just on my way to say goodbye to Fran...it's just soooooooooooooooooooo sad...saying goodbyes to all the people that i spent most of the semester with....strated with Matt, then both Sarahs, and Anna from Holland.....then Sonja and all the French gals and guys...Vasient, Anna, Jeremy, and Antwane (hey Sonja - is this the rite name...am not sure), Nicole Urban and Milla. They were a nice bunch. Saw them off at komtar as i was going for dinner at Gruny drive with Harry. Sophie and Bobby. I tried not to cry when I saw Sonja off but couldn't help myself when i got in the car.....It was great knowing u gal...Don't have the heart to go clubbing now...

And just saw Jay off...it's sad ...all so sad!! And now Fran!! She's a great gal. She was the one who encouraged me to travel on my own and now i'm glad that i did....I'm always travelling in groups back home so this was a huge challenge for me....(Minimum was like 17)...but yeah, it's great....

later

well a lot has happened in the past few days...on saturday nite there was a party at Yoshi's....and it turned out that there was a birthday cake for me as well...THANK YOU EVERBODY .....that was sweet....esp Lucie...she was even more excited about my birthday the whole week than I was....thanks Lucie...yur a real sport...

Then on Sunday decided to accompany Aida to Alor Seta...it was a good trip...small, quiet town...nice though...o and before tht, crashed at Yoshi's place for the night...well 2 hrs actually while Yoshi decided to head for the pool....then while i was cuming back to uni met 3 guys on the Sungai Dua stretch (2 with great cars and th 3rd one on a bike). One after another acutually...the first one wanted to hav breakfast with me after he found out that i wasn't a local...i told him that when he asked me where... (hav no freakin idea wat that place is called)...was. then the second guy wanted to know if I was staying at USM and if I needed a lift there. Apparently his sister was studying there BEFORE. real dogdy looking guy. Then the third one was on a bike and I didn't understand a word that he said cos he said it in BM but he was kinda pointing to the back of the bike and waving his hands around...ahhhaha...can make a lot of things outa that....just ignored him.

Went to KL on Monday. That was great trip...i hated Kl the last time I went there....i prefered it at Shikin's place rather than the city the last time. I tried to see her mom this time around but she wasn't home.... I stayed with the Fijian High Commissioner at her residence. one word man..POSH!! like a 5-star hotel with everyone having master bedrooms, air cons, hot baths, etc....that was a nice stay. I made dinner on Tuesday nite...roti (chapati), Dhal (the REAL thing), chicken curry (yummy), while Goerge made some salads, vegetable curry (yummy) and rice. That was a real indian dinner. absolutely beautiful dinner. Met some other Fijians living in that area. O met this absolutely gorgeous Fijian dude. (yummny). Can't wait to get backto fiji to see real Fijian men around. (they have great bodies!!! Lucie you should come to Fiji someday...)That guy at in KL reminded me of Siti...a friend on Moturiki Island.... ;-)

anyways, just came back from KL. In time for Ladies nite....saw Leigh, Nick and Fran outside....gonna join them at Shamrocks later. I'm sure there'll be something inetresting to tell tomorrow.
laterz

ok todays tip for guys....if yur out wth i a gal that you happen to like then don't make an ass of yourself by getting totally fucked...we know that you can drink a lot!!! Don't have to prove it you know!!! it's not a very attractive sight seeing you fucked up....

anyways, last night was good....Leigh, Nick, Sarah, Bobby and I went to Shamrocks for a few drinks.....Bobby wasn't allowed in Shamrocks so that put a damper on things.. but then he came around later that night and some lady told him that he could get into Shamrocks....so that's great news....yay!!!

Talked with the cute waiter again. Turned out that he's an year younger than me (such a turn off). But he's an okay guy. Good to have as a friend. Then went with Sonja to SS but they wouldn't let us in unless we paid. So we went off to Lush. It was alrite. Then this French guy, Jeremy sneaked me and Sonja into SS later on. Didn't like SS that much. there were these German guys who I didn't really like. There with really funny dance moves (me and Vasient (the french gal) had a great time imitating them and embarrassing the hell outa them). But they drove me home later on that night and turned out to be ok people. I also had reservations about the Finnish guys ...i don't really know their names...but they also turned out to be great people. (Sorry Dino and other people who aren't exactly Finnish fans). But i realised that many of us havn't really even TRIED to get to know the other guys off campus. Always tending to judge them instead. I suppose that there are some people that we could do without but not all of them are orges. I wish I had more time to get to know the other people now. But I don't.

Just today, my roommate Gaya gave me a present that she got from Sabha when she went there for the semester break. That was really sweet of her. I almost cried at the thought of having to leave them. They were the main reasons that I decided to stay on campus and not even to move to the International house later in the semester. They were great. The best locals that I have met in Malaysia. (Aida as well).

And right now i just realised that I am gonna see Matty for the last time. I'll be going to Alor Seta with Aida on Sunday and then plan to go to KL till Wednesday. Matty is leaving for Borneo (sorry if i'm wrong) on wednesday. I don't think that I will be able to see him after this. That's a sad thought. It was great meeting all the great people and making new friends here in Malaysia. Local people that i have got attched to: Aida, Gaya, Shikin, Shikin's mom (she's a great lady and makes the best Dhal in Malaysia). I'm really gonna miss these guys. I think i better stop here otherwise i'll start crying. later all.

FUCK .......Fuck the exams...fuck the exams ....fuck the exams.........FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK

Yoshi....this one's for u!!! And thanx for referencing my stuff.....at least one of us is following the rules......

This one is very philosophical but true!!

A philosophy professor stood before his class and had some items in front

of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a large empty

mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with rocks - rocks about 2" in
diameter.

He then asked the students if the jar were full? They agreed that it was. So

the professor then picked up a box of small pebbles and poured them into

the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles, of course, rolled into the
open

areas between the rocks. He then asked the students again if the jar was

full. They agreed it was. The students laughed. The professor then picked

up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up

everything else. "Now," said the professor, "I want you to recognise that

this is your life.

The rocks are the important things - your family, your health, your

children - things that if everything else were lost and only they remained,

your life would still be full! . The pebbles are the other things that

matter such as your job, your house, your car. The sand is everything else,

the small stuff. If you put the sand into the jar first, there's no room

for the pebbles or the rocks. The same goes for your life. If you spend all

your time and energy on the small stuff, you'll never have room for the
things

that are important to you. "Pay attention to the things that are critical

to your happiness. Play with your children. Take time to get medical
check-ups.

There'll always be time to work, clean the house, give a dinner party and

fix the disposal.

Take care of the rocks first - the things that really matter. Set your

priorities. The rest is just sand."

But then a student took the jar which the other students and the professor

agreed was full, and proceeded to pour in a glass of beer. Of course the

beer filled the remaining spaces and soaked into the sand within the jar,

making the jar truly full.

Which proves that no matter how full your life is, there's always room for

a beer.

i just recieved a cpl of emails from Anu...my bestest best freind in the whole wide world!! she's such a sweetheart...can't wait to see her again........

and also received an email from my family promising me a party when i get back home....thanx guys

ok i just finished one of my papers today...it was alrite...just got hold of the notes for the thursdays paper...didn't hav one page of notes for that course throughout th sem...could hav done th paper without it but then i promised my beloved tutor back home that i will at least go through the notes ONCE before i do the finals.......and i'm going to do just tht....(He's looking at you kid) those who don't understand, ignore this.... ;-)

hav another paper on wed and then on thurs....the good thing is that i can finish three of the papers this week...next week i can relax and do the final paper on 3rd march......... hopefully my flight back home is changed and confirmed soon.....

and i swear, yur just like a pill...instead of making me better, yur making me ill........makin me makin me ill.......

man i luv this song....i had thought that the enrollment at my uni is sorted out...it is sorted out actually but there are bio labs that i hav to do ...and i hav to attend more than 75% of those...that means that i can just miss out 2 in th whole sem.....it'd be alrite if i were going home in th 2nd week but i'll arrive there in the 4th week. and i'm trying to get the flight changed to earlier March...maybe a week earlier but so far the fucking lady at the uni back home hasn't done anything about that.....and i just got an email from the fucking bio lecturer that i cannot be exempted from the above requirement....what does that mean...........I HAVE TO GO HOME SOON............so why the fuck are they giving me this trouble.....all they hav to do is change the fucking flght!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ahahhahahha....i just read the above paragraph....it's full of fucking shit.....I just imagined your face Anu.......no Noops i havn't changed at all.....this is great...i can swear without sounding rude....i tried my best not to swear around here as much as i do back home..........i sometimes swear in my room but the my roommates always tell me off for that....even showing the middle finger is considered a major SIN here...............but overall i think that i hav become more ladylike here i tried to bring out my feminine side here ...not swearing aloud and wearing skirts .........aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...........I can't believe that i'm doing that here.............i'm gonna burn them when i go back to fiji...........or throw them over th Penang bridge..........or the Rewa bridge ahaha......not really...can't pollute the seas now can i? maybe i'll hang them on the wall in my room and spraypaint..."I wore this" on it......a souvenir from Penang........maybe giv one of them to u Noops as yur 21st Bday present........................o that sounds so tempting...............i mite just do that hahahaha.......

tip for gals: NEVER tell a guy what yur plans are for the next day and nite.....in case u decide that you just want a break from that guy...................

tip for guys: if a gal says that she'd call u and then she doesn't, she's NOT INTERESTED anymore......get it!!

alrite....when a gal dumps a guy or stands him up, then she does it for the best of reasons....i'm not gonna go into details of this but i ditched the Libyan guy cos he' a bit too much for me........yesterday i decided not to call him and invite him to join me at th farwell party or to th finnish party cos i had decided that i didn't want a guy hanging around me the whole nite..........it was valentine's day for goodness sake and i never celebrate it..........i'd rather spend my time wth my friends...and i was really looking forward to going out into goergtown afterwards wth everybody else...... that was until i saw the Libyan dude cuming to the party at Sunnyville ....actually i had seen him waiting for me outside the campus when going to Sunnyville in the German guy's car......quite honestly that really freaked me out...it's another thing when u tell a guy that u'll call him to confirm when and where your going....but it's another thing altogether when that guy is waiting outside the main gate of the campus...waiting for u to come out....
that's creepy man.....

anyways, wat happened.....o yeah....that guy had a go at me cos i didn't call him the whole day like i said that i would.....ok that was my mistake....maybe i should have called him and told him that i didn't want to go out with him.....huh!?..who the fuck does that??? i'd just assume that he'd get the message after i don't call....c'mon he can't be that dumb!! but yeah, there he was at the party.....he had met up with Leigh, jay, Lucie, and others from the campus....Jay was tellng me that he felt sorry for the guy so they gave him Sonja's mobile no. He did call Sonja and Sonja passed on the phone to me....that was a mistake man...cos i went.."hi this is Preetika" and a moments hestation after hearing his voice, i knew that it was him.............i pretended that i couldn't hear him)...and put the phone down...(i know i know ....that's bad..........but eventually he ended up at S. Ville at the party......so i had to put up with him and his questions as to why 'I don't like him anymore' ...i will not go into details of these
conversations.. yeah there were many like these...and it was bad man....real bad....i didn't know how to tell him that i did not want to go out with him ........but i was able to sneak away with Lucie and Harry after Sophie wanted to get some beer....Bobby was an angel and kept that guy company while i was gone.....It was raining like hell but Harry drove around campus for a while....we had to go back to the party cos now that Sophie had the beer, she didn't have a beer opener! so when we went back to S.Ville, everybody was in a process of leaving for Goergetown....now the problem that i had was not let the Libyan dude come with me....Yoshi was great....he was trying to plotting ways of leaving the guy behimd....at one point he was like " Preetika, your sure that u don't want the guy hanging around? Cos if you are then i can just tell him to fuck off! I can tell him to fuck off! Don't worry about anything" and I'm sure that he would have done it. Thanx Yoshi...

But then i plucked up enough courage to tell the Libyan dude that it would be better that it would be better if he just went home...i figured that i got myself into this mess so i'd better do something about it myself....he wanted to see me today but i would hav none of that. i left it on a note that i just wanted him to be my friend and THAT's IT!! I don't know if he got the message but i havn't seen him around today so that's great...of course i was sleeping most of the day and just returned from a wedding reception.....

anyways, after that guy left, we hit the streets.....we had two cars...one was Harry's with 6 of us....the other one was these two german guy's car....actually, this guy Mark wanted to drive the car but Yoshi and I discussed it and decided that it would be safer just to get a taxi cos everyone was gonna drink when they go to the club ...Yoshi said that he would be capable of driving and i believe him but it's best to remain on the safe side i reckon....but after I left with other's in Harry's car and reached the club, we had wait for others to catch up. It turned out that they had brought the car after all!! not very wise but it saved on the taxi fares afterwards...plus Yoshi brought us back in one piece so that was great.....we listened to some crappy German music on the way, following the board signs cos none of were absolutley sure which way to go...getting lost a bit but eventually finding our way around..... Sonja and I decided to do some Lesbian acts in th front seat.....me and her were sitting on the front seat and the other 3 guys at the back....it was a hilarious sight seeing the shocked faces of the ppl passing by....and after a while both of us decided that it was a bit too much!!! but fun though!!

o this is the conversation that i remember from that nite....One of the German guys Marc wanted to piss ...real bad

Marc: stop the car Yoshi. I need to do some buisness.
Yoshi: what? Hang on.
(Yoshi slows the car at an intersection)
Marc: ok, i'll go now.
(Yosh speeds up again)
Yoshi: You can't get off here...it's the intersection.
M: Yoshi stop the car.
Sonja: Wait, I'll giv u a bottle.
Bernard: not in the car. not in the car!!
M: STOP the car Yoshi. I need to go NOW!!
Yoshi: I can't stop. This is the intersection....
Leigh: can somebody turn off the radio!!
Sonja: SHUT UP back there!!
Marc: Yoshi...stop the car........NOW!!!!!
Yoshi: Wait...wait....

finally Yoshi stopped the car near an alley and Marc did his thing....and Bernard fished out some cassete with some good music on it.....i'm really glad that Marc was sitting in th middle of teh seat between bernard and Leigh...otherwise he would hav jumped out of the car.....

anyways we ended up at an afterparty...o before this...the biggest news of the night!! one of the German guys, Bernard hit it off with a LADYBOY................hhahahahahahahahaahha
i don't think he had realised it though at the club as it was pitch dark there.....i only realised that it was a lady boy when Bernard had turned on his cigarette lighter for that 'lady' and her/his face showed just enough for me to go 'fuck,.... that ain't a gal'....i went in search for Bobby cos he had mentioned before that that 'bitch was throwing herself at Bernard'...I think i also told Yoshi afterwards but he couldn't really make out cos like i said, it was pitch black in there. anyways, Bobby went to the rescue and in his words 'chased the bitch away'........ahahahhahahaha poor Bernard....i feel sorry for him....that's a cruel thing to happen to anybody.....

then later we went to the afterparty at 7.30am....but by then everything was dying down...just hung around for a while and then went home....after having makan at the tandoori place...man they must be wondering what i am up to cos i hav been turning up at their place early in the mornings the whole of this week after a hard nite out...
o well....who cares.....

i just came from a wedding reception....was supposed to meet up with Sonja in goergetown at some club but decided not to....bit under the whether....hav this really terrible sore throat.....was hoping to go to th docs but it's closed by now....will hav to wait till tomorrow.....my exams start on mon....o fuck, i don't hav th notes for tuesday's paper.....damnit!!!! hav to do smthing about that now...and then there's another paper on wed...guess clubbing will hav to wait till wed....

that's it for now....later