The Thursday Public Holiday

Won't be blogging tomorrow, the day after or anything soon ( if i know what's best for me), so Happy 49th Merdeka Day!

I got the year correct this time right??? =P

Monash Street Party

Held at the Sunway University College carpark at 6pm onwards. At 5pm it started to rain. And rained. And rained. And it got heavier.

It was so pathetic, i was in the front tent on the right...
There was performances by local artists and an mc and stuff in the main stage. There was completely no one in the middle due to the rain.

Even when my shift ended i opted to stay in the booth cuz i didn't wanna venture out into the rain. Though the shoes i wore were beat up old FAKE Adidas, i love them and didn't wanna get them wet. But when i went home my socks were wet... hm.. so they did get wet? Hahaha

Anyway, so, everyone had the same rational as me- stay in the tent. We were just standing there doing nothing. No one is paying to play the games, the satay man was running late... the hotdogs were good though.. or maybe i was THAT hungry.

Ex-CPA accounting club president told me that this activity costs about RM10000! Shit right? For the events management company, the tents, the local artists i guess and compensating Sunway for using the carpark!

Cheer Club + Engineering Club booth had problems. Selling a set meal-spaghetti and meatballs, a drink and jelly. RM9.00. And their stove is not working! Cheer Captain's face was really sullen, she wasn't her usual cheerful smiley self, she was just sitting there looking at the ground.

R and J went to get another stove and R got into an accident! Nothing serious though.

At about 8 did the rain start to subside and things got better lar. I went over to do my duty at the Cheer Club + Engineering Society booth. Teribbly SESAT!

I suck at waitering! I served well... and then banged the table and the drink spilled! So clumsy! And then i didn't have the brains to think of getting tissue to wipe the table... just left it there until i later! Why am i so stupid?

Luckily after that i was made "cashier", easy easy, just tear the coupons, and count the cash...

Friends who couldn't finish up their coupons and wanted to leave gave me their leftover coupons! Hehehehe. So i could afford the spaghetti, not bad not bad! Had to eat alone though =( All the other girls had the early shift and the captain is busy preparing spaghetti. Her boyfriend's the cook! He really helped out a lot and he's not even from Monash.

They were so sweet together. Made me miss E !!! =( Not to mention there was another lovey-dovey couple around, HR and CL, hugging to keep warm

Not that i was cold but, aiyoh, i was so alone. Checked my phone and saw a long sweet sms from E telling me about the plans for our 2 year anniversary! =) I smiled. But didn't reply. Sorry lar E for not replying. I dunno why i didn't.

Walked around a bit after that. Found some of my friends! Yay! Haha. And took pictures which didn't turn out well. Hate my camera. Actually, i hate myself for being NOT photogenic.

Then i heard my one of my favourite local songs being played! Went to go take pix!
K-Town Klan by Red Dragon, if i'm not mistaken, i don't really pay attention to who sings what, sorry! But i know and like the song lar.

Towards the end of the event, every club was trying to sell off their goods at lower prices. The accounting club too, i tagged along.

Girls-in-black sweet talked girl-in-white's boyfriend into buying fishes for RM5. Poor guy had to give in! And then we made him take a picture for us! Hahaha

Ms President, who is my "i dunno what am i gonna do without you when i go to Australia" study partner is next to "shitty fat looking" me in red, if u wanna know.


Really grumpy the whole week before event, reluctant to man the booths for the 3 clubs i'm in. Doing so just to get certificates. Usually i am like that before any events- grumpy, irritated. But i end up enjoying the thing.

And thats what happened again. After all the trouble i went through to get the early slots so that i could go home by 9pm, i ended up staying there on my own free will until after 11. =P


Ps. Eh... how to study without 9 highlighters? I feel so handicapped! =|

What Have You Done to Me?

E! U've MADE me into a morning person! Its barely 9am and i've been awake for 2 hours and fifteen minutes already!!!

This is not me, this is not ME!

I can't even remember the last time i woke up after ten am. Can u?

Then Why Blog?

Been having headaches a lot lately.

Damn stupid assignments, does everything have to be in the same 2 weeks? Cost accounting on Friday, Auditing on Monday, Law and Accounting issues on the following Monday.

Dead.No clue what Auditing is about. Whole lot of theory. If not for the very kind ex-Accounting Club president who loaned me the books he borrowed from the library, i would have given up hope on the auditing assignment before even starting it. Yeah, HW, if u are reading this, ur bf is a great person!! Thanks! =)

Eh... and then. Cheer club, damn, hahahahaha, after months of doing NOTHING although i am secretary, the work started pouring in. And now i'm drowning.

A report for the dance contest. Another report for the upcoming Street Party thingie... Writing is fine with me but what really really really sucks is that i have to get the full names of all winners for the contest. No one knows anyone's full names in Uni!!! Urg, time for me to harass people.

Not to mention drawing up a duty roaster for cheer club for the Street Party. Everyone wants the early slot. Including me. HELLO, MUSA, next time make it at 4pm-9pm lar. What do u want me to do in uni while waiting for the event ar? Not like i stay in the hostel and can take a shower!

Soooooo irritated.

Oh yeah, er, watched Monster House, free! Hehe. On the way home there was an accident and we busybody a bit. Stopped the car, at a proper parking spot of course, to go watch. Aiyoh, car overturned, mowed the grass and chopped some small trees before hitting a big tree. The driver and passengers were already out of the car... the police was investigating and people taking down the car plate number...

If not for my stupid asssignments, i would have went home, got a camera and watched the whole investigation + clear up. Wasted. Nice upside down wreck ok?

Back to the movie. Not worth your money. Assuming u were to pay for it.

My Handicap

Born with two left feet: I can't dance!!! Arrrggggggghhhhhhh!!! I screwed up in the contest, i know i did. Too nervous.

Brought a video camera and the whole contest was recorded. But ta-dah! Found out that everything is in the camera except for Spirit's dance! Perfect, i cannot watch it to be assured that i wasnt so bad.

Maybe it is a blessing in disguise. Maybe i was THAT bad, and the fact that the file is missing means i don't have to see how sucky i am. Sigh sigh sigh, winning 3rd place in a contest with only 3 competitors!! Hahahahaha.

Oh well, at least i made friends with these very nice people! Hardly spoken to them before this. The girl in pink beside me is captain of Spirit. One gal's missing, she rushed off to finish up her AFW3050 Financial Accounting Issues. I should have done that too. Underestimated the time needed to finish up the assignment.

We actually finished it in time =P But we had to re-write everything in pen. Didn't realize it'd take us FOUR HOURS! We allocated 2 hours. So we were two hours late, me and my best study partner ever: HL

The both of us copying like mad! E took the pix cuz my cam was lying around. We never realized we were perfectionists. We wanted the assignment to be the best it can be. In the end its turned out a lot worse.

Sat there for 3 hours, copying straight. Hand hurts from being forced to remain in a very unnatural position (holding the pen) for so long. HL said that its like shipwrecks and corals... we are the shipwreck and the pen is the coral that grew onto us. Laughed like mad.

Skipped lunch: we just had banana cake each. She was busy as the president of the accounting club, i was busy with cheer practise. She stained her formal wear in the rush to finish the assignment, i didn't have time to change into jeans. So irritating getting stares from people, never see a girl wear pleated skirt before ar?

Lecturer already left when we handed the assignment out. Had to slip it under the lecturer's door. It got stuck! Ah!

Lunch with E at Sri Hartamas before his appointment of pain, if u know what i'm talking about. Noodles in a crispy bowl. Good but very oily and small.

Unrelated picture, found it in my camera, my little Coco with puppy eyes. Right after her shower. And that thing in front of her is a banana. =P

Ps. I sucked in my stomach in the first picture =P =P =P And i did the put one leg in front of the other trick. Always does the trick!


Now i shall condemn charity.

Condemn the organizers of charity events to be exact. I hate the Forces of Natures Carnival one that is on tonight too. I wanna go!

But to be truthful, how much of the RM80 goes to charity? Hm?

How much of it goes into cost?

The charities i've done in uni. Selling donuts. Dunkin Donuts. We had to buy it at consumer price. By the dozen, and mark it up a lil.

Of course sales are good whenever u say "its for charity". But in actual fact, only a small amount actually goes to charity. The rest goes into the cost. Dunkin Donut are making hell a lot of money from students who run charity drives, aren't they? Its not like they slashed the price so that more of it goes to charity, do they? If they did, do inform me.

And remember those bands?

At least McDonalds disclosed the amount that goes to charity. Only a mere ten cents. How much did each band cost? RM2.90? Or was it RM3.90? But where does the rest go????? To Justin Timberlake for singing the I'm Loving It Song?

And people say its for charity. Right, can i be charity too?

Yeah, i'm a sucker for buying those bands. Cuz frankly, it was not just charity, its also a fashion statement. The for charity part is just to induce you into buying.

Heart softener.

I hate it when people say "its for charity" when only 30% or so of profits or so goes to charity.
Example:
Socks for Charity
Sale price : RM10
Cost price: RM2
Profit: Sale price - cost price = RM10 - RM2 = RM8
And if 30% of profits goes to charity, RM8 x 0.3 = RM2.40

So u paid ten bucks for the socks "For Charity" when only RM2.40 actually goes to charity.

The other RM5.60 leh? Big company's pocket is it?

Not fair right?! U make people pay ridiculously "for chairty" when not much of it actually goes to charity.

That's why donating blood is good, all of it goes to the person in need, not like the hospital owner can take some of your blood for himself. =P Hahahahha


Note: None of the statements are to defame Forces of Nature, Dunkin Donut, McDonald, any organizer who coincidentally happen to be selling RM10 socks for charity or any other fund raisers. None of this statements are implying that any these organizations are unethical. This blog entry is solely and entirely questioning the usage of the term "it's for charity" and the detriment the term "its for charity" has on kind-hearted consumers.