Chapter 1: Aliens VS Earthlings
The long break from the dungeon for 9 days brought some effects to me. Although the concept still the same as I grounded myself at home since the day I came back, it brought back a lot of my old memories in past and something did happen last night. It was totally out of my expectation.
As usual, I locked myself at home and the only entertainments I have are my dearest 4.5 years computer and the most important electric appliance called TELEVISION. I can’t live without the latter item, it’s my best companion for life especially when time was “rough” for me ever since I sacrificed to be locked up in the dungeon 1 year and 4 months ago.
Talking about television, I came across a kid educational show “Megamath” last afternoon and to my surprise, they used an alien granny character to teach simple mathematics. She’s an old lady with striking green paint on her whole body, she looks wise and friendly but is it appropriate to have such concept? If I’m the producer, I’ll use teddy bear as the teacher, isn’t it much much more cuter? Hahah…. And she started her script by saying “Hello my dear earthlings!”
Yes!! It’s “Earthlings”. The word Earthlings which was sounded so familiar yet I have forgotten it for ages! All those old memories flashed through, brought me back to March Year 2002. The project we worked so hard and almost “fainted” due to lack of sleep in hostel with my dearest roommate Mien Yee and two invisible group members. Our subject “Web Techniques” project was to create a web system and we chose the title of video rental system, the project that we are proud of! We obtained the highest score and the lecturer made it as a sample reference to all the juniors in latter trimesters! Ok, enough of bragging, we called our system as “Galaxy Video Rental Express” and the scrolling text at the bottom of the webpage was “WELCOME EARTHLINGS!” followed by the latest movie titles etc.
Just because of this ordinary word, it contained part of my uni life memories that I will never forget. Besides projects and studies, I recalled the time I shared with both of lovely roommates, Mei Sin and Mien Yee. We shared memorable one year together through thick and thin, shared happiness, sadness, difficulties and troubles. Still remember the night when Mei Sin shocked me with the sensitive word she mumbled through her usual dream talking session while I was burning odd hour oil and cracking my head to understand those craps I read on the “lovely” textbooks.
Our diet programme! Hahaha…. Always made us in dilemma “lunch” or “dinner”!?!? hahaha…. We had our HB4 AR5013 policy on the slimming diet programme which was we were allowed to have only one meal per day! WHAT??? Yes….. 3 first class geniuses who are among top 20 (p.s Mei Sin #3, Mien Yee #18 and me #20) in the whole IT faculty who acted like totally first class idiot in diet simply with the desire to have remarkable slim body. Of course, 3 different person had different opinion. hehehe…
“Eh, today we go out have dinner ok?” Mei Sin asked while holding her books.
“Early in the morning we didn’t have breakfast, I think lunch is the most important one” I suggested while staring at the monitor chatting with the books on my table.
“I think dinner better la. We just drink milk or milo, plus fruits (apple and orange) now and I’ll drive you all out for dinner la” Mien Yee supported Mei Sin’s decision.
“But I’m hungry now. How to study when hungry?” I stressed.
“But if we eat now, how are we going to study when we feel hungry at night?” Mei Sin argued.
“Ok la, we go out for dinner la. True also, I plan to finish at least 5 chapters by tonight, else I’ll be far behind my revision schedule! Oh God, this is all last minute’s fault!” I worried about my final exam and agreed on their decision.
Suddenly, 3 of us were staring at each other and burst out laughter. Why were we so pathetic? Why were we torturing ourselves in a wrong diet plan to die for a beauty body? The “legend” goes on, and it is still the laughing stock among us whenever we meet up and talked about good old days. I miss them dearly but the reality shows that we have to be separated to go on our own path after graduated. They are doing fine in KL now, but my life is like hell in dungeon.
As usual, I locked myself at home and the only entertainments I have are my dearest 4.5 years computer and the most important electric appliance called TELEVISION. I can’t live without the latter item, it’s my best companion for life especially when time was “rough” for me ever since I sacrificed to be locked up in the dungeon 1 year and 4 months ago.
Talking about television, I came across a kid educational show “Megamath” last afternoon and to my surprise, they used an alien granny character to teach simple mathematics. She’s an old lady with striking green paint on her whole body, she looks wise and friendly but is it appropriate to have such concept? If I’m the producer, I’ll use teddy bear as the teacher, isn’t it much much more cuter? Hahah…. And she started her script by saying “Hello my dear earthlings!”
Yes!! It’s “Earthlings”. The word Earthlings which was sounded so familiar yet I have forgotten it for ages! All those old memories flashed through, brought me back to March Year 2002. The project we worked so hard and almost “fainted” due to lack of sleep in hostel with my dearest roommate Mien Yee and two invisible group members. Our subject “Web Techniques” project was to create a web system and we chose the title of video rental system, the project that we are proud of! We obtained the highest score and the lecturer made it as a sample reference to all the juniors in latter trimesters! Ok, enough of bragging, we called our system as “Galaxy Video Rental Express” and the scrolling text at the bottom of the webpage was “WELCOME EARTHLINGS!” followed by the latest movie titles etc.
Just because of this ordinary word, it contained part of my uni life memories that I will never forget. Besides projects and studies, I recalled the time I shared with both of lovely roommates, Mei Sin and Mien Yee. We shared memorable one year together through thick and thin, shared happiness, sadness, difficulties and troubles. Still remember the night when Mei Sin shocked me with the sensitive word she mumbled through her usual dream talking session while I was burning odd hour oil and cracking my head to understand those craps I read on the “lovely” textbooks.
Our diet programme! Hahaha…. Always made us in dilemma “lunch” or “dinner”!?!? hahaha…. We had our HB4 AR5013 policy on the slimming diet programme which was we were allowed to have only one meal per day! WHAT??? Yes….. 3 first class geniuses who are among top 20 (p.s Mei Sin #3, Mien Yee #18 and me #20) in the whole IT faculty who acted like totally first class idiot in diet simply with the desire to have remarkable slim body. Of course, 3 different person had different opinion. hehehe…
“Eh, today we go out have dinner ok?” Mei Sin asked while holding her books.
“Early in the morning we didn’t have breakfast, I think lunch is the most important one” I suggested while staring at the monitor chatting with the books on my table.
“I think dinner better la. We just drink milk or milo, plus fruits (apple and orange) now and I’ll drive you all out for dinner la” Mien Yee supported Mei Sin’s decision.
“But I’m hungry now. How to study when hungry?” I stressed.
“But if we eat now, how are we going to study when we feel hungry at night?” Mei Sin argued.
“Ok la, we go out for dinner la. True also, I plan to finish at least 5 chapters by tonight, else I’ll be far behind my revision schedule! Oh God, this is all last minute’s fault!” I worried about my final exam and agreed on their decision.
Suddenly, 3 of us were staring at each other and burst out laughter. Why were we so pathetic? Why were we torturing ourselves in a wrong diet plan to die for a beauty body? The “legend” goes on, and it is still the laughing stock among us whenever we meet up and talked about good old days. I miss them dearly but the reality shows that we have to be separated to go on our own path after graduated. They are doing fine in KL now, but my life is like hell in dungeon.
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