Family Trip 2009

Well, suppose to blog this right after I came back from KL but I guess that I am too lazy to. LOL~

Anyway, for this year's family trip, we went to Sabah on November and KL on December. This is the first time I step foot on Sabah and let say the scenery away from its city was really breath taking. We went to Labuan to legally snuck in some alcohol.. Hehe~ Everyone is allowed to bring 1L of alcohol out from Sabah so I chose Chivas of 12 years. Cost me RM75. The 18 years too expensive, RM120+ XD



We also went to Manukan Island for 4 hours which resulted in bad sunburn but all is worth it where I got to swim with and feed the fish! Lotsa rare fish and some rainbow colored one too! I even managed to snorkel! Wanted to try the parachuting activity but nobody wants to accompany me~ *stares at my bro and Jo*



Sabah's really breath taking. We rented a car and went to the foot hill of Mount Kinabalu. So cold and breezy! Would love to stay there! ^_^ We even shopped from the natives there. Super bargain~ hehe~ Oh and we also went to the Memorial Park in Kundasang. Reminded me how many people were killed in the war there and how dreaded must the situation be at that time.



Overall, Sabah is an awesome place to get away from work and all those modern facilities. Just walk around and enjoy its scenery. However, food and parking is wayyyy expensive here. Much more than Kuching and KL. If you are into shopping, then Sabah is not for you. Limited choices really. That's why we went to KL! XP



Ok, on my KL trip chapter, we arrived on 8th and went to Genting on 9th! This time, I didn't manage to go for outdoor theme park since everyone is into the casino. Yikes~ Wasn't interested on its outdoor games anymore cause I guess the maintenance sucks~ Since they changed their management, everything seems less. Most rides are closed and it just not as fun as previously. They even remove the OSIM chair from the cinema! NOooOoo.. The casino's great though. It can be addictive but I just lost my money.. err.. I mean played for fun. Even got I.D checked everytime I went in. The guard thought I'm 17-19 years of age. Whahaha! Made me so happy~ Syok sendiri la~ Hehe!



Back to KL, what else? Shopping time! SOGO, Berjaya Times, Mid Valley, 1 Utama, BB, Sungei Wang.. Reminded me of how I kept plucking my money out from my wallet.. Huhuhu~ We even managed to go to JUSCO Bukit Tinggi at Shah Alam thanks to a friend of bro.



We used MAS Airlines to come home. Luxuries food!! There's Ferrero, fruit cake, guava juice and even Baskin Robbin 31 ice cream for dessert! So heavenly! Hehe~



For more of pictures, check out my Facebook photo gallery. Lazy to update the pics here since it's super slow to me. Merry Christmas everyone! Be jolly! ^^

Clicky for bigger pic ^^

Relaxation

Have you notice that the time passed by quickly? We're at the end of 2009!


After finishing three final papers which killed me from one to another, I have completed my sixth semester!!


I'm sOoo in a holiday mood and can't wait to meet up with the rest!


Going to Sabah this 25th too. YAYYY!


Oh ya, I have gotten info regarding my next year's practicum venue for 3 months starting from second week of January: SK Garland, Batu Kawa. Love the venue but not too fond of the observers: Dr. Rahmah for Mathematics and Madam Mitty for English. Oh whyyyyy.... =.="


Then again....


Holidayyyy! Sabah!!! KL!!!

Facebook Addiction Disorder

Looks like I've abandoned my blog for pretty long. Heck~ Not just me. Practically, everyone who is on their third year or final year is doing so. *making excuse* XD

My first final paper is on this coming Wednesday and I haven't start revising for that paper yet and barely finish reading for next week's. I think I lost a screw somewhere.. >_<"

All blame FACEBOOK! *blame self-control!* Last time I checked, Facebook holds over like 120million users? And I'm one of them! and also all of my friends. It's almost 5 times the population of Malaysian! How's that? Not a shocking fact actually..

Recently, I heard a news saying about how a wife got kicked out of the house by the husband who claimed that her wife often wakes up in the midnight to harvest her crops in a Facebook game. This is not unbelievable to me as I've seen these symptoms before somewhere. So, I browsed around to find some information regarding Facebook and I stumbled to a new disorder called Facebook Addiction Disorder.

Oh man.. I think I'm having the symptoms.. I can quit but my Happy Farm! My Friends for Sale! *got dragged away*

See you guys in two to three weeks time! After the finals I mean... *crickets' sound*

Awww shrugs! No one's around.. T_T

P/s: Those italic blue-colored text is by my alter ego.. muahaha~

Craving for Bing! Coffee

After rejuvination for a whole week, lectures start again..

Walao eh... This week has been a hectic week for me. I only had 4 hours average of sleep everyday. Slept at 3:00am then woke up around 7:00am in a startled condition, fearing I might be late for my 7:30am lecture. Sometimes, I had to kept my eyes wide awake starting from the first lecture. Sometimes, my energy lasted til the 11:00am lectures where I started yawning really hard and gave my lecture the dull look on her presentation (mind that I sit in front of the class; sitting straight and absorbing all the presentations in that state of mind was not easy for me).

Funniest thing happened on Tuesday or was it Wednesday? It was the 11:00am lecture and Dr. Rahmah came in for her lecture as usual. 30 minutes after, I started yawning and gave her the dull look AGAIN.. Then, she started to comment about pyschological interpretation that she knows who is paying attention and who's not. I thought I was getting the hint from her that I'm not paying attention (and it's already not easy for me to stay focus). When I turned around, I saw most of my coursemates were yawning and having teary eyes due to the yawning.. I guess that hint goes to everyone, not just me.. Imagine the whole class yawning..

Hopefully, next week would be the last week for assignments to torture me and the rest of my coursemates as all projects, assignments and reports are to due next week. Will rejunivate during this weekend and rush some of the assignments to evade burning midnight oil again.. Cause last night, I caused my roomie to move to another room to sleep just because I was awake with me group members finishing on an assignment. Gomen, Christine.. You can torture me by playing the piano loudly for the next two weeks... ^_^"

Oh.. relaxation started this afternoon actually where we massively went to Sya's house for lunch in celebration for Raya. Everyone.. wait.. well most of us were there just to take that one-day-away-from-assignment moments. Lovely lunch indeed. :)

Tomorrow, it's the Mooncake Festival. Going for steamboat with my coursemates. I don't like the eating part but I just can't miss the excitement waiting for me then. I'm that type of person who will try not to miss any exciting events with friends.. LOL..

Arggghhh!! When can I reduce my weight then? I'm so going on rice and meat strike after this! X3 but craving for mocha with caramel at the moment! I want to go to Bing! Coffee... XD

Post note:

Happy Birthday or Belated Birthday to the following people (which I can remember of):

27th : Chen Xiao Fang a.k.a blur blur girl

28th : Siew Sing Ya

30th : Hanaa the Skype Queen, Jack Joannes a.k.a Mr. Grasshopper and James Wong

2nd: Alexis Sim

3rd: Terence Siew

2010 Holidays

Announced and for reminder:


13 March to 21 March First Mid Term Break
5 June to 20 June Mid Year Break
4 Sept to 12 Sept Second Mid Term Break
20 Nov to 2 January Year End Break

Seems like the holiday is getting shorter and at weirder time.. =__="

The Big Ka-BOOM!

A big bang happened in the house! Calm down guys.. It's not a bomb. It's my mom's 13 years old dining table letting go of its last breath.. That gigantice dining table finally takes its last toll and broke down. Mom and I had to un-attach its parts to make it easier to get rid of it.

It happened when we were doing house cleaning from top to bottom.. Sigh, looks like we need to go hunting for a new one.

Rest in peace, my precious dining table. You have served our family well over these years. X3

FAMILY DINING TABLE

1996 - 2009

*no photo was taken as it's just unbearable to watch*

Second Phase Practicum

This morning was my last day of practicum. Half of me was like "Whaa.. can't wait for the time to scram" and the other half was going "Going to miss here.. Thiam, going back to 7am-4pm schedule of lectures again.."

My second phase practicum was completed in SK Tambay, a very small school with average of 15 to 22 pupils in a class. It's a pretty laid back school where all the teachers are very friendly and warm as well as the staff there ranging from the cooks, clerks, security guards and cleaner. My session with the pupils was around 5 hours a week excluding all the other teach-ins that I might have to take. I taught Year 4 Mathematics and Phys. Ed.

So, this morning was my last day. I bought some gifts to 17 'Denise the Menace' in my class. Well, not all are menace but most of them are. =_=" I had my last lesson before the recess and after the recess, we had a short assembly. After the short assembly, I was planning to pack my stuff and getting myself ready to go back when the class monitor of Year 4 pulled me to the class, claiming that they were crying in the class. Indeed they were...

Being a very cold-hearted teacher.. acclaimed my practicum partner for me not crying when I saw them cry, I just felt weird thinking the whole time, I kept on lecturing them on finishing their homework and punishing them whenever they make noise and being naughty during my lesson. So how in hell would they miss me??

It was like 16 broken pipes in the class! Even the naughiest boy whom I punished almost every lesson. Gosh~ I had to retain myself for quite a while just to comfort all of them and when I started waving goodbye to them, they all cried back!!

In the end, a teacher asked me to ignore them and walk away or else I could not leave the class. I did that and after packing my stuff and bringing it all to my car, there they were! All 17! Crying on my car! Aiyoyo~ Some of the girls even pull my clothes asking me not to go.. but what can be done? Every journey has its end.

Anyhow, feeling pretty tired atm. Symptoms of flu are appearing.. and holiday's around the corner. Going to zz soon so logging off..

Wake Up People!

OMG! The weather these days are so so so hot! I felt like bringing an air-cond everywhere I go but I can't do that. I taught Physical Education and some of my students barely can stand the weather. It's hazy, hot and humid. I even bathed like 4 to 5 times a day than the frequent 3. =_="

What bugs me is that the villagers along the Kota Samarahan and Asajaya district (I'm not sure whether it's a district or not) kept on burning their fields despite the hot weather. It's making the air so polluted and hazy. Ashes sticking on the car and clothes too.

Last Friday on my way back to Kuching, a forest was burnt down and fire fighters had to go and put the fire out using water from the drain cause there are no fire hydrant nearby. The fire was pretty big and near the main road. Hope that after this, they learn not to burn their fields recklessly.

El Nino is coming indeed. I saw today's newspaper and there's a typhoon heading to Borneo! Gosh~ No wonder there was not even a single rain for the past two months. The rivers in rural areas are beginning to dry up.

All I can say is that this is not the work of God or Mother Nature but man alone. Human did this to Earth and we are paying for it. This means every single two legged mammals that are reading this and even me when are typing it down. I guess we got to realize how big one single person can affect the world. No more of the excuse of "I am just one human, what can I do".

So, guys! Please save Earth anyhow you can. Recycle, car pooling, whatever it takes that can contribute even the least.

Moving

The four of us officially moved in a rental house which is about ten to fifteen minutes drive from the school I'm having my practical in.

We moved on Tuesday afternoon. Some of us, including me being the 'clean-addict', we started cleaning the place up. Sweeping, wiping, mopping, washing, brushing, arranging, throwing out the rubbish and etc. A housemate works on the kitchen while for me, the toilet and the bathroom. =_=

By the time we finished cleaning everywhere, it's about 8pm! And gosh, we haven't started out daily lesson plan yet. Luckily managed to finish it and got a few hours of beauty sleep before going to school the next day. The funny thing was I was so sleepy that my lesson plan got so many typo error. XP

This week was a pretty busy week. The house is a nice place to live in although it's a bit rundown. What's killing my back is the bed. Need to buy a better mattress or I'll be like an old lady by the time I finish my practicum.

Oh ya, do you know where do the villagers throw their rubbish everyday? We were quite curious on how to manage our rubbish as there were no rubbish bin in sight. So, we went on to ask a villager living nearby. According to the makcik, the rubbish truck only comes twice a week that is on Tuesday and Saturday. Hence, they throw their rubbish into the river. I was like THE RIVER???!!! Gosh~ I can't do that. The river is God's creation. Making it dirty means that I'm ruining His creation. Furthermore, the river is so beautiful.

Lastly, we ended up putting our rubbish outside the house to avoid attracting ants. Guess what? Next morning, it was gone. Now thinking of it, someone must had helped us throw it into the river.. NoOoooOoo...

All in a Life as A Human...

Currently not in the mood (T_T)

Incident #1

Actually found a place to stay for the 2 months practicum. When we decided to go and clean the place up, we realized that we can't park our cars there due to the extremely small bridge. So, if we want to live there, have to park at roadside which is super dangerous with the chances of:

i. Big lorry hitting our cars anyday of that two months

ii. Probability that we would accidentally drive our cars into the big longkang near the house

Another option is to park our car near the shops. Bad idea according to locals as there are many bandits lurking around the area.

So, bo pien.. Paiseh, paiseh have to decline the kopitiam lady's kindness in helping us to find a place to stay. Now, we have to drive up and down 1 hour plus from campus to our practical place. Jia you, Amy for taking the role to drive~ Hopefully, I can help her by turn-taking...

Incident #2

In my attempt to search for a new place to stay cause I want to avoid from being overtired from the long drive everyday, my practicum partner and I were almost being bitten by a furious, angry looking dog. I could still remember the adrenalin rush of standing just a few feet away from the dog who was ready to attack me any moment before its owner managed to save me.

After whole day talking to the locals there, still no luck finding a place to rent. Long hours of driving, here I come.. xS

Incident #3

Practicum + 40% of semester's credit project + fatigue from everyday trip to practicum place + lonely campus = me making this face (=_=") and also developing pessimistic thoughts.. Pray for me...

Incident #4

Allowance's not out yet... *pockets fill with dry leaves*

Incident #5

Car buat hal.. She's sick and asking money for me to heal her. Luckily, it cost me no above than RM500. If not, I'll be eating dirt until my allowance's out...

Incident #6
I want to shoot that stupid c***d *takes a bow, shoot and miss* DARN! Get out from my head!

Then again, what's life without these challenges right?

*current optimistic level: 2/5*

Best of Friends

Time does fly, doesn’t it? My three weeks holiday has come to an end. In a while later, got to go back to campus and prepare for the new semester starting tomorrow and... I am so not looking forward to getting the new schedule as I know it is going to be super packed. Like 7:30am to 4:00pm packed. +.=


My three weeks holiday as short quoted can be defined as unproductive, I guess. Been a sloth at home, going online almost every single day of the holiday but heck, this is the only time that I can be that lazy before stepping back into the hectic life of assignments, practicum, projects and campus activities.

I managed to meet few friends yesterday. YEAH!! A little gathering of ours just to catch up with what is going on with everyone and have a laugh from crappy to insightful topics. This is the thing that I love the most during holiday is to be able to hang out with them.

Being a Greenian has been one of the wisest decision made by me. In this school, I get to meet a bunch of great people which I am honoured and grateful to call them as friends. All of my sweet, funny and memorable memories revolve around them.

Every time when I hang out with them, I get to relax and be myself... and I just love that feeling. So, whenever I have holidays, I would try my best to meet up with them. I guess they give me energy to continue on the winding road of life. That moment with them... I forget every worry and let down the bag of stress on my shoulder.

In college, I do enjoy the companion of my college mates but that feeling is incomparable to this genuine feeling that I get from these Greenians. This is a mystery that I could not figure out why...

BLESSED and GRATEFUL. These two words are the words that I can describe. I don’t know what my life would be if I have not be given the chance to know them. They are just the best of friends that one can have in life.

Thanks a million for being my friend. You guys know who you are. ^^ This is a friendship that I will cherish always and forever, even to the grave. XP

Stop. Take a Look. Think.

I let you guess. Is this sunrise or sunset?

Pretty right? Ok.. Actually, it's much more beautiful in real life than the picture. And it is sunrise... What I am trying to say here is that "Stop. Take a look. Think". We move too fast and rush over things in life.

Sometimes, we think that what we are doing is right or wrong. Is this my road or just a road I'm walking on? Is this road leading me to a good life? I guess most of us worry too much about "me" and missed out on the beauty of nature itself. Its effects are just breath taking.

God created nature for us to enjoy, for us to appreciate. Take a stroll on the beach and let His magnificent work sweeps you away. While you're doing that, think not of yourself but of how beautiful life can be. Frustration, stress.. all will just puffed away!

I spent the last day of my vacation to the beach sitting down on a swing under a tree, looking at the sunrise. I guess that moment is the time that I stopped thinking of myself and of all that I am worried about and just relax, have my breakfast under the tree with such magnificent view.

Spend a day or two away from all your work, your city life and away from all the things you should be worrying about. There's more to life than our career, our study life.

STOP... TAKE A LOOK... and THINK...

Mom enjoying the swing under the cottage..

Movie nights in the cottage, cinema style...

Memoirs of May

Since I got a 3 weeks holiday now, thought I better update my blog. ^^

Here's the activities that we had after the Practicum month and along the month of May:

Batch of 2007 Mini Olympic: We got 1st! :)

Celebrating the end of Practicum month as well as getting first in Mini Olympic

Before eating! All hyped up to eat the 44 pieces of KFC! XP

It was a pretty hectic month. Never the less, we still enjoyed it very much!...

before

END of the month = EXAM!! XD

Upcoming D-Day!

Since it's been a long time since my last update here, guess I'll need to write a thing or two.

Hm.. I'm just feeling doomed right now. =.=

D-day.. D-day.. Who the hell introduced the exam system?! xP

My semester exam starts next Wednesday and ends on the following Wednesday.

Aiyaya.. I am so lazy to devour all the thick notes into my brain.

I need to update my memory gig. xD

Positive thought: After exam, it's holiday!

After holiday, it's practicum week! Ok.. back to negative thought... +_+

Hahaha.. I'm talking crap now. =_=

Back to the notes then..

*Imagine me as a big pacman chomping five 10cm notes*

Sick

I've been sick for a week now...

I hate this feeling of being uncomfortable!!

Heal me soon!

=.="

Final Day of Practicum I

Yestarday was my last day of the four-weeks practicum. My 45 Year 5 students had touched my heart deeply. I went for the last hour of Mathematics class with them around 11:00am yesterday. As I opened the door, the room was dark and all I could see was empty tables and three lines of students at the back and a conductor. As I entered the class, they started to sing Auld Lang Syne in Bahasa version. My eyes were filling with tears but I managed not to drop one. I gave them a big applause after they had finished singing and joked about them trying to make me cry.

I continued teaching them Mathematics and on the last ten minutes, I gave them presents that I had prepared and managed to take photos with them. And by the time my lesson was up, my table was filled with presents. All of them approached me, asking for signature and phone number. I was thinking, I'm not a celebrity. I'm just a teacher. Yet, they're acting like I am one.

It was really difficult to leave that day. This devilish yet cute bunch of munchies had really put an impact on me in just a short period of time. I'm really gonna miss them. :(

The boys of my class

The girls of my class

And All Hell Broke Loose...

Earlier this morning, I had an hour session with my Year 5 students. Mathematics class.

I guess the one thing I did wrong.. very wrong is to teach-in their class the previous hour before my class.

It was a bit of a relaxation Mathematics session with some quizzes. When I start my lesson, all hell broke loose. My students seemed to be really hyped up and restless.

Time slowly passes by and they are getting more noisy. Slowly, I start to lose grip of controlling them.

And to make matter worse, my lecturer came in to observe unexpectedly!!

"Die! Die! Die!" are the only thing that goes through my mind at that moment.

The class noise level was getting worse every single minutes and at its peak when it was group work activity.

When my lecturer decided to leave early, I know my observation result would be disasterous!

And it did...

His note to me was:

I left early because I cannot stand the noise by your students. You lost grip of class control today and worse, some students are screaming when doing group activity. You better find a alternative way to control your student before my nect observation this Wednesday...

And I lost my voice.. Oh, man. I feel like jumping from Taipei 101 right now.. =_=

Practical Week 2

This is my second week of practical but it's also my first official week to teach some classes. Well, two classes to be exact.

On the first week, I was given a schedule of my classes. Seven periods of Mathematics classes with Year 5A and three periods of Physical Education with Year 2D. Before that, a brief explanation on the class grouping system in this school; there are five classes in each Year, ranging from A to D for Bahasa medium and one class for Chinese Medium. Class A being the best to Class D that consists of remedial students.

My first day with 45 of my Year 5 students was like "teaching to the walls". I guess this is because I'm still new to them and well.. let just say their devilish side have not unveil themselves. After few more days, I have accidentally found the key and unlocked heir devilish side. They were pretty naughty but n a good way. At least they listen to me when I'm teaching and I am impressed by how good they are and how fast they can catch up with my lesson.

My first day with my Year 2 students on the other hand was a disaster! Controlling 35 students was a pain in the neck for me. Throughout the hour, I was shouting non-stop and nearly broke my voice box. And to top it up, my lecturer was supposed to observe me during my Mathematics class the hour right after. My mentor had to help me to control them to avoid any casualites. =.="

When I went to the staff room, most of the teachers was laughing at me as my shouting was so loud, some of them heard me all the way from the staff room. Gosh~ I should have taken it more seriously when they said that class is hard to control.

Now that the week had ended, I look forward to a day of relaxation before starting the new week. I need to get a hold of how to control my Year 2 students before they break my voice box permanently. xP

A Weird Moment

Okay.. There's this really funny thing that happened few days ago; Wednesday to be exact when a few of my coursemates and I decided to collect data for our coursework regarding Network Analysis.

Our coursework needs us to stand on a four intersections road and count cars. Yes, you're reading this correctly. COUNT CARS.. Count, analyze and redesign the road to improve the flow. Something like that. xP

So, four of us met in the morning around 9:30am or so cause it is not a peak hour where you'll get traffic jam. Hence, it'll be easier for us to count cars passing by. We are working smart here. LOL!

When we reached there, we chose a junction each. The trick is to choose an input (where the cars come from; specific junction) and from that input, we need to count the possible output (cars entering) via the three junctions.

Ah~ Malaysians; you know how they are. When there's an accident, they'll slow down and take a look of what is happening. So, this event where four ladies are standing near the road taking cameras, camcoders and stuff, apalagi? Sure slows down and takes a good stare at you and your actions. xS

Few funny moments were when we attempted to take pictures and videos of our presence there as proof that we are not cheating or making up those data, some even slowed down or showed the peace sign. =.= See how friendly Malaysians are? Hahaha.. But I don't think these actions are counted as being friendly. One even stepped on his emergency brake near me when I was about to snap a picture. Scaryy...

All those while, standing near the road, I guess I received stares from many people which for sure, I won't receive those much in a month. So paiseh...

The lecturer better be accepting our data. I don't wanna stand near roadside anymore!!

Sidenote: I was thinking, if one of us wore super sexy clothes that day, wouldn't there be any possibility of an accident happening? xP

Unloading...

Finally! Horrorful day finally be gone!

One month of working on the coursework project again and again and again and again.

We generated around 4, 5, 6? teaching materials just to teach one simple topic: Improper Fractions for Year 5. If you refers to the Year 5 Mathematics book, this topic only have a page worth of exercise. And to think that becoming a teacher is easy? Think again!

Me and my partner spent sleepless nights within this one month doing the projects. Generating ideas and getting few rejections from the Head of Mathematics Department over and over again. She really has high expectation on the coursework and to meet her expectation, we got to deal with the pressure and also some uban that starts to pop up more and more within our hair.

The last few hours before submitting the project, we finalize the paperworks and ended up sleeping around 4am. That morning's lecture started at 7:30am! Luckily, I didn't fish in the Miss Tan's lecture. If not, sure get killed by her. xP

Gosh~ gotta stop sleeping so late. I'm becoming a panda myself. Positive side though, I lost 2kg from all the pressure of the coursework. LOL. I know, it's bad for health. Bad, bad for health. Will try to get proper rest within this one week break.

After the one week break, I'll be starting my Practicum or similar to Industrial Training for 4 weeks. Warggghh.. I do hope I'll be able to handle all the students. I'm scared that I might end up strangling one. Muahaha. Just kidding. I won't do that. I'll lose my degree for it.

Pray for me guys! I'm starting to lose me-self. (x.x)

Birthday Reload

To all the DiGi users out there, I'm sure you know the birthday bonus right? Well, since it's 50% top-up for every top-up that you have made between 3 days before and after your birthday, what else? I just reload RM100 and my collagemates grabbed this opportunity as well by asking me to reload for them and transferring all the credits. X) Haha.. Anyway, since I'm super loaded with credit now, I just messaged Kim in Aus the whole night since my streamyx was broken. *shrungs*

We talked bout lots of stuff including the appearance of perverts in Aus. Weird~ hahaha.. I'm pretty sure that Malaysia does not have perverts and even if there is, it would not be as weird and creepy as those in Aus desribed by Kim.. So, be careful Kim!

Ah~ Monday's a public holiday. Feeling free at the moment. I'm going to spend the whole Saturday doing nothing that needs my mind to think. No assignments and no typing.. erm.. wait, I'm typing alright. I mean no stress for today. I need to get my mind away from all that just for today and by tomorrow, I'll be back to courseworks, projects, and assignments that mostly due next Friday. :S

Blurp~ blurp~ blurp~ Feeling like drowning myself in a pool right now. xP

7 years... Finally resolved

This is the day, a day that I will remember forever
The day that the feeling that I had kept for 7 years

Has finally been untangled
The day I braced myself up to face the worst outcome possible
Courageous enough to confess by message but not a call
Praying and praying

For the best of what God can give me as an answer

The reason of why I had fallen in love with him?
For he is a kind-hearted guy
A faithful follower of God
Not one bit that I have regretted having this feeling

Not one bit I will regret to confess this feeling

Moments later, God had answered my prayer
And I thank God for letting him know

The best way not to stab my heart
It ended with sudden drops of tears

Not of sorrow nor happiness

But that one sigh of relief
For I can finally start to let him go


~6 March 2009; 11:15am~


** If you had a deep feeling for someone, like what others like to say, BRACE UP YOURSELF and tell him/her how you feel about them. Sure that it might be painful but wondering of the answer gives much greater pain than the moment you confess. God Bless.

ELAM Night 2009

Hehe.. I won! I won! Crative writing competition.

Yea.. yea.. yea.. (I'm being childish!) xP

The prize was a 2GB pendrive from the Language Department!

But the best one is the bank robbers performance for Action Song category! They won! They won!

That performance is super super cool! Really awed me!! Congrats to SN1107!

And I got the chance to hear Jack (aka Pak Belalang) sang Flying Without Wings with his super nice singing voice. Will upload the video of his singing into my blog someday. Our very own idol in campus!

Congrats to everyone! ^^

21 With Me Best Friend!

ABOUT 23rd February....

I know, I know. This is about a week late. Should have posted it last week but I didn't. I was too butt lazy to edit all the copyrights for the pictures taken. Hahaha. Well, moments before turning 21 was, I may add SWELL!! Before I start with the details, I wanna make some intro intro on this one great person that share same birthday with me since 20 years ago.

He is a person whom I had cat and dog fight with since I was small. Although I seldom see him when growing up; with all the schedule of him and me being taken care of either my grandmama or mom since we were small, I really look up to him. He's a great guy and I know he loves me a lot even though he always wanna pick a fight with me when we were small, if I'm not mistaken.. xP

As we got older, he shared some responsibility with mom to take care of me. For example, sending me to school and tuition as well as picking me up and sending me to everywhere I want to go. I know, I know. Seems like my driver. Haha. What to do? No extra car. Even now, he still picks me up and send me to my college every week. It's so far off from his destination and still, he is patient enough to tolerate with my schedule.

He also tolerates with me in term of my occasional bad temper. Blame that I'm a dragon year baby. Muahaha.. Anyway, since these past few years, we got to bond along better as we are older. I know that I have this bad temper, but occasional one, not constant one.. He always show this patient voice and let me be done with my temper before he are able to talk with me again. So kesian, he become my lending ears besides my mom and some of my friends. Well, he won't have the chance once I find one perfect guy to replace his current position. Hehehe..

And what's more. He's caring too. Looking out for mom and me during travelling. Putting our needs first before rest. For example, he'll make sure that we have enough nutrients to walk around shopping. Very patient about shopping part. He'll just wait til we are finish with the shopping instead of rushing us.

So, this guy is none other than my brother, Andy who is exactly 6 years older than me. HAPPY 27th BIRTHDAY, ko! So nice ho.. get a birthday cake from Jo (FYI: Jo is his gf).

Ok, back to my best friend who shares the same birthday with me but I'm older by few hours. We're born in Sarawak General Hospital. Must be I've heard her cry too at that day but I'm too young to remember. Hack.. Hahaha.. This pretty girl is none other than Kimber!

So, Sunday afternoon, 22nd February 2009. A day before our birthday. I can't celebrate the actual day with her as I will be celebrating it with tons of assignments in my room back in college. xP I picked Kim up at her place around 2pm. First, we were thinking of celebrating at Mango Tree but it's closed on Sunday. Darn~ Then, we twirled and twirled around Kuching looking for good place to eat where several minutes and minutes later, we ended up at Crown Square only to try the Indonesian food at Pulau Lagenda.

We ordered many foods which is far more of two stomachs can fill; grilled chicken ala Pulau Lagenda, tempe; king prawn and bora bora (I think I got the name correct..). The drinks that we ordered were great too! So, the story here is that we ate and ate. Halfway eating, the waiter sent us the bill and we're quite shocked. Not because of the amount of the bill but they said that they're closing. What the? Didn't expect that they close so fast at 3pm. Hahaha. I guess that was the first time I was asked, very very politely to eat faster and send myself out of the restaurant... WAIT! Not my first. The first time was at McD with Josiah, Manda and Yueh Lee. Hahaha.. Anyway, great meal stuffing our tummy before we turn 21! And it is just lovely to celebrate it with my bro and also my best friend!

Guess what I got this year?

1. Mom gave me a key pendant (21's freedom! xD)

2. Bro got me gold double key pendant (He acts more like a dad than a bro)

3. Kim got me this super creative 21 things in a bag for my lovely 21st birthday

4. My coursemates got me a bag. (I know using a backpack with long skirt or baju kurung is weird. So, I guess this is their way of telling me to be more ladylike. Hahahaha)

5. Someone (not a Chinese) gave me a musical turning clock. All my Chinese coursemates bursted out in tears when they heard it.

6. Cindy gave me a lovely call all the way from Aus! Love ya, Cind!

7. Joslyn gave me this lovely e-card from Hallmark! Muaks!

All the others wished me via sms, calls, facebook and friendster. Much appreciated! Thanks to all my dear friends for remembering! Last but not least, Happy Birthday to:

Bro

Kimber

Stephen Yee

Brandon Tan

My pretty next next door hostelmate. (I forgot her name)

Race for The Best

English Language Appreciation Month has begun! May the best of each category wins! Category presents:

1. Creative Writing

2. Public Speaking

3. Scrabble

4. Idioms and Proverbs

5. Spelling Bee

6. Pronunciation

7. Story Telling

8. IPTAR Idol

9. Action Song

10. Class Display

11. Newscasting

The day Action Song was commenced was superb! Take a look of what the Science1107 group did!

"Bottle It Up" Sara Bareilles

There'll be girls across the nation
That will eat this up
Babe I know that it's your soul but could you bottle it up and
Get down to the heart of it,
No it's my heart you're straight out of your luck
Don't make me tell you again my love love love love.
Love love love love.

I am aiming to be somebody that somebody trusts
With her delicate soul
I don't claim to know much except soon as you start
To make room for the parts
That aren't you it gets harder to bloom in a garden of
Love love love love
Love Love love love

Only thing I ever could need, only one good thing
Worth trying to be and it's

Love Love Love Love
I do it for Love Love Love Love

We can understand the sentiment you're saying to us
Oh,but sensible sells so could you kindly shut up
And get started
At keeping your part of the bargain aw please
Little darlin'
You're killing me sweetly with love love love love
Love love love love

Only thing I ever could need only one good thing
Worth trying to be and its

Love Love Love Love
I do it for Love Love Love Love

Started as a flicker meant to be a flame
Skin has gotten thicker but it burns the same
Still a baby in a cradle got to take my first fall
Baby's getting next to nowhere with her back
Against the wall.
You meant to make me happy make me sad.
Want to make it better better so bad.
But save your resolutions for your never new year
There is only one solution I can see here.

Love you're all I ever could need only one good thing
Worth trying to be and it's
Love Love Love Love
I do it for love, love, love, love
Oh, only gonna get get what you give away,
So give love, love
Only gonna get get what you give away
Love

Place Your Faith in God

This week, instead of 5-days of lecture, we had 6. Kind of sucks since one particular lecturer added her hours from 4 hours to 6 hours per week, then always take our lunch break time by adding half hour of 45 minutes more. Even one of my coursemates had this statistics on how his time was taken up per week in total.

It's tiring physically, mentally and spiritually for all of us. It's not like I'm complaining. I understand that her high expectation for us will bring us great benefit someday but the courseworks load that crashes between all the lecturers are beating us down. Sometimes, it is necessary to let us take a break from the pressure or we will tatally crack up. S-E-R-I-O-U-S-L-Y. Practically, you can hear the class whine about exhaustion and bringing the super moody face to lectures.

After today's lecture, I went out for lunch. There's this sight which aches my heart. Salesman. It is hard to see them going around, pleading for people to buy the products so they could mantain their job. The economics downfall has really taken a big toll on many people. Many people are jobless out there and some barely could support their live by their current salary. Even graduates that hold a degree certificate on hand would have to face the fact that degree means nothing nowadays as it is not easy to score a good job at hand.

In my mind, I thought of how nice would the world be if those who are rich are willing to donate to the poor but the true fact is that life is cruel. Mom told me once that in this type of situation, as much that we do hope that we could help them (e.g: buying their products so that they could meet the quota to keep their jobs), there is a limit on how much we can help. Unless like I'm super rich, there's nothing much that can be done except to pray for them. Place faith in God as the road is not a smooth highway.

Life is a challenge but remember this when you feels like losing your way and faith:

In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me. Psalm 56:4

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. Rom 8:28

Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD. Psalm 31:24

For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. Psalm 84:11

Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Proverbs 3:5-6

Chap Goh Mei 2009

This year Chap Goh Mei falls on Monday. The girls decided to have it earlier, on Saturday night at the apartment. 9 girls and a guy. Steamboat and Western style foods such as fried chicken, wedges, french fries, chicken fingers and so on. Mouth watering isn't it? And by the end, we can't finish what we had prepared. Next time, need to estimate how big eaters are we.. LOL! I'm so stuffed right now and I need to lose some flabs here! Chinese New Year flabs are still there. Guess I need to attend Dr. Chin's class for the 1.2km run again. XD

Classic number 1 to 10 style of taking picture. ^^

Family CNY Dinner 2009

Well, I am sure that most Chinese family have their CNY Eve's dinner with family members. This certainly includes ours. Chinese New Year Eve for 2009 fell on Sunday. This year, I can see that Grandma was pretty happy because most of her children's family were there for the CNY Eve's dinner. Not only her, I was pretty excited as well. It has been a long time since I last met up with my cousins. All of them had really grown up especially Kelvin. Man, last year he was shorter than me and yesterday during the dinner, he's almost overtaking my brother's height. And he's only like what.. 17? Gosh! There goes another one taller than me. =.=" Ah~ and most of them are in a relationship now. Double sweat. Luckily, none of my aunties or uncles asked me about my relationship. Thanks God!

As we were waiting for all to gather at Grandma's house, my mom stumbled upon an article about the so-called Chinese Horoscope for those who are born in 1988, year of the Earth Dragon. Well, she teased me "Oh, this year Dragons will have a blossom in relationship." When she uttered those words, immediately, I can recognize that she was teasing me. "Cold joke for the start of lunar year, mom." Actually, I did some thinking about this matter not too long ago but I guess since most of my secondary school friends are still single, I just don't feel the pressure of getting one right now? And don't even give me the suggestion to find one in my college. We are considered the pioneer batch of our course so we only have juniors and although some of my juniors can be H.O.T, I am not too keen about dating a younger guy. No offence on younger guys who are reading this. XD

The dinner was swell! Dishes included were fish (nian nian yiu yu), prawn (hee hee ha ha), braised duck, steamed chicken, mixed vegetables and I can't remember the rest but I do remember how yummy and tasty Grandma's cooking is! Oh ya, her curry is a legend for its spicy-ness and the tender tasting chicken. Haha! Too bad I did not bring my T-series with me that day. If not, you guys might drool reading this post with the pictures included.

Apart from that, I just love the small talk and miggling around, catching up with current news from the others. I do believe that we need to mantain good communication to mantain good relationship not only with family but with friends as well. That's the reason why I like to bother you guys about gathering the moment you guys landed in Kuching. LOL!

I can't wait for next year's as then, every children of Grandma's will be here in Kuching. Well, Uncle Richard did mention of coming back for 2010's CNY. Maybe Aunt Lucy will tag along too? Fingers cross.

To all my friends and random readers of my blog, wishing you a blessed CNY! Never too late for the wish aite? There's 15 days of CNY! Have fun and eat lots and lots and lots! Whee~