Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Lesson

This is just so ridiculous... even I can't believe it happened...

Realize the true meaning of the evil of the working society. Being nice will never bring you anywhere... in fact, it will only kill you. Especially if you are a newbie in this strange world.

And damn I was. Because of similar experience of the sis, I wasn't persistent enough in getting my pay for te job. And after five months now, I haven't even got the hundred and twenty bucks which might be nothing for them but definitely important for me. And only discovering the truth behind all these afer talking to the friend. Proving luckier than her, it was a huge lesson for me...

After this, the phobia arisen... not that serious though, but just the caution in getting part-time jobs. I wonder if this is the trend, especially in event companies... for I still have the will in working for events. But even if I'm not afraid, I wonder if my parents will let me.

A good experience, a big lesson.

So, never be always nice...

Monday, April 21, 2008

Torch Relay!

It was a mission to get of house during holidays.. nah not really...
The 2nd ever Torch Relay in Malaysia. And the target is to watch Rynn Lim as the torch bearer. Met up with YZ who came with the long-time-no-see Muffy and Nani at B. Times Square. Had a mad time hanging around before the torch came... the memories, the Pakistani accent flying everwhere!! Haha...

Nani, YZ, me
Nani, YZ and I

About 4 something the torch finslly came... but to our dismay, Rynn wasn't here!! Got to know later that his part was at the beginning of the road, and we innocently thought they were gonna run for 250 meters... when they actually ran less than 100 m! Ahh.. frust!!
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The torch.. and the bearer whom I don't know.. =/

But probably me... just felt like running with the Chinese students [actually just hoping Rynn's part wasn't over]... ran along with the parade. It was to our disappointment... but the good thing is... seeing Rynn in the bus!!! Rite... and you would have expected me to wave madly at him.. which I did of course! And he responded well, even gestured to us [yes us, that is my sis and I~] !!

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Rynn with his gambateh pose!!
Ahah~ and that really kept me running! Haha.. this was way better than jogging... except for the rain, which delayed the procession near KL Tower. And when nearing KLCC, witnessed the torch without the fire... [that's too bad...] It was a hell of a place at KLCC - crowds, umbrellas... the stage was unseenable. And not able to find Rynn... ahh... =( But probably it was worth well.. knowing that I can make this far! And getting to witness the relay, and of course... getiing to see Rynn~ =D

Monday, April 14, 2008

The power of Dion

One of the biggest concerts in town, yet one of the shortest.
A one-and-a-half-hour concert of quality, of course (even DYMM Agong and Tun Mahathir were there~), only that the second half of the concert was... kinda boring to us... unfamiliar songs, that is. Still, there were the her hits like {The Power of Love}, {All By Myself}, {Because of You}, etc. Unfortunately not many of our own favorites.

celine dion
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singing {I'm Your Angel} :)
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Rocking away...
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Encore song {My Heart Will Go On}
celine dion
and that's the only change of suit...

Friday, April 11, 2008

Choice

It's worth it. I hope.

After all the tension of having to complete the assignment with lack of information, after all the trouble of rushing for the interview back at South Wing right after the lab test.

And I was selected to join the camp at Sabah!!

But the fact that I was torn between making a choice of two events - my cousin's wedding, a long-waited one, or the Camp, a once-in-a-lifetime chance. The cousin is, of course, considered one of the closest. We all have been waiting to 'drink his 喜酒'!

But the P2P Camp... such a rare chance. something that I have longed for... and it's SABAH! How in any other way will I have a chance to set my foot there??! Especially now, it's fully sponsored!

I know it's not right to FFG my cousin, but it seems all wrong to let go of the chance to Sabah just like that!

Hah... and so...
I am going to Sabah!! =D

Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Relief!

Technical Communication COMPLETED!

Submitted the Final Report, ended our Presentation! A day I have so much longed for!
The semester has been very tough because of this course, and now that the assessment has been completed, I get to relax my mind for a while and concentrate on the final exam.
It hasn't been a smooth path ever since we start on the project. Even up til the very last minute, There is still the problem of miscommunication, misunderstanding and misconception happening in our group. And a tripping stone to the progress of preparation which almost failed us! [Thanks to the dear broadband streamyx...] It's true that we cannot live without Internet nowadays...

So much that I had worried for the team, the presentation turned out better than expected. Though it didn't seem as good as other groups', most of the members were able to keep the flow going when they had to speak on topics not theirs. It wasn't fair somehow, that we had to follow this system (our fate to have to present when we we called), while the later groups get to follow their own sequence in presenting. Somehow, we were always the guinea-pigs...grrr...

And the team. Find it very tough as a leader for the first time. The brain that I so much used up in editing their work and doing the other 'unimportant' work; the miscommunication and misconception; the incidents that really got on my nerves... having to bear all these, for the sake of the team. Though all these, I still appreciate them as part of the team, and as long as they have put their effort in the project, they deserve my huge THANK YOU!!

At the end of the day, Although all the unsatisfactoriness in the work, I'm so glad to get the acknowledgement from the lecturer:

"I enjoyed reading your report."

That's what's that mattered most =D

And now, to complete all the uncompleted...

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Robot

Thought I would not stand it, but the mid-night bus went running all the way for 16 hours!
Now that's a record for me! My best record (that I remember) was an hour's sleep... for the same course assignment as well. As if my research project entitled Robotics is turning myself into a ROBOT itself~ And except for the tire and some blurness in talking (or that I just can't speak cantonese~), I was still okay! =)

Didn't expect the report would turn out.. so bad. There wasn't enough time to edit the other articles... which were so much like c&p. Seems like I don't even wana look at it. I'd say, the proposal and progress report were more of satisfaction.

And after that, having one of them kinda blaming me for not informing him VERBALLY when I wanted more editing. As if I'm here to serve them. (Yeah.. why volunteer to be the leader?!!) And having another one saying he doesn't want to edit anymore coz he doesn't have time...(As if I AM very free!!) It was like only two and a half persons working on the project only... so how should I evaluate??!
Now the presentation, having to deal with DH and the members - uncertainty here, unsatisfactory there. WHAT SHOULD I DO??!

p/s: A huge Thank You to TC who offered to help! Really appreciate that... =)

Saturday, March 22, 2008

20

Gotta persuade myself into accepting that.
Hah... a rather quiet birthday this year, but better compared to the previous ^^..
The day started off quite 'terribly', when the bus and more than half the team FFGed (FFG = fong fei gei~); and rather 'boringly', attending a conference about renewable energy at UM, which was chemical engineering stuff, couldn't really concentrate, since it 'has nothing much to do with my course'.
Moreover, discovering that we were like one of three 'other Universities' attending the ceremony. And the day spent chatting away with the guys... never had been so unattentive!
Lunch unprovided, so returned to Connaught. Got stuck in traffic and rain (Rynn's back!), before heading to Wong Kok for lunch.. at 3pm.
Hah.. andnow, my first birthday with engineering gang! And a HUGE glass of milk tea!! Hahaha~

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Thanks for the treat guys!!

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

extreme

EMT mid-term exam. Unexpectedly low marks. The questions were easy. The problem was witht he answers. This is so true...

Had a lil chat with a coursemate today, when he said (based on my speech presentation) that he liked my prestige, that I was different from the other girls... was like a business woman.
OK... Thank him a lot for his compliments (if it's of any)... and yes, being different is not a bad thing...
but business woman??! Never have I thought I would give this kind of impression to people, since I have always thought that I am not one for business! Now that's a srprising one, but probably I should pay some attention on it~

Probably the thought of a none-business person has ended myself here. The fact that I still doubt whether I am the one for engineering, I do not know whether I will be working with guys... at least, for long. And when people asks whether I chose this course because I preferred to sit in an A/C room...which is definitely not the case, coz I often freeze!

Though all the way since kindergarten, I find myself still very attached to art. Though I have almost lost the touch of it nowadays, I keep poking my nose into my friends' design project. Coming up with crazy ideas for them to solve. And expecting myself to volunteer after the finals (if I'm ever too free).

And then, my crave for music never dies... it was always there.. yet unseen.

Monday, March 17, 2008

LATE-ly

The huge thing of the previous week. STPM result out.
All the while I've been one of those chased-after people for the result. This time I was the one who was asking around.
Somehow the performance of my ex-schoolmates were far better than I expected. Ah.. congrates guys! So proud of you!

And finally finishing my dear progress report, along with another assignment, persuasive speech and yet another proposal to chase. Never though the report would come out so long.. [should I regret putting in too much work?!] Now how should I expect the final report to be??!

5 days left. Before I have to label my age starting with two. Feels very very weird... it's like turning old~
hmm... so should I be enjoying away these final days of teenage? =)

Sunday, March 09, 2008

relax

That's what I really crave for right now.
To sleep without having to plan what to do in the coming week.
To eat without thinking what I have just done and not yet done.
To sit at the computer without bringing my pendrive and file with me. ;)
It's like ages since I've hung out with friends. The last time being the the time in Taiwan. The numerous shopping sprees wherever we went. The craze in the amusement park. The excitement (or disappointment) or discovering our rooms. Hah... The memories seem to fade away when I discovered I forget some of the names of those friends (sorry people). Hopefully that doesn't happen to experience of the formosa.
And hah.. moving pictures do help memories... though all others are only photos. The one and only video I have of the tour... credits to PeiFang (our counselor ^^) for uploading :)
It's funny and weird, but it's something to me... hehe...
The "3 Days 3 Nights" dance performance by group7~!

Don't spot me~!

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Unbreakable

ahh finally... the BIG day!!
Being a fan of a decade, I finally got to see my first fave artist perform live!! Backstreet Boys Unbreakable Tour... the Malaysia stop! It's a pity they aren't fivers anymore, but anyhow, I find myself still as crazy of them! Hahaa...
Quite some audience were foreigners, and I actually witnessed racial integration in the fans!! (Does this work for M'sian Studies project??!) And that, many of these people love to SMOKE! Never have I been to a concert with so many smokers (or rather, usually concert venues don't allow smoking). And because of some management problem, the early birds (including us) were frustrated over the management team for letting in the latecomers FIRST through another side gate! And one thing I don't understand is why YZ and her friends took all the trouble to squeeze to the front (yes, I believe we were much hated by many), yet reaching the venue, they preferred to stand at the back... [sweat...alot.]
Though delayed for an hour (privilege of VIP?!), the one-and-a-half-hour concert was superb, of course! The boys were as lively as before, bringing away the new songs and all-time-favorite hits with dance moves!! Seemed like how it was 10 years ago...as if they never grow old! Hehe... Brian was soooo cute, making funny gestures throughout the concert! (makes me imagine him playing with his son...^^)
Unfortunately, the photos taken was not good, and only managed to filter some clearer ones...

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At the entrance

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The stage and the fabulous view of Sunway Resort Hotel ;)

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The lightings were good :)

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"Any Other Way"

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Show the Meaning of Being Lonely... by playing poker!
(interesting scene ^^)

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My favorite Brian!!

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All I Have To Give dance!
[medley: As Long As You Love Me / All I Have To Give / I'll Never Break Your Heart]

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"Treat Me Right"

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As usual, I don't like the endings... hah~
Do hope to see a real HUGE concert of their soon!

squeezzzeee~!!

Created a record for Heng's car.
With a gang of 8 people squeezing into a MYVI!! It's even crazier than the shuttle bus.
With the ME in the front seat on Phoenix Jie Jie's lap, I feel like 10 years younger... wakakakaka~!!!
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Thursday, February 21, 2008

STRUCK

Feels bad, but I had no choice.

To recruit someone into the project team when we are already halfway through it, is only a path to more problem (the fact that I always have problems, and I’m not even an engineer… yet). And how you explained that you saw our proposal, SO you wana join the team - that's definitely a setback for considering… giving the idea that you expect the easy way out. Plus, you keep pricking on my conscience with YOUR problem, which I have explained with thousands apologies that I can help NOT. If you’ve really been here for two weeks, you SHOULD have been aware of this project teaming going around in class; and if you really DO care about it, you should have initiated to team up with some other classmates ages ago! You ‘prove’ that you’re new here by the fact that your course selection isn’t even approved yet. What if it will NOT be approved? Expect me to recruit you then take u off again then RE-REDO everything again?! If so, you might as well just drop the course… If it wasn’t for my friend who took the trouble to help me talk, I could have really screamed at YOU! (I would have BURST it out if I talked more...)Your attitude of never accepting others’ opinion and explanation, not respecting our rights... it annoys me. Now I’m even more frustrated… knowing that you’ve been eavesdropping all the while on my conversation with my friends!! And the thought of it makes me feel t hat you’ve been STALKING on me!!
Sorry for disappointing you, but it isn't within my ability.

#Realize the importance of non-common language… and the DANGER of using international language!#

And thank you to my friends who listened to my bragging, and helped me out. ;)

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

可惜

今天和几位朋友吃饭。他提起了那件事。

“你们之间好像发生了什么事。。 你是不是介意啊?”

“我无所谓呀~”

也不知自己是说真话还是假话。也许真的有些不高兴,自己也避免想太多。
也许相反的,她为了自卫,先为自己‘打底’了,坏人还是我。
所谓的‘无所谓’,也是说他想怎样就怎样。
领悟到朋友的话:在那里的人过着自己的世界。还有些道理。

不是我想要的结果,更不想让它继续恶化。
但事情已经发生了。和上一次相似。

也让彼此更了解对方吧。。。


有机会再从来吗?
很难吧~

DnG

Blow me down.

Diarhoea and gastric, that is.
Definitely one of the most terrible moments when the two struck me and seemingly tearing away my stomach... Blame it on the whoever-it-is who made the poisonous dish... as well as my love for food~
Never imagined how terrible it could get. Wasting away nights of hours which I could have spent nicely on the projects.

And this is not gonna be the last time...
Arghhh~

Friday, February 15, 2008

CNY, and...

It's the 9th day of CNY now... the workload is still there. First time (at least that's in my memory) that the festival can be spent so hectically.
And skipping class for the sake of avoiding the traffic jam and attending a dinner proved fatal enough - it's almost every lesson of that day that I have to squeeze my brain to understand. And only enlightened about part of one of the lessons by a friend 10 minutes before the test today~! Yet the test was mostly on what I did not focus on. Urghhh~

CNY was even more lost of mood compared to last year... that my uncles did not return to hometown seemed to decrease the excitement so much. The good thing was, we finally got to stay at another uncle's new villa-like bungalow! Beautiful it is, but had trouble sleeping nicely...hmm...

And the haircut. Spuured a bit of my mood, though done last minute. And a nice comment I got from her: "You look like your mom." Ahh... wow, I duno how, whether you've seen my mom before, but somehow you know that my mom is a pretty lady~! ;)

Seems like the greatest excitement, other than red packets, is tv programme. And the missions of searching (and fighting?!) for tv to use. Not a tv maniac, but somehow those programmes that I wanna watch are shown during festive seasons. sweat...

In no time the festival will be over. And in no time, my assignments wll be due... Urghhh... keeping working~

Saturday, February 02, 2008

trouble

I fell apart.

Or probably I should have... long time ago.
It’s always been inside me.
Unseen, unheard.
Yet only few people have a glimpse of it.
And that’s bcoz they are similar to me.
You've never heard of it, seen of it.
The you, the closest people in my life.

Never voicing out doesn't mean I have nothing to say.
Yet when I do voice out, you view it as trouble.

I have to be considerate.
You are not engineer. Not problem-solver.
You cannot (or don't consider to... or don't bother to...) solve my problem.

And probably I'm not a problem.

I am only trouble.

Friday, January 25, 2008

looking for trouble?

Seems like it. Optimistically, it should be labelled challenges. i accept that.. hah~

Took on a project which is similar to a final project, only that I have a partner and more time to work with. an exposure to our final year by loading ourselves with work now.

I FINALLY talked to a group member today.
And it STRUCK ME when the guy said,
"Discussion ar.. no need la, just divide the work..."
Sweat... how are we to divide work if we don't even have a single meeting in the first place??
And to find my team doing a team project without team-work... =.=lll

Wonder whether the split then was right.
But having no choice, it's not nice to split again or leave. Just my fate...

Now it's whether I should stand up and take control of the situation. For the sake of my future, I guess I have to.
I do hope I can work with them, and they will work with me.

Friday, January 18, 2008

...

It s****.

The worst that I have expected of the course, I never had expected my group to turn out like this. Probably it's my own problem. But I can't imagine how I am to work with people who don't seem to be there.

I would really prefer to pick my group(as anybody would), to have a choice over something at least. But my giving in to them caused myself having to clear up the trouble left behind. So now, we seem to have 3 out of 5 people in the team, adn I can't seem to find a 5th member. With the fact that the 4th member may never appear as well. The deadline is causing a lot of trouble, even from the beginning.

Somehow getting frustrated over this. Wish I could delete the 4th member off the list, then he will hate me. Wish I could just jump over to another group, then everyone will hate me.

Cool game...

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

a day

A guest lecturer from University of Wolverhampton was here in Technical Communication class today. If all lecturers speak Mr Phil Harris's accent, we would drown. Right... his lecture was rather interesting and fun of course. And a good exposure to his university as well, hah~
Starting on the hobby kit today, though still lack of some components. A 'wheel of fortune'. Got this out, with help from the committee members~ Though it was not successful, coz it was a wheel of fortune WITH NO SWITCH.
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But one of the ICs (hopefully not both) burnt~ damn..

Met my darling in the LRT today, only after 15 mins of the route. She's just started her first job after graduation. Hard to imagine that she's already set foot in the society while I'm still a miniature in the engineering world.
Anyway, glad to see her again~