New Layout!?!

Wow.

who would've thought i'd actually update my layout?! haha. it was unplanned. i visited my own blog, (haha), just to check n see if anyone left any comments. and i saw that it was blue in color. erk. i dont recall it being blue before...

then i realised that friendster had new designs for its blog... probably realising that ppl do read blogs on friendster, they decide to spruce up the designs and all that, probably to keep up with the other blog websites. so, it automatically updated my old boring layout to a new clean-looking blue-colored layout.

which looked weird to me. haha.

so i browsed thru all the layout designs, before choosing this one. this one looks, relaxed. peaceful. calm. hehe. hope u guys like it.

erm, sumone commented to me that i am mixing english and bm too much, and i should start using proper english in my blog. again, i would like to remind everyone that this is not a place for you to learn english! haha. plus im not exactly the best person to be learning english from, as there are lots of blogs out there that have a very high level of english-ness (see how bad my english is.. huhu) to it. some are even written by englishmen (and women, of course) , so you would assume that their level of english is far greater than mine. hehe. im from malaysia, so i tend to speak a little manglish, though i try not to.

just thought id post something before i take my nap before sahur. oh yeah, its the fasting month, and my sleeping schedule is far from normal. even in normal conditions, some consider it to be abnormal, now.... its even worse. i find myself unable to wake up for morning classes nowadays. haha. big surprise there. which is not so funny anymore considering i promised my mom i would not skip anymore classes.... huhu. dont get me wrong, im not PURPOSELY skipping class, its just that sometimes i cant wake up from sleep, sometimes the lecturer organizes a boring adjunct lecture which has no relevance whatsoever to what is coming out in my tests and exams (i study for exams n tests, not knowledge. huhu), so you cant really blame me for skipping all these classes. huhu.

the number of assignments for this semester is astounding! its as if the lecturers are giving as much assignments as humanly possible before we, the 3rd year students go for internship! haha. imagine, one subject actually has 3 assignments in one week... if that isnt deliberately torturing students, i dont know what is. huhu. perhaps the lecturers think that the abundance of work they give us will actually HELP us in improving our grades. well, its not helping. the number of assignments given is not directly proportional to knowledge gained by a student. haha. its not. even without ANY assignments at all, a student can still excel in his/her studies if he/she wishes to and works to achieve it, and even with ALL the assignments in the world, a stubborn/ignorant student wouldn't gain a thing from all the work he/she has done, if he/she blindly finishes all the assignments without taking a second to understand what he/she is doing, i.e copying. hehe. with so many assignments to be handed in, one can only assume the regular students, such as myself, (or should i say the lazy students, haha), would be copying some, if not all of the assignments... in my humble opinion, lecturers shouldnt give too much assignments. give one per week, tops. that way, students will actually have the time to do the assignments themselves, and by doing so learn more about the task at hand, instead of having to skip class to copy an assignment that he was supposed to do days ago. lolz.

lets stop talking bout studies shall we? im sleepy enuf as it is. erm, i still havent got an internship placement. some friends have already gotten offers, and the number seems to grow by the day. im somewhat shaken, but overall im still optimistic that ill get a relatively good placement. i cant really expect the companies to come beg me to be their intern with an average cgpa.. huhu. some of the companies standards are so high, i dont even meet the minimum requirements to apply for intern, so i decided not to. ah, who cares. in the end, if i still dont get a placement, UTP will secure one for me, so nothing to worry about, really. its just that, obviously everyone has their own preference, where they want to work, what company they want to work with, and i myself am not excluded. but if its not meant to be, then so be it. lets not worry bout things that are uncertain. things will sort themselves out eventually. (slacker mode engaged.) haha.

erm, thats it for now, i think. oh yeah, ive got this one friend who apparently is grammar-crazy nowadays. haha. she deleted her entire blog, partly because she doesnt like all the grammar mistakes that she did. haha. i is not the knowing why she doing that thing, (please dont delete my blog. haha), but she should relax... haha. there's nothing wrong with using bad grammar in your blog. so long as you get your message out, and the blog-hoppers enjoy reading it, its all good... and this post is partly because she asked me to post sumthing. haha. i dont even know if this one is a good post, because im just rambling about random stuff. ill let you guys decide.

eyh, i really should get to sleeping. need to wake up for sahur coz it seems im the chef on duty for tonite. haha.

later.

chow.

my first 20th

hello everyone.

forgive me for not writing so long. its not that i dont have things to write about, i do. i dont know, maybe im not as dedicated to this blogging thingy as i thought. im not even sure i can be considered a blogger. other bloggers update their blog daily, sometimes several times in a day. i am barely able to pen out my thoughts once a month, which isn't very productive now, is it.. haha.

despite of the extremely long gaps between posts, i still have some ppl that read my blog... haha. dont you guys have better things to do? lolz. thanks for visiting. and again, sorry for not updating. this one's for you guys.

since im in the topic of blogs, lets talk about blogs, shall we. when i first started blogging, i often stated that i write only for myself, but if other ppl want to read my posts, its fine with me. then i started liking the comments, be it good or bad, and before you know it, i started writing the blog for other ppl. haha.

if you noticed, my style of writing has changed dramatically from the first post, to this one. i guess even writing styles evolve. in the beginning, i kinda stressed on writing with the correct grammar, correct spelling, a very formal blog if i do say so myself. nowadays... you'd be lucky if you could find one sentence in here that has proper grammar and proper sentence structure and also, a full sentence in english, as i am more and more drawn to manglish... haha. please dont use this blog as a guide to do your english assignment.. haha.

well, waddyaknow... (an example of bad english right here ladies and gents.. lolz). this is my 20th blog posting.. wieee. some ppl might be saying, "20? only 20? lame~". haha. yeah2, i know, but it must count for something right? who wouldve thought id reach 20 posts. im not even 20 years old yet. haha. xd kena mengena, i know. :P

what should i talk about this time? b4 sitting down, i had loads of ideas on what to write, n now, i cant seem to think of anything...  haish.

let's talk bout life then. it is the main theme of the blog, after all. life for me has been okay. i was the faci for my university's orientation. got to meet with the juniors and hopefully helped them settle into university life. passed down my 3 years worth of experience, which was my main objective of joining, so although the organising committee sucked bad, all sorts of things went wrong, it was a nice experience for me.

i joined a treasure hunt for the 1st time this semester. i did join the irc infohunt, but thats like very small-scale. and running around in the library looking for books cant really be considered an actual treasure hunt. haha. for this particular treasure hunt, we travelled a total of about 200 km. there was this one task, where you had to shoot the tin cans down, if you failed, you'd have to eat weird stuff. and my group, all of us being superb sharpshooters, manage to shoot down a grand total of ZERO (0) cans. lolz. so we had to eat the garlic, the asam jawa, the mengkudu, the cup of chilli (or is it chilly, lolz) and 2 raw eggs. wow. i ate the raw eggs. also a first time experience. haha. its not that bad actually. once you get over the thought that it is raw eggs, it doesnt taste that bad... huhu. all in all, it was a fun experience, it was my first REAL treasure hunt, and it was nice for me, i think the committee did a good job on this one. oh yeah, fyi, we didnt win, my team and i, haha. but we did have fun, and thats what matters most.

i also joined a paintball competition. wiee.. im trying all sorts of new stuff this semester. haha. maybe i should try studying instead of wasting time? hahah. actually for the paintball competition, i planned on joining last year, but due to unforeseen consequences, i couldnt. so i was excited to be able to join this year... and wouldn't you know it, my team got into the finals. haha. but we didnt win first place. we came in 2nd. hehe. nvmnd. to be able to go to the finals is good enuf rite? so dont be so hard on chong wei alrite? hehehe. oh yeah, i got shot 4 times in the tournament. huhu. twice in the chest, making me have a new red-coloured birthmark on my chest, once in the elbow, and one headshot.

im going for my internship in december. im not sure im actually looking forward to it, eh wait, i am, because during internship i wont have to study. haha. i applied to several companies, only one has replied, but im thinking that particular company replies to all non-petronas scholars' application. hehe. so im not that special. haha. im planning on going to sarawak, simply bcoz i like travelling. now at first, there were a few of us that wanted to go to sarawak, but one guy backed out, now suddenly everyone doesnt want to go sarawak, which to me sucks bad. but im not gonna change my plans just bcoz my friends are abandoning me.. kalau nak ikut kawan, smpy bila tak maju. so what the hell, if it is fated that i go to sarawak alone, fine by me. i dont mind. sarawak, here i come. hehe. oh ye, i just realised something. im going to be totally alone on my 20th birthday this year. crap. my parents are going for their haji end of this year, and they'll be gone before i go for my internship and also my birthday. which means ill be alone in a place thats completely alien to me, and ill probably be alone, with no friends or family, on that one day that i can truly say belongs to me, my birthday. *sigh*. c'est la vie...

what else is going on in my life... ah yes, it appears that there is an increase in the number of couples in my batch. apparently a lot of ppl have been bitten by the love bug, despite the regular fogging done in utp... huhu. my guess is some of the girls are getting desperate, but then again, when you fall in love, you cant really help it now can you. but what amazes me is how fast these ppl get back into a relationship after getting out of one. its as if they dont really mind who they're with, so long as they're with someone. i mean, would it kill you to wait for awhile, browse thru the choices, and taking your time to make the right choice?.. haih. biarlah kan, asalkan mereka bahagia sudah.. haha.

what else... what else... hehe. lets make this one the longest post ever. to celebrate the 20th posting. hehe. i myself am amazed that i was able to write 20 postings. oh yeah, etp. engineering team project. ppl from the 4 engineering courses group up and come up with an engineering project. my group came up with the magnetoboard. our project is very similar to the child's toy, where you can draw and doodle on the board without using any ink, and you can erase the writings as easily as you draw them. we intend on making an actual whiteboard based on those principles, to be used in classrooms and lecture halls. if it works, it would be a great invention, if i do say so myself, but so far, we've had nothing but setbacks.. but we've managed to overcome the obstacles so far, so pray that we are able to actually fabricate the protoype... huhu.

aha... here's another thing i can talk about here. people and their blogs. now, im all for promoting your own blog. whats a blog without the readers rite? but i tell ya, some ppl, the things they do to promote their blog.... putting your blog link in your gtalk / ym status is fine, but to pm every single person in ur friends list about ur blog... lame~ if ur blog is nice, ppl will visit ur blog even if u dont promote it or EVEN if u dont even update it for 2 months.. lolz. haha. but seriously, try not to go overboard in promoting your blog.

i think i should stop here... hehe. its gotten too long. huhu. i wonder how many ppl fell asleep to this. haha. maybe i should make this into a bedtime story.. once upon a time, there was a blogger named yasin... etc2... and he lived happily ever after. haha. thats all from me. take care. live life to the fullest. learn the ways of the slacker. chill. relax.

till next time, whenever that may be... lolz.

chow.

fireflies.

i saw fireflies last friday.

yup.

oh yeah, instead of making a very eye-catching title this time, i decided to go with a more simpler one, and just go straight to the point instead of making u guys read the whole entire blog, only to find it wasn't the best way to spend your precious five minutes. ahaha.

hi (or hai) everyone. personally i prefer hai, coz hi just looks weird. but when im writing in english, hai seems weird also. oh well. erm, the first line pretty much says it all. i saw a firefly last friday. how long has it been since i last saw a firefly? in case somebody doesnt even know what a firefly is, its those bugs that have lights on their... rear ends. :P yeah, its a REAL bug! lolz. of course you guys have seen it... but when was the last time you saw it yourselves? dont count the times you've seen them on tv okay.

i remember playing with those things when i was a little boy, plenty of times. at that time, it was something u see quite often. but that was years ago. and last friday, i was in the middle of nowhere. well it wasnt exactly nowhere, i was at a drug rehab centre in the interior parts of kedah. i followed my father to a wedding, the daughter of the person that runs that centre was the one getting married.

the reason im writing about this, it just suddenly hit me, the children of tomorrow arent even going to know things like this, actually exist. they're going to think its just something made-up that often comes out in cartoons, like spongebob, or that purple-coloured dinosaur. so we should do whatever it is we can to help save the environment, to make sure these creatures wont go extinct.

suddenly im an environmentalist. lol. i checked, and it turns out these things arent going extinct anytime soon. huhu. guess i got worried for nothing.

i was planning on writing about my holidays, but i think im going to spare you ppl the agony of going thru ridiculously boring stuff about myself. there really is nothing to talk about. basically i just stayed at home, caught up with the lost series, south park. i couldnt even play games, since the desktop got busted. damn.. what a wasted holiday this has been. i didnt meet up with any of my long lost friends. didnt even get to go anywhere special since the redang plan blew up in smokes. boy, i sure was bloody upset when the redang plan got cancelled. you'd think you can rely on some ppl after knowing them for almost 2 years, but i guess you can't... oh well. lifes like that. i can go all nite talking bout these sorts of stuff, but really, whats the point, so ill just leave it at that..

here's something interesting. i was watching lost, in the first  few days of the holidays, and there was something that charlie did that caught my interest. you see, charlie was about to die, and he knew exactly when and where he was going to die. how did he know? well, theres this other guy called desmond, and basically, he can see the future. so.. this dude, desmond, he's been saving charlies life over and over again, but apparently the universe has a way of self correcting itself, so no matter how many times desmond saves charlie from death's grasp, sooner or later, he's going to die. the reason charlie decides to die this time, was because desmond said, they were going to get rescued, (they as in all the people stranded on the island), and he particularly saw claire (charlie's love interest) getting on a helicopter and going away, but before that happens, charlie has to die....

Sooo, anyways, before charlie dies, he lists down the top 5 moments of his entire life, intending on giving it to claire. and it got me thinking, 'hmm, that isnt a bad idea after all'. not that i plan on dying anytime soon, (no worries ppl :D), but it is something interesting to think about. while at utp, i sometimes talk to my friends about something similar. its not a list of my top 5 moments in life, but instead a list of things i intend to do before dying. since the list of things i want to do before dying grows all the time, for now i guess i'll list down the top 5 moments of my life, so far.

number 5 - all of my relatives from my mothers side singing me happy birthday, and actually getting a coconut for a birthday present from some crazy lunatic. lolz. close friend, act. u know who u are. ;)

number 4 - coming into class 50 minutes late, with food in one hand,
thru the front door, and able to bullsh*t my way out of trouble... :P

number 3 - surviving one week stranded in sabah with friends.

number 2 - stopped a toddler from running into the middle of a busy road (basically, being a hero :P ), and although planned to keep it quiet, close friends found out.

number 1 - being congratulated by a total stranger for getting good grades. came up to me, shook my hand, and said she was proud of me, and told me to keep up the good work..

its not much really, but its my top 5. and for your info, all these things except for number one happened while i was in pasum.. so you can guess why i like going to pasum so much, and why even after 2 years i still go through the trouble of going to kl and meeting friends from pasum, and why i bother trying to arrange reunions when most of them dont really care that much anyways.. it was my first hostel experience. my first time doing everything on my own. the first time i met with ppl from various states, from various backgrounds. being exposed to the real world for the first time. my first taste of university/college life. those were the days..

dont get me wrong though, i like it here in utp, but in terms of the true college experience, my bet is theres no place like UM. when i first started in UTP, i felt a huge difference in UM and UTP. my god, the first week, i realised that the nearest shopping complex was about an hour away... and from that moment on i knew that life was probably never going to be the same, ever again.

oh well, life is full of surprises. you'll never know where you're going to end up in the future. i better stop here, im going to watch another episode of south park before going to bed.

till next time, chow.

a rock came down from the sky, and landed in my front yard....

hows that for a blog title?!?! lol. hai guys. n gals. long time no see. or hear. or read. wuteva. apologies for not keeping in touch, you know how i am.. true friendship prevails no matter what rite? ;) but feel free to give me a call, drop me a msg or nething, i may be quiet, but i never deliberately not reply someone, and i always make it a point to always say goodbye or bubye or that sort of stuff b4 i stop msging, not the one to suddenly stop msging or chatting and leaving the guy/gal hanging, coz thats just not me. n fyi, i dont like to be left hanging also.. ;)

so here i am, in the middle of my holidays, basically bored to the max at this point. and the fact that i cant play any computer games isnt helping. at all. so basically, what ive been doing are things that i normally wouldnt be doing, since i would be busy playing computer games. bugging ppl i wouldnt normally bug. reading blogs that i normally wouldnt be reading. going to sleep after being awake for only 1 hour... wait, i do that all the time.. haha.

i'm sure you guys are wondering right now, "when the hell is he gonna start talking bout the rock?!?!" hehe. patience my friends. surely a few more paragraphs of my ramblings wouldnt be too much of a wait for you? i mean, you guys waited around two months for this post ( assuming you ppl act waited.. haha), whats another few minutes right.....  i knew you'd understand. :)

hmm, lets see. ah yes, rumah perak. always something interesting to talk about rumah perak. the lukis dan menang ( previously known as win, lose or draw.. apparently some campaign to use the malay language by the organiser, keluarga azmi.. ;P) game this year, has been won, again, for the 2nd time by keluarga haji hassan basri. congrats to them, with only 3 family members and one imported family member (lolz), they emerged victorious this year. my family got 3rd place.. hehe. yeay for us! although, we definitely couldve won, but since my father broke the rules by doing gestures instead of drawing, we were disqualified.... hahaha. the category was fruits and the fruit was 'pulasan'. lol. he drew a sort of like rambutan, then he started 'memulas' ngan tgn dia. haha. (what is memulas in english anyways? squeeze? twist? yeah, thats it. twisting.) apologies for my broken english. so we were immediately disqualified and got 0 for that round. haha. but if we did get to answer that one, we would've been the champions... oh well, there's always next year. but dunno if i'll be able to make it to rumah perak next year, with my internship program and all that.. we'll just have to wait and see. all in all, definitely a memorable trip, i wouldn't miss it for the world...

no, no, it's not yet time for the story of the rock... pls! don't rush me! haha..

currently im planning a trip to pulau redang with my friends. but the thing is, some of them won't even reply my messages. i mean, come on, you said you wanted to go, but you can't even reply my messages? im doing everything else, you just have to reply when i ask you something... haish. only thing i need now is to confirm when we'll be going and book the hotel, and off we go.. oh well. we'll see how it goes. i'll be sure to blog about it (if we ever actually go... haha).

rock? what rock? owh THAT rock... haha. ok2. yeah, i guess its about time.. i'm running out of things to talk about anyways... haha.

it all started last saturday. there was a wedding in my housing area. a close friend of my mum was the mother of the bride. that morning, we were act in penang, my... man my english sucks. what do you call 'atok sedare' in english? lets see... if atok is grandfather. and my father/mother's brother is uncle, so i guess my grandfather's brother is my, grand-uncle?.. =_=" haha. not so sure, but we'll go with that for now. so, moving on, my grand-uncle passed away last friday. al-fatihah. no worries, i wasn't really close with him. don't think i've ever really had a conversation with him. still, family is family. plus he is my father's uncle, surely he was somewhat close with him. so we went back after friday prayers, and we got in time just before they buried him. it went smoothly, the funeral. the thing i noticed at my grandfather and my grand-uncle's funeral is that there were so many people. what normally would be a quiet little house is now packed with friends, families, distant relatives. i can only hope that i am remembered, loved enough by that many people when it is my turn.

eh, im getting sidetracked. huhu. sori. getting back to the main storyline, there was a wedding, and the walimatul urus was on saturday. since my mum was close friends with the bride's mother, she had to be there, lend a helping hand greeting the guests and all that. and so it happens, one of the many people that were invited to the wedding was the contractor that built my house. yeah, my mum is friends with the boss of the contractor that built my house. is it any wonder why we got our house at a rather cheap price? ahaha. another interesting fact would be that this contractor was not the small-time contractor, this was the type of contractor that would usually be making an entire housing area, instead of just one measly house. but he did our house anyways, and he helped us cut costs building the house by a lot, so in time my parents became good friends with the contractor... (notice how i don't like to put in any names in my blog? hehe. just a habit really. no reason.)

so the story goes that after the kenduri, the contractor came by our house for tea. see, at our house, there's this rock. no, this is not the rock thats in the title. but i'm getting there. you know the kinds of rocks thats all shiny, and some people like to collect it, put it in gardens and stuff. you know, the big ones, the kind that chinese people like to collect. yeah that one. (not sure which rock you're thinking of, but lets assume thats the one.. haha.) my dad bought it a long time ago for some reason, never knew he liked rocks, but who cares. haha. oh yeah, did i mention that the contractor was chinese? i didnt? ok well im mentioning it now. haha. so that day also, i found out that the reason that chinese like to collect these rocks is because they believe it brings luck. so when the contractor guy saw this kind of rock at my house, he offered to my father this rock that he found in one of his construction sites. apparently, chinese also believe that if you find something good, present it to someone, and it will bring you luck also. or something like that. lolz. im not exactly the fung-shui expert, so the facts might not be so accurate.

the thing you should know about my father is that, he has a hard time saying no to someone. anyone for that matter. there was this one time, this one guy was selling keropok ikan from house to house, and everytime he came, he would ask for my dad since he knows my dad will buy the keropok, even though it is double the usual price for that keropok. (no joke, went to tesco or jusco, not sure, and saw the same keropok at 2 ringgit plus, the guy was selling it for 5 bucks a packet..) so whenever he came, me being the not-so-nice guy, would often tell the guy to go away. mean, i know, but he was ripping my dad off, what would you do if your dad was being ripped off? haha. but later i found that the guy was very poor, so i guess that explains a lot. haha. very2 bad, yasin. yeah2, i know. im all for helping the poor, but when someone comes to your house almost everyday selling overpriced keropok, you cant help but be somewhat annoyed... hehe. not funny? okay. im shutting up now. XP

ANYWAYS, back to the original story, my father, being the person that he is, accepted the offer. i believe it was on sunday when that contractor came back to our house. turns out he liked the rock that my father bought that he asked him to take him to the place that he bought it. and so he did. and believe it or not, when he got to the place, the contractor bought all the rocks on sale there. 500 bucks.. for... rocks... rocks. lolz. he has money to spend i guess, let him be. and so at that very same day, he took my dad to see the rock. the rock that would soon come down from the skies above...

for those of you that were thinking " omg, a meteor landed in yasin's house? why isn't it in the news?", sorry to disappoint you guys. no meteors or rocks from outer space here. hehe. so why the title then? aha, here's why. the rock that the contractor wanted to give to my dad was a LOT bigger than the rock we had at home. the one we had was about the size of a... bowling bag. yeah, thats about it. this other rock, when standing upright, (the rock, that is), is taller than i am, assuming there is such a thing as a rock standing upright. hahaha. and it would take 2 me's to fully hug the rock. so you get the idea of how big it is. neways, its so big, that you cant exactly expect someone to carry in into my yard.

so how exactly did the contractor brought it into my yard? him being a contractor and all, got hold of a truck, and a crane. yes friends. a crane. so the truck brought the rock to the front of my house. the crane unloaded it from the truck. then, the crane lifted the rock up into the air, moved it a bit to the side, and landed the rock in my front yard.....

and that my friends, is how a rock came down from the sky, and landed in my front yard. haha. wasn't exactly what you expected? yeah, i may have exaggerated a bit with the title.. hehe. but come on, how often do you get to see a rock bigger than yourself dangling in mid-air, and to top it all off, land in your front yard? and with that being a wicked sight as it is, surely the blog that tells the tale deserves a title befitting its wickedness... hahaha. you've got to admit, its a nice title.. attention grabber. it grabs your attention. makes you interested. and that my friends, is good advertising. hehe.

guess thats it for this time. oh yeah, so sorry for not posting any pics of the
rock. any rock for that matter. i wanted to, but its now almost 5 in
the morning, and i didnt snap any pictures during the day. but come
back later, and i will post it either in my profile, or right here.

UPDATE: the pics, i have uploaded in my profile.. spent almost half an hour trying to arrange it here, but failed. visit my profile to see it...

till next time, chow.