Thaipussam eve

friday came and went as usual and i'm still counting the number of days i've been here, as usual. 

anyways yesterday i had to attend a briefing regarding my fellowship. it was held at the main campus, penang. and so, i woke up very early (7am is super early for me ok?) and got ready for my trip to the island. upon my arrival i met a fellow mate whom i knew during the interview as well. he is currently my first usm post grad friend (someone not from unimap). sad eh? oh well. just you wait. i'll make tons when i start! pfft! 

anyways the briefing started at 9ish. the hall was full. majority of the fellowship holders came from the main campus. there weren't that many of us from the engineering faculty. total fellowship holders this time around came up to 230 students, both masters and phd. this is the biggest amount yet, since USM being an APEX and all, supposedly wants to bring the university forward in the research field thus encouraging the students to pursue their research or something like that. 

we were given the prep talk where we were the selected ones to represent the university as an APEX uni at an international level and that we were the future leaders and we were the creme of the creme..bla bla bla.. i actually scoffed at that fact. the girl next to me just smiled to herself. hello, i've heard that line before. one too many times. pure nonsense. non the less, it still made me feel darn proud of myself. hahaha! 

and so, the briefing which was scheduled to end at around noon, ended at 10ish. like wth la kan. kecian gila those kids from kelantan ok? they came all the way, naik bus for 8++ hours (i'm assuming) and arriving at the wee hours in the morning, and for what? to attend a 45min briefing. very whatever ok? but yes. attendance is compulsary. righ.

alang-alang berada di pulau pinang, i decided to go jalan-jalan cuci mata at gurney plaza (the only places i've been going around here would be gurney, queensbay, sunway carnival and... well that's about the only malls i know.yeah).

along the way, we went through quite a traffic due to the Thaipussam celebration tomorrow. so along the road that we went through, they were setting up their booths, i'm guessing all of the companies on the whole island participated, even including kastam and DAP, also i think there might be a competition for who has the best looking booth or something, cause they were all preparing to make theirs look the prettiest, along with huge huge speakers with indian music blasting away that shook my car.

 

 

 

thaipussam celebration

that was basically the highlight of the day. the rest of the day went by like a blur. shopping and eating. yes. fun fun favourite things :)

 

cam-whoring is a yes yes!

anyways, here are some pics and like i say, they tell you a story of its own :)

 

liverfool *snikers* 

  

thaipussam

massage chair

RM1 for 3 minutes

RM5 for 15 minutes

RM10 for 30 minutes

 

sillyness

catch that coach!

i SCREAM! 

u SCREAM!

we SCREAM for ICE CREAM!

gurney plaza

xoxo