Robin Hood, Bryan Adams and Bas Stand Klang

One of my earliest kenangan of PPP life happened in my early weeks as a student there.

One weekend, me and Errol went to watch Kevin Costner's Robin Hood Prince of Thieves at Rex KL. You know that movie due to that Bryan Adams song, Everything I Do (I Do It 4 U), the megahit. 

After the movie, we caught the last bus to Shah Alam Sek 18, from the famous bus stand klang. It's not there anymore, the Pasar Seni MRT station is, but it used to be the hub of KL intra travel.

Dalam bus, terjumpa la a few iu10 guys as well, budak2 track 2. I was excitedly chattering to them about how cool the movie was, a bit noisy. Errol tried to calm me down masa tu :p

Hence the post title :)

Trailer Robin hood

Video lagu Bryan Adams 

Gambar Rehearsal Majlis Graduasi PPP ITM July 1993

 Parking it here for the memory.

Vanue: Matsushita Sports Complex di Shah Alam

The Calculus Affair

 I had to take calculus during my PPP years, and I sucked at it. There I said it :P  

One of my clear memories of calculus is the story below ..

One of my roommates, let's call him Man, is a genius. Dude scores la in his studies suffice to say. And we took the same calculus classes, and he did well, and I barely passed, one of the reasons why I changed my major from Statistics to Management Information Systems later.

On the second calculus course we took together, there was a monthly test. And it was on a Monday. So good old me on whole of Sunday, spent practicing for the test. And, Man was out on a date. Later in the evening, after Maghrib, he came back. He was mumbling, saying that he didn't practice for the next day test and felt he will not do well. What he did for the next few hours, was, and am not kidding, he sat on his bunk bed, READING the chapters on which the test was based, using the big red Calculus textbook. Yes, no practice, no scribbling. He would read a bit, ponder for a while, and continue. 

The next day, we took the test, and when the results came out, oh well, I barely passed and he ACED it. 

Life ain't fair :P

picture from here

Ps / the picture is just an illustration