good`friday

I realized how wonderfully fun Friday is, despite having PW as last period. But it's still ok, since my class ends at 1230pm. It's like a Mat Day, a day when the mats finally get to have some time to do things together. No planning needed, absolutely none at all. It's all spontaneity. First and foremost, at 12plus thereabouts, we would just congregate at the canteen front tables and have our lunch together. Then we would take the short bus ride to the mosque together. That's when all hell of jokes break lose, stories of how the hell the past week have gone by, always twisted in some form that's usually hillarious and make someone looks stupid. The bus seems like a marketplace, sorry for the other commuters. Then its off to the prayers, together. After that, it's all random activities. I remembered last week, it was off to the movies after National Day celebration, where we watched The Village. This week, without any planning, it was a session at the weights room. Iylia and Hakeem are musklees, show us the way haha... See the mats do exercise too, we don't just relack one corner. :) Then, coz after weights, we were all bored, we just decided to play sepak takraw at LT 2.5, haha, and that was really fun because I managed to do 2 succesful lipats today. A lipat is like a spinning kick performed in mid-air. It's similar to a bicycle kick in soccer. Yup. Headers are so much easier in sepak takraw bcoz we are actually using quite a soft ball, but when Rudy brings the solid ball from home, then i guess it'll start getting more and more painful. Yup, my serve is also getting better, because they can't exactly return it easily. Seriously, anyone who's reading this, just come down on Friday afternoons, like around 4 or 5 like that, look for the Mats if you wanna join in a game of SepakTakraw! Then had some small dinner at Macs, Kevin Kong and Madan joined us. Haha that was funny too, coz we just laughed and laughed at our really cock up jokes. I think only our Mats will understand this eh? Ahhhh....It's just wonderful when the Mats are around, we just simply feel stronger when we are together. It's really frustrating when you are either isolated, or when they are no Mats around you for you just chose to do something else that's different from the rest of the Mats. This close-knittedness that only the Mats can provide is irreplaceable, irrevocable. Hakeem..I only knew him like in March this year, but simply he is just like one of us now man, a mat. Hehe. Good stuff. I have always tried to keep the Mats close because our number in RJ is really small. Even then, there are some malay guys who just don't hang out with us. They do other things i guess, not their fault. Its just important to me that I ensure I don't lose touch with the malay guys cos I'm like always with people of other races during class, lecture, even cca. Oh well, its just important to me i guess. Things like this cannot play play. The mat-RI-x that we have established should live on. We must never betray each other. Cos everyone of you is my brother. :) Rudy bring the Takraw ball! Mats, Iylia propose that we play SepakTakraw every Friday afternoon. Set? smash whoever comes my way...evade all touches...glory beckons :) smooth and sensible

baa`aaa

Tearing ankle ligaments is super painful. Don't wanna ever experience that. My poor friend Joel Leong is probably having a recurrence of his old injury back in sec3. I really think he tore his ligaments cos it looks bloody swollen. And cos of that he can't take part for his Arts Cheerleading tomorrow. Wahlau, cruel luck. :( Meaning he'll probably miss the tournament over the weekend. Unless the prognosis is good tomorrow, Joel joel... What a waste man. Being injured sucks. :( Played pool today with Ronald cos the entire bloody class decided to 'v' us today for their physics notes. What the hell man. Outing to Sentosa...Cancelled! Not a single bloody class outing so far. My class can go home and mug, maybe a mug outing is what they want. Let's bloody organise one. A mugging trip to the library. 4 straight hours. No charge. Everyone can chip in their own bloody notes and university textbooks, cos i'm dead sure they are all ahead of average students who study university stuff at A-levels. Not enough? Let's visit a Uni Prof's house and discuss with him some shit i don't understand. And disproof some theories and all that. Sound like fun! Eat sh**... Well done, 1S03B, you can eat sh**. And it's really sh** that I lost my shoe above my locker.

holi`day

Pool! Yeap, that game has got me going again these past 2 days. After having some pool at night at Firas' house on saturday, went to play pool with the mats from my religious class on Sunday. Yeap, feeling good about it, but cannot think too much about it. Everytime i think too much about something, it somehow manages to make me perform badly. Really, whatever it is, this almost always happens. So, cannot think too much about something, just think about it periodically and that will do. :) Dunno man whether there's training tomorrow, i hope not! Really! I've planned a class outing to Sentosa so I really hope that will materialise. Even though that group of them won't turn up, I still think that it's going to be worth it bcoz there won't be much more oppurtunity come the Promos. Hey yup hope everyone from 1S03B will turn up. :) Pray! Oh and it's always important that we do not delay our prayers. Bcoz it only takes minutes to pray. Easy and simple. Try it. The more consistent you pray, the better you'll feel at the end of the day. At peace with yourself and feeling clean! Yup! -shoot...Pravin just msged.. Training at 5pm tmr... :(

evaluation`6Aug

Gotta say that the MLDCS' SEPAKTAKRAW experiment is a success. There were quite a lot of ppl who could pick up how to play the game almost immediately, coz its super fun to play with. Now, with the red court at LT 2.5, if anyone wants to play SEPAKTAKRAW, just set up the nets, and inform me and I'll get the ball and play with you. Didn't know that a lot of ppl do find the sport interesting. The Mats are certainly up for it, even Raihan and Ahmad, who's seriously quite pro. Haha. Mr Kadir and Mr Francis Chong are pro too, very sly and cunning, lying almost all the time to try and get more points for themselves. Haha :P Kidding. Will be looking to buy a real spherical ball that can last too, the Takraw ball taht we used are quite fragile. What do u think of playing sepak takraw more often? Want or not? I say yes, on behalf of the mats. :) What say u?

yeemeng:`17thBday

Happy birthday Yeemeng! Since he's a manjen, its not going to be 'one year older, one inch longer'. Instead, its only going to be 'one year older, one mm longer' hehe. :p Started the saturday with training in school. Thanks to the sun, i think mr blackburn didnt make us go all out until we are spent. One of the better trainings in days for me, thankfully. Then after taking my medicine, felt so drowsy on the way to Al-Azhar, where we had our lunch. Not all ruggers were there, but daryl dinesh khalrul joellouis jonyap and zonghan and me were. Had cheap and good food. Not bad, should do this more often. Didnt play pool with them, cos hadta go back to school for banner painting. Our new banner looks much much much better, simple and nice. Some artistic touches here and there by ronald jensen and jasmine and i think we are looking fine and dandy. IFG's starting on wed when school reopens after the long holiday break so I hope we are all ready for it. Medfac power! Then quickly rushed to my grandpa's house to wash off the stupid stubborn paint with thinner, watched a bit of try nations with him, haha. :) Sweet. Then went to firas's house for yee meng's birthday. played pool, watched tv, some cake thats all. simple. haha, then walked along the road for a while with Ther and then keith was very kind to give me a ride home. Aha the first saturday where i got to do so many different things all together. Haha, feels good, but something tells me this cannot do very often, bcoz it means im putting off my work, which is very impt since RJ is full of brilliant people where we assume everyone to be good at something. Just like today, during banner painting, when we decided to have a break for a lil while, Jensen showed us how pro he is with the piano. He listened to this song on the earphones and played it almost immediately on the piano! How pro is that? He played 'A 1000 miles' by vanessa carlton at speeds i've never heard before. Crazy boy! Bloody talented. Next time, he should entertain the class more often, by playing the piano. So much talent ain't he? I dunno how to play any musical instrument at all, so i always admire those who can. Like Jensen. Like Derrick who can play the guitar, drums, what else...u name it. Kevin is pro at guitar too, he plays for his church i think. Haha, and of coz the Master Ashraf, truly the Santana of RJ. hehe :) Music.. makes the people.. come together yeah!!

relack`1 corner

Got excuse from physical exercise for a week. :( bad, my throat, lungs..etc. The more i try to run, the less fit i get, in fact it's working against me. It becomes quite pointless to run. I think it's those things when u need to recover completely before u decide to do anything. Sure hope this new batch of medicine will work. Stronger cough mixture, plus some phlegm pills and anitbiotics. InsyaAllah I wanna return to training asap..! Slept thru math lecture today, didn't wake up for a second. Felt quite drowsy la after taking the medicine. :( National Day celebration is tomorrow. MLDCS is in charge of LT 2.5, which will be transformed into Kampung Glam. Haha i like the sound of the place, Kampung Glam, especially Glam, because it sounds glam. haha :) lol. Things to look out for: SEPAKTAKRAW, Keropok and Congkak. So bring all your friends over and come down to LT 2.5. Jiawen and I were actually thinking about wearing something stupid yet symbolic for tomorrow since they let us wear anything red and white. haha, we were thinking of decorating our white uniforms with red plastic bags, then we'll look completely retarded. Haha, but we show that we're environmentally concsious, coz we are recycling the plastic bags and also water-proof ourselves in case of rain. Lol. Retarded lah :p Hmm, MedFac and all the other Faculties got down to painting their banners today. Lt 2.5 was quite a mess. Hehe, but quite sad la, they said they could not finish the banner, MedFac seriously needs more artistes to come down and help out with banner painting. This Saturday, the MedFac Comm will be down to chiong with banner painting and we need all those ppl out there who have ideas on what designs and other stuff to come down and paint with us. So this is an appeal to all MedFac Ppl out there to come down this Sat and paint! IFG is coming up real soon, next week la, so we need as many banners as we can ready by next week. Alrightey? SET! booyah!~~

up`date

Finally doing some meaningful tutorials has helped cleared up my mind. Now, Bio's my favourite subject (campbell makes a good read when u r bored), then its math (bcoz somehow or other playing with numbers help me think a lil harder) then its chemistry, coz it makes more sense than... physics--yuck yuck yuck. Eeewww peew peew peew, haha I sound stupid. Hmmm this week's gonna be super packed. Thursday, we'll entertain the Taiwan Immersion students for an hour or so for some wholesome Malay games and sing-along-songs as well as food!! Yeap, good food from Bengawan Solo i suppose. Then, gotta attend the Metro-SIF meeting, coz I signed up on behalf of Malay Society. Hey guys, now that we've got this project, we don't need to channel so much energy and brainpower into coming up with super major CIP of our own. Heard that Joel Louis is also getting Ruggers to do the Metro-SIF CIP. Oh my, on that day itself, I must split myself into 3 man, what with MEDFAC also involved. Haha yeap! 3 Fairuzes on that day. Power. Gonna need some Mat magic for that to happen man. Oh and on Friday, its like National Day Celebration which i think noone's gonna be bothered about. Haiya, these things happen. I think it's safe to say that for all who haven't tried their hands, or rather their feet, at SEPAKTAKRAW, now's the chance. A nice sexay court will be set up at LT 2.5 for a super SEPAKTAKRAW spectacle. Anyone can play. Its easy and fun. The ball is soft, no pain. Hehe relli :). my friend left for HK oredi..oh my, hope she has a solid tournament! haha, she's pro la, maybe she might even win. oh that would really be sensational, then i would have met a champion in my life. haha yaya papaya :) oh got some messages from my friend today after trng, after so long I haven't kept in touch with her. Sounds lik she's doing okay. That's good. maybe should go meet up or sth. its quite impt to keep in touch with friends rite? what if something happen to u and u are in need of help? certainly having friends will be useful rite? yup, shall plan that later. Now's time to...to...to...ummm...i think to do some chemistry tutorial? oh my, its getting quite late and im getting quite sleepy...zzzZZZzz :p haiya siam..

college`day

I was not punctual. Sorry guys. Reached school early enough still. Quickly got changed (helped teh guys wear the kain samping) and took down the kompangs, before we practised at the specs gal. Quite alright, then we waited by the bookshop before Abdullah Tarmugi arrived. The starter was damn off, i think we played the opening beat too fast so the basic beat was damn fast. But we got it right after a while, phew, b.neo from band said it sounded quite alright. oh hee well, not too bad for us beginners at kompang. The boys did well, well enough. Then we tucked in before everyone else did, at LT2.5, the mee siam was the onli alright food, the rest was yucky and tasteless. oh and quite suddenly, miss tan wen sze was like fighting with a raging flame la, somehow or other the canister holding the flame toppled or something until the table top caught fire. She was definitely quite traumatised. Soya bean to the rescue, the drink put out the flame man. :) then went home la, didnt go for police match, cos still feeling sick with taht sickening cough. haiyoh.. God please cure me soon, I wanna feel well again! Amin.

remuneration`~ i must recuperate

Wonder what's in store for us tomorrow at the Temasek Seminar at SAFTI. Heard that we are gonna get a tour then have lunch then the real talk begins before some fun and games? Not sure. But aiyah, seems bad timing bcoz i wanna do other things tomorrow but like this cannot already la. Bad Bad timing. Hope my O-Team interview turns out good, not sure though, this time it's different because i had different interviewers as compared to Open House Interview. This time, I've got Harold Khoo [my classmate in ri in sec 3 and 4 :)] ahah and Lynn, my friend from CCAL camp, plus Victor who was bumming around. Yup. They asked a few questions which i hope i answered as well as i could. Certainly was honest thru out. :)  Didnt know how to impress them in taht 1 minute. Ah its just so different from the other interview with Jialun, which instead turned out to be a heart to heart talk, mano to mano. Whoowee, then went for training. Fitness needs improvement and speed needs work on. Hearing stuff about going Thailand for a week's duration and playing three games there. Yeah thats fantastic. Finally some real good stuff, a ruggers trip after Sentosa this year. haha. Missed the meeting prior to training though, supposed to pay up for physio fee and return jersey. OH man, I really wanna keep the jersey! Its like the jersey which we won the Championship in la. Please let us keep it.! Result slip looks horrredous, expected it to look like that from the day i started to study for common test. Oh well, let's pull up our socks, and slog for the promos. May better results rain down on me. Just like how it rained at track finals. Rain rain rain. May on the day of exams, all the answers come into my head like the way the rain washed all of us away. Rain rain rain. Track finals was crazy la, some real Mat stuff going on at the back really. No matter how heavy the rain was, we just kept trying new beats with the pails and the giant trash bin. haha. Even Izzat, our Mat Brother who's now a TJ councillor, came to cheer with us. haha Mat Power. Know what? Jau got a call from Jialun like around 1 plus to quickly come back to the stadium bcoz they wanted us to create some Mat Stuff at the stadium. Haha the councillors were power la, so resourceful. Hehe sadly the Rj turnout wasnt that great. Haha, nvm la, the mats did waht they have to do. HOi! Hoi!

racial`peace

Racial Harmony Day, 21st July 2004.
Dikir Barat performance by MLDCS & Friends.
reminiscent of some Arts @ the Atrium, this time it's Arts @ the Concourse.

moooovviiee`mania

MEDFAC Movie Outing!!!
6th August 2004 (after National Day Celebration)
J1s and J2s are all welcomed!
Further details like ticket purchase/collection, venue, etc will be posted later.

sick`parrot

cough cough cough cough cough cough Have been having bad coughs these days, caught it from my brother i think. Not good. Bcoz there's training resuming, there's more spas to take, there's College Day to perform for, plus more things that i can't synapse to now. It's not nice being sick. Not nice. And evertime i feel sick, I'll go to my wardrobe to find my Raffles rugby jersey and wear them the whole day. If i've a cold, i would take the long-sleeve one. I'm wearing the traditional one now, with the no.15 behind. Okay, so gotta spend tmr night finishing up on Kinetics Tutorial and that MCQ List. Wonder whether my classmates have received their Result Slip already or not. Bcoz ppl from other classes have, wonder whether Ms Ho bothers to give it to our class at all. Haha. Oh yah, hope that Daryl's printer works fine, may use up quite a lot of his ink though, hope the poster turns out nice. Gotta find him tmr and thank him aha, then must get the poster chopped, then paste it on the doors of LT1. Tmr can't train man, feeling sick, prob will get on with the program or sit out training. Something.     random conversation :- HL: He's so full of angst. Monish: He's so full of shit.

madrasah

Amantu Billah, Summas Taqim. Berimanlah kepada Allah, dan Beristiqamahlah .

yuck`how lo can u go?

had to brave the rain on the way to school today, the driving rain. really it's like the perfect weather to lie in bed and sleep 24-7. did some napfa and went walking about with my friend, lucky me i didn't bring a single cent. got paid for for everything. was so extremely sleepy and tired so slept all the way until now. oh shoot man, the bahas (malay debates) on tv, that's really frustrating frustrating frustrating!! it's so shallow, not much depth in knowledge processing, not much flair or style, poor judgment when stating their points of contentions, just plain 'ol malay style of emotional fighting. ergh. yuck. give me my team of hanis, hirman, nizam and iwan, i tell you we can beat these pretenders any time any day. these ppl on tv have a special ability to talk faster than the highways of germany, but without making much sense, what's the point? something is wrong with the rj people too, the moment i mentioned bahas to them, they just shy away. Why oh why is bahas treated like that? Is it so difficult? Come on lah guys, i tell you, we are in RJ for a reason, if you are not going to step up and be counted, then move off. I'll get the new crop of malay ppl next year to step up and be counted. Maybe even up to the stage of Caldecott Hill.    off...

`aching

Body's aching body's breaking, not much of training, not much of sleep either, can't do no homework, can't do nothing, cos there isn't time, there isn't will. Practise, practise and more practise! Time to get organised, time to get clean. No dirt no mess no frills. Just the real thing. Need rest need out. InsyaAllah.

riot of activities

non-stop activities have suddenly become a norm because i just cannot run away with it. time always flies by so quickly that the moment one activity ends, the next one comes by so quickly and so on. today was no different. yup morning we have normal lessons, but the moment pe finished at around 4, it was quickly on to weights, before i ran to take all the games down and help the minahs prepare the stuff for tmr, then played congkak with Janahan, haha thrashed him every single game. then played touch rugby, before finally going home. made a short detour to ulu pandan cc, and im glad to see the cheerleaders working their ass off to put up a real good performance. haha just two weeks left of 100% commitment guys and it will all be over. Hope that we win though! Cos their effort must be rewarded in one way or another. Hopefully it is by winning. Yay! Waddup? ya tmr everyone listen up! Come down to the concourse to watch an electrifying performance by the MLDCS at around 1plus after your lessons. It'll be a cultural experience that most of the RJ fellas have never felt before!   Impt Announcement! All those performing for MLDCS, pls go to the concourse after your last lessons. Help carry the benches and musical instruments.   Impt Announcement 2! All those performing for College Day KOMPANG with MLDCS, pls meet at the hall by 2pm for a rehearsal session. goodnite :: be there or be square

kompang power

Deafening and booming sounds were heard today, no not the cranky fire alarm bell, but the power of the kompang. I'm really glad those who came for the first time today like Derrick, Khalrul, Iylia and Adzfar caught the beat with ease. They learnt it in less than 30 mins la, after that we were all practising all the transitions from the opening to the normal to the closing. I think the main problem will be about sustaining the volume and the tempo, because after a few rounds, your hands will really start to ache. Each single smack of the kompang feels as though your bones in your arms will just shatter. But with practice and more practice, I really think we'll get used to it. Hope the other guys like Pravin and Firas will turn up for the practices as we get closer to the actual day itself. Yup, so guys out there, watch out for us the mat gang with a few manjens and mama come this College Day, 31st August. Cos it'll surely be like a wedding at the void deck. Woohoo!   Guys playing the basic beat: Ivan the pro, Khalrul, Dexuan, Pravin, Firas, and me. Guys playing the complex beat: Jauhari, Hafiz, Adzfar, Iylia, Derrick, Rudy.

team matland

Team MatLand, RI class of 2003.
from L, standing: adzfar and iylia.
           seated: jauhari, me, izzat, rudy.
 Pic was taken from Busking@Orchard 2004

unda` konstrucksyen

*testing, testing* alright, let's just see how it looks, its plain but i think i like it. only tt i cant get rid of the dog, nvm la, pretend its not there. this wednesday, remember to head down to the concourse at 1plus p.m. to catch a sexay sexay performance from mldcs! woohoo, yeah i think the gals and guys did practise really hard for this, given the short amount of time they have to prepare. And the mats will have something special for everyone come this wednesday, just u wait and see :) Mats, let's do it alright? One for all, all for one!   k tata

wobbly trot

What does one do if one doesn't get to play? 1. Beg the coach, use money to bribe him (that's outta the question, i'm damn poor, have no money!) 2. Work harder at trainings (but there's hardly training, only like once or twice a week!) 3. Choose a different club where I've played before (this seems good, cos this team's full of mats! haha sing song before matches, lol) 4. Try a totally different club (hope joel remember to help me on this)   anyway, tmr is Hafiz's birthday! yo Kopi, u'll be seventeen, older, richer and creamier! lol :)happy birthday mat~! Went to Mak's Restaurant in Kembangan with my mummy's side today for dinner, i think it's my uncle's birthday. He had this thing early cos he needs to go india for a course or sth. Haha, India.. reminds me that the soccer guys will be there in year's end too, playing in freezing conditions, as Adz says it. Now that will probably be something like our NZ trip in Sec3, woah shiok know, playing rugby in winter, u play without getting ur jersey wet, so u can just reuse them for next training haha! Hope that we get to go on tour too, miss having those tours with ruggers! ah..   Hmmm, wad next? Oh went to pergas too, in the morning, had some simple lessons too, so easy u understand immediately. "Seorang hamba Allah bertanyakan Rasulullah s.a.w., secara ringkas sekali, apakah itu Islam?. Lalu Rasulullah pun berjawab, Islam itu adalah beriman kepada Allah, dan beristiqamah!" see, so simple, that single phrase covers already 2 integral aspects of Islam, the first is the Aqidah and the second, the Amaliyyah. Met up with the mats from pergas, haha they all still look the same, its very interesting talking to them because their concerns are actually quite different from ppl like me, they have very genuine and real concerns like finance (about how much they have to pay for this and that, their ezlink cards and stuff), their courses at poly, and of course, this one cannot miss, their minahs (explanation not required). haha. okie doks. should go to sleep now, bcoz school will be quite a long day tmr, hope tt i'll last it. Yeha smiles everyone and dun forget to forgive :)