Okay i know I've been MIA for quite a while (bout a month i think) but i doubt anyone checks this anyway except for a few ppl i can count using one hand.  

   It's been crazy the past few weeks - trying to be on top of lectures and seminars i hard work! :S I don't know how i ever did it last year when i was juggling MSA at the same time. Thinking back, i don't really remember actually doing that much work.. i think at that time MSA took priority. haha. 

   Anyway it' reading week now. Not much reading on my part so far. More sleeping in :3 yayyy. But i just glanced through what i have to do for next week's Jap law seminar - holy shit. It's A LOT. Sigh. *don'tregretdon'tregretdon'tregret* T___T Oh. how coincidental - Arashi's We Can Make It just came on my playlist. hahaha. it's a sign!!!!!!!! Must. preservere. must. increase. chances. of. going. to. japan. in. easter. rawrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

   Being a finalist sucks :(      

   Despite everything I've said in the past, I am extremely grateful i came to University of Warwick - all the friends i've made, the experiences I've gained etc. have been more than I could ever ask for. 

   That aside, at this very moment i am most grateful I came to Warwick because....

   I GOT TO WATCH KINGS OF CONVENIENCE PERFORM LIVE!!!!!!!!!

   Oh. my. god. they were SO awesome!!!!!!!! 

   Being able to actually watch them play their songs was just amazing - if you think they sound good on their CDs, you should seriously check them out live because they sound even better!! Serious! And watching their music come to live as they play their guitars right in front of my eyes was just magical... 

   Taxi Taxi (2 Swedish girls) opened for them. Never heard of them. Sorry girls but don't think you were my cuppa tea. When I think Sweden, it has to be Loney, Dear for me. Taxi Taxi were a bit... boring. Their first song was okayy but then their subsequent performances felt a bit repetitive and I know this is bad but I couldn't really catch what they were singing even though all their songs were in English. But maybe that's just me la.

   Anyway, after half an hour of Taxi Taxi, it was finally time for the stars of the show - Kings of Convenience! :D They opened with a few songs from the new album Declaration of Dependence (which i was hoping they'd be selling but they mentioned that it would only be released on Monday. Gonna get it!) Then they threw in some old classics like Don't Know What I Can Save You From (but slightly modified so that it was more upbeat) and Know-How. I was totally singing along lol. 

   Sighhhhhhh.. Erlend and Eirik were so cute la... After 2 songs or so, Erlend was like "Okay, now i will say something in Norwegian to our sound engineer *speaks in Norwegian into the mic. Sound engineer replies in Norwegian and points towards the control room at the back of the hall* "Okay now I will speak in ENGLISH to the light technician. Mr. Light Technician could you lower the lights so that it is totally dark? Oh wait, no, not totally dark because then the audience wouldn't be able to see us. But the audience don't need to see each other's head." lolll... then at one point, Eirik was commenting on how the ending for one of their songs (I think it was Cayman Islands? not sure can't rmb) sounded a lot like the Postman Pat song Lollll - and he knows this coz he's been watching a lot of Postman Pat with his 2 yr old son.. Awwwwwwwwwwwww.... Then Erlend started singing the Norwegian version of Postman Pat! haha damn random.

   So after the show ended (after 2 encore songs). Sighh. They were really good. I met up with a couple of friends outside the Arts Centre who were milling around outside KoC's tour bus (which btw looked so awesome because i managed to sneak a glimpse inside when i was going into the Arts Centre before the show. Damn nice wehh!! Super luxurious - got espresso machine at the side all!! TV screen also looked like a flat screen one. Chehwah i also want to have a tourbus like that next time hahaha). Quite a few ppl were milling around coz they wanted to buy KoC T-shirts. I chatted and waited around coz one of my friends wanted to buy a T-shirt and saw my old hallmate Jamie who was the one who told me bout this concert (forever grateful to jamie). Headed behind the bus where the crowd of ppl were walking towards with my friend and saw Taxi Taxi selling the T-shirts!!! haha damn funny! 

   Anyway, after my friend decided not to buy the Tshirt because it was a bit expensive (20pounds =__=) and the print wasn't that nice, we hung around the benches across the road in front of Costcutters. I told my friend that I felt like stalking them and that I would've if i knew that they were in Costa's at uni this afternoon lolll (coz Eirik mentioned that he had coffee there in the afternoon. I actually saw their tour bus at noon when i walked past the arts centre after seminars. Figured it was them. Coz their huge ass luxury tour bus was parked outside the Arts centre loading bay). We chit chatted and I half jokingly said that I wanted to wait around for them to come out from the arts centre. After a while, we were still milling around then my friend was like "Wait, are you SERIOUSLY waiting for them???" haha. 

my view of the stage from my seat. Have Arthur to thank for my awesome balcony seats coz he bought the tickets on my behalf because he was at uni last month. Thank god i was in the balcony coz you see the group of ppl there right in front of the stage? yeah well they stood there throughout the whole show. I would've been well pissed off if i was sitting in one of the front rows. And it wouldn't have made a difference if I stood anyway coz i'm so short =_=  

Erlend and Eirik themselves!! Woohoo!!!!

   I actually took a few vids of some of their songs but out of respect for them, I didn't take any of their new songs la... they requested mar so what to do..  But regret I didn't take more vids of their older songs.

   Oh and I did wait for about 45 minutes till Kings of Convenience came out of the Arts Centre. And it was worth the wait...

          

I was grinning the whole night after I went home :)

   Yes I am back in uni. Living on campus booyah!!! AND i got the corner room which means my room is a bit bigger than the other rooms in my hall :D :D

   Had a really good summer - although most of it was spent working I have no regrets because i enjoyed it most thoroughly :) The experience and people i met was worth it so I could care less about what people think.

   So it's my final year of university. I know i've said this thousands of times but it's really scary how fast time passes. I honestly don't think I'm ready for society yet but I don't think i really have much of a choice. The most i can do i defer working for a year while i do the Bar/CLP then after that it'll be goodbye student life, hello adulthood for real *shudders* 

   So, this means i should enjoy student life to the max while i can afford to right? ;D    

   Listening to death cab for cutie always gets me into a funny mood. I wouldn't say that their music makes me feel sad.. i guess they just always put me into a reflective mood

   Anyway, i've been doing a lot of thinking this summer. The end of my university life is nearing and the prospect of having to become a proper working adult is scary. But i guess in my case i'll be deferring my entry into society for another year - if i do the Bar in the UK that'll take a year; if i don't and i end up coming back to Msia, i'll still be doing my CLP which will also take a year. But still. If 2 years of university can pass by in a blink of an eye, 1 year of the Bar/CLP will be over in flash. And then i'll really have to get a job. dammit.

   I don't know how I'm going to survive in the outside world. After talking to a friend at work and some of my other colleagues, reality hit me hard - i am still so dependent on my parents. I'm spoiled and sheltered. I don't blame my parents for that. I know they did what they did and continue to do what they do because they love me and i am forever grateful for them and everything they've done. it's my fault as well for not being a bit more independent. I've become so jaded and comfortable with having everything done for me that i just naturally assume my parents will take care of everything for me. And even though i may say that i want to be more independent, the sad thing is that at the end of the day, I will once again end up letting my parents take care of my matters for me. I wish i had more discipline to just get off my lazy arse and take charge of my own matters. But i don't.   

   I have a rough idea of how i want my life to play out and in that plan of mine, I see that i seriously SERIOUSLY need to step up. This summer holiday has made me realise that there are so many things i could be doing at my age.  

   And i just realised that this entry is all over the place. haha. ah well. i'm too lazy to restructure so that it makes more sense. Not an essay so don't care. bah.

   So... I'm back in Malaysia now and have been since Friday afternoon (Malaysian time). I've got to say, I left the UK thinking for the i don't know probably 100th time "where in the world did my 2nd year go?" Well, one of the most obvious answers would probably be "duh.. Mnight" Which is true to a certain extent. When i came back to university at the start of my 2nd year, Malaysia Night preprarations were of course swimming in my mind and remained there all the time until everything was over. But of course, i had other things to worry about as well - essay deadlines, tests, seminar work etc.

   But i still cannot believe that I am no longer a 2nd year student. And it scares me even more that when i go back to the UK in October, it'll be my final year in university already - I feel like it was only yesterday i was shifting into my Benefactors room for the first time. Now, i have to seriously start worrying about what I'm going to do once i finish my last year in law school. Scary shit.

   Needless to say, my 2nd year was pretty eventful. As if you already haven't heard, it was filled with MSA stuff, Mnight preparations, new law modules like BFI and Islamic Law, new friends, new experiences etc. It was mostly stressful times but there were fun times as well. I've learned a lot from my 2nd year and i think i can say that i've become a little wiser now.

   Can't wait to see what's in store for me in my final year! 

   omg exams finally finished last Friday. Really sucks when you're one of the last to be done.. especially when your own peers have finished all their papers and you're stuck with one last module to study..

   After exams were over, i pretty much spent most of my time packing up my room. Had to finish packing by Sunday because I would be storing the bulk of my stuff on campus on Monday. Somehow i managed to fit most of my stuff into 3 boxes, 1 huge suitcase and 2 duffel bags - all of which i stored in the container on campus. Stupid uni. i can't believe they limited us to 6 items and charged us 15quid for summer storage this year!!! argh. ah well. And luckily enz and jyang were around to help me carry my stuff to the storage container... coz some of the stuff were quite heavy =_=;; that being said, i actually carried all of them into the cab myself coz no one was home when i was going to campus. Well, actually one of my housemates was at home but i think she was in the shower or something coz i called out to her for help with my stuff but no reply :( no matter, still managed to get everything to campus and into the storage in one piece. more or less. one box was sort of ripping apart. hopefully it'll tahan until i take it back to my room on campus nxt term.

   Anyway, Monday was also the annual MSA BBQ! :D ahh the memories.. i remember running around making sure everyone had food last year when i planned the BBQ. It was so nice to be the one being layan-ed this time round mwahaha. But kudos to the new exec for a job well done!  

jackie, wendy, jayne n me :)

me n en li (and jieyang in d middle =__= )

Jon - vp/photographer haha

Arthur = super poser

me n MSA's new Gordon Ramsay - i mean President lol

me n Sasha - so comel! >_<

my favourite rocker is graduating liao :( i'll miss you!

   i had my Business Finance & Insolvency paper today. It was so bad even though the topics i studied for came out. It was so bad because i froze and couldn't think. It was doubly worse coz i discovered that i decided to answer the wrong question AFTER i left the examination room. Sigh. *kuyashii~~~~~* T____T

   Anyway, on a lighter note, i had the strangest dream this morning before i woke up. I dreamt that i was up studying BFI with enz and suddenly my other friend Pi called us up to wish us good luck. He asked us what time our paper was and enz was like "oh yeah it's 9.10 but we can go in at 9.30 coz the time before is only reading time..." then Pi goes "err isn't it 9.30 now?" I check my watch and to my horror discover that it was 9.30 already so i freaked out. And the best part was we were both still in our pajamas and we looked super aunty-fied and shitty. I distinctly remember freaking out and going "Oh my god en li it's 9.30 already! We have to go for exams!!! But we're still in our pajamas!!! how how how??? Shit we have to go now!!!" LOL seriously lor... then enz went "zhiyi nvm we'll go for exams like this. Then we can come back and change." hahahaha omg la.

   And it doesn't end there. We had to get to our exam room but in order to get there we had to go by car and then for some reason, the car was en route to Sri KL because our BFI exam was supposed to be there. *yes i'm aware this makes no sense at all* The strangest part was that Jon Siao was in the car with us as well!!! And he was giving directions to the driver in BM coz the driver was Malay and i SO remember Jon saying "Tuan pergi terus dulu..." and i remember thinking "huhh wah Jon's being super polite right.. calling the driver Tuan"

   Then when we were within the Sri KL grounds as the car was driving in, I saw quite a huge group of people dressed in shiny, bright red track pants with white lines running dong the sides and white T-shirts. Among these, ppl i saw Audrey... *yes it does not make sense i know* and told enz "oh we don't have to worry. Looks like the SAM people came in their pajamas too. We're not the only ones". By some miracle we made it in time and i rmb enz being really happy doing the paper.

   Ah well. I guess she was really happy in real life coz all the questions we spotted came out. But still - arrghhh why did i not do the problem question on floating charges on book debts???!!!!!!!! GRAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

   sigh. at least the dream was interesting in itself.

i know i should be studying right now but this is too good not to share.

i was randomly surfing youtube today while "taking a break from studying" at the social studies computer lab and i came across this music video of a Malaysian artist called Liang.

   Epic Fail Moment = from 1.32 - 1.39

   You know you've failed epically in life when your school principal is in a music video and you're not. =_____=

   omg it's so hot.... probably not as hot as it is back home in Malaysia but nonetheless still hot. Apparently, according to enz the temperature here today is 25degrees celcius which is just 2 degrees less that what the usual temp is back home. it's so hot i've already bought ice cream from the ice-cream truck outside the piazza twice this week already! and man i need flip flops la. this weather is SO perfect for flip flops. but no time to go buy coz all time should be spent revising.. coz... 

   omg exam is next week! (@__@) i am not prepared (as usual). i don't know how i'm gonna survive my papers T___T and i'm stressed at how not stressed i am.. i mean, i'm stressed that my exam is next week but evidently i'm not stressed enough because i still find myself up till 4am not studying but on youtube watching random stuff like Arashi no Himitsu-chan =_= i honestly thought i got them out of my system but apparently not... and i thought the lack of space on my C drive would keep me away from youtube-ing (it did actually stop me for a while) but i found myself happily watching Arashi's new segment on the new set of their Arashi no Himitsu-chan show. But i can't resist it!! the new segment was so kawaii >_< *kok hong u dunno how lucky u are.. everytime u turn on the tv u see arashi.. hahaha sighhh* 

   sigh. and i so don't like being a 2nd year lor. it sucks when your exams finish the last. and it's doubly worse for me because i finish the latest among all my other 2nd year law friends because of friggin Islamic Law which is on the 19th whereas most ppl i know finish on the 16th! T_______T sigh.  

I have about 2-3 more weeks till my exams. What did I do today?

Absolutely nothing.

oh my god i hate the procrastinator in me!!!! How in the world did i end up not doing anything????? T__T

Argh maybe i should've gone to the library today with enz. But it's sunday! :( i don't want to go to the library on sunday! *i bet enz would say Hah! i told you to go to the library! if she saw this*

But i did do my laundry and actually cooked myself a proper dinner (which i haven't actually done in quite a while). And i cleaned my kitchen! So it was not a totally non-productive day. Okay, okay so it wasn't an academically productive day. At least now my housemates and I can enjoy a clean kitchen right?

Who am i kidding.

Sigh. 

*p.s. Int law which i wrote in 3 days = 2-1 baby!! low 2-1 but still for an extremely rushed piece of work... 2-1!! boooyah!*