The Dawn Of A New Semester

To start off, on Thursday I bought a Creative Zen 8GB. What is a Creative Zen? It's a multimedia player that is... pretty much similar to iPod, but different in many ways (the price, for instance, is a huge difference!). Here's what the thing looks like:

Pretty nifty eh? It's the size of a credit card and boasts a vibrant 16.7 million TFT colour 2.5" screen. Pretty much like a small flat screen TV. The audio quality is superb, even if you're using average quality earphones/headphones. Overall, I need not make any negative remarks on this product. So if any of you guys are contemplating on buying a multimedia player, forget iPod. Buy Creative Zen. (I sound like a person doing one of those corny TV infomercials. LOL!).

I'll be posting my own review of Creative Zen in a bit. For the mean time, you can check this site. out for info.

SEMESTER 2 TIMETABLE
Yes the timetable is OUT everyone. Here's mine:

• Monday
• 10-11am Separation Process Fundamentals (Dr. Gan Su Yin)
• 11am-1pm Engineering Math 2 (Dr. Rohaizan/Ms Grace Yap/Ms Lim Poay Hoon)
• Tuesday
• 10am-12pm Separation Process Fundamentals (Dr. Gan Su Yin)
• 2-3pm Engineering Math 2 (Dr. Rohaizan/Ms Grace Yap/Ms Lim Poay Hoon)
• Wednesday
• 11am-12pm Engineering Thermodynamics (Dr. Lee Lai Yee)
• 12-1pm Heat & Mass Transfer (Dr. Chong Mei Fong)
• 2-4pm Process Engineering Project (Mr Lim Siew Shee/Mrs Hind Bargash/Dr Chin Jit Kai)
  
• Thursday
• 9-10am Modern Process Chemistry (Ms Lim Siew Shee/Dr Sivakumar Manickam)
• 11am-1pm Engineering Thermodynamics (Dr. Lee Lai Yee)
• Friday
• 9-11 am Modern Process Chemistry (Ms Lim Siew Shee/Dr Sivakumar Manickam)
• 11am-1pm Heat & Mass Transfer (Dr. Chong Mei Fong)

Yes yes yes... bring on more Physics! I'm very concerned about Process Engineering Project (PEP), because I didn't do well on the prerequisite subject, Process Engineering Fundamentals (PEF). I learned that anything that has the words "Process" and "Fundamentals" in it spells trouble. So I don't know what to expect from Separation Process Fundamentals. Hope it won't turn out as difficult as PEF.

Ok enough of the timetable talk. Now it's time for FOOD TALK :P

Yesterday, Friday Jan 18 2008, me and another 5 January babies of the Indonesian Students at Nottingham Uni society hosted this grand birthday dinner for a group of 21 people (including us 6). In Indonesia we have this "unofficial" custom, whoever's having a birthday, he or she'll be the one who has to treat his/her friends/near and dear ones. Contrary to the Malaysian "custom" where the birthday boy/girl gets the birthday treat from his/her friends. This means that I have to spend big bucks for my birthday, each year! But all didn't go to waste. I still receive a birthday present or two.

This year's birthday dinner was held in Sushi King Metro Point Kajang. It was a lot of fun, plus the food is more than satisfying. And yes, since most of us are Indonesians, that also means that there were lots of picture taking going.

The dinner also doubled as an unofficial farewell party for my two schoolmates, Widya and Elvin. They're leaving to UK early tomorrow (like, 2am early!), to spend 1 semester in the Jubilee campus of The U of Nottingham on a Mobility programme (kinda like student exchange programme). I'm so gonna miss those two. *sobs* Especially Widya for being such a great housemate!!! She always takes the garbage out every few days (lol). Here's the pic of the 20 of us (one was taking the picture :P):

Top row, L-R: Chaturi, Hartono, Christy, Jack, Edy, Agha, Joseph, Oliver, Jane, Willam, Bila and Lydia
Bottom row, L-R: Kiki, Me, Elvin, Dini, Widya, Hasan, Hendro and Tyas
Not in the pic: Pouya

This afternoon me, Kiki, Widya, Elvin and Tse Tyng went out to watch a movie at Aeon Cheras Selatan. We were arguing on which movie to watch; Me and Kiki wanted Sweeney Todd, while Elvin and Widya wanted In The Name Of The King. Tse Tyng was like "I don't know. I'm neutral. You guys decide!". Lol. So we flipped a 20 cent coin, head for Sweeney Todd, and tail for In The Name Of The King. And hey, whaddaya know! HEAD!!! Seems like lady luck was on our side today! So we went to bought tickets. The movie's showing at 4.20 pm, and we bought the ticket at 1 something, so we had lots spare time to waste. First we headed to Secret Recipe for lunch (in my case, it's both breakfast and lunch). Always in a typical Indonesian fashion, we took some pictures while waiting for our food to come. *lol* After that, Elvin went to get a haircut, leaving us 4 girls to go out and about around the vicinity.

***break*** Oooh g2g. I'm going to see Elvin and Widya off to KLIA. I'll be back with part 2 =D