this is a brief one. been back for some time already. glad that i would be going back home very soon, on the 22nd! cant wait for new year to come and everything. but really dreaded on the part that i have to stay here for approx. 5 months before going home again sometime in early june or late may.
finally feeling like a university student. i had been out shopping far more than what i had been doing the whole semester in my first semester. but it also implies that i am spending much much more money than i should have been. but my purchases are still mainly on food and entertainment, so maybe i should seriously consider cutting all that expenses.
plus plus plus, one of our lecturers this semester, namely Mr. HBB, he's like a real adore, he made classes enjoyable anf far more lineant in many aspects of our grades. that kind of made it easy for us to score and so its like, oooh, so this is uni life.
till next time, ciao~
love ya all~
for more picture, check out my photo album~
MERRY CHRISTMAS~
It had been a great year, 2008, a year of great change. Yes, changes. Mutual changes. I am not the same person anymore. Physically, mentally, spiritually, intellectually, verbally, my state of mind, its almost too much to bear. I am not sure if I liked everything happening to me at the same time, but I won’t complain, at least for now, who wants to stay the same, mundane and repetitive and tedious lifestyle, huh?
I am starting to see more perspective. Starting to think in other people’s shoes, not before dragging and hauling heavy emotional burdens and finally coming through the fog, I am. And it’s not easy at all.
Haha, another thing is that, I learn to laugh things off. Not having to win all the time is my new motto. Kind of. I guess I was way too hard on myself, always wanting to be this and this, but, guess what I don’t have to be all that to be good enough, I am special in my very own way, and I am well aware bout that.
One more thing, people especially are never what they seem to be, myself, people I liked, and people I don’t fancy half as much. So much wisdom in all the sayings before us, feel psyched out all of a sudden. Some people actually understood. Its… complicated.
Time for resolutions I guess, hope next year is going to be a blast.
- Please behave by smiling whenever I am not comfortable meeting new people or trying things I don’t like. It’s common courtesy.
- Please don’t forget to read the bible and pray and mean it every day, please finish reading the bible this year! No more hauling… it’s now or never.
- Please be more disciplined. At least don’t fall into temptations half that easily. Pray when you are weak.
- Please play nice. Friends are more important than what I already understand.
- Love thy family. I will love my family members, lovable or not. Be lovable for them too.
- No more slacking off on homework its sickening having to do a huge pile by the end of the week. For crying out loud!
- Continue to bake. Nothing other than myself is stopping me!
- Cultivate patience. Things will turn around. Not that being impatient will make things turn around.
- Take the time to be alone and think about things well and deep. Instead of following the tide, be myself, despite how strong the wave can be.
- be grateful and count my blessings! I am so unworthy of all these and yet He made everything possible for me~
christmas cama and is far gone. oops, how did tat happen??? guess i m just slightly too caught up in my new found hobbies, yup, something i had been ranting on about since the very first days of my holidays, and yup, today's my last day of the sweet holiday. my hobbies? ehem.. baking. haha, yup, baking...
i have succesfully baked
- pancakes ( pancakes with banana, pancakes with peanut butter, pancakes with nothing, pancakes with special syrup)
- raisin cake
- banana cake
- bread
i made plenty of juices, but the only sophicasted dessert i managed to pull off was this: timbale, from cocoa powder, eggs, and sugar
baking is cool! try it!
1. tulis 10 perkara pasal orang yang tag anda
2. tulis 10 perkara pasal anda
3. cari 10 orang untuk anda tag
1. 10 perkara pasal orang yang tag saya...
hmmm, apa yang dapat saya perihalkan tentang aurelia???
- dia... bangun lambat? kadang-kala
- tidak merasakan menonton anime kat cinema membazir duit...
- suka beanie
- ambil degree multimedia?
- tinggi, kurus, pakai cermin mate
- kristian
- suka tangkap gambar
- suka tengok wayang
- suka soft toys? (do u like soft toys by de way?)
- ex-classmate saya!!!
- saya lebih suka berambut panjang
- tidak suka bersukan
- suka makan makanan yang kurang berkhasiat
- suka tengok wayang, tv, apa-apa je yang tak payah guna otak
- suka berfikir dan menulis perkara yang tak penting
- ingin belajar guitar sejak tak tau bila tapi tak mula mula lagi
- suka baking
- seorang pendiam?
- mengumpul setem... once upon a time
- mudah merajuk?
- jayne
- chia yin
- sze inn
- ah lin
- stella
- song
- siaw sian
- grace
- lucas
- wei ling
Me, watch, Twilight, today. With chia n wei thing.
Me, very, Disappointed with the movie.
I feel so sad now... I guess its because i put my expectations up too high, its devastating. The plot's okay, but the whole story is moving in this unbelievable fast pace, it left us breathless, in good and bad ways. i like them. edward and bella and all the other characters. very convincing and wrench breaking. but something's missing, i just dono wat.
sigh, but i really like it. i hate the movie. but i like them. and the big story behind it. the whole idea. and everything. except for the movie. still in my disappointed mood. but, i will still be looking forward to watch the sequels, and re-watch the movie, yeah, i hate it tat much and love it so much. its weird i know.
today's my dad's birthday!!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDY!!!
P/S: guess who i met today. yit phin aka lucas! haha, and we were in the same theater hall watching twilight together! haha, talk about coincidence~
And that's exactly how i feel at the moment.
why in the world did i want to blog in the first place? i have no idea. its not because i feel that i m interesting and my life isn't all tat interesting anyway. why did people blog? what would one get out of blogging? hmmm...
well, i guess it doesn't harm writing bout boring stuffs right?
keep blogging? yeah. sigh.
Puff! My my, its getting dusty...
Days go by and by and by, and i m getting fatter and lazier and heavier and messier (my room anyway) and more bored and more unhealthy... what's the saying that a good rest in the holidays will make one healthier and better about? its the exact opposite! i am not enjoying myself, definitely not. i am wasting my time...
the happiest time, next to coming home to all things familiar and spending time with my parents and siblings and watching tv non-stop, is meeting up with my friends~ so good to see you guys~
Movie Reviews
Sincerely, Sharon Labels: English Culture, Entertainment, inment, Japanese Culture, Movies
Nana
I have heard about this movie a long time ago but never really understand what it was about, I was browsing through mysoju the other day and stumbled into this movie.
It was not what I expected (I expected another typical Japanese love story), it was very down to earth and realistic and the themes were clear. It was about life. Everyone will have something to ponder on after watching this, the movie speaks for itself.
I especially liked the part where the main character Nana Osaki came about in Hachi’s life, revealing that being ignorant and weak is a crime. Some may think that its natural for them to be protected and always depend on others to help due to their weak characteristics, but it is not that way. It is almost pathetic. Everyone needs to stand up on their on feet no matter how weak they may feel they are.
4 stars.
Nana 2
I did not stop after Nana, and went full throttle for Nana 2. It was not a disappointment to me, as it was to many. I was unhappy about the fact that they changed the actor featuring Hachi and Ren in the first movie but all in all it was great, for me.
This sequel brings stronger messages and portrays the weaknesses of human more directly. The choices are in our hands, if we are weak and go on for something that we did not really want it usually brings forlorn and hurt to more people and in the context of this movie, its romance.
In the end of the story, more than love is distorted. Friendship, loyalty, pride and faith are put into test, and we have every right to feel upset in the end.
But sad stories about the weaknesses of mankind have its own way of getting into the deepest part of your heart and soul. Instead of asking why they were so stupid, ask us. Movies are replicas of the real living. Fortunately, it’s never the end after we did something like that. Turn back. No matter how hard it may be. The world is more accepting than you think.
4 stars.
Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian: The Return To Narnia
I have trouble understanding the story. I haven’t really been through the books. I have very vague recollection of the story from childhood reading and it was not very helpful.
I wanted to understand more, so I browsed through the web for more information. I was more confused after reading the history about how the books came about and what people thought about the books and really, there are so many aspects they are arguing about. Seriously, these stories are meant for children! I will get my hands on a copy soon and I will update my opinions…
4 and a half stars.
Bridge to Terabithia
This movie, I watched especially due to the fact that people mentioned that it has something to do with Narnia. And wow, the only connection was like they mentioned the name of the book in the movie like, once?
Okay, this movie earns its thumb ups by being really simple and boring even and yet, they managed to get the message across. Its bold, its adventurous, its wild. When I mention wild, I meant, let your imaginations run wild! Not particularly practical since the world we are living in really ain’t what we can use our imagination to cover up, the problems still lies there.
But, if we aren’t like the children in the stories, being naïve and put in all their faith by simply believing when situations are meek, we won make it up there.
3 and a half stars.
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Haha, okay, this one is a light one. I find myself more concentrating on the illustrations and the buildings and colours than the plot.
It’s something light and cheerful and fantasy-like and enchanted and English and fairy-tale-like and mysterious and … u get the idea.
27 Dresses, Over Her Dead Body, What Happened in
Hmmm, by the way I put the three names together, it means I really don feel like elaborating about them. I am so quitting romantic flicks. Even though the guys are really good looking and the girls really sweet and everything.
joined Chia's youth last last night. its a very, how should i put it? compact? a very compact and close-knit fellowship, the people there are great, very easy going and talkative (talkative is important, if everyone is quiet like me, things will get really boring)
and the bonus is, i get to meet chia's infamous ah ko~ haha, she's been going on and on about what a great bro angkat she has but i never really can imagine until i gwt to know how he looks like n how he's like in person. he's a fatherly knd of leader. very very nice!
another bonus, haha, i get to meet the "principal of free city" (chia, do u think anyone will figure out this one?)
days still go by innocently, worthlessly, wastefully, uselessly, unppreciated, unavoidably, unnecessarily, carelessly, senselessly, mindlessly, drowsily, easily (sometimes not so easy) but today i finally did something out of the norm, (meaning besides sleep n eat n tv n bath n sunday service) i decided to looked up and learn about things that i dont know. and today i looked up for obama.
n wat i learned today?
his name is barrack (used to be called barry for short but told not to)
his wife's name is michelle
he has two daughters and one of them is called sasha (short for natasha)
n he's borned in honolulu
his dad was a kenyan
n i read nothing bout his political schemes and deeds, cz i m not into politics, but maybe i ll read tomoro, since i m reading for information n my main objective is to learn things i dont know.
n i searched for the word sharon. 72,600,000 search results and more than 5,000 images came out. talk about the distinctive and uniquness of existence. i wonder.
suddenly, i miss my students, very much. and also my teaching days. can i go back? if only...
i really miss them...
What can I do with my 6-week-long holiday?
So far, what I had been doing was:
1. Sleeping.
2. Catching my beauty sleep.
3. Taking naps.
4. Eat.
5. Eat for fun.
6. Breakfast.
7. Lunch.
8. Dinner.
9. TV.
10. TV.
11. More of TV…
(mind you, 1, 2, 3 are not the same and 4, 5 , 6, 7, 8 are also very different k)
That’s why, I think my life like that isn’t going to work. So…
I came up with this list:
1. Read all the books I wanted to read. But on top of my to-read-list at the moment is the whole eclipse collection. And that means money money money! And I cant find any electronic versions of the book online. Bummer~
2. Learn a new language. But I have limited resources and there’s really no distinctive purpose in doing so. It’s not like that I’m migrating or anything. And even if I master a particular foreign language, I cant communicate with people around me to practice anyway. So sooner or later I’ll un-master the language, and that equals to – wasting my time and energy.
3. Build up my body. As in gaining stamina, keeping healthy and fit, master exercising skills, master certain sports like: jogging, badminton, basketball, etc. etc. At least this is beneficial, I will get a healthier body in the end. But I don’t see the point because after going back to UTM, I will definitely slack down again. So, that equals zero also.
4. Learning to cook. This is important for my grade also actually. I’m taking catering for my co-curriculum next semester and the credits are counted also. So, at the same time I can cultivate my interest and skills, right? But that only takes like a small portion of my time everyday. Because I need my mom to teach me anyway. Hmmm…
And I’m out of ideas. I am bored to death already…
Will really appreciate it if anyone out there wants to share some smart ideas… yeah, I’m really that desperate
This is for you, wei thing~ our crazy night during the raya holidays... your house next time? ^^
The infamous Pinoy Ihaw Ihaw at Padungan.
Chia yin posing happily at the camera.
Me and Wei Thing~
we are tired.....
we really are...
Um, old story, long story... tagged by weiling ages ago... never too late to do a tag?
-RULES-
1. If you’ve been tagged, you can put the logo on your blog.
2. Link the person from whom you received the award.
3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
4. Put links to those blogs on yours.
5. Leave a message on the blogs you’ve nominated.Hope that the award will not stop until here.
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Okay, I am reading my nominations (I can renominate right? ppl receiving more nominations = extensive popularity?):
1. Weiling - The most faithful friend with strong hold on her principles~
2. Jing Jing - The most confident n pretty friend who is forever so friendly~
3. Chin Lin - The best companion who always listens and offers a helping hand~
4. Jayne - The cutest friend who always adds a smile on ppl's face ~
5. Chia - The best problem confidant who is always sympathetic and resourceful~
6. Yen Pin - The wackiest and naughtiest friend who is never a bore to be with~
7. Olala - The most supportive friend who is sometimes so smart n yet sometimes so blur~
Best wishes to the tagged(s), and I hope that our friendship lasts and your qualities expand and become greater n greater~
i am really confused, i have 12 friends left in my friend list in friendster, but my featured friends are completely diff ppl from the 12 in my list, i am confused confused confused~ wats going on??? i tot they just had their maintainence?
tadaima~
looks like my blog has become a one-holiday-one-post kind of blog... so sad~ cant online at all in campus!!! why? why? why? why yen pin's room can online? why everyone can online at KRP's cafeteria but i cant???
end of semester one! 5 more to go! hooray! but what next? that's really bothering me. one thing that's taunting me, i did not join any societies or clubs watsoever in campus, and that's like the sole thing i m looking forward to do before going to uni!!! i am so disappointed.
my life is getting mundane. study. sleep. chit-chats. brunch. dinner. sunday service. church fellowship. evangelism visits. go for classes. attending follow-up classes. and that's it. its really boring.
i really really hope that i will initiate some change in my lifestyle for the second semester, otherwise how am i supposed to enjoy campus life???
i m now on a more important issue... how to spend my holiday?
i came back to kuching with keen determination to do something, something worthy of my time and holidays. i wanted to:
do revision for various subjects, prepare for my microbiology and organic chemistry test, brush up on intermediate maths of which i'm at borderline, finish my tutorials and assignments and reports.
much to my own disappointment, i'm again, at this stage, tomoro i'm going back to uni d, and i cant cross out anything from my check list. this feeling really sucks.
other things i managed to accomplish that's oso within my checklist:
meet up with friends, but i cant make it in meeting EVERYONE, guess there'll always be next time?
attended my cousin John's wedding yesterday, i'm mesmerized. at the same time, i keep on pondering upon a few things.
how are we supposed to know who is the one when feelings are so undependable and eyes could be deceiving? God, how are You going to show us? what if we make mistakes? or what if we are too scared about making mistakes and eventually cost us to miss that someone?
i guess this is only random worries of a desperateez... well, how can i not be? when everyone's gotten hold on something while i still gaping for breath in the rocky waves... i feel like i m missing out. but i know where this can lead to. one experience is more than enough to ward me off. thinking that you are in love doesn't necessary mean that you really are in love or anything. and we are not talking about the one we love.
feelings change. over time. gradually. what's left after all that? seriously. it couldn't be true, things that the pagans said about love, being like fireworks, beautiful but short lived. i simply won accept that.
still dying to read: are you there God? its me margaret.
i'm finally accessing the internet with breeze and not under nosy supervision of cctv or strict librarians who will definitely tell us off if we are accessing anything un-academic.... because in school, my only opportunity to online is in the library, don't know why i cant detect the wireless in KRP's cafeteria... so getting a broadband soon...
saturday evening, i strolled the senai airport in solitary, hoping to see familiar faces every corner i turn, ended up disappointed, all faces who turned to me were blurry and hostile and complete strangers. all the way from my hostel to the airport, i keep on praying and praying. all the way from the airport in senai to kuching international airport im praying i'm praying...
the taxi arrived early. i called for ne to come by 4, since my flight is 6.50 in the evening. the cab arrived before 3.45. good thing i packed my stuffs early. then throughout the ride, i'm seriously scared, because the radio is tuned to a mandarin channel broadcasting porn novel (ppl reading porn novel for u in a taxi u are alone in and in a place u are not familiar with can seriously get on ppl's nerve, even in the strongest of ppl) but things turned out to be okay, i still don recognize the road, but at least i know it takes exactly 30 minutes to travel from UTM to Senai airport.
then, on the plane i board, it must be an old plane, because it keeps shaking and making eerie noises, before take off, during take off, in the air, before landing and after landing. weird noises throughout the flight. that's why for the first time, i did not undo the buckle of the safety belt until we landed safely. phew... close call, i m actually thinking about my regrets d u know (aka things like if i die tonight, what would i regret doing and not doing, and stuffs like that, u get the idea.)
i really sympathize muslims in the plane tat night. its the time for them to buka puasa, so they had to have their dinner on the plane. food on the plane is expensive and come in petite servings...
first thing i did after getting off the plane saturday night, eat kolo mee~ haha, maybe i m slightly too desperate, but who wouldn't?especially since u don get this flavour in the west penisular plus its expensive there (RM4.50 and above). dixon, i salute your kuching food post! great post! makes me want to crawl back here immediately!
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sunday was a busy day.
went for morning service in chin fu methodist. manage to spot quite a few new faces, we have one more taiwanese in our church~
a few things changed too. usually after the amen song, we will sit down and pray in silence. now there's a new agenda where we have to continue standing after the song and sing another one while the choir members will exit the church first. only after that we will sit down and pray.
met xu vin in church today. didn't managed to sit down and talk, but i am really thrilled to see her! she's still same old xu vin with that sweet and genuine smile~ welcome home xu vin!
after service i went for lunch with my family down at my auntie's laksa stall. she serves the best laksa in the world!!! no kidding!!! she always gives extra large servings when she sees us! haha, had us bloated in the end.
in the afternoon, i managed to meet up briefly with wee mee down at boulevard. brief updates and she complains about her woes taking medicine and the fact that she still has to stay in kuching while we get to fly. emily was supposed to meet us too, but boulevard was overly crowded tat day so she cant come.
chia yin joined us after that. we oso met mei wen and was she suprised to see us! same here mei wen~ happy to see u too!
wee mee went home shortly after that. chia and i continued to hang around for a while before taking off to saberkas to get her new handphone. then we decided to give wei thing a surprise and brought her out for dinner at pinoy ihaw ihaw at padungan.
we took pictures at pinoy ihaw ihaw cz the food's really nice and inexpensive and if u are a student they dont tax or service charge u! the boss and the ppl working there are awfully nice too~ i say, 4 big bright golden stars!
posting the pictures later i guess, chia cant transfer the photos for me just yet.
after that its already almost ten, and chia has to send me home first. but she's not very sure aabout the road plus its already quite late so we had a sleepover at my place!
haha~ it was fun having wei thing and chia yin over~ there's so much to share and talk about and we watched the last episode of fated to love u together, a half of the movie the first love of a millionaire. woke up around 9 this morning. extremely tired. today is definitely going to be a day-in. cant go out anymore.
uni life is stil a blurry phase for me, currently busy preparing for test 2, SCMC's tenth anniversary, pre-co-q registration, and assignments...
i am a super duper fan of d-campus! its a package where u only have to spend RM1.00 on phone calls and for the rest of the day, u get to talk for free within the digi network. plus, every digi number becomes your friends and family member, so u get to send sms for 1 cent only! smss to other networks, maxis, celcom etc etc is 6 cents each~ really great package, the only catch is that the packagge only works within campus, so if u are not in your uni, the package is not active...
sorry if it sounds like an advertisement, not promoting anything, just that now with this great deal, i get to stay in touch with all friends studying all over Malaysia!!! sorry if i didn't contact u if u are not a digi user... not boycotting anyone... get a digi number la!
i am now joining an evangelism group visiting students in their hostels every week. yesterday was my second trip and i m more accepting towards the whole service. the first time i went was an ordeal, because having to approach strangers at their rooms, and talking to them about faith and jesus, and most of them were not very open with this subject and just glared at us.... the feeling of ppl disliking and loathing u is really really stressful... but last night's trip to college 11 was a breeze, even though we din get the chance to talk further into the topic, we managed to build up relationship with ppl we visited and they are more accepting and welcoming. the bonus is, i met someone from Kuching~~~~ and we went to the same tuition center too~ even though i don't really recognize her and everything, but still~ its a big good and happy WOW~
