Internet Fast: Week 1

NO visits to the following sites:

1. Facebook
2. Blogger.com
3. YouTube
4. Any blogs
5. Any form of instant messaging

Any violation - whether caught, or convicted - will result in a fine of RM5 to eah member apart of the pact.

*jengjengjeng

I successfully survived one week (06/05 til 13/05). Yay me! *does London Tipton impersonation

I have a number of things to highlight all week. You don't know how excited I am blogging and logging into Facebook now. The most GG thing is there seems to be something wrong with my Streamyx payments; it seems that they're not getting through. So I have no Internet accessibility as of now. Bummer.

Am currently blogging from campus, with the soooooperrr slooooww connection. Aw man.

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Day 1:

Peter successfully convinced me to join their pact (no Facebook, MSN, blogs, YouTube) for a week. This is to help us to focus and rid us of our procrastinative nature with the aim of finishing our assignments on time. Amen to that! If only I had agreed to join them earlier in the morning, then I would have earned myself RM5 from Japheth's slip up with 'Britain's Got Talent' on YouTube. Hehe >:)

I finally joined the CF for dinner! *exclaims. Where did we eat, you ask? I revisited the good ol' college days; we ate at Asia Cafe. Sara and I scored ate Takoyaki, pizza and Uncle Bob's Chicken - we were hungry, lol. I can't believe that I am still victim to freshly made Takoyaki balls. I burned my tongue, lol. Reminds me of the first Takoyaki I had - I was so hungry I stuffed the whole thing into my mouth when it just arrived. Ouch.

When I switched on my computer that night, I wanted to blog about the Takoyaki experience. And then I remembered, "Oh, no blogging!" I kept myself occupied with my Stats assignment, and I can't recall what else I did. But I survived!

Day 2:

Last Thursday was easier because I wasn't home at night. Went with my mum to a Godiva Pre-Mother's Day event. Godiva's chocolates are to die for! The food was superbly good! I should start taking pictures for all these little events already.

Came home to watch American Idol and see Allison go home. Aww.

I'm undecided on who I'm rooting for. I love Danny Gokey, but Adam Lambert is simply amazing. Kris Allen is cute too. How now brown cow? (One of Sher's cutest lines)

Now it's down to the Top 3! Oo can't wait for this week's show.

Day 3:

Still confident that I could last another 5 days practically without the Internet, I went off to campus with hopes of studying. That's when I started hanging out at 'The Aquarium' :) It's where the cool people are, hoho. It actually is quite distracting sitting next to the window panels, watching everyone outside. Hence, its name; 'The Aquarium'.

I tried very hard to study for Management, but I don't think it was very productive. I tried, okay!

Visited the Histopath computer labs for the first time! Sara and I were very jakun. We were looking around at the models and the real life preserved human beings (Mr Muscle & Mr Viscera) when Peter started pointing out some parts of the dead dudes I'd rather not mention :p Japheth and Sara hung out to do their camp homework as I played with Sara's camera and Japheth's DSLR (woots).

YAY, CF CAMP!

Dinner: Mum's Signature Prawn Mee! Check out FoodForThought soon for updates on that :)


Day 4:

Saturdays = church days; still not tempted to open a Mozilla browser.

I dropped by the TwoMAds bazaar at 3k Inn before heading off to church. Well, I was eager to have a look at first, but it was pretty disappointing. The space was so small! :/ Quite few vendors, and there wasn't much to look at. Pretty much similar to what was at Monash Music Festival. What's different is that I spent the whole day there, as compared to half an hour at 3K. Booo.

This is day that the CF-ers went to Gua Tempurung, which I didn't join. They looked like they had a lot of fun, and danger at the same time, lol. Awesome possum pictures on Facebook! But it's not like I could check 'em out then right. Still only at Day 4.

Dinner that night was SO awesome. Absolutely good food.

Did I mention I gained weight?


Day 5:

Happy Mother's Day!

What did you do for Mother's Day? I seriously couldn't really think of any creative ideas this year :/ Even if I had better ideas than the usual, I'm broke. Took my mum for a manicure pampering session in the morning. Then we had a good buffet at The Spread, The Gardens and were supposedly going to shop for a big ol' stuffed toy for my mum. I know, a bit cliche'd, but it's still so cute and cuddly right. Instead, we went home to study :(

After much anticipation, I finally stuck my 'P' signs in my mum's car! I can now officially drive! However, if you know my mum, she would probably put me through a whole other 10 hours of practice before any serious driving. GG.

Day 6:

Now, this was when the absence of online communication started getting to me. At campus in the morning was bearable. I was still trying to study, but was constantly distracted with all the buzz on the other side of the Aquarium. Japheth was also trying to do work, hehe. What I did to help myself to focus was pray, and blast my music to block out all other sounds and distractions. Studying Economics with loud music kind of works.

The drama started when I got home, and wanted to study Economics. I double clicked the Mozilla icon on my desktop and was about to click on the 'Facebook | Home' tab on my favourites toolbar. Then I realized, "Oo, I can't do that". So I rolled my mouse over the whole toolbar, and to my disappointment, the only thumbnail I could click on was my Gmail. :(

Then it finally hit me: This Internet Fast thing is killing me slowly!

Little did I know, I was showing early signs of withdrawal symptoms.

Texted Sara about my agony, but she tak layan. At least I did what I wanted to do in the first place - Management. Ah, I finally started to focus.


Day 7:

Man, even typing this reminds me of the lack of communication means I had with my peers.

The last day!

Went to campus and straight away continued reading up for Economics test later that day. Although it was an open book test, I still made it a point that I read up on some stuff beforehand. At least I wouldn't have to worry that much about those chapters when I study for the upcoming finals.

Finally attended CF prayer meeting that noon. It's been a while since my last prayer meeting; more like two years.

I kind of dread Tuesdays because of the compulsory weekly Management tutorial presentations. Our group is probably the laziest group in the tutorial, lol. It was quite a disaster - we presented too generally; we didn't have our slides; and my executive summary sucks. Not the best tutorial we've had. Thank goodness it's almost over.

Jenna's mum bakes delicious brownies :)

Oh, my mum started her diet again. Guess what. Besides the two small brownies I had that evening, I didn't take any solid carbohydrates that day. Haha.


Freedom!:

I survived!

I'm supposed to be focused on finishing my Accounting assigment right this very instance. Instead, I'm blogging. This is why we had the Internet Fast in the first place. As bad as it was, it managed to help me get more things done - awesome.

Shocker: We decided to extend this for a whole one more week! Today is merely a one-day break. YAY.

Goodbye Internet world. Peter should be banned from watching the stock market - it's not fair. :p

P.S. I promise to post pictures. This post looks so boring!