The Medical check up...

That time of the year is here again. I went for my medical check up this morning. I almost couldnt sleep the whole night. I have to admit I'm not really brave to step in the hospital knowing I would be jabbed in the arm. As I was driving, my mind went crazy. I was imagining what would happen if the needle get stuck in the arm. Ooohhh!! That must hurt bad..
Parked the car, and walked to the lift very slowly. Letting my naughty mind run wild. I remembered I fainted in Burger King a year ago after seeing my own blood oozing out. So in order not to bail out from the check up, I cheated myself to thinking I might meet a pretty nurse there in the Twin Tower clinic..hehhehe
I had to fast in the morning since they would be poking me with those deadly needles to draw blood from me fragile body(ExAGRRate sikit saja..). So when the nurse came to me with those forms, she happily asked if i had fasted before coming and I nervously said yes. What came next was shocking, she said I dont have to. They only wanted my urine. I was already smiling from ear to ear. YESSS!! What a way to start the new year i told myself. So after much concentration and aiming done, I was succesful in pissing into a small bottle. I was proud of myself. Not many people can do that without spilling. If i was still in kindergarden I would be awarded with a STAR.
So after I had passed the bottle back to the lab. i was granted the green light aka go ahead eat all you can instructions. I happily jumped out of the clinic and ran down to my favorite shop, BURGER KING.
Now with my stomach full and loaded.I walk very slowly back to the clinic. Felt that i weigh a ton heavier than before. Then a pretty nurse called my name. The way she called my name, I thought i was already in Heaven. It was so sweet and soothing.Yes thats me, i answered. She greeted me with a sweet smile. I wanted to ask her out for lunch until she apologies for a mistake. Apparently I still had to take blood test, i argued saying i just had a buffalo for lunch now you want to take my blood sample. She smiled and said come follow me to the back. I was naughty enough to mis-interpret that phrase. hehehe. As I walked in the lab, that lab dude was already smiling. It was very clear he remembered me coming every year. I told them that they had abuse my trust. He said it was a routine. Well guess with every great paying, there would always be a great pain the ass, for my case a great pain in the arm. Told him to make it fast and precise. And that dude took his own sweet time. Should have sued them.
So after taking my blood sample(hopefully i dont see my clone walking around later), Miss Beautiful accompany me to another room. She said this time it will be painless. She only wanted my height and weight. Hmm..Simple thing. So I stepped on the machine and she took all measurements. She was smiling at me. You weigh xxkgs, right? she asked to reconfirm. Yes i said and told her it would have been much lesser if they had took my weight before i swallowed a baby buffalo. hehehee
Met my friendly doc, and had a chat with him. Advised him to take it easy not to stress himself and just retire from the job. Hahaha..Whose the doctor now??
Anyway, now that i have cleared my medical. I'm already counting the days when i have to go back there.

Cheers

We are just simply KIDS

People have always asked me, “ What is it like to fly?”. And my fav answer has always been. “It’s like leaving your entire worries on ground.” Yes it’s true. Every time I fly there’s always this sensation of “trouble free” world. I’m not sure how this happen but the feeling comes once the aircraft lifts off and disappears once we touch down. Maybe it’s because we have too much checks to go through till we do not have time to think, I’m not sure.

During the past few days, weather has not been very kind to us. Never have I notice such tremendous change in weather in such a short period of time. Just last month we had the floods, and this few weeks there’s only a couple of rainy days. The sun is burning hot but the wind is chilling cold. Since we have been experience strong wind and haze these days, most of us have been just sitting around hoping for the wind to ease.

So everyday we have almost the whole day to ourselves. On an average 2 hours a day of flight, then after pretty much doing our own stuff. One thing I notice that all of us have in common is that everyone is crazy about games. It might just be true that some say if you are good in playing video games, you most probably pass the initial stage of the cadet selection. Just hanging around with my friends, it sometimes just hit me to realize that just by looking around me most of the people in this academy have an average age about 20-22. That’s amazing bearing in mind that most of the students here will graduate way before the age of 24 and six month later they will be “driving” a multi-million dollar piece of machine with 100-500 passengers on board.

Before I came into the academy, I’ve always had this mindset that it’ll be some kind of military styled academy (thanks to too much of TV and movies). Everyone in the academy would be the serious no non-sense type, talking with a harsh voice and walking as though they could land an aircraft with their eyes close attitude. So those lead me to some nervous period of my life just days before entering Academy. Knowing very well I cannot live a day without pulling a joke on someone, bullying someone or simply joking around the whole day. It’s a trend of I made myself ever since the very first day I stepped into the “world of education”. Getting a warning to behave from any teacher was just like having a meal everyday. To my friends I was just a RASCAL, a litt demon. So I told myself that well that’s it, I’m gonna get my @$$ kicked until I grad walking and talking like one of them. Came the night before enrolling myself, I couldn’t sleep. I was tossing myself from one end of the bed to the other end. Soon the next day, as I entered the class (again late as usual, the grand-entrance) as expected I could smell the seriousness in the class. Every face I looked has the “I’m the best” signature on the forehead. I felt intimidated. I put on the “I just wanna study here and graduate, please don’t eat me” face. So I sat down alone quietly at the back of the class until I came upon a familiar head from behind. At first I thought to myself “it couldn’t be, there was no mention about him coming to Academy” well being the guy I am. I called from behind just hoping I didn’t get the wrong guy. “ Oi, Azim.” I called. Then he turned back. AHHH confirm…

Well the next day, we got to know everyone and class started with no delay. And as usual after one day of warming up my @$$, I showed the class my true colours even the instructors were not spared. I pity the guy sitting beside me; he had to tolerate my bully behavior for the next six months. From framing my friends up, teasing them, and pinching their hair from their hands was my daily bread. As long I couldn’t solve a problem, I’ll start to irritate others. Then my best victim arrived, Sherard of CANADA. Hell did I showed him the meaning of “Malaysia”. Small intro about Sherard, big tough guy, about 26 years of age, no neck like me, like’s to show off his underwear tag where ever he goes. For Sherard sitting beside me was the best things that ever happen to him, I think hehehe.. He was always the smarter guy with the most complicated questions. Whenever there’s a time I think I understand a topic, he always raises doubt. We have Q&A time after every topic. And you can just bet he’ll give the instructor the hardest time. I personally like to disturb even my instructors with some tricky question, but when Sherard came along I always go “hey, why didn’t I think of that question?” But there is always a down fall for any wise man. For him, is plotting. He was so slow in plotting that everyone could finish 3 questions and you can bet he is still stuck in No.1. So I found a way to torture him during his entire stay, by singing every single time I finish earlier. Nothing can be more torturing than listening to me sing. The song? Well of course ONLY YOU…. He even compared me to a superstar…William Hung …woohoo …Boy! Did he lose a lot of his hair during his stay in Malaysia. So I hope where ever he is now, where ever he is flying to, whenever he does PLOTTING, i hope he remembers me…hahaha

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THank God..

Thank God..

Finally a chance to BLOG... I’ve been busy for the past few months preparing for my MAJOR exam. The paper I’ve been worried ever since I came into this field. But thank God after a month of waiting for my result, I got through all the papers at first attempt. Although it was a disappointment as my fav subject got the worst result of all my other subject, but it’s still a blessing to see the unexpected subjects to get such good marks. Well I guess I have nothing to complaint about after spending on average of 16-17 hours a day just studying and only, I repeat, ONLY 3hours of sleep. It was my worst nightmare to go through these two months. And I had always thought the A-level course I went through was Hell. In this small bit of time, I had actually seen times I had almost given up. I couldn’t shake the pressure of my shoulder. But with a few good buddies around also striving for success, I held on and pushed even harder for success. The one thing I realize with my newfound friends is everyone is trying to be the best but it wasn’t at the expense of good friendship. My mates had been a great support to me in those crucial times. I admit I’m not a smart student, far from being a genius. But with the help of most of my mates in class, I was able to do pretty well in all exams.

Yes I finally had the chance to feel what it was like to fall asleep in class. Before, it was humanly impossible for me to sleep as I was and still is sitting right in front of the lecturer. It is so close that I had always joked about having the opportunity to count my instructors nostril hair. After days of lack of sleeping hours, the impossible eventually happened. It was one of those meteorology classes which I had always paid my most attention, and it happened twice in one hour. You wouldn’t believe this. I had always joked around about how my teacher dozed to sleep while writing a math formula but this time I was the one falling asleep while penning down notes during lecture. I had started of well, scribbling down as fast as I can almost reaching the speed of sound cause my instructor was trying to beat Concorde. First line of my notes was in perfect handwriting. Second line was not too bad. Third line was so-so. Forth line was hard to write in a straight line. And the final fifth line was just plain black. I had nicely slept right under my instructor’s nose. It was funny though because my hands were still pulling across my A4 notes; scribbling stuff that only God knows what and my instructors which are like eagles trying to catch a rodent couldn’t detect that I was sleeping under his nose. Wait! This wasn’t the best part. Not long later, the same day the same instructor, I did another miracle. I performed a trick nobody in class could do. I was once again, faithfully listening and trying my very best to understand his teachings. As you all know when you are sitting right in front, you have to tilt your head slightly backwards, right? I was listening and listening until a point I suddenly realize I was in Genting drinking coffee with a couple of friends in StarBucks. Okay it was serious because i had actually reached a term scientist call REM (Random Eye Movement) which is basically the dreaming stage which usually starts at the 3^rd to 4^th stage of sleeping. So in that dream later I had a sudden neck pain which woke me up straight away. I had actually tilted my head so much that when I opened my eyes, I was staring at the fluorescent light with my mouth wide open. Lucky for me, my class didnt have those slimy lizards up the ceiling if not i would have had a nice lunch for free. And the best thing was my instructor was actually teaching my Canadian classmate which is sitting right beside me and he had no idea I had went out of class, went up to Genting and had a coffee for a chat and came back in. Pheww!! Was I lucky...? So after class, I told my classmate about the incident and the shocking part was nobody realizes I did that. Man!! Not even David Copperfield could do that.

Well after all those incidents and “magic” I had performed. I still thank God I had passed all my papers, and I thank all you which had spent the time to pray for me and for all your support. Now I can take up to an average of 16-17 hours of sleep from now on. haha

Hello People!! No I’m not here to continue the story as I had promised earlier. You aint gonna be interested reading about that anyway. So I’ll probably tell you what I have been up to lately ( No don’t worry nothing Evil this time..Or maybe just a little..hehe ). Well I started back studying on my own again, so I’ve been a little busy( My dad has been pushing me..Sigh!!). Well since I’ve been rotting at home for awhile due to very very short classes each day, I admit I am very bored of sitting at home doing nothing so I took up my dad’s advice and started using my already rusted brains again. Only one hour of class each day is BORING, believe me. You can literally ask me on any movies showing right now, I guess I’ve seen it all. And best of all, my pocket is literally drained. But guess what I’ve studied??? I studied that formation of clouds aint that simple afterall( hehe..Everything must be simple for me). I’ve always thought that water vapor just go up up then form clouds, and then heavy clouds and then down comes the rain. There’s actually so much of other factors involved. Okay Okay!! To cut the story short and share my another crazy adventure, I’m just trying to say here that I’ve already started studying..hehe.

I jumped on a ride to Ipoh last week. Well it was a pretty long and boring journey actually cuz I was the passenger (it actually reminded me why I didn’t like to be the passenger sitting at the back. Try imagining me not talking for 3 hours?? I was already biting the cushion on the seat after 2 hours..hehe). I got backaches after getting off the plane and I also lost my sense of balance for awhile (nearly kissed the tarmac). But come to think of it I actually got to see that new piece of land behind Giant Gombak, aerial view ( Dun la jealous..It was pretty tiny from up there though.. I can’t believe I forgot to bring my camera I got ready early on). So journey started from the military base in Sg. Besi (The military have always been treating us like kings there), then headed towards BatuCaves and then Rawang. At first I was trying to show that I’m a good student that take down notes during flights, I did have a close watch on the landmarks I have set for myself so that I won’t stumble when my turn comes. So I was paying a good attention for the first few minutes.

After Rawang, the weather was getting hotter and hotter. Bright shining sun began blinding my eyes and toasting my skin (I think I had some sunburns after that flight, I was red like an oven cooked piglet). If I had known it was going to be that sunny, I would have taken of my shirt and put on some good sunscreen, at least I would now have some good tanning. So I actually lost my attention to the surroundings, I lost track of where we were suppose to be. Then I decided it was a waste of time trying to pay attention, and tried to sleep in the “hotOVEN”. I tried taking off my headset to sleep since it was as big as MickeyMouse’s ears, but the minute I took it off I could hear the loud buzzing sound from the engine. It was so loud that I actually got a headache. So I decided to put it back on. Gosh!! I could actually feel my already short neck shrinking, the headset felt like 20 pounds on my head. After a few minutes, I got the cushion pillow properly place on my shoulder so I can let it hold the weight of my “light head”.

Not too long later, I was very very excited to see an airport straight ahead. I was already dreaming of getting off there and get a nice COLD drink from Ipoh. “Maybe I could get a plastic of ice there”, I told myself, planning to seat on the cold ice for a change (hehe). But to my disappointment, we weren’t gonna stop for a drink but instead head straight back to KL.

They took the long way back to KL for a change instead of the “shortcut”, dragging along an already exhausted poor kid with his head could be seen placed on the side screen desperate for cool blowing air. I was about to vomit, my stomach was empty and my forehead felt cold. With my shortened neck could hold up any longer, I prayed that God would push the plane faster back to KL. Just by sharing this with you, I can feel my neck getting shorter again.

“AVR, Sitiawan this time, estimating …….” I heard my friend reporting our position. I jump to the side to look out, just to catch a glimpse of the nice airstrip my friends have been talking about. But it was actually just a big padang in the middle of nowhere. With some young kids I guess playing soccer trying to prove Ronaldo aint the greatest. I began imagining what if the planes were to land, and those kids were too excited with their game and forgetting to look up. It sure aint gonna be a pretty sight.

Upon reaching Kuala Selangor, I knew we weren’t far away. My spirit rose up again. I overwhelmed by the green PadiField which stretch as far as my eyes could see (it was hazy that day). Then suddenly something caught my eyes. OPENBURNING!!.. ( Oh Pantang nenek moyang aku, ada orang main bakar bakar.) The amount of smoke coming from that burning area was enough “swallow” the whole KL City. These are the culprits which are burning the field waste, and blaming on others. Oh I feel Like Burning their HAIR!!!

Right after the haze I could see something I was looking forward to, shadows of the TWIN TOWERS. I felt grateful I’m a life after breathing those smoke.

The minute my friend parked the plane and shut down, I jump off with happiness walking side ways actually cuz I still couldnt balance myself after the rough ride. For I will remember this ride for the rest of my life as my most BORING journey I’ve taken.

ADVEnTURES FRoM THE SKIES...

Yo dudes!! How's life been torturing you??? Well i'm kinda bored right now, so i thought of just blogging some crap on the net. Well guess i'll share with ya what i've been up to lately.

I went back to Labuan last week. Oh Man!! It's was really really hot. Gosh!! Thats when i remembered why i havent gone back there for ages. I actually had to take my bath 5 times a day. But guess it was all worth while anyway. Imagine i get to just lepak and breath some fresh air instead of haze, eat some good fresh seafood instead of those red eyes fish here ( talking about red eyes, anyone wanna join me for the movie???), and yeah of course i got to eat the famous buah Tarap ( Oh man, i'm already drooling now.) And best of all, i got some lobsters back also, but too bad it's all only for my little hungry stomach ( dont think of suddenly being my good "hengtai", when it comes to food i'm a lone ranger..wuahahaha). I did discover and learn alot of things when i was having my "vacation" there. I learned to appreciate life and just sit back and relax, i learned to never give up and always hope for the best. And most of all i realize that you can never put to much hope on friends, cuz one day friends can just forget you.

So after two nights stay at the hot island, i was READy to jump on the jet and fly home. I made sure i didnt leave anything behind, so i reminded my mum a few times not to forget my lobster (yummy yummy... :p)...wuahahaha... So for the first time i was so excited to go on board the plane, i was already sweating a little. So i actually got a chance to sit in the economy class after since a long long time( lucky me..dun lar jealous). And believe me, the minute i got on my seat i had an evil plan ( this is why i love economy seat so much, you can never do this in the boring first class or business class). You see, there's a seat betwwen me and my dad. Imagine a tiny seat in the middle, and a kid with some big shoulder sitting beside (wuahaha). You dont get it? Well the theory is the bigger size wins. And for once i was so happy i was consider the bigger size one. I was actually hoping for a tiny guy to seat in the middle, so i can bully him for the next 2 hours flight. Then the steward began to close the door. My "hope" shattered into pieces. I was going to be pretty bored for the next 2 hours journey. But then later out of the Blue, there was a group of late comers boarding the plane. I was once again excited. I waited for the guy that was suppose to seat in the middle (was pretty sure that the person exist cuz i couldnt get that seat when my aunt check-in for us). Then when most of the late comers settle down, i instantly notice a guy. No! This guy is not a superstar, and he aint even a person i've met before. What really caught my attention was, this guy is much much bigger than me. And his steps was getting slower and slower when he approaches my row of seats. When i was in secondary school, i thought i've seen the biggest man, my english teacher (he looks exactly like Nutty Prof) I will forever remember this teacher of mine. He is the only one with the tilted Sunny car. I'll never forget that teacher of mine, who bailed me out every nasty trouble i got into (Thank You, Sir!! Well guess Me aint that cute little angel afterall...wuahahaha).Well A man that has not travel the whole world, thinks his mother is the best cook ( i feel so wise suddenly..wuahaha).

Okay back to the story. There he was , the big "monster" slowing down his pace as he arrives. I was like in my heart "Oh Man!! Dont sit beside me, dont sit beside me".. And to my greatest fear he stopped beside me and look right into my eyes. "I'm doom" I said to myself. He had a second look on his boarding pass to made sure, and later double check with the sit number. When he was trying to carry his luggage, i thought it was the end.I surrendered to my fate, and tried gave him "space" to come in. Then the moment came, he lifted up his leg and to my surprise move down to the seat two rows behind of me and "settle" down. Poor old man that was sitting beside him. Well i guess it was better him than me though..hehehhe

So you think my humourous adventure was over?? Nah! It had just started. Remember those demonstration by the flight stewardess on safety precaution?? Well this pretty girl caught my eyes, is not like i have never seen how to use a life jacket before( i have actually memorize how to use it), but is just that this girl is really pretty. The smile on her face made my heart melt. Those white teeths made me temporaly blinded. Guess now i know why they say love is blind( only if they brush their teeth, though!!). I was amazed by her graceful moves. I felt like heaven for the first time. Then there it was time to show us the life jacket. I concentrate every single movement. As she puts on the lifejacket, and waited for instruction. I could bet i never even blinked once. Time for her to tighten the belt. Oh!This moment really shocked me! Unbelieveable!! No! Dont worry her uniform didnt fall off ( hehehe...you little perverts). What shock me most was the moment she pulled the belt to tighten, she actually hit an innocent man reading newpaper straight to the face with her left fist. Ouch!! I shouted in my heart. That moment she panicked and didnt know whether or not to continue the demo or beg for forgiveness. She eventually just said "Sorry Sorry!!" and continued with her demo which was infact already too late to demo as the chief has already reached the part where she was suppose to show the exit doors. Oh Man!! She must have given that poor guy a black eye. I really could not stop laughing at that moment that i bend down to laugh. Well it was better him than me, but i wont wanna miss the chance of getting a black eye from a pretty stewardess like her infact i might even ask for her number. Stupid dude!! Well guess he was trying to get back his sense of direction that he misses that golden opportunity ( Well Done dude!!)...

Still think my adventure was over?? Guess again.. Time for a little makan, i was actually looking for the dinner menu just to check what they have prepared for my hungry machine. I was searching high and low for that piece of menu, i even checked below the seat to see whether or not it had fallen there. Then i realize i was at a class of it's own(bodoh!!). No Menu for econ class. (Ciss.. One day when i get my own Airlines i would have a printed menu for the whole plane. ) So came another pretty girl to serve me my "food". I was actually not even paying attention when she ask for my "orders". "So chicken or Fish, for you sir??" She asked then repeated another time. I wasn't paying attention but trying to figure out whether or not she was wearing lipstick or lipgloss. Because her lips looks shiny, guess maybe it was just gold dust to think of it now. She cant be wearing lipgloss for work right?? Anyway I made a stupid reply to her question trying to give a matured impression at first, " Hmmm.. I think I'll have the first one". "The First one?? Are you deaf or stupid?? Cant you just say chicken?? Are you even listening??" Guess that must be what she was thinking after i said that. Anyway she pass me the chicken. and some little cute mineral water in small containers. Alright now that she moved on to serve another passenger, i can open my "surprise meal". Oh Man!! It was paethetic. Well the chicken was good. But the rice and Vege? Yucky!!... So after my "dinner" or should i call it snack by the look of it, i decided to wrap things back nicely as if it was never touched. So i turned over to my dad and jokingly ask my him, " Would you think she'll give me the fish if i return this to her??". My dad just smiled and nodded his head. And what was my dad thinking at that moment?? Well i guess he was thinking of how he ended up with a "clown" like this.
So i was planning what to say to the stewardess when she comes to collect the dish. So i looked up and down for her. While i was sticking my head out to look, i remembered a thriller movie where the trolley actually hit the head of one guy when he was looking out of his seat. That very moment i shrink my head back in like a tortoise, fearing of losing my head. And to make things worse the pretty girl never came back, instead a pondan came to take my dinner away. Man!! Gross!!..

It was a restless flight for me, was very very active. So after reading the mag. i doze off( Guess thats my bad habit since i was a kid.READING is BORING!!). Suddenly i felt somebody rubbing my shoulder. Guess who??? Not the pondan lar of course( i wont be mentioning it here if it was him). Of course it was the pretty girl that gave someone a punch. She ask if i wanted a pillow. Alamak!! Macam sudah naik layang-layangan.. But i was stupid enough to just said thank you and took it from her and went back to sleep. Oh Man! Guess it was my turn to lose the golden chance. Till now i couldnt stop thinking how stupid i was. But then again, maybe i was lucky not to make that move with my parents around. Maybe another day we shall meet( hehehehe..i Doubt it).

So still think that my adventure is over?? ..Well for the flight, yes( I'm gonna miss those preety gals...hehehe Yeah Rite)!! But for the journey back from KLIA to HOME? Nah!! It has just started, but my eyes are pretty tired now ( will post it in later). So i've learned many many things in such a short period. Relax and enjoy life. Never hope to bully tiny people ( Only when Snows starts to fall here :p) And best of all.. They are more pretty stewardess in economy than in other classes not to mention the hiccups they do.( oh yeah!). So take my "nasihat" , take economy seats. Its cheap and it's one hell of an adventure...FLY ECONOMY GUYS!! Cheers!!