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Masking is a term in __________ experiments where a __________ stimulus becomes ____________ by the presentation of a __________ stimulus in close temporal or spatial proximity to it, and may occur in any sensory modality.

Stressed spelled backwards is desserts

I'm really stressed. Really really really stressed.

It's not just because of exam.

There are other things to worry about.

If it doesn't work out, I'm going to be blamed =(

It's going to be my fault T_T

There'll be so much disappointment =(

So please just do me a favor and come in time *fingers cross*

I'll be forever grateful and never leave things till the last minute ever again!

picture by r.grace

This is exactly how I feel right now.

A lot of spiky bits poking around but I just don't know what to do.

!!!ARGH!!!

If only stress can really turn into dessert and be gobbled up >_<

*sigh*

Malaysian Studies Field Trip

Please read this with much sarcasm. Thank you.
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Thanks to the super smart government who wants to make all their citizens super smart, I am super fortunate to be forced to take Malaysian Studies this summer. Luck has it that I got a super enthusiastic lecturer for the course too, and he thought it would be super nice if we all went for a field trip to the Perdana Leadership Foundation at Putrajaya for one of the Perdana Discourse Series talk on "Higher Education in Malaysia: Increasing Access and Quality", which was organized by University Teknologi MARA.

In case you can't read the fine print in the picture, it says sponsored by Proton. No wonder we got nasi lemak + kuih for breakfast before the talk, a break with REALLY BAD coffee in between and a buffet style lunch with super sweet syrup bandung (one wonders why they keep showing those "eat less sugar or you'll die" ads on national TV -_-'') at the end. ATTENTION all tax payers!! This is where your money really goes! To benefit the country and its people with such educational and informative talk that would bring Malaysia one step further in terms of development.

Pradeesh's smart thinking got us awesome seats outside the hall where we were able to talk crap and do whatever we want XD See those sad people, especially those VIPs at the front row on the projector screen? They just woke up from a very nice nap =) You can literally see the changes in their sitting position throughout the talk *HAHAHA*

I'm not even exaggerating when I said the talk was super educational and informative.
It was SO GOOD it even made Tun Abdul Razak cry (look carefully at the picture) *LOL*

The coolest thing there that truly caught all our attention.

Since we were getting bored outside and the media people left,
we decided to go in for the panel and Q&A session to enjoy the nice seatings and air-con.

I made fun of a girl camwhoring while we were outside the hall, but I just couldn't resist myself because the chair was just SUPER AWESOME!!! It was like THE BEST chair I've ever sat on in these kind of venues. You can even lean back on it for god's sake. They don't even have these kind of chairs in the cinema man! I now know why the VIPs were enjoying their nap so much XD

Ram catching a nap on the comfy chair after our language lessons *hehe*
I only promised not to post the picture on Facebook =P
Vaange saapde bogalaam Mr. Chewie Chewie~

Our group was the only one awesome enough to get a picture taken with Tun Dr. Mahathir's wife.
We were all so awesome that none of us even knew her name *wakakaka*

As you can see I'm the only girl in my group full of nerdy boys *haha* but having you guys around sure made Malaysian Studies less torturing =) Let's hope our drama will be as awesome as our group so that we only need 10% on our finals to pass this damn unit with soaring colors >_<

HOW'S THIS FOR A REFLECTION?
instead of the shitty piece of crap I handed up.

p.s. I really hope I know what I'll be writing for the coming midterm test *finger cross*

Stuff I've left out over the semester...

This is just a miscellaneous post to summarize the happenings I've not blogged about throughout the semester due to whatever reason for my own note.


Hostellite Party
6th August

Probably the last hostellite party I'll attend

Monash University Student Association (MUSA) Welfare Department people

Our asses are HAWT!

photos by Audrey and Brian

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LEO Club Orientation, Induction & Installation
14th August

Inducted new members, newly installed Board of Directors (BODs) with the Lions

Got my awards for the fiscal year =)

Passed on my post as the Humanity Group Leader and took on the Funding Director post

Introducing the new BODs one semester late XD

photos by Brian

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Rescue Earth
20th August

Group photo with the banner as always =P

Team Makan consisting of me, Joanne, Shen Ling and Brian

We had to bring our own utensils this time around
and someone forgot to take theirs back -_-''

photos by Brian

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30 Hour Famine
21st - 22nd August

Those who starved for the full 30 hours!
I'm so proud of myself for being able to do it ^_^

The people who made the unbearable bearable =)

photos by Chris and Brian

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Health Awareness Week
13th - 15th September

Blood donation campaign

Free eye-screening by Centre for Sight

An awesome HIV & AIDS Talk by a UN speaker

photos from Leo Musc but not sure who took them =S

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Karaoke & Steamboat
28th September

A big crowd for karaoke =D

Top left to bottom right:
Head Bangers, Chinese Singers, Britneys, Emo Aerosmith and Clubbers XD

Everyone was totally starved because we were late *opps*

Nobody can beat Viran's yum (as in horny not yummy XD) look *LOL*

♥ this series of photos
The guys all look so cute ^o^

Chocolate ice cream with Milo after dinner ♥

photos by Brian

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MEMS Cultural Food Workshop
4th October

Cooking demo and FREE FOOD!! ^_^

A fire show accompanied the cooking demo XD

Top left: Titutuk Mangga Om
some mango salad with chili and anchovies I think, which was rather tasteless
Top right: Banana Bud Serunding
spicy banana bud, which was surprisingly nice
Right: Sarawak Laksa
very different from other types of Laksa, but still really nice
Bottom: Hinompuka and Celorot
some tapioca dessert and some rice flour + palm sugar + coconut milk dessert, which was just so so

photos by Brian

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MEMS Appreciation Night
15th October

I think more than half of us are not East Malaysians XD

But we still have fun =D

Everyone got a mini drum keychain as a gift =)

photos by Brian

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Melissa's Graduation
13th November

Camwhore session while waiting for the busy Melissa

She finally came~
And we caught Wen Pei too =)

The other Melissa *haha*

We made her a really cool scrapbook as a graduation gift ^_^

Our "last" dinner together at Italiannies =(

You will be missed~

photos by Tze Yuen and Brian

Food is...

My Life

My Drug

My Downfall

Last Saturday was supposed to be a stay-at-home-to-study-and-nothing-else day, but a call for dinner got me excited ^_^ So off I went to Ong Lai (Goh Kee) Restaurant (旺来 (吴记) 饭档) in KL and ended up hanging out at Fabian and Amy's place till 11pm -_-'' I had more than enough pork lard to kill me that night and all those hours away from the dining table at home means hours away from studying =(

Since Saturday was a total failure, Sunday would definitely have to be D-Day! Alas, there was another call for lunch. I was a little reluctant to go because I really had to study, but ended up going in the end because my brother didn't want to go and mum would probably cancel if I didn't go. So the temptation of food and feeling bad for mum took over self-control >_<

We went to Yi Xiang Bak Kut Teh (益香绑线肉骨茶) since they were talking about it the night before, and was raving about their yam rice and their special tie-string bak kut teh.

I only took pictures after we finished XD So as you can see, their bak kut teh come in small little bowls with an aromatherapy-like heater thing instead of the usual claypot. You order according to what type of meat you want, and the mushrooms, tofu and vegetables count as side dishes. We only ordered the meat because one side dish was ~RM5. It's so not worth it if you compare it to the meat which is ~RM9.

Their rib was quite huge, but there were only like 4-5 pieces of it in one bowl. The other meat's portion was quite small also. The meat was firm though, having a slightly different texture from the usual bak kut teh meat, which I quite like. I think it's because they tie the meat when they cook it so the meat will stay together? *LOL* Their soup is the thick kind so you can't really drink a lot of it and the yam rice was just okay, not really worth paying ~RM2.50 for in my opinion.

It's seriously expensive refined gourmet bak kut teh -_-'' The total bill came to ~RM80 for 6 people. I guess it goes to the blueish gel fuel thing they use to heat the soup and air-conditioning that cools the marble on the chair that freezes your ass. In the end, Amy, Fabian and I came to the conclusion that the cheap Ah Ping Bah Kut Teh (梳邦阿彬肉骨茶) is nicer XD

In case you can't read, it says
"SUPPORTS LEADSAFE FOR A HEALTHIER LIVING"

So it was a full of pork lard dinner and a full of pork meat lunch. Eating out of some leadsafe bowl is so not going to make me any healthier. I'm so on my way to pork hell...I really don't know whether it was all that pork I had or because of the tandoori chicken and butter naan I had for dinner, I got food poisoning that night FML! I was suppose to be catching up on my studies but my stomach hurt so bad I couldn't concentrate T^T and the next morning wasn't any better either =( Urgh! Thankfully my stomach felt better after eating some porridge, and I could finally really study properly.

I now understand why gluttony is a sin.

The Seven Deadly Sins: GLUTTONY by blackberi

They should open rehab centers for food addicts before I become this fat and die *HAHA*

p.s. Does anyone know what happened to the Chinese restaurant at Brickfields? I forgot the name, but they are not there anymore because of the Little India thing. Did they like totally close down or moved somewhere?

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