Well, 2018 certainly did not start off the way I expected it to, but that timeline has passed and it's done with. It was also the time where I anxiously wait for my previous semester results to come out, so I can progress in my education.

After a long and extremely hard road to pave through, I made it out of Diploma and I've placed myself into Degree. To top it all off, I really didn't expect my results to be as good as they were. I guess extensive praying before, during and many days / weeks after the exam really helped on a large margin. Truth be told, I really did butcher one of the exams really badly and I was seriously counting my lucky starts that the paper would not be the one to set me back a semester..

Diploma lasted from May 2015 all the way to December of last year, and throughout that timeline, too many things happened. My 10-member batch didn't last as long as I expected it to go, with the (glue) of the group leaving Malaysia to head back to her country as she was getting married and was settling down. From there, Semester Two, things got really shaken up with the entire batch.

The batch got separated into four different groups. One group was the lone wolves that operated on their own and then branched out to people in the other batches, another stuck together like glue and then branched out, the third was pretty inseparable (mine), and the fourth was just an individual who decided to gain some authority around the campus and assert dominance towards the people she disliked.

Semester Two was also a rather expensive semester, as I got to learn about video editing in a general basis, and photography as I was taking those classes. Through that I now own a DSLR camera and a MacBook for my editing stuff (which I always delay). But, I'm extremely thankful for those two, and I've had a ton of fun with them over the past two years.

My third semester was when I met my ex, which was a pretty fun thing to recall about right now as I've really grown since then in terms of understanding that the reality of relationships is nothing like how Hollywood depicts it in their movies. Either way, it certainly was the best thing that came out of Diploma, followed by a few things I'll enclose. Would there be a possibility of a reconciliation between the two of us? Certainly. It's just up to her if she wants it. But considering her recent Tweet that was indirectly pointed at me, I'd say the chances are slim. Whatever.

Around the fourth or fifth semester was when my previous Lenovo laptop decided to officially die off, and coincidentally an MSI booth was in my campus and there were a lot of laptops on display. I tried some of them out and instantly fell in love with them. In the end, I managed to get an MSI as a replacement for my previous Lenovo laptop.

Throughout that time, only one thing really haunted me - and that was the semester that I would have to take my internship. I have zero working experience, which is a terrible thing as early exposure to working life is highly recommended for teenagers so they can earn some money. Even working as a barista is working experience, so that counts. Eventually, the semester where I had to take my internship came around, and - you can read that experience up for yourself : here

Many people know my relationship with the higher ups in my university, so rather than that working as an advantage to make new friends, it really backfired and worked against me instead. Some individuals believed that everything was handed to me, and that I had to put in zero effort to earn the grades that I got throughout my time, and I was in some way, abusing the power I had through my connections.

i-City Shah Alam. A place that could definitely strive and would be a great family getaway, as the facilities there aren't all that bad. However, it seems that no one even bothers to go there. Perhaps that area is underpopulated, and people would much rather head to Sunway Lagoon instead (which doesn't surprise me). 

The receptionist at the ticketing counters can rap as fast as Eminem, and they speak in Malay. It's not a problem as I'm a local, but it's not exactly my native language. It would take me a few seconds to translate what they're saving to me back to English, then translate my response from English, back to Malay once again. My dad has to do the same thing as well, and he can't exactly pick up extremely fast spoken words so he struggled to understand the receptionist. I guess she got irritated because when my dad asked her about the pricing for the third time, she raised her voice.

Clearly, that's not the ideal way to handle your customers. With an attitude like that at the ticketing counter of all places, no one would fancy visiting a second time. Well, godspeed to this 'theme park'. Facilities are quite literally the same as it was around two years ago, which was the last time I visited. I believe the management spent all the money in decorating the exterior of the attractions, and forgot that the interior design of those attractions are the real things that would appeal towards the people paying money to visit this place.

Like most theme parks, there is a rate of payment for locals and for foreigners. I honestly don't think the foreigners ticketing prices are even required to be up on the board because I can guarantee - if the locals don't even want to visit this place, would the foreigners even bother? A good example would be that the employees there would even ask the visitors if they're local or not, when you can clearly define their nationality by just looking at them.

Another issue is why on Earth would they even promote and advertise a second wax museum, when the thing is barely even built. There are banners all over the place directing you to the second wax museum, which is presumably larger than the first one - which is nice and all but it's not even built. It's written on the boards that the opening would be on August 2017, but I believe that they misspelled "Will be starting construction" instead. Adding on, it's not even connected to the first wax museum. You would have to walk under the sun, a pretty long distance, and walk across the road just to reach the second wax museum. No thanks, I'll pass. Honestly, a murder could occur at this area and no one would know, because it's that empty.

But, I did manage to get some decent pictures from the trip there today, which serves as a good outcome amidst all the complaints I have towards this so called 'theme park'.

Some pictures that I've filtered out for archive purposes. And also because I don't want to have these pictures take up space on my laptop, but on the Google servers instead.