2010

Welcome New Year :D

I was actually about to do a brand new blog, because this blog is already rotten with its unupdateness since august. But maklumlah malas, and there some are pretty nice posts from before so oh well, let it be.

What do I care, sink in to my oh so dusty blog!

Everybody is out, spending the wee hours of new year in kl and later regretting the horrendous jam. Me and my dad, we prefer here in BJ, watching the fireworks from afar, like how its always been.

It shall be a better year, with guranteed obstacles and stuff. Im scared, in a way. As I was watching the BJ neighbours hauling "NEW YEAR NEW YEAR!" and seeing the fireworks go off, I felt teary. Leaving 2009 and stepping into a brand new phase. The teenage years are soon to be over and im not sure if im ready. The responsibilities, the choices.

But it will be a great year, I will make it an amazing year :D

Hang Tuah Fail SPM

SPM New Grading System

THE STAR

PETALING JAYA: A new grading system for the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) will be implemented from this year.

Education director-general Tan Sri Alimuddin Mohd Dom said the change would provide a detailed breakdown of excellent candidates who obtained grade As in the examination.

“The change means there will now be a new grade of A+. Previously, the highest grade possible in the SPM was 1A,” he said in a statement yesterday.

Under the present system, students are graded as 1A, 2A, 3B, 4B, 5C, 6C, 7D, 8E and 9G while the new grades would be from A+ to G (see chart).

Alimuddin said the change was based on feedback from various quarters that the existing system did not provide a more detailed breakdown of excellent students.

“The change in the grading system will enable more qualified candidates to be chosen for training programmes and new scholarships, such as the one announced by the Prime Minister recently,” he said.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said in June that a new category of Public Services Department scholarships would be introduced next year based purely on merit, regardless of race.

Alimuddin said the Cabinet approved the change in the grading system last month.

“This will not affect the examination at all as it only involves a change in the grades given,” he said.

He said school principals have been directed to explain the new grading system to students sitting for the SPM this year.

Grades
Existing	New
	A+
1A	A
2A	A-
3B	B+
4B	B
5C	C+
6C	C
7D	D
8E	E
9G	G

It Shall Haunt Till Judgement Day

You know, it was raya right? So all my relatives that has seen me tonnes of times every raya would ask the same question.

"Ahh, Aisyah berapa tahun dah?"
"Tujuh belas"
"Ohhh SPM lah ye!"
"Mmmhmm"

Everybody says that. I mean, everyone. Onced they've known that ur 17, the word SPM never fails to pop out as the first thing to be said. They'll all ask, oh dah ready? Dah dekat ye SPM! Yes Im pretty sure all us form fivers are quite aware of that. We think about it every single day. Ever think that we need a break from listening the letters 'S', 'P', and 'M'. I guess people just dont know how else to start a conversation. They normally go with :

Ur so tall!
U've gained weight!

Its always about appearance. Why are people so judgemental? It always have to do with physical, hishh. So anyway, SPM is practically stamped on each form fivers head. Its quite tiring, but at times engaging. I was so pening all the SPM questions, when we drove home, I actually saw a building called ; SPM SDN BHD.
I was like what? This thing definitely has controlled my mind. It was this recycling industry or something. But still, SPM is everywhere. And its coming.

After doing trials, all of us got this wake up call on how hard SPM is. All this while I thought, hey maybe it'll be okay. I've done the past years. They seem fine (yeah, because you looked at the answers dumbo). Trials was horrible. It was hard, really. I have no confidence in it whatsoever. Im doomed, doomed!

Everybody expects you to well in SPM. Everybody wants you to shoot for the stars. Its hard sometimes, to live up to everyone's expectation, that you dont realise the most important expectation is from you yourself.

So we all have to get in gear now, its a month away! And it won't be pretty!

Raya raya !

Very very late selamat hari raya wish! Yes as you all can see, my blog has not been updated for the past, ehem ehem, two months? How embarassing. Trust me, I didnt even touch my computer. I let it rot and collect dust by the corner of the room. Maklumlah, trial.

So this year's theme was in midst of purplish pinkish. Had a great time at mt grandmama's open house where I ate so much, that I gained back all the weight I lost during 30-day puasa in 1-day raya. Yeah, I was like this blood sucking eating cow that attacked everything especially Nek Uda's wondrous serunding (:

Went raya here and there. Suprisingly did not get any stains on my other baju raya which kain is white (and very -- EXTREMELY -- proud of it). I was kinda embarassed taking duit raya from people because I felt, well you know, old enough. Im gonna work soon anyway. So I said this to everyone but everyone gave (: Then this one mak cik, actually LISTENED to what I said (?) and did not give me duit raya. I was like, ummmm, hmmm. I thought this whole reverse psychology would work, but apparently only 1 in every 50 people.

Anyhow, my family did a open house, like every other year. We are quite a weird family. Every year, we'll plan on how small we wanna make the open house and invite as little amount of people as possible. But hey, it'll never work huh? We'll end up with 200 people -- every year. And this year, slightly less, just about 113 people. Its in our nature. To invite everybody O.O

So I invited a bunch of my friends this year! About 20 of em. And we had a blast. Everybody looked smashing, took great photos and told about each other's stories. I really missed them, like a lot, so hurrah hurrah they came (:

And Selamat Hari Raya. A late one anyway.

Helllllllllllooooooo

Missed me ?

The Bet of Century

Well you see, me, nico and ting tong were in class, minding our own business. I told them how awful it is that there is going to be a bm gerak gempur on my birthday ): ): ): Then it skipped to nico's birthday that is near SPM. Nico suddenly said that he wanted to do a party at his house after SPM (kita serbu semua!). Then, we happily talked about how amazing it would be when SPM finishes.

This is where the bet came in.

Me in my usual nutsy mind mode said that "I'd be so happy when SPM finsihes that I would lick the tar road."

Nico who is an accomplice of mine in the cuckoo club joyfully added, "Yeah, and I would eat the grass."

*Both stared each other sharply

"Seriously?" - Nico
"Yeaaahhh." - Daia
"I bet you." - Nico
"Only if you eat the grass." - Daia
"Deal."
"Deal."

So there you have it. I dont look forward to licking the tar, believe me, but I'd consider it to see nico eat grass.


I know what you're thinking. Euuuwww. Gila.