Petition To Have Safer Bus Rides For Long Distance Routes

This is a post taken from http://www.buscrashnomore.blogspot.com/

We, the concerned youths of Malaysia express appalled anger towards the Slim River Bus Crash incident that claimed the life of Lee Nian Ning, Mohd. Zailani and Pang Boon Eng on the 25th of January 2008. This is not the first time that such an incident has occurred. Despite numerous complaints and public uproar in the past, incidents like this continue to occur. It was reported that the driver’s company had 13 summonses on that bus itself. We find it unacceptable that such a company could have operated that vehicle on the road.

What are the explanations?

Hundreds of thousands of university students just like Nian Ning and us rely on such public transport to travel back home. A human life should not be taken lightly.

How could a vehicle with 13 summonses be free on the roads and not be held by the authorities?
We, the following, hereby demand that the relevant authorities set up a committee consisting of road safety experts and representatives from relevant public bodies to conduct a thorough study to find effective solutions to ensure that mistakes like this do not occur again in the future.

We will not be quiet until we see it in the media that satisfactory measures have been taken.To sign the petition,
please click here
and submit your FULL NAME(as in IC. Please don't use your nicknames or initials.) and e-mail. It will be considered one e-signature upon completion.
Alternatively, please send your FULL NAME and IC NUMBER to buscrashnomore@gmail.com.

Please do not leave initials or nicknames, only full name is accepted.
We thank you for your co-operation. Let us pray for those who have died to make way for change and keep our fingers crossed that someone, anyone will hear us and enforce that change.Please put this in forums, bulletins, emails, blogs.....everywhere. We need all the support we can get. This is for you as well.

A very tiring but fun Saturday

As mentioned in my earlier post, I had my pharmacology lab session earlier today. We had to conduct an experiment to see the effects of various drugs on a guinea pig illeum and the frog heart. I will just roughly explain the procedure. The first step is to "stun" the frog. Instead of applying an anesthetic, we punctured the nerves located at the backbone of the frog using a screwdriver-like tool.

After that, a hook tied to a string is used to lift the heart up. The apparatus is connected to a machine that reads the heart beat of the frog. A solution is used to bathe the heart overtime to not allow the frog's heart to "die." Various drugs are used on the heart via a dropper and the effect of the drug on the heart is monitored in the monitor through a graph.



The same procedure is applied for the guinea pig illeum experiment. The only difference is that the illeums are already prepared for us. We have to put the illeum in a Krebs solution which is put in a water bath at 37 degree celcius. The solution is aired with oxygen and carbon dioxide. The various drugs are then used and the effects are observed via a graph which is read from a nearby machine.


After the lab session, we went to Sunway Lagoon for the Quiksilver Revolution Tour 2.0. As mentioned in my earlier post, its an event where skaters and surfers from around the world compete. Other than that, there are various performances from local bands such as One Buck Short. The event started at 12pm but we arrived at around 1.30pm because we had trouble looking for a parking space. Before we went for the event, we shopped around the new Sunway Pyramid 2. We then proceeded to enter Sunway Lagoon but at the entrance, I realised that we had only 3 tickets and the 4th one was missing. We kinda panicked but the guy at the entrance just let us in. lol. When we stepped inside, the place was overwhelmed with a huge crowd. It was the first time I've seen such a large crowd in Sunway Lagoon. Of course there were hot chicks in bikinis too...hehe




We went to check out the surf beach but it was too hot and we never thought of bringing any sunblock lotion. So we just stayed at the surf beach for a while to check out 2-3 surfers doing their "thing." One surfer did a cool move and I think it's called the "Superman." It was really awesome and the crowd showed good support for each participant.


Later on, we proceeded to the skateboarding ramps. We saw many professionals doing cool tricks such as the Ollie, Sliding & Grinding, and Kickflips. However, there were many failed attempts too. Many of the skaters had nasty falls but they were cheered on by the crowd and continued to skate. Throughout the whole event, the weather was freakin' hot but at around 5.30pm, it became cloudy and windy. It was the perfect weather for an event like this but we decided to leave as the place was getting overcrowded, We continued shopping in Pyramid and I bought a new "hoodie." It was on a 20% discount sale. Great deal I guess.





After that, we left for a mamak called Murni in SS2. I was damn thirsty so I ordered a watermelon juice and a can of 100plus. For dinner I had "Roti Hawaii" which is a special Indian bread found only in Murni. It is just like your normal roti canai but inside there is minced chicken, pineapples, sausages, and eggs. The bread is topped with mayonnaise and served with various curry/dhaal.



I got home around 10.30pm and I'm feeling damn tired now.


Laters.

A weekend to look forward to~

I'll start this post by complaining about Malaysia's weather...it sucks. Nuff' said. Its so hot in the afternoon and it barely rained the past few days. Actually, its drizzling now at this very moment but this doesnt change the fact that its so hot.

Alrites, tmr I'll be having a special 1-day lab session in uni. Yes, a lab session on a "Saturday." The subject's pharmacology. Sounds cool? Well its basically the study of drugs and the effects of it in the human body. The lecturer said that we will be cutting up guinea pigs and frogs to examine the effects of various drugs to the tissues. I hope it'll be interesting. Will post some awesome guinea pig and frog pictures here after the session. :D

After the lab session, the gang and I will be going to Sunway Lagoon for the Quiksilver Revolution Tour 2.0 event. To know more about the event, click on the link. The only setback is that this event starts from 12pm to 10pm and my lab ends at 1pm. Guess we'll be missing the first 2 hrs due to traffic conditions and stuff. The event will be at the Sunway Lagoon Surf Beach.

This will be my 1st time attending an event of this magnitude organised by Quiksilver. Based on the information taken from the site, there will be surfing and skating competitions. International surfers and skaters will be participating. Not only that, there will be various performances from local bands and a special performance bythe American band, The Click Five. I'm really looking forward for this event and I'll post some pictures from the event.

Laters.

New Year, New Shoes?

Its Thaipusam today and for the first time, its a public holiday over in KL. Played game with the gang last night till 4am and initially decided to stay home and rest.

However, due to boredom i decided to rally the gang to watch a movie in 1utama. I didn't expect so many people in 1utama and there were so many cars parked outside. This gave us the sign that definitely the parking lots inside the shopping center was already packed. At the end i decided to park the car outside Grace's house. Thank God she stayed nearby. We wanted to watch Sweeney Todd but the tickets were already sold out. We had no choice but to watch Rendition. The movie's plot started out really slow but the plot was pretty interesting. It had a suprising twist towards the end.

My bro promised me a new pair of shoes. It would have to be either Skechers or Ecko Unltd shoes. So I went to the Skechers shop and took my time looking for a pair of shoes. I found one and it looks kinda cool with the graffiti design.

Well it did burn a hole in my pocket but I'll just claim it from my bro when I get back to KK. Hehe. The shoe was in the new arrival section and there were only 2 pairs left. A size 9 and size 11 pair each. I'm a size 9 so I guess i was really lucky. The graffiti design seems to go well with the CNY theme because of the rising sun part and it has a little chinese-y dragon abstract. So I think getting this shoe just before CNY seems to be a pretty great timing.

That's about it for today's post as I've got go to bed adi...damn 8am classes.

Monday morning "flu"es~ (its a pun for blues) XD

I hate monday mornings. I hate 8am lectures.

Yes, I have an 8am lecture on Monday mornings. For some reason I always wake up with a wild running nose. The muccus flows like there's no tomorrow. Today was no exception. I woke up to a cold morning and went to Uni for that dreaded 8am class. For 2 whole hours I was trying not to fall asleep let alone try to keep my nose from oozing out its muccus. The worst part is that the lecturer isn't very "English" educated. Its so hard to understand the message that she is trying to share with the class. Simple words like "damage" and "illustrate" sounded like alien words the moment they left her mouth. God bless me and I managed to survive that class.

As usual, I had lunch with my homies and decided to skip my afternoon class: Pharmacology (2pm-4pm) as I had to give in to my nose and the fact that I've got quite alot to cram up for tmr's MCB quiz.

You must be thinking, "aiya...only monday morning 8am mah."

NO, I have another 8.30am class on Thursdays. Not to mention the fact that my uncle is outstation on a business trip. You might be wondering how this is related to my 8am blues. I have to play the simple role of "daddy" and send my cousins to school everyday of this week. Meaning I have to get up at 6.30am everyday even if I have no 8am class. Nah, i'm not complaining or lamenting. Just that its quizzes and test week!

Oh and I tried an experiment last week, I tried sleeping early at 9pm and woke up the next day at 6.30am for my morning class. No FLU! This week I slept at 2am and woke up the same time. Got FLU! hmmm...so I guess the lesson is to sleep early. Btw, who has the right mindset to go to sleep so early at this age? For some reason, we post-teenagers and young adults have our freedom time only after midnight (clubbing, night yum-cha sessions, late night movies, online games, etc etc) correct me if I'm wrong XD

Alrights, time to take a nap then study!

Laters.

Where did all my highschool years go?

Yes, I've taken my highschool life for granted...so many things I felt that we could have done. I was just discussing this with a couple of my ex-highschool mates (Calvin, Jeremy, Marcel, Ling) the other day. Looks like everybody feels the same. Waking up everyday looking forward to going to highschool and meeting up with friends never felt better. Right now...you don't even feel like you wanna wake up to go uni. LoL.

I always knew looking back at the tears would make me laugh, but I never once thought that looking back on the laughs would make me cry

The last X'mas(2007), only a number of us (highschool mates) went back to Kay-Kay for the year end holidays. It doesn't feel quite the same like before. Will it be like this in the years to come? I understand that with time, we start to occupy ourselves with new stuff. Each of us are graduating 1 by 1 and starting to enter the workforce. Obviously, you'll be obliged to your newfound job and rarely get the "day-off" to spend time with family and friends unlike the times when we were younger. It is a good thing in a way that we're growing up to be useful people in the society.

My only fear is that over time we will slowly "disconnect." Jace sent me a Christmas card last X'mas and he mentioned about this issue. It never really occurred to me that we will eventually disconnect but after reading the letter and putting in some thought, the signs are showing. Our circle is slowly getting smaller. We have to keep the fire burning! Don't let the flame of friendship burn out--this is a shoutout (ahem) XD

To all of you my highschool mates, I'll forever treasure the undying friendship we have!

Still in the holiday mood~

Quizzes and tests are just around the corner and here I am blogging. For some reason I don't feel the pressure so early on in the semester. I'm dreading the fact that I'm back in Kay-Elle (KL) so soon.

2 months + 3 weeks have already passed since my semester break in Kay-Kay (KK). Why is it that time feels like its passing oh so very fast? Am I having fun? Am I just wasting my time? I can't find the reason to why time is passing by "extra" fast since I've graduated from highschool and continuing my life in University. But after doing some serious thinking and reflecting, I came up with the conclusion that its probably because everyday its the same routine.

1. Wake up
2. Go to uni for classes
3. Come home - play game, watch anime, watch dorama, watch tv, study(if you wanna count this)
4. Sleep
5. Repeat step 1

Due to repetitiveness, your body and mind system gets accustomed to this "daily" routine and you end up feeling like an automated machine. A zombie? A robot? Nah, just a very bored student. I miss the last holiday! Where did all the days go?

Anyway, just a reminder to myself --> I've got a Molecular Cell Biology quiz this Tuesday(22/1/08), Microbial Biotechnology and Pharmacology quiz' dates are not confirmed yet but they're sometime next week.

United Kingdom? Sunderland?

It's my final semester in KL and it ends this April 2008. Provided everything goes well (both academically and financially), I'll be on my way to the UK in September 2008. Yes, I'll be doing my final year over there with the hope of securing an "international" degree. To make it sound nicer, I'll be getting my Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Biotechnology.

Prior to my decision to conclude my final degree year in the UK, it never crossed my mind even once to go overseas. To me, getting a degree is all there is to it without giving a damn if it's local or international. I came to know about the IDP (International Degree Pathway) or in other words, twinning program from my University course mates who have already made up their mind to go to the UK. I'll be twinning to the University of Sunderland.

The thing that's troubling me now is whether I'll be homesick and be able to adapt to a sudden culture shock. As a newbie to stuff like this, I guess its pretty normal to be worried about my future. I have friends already over in the UK and they seem to be doing pretty well. After I graduate in June/July 2009, I'll be staying on in UK to work for maybe 2-3 years provided I can secure a job there. This means that I'll be staying in UK for a long period of time. Even when I'm in KL I'm already missing KK (especially my car) so God knows if I'll be able to "survive" in Sunderland.

There are a couple of things I'm looking forward to and the main thing is the BPL or formerly known as the EPL! Football has always been my niche and you can very well say that going over to the UK will be like a dream come true for me! Other than that I'm looking forward to having a "white" Christmas!

To all you CSP-ians reading this, unfortunately I'll be missing many hobbycons to come. /sob

Lastly I hope everything goes well for me :-)

p/s: Jace and Wan Ling please wait for me! Hehe~

The life of a Hikikomori~

Well, some of you out there reading this might be wondering what a "hikikomori" is...well it's basically a a Japanese term to refer to the phenomenon of reclusive individuals who have chosen to withdraw from social life, often seeking extreme degrees of isolation and confinement due to various personal and social factors in their lives.

I took this from here

Nah, I'm only refering to the fact that I mostly stay home apart from going to Uni. You might be wondering what I do at home. Well I'm a hardcore J-dorama fan and not only that, I love watching anime and playing either PC or console games. But I'm mostly in front of my laptop idling. I hate to admit this but I cannot live without my laptop and my internet connection. XD

There are many reasons that lead up to my life being a semi-hikikomori. These are the few factors:

1. I don't have my own car in KL. I drive my uncle's spare car. So you get the idea, to go out other than to Uni I have to ask for special permission which is not very right.
   
2. For some reason, life in KL is so much different from KK. Everybody stays so far apart and yes, even by car its really far. I stay near KLCC and most of my Uni friends stay at the other end of the map (either in PJ, Bandar Utama, or even Subang).
3. Everything in KL is so expensive (this includes petrol - I know its the same everywhere in Malaysia but in KL petrol seems to burn faster LOL).

I guess there are more reasons to support my cause but the ones listed above are the major factors.

Don't get me wrong... I do study too!

My very first post!

Well, I've always wanted to start a blog but being the lazy person I am...blogging might be too tedious for me lol. However, after seeing that a close friend of mine, Kc who started his blog as a part of his new year's resolution, kinda inspired me to just give it a go and hopefully keep this blog updated. Well, that's about it for my 1st testing post as I've got to go to church now. Will update this blog when I get home later :D

Laters.