Back to Malaysia

So I'm finally unemployed!

The lab held a BBQ to celebrate my good riddance, amongst a few others....

That's a Margarita in my hand...Funny enough how I never learned to drink in the 3 years in Cambridge, where the halls are overflowing with wine, the pubs gushing with beer and the garden parties with liberal amounts of champaigne, but rather in the 1 year here in Singapore...

That's my supervisor...yeah I can finally let loose the terror I've felt working for him this whole year, haha...

And he even gave me a parting gift:


Apparently when he approached the bookshop counter his first request was for "Seduction for Dummies"...when they told him there was no such book he requested for anything with seduction...haha and he was with his girlfriend so the counter lady was looking at him weird....

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So I've been back in Klang for a week now...have been sleeping most of the time actually, I think it's the sleep debt accumulated over the one year...like 4 naps a day or something like that....but on Saturday the family went for my brother's convocation at the Multimedia University...it was set up during the dot-com boom, when everyone was crazy about information technology, hence the name...

Man it was soo long....we had to wake up at 5.30am to get there by 7.30am...the ceremony started at 8.30am, and the crazy thing was that they had 3 speakers, each speaking for about half an hour...so that's a 1.5 hour long wait...

And get this, they got the VIP to hand over the graduation certificates for 3000 graduands....assuming 5 secs per student that's over 4 hours.....it started getting unbearable after the first hour or so...and then just got plain surreal....you could see the faculty and VIPs on stage getting bored, but they're unable to doze off or read a book, so they've just got to sit there for 6 hours and bear it...especially since most of them are very old, I imagine that the thought "Why am I here wasting the limited hours left in my life??" must be constantly on their mind...

So glad that our Cambridge graduation ceremony is less than an hour long, and you actually feel happy while going through the ceremony...

Family picture...we don't actually have many of these, seeing as how I'm usually overseas, and my brother (until recently) and my sister both live in hostels away from home...


But so this time with all of us here, my mum decided to have studio photos taken of the whole family...pictures still developing though...

And with the extremely long covocation, the sun and drizzle throughout the day, and the lack of sleep, I've fallen sick...fever and flu...what a waste of holiday time man...lying in bed and just feeling like crap...