全槟大专华语歌唱比赛

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由理科大学(USM) 华文学会歌咏组主办，一年一度的华语歌唱比赛又到来了！

好消息是，这届的比赛不限于理科大学的大学生，

而是公开予全槟城的在籍大专生报名哦！

想要与全槟的大专生互相切磋歌艺？

想要脱颖而出成为这届的冠军？

那就别再犹豫了，

赶快报名咯！

详情请浏览以下的网站

http://onmic0910.blogspot.com/

以及下载报名表格！

报名费只需 RM5~!

就有机会赢取总值 RM1000的奖品哦~！

报名截止日期: 01/01/2010

On Mic, On Sound, On Your Life!

有你，有麦，绝对 HIGH!

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大专: 国立大专、私人大专、各大学院

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2 more Papers to go...

Exam weekkkkkk.....................

everyone is complaining about exam on Facebook, hahaha....

How to memorize everything and 'vomit out' the everything exactly in final?

It's really hard lah...

Although I have only 3 papers to sit for this semester...

Although I had many days to study for a subject... which had past today morning...

still I couldn't answer correctly as I wished...

You know, I had memorize the stuffs!!! But why couldn't I remember what were they?

Weak memory power I have, really.

The paper I had sit today was Food and Industrial Microbiology, with 4 credit hours~~

Overall I was able to write most of the points... but there were some parts which I failed to recall what I had memorized. Haiz...

Never mind, I will put more effort in the next paper... (hope so lolz), which is a very very hard subject: Microbiology of Pathogens, falls on 18th November.

And the next day to it, I will sit for Marketing paper, of my minor course.

Huhu... yea, there are still two weeks time!!!!

wow... really a long gap and then the two papers are packed together.

But never mind, I like the timing ahaha...

I will survive!!!

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oh, everyone is so so so addicted to Facebook!!!

Facebook is really 非死不可!!!!

-quote from ChingHuey-

Prevent CERVICAL cancer!

Last Monday and Tuesday, I was very hardworking! I went swimming with my roommate Bei Shan at the swimming pool of the condominium I'm staying now.

As a result, I had some muscle pain~~~ and still, I had decided to go for injection at such body condition! lolz...

After long procrastination, finally I decided to pay RM160 to numb (no la, was to inject) my left arm with the HPV vaccine (Cervarix), at USM clinic.

So, what was the injection for? HPV stands for Human Papillomavirus; which causes Cervical Cancer. For your information, Cervical cancer is the 2nd most common cancer affecting Malaysian women, after breast cancer, according to the information I read in the leaflet. The virus is transmitted through genital skin to skin contact, so it can affect virtually any woman! Hence, the ideal time to vaccinate against this HPV types 16 and 18 is before you get exposed to HPV... means before the first sexual encounter~~~

There is a total of 3 doses: Second dose would be 1 month after the first dose; Third dose would be 6 months after the first dose. Since getting these doses in USM clinic would be cheaper compared to private clinics, I could save more money then.

However, what made me consider quite a long time was the risks that come along with injection. Recently, there was a news bringing the death of a school girl after being injected with this vaccination. However, no detailed updates about the news saying what was the real reason causing the death; what I found was saying:

"It appears that Natalie died from a tumour in her chest involving her heart and her lungs."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/coventry_warwickshire/8284517.stm

Information of Cervarix from Wikipedia:
Cervarix is created using the L1 protein of the viral capsid. Recombinant activity in a baculovirus vector produces L1 protein spheres, which are very immunogenic. The viral proteins induce the formation of neutralizing antibodies. The vaccine contains no live virus and no DNA, so it cannot infect the patient.

So basically, it should be safe because no virus replication could happen....
However, anyone who is allergic to any of the ingredients in the vaccine should not receive this vaccination!
There are possible side effects after injection which are normal reaction:
headache, aching muscles, fatigue, gastrointestinal including nausea, diarrhoea, abdominal pain, itching, red skin rash, hives, joint pain, fever....
for more details, may refer here: http://www.cervicalcancerinfo.co.uk/index.asp

In fact, I was quite worried about these side effects too....
Finally, what I had experienced yesterday was: the nurse had a good skill, I felt like bitten by a normal ant when the needle was stabbed into my arm; no pain actually... then, when the vaccine was full injected into my body, immediately I walked out from the clinic without any effects. After walking for some distance, my arm became numb, and I felt like vomitting. But I didn't vomit, just feeling ill, and gasses were filling my stomach... the whole night I kept exhaling those gasses out from my stomach.... besides that, I had some pain at the site of injection. Overall, these effects were common.

Maybe it would be better if I went for injection accompanied by someone =(

1st Exp @ AZUMA

yohoo~~~ Finally could relax for some moments after rushing slides for presentation and studying for test.

Last Tuesday, there was a presentation session for us to present the mini project (experiment) that we had done for about 2 weeks before Hari Raya break. My group was doing on "Production of Cellulase Enzyme via Submerged Fermentation", which was one kind of project doing by some coursemates for their FYP. However, our presentation was carried out quite badly... still acceptable though.

This semester, I had done a few mini projects~~ which I found quite good, because I could really learn something!

ChoyLeng and Siang went to Queensbay together with me this afternoon. Finally I had registered myself at the counter @ Queensbay to join the Penang Marathon.

However, I had changed my mind, from joining Half Marathon category to Fun Run only; I had also helped my dear to register too! huhu... Siang still insisted on joining Half Run, ganbatte neh~

Reasons to change Category: I guess 21 km is really exhausted! It's kinda impossible mission for me, I am not really a runner~~~ so why should I waste my money huh.... By the way, I would be happy if the Fun Run cateogory does let us to run on the Penang bridge. Sigh... it was my main purpose initially~~~~ aiya, never mind la..... then I should set a target to complete the 10km~~

AZUMA

Before we registered, we went to fill our stomach at AZUMA, a japanese restaurant. It was our very first time trying out this restaurant. It was a nice place but kinda cramped. After staring at the menu for long, we were asked to order our drinks first. Though I knew the price was really expensive for drinks, still I opted for Kiwi Sorbet which costed me RM12 instead of Green tea that costed only RM1 @@. In fact, I was paiseh to order only green tea while the waitress was trying to persuade us on those drinks.

me with my Kiwi Sorbet~~

Then, we took long time to think before decided to order those expensive food...

I had ordered a Chicken Teriyaki Set including salad, pickles, custard, miso soup, white rice and of course the chicken teriyaki; Siang ordered Oyako Don (rice topped with chicken and egg); and ChoyLeng ordered Watari Gani Jyu (rice with soft shell crab).

My Chicken Teriyaki Set~

Overall, the foods tasted quite delicious, but if the price could be reduced more then better haha... but I think they really served real japanese food, I mean with real ingredients from Japan and that's why it's expensive...

Their service was good, hmm... let me tell a 'funny' incident here;

When we were eating, I saw a black hair mixed well in Siang's Oyako Don! I guess it was quite a normal incident that happened, however, since the food was charged with high price and with 15% tax, we should make a complaint about this! The people-in-charged seemed worried, and immediately agreed to change a new bowl for Siang! Wow... haha, then one of the waiter (or manager?) attended to us and served Siang a plate with 2 sushi. Hmm, it was definitely FOC.

Too bad that I had forgotten to snap photo of the 'food with hair'... as a proof huh...

However, 3 of us were quite satisfied with their immediate reaction; and we made them to become nervous I think. We were naughty, because we kept on laughing on their reactions, lolz.

After the meals, we were served with a scoop of green tea ice cream each. Wow, it's delicious! Not too sweet!

For more detailed about this restaurant:

http://www.penangtuapui.com/2009/03/restaurant-azuma-japanese-restaurant/ can refer this link o~

Today was quite a nice day hehe... we just took short time for waiting bus (for going and back). I seldom hang out with Siang and ChoyLeng actually. However, 3 of us enjoyed much today, and had helped Siang in choosing a dinner dress~

By the way, I felt quite sorry for unable to join my coursemates to sing K at Redbox Gurney. Because I wanted to save money. Since I had spent much on the Japanese lunch, and we came out from the restaurant at 3pm, it's quite not worth for me to have a full buffet at Redbox at 5pm.... sorry yo my coursemates...

hmm.... Forgot to mention, today is the Last Day of Semester 1 of Year 2009/2010. Then, Study week is with us, which means the Final exam is coming soon.... T_T"

Need to start studying soon, aiks... kinda lazy oh...

Ganbatte everyone!

Penang Bridge International Marathon, anyone?

Since two years ago, I have been thinking of joining the Penang Bridge International Marathon.

Haha... but well, although I studied at Penang since that time, I was not at Penang at the time it was held. This time, coincidently, I will be at Penang.

The date this big run falls on 22nd November 2009, which is after my final exam.

First of all, I am interested to join because I want to experience walking/running on the Penang bridge! haha...

So, you should know that I'm not a good runner/marathoner.

There are 4 categories:

1. Full Marathon - 42.195 km

2. Half Marathon - 21 km

3. Quarter Marathon - 10 km

4. Fun Run - 10 km

If I join, I will join the Half Marathon, need to pay RM40 as Entry Fee oh. Fun run is okay but it won't fulfill my wish which is to experience the 'run' on the bridge. Any detailed information, you can refer to its official website: http://www.penangmarathon.gov.my/portal/

hmm.... Should I join or not?

sigh... I really scare I can't make it, or I should only walk haha...

Any friend interested to join together? The closing date for registration is 31st October 2009.

Tell me if you're joining too! I'm still hesitating...

音乐，牵系着我们。

Last Friday was a busy day. Most of my coursemates were rushing the lab report for the mini project we had done for the course: Food & Industrial Microbiology. Even though it was midnight 3++am, there were still 10 of them stayed connected to MSN!

I was greedy as I had 4 hours sleep. I should used the time to rush everything....

at the end, by skipping the 2 classes, and still I did not manage to finish actually. Before 5pm, I managed to print out the report with bad introduction and discussion parts (which were very very important parts), and then ran to submit it at office. Luckily it was not closed yet!

Within half hour, I also met few of my coursemates who actually did not submit the reports! o.O

Well, we all like to do works last minute huh... we had been given a long period to do....

aiks... I really hate the things I submitted as it was done so badly....

After that.... relaxing time!

I had joined the dinner gathering 聚餐联谊 that was organised by LaiKuan for all committee members and advisors of Singing Competition (歌咏组前组委为顾问团，现任歌咏组组委+歌唱比赛筹委们). It was always fun to hang out with them~

It was my first time to have my dinner at 火锅之家. By paying RM18, you can eat all you want, buffet style steamboat+bbq~ also with ice-cream and ice-kacang, dim sum... but the place was really hot....

Next destination was the 'famous' 4 poles stood at Jelutong seaside, but not all of us went.

It was nothing special but only the 4 poles which from different angle you might spot 3 poles or 2 poles only. It was a seaside which similar to Gurney drive.

We had some chatting over there, and had taken many photos in the dark.

the 4 poles~~~~

Took by using timer + flash, everyone on the round 'bench'

There were another two persons sitting behind us actually, they were not interested in taking photos with us oh...

Another two gang went home earlier~

Anyhow, it was a fun and relaxing Friday night with 歌咏组组委们+歌唱比赛筹委们！

希望各位可以合作愉快，一起把歌唱比赛搞得有声有色！

我（"顾问"）会继续顾着问的，哈哈！！！