Last Minute Preparation For South Africa 2010

With the kick off of the 1st World Cup match just 2 hours away, I would like to share a checklist with all of you.

1.Buy a NEW LED TV because for those of us who can't afford to be in South Africa, it would be the next best things watching the World Cup on HD.
2.Subscribe for Astro Beyond~! In comes in a package with No1. Whats the use of getting the new TV when you can't watch matches in HD.
3.Stock your fridge up with all the soft drinks etc. Ice containers must be filled up too.
4.Get tidbits. It helps keep people awake when watching some boring games especially those at 2 in the morning.
5.Test your home theater speakers hours before the match. Its vital to create the perfect atmosphere in your living room
6.Decorate your house with World Cup posters and flags of the countries that you support. It all adds up to the vibrant atmosphere.
7.Get all your football jerseys ready.
8.In a tropical country like Malaysia, mosquito sprays are pivotal!! You don't want those tiny pests to disturb you throughout the night don't you. Spray the whole house 1 hour before the start of every match.
9.For reference purposes, keep the world cup magazines that you have bought (plus newspapers ) close to you at all times. Better still if your whole house has wireless internet connection so you can just google stuff instantly (players info, stadium etc).

Well...thats all I suppose. ENJOY THE WORLD CUP.
p/s : haha..this is just my wish list, I don't have Astro Beyond and the LED TV.lol..maybe the next world cup. :)

World Cup 2010

THE CUP OF LIFE

The 2010 FIFA World Cup is barely 3 days away. I have to say that I really can't wait for the whistle to be blown during South Africa vs Mexico match -initiating the start of the Greatest Show On Earth. This time around, I will make an effort to watch and enjoy all 64 matches as this might be the last time that I would be able to watch football like this.

Spain and Brazil seem to be everyone's bet to lift the coveted trophy but I believe teams like Holland and Germany can go all the way too. England as always have a strong team ( ON PAPER) and I believe there is something different with England this time around. Perhaps its the Capello factor. On the other hand, we should not write off the 5 African nations as they will be all pumped up for this year's competition.

Nevertheless, my money will still be on Spain to win their first ever World Cup. They seem to have a complete team with talent overflowing in all positions. They have 3 world class goalkeepers, decent enough defenders, awesome, classy and intelligent midfielders and not to mention the fact that they have arguably two of the best strikers in world football.

I hope England too makes it to the final as I would want Steven Gerrard (my favourite football player) to captain a winning team. I definitely have a soft spot for England this time around. The things that you learn after watching thousands of football matches is that you can never predict anything in football. Therefore, let us all sit back , watch and enjoy the Greatest Show on Earth. The most important thing is the quality of football and the passion shown by each team.
~You'll Never Walk Alone~

The Main Contenders -based on the media

1Malaysia

To me, the BTN camp was a failure. We're suppose to be unifying all the races thus creating the 1Malaysia spirit. However, due to my observation during the 5 days there, the races were mostly segregated-as seen during the slide shows- for almost everything from education to population..ALL SEGREGATED!! WHY must we do that? For educational purposes? Of course we all love Malaysia and everyone has contributed to make this country a better place. I hope that in the near future, the Jabatan Perdana Menteri will review the 'syllabus' and topics that are to be discussed during this Kursus Kenegaraan. WE NEED MALAYSIANS TO BE UNITED NOT SEPARATED based on race,creed, religion and colour.

The picture below can perhaps be a perfect model for all Malaysians.

These are the people who will be joining me while I study medicine in JSS Medical College , Mysore. We will almost certainly bond with each other over the next 5 years and definitely need each others help and support while we study and live in the foreign land of India. United we Stand, Divided we FALL.

Ughhh...This whole blog post is very unlike me, I don't normally voice out my opinions on these matters in public but I believe that I should at least make a stand on this matter. It me seem small and unimportant now but it will be pivotal for our nation's growth and stability in the future

The Final Chapter

The Humble Land Of KTT

4th June 2010
I finally left KTT for good. As I walked out of my apartment for the last time, so many things were running in my head. My home for almost 2 years (30/6/2008-4/6/2010) and I was finally leaving. As a whole, I definitely enjoyed my time in KTT however small and pathetic looking the college may be, it was still an awesome place to study and I met some of the best friends there. Tangga 11 was probably like a BIG HAPPY FAMILY. We all eat together, studied together, played sports together and played games together. I thank God for all the good friends He has given me in my 2 years there because without them, my college life would have been really dull indeed.

All of us probably bonded much more during KI because there wasn't anything to study during this 3 month period. I will definitely miss you guys~! Shawn, Selvan, Beh, Joel, Kelvin, Chua, Chai, Daniel, Zeff, Choong, Susu, Queenie, Shalini, Ashwin, Rahim,Joanna, Lynthia...the list goes on and on. I will definitely miss all the dinners downstairs with such mentally stimulating (lol) topics, all the sports we played at night during KI, watching those classic liverpool matches in ktt (vs MU and Real Madrid)

I think we have all grown from ..

During Bryant's farewell

Ponggal celebration( some retarded pose)

After Hui Fen's crazy birthday party

ALL/ALU 10..My Awesome Class. We are talented in so many different ways.

to this...

The only activity that I want to remember from BTN

(during BTN..see..all more matured already..yea rite)

Ah..Now this is better. (I'll reserve my comments about BTN for another time)

I've got to go for dinner now so I guess thats about all I've got to say in this post.Eating good food is one of my main missions before leaving for India.

There and Back Again

MARCH 1, 2010

We were forced back to KTT once again, this time to study 3 Languages in 3 MONTHS~! (Yes I know...ITS CRAZY~!) I doubt that many people were actually looking forward to going back to the place where we had already spent 1.5 years of our lives.

On the morning of that 'fine' day, I was actually the 3rd or 4th person to reach KTT. I guess I have probably picked up a thing or two from the people in college. (Lesson Learnt during the 1st month in KTT : Sometimes, you have to be extra kiasu in a highly competitive environment)

After the 1st day which was filled with briefings and other unimportant stuff, lessons resumed the VERY NEXT DAY!

The timetable was actually very packed. Perhaps some would say worse then A Level. My battle with the 3 languages started on the very 1st day. The 1st lecturer that entered our class was MITON(Kannada Lecturer). I actually vividly remember seeing him in the cafeteria on the 1st day with his blue shirt and wearing black slacks which we wore really high up. (till his belly button) At the first glance, he looked really harmless, nice and gentle.(ok..so now back to my 1st ever class)

So Miton introduced himself im a really heavily accented way and we were soon asked to introduce ourselves too .Standard procedure everytime a new lecturer enters class. Miton started teaching and almost everyone had trouble understanding what he said. Communication was bad as he's English sucked as well. I guess that set the tone for the whole KI programme. We learnt writing and reading starting with the vowels and consonants. It was quite fun once you were able to read slowly but then it got boring after some time. The other Indian lecturers were very much better. They could easily converse in English and were really friendly. One lecturer even played futsal with us.

Some of Miton's quotes which I'm not going to forget in a very long time

"Sit PRAPARLY" ..(sit properly, when a student slouches or shows that he/she is disinterested in learning?)

"Very well writing practice all of you!" (goodness gracious me! this very sentence irritated the crap out of most students because he would repeat it in every class)

"REPEAT!"

"PLEASE..WRITING PRACTICE AAL of YOU" ( when people don't listen to his 1st command)

"very well discuss Aal of you" ( when he gives us a few sentences and then he expects us to repeat it in class over a million times)

Actually, come to think of it, his teaching method may be extremely boring but its actually very effective. I remember most of the words and sentences that he taught. lol..

I guess I'll just show you some pictures of the work that we've been doing for the past 2 months...

The amount of writing exercise we had to do.

Brings back memories of Tadika

The Kannada Alphabest (aka AKSHARA MALE)

Hindi Alphabets.

Writing the countless number of hindi sentences without actually knowing the meaning of each sentence. Hindi's definitely my weakest subject.

And lastly!!TAMIL~!!!

NOTICE THE TORN EDGES ON THAT PIECE OF PAPER.HAHA~! IT SHOWS HOW MUCH I HAD TO REFER TO THAT VERY PIECE OF PAPER. TAMIL~!!!

Well, Thats basically why I'm stuck in KTT again. Can't wait for the 27th of May when KI finally ends.
p/s : I believe Kannada is my favourite and also my strongest subject. Hopefully all these stuff will actually be useful when we get to India.

till then,

~You'll Never Walk Alone~!

Jagadguru Sri Shivarathreeshwara Medical College (JSS MC) Mysore

It was 6.03pm, 19th of April 2010. JPA was due to come to our college on the very next day to tell us our university placement in India. Oh, and I remember the time because I remember checking my phone for Christine's misscall to go for jogging.
I was putting on my socks when alll of a sudden, Joel came bursting through our front door screaming that he got SDM ,Dharwad. He said that the list was with Miss Syaza and that we could check our names in the staffroom. Totally Unexpected~! (actually by this time, the placements for KLE,KMC , KIMS and Bapuji had come out already...so half the students already knew their placements)

So I ran downstairs and saw many people crowding around the staircase leading to the staffroom. I met Christine down there too and told her that the placement was out. (by that time, she already knew that she got MCODS) I was actually hesitating if I should go up since I was only wearing shorts at that time.

Asida suddenly popped out of the blue and told me that I got JSS Mysore.
*numb feeling*
I then asked her who else got the same place. It seems that I was the only Indian guy and there were only 8 students being sent there.Mei Yee,Loga,Wan ,Shafie, Cheng, Asida,Aisyah and me.
It took me 10 seconds for the information to sink in. *Yesss~! I got Mysore~!!*
*High 5 with Christine*
and then Shalini called to congratulate me. I don't know how but she seemed to have this 6th sense that I would be getting Mysore.AND she was correct~!
I was really grateful as I had been praying for either JSS or KLE. THANK YOU LORD~! :)

Why Mysore? Well..from what I read online and what the seniors and the Indian lecturers said...Mysore was one of the most beautiful cities in Southern India. PLUS it is only about 2-2.5hours to Bangalore. I was HAPPY. I'll blog about Mysore another time(based on my research on the net)

I quickly ran upstairs and stopped by to tell Cheng. HAHA~! I remember him dancing around too. Then I called my dad to tell him about the place. I think he was really relieved that I was not sent to Salem.

I continued my jogging after that and everyone seemed really excited about their placement. Next STEP for all of us was to GOOGLE everything about the place and ask the seniors there about the University, accommodation etc ..

So that was how I came to know that I was heading to Mysore. The LOOOONG and anxious wait was over.

Feskott 2010

I've been really lazy to blog about anything recently but I feel slightly inspired to kick start my dying blog . I'll blog about the KI classes another time but rite now its time to blog about the Sports Day in KTT.

Somehow this year I got the chance to take part in it again.(my seniors last year missed the event) When Maegyvear told me during the holidays that us KI students would be able to take part in FESKOTT, I was obviously overjoyed. On the other hand, the attitude or should I say enthusiasm of my fellow KI friends sort of poured cold water over my very 'semangat' to participate. Even Christine didn't take part this year due to her ailing knee :( (You're OLD WEI!!).

Nevertheless, all these things did not deter me.... (wakaka..this sounds so wrong)REPHRASING SENTENCE : Nevertheless, I still took part because I had given my name to my lecturer and my dad had only just bought me a pair of new spikes.

The Build Up
This time, the training wasn't as fun as the previous year as I did most of it on my own. One week before FESKOTT I joined Maegyvear (my junior who's a fantastic sportsman himself) and we ran to the Stadium. I was really amazed by his stamina because never before has anyone followed me all the way from college to the stadium at a quick pace. We were in the same house so the both of us planned to take different events to increase our house's chances of winning.In fact the only time we went against each other was during the larian mesra.

'D' DAY
1st event: LARIAN MESRA,8am
This was the same as the previous year except that I knew that I would be facing tougher competition from my juniors. Well, I was right of course. At the start of the race, Victor(another one of my juniors who has such a great passion in sports as well) really sprinted like HELL. I wouldn't advice anyone to do that in a long distance race because most of the time you tend to fade away at the finish. So Maegyvear and me kept a safe distance from Victor and we tried our best not to let him run off to far away.The idea was to let him lead till 'Great Slope' and overtake him somewhere there. Maegy and me were pretty much running side by side until we entered the stadium where i started to push abit more to win the race. Victor finished in a strong 3rd place and credit must be given to him too because he had the legs to maintain his strong pace till the finishing line.

I could not save much energy during the Larian Mesra this year because of the stiffer competition. I vividly remember last year when I ran the same event the second place runner was almost 500m behind me and I did not push really hard.
It was just a small gap between me and Maegyvear in the end. MUCH MUCH closer then the previous year.

800m
My second event came just shortly after the end of larian mesra.I had that bad feeling that they were rushing to complete all the events again *just for the sake of finishing off everything* .I always hate it when they do that. It was the same in school. At the start of the 800m, I felt good and quitely confident of winning it again. I believe that this is my favourite event on the track as you can pace yourself and just follow the pacesetter and in the final lap just PUSH and beat him.


So the 800m got started with a pathetic whistle (seriously, KTT should at least get a gun to start events) and I was quite relaxed during the first lap. I remember a junior leading the way but as soon as it was the final lap, I began to close down on him. I think I remember overtaking him somewhere around the 550m mark and Ashwin was behind me so it was really good for the Red house. Indeed we finished 1-2 and it was a job well done for the team. At this moment, I still felt that I had plenty of energy in reserve which was important as I still had 3 more races to run. -.-''

I was very well behind at the end of the first lap.

The super tiny red figure there is me. Sprinting towards the finishing line

4 x 400m
My team was actually quite strong this year. Ashwin,Hazwan(a diploma student),me and Maegy.
I was the 3rd runner and Ashwin and Hazwan did well as the first two runners.Hazwan however did not use any shoes and was fading away during the last 100m. When I received the baton I was in 2nd place and had alot of work to do to catch up with the leader. The Lord somehow gave me an extra boost and I managed to pass the leader and extend the lead. So it was up to Maegyvear (our final runner) to maintain our lead and I was really confident when the baton was in his hands. In the end , our team managed to win quite comfortably and I believe that this was perhaps the most enjoyable race i had that day.

After the 4x400m was over, it was only 10.15am .Those in charge really did an excellent job in fast-forwarding everything. They should at least take into consideration that the students that are running in the events are mostly the same people and let us rest more.But Oh well..Lets just leave that to one side.
After that, I went back to KTT in Ashwin's car (he was kind enough to let me 'tumpang' throughout FESKOTT). Guess what I did when I went back to college?
STUDY ANATOMY!!! HAHAHA~! MY TEST WAS THE NEXT MORNING.CRAZY~! I KNOW.
Well, I read a few pages of anatomy and decided to lie down and rest for the afternoon's events.
I had 2 more events to go ...both sprinting events (100m and 4x100m)


4x1oom
After waiting in the energy-sapping heat for 2.5 hours, my event was finally about to start. I was hoping that we could win this race thus I'll have more confidence leading to the final race which was the 100m. However, my team could only finish second.I was really dissapointed and felt really tired after this race. Did I have enough in my reserves to win the 100m??

100m
THE ANSWER WAS NO~! sadly, i lost the 100m final. I was leading for 85-90m of the race but i just faded away in the end and my teammate from the red house won the race. "The mind was willing but the body just could not PUSH anymore.'' I was extremely dissapointed as my dreams of winning both the shortest distance race and longest distance race was shattered. I don't think I'll ever race in the 100m again and who knows, this may even be my last race ever. I'm seriously thinking of taking it easy in sports from now on because my right knee never really recovered since I injured it last November.

Oh, and in the end I was named the Olahragawan again. Not too bad considering that my knee was hurt throughout FESKOTT. AND another thing, exam was cancelled or rather postponed to a few days later as we were all given off on monday.
TATA for now...i think i'll end with a few pictures taken after the whole event was over...

Us with Mr Avadiyar, my Tamil lecturer.

KI 5 or rather whats left of KI 5

The Mascots.