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Hi I’m Teck Fui. Nice to meet you.

Huh? What you said your name again?

Teck Fai?

Teck Hui?

Tech Fui?

Teck Pui?

Yes. Those are among the many variations of my name. Laugh all you want but I believe many of you encountered it before also. The embarrassment of repeating your own name ker-zillion time just so that they can pronounce it correctly is beyond imaginable. And mind you people in Malaysia don’t have a good memory. Sometime I have to practically repeat my name every time I see them. Can’t believe people JUST don’t get my name. I have to resolve to writing down my name on a clean sheet of paper so that they can pronounce it correctly and make it stick in one corner of their mind!

That’s how teruk it can be. Sometime I just wish I have a name tag with my name written down in big black bold letters!! (Wait! We do have one of those! What they called it?? Oh yea… Student ID! Mind you I’m into wearing one of those. Looks like some sort of captives.) So the next time people ask me what the hell my name is I would just forcefully shove the tag to them and rudely jab their puny eyes with the sharp edge of the tag. This, I believe, will leave a very deep imprint (physically and mentally) on their mind and their eye socket. The next time they see me they will goes something like this,

“Oh Teck Fui! I remember you! The one that jabbed my damn eyes from my socket rite? How you doing? I’ve been doing fine. Well except I can’t see anything now”.

Well, unless I’ve been living in some sort of Dragon Ball world or something (Well, that explains the violent behavior! Yes I had been reading my whole collection of Dragon Ball again.) where everyone can jab each others eyes out as if the most normal thing to do in this world, I can’t do that! So the next best thing to do is to modify my name. No drastic changes here, well maybe just add a Christian name in front of my surname. Well, I do have a few choices to start from. Here goes.

PATRICK

I have no idea how this name got stuck on me! It’s like it voluntarily stick to me. Let me trace the origin of this name. (Not the real origin. Just the origin of how it got stick to me). I guess this name comes from one of my housemate. I swear (Yes I swear!) I rejected the name on the spot! (Don’t ask me why. I don’t know!) One of my other housemate heard that name I guess. So I guess he later embark himself on a sacred journey of helping to spread my name throughout the entire external and internal environment of UTAR. The climax of the incident happened when Miss Mohana enquired me about my Christian name (Or maybe the lack of it!). I told I don’t have any. But one of best friends quickly let the word “Patrick” escaped her mouth! Well, like they said the rest is history. ~~CELEB WITH SAME NAME: Patrick Dempshey (From Grey’s Anatomy)

TOPHER

This name finds me when I was SMS-ing with one of my friends. The name just strikes me. It sounded nice and un-ordinary. Hmm… not bad. But the more I thought about this name the more it sounds like some sort of chocolate products. (Y’know like toffee or something) But that is not a problem to me as I like chocolate very much! One drawback. I afraid people can’t remember the name. “To-What?” I can almost hear them now. Haha…! ~~CELEB WITH SAME NAME: Topher Grace (From The 70’s Show)

EDMUND

This name also kinda stuck with me after my friend watched Narnia. Yes, in case you all forget Edmund is one of the characters inside (The third sibling I guess). That time I wasn’t desperate for a Christian name but my friend recommends the name to me anyway. The name sticks for a while but later evaporated into thin air (Yahoo!!) ~~CELEB WITH SAME NAME: Edmund Fitzgerald (Singer)

DERYCK

Well, Derek is too common so I kinda borrow the spelling from a lead singer from a rock band. Basically the pronunciation is still the same but the spelling is just a bit complicated. But isn’t that the point that makes it unique! ~~CELEB WITH SAME NAME: Deryck Whibley (Lead singer from Sum 41; Avril Lavigne’s hubby)

EDWARD

This name is very special. Have you all heard of some disorder where the sufferer can associate a type of color with the word they saw? (Famous sufferer: John Mayer). Well, I think I have a mild disorder from whatever disease this is. (Sometime I can see but mostly I can’t) So whenever I see the name Edward, I would see some sort of yellowish orange warm kinda color. And the feeling it gives is really incredible! Like the warmth from a family or the warmth of the ray of sunshine after a cold winter! Haha… Anyway I love this name. ~~CELEB WITH SAME NAME: Edward Norton (Oscar nominated actor; film credit includes Fight Club, Red Dragon)

So overall, I still can’t make up my mind yet. Why not you all give me some opinion? It’s the name that you all gonna call me after all! Haha…

In the meantime, it’s Teck Fui for you all!! So beware of you that can’t remember my name! Haha… Bring some eye protections y’all!!

Haha…

Due to the nature of its content, all bulimia, anorexic nervosa or other form of eating disorder sufferer should not (I said SHOULD NOT) attempt to read or browse thru this section of the webpage. Thank you. 

Fell so bulimic now. Like literary.

But can’t throw up. Some sort of rembesen formed in my mouth. You know those stuff that indicating a major throw-up gonna happened soon. Your mouth kinda become tasteless and this stuff will come out. Yea…my mouth is filled with this kinda stuff all the way back from Sg. Long just now. But the hardest part is I can’t throw it all up!! The feeling of giddiness swirls around and teases me. How I wish I could just throw everything (the rembesan plus everything inside my stomach) all up!

If only throwing up food is as easy as throwing up the information you consumed.

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The process of excelling and successfully answer all the questions in an examination can best be reflected in the process of filling up your stomach with food and throwing it all up later. Describe the similarities of throwing up after a full meal and the process of obtaining an A in an exam. Provide example for each process to illustrate their similarities

                                                                                      (20 Marks)

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Well first of all, before the exam, the person or applicants or whoever sitting for the exam must try their best to consume as much information possible before their puny brain overload and explode into a million disgusting pieces. Other than that they must also try to convert the raw data their consumed (input) to become useful information (output). Wedged between the two is the Process Stage where the human being tries to understand and capture as many information as possible before throwing them up (output). During the exam, the applicants that applied and use this method of studying will search their wide database for information needed to answer the questions. After they successfully dig out the information they required, they will mine it out and throw it up from their database. At the exam of the exam, they will be left with nothing except for an empty brain.

In the bulimic situation, the process starts with a teenage girl (just an example OK) filling up her stomach as full as possible (input). When the stomach content reaches an unstable level, the psychological effects in the body of the sufferer will start to take action and perform its duty. This is when the sufferer started to feel guilty of eating beyond the level they suppose to. The next step involved applying force from the fingers to the throat. Automatically, the body reacts to this by throwing up the food that entered the body just now. At the end of this activity the human being will be left with an empty stomach.

The difference between the two activities is the absence of Process Stage in bulimia process. (That is what they try to avoid. Getting food digested.). In bulimia process also, the thrower (person that throws up. Haha…) receives a lot of bad side effects. So please do not attempt to perform anything that will hurt your body!

Thus, in conclusion, although the two activities are seemingly unrelated, but the similarities between the two show otherwise. Hence examination is an unhealthy and hazardous activity.

-The End-

So do you guys believe me?

That’s why I feel so giddy and dizzy throughout my Information Systems Finals. It is because I’m throwing up all the stuff I consumed. How dreadful! But the worst part is the feelings of giddiness follow me al the way even after the exam! Haha…

After the exam, I went back to Forest Green to retrieve my towel. (I forget to take it back home. Hehe…). Surprisingly, I found more than my towel there! The ring-necklace (Something resembles the ring from LOTR) I thought I lost! There it was lying safely and motionlessly on my study table! Thank God I found it!

Suddenly I feel very happy (floating kinda happy) I really dunno why. I just nailed my first exam for Year One. I’m happy for that but the feeling is incomparable if compared to the feeling I’m feeling now!

Haha… What a feeling!! (Yea.. the giddiness kinda gone after that! Hehe…)

Well here I am. Studying my ass off in this dreaded study week. I don’t know why but I just can’t bring myself to study. Every time I try to understand a concept or memorize a definition to an important term, my eyes will close and my mind will wander off automatically. So today, while I was studying for my Quantitative Techniques 1 paper, the same shit happened again (it was raining outside and the room temperature dropped to a very chilly level). Feeling my brain could no longer absorb any other shits, I decided to give myself a break and watch a newly bought VCD, Pulse.

<Spoiler ahead for Pulse>

Pulse, staring Kristen Bell, Christina Millian and Ian Somerhalder, is about a bunch (two precisely) of teenagers trying to meddle with something beyond their power and control. While working on a project, they stumble onto an unknown frequency (We found frequency we never know existed!!) that gives them a connection to the other world. But little did they know that this frequency will also provide a path for these creatures to enter our world. And worst of all, they can’t find a way to close this connection and these creatures, discovering the connection, decided to give it a go-ahead and enter our world for a little visit.

Apart from causing havoc and sucking the life from other people, they are basically quite safe and approachable (my sarcasm really got the best of me). The victims, after kena suck by them, will go into a lifeless mode for a while before turning into some black particles and -POOF- they vanished into thin air. As the story reveals, the innocent victims will then be transported to the PC of some other people and they will subsequently appear via a video conferencing-mode to communicate with the owner of the PC (sounds so ridiculous now!). To do this (must get the permission of the owner first. Now that’s ridiculous!) the owner of the PC will have to click a link to this chat room (I suppose). The link will goes something like this:

Do You Want To Meet A Ghost?

-_-"

Yes, each and every characters in the movie click the link and free up the ghosts or whatever creatures inside it (typical horror movie, people don’t think!). This goes on until each and every friends of the main character, Mattie (

Bell

), clicked the stupid link and die. (She clicked but she never die. Typical horror movie, the main hero never dies.) Realizing something is horribly wrong, she goes on the journey of uncovering the truth with the guy that purchased her deceased boyfriend’s PC (Forget what his name).

In the middle of the movie, the appearance of the ghosts is highly frequent. But none of these transparent, static-sounded creatures dare to suck the life of our beautiful and delicate Mattie (Typical horror movie, the main hero never dies.). Well, they approach her but she always run away at the very last minute. Eventually they (Mattie and the unknown guy) figured out a way to shut the system down and subsequently blocked the passageway to the other world. But clever as they may be, their plan failed. (That guy supposes to hack into the system and shut it down, but when he trying to do it, the system overloads and restarts by itself making their efforts futile.)

Then the movie turns into a chase-and-run actions scene mode. The hero and heroine trying to escape from these ghosts with a car. Their destination? Somewhere with no Internet connection, WiFi coverage or anything similar to that. (Sg. Long is the place to be, if you ask me! Haha…). Finally they found a place with no connection (Her Motorola Razr gives a “No Signal” signal. Haha…) and they both stroll down the beautiful road with a broken car. Sweet. Haha… At this point, the movie viewer will get the idea that the movie is coming to an end. The hints?

1.          A sad monotonous female voice speaking on emotional notes.

2.          Sad music playing in the background

3.          The movie focuses on the bird-eye view of the now-defunct city

4.          The sarikata comes up with something like “TAMAT” or “SARIKATA DISEDIAKAN OLEH SHARON PANG”

Now ain’t that scary?

Well, today mark the end of my first semester of study in UTAR. Time does pass when you are having fun right? (OK maybe time just passes fast!) Anyway, a lot of shits happened during this brief period of one semester. Some are nice, some are not so nice. Some are memorable, some you just can’t wait to forget. I guess that’s the joy of life. You’ll never know what you gonna get and experience!

Take today for example. It’s the last day of the semester. So you all kinda think that this blog entry gonna be somewhat mushy or emo. But ironically, it is neither. To sum it all up, the words will either be DRAMATIC or MEMORABLE.

Well, first of all, my roommate, Jet is celebrating his birthday today! (Happy Birthday JET!!) He decided to celebrate it in his home in PJ (instead of boring Sg. Long). This means that the whole room will belong to me for this one night (Yipee!!). I can do whatever I want at whenever I like! (No I don’t hate my roommate and I’m not doing anything that will raise some people’s eyebrows… Haha…) Anyway to savor my new-found privacy (one night only OK), I decided to skip the stupid English class (Technically it’s not stupid, but I found it stupid nonetheless) on tomorrow at 9a.m. Ok I know it’s not that early, but I just so lazy to wake up! Plus I have to complete my Account tutorial (which I did until 3a.m. in the morning!). To avoid falling asleep in the comfortable and chilly UTAR lecture hall, I decide to skip that stupid class to get some much needed sleep!*

* I just realized I spend 1 whole paragraph to explain my absenteeism in English class (ehem… stupid English class precisely). (Oh come on! Just skip and get over it!)

Anyway I woke up at 10a.m. on this last day of the semester (why I keep on stressing it?). Do my usual routine (Wake up, shake off the blurriness, wake Sam up [surprise surprise he is not in his room!!], brush teeth, bathe, and get ready my stuff). At 10.56 am I found myself waiting for the lift at UTAR center lobby (I guess that’s what you called it. Between north and south lobby. Right?). It always takes forever for the lift to come. (Especially when you are late!) And when the lift do come, all these uncivilized people (lecturers, tutors, students, janitors, me, security guards) will rush in and jam packed the lift to maximum proportion! And that when the embarrassing moment happened.

Situation: People from all walks of life jamming their ass into a tiny metallic box called lift. After all the perimeter and every existing space had been taken over by every single human being, there will always be one stooooopid IDIOT trying his luck to slip in, in the hope that the lift weight sensor will miss him. The lift sensor, being programmed the way it is, will always be on the look out for this kinda idiots!!

BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!!

(Goes on for a 1 whole minute)

People started looking at each other and wonder why that idiot doesn’t want to go out. Finally after what seems like forever, that particular IDIOT will finally bulge his HUGE ass out with an equally huge grin on his pathetic face. I guess some people are just born that way, you can’t blame them!

I guess that’s the reason why some of our classmates turning up late for class. (Some barbarian trying their luck in the lift, thus stalling the time). Luckily today I wasn’t late for my favorite class, Accounting in Practice. This is the loudest, the rowdiest, and the arguably most outrageous class. Haha… With people like Sam, Calvin and Jansen competing with one another in the “Let’s-See-Who-Can-Crap-The-Most-In-This-Class” Contest, your ears will not get any piece of mind! To top it all up, my tutor, Miss Mohana, has this kind of infectious and contagious laughter. When she laughs, she really laughs! Take my words for it! So you can say that there will not be a moment of dull and bore in the class!

At 3.30 pm, my last class of the semester ended. Surprisingly, there are no moment of intimate hugs and exchange of emotional words. There were just the usual exchange of goodbyes and awkward smiles. That’s it for this semester! (Heck! Some of them don’t even bother to attend this class!) I meet up with Arveen at 6pm and went back together. Now this is when the actions begin.

When we reach South Lobby, first thing that greeted our eyes were the sky. The sky is rolling in and showing its ugly side. Predicting a huge storm ahead, we quicken our pace. But we have darn too many stuff to complete before we can even say “Forest Green”.

l      Make copies of Accounting In Practice Tutorial answers for some of my not so dependant friends.

l      Meet up with Sam in e-Century (Information Systems Practical Lab. Haha…) to enquire whether he needed my help in fetching him back tonight. (OK you really lost your time consciousness in e-Century. Its dark and the temperature are kept at a low chilly level. Suddenly feel an urge to play Dota!)

l      Buy some bites (Ice-cream for me. Slurpee for Arveen. Both stores located at the other end of one another.)

l      Meet up with Jacy to pass her the answer papers.

l      Ta pau some dinner (It takes forever for her to ta pau nasi lemak)

Imagine we have to complete all these shits in the midst of blowing winds and roaring thunders. Heck, even Amazing Race wasn’t this hard! By the time we completed all the tasks (Road block, De-tour and stuff. BUT no Fast Forward for God’s sake!!), the clouds look ready to burst open. It’s like anytime time now a big pail of water will be thrown down from up above! And we still freaking stuck outside 7-11 convenient store figuring out our fate. Can we make it to our finishing line: FOREST GREEN, the pit stop for this leg of the race?!

Defying all odds and impossibilities, we brace ourselves to face the forces of natures. We walk, run, jog, and practically drag ourselves to the pit stop! The forces above us obviously don’t want us to reach safe and dry. By the time we reach “The Long Dirty Walk” (The pathway outside the perimeter of the posh kindergarten) it is drizzling. Our fast pace turns into a very FAST pace. (Arveen was running together with an unknown Chinese girl in a marathon style run. I drag behind quickly but at the same time enjoying the drizzle and cool winds. Haha…).

By the time we reach Forest Green, the clouds burst open to reveal an enormous amount of water. And with the help of gravitational force, the water comes crashing down like nobody’s business. Yes, a storm had just been formed! And what a GREAT storm it is! Haha…

When we get inside our apartment, we found Sue Ling and Jet inside their room safe and sound enjoying the cool atmosphere the rains bring in! Typical.

Tired and exhausted, I rest myself on my Ikea chair. Looking outside the raging storm thru my balcony, I feel thankful to be here with all my housemate (Ok Sam wasn’t there but I counted him in anyway). And in more ways than one, I feel grateful and realized that there is other place I wanted to at that moment except to spend the rest of the rainy day with my housemate on this fateful last day of the semester.