Tremors from Sumatra

This update comes after 2 weeks after the last. Over the weeks, the events worth mentioning are

1. The day I played senior and greeted the new Malaysian students to Massey University as if i've been here more than 3 days. Macam bagus jer...hehe

2. The trip to Wellington, which took one and a half hours from Palmerston North. Went to the Student attache's house first to meet her, and other new students this year. Proceeded to the city which I have to say, is more happening than Palmerston North. Beautiful waterfronts, high rises, and San Francisco type streets. Memang bandar habesh ah...

3. The trip back from Wellington, I had to drive. The trip to Wellington we had three cars, but the trip back, the car of the ambassador was not making the trip back. So we had to rent an extra car. On the 4th day in New Zealand, I drove long distance.

4. The Hall meeting was held in Monroe Dining Hall, which is approximately 50 steps from my hall. Had some activities including a general knnowledge quiz. Yeah, general knowledge my ass. To answer the questions, you had to be

• a kiwi
• rugby fan
• an american

You guessed it, the questions were about new zealand, rugby and American football. I contributed towards one question I thought I knew. It was "what was the longest and biggest reptile in the world?" I can bet that most of us would say The Anaconda Snake right? I've seen those fuckers on TV, not referring to the movie of course, but the real thing, and they big. But I was wrong, it wasn't the Anaconda. Try Googling the answer people.

5. The clubs and socs day. Lots of tables set up on the main concourse, where all the Uni clubs promote thier clubs and activities. I first went straight for MUMSA, the Massey University Malaysian Students Association. Met up with familiar faces, and even helped them sign up a couple of newbies. Non-Malaysians signed up as well, which was funny to me, coz I knew the main agenda of the club, which was to recognise the Malaysian contingent at Massey. Also signed up for the Massey Soccer Club. Thinking of trying out for the team, but gotta go to town and find some cheap boots first.

6. Signing up for the gym. The recreation centre offers gym services. It's 70 NZD for the whole year, which was really a bargain, because I paid that amount monthly when I went to Fitness First.

7. Crazy Sports day. The battle of the Halls. Despite having the biggest hall this year, only a handful of the "Walter Dyer Warriors" went down to the Oval that day. We came down that hill, and saw that we were really unprepared. Other halls had face paint, whistles , hats etc...and they had already thought up thier cool chants before hand, while we the Warriors, just had our banner. We won the first game, and lost the second, and drew the third. The fourth was the most fun. The slippery slide. They layed plastic covering on the side of the hill, watered and soaped it, and presto, they had a slippery slide. The objective was, that one team had to run up the hill with a cup, fill it with water, and slide down to fill the water in the bucket...while the opposing team, had to throw sponges at the runner to make him fall, or make him drop the cup. We won beacuse the other team cheated. But the best part was when everybody jumped on the slide, 20-30 people sliding round. Mucho Fun...

Then we had the chant and danceoff which was fun. Ours wasn't the worst, but the eventual winners were really good.

And the latest event worth mentioning, I experienced my first earthquake ever. The day before, my sister and brother had infomed me that they felt a eatrhquake back home. Nothing major, but they still felt it. They said sumatera suffered a new eartquake. Anyways, I was sitting in my room watching a movie, with my headphones on. Suddenly I felt my chair move. I immediately turned round to expect Iylia shaking my chair. But no one was there, and I remembered the eartquake in Sumatera, and concluded it was an eartquake I was experiencing. I verified it when I immediately buzzed a friend here in the Uni, and he said he felt the tremors too. Good thing, because, I thought I was getting a major headache or something.

So yeah, A brief summary of the last 2 weeks here in Palmy.

Oh yeah, classes have started too...hehe