I'm blaming the slow Internet connection for being away for far too long. That's logical, right?

End of semester holidays have officially started and loving every minute of it, except for the subconscious guilt I have every hour or so knowing each moment I spend on the TV could have been put to good use ie: Homework and such. I swear I'm going to get my act together, tomorrow.

The last week of my first semester in KYUEM( Can you believe it, it's already 1/4 semesters done!) was so jam packed with activities, it was both fun and super tiring. On Saturday, 19th of November, YK had a CSR event so after classes all 11 of us found ourselves heading towards KL where we spent a night in Lanson Place.

Arriving from KY, that place looked like a chunk of heaven. We registered ourselves, and went straight up to enjoy the bed.

It wasn't long before we all decided to take a road trip to KLCC since it was no nearby. We were all hungry, so we crashed the Little Penang Cafe, and ordered our food, and kept ordering, over and over again. And every time we assumed that whatever was on the table was all there was, plates kept coming. No one complained, so all was good. I have no pictures of us eating because I was too busy eating.

The entire night was spent eating dinner, attending a brief talk on the event that was to happen the next day, and a wonderful sleep.

TOO wonderful, we all overslept and woke up 15 minutes before checkout time.

The YK event was basically where us scholars became tour guides for a bunch of kids from the Yayasan Chow Kit( used to be known as Rumah Nur-Salam), and along with that, did some volunteering job around Zoo Negara, Taman Melawati. The ironic thing was, I live about 1km away from the zoo, yet I've never been to the zoo as a volunteer before.

We had breakfast as soon as we got there, and off we go cleaning cages and having fun at it.

This Nasi lemak was actually really satisfying.

My group was tasked to clean the turtle sanctuary , which was a bummer at first, because I thought we would've gotten something more challenging, but that was quickly overcame by how adorable and awkward-looking the turtles were.

We even got to feed it carrots and Papaya, although as turtles, they were generally never excited even when they saw the food.

And after all the cleaning up was done, I definitely gained a new found respect for all the rubbish collectors and the wonderful people who take their time and effort to sweep and rake leaves off the ground, all around us. Day in, day out, they do practically the same thing repeatedly, which keeps reminding me of this quote I read a few months ago, written by Helen Keller;

"The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker."

When you really come to ponder, you can have so many engineers, doctors, businessmen, politicians( Malaysia definitely has an abundant of this), but without this group of people, we might as well be living in junkyards. So, kudos to them!

Back to the Zoo event, I don't necessarily have any pictures of the kids that attended the other day, due to some terms and conditions which prevents me from uploading it online. Honestly,though, I couldn't find the time to take any pictures, because they were all extremely active for the most part( and can get distracted so easily), especially when it came to the ZooHunt. But, it was all for good fun, and there were no books around, so I was glad. :D

I miss college though.