hApPy fReAkiN' nEw yEaR...

I just kept telling myself for the past few days… “I’ll blog something today… I will…” but something always gets in the way. There’s always someone on the phone, a colleague stopping by for office chit-chat, meetings that seem to last a lifetime, homework, and the list goes on… you’d think someone like me would be past homework. Yeah, I guess God has laid out paths for all of us and mine happened to involve homework at 24… or rather 25… I think I am going with 24… actually taking up some foreign languages was all my idea, I have after all been trying for the past four years, so now I am finally able to take the courses the least I could do is not complain right?! Hmm… although a little bitchin’ never hurt anybody I always say.
Let’s see… my last entry was on the 25th so that makes the week a whole void. Well, plenty happened, although the plenty that happened are non-juicy or afternoon soap worthy material, but rather the usual developments in my life, academic career, relationships, and schedule. Put like that it might sound nice but trust me, they are just the same old crap…
The storm that cut my blog-time last week lasted for quite a while. At least I think it did because I dozed off waiting for it to stop. Thinking I’d continue with my bitchin’ and all… but being the lazy asshole that I am I dozed off. Remember the shit load of work I had, and supposed to have completed on the Monday off… well, I ended up stapling my lid to the tv and wasting my time making my ass bigger doing other stuff. So I went to work the next day hoping to avoid Dr K because the poster I promised to finish for him was only half done, but in the end he ended up avoiding me as well because he had his share of catching up to as well. I guess that’s why academicians get cranky early in the semesters, they shouldn’t be caught up in administrations work, but then again some of these really aren’t administrative at all and the admin staff just cannot cope with the load; unless of course they hire chemical engineering graduates to fill in those positions. The syllabus, load, registrations and all those nonsense, the students will walk all over them… so I guess the system is as it should be.
Someone commented that I get too involved in my work and end up sounding very boring; but truth of the matter is, I am a boring person to begin with. I just like to talk about work, research and stuff like that; and I also like to talk about games and movies I watch on Hallmark *and yes I watch Hallmark!!!*… so that makes me a boring person to some. But I am happy and I’d like to stay that way. Even though I may bitch about it from time to time; and complain and whine, but I am happy and thus so I will remain.
Working with the poster and stuff was getting a bit of a hassle without a USB drive; mine was taken hostage by Anna and all, so I guess I’ll just have to ask for one from the Department. That was on the list of things to do that day. I went to see Professor Ali a little before lunch to ask about class so it’d look like I care. Apparently I got the time mixed up and missed the bloody thing. Good thing it was a lecture because the tutorial was on Mondays, and thus cancelled because of Christmas. A little chat and I was off. Picked up a 256MB USB drive from the office *I would have like the 1GB one but no stock apparently*. The rest of the day is pretty much a blur to me now.
Highlight of Wednesday was the fu*king hole I burn in my bloody pocket paying for my fees at IPS. It wasn’t that much but still my poor gold card was set back a good RM1500 or so. Oh well… oh and I finally got the letter of offer for my French, German and Spanish classes. After harassing Razak at the office about my offer letter from those as* li*king m*therf*ckers SKR I called them and said I’ll go pick the thing up myself. There were mistakes on the print and it was left on someone’s desk apparently. even though I was told “it’s been sent to you”
Thursday… I was at UPM the whole day attending a one day seminar on Technologies on Wastewater Treatment by Professor Bharat Gupta from France. A good lecture in whole I would say. From there I rushed back to UM just in time for my first Spanish class. The teacher was Chinese and apparently she recognized me from Second College days back in 2000. She was my PM… how’s that for a small world..?!
Chinese-Spanish accent may need some getting used to though!!!
Friday or rather yesterday was the day that I told myself I’d stay at the office and get all my work done; once and for all. Arrived at 10:07 for my 10:00 appointment with Professor Nik; she was chatting with Dr Che Ros in front of her office. I was cutoff by Awanis who needed to see her and couldn’t wait in line so I figured it must be important. I courteously excused myself to Xerox my Spanish notes to give way.
The meeting afterwards went on until after twelve. Went to my room and Ramang called to tell me they were leaving for Friday prayers and I needed the ride. This after a short hi-have-a-nice-trip with FMT who was leaving for Mecca…
I was off and at the mosque… lunch and all lasted till 3.
Back to the office. Dr Ngoh came for a chat. About 4 ish then
Ramang came later to take back his USB drive, I transferred Angels in America to the tablet PC so I can watch it over the weekend.
Mama called says Zul will pick me up a little later. I was fine with that. More time to do work.
Proceeded to check my email…
Ismail called about the Taman Negara trip he was planning for CNY just as I was reading the email… chatted with him about stuff and who’s doing what until a little after 6.
Finished off replying emails and stuff and Ramang had to leave for Maghrib.
Dragged the files into my briefcase *hoping to get some work done over the weekend… again…*. Prayed… 7:30 ish… time was up… Zul called. Packed up, locked my room and left.
So bloody much for getting work done.
Let’s see how this weekend goes.
Bless…

I need a break

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mErRy cHriStMaS... bitchin' today...

Gee what do you know… Christmas is here again. The time of year where malls stock up with cool stuff and they try to get rid of em’ at amazing prices… to get anything, you’d have to kill someone swim the ocean of traffic and people… I mean the traffic is just impossible… and the crowd is just insane. So Christmas for me this year is staying home and getting some posters done and complete the Air Pollution course modules…
The gang (kamal, adib, faz, bond, actually all of em’ I think) is meeting at Hartamas Square or someplace that sounds like that tonight… I wanted to go but transport being the main problem and the fact that Mama told me to stay home also there’s work… hmmm… bottom-line, I am sitting this one out. Why do they have to pick such a place anyways?! Some people, I just don’t know what to say… but then again who cares if I am not going to show. It’s not like I am on their most popular list or somethin’. I wasn’t even invited at first, until I started to make a fuss about it… why am I getting all worked up about this?! Because I AM A BITCH!!!... and someone should just bitchslap me out of … things are different for me. I get treated differently there I go again… shut up BITCH!!! or so I think… I started realizing this when I saw Salam chatting with Sinul the other day. Their conversation a BITCH that eavesdrop… how’s that?!!! was so relaxed thrashy and of no use to mankind whatsoever and SO NOT like my conversations with the people I know. Except for Kamal that is, but he’s different… he’s been listening to my non-stop complaining and whining and bitchin’ about everything … rants for more than 6 years he knows how to talk to me… he’s just nice most of the time… but this is not about him… Salam and Sinul yeah… they were talking about who’s got new handphones, who’s buying new cars, who’s bitchin in his house… stuff like that. When any of them ever call me it’d be to ask about so and so’s phone number, or fax number, or address even, how to do this, how to apply for that, are the results out, are the lecturers screwing each other again? and stuff like that… it’s not that I mind being their one stop tele-info centre line, but a “how are you today?” or “… you bumpin’ anyone tonight?...” or even “… bump me tonight…” would be nice once in a while… I do get em’ from Kamal tho’ but he can only ask like so many times… it’s even hard to get replies sometimes… I guess maybe I’m just still dwelling in the past or I have SOBs and biatches for friends… and the fact that I am at the university doesn’t really help… but it sure beats hanging around people close to retiring age discussing about securing contracts, commissions and stuff like that… *shivers* those business days were something… Masters of Engineering Science is a sure good excuse to get way from work… and I think the substitute job of tutoring is going to be fun as well… at least it’ll be young dudes and pretty gals. Then there’s the occasional “yo!” on the good ole YIM… but then that’s about it… no follow up… so what was I to do, where was I to go, I was out on my fanny…. *6 episodes of the Nanny back to back can do that to you* you know what… screw this… I forgot what the hell my point was… and the bitchin’ it’s so not worth it. I got my PC, the internet and my PS2, tons of work… merry Christmas to me the pathetic bitch
Oh. I meant to write about those motherfu*kers idiots that installed my ac at the office. Well, they showed up a day later, without notice or apologies for standing me up the whole day the day before, while I was having my morning coffee at the café. I saw them arrive… I figured ‘I’ll just let them wait for me for a while’ so I took my time wih my coffee… the view from the Architecture Faculty (where the café is) is clear enough for me to see everything… the unloading of equipments, shit like that… a good five minutes and I am I figure ‘if they leave it’s gonna be my loss’, so I dragged my lil’ ass yeah right!!! back to my building to unlock my office. A few hours later my room is cooled with the new 1.5hp ac unit… finally, after like 3 months of wait, that’s finally over…
Ok… storm coming… dun want my modem to burn… will continue later…
Bless…
~ShaZ

mY dAy.... bOriNgGgGgG...

I was just staring at my blog… just staring… like a bloody idiot… I don’t know why?! I guess it’s because I feel like my life is rather gray lately. It’s not that I am complaining *hey, what do you call that then?! Stupid!!!* and I don’t want to sound like a bitch ungrateful, but that’s just how I feel and there’s nothing I can do about it… I guess I could stop complaining… oh well, chances are I’ll forget about this and feel better tomorrow.
Those people finally showed up to fix my new ac unit this morning, although I wasn’t there and they have to come back tomorrow, at least I know it’ll be there tomorrow. It’s been like hell that office. I mean like sheesh… I took like 6 months I think for them to fix it… how’s that for ISO huh?!
The day was rather choppy, I arrived at the office about 11:20am (supposed to meet Prof. Nik at 11:00am) and I scan the parking lot for her car… not in sight… she’s later than I am…stopped by the main office at the department to check my pigeonhole and there was a piece of shit memo about a meeting with the Deputy Dean for the Annual Report Committee at 10:00am today (it was 11:30am then), took my payslip from Kak Yatie’s desk, said my usual ‘good morning’ to Kak Yatie… walked over to my building and saw Salam on the cute yellow scooter as I was walking up the stairs, went to my office, fix things up a little, called the Deputy Dean’s office to ask about the meeting only to find out it’s been postponed (for the 2nd time) to 2:15pm, check a bunch of rubbish email, then the cleaner lady came and I bashed her up with my keyboard made her wipe the dust off my PC… called Prof. Nik’s office and her PA told me she said she was coming but not sure what time that is (of course she is, she is supposed to see me…)… Dr. Barul came to discuss about some Laboratory arrangement stuff for this semester, gave him the file and he left… Salam had to see his friend about something so he told me to leave the room unlocked if I had to leave for the meeting before he came back… Prayed Zuhur… Salam came back about 2 pm… then Prof. Nik called and said I could see her then… rushed over to meet her in the tea room, talked about the IPPP Research Bulletin, my progress report, a poster I was supposed to help Dr. K with, the Air Pollution e-Learning Lecture slides, and the APPCHE conference, this took about 15 minutes and it was 2:30pm then… wished her a pleasant trip to India and bring me back something nice and ran down to the faculty building. Almost everyone was there but the meeting hasn’t started. The Deputy Dean was on his cell phone. This is okay then, I thought. The meeting went on and on about how to present the data on the report and stuff like that, bla bla bla… had a cup to tea with milk after that (there’s always food for UM meetings… :P) packed 4 karipap back to my room. There was fried noodles served but it looked yucky to I didn’t bother… returned Awanis’ call from the phone in the meeting room (she called during the meeting) and she wanted the Lab Manual CD… went back to my room, Salam was doing his usual website rounds… went to Dr. Ngoh’s room to get the CD from her… passed it to Awanis… chatted a while with her… Salam left around 5:00pm… I checked my bank account. My Credit Card was overdue!!!! What the F*CK I thought… grabbed my bag and checked my chequebook. I had written a cheque for the Credit Card on the 2nd of December… couldn’t have taken 2 weeks for the cheque to get there… Dammit… give a call to southern bank to ask what the fuck is wrong… “No we have not received your cheque sir…”
F*CK!!! “You may call your bank to stop that check and write us another one.” F*CK!!! I hate going to the bank… guess I have no choice and pay a visit to bank myself tomorrow to settle my bills with cash… it’s already 2 days overdue anyways, another cheque would take too long… bloody post… F*CK!!! I hope Salam comes tomorrow so I can get a ride from him to the bank… F*CK!!! Prayed Asar… They came to pick me up from work…
Quiet drive home. cursing the postal service and the bank...Didn’t doze off in the car.
Had dinner… typed some letters to be faxed… faxed em’ out… here I am now updating my blog… so I guess that was my day today… *sigh* choppy and boring… all this for peanuts… hehehe
Better stop now…
Bless…
~ShaZ

woRk....

erkkk... company work catching up...
MEngSc progress report due soon... and what have I done?!
don't ask!!!

baGGGGsssss...

so much for updating my blog...
I need sleep... *drags eyebags over to bed*
Zzzzzzzzzz...

uPdaTeS!!!!

I haven’t been posting for a while… I’ll make this a quick one…
Lately I have been pretty busy with work... Coming to the office everyday and all… it is the end of the year and with the semester starting and all, I guess it is rather expected…
Updates…
I think I am going to be tutoring Separations 2 and CPP 1 next semester… assisting Prof. Ali… I have a feeling I’m going to like it… as if that is not enough work; I’ve registered for French, Spanish and German… I dunno if they’ll accept me into the course though… I hope they do…
Hmm… let’s see… I’ve found some cool blogs to visit… maybe I’ll update my layout and get the links on… maybe tonight…
I better stop here for now… will be posting soon…
Bless…
~ShaZ

I noT woMaN...!!!

FYI of all Shazrin is a GUY's name... I am not a woman... :P
*I get this a lot*

LaZy suNNy suNDaY...

It’s a Sunday… that translates to a long and lazy day in front of my PC listening to songs, reading blogs, updating my friendster, downloading more mp3s… and then feel guilty for not getting any work done…
Professor Nik’s e-learning course syllabus… still on my shoulders… I’ve done most of the structuring but getting to the typing and designing is the difficult part. Just blocked of inspiration lately… that or I am just getting lazier by the day. I hope it’s not the latter though. The course is not that extensive anyways, I am just preparing a few modules and I bet she’s expecting something good so I better not slack off too much… *note to self: must finish at least module 1 today* yeah right…
The day is really sunny and hot… which is a good thing I suppose, our laundry have not been drying properly lately, and jeans being my everyday attire doesn’t help too… those things takes like 2 days to dry out lately… it’s just too damp and cloudy, so a little sun is good… so my clothes are drying and Poe and Maroon 5 blaring on my speaker… who could ask for a better weekend?! Although it would’ve been better if Kamal agreed to accompany me to KLCC for the PC Fair… Today’s the last day and it looks like I am not going to make it… I am not going to bother with Mama and Abah driving me there because I can imagine the traffic… It’ll just get him pissed and stressed out, so I guess that’s not worth it… so I guess I’ll just have to wait for the next PC Fair… I do need a new mouse and I wouldn’t mind getting myself another hard disk *wink*. One can never have too much storage.
Those IT guys never did show up… bloody lying motherfuckers… UMMail is just useless without my Contacts on Outlook and that’s not allowing any emails out… something about SSL and password not accepted… stupid asses… I guess I’ll just keep using GMail and Streamyx as my primary official email…
I chatted with Rifqah the other day… she seemed so in control with her life and enjoying herself in Germany. I guess she’s really savoring her ‘free’ life while she still has it. It’ll all be over when she comes back after all (living with her parents and all)… I am slowly getting over her… it’ll all be over. Life must go on…
Kuhaz and Muiz have added me on their friendster… more people on my network… yaay… I figured since we almost never say a word to each other in person, it’s always just salam and everybody back to their business, we could interact online… they are family after all… I’d hate for our family to break off when our parents are gone… I mean my mom and dad are still in touch with their cousins, which cousins am I going to be in touch with later… gosh… that’s like way in the future… mengeratkan sillaturahim lah katakan… hehe
I better sop now… I am rambling…
Bless…
~ShaZ

gRoUpeR...

I haven’t been posting again eh?! Muhahaha… it’s grouper I tell you… I can’t get away from it… addictive…