2009 in Memories (I)
2009 has been a challenging year for me. I’ve been through pain, failure, success, you name it. From breaking up past relationship to making up new ones. People come and go, things happened for reasons and I’m in no position to stop it. I’ve tried, but to no success; INSTEAD it just gone from bad to worse.
I’ve dreamt of sailing smoothly throughout my 2009 journey. The start of 2009 brings the worse nightmare out of me. I’ve been robbed. Not literally. It’s just that someone / a group of people break into my dad’s car and took away my belongings; from my Samsung F480 ( which I bought a few months earlier ), a camera, my MP3 player, my pink wallet given by my mom few years back, my purple baju kurung (which I wore only once ) my dad’s luggage bag, and a few others. Going to a police station in a middle of my cousin’s wedding is not a fun experience. I felt sorry for my cousin for creating such a chaos during his wedding, which might explains why I distance myself from his family until today. The guilt is living strong in me; and that’s sucks.
A day later, I registered myself back into college. It was always good to meet up my housemates, catching up to what we have been doing after a month of holiday. Frankly speaking, the rest of January was not as fun as I imagined it would be. I’ve been placed yet again in a class with the smallest number of guy ( initially there were 3 but then someone called it quit in the middle of the year ). I’m not complaining but I kinda wish that the number of guys in my class will be at least more than 3. A year before in 2008, there were also 3 guys. I’ve experienced the exact scenario in secondary school. Let’s not go to primary school as I was placed in all-girls school which means no guys at all in primary school. Now, I sound desperate. >.<
February is like a new turn as I began to adapt with my new class and a new environment. It was the starting of the endless exams, tests, quizzes, assignments for each subject. Searching for topic has not been an easy task for me. I’ve looking for something that people barely knew, something new, nothing cliché and not boring. I’ve often been carried away with college assignments. I remembered back in Sem 1, my group did 2 field trips ( to Aquaria for a case study regarding Coral Reefs and Royal Selangor for a case study involving the science of pewter ) for English and computer studies even though they were not necessary. The freezing cold INTEC library has been a second home for me during this period, sitting on the floor, flipping science journals from National Geographic to journals with so many scientific words that I lose track of what I’ve been reading from the first paragraph in particular Science and Nature.
Thinking back, I cried once when my first topic (Iron Fertilization) was rejected by my English lecturer. You can just imagine of all the one-month efforts I’ve given to print out all the related articles and searching high and low in the library for that particular things. I was then given a week / or two ( can’t remember) deadline to find a new topic with articles and other back-up materials. I’ve came out with Home-Schooling (someone else in another class did this topic ),Carbon Sequestration, Bacteria That Could Produce Rains, and finally Ocean Desalination. I have to thank my sister for this as she helped me a lot from the process of making a 2000 words report to a 10 minutes Power-Point Presentation ( well, she learned this process in her degree class ). As for Chemistry, I did a study on Tamoxifen, a drug for treating breast cancer and for Biology, it was all about the China’s One Child Policy ( I have to admit that I enjoyed doing this 1000 words report as all the articles were easy to be read ). I also did a model on solar system for Physics project regarding Circular Acceleration. I’m being nerd now. Haha.
One of the best things that I’ve experienced was back in April. I was sitting in my room in Akasia with I received a phone call from a friend. She asked me whether I would like to go to F1 race at Sepang Circuit as her friend had a bunch of free tickets for us. Well, being an avid F1 fan, there were no chances I ever say no for that kind of offer. We arrived late during the race day, and watched 10 or less laps before the rain comes and the race was stopped. Somehow, it was worth every single minute and I can’t ever thank Afiq enough for this. He was the friend with free tickets and he was the one who picked us at Shah Alam’s commuter station ( the train was delayed that day which pissed me off! ). And I remember kicking his seat as he was driving in the middle of jammed-packed roads so that he could drive faster. Sorry for that buddy.
I’ll continue later.
