Late Birthday Blog

Whee.. Not that I'm lazy ya? but am I? LoL! Just pretty packed with assignments lately and there's two major assignments for field based in a week time! X_x Am feeling pretty lazy thinking about it alright.

Anyway, I gotta do this! Thanks guys for the ever lovely presents that you guys gave me! Aww~ I'm 20! Pretty old.. quite but among my coursemates, I'm the youngest! Yippie for me~

So, first first! Kimmy gave me a kangaroo for my 20th birthday! Not a real kangaroo, silly. A plush toy. I received this like 2 to 3 weeks before my birthday? Thanks Kimmy! Then, from my coursemates, Ansie got me...

I didn't open it til 12:00am. See, I'm being patient! Though it really brings up curiousity what it's inside. LoL!

That night we had a Literature Night. Gotta dance with the candles on both hands. It was fun; dancing, singing, and blowing the candles out while dancing when it started to burn the plastic cover... O_o Anyway, the night ended quite late around 11:00pm. So, I went back to my hostel, bathed (chilly water!) and continued watching my series which I was really eager to see the ending!

At 12, many messages came in! Thanks guys! ^^ I'm thrilled that you guys remembered my birthday! Some studying overseas even messaged me! Thanks! Arigatou! Xie Xie! I'm so happy you guys remembered my birthday! I'm 20 by the way! X_x

The suprise doesn't end there. So, when I was watching the series on my laptop, boo! All my coursemates came in shouting "Suprise!" The girls only though, guys are not allowed in girls' hostel. Akta 174, have to pay $200 if got caught! X_x LoL! Anyway, they gave me a big present! Musical ferris wheel!

Thanks for assembling it up too! My roomate gave me one too! No picture though.. Back to Ansie's present! TaaDa!

It's a figurine which will shook its head non-stop powered with solar. Made from Japan! Whee! Thanks a lot, Ansie!

When I got home, I checked my mail, friendster and facebook. Thanks for the wishes again! ^^ Woo hoo! My super 20 birthday was a blast! I have to thank God for giving me a bunch of such wonderful and caring friends and coursemates!

Chinese New Year 2008

3rd Day's the day!

Departed: 9:30am

1. Joslyn's


2. Kevin's


3. Gordon's


4. Jasmine's


5. Cindy's


6. Amanda's


7. mine! ^^


8. Wen How's


9. Tay's


10. Ee How's


11. Hong Lim's

Finished? Around 1am? LoL! Our belly's exploding soon.. Burrrp. XD

Chinese New Year?

Wow, blogging my third within an hour? LOL!

How do you know Chinese New Year as a Chinese? Know about Chinese New Year's myth? Or is it real? We were doing public speaking presentation on the last day before the holiday. Connie, a coursemate of mine did about how does Chinese New Year come about. Interesting, I knew the story but her presentation made me recall. So, here's the story. New for those who don't know and refresher for those who does. Enjoy!

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The Spring Festival is the grandest festival for the Chinese. The Spring Festival is also called "Nian", but who knows the term, Nian, was once the name of a furious monster that lived on human beings in the ancient time. How the Festival has some relationship with the monster lies in a story about the origin and development of the Spring Festival.

The legend says, long ago, there was a monster called Nian. It was born to be very ugly and ferocious, which looked like either dragons or unicorns. On the first and the 15th of each lunar month, the monster would come down from the mountains to hunt people. So people were very much afraid of it and locked their doors early before sunset on the days of its coming.

There lived an old wise man in a village. He thought it was the panic in people that made the monster so bold and furious. Thus the old man asked people to organize together and to conquer the monster by means of beating drums and gongs, burning bamboo, and lighting fireworks in purpose of making large noises to threaten the hateful monster. When he told people about the idea, everybody agreed on it.

At a moonless and freezing cold night, the monster, Nian, appeared again. The moment it opened its mouth at people, burst out the frightening noises and fire made by people, and wherever the monster went, it was forced to back off by the terrible noises. The monster couldn't stop running until he fell down with exhaustion. Then people jumped up and killed the evil monster. Savage as the monster was, he lost in the end under the efforts from the cooperation of people.

Since then, people have kept the tradition by beating drums and gongs, and lighting fireworks at the coldest day in winter to drive the imagined monsters away and to celebrate the victory over it. Today, Nian refers to the New Year's day or the Spring Festival. People often say Guo Nian, which means 'live the festival.' Furthermore, Nian also means the year. For an example, the Chinese often greet each other by saying Xin Nian Hao, which means Happy New Year! Xin means new and Hao means good.

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Information obtained from http://chineseculture.about.com/library/weekly/aa010900a.htm

Flashback II

Another one! This is for the Greenian 5G's of 2005. ^^

Oo, the signatures!

Old days! Good old days! ^^ Keep this memory and move forward with it!

Flashback

MY GOSH! When I was cleaning my room for the upcoming Chinese New Year, I bumped into some old photos. I decided to scan this one and put on the blog.


Wow! Imagine how many years it had been? I think we took this picture in Form 3 right? Almost 5 years! Many people have changed including me. No more chubby me? Whee!! Haha! Look at us, so carefree and innocent, no? Guys, look at your old time photo. Lots of flashbacks. Flashbacks!

Can't believe it have been 5 years eh? Well, time flies! ^^