LOL

“I am very happy as I have never won anything before and the prizes are really cool.”


Stupidest answer ever. Haha.

Remembering birthdays

Today in a time where almost everyone has a social networking account, access of one's info has been anything but tasking. This includes birthdays. In social networking, often that the birthday of your friends are reminded to you up to a week earlier. Not necessarily a bad thing, at least the people who knew can think of something to say or maybe even something to give. For people who likes to receive birthday wishes (and presents) this is a welcomed feature as it gives the ease of informing her/his friends without having to tell them physically.

But aside from that, that will actually give the reason to not really remember the actual date of one's birthday. Just like the number of other people in your phone, if you don't have your phone, you wouldn't know the number of others unless you opt to memorize them or write them down somewhere else. Here is the age where even friends of friends can be able to know and wish someone on their friends list a happy birthday without having to memorize or even have met the actual person in real life. Although that sound great on paper, how about the thoughtfulness and the heart and genuine care that comes with the wish?

Once, before the boom of the social networking sites, birthdays are often remembered, therefore only friends, close peoples, or loved ones who really cares would remember the date of one's birthday. This way, we can really see actually gives two cents about us. We could really see if someone genuinely cares or if someone is merely trying to impress. Birth dates consists no more than a series of 6 digits placed together forming a specific date in a year with the year born indicating how old one will be on the given time. Having a lot of friends would mean it'll be difficult to remember them all but for that, it is excused. It's for the select few of the people that needed to be memorized their birth dates, for acquaintances or other usual friends, it is not a must to remember them but even if one do remember them, it wouldn't be much of a problem.

Having social networking helps in reminding one to others birthday unable us to actually know if someone's wish is purely based on his/her memory or whether on of check, therefore eliminating the hard work. Like I said, not necessarily a bad thing or maybe even something not necessary, but for something that comes once a year, the sincerity, love and care in a birthday wish is truly none of the quality it used to be.

Or maybe I'm just over-analyzing. Haha.

My Driving Lesson: Part 5

This will be the last entry for this episodic content. If you're interested to follow my story from the very first day, use the keyword "jpj" to look for these kinds of posts. Now, on the the post.

Again, I had to skip class for the second time this week in order to attend the test. I've submitted my special leave letter to the respective lecturers but aside from attendance, I'm also missing out on my studies. No choice. I went home on the Tuesday afternoon, but stopped by Nilai for a while to take care of some business. After all that's done, I head home using the "oh-so-efficient-and-always-arrive-on-time" KTM Komuter. I unintentionally slept in the train while sitting in a vacant train coach. Probably I was too tired from the usual headache and an uncounted for flu. Woke up a station before Kajang (UKM). I didn't remember when I doze off though. Fetched by my mom. Settled everything there is to settle, grabbed a comic, read it in my room and went to sleep.

On the Wednesday of my test, I woke up 5 minutes late. But I still took my time knowing that today is going to be a very long day with a lot of waiting. Ate breakfast and went to the centre. There was a large number of crowd there which means only 1 thing; longer wait times. So there was 3 colours (each representing a group). White for repeats, yellow and green for first timers, with the only difference is yellow is limited to 60 person. The green bunch that day was 122 person. That sucks. I hate waiting. There's a Malay saying that goes,"waiting is a torture" in which I agree wholeheartedly.

My first test was part 2, which are the hills, parks and turns. I was kinda nervous for the hill as out of all the 3 things, hills were where I failed the most. My wait wasn't very long for this. Got a car with a damaged gearbox since it produces this weird shifting sound no matter how hard I press on the clutch. And the gears itself wobble at its place. Meh. What can I do anyway. With the holy "Bismillah" coming out of my mouth, I stepped on the clutch, changed to the 1st gear and lowered the handbrakes... slowly, I lift my left foot from the clutch... the car moves and by the time the car was stable enough, I tip toed the accelerator, the car moves up the hill, my heart pulsate faster, by the time before the sidemirror is alligned with the poles, I hit the brakes, leaned outside the window to see the front wheels are perfectly in the yellow area. 1 thing is done. Now to the difficult part. After raising my hand to indicate to the JPJ Instructor that I'm done there, I repeat the process of moving, and the car moved forward without a little reversing. Thank God!! Passed the difficult part. Now the rest should be a cakewalk. Did the other 2 things well. Haha that's a little dramatic story-telling from me.


Now on to the part 3, on road. All of the peeps from group yellow and green were waiting for their turn around if I'm not mistaken 8 cars. That is 60 yellow + 122 green = 182 peeps with average of 10 minutes each = 182 peeps x 10 minutes = 1820 minutes required divided with 8 cars so 1820/8 = 227.5 minutes + around 30 minutes of the JPJ officers lunch break which now brings us to a total of approximately 257.5 minutes which is roughly 4.3 hours of maximum waiting time for your turn. And this isn't Alaska people, Malaysia is a tropical country that is very generous (sometimes too generous) with their sunshines. I was one of the last dozen people. Which sucks. I doze off multiple times because I was so freaking tired and bored of waiting. If only I had a PSP at that moment. Not to mention also thirsty, but because I'm afraid that my number is called when I went to the canteen to get a drink, I didn't buy anything. The numbers were called out randomly too. If it was called in some sort of order, at least I can do a little bit of timing to do something else to kill my boredom. So when there was very few people left there, finally my number was called out, but I still have to wait for the instructor to test another guy first.


I had Jalan 1 for my test, which is the one going near the school. Aside from a few law breaking citizens of Malaysia, there wasn't a problem. When I got back to the centre, guess what? More waiting! Yay!! If I subtract all of the waiting that I have to do, I think it'll take up no more than half an hour. So right now I had to wait for my blue card from the instructor who hasn't gave it to the person in charge of redistributing all of the cards to be kept by the driving school branch because he doesn't like to come out of his car very much so he keep a number of them before giving it back. Which made me unnecessarily wait. What an uneffective protocol.

Whatever it is, I passed them all. I got my license. My real P license I will receive this Saturday so I would only be driving by then. Which I thinki I would. Anybody want to volunteer? Hehe.

My Driving Lesson: Part 4

This event happened on a Monday of no particular holiday, which means I had to skip classes no choice. Why I did so? Well, my driving school here only has JPJ tests on Wednesday. And prior to the test day, they provide you with a final lesson before the actual test day which will determine whether you fail or pass. I think a lot of other driving school does this but which one I do not know.

So, because I had to skip class for Monday of March 23 and Wednesday of March 25, I've written a special leave letter to my lecturers pledging that my attendence will be registered as absent with reasons instead of just absent. At the time of writing I haven't submitted the letter but I have attained the initials from the driving school to prove that I really do have lessons on that day. I was planning to leave college for home at 8 in the morning because of my intelligence of not resetting the clock after the Subuh prayers, I woke up by myself at quarter before 10. The lesson starts at 1pm actually but the reason I wanted to get home early is so that I can do my laundry earlier and have some time to relax thus not rushing for the lesson. Now because I'm late, I can't really take my time doing things. As soon as I arrive in my neighbourhood, I walked straight to the driving centre branch to get their initials. Got home, warmed up my lunch, get my laundry done, had lunch, had dessert (a slice of Choc Indulgence which happen to be in the fridge) and right after I finish hanging my laundry, the instructor came.

My usual instructor can't make it today, so I had a lady instructor. I don't want a lady instructor. Not that I like men, I just wanted my first driving experience with a lady is not with an instructor. Maybe someone special. Hehe. Well I'm being honest la kan ape salahnye. And the usual cycle of the part 1 technical driving and part 2 on road repeats. Nothing really interesting today. I had less engine stalls. Getting pretty confident now. The only problem today was it was blazing hot. I could barely stand it. Added with the fact I cannot switch on the air-conditioner during technical driving to stabilize the engine didn't make it easier. 3 hours of training today. Drove home.

My real JPJ test will be on this coming Wednesday (March 25). Again I would have to skip class and from what I've heard, I'll have to wait for my turn to take the test. Urgh. I don't like waiting. But most importantly, I have to pass and get my license. Wish me luck.

I wish THIS is my first car...

My Driving Lesson: Part 3

My last official driving lesson before my JPJ test. Let's start with the fetching. I was supposed to be fetched at 1 pm but as usual I know it won't be punctual. Usually he's 15 minutes late so I waited. Now he's 30 minutes late. I'm getting pissed off. For your information, I don't like people who are not punctual. 5 minutes is still excusable but 10 minutes tops. I waited for him until I fell asleep on the stair of my house. He came an hour later at 2pm. Yup I waited for 60 minutes!! Curse you!!! I hate people wasting my time. He apologize because he's the one who read the schedule wrong. Well, there's nothing I can do to turn back time anyway. So he said insted of 1 to 5, it will be 2 to 6 today. Ok I'm cool. Stopped by the Imkeda branch near my house to pay for the rest of the lesson.

Drove myself heading to Imkeda but he said I should do Jalan 1 first which is the road around SMK Bandar Tun Hussein Onn. My engine stalled muliple times on the traffic light there which is a humiliation since I had no problems before. The instructor was laughing out loud beside me. After completing it, went to Imkeda and did all of the normal hill climbing, side parking and 3 point turns. A couple of engine stalls at the hill climb and no problems for the parking and turns. Went to Jalan 2 and my engine stubbornly stalls again for a few times! Why is this happening!! Don't have this problem before! And right after that, the instructor told me it's time for the pre-test. I was kinda nervous because for some reason I have been stalling engines.

For the pre-test, I was given the old Kancil. And personally I liked it better. The clutch was much shorter and the steering was easier to turn. The gears are much more softer too. The instructor told me those were new parts. Did Jalan 2 and that's all. My engined stalled again a couple of times. He said, 3 engine stalls during the JPJ test and I fail. Hopefully that doesn't happen. I passed this pre-test but hopefully I won't be stalling any engine during the real JPJ test. Did some more hills, parking and turns before going around Jalan 2 again before heading home.

On the way home, we suddenly started to talk about games! Now this is more like it! My pressure driving the car was gone! It was like I've been driving for years that I didn't even notice that I went over the speed limit. Talking about games are fun. It just is. Turns out he does play games and occasionally watches anime too. If only we talked about this earlier my diriving would have been a whole lot stress free.

The lesson today has been shortened to 3 hours and the extra 1 hour is brought forward for the last additional 2 hour lesson a day before the JPJ test so now it's 3 hours. Haven't set the date for my JPJ test since I had to look at my college's current semester schedule before I can make any appointments. I'm going to get the schedule on Wednesday together with my 3rd semester results.

My Driving Lesson: Part 2

This time around, my driving lesson is at morning, which is 8 to 11 to be precise. Had difficulties waking up but hey I woke up anyway. I had an outing yesterday so it was a little tiring maybe that's why but it was worth it because yesterday was like a dream. Anyway, after eating my breakfast, which is Milo cereal with milk if any of you wanted to know, I waited at my house's bench for the instructor at 8 on the dot. What a fool I was. I should have known he would be late. Sat there for 15 minutes before he came.

This time, I was asked to drive the car straight from my house to the centre. No problem I guess. Got there and did was I did yesterday, nothing new. Still having a few engine stalls but not as frequent anymore. Did all of the stock hill stop, side parking and 3 pointer turn. Still some mistakes at the hill but the parking and 3 pointer turns, I had no problem. The instructor spent his time talking about stuffs such as, he likes to do this thing because he get to look at girls, asking me not to stall the engine in front of girls and so on and so forth. I just sat there and laughed uninitiatively.

Went around the highway a couple of more times, which is known as Jalan 2 and went around SMK Bandar Tun Hussein Onn which is known as Jalan 1. Drive here drive there no problem. My problem was, I sometimes forget to flick the signal, in which the marking criteria writes as instant failure. Wow. I need to pay attention. Come on Rayza you can do it!!!

After all of that same thing over and over again, I was asked to drive home again. No problem. Got home safely. My next lesson will be on the 1st of March which, at the time of writing, is 4 days away. I will also be having my pre-test on that day. Hopefully I don't do any silly mistakes and most importantly, I won't mess up. Wish me luck everyone. It will help.

P/S: My lucky ring helps me a lot when I'm driving I guess

My Driving Lesson: Part 1

So if you have been following my blog, you would've knew that I'm only taking my D class license. So today is the day where I'm taught how to drive, with an instructor. Have tried driving before this but that was using an automatic, power steering, NGV fueled, executive, Naza Ria which was very easy and driver friendly.

As appointed, I am to be fetched from my house at 2pm. But this is Malaysia so punctuality is just a concept. Anyway, the instructor came about 15 minutes past 2pm. It's ok because I was on the phone anyway. So he came with a Perodua Kancil (whaddya expect? Renault Clio V6?) and not being a mute or deaf person, I talked with him of course. First of all, I was glad that my instructor was a male because I don't feel comfortable sitting beside a lady, and it was a small car that our elbows touched a few times. Told him this and that, blablabla...

And not long after, I got to Imkeda, where I'm taking my license of course. As soon as we arrive he asked me to take the wheel and so I did. What happen on the few first tries? The engine stalls and die and it was shaking like it was earthquake but of course, as a normal human being that is still learning, mistakes are part of the process of learning. But after about 5 minutes I understood the use of the clutch and the 1st gear and could already drive with only the clutch pressed and the 1st gear. Right after that, I learned how to climb a hill. Engine died only a couple of time before I got it.

After that, the instructor brought me to a shop area in Bandar Tun Hussein Onn to practice on gear changing and speed bumps. The usual engine stall, and quakes but after 20 minutes being around, I got used to it. There was this particular rich dude driving an SLK 350 that I almost hit as he turned to enter a parking without signalling first. What a dumb guy. Can't you see the freaking L on the windscreen or are you illiterate? Right after that, he asked me to drive back to the center myself. I was sceptical at first but as I calmed myslef down, it wasn't as difficult.

Back at Imkeda, he stopped for some evening drinks but I had none. I wasn't that hungry. Continued the lesson with on the hill stop, side parking and 3 point turns. All of them wasn't very difficult I think. Well at least to me. Made some mistakes at the hill but for parking and 3 pointers, there wasn't any problem. Circled the place a few more times before I was asked by the instructor to drive home! Through the highway! At first, again I was unsure but after a while, I got used to it. Almost ran over a motorcyclist who didn't obey the red light. Imbecile. but aside from the 2 close calls I had today, everything else was smooth.

My next lesson will be on the 26th of this month, which, at the time of writing, this Thursday. I'm going to kick back and relax tomorrow. Driving is fun I guess. But I really can't say anything for sure.


This is a Perodua Kancil for any of you that doesn't know or haven't heard of it



This is a Renault Clio V6 that is awesomely fast and costs as much as a B class Mercedes

My JPJ theory and practical lecture

As the title says, I had it today, on a Sunday! Argh I've never had Sunday class before not even for SPM! Well, guess there's the first time for everything. Anyway, for the 2nd day in a row, I had to wake up at 8am on an weekend since I have to be fetched by the IMKEDA branch near my house by 8.30am. Got there on the dot and my transportation arrives a few minutes after. I haven't got enough sleep actually. Last night I slept at 3am for some reason. This isn't going to be helpful. Even in the car on the way to the centre I've been yawning for several times already. Haha this is gonna be tough.

Had to present my e-Driving smart card of course before I can get into class. Scanned my thumb and went to the class. Got into the class arround 9.20am although the lecture starts at 10am. Well being too early has never been a problem I guess. And to sum up the lecture (and the lecturer) will be simple actually; BORING!!! God why does lectures as important as this had to be conducted by someone who has a voice so flat, so uninitiated, so indistinct like that! And it happens with a lot of important lectures! God! I was struggling my best to stay awake although I see some people who doesn't even try to stay awake. Many of us struggled. Yours truly does fell asleep multiple times but I tried my best to stay awake and I'll say that I stayed awake about 85% of the lecture :P He gave us 20 minutes break halfway, supposedly to let us recharge for the 2nd half of the class but looks like it doesn't do good. A drink I bought during that break didn't help much. The same people who didn't even try to stay awake, stay asleep and I was still having a terrible time of staying awake. At 1.10pm, the lecture ended. Thank God!!! It's been excrutiating! Went to the Surau straight away and killed my time there after my prayers.

At 2.30pm, it's time for the next class for today which would be the practical class in which they will teach us the parts of the car. This is an outdoor class activity so staying awake wouldn't be a question. At least not for me. Although I've yet to see people sleeping standing. Maybe there are but it's beyond my knowledge. 2 lecturers were involved in this activity. The first lecturer told us all there is to know about the basic parts of the engine and what to do to maintain it. It was ok and at least it wasn't boring. The 2nd lecturer taught us about tyres, and how to change them. This one is not very long. Finished all of them around quarter past 4pm. Scanned my thumb again before going home. Actually I scanned my thumb 4 times today, before and after each class. Got sent home by the same person. I was so tired that I actually fell asleep in the car. It was a long day after all.

Hey, at least now I'm only waiting for my L! Everything is done! I'm only left with all of the car tests and all and I should be getting a P license after that. Should be getting my L around the next 2 weeks. If it's possible I want to complete everything about my license as soon as possible, so that will be one less thing to think about. I can't wait!

My JPJ computer test day

Yes I know I should have taken my car license last year since I have more spare time then than I am now. College and all is making my schedule full. But I'm taking my car license this year and that's that. At least I'm taking it at last. Persuading my parents to permit me to do such things isn't as easy as it is with many other parents.

Anyway, I had already heard my KPP lecture way back in December. But since I had a lot of things that came up weekend after weekend after weekend (since I'm only free on weekends, weekdays are automatically excluded). I'm registered to IMKEDA driving school. Pretty popular among my peers, but a lot of my friends went somewhere else. The place was packed with people and the centre wasn't big enough that it is comfortable too. And it isn't a place that you can call very clean. I've heard of IMKEDA before but never knew it was in a place like that. Where it is? Well do you know the Lily Restaurant near Simpang Balak? A little more further, and you should see a signboard with the centre's name on it. It was nothing unusual.

Ok back to what I am supposed to write. As you know after the lecture, I'll have to attend the computerized test. Luckily I have a branch of IMKEDA near my house so I've been registered there and on the day of the test, I waited there for someone from the centre to send me. The test wasn't at the same place as the centre. It was in a shop lot near the McDonald's of Bandar Tun Hussein Onn, Cheras. I was going alone (as always) and my name is called after around 30 to 45 minutes of waiting. While waiting for my turn I started to read the book (baru nak bace). There's a funny typo on the card that showed me to the computer I'm supposed to be using. Instead of AWAM it wrote there AWAN so on the card writes,"Bagi pemegang MyKad sila pilih kategori ORANG AWAN MALAYSIA". Ok at least it gave me some lols on that sleepy morning. Answered all of the questions (duh!) and took me around 40 minutes :P Better safe than sorry.

And so I passed the test. Scoring 45/50 which passed the minimum passing marks of 42/50. Meh. Could have scored higher but hey at least I passed. One less thing to do in my quest for a Competent Driving License. And since the test centre is located right beside the McDonald's, I took the chance to chow down on brunch while waiting for the person who is supposed to send me back home to come fetch me. I had a medium Big Mac McValue Meal with my favourite apple pie. (yeah that's my favourite combination if you want to know. apple pie is a MUST!) My chaffeur arrived right after I finished my meal. Got home and had a little rest. I have the theory and practical lecture tomorrow. This one is longer; 6 hours (3 hours respectively) and it's at the actual IMKEDA centre. Had to wake up early again. Urgh. Nevermind. I have so many plans when I get my license. Maybe go somewhere with someone :P

Ice breaking session

Actually this was an unplanned event. This happens in a particular English class on the 23/12. The lecturer did say something about making the class "as interesting as possible" so she came up with this. After doing a random essay as ordered by the lecturer to check our grammar and composition, the next hour of the class was utilized with this. For your information the students of my class changes according to subjects so I never had the same set of classmates every time.

In this session, we had to stick a piece of paper on our backs using a cellophane tape to our backs. Everybody seems so excited for this event while yours truly, as always, was just uninitiated. Hehe. Anyways, we were given around 15 minutes to write on each others back before we were asked to sit in a circle to discuss what were written. This is what I've got. No edits.



Wow I've got so many positive comments! Thanks peeps! Even though I don't know you. Well, maybe it's because you don't know me that I was given such comments. Huhu. Nonetheless I am not the same person in class as I am out of it. So the following is an evaluation of me in class. Oh yes and about the "Masih single!!!" comment I also did state to the class that I'm unavailable. Hehe.

The time where we had to tell everyone what we think about what was written on the paper was hilarious! I was really LMAO!! Haven't had such a good laugh in a long time. There are a few in which I remember that was just tickles my sense of humor.

• "Thank you for borrowing this pen"
• "Belanja"
• "You look like a chinese" to a chinese guy [this one made me laugh into tears]
• "Poor you. Buy new jeans" to a guy wearing jeans with holes at knees
• "I am ugly"
• "I am unattractive"
• "Top up free ade?"
• "Free top up?"
• "Kick me"

And some more which I just can't seem to recall. But it was funny alright. The class even took 15 extra minutes and nobody complained. Random people giving random comments are funny.

In a nutshell, random is funny.

Awkward things in life (updated)

Some things in life are just awkward. Here's some that I notice

1. When we look at the clock, sometimes at first it seems like the clock froze for more than a second
2. When we shake our hands with non-malays we're unsure if we should shake our hands or not
3. When we take our hand-shaken hands and place to our chest as a sign of respect to people who doesn't know about this, people will take another look at you
4. Everytime when we are unsatisfied we will sigh
5. When we dream, we dream about the most random things
6. Milo Ice at the restaurant is always better than the one we made at home
7. When we are online, we have no idea what to do, but when we're not, there's a lot to do
8. We find it easy to argue on anything
9. We prefer the American slang rather our actual roots which is British
10. McD's French Fries is better than KFC's
11. Math always seems easier outside of the exam hall
12. It is when we need to hold still that we felt like moving
13. It is when there's no toilet nearby that we need to visit one
14. Instant noodle is the best friend when other food just won't do it
15. People refer to instant noodles as Maggie, regardless of their brand
16. People refer baby diapers as Pampers, regardless of their brand
17. People refer to butter as Planta, regardless of their brand
18. People refer to camera films as Kodak, regardless of their brand
    
19. England, United Kingdom, or Great Britain?
20. Small change after buying stuffs gets abandoned
21. We always don't have money when we saw the thing that we really want
22. Complaints of not having enough rest, but gets bored on holidays
23. Deja Vu
24. Long pause in phone calls
25. Musician always count to 4 before start playing live music
26. When you accidentally answered the "Hi!" dedicated to the person behind you
27. In a shop, when we asked about where things are to another customer who we thought are one of the worker
28. When we hear loud baby cries when we are having fun somewhere such as restaurants and cinemas
29. When we're trying to pass but there's another person right in front trying to give way, it seems that both of us still go in the same way
30. Wearing a cap indoors as if it was hot
31. Wearing sunglasses at night
32. When people asked for burgers with no vegetables at a fast food restaurant
33. When we laugh alone in dead silence
34. When we're the only voice to be heard in dead silence
35. When our jokes aren't funny and it became dead silence
36. People see us talking to ourselves
37. When we sneeze covering our noses but there are mucus coming out and there's no tissue
38. The faces that we make after tasting something extremely sour or salty
39. When you sent messages to the wrong people
40. When you see people pay for things that costs more than a ringgit with just coins
41. When you place your stuff on the other seat in a fully packed bus or train
42. When you noticed that there have been stains on your clothes for a while
43. When you thought you were talking to a friend that was near you only to notice that he/she isn't there
44. When you accidentally got out of your shoes while running
45. When you missed a step going upwards or downwards with people watching
46. When you sat at the wrong chair in the cinema only to be greeted by "Excuse me, that's mine"
47. When you call a person's mobile phone and someone else picks it up
48. When you accidentally switched of the lights in a room with people in it
49. In football, when another player scores, you can see other players touching the scorer
50. When you looked for the item you lost while cursing, only to find out that it's in your pocket
51. When you brought all of the things that you want to buy to the counter only to notice that you don't have enough money
52. When your car's engine dies in a traffic jam and everyone stalls because of you
53. When you find out that the reason of the big traffic jam is just people slowing down to watch another guy stopping by the road of a punctured tyre.
54. When you jump into a conversation only to find out that they're actually talking about something else
55. When you bought an ice-cream and it fell onto the floor
56. When going through the ladies undergarment section in shopping malls
57. When people swear/curse with spelling or grammatical error
    

Of course this doesn't apply to everyone nor all the time but to those who have been in the situation, you'll know. And I'm sure there's more too. Can't seem to recall it right now. Tell me more if you have any!