Class

Summer school started two weeks ago.

For now, it is safe to say that I have not fell asleep in class. In fact, I paid real attention and actually took notes! Yeah, I didn't really jot down anything for the past few semesters sometimes.

I am loving my Engineering Economics class. My professor is so funny and scary at the same time. My classmates are very creative people too. The professor has a few rules and one of them is to not be late for class. The excuses people came up with are just so honest and funny.

Prof: Why are you late?!
Student 1: I parked further than I normally park.

Prof: Why are you late?! You are always late for class!
Student 2: No, I was never late.
Prof: Fine. You never know.

Prof: Why are you late?! This is the second time you're late for my class!
Student 3: No, this is my first time...
Prof: Did you tell her to tell me that this is her first time if I were to ask why is she late?

Prof: Why are you late?!
Student 4: I just got into town.
Prof: What do you mean?
Student 4: My plane just landed at 2. I can show you the itinerary if you want.
Prof: No, I don't care about your ticket. Are you telling me you flew here just to take my course? Do you do this every time? This is the newest excuse I've ever heard my entire life.

These people keep me awake in class.

End

Second year of engineering has ended. Two more years left (hopefully)!

I got an A- for Biology (which might be the only one I will get) but I'm forever grateful for that. It makes me doubt whether I am in the right career path :P I have always love Bio because I think it's fun (surprisingly) but SPM 'failed' me, so yeah.

I am here now for a reason, so I actually have no regret.

I am hoping for the best which is to pass all course. I kind of think that I suck at this final exam thing. I freak out a lot and I panic, causing my brain to stop making an effort to process the information sometimes. It's something I need to work around with, but insyaAllah I'll do fine. Amin.

And oh, I ended my second year by jumping into the recycle bin because I'm environmental friendly like that. Right. I was looking for boxes and hello, I need to pack!

New place people! I is excited! More stuff to explore. :D

Cartoon

My current bus-read:

(I have a bus-read because SOMETIMES I think that it is such a waste of time to sit and just do nothing. This apparently doesn't apply when I am home, rolling in bed, wasting my youth away.)

It's a random book picked from Amazon because I wanted to get the $25 free shipping. It was the cheapest and most decent-looking book I can find. Besides, it was written by the author of the book 'Beastly', which I heard was quite a good movie...

When I first read it, I thought to myself, sleeping beauty? Is this a classic or something? This is such a waste of money. Sobs.

Then, as I read further, I found it was not the usual story plot. It has some twist to it and long story short, I kind of like it. It wasn't a waste of money at all!

It also got me to feel like re-watching all those Disney princesses movies (which would be on my to-do list after finals). I have pretty short memory when it comes to story lines. So, it's like watching something for the first time again (I don't know if this is a good thing or not).

Ooh, I'm excited for the new animated movies as well!

Monster University, Despicable Me 2. :D

More reason to watch cartoons. Eheh.

Vote

I am 21.

According to the subject history that I learnt in school, I am now eligible to vote.

The election is coming up soon and I have not yet registered as a voter. A bit ignorant maybe, but deep down, I still think that it's my duty to the country someway, somehow. I'm patriotic like that.

Today, I googled 'closing date to register for 2013 election' and found out that it was on December 31st, 2012. *phew*

So, I didn't actually missed my responsibility or something.

Next time, maybe.

(I still have no idea which party should I vote. My rationality and common sense tells me that the parties are working too hard to brainwash people, it's ridiculous.)

Fishy

I have never cooked a fish. A real fish.

The other day, I went to the mini market and thought to myself, it has been a while since I ate a fish. (Fine, I saw my housemate buying sardines so I thought I would buy a packet for myself too.)

Little that I know that it was fish fish! The real thing with all the guts and stuff still inside...

Today, I feel lazy to cook something fancy or complicated and decided to fry the fish instead. I took out the fish for defrosting and when I returned two hours later, I saw those clean uncut untouched fish bellies...

I cleaned the fish under running tap water while removing the scales and tried to figure out ways to remove the yucky stuff. I positioned the knife right under the belly and thought 'I think I should do it like this' and gave up seconds later, running to Maryam to ask for her guidance.

'Who asked you to buy fish? I don't know how to either' was her reply...

She googled how to clean fish for me and we watched it together. Malaysia should have more cooking shows! The ones on youtube are videos of fishermen on a boat and some granny cutting fish near a longkang with cats around her. -_-"

When I gained enough confidence, I ran back to the kitchen and gathered all my will to slice open and remove the guts like how they did it in the video. I didn't even touch the fish directly with my whole hand. I scrapped and pull out whatever is inside with a geli look on my face (chanting 'ew, ew ew' in my head).

The fact that my mom told me to be careful because I might find worms inside frozen sardines is not helping at all!! Why mom, why?

To be safe, I even cut off the fish's head because I was scared that I might have not completely pulled out everything. I felt so bad because I know that's not the proper way to cut a fish and when I threw the head away, I felt like it was staring back at me, asking me why did I do that to it. -.-

Well, good news is, I finally did it and the fish is safe inside my tummy now.

Bad news is, I still have 8 more fish in the fridge. T_T