Now, I Feel The Stress.

Being the first day of Sem 2, i was a little more excited going to Uni today. Woke up at 9am and i kept on looking at the clock to check if it's time to leave already. 


The very first and only lecture for the day was Business Statistics with Mr. Derek, since all tutorials in this week are cancelled. Honestly i was expecting a middle-aged man with a slightly bulging belly. 


BUT no, standing on the platform in Audi 5 was a i'm not sure how old (bad at guessing age) man with shoulder length hair and no bulging belly at all. That alone already gave me an impression almost completely different from what i imagined earlier. 


THEN, when he started speaking, his voice was different from what i expected too! A tone less deep than i thought. Well, that was after 10 minutes when everyone settled down quietly. 


Today's lecture was pretty much about non-academic related stuff, more towards gaining an understanding between us students and him as a lecturer. And what breaking the pride in us, assumptions we have and interpretations we made. 


I have to say his one an a half hour lecture did leave an impact on me at least. It was an immediate transformation from a tinge of excitement to a lot of stress after listening to what's being said. Well, "Everyone's going to start from level zero," he claimed. 


Note to self: You got to work harder i don't care.  

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I better reminisce about some happy moments in the past 3 weeks before my mind gets conquered by nothing else but stress. 


In these 3 weeks, i think i've learned to be a happier person in a way. How to say, i am more clear of what i really want to do and get back in return. Something like that. 


* I remember something my younger sister said when the internet was down in the first week during the holidays, "You're finally getting a life other than going online." At that moment i was quite angry lo, are you saying i have no life besides going online? 


But that one week of surviving without the internet made me realise what she really meant. 


At the start i suffered a bit, then i began to do things i normally wouldn't, know more about what's going on with everyone in the family (including Ador). And so nowadays i'm trying to cut down on the time i spend online (it's kinda hard though).


Other than the internet issue, i managed to spend quality time with my family plus some secondary and college friends. Random outings tend to turn out as chatting sessions i cherish much. 



* Went for dinner with sister's friends one night since parents were not home, they were very nice helping me to delay time when i needed to stay longer to go straight to Qx's condo the same night. 




* Discovered that Krispy Kreme is generous in giving complementary doughnuts, provided you sit in their shop long enough. We saw everyone came and left while we stayed. 




* Another weekend, we had lunch with dad's friend. He said lots of meaningful stuff about life which made me feel all different that day. 



* Savoured the food at Ming Tian for the first time with Qx, was her bf for the day since it's her Birthday. After dinner, spontaneously decided to deliver apom to Tw and Ql's doorsteps. Something made both of us laughed so hard until we almost suffocated, not enough oxygen in the car. It was really one good long laugh, i even smiled when i thought of it before i slept that night.  


* A mini belated Birthday celebration for Qx at Ming Tian once again. Fascinated by Ali's braided hair from Phuket!

* Three consecutive Fridays of teaching the underprivileged kids at the Taman Megah Handicapped Center made me more appreciative of everything. Thanks Qx for bringing me there. According to the coordinator, the children are either abandoned, neglected or abused. 


That's why they're living together as a newly formed big family. Due to that, they've not been receiving proper education until beginning of this year. So it's a tough challenge for them to catch up with studies. 


Some of their school teachers actually told them to copy the answers from the answer sheet. Is that a sign of giving up on them? Some of the children are really cute and good. 


Last Friday i guided a Standard 2 girl through her BM homework, it was exercises on Unit 2 of the textbook - Keluarga Saya. She was asked to write a short passage on her father and draw a Mother's Day card. 


I was a little taken aback when i saw how she wrote the passage. Her nama bapa saya... was same as the one in the textbook's cartoon family. Then there was this line, saya tinggal di PPKKCTM. I wonder how she feels deep down inside. 


Whatever, wherever, whenever, whoever or however it is, i'm going to live to be happy.

:) One of the children gave me this.  

It's Monday already!

Time flies, as always. It's the beginning of a whole new Semester!

I was sucked into a rather emotional group chat on msn, sorry to the supposedly-already-published-post on my holidays. You'll be out later in the day...

Hopefully we'll be able to change our groupings tomorrow, it really upset me when i first saw the groupings they arranged. Yanz and i in a different group as HH and SA again thanks to our surnames from Cheng to Kam to Ng to Wong.

Tomorrow will be a better day :)

I-City, Shah Alam

Another late post on a place we went on the 27th of Feb, Saturday. This time daddy suggested to go and have a look at this place called I-City located in Shah Alam. It's actually a retail and commercial hub with advanced information-communication infrastructure (copied this line from The Star online). 

I must say the place was more wow than i thought it was, really really! especially when the sky got darker, the sight was superbly amazing to the extent that i felt like staying there for the night. I actually said that in front of my parents and sister but they gave me that "Are you sure?" look haha. 

I don't like this cause it's something i cannot describe explicitly with words and you got to be there to feel how beautiful it really is. Too bad my younger sister and brother couldn't join us, or it would be even nicer!

this is the gigantic Christmas tree we saw upon reaching, not the wow part yet.

And they had one of these areas occupied with some sort of winter decorations, with air-cond to add on to the effect too. Not too cold though. 

So they call it Frostie's Wonderland, reminds me of Alice in Wonderland now. 

Little lighted penguins, practically every object there were bring lighted beautifully. It made me feel magical with so many colourful lights around. 

            

This was outside of the snowy place just now, very beautiful too! It can't be captured in pictures but the lights were actually moving constantly, as if it was snow flakes falling down that kinda thing. Nice effect i like. 

                                      

One of the snowmen which belonged on top, i'm lazy to drag it back sorry.

                                               

The stage. They were having a 'Chap Goh Meh' celebration there, a few of the ministers (i forgot who) were present. Sadly the lions didn't dance, i was hoping so badly for a lion dance performance but there wasn't any *disappointed*. 

Snowman again. (:

Ohyea, same gigantic Christmas tree but it definitely looked nicer this moment, more outstanding in darkness.

All kinds of LED trees and some animals hidden within those trees, there're plenty of smaller Christmas trees on the other side.

                                    

Artificial tree with white leaves.

Many many uncountable trees with red, green, orange, purple and blue leaves!

                                         

         Okay, this is a better picture of the COLOURFUL TREES! Isn't it pretty? It's seriously ten times prettier to be there when you're totally surrounded by them feeling like a shorty. A heaven for those who are keen on photography, could see a lot of them holding their very chunted looking DSLR's.

Daddy and Mommy looking sweet (: but they weren't as fascinated as i was.

                                          

                            LOOK at the array of LED trees, super impressive! The urge to stay there is rushing up in me again. I don't know if it's lousy photo-taking skills or what, but pictures somehow don't turn out to be as nice. Gosh, it's so beautifuuuul! 

A good place to release stress wei, it makes you feel so aaaah... If only it was nearby. 

Then at last, fireworks to end the night.

                                

That was in February and it's now towards the end of March already. The end of  my 3 weeks long Semester break. Why so fast? :(


I shall try to squeeze everything i've done in the holidays into one summarised post tomorrow. :D

Playing with the HTML

Have been sleeping quite late these 2 days thanks to a website i found. :( The thought of editing my blog has always been there, especially after looking at how some people's blog can look so distinctive. 


But honestly, i know nothing about it and hence can do nothing with it. Then yesterday night when i felt like making some changes to my boring layout, i found THIS by chance! 


Which is why there are so many little ribbons & hearts all over the page now. Spent so much time just to insert them at the right positions. Now i only hope i didn't make it look worse...


No more sleeping late please.

Sorry, I Am Still Here.

Again, i've failed to keep my blog updated. The procrastinating side of me explains why and that's certainly one thing i want to get rid of as soon as right now! Starting to get fed up with myself not doing something when i know i have to.

After a one-month hiatus, i shall now write about how life has been treating me before they completely disappear form my memories. Apparently, that's one of the reasons why i created this blog - to write everything here so there will be this one day i can read back on what, where, why, when, who and how i was at a blabla point of time. (unfortunately, it's not working this way)

I know it's already the third week of March, but well i had a pretty interesting CNY (14 - 28 Feb) this year. 

Fishies daddy made and he's proud of that :)

Since always, we take turns to visit my parents' hometown because dad's at Johor while mom's at Perak, it's quite a hassle to travel both places when we only get limited holidays. 

This year we were supposed to be back at Johor but instead, went to Perak because they were going to have some new year gathering kinda party, which in the end DID NOT happen due to some issues with the planning. The little bit of extra excitement in me got taken away just like that when i heard it was cancelled. 

I personally enjoy any sort of gatherings or parties where i get to see many people having fun altogether. 

The good thing about going to Perak is that we get to see Grandpa & Grandma, they're getting old and they don't like to come to PJ, so it's usually only during holidays when we balik kampung we get to see them. 

Some gifts for the relatives.

Talking about grandparents, they always just have to be so so nice to us until i sometimes don't know how to make them feel as good as how they make me feel. Every time before we leave for home, we will each give grandpa&ma a hug then wave goodbye (and i will feel like crying, stupid tear glands).  

Anyways, my CNY at Perak only revolves around the tv, food, babies, aunties chit-chatting, ang paus and nothing much. Pretty boring i have to say, but i think i've learned to like it the way it is. 

Oh, another fact about the kampung people, they really don't care much about the police or whatsoever. There were SO MUCH fireworks everywhere, the popping sounds in the air wouldn't stop and i could easily see all kinds of fireworks from near to far! 

The sky was very beautiful that night :)

Grandma's cooking.

Stayed there for 4D3N before coming home. 

As suggested by Huei-Wen, we had our first house-hopping experience after knowing each other for so many years. Spent a great time together from around 11am to 6pm at 9 houses in total! And what '9' or 'gau' in cantonese to symbolize that our friendship will last forever 'cheong cheong gau gau'~ haha!

At Hui Ling's place

and at Tse Wei's soothing house

Some other pictures are not with me, some houses we didn't have time to take pictures anymore. Thanks to Chee Hung and Hui Ling who drove us around, it was fun but quite tiring at the same time. 

Then finally on the last day of CNY, we had steamboat at home. 

CNY's a good time because everyone tends to be nicer to everyone. This year, dad's ang pau came with four mandarin words "再接再厉". He actually asked me how to write it, i wasn't too sure so we checked the dictionary together for that four words haha! I really cherish the kind of warm family relationship we have. ♥

This is getting too long, THE END! 

*must continue to update*