oh how i miss me some marta!

"dont be so stressed! it will not help you! I havent met person who is studying more than you!! Im sure you will have only the best grades and you will find perfect job;)"

if only dear.. if only it were true..

oh yes.. n last week for some random reason, clement greeted me with dos besos.. its been such a long timeee!!!! & it felt strangely comforting! damn seee... this is what happens when u have too much time to reminiscice over things..

I have a favorite temperature. Sadly I'm not in the right latitude. How boring is our weather?

doomed.

This is the end you know
Lady, the plans we had went all wrong
We ain't nothing but fight and shout and tears

We can't cry the pain away
We can't find a need to stay
I slowly realized there's nothing on our side

Out of my life, Out of my mind
Out of the tears that we can't deny
We need to swallow all our pride
And leave this mess behind
Out of my head, Out of my bed
Out of the dreams we had, they're bad
Tell them it's me who made you sad
Tell them the fairytale gone bad

maybe I need to go through it once and for all for me to get over it.

count it with all your fingers. 10. since we all first met, 16.

the (still) naughty one - the smart one - the quiet one - the perfume wearing one - the one who has seen us grown up - the bollywood lookalike one
(the currently very sleepy one) - the married one (!) - the pretty bookworm one

por siempre. no olvidare.

999 - the no. of posts ive made since inception...eeks thats just scarily alot.

just watched the last 10mins of Belgium v Spain. SHUCKS I suddenly remembered how fun it is to watch spain play and to watch their games with spanish commentary.. sigh. i miss it so so sooo much. and thank god for spanish commentary because online streaming is so bad and jerky i only knew it was a goal because he said GOALGOALGOALLLLLLLLLLL as they so often do.. & who else but villa maravilla! STUPID STARHUB and ex british colony who only shows england play. WHY do we pay so much for football channel if we dont get to watch the matches that we want.

is happy being a puzzle geek.

hello im ili and i love finding patterns in things. i live on sudoku and picking odd things out. is there any occupation in the world where I can just play with puzzles? hmmm maybe a code breaker! ooohhhh.. i WISHED! beh.

well not as cringeworthy as i thought it would be.
but still i'm taking it as a bad sign.
back to the drawingboard folks

i dont know what im doing

does everyone feel this lost or is it just me?
i officially hate interviews and form filling. cant pple just be hired based on what they see on paper? :D I'm just grumpy because the job market is bad. and I'm not in the mood to be looking fervently for a job. and I don't like nervous before interviews and the worst still cringing at my answers post interview... it doesnt help that break week is over and i still have 3 midterms coming up and 3 projects due and i feel totally not prepared which means tts going to impact my grades negatively which affect job prospects negatively. slippery slope? dramatic much? half empty glass it is.

im missing my spanish boys :(

school has started in spain and tt means i havent had my weekly dosage of spanish being corrected :( why don't spaniards use more internet in school!? boo.

People say only bad news is big news. who wants to know about happy people?
Perhaps thats what been intriguing me these past couple of weeks.. I hardly even read the newspaper before this admittedly.

Anyhow, some random guy who is apparently now working in Maybank Islamic Banking suddenly dropped me a msg on facebook. Didn't know an alumni was growing haha but its so small, everyone knows whoever that goes in and out. Which is probably why I must have suddenly wondered the impact of the current market turmoil on Islamic Banking. Considering its lower risk profile and investors fear and terrible market sentiment right now, they will be willing to pour their money on anything stable - even Treasury Bills with yields so low that they don't even guard against inflation. Did some googling and right on the money, analysts are saying the same thing. However of course, we are in early days. There is too little liquid investment products in the market right now for this new type of banking to take the world by storm.

So my friends, I ask what are your views - of such turbulent times, of the evolving role of islamic banking and of our job opportunities. Damn makes me wonder why I didnt sign up for any bonded scholarships back then! lol

help my laptop is dying..

by my own doing of course. perhaps i should really get a mac so i shant be tempted to download things that potentially harm my comp. of course after taking 'introduccion a la informatica' last term, even after deleting the sources of trojans n viruses i cant help have Miguel's voice haunting over me that 'all programs running at the same time as the infected program including yr OS wud have already been affected' so yes basically I need to either reformat my comp or buy a new one. tempted to just reformat as even though the economy is how bad, I'm tempted to start buying my first lot of shares! which I'm predicting si going to cost as much as a laptop. It's all about value investing! - according to Bill Miller & Warren Buffett. You see! something did come out of my learning finance. and its not down to waste even though i don't want to work in a bank. I bet I would have no clue what is happening in the world if I hadn't taken it.

how now brown cow. be a guai laptop and let me survive for another yr k? or at least until the next great student Mac deal. had the biggest scare since it took forever to even startup the computer yesterday. I must have rebooted my comp at least 10times. I thought it was all gone so much so I don't think I'm going to switch off my comp anytime soon lest it decides to die on me again.

losing the sense of hari raya already. so fast!! sian. Come on mats & minahs! show yrselves in all your glory so i can live vicariously through you. Or perhaps I shall be having my own mat/minah gathering if a pri sch exschmate is planning to do so hee. it has officially been a decade. yowza

Aidilfitri 2008

panas gilerrr. ok normally i hate it when anyone uses the mat way of speaking but the humidity today was quite a killer. add in a cough, sore throat, fever, flu and sore eyes, it was rather trying at times. tapi.. dapat juga ingat kenapa cuma suka yang melayu sahaja.. :)