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I used to think like this…
Having a relationship is a burden especially you are a guy. I always thought that being a good boyfriend you not only have to be more compromise to your beloved ones, being a committed person and also this – friendship and money.

Male chauvinism is always the cause behind these two things. Going out dating with your girlfriend and you will expect one thing – money spending. I don’t know why I would think like this but when you date with your girlfriend, you will treat her to the cinemas or having a romantic dinner with all the cash from your wallet flows out while your girlfriend’s money is still intact in her purse and you don’t want her to fork out her own money. What even worse is that after you spend all the money just for dating, then you realise that you are broke. Nothing to rely on except to borrow money from your friends or maybe find a part time job. But here’s a catch: you don’t want your girlfriend to realise that you are broke cause you afraid that she will look down on you or even worse – break up.

Beside that, spending your time with your girlfriend means that your friendship with your friends (guy/gal/whatever) will be getting soar. You will give your priorities to your girlfriend rather than to your friend – breaking the rules, arguing over a small matter with your best buddies even when you realise that your girlfriend had done something wrong and you started to launch cold war between you and your friends and finally without notice, you’ve turned yourself into an outcast. Every second that you think will be only worth when you were with your girlfriend and your friendship between yourself with your friends were meaningless and also worthless…

Then I realised that……
Having a relationship means to understand each other, to help and to share responsibilities. You can treat her for a romantic dinner and she can treat you to the cinema for movies. Good balance right?
If you notice that your girlfriend had done something wrong, you can apologise on behalf of her and a few cents worth of advise for her will be good enough. That wasn’t hard right?

Since entering University, I’ve seen a lots of on and off relationship. Some managed to find their Mr/Ms Right within a week while some still take a whole long year. Time is not everything. Of course, finding your Ms. Right too is not easy. Beauty is only skin deep. Why care so much about the beauty when you know that the girl you love is nothing more than a gold digger or a childish playful girl?
Personality of girl is the crucial one. Why? because you are committed to be with this girl for the rest of your life. Relationship is not some sort of a symbol status or make yourself proud and it doesn’t at all cause this makes you look very stupid.

As far as I concern, I’m a realistic guy. Personality comes first while beauty second. Bear in mind that pretty girls are to be admired but good girl is to be wife. This is a very straight forward adage and you don’t need to think hard about this adage. When looking for a relationship, try to be mature minded instead. You don’t wanna put yourself in trouble with an immature boyfriend/girlfriend. If you are desperate for a relationship. think twice instead before you really got yourself into one.

When some of my friend ask me “Why you don’t have a girlfriend yet?'” My reply is simple, I’m too immature to have a relationship. Even I already found the one that I love, I will never have a relationship with her because I don’t want her to suffer as the consequences of who I am and what I am. I rather see her live happily with some one she can really rely on and have a better future……

The reason I post this is because one of my friend’s housemate. He told me that his housemate brought his girlfriend back to their rental home watching movies together with the loud speaker disturbing him study and also getting connected to the internet when his housemate’s girlfriend were streaming and downloading causing a disruption where the housemate himself set the rules for downloading and streaming but he did not follow the rules he make when his girlfriend were there. Besides, his housemates were totally broke when he keep on asking to borrow money from friends just to make his girlfriend happy…………………

At first, I thought that Mooncake Festival is over……Far from over that is.

Went to Summit Batu Pahat today and saw a lot of activities and one major event will be the “Summit Idol'” where, of course, is nothing more than a singing competition. But, here’s the main attraction……

The judges………
Only 1 judge which I considered as a crowd puller……
And it’s none other than the true blood Johorean rapper, Wong Meng Chee himself!!

Even I also got distracted when the emcees announced his name as the third judge in this singing competition. Since I’m not a big fan of Mandarin/Chinese music, we left that crowded area to some place else……

After walking around loitering the shopping complex, I enter this computer store while the friends went to the next shop shopping for clothes and then I stumbled upon this: EPIC FAIL!!!

Anyway, I enter the store and I finally found what I’m looking for all the time…… For RM39, this laser mouse is worth every cent. I looked around Parit Raja and even in Klang, most of the PC store sell this mouse for mere RM55 which is considered ‘cheapest’ price whereas some store even sold more than RM70 for this laser mouse. Places like Low Yat and Digital Mall, I really have no idea how much they sell……

Well, on the way back to Parit Raja, we stop by at BP Mall for, loitering again. Went there to take a look at the new stores like Big Apple Donut and the new Sony center where we got our chances to look at the new PS3……
Of course, in conjunction with the Mooncake Festival, the shopping complex too have some few events like dancing……
Young and old, really not an obstacle to them though…
Dancing cha-cha……

More activities still to come at night especially in Parit Raja when the Chinese Association of Parit Raja (if I’m not mistaken) organize an event just for the Mooncake Festival. By the way, UTHM Tiong Hua got give a helping hand too……

Since I or any of us (except Ah Yang) did not get involved in this activity, we just stand there enjoy the performance while the whole hall were filled with people coming all over from Parit Raja.

There were few nice performance too……
Luckily Eugene managed to record it with his cam :)

Going to Teledynamics at Johor Bahru using the Google Maps was pain in the ass. I just came back from there with Desmond as his Toshiba laptop were having problems even after sending the laptop for repair in Glenmarie about last month.

Reach J.B, me and Desmond got lost about 3 times and we have to make a U-Turn…not a small U-Turn but a BIG one instead. Anyway, we reached our destination with a big relieve. After finished ‘visiting’ to the office, we started to look for food. Again, we got lost and when we finally found the way out to town, we stop by at Plaza Pelangi…

At first, Desmond wanna to eat at Nando’s but when we explore around, we stumble upon this restaurant…Stonegrill. The meals were actually like this: rather than the conventional prepared meal where the chef/cook cooks for you, instead, they used granite stones which they heat up and the meat will be on top of the stone where the heat of the stone will cook the meat…sounds unique eh??

Here, I’ve ordered the most expensive one…
I don’t know how to consider the worthiness of it but since this is the first time visiting this restaurant, I ordered this meat – ostrich. As you can see, the big black square thingy is actually the heated stones that I’ve mentioned just now…

And here is what Desmond had ordered… Juicy New Zealand lamb with prawns (which I suspect the lamb is local ones, not from New Zealand…lol)

Now for the payment…

My ostrich meat cost a whopping 30 bucks plus a tasteless iced cappuccino and with those stupid taxes has cost me a……you do the calculation. I suck at Math.

To be precise, it’s already more than 50 bucks – the toll, the petrol and there’s another weird thing that we never imagined of…

The car parking fee at the plaza even charged us with government tax!! WTH……

Many of my course mates will expect me to blog this post about the trip that we’ve visited recently which is located in Pasir Gudang, Johor Bharu. Yup, a power station. This trip is actually an assignment trip for our Thermodynamics II where our lecturer had told us from the very first time he entered the class.

Here’s the thing…
Previously, during the last semester, we tried to organised a trip to Proton City in Tanjung Malim but cancelled in the end due to the limitations set by the Proton which states that only a limited persons per-university are able to enter. We were late that time because there were other section from our uni has managed to get their seats in the bus to Proton City.

So, this very semester has become a good stepping stone for us to continue our abandoned trip and of course, this will make us even more easier as all the paper work and documents are readily to be submitted but there’s a hitch…
Thermodynamics right? Any major thermo involves in the Proton factory? Many people will say the engine combustion are involve with thermodynamics but that is just the part of it. Our lecturer told us that the most suitable for the trip is to visit a power plant factory. Conclusion? Proton City trip is abandoned again…

YTL power plant are actually weren’t our main choice. When we set up a small committee to run the trip, I was assigned to be an ‘informer’ by calling to the company asking permission to visit to their power plant.

Here’s the one thing that I don’t like…
If you are not the part of the committee member, KEEP QUIET
And when you are given a chance to voice out your opinion, OPEN YOUR DAMN MOUTH
It wasn’t so hard right? Nabeh…
Anyway, I got pissed off and I choose my own destination instead of listening to them as I’ve already done my research on the power plant tour and I never told them at all…

In the end, the trip was a success. We can take picture throughout the power plant and instead of many companies who only giving PowerPoint slides and never take visitors to their plant for a tour or even banned them from taking picture. We have it all in this Power Plant.

For those who don’t know, this power plant is actually a gas and steam power plant with the efficiency of more than 90%. Yes, the power plant itself is actually a big concept of thermodynamics where the heat transfer and all those bla bla stuff that we’ve studied since Form6 and Thermodynamics in your compulsory engineering subjects is all about.

Like any other places, we were first giving some intro about the Power Plant via PowerPoint slides and end with a Q&A session. Without any time wastage, we straight away went to the first place which is the Gas Turbine…

This is the gas turbine, 2 actually. Gas supplied from Petronas and injected in to this turbine to generate electricity. We actually can see the gas burning by looking right below the yellow – black stripes. Did I mention that the place here is damn noisy? 

Then once we exit from the gas turbine room, we saw a complex systems of piping where steam and water travel from the gas turbine and being channel to other places 

The left picture is actually the boiler located high above those piping and the right picture is the overall boiler where you can see how big and complex is the system…

Of course, this never let us down of taking some memorabilia……

And of course when there’s a steam involved, the will be water. We were taken to the large water pump which pumps the seawater to cool down the temperature and chlorination chamber to kill living things that will destroy the machinery. The place was damn hot and pump room can even turn into a perfect sauna room.

Inside the pump room where there are two giant pumps pumping the seawater. The heat released from these pumps are really hot and many of us can even stand there for a mere 10 minutes…

Then we went to the steam power plant room where we were greeted by a gigantic condenser. The red wall is actually a condenser and this condenser directly leads to the steam turbine to generate electricity.

The steam turbine is the white cylinder looking where the electricity is generated and that summarizes our trip of the day with a nice group photo along with our tour guide, Eng. Nordin… 
Returning back to University is like pain in the ass. According to the trip, we should return to uni soon after the trip but there were a few who wanted to go to other places which the bus driver directly turned down on us and left us nowhere to visit then. However, somebody suggest that we should pay a visit to the kite museum where upon the arrival, the museum is closed for lunch (it’s Ramadan, why close for lunch?). The non-Muslim never really get their lunch and when I voiced out to go to the petrol station which has 2 fast food restaurant – Burger King and Dunkin’ Donuts, I got slammed by them.

In the end, we still end up stopping at that petrol station……
Who’s to blame now huh!!?