The Letters Crusade

Seriously, it's been damn busy for the past few weeks. Tests, assignments and presentations. And what's more? Mid-term commence on next next week!

My results for the past few months, I can say are just above average. Not really satisfied and that's what I had been doing recently, study machine. For now, my only hope is on the mid-term to compensate the marks I lost for the past few months.

So, do forgive me for not updating my blog weekly. Frankly speaking, blogging is something that you really have to sacrifice a whole bunch time working on it, IF you wanna produce a good entry. Well, I guess I couldn't afford to blog at least once a week already, watching my work piled up like Mt. Everest. And usually, I will use my weekends time to blog but now, it seems that my weekends are becoming days without class but squeezed with revision and assignments. So, I couldn't squeeze out time to blog, plus, nothing much happened recently except work.


I even forgot my dad's birthday, which was on 14th April. It was few days later when my mom called me and asked "Hey, it was dad's birthday 3 days ago, have you wished him?" I was totally shocked and like suddenly woke up from dream. It was my first time I forgot to wish my dad happy birthday since after I learned how to talk and knew his birth date. So, I called my dad feeling so embarrassed. For the first time, I wished him happy belated birthday and at the same time keep on apologizing to him. He laughed and said, "Haiyalah.. very busy ah.. forgot it already.. how's your study?" (and the usual conversation asking bout my studies went on)


After I hang up the phone, I shed a tear or two.





When all things seems to be against you, remember, family will always be your refuge.



Have a nice day. =)

If you haven't read up Day 1 and Day 2, please kindly do so before continuing reading this entry. =)

Day 1
Day 2



YEAH MAN!! It's the FINALE of the Tioman trip!! And we had our own ICON Amazing Race!!

I believed that Mr. Al had really plan very very well on this race because I was quite shocked that he managed to come out with such interesting game in every stations! Well, before we start the race, let's do some warming up 1st. XD




Upon received our 1st clue, off we go to the 1st mission!We are required to cook a bowl of Maggi and boil cups of Teh-Boh. After the Maggi has been cooked, we have to send it to Ms. Effa to test its taste. In addition, we have to prepare a 1.5 liter of bubble!!

On the next stations, we had to solved some MATHEMATICS QUESTIONS!! And guess idioms based on pictures.


After that, we must head to the beach there and dig out colour ball hid underneath the sand. (sorry, couldn't find any photo of this game)


Then we headed our way back to the chalet area and started counting the bloody numbers of sticky note outside the room.




After getting the right answer, we got our next clue. Rush to a stall nearby the dock and buy 5 brenjos with the money given and EAT IT!



After filling up stomach with brenjos, we have to build a sand "lobster". Can you see any link between brenjos and sand castle? lol



After finished building sand "prawn", we received the clue for the next station and I swear this is most heart-pumping, breathtaking game I've ever seen in so many race I've participated in!!


Each of the team must send only 1 person to take on this mission. Grab a life jacket and jump into the river. There are a line of balloons. Grab the balloons with our group number written on it. Bring it up to the land on the other side and poke it. Inside the balloons have a piece of paper which contains pin number. You will have to key in this pin number into your group's handphone (handed in to the committee before the race start) to turn in on. Inside the handphone will have a video showing the last clue of the whole race! The main thing is there are tons of balloons with blank paper inside!! Extreme mannn!!





My group reached there 1st at the beginning and Aqil (my group member) volunteer to jump in! Initially, he complained that the balloons are tied soooo tightly on the long tree branch, he couldn't even grab 1 out! Then suddenly, something crossed my mind. I had my room key with me and perhaps it will help to cut the tie. Then, I made the most terrible mistake, by throwing the room key to him. *dummm* Aqil couldn't catch it and it dropped into the river. >.<

I should have hand it to him instead of throwing it.

In the end, the key was no where to be found as the bottom of the river is quite dirty and covered by thick layer of dry leaves. But I still wanna thanks Muiz and Muzz for trying their best to recover it. =)

Upon getting the last clue, we received a puzzle board and we have to put on all the puzzle pieces we had collected during the whole race.












Finally, we have come to an end for this whole Tioman Trip series. lol. Thanks for spending your precious time following it!

If you haven't read Day 1, please kindly read it up before continue reading this entry. =)

Here, Day 1




There we go again~ DAY 2!! Today is the day we are going SNORKELING!!! WOHOOO!!

Alright, everybody gear up!!





That day we went to two different places snorkeling. One is around a very large rock, down the sea water you could witness a very stunning view of coral reefs. We eventually went nearer the large rock and our feet now can easily touched the coral reefs down there - environment destroyers, sorry coral~ Then the person in charger quickly ask us to moved back.





Then we moved on to the marine park and we are told that here have multiple times of fish compared to the previous place we went just now.


which is total bullshit.

I can't even see any sign of fishes once I leave the area nearby the place where I jumped into.


After finished snorkeling, we went to another small island and a place called , Kampung Teket (don't know the spelling correct onot) There we can buy souvenirs at cheap price and not to mention that Carlsberg(can) there is only RM 2.50 and the convenient shop down centrepoint sells at RM 5.

We bought some t-shirt for our friends who at that time perhaps mushroom-ing inside the concrete building. XP I bought one for myself too!



Not only they teach well, they sing like Beyonce!! (OK, I exaggerated it XP)



This is it, our performance time!

1st group. Thila as a love cupid who help solving love issues of 3 couples.

2nd group - performing Bad Romance!!

Last edited on 2 April 2010, 8.40am. - Added photo credits.


HOLA!! If you are still wondering why the heck that I didn't update my blog last weekend, you are lampi!! (new word learned from my college friends, short form of LAMbat PIck-up)

For God sake I went to Pulau Tioman!!! Hellooo~!

Now, I can hardly recall any beautiful scenery of Pulau Redang. (been there when I was a kid, I think? lol) So, it can be considered as a very long time ago since I've went to an island.




This time, it was a 3 days 2 nights trip organized by ICON Club. (a club formed by all the JPA scholars in KBU)Before moving on, lemmi introduce our beloved lecturers who braced themselves following us to the trip!

We departed at 10pm by bus, some of us sat on the van. We arrived at the Mersing Jetty at around 5am. Then we departed by a speed ferry at 6am. The aircond inside the ferry was fucking cold! I thought I was sitting on the wrong ferry traveling to North Pole. Later on, I found out that the seating area in front was A LOT warmer, is like having Tropical Rain Forest and Tundra together in a ferry.




We reached the island about 7 something in the morning.





During our leisure time, we visited the waterfall nearby which is known as the Rock Fall. The water was super cold! Damn relaxing! I'm in cloud nine~~










After chilling like crazy in the afternoon, its ice-breaking time at night!!


1st game, we are to named anything that can be found in the kitchen. I said, "CCTV." Then, we are to complete the following sentence with the thing we said just now. "Every morning, I brush my teeth with a _______" So you know what happened on my sentence. OMG! We all are laughing so hard, that one even end up brushing his teeth with a can opener. LMAO!!



Then the 2nd game, we sat on chairs forming a big circle and each of us have to shout out our name together with our signature move. The interesting part was, we had to memorize all the names and signature moves right from the beginning until the current person. A very effective method of remembering a person.







Onto the third game, we are required to hold the candle on its upright position using thread and move for a distance, without blowing off the candle.








My group reached the finish line few seconds after the first group. However, the first team to arrive had blow off their candles right after being judge as the champs. Thanks to Kah Wai, we smartly used this loophole saying that our candle still lit up compared to the first group!! We ended up being CHAMPION. Biggest kantoi (new word I learn, means amkan) to the 1st team.



Then, it is the most breathtaking game of that night. The Nightline. All of the group members are to be blindfolded, and only listen to the guidance from their assigned facilitator and walk all the way round back to the finish line(where we started).



It was very very unusual experience because I get to experience being a blind person who have to rely only on sound and touch, heavily.


However, being "blind" doesn't stop these people from cam-whoring.







The true semangat of cam-whoring.


And then we have our last game of the night, which is called the Blanket game. I used to play this before during the Interact Club's International Understanding Camp. Is like this, two teams are separated by a piece of blanket, each team sends a player in front, when the blanket comes down, the player has to guess the name of the person in front of them. Fastest wins.













Ah~ What a great night~ What's more, it's the first day only!! And we all are getting so excited already!! XD

Two more days to go, so stay tuned y'all!!



photo credits to Mr. Al, Mr. Derick, Ms. Effa, Afiq and Imran.