End of Lecture for First Semester

Happy Halloween.

Today was my last day of lecture for this semester.
It ended with a General Physics Test 2 that lasted for one and a half hour.
I would like to ask whether it is ethical for people to cheat during their quizzes, test or even exam.
I found out that it's a norm for nowadays students to cheat during these events.
I had questioned a few person that I saw them cheating. Do you know what is their reply?
"Man, the person invigilating does not care, so take up the chance to CHEAT." Some even said that its normal for humans to cheat in life especially in the society.
These people should know that you are able cheat the whole world but you not able to cheat yourself. If they are really build up with adequate knowledge before going for test, they should not cheat. When they cheat, they are actually underestimating their own ability to strive in life.

Do you think that it's fair for those who really worked hard and yet some who did not score the same with those who cheated? To me those who cheats are just being unfair to themselves actually.

I would like to tell you a quote by my former school principal, Datuk Noor Rezan Bapoo Hashim.
"When you win, you win with pride, when you lose, you lose gracefully".

J.Z.Wong

A Night to Embrace Chinese Culture with Varsity-mates

Though it's about two weeks the Mid-Autumn Festival has past, but the spirit of having it with friends is not extinguished even time passes. Nevertheless, its still the eighth lunar month so its still reasonable to celebrate the cherished event at this moment of time.
The event started at eight o' clock in the evening and its raining cats and dogs that time. With such spirit, such minor weather change will not stop the even from going smoothly.
There were performance by chinese martial arts performers, chinese orchestra, drum player ,etc.
There is even an exhibition about the variety chinese culture especially about this very festival.

J.Z.Wong

Shopping for Grocery.

My food storage is decreasing, so it's time for me to get my body to the town which is 20 miles away from my campus.
It's a half an hour journey from Gambang to Kuantan.
At there, I went to Mc.Donalds and get myself a Big Mac with a Light Coke and a Chocolate Sundae.
It comes with a Coca Cola Glass Contour with the price 0f RM12.75 including the 5% tax.
It just took me 20 minutes for me to fill the basket with food and drinks at Carrefour.
I'm RM35+/- poorer after buying my supplies.
I'm sure that you will ask on what I bought for RM35.
I bought three bags of instant noodles, a bag of instant rice noodles, two bottles of Diet Coke, four packets of instant porridge, two boxes of instant mushroom soup and a carton of eggs.
Then I had my hair cut by a barber at a stall in Stadium Darul Makmur for RM8.
The barber took 45 minutes to deal with my hair from this






to this.



After spending three hours at Kuantan, I went to the place that University of Malaysia Pahang stops to aboard it.
The journey back to campus is not as smooth as the journey heading to Kuantan because the bus that I aboarded is running on a low level of diesel.
The bus stopped several times because the engine stop generating adequate power for it to move further.
To enable the bus to move well, the air-conditioning system is turn off to reduce the power consumption.
At last I reached safely at my campus at a quarter to seven in the evening.
J.Z.Wong

Back to Usual

Today I'm returning to my campus to resume my second half of the first semester.

This means:

-Lots of things need to complete.

-More quizzes.

-Need to excel in subjects such as General Physics and Mathematics 1 (final exam and the second test is around the corner).

-More serious action, less jokes.

-Lesser food supplies.(Need to save money to buy a newer laptop to replace my two year old buddy)

-Less tasty food.

-No more Physics Lab.

That's the journey of an average student.

J.Z.Wong

Trip to Sandakan, The City of Nature

It's been a quarter of a year that I did not step myself to the Land Below the Wind.

I went there to fill my mid-semester break as a vacation.

I departed LCCT at 0715 hours by a boarding Flight AK 5160 and reached the airport of Sandakan at 1000hours.

After getting my luggage and the immigration procedure to settle, I took a mini van @ mini bus to the town.

I reached to about an hour before noon.

At there, I checked into a hotel before going for my lunch.

I had some grilled fish as my lunch before heading to the house of our cousins, the Orang Utans at the Sepilok Rehabilitation Centre for Orang Utan.

The centre is situated a mile from the Sandakan branch campus of University of Malaysia Sabah (UMS).

At there, I get to get myself close to our cousins which has about 96% of our genetic informations.

Then, I had a can of 100 PLUS to quench my thirst after having an hour of walking in the forest of Sepilok.

Right before dawn, I went to the Rotary Club Observatory Pavilion situated on top of the hill where the site of house of a well known author, Agnes Keith. At the pavilion, you can have an awesome panorama of Elopura.

From the pavilion, you can also see that the traffic is not as worse as the want we face in Cheras though, the population of the city is approximately equal to Cheras.

It is more common for you to find roundabouts compare to traffic lights.

I had steamboat as my dinner at a restaurant in the central market.

I'm served with seafood such as shell fish that include oysters, lala and abalone, crab, prawns and tuna with an interesting price that is not available in Kuala Lumpur, RM18.00 only!!!

That night, I had a walk along the coastal area and had a cup of bubble milk shake. For your information, North Borneo Chinese is highly influenced by the culture of Hong Kong Islanders and Taiwanese because most of the Chinese community of that state have very long and established trading activities with Hong Kong and Taiwan. Thus, it is not a shock to see certain food and drinks of those countries can be found fondly at Sandakan such as the bubble milk shake and Taiwanese pancakes.

Before I go for sleep after a day long of traveling about a thousand miles, I checked my e-mail using the WiFi connection of the hotel.

The next morning, I had 'Roti Kahwin' and a glass of hot chocolate as my breakfast before starting my journey to explore the city with plenty of 'Timber Tycoons'.

I went to a incredible temple built in 1987 that is funded by most of the 'Timber Tycoons'.

It is located on the peak of a hill facing the harbour of Sandakan where timbers are collected and exported to several East Asian countries.

Then, I had Nasi Minyak as my lunch to gain some energy to continue my trip.

My next checkpoint is the infamous site of the camp of the Prisoners of War (P.O.W.) during the occupation of the Land of the Rising Sun where now stands the War Memorial of the Death March. There were only six survivors of the brutal Death March.

A structure aged more than a century is my last stop of the day. On the way to the mentioned structure, I passed by an ancient Chinese cemetery site and it is said to be existed in the late 1790s. The mentioned monument is the St. Michael Church that took 20 years to be completed and it survived the bombing of Elopura by the Allied during the Japanese Occupation.

That evening, I had Gado-gado(Similiar to Mamak Rojak) and Bakso(noodle dish with meatballs) to fill my roaring stomach. Honeydew with sago drink as the dessert.

The next morning, I took an express bus to Lahad Datu to meet some of my NS mates.

My trip to the City of Nature is an enjoyable moment and I hope that I am able to have a night stay at Pulau Penyu of Sandakan to observe turtles laying eggs when I come to visit this lovely city.

J.Z.Wong

The Project Manager

It's been a while that I did not update my blog because the internet connection in my campus is not at it's best performance because some upgrading work is done. I hope that it will not take a long period because slow internet means no life. To add insult to injury, I'm having several tests and it is done during my normal leisure time, thus no time to update this blog.

I'm the project manager for my Islamic and Asian Civilization Studies subject a.k.a. TITAS. When my lecturer, En. Fazullah appointed me as the project manager,I asked him why am I chosen instead my lecture group monitor and if I were to screw-up this project, I'll cause everyone to kiss goodbye to their 15% of the total credits. Guess what he replied, every one will have his or her chance. Then, I told myself why don't you take the chance as chances don't roll like a ball to you.

In conjunction of Civilisation Week, our lecture group will be organising some events like talks and interviews. Our topic is to educate so called adults to be punctual as most of the undergraduates especially the elder ones are not being punctual for lecture class, tutorial , etc. As you know it's difficult to educate adults to be punctual in university because there are no parents to nag them to wake up early. To make thing worst, most of us go to bed when it's almost 3 o' clock in the morning and the next class is at 8.00am. If you were in their shoes, will you be able to wake up to get yourself to the class?
J.Z.Wong

Enjoying the view of Kuantan from a Different Perspective

On a rainy Sunday, I woke up early to prepare myself before going for an event organized by the Ministry of Entrepreneur and Cooperative Development in conjuction of the National Consumer Day.

A cycling tour from the Municipal Hall's field to the well-known Bay of Chempedak aka Teluk Chempedak.

It's an eight kilometres journey to there.

We were escorted by the traffic personel on duty to prevent any accidents from occurring during the event.

At the beach, we were asked to teamed-up to clean the lovely beach.

After an hour of cleaning the beach, I went to the Mc.Donald Drive-Thru Restaurant to get a Sundae Cone to treat myself.

Then our lunch were served. It was chicken rice cooked by the Red Crescent First Aid Member.

We left Teluk Chempedak a quater to one in the afternoon.

At the Municipal Hall Field we were presented certificates of participation and a lucky draw event was done. It was not my day, so no prizes for me.

Hope that I will be able to join such adventerous activity in the future.

J.Z.Wong