Gotta put this up

Those were the "veterans" that came in the KMYS Alumni Weekend (yeah, KMYUEM, whatever) in Southampton. Looks like a regular poyo pose of all of us. But theres some corner worth emphasizing:

yeah..go dug. hahahahaha

Story Of A Watch

Hum...thats quite some time since the last update..been to many places since I last updated 3 weeks ago. Been to Nottingham, Coventry, and Southampton. No need to further eloborate these because you guys can catch up by reading other's blog.

The story for today, is the story of a watch. Not much, but considering I'm actually updating is dah cukup besar tuah dah.

Okay, this watch, a Victorinox Swiss Army Excursion has gone a long way back in my memory, at least 2 years. I first saw this watch in Luzern, Switzerland and I immediately fell in love at first sight. I shoulda bought it there and then. But, thanks to others in the Switzerland trip, who says "U dont need to buy it now, we're in Switzerland there'll be many more watch shops and you'll maybe getting a better bargain for the same watch, or some better watch." So I let it go.

Unfortunately didn't come across any more watch shops worth looking at because our Switzerland trip are more of a sightseeing one, not a shopping spree type. Frustrated not getting a watch in Switzerland, I bought a watch for Shu, liking it while a few days later when it arrived to Shu in Japan, the watch is the same as the one her bestfriend there is wearing! damn. But she liked it and I liked it so let it be.

Then I have forgotten about this Victorinox for quite some time until I saw it back in Malaysia (in One Utama to be exact) last summer. But it was the end of summer when I'm nearly broke, which if I saw it when I just got back in June I would just buy it in a flick. So thats a bugger off again.

Its getting boring, but just keep reading coz there's a twist. hehe.

Then, last month my Timex was broken. Used to wearing a watch all the time I started looking for a watch, and living here in the UK and earning in pound sterling I could buy a better watch this time. Then saw the Victorinox again at Redfingerprint.com which is based in California. Ordered it straight away, but getting doubts whether to buy just one better watch for my wedding hantaran or just buy two watches (one for hantaran, one for pakai hari-hari) I cancelled the order. Then few things happened, to cut the story short I ordered the same watch again from the same company.

The website states that "Our operation and distribution centers are located in Asia to lower overhead and shipping cost. This permits us to pass on the savings to you." Okay fair enough they want to cut costs.

Then, today the watch came in from Fedex after 3 days. Half awake, I signed the signature release form and got the package. The document on the shipment reads:

Sender:

Alex Teoh

G20, Pertama Complex,

Jln Tunku Abdul Rahman,

50100 Kuala Lumpur

Malaysia.

Huh. Cut cost la sangat. From Luzern, Switzerland to Pertama Complex, Kuala Lumpur. Whatever. At least I got my watch.

School Meme

Although I already posted a new entry like 30 seconds ago, I'm writing a new entry just to accept the baton from Ipe, and its on a subject I really love, school. Well, some of the guys who always talk to me would definitely heard my infamous starting quote "haaa aku masa sekolah dulu bla bla bla..." I just love school.

Well here goes:

How many schools did I go to?

Well (counting my fingers) its 4. The first one was Sekolah Rendah Ibrahim, Sungai Petani. Been there from Standard 1 until February in my Standard 6. As a result to me playing all the time in kindergarten I was put in the last class in the school where I dont belong because most of other students were Indian (strictly no racism intentions here) who goes like "Cikgu aku mau pegi tandas" and was the smacked right then on the face by the teacher. I never really knew them, they got all their friends among them and never wanted to befriend me. And they talk Tamil all the time so how could I blend in?

I was kinda popular in school among my friends, well call it self-appointed but I was a naughty kid back then. I brought slingshot (lastik) to shoot birds from class, break tables and chairs, steal the fish from the school pond, turned my class's blackboard onto a bullseye target for my self-made darts, tikam (yeah gambling, I was addicted to it back then depan sekolah) and most of the time I blew my lunch money on it. I was a target to the teachers to smack and when I left the school in my prime years of standard six, most of my mates called me chicken for not staying until the end.

I went to Sekolah Kebangsaan Sungai Tok Pawang, Bedong, Kedah for the next few months. The reason behind this was my father intended for me to enter a boarding school after primary years, the school being a sekolah luar bandar which should boost my chance to enter a boarding school. But I blew it by getting 3A 1B in UPSR. Darn karangan menyimpang dari tajuk brought me down.

Then Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Sungai Layar. Dapat la jugak duduk asrama walaupun bukan sekolah asrama penuh. Well I dont really know what boarding school means anyway back then. Duduk asrama la jugak ape bezanye? hahaha. Well still being the bad boy that I am, but I think this was when I toned down the least. Did some bad stuff as well, but not really seen as a bad student by teachers since I got the first or second place in the whole form in every exam (yeah they were blinded by this) so what ever bad thing I do was compensated by my results, and the fact that my father was the Naib Pengerusi PIBG.

Then after getting 8As in my PMR I moved to Sekolah Menengah Sultan Abdul Halim, Jitra, Kedah (Jenan). Finally a boarding school. I fit very well among the students there, and me being a good barber back then I got some good backings from the seniors from anyone who want to pukul me. Get this: I fly (lompat pagar, or cross as it was called there) during my first week there. Got really excited during the next few weeks and I even fly during afternoons, which leads to me getting caught in the act after a month I'm there. Which lead to me getting stripped to my underwear (my shirt was still on) because apparently I don't wear my outing attire at the moment, but a jeans and a fancy shoe! Of course I dont wear my outing attire, I'm flying, what am I supposed to wear? My baju batik, while squatting through the school fence and bushes? The I had to run to the dorm from the gatehouse, past some junior's classes while having only my shirt and underwear on. How great was that on your first month there?

The next question,

Was I the studious nerd, or the last minute hero?

Anybody out there ever seen me study outside exam weeks? Of course I'm a last minute man. Until now. Even so, I still got 1st or 2 in the whole form in Sungai Layar (I wouldnt mention primary school, I was a rascal and, who studied for exams in primary school? pwerghh) But when I moved to Jenan I was quite in the middle on the list. Around the 50s out of 120 or something. I always failed Add Maths, Physics and Chem. Every exam. Its maybe my bad but some of it I dare to blame my teacher. For Add maths, the I can remember the marks on every semester exams respectively from Form4 which was 8, 7, 16, and then 24%. and then as close to passing as 38% on my SPM trial. hahahahah! Never really bothered back then and I was never good in maths anyway. Then comes my fiancee, shu into the story.

We were in the same class ( I am the ketua tingkatan, she's my vice) and we started as a couple in July in our Form5. That was nearly six years ago, time was really quick and the next thing we know I'm marrying her this August=) Back to the story. As soon we are together, she was getting some abuse from this other girl who admired me since I moved to the school, and this other girl was a great influence among the girls as she being a prefect and badan dakwah committee. She publicly verbally attacked Shu during usrahs of after prayer talks and after a while it was getting too much and there was a serious couple case (I dont want to get more into this, a sensitive subject to my schoolmate) and she wont want to see me in school anymore. Dont get me wrong, we're still a couple but we couldnt see each other, only in class. Takleh dating la...adehh.

The girls had to walk past my classroom to get to the dining hall or other places from the girls hostel, so me missing Shu so much and not being able to see her everyday (eh sape tak sayang awek da?) waited in the classroom for her to walk pass it. And since I'm already in the classroom and nothing else in front of me instead of books (no iPod yet, no laptop with tv series yet) I studied. The trial was near anyways so it should do me good, I think.

So I studied the subjects one by one, doing one subject like Chem until its done and only then starting to do another such as Physics. And when some girls walked pass the room I eyed them looking for Shu. Its more like the quote "Alaa orang dah bercinta nih, nampak dia punya bumbung pun jadilahh". But I was too late, I just finished Physics when the trial arrives and I dont have time to study Add maths. As a result, I got 10As and 1 fail (yeah Add maths, ape lagi and I took 11 subjects) despite being on the first place in the whole form. My my said to me and I quote "junub nih study pickup dia kalah Evo VII!" Most teachers all kutuk me for failing that SPM trial add maths exam. Even an overseas Shell sponsorship application form was not given to me, but to 5 other people under my name on the list. Hows thats?

But it aint so bad, I took the results list with everyone's name and my name on the top to my dad, and demanded a motorcycle that I wanted so much and asked since Form3. Went with my dad the next day to buy me the bike, he just couldnt say anything. hahaha what a bad boy I am. Brought the bike to school during SPM week (bear in mind I'm in a boarding school, but I managed to get the bike in and out everyday without getting caught, by posing as the dining hall guy). Managed to pass the SPM add maths for the first time, getting 10A 1B. To be precise, 8A1, 2A2 and 1B3, which was add maths but that was good enough for me recalling all those F9s I'm getting.

So, answering the question, I am a last minute man but for once in my life I have actually been a studious nerd, for a reason. And the reason was worth the struggle =)

Yeah tu la aku dah ckp aku suka subject nih..jgn tanya pasal sekolah tgk byk mana dah tertulis. Baru dua soalan. Nanti la tgk kalo aku nak sambung. letih dah nih. cau.

February Employee Of The Month

Dear Muhammid, (thats what they call me - never bothered to correct them)

Congratulations on being nominated for Winner of February's Night Crew Employee Of The Month.

Your nomination comes directly from your collegues who have recognised your performance within the Nightcrew team.

Thank you for your hard work and dedication to your role, which along with your collegues make our Nightcrew the success that it is.

Well done and keep up the hard work.

Darren, Norman and Andy (the managers)

Well, which part in there says that I'm actually a student? hahahah this is totally reversed for me. I'm now a full time worker, part time student. The nomination results as during the past month I was really determined to do some extra overtimes (note that its extra, means I do overtimes all the time but this is extra to those) which I calculated to be double the time I should actually work. Which meaaannnsss double the pay end of this month. And during those times I helped few guys at work with their tasks and and i think they are just thanking me for it. I dont really hope for the nomination (though can be expected) but really I'm in for the money money money. At the end of it, an extra over a grand a month cant be too wrong can it? Sekali kena kumpul duit nak kawin daaa.

I'm a 23 years old boy.

I'm 23 today! Thanks to my friend who actually remembered my bday and celebrated it with me last weekend in London ( special thanks to Mona and Awanis - her house, and Dug - he claims, for organising it) after the IC Mnite. Really enjoyed myself. Cant really type right now needed to go back to sleep so let the pictures say the words for me. It would do more justice than my lousy mouth (or little fingers of mine - for typing it out really).

nothing much. just the the impression - ay?

the props guys really broke their back doing the stage

the dead guys waiting in line for the immigration entrance -whether to go to heaven or hell

the finale - thats hajar in the middle behind the fireworks - if u can see her

me cutting the cake - thanks guys. love the yellow hat

the striped shirt guys posing for the camera. stripe guys, not strip guys!

the girls who came - or actually lives there hehe

all of us minus kiau, nik, durra n sab who went home earlier

There are some more pictures of the nite in atoy's blog. go check it out!

Vypress

Looking at the chatterbox next to my blog...i remembered something thats a part of our daily life in KMYS (ish ape tak abis abis lagi mood kmys nih) the alternative chat program Vypress that we use so much there since mIrc was banned in college. I could remember coming back to my room, looking at my laptop to find some 200++ mass messages on the desktop. And the early incident with Sarai when we still have wet nosses not knowing that anybody could trace where these messages come from. Ok many people might not know what happened. The incident happened somewhere around second or third month in KMYS, on one rainy night. I was mass messaging all the people on Vypress with some crap (flooding it think) and some people are quite annoyed with me at that time. I remembered my Vypress nick at that time was oTak_Tak_bEtuL. hehehe u could imagine how i was back then.

Then suddenly after 30 or so mass messages Sarai (our senior) messaged me and bear in mind I did not know how to trace messages yet so I dont know who that was. He told me to quit sending crap mass messages but i replied harshly (not knowing he'll know which chalet I was in and there was heavy rain at 11pm, nobody would come) then suddenly, in the midst of the heavy rain, I saw an umbrella moving through the chalet common room's blinds. Weh cuak sial hahahaha. At once I changed the nick to wAyAr_PutuSs (yes not knowing there's nickname history in Vypress as well) and then he is; Sarai at the door of my chalet.

He knocked, he came in and asked me and i said dont know. Then he came to the computer and checked the history and there I am kantoi red handed. Kena la marah and i said I was sorry, I dont only aim to bug him alone but everyone in Vypress. After some awkward moment he went back to his chalet and I was thankful tak kena penyepak or some other abuse that night hahaha.
The next day I met him in surau before Maghrib prayer (you dont believe I go to surau but I actually do sometimes) and he said he was sorry about the incident last night. Said he was buggered with something else and I was there at the wrong time at the wrong place. Then we made peace.

The next thing I know everybody knew about this thing and the seniors start calling Sarai as my big brother hahahaha. Some memories I have there. To refresh your memories, this was how Vypress looked like. Look at the top of the user's list, I'm second from top (oTak_Tak_bEtuL, wAyAr_PutuSs, then ~hayWiRe~, see the connection yet how I came to derive this Haywire name?)

AArrrgghhhh regret

ish...menyesal aku tak book teket flight tu semalam...harini aku call dia quote lain pulakk..£440 plus £130 tax...apa cerita weehhhhh....arrrgghhh....siap ckp "its not possible for you to get quoted that price sir" hah elok la tu...elok elok elokkkkkk...asal la aku tak book semalam je...bayar harini bila gaji masuk pagi tadi...haihhhh tensennnnnnnn kaciput.

Another one

Opps...saw another favourite. This one was on the second year of KMYS 'samurai' nite, when we gave the power of the samurai (yes, poyo as it is, but my group won) to the junior's samurai group who won that nite.

us while the juniors were competing. at the side of the orde cosmos (anyone remember where?) hehe

me as the samurai emperor. ade dayang lagi tuh! mama n yati as the concubines

me as the japanese samurai battling gan jo han as the vigilante. thats kamal in the background as the joker