Election and Reunion Dinner

In order to practise my writing again, I have psyched up myself to at least come up with an entry per week. Let's talk about what happened around me in these few days!

Phew.....finally, UM annual election is over and according to what my friends said (I am not interested at all to go find out who won), The Pro-Mahasiswa candidates have won all the seats. And as many know, UM election is quite a BIG event! It is really big as you can see all kind of big and ridiculous news on newspaper during the election week. Not to venture deeper in these 'political' issue, I would like to show you what had happened night before the election day.

The canvass/ demonstration when I was having my supper with some friends. This was the chaotically topsy-turvy scene I managed to capture with my lousy camera phone.

And on Monday night, I had my reunion dinner with all my chinese hostel friends at Dynasty Dragon Seafood Restaurant. This was my first reunion dinner with my kolej firends as I missed this annual dinner last year because I had to prepare for dance competition that time.

Dynasty Dragon Seafood Restaurant located in newly open SS 2 Mall

Tofu

Vegetable soup

Gu Lou Yok (Sweet sour Pork)

Sweet + salty + tinge of spiciness fish

an indescribable scrumptious chicken

Lou Sang ( a dish with crispy yam surrounded mixed vegetables )

I am sorry for my lack of words to describe or name the food properly. Overall, I was quite satisfied with the dinner. My favourite dish of that night: the chicken.

Group picture before the dinner started. All 2nd year guys except that third year girl.

After the dinner, we ( kyle, sl, bs, william, jun and me) continued with singing K session at Neway in ONE Utama Mall.

English

I am writing this because someone urged me to do so and commenting that "your blog did not update for Dinosaur age already". And, since our Vice Chancellor wants us to improve our English and so the University Malaya ranking in top 100 in 5 years, let's talk about English.

Well, writing in English is not a major issue of me now, they are many other aspects that I need to improve. Firstly, I want to express my boundless gratitude to my english tuition teacher, Mr Wong H. Soon, aka Mr Wong Handsome(he always praises himself like that)! Without him I can never write properly. He teaches me of how to use those bombastic words superfluously and most importantly, constructing sentences with correct grammar. I know I still make errors now and then, but I have improved a lot. I really mean alot! By quantum leap.

However, if you want me to speak in English, I find it quite hard to do so, especially when I am 'forced' to speak. Example of those forced-to-speak-English-circumstances: presentation, impromptu speech, speaking with a very proficient english speaker...It feel sucked you know for being not able to speak or to convey your message properly. And i had this abominable experience for consecutive 2 weeks in my Critical thinking class where my lecturer wanted me to talk anything impromptuly for just 1 minute and presenting of the topic given by him. I had done it quite badly and now I am feeling so inferior.

So, what should i do now to improve my speaking? Speaking english with my classmates always seem like a good option. And you thought I never try that before? It doesn't work for me, since they just reply me back with mandarin and then I will loose my interest to talk in English anymore. How about try mixing with the foreigner students?? It sounds good too, but too bad I have no the courage to take the initiative to talk with them. And there's some personal reasons that repel me from getting near to them too actually.

So, what is your opinion? How do you improve your speaking fast and effectively??

The Sims 3 Outdoor Living Stuff

I have gotten The Sims 3 Outdoor Living stuff finally.

Well, as the title said, it is a stuff pack. So do not expect any additional new changes/ game interaction made into the stuff pack. It is just a pack with STUFFs. It is the third stuff pack released by EA. The other two releases are The Sims 3 High-end-loft stuff and The Sims 3 Fast Lane Stuff. Well, it is outdoor living! So, all the items in the pack are generally designed to be placed outside home (you can still put them indoor if you want).

Ok, let's get to the game.

After installing and loading up the game, you will come to this new startup screen which is kinda cool + pleasant looking + relaxing (may be)..I really love the new startup screen besides the The Sims 3 Late Night.

The Sims 3 Late Night startup screen

The Sims 3 Outdoor Living Stuff ( see? It is really nice, right?)

There are two new hair styles, one for female and one for male respectively. The female hair is good, but the male one is sucksssss. Below shows some of the new objects in this stuff pack!

Female new hairstyle

My favourite outfit of all the others from this stuff pack, it is so pretty!

Various shirts and shorts for men. Take note of the slipper. It is new too! See the hairstyle?? It is really horrible~

Below shows some of the objects come in buy mode.

Outdoor kitchen 1. New stuff in the picture including : the mini refrigerator above a brick nectar rack, BBQ grill, counter, sink and outdoor lamps that can be place on top of floor/table/counter

Outdoor kitchen 2: Counter with the barstool

Outdoor lamps

Dining table and iron wrought chairs

Drink bar and terrariums

Hot tubs, outdoor stereo, outdoor gnome, and outdoor tv.

Hot tubs! For those who does not own late night but year for the hot tubs, grab this stuff pack at the nearest game store now!

The easel

And i really want to recommend this house which i download from http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=433837. Click in the link for more details. I am lazy to upload more photos...

Here is Rose Greenman standing in Olympian Physique gym (included in February The Sims 3 Store item). For those who are wondering who is Rose Greenman, she is a plant sim found in The Sims 2. Well, she is not really a Plant Sims in The Sims 3 because Plant sims life stat is not introduced in this game yet. Rose Greenman also be found in Riverblossom Hills, a world created by kiwi_tea which is a remake of the Riverblossom neigbourhood in The Sims 2. I love this world, because it is so nicely created. The are many picturesque destinations, creepy vampire bar, seaside dance club and many more waiting you to explore.

Here is the link to the world: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=429780

Talk no more. Grab a copy of the game, download the world and start playing away! Happy simming~