College holidays are just different from high school ones. I have no idea why, though. It's already the last week of December, which means I'm 4 weeks into my semester holidays, but some good-for-nothing individual had to state the obvious i.e.,Good things never last. But in exactly 2 weeks I'll be starting college, which I have come to love, so hah, I win. Still, I've been spending way too much time during the holidays with a constant nagging feeling that I'm going to fail if i don't consistently stare at my books 24/7. Which kind of sucks, since that defeats the purpose of any holiday.

So, yes, one week before 2011 ends. So, I'm going to try and lose some blogging baggage, because I have a few things lined up for next year, and that I can't wait to try it out without having any old drafts to look into.

Like i mentioned in my previous post, I had such a busy week in college before the holiday even started, because KYUEM became the host for a leadership program, where a group of 16-18 year old teenagers from UK came to stay in the college's compound. I was one of the lucky few who got to experience and travel around a few places in Malaysia with them.

Pfft I made that sound as if I got to travel to Mt. Kinabalu.

We headed towards Cameron Highland first thing in the morning, and let me tell you, in this context, it really was the destination that mattered, and not the journey. If you have ever gone up the winding roads towards Cameron Highlands, you will definitely understand. At the risk of painting a gross picture in your mind, it's safe to say that some of us(excluding me, thank god) got a bit sick while on the bus.

All was well when we got off :) But Cameron Highlands is quite a bore if you go alone, so most of the time up there was spent fooling around. Haha.

A machine which helps in producing tea, for all you city folks.

Although the UK delegates arrived on Friday the week before, I never really had a chance to meet them because I was away for the weekend. So, it really was a bit difficult to mingle and start a conversation, especially when they are all generally very shy too! But a few of the senior delegates who came last year and happened to tag along this year, were more open to trying new things, especially food.

This, as a Malaysian, is our specialty. You can never go wrong with Malaysian food, I swear. Even in Cameron Highlands where truly authentic Malaysian cuisine is almost non-existent.

For every few miles, we would spot a stall which sells steamed sweet potatoes, which isn't really a Malaysian food per se( Our ancestors survived on potatoes back during the Japanese invasion, so that counts for something!). Anyway, the UK delegates haven't really tried it before, and they enjoyed it! :D

One of the weird things I found out about UK was, the ratio of citizens who drink and favour tea in the UK( which is a large amount),

to the number of tea plantations that UK actually has, which according to them, is really not that common.

Like I said, we fooled around on the slopes, and took so many photos, it looked as if we were the foreigners! -__-" Dahlah budak budak KYUEM, macam tak pernah nampak hutan, pfft since we practically live in a forest.

MashaAllah, this picture really shows the beauty of nature. The wind was so strong and calming, albeit not as cooling as before. I remembered the first thing I thought of when I saw the scenery above was, " damn, this would make a good place to study!" Serious nerd, I tell you.

By evening, we headed back to college. The ride down was smoother, and enjoyable, partly because everyone was sleeping! I was dead tired by the time we reached college, which was about 8.00 p.m, and though i try to make it a point to go for every event the college organises, I really was too exhausted to even contemplate going for the Christmas celebration that night.

Yes, my college had a Christmas celebration,

in November.