life outside university

This is us, chilling at Sunway Pyramid after our final paper. Gotta admit, 7-weeks semester is really hectic and adding salt to the wound, our Mathematics 2 lecturer was very shitty and a pain in the ass. Anyhoooo, it's over now, life goes on.

Since we couldn't get any movie tickets after lunch, we did some archery.

This guy here with the bag is a pro, he shoots in the range of 7 to 10 only! Very accurate and consistent. I bet he comes here almost every week. Lol.

Next up - bowling:

Here are the pros...

...and steamboat for dinner! Woots! I don't rmb the name of the restaurant, but it's just beside Sunway Pyramid. There are rows of restaurants doing steamboat in buffet style and most of them are pretty famous. This one we went to costs about RM26 per pax. Love the tom yam soup! The drinks they offer are limited though, just orange juice, tea, and mineral water. Lol.

going korean

Thursday

[18.08.2011]

After our last paper of finals, we headed to Ampang's Korean Village for a Korean feast. It's called Korean Village mainly because there are many Korean restaurants around that area, about 15 to 20 restaurants I think. We ended up at Jal Dae Ji because I was craving for their kimchi soup. Ngek ngek ngek. Their soup is simply delicious, that's it if you are a sour and spicy person.

The vegs are to be wrapped with the meats along with sesame oil, garlic, soy sauce, and a small green chili.

Side dishes or Banchan.

I think all of the Korean restaurants serve different side dishes, some with sugar fried anchovy or fried potatoes or fried taufu etc. The standard one is the kimchi. The best side dishes I had so far was at Seoul Korea Restaurant, which I dropped by on the same week with the parents. Two Korean meals in a week! What a treat!

Idk what is this called, taufu soup?

Tadah, my favorite kimchi soup, serves best with rice. It costs RM18. Three of us ordered this since I was praising highly on this dish.

Spicy Korean rice cake is a must order. RM30+

Not forgetting the marinated pork and chicken too. The waiter will grill the meats for us, which I thought it's a good thing because they grill it better than we do. In Jal Dae Ji, they use charcoals instead of gas, so the meats have this smoky charcoal flavor in them. Arhhh. Yum.

We were the last customers before they close at 3.30pm.

After our late lunch, we went to the nearest shopping mall, Ampang Point for tea, but we ended up bowling instead because they were having a promotion, BUY 2 FREE 3. What a bargain right? Maybe because it's the Muslim's puasa period.

Like a pro...hahaha.

aftermath

Friday
[22.04.2011]

Chilled out with coursemates and our Statistics lecturer after the disastrous Mathematics 1 final exam at Mid Valley on last Friday. You might be wondering why I said "disastrous".Well, first of all, we (and I mean ALL the students who are taking Mathematics 1 this semester) find that the lecturer sucks to the bottom of the never ending bottom...er, you know what I'm trying to say right? No? Nevermind. Anyway, we dislike the lecturer because it was hard to communicate with him and he simply marks our papers. He doesn't accept any other mathematical methods except his. He's disorganized and totally a pain in the ass during his classes. Urrghhhh! I wish, no, scratch that, WE wish we wouldn't need to see him in the following semesters. *keeping fingers crossed. Enough of the bitching, let's go back to the main topic...

Lunch at Pasta Zanmai, Mid Valley. Initially we planned to do Korean but we switch to Japanese because of the operating hours of the Korean restaurant.

Take 1

Take 2

Movie of the day:

Vantage Point + Deja Vu = Source Code

It was kind of tiring to watch the same scene for numerous of times. Not the best action movie as it was predictable and lack of originality. Thanks to hunky Jake Gyllenhaal, I'm giving the movie 6/10.

D.A.R.E

I noticed that I rarely blog about my life as a university student, so here it is.

Most UCSI students dread University Life, one of the most boring and full-of-crap compulsory subject in our college. Yea, I was definitely against it too as the fee is also the highest among the subjects I've taken so far. There are no quiz, tests, examinations, or whatsoever in this subject. HOWEVER, there are so many troublesome assignments! Total 3. Not a big number I know, but the time and effort we put in it was unbearable. I soon realized that this subject is pretty useful to university students and it was quite an experience for us participating in the previous charity event a few months ago and this final project, University Life Showcase on 5th April 2011.

Vinnie and Johnson promoting our booth - D.A.R.E, which stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education. Yeppp, our group's project was about drug abuse.

Many lecturers came to our booth. Didn't expect them to come as we were told there would be only 3 lecturers evaluating us.

I like the "earth" from another group. Lol-ing at both idiots who had nothing better to pose but to eat the "earth".

I like Ben's group, their handmade stuff were so creative and adorable! They even gave me one of those handmade CD cases. :)

Some group even came up with Faceboob. Lol

The course mates who came to support us! Thanks guys!

D.A.R.E

There were 11 of us, another 2 China guys left early.

Guess what, we won the 2nd place!!!!
Didn't expect to get top 3 as other groups were pretty good and creative too! Such a pity, I was on my break when they announce the winners. O.o

LUL Charity

26.02.2011

[Saturday]

This was my first time participating in a charity event organized by UCSI Student Affairs with the partnership of Maxis. 13 teams visited 25 orphanages and old folks home around Klang Valley. It was a pretty huge project organized by Sharon.

For my team, there were 10 members of different countries and races. If not mistaken, I think there were only 3 Malaysians, 4 Iranians, and the remaining ones were from China. Nicole and Tsu Yin were our facilitators for that day. Our group went to an orphanage at Kepong, and an old folks home at Loke Yew road. Thank goodness for the short distance because our van's air conditioner wasn't working well that day. Phewww. And we were the earliest team to arrive UCSI after the visits! Woots!

At the old folks home. No medias were allowed so we only took a few pictures among ourselves. This was our first time as volunteers!

At the orphanage. We didn't do much there because we arrived late. We just played a few games and took lots of pictures with them. The younger children were totally adorable! They were so shy when we talked to them. =X

UCSI students who were involved in the "Light UP Lives" charity event.

Let's make a difference!

The experience was one-of-a-kind. It's hard to describe the feeling when you help others out. You gotta experience it yourself. I think the event was a major success as it also allows students to develop a culture of lifelong volunteering.

freshman camp 2011

BANAZI!!!

I'm glad that I participated in this 3D2N camp at Dusun Eco Resort, Bentong last weekend. Thanks to UCSI Student Council, the campers had an amazing experience. It was also my first time attending a camp with full of spirit.

On the first day, my group was like soul-less and not chatting with each other, but we started to bond with each other when we brainstormed for our group name and cheer. We ended up with BANAZI, which is actually a combination of banana and Nazis. Our group cheer was pretty silly but in a funny way. I like other groups' cheer too for example, NONSENSE (how can they even think of such group name???) and VICTORY. Fyi, there were 9 groups in total.

Although the Eco Park Race 1 and 2 are quite tiring on the second day, we had so much fun completing the challenges. My personal favorite were rafting and the obstacles. There were no rock climbing and flying fox for us though, pretty disappointed because I was looking forward to it. Rock climbing rocks people!

Pictures time:

The banner with all the campers' hand prints on it.

Banazi's flag!

The bananas...

Go banazi!

Oh wait, it's sinking....NOT!

Rafting...

Hail banazi!!!