online chatting

After tossing her books on the sofa, she decided to grab a snack and get on-line. She logged on under her screen name ByAngel213. She checked herBuddy List and saw GoTo123 was on.She sent him an instant message:

ByAngel213: Hi. I'm glad you are on! I thought someone was following me home today. It was really weird!

GoTo123: LOL You watch too much TV. Why would someone be following you? Don't you live in a safe neighborhood?

ByAngel213: Of course I do. LOL I guess it was my imagination cuz' I didn't see anybody when I looked out.

GoTo123: Unless you gave your name out on-line. You haven't done that have you?

ByAngel213: Of course not. I'm not stupid you know.

GoTo123: Did you have a softball game after school today?

ByAngel213: Yes and we won!!

GoTo123: That's great! Who did you play?

ByAngel213: We played the Hornets. LOL. Their uniforms are so gross! They look like bees. LOL

GoTo123: What is your team called?

ByAngel213: We are the Canton Cats. We have tiger paws on our uniforms. They are really cool.

GoTo123: Did you pitch?

ByAngel213: No I play second base. I got to go. My homework has to be done before my parents get home. I don't want them mad at me. Bye!

GoTo123: Catch you later. Bye

Meanwhile.....GoTo123 went to the member menu and began to search for her profile.When it came up, he highlighted it and printed it out. He took out a pen and began to write down what he knew about Angel so far.Her name: Shannon Birthday: Jan. 3, 1985 Age: 13 State where she lived: North Carolina Hobbies: softball, chorus, skating and going to the mall.

Besides this information, he knew she lived in Canton because she had just told him.He knew she stayed by herself until 6:30 p.m. Every afternoon until her parents came home from work.He knew she played softball on Thursday afternoons on the school team, and the team was named the Canton Cats Her favorite number 7 was printed on her jersey. He knew she was in the eighth grade at the Canton Junior High School. She had told him all this in the conversations they had on- line.He had enough information to find her now.

Shannon didn't tell her parents about the incident on the way home from the ballpark that day. She didn't want them to make a scene and stop her from walking home from the softball games.Parents were always overreacting and hers were the worst. It made her wish she was not an only child. Maybe if she had brothers and sisters, her parents wouldn't be so overprotective.By Thursday, Shannon had forgotten about the footsteps following her. Her game was in full swing when suddenly she felt someone staring at her. It was then that the memory came back She glanced up from her second base position to see a man watching her closely. He was leaning against the fence behind first base and he smiled when she looked at him. He didn't look scary and she quickly dismissed the sudden fear she had felt. Afterthe game, he sat on a bleacher while she talked to the coach. She noticed his smile once again as she walked past him. He nodded and she smiled back.He noticed her name on the back of her shirt. He knew he had found her.Quietly, he walked a safe distance behind her. It was only a few blocks toShannon's home, and once he saw where she lived he quickly returned to the park to get his car. Now he had to wait. He decided to get a bite to eat until the time came to go to Shannon's house. He drove to a fast food restaurant and sat there until time to make his move.

Shannon was in her room later that evening when she heard voices in the living room. "Shannon, come here," her father called.He sounded upset and she couldn't imagine why. She went into the room tosee the man from the ballpark sitting on the sofa. "Sit down," her father began, "this man has just told us a most interesting story about you."Shannon sat back. How could he tell her parents anything? She had never seen him before today!

"Do you know who I am, Shannon?" the man asked.

"No," Shannon answered.

"I am a police officer and your online friend, GoTo123."

Shannon was stunned "That's impossible! GoTo is a kid my age! He's 14. And he lives in Michigan!"

The man smiled. "I know I told you all that, but it wasn't true. You see,Shannon, there are people on-line who pretend to be kids; I was one ofthem. But while others do it to injure kids and hurt them, I belong to a group of parents who do it to protect kids from predators. I came here to find you to teach you how dangerous it is to talk to people on-line. You told me enough about yourself to make it easy for me to find you. You named the school you went to, the name of your ball team and the position you played. The number and name on your jersey just made finding you a breeze."

Shannon was stunned. "You mean you don't live in Michigan?"

He laughed. "No, I live in Raleigh. It made you feel safe to think I was so far away, didn't it?"

She nodded.

"I had a friend whose daughter was like you. Only she wasn't as lucky. The guy found her and murdered her while she was home alone. Kids are taught not to tell anyone when they are alone, yet they do it all the time on-line. The wrong people trick you into giving out information a little here and there on-line. Before you know it, you have told them enough for them to find you without even realizing you have done it. I hope you've learned a lesson from this and won't do it again. Tell others about this so they will be safe too?"

"It's a promise!"

That night Shannon and her Dad and Mom all knelt down together and thanked God for protecting Shannon from what could have been a tragic situation.

damn scary wei, the things ppl can find out through the little u tell them ...

check this outttttttttttt!

now, isnt it a great pic?

promise kept.

hehe see, i kept my promise, i updated!

was gonna post up a lovely pic here, but photobucket isnt working ... boooooooooo
guess it just wasnt meant to be ...
for now at least. :P

anyway people! how's ur hols!
how'd u guys do n where r u heading next and stuff?
hurry share ur news!

as for me,
holidays has been absolutely fantastic!
okay, fantastic doesnt even begin to describe it.

i went to langkawi wif some of my tmn tun friends ...
i guess u could guess how it went, wat wif cards plus duty-free stuff.

did i mention i love kayaking?
i went kayaking for two days, the islands there r absolutely gorgeous.
langkawi has to be my favourite island.
for now at least ... :)

the hotel dat we stayed at wasnt exactly 5 stars or anything,
but i hav to say it's damn cool,
the 3 rooms we had were all connected, so it's like this L-shaped,
n we can just walk into each other's rooms anytime we like.
plus it wasnt like those typical hotels wif a zillion floors dat u take forever to get to ur room.
ours was more like mini-houses, complete wif tiny gardens n a porch.
i cant believe i forgot to take a pic of it!

and the best part was, the beach's just across the road!
so we could go there anytime we like.
there were restaurants n shops within walking distance too.
sounds excellent, doesnt it?

hehe i forgot to mention we rented a scooter too!
so i had my first ever experience of "rempiting"
imagine this,
a scooter, a lovely star-strewn night sky, cool night breeze blowing in ur hair,
roads absolutely cleared of all traffic,
n to top it all off,

a HANDSOME guy on that scooter with you.

yeah man! is dat the life or is dat the life!!

haha ...

so anyway i heard from cuz's mum dat results would be out on 19th,
n i told my frens dat,
so we, the only 4 sam people there decided,
let's stay up all night!
and as soon as cc opens at 7, we'll go there together to get our results at the same time!

predictably, my frens dozed off at about 1.
anyway i decided to pull it off on my own,
played, or more like watched ppl play cards n kaypoh till about 5,
when i decided wat the heck. dat sounds so kiasu, getting ur results first thing when it comes out.
so i went ahead to sleep.

when i woke up two of my sam frens announced,
"we went to cc just now ...
entered in the ssabsa website and waited .....
then this notice came out,
RESULTS WILL BE OUT ON THE 20TH OF DECEMBER."
wahhhhhh damn anti-climatic man!

anyway since it was confirmed on the 20th,
n it also happened to be the last nite of our stay,
we got high that night :P

so the very next day, when we were still feeling like crap,
n some of my frens only had an hr of sleep,
we trudged down blearily to the nearest cc,
mouths too dry to speak,
palms all sweaty,
our hearts thumping at top speed,
dragons flying like crazy in our stomachs,
n entered in the ssabsa website.
click.
page not found.
refresh.
page not found.
refresh.
page not found.
refresh! refresh! refresh!

ahh finally, page's loading, slowwwwlyyyyyyyyyyy
entered in username and password.
loading.
still loading.
STILL LOADING.
wth wei!
refresh.
page not found.

and so it went on about like dat for 30 mins ...
so potong stim wei!
then we got bored n grabbed some breakfast while a couple stayed back to continue trying ...
anyway for the entire hr, the cycle basically repeated itself,
till we gave up and i found out my results through din din ...
thanks din din. :)

mm well, sorry for going on and on about langkawi like this when u guys r probably bored to death.
anyway u get the picture,
langkawi was beyond incredible!
u hav to go there someday wif ur frens all right!

anyway, if u've got a story to share, please do.
this blog is sooooo dead.

P.S. cuz n i will be going to monash msia this yr to do med. :):)

In serious need of update!!

As the title speaks. Oh my gosh this blog is sooooooooooooooo deadddd! What happened to all the moderators weih -.- and the admin! Where you all went la? Went holiday also at least post some pics la let us see ur pretty faces ^^

Btw, here's just a little update from me. Noo didn't go much of holidaying.. just a little trip to cameron and a few gatherings here and there, primary and sec school classmates all. Semangat right! So g10-ners! We must buck up and hv a gathering too! Someoneee plssss T_T

Anyway.. i wonder how are u guys' application for uni going on? Nobody ever mentions anything -.- As for me, for now it's either MMU or UTAR.. before i check out more about it during edu fair this coming weekend that is. I'll be doing IT, most likely in software programming and stuff. Pretty weird choice, to think that from being pure science to partial science partial art (econs) to completely technology... ahha! But i guess it's how it works for me.

So well, as i mentioned earlier, i went to cameron. I was with my family.. so yeah, boring.. you know how it sounds. On the way back, we made a little detour to check out UTAR's new campus in kampar. For those of you who doesn't know where kampar is, it's a small town somewhere in perak. The campus was said to be one of the biggest projects happening, because it is supposedly going to be HUGE and GRAND.. like those campuses in overseas. Get the picture?

So yeah.. we happened to go there, and found out there is already an established TAR college branch there, and it's bigger than the TAR college in setapak o.o! And for those of you who doesn't know how big is TAR college in setapak, as i would describe to dinesh, it's probably 4 times bigger (or more) than taylor's puny campus. Yeap! That's right. Why not.. when they hv soccer fields, 3 basketball courts, an olympic pool and so and so facilities. Even their library is a block by itself! Sounds awesome? The new UTAR was supposedly much bigger than that =)

Haha back to what i was saying.. yeah, we went to check out UTAR. To our surprises, the whole campus itself is like surrounded by lakes! Mining lakes, yeah, but it's as clear as crystal okay.. The view is seriously, what i call breathtaking. Sad to say though we weren't allowed in because it was still under construction, and we were unlucky enough because when my mum tried asking the fella to let us in just to take a small round, he said 'boss ada dalam.. saya tak bleh buat apa-apa la' .. boo hooooo =(

So.. disappointed with the fact that we couldn't get in.. we took pictures instead! And then went to satisfy ourselves with kampar's delicacies.. nyum =)! But it's a trip worth taking note though.. my dad was actually saying 'eh after retirement come here and stay not bad ah'.. which is true, because the place itself seems to be developing quite rapidly.. now with UTAR opening up (which is said to cater about 20k of students according to my dad.. i wonder o.o!).. there are like many new shophouses and 3 storey houses up in construction.. pretty nice houses actually. I think somewhere in the near future it's gonna be a town just like subang! Haha.. till then they'll hv pool and foosball tables as well, something like ASIA! Woohoo! The excitement of it! Hahaha

Before signing off, here's a pic taken of the campus. Pretty far view though. I had to use zoom because we were across another side of the lake.




Oh, and i forgot. Happy New Year everyone!! You have all my best wishes for you =)