Apa jadi semalam?

Dua-dua kelas... potong stim dan rasa macam tak guna langsung 

 Kelasku yg pertama. Perbentangan tak jadi sebab tak cukup masa

Kelasku yang kedua. Biasanya, aku tak mulakan percakapan, tapi semalam dia macam bermasalah dan tak sanggup nak cakap dgn aku. Tak sanggup nak cakap dgn org lain dlm kumpulan kita masa kelas sebab dia ucap sesuatu yang....Bincang pun macam tak bincang sebab tak faham soalan. Lepas tu, kita semua senyap je. . Sedih, takde org cakap dengan dia. Akhir sekali, aku je yang cakap dengan dia walaupun I admit dia sepatutnya cakaplah elok sikit. Ataupun, mungkin dia tak bermaksud nak sakiti hati org.  The AMs yang teramatlah bijaksana... macam itulah... tapi nasib baik aku tahan je lah apa yang dia cakap tu sebab he's the friendliest to me. I can't afford to lose what we built in 4 weeks and I can't afford to lose another friend 

Aku terangkan kenapa. Semalam, lepas kelas, dia tanya aku apa aku nak buat di hari minggu. Lepas tu, aku pun boraklah. Entah kenapa tiba-tiba berubah tone pulak dgn aku. Hairan, masa dalam kelas aku cakap dgn kau, macam tak nak je cakap dgn aku. Then, before I walked out I said BYE lagi tahu tak tapi dia sibuk dgn benda lain :(

Aku fikir kenapalah dgn dia nie. Mana tahu, tiba-tiba dia jalan menuju ke arah aku. Buat kali pertama, dia pakai lif. Sebab biasanya dia pakai tangga dgn kawan-kawan dia. And the nicest thing he did for me was hold the door. Aku tanyalah, eh, kenapa tiba-tiba pakai lif? Jawabnya: Because you keep me company. 

Ya ke??? Tapi masa dalam kelas kau macam.... haih, takpelah. I realise I should keep this friend forever, man. 

And when we arrived at the cafeteria, about to walk off hurriedly, he said: Bye! See you Monday!

Pelik  tapi benar. Aku pun tak tahu kenapa  dia baik sgt dgn aku. 

Ah, semalam. Hari yang tak produktif langsung.

I still can't believe

I actually went FIRST  to speak on the presentation yesterday. Like, hello? I was shaking when my first few slides popped up but thank God I hid that fear with my LOUD voice. TO be honest, I didn't expect my voice to be that loud. I don't even speak to my kawans in that kind of volume.

I think the exchange students purposely let me go first.... because apparently, my slides were too awesome >.<  Few mins before presentation, that guy just casually told me: You're up 1st! 

My reaction: You're kidding me!

Well, it's kinda my fault also; didn't tell them I refuse to be 1st but because I had a choice of which part to do so I thought... it's okay-lah... I don't mind anything.

HAHA, I swear the exchange students were telling me to relax and take it like NOTHING. That's the best part of cooperating with exchange students, man. You see the difference between them and us Asians. 

Needless to say, all went well. Everyone in my group esp. that guy was praising and complimenting me non-stop. 

I'll miss you guys so much esp. when sem is over! 

The beauty of our friendship

You know, I've never been this close to a person before... Sometimes I think, am I dreaming? Is it really happening? Never have I felt this way before. Especially with someone you met just 4 weeks ago.

I like how you're really, really, really casual with me.

You talk to me like I've known you forever.

You're non-judgemental and caring.

You're thankfully NOT ROWDY.

It's truly a pleasure meeting you, buddy :) From day ONE until now and forever. I can't believe we're halfway thru' the semester. Yet, in just 4 weeks of friendship, I've learnt so much, so much from you :) Thank you for working with me on our oral presentation and for the very beautifully-crafted compliments that followed after. It's truly an experience for me... I guess it is for you, too haha. :) 

I'm going to miss you when you go back to the land down under. 

Promise me ONE thing, mister. Don't DELIBERATELY FORGET ME once you touch down in Kangaroo Land.

Working with the exchange students...

is pretty RELAXING. Maybe it's their style of doing things, pretty laid-back unlike us Asians or at least M'sians who get paranoid and jumpy at almost everything the moment something doesn't quite work out.

Trust me, I've had tons of experience working with the M'sians and MOST of the time, my group members are just........ well, you get it-lah.

So, I thought for a change, WHY NOT the exchange people kan?


And I think their laid-back-ness kind of gives me my OWN space and time to do my work. NO pressure at all! Like, really? Is this what group work with them is like? Wow? I'm amazed!

Just gonna go with the flow and see what happens. For a change.  Gimme a break, wei. I've been slaving for the past idunnohowmanyyears like crazy.


I'm working with two Australians and another M'sian. Thank God, the Australians are quite friendly though sometimes I feel like they're MUCH better at expressing or explaining themselves. I dunno why but the way they write and talk to me is just.... ahhhhhhhhhhh... so BEAUTIFUL :) Even when they say my name, they take the time to enunciate/pronounce my name properly. This, once again, I have to thank my parents for giving me and English-sounding name which I think suits me PRETTY well =D. Otherwise, I dunno how they're gonna call me. Probably have to think of ONE which is gonna be hard because... everyone's rachel, melissa, sarah, caryn, vivian. Eh, so common-wei. hahaha. how did i get here?

Ah, JL, stop! Now, go do work!

Here I go again...

Possibly one of the most memorable tutes ever... Global Cities first tute.

when we were asked to introduce ourselves, letting ppl know your future careers, and our favourite city.

So, everyone else started thinking and then when the time came, everyone started blabbering...

Came one  M'sian girl's turn, she said her favourite city was Melb (like, duh because she went on exchange there) which was enough to send the Melbourne-nians in my class into
laughter that died down when they realised they needed to give others a chance to speak.


Then, one Aussie girl in my row said her favourite city was KL.

KL? REALLY????

NOW that made the whole class LOL a thousand times harder than we did with Melb.

How I wish every tute was FUN like that...

Indeed :)

Final sem syndrome

Final sem syndrome is getting to me. Of course, I try to submit my assignments on time like I usually do BUT there are times when I feel I haven't given my all; things could've been better IF I had slightly better vocabulary so that expression isn't so unclear. I realize that at times, I tend to just follow whatever that darn journal article has to say... then after writing so much, I think, wait... whatthe>>>> am I supposed to say again? It's like, you wanna say L but you end up saying P. Then, when I've submitted the whole thing, it's like AHHH!!!!! YA HOR, WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF IT THAT WAY????

Not to mention, I'm also taking things slower. Not PANICKING for presentations at all even though I'm literally UNPREPARED because I don't wanna seem so bossy with my group... since that guy is VERY VERY NICE to me. This is also owing to the fact that I unfortunately and unexpectedly TWISTED my leg on that fateful Wednesday morning just right after getting dressed when I noticed I didn't have my phone with me and went back to my bedside table to get it. Gah, I hate myself, I hate myself, I hate myself. One, for being super forgetful, Two, for having stubborn, culprit, jinxed legs.  For once, it had to be the left leg that was cramp...MY RIGHT is supposedly weaker than the left (which probably explains why I hate to play the pedal on the piano).


Then again, because of the cramp left leg, my right kinda pushed the left a little. Next thing I know, I fell *SPLAT* on the floor.

Don't ask me HOW i managed to walk on Wednesday for classes but I went off after apologising  to that guy abt delaying discussion for presentation till the following week - our presentation week. Thankfully, he understood why and didn't SCREAM at me or appear to be agitated/irritated/frustrated/wanting to start a fight with me.

Instead he went: Hey, how're you...... Oh, okay. Get better soon.

NO Thanks to that rather nasty fall, I had ONE day of excruciating pain, couldn't walk, had to delay another presentation and forgo 3 classes.

Very nice, JL.

Non-stop assignments, here I come!