Since my last post:

I have found my motivation and inspiration to do this post. Receive AND spent December and January paychecks on my new laptop, the Acer Aspire 4730ZG complete with an ATI Radeon HD3470. :) Also got my bottle of Absolut, Ruby Red from Labuan when my plane transited there. For those not in the know, i went to Sabah for a trip awhile ago.

Loads had happened the months before and am now staying in a different place than I used to. This would be the last time I move until I graduate regardless or not the new campus opens in January 2010. i'll just have to take the shuttle bus then :) Busy and demotivating semester this time round. But rather enjoyable I'd say. Since my last post, I have come to the conclusion (a rather temporary one) that...wait for it....wait for it...

I'm 1/4 Jap and 3/4 Chinese :D

The term byproduct of racial harmony has never been pushed to this sort of boundary. I should be the byproduct of racial confusion instead :p . Here's the summary on how this conclusion came about. I attended a family event (read: dinner) at Pavillion a couple of months back. Dinner was awesome but service was mediocre, blame high class restaurants not being prepared to serve 20-odd customers simultaneously. Anyway, my cousins and I were talking to my first uncle and the topic soon led to our family heritage...and how my dad used to be the favourite son. Well, Uncle said that if we were to do a test, there would not be a single drop of Malay blood in me. (I know...i got the O.O" as well)

Reason being that my grandpa was a Jap baby adopted by the Johor royal household, not as a prince though. He was apprently adopted by the Johor Sultan's grandma and somewhere along the way, racial confusion takes its place and he was declared a Malay sometime later. Well, I guess documentations sucked at that time. Soon after, grandpa met grandma (a Chinese lady from...China lar) and had 7 kids including my dad. Dad married mom and *kaboom* here I am. This is the extremely shortened version of the entire story. The favourite question of "Are you related to Onn Jaa'far" can also be answered in the full version of the story. To sum it up, grandpa and family (excluding us 3rd generation cikus) were at Onn Jaa'far's death bed moments before he departed for his eternal honeymoon. So I guess that says pretty much about how close they were to him.

Somehow, this family heritage story of mine always captivates my listeners...but only for the first time. Nick has gotten bored listening because i always tell the story to other people and he always happens to be with me at that time :p

Anyways, here's to future updates. In the meantime, examinification beckons...