I was April fooled! Oh no. I definitely do not saw that coming.

My colleagues and I were called for an interview as the representative for our batch. This interview was held by board of accreditation of Washington Accord, so that we would be able to work outside Malaysia. Ten of us (4 Malays, 4 Chinese and 2 Indians) were required to attend the interview at the conference room in our school (School of Chemical Engineering, USM) at 11am this morning, 1 April 2008 (Oh, how I wish I check today date first before coming). At 10 am, I woke up. Which was relatively early as it is now a study week (stay up until midnight and sleep until afternoon). There will be no classes as students are supposedly study for the upcoming final examination.

So, in the high spirit of trying to look and sound like a foreigner (the first time they visited here, the accredators were from US, Australia and Singapore), we dress formally and went to our school. Some of us even already been there as early as 10.30am. After waiting for about 10 minutes and people walking around looking staring at us, must because of our strikingly out of place attire and the fact that the only people who were at the school are cleaners (which we regretfully ignored), one of my colleague accidentally read a yellow note posted down the hallway.

The note list out all the "unlucky" students who were called for interview that was schedule TOMORROW! It originally stated today date, but was corrected by a pen and change the date to tomorrow. After some screaming and foot stomping, it finally resides in our brain that we being April fooled by our school. Well, maybe not directly by them, but we do have a wicked feeling of vandalizing our school. Thank God there are cleaners (they were laughing!) watching our entire moves.

Well, maybe it just a coincident when it happen on the day when people through out history celebrate the day by fooling others including family, friend, and enemy. Nevertheless, I still consider my mistaken date interview as one of the greatest April Fool jokes in my life. After all, by categorize it in that subject, my anger level was reduce. It only a joke man! No hard feeling!

The night before, I google the web to read about some of the outrages pranks done by others who think an April Fool day should be celebrated with a bang. Innocent people should be fooled and we should all laugh it as it's a sort of entertainment.

However, when my friend shocking us with the story of his dead (with a help from his younger brother), I know it already cross the line (or should I say, LINES?) somewhere. Fooling people with a death news is no no no funny matter. One of my friend who heard this even need to settle down on her chair and hold tight my hand. She was still in the speechless mode when that fella who pranked us jumped into the room and said, "Gotcha! You officially being pranked!".

I still can believe that we "allowed" him to walk away alive. After severe screaming that definitely damaged my hearing for couple of days, punching and hair grabbing, he just laughed it out. "With this," he said, "I just make your life easier to remember me after we gone in our separate ways." We indeed remember him till now (and several years latter, I even blog it! He must be proud).

So, where is the boundary? Or should we make boundaries at all, as intimidating people on April Fool day is consider as acceptable? Continue Reading

After a week haven't post any new thing, with a blink of an eye (make it 20160 times - an average of 1 or 2 blink in a minute. And that is only one of your eyes). As you may recalled, students life is not that easy. Especially in this Asia region. It's more towards academic excellence rather than self developed stuffs like other region are doing. If you put in more simpler words, I need to read more than any average student in Europe or America to pass my examination.

Nevertheless, a week of 3 major tests, Arabic listening test, Arabic oral test (I am pretty sure if an Arabian listening to what I have said, he will die in laughter) and a tedious assignment from an arrogant engineer (he's not gonna read it anyway, but we still have to make it more than 10 pages) I felt like my soul has been drained out of my body.

So, without being able to think clearly, I thought I wanna write something about a very bad attitude, selfishness. As it's an attitude that is bad (I hate selfish people!), there would be no good things that I will say. It would be a post like any usual teenage-outrages-mood-swing blog. But then, my primary subject has finally slowly realize that he's selfish. Just when you thought the fish is on your bait. Thus, I just have to buried it in my countless draft box. Will keep in mind of doing a post similar like that in the future.

Next, I feel a very high urge to write about what I called gender discrimination. People always fumes up when we talk about gender discrimination and instantly assume it was done to women. Do you know that I have found a case cases about a structured and founded organization to marginally discriminate men? They even have a secret treasurer, secretary and of course a men-head-hunter leader. Interested? You have to wait for a little longer, as I am quite sure that after my shocking revelation, my room will be a lucrative target for them. God bless me.

So, after much ado, I finally decide to talk about a more laid back topic. (as you may notice from the top picture) Fashion! Or specifically teacher's fashion. I know some of you already broke into a smile, thinking about the old looks of your old teacher. Afraid no longer, because here we will talk about it in an open manner. Forgive me if you're one of the teachers discussed here.

I remember one of my English teacher (who has a PHD in English literature) only wears sari every time she in class. She is a good teacher but we miss out most of her lectures due to the distraction cause by her waving sari. It might also due to her soothing and incredibly slow voice like a mum reading a bed time story for her child. She should be a psychiatric.

And then, there always a rose among the thorns. A good looking, well groomed, and a perfume addicted teacher. She wears different perfume each single day and never wears twice the same clothes for a month! (Seriously, I have been to her house and see for myself all her 3 closets) She always sported with the latest handbag, the latest lipstick or even driving the latest car. Plus, you could hear (even though the class is like a fish market) her 4 inch heel footsteps from three classes down the hallway. Just enough time to settle back and wait like an obedient child sitting perfectly in his chair.

The point are:

• Does a teacher need to be fashionable?
• People (usually old and not popular) said that if a teacher is fashionable, it will distract the attention from what she was supposed to do (teaching) to her. And that is unethical. Is is true?
  
• What about a fashionable male teacher? Does he will distract female students (and some of the male students)?

Most of the university students I interviewed said that they are more interested in a class of a young spirit lecturer (not exactly in the age sense) and less in the plain and boring lecturer (no brainer here) . I personally more prefer a teacher with a character. No matter it is he/her sense of fashion or the charm in their personality. In my opinion, a fashionable teacher would not give a much problem towards more grown up students. However, that being said, they still like a person who teaches them to be more understandable, as they said, young spirit teacher.

Thank you for waiting for my update :D

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I watched Dan in Real Life and 27 Dresses this week. Both of the movies are standing on the same foot, LOVE. However, this is not quite 'normal' love story. Not that they are homosexual love story, it just that both main characters are in love with the same person his/her younger brother/sister loves. Well, we cannot blame them. Love is indeed blind. Poor little thing.

What if this happen to you? You're falling in love with someone that is very much loved by your brother or sister. Should you just tell your brother that you're in love with his girlfriend and asking him to back off? Or you will watch your sister married with the love that you believe is your true love?

Do you willing to sacrifice for your family? Or you should rather tell your brother/sister you love his/her lover?

Should be noted, that the lover also love you too (or still in the 'like' stage). Not for the one direction feeling :D

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This time, I decided to do all the tags I received this week. Sorry for missing out any tags. Plus, awards that I received for a couple of weeks before.

I will done angelbaby's, mangosteenskin's, bluedreamer's and also the top five blogs for bluedreamer made own tag.

1. First from angelbaby who has a very angelic site, trust me (all its words are like made from heaven. Angel in disguise? Not to that extreme, but the site does spell it out)

“Your friend is your need answered.
He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
And he is your board and your fireside.
For you come to him with your hunger,
and you seek him for peace.
When your friend speaks his mind you fear not me “nay” in­
your own mind, nor do you withhold the “ay”.
And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart;
For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires,
all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed.
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber is clearer from me plain.
And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of his own mystery is not love
but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.
And let your best be for your friend.
If he must know the ebb of your tide,
let him know the flood also.
For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?
Seek him always with hours to live.
For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter,
and sharing of pleasures.
Far in the dew of little things the heart finds its moming and is refreshed.”
- Walt Whitman - LEAVES OFF GRASS

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I am gonna tag : Clumsy Mommy

2. is from mangosteenskin that has a very nice site of the blogger personal arts

~~Begin Copy~~

This is the easy way and the fastest way to :
1. Make your Authority Technorati explode 2. Increase your Google Page Rank. 3. Get more traffic to your blog. 4. Make more new friends.

Rules : 1. Start copy from “Begin Copy” until “End Copy” to your blog. 2. Put your own blog name and link. 3. Tag your friends as much as you can.

1. Picturing of Life 2. Juliana’s Site 3. Shower Your Children With Love - The Right Way 4. Life’s a journey, not a destination 5. Simple Life 6. Life is beautiful; Life is love 7. Lovely Mummy 8. Lemonjude 9. Faith,Hope,Love 10. Newife Blog 11. Good things in life… 12. …the Guru-Guru life… 13. Ezooone 14. mangosteenskin 15. Hot Shit Form Here

~~ End Copy ~~

I am gonna tag : Etavasi

3. Third is from my other blue friend, bluedreamer (who have been tagging me for couples of times but I rarely have the time to do his tag. So sorry man..

The Domino Effect

Vanniedosa
Thea is {bloggerhappy.com}Childstar

Mike

My Scrappy Side

Abie

Aggie

Alpha

Apple

Apols

Jacqui

Jane

Jody

Joy

Kelly

Mich

Peachy

Liza (A Simple Life)

Tet

Nyumix

JulianaRW

Liza(MCN)

Wifespeak

MAX

Colin
bluedreamer
bluecrystaldude

now I am going to tag: Yati

4. And the last one is also from bluedreamer's Top Five Hottest Blog Meme (he made himself this tag), So, trying to be a supportive friend, I will do his tag:

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"TOP FIVE HOTTEST BLOG MEME"

RULES:

1. Simply choose five blogs you want to be included in your "top five list".

2.Give a short line or explanation why you put them on your list.One explanation for eachof every blog.

3.Now tag as many blogs as you want.You can also tag those blogs you've listedin your TOP FIVE....you can also put your own blog in your list if you want

4.[for those who've been tagged]you can also vote for a blog that was been nominated already

(besides,this is what this meme is intended for,to know how many bloggers will nominate your blog)

5.Submit you TOP FIVE HOTTEST BLOG ENTRY here . Submitted blogs will be the only one to be included in the tally

6.Remember:Submissions of entries starts from MARCH 1 2008 to MARCH 25,2008

and top five hottest blog winners will be anounced in MARCH 29,2008

7.enjoy listing your top five!!!

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So, my top five favorite blogs are:

1. About Every Little Thing (spell, VERY FUNNY)
It's the best site to relax your over saturated mind after doing all those uninteresting things in your daily life. Seriously addictive.

2. Look 4 Dream Girls
After all, who can resist hot girls???

3. Clumsy Mummy
She may be clumsy, but her blog does not :D

4. Space of Reality
Hard topics being discussed here. Beware!

5. Hot Shit Form Here (is it even valid to nominate my own blog?)
LOL. I think I have done my best to keep this blog relevant in this day of so many awesome blogs with hundreds of loyal readers subscribe to it. So, I am just happy to see my blog still alive. Thanks my to all my readers!

The last date of submission is 25th March. I hope I am not too late!Continue Reading