MooPig & The Babe

It's time to bid 2004 farewell. Time flies. For the past 365 days, I had my fair shares of ups and downs. Nothing major happened. A pretty good year I would say. Nevertheless, I hope 2005 will be a better year.

January
Exams fever. It was my worst CNY ever- spent the first day of CNY studying for Business Law and celebrated the second day of CNY in the exam hall. I also realised how much I missed my family when it comes to festivals. This year's CNY was meaningless without my family celebrating it with me. Celebrating CNY with friends was so different!
Started the second semester of Year 2.

February
Hari Raya Haji gathering with fellow Malaysians of my university. Great food, great company!

Results released. Dad was pleased but I thought I could have done better.
It snowed for the first time in 2 years! The snow was so heavy that all lectures were cancelled. I certainly enjoyed the snowfights with my housemates and Choi. =)


March
Yang's mom came all the way from China to visit her for 3 months. Isn't that sweet?
Then there was election. We thought BN would win in Kelantan but unfortunately, PAS won again! Tough luck!
Prague trip!!!


April
Busy preparing for exams.

May
Exam month. Only one word to describe my life then- miserable.

June
Trip to Disneyland, Paris with Claire.

Yu Jen visited me and we made our first trip to Rhyll. We baked lots of cakes and cookies and catched up with each other. =)

Surprised my parents by ringing the door bell around 11pm. It was nice to be home again. Home sweet home...
Cousin's wedding in Kuala Berang, Terengganu. Surprised all my relatives because no one knew I was back. hehe...

Gathering with high school friends in PCB.



July
Results released. -_-

August
Rotaract Club of Kota Bharu's 25th Installation Nite.
Was no longer single.

September
Back to Wales again... Year 3 started.

October
Broke up with the ex. It takes 2 hands to clap ; it takes 2 to Tango.
Busy preparing Project Proposal

November
Finally submitted Project Proposal
Hari Raya Aidilfitri- celebrated with fellow Malaysians.


December
I turned 21! ;)

Barcelona trip with Yu Jen, Jillian and Hsin Chieh. Awesome!

For the first time in 2 years, I celebrated Christmas alone.
The scary, scary Tsunami and earthquake. :(

That pretty much sums up my life this year.

Happy New Year to all! Hope 2005 will be a better year. Good luck and God Bless!

Don't forget the new year resolutions! ;)

Posted by MooPig at 01:49 | Permalink | Comments

This year's Christmas is going to be very very different from the past couple of years... It'll be a sad, sad Christmas.

It's Christmas Eve. Since I won't be spending Christmas with the Stockmans, I thought I'd better ring Nana to have a wee chat with her. Nana sounded sad on the phone. She sounded as if she had just cried. She broke a bad news and I feel so helpless. I was not only speechless when I heard the news but was also holding back my tears. The moment I put down the phone, I can't help but allow my tears to flow freely. As I'm typing this post, tears are still flowing down my cheeks.

For the past couple of years, I've been going to Northern Ireland to celebrate Christmas with the Stockmans. When Dad was studying in NI, he met the Stockmans and he was very close to them. Every Christmas, Dad would spend with them. When my cousin went to Belfast to study, he also celebrated Christmas with the Stockmans. The same goes to me. This year, I chose not to go to Ireland because I had a not-so-good experience last year. Anyways, I'm glad I made the right choice of not going to the Stockmans this year. I don't think they will be celebrating Christmas in a grand way because Joan is diagnosed with cancer. Everybody is sad. I don't think anyone is in the mood for Christmas.

I'm going to be all by myself tomorrow. I'm not celebrating Christmas. No turkeys, no presents, no yorkshire puddings...

Joan, at this very moment, I can't do anything. I wish I could talk to you now but I know I can't control myself. I don't want to end up sobbing over the phone. I wish you well and stay strong. Get well soon.

And to those who are celebrating Christmas, Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!!



I really want to do something for Joan. I want to see her but if I were to go to Ireland, I'll create more troubles for them. I'll discuss with my parents when I call them at midnight tonight. Perhaps sending her a card will do.

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I should be on the train instead of typing this post at this very moment... but why am I still here? COS I MISSED THE TRAIN!! Yes, I conveniently missed the train for 2 minutes.

My train was at 1017 but I woke up 0951. I overslept. Sighh...

Realising it was 0951, I jumped out of bed, rushed to the bathroom to wash up, dressed up and ran to the railway station. Actually, I could have made it for the 1017 but I realised I lost the number of my friend whom I'll be meeting at the train station so I had to on my laptop and check friendster cos there's where she left her mobile number for me. That wasted a precious 3 minutes (or more!) Double sigh. On the way to the train station, I was praying that the train would delay by a minute or two. Oh well, when you want it to be on time, it'll delay and vice versa. Triple sigh.

Nevermind the fact that I missed the train. Consolation is, I made the choice of going on the earlier train instead of the noon train.

So off I go now before I miss the next train at 1117! I hope I don't end up with another post saying I missed the flight to Barcelona. *touch wood*touch wood*

Adios!

Posted by MooPig at 10:37 | Permalink | Comments

I've been getting lots of calls from telemarketers. Most of them call on behalf of phone companies like Homecall, One-Tel, Tele-2 etc. Some called up to do surveys and some called up on behalf of UNICEF.

I don't mind answering calls from telemarketers. I'm happy to help them with their surveys. But, some are just pain in the arse. I know what they want to hear from me is 'Yes, I'll sign up with you' but I just can't do so. I do not want to go through the hassle of writing letters to companies to terminate the contracts so my housemates and I have decided to stay to Homecall and say no to other service providers.

For the past 3 days, I got 3 calls from 3 companies. 2 were from telephone companies and the other one is from Sky TV.

Telemarketer 1 called up to persuade me to take up the plans but I told them I wasn't interested. Day before yesterday, I spent a good 15 minutes listening to the guy explaining about the call plans. I told him I wasn't interested because we're comfortable with Homecall but the lad just went on and on and on telling me the company will offer me free calls and what nots. I got irritated after telling him no so I said, I'll discuss with my housemates first. And guess what he said
Ma'am, I'm sure if you love our plan, your husband will love the plan too!
The moment he said that, I wanted to laugh out loud but I had to hold back. It's not nice to laugh at people, ya know =P. Then he repeated the whole lot he had just mentioned to me. I gave up and told him that I'll discuss this with my mates and give the company a ring should we want to sign up for the plan.

Phew... this worked. Thank God.

Yesterday, I got a call from Sky TV. A nice lady explained to me about the offers they have for me but I politely declined her offer buy saying,
Your offer sounds very interesting but unfortunately, I can't take up the offer because
1. My housemates and I are students
2. We don't have money as we're not working and
3. We don't have a TV.
Thank you for calling and have a nice day.

This worked too! She put down the phone. The conversation only lasted 3 minutes or so.

And just now, I got another call from yet another telemarketer. This time, it's about free evening calls, free weekend calls and what not to all UK landlines. Since using Homecall as an excuse only gave me more headaches, I lied to her, saying my housemates and I are moving out in December and will terminate the line. She wasn't satisfied and asked me more questions and I continued to tell more lies. After 5 minutes or so, she was content with the answers (read: lies) I gave and put down the phone. -_-

3 telemarketers in 3 consecutive days.. Hmm... maybe I should register with Telephone Preference Service. I wonder how did they get our number. I remember I told BT I didn't want the number to be listed in the BT directory.... Hmm...

Posted by MooPig at 16:08 | Permalink | Comments

Few days ago...

After coming back from class, we noticed there was a note on the floor written:

王大政，

起来后给我打个电话。

XXX

证明你没死

'Wang Da Zheng,
Call me when you wake up.
XXX
To prove that you're still alive'

In the evening,

Cherry and I heard someone banging on the door for about 10 minutes. Initially, we couldn't be bothered because we knew the person banging on the door was looking for Douglas, the guy staying downstairs. We wanted to ignore the poor girl banging on the door but we didn't so I went downstairs to open the door for her. She asked if D was in but I said I haven't got any idea because none of us in the house is close to him. She banged on his door and I went upstairs.

A couple of days ago...

2 of D's friends came. The repeated the same old thing but D didn't come out. We thought he was in because we didn't notice him going out. I mean, where would he go? He's girlfriend has gone back to China. So we assumed that he was hiding inside his room. The 2 friends went into the kitchen to look for the spare key but to no avail. We panicked, thinking he might be.. um... dead. I thought he either died or passed out because he was smoking weed in his room few days ago and the whole house stank! @_@

Then I realised that he's still alive because the pint of milk in the fridge which belonged to him was in the bin. (He's the only one in the house who drinks whole milk.)

So.. he's alive. No worries. Besides, there wasn't any weird smell coming out from his room. :P

Last night...

I heard him talking to my friend who came over to reformat my laptop. He said he went to his friend's house to seek refuge from his friend. He was cursing at his bunch of friends because they were 'disturbing' him everyday about group work, apparently.

So.... he's still alive. But man... he is one weirdo.

Posted by MooPig at 03:50 | Permalink | Comments

Gee... I can't believe I'm already 21!

Got lots of wishes from friends and family. E-mails, txt messages, MSN messages, e-cards, phone calls, Yahoo! messages, Friendster messages and testimonial and snail mails. Wow... *grins*

I'm really tired now so I'll make this entry short.

For the past 2 years, my friends paid for my birthday dinner. This year, I celebrated it in a different way. Last Sat, I whipped up a meal for my Malaysian friends and a friend from HK. As for today, I celebrated with my 2 housemates and another Chinese friend.

The dinner on Saturday was good. I had lots of fun but I was tired. Think standing in the kitchen from noon till night, chopping, cooking, washing and what not. I'm not complaining. In fact, I'm proud that I managed to do that all by myself. *wink*wink*

Tonight, we had Chinese. The food was pretty alright. I think a-la-carte would be better, really. The buffet wasn't bad but lack of greens, and not to mention, oily. I was so surprised that my friends got me a Thornton's cake and a nice jewellery box! Before dessert, the light was dimmed and Birthday song was played. A waiter came out with the cake and everybody in the restaurant were singing and clapping. My face went red. I just didn't expect that to happen!

I'm really tired now. I have a 9am lecture tomorrow morning. Pics will be up later.

Nites... people... I really had a good day today. =) Thanks for everything. *hugs and kisses*

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