Fuck presentations! chee baiiiiiii.

arghh, i hate it.

am not dead
is merely invisible.

Finally a load of my shoulders as I just completed the first checkpoint submission for IMGT. That fucking profits and stocks business capitalism module took up most of my weekend which left me with not much time for enjoyment. There are still HUMCOM and WISP assignments due in I dont know when the fuck but I hope to get it done as soon as possible so I have more time to enjoy myself. Year 3.1 started off at a relaxed pace but the pace and workload is not so relaxing now. WIPS class on Friday was cancelled too, how fucking great. So this means its been more than 3 weeks since I last attended Ms Z's lessons. .... ... .......... ........ ....... ...

Today my uncle made me and my bro follow him to visit my granduncle who looks like Libya's leader Muammar al-Gaddafi and my grandaunty. Turns out there was a mini feast in the house. My favourite but sadly unmarried granduncle was there, so was my other grandaunty and her maid plus my uncle's cousin and husband too. Means me and my bro were the only youths in the house. Nothing intimidating for us. I enjoyed the food there and listening to stories(ghost stories mostly) from my grandaunty and granduncle.

One part of the conversation by my grandaunty about ghosts and my late great grand father went something like this, spoken in a mixture of English and malay by her, "You know my father, your great grand father used to tell us. Manusia mane yang cakap mereka telah nampak hantu, itu adalah manusia yang gila dan pembohong."

Then she went on to say about someone who went to tell my great grandfather about seeing a ghost to which my grandfather shouted to that person, re enacted by my grandaunt, "Harami! Ape kau giler ke ape nampak hantu!" Hearing the harami part made me laugh.

I dont mean to talk bad things about the departed but wherever you are my dearest great grandfather, may God bless your soul and may we get to meet each other in Heaven when this materialistic world is destroyed in the future.

Results for Common Test so far:

Wireless Technology: A+

Networking and Management: B

Inventory motherfuckingManagement : F

System Security result is not out yet because the lecturer is a lazy toot who doesnt know how to mark papers quickly. And fuck IMGT. Fuck inventories, reorders, annual profits and capitalism. Fuck them all.

Time to play FM through LAN now.

Mid term holidays are gonna be over and its back to school in a few hours time. 2 weeks of holidays is just too short. Its back to looking at the fucking laptop in the mornings and making my brain work a little more. During the past 2 weeks or so I've mostly been hardcore gaming. Hardcore gaming is an activity for someone who lacks love.

Highlights of some of the nice things that I remember from the back of my head happening during the holidays:

Dinner at some Thai place in Bugis. No offence to the people of the Kingdom of Siam but Thai food is just not something my tongue fancies. Sawadikarp! Tom yam is still ok though.

The dinner was to celebrate my uncle's golden jubilee. I am not a tall person but it feels good to be towering above my not so tall family members.

Next up was soccer at the Cage with the guys and Mr down under good day mate Herry. Plus shsha sessions at Arab Street. There was this one session where I felt really zoned out or in the zone? Almost close to stoning. Well not that I rarely stone myself anyway. Even the Smoking Dragon admitted to feeling lightheadedness from the herbal smoke that we had. Herbal, not ganja.

Donnie Brasco was the first Blu Ray movie that I watched and I got to watch it in full glory 1080p! It stars Johnny Depp(before he became a sellout pirate) as undercover FBI agent who infiltrates the Cosa Nostra. Al Pacino stars as Depp's mentor. The movie is directed by some guy named Mike Newell if I'm not wrong who later went on to direct one of the Harry Potter movies. From directing a mafia movie to a more accessible movie. Not bad.

Video quality of the movie is superb. The violence is top notch too.There was this scene of Johnny Depp suntanning under the Miami sun and I could see all the details of his face like his pimples, marks and so on. Sound quality is good too. Dialogues and gun shot sounds are crystal clear. Paramount Pictures should remaster The Godfather movies into blu ray too. It is stll too early to declare the death of dvds. But dvds have been a loyal and long serving media format. Because of dvds, I was introduced to all the great films and movies of the past.

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots title screen. The final game of the Metal Gear Saga. I've been waiting 4 years for this game to be released. The first Metal Gear Solid game blew me away in terms of storyline and gameplay. MGS made me play other video games for its storyline.

Cut scene graphics for MGS4 looks excellent but unfortunately I cant say the same for its gameplay graphics. Only time will tell if it has a good storyline because the fucking holidays is too short, I can only commit myself to finish up one game.

Last few legs of my holidays were spent trying to achieve 100% completion for GTA 4. Thats me, the main character Niko Bellic with an RPG(anti tank rocket launcher) on top of his shoulder, standing beside my trusted Maverick helicopter and that teeny weeny glowing orangey red thing at the bottom centre of the screen is a pigeon. Also known as a flying rat. One of the requirements to get 100% in the game is to fucking kill 200 motherfucking pigeons scattered throughout the 3 islands. That was the last of the pigeons which stood in my way of Grand Theft greatness. Now should I use the RPG to blast the fucker bird brain to hell for wasting my time? Or should I snipe the feathery scum instead? I chose the latter and they better reward me with a fucking trophy when the 2.40 firmware comes out!!!

Now if only I could channel all that enthusiasm and commitment to my studies as well..

Currently I'm waiting for the Spain vs Italia match to start. I fancy both teams and I expect the Italians to go through because they always get the job done in the end. Fuck man school starts at 9am tomorrow. Barring any fuck ups it will be the last leg of education in NP for me. People my age are done with serving the nation or are about to enter national service and I'm still not done with getting a diploma.

Last night my siblings, mum and paternal grandfather went to visit my Quran teacher. He looks like a pale shadow of his former self. I dont mean to sound crude but he looks like those Nazi, Allied prisoners of war with his extremely boney hands and legs. Miraculously his face doesnt look like that of an ageing dying man. Not only that, his voice is still as commanding as before and his memory shocked us all too because he was still able to remember me and my siblings and the last time we visited him. These are the blessings of a man who devoted his life to reading the Quran. Only thing he has to endure is the test from God on his health. Everyone has to die eventually. Even those rich politician have to fucking die some day too.

Before we went home, my Quran teacher mentioned something which sort of refreshed my memory that will make me remember it for the rest of my life. He said that only 3 things will save the Sons and Daughter of Adam when they die. Number 1 is the good deeds that they do in the name of God like prayers for eg. Number 2 is the good deed that you do to other human beings like donation and passing on knowledge to others(teachers etc) and number 3 are the prayers of your children when you get married. So as long as me,  my siblings and all his other students continue to read the Quran, God will bless my teacher's soul when he's alive and when he is 6 feet under.

I kissed my teacher on both his cheeks before going home last night hoping that I get to see him again. Thanks to him, me and my siblings are able to read the Arabic words of the Quran. God willing, may we meet each other again after Ramadan or before if permitted.

Euro 2008 kicked off last night. First match was between the co-host Switzerland and Czech Republic. A boring match which put me to sleep after the second half. I awoke to Portugal taking on Turkey. Another boring match which made me sleep again and when I woke up my uncle was watching baseball between his beloved New York Yankees and some other team. Seems like theres nothing great in watching the Euros in HD. The video quality of the stadium and the fans in it is better comapred to the fast motion of the match itself. Maybe its because my eyes are not used to it. See what happens as I watch more matches.