My Prerogative

Mood     : Enjoying                                        Music     : "First" by Lindsay Lohan

Took Ben out today for a movie at 1Utama. Pretty crowded I must say for a normal Blue Monday…
He insisted we watch INITIAL D cause of all da good remarks he heard from his frens. I’m so not a Cantonese Movie person but decided to give it a try. Have to say it was rather funny and cool movie. I mean racing and all wif cool cars…Is a boy thing I guess.

At da same time left da KIOS at Eneos for a good wash that cost me 12 bucks. Da price raised so much. Dunno how oil price is affecting da car wash industry…duh…!!! -_-"

Mood     : Sober                                              Music     : "Untitled" by Simple Plan

Officially celebrated the end of 2005 Semester 1 today. Quite relaxin and fun. Gathered at Luna Bar for some cocktail. Indeed it was a nite where all da STARS came out and play. No kidding. Adidas decided to do some launching at da bar earlier in da evening and we saw da who’s who of Malaysian Entertainment Industry there.

From JIEN to SARAH TAN to LINA TEOH to ARIANA TEOH & ALEX YOONG to BERNIE CHAN to SHAMSUL to AMBER CHIA…

Gosh, it was a pleasure being around those ppl. Head off to da Curve for Karaoke but decided it was kinda late so we went to NASI KANDAR PENANG instead for mamak session. Talked anything and everything under da stars… Came home at 4am. POWER…It was a cool nite. Zzzzzzz…….

Mood     : Happy                                            Music     : "Boyz" by Britney Spears

Wow, it was fun being your elf, Santa James. Pretty cool thing to do and it was indeed thoughtful.

Basically, James had this idea of visitng some of our good frens and give them our warm wishes for their last paper tomorrow. We visited Adeline Adrenalin, Cheeky Cedrico and Bubbly Mei Jin. All were studying very hard for their exam. Since we’ve finished our papers earlier, we thought we could drop by and brighten up their gloomy stressful day. James bought some cans of Gatorade as an energy booster for them as well as Vita-C sweets to keep them awake. We basically pop by at thier house and drop them thier gifts.

After everything was over…me and James had a very good chat and conversation about performing arts and the long process of movie making. Finally found common ground wif this cool fello. Chat non-stop man… Din’t know we share da same interest :p

Mood     : Contented                        Music     : "Forgetting What Lies Behind" by Yvelyn Tang

Hmm…almost satisfied. Had a very sinful and heavy dinner at Secret Recipe just now in Da Curve. I ordered da infamous LAMB STEW… a glass of ICED CHOCOLATE WITH WHIP-CREAM and a slice of BANANA CHOCOLATE CAKE !!! Paradise ??? Indeed it was…ooo la la :p

Eating is just round one. I needed to get meself clothes to almost complete da day. So drop by GIODANO cause da colours was just captivating. Da nasty salesguy introduced me to their latest arrival…and you know what dat means, no special discount or offer for new arrivals.

Something that I alwayz fantasize about. Running by da beach wearing 3/4 white pants. Yeap… Finally got myself that pants. Cost me 89 bucks. Of course, no pants in complete without a shirt. Was walking round da shop bare-footed and stumble upon this t-shirt with a fusion of pink and orange. Thought it was cute so decided to try it on wif da pants. Walah…all I need is some nice shades and I’ll be a BEACH BOY…ekekee…:p

Mood     : Indifferent                 Music     : "How Am I Suppose" by Michael Bolton

Ok…being freakish and playing safe and just doing thorough preparation is just any University Student’s responsibility in doing their best. Correct ??? So yea, I did all I could… doing all da tutorial questions, referring to da textbook,  familiarizing with cases, memorizing theories and da list just go on. Side note, my brain stored as much as it could.

Now…why was da paper frustrating ??? Cause I studied and did as far as almost all da chapters in da whole syllabus and da questions all came out from Chapter 1 - Chapter 3 only. Urgh…I could have specialize and focused all my attention on those 3 petty chapters and score well in da exam rite ? Rather than worrying sick and memorizing all those stuff in other chapters which was pretty useless in this whole paper.

2 hours was just nice. Section A had us to choose 3 out of 6 questions. Again…all 6 questions in this section revolved around Chapter 1-3 ONLY. Section B was a moderate-length case study and we had to answer 3 questions based on da case. Again, nothing much needed from da textbook. Just yur basic understanding on da fundamentals…

Sounds pretty easy rite ??? So why am I complaining and frustrated ??? Cause I knew I could have done A LOT BETTER if i just focus all my "resources" and "capabilities" on those 3 chapters. I would have developed my "distinctive competence" and be "competitive’ in da paper. Those questions looks easy but there are certain things I read which I cant recall well cause I wasted it all on other chapters which is indeed IMPORTANT but din’t come out !!!

Anywayz…just need to cool down and vent all my frust. Gonna do self-therapy after this. Window shopping, facial, music, lie flat and be plain lazy and eat like there is no tomorrow…ahaahha ;p

Mood     : Dissapointed             Music     : "If I Could" by The Calling

2 hours is just not enough. Think bout it. Section A (Short Essay) requires one full page each (5 questions). Section B (Case Study Analysis), 2-3 pages for question 1 and 1-2 pages for two and three. This is just madness and insanity !!!

How did it go ??? I concertrated a lot on Section A cause I knew how to answer them comprehensively compared to Section B. Nevertheless, I din’t do one question in this section cause I had to move on to Section B. Was running out of time. By right, 1 hour for Section A and 1 hour for Section B.

Da whole thing was tough NOT because I din’t study or anything, but because I was rushing against time and have not even a little time to organize my thoughts and answers. Dun even have a moment to myself to vomit some of the perfect theoritical words I worked to memorize. Just BLA out anything that decides to vomit itself out 1st thru my poor tired hand.

Mood     : Inspired                                Music     : "Someday" by Britney Spears

Someday…I will understand,
In God’s whole plan,
And what He’s done to me,
Oh but maybe…Someday I will breathe
And I’ll finally see,
I see it all in my baby :p

Mood     : Tired                                  Music     : "Loose My Breath" by Destiny’s Child

Got up at 11 today to fix and service my KIOS. Went wif my mom all da way to SETAPAK. Finally ended at 3 something.

Decided to go straight to 1Utama to get groceries. Had Genki Sushi for dinner as well. Then drop by IKANO cause wanted to get some fresh groceries from Cold Storage. Walk here…walk there, saw a very nice hood jacket from Padini Authentics that cost RM98. New arrival…was tempted to buy but dint wanna spend money so decided to pass it. Took a detour to Adeline’s cause need to pass her some stuff

Got home around 8 something. Here I am typing my blog. Dunno what to do next… gotta start preparing for my Strategic Management though…:P

Mood     : Great                                 Music     : "Dun Wanna Miss A Thing" by Aerosmith

Sat for MARKETING STRATEGY this afternoon at 1.45pm. Three hours long paper, answer 5 out of 8 questions. As usual, by 4pm I had two more questions to be completed. Good news, I answered all…bad news, I needed more time to give better examples…ahahaha !!! Ok, thats all bout da paper

Let’s talk bout MR. & MRS. SMITH. 3 words… DA SEXIEST, SMARTEST and SUPER action pack movie of this year. Angelina was HOT…HOT…HOT. Brad was CUTE ! I planned this like weeks ago before my exam even began. Was driving home from Uni one evening and saw that da show was premiering in cinemas on da 9th…I was like..OMG, my marketing paper is on da 9th…Why not go watch it after da paper to destress ???

So I went wif Yvonne to BU for da movie. We enjoyed it to da max. Yea…2 hours plus but it was so fun-filled, dint realize it was dat long. FUNNY for sure. Interactive and shockingly VIOLENT. All I can say is MR & MRS SMITH combines all da elements to make a good HOLLYWOOD MOVIE. Cinema was pack as usual but I have my witz to get us da tickets…WHAT A DAY ;p

rMood     : Contented                 Music     : "I’ve Just Begun" by Britney Spears

First and foremost, I need to thank Yvonne for helping me in this unit. Thank you so much for jolting my memory and "predicting" da questions. Wont be able to handle it without you

Phew…thank goodness da paper was manageble. Not that easy but I still managed to push myself. Started at 1.45pm. Out of 16 questions, I have to answer 5. It was a 3 long hour paper…by 4pm I finished 3 questions and had 2 more to go in 45 minutes Took 5 minutes of breather b4 i moved on. Beh tahan liao that time, not because I dunno how to answer, but because my hand was paining liao. Particularly my right baby finger. Nevertheless. I fought the good fight and won da race. Had 10 minutes left all to myself converting oxigen to carbon dioxide.

It was exactly what we prepared for with the 2003 exam paper. Da questions were very similar and all the questions I prepared came out. Prepared 7 questions only out of 13. Yay :p