I am back

Here I am, after more than 2 years leaving the blog with no new post, back for some actions. Don’t ask me where did I go. Blogging is a hobby, a cyclic one and apparently the cycle period is 2 years. I was a bit late this period so pardon me. Lots of things have happened within these 2 years. Some of them brought me good memories and there were also some shitty ones. The last blog post was about my IB result and pre-uni experiences. Now, I’m going into my 3^rd year in UBC, majoring in geophysics and probably minoring in economics. The latter is still not certain since I just got transferred into honours program and it needs me to do more credit hours. So I don’t know whether I still want to have money-related field in my backpack. We’ll see how it goes. Summer holiday will end in less than a month and I still have some time to spend with family, friends and food. Will probably celebrate raya in Shah Alam like usual. Sounds boring but my life has always been a boring one. Not to complain, in fact I love my simple life. I do have problems and I do have exciting stuff to talk about but I keep forgetting them so that’s why I claim my journey as dull. My biggest worry now is the coming economic downturn that will affect my employment with Petronas. Maybe I should post something about this later but for now, let’s keep that. Future recession is bad, now the good thing that makes me keep smiling for the past few weeks is my relationship with a girl. You guys might not get the memo that my ex-girlfriend dumped me last year, but yeah that happened. Now I’m dating a girl. No official, just dating. Enough said. Recently, I did a lot of readings on automobile, a subject that interests me a lot. With rapid technology development in local scene, saga is equipped with cvt now, myvi got some new make-ups, proton introduced new chassis for their future mid-range cars. Interesting. I’ve bookmarked Paul Tan’s website and maybe you should read his articles. Who knows cars can be orgasmic to you too!. Well, that’s it for now. Till the next post.

Apology for any grammatical error. Cause I don’t give a damn. Apology again for the language.

37

it's been a week since the IB result came out... all the effort (and cursing) finally paid off.... i passed the minimum cut off point of 35 by two points...u guys do the math...here are the details on the result...numbers in the bracket are the marks that i aimed previously...

higher level subjects - mathematics - 5 (5)
chemistry - 6 (6 or 7)
physics - 6 (7)
english b - 6 (6)

standard level subjects - malay a1 - 7 (6)
economics - 6 (6)

extended essay (physics) - B (C or D)

tok essay - C (B)

extended and tok essay bonus point - 1 (1)

total - 37/45

so this is it... i am sure IB graduates and current students understand about these details... for the rest, you don't have to because you will never understand what IB is really about... its a hell of a program! at the beginning of the program my aim was 40 or above...however, struggling towards the end, i had to admit that 35 is already considered as huge success for me...below are some of my 'luahan hati' on the details...

mathematics hl....i think this subject is extremely hard due to the option that mr. masukor had chosen...it was calculus....my head was spinning like hell covering this chapter... i even had difficulty to differentiate the word converge and diverge...haha... honestly, i took serious attention on math like 40 days before the first paper starts or 50 days before the math paper...i started from the scratch of core chapters and then with the most difficult one - series and sequence option....i would say maryam and lingges helped me a lot understanding this chapter... so all in all i think 5 is good enough with my very limited contemplation on math...the fact that there are only few of students that took math hl and some of them did not manage to score tells me that i should be thankful with 5... thank you mr jg, miss ellie and mr masukor!

chemistry....this is total frustration! at first i aimed for 7 but during the last paper, i mis-looked one whole page with like 7 marks questions....i only realized about it at the very last minute of the exam when the examiner was collecting the paper... the examiner forced me to send the paper while there was an IBO guy sitting at the back, maybe laughing at me... it was too late and i only managed to scribble few words that i think can contribute 1 or 2 marks...counting the questions that i purposely skipped, i think i only scored half of the total marks... from that moment i knew i can never get a 7....6 is enough for me since i covered the two option chapters by myself with a little help from mr lawrence from the private tutor class with camy (only for one chapter though)...thank you mr michael, mr siva n mr lawrence!

physics...my most favourite subject of all.....i really like physics because it can be explained and it is closely related to our lives....but i am a bit disappointed with 6 because i was aiming for 7... not to show off but i think miss chuah also was expecting a 7 from me since i was the among top students in her class.... over-confident maybe is the cause and i think i was too focused on math during the exam week... i admit i did not study much on physics, not as much as i did for small evaluations...moreover, the questions that came out mainly about environment, which i hentam-ed most of it... but at least, i don't have to cover physics for my first year in uni...chemistry too!haha...thank you miss ellie!

english b....honestly, i really don't think that i am good in english.... i never, and i mean NEVER, take english seriously since i was in primary till now...to me english is just a language and it is not that important to me....but it is!muahah....most of students covered this subject only for 5 months and i think i covered less than that because i kept skipping the class....however, i stopped the habit about a month from the real exam and i would say mr. ong had done an outstanding job giving me tips and guidance...even he knows that i skipped a lot of his classes....i guess, movies helped me to understand english better because i watched a lot of movies towards the end of IB... thank you dr. melissa and mr ong! (he is from malaysia but now he is a dutch)

malay a1...aku blaja subjek ni pon 5 bulan gak...ujung minggu je pon...itupun aku rase kelas 4 jam sebenarnya aku blaja 2 jam je....rehat la..ngumpat la...hahah....mula2 aku ingat bm senang je tapi sebenarnye susah gak mende ni....sastera plak...da la aku menci gile sastera ni...cikgu2 kat kmb mmg tolong banyak la bile nk buat IA sume...aku rase dorang men letak markah tinggi je utk dak2 sri kedu terutamanya budak2 berpikiran logik cam aku ni, takde nilai seni langsung...haha...terima kasih daun keladi cikgu roslindawati, panjang umur saya belanja makan nanti!

economics...one of my favourites.... personally, i think this subject is easy....even i had difficulty during the first semester coping with the subject itself, and also coping with the 'skema' teacher...haha....i still remember she always jot down attendance even there were only 5 of us before ru ann left....but i like the teacher... i have not so many comment on econs though except that i gebang-ed all the way during the exam...oh yeah, during the exam, i made a silly mistake...i wrote my answer in full page then i realised that it was not the correct page... i had to re-write (or re-gebang?) the whole answer in other page...i wasted about 15 minutes for that silly mistake...haha...thank you miss harjit and mr. das!

extended essay and tok essay...at first i heard that it is very difficult to get a high grade for science extended essay... but i was reluctant (or lazy?) to change my subject that i still proceeded with physics...my supervisor was mr simon...i did the experiment with no reference from any book and i just did it with my own way...i finished the ee early because i did not want it to bother me... same goes to my tok essay... i think i finished it in the first semester!haha...however, when january batch's result came out, all of us have to re-check (literally, re-do) our ee and tok essay... imagine this, we had to open back our ee's and tok essay's files and references despite the fact that we were already burdened by the 2-years-to-6-months-cramped malay a1 and english b...everyone was cursing.... miss ellie and mr masukor honestly confessed that my ee will never obtain an A...but that did not affect me at all since i was not hoping any bonus point from ee and tok...miss ellie helped me a lot with my ee and i think almost entire of the ee was miss ellie's idea... i realised that i did not do one of the most important procedures during the experiment - insulation to prevent heat lost -.... this is what you get when you are lazy to even open a reference book and copy 100% the procedures that clearly states that any experiment related to heat must be followed witn an insulation procedure...i guess logic alone is not enough to write (or again, gebang?) 4000 words...haha....mr azhar and mr shaw checked my tok essay....personally, i trusted mr azhar more than mr shaw even my tok teacher was mr shaw... maybe i didn't really understand what mr. shaw said during the consultation and surprisingly, during the tok classes as well.... tok classes means play bingo with nada, that's it...

so, total points that i got is 37... even i passed the cut off point but i am not very happy....i could have done better if i start to be serious a bit earlier and i think i can add 2 more points to become 39... other thing that does not allow me to be happy is the fact that there are some of my friends that did not manage to meet the cut off point... honestly, i am very sad, not to them of course but sad to the condition...they have tried their best but still....argh....i really hope that all of us can pursue our studies overseas and stun those foreigners...like we always do.....37 is nothing without 'the 15'...

note of the day - IB is hell....but it is really something...

kisah bosan

elo guys...

surprisingly, i got the mood to put some of my limited energy into blogging tonight...after more than a month leaving the last post alone now i think it is time to post a new one...so, whats up with me lately?tutoring...watching movies...hang out with friends and of course with my lovely nasiha...nothing much actually.... i spent 5 days at tg rhu for btn course...overall, the course was a disappointment.... it began with lots of boring 'ceramah'...in the middle i think it was quite okay because my facilitator was hilarious in his way of laughing....my group-mates were friendly enough and i think i was lucky to be in that group(the reason is at the end of this post)...the guys managed to win the futsal match (ala menang penalti je pon...da la aku tak amik pon penalti tuh...hahaha)...the girls?maybe they are not into futsal...wink!and the most surprising event was we managed to place ourselves in 4th place for the patriotic song competition....we sang 'tanngal 31' by the late allayarham sudirman haji arshad (one of my favourites) while faris and atikah were among the lucky ones to celebrate their first night later on.... i still remember when the mc asked 'kamu nak berape anak?'.....atikah confidently (or motherly???) answered it with 'seramai yang boleh la'....i think that was one of the spontaneous jokes made that night...the course was amazing until that part...the so-called night jungle trekking was a EXA-DISASTER!!!i walked like a mile with a very boring view of dirty beach and then someone stopped me and told me to sit...i waited like almost 2 hours doing nothing except cursing at the bloody mosquitoes... i couldn't really sleep at that time and regretted the fact that i did not bring my hand-phone (kononnye ingat ade masuk paya ke ape...ceh!)... when i couldn't find cursing words anymore, the group leader (tak hengat name die but he is a chinese guy) came and sort of saving me (from what?wtf!)then i had to walk back another mile to the starting point and during the walk, i had to 'collect' other group members and they were all look tired...i guess they all were the same with me - tired of cursing...that was the last night of the course and the next morning all of us went back...enough said...so, what really did i learn from the course? loss of weight i guess because i did not eat much at the course (except for the nasi minyak)...couple of friends...detail in taking wudhuk (you have to bend your elbow so that water will touch all of the arm's surface)...i guess that's all...i still don't have interest in politics..i still want to return to malaysia when i finish my studies...i still want to service my nation...there are not so many changes that the course manage to do to me...in a nutshell (ceh2...kosa kata tinggi ni...muahahah), the btn was so-so only....i think thats all about btn though....till next time...

note of the day - i was lucky to be in group 10 because all the girls are good looking and one of them is cute...muahahahahh (gelak gatal)

group 10

- hakim -

chicks are hot....cars are hotter.... chick at the driver's seat? hell no!

I’ve been driving legally for 2 years and illegally? 3 years I guess….have been pulled over by the police (and adorable policewoman) two times without being summoned… had pushed kelisa almost up to ‘her’ limit without having realized that the tire was almost botak… so, I would say that I’m quite a driver with such experiences… at least for semi-auto and auto transmission….this post might be a little bit offensive and some would rather say that hakim is purely sexist… but the fact that now I hit the pedal everyday gives me an inspiration to post this blog….it is more on responsibility though because the road is not quite safe… years of driving taught me how to differentiate the behavior of male and female driver and I would say that is very EASY! Yes, male driver also make silly mistakes like going on the wrong way, speeding and etc.… but I find that the way male drivers make mistakes is different from female drivers even the mistake is the same… for example, when a car driving out from a junction without looking at cars coming from the main road, I can easily trace whether it is a male or female driver….usually, a male drivers wave their hands to say sorry but for female drivers? NEVER! They drive out from the junction and make that not-guilty-faces like they did not do any crime…then they will drive in front slowly ….i bet that they are afraid since they make mistake but egoism disallow them to show their sorry…. It is an obvious logic when you come into a main road, you have to follow the flow of traffic of the main road and do not create your own flow at 40kmph… but for male drivers, once they suddenly drive into the main road, you can hardly see them again because usually they will speed up and gone… another thing is I found that female drivers do not know how to adapt the flow of the traffic….they speeding at roads they should not be speeding and drive slowly at the right lane where they should let some smoke out of the exhaust… oh yeah, by the way, this slow-at-the-right-lane case is a norm at Terengganu….no offense but it’s the truth… another situation is when a car is moving in a wrong way (opposite of jalan sehala)…. usually if the car is moving at high speed at the very edge of the road, it is a male driver…. It is quite dangerous but at least the driver knows it is wrong to drive at the wrong way so he quickly drives through the road and again, disappear…. But if you see a car doing the same thing, but now the car is in the middle of the road moving with ultra slow speed, it’s a female driver…. Usually, she will hold the steering with both hands tightly (I can see this even through tinted windows) and she will look scared… everyone knows it is wrong to drive in a wrong way and everyone does that…it is just a matter of getting caught by a police… if you are caught, then it is your problem, but if you are not, please do it quickly and do not trouble other drivers… do crime confidently as nobody will care about you if it does not cause any difficulty to anyone…honestly, I do not really like the fact that there are a lot of female drivers nowadays… yes, male drivers also give troubles (especially Toyota unser and surprisingly, a man who drive this annoying car usually has a long beard and wearing a ketayap)….but, female drivers give more trouble!....my advice to female drivers : drive quickly and do not put too much strain on the steering wheel because you will lose focus on the condition of the traffic….

Note of the day > real drivers never talk about perodua kelisa…it is just amazingly indescribable…

- hakim -

permulaan...

akhirnya aku buat jugak blog... setelah sekian lame niat di postponed sebab b4 this busy sangat ngn IB... ceh menipu kuat!haha....btw, b4 this aku ingat mende2 blog ni ngarut je sebab macam tulis diary gak and its so lame....but bile pk balik its either buat fb account or blog, its better to have a blog....bole tulis macam2 woo....blog kali ni mmg nampak macam bodo serta sempoi saje but i'll try my best to post informational blogs next times....mlm terang bulan beginik tiada mud utk ber-contemplated (pinjam mr masukor).....so, b4 aku proceed dengan blog2 seterusnya ade certain matters yg perlu readers amik port sket....

1)saya akan sedaya upaya menggunakan bahasa inggeris dalam blog2 laen kerna tahu akan kepentingan bahasa tersebut... kecuali apabila certain2 jokes yg perlu ditulis dalam bahasa melayu untuk menambah kesan kelakar kepade para pembace....oh ya, bukan niat di hati untuk improve english through blog kerna saya lebih menggemari mengimprove dengan tgk tv and movies....credit to dr. megawati omar...
2)amaran kepada semua pihak bahawasanya blog2 akan ditulis terus dari akal dan hati (akal comes first la) dan sama sekali tiada unsur censorship kecuali untuk beberapa perkara seperti nama2 orang....isu2 sensitif akan dikupas tanpa belas kasihan....semua rakan2 yang mengenali saya tau akan ke-direct-an mulut saya....bakat yang sama juga dalam hal penulisan...
3)blog tidak akan diupdate selalu kerana saya busy dan bukanlah menjadi profession saya sebagai professional blogger....saya adalah hamba Allah yang perlu beribadah okeh...ahaha.....n i got a life too....

itu saje setakat ni dan laen2 hal akan diberitahu kemudian...harap dapat banyak comment dari pembace dan terus support blog saya...haha...

note of the day > ke-tere-an penulisan bahasa melayu saya di atas adalah hasil kelas bahasa melayu bersama cikgu roslindawati selama 5 bulan...

- hakim -