{sweetness}

I try to wash my car every week. Most times I succeed, but it has occured once that I didn't do it for almost a month. When I clean my car, I insist on doing both its inside and out. I almost always do it alone, and I've never brought it somewhere else and paid to have it cleaned. Not that I love my money so much, but we always clean our own cars.

First, I take out a cloth which I keep in the boot and use it to wipe all interior surfaces: dashboard, sides, etc. After that, I take out the foot mats and 'rampak' them (give me the word!). I hoover the seats and the car floor, all the time with loud music coming from the car stereo. After that, I put the mats back in.

I then switch the stereo off, close all the doors and raise the wipers. Sorry conservationists, a lot of us still use the garden hose when washing the car and when gardening, myself included. I give the car a bit of a shower, whilst removing any loose dirt and grime with my hands. Then comes the sponge and shampoo. Then I rinse the shampoo off, and wipe the car dry with what do you call it? That absorbent material that you use to wipe the car dry. Haha

If I 'chill-chill' then I'll have it done in an hour. If I work hard at it, hmm.. The whole thing might probably take between half an hour to 45 minutes. I know, slow. I then put the wipers back down and move the car back into the garage. And oh, I do the wheels as well and sometimes after the car has dried I do the tyres too. You know, shine them up.

{if you don't, you don't}

Today I went to the Post Office in KB to mail some Raya cards. One I mailed to Oman, and 3 here in KB. So what I did when Nabih and I reached there was we went inside to the counter. The lady there asked where the cards were to, and weighed them. She charged them accordingly.

The one to Oman cost me $2.70 in stamps, while the ones to inside Brunei 30 cents each. I received a card last week from Bandar which had a 20 cents stamp on it; maybe my cards were heavy to explain the extra 10 cents.

We met Mr. Roland Couzens (my brother's Chemistry tutor who I am familiar with myself) while I was licking my stamps (good or bad??). After that I put the envelopes into their proper boxes outside the Post Office.

Let's see which card arrives first...

{lucky denver mint}

I thought I'd share my morning. So, this morning my father asked me to sort out car insurance and road tax for two of his cars. So, off we went in the Previa to the IBB bank in Seria at 9am to sort out the insurance. Ahmad and I were there for probably half an hour before we were done. On the way back home, we bought (expensive) tomatoes at Supa Save.

Back home, I got into the Land Cruiser while Ahmad sped off with the Previa. He obviously got the the Land Transport Department in KB first. I parked in the wrong place, near where you sort out your licences, while I should've parked near the other office, where you renew your road tax. So I had to walk back to the car and move it.

We went in ... and took the wrong number. Both the Previa and the Land Cruiser are about 12 years old or so now and so you need to have them inspected before you get to renew their road taxes. So after needlessly waiting for about a quarter of an hour, we took the number for inspections and were served almost immediately. I met Rodman Tan, our O-level Biology tutor there. He happened to know how things work ... he came after us but left before! So much for a novice like me.

Hj. Tinggal, the man who examined me for my driving licence, quickly inspected both our cars and gave them the good-to-go. So we went back in and waited for I don't know how many minutes before I got to finish everything. On the way back I picked up Shu'aib from his school (my school too) and there was 3 hours of my morning gone. Maybe 2 and a half had we read instructions more carefully.

Oh and I have no pics but I wish I had.

{lear}

Travis Barker...plane...crash???

{LHC}

From BBC:

Hadron Collider halted for months

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David Shukman heads deep underground to take a look at the LHC's tunnel

The Large Hadron Collider near Geneva will be out of action for at least two months, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) says.

Part of the giant physics experiment was turned off for the weekend while engineers probed a magnet failure.

But a Cern spokesman said damage to the £3.6bn ($6.6bn) particle accelerator was worse than anticipated.

The LHC is built to smash protons together at huge speeds, recreating conditions moments after the Big Bang.

Scientists hope it will shed light on fundamental questions in physics.

Section damaged

On Friday, a failure, known as a quench, caused around 100 of the LHC's super-cooled magnets to heat up by as much as 100C.

The fire brigade were called out after a tonne of liquid helium leaked into the tunnel at Cern, near Geneva.

Cern spokesman James Gillies said on Saturday that the sector that was damaged would have to be warmed up well above absolute zero so that repairs could be made.

While he said there was never any danger to the public, Mr Gillies admitted that the breakdown would be costly.

He said: "A full investigation is still under way but the most likely cause seems to be a faulty electrical connection between two of the magnets which probably melted, leading to a mechanical failure.

"We're investigating and we can't really say more than that now.

"But we do know that we will have to warm the machine up, make the repair, cool it down, and that's what brings you to two months of downtime for the LHC."

Setback

The first beams were fired successfully around the accelerator's 27km (16.7 miles) underground ring over a week ago.

The crucial next step is to collide those beams head on. However, the fault appears to have ruled out any chance of these experiments taking place for the next two months at least.

The quench occurred during final testing of the last of the LHC's electrical circuits to be commissioned.

At 1127 (0927 GMT) on Friday, the LHC's online logbook recorded a quench in sector 3-4 of the accelerator, which lies between the Alice and CMS detectors.

The entry stated that helium had been lost to the tunnel and that vacuum conditions had also been lost.

The superconducting magnets in the LHC must be supercooled to 1.9 kelvin above absolute zero, to allow them to steer particle beams around the circuit.

As a result of the quench, the temperature of about 100 of the magnets in the machine's final sector rose by around 100C.

The setback came just a day after the LHC's beam was restored after engineers replaced a faulty transformer that had hindered progress for much of the past week.

{i'm coming home}

I've learnt that to have peace of mind, don't bother pleasing everyone and that's saying don't assume all the people you come across will agree with you. There will be, until the end of the world, people who will come at your throat for what you stand for and believe in, but that's life.

{fire at will}

I forgot what I wanted to say but I'm using Google Chrome these days.

{dreamer}

I feel very happy. After a month or so of toil and struggle, my personal statement is good to go. My GP tutor made me edit it twice, while Mrs. Yapp of Careers made me do it I think three times? Myself, I think 50 times XD. I kept going back to it every afternoon or two, changing bits here and there, adding things, taking away things..and now it's done!

Had to do it early cos I have a Sept 20 deadline..anyway, it's a great feeling having it off your shoulders - it was quite a bit of tension cos this goes a long way..all the way to uni hopefully. It's basically the only part of your application you really have control over. Thanks Mr. Gavaghan and Mrs. Yapp.

{tagged...again}

01. Would you fart inside an elevator?
Come on.. I'd do it anywhere if I had to

02. What will you do if the person you like doesn't like you back?
I'd try to move on.

03. Miss Piggy + Kermit the Frog = OTP?
Gobble gobble gobble???

04. Are you confused as to what lies ahead of you?
I don't know what lies ahead of me. That's up to God. But I have plans

05. What's your ideal lover like?
Kind.. Caring.. Understanding.. Oh there's a lot to this

06. Which is more blessed, loving someone or being loved by someone else?
Being loved

07. If the person you like does not accept you, would you continue to wait for them to change their feelings?
It all depends on how much I'm after that person and how close I am to getting her

08. If the person you secretly like is already attached, what would you do?
Why all the romance questions? Leave it at that lah

09. Is there anything that has made you unhappy recently?
Tension makes me unhappy. Uni applications

10. What do you want most in life?
An excellent education, good job, great life with family..and heaven

11. Is being tagged fun?
Depends on the questions. Generally it's fun when you get all these responses from readers :D

12. If you find out that your best friend is going out with your boyfriend/girlfriend, how would you react?
Load my guns..no lah. I'd confront my girlfriend

13. Who is currently the most important person to you?
Family..in the general sense

14. What kind of person do you think the person who tagged you is?
I cannot recall not having a conversation with Seng Yee without laughing. And I cannot recall going to her blog without laughing as well :)

15. Would you rather be single and rich or married and poor?
Single and rich. Cos who said I couldn't marry afterwards? Haha

16. Would you rather be a bum or be a busy person?
Busy person. Who would say bum?

17. Would you give your all in a relationship?
If it's a stable one

18. Define LOVE.
Let me try: "A strong feeling of affection with which the lover will give a lot for the loved."

19. Milk chocolate, white chocolate or dark chocolate?
I'd say milk but I won't turn down the others

20. If you played a prank on someone and he/she fell for the trick, what would you do?
I would laugh!

I tag no one cos everyone's done with tagging XD