green leaf.

Saturday, December 30, 2006

Have A Good One!

Hello people! Will be heading up to Penang in a couple of hours but I couldn't leave without putting up my usual year-end post. So here goes...

OH GOODNESS! I'll be turning another year older to 2?... and then after that ?0! Dammit. (Note to self: Get a freaking grip) Anyway, 2006 was definitely an eventful year for me and for many of you too. As we all remember, the first six months was a gruelling and trying time for us when we had to carry out our CPM projects. Friendships were tested and most importantly ... our sanity! I don't know if any of you remember when I said, "We definitely saw some people's true colours." You know what? Life reared it's ugly head and many of us felt the wretched brunt of it all. Well, shit happens. Honestly, I am sad that we had to go through those unpleasant times because the sentimental schmuck that I am, I kept thinking back to when we first started in Sem 1. There are a lot of memories to choose from, I guess. For me, the trying times were not only centred in college but at home, too. Let's face it, we all have our own problems. But there's nothing else to do but move on.

A lot of things happened in the last six months too. I think most of it was during our internships and some of us who were busy applying to unis to do our degrees. Shees... that's one hell of a subject to rant about. I still haven't heard from a certain company on whether or not I am the lucky recipient for their scholarship award. It's been two weeks. I'm quite peeved. But there's nothing much I can do but wait. I've dealt with waiting and disappointments (knock wood) before, so it's fine. Things happen for a reason, I believe.

I watched the HBO movie about the Tsunami two nights ago and was intrigued by what one of the actresses conversation:

Tsunami victim: "Why did God do this to us? Isn't God supposed to look after everybody in this universe? Isn't that why He is there for?
Woman: "God is The Almighty. But to look out for everyone on each corner of the globe? ... All we can do is hope that He will bless us."

Makes you think, huh? People, I don't want to ramble on more but since some of us won't be seeing each other next year, I just have to say, I am really gonna miss:

1) Our eating and talking sessions at the college mamak stall.
2) The Thursday morning breakfasts at McD's in SS15
3) The impromptu meetings and intellectual conversations at the area opposite the Penang Cafe.
4) Bitching sessions at every corner of Leisure Commerce Square.

So, with that I end this last post for 2006 with ... Happy New Year to all of you, don't yam seng too hard and have a good one in 2007. I sincerely hope all your dreams and MINE come true.

Till next year, adios.

green leaf ;

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Freakin' Funny

Well done, kids!

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Sunday, December 10, 2006

Random Ramblings

Any of you who watched Grey's Anatomy on Wednesday would know what I'm talking about. During the entire hour of the show, I thought to myself, "what would I do if I were in that woman's shoes?". This woman, a friend of the Shephards, was carrying a cancer gene she inherited from her mother, who just passed away from breast cancer. Technically, she didn't have cancer, but just had a 75% chance of getting it and a 25% chance of not. Fearing the worse, she wanted the doc (Addison) to remove her breasts, ovaries and uterus. Remember, this was a healthy woman who was excited to have a baby with her husband. Her husband couldn't understand her decision. Of course, the male doctors couldn't rationalise this woman's decision to take away her "womanhood". Their conclusion was that removing her breasts and reproductive organs wouldn't make her less of a woman. But think about this (this question was thrown by Izzy to ithat dude she's dating); "If a guy knew he had the cancer gene and had to remove his testicles, would he think of himself as less of a man?" The dude was silent.

Would we think less of him? Really, honestly. Somehow there's this double-standard in this issue. I guess it's because (this is just my view ok) you can't actually see the woman's reproductive parts, whereas for the guy, his "extension of his manhood" would be ... gone. I don't know, it's something to ponder over. I would agree with Izzy's opinion that the woman should wait and see if she actually has cancer, then fight like hell. Come on, with advanced medical technologies, we can detect cancer now at a very early stage. What if she doesn't get it?

If it were me, I'd wait. Although if this was a real situation, I'd still respect her decision. What about you, people?

Moving on, Radd, Dwi and I had a very interesting Saturday night discussion at Starbucks in SS15 yesterday. I mean, we covered quite a lot of topics from politics to entertainment to geography to the Brunei Sultan's gold toilet bowl. Yikes, it'll be damn cold to sit on! When all of us started yawning at 1am, we took it as a cue to scadaddle.

Last week, I dreamt that I was one of the cast of Ed! For those of you who watch the show, I was actually having a conversation with Carol and Ed at the Pie Shop. Damn, he's hot!

Later.

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