It's a Nomad's life

Hi guys,

You're probably wondering what's with the title, well I thought I'd put something a bit different for a change. Now to start with there are a couple of things I'd like to blog about that happened in the last couple of days.

First of all, many of us know Raymond Tan. Our tall and intellectual Intian who's a devoted supporter of Chelsea FC haha. He has left Malaysia to continue his studies in Australia. He will be studying at ANU in Canberra and his first impressions upon arriving there are "Damn its dark....." lol. When I was chatting with him it was only 5:30p.m. and it was already dark. It also turns out that Aussie's in his area and pretty environmentally conscious and switch lights on a need only basis haha. Anyways, Raymond is a-okay and that's the most important thing. I just want to say how great it was making friends with him and how awesome it was playing Futsal with him on many of our gatherings. We first became buds when we met last year in 2008 as we both took Public Speaking class, that as it turned out happened to be the most relaxing and most enjoyable semester I have ever had. The short semester isn't as bad as well all think it is, you see we only have to study 2 subjects in 9 weeks but the long semester is only 13-14 weeks long and you have to take an additional 2-3 more subects which actually makes the long semester quite hectic in truth. Then during the 2 months holidays after my 2nd semester we went for a lot of Futsal meetings and Raymond so kindly asked me whether I was interested in joining his team when the Inti Closed Futsal tournament took place in sports planet last semester. I have blogged about this in a previous post so check it out for more details. Anyways, I'm going to miss him alot, he's been a great friend to talk and hang out with. Take good care of yourself bud =)

The next was Gabriel's Birthday, I happened to be in INTIMA at the time playing FIFA 09 on Nicholas's laptop and then of course watching him play. He as I suspected loves the passing game and it's stringing beautiful passes for him that gets him on a high haha, somewhat similar to Raymond's style of playing. Many of the guys pitched in to buy an acoustic guitar for Gabriel and got him some mouth watering doughnuts from Big Apple. It looked really good haha but I'm on a diet hehe. Gabriel played a song for us, we gave Gabriel a funny card, a barrage of photos were taken by many of us, Ms. Jerry dropped by for a visit and the rest is history haha.

Gabriel shaking hands with Ms. Jerry and holding his brand spanking new guitar

Finally Trazzle 2- An Amazing Race was held yesterday which basically is a treasure hunt. Aslam selected me for his team which consisted of Aslam, Me, Guo Yi, Shun Kit, Shaza and Jerusha. Due to the rain however the treasure hunt had to be condensed or actually would have been much longer. This treasure hunt was quite challenging in certain parts as 1 or 2 clues were quite difficult to figure out. The most horrendous thing we had to do was eat RAW garlic cloves but the crackers with wasabe paste wasn't so bad. Each team had to eat a thermocol container containing crackers with wasabe paste, around 15 garlic cloves, a raw onion and 2 wedges of lemon. I couldn't stand eating the garlic cloves, I was jumping up and down like an idiot and nearly gagged twice so I spat it out. One of the clues that we needed to solve took us to an area you would not normally go to. It is on the 5th floor but it isn't the library, this is considered the back area behind the library which can only be accessed via the back stairway or the elevators that take you to the hostel. In this location awaited Jonathan Lee with clues to the next challenge. Another one of the clues was pretty funny, we had to sing any song to one guy to cheer him up, he has a quiet personality and a low profile kind of person who is at the base of Inti and it turned out to be Kah Wei who was sitting at the concourse. Kah Wei as well as I being Liverpool supporters, I sang "You'll Never Walk Alone" to him and he easily gave me the clue hehe. The last leg of the raise required us to start from the beginning of the basketball court. Each team had to stand in a row and tie our legs to one another's legs and walk together in unison in a race to reach the concourse. It was painful and we didn't win first place but we got 2nd runner up and won a little cash so it wasn't a complete waste.

Guo Yi on the left and Aslam on the right trying to figure how to split the prize 6-Ways XD

Later Aslam, Shun Kit and I headed to FTZ to chillax for a bit and get some gametime. Then I left the two of them to their game of Dota and headed to the bus stop to catch my bus home. The effects of eating raw garlic still lurched within my oral cavity and not to mention my stomach so I tried dampen the effect by purchasing a Slurpee in 7-11 but the precious one or two minutes I spent taking the Slurpee and waiting in line almost cost me. As I saw my bus in the near distance, it left already assuming no one else was coming which was a BIG error. I needed to go home so right now I had 2 choices.

1. I either lazily accept what happened and ask my pops to fetch me later or

2. I cut through the shop lots and intercept the bus as it takes the same initial route every time.

I went for choice no.2 and managed to stop the bus in time. Despite all odds off going through a treasure hunt which had me running a lot, carrying a heavy bag and having to run in the heat to get to my bus, it was worth it hehe.

Random picture of Sue Yen trying to pose hahaha, I think April took this with my phone yesterday haha

Overall the week wasn't so bad, Inti is now brimming with one activity after another and its damn hard to keep up. Oh crap, I just remember about the Beau Bristow concert. I'll blog about that real soon I promise. Take care peepz.