Melaka ~~

Went to Melaka on Friday for my cousin's wedding =)

Then me and my sis discovered A Famosa on our way back, so we stopped by to snap some pictures ^^

Was almost 10pm when we started our journey back to KL and reached at midnight. What a fun but exhausting and short holiday! Time to face the reality - 3 tests and assignments need to be handed in in the next few weeks. Did I mention I'm going to Melaka again this weekend? *bluek*

Can I manage to revise in time? Hope I don't screw it this semester...

Stereoptypes...

When you see or hear the word SECRETARY, what picture comes to your mind? I'm sure 9 out of 10 people will automatically have an image of a short skirted, curly haired, slutty dressed, heavily made up female flash through their minds...

SO THIS IS WHAT WE CALL STEREOTYPE

Whenever some relatives ask me what course I am studying, I'll just answer Business Management instead of ICSA because if I say ICSA people will ask what's that and I'll have to tell them it's a Company Secretary and when I say that, they'll just ignore the word 'Company' and place all the focus on 'Secretary'. They seem to have difficulty connecting those two words together...and when they hear the word 'Secretary', their face immediately changes into a knowing, or rather, an awkward expression =.=" Apparently, secretary is some sort of a disgraceful profession, and the stereotype is strenghtened by those stupid movies showing secretaries having affairs with their bosses!

It makes me feel bad...!!!
Because I'm not going to be a secretary...not a personal secretary but a company secretary!
Why can't people understand that??
Besides, not ALL secretaries sit on their boss's lap...there are decent secretaries too!
Why can't they just change the position's name into a less ambiguous one?
CHANGE THE NAME!!!!!
Damn those secretaries that caused this stereotype.
I'm fed up with explaining to everyone what I'm doing right now =.=

The reason I'm writing this blog is...I have the need to SCREAAAMM.....because I'm so tension n stressed....Already tension when I try to do the cash flow statement which ended up with a very ridiculous answer, then to release tension I went to play the facebook card game and ended up losing till bankrupt, causing me more and more mental stress. Arrghh...I NEED TO STOP PLAYING THAT GAME. But I just can't stop myself! Someone help me please!

I have to admit...when I read other people's blog, I get the feeling that my blog is really shallow. I wonder how I can be like them and see more 'depth' and meaning in the small little things that happen around us. The truth is, I believe it's a waste of brain power trying to be 'deep' so...I need to play more games to stop myself going haywire with tension.

Okay I have decided to play a more stress-less game...PLANTS VS ZOMBIES here I come!!! ^^

Taking a break...

I wanted to study FA (financial accounting) but when I looked at the theory part, I started to experience mild headache. When I looked at the tutorial questions, I thought I'm having migraine...hehe...that's a bit exagerrated i think. In the end I gave up trying and came here to blog instead =P (Those tutorials can wait till tomorrow) This morning I already had headache due to FA again. I think my brain can only stand 2 hours of FA per day...

Something to relax the mind...p/s I'm a great fan of Calvin & Hobbes =P

Stupidity

Sometimes I wonder if I'm a really stupid person. Why do I say like that? Hmm...I've done alot of silly and stupid things in my life and when I think back of what I did, I start to marvel at the degree of my stupidity at that time. I guess I lack a lot of common sense >.<

An example of a silly act:
The other day I was driving back home and there was a road block on the street. The police were checking the cars. When it was my turn I stopped and without waiting for the police's signal to go, I accelerated and was about to leave when the police ran and knocked on the car for me to stop. Then he asked me 'Didn't you see me? Did I tell you to leave?' I knew I was about to land myself in some trouble so I said sorry...the silly act may have caused him to suspect me of committing any crime (because I tried to run away at the road block), and because I looked too young for my age, he asked for my license. And he double checked on the picture on my license and looked carefully at my face to see if it matched the picture. Then he asked me whether I'm married. I answered 'No', then he asked me again when I am going to get married (weird question for a police interrogation???) I got bewildered and answered 'I don't know', and his response was 'You don't know?????'. As if I would know exactly when I'm getting married *duh*Anyway, after that he failed to find any problem with my license or car, so he let me go.
After I reached home, I told my bf about this incident and his first comment was 'So stupid la you...'

The other day I was chatting with my friend, and she told me about 2 categories of people i.e. book smarts and street smarts. Suddenly it occured to me that I may be one of the book smarts, in other words, those that only score well in exams but cannot survive in the real world. How I wish I have a better brain! Sometimes I feel anxious of what will happen to me if I go out to work in the future. I hope I don't create any huge blunders and make a mess of everything.

"Professionals"

During my holidays, my dad had to go to the general hospital for a biopsy. The doctors wanted to extract some muscles from his leg to determine the cause of his walking difficulties (my dad has some problems in walking and balancing himself). The appointment was scheduled on Friday, 25th September, 8 am. So on that day, we woke up (with much difficulty on my part) at 6.45am and went to the hospital at around 7.30am. We reached there and waited for about half an hour, and a nurse came to tell us that the appointment was cancelled earlier due to Hari Raya celebrations and the staff are mostly on leave. We said no one informed us about that, and they said they tried to call us but no one answered. When we checked the number they called, it wasn't our number. So we thought to ourselves, 'Never mind...' and arranged for another appointment which is on the next Friday, 2nd Oct.

On 2nd Oct, we brought my dad there again for the biopsy. This time, there were many people waiting for their turn so we just waited along with them. My mum helped my dad change clothes and waited again. Luckily I brought my novel along, which kept me occupied for the whole waiting process that lasted 4 hours. Then, the nurses pushed my dad into the operation theatre on a wheelchair. He was inside for about 30 minutes. When my dad came out, we thought the operation was over BUT he just asked to come out to go to the toilet. After that, we waited again. Then a surgeon came over to my dad and told him that the operation cannot be conducted today because the extracted muscles must be delivered to the KL hospital within 4 hours or else the tissues will die, and they did not book an ambulance to deliver it on that day. Without the ambulance, the tissues can't be delivered, so there would be no point in conducting the operation. In the end, we had to leave without anything being done except waiting in vain for 4 hours. The nurses arranged another appointment with my dad again.

After this incident, I have truly experienced the inefficiency of government departments and hospitals. I guess they think we citizens have too much free time and energy to waste, so they make it their primary objective to facilitate the wasting of our time and resources. It may be forgiven if they make the mistake once, but making it twice is really quite frustrating for us. What if this incident happened to a person living in those small towns like Parit or Beruas? Imagine having to travel all the way to Ipoh and wait there the whole morning just to be informed that the staff had made a mistake and you have to take the trouble of travelling here another day. Sometimes it makes me wonder whether they are really professionals, or maybe they are "professional unprofessionals" (people that are professional in being 'unprofessional') =P

A Lesson Learned

Last night was the longest night I had to endure. I went to bed at around 1am because there's going to be an exam the next day. I tossed & turned in my bed unable to sleep, then I started to feel hungry. The hunger turned into stomach ache, which eventually became gastric. To curb my hunger, I did the wrongest thing - I drank a cup of Milo (because I thought a cup of milk would help me sleep better). What it did was not to help me sleep better but to help me not to sleep at all. The pain in my stomach was excruciating! I couldn't sleep the whole night plus I was feeling nauseous but I didn't want to go to toilet because I knew if I went, I'd definitely vomit. In the end, I 'tahan' until 4 something until I can't tahan anymore. I rushed to the toilet and vomitted all the Milo out...then I went back thinking that I may get some proper sleep now that I've vomitted. However the pain did not subside...I tried all kinds of sleeping positions that can reduce the pain, but it didn't work. At 5am something I went and vomit again. Turns out there was some Milo left that I didn't vomit out the first time. So this time, I really thought I could sleep because I've vomitted everything out but NO...the gastric pain really wouldn't let me go. I thought to myself 'Giving birth would be less painful than this!' The pain continued to torture me throughout the night until 6.30 am I went to toilet and had diarrhoea and vomitted at the same time (nothing came out, but I kept vomitting anyway). By the time I finished, my whole body was covered in cold sweat. So it was the most horrible feeling ever...and to think that I have an exam at 9am! I started to wonder if I'd vomit in the exam hall too. Then I called my mum and asked her what can I do? She told me to see a doctor as soon as possible since it's already 7am that time. I went to the Hospital Danau Kota nearby, suffering from those horrible pains in the stomach every few minutes. The doctor gave me an injection and told me that I'm the 8th gastric pain case he'd encountered since last week. It was the first time I had injection on my butt! haha...

After that, I did some brief (very brief) revision in the car and headed to college for my exam, deprived of sleep for the night before and feeling kinda blur. I wondered if I could remember the stuff that I studied, or if my brain could function at all. After the injection I felt very, very much better. Before the exam started, I took some medicine which the doctor prescribed. Luckily, my brain was surprisingly alert during the exam and functioned normally. The gastric pain came once in a while but I ignored it by focusing my mind on answering the questions instead. Anyway I was grateful because the sickness did not affect my exam.

Right now I'm feeling better but I'll still get the stomach aches every time after meals, so I have to take those medicines immediately after eating to stop the pain. 2 days later, I'd be sitting for my last paper -Financial Accounting *faints* Really hope I'll recover soon...I think it'll take a few more days to recover. Regretting skipping meals and not eating properly. My sis says I might see a hole in my stomach if I had x-ray. My advice: Please take care of your stomach or else you'll end up regretting like me!