Finally...

Finally, final exam is over today... and I don't feel too happy about it. Yeah, I could've done better if I forced myself to study harder. Unfortunately my driving force was not that hard. Uh, it's really difficult to revolutionize my habit. This damn habit to pile up every job that come to me. That's right, I'm a true big fat procrastinator, and I'm not proud of it. Even though I answered lots of questions, but still.. I could've done better than that. Like yesterday when I stumbled with a question about Compton scattering. The question was to find the angle of scattered electron undergoes the Compton scattering. I was blurred, didn't know how to answer that actually quite simple problem. In fact, I was able for quite many times deriving the Compton equation during my undergraduate (my undergraduate record: redid mechanics 2 times and quantum physics 1 time... it was helluva time). And yesterday I felt like a true born loser... really embarrassing for a physics degree holder :(

And finally, I met her... Nuyiii, my virtual-friend-for-around-2-years. She's UI fresh-graduated from psychology faculty. She was on a vacation trip to KL with her parents. Fortunately, her dad is a neurologist who attended a conference in KL Convention Centre plus 4-days tour package in KL and Genting Highlands. They arrived last Wednesday, and she asked me to meet up the next day. But I felt too risky considering the first day exam on Friday. However, finally we met up last Saturday afternoon at KLCC. Her parents offered me to join them having dinner in Seri Melayu Restaurant. Such an irresistible offer that I definitely couldn't resist. Her parents were very nice to me, and her dad asked me this FAQ about my field of study. Yesss, medical physics is a relatively new field, even for doctors, especially in developing countries like Indonesia and Malaysia. But this field actually is already established since 1970's in developed countries such as UK and US (especially since the revolutionary invention of CT-scan). After dinner, I chit-chatted with Nuyi at her hotel lobby. We talked a lot, and it was fun talking to her... until the waitress 'kindly' asked us to empty the sofa, since we were too cheapskate to order drink, hehehe. Well Nuy, til we meet again, somewhere... sometime :)

home-flu

I guess it started when I was in Soekarno-Hatta Airport, prior to leaving Jakarta back to KL, 3 days ago. I was having sore throat and a little dizziness. However, I couldn't resist prof's offer to have soto ayam dinner in one of the food stalls there. Wow, apparently he was quite familiar with this indonesian popular cuisine. I carelessly ordered a glass of ice tea and ignored my pityful and annoying sore throat. It was funny when I saw prof, Mr Tan and my 2 coursemates eating their soto ayam. They repetitively poured the kuah onto the rice... very exhausting way of eating, I might say. Then I told them to mix the rice with the soto. "See, this is the correct way to eat soto ayam." "OK lorr, I better follow the local", said Mr Tan. Then I saw him and prof start mixing their rice with soto. But my fellow coursemates decided not to do that, and I didn't ask why.

In the plane, my sore throat got worse (damn ice tea!). Somehow, it didn't affect my appetite at all. I was still excited when the aircrews started serving the meals (sorry ya, I didn't take that cheapskate-everyone-can-fly flight this time). Suddenly, one of the stewardesses asked my 2 coursemates, Rainbow and Joon to confirm that they ordered special meals. They innocently replied that they didn't order any of that. The fact was, Rainbow did make a mistake to order "low-fat meal" when she online booked the flight together with Joon. Later on the stewardess came to them with a piece of paper containing passengers information. "You are Yeong Chai Hong and Tan Joon Ching, right? Yes, you ordered special low-fat meals. Here are the meals, enjoy!" Oops, they couldn't run away with that, and had to accept their meals, hahaha. And like the typical low-fat food, they had almost-tasteless boiled noodle and asparagus. Prof and me had this quite delicious chicken fettucine, and I looked at Mr Tan's meal, seemed it was rice with chicken, and I think my meal was better than his. Rainbow and Joon didn't finish their meals, and I offered them to let me finish 'em (dasar gembulll!).

The next day, my sore throat transformed to annoying cough and watery nose. I keep coughing and my nose was unstoppably watering. This salty fluid (ok, I accidentally tasted it when it flowed to my mouth) kept dropping all the time. It was like crying, but instead of your eyes dropping tears, it's your nose. Yesterday, my tongue and olfactory nerves became numb. I barely couldn't taste or smell anything. In the afternoon, I ate at KLCC Sushi King with my new friend Alice (in Wonderland). From all the food there, I only succeed to taste the wasabi in my tongue. Probably because of its burning taste, but I like it. Alice doesn't like it, and my brother once told me that it tastes like scorpion, hahaha. Even when we were walking through the perfume stalls, the salesguys sprayed their perfumes at us, and I couldn't smell it at all, while she was coughing after smelling the perfume aroma.

And today, I keep coughing. Don't know why, I feel very lazy to take medication. Nenek told me to take the cough syrup, and I haven't taken it til now. You know what, at the first time I came here from home, I also had this kind of flu. And now I'm having it again after coming back from home. Rainbow said that I might be homesick. May be I am. I really miss home...

Lawak 'politik' ala Malaysia

Ini dia lawakan berbau2 politik ala Malaysia, dapet dari sebuah testimonial seseorang kepada seseorang.

Murid : Selamat pagi, cikgu.

Cikgu 1) : (Menengking) Mengapa selamat pagi
Sahaja?
Petang Dan malam awak doakan saya tak
Selamat?

Murid : Selamat pagi, petang Dan malam cikgu!

Cikgu : Panjang sangat! Tak pernah dibuat oleh
Orang! Kata selamat sejahtera! Senang Dan
Penuh
Bermakna.Lagipun ucapan ini meliputi
Semua
Masa Dan keadaan.

Murid : Selamat sejahtera cikgu!

Cikgu : Sama-sama, duduk! Dengar sini baik-baik.
Hari ini cikgu nak 2) uji kamu semua tentang
Perkataan
Berlawan. Bila cikgu sebutkan
Perkataannya,
Kamu semua mesti menjawab dengan
Cepat, lawan bagi
Perkataan-perkataan itu, faham?

Murid : Faham, cikgu!

Cikgu : Saya tak mahu Ada apa-apa gangguan.

Murid : (senyap)

Cikgu : Pandai!

Murid : Bodoh!

Cikgu : Tinggi!

Murid : Rendah!

Cikgu : Jauh!

Murid : Dekat!

Cikgu : Keadilan 3)!

Murid : UMNO 4)!

Cikgu : Salah!

Murid : Betul!

Cikgu : Bodoh!

Murid : Pandai!

Cikgu : Bukan!

Murid : Ya!

Cikgu : Oh Tuhan!

Murid : Oh Hamba!

Cikgu : Dengar ini!

Murid : Dengar itu!

Cikgu : Diam!

Murid : Bising!

Cikgu : Itu bukan pertanyaan, bodoh!

Murid : Ini ialah jawapan, pandai!

Cikgu : Mati aku!

Murid : Hidup kami!

Cikgu : Rotan baru tau!

Murid : Akar lama tak tau!

Cikgu : Malas aku ajar kamu!

Murid : Rajin kami belajar cikgu!

Cikgu : Kamu Gila!

Murid : Kami siuman!

Cikgu : Cukup! Cukup!

Murid : Kurang! Kurang!

Cikgu : Sudah! Sudah!

Murid : Belum! Belum!

Cikgu : Mengapa kamu semua bodoh sangat?

Murid : Sebab saya seorang pandai!

Cikgu : Oh! Melawan!

Murid : Oh! Mengalah!

Cikgu : Kurang ajar!

Murid : Cukup ajar!

Cikgu : Habis aku!

Murid : Kekal kami!

Cikgu : O.K. Pelajaran sudah habis!

Murid : K.O. Pelajaran belum bermula!

Cikgu : Sudah, bodoh!

Murid : Belum, pandai!

Cikgu : Berdiri!

Murid : Duduk!

Cikgu : Saya kata UMNO salah!

Murid : Kami dengar KeADILan betul!

Cikgu : Bangang 5) kamu in!

Murid : Cerdik kami TU!

Cikgu : Rosak!

Murid : Baik!

Cikgu : Kamu semua ditahan tengah Hari ini!

Murid : Dilepaskan tengah malam itu!

Cikgu : (Senyap Dan mengambil buku-bukunya
Keluar.)

Keterangan:
1). Cikgu, kependekan dari encik guru, atau pak guru.
2). nak = mau
3). Keadilan, tentu maksud cikgu itu memang keadilan dlm makna yg sebenarnya.. tapi oleh murid2nya ditafsirkan sebagai Parti Keadilan Nasional, partai pembangkang (oposisi) yang diprakarsai Anwar Ibrahim, mantan timbalan (wakil) PM yang pernah dijatuhkan dan difitnah oleh penguasa saat itu.
4). UMNO, United Malay National Organisation (Pertubuhan Kebangsaan Melayu Bersatu), partai berkuasa saat ini.
5). Bangang = bego!