† open your eyes and see. †

Wise words of an old man from a novel - Thanks for the memories.

2010-03-30T22:09:00.000-07:00

'Well, even a garden grows stranglers, love.
It grows them naturally, all by itself.
They creep up and choke the plants that are growing from the very same soil as they are.
We own have our demons, our self-destruct button.
Even in gardens. Pretty as they may be.
If you don't potter, you don't notice them.'

'Oh. Well, is it hurting anyone?
Because if it's not and you've been given it,
I'd soon stop callin' it a "thing" but start referring to it as a "gift"...'

'In my day, something just was. None of this analysis a hundred times over. None of these college courses with people graduating with degrees in Whys and Hows and Becauses. Sometimes, love, you just have to forget all of those words and enroll in a little lesson called "Thank You"...'

Joyce's dad from Thanks for the memories by Cecilia Ahern

FLY

2010-02-21T05:38:00.000-08:00

'Study hard now, play hard later.' Gwendeline Lee Wei.

That's my quote since last year, but did I manage to fulfill it?
Opps. Depends ;p

But... We had to.

We're the...

expectations

dreamers

chasers

hope

glory

future.

Let's do our best, not to let them down.

That's our reponsible.

Our mission.

Our achievement.

Currently, the problem we face is just a small peak of the iceberg.

We have to overcome it

as it will be more and more challenging tasks await before us.

Remember, this is just a small peak of it.

Jump over it before it rose up.

Break it before you bang it.

Do whatever you could, as long you get the results.

(please don't cheat in exams -.-)

Dreamers, let's check our engines.

Fill the petrol.

Prepare well,

before we could fly up the sky

to our bright future.

DAMN the RapidKL, KTM, taxis and horror movies!

2010-01-29T07:34:00.000-08:00

29th Jan.

Today should be a happy day, with no morning classes, only moral studies at noon. LOL! Unfortunately I woke up early at 8am, like automatic, even I only slept at 1am DUH. But as planned, we only going out for breakfast on 10am! GEEES done everything include brushing teeth, stretch etc, it's only 9am! Can't stand the boredom so I started munching LoveLetters wafer sticks ha-has! I'm addicted to this snack already :x Tried to study but the eating made me too busy to run my brain ha-has! xD

Finally! Off we (me, Mag and Des) went to eat breakfast~ They decided to eat McD breakfast, I only used my eyes to "eat" with them ha-has! Then, Loyd and I ate at Mama's Kitchen instead. ( I miss Chinese food!!) GEEES the waiting in the morning really dozing me off. I even slept before class started. Human Sexuality. LOL she kept emphasize girls are always the loser ZZ.

After class, me, Mag and John decided to munch some food at Manulife while waiting Des. Due to curiosity, we went in FitnessFirst to ask about the promotions. We didn't realize outside was raining so hard, we're stuck! Oh no! Kept watching our school shuttle bus passed by again and again, we just couldn't make it to the bus stop. Then, we decided to call for a cab, but none of them willing to fetch on a rainy day! Business also don't want? DESPO ALREADY! We ran through the rain and waited for a cab to pass by the stop. Finally, we hunted 1 down, opps, it's the luxurious 1. (that means we have to pay double the price of ordinary 1s! OMG) RM7 just to drive to our residence. =.=

It's 6! I'm so looking forward to tonight's dinner as Loyd promised us to bring us eat nice Chinese food! <3 SO STRESS when we saw tons of people standing by the road waiting for the bus to come. After some minutes, 2 buses came. We turned into sardines on bus, my bum keep bang on Loyd's =.= She bangs, she bangs! WTF there're mosquito on bus and they're biting me! I can't stand the itch but I can't do anything with a hand holding my bag another holding Sean. AHHH 10 mosquito bites during the ride!!

AHHH HEAVEN! We ate nice Chinese food! Really feel like home, we wanna cry ha-has! It costs RM142 but we were satisfied as the 4-person-portioned-mee looked like Mt.Kinabalu to us hahahas! Fortunately 7 of us managed to finish it xD We ate yam ring, pork, vege, spinach soup, toufu and mee :D

After dinner, me, Mag and Des followed our plan to go to Ryan's house near Taylor's, Subang. We took a cab with meter-counting, it's just a near distance but end up... RM5! OMG! BUG BUG BUG! They sure modified something! GRRR. From Bangsar LRT, we went on to KL Sentral and bought KTM tickets. We waited for 20mins, then they said another 20mins delay. Okay. Finally it came! I wonder why 9pm plus there's still millions of people waiting for KTM. Ha-has! We need not move our legs, we're pushed into it! OMG I felt like my organs were going to spill out! 1st time I felt like a squashed sardine =.=

Sweats and pushes, we finally arrived. We're supposed to wait for the cab Ryan called, but we thought the cab which was horning to us was it. We went on the cab but...RM6! A damn short distance for RM6?! We rather take the risk of being rob than take this cab, anyways, ride on this cab was another way of robbing our money. And wooo I met Alice :D

What a day! We really had enough today, DAMN RapidKL, DAMN the mosquito, DAMN the taxis, DAMN KTM, and finally DAMN they watch horror movies don't let me sleep T.T Good night!

We learnt a lesson...

2010-01-24T22:57:00.000-08:00

23th Jan.

After replacement class for LLS101, I received a message from Sean. He wanted me to accompany him to switch size of his Topman shirt at 1u. Gees damn far! I was suffering from period pain so I filled my stomach with warm rice with lemon chicken and herbs. For real... The food downstairs my hostel really sucks! Just that they got big portions =.=

1.30pm me, Sean, Desmond and 谢国宾 went on the bumpy journey to 1u. Finally! We arrived 1u, but Sean had to rush to MidValley find his father like 10 minutes later. LOL! 3 of us decided to stay at 1u and shop! Both of the guys be my bodyguard plus assistant, they carried my plastic bag when I was busy "hunting" for clothes ha-has! I bought a Promod dress only for RM36.90! shocking? of course, after 80% discount, lucky :D

Des waited me till frustrated already, luckily Baskin Robbins seduced him to buy it and made him feel better ha-has! Other than that, 国宾's brilliant nose sensed the smell of Roti Boy, he introduced that to us and indeed, we enjoyed it! Nice :D Then, we tried some specs at the specs shop since they said my specs were really... unsuitable for me =.=

Really feel so good, finally got the shopping spirit back but... 4.30pm! We had to rush back to church! We took RapidKL U82 back, I even fell asleep on the way ha-has! We almost there so we gave our seats then stood up, ready to beep the ring. Weird? We past by KPD block where after this will be going straight to Tropicana, I asked again and again should I ring it, then Des told me maybe they were going to turn back after that. So we waited for THE TURN to come. Unfortunately, no. We're heading to KL Sentral instead!

GEEES! We paid RM2 more to come back! Waited T634 for such a long time also, we definitely late for church, and not going already :'( Everyone started to blame each other and we ended up, laughing ha-has! Felt so guilty as I told Des don't feel guilty for not going to church, then my phone went out suddenly, I think it's a tempo-punishment for me T.T I was so lost and freaked out when I can't find anyone, I knocked on Des and also Lester's room, no one answered. When my tears were ready to come out, Lester stick his head out from his door next to the door I was knocking. LOL! Thankfully!

Unhealthy! We ate Keropoks for dinner while we watched Sherlock Holmes through laptop. Drank Sunkist Orange & Lemon, but ewww, what a wierd taste D: We hardly hear the British accent, plus there's no subtitle! Eeek we're so independent ;p Finally, the "L-O-L" day ended when the others came back from church. AHHH what a day, we could conclude that as our one day trip on RapidKL ha-has!

p/s:
A great day gonna begin soon - it's baby's 19th birthday! 24/1 Happy birthday B♥ ! :)

How to release stress? >o<

2010-01-19T07:50:00.000-08:00

ROAR!

I'm so stress in the new life I'm tending to suit in these days, especially after lose in grabbing the best slot of tutorials! Phew~ what a war just now, although I didn't get the one I want but... I'll have to work harder tomorrow for another war tomorrow! ROAR! gonna camp in front of my laptop ha-has :p

Anyways, I ate McD© Oreo® McFlurry to relief my stress just now ha-has! Other than wasting money on food and gain weight, I decided to search online
"HOW TO RELEASE STRESS".

The most simple method to lower your adrenaline level:
Breathe deeply, loosen tensed muscles,
and say to yourself, “Relax.”

There are even few ways to release stress:

Exercise
Yoga (if you got the $ lols)
Stretch
Massage
Laugh Out Loud (LOL!)
Take a break (have a KitKat®! :p)

To be more specific, how to release UNWANTED stress?
I bet many of you, including me, always overburdened ourselves by whatever reasons that is.

Here, I found more 'bout this...

Ask for help
Avoid over-scheduling (shit! I'm this one :x)
Avoid perfectionism (this too ha-has!)
Be Resilient
Break down your problems
Exercise
Honour your body
Maintain proper sleep (er It's 00.21am now xD)
Monitor your thinking
Nutrition (opps did I just ate junk foods after 8pm? :p)
Relax

At the end of my post, I get a conclusion, that is...
I made too much mistakes of being away from relief stress but more to it instead! LOL!
Sobs I'll work on it, no, I must work on it!
Hope you'll get the info you needed, for more of the elaborations and info please refer the list below.
I have to get back some sleep! ;D Enjoy!

Thanks to the references! *claps*

http://www.youmeworks.com/rxtorelax.html
http://ezinearticles.com/?6-Ways-to-Release-Stress&id=42790
http://stason.org/articles/wellbeing/health/How-to-Release-Unwanted-Stress.html

Have a good laugh my friends :D

2010-01-18T02:50:00.000-08:00

Why Chinese shouldn't have Christian names:

Anne Chang => Dirty (Mandarin)
Anne Chin => Keep Quiet (Mandarin)
Faye Chen => Dusty (Mandarin)
Carl Cheng => Buttock (Hokkien)
Monica Cheng => Touching your buttocks (Hokkien)
Lucy Leow => You are dead (Hokkien)
Jane Tan => Frying eggs (Mandarin)
Suzie Leow => Lose till death (Hokkien)
Henry Mah => Hate your mum (Mandarin)
Corrine Tai => Poor fellow (Hokkien)
Paul Chan => Bankrupt (Mandarin)
Nelson Tan => Bird laying eggs (Mandarin)
Leslie Tong => Rubbish Bin (Mandarin)
Carmen Teng => Leg hair long (Hokkien)
Connie Mah => Call your mother (Cantonese)
Danny See => Squeeze you to death (Hokkien)
Rosie Teng => Screws and nails (Hokkien)
Pete Tsai => Nose droppings (Hokkien)
Macy Koh => Never die before (Cantonese)

BE CAREFUL AND BE AWARE! 吉隆坡好乱!!

2010-01-12T00:49:00.000-08:00

吉隆坡好乱!!
To those who are studying at KL and to who are coming, please be aware of cheaters, handbag grabbers, so and so forth crime!

10th Jan (Sun)

I went out with my KL friends to Times Square, after watching a "WT.." movie - Carriers, we walked out to Sungai Wang. There's some group of people wearing the same white uniform, claiming themselves as xx Art Institute students. They called us to write down our names and sign, there will be souvenirs. I didn't think so much as I thought they're only doing survey or something, so I signed it. Then they asked us, "How do you support us? You just have to buy this handmade souvenirs we made ourselves, the cheapest is RM20." I was like... that thing, I could buy it outside for only RM5!

She also very impolite, she poke poke poke and poked me as I'm trying to ignore her. She also tried to be close to you like asking 'bout your age (WA you don't look like 18 you look even younger!), where are u from, is that you bf (since both of you skin so fair I thought you 2 were couples!)? I told her, why do you want to do like this SO CHEAP for your institute? Please. Got another one of them told my friend, "Heys both of us also Chinese, help me out nah if not I don't have anything to eat later." WTF? We are Chinese so why would you cheat your own race's $? MAO BIEN! I HAD ALREADY SIGN THE THING! Fine, RM20 act as a lesson for me. There's some more people even worst, been surrounded and told to buy those so called "souvenirs". GEEES!

Please be careful around S.Wang.

11th Jan (Mon)

We're going to eat at KFC, we asked the cashier is there any drinks included with the Family Feast meal? She said no, okay fine. They're giving free chili sauce along with the package, but we don't need that! So, I asked if we could change that into drinks. She replied so rudely, "A package it's a package, we don't switch things like that. BLAH BLAH" Then, we asked how is it looked like for L size drinks. She showed us the cups and said unwillingly, "This is the RMx.xx one, this is the RMx.xx one." We haven't reply anything then she walked off GRRR. Okay, last time. I asked, "Is there any of the bottle drinks? I want to BUY it." She replied me so rude, "Like I told you, NO!" ROAR!!! We talked to her so nicely, she gave us #^$%*^#@ service?! Striaght away we took suggestion paper and complain 'bout her. For your info, Her name is Azura from KFC Damansara Heights branch.

*anyways please translate the conversation into Malay*

HAIZ!!!
Really hate here, only to those, others were fine.
So... Take care y'all, and hope God bless us all! Peace! :D

p/s: Happy 20th birthday to Lester! :)

KL. HELP uni college.

2010-01-07T18:43:00.000-08:00

31st Dec 2009, I arrived KLIA.

Alone with my luggage waiting for my aunt to fetch me to stay with her temporary at USJ, Subang. Sighed, I had to learn to be independent from now on. No parents protecting, I had to speak for myself, be responsible for my acts and words. No more supplying financial needs on the spot, I had to spend my money smart and wise, no more shopping craze at the mall :'( Anyways, my family would always take care of my needs no matter how, I should be grateful :)

At night, following my aunt and her Aus. relatives, we went to 1U (there's a countdown event). That night I ate dinner with Leslie at Friday's, the food was nice but new year eve price - expensive! Hahas! Didn't get to countdown with him, haiz, but with the family we stopped by the road and saw 5 places put fireworks at the same time :D

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I had to buy things before moving to my hostel, these days I bought bedding sets, pillows, foods etc., with my own money! Although they're from my parents too but I'm so heartbroken to use them ;p

6th Jan 2010, I'm late for my orientation! But it's no big deal as we only walk around the campus at first. The campus is at Damansara, I still have no idea where am I actually at hahas! xD Our campus is so complicated, it's located below the car park of banks, restaurants above. It's like a underground tunnel! Hahas! We had to take free shuttle bus to another site of our school, mostly we had to walk here and there, it's so hot! Make me sweat -.- But i'm happy to met new friends so soon hahas!

In the afternoon, finally I get to move to my hostel. I met my room mate, Seema, she's Indian-Pakistan and she's a Muslim. Not like I imagined, luckily hahas :p She's friendly, even it's the 1st day i met her, she willing to borrow me her extra phone to replace my broken one T.T Touched. On the other hand, fortunately I also had a few Sabah friends here: Desmond, Mag, John Wong, Lester, and Sean in the near future hahas! Damansara is known as a place for the rich to stay, so our foods here are expensive! Rm6 is the lowest! As it's self-catering, we gonna bankrupt if keep going out to eat with this rate! Faint!

7th Jan 2010, orientation day II. I met a few more friends :D We had games and it's fun! The zzz thing was I had to attend English for Psychology Class as my English level was not good enough T.T Haiz, i had to work hard on my English then, as Psychology need good English level! Back to the games we had, there's a game 'bout Clinical Psychology. It's like our hp T9, e.g: 1 AB 2 CDE 3 FGH..., we were given random numbers and we had to find out what hidden word in it. I found it out so fast xD Easy one.

The thing I don't like is that the wi-fi service is so weak! Hate that! It's so unfair that our libraries line went so fast! ><>

WEEKENDS! Outing go go~