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~

F to the U to the N !

Seeing this picture, I think you can guess where is this hotel right? I'll give you a clue if you are really clueless. Check out the Largest Hotel in The World with 6,118 rooms. Well, my family and I went there last December. The check-in time is 3pm onwards and we arrived at the lobby around 2pm. When we went to pick our Q-system number, it has come to a shock!


Your number is 0824.
Now serving number of 0408.


Whoa! A jolt in disbelief. I think this is the only place in Malaysia where you’ll get your number to be this large? The gap between our Q-number and serving number is 416! Haha! What else can we do but to wait, enduring the boredom and agony that put our patience to the test. When my watch ticks 3pm, the number was about 1/3 of its way. Bored, I looked around me. The lobby was full of tourists and locals sitting here and there. Yes, if you can secure a good seat on the floor near one of the walls, it is good enough. You better believe it because the place was jammed packed with guests from all around the world waiting to be served and check-in.



We managed to secure seats on the bench provided. The only entertainment for guests who wait at the lobby was Discovery Channel with no sounds and Malay subtitle. Yeah, luckily I am a Malaysian. Hahaha~ If you can’t endure the long hours of the queue, just walk around and enjoy the exquisite scenery of the hotel or shop-till-your-hours-are-up.



Around 5pm, our number’s up. Gosh! Three hours! It was faster than what I have expected actually. Seriously! I thought that it might have to take us till the night to get into our room. Ah~ Room sweet room. With its natural air-conditioner, the room was chilly. Even colder than my fridge back at home. Hahaha~ But that is what I love about Genting. The cold weather and all its thrilling rides.



After dinner, we walked around and uh, there’s a cinema in here! Never notice it before. Haha, such a sakai. xP So, we pampered ourselves with OSIM-row tickets to The Day The Earth Stood Still at 1:30am. It was not expensive at all compared to the ordinary seats. Should try it. A whole movie-length of nice full body massage. Good way to relax and loosen up those stiff muscles after few days of walking and shopping.



next morning, it is time to fulfil my reason. I came with one simple reason. To conquer all its thrill rides. Since last year’s trip was a bit disappointing since it rained and I did not manage to play all, this year’s weather is siding on me. The only way to try all the rides in a limited time of 8am to 10pm, is Genting’s Express Pass. (Evil laugh) Although it is a bit more expensive than the ordinary all-day pass, I guarantee you that it is really worth it especially for first-time visitors. Ah~ The joy of cutting queues... Joking. Truthfully, I really do not savor the taste but if you compare it with the long hours of multiple queuing, it is definitely worth it. There are only certain rides that inclusive of the Express Pass. Others that are not included are such as Kart Prix and Bumper Boat. So, for these two, we did our part: Queuing. =.=

At the end of the day, I managed to ride all the thrill rides. All except for one, Flying Coaster. Still need time to gather up my gut to experience that hand-gliding roller coaster of 4. Although it is a thrill ride, the queue line to this ride was peculiarly short. Guess many were like me; courageous enough for other thrill rides except for this one. Seeing it roars the sky scared the hell out of me. Hopefully, one day I will manage to conquer it as well. Well, Genting was so much fun; I’ll say that it was a great way to end 2008!

Koizora

Have you watched this movie?

This Japanese movie was released around 2007. Well, rumor said that it touched the heart of more than 20 million viewers deeply. What else? I bought the DVD recently (saw it on a rack of a store) and watched it. Seriously, this is a nice and touching story. A super tear jerker. Recommended especially for those who have yet not watch it. Make sure to have a box of tissue nearby. ^_^

Review:

This is a story of two young high schoolers, Mika and Hiro who started a relationship through communication by cell phones over the summer vacation. The story continues on by telling how those two strives through love, hardship, lost, perseverence and challenge that comes between them.

Multicolours

Life's a multicolour. Some might think that the colours of your life depend on your own luck but others might say effort is the key on determining the colours of your life. Life can be simple and also the other way around. Everyone have different opinion about how life should be. If a person desires total comfort his entire life, the way of ‘work’ will determine how comfortable life can be.

How can we define the perfect life one could have? Living large, indefinably rich, wise and knowledgeable, laid-back with no worries or all-round ‘everyone-loves-me’ person?

In my opinion, there are a few colours in life that one ought to have to be truly happy in their life:

The colour of a warm family
The colour of beautiful friendship
The colour of being true in living
The colour of gratitude
The colour of authentic efforts

We are human. We are born with the instinct to be successful. We seek the most comfortable life and we desire a perfect life. However in this world, only a minor will get their full package of desired life to have. Others might gain some of it and there are those with none. Some gain it at the beginning of their life and others work their way to it; work hard or work smart.

There are times that things do not always go as the way we wanted to. There might be challenges in between and behind some dreadful moments, there might be a bliss expected to be found. Often, we encounter incidents such as arguments, mistakes and false acquisition. Just remember a few tips; it might not be effective but it might just work to make life whole lot easier.

Arguments:
When entangled in an argument, it is important to cool down before explanation. The hotter both tempers are, the harder it is to entangle the situation.

Mistakes:
Remember that as we are humans, we do make mistakes. We are not robot. The important thing is that when making a mistake; examine and learn from the mistake.

False Acquisition:
This is where someone is framing you for the thing that you might have not done or stating how wrong it is for you to think that it is right. A person told me a way to settle is to ignore. Ignore any provocation and act of displease from others. The heat will calm itself. I tried this before and pleased to say that it works. Better than to defend myself and waste saliva.

Holiday

I'm officially on holiday after today's last paper. Hello, rejuvination and goodbye to Semester 4! ^_^

EXAM

E - Evil (Mars said so.. muahaha)

X - X-cruciating

A - Atrocious

M -Mentally Challenging

-credited to my crazy mind and Marissa's brilliant brain. LOL

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Anyway, I'm in my second week of exam or should I say last week. It feels so good to be halfway done. Last week's papers are killer.

First exam, Technology. The questions were kind of out of what we had learnt the past half year. Questions like differentiate SLR and TLR, ISO100 and ISO400, Aperture 2.8 and 3.2 came out. What the?? Mostly about camera's functions. Should have concentrated on that. Though so, I'm pretty sure there's chance to score A in it. Luckily I remembered the discussion the night before the exam. =.="

Second exam, Teaching and Planning in Mathematics. Common sense paper and some factual like Gardner's Theory, Piaget's Cognitive Theory, Learning Styles and so on. Lots of notes (The notes compiled together is like 8cm thick? Thank God for the notes!) Hopefully can score higher by babbling lots in the paper. Non-stop writing for 2 and 1/2 hours for this one. XD

Third exam is the one which I would like to describe, as everyone had described after taking it as LONG PIAK (hokkien) paper. Really feels like knocking yourself against the wall after taking this paper. Oh ya, the paper is Calculus. Lots of formula, lots of twisted words to make you confuse and I did not read the optional question for the essay! That cost me ten precious marks. Sigh.. Please please at least I can pass this paper. +_+

Fourth is Integration of Arts in Education. Internal paper, so no need to say anything..

Four papers down and two more to go.

Next paper is on Monday (Curriculum and Pedagogy of Phys Ed) and the last one is on Wednesday (Principles of ELS). And I'm here blogging? Have I lost my mind? Guess it's soon...

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10 Camping Tips

Here are some camping tips that most think is not that important and might forget. My friends and I have some useful tips here:

1. Always and always pack your stuff in plastic bags so that your stuff are water-proff.
2. A friend of mine packs her clothes in plastic bags according to days. One plastic bag of clothes for a day. Useful, I might say.
3. Bring first aid kit. This is a MUST!
4. When building your tent, make sure to dig small drain around your tent for divert-off in case of heavy downpur.
5. Build a flying sheet to avoid heavy downpour and moisture.
6. Avoid using fragrant or scented personal products. Bugs are attracted to it.
7. Wear light colored long sleeve shirts and pants. Never wear black especially at night if you do not want to have bug bitting you.
8. Try to bath before sleeeping or at least keep yourself cool. Bugs are attracted to sweat.
9. Keep your tent zipped at all times to stop bugs getting in.
10. Pack up food and scraps at night — they attract unwelcome guests like possums and insects.