Hi everyone... it has been a really long time since I did my last blog entry, but thats because nothing interesting was happening in my life. This entry that I am making has nothing to do with cold plays hit song. It has to do with my first day of my varsity life. I only had one lecture today, and it happened to be a physics one. The lecturer was talking abt optics, which is about light and its properties. I took a seat beside 2 china scholars, because I did not se anyone familiar in the lecture hall and also the center seat seemed like a good seat. Make no mistake, I did go to uni to study hard. I was browsing around for familiar faces for the rest of the lecture. Alot made late entries.
Then suddenly, just as the lecturer made the statement that the speed of light is 3 times 10^8, I saw UZY. Serious. He is doing common engineering. He was seated beside casper the friendly ghost. I waited till the end of the lecture before i went over to say hi. Casper was apparently not going home with Uzy, and since i also had no company to go home with, we decided to go home together. It was a long walk to the bus stop, andUzy was extremely patient with me and my ludicrously slow walking speed. I did ask him some really stupid questions during our long conversation. For example, after asking him if he was staying in the hostel, which he was'nt, I said he should consider since he was living so much far away. I felt really stupid after that... I mean whats bedok to jalan bahar for someone who can run at the speed of sound right. I know my title is speed of light, and i just told you that he travels at the speed of sound. Truth is, noone knows exactly how fast he can run. Also, he is still training with his VJ team, so he could have improved many times since the last time we knew him. The reason why it is impossible to see him when he is running is because the light emitted from him never reaches our eyes! Now this is an application of physics theories. So we finally reached the bus stop. While waiting for the bus, he gave me this particularly interesting theory. I asked him if he still kept in touch with luke and kenneth and the rest of them and he said no. So I was telling him that ken was going to bristol while luke was already in australia. Then he suddenly said, Luke should just give me some money. This reminded me of kens theory of how everyone owes him money because remember that time... Anyway he later said that since Luke is so rich, he should just give Uzy some money so that he too can go study overseas. He said that the money spent for Lukes education in australia was equivalent to peanuts for Luke. Then he edited it by saying it was probably more like a bag of peanuts. Then he further edited it. Get a load of this. He said it was like a cadbury bar. I am not a huge chocolate fan, but I do not remember any cadbury chocolates having peanuts. Then again, he could have imported them from the US!
Anyway the bus came, and we took it to head to boon lay interchange. On the bus, a second shock awaited me. 5000*5000=25000000. Thats how much I would have won from ken if I had bet a single dollar on this day. I saw Harith! Harith was looking for hall 7. So we were talking for a while on the bus, when i realised that Harith should get done soon or else the bus would head back to boon lay. Harith was actually on this bus from Boon lay, and looking for his hall from the bus. When we got to the last stop before the bus headed to the PIE, I told Harith to get down. He obviously thought that the bus keeps going around NTU until he finds his hostel. Obviously, he had got into the wrong bus( Hariths personal tour bus was nowhere in sight). So he decided to get down. When everyone had already got off, he still took a leisurely stroll form the end of the bus to the door. It might be difficult for luke to understand what I am saying because he never takes a bus. So just try to imagine from my vivid descriptions Luke.
Finally we reached Boon lay.. Me and Uzy took the train. I alighted at queenstown. During the journey, he also asked me if i knew where hanafi was. I said no, and he said maybe he was in Lebanon. At that point, I had reached queenstown, and decided to get off. I took the elevator down, and before entering it, I took one final glance at the train, but Uzy was nowhere to be found. Just like that, (spoof!), he was gone!
-Malik
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