we were already in the quite a long queue to check on which room we should go to to cast our votes. I was given a paper to tell me to go to room number 8. It was upstairs. When I reached the corridor landing, I saw many people queueing for room 5 and 6. In my mind was thinking "Oh my God! So many people." Room number 8 was at the back.. so I have to squeeze in between people to get through and to my surprise.... room number 8 was empty! We were the only ones.

I went in and handed over my IC to the registration clerk. She was supposed to verify my identity. So, she read my name aloud, tallied it with her record, and crossed out my name from the booklet. And then she scrutiny look at me... " I don't look alike in my IC meh? " ( I am thinking). After she satisfied, I was handed a piece of orange coloured paper. I went over to the counter to mark my vote.. (I vote for.... secret). Then, I folded it. Was thinking how many times I should fold - 1 times? 2 times? No instruction. Was trying to peek into the ballot box, to see how many times people folded. It is a transparent box. Emmm.... I folded once and dumped it in.

By 9.00 am, we were home. Lucky we were early, by the time I walked out of the voting place, the line was then along the corridor, across the road and down the stair case.

Passed!

Sensei was spying on us yesterday in Pavilion. Knowing that we are usually there for dinner and because we are usually late for class :*), she came to sit with us so that there is no escape for us to read the text. Sigh..... what a teacher.

So for the first time after so long, we were punctual yesterday. Since I am the only one left who have not gather my result for the JLPT exam, soon after I dumped my bag I went to collect. A bit tense as there are 2 persons in front of me. One for level 3 and one for level 1. Both 'sempai'. However, both of them do not have the exam slip and do not remember the number, so I am thinking "Great, it will take a long while to get mine." I was wrong. The receptionist actually searched for mine first because I have the slipped and it is easier for her to search. Then when she present me with the exam result folder, the sempai in level 3 was not happy with it because I got it first but she was there before me.... she asked "Why she get first? I am level 3. " I was like 'duh' .

Anyway, I went out when I got the folder. Indeed it was thick, sensei said if it is thick means likely is passed. So, stage I of 'ken cheongness' reduced. Then, next come to see how much I get. So, I went into the library to share this with Piggy and Tapir. Taaaaaadaaaaaaaaaaaa............... :

Vocabulary - 100/100 (something to be proud of, I never thought I can scored it though I am quite alright during the test)

Listening - 76/100 (sigh, this is already satisfactory ....I have problem focus on what they say while figuring answers)

Reading-Grammar - 179/200 (not bad either, it means that my grammar is not that bad)

Stage II of 'ken cheongness' also relieved. Sensei was even more eager to know. Well, we are her students, she ought to know how we did. Anyway, glad that I passed. It means that my level now is equal to a 7 years old kindergarden student in Japan ? Hahahahaa.... well, so long I can speak a little, read a little and understand a little, it is a start.

Ganbatte kudasai!

Trip to Ipoh

Should have posted this before the 'Bullish Monday'. Anyway, last Saturday was a coursemate's wedding all the way in Ipoh. Only 6 of us went. And out of the 6, 4 travelled from KL to Ipoh. Arrangement was one hell of a business, all of us lives in different area and to find a common area to wait is difficult.

Anyway, we met up with the rest at the friend's place in Serdang. A new area I presumed and it is an apartment. Nice area but the cars parked outside is terrible. The road was for 2 ways traffic but from the way it was parked, only 1 road available for both traffic. Literally speaking, the cars actually parked in the middle of the road as if it is a valid parking. O_O and the road sign said "No Parking, cars will be clamped. "

Well, friend was driving us in the company's 4x4 truck. My legs are short, even in heels. So, literally speaking, I am climbing up the truck with utmost difficulty and when I am in, I am not too comfortable. The seat is high up and it is like I am squatting rather than sitting. If I am as tall as Jordan then I will be like having too much of legs.... yard long which people from outside might be able to see my knees. And it is bumpy ... have been knocking my head whole journey while trying to nap.

Reached Ipoh at 5.00pm. Some of the friends wanted to buy pomeloes, I bought some biscuits. Then, we called another friend, KS who was in Ipoh to come bring us around. Friends wanted to try the Ipoh White Coffee. While waiting for KS, another coursemates, MK from Sarawak called. Apparrently, he has a home-based office in Sandakan. From the way he talked, it is a big house with no one but him and the TV. He was very 'osaberi' .... imagine he talked to 4 different people with different topics. From Football, to politics, to medical, to homicide and then back to politic and etc. The phone call lasted about 1 hour! We felt that he is rather lonely and we suspected that nobody talked to him.. until the phone call... hahahahaa.

Finally, KS is here and then we were driving through Ipoh town looking for white coffee (the phone call is still on going). Unlucky, the shop closed for the day, so we settled into on of the coffee shop and ate something. Phone call was still on going and now KS took over to entertain MK. We sat and rested until 7.00pm and decided to move on to the restaurant.

Bride and bridegroom looked very well groomed. Like what people said, girl will look prettiest on the wedding day. Hahahaa.... we speculated that dinner will be late but then not exactly. At 7.45 pm approximately, 1st dish was served but the bride and groom still outside waiting for guests to arrive. They moved in in the middle fo the 1st course. By the time 3rd course of dinner is served, they were already toasting. Food was nice, big portion and taste delicious. The banquet ends shortly before 10pm. We started our journey home by then.

By the time we reached KL, it was about 12.45pm. Tired.

While on the trip, I have also learned that:
HCT : becomes daddy already. Heard wife recently gave birth to a son. Good for him!
LSH: going to complete master soon. Yeah, still in UPM.
LMK: coming down to KL today. Heard he is going to UK/Eurpore to see AC Milan.... boy he is rich.
LYS: Son already 3.5 years old but I haven't seen the kid.

Maybe one of these days we ought to catch up a little.

Bullish Monday

Another Monday. Usually 1st Monday of the month will be a slow day as the previous week has been busy for us clearing all cases down to minimal, being in all the API that we can, however, this time round is not the case.

Submission of cases was way overwhelming. In fact, overwhelming was an understatement. The last week, we have daily submission of more than 1500 cases. The least was 1505. Yeah, it was a lot. But wait till you see Friday. We were already struggling to clear cases and 8.30pm, an updates from colleague in the scanning dept saying :

"We will be completing the scanning of the proposals with payments in about half an hours times. We will continue to scan all losse correspondence.
We have received about 1000 proposals without payments which have not been scanned yet.
Thanks."

We wanted to faint. How can a small island as such produce such a HUGE volume. Absolutely incredible and unbelievable. Now the hurdle is back on clearing cases. Worst still, the day begin with backlog of whatever left in the basket and outstanding of 1000 submission pending for scanning.... so all in all we have 2000 plus cases to clear? O_O.... boooooooohooooooooooooooo. Help!!!!!!

If every month is like this, then it is torturing.... God help us!