REvisit: UPM

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This is where we begin...
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Since I started working last year, it is like a habit to go back to this place where I call it as home-sweet-home. Yes, UPM is our second home as MPTI/ IPTI is our first home.
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I miss all these places, the BSN where we did our 'rompakan bersenjata' because our monthly allowance were bank in through it. Most of the time, the juniors who were still in Maktab will inform us when our allowance will be in. The Harbour Bridge, or some of us called it as 'bukit batak', because once, one of my friend misheard what my friend said. Actually, my friend was refering the bridge just like bukit kat maktab. So funny. We had scary times with the college bus since the drivers drove like manic. We always pray hard and cross our fingers, hoping that there would not be any accident. Plus, we also had a lot of headache since they played the non-friendly-'Kelly Ng'- songs non-stop.
* The FPP, is where we spent most of our times and when we discovered how cosy JPPPL is, we hang there like anything. This is also the rooms for our lecturers. We had our breakfast, brunch, lunch, tea, discussion, (dating) and a lot more things at faculty's cafe. Whenever we wanted to pay for our food, we always pray that the one who will calculate it will be the abang, not the makcik, because he usually will give us cheaper price. My lunch usually cost me only RM2. Wow, I do save a lot then it comes to food.

When we orded our drinks, the abang who prepared it usually will put a lot of condensed milk. And Sammy will say, "rasa susu sebenar, fresh dari ladang UPM". Once, I told him to make my Nescafe Iced a bit thick, so I told him "bang, kasi kaw punya" and he replied "okeh boss".

Oh, JPS is the least adimred place for TESLites and we could not understand how the sports students can stand with that place. It's scary and smelly, yucks!

We love the foyer! Hell ya, we love it like anything until we create a phrase nak berfoya-foya di foyer. A lot of informations we got from the foyer as we always look for updates at the boards. After that, we will spred it among 52 of us. When I went there the other day, I found an interesting banner, which is about MICELT 2010. We love MICELT, and for next year, it will be held in Equatorial Hotel, Melaka again! For more information about MICELT 2010, refer to this site for updates.

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Besides FPP, we also had our lectures at Dewan Kuliah Akademik Pusat aka DKAP. When we first read DKAP on our timetable, we were wondering what does it stands for, and one of us replied "dewan kuliah atas pelatar kot?" =D It is greener compared to our degree years.

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Oh, I went to the bookshop, and shop there like there is no place in KL that I can shop better. But wait, I found this, the script for Ronggeng Rokiah by Dr. Anuar Nor Arai. I did not bought it, but I just love the title la la la~~~
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The entrance is one of our favourite spot. We admired the architecture and it is a good subject for photography. I remembered that I used this entrance as one of my subject of photography for my Teknology Pendidikan class. It was early of the semester. Students were still eager to go to class and I had to wait almost 30 minutes to make sure that nobody would interfere or enterframe my picture. Not a single human, and not a single vehicle! I was really tiring, but indeed, I managed to snap a beautiful picture.
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Owh ya, Dr. Edwin will screamed at us if he saw us walking on the grass. "You UGLY PEOPLE, GET OFF FROM THE GRASS!!!" And when we entered his class, he will give us another lecture about walking on the grass. If you read the entry that I wrote about him, you will see our pictures with him standing on the grass. It was drizzling, what a beautiful moment, and he said like this to us, "because all of you, I had to be an UGLY PEOPLE today".
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This is not the end. Although we had our convocation at Dewan Besar, it is not the end of our journey. In fact, it is the beginning of our career. We hope to come back to this place again to get our second degree. One day, we will tell our next generations proundly, "I used to study in UPM once. We never regretted even a minute of our life studying there and we are proud to be the Alumni of UPM"

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Salah!

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As an English teacher, sometimes I think I suffer because I tend to correct every single mistakes that people make when they speak or write in English. Sometimes, I even laughed at them (this happened during Induksi), scold them (during Induksi too), etc...
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And look what's written on the paper...
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I didn't realised it until I looked at it thorougly. This happened when I bought my new toy. If only the person who wrote this is my student, I will definately scold him on the spot!
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HUH!
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'Ronggeng Rokiah' (part 2/2009)

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As I have promised earlier, I will write about my second part of 'Ronggeng Rokiah'. This time around, I went to KL (ya, there's no other place for me to go except JB and KL).
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Day 1
I went to KL quite late as I had to go to school and finished some tasks.
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Day 2
incik-kacang-senyum asked me where I wanted to go and I straight away said, "UPM!". And UPM, here I come!
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I will write more about UPM in my next post.
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After UPM, I went to Mid Valley (where else?) for my first round of book hunting. Unfortunately, I could not find the books that I wanted to buy, but wait! I still buy some books. It is a lie if I tell you that I entered a bookshop and walked out of it without buying any books. Haha...
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And I went to The Gardens too (so jakun!), since I have never been there before. Mind you, I'm staying in Johor and going to KL is just like escaping from a prison.
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Since Christmas is just around the corner, they decorated the places with christmas trees and castle. The one in MV is still unfinished (when I went there), but the one in The Gardens reminds me of bridal dais. Yeah, you know people nowaday are so creative until sometimes I think they have changed the dais into something else. *sigh*
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Mid Valley
The Gardens
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Day 3
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I continued my book hunting session starting at Amcorp Mall. Actually I was looking for Popular, that's why I went there. I cannt say either I was unfortunate of fortunate enough since I reached Amcorp quite early (9 someting, *sigh*) and Popular only operated at 11 a.m. However, I found this book clearance sale and as a person who is addicted in buying books, this is unresistable. =)
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Big Bad Book Sale @ Amcorp Mall
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Then, I remembered that I used to come across a Popular near to Petaling Street. Therefore, I went there and viola! I found the books that I want. I continued my 'Ronggeng Rokiah' session to KLCC and had my lunch from Kyros Kebab.
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Just like MV and TG, KLCC is also decorated with christmas trees, bread house and not to be forgotten, gingerbread man! I took this picture with the help of a Filipino lady who was on her vacation. It ended up with me taking her pictures and vice versa.
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After the 'photography' session is over, I went to Kinokuniya (as usual) and took quite a lot of books. Come across my heart at that time, hopefully I have enough money to pay for those books or I will be a dead meat. And guess what? I got RM10 voucer since I spent more that RM100 in a reciept. There goes my smug face. Since the voucer can only be used from 3/1/2010 until 31/3/2010 I guess I have to come back to KL next year. Hopefully I will go there on sencod week of February and it also means that I can attend the first MASKARA next year, yeah.
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Day 4

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Went back home!
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These are some of the stuffs that I bought on my second part of 'Ronggeng Rokiah'
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'Ronggeng Rokiah' (part 1/2009)

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As I wrote on my schedule for this week, I went to JB for three days and two nights. Yeah, JB is like my second hometown. Staying there for almost four years does not make me into an expert in JB area, though. Haha.
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So, I had a nice moments there, hanging out with my little cousins. Hunting exercises book was less exciting since I could not find the references that I wanted to. Since next year the kiddos will studying new literature text, I feel that it is a must for me to find my own references.
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My First Day
When I reached Terminal Larkin, I was looking for surau for Zohor prayer, but I could not find it. So I asked one of the shop assistant about it. She was a little bit puzzled and asked me back, "surau? maksud adik masjid?". This shows how I have missed a lot of thing about Terminal Larkin and now they have such a nice place to perform solat and it is air-conditioned too!
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This makcik was so noisy, calling people to get into the buses. She attracted my attention not only because of her voice, but also because of her mismatched baju kurung and sarung too!
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My Second Day
We went to City Square since I think I have enough 'visit' at Jusco Tebrau. I went to Padini Concept Store there and I found this lovely dress. Unfortunately I cannot wear it since I'm too short. Huhu~~~
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My two lil cousin who (were forced) to accompanied me to have a tiring moments in the bookshops. Yes, I spend almost three hours in Popular and MPH.
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Confused! She could not make up her mind on what to eat when I brought them to Laksa Shack. I am not a great fan of laksa, but if I have the opportunity to find Laksa Shack, I will definately eat Laksa Sarawak.
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Zohor prayer. Now, my Paris Hilton can say "finally I'm out from Segamat!". =D
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Can you guess where I took this photo?
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The books that I bought. Literature references for next year syllabus, a bed time stories (because the students have to learn Rumplestiltskin, and my KP said it might be easier for them to learn it as a story instead of a play), Ustaz Hasrizal's travelouge and Uthaya Sankar's collection of short stories.

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And I bought hard cover books too. The red one is for me to write about my love, my passion (guess what?) and another one is for working purposes (if I have to attend courses, I think I need a notebook that look serious).

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My Third Day

Went back home!
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(wait for my second part of Ronggeng Rokiah 2009 if I got to KL next week!)

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Adieu!

Tercekik!

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Kelakar. Tapi tak kelakar pun ada. Ini cerita saya. Terjadi dua malam yang lepas.
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Saya baru pulang dari be'ronggeng rokiah' di JB. Malam itu, ketika melihat lauk, terlintas di hati saya untuk tidak makan malam (maaf, saya tak pernah berniat langsung untuk berdiet). Tapi mengenangkan sudah beberapa hari tidak merasa air tangan ayah, maka saya pun makan malam.
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Sedang enak menikmati makan malam, tiba- tiba...
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Saya tercekik tulang ikan!
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Sungguh, masa itu saya rasa agak kelakar. Tapi selepas menelan 2, 3 kepal nasi, tulang itu masih tidak 'jalan', saya memaksa Ayah untuk menghantar saya ke klinik. Phew, nasib baik klinik sangat dekat dengan rumah (jalan kaki pun sampai).
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Sebenarnya saya sedikit cuak, lagi- lagi bila teringat cerita salah seorang junior saya berkenaan situasi ini. Katanya, dia tercekik tulang ikan yang mak dia masak. Katanya lagi, tulang ikan tu besaaaarrrr. (Er... apa saya sedikit doubtful dengan saiz besar yang dia maksudkan, sebab Bahasa dia selalunya kurang tepat. Contoh ayat kegemaran junior saya adalah, "my punya rambut", haha).
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Di pendekkan cerita, saya berjumpa dengan doktor dan doktor tersenyum mendengar cerita saya (masih boleh bercakap lagi). Sebenarnya saya bukan tercekik tulang ikan, tetapi tulang ikan itu tercucuk di bahagian lelangit (hampir dengan tekak). Tulang itu halus saja, tapi panjangnya hampir satu inci. Hmph...
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Kopak lah RM15 kerana kes tulang ikan ni. Tak apa, lain kali kena berhati- hati occay~~~
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