Measure This!

exams are nearly over for everyone and i bet all of them are gonna be over the moon when it finally is. well, i finished mine two weeks ago but it wasn't much fun when all your friends are still studying and you have nothing to do! anyways, during the exam period, when i was a bit exhausted and my brain couldn't absorb anymore facts efficiently, my friends and i were playing around, kidding with each other to release the tension accumulated inside ourselves and we discovered some interesting things.

although we have an internationally accepted way of measuring things, i.e. we usually use units such as meters and inches and it is possible to convert one into the other, have you ever thought of how different parts of your body can be measured using another part? here are a couple of the measurements we've discovered!

- the length of our foot is the same length as the inside of our arm, from the wrist to the elbow.

- the length across our waist is the same as the length around our neck.

so, next time you're thinking of buying new shoes, you don't even have to take your shoes off. you can just measure whether the length is right by putting them on your arm! and the next time you want to buy a new pair of pants or a skirt, you can just put the waist part around your neck! i'm sure it will save you time trying them on! but of course, i wouldn't say you don't have to try them at all, coz they might not suit you well.. =P do you know of other interesting measurements like these?

Updates!

it's been a month since the last time i actually updated my blog! well, in two days it will be. i've got so much to write, but i don't like my posts to be long coz i wouldn't want to read them again. and i don't expect others to want to read them, if even i don't want to. thats why i try to make them short. well, i think they are. hehe. so, i guess i'll be writing about the past month in the next few blogs. so do bear with me. =P

now, let the updates begin!

RAYA

this year was my first raya away from home. it was fun, colourful and wonderful, but i don't think it can compare to the raya celebrations with my family in malaysia. well, typical words from a student celebrating raya in a foreign country, huh? well, i guess, i'm not as unique as i want to be. haha. anyways, the first day of raya was kinda boring. it was on a weekday, anyway. i had class, and so did everyone else! well, it can't be helped, can it? but it was okay coz on the second day we had our raya celebration at malaysia hall which wasn't bad. this was my first raya celebration at malaysia hall which was held on october 24, 2006. the food was nice. we had ketupat, rendang, satay and other stuff which i can't really remember. wanna know why? coz my friends and i are camera freaks, and i think we took photos half of the night. it was sooo crazy. but i had loads of fun! but not a lot of food, though. haha. it's alright. i probably went there for the company and not so much the food, anyways.

well, there's actually more from where that came from. but they probably won't fit in this page. haha.

next, was the one organised by UMNO, of which i was part of the organising team. this was one was also held at malaysia hall (well, almost everything is done, there!). i was in charge of the presentation. it's kinda long, so you'd have to be very, very patient. haha. ermmm... okayyy. i have succesfully failed to upload the video due to a fact that i am unable to understand. does that actually make sense? well, whatever. i'll just try putting it here next time. =P well, if i can't have the video in this post, i'll just put more pictures then. hehe.





















and here's one of mamid taking a picture of himself using MY camera..! how vain can you get? hehe. =P

by the way, the night before the event, i went to sheera's house to help them make some kuih raya. i think the ones i did there weren't very succesful, but the ones the others did were really nice. =)

oh yeah, later that night, i made some chocolate crispies and i'm proud to say that they were all finished as soon as the container touched the table. yeayy!!! =)

well, there were of course other raya events - one held by cafe kasturi, 'makan-makan night' held by masa, uts; 'raya begins' by msa, macquarie; and another one held by msd. i only managed to go to the one held by cafe kasturi and msd but i'm sure the others were just as fun. maybe next year i'll be able to attend all of the events. you can never have too many open houses right? that's the fun part of raya - visiting your relatives and friends. so yeah, eventhough i'm not in malaysia, the tradition remains. and with all these people around me, raya overseas is definitely almost, if not just as fun, as raya at home. =)

i know it's almost the end of syawal, but it's never to late to wish everyone,

SELAMAT HARI RAYA AIDILFITRI, MAAF ZAHIR DAN BATIN! =)