Stuff I Did Today.

Hell of a past few days. All culminated in last night's phone call.

Sigh.

Anyhoo. Not gonna be tooo down about it. There is hope, you know.

Just so you know, I'm talking about the Econs semester paper and my future scholarship plans. Mmmhmm. Exactly what i'm talking about.

It's time to focus, people. Today's Econs paper was easily THE worst one I ever sat for.

The GAPING holes in my economic knowledge have been revealed. Now it' s gonna take a hell of a lot of effort to patch them up.

It's not funny anymore. Econs A2, Maths P1, S1, P3 AND S2, Computing AS (with a project that's fit for toilet paper) and History A2. Add this up to the extra-curricular stuff, you have what the pros call a recipe for disaster.

Watch Nonnel, Aiman. That's what you wanna do. You wanna end up where he is now. Focus.

Okay, enough whining.

I cleaned my room today. = )

Rearranged it too.

The Feng Shui of my room is now at optimal conducive-ity to facili-ma-tate the studyments required to ace my examerations so i can do the progress to university thing.

What am I doing?

I don't know anymore.

What's she doing?

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..

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I don't know anymore.

To Fluffy.

I can't find the words to describe the total awesomeness of the past week. Haha!

Regardless of -

a. The Mathematics AS & A2 Trials & Sem Exams
b. An ever-growing pile of unread History notes
c. Feeling increasingly lost in A2 Econs
d. A Computing AS Project deadline that seemed sooo far away but is now sooo near

I am..

Dare I say it?

Happy!

(oh, crap, i did)

You know why. = )

(witness the full might of my vague-osity)

Mmmmf.

Things've been going my way, I'd say.

I'm staring at the back of my right hand now.

You know why as well. = )

Now to read up on Perfect Competition!
To Stanlake!

Why Don't You Come A Little Nearer?

I feel like a kid. Butterflies in my stomach, tongue-tied, sweating slightly. = )

My 1st sem dream might be coming true after all.

We'll see how it goes.

= )

They're Looking Up, I'd Say.

First of all...

CONGRATULATIONS and THANK YOU!!

To the Sapphireans for your support during the MCB, particularly Kammy and Jijul. Couldn't have done it without you guys.. Sorry I couldn't be there. = (

I don't have any pics, else they'd be allll over the blog.

We're getting there, people. Not always about who does Boria best. When HAW and Bangsawan come along, HAH! Feel the raw power or Kamilia, Haq and our technical team! Juniors. Be ready. You have a hell of a year ahead of you. = )

Secondly.

WOOOOT!

SAPPHIRE 1st RUNNER UP IN INTERHOUSE NETBALL!!

Awesome, people. Glory to Sapphire. Thank you Yatz, Sya, Ashee, Aqiedah, Mika, Kammy, Maddy, Faddy, hell, thank you to all you girls! You girls are great. Guys. YOu too. Thanks for your support.

Also, finally,

Thank you to Mr Ravi for his participation in the interhouse cooking competition. Without you, sir, it wouldn't have happened at all for our house. Thank you. = )

That's all I have to say. For now. Take it to the limit, people. = )

Sprung!

So KYUEM's closed for a week. I believe sufficent coverage has been given to that topic on every other KYUEM blog, so i'm not gonna overdramatise about that here.

However, 'tis to the events after the great announcement of College Closure (that shall forevermore be known as the Great KYUEM Epidemic of 2009) that I wish to draw to my reader(s) attention.

So Sutherland says 'College closed!'

Yay and yaddayadda.

Packpackpack, then go home (in Uncle Johan's Vios with Darimi, Kesh, Amelia and Wen Zhen and a CRAPLOAD of luggage that we managed to fit in the car through strategic application of skills learnt in many hours of Tetris) and arrive home pretty late, around 8 (ooh, rhyme!).

What's waiting for me?

Phone call.

Mom : Aiman! Where are you!

Me : Um. Home. I've... been meaning to call... (nervous look)

Mom : No, don't bother, Uncle Johan's called me already.

Me : Oh! (eyes wide and stare at Kesh and mouth, "oh, sh*t")

Mom : ... So. Fly to UK?

Dad (in background) : Fly, fly!

Me : (eyes wider) But.. but but.. (is severely tempted, but has a ton of work to do)

Mom : You don't really have a choice here, Aiman.

Me : Oh. Um. Okay, then. When will I be back?

Mom : Monday night. 3rd.

(smack forehead) ... Kay.

And so I would like to take this opportunity to apologise to Sheril, and say, sorry, baby. I had a real good day planned too. = ( Aiman owes you. More. Cause he's been owing you a lot lately.

.. Kesh and Dari are staying overnight at my house tonight. Without me there. Or adult supervision. Don't look at me, wasn't my idea.

Just don't wreck the house guys.

Okay. I'm in the terminal now. Alone. In my polo shirt and blazer. Feeling like a high-powered business-type guy. It's kinda nice. Should get used to this.

Later, people. Next time you see me, I'll be in ze Brits!

What's In A Name?

Click here.

"In an effort to brand itself as “progressive” and “egalitarian”, and move away from feudalistic connotations, the party has introduced new descriptions for its organisational structure. The supreme council (majlis pimpinan tertinggi) is now replaced with central leadership committee (majlis pimpinan pusat) while “bahagian” or division has been superseded by “cabang”, and “cawangan” or branch will be referred to as “ranting”."

Central leadership committee?

Anybody else thinking of Lenin's Council of Commissars?

PKR, you do not sound 'progressive' or 'egalitarian', you just sound out of touch with reality.

Yes, this smacks of Socialist 'egalitarian' rebranding, ladies and gents.

And before I get flamed as a crackpot Commie-basher, here're my arguments. So finish reading before you click the Comments link.

A committee, by definition, is a group of ordinary party members who get together in order to accomplish a particular goal or target.

Ostensibly, this implies that the members of the Committee are, in fact, just your everyday, run of the mill PKR party members.

So, by rebranding the Supreme Council a Central Leadership Committee, the party's saying, "Hey, we're democratic! Look! Our leaders are normal people! Just like you! And you! And you, the homeless unemployed guy who lives off his brother smoking pot over there! Yes, you too!"

I disagree with this.

Why pretend that a group of leaders that are higher ranked (and by extension, more valuable) than the other members of the party are 'the same as everyone else'?

Why pretend that the men (and women) who contribute most to the party are the exact same as the ones who join it for the glamour of being part of 'the Opposition' or, worse, the money?

I say keep the title 'Supreme Council.'

I believe that Parties are not run by Committees.

Scratch that, Parties CANNOT be run by committees.

Parties are run by councils, with a clear hierarchy and a leader that leads with integrity, with a clear succession plan to an intelligent, competent successor. There is no cooperation in leadership.

Cooperative Leadership does not and cannot exist. It is an oxymoron.

And the 'Feudalistic connotations' of the term Sepreme Council? People, the Supreme Council, i.e. the notion of an enlightened form of organised leadership is not FEUDAL at all! It is the absolute base of the modern Government! The idea of a 'Leadership Committee' is the perverted version of this noble ideal! Why are we equating the single greatest breakthrough in human governing systems with something that is ancient and 'bad'? This makes no sense.

Look.

PKR's supreme council is (mostly?) made up of competent, intelligent individuals, and I, for one, respect who they are and what they have to offer to Malaysian politics.

And so they deserve to be recognised as maybe a little better than all of us for what they have achieved as the main opposition to the admittedly slightly wayward ruling party we have now.

PKR has never been led by a committee. PKR is what it is today because of a council, a team, the leaders, men with vision, a wise group of elders and not-so-elders, and there is no point calling them otherwise. To do so would be an insult.

Calling them a 'committee' will just draw derision from Malaysians sick of these half-assed attempts to 'democratise' PKR's image (which I personally think is too democratic already). We want good government, not fancy committees. The most democratic titles in the world will not get you anywhere when the economy crashes, GLCs go bankrupt, the crude oil runs out and pop stars are falling left and right.

PKR's leadership has given much to us all, and even I, who privately lean towards the ruling coalition (they can be saved, people!) ungrudgingly admit this. They deserve to be treated as such.

Call a spade a spade, ladies and gentlemen. After all it's done for you, it's the least you could do.

Quickie Pt 2

My UK trip (originally planned for 28th June -12th July) has just been cancelled, due to the big swine flu scare.

And I'm understandably disappointed.

I spend much time cursing unnamed things, trying to find some way to spend an extra two weeks in Malaysia.

But then, the next day (i.e. Today) I get a call from Ms Parvin from the Yayasan Bumiputera Scholarship Whatchamajigger, and she says she wants to schedule a face-to-face interview for me on the 3rd of July, Friday.

Whoa.

And it turns out our tickets can be held for a year, meaning that we'll be going in September after Raya, in the Fall when it's not so tourist-y.

Double Whoa.

Which just goes to show you kids.

Things'll pretty much almost always end up going your way.

Now to see how long this optimism will last.

I'm gonna go read a book and try not to kill myself over my terrible Malay language skills.