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It has been a super uber terrific month this February!
Besides having had an extraordinary Chinese New Year, meeting many relatives, and receiving a huge fortune in Ang Paus, PLUS a wonderful make-up Valentine’s Day… I have another FOUR major accomplishments!
#1 – Winning a Toastmasters speech competition.
Having joined Toastmasters for quite some time, this is my very first time taking part in a speech competition!
The club level competition was held on the February 3rd, and by the end of it I was given the great honour to represent my university’s club in an area-level speech competition, which will be held on the 24th of March at the Toastmasters in SHELL IT International Sdn. Bhd., the IT arm of Shell in Malaysia.
The type of speech is called table-topics speech, which basically is an impromptu speech. You are given a topic on-the-spot while you are on the stage, and you start speaking right away.
Being a first-timer, I doubt I’d have any chance of winning in the area-level competition. With so many professionally-trained speakers coming from different Toastmasters clubs in the area, I guess I count myself lucky just to be able to attend and watch and learn!
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#2 – Receiving my very first Dean’s List Award!
Remember my very daring aim to get a four flat GPA in the last semester?
I managed to get it! Woohoo! 
Now OK, I know that there are countless four-flatters out there and this is SERIOUSLY not at all a big deal. And some super nerds/geeks – I mean hardworking good students – probably get it every semester!
So what? This is my first and I shall shamelessly blow the trumpets and sound the heralds! Hmph! 
And due to the achievement, the Faculty has awarded me with…
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*cue sound of horns and holy light shining from the heavens*
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Behold! My very first own Dean’s List!
Kakaka… I’ve wanted one of those since my foundation/pre-U years!
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#3 – Being offered an industrial training position in AMD, Penang!
Finally, the labour of applying for internship is over! I received a call from AMD the week before Chinese New Year, went through a phone interview, and a week later was told that I have been accepted!
I was afraid that they would ask me to go to Penang for an interview but luckily they didn’t!
Well, Let’s see… I had my primary and secondary education in Ipoh, foundation studies in Malacca, undergrad studies in Selangor, and now industrial training in Penang! Yay! Where’s next? Sarawak?
Apart from the monthly allowance, AMD also gives us a ‘food allowance’ of RM2 per day, which sounds like nothing initially, but a friend of mine whose sister is working in AMD told me that the food in these giant companies are kinda heavily subsidized, so apparently you really could have a meal with just RM2-3.
Amazing huh?
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#4 – Getting a free HP Notebook!
… From the most unlikely giver – the Malaysian government!
Apparently this is a government initiated collaboration with TM to offer free HP notebooks to university students subscribing to a certain broadband plan. Freebies! Who’s gonna let it slip?
Received my notebook about a week ago, and it is great!
The specs of the notebook ain’t that great, as it is an HP mini. But who cares? It’s free!
My housemates Alvin and the rest are all applying for the plan. In due time, I think all of us will be having one! Thank you Najib!
Is this a good enough reason for us to vote for Barisan Nasional in the next election? Hmm… 
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Three weeks have passed since my 22nd birthday last month! Now only blogging about it… =)
As we grow older, a lot of people say, we don’t celebrate our birthdays as much anymore. Especially guys.
It is a sad fact that indeed as you grow older, you find less and less friends who are ‘free’, or think that celebrating a birthday is important enough to take up their precious time! As opposed to more ‘important’ things like doing assignments, clubbing, shopping, watching PPStream at home etc.
But I still count myself lucky enough to have a group of friends who are willing to do just such an unimportant thing! Celebrate with me! Yay!
It was more or less supposed to be a ‘surprise party’, but unfortunately the hidden agenda was pretty much obvious when they asked for a friends’ gathering on a sudden Monday night…
And also when I asked them what we were going to do (movie, dinner, karaoke or something), one of them replied: “Aiya, later when you reach then you will know lor…!”
LOL, didn’t even bother to make up some fake events!
But I am absolutely not complaining, I can’t express how much I appreciate their time and effort. In fact, I was so happy that I could not stop smiling.
That’s just Hanif experimenting with my camera’s smile shutter function.
After the dinner, a few people had to leave, but the remainder of us went to Alamanda.
Originally, we had wanted to go for bowling… but unfortunately there was some kind of bowling competition (10PM at night!) going on and so we changed plan and went for a movie instead!
We happily bought the tickets for the movie ‘Legion’ (which would later prove to be a ridiculously bad movie) and while waiting for the movie to start an hour later, we went to the arcade to kill time.
We spent most of our tokens playing race cars, as they were the only machines that the many of us could play together. Although that was just for killing time, but we had a really great time in the arcade!
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The night before, on the eve of my birthday, my dear had already celebrated with me on a very different scale: just the two of us in a quiet corner in a TGI Fridays, The Gardens.
And she also gave me a wonderful present to celebrate me having roamed the Earth for 22 long years!
… A wonderfully packaged CK Eternity Summer eau de toilette with a very delightful scent! It’s really no secret that guys do not (or utterly rarely) buy perfumes for themselves, and if they happen to have a bottle a two, the fragrances are usually given to them by girls!
I dunno why that seems to always be the case but the only reason that I can imagine is that fragrances are historically feminine and perhaps it strips certain men of their ‘manliness’ to shop for them along the aisles of some beautycare shop.
Anyway, who cares? Happy 22nd birthday to myself!!
Just hope I don’t get old too soon… =)
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Being a biker in Malaysia really isn’t cool at all:
In a poll by The Star, out of 14,150 Malaysians who voted, more than NINETY PERCENT or TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE think that it is a waste of time having a program to rehabilitate Mat Rempits!
And the most amusing thing is… more than 50% think this particular brand of Malaysian bikers is - beyond rehabilitation.
LOL! Poor fellas! Even drug addicts and terrorists have rehabilitation programs prepared for them. But Mat Rempits are apparently of a breed of evil that is simply beyond all hopes of salvation.
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