NOFX.

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NOFX Tour Dates

Only about a month ago, this thread came up in Lowyat.Net saying that the day they come to Malaysia, is the day it snows in this country, or something to that effect.

Well it hasn't snowed yet, but they're coming!!

'Surprised' doesn't even begin to describe me.

I'm hating myself for not getting the tickets to Muse earlier, (darn you friend-who-keeps-stalling-in-giving-me-an-answer-but-eventually-decides-not-to-go), so here's a chance for me to un-hate myself again!

Digression - Did you know the official world tour shirts they were selling at the gig last night costed more than a good sum of the tickets themselves?
I was having lunch at Asia Cafe (where else, sigh) when this guy walked past my table and he was wearing it.

Rich kids have everything they want. =(

But April 19th!

By the way, what's TBA?

"The idiots have taken over!"

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I'm doing all the sciences for school yeah, but here I am, pouring over a huge pile of books on law and human rights.

I have no idea why I thought freedom of expression in the United States ("in the US" insisted by Dr. Santa) would be a good topic for the Investigative Study, because I realize now there aren't a whole lot of books on that.

Even if there were, I'd have to go through 15 pages just to get ONE page of relevant information.

Come May, I'd probably know more about the First Amendment to the United States Constitution than I ever thought I will.

Or more than I ever want to, for that matter.

So while my classmates have piles of books on their topics like global warming or terrorism or alcoholism, I have to discard a whole load of books because they were about the BRITISH law.

You have no idea how boring it can be, having to read about the United States Bill of Rights without even being an American.

Annotated Bibliography due tomorrow!

I've got this classmate who has this ingenious way of doing his annotated bibliography.

Search for a book on Amazon.com (whether or not he could actually get his hands on the book later on), then copy and paste the synopsis straight into his Word document.

Which worked fine until he was told that we have to photocopy pages of the book and highlight the relevant parts before handing it in.

Bah plagiarism, he says!

If nothing else kills you, SAM will.

I am buried chest deep in assignments and such!

Chemistry quiz, biology quiz, physics common test, LAN test (which I can pretty much ignore), preliminary outline for investigative studies, all due/happening next week.

"I cannot believe we have SO MUCH going on next week."

"What else were you expecting when you signed up for SAM?"

True also.

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Why is the 30 GB iPod cheaper than the 8GB iPod Nano?

I wonder if there are differences between an iPod nano and one of those cheap RM100-for-one, China-made MP3 players.

Other than the prices, that is.

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I am so, so not used to using the internet on campus computers.

I'd turn around every few minutes, in case someone was looking at my screen, and I'd make sure to only visit sites that would make me look intelligent in case I died in the middle of surfing it.

Blame the private little corner of my home computer for the paranoia.

Then there's the speed.

You can look around the room, stare at people for a good amount of time before the pages fully loads.
(It's probably not so bad if you don't open 5 tabs at once, but I wouldn't know. Instinctive habit I have, to open as many pages as possible.)
(Twisted logic of mine tells me it saves time.)
(It doesn't, actually.)

I know of someone who hides Limewire in his thumbdrive, then goes and download music from college.

He's from Sunway. It's that fast over there. (Or so he says.)

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No posts the whole of next week.

And even if there are, it'd be me ranting on about how I spent oodles of hours studying, yet still couldn't do the tests.

Why have I not started spending oodles of hours studying yet?

In anticipation of CNY. And a new cam perhaps.

Almost every other day now my sister would ask, "Eh so how wanna go Muse not?"

(Yes if I were to go I'd be going with my sister because no one I know wants to go with me. Wait scratch that. No one I know wants to pay to watch Muse.)

Tickets are almost selling out now right, wait any longer and they'll be completely sold off right, but I cannot decide.

Grrr. College and Common Tests get in the way of everything.

My sister had two free tickets to watch INXS last year, but we had to turn them down because I had tuition on a Friday night and it was just before SPM trials.

And to cheapskate people like myself, free tickets to huge rock acts are everything.

Grr. School work makes your life a lot less enjoyable.

But it's amazing, only the first month of college, and already I'm slacking off on school work. Plus, I'm no longer the "new student in class" anymore, so I don't get excused from not doing my homework / not knowing what I should know in class.

It's like I'm living my Form 5 life, only twice worse. (At least in Form 5, I did my work when the teacher made it clear it is a DO YOUR WORK OR DIE situation, where as in college the lecturers just couldn't care less.)

On a different note, my Aunt-From-UK would be back this coming Saturday!

Which means I -

1. Have to clean my room.
(Clothes on my bed, remote controls and cable wires on the floor. Not going to be easy.)

2. Must behave.
(No more yelling from the top of the stairs to whoever's in the kitchen. "Scream like that for what! Come down and talk!")

3. Have more ang pao money!
(Pity the pounds-to-ringgit conversion rate has gone down though.)

4. Must pretend to be very interested in school work.

5. Have to listen to all the music I want now, and have the volume turned down once she arrives.

6. Will be celebrating Chinese New Year!

Food, travel, Ipoh, hometown, Ipoh sarhorfun, steamboat, Pangkor, cantonese CNY tv shows, ANG PAOS!

For some reason, the older you get, the more you anticipate Chinese New Year.

Nothing to do with ang paos though, it's the whole wear-red-not-black-speak-good-not-bad festive atmosphere.

My parents are very traditional.

We have to pour them tea and utter words of luck and prosperity (in mandarin no less) just to get our red packets. Which is weird because my parents don't even speak mandarin, and is hard for people like me, so I just say whatever comes to mind - mostly "shen ti jian kang" or "wan shi ru yi".


I don't know a lot of mandarin good-fortune phrases, but my brother is dead hopeless - he thinks "xin nian kuai le" IS a chinese good-fortune phrase in itself.

Hopefully I save enough money to get myself the Nikon D40.

It's already the cheapest one in the market.

After having used my brother's dSLR, point-and-shoot cameras tend to leave me feeling a little frustrated.

(That being said, I find myself looking at cameras in the market despite having my own Lumix for less than a year. I love cameras. At the end of the day, should you ask me to choose between cellphones and cameras, I'd choose the latter anytime!)

Know what's cool?

I love, love, love Biology!

We're starting on all that "similar amino acids in all living things" thing right now, and our lecturer would go on and tell us about evolution and all that, then she'd show us images of fossils and things.

Wonderful.

The best thing about our lecturer is, she'd be awfully patient with you, even if you couldn't answer her question and that'd probably mean you weren't paying attention in class.

And, she makes sure to remind the class that us evolving from monkey to man is just an idea that scientists believe in.

She reminds us to still hold fast to what WE believe, i.e. God made Adam and Eve and such.

She doesn't act like she holds all authority just because she is teaching us, neither does she push us to stand on one side of the gate in what has been a topic of debate all the while.

I LOVE BIOLOGY!

(Coincidentally it's the only subject that I did not flunk its quiz.)

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You know what's way, way, waaaaay cool?

They wrote about my entry! On Idealist On Campus!

So cool so cool, 'cause y'know, I've been visiting the site for quite a bit, and to suddenly find our own link on it, well it was a surprise.

Gave them goosebumps? Hahahah.

No wonder suddenly I had a surge in visitors all of a sudden.

P.S. No it's NOT a post from Peeled-Garlic. It's something else.