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I'm sorry, I know it's been ages (almost to the point of being literal) since my last post. You know the saying; "no good deed goes unpunished"? Well it doesn't. When I try to do a good deed, it all goes terribly wrong. A friend of mine was really REALLY down because her grades weren't good. So I hand her my phone to show her some funny pictures. It does the trick but then everyone else start kinda getting interested and no one notices the disciplinary teacher walk in. The next incident is what normally happens should nature take it's course; my phone gets confiscated. Now, my parents are pissed but syukur alhamdulillah I have such great parents so they aren't gonna kill me. Yet. I don't exactly blame the teacher as he was just doing his job but it is troublesome, especially so close to Eid Il Fitri and all. Sometimes, these events make being a PRS seem almost not worthy, especially since only the counselors are watching our backs. Although we coul...

It's SO difficult to find a stupid address. It took me a long time to look for info to complete my History folio. The government doesn't properly document important/key info and their websites appear sloppy and unprofessional. I'm not saying I can do a better job but they are the government. I mean, couldn't they hire somebody to do a proper job. About poorly documented info; the complete history on Hang Tuah and Malay folklore is poorly documented. The least they could do was write down where we could get it. Eg; National Museum, National Archive, National Library, etc. Why is it so difficult for Malays to do a proper and thorough job.? Why?!

It's been a hellish two days. My grades aren't exactly up and to make things worse, my mom's in the hospital. For what, we don't know, yet. The results haven't come back. Today we celebrated my friend's birthday. It was cool. Another friend had organized a surprise party and baked the cake etc. It was good to see the birthday kid appreciating it. The grades had my friend feeling down most of the past 2 days. Then again, many people were feeling down due to the exam results. I swear 87% of the class declined in grades. Damn. And I'm supposed to be in 3 Alpha, the top class. To be honest, I'm surprised my grades weren't worse. If that's not bad enough, I have to go for a mandatory Tetanus shot, on a FRIDAY! How to bloody hell am I supposed to go to Section 7 on a Friday?! Our disciplinary teacher (I'll be referring to him as Mr. N from here on in) suddenly announces the shots as if we had known a long time ago! And they hand out the frigging...

"Life isn't fair," I heard a man say, "Life? Not fair?" "Life is cruel," "Life is heartless," I say. But these difficulties paint our lives, Makes us more colorful, More resilient, Makes us say "I can". "We're mortal anyway," some might say, And give up they may, But that is no reason to give up, No, no! Being mortal should make things more beautiful, As we may pass on at any moment. The great thing about life however, Is that it is never out of control, What we do defines us, How we see reflects us. Living in a cruel world as a mortal, Makes our life colorful, And the world beautiful. -Aqil Zakwan

In this final hour, The road you take is the path you make, For in this final hour, Right and wrong are one yet different. In this final hour however, All is not lost, For the youth are our saviours, Their naive outlook, Their untainted minds, Their passionate and undying love, How and what they are taught, Is what stands in between our survival and our undoing, For in this deciding hour, All we can do is to make sure our children, The future of mankind, Does not pay for our mistakes. -Aqil Zakwan

Legends are never born, They are made, By their great deeds, By the strength of their backs, Their hearts of gold, or hearts stone cold, Stories forged make them more, More than mortal, but less than immortal. In the end, they become dust, Like any other mortal, And their tales, like all tales, Becomes history, From history becomes legend, From legend to myth, Then their tales of greatness are lost. For this cycle, This cycle of tales, Remembers many, But immortalizes few. -Aqil Zakwan

Woohooo!!! Sepang yesterday (24 Feb 08) was rocking!! I'd say around 11 various Porsches, 9 Ferraris, 3 Lamborghinis, 2 Aston Martins, and a Lotus tearing up Sepang International Circuit at the same time should do that. Before take off, they had arranged the cars according to power (most likely) and a grey Lamborghini Murcielago LP460 got the alpha position. Pity the driver seemed a bit reluctant in flooring it. I guess losing RM10 per rev ought to get you thinking, considering it's a V12 6.2l monster. I felt sorry for the Bentley Continental GT owner. Nobody wanted to take it for a spin. Then again, it's not a sports car. Racing the Bentley would be the equivalent of racing a Rolls Royce. There were several Berlinettas, 2 old Ferarris, 2 Lamborghini Murcielago LP460s, a Lamborghini Gallardo, 3 Porsche 911 GT3s, 1 Porsche Cayman S, 1 Porsche Carrera GT, and about 6 Carreras from different years. Besides that, there were 2 Aston Martins; 1 DB9 and 1 V8 Vantage. There was als...