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Graveyard Ver. 2.0 not a graveyard after this update!:


Hello everyone! I know, i know, long time no update. I doubt anyone's even paying a visit anymore. What the heck, i'll just update anyway...perhaps after a million years or so, it'll be discovered. Anywhoo.... here goes...
HICT Fusion Fiesta 2008


Okay, so it been ages since the event has passed (12th of July 2008), but ill just give you guys an update on what happened and stuff :).


It all started almost 2 weeks before the event was supposed to kick off. To leave a long story short, the Dance Club received a late invitation to the competition, prompting us to quickly form a group in such little time.
Things were indeed hectic. Eventually the group was sorted out. However, actually finding a place to practise proved to be a challenge. You see, HELP Uni doesn't have a studio with full length mirrors, so we resorted to checking out various studios around, dissapointed every so often with extremely high prices. In the end, we ended up practising at Studio Akarkarya, the Tropicana Studio, The HELP hostel multi-purpose hall (with an ever present audience) and finally, towards the end, at the HELP reception area and the hallway!


With such a short time, we decided to take a risk and add various genres to our performance, hoping to be unique by displaying a wide variety of styles. Mixing the music together and adding sound effects was really fun... giving Aris and me a sort of a DJ feel.

Would you believe that we never really got to deciding a name for our group till the very day of competition!?!?. We contemplated and debated on names like SHIFT 1, Energy and even slang names like ISN'T IT and AWESOME LAH. Evenually we settled on Genre. However, later on we decided to change it to ExplosionOST which stuck from then on.

Competition Day was an interesting one to say the least. We left for HICT at around 9am, reaching there at about 935. HICT is all the way in Klang mind you! Angie, me, Jelly rode with Aris in his CLK (Cute Little Kancil). Although situated on top of a mall, the HICT campus is really nice! It gives you this American High school setting kinda vibe. The library in particular was gorgeous. Surrounded with glass, with a glass opening in the center of the ceiling for the sun to shine through. Very classy. Anyway, Sze Yin and Adrian took around 2 and a half hours to get there, getting lost along the way and visiting literallly almost every other part of Klang in the progress!. Our practise session was from 10-10.30, where only a portion of us got to test out.

Ajeet and Rajpal were nice enough to come all the way down to be our sound and lighting engineers. Because it was so last minute, it was more of an impromptu mashing of the buttons for the lighting effects. Think 02 Jam come to life. Sze Yins dad took us out for bahkuhteh for lunch... how 7 of us managed to fit into the car ill never know. Later on, we went on the search for white gloves which we thought would look good on us. Our search was in vain however, resorting us into wearing a glove a hand with the limited supply Angie had. I swear we looked a little bit like MJ then.

Just before the competition began , we finished up our final practise routines, changed and went into the waiting room. We chose a red and white outfit because we thought it would be really bright and eye-cathing :).
Daryl's group, The Sins, from Taylors College were first up, setting the bar for the evening. They were very intimidating as they were clearly the ones to beat. I recall a girl from the 2nd group up going " Oh crap we are screwed" I turned, looked at her and smiled. The next group up was from HICT, followed by us. Although wrought with a few mistakes, we managed to pull off our performance. The feeling when being cheered on by the crowd is seriously like no other. After our performance, the Sri Sedaya team went out, followed by the next HELP team, Cookie Monsters, ending with the final performance from another HICT team.

Later on in the evening was the intercollege Battle of the Bands. Eventhough we didnt win that one, i still thought the band performed really well. Nick's awesome with the drums and Mahadi, wicked with the guitar, not to forget Jo on the bass as well.

Final results :

Razmatazz Dance Competition:

1st: HELP UNI - Cookie Monsters
2nd: HELP UNI - ExplostionOST
3rd:Taylors UNI - The Sins

Battle of the Bands:

1st: International Medical University
2nd:HICT
3rd: International Medical University

Overall:
1st: HELP University College
2nd: HELP International College of Technology
3rd: International Medical University

Videos:

ExplosionOST practise.

ExplosionOST.

The Sins.

Cookie Monsters.

Pictures:

Cookie Monsters

ExplosionOST

The Sins

HICT Group

IMU Band

HICT Band

Other IMU Band

From left, Adrian, Sze Yin, Jelly, Angie, Aris, Me

1/2 ExplosionOST 1/2 The Sins

HELP UNI Band- No Virtues

Our sound engineers! Ajeet and Rajpal!

Guest performances by Army of Three and Free to Fall were great. I almost went deaf during Army of Three's Metal performance. There was also a pretty neat lighting performance as well. All in all it was a great with awesome experiences and new friends made.

Thanks to everyone out there who have helped us out, for being forced to watch us and give your opinions during practse ;) and also thank you to all of the group members, we did good :).


TAG BY SWAY:

a) Answer the questions below, do a Google Image search with your answer, take a picture from the first page of results, and do it with minimal words of explanation.

b) Tag 5 other people to do the same once you've finished answering every question.


1. The age you'll be on your next birthday:




2. A place you'd like to travel to:





Ireland



3. Your favourite place:


Home


4. Your favourite food:






5. Your favourite pet:





6. Your favourite colour combination:





7. Your favourite piece of clothing:


Smart casual


8. Your all-time favourite song:





Falling Slowly, its from the movie, ONCE
Techno :)

9. Your favourite TV show:









10. First name of your significant other/crush:




No One atm.


11. The town in which you live:

Kuala Lumpur

12. Your screen name/nickname:

Closure


13. Your first job:



14. Your dream job:








15. A bad habit you have:



16. Your worst fear:





17. The one thing you'd like to do before you die:



Travel the world.
Have a happy family


I tag anyone who wants to do this.

HELP UNIVERSITY COLLEGE ANNUAL A-LEVELS BALL

As you can see, ladies and gentlemen, Help University College is hosting the annual a-levels ball, one which promises to be like no other before. Organised and planned by the newly appointed Student Council, they've already managed to book one of the best hotels around. We've even gotten the grand ballroom, which is enormous by the way. At RM130, i personally think it is an reasonable enough price for something of such prestige and class. For more details and pictures of the place, do drop by at http://www.alevelsstudentcouncil.com.


Oh and pia, sorry for the really late post, it's either my internet being uber crappy or blogspot not allowing me to sign in for such a long time till now. My apologies!

Misty-Headed

TEACHERS DAY

So last friday, Me, Naim and Sway went back to our school for Teachers Day to pay a little visit to our fellow Hartmasians. There was a little talk of wearing our uniforms (just for the fun of it)... then just our blazers... alas, in the end, we just went casual. We shall have to do it someday! It would be interesting to see everyones reaction, We would be like "Hi, we are the new Form 6!"...anyway back to the main topic, Naim was so graciously helpful enough to pick Sway and Me up before we headed up to school! (Sway lives in Selayang and I live in Bangsar by the way). Thanks Naim!!! We reached school around a quarter to ten, met up with our prefect board and were told we missed the most exciting opening ceremony ever. I mean... we purposely came later to MISS that with all the long and not to mention boring speeches. We met up with the rest of the teachers after that. Pn Yong, still looking as gorgeous as ever, Pn Uma... looking happy, Mr Manmohan still playing volleyball with the students, Pn Sarinah, who seems to have an easier life after stepping down from her posts, both Pn Chua(h)s look the same to me...one of them even took a pic with us! She even has facebook. Ah well... moving on, we met up with Pau later whos sister was performing one of the dances. They can tut!!!. Later on, PQ came as well... somehow we ended up talking about the gym most of the time... apparently, he wants to get ripped! All the best to you dude. Things got a little boring after a while so Pau drove us to the nearby Devi's to have a drink. Went back to school to pick up Naim's cousin and sister. Waiting for them really hit me with the realisation of not being a High School student anymore... I somehow felt... old :(.

One Utama and... Narnia: Prince Caspian !

Naim had to drop Sway and me off some distance from OU due to the shortage of time he had to go to the mosque. So, we were dropped off at the TTDI Police Station where we began the journey to One Utama. Halfway through the walk there, I swear we almost got killed (well, not really killed, just badly injured) when a tree branch snapped off its place on the tree and fell a few feet in font of us. This was no small twig my friends... it was moderately sized, about as long as your class room desk and pretty wide too! The people in the surrounding area were staring at us in shock. Thank god it missed us.

We reached One Utama and bought the tickets, meeting several people we knew on the way. I think we saw Yi Di, Evangeline, Da Han, Sufian, Eugene Sia, Cheryl and Peik Yin (did i get that right?) We had a little bit of trouble looking for a place to eat, and once having decided where to eat, having a little bit of trouble finding the place! We ate at Only Mee, a really reasonably priced place which serves, as you guessed from the title, mee! Ah, but they dont just serve mee, no, they serve other dishes with rice as well. I ordered a particularly tricky looking Black Pepper Chicken in a Pot. Took me sometime to figure out where the rice was hidden!. Debbie met up with us later on where we had a really good talk... one I wish i could have more often with friends now. Naim joined us later on with his Hot Chocolate Pretzel which i must say, is one very messy piece of food! We then headed up for the movie.


I would say the movie was okay. Awesome sound effects and fight scenes. Looking for one of those huge LOTR war scenes? The ones with thousands of soldiers marching in orderly ranks, their boots going THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP synchronously? Watch Narnia for a more subtle but nevertheless splendid one as well. Sway and Debbie were pratically drooling over Prince Caspian, i noticed the squeals of excitement everytime he appeared :P Although, all in all, i feel that that the movie could have been better, it was as if something was lacking from it. However, it is definitely worth watching.

I had to leave after the movie concluded while Naim, Debbie and Sway went to Karaoke. For more details, refer to Sways blog :).

A Shoutout to Arie.

Congratulations to Arie on winning the Malaysian Amateur Open! You are seriously gonna go far mate! Eric must be really proud :).

Conclusion.

On another note, i would like to apologise to those who i talk to for being somewhat unresponsive. A lot of things happening here and there have just made my mind all clouded up lately. Everyone, always try to be optimistic though as hard as it may be! :)

Oh and one more thing, to those of you who would like a real challenge ( or those of you who just want to hate yourself) , i present you.... The Worlds Hardest Game :) It's a puzzle game with very challenging, almost impossible puzzles to solve. I've only managed to reach level 8 :(. The goal is to complete it in the least amount of deaths!

http://www.onemorelevel.com/game/the_worlds_hardest_game.

Randomness: Lolcatz = Funny & Cute = Fute!

UPDATE!!! UPDATE!!!

Hello everyone, im finally updating my blog. I know it's been long...no, ages since i've actually made a post. I'll just compile everything into big post.

Hmmm....what to post? That's the question... Oh okay, well it's almost 4 months into HELP right now and i must say, college is so much different compared to school life. Think american high school in those movies you watch. As a general comment : College has it's ups and downs, as does everything else in this world.

Long hours, little time to eat and the dreaded bus ride to and fro buildings to name a few. On the brightside however, i've met some amazing people. People in college are generally very friendly although sometimes overall, it seems to lack the closeness we all used to have so much in high school.

Oooh, theres air conditioning too! and and... handphones, games and what not are permitted as well. Hmm... uniforms are but a thing of the past but this contributes to a new problem- Deciding what to wear everyday!!(especially for you dressy-dressy people out there).

The new intake has recently joined us and it has been great to have some of my old friends in them! May you guys enjoy college life to da max!

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Anyway moving on...congratulations to Jason Chow on being elected the new Student Council President!!! His speech was right out of this world, probably one of the best i've ever seen. Congrats to the rest of the student council and as for the runners who didnt quite make it, you guys still did great. Take the positive!

Oh and before i forget, THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR COMING FOR MY PARTY ON FRIDAY!!!

Hope you guy made some new friends and had enough to eat! Im still wondering who decided to raid my room that night lmao >.< style="text-align: center;">Eating time.

Candid shot as they raided my room.

Seri Hartamas people with a few exceptions :P.

I was forced to do this.

Jon Khor, Colin, Me, Sway.

Sway, Me, Debbie, Edward!

Out in the garage playing Chinese Whispers apparently.

Dexter, Jason, Ajeet, Tan, Pia!

I got tagged from Debbie!:

Instructions: Remove 1 question from below, and add in your personal question, make it a total of 20 questions, then tag 8 people in your list, list them out at the end of this post. Notify them in their chat box that he/she has been tagged.

1. At what age do you wish to marry?
Hmmm probably late 20's

2. How many kids do you wish to have?
Haha...im thinking the ideal number would be 2 at the moment.

3. If you were to be stranded on a desert island, who are the 3 blog buddies you would take with you?

Naim, Sway and Jo-Ann!!! (Sorry deb, i would take you if a fourth was allowed but ive just known these people for sooo long!!)

4. Where is the place that you want to go the most?
Thats a tough one...i would have to say ireland or something europe-ish... love the lush landscapes and breathtaking scenery.


5. If you can have 1 dream to come true, what would it be?
Happiness perhaps... or just have everything fall nicely into place in life. ( Like thats ever gonna happen)


6. Do you believe you can survive without money?
No, i dont think so.

7. What are you afraid to lose the most?
The ones that are closest to me.

8. If you win $1 million, what would you do?
Invest? Lmao...if i HAD to spend it immediately i would say... clothes galore and a nice littlle Skyline, thank you :).


9. If you meet someone that you love, would you confess to him/her?
I don't know, it's not as easy as it looks.


10. List out 3 good points of the person who tagged you.
Funny. Smart. Great Dancer. (extra fourth: A gamer as well!)


11. What are the requirements that you wish from your other half?
Faithfulness...thoughtfulness.... some other ness-ess as well lol.

12. Which type of person do you hate the most?
The arrogant, know it all, backstabbing kind. One with little or no conscience.

13. What is your ambition?
Still a little hazy but probably something to do in the business field.

14. What is the thing that will make you think he/she is bad?
His/Her actions?... too much self love isn't good for health.


15. What do you think is the most important thing in your life?
God. Friends. Family. Other half.


17. If you have a chance, which part of your character would you like to change?
Probably my laziness, procrastination and taking things for granted.


18. Who is the person that you can share all your problems with?
Who else, my two closest friends of course:)

19. What is/are your trademark(s)?
HMMMMMM The Eugene( dont do it often anymore)... NOT spitting... and apparently recently, the arm wave wt...

20. Do you think you get hungry because you're cold, or cold because you're hungry?
Usually its the latter.

It's not over.