se7en things...

Stupid Grey, HAD to tag me to doing this... Argh. Well, I obviously had the choice of NOT doing it, but it isn't nice to spoil the chain (not like I've been ridiculously believing all the forwarded emails cursing me with tons of bad luck if I didn't send any of them out to anyone out there: I didn't.)

Anyway, I've found some time now to do it, so here goes:

Seven Things I’m Experiencing Now
1. Headache.
2. Exams.
3. Studies.
4. Old age. (OK, so I'm not that old... So...?)
5. Dehydration.
6. Mouth ulcer.
7. British weather.


Seven Things I’m Thinking About Now
1. Who can help me in my studies???
2. Can I get good grades this time?
3. Will the exams be easy for me?
4. Have I done enough studying?
5. Why can't I go back to studying?
6. Why am I doing this questionnaire???
7. When can I go back to Malaysia?

Seven Things I’m Worrying About
1. My grades
2. Friendship bonding
3. Family well-being
4. Global warming
5. World peace
6. Deforestation
7. End of the world

Seven Things I’m Happy About
1. That I'm here in UK studying
2. A well-to-do life
3. My supporting mother
4. Great close friends
5. Collection of music
6. Ability to play music
7. Understanding skills

Seven People I Treasure [Editted]
1. Mother
2. Sisters
3. My close friends: High school
4. My close friends: University and Course-mates
5. My music friends, not to mention my teacher
6. "Just" Friends, who mean a lot to me
7. Last but not least, family members


Seven Things I Always Touch or Come In Contact With
1. Laptop
2. Studying partners
3. K800i phone
4. Wallet
5. Bus pass
6. iPod (can't live without music)
7. Currently, my files and notes

Seven Things I Want to Improve
1. Piano playing
2. Knowledge in computers and programs
3. My memory skills and mathematical deduction (I'd need that now!)
4. Work experience
5. Friendship
6. My current laptop (I'm greedy... muahaha)
7. The community of Malaysia (come on... I'd rather stay in a nice place like here)

Seven Things I’m Strong In
1. Piano playing!
2. Listening
3. Observing (sometimes unnecessary)
4. Diverse and open =P
5. Organising (in the beginning...)
6. Devotion ;)
7. Sweet (no one has seen that side of me yet... =P)

Seven Things I’m Weak In
1. My course!
2. Conversation striking
3. Cooking (I had to rely on recipes)
4. Singing (I'd die to have a good voice *sob sob*)
5. Organising (... but messing up later on)
6. Memorising
7. Being sarcastic when I need to

Seven Things I Adore Eating
1. Chocolate
2. Cheese
3. Peanut butter with jam sandwich
4. Japanese food (yum...)
5. Thai/Indian/etc... something spicy!
6. Chinese food, esp my mom's gourmet cooking (over-exaggerating)
7. To sum it all up, I'm a garbage bin. Toss me something to eat, I'll try to gobble it up.


Seven Things I Adore Drinking
1. Green/Chinese Tea
2. Hot chocolate
3. Ice blended drinks without caffeine (I can't take caffeine now: used to like mocha)
4. Nestle yogurt drink, esp Guava
5. Coke or Pepsi? Definitely Pepsi.
6. Smoothies
7. Fruit juices, or blends that my mom makes (bet none of you guys would like to try if you find out what she puts in there... hahaha)


Seven Things I Detest
1. Back-stabbers
2. Liars, esp those who can't keep their promises
3. Low paying jobs and salaries: we need to live, Malaysia!
4. Road bullies: they can be a pain in the ass
5. Unfairness to different people and races
6. This is unreasonable: British weather. Hahaha...
7. Right now: EXAMS


Seven Things I Cannot Live Without
1. My laptop
2. Music
3. iPod (or any music players I happen to be using currently)
4. Friends and family
5. Communicating device, such as a mobile phone
6. Like what Grey said: Air
7. Food and Water


Seven Things I Fear to Show
1. Piano playing. I have stage fright. Still.
2. The contents in my laptop. Privacy needed!
3. Old posts of this blog.
4. My room, back in Malaysia.
5. Embarassing moments.
6. My past.
7. My fetishes (kekeke....)


Seven Things I’ll Never Want to Talk About
1. Politics
2. Work Ethics
3. Religion
4. Novels (cuz I seldom read, so haven't got a clue)
5. Supernatural
6. Past and future
7. History, esp World wars


Seven Things I Will Want to Do
1. Be the next influence in Malaysia (like a president, which is NEXT TO IMPOSSIBLE)
2. Travel
3. Try the foods of the world
4. Live in a big city in US, AND not get hurt by terrorism (that's a lot to ask)
5. Be a musician (which is also next to impossible)
6. If not, then a celebrity (as if I have the looks, phish...)
7. A father

Seven Things I Will Never Play Around When/With
1. Fire (LOL)
2. Drugs
3. Moody people
4. Love
5. Trust
6. Really ill people, trust me.
7. Electricity

Seven Things I Wonder About
1. How do babies come about?
2. Why is the earth round?
3. Why is the sky blue?
4. When did Australia got discovered?
5. What made the tsunami happen in the tragic incident in 2005?
6. Where is Elvis Presley?
7. Who is God?

Seven Questions I Hope My Friends Would Respond To
1. Are you alright?
2. Have you eaten?
3. Got milk?
4. Care to share?
5. Who am I?
6. How am I like?
7. How are you like?

Seven Things (or People) I Would Love to See
1. The existence of a God (not that I don't believe there is a higher power)
2. Malaysia becoming a developed AND civilised country (by that i meant rational)
3. The hottest babes and hunks having an orgy (OK, this was REALLY random)
4. (Since Grey wants Leonardo...) Fredric Chopin!
5. Ayumi holding a concert in Malaysia
6. Globalisation
7. Cool technologies up ahead

Seven People I Want to Tag
1-7. No one. Since there isn't many people I know with blogs, so no point right?

One of the mysteries of men...

Why do men have nipples?

‘Males and females are not separate entities, shaped independently by natural selection. Both sexes are variants upon a single ground plan, elaborated in later embryology. Male mammals have nipples because females need them and the embryonic pathway to their development builds precursors in all mammalian fetuses, enlarging the breasts later in females but leaving them small (and without evident function) in males.’

~ taken from here.

I was pondering over this question today (way to go to spend my second day in my twenties), and I came across this "scientific" answer over googling.

Frankly speaking, I still don't get it. Well, OK... Us human beings develop milk tissues even when we're not born yet, that is, during the embryo stage. Apparently, this tissue grows from the arms, curving over to the chest and down to a part near the groin, somewhere towering above the thighs. To this extent, we know why we see female mammals, particularly four-legged mammals like dogs, or cats, or anything else you can think of, that they have a stretch of nipples over the bottom part of the body.

Humans, on the other hand, are different. Due to the chromosomes in our DNA (you know the drift, XY for males, and XX for females), we only get 2 nipples. Females, by oestrogen, develop these milk tissues during the puberty stage. And we all know what is the purpose of this. If you don't, ask your parents.

Men don't really need them. I mean, what use is there?

I remember my friend told me that she had this discussion with her friends over a "mamak" session, and someone even voiced out that it's merely "a decoration"! To a certain extent, I do agree with him. Come on, it's not like we're going to feed the young.

This is definitely out of the norm

What I read over the net as well was this (click me): Nipples are erogenous zones. (OKAY....)

I mean, so what if they are? It's not like the ladies would seduce us men on these. Puh-liz. The thought of it is already freaking me out.

Funny though. IF we hadn't had these, we'd be a bunch of freak shows: a chest without anything on it. Wouldn't that be weird as well? It's debatable.

The Aging Process: Pre-Aging Syndrome (PAS)

Yes, it's the time of the year: a celebration of the birth of... ME.

Well, it isn't exactly the time yet (strange enough, I still don't get why so many people are still wishing me, not as though I'm proud to be old).


Speaking of being old, I haven't got a slightest clue on why I have been slacking in work, and getting less sleep than I should be. For instance, I dozed off at 1am, and found myself awake at 5.30am to the bright daylight of the British land, instantly thinking it's time to wake up anyway.

Back to the actual event: this all happened in Nando's, Coventry. Below, you'll see me cutting the cake, ...


... , and me cutting the cake again, taken from a different angle (as you have already noticed).


Some of the pictures are the works of the guy in the middle here:

Showcasing the people sitting on my row (drum-roll please...):

To end the show, I'd like to present to you the... [one, two, three,...] ... SEVEN wonders! (Yet another picture carefully shot by our wonderful photographer, at the spur of the moment.)

Culture

Since the day when I set my puny little (size-8) feet on this forsaken land (God I hate this place...), I've been told about the cultures of Britain.

One of them is to go to bars or pubs, drink their hearts away (note: not wine, but beer), and come out drunk as ever. Looking it this way: It is similar to our "mamak" culture. That makes much more sense.

It all roots down to the same objective: to socialise.

Remember how you would call your chaps out to the nearest mamak (or maybe one of your favourite mamaks, even though it takes more than 10 minutes to drive, or even walk) ? Then you'd order, I don't know, a cup of "teh-o kosong" or a "kopi gao", and a Indo-mee goreng to go with it? You'd then chat up a storm about the million-and-one things that happened to the world, the nation, and also about you. When the night gets older, you decide to break it up, pay for your food and drink while the Indian waiter chants in a foreign language, ending up with a total in a tongue that you completely understand.

I remember the time when guys would even go out just to watch a football match on an uncomfortable plastic or wooden chair (current trend is metal chairs, apparently) at the "mamak" on a large-screen tv or even a big projection over a blank white material in the open air; when they could have stayed at home, invited their friends over to watch in the comforts of a sofa or something much comfy-er.

I heard it's for the crowd and excitement.

Anyway, here, men or guys call up each other, walk out to the nearest pub (or if you're in London, a disco, perhaps?) , ...

.. order a pint or a pint-and-a-half, ...

have fun, then order another, have fun, then order another..... This goes on until they're finally satisfied. Now see why I said they come out drunken as ever?

Oh, how I miss how Malaysia works...

Tarot cards: Are they real?

You are The Sun

Happiness, Content, Joy.

The meanings for the Sun are fairly simple and consistent.

Young, healthy, new, fresh. The brain is working, things that were muddled come clear, everything falls into place, and everything seems to go your way.

The Sun is ruled by the Sun, of course. This is the light that comes after the long dark night, Apollo to the Moon's Diana. A positive card, it promises you your day in the sun. Glory, gain, triumph, pleasure, truth, success. As the moon symbolized inspiration from the unconscious, from dreams, this card symbolizes discoveries made fully consciousness and wide awake. You have an understanding and enjoyment of science and math, beautifully constructed music, carefully reasoned philosophy. It is a card of intellect, clarity of mind, and feelings of youthful energy.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

Versatility

Once, when I was walking down a path with one of my best pals, she told me:

"Maybe you're the versatile type. You're good at so many things."

She was referring to the things that I like to do. It's the pre-registration season now, and we're all supposed to be registering for the modules that we want to do in our final year. I was thinking of doing some of the business subjects (Intro to Biz really fuelled me up). My friends, on the other hand, were reluctant to do any essay writing: they rather stick to numbers (Yueks!).

Come to think of it (after a few days of giving it some thought), I am versatile.

Maybe this is possible...

Since high school, I've been able to take subjects such as Commerce and Economics, mostly essay writing. I was praised on my compositions for English class (I used to suck at it, mainly due to my horrible English) for being really creative in my plot. I started to increasingly get used to the science behind everything, especially Mathematics, which I mastered only in my final few years of school. Not to forget my incredible ability (cheh...) in piano playing, and my ability to express myself through music.

I'm quite happy I'm blessed with this kind of talent that I now realise and possess. Took quite a long time huh?

Happenings on the most unoppurtuned times

Like I said, ideas for my blog just pops out during the most inappropriate times. The song "One Week" popped out of my head in the shower, and it reminded me of the band I was thinking about...

I kept it in my head until it reached my room. Obviously, I wouldn't have remembered the band OR the title of the song, so I had to search for the lyrics. THANK GOD, it's the BARENAKED LADIES!

Well, maybe I've messed up the description of the lead vocalist (obviously he's not almost bald -- that'd be an over-statement). Without any doubt I was describing Tyler Stewart.

Now I can happily get over my confusion, and go on with my daily dose of PoF.

Familiar faces

I've finally realised who the cashier at Tesco's looks like... JESSE SPENCER!

During his serving period, I was looking at him, wondering where I've seen that face before. However it did not hit me that I was watching House M.D. THAT very same day before I went to Tesco.

Well, it just struck me. Thats one down, one more to go...

Anyone knows the Australian group (I think they are...) where there are these 2 lead vocalists, one wears glasses with black frames with a (almost) bald head (I think), and one black hair, goatee guy who raps... Holler if you know who they are... I've been trying to remember who they are, so I can look up for their MP3s... Hehehe

Provoke your thoughts

The other day when I was reading my friend's blog, I stumbled upon this post that he wrote.

Looking back at the festive messages that we Malaysians would watch on the television during the breaks of our favourite television shows, I would definitely agree with my friend's point of view on these nicely created videos.

I watched them one by one (mainly due to the load of things I'm missing whilst in UK). I was touched and thrilled, humoured and reminisced. Things that would make you think: for once let you realise what our modern society is like, what we've done to create this fabric of the nation. Believe me, when there's good, there's bound to be bad.

Thought I should share this with you guys.

*Stargazed*

I think I'm in love..........................................

The End