My inner thoughts

It had been ages since I last blogged. Now, I realized a weird habit of mine, where I will always find something else to do when I should be concentrating in doing my stuff. Previously, I was busy with my final year project when I started my new blog. And for now, I SHOULD be preparing for my last 2 finals papers. But then, the mood to blog resurfaces after zillion years.

I realized that friends around me started to find their other half, which I am definitely happy for them. And, if I say it doesn’t make me feel a thing (the impulse to be in a relationship, etc…), then I would be lying. Yup, you see it correctly. I am not in any relationship at the time being. Wonder why I am writing all this stuff? Well, I have been bottling my feelings all of the time. And I think it’s time for me to release them out and I presume that blogging it out will be the best way, since jotting it down in a diary is not something for me.

Anyway, a phone call from a close friend earlier on, made me start to ponder. It has been sometime that we chatted about our personal life, our ex-es, and so forth. Just now he told me that he thinks I would prefer going out with someone smart, outgoing, fun-loving and etc. Maybe he’s right, in a way, in general. But I told him I won’t be surprised that I remained unmarried rest of my life. By then, I will be an old spinster. Sigh… Sometimes I really wonder if I get to meet MY other half, with the falling in love feel and the sparks.

Actually, down with flu right now is the catalyst for all this thoughts. As I don’t have any medicine here, I thought of getting them from the minimart downstairs. But as now is the finals period, the minimart, which is operated by the fellow students, isn’t open. Then, thought of going down the hill to buy them, but isn’t it purely pathetic for me, someone who is sick, to go downhill to get the medicine for MYSELF? I rather continue having flu then. Partially is lazy la… =) But I have my own ego too. I know, if I asked for help from the guy I mentioned earlier on, he’ll definitely buy and bring the medicine to me, as he ferried my roommate to the clinic when she’s sick.

Whatsoever, hopefully there will be someone who asks me and my roommate out for lunch/dinner. Then, I get to buy the long awaited medicine.

Corporate lessons

Went to a compulsory seminar, joint organized by SPACE Degree++ and my faculty. I’ll spare you guys with the details, since seminars/talks are never interesting. But one interesting topic caught my attention - ‘Corporate Lessons’. Therefore I googled for it, once I got back. The following was exactly what I saw during the talk.

I think the morals of the stories are so true and relevant. Hope you guys had a good laugh.

Birthday at Sosaku

My birthday was exactly a week ago. Initially I thought of setting up my blog earlier or at least on that day, as a birthday present for myself. Years (or decades) later, I can looked back here and think, 'Wow, what a memorable birthday gift I had for myself'. It had jotted the every little bit of my life, from 23 years old onwards. How meaningful it would be. But due to my own nature, procrastination being a part of my life, I only started it a few days ago. Let's keep our fingers crossed and hope that I can still maintain this blog by then.
Last week, my friends celebrated my 23rd birthday at Sosaku Japanese Buffet Restaurant. To make things easier, I’ll start photoblog-ing here.

Here is some of the food we ordered. Initially I had a preconceived idea that everything is spread on a huge table, and we can take whatever we like, or there will be Kaiten-Zushi, where there will be unlimited supply of sushi. It turned out that we had to order from the menu, and only then they will prepare it.

This is Wee Chieh with the present she gave me. It’s a sheep from bearyhip but why sheep? Well, sheep is from the goat family and so is Capricorn. Maybe they're distant cousins? Hard to say. By the way, Wee Chieh named it 阿祝, as it means 'celebration'.

The girls start snapping pictures of themselves while waiting for the food to be digested, in order to get ready for the next round. Due to space constrain, I’ll only feature Yung Chian here.

Now, I shall show you the difference between with and without flash while taking photos. See the difference? On the left, Ho Sheng has the same skin tone as mine. The pic next to it was taken with flash. So, it turned out to be ‘black and white’.

Actually, apart from us, my juniors were there too, to celebrate Frankie’s birthday, which happens to share the same birthday with me. Here is our group photo. Quite a number of people, right? We nearly booked the whole restaurant.

Me and Frankie

I persuaded them to take this picture with me. It had been a long time since we last taken such pictures. Love you, my dear juniors, for being so obedient and cooperating. =)


How will a birthday be without a cake? How am I going to make a wish, blowing out the candles if I don't have any cake? Luckily Wee Chieh and Hsin Ching were thoughtful enough to do so. Thanks, girls!!

Anyway, that's all on my birthday. A note to myself: Never go Sosaku again, unless I want to try again the over-fried soft shell crab, dry ebiko, etc...Go Shogun instead.

蔷蔷 by Ella

This post will be a short and brief one.

The following song was written and composed by Ella in memory of her pet dog. It is so meaningful; therefore I would like to share it with you guys. To some, it might be a tear-jerker, especially to those who own pets.

This reminds me of my own Dusky, a gift from my besties on my 16th birthday. Although it has been quite sometime, I would still like to thank you, Dusky for being such a good companion all the time, minus the time you were too hyperactive, chasing and biting people, including me. Thanks for everything...

Friendster blog - My graduation day

It’s time for me to write about my graduation day, before I return to the land of misery tomorrow. Haha… Sounds gloomy, but in fact, it is. I’ll be having 2 tests in a day next week. It sucks… Ok, spare you with all this distressing details. From now onwards, in this blog, I shall only write about this joyous event – my convocation.

My diploma convocation was held last Monday. Reminiscing back, the impression it left on me – hectic. Throughout that very day, everyone was busy with their own things. For me, apart from staying inside the hall to wait for my turn to receive my cert, the rest of the day was used to take photos. Luckily digital camera is invented; otherwise we’ll be using hundred rolls of conventional film. Thanks to Qian Fang, for his 1GB memory card as the day before we went to Danga Bay with the same mission – picture taking. Hehe… Well, here I would like to take the opportunity to say thanks to lots of people – my family, Wee Chieh, UTM friends and not to be left out, my KL juniors. I’m glad and touched as well, that Wee Chieh and my KL juniors managed to attend my convocation, despite all the hassles. Thanks for all the flowers, the McDull pig and Ah Bang, the teddy bear you all gave respectively. The downside – after the convocation, all of us can hardly meet up, especially now QF is already on his flight to UK.

Well, one of the best things of being a diploma graduate is that I get to have two convocations in my life, not including the one I had when I was in my kindergarten. So, if everything goes well, I’ll be having my convocation again, in around 3 years time…

Friendster blog - Tata, my hamper

How should I feel when I know that I won some goodies from CLEO magazine? Thrilled? Then, how should I feel when I learned that the redemption date was over few days ago? Sigh…

You know, I’m super duper lucky to win something from CLEO magazine as it is tough to compete with so many people who are able to obtain a copy of the magazine, even before it’s available at the newsstands, or bookstores.

By the time I saw the letter, the date for me to redeem the prize has ended. Luckily it’s just a Summer’s Eve hamper worth RM 50. If I were to win Anna Sui/CK, I’ll be knocking my head against the wall. Hope I’ll win something (even better) from the magazine in the future. Hehe…

P/S : I received the goodies after all. Thanks CLEO!! I'm still your loyal reader. =)

Friendster blog - Ipoh trip

Last week I and my friends went to KL and Ipoh. Our main destination is Ipoh and we stopped for a day at KL for the Merdeka day countdown celebration. We stayed at Pei Shan’s hostel at Bandar Utama. Having reach KL quite late, because of the bus, we’re quite tired, in fact. Speaking of the bus, instead of being an express bus, it’s more like a tourist bus. It brought us to buy local products at a rest house at Yong Peng, and then went to Seremban to drop off some passengers. But soon, all the woes have been forgotten as we saw the mesmerizing fireworks display at Ikano Power Centre. We were spellbound by the magnificent fireworks of different shape and color especially the heart-shaped and hibiscus-shaped fireworks.

The very next day we set our foot at Ipoh. This time, the trip acts as a farewell trip as Qian Fang will be leaving here for Sheffield. This will be the last time of our gathering, minus Kai Kiat, who has already ‘dumped’ us for UK. At Ipoh, our main itinerary is eating. Bean sprouts (nga choi) chicken is one of the dishes not to be missed, apart from curry chicken bread and Ipoh hor fun. Makes me hungry only… This time we stayed at QF’s place. Did lots of chatting too, not to forget heart-to-heart talk. An unforgettable trip, I daresay.

We went back to Skudai after our 3 days Ipoh trip, to attend our very own convocation/ graduation. Will blog about this in my next post…

Friendster blog - Bon Voyage

Lately, quite a number of my friends will be leaving Malaysia and all of them will be heading towards UK to further their studies. Kai Kiat and Qian Fang will be pursuing their studies at University of Sheffield whereas Shien Wei will further her law in University of Reading.

Although feeling sad, I can do nothing. In fact, parting is just a part and parcel of life, especially at this stage of our life. Each of us has our own goal/target to achieve and hence leaving family and friends are inevitable. So, all I can do here is to wish them all the best and keep in touch.

Take care, all my friends... Will miss ya all...

Friendster blog - Pissed

I just got back my Fluid Mechanics test paper. Marks were deducted from one of the questions, although I’ve got the correct answer. When I inquired the lecturer about this, the reason he gave on why he deducted marks out of it is because I wrote something below my answer… @#*^ Just because I’ve written something else below the CORRECT answer, he deducted my marks. Never mind, if he deducted 1 mark, or 2. It’s 7 that he deducted!!! Allow me to swear again, @#*^…

Friendster blog - Lesson learnt?

This will be a short blog, just to disclose my feelings right now.

Can we trust everything we see through our naked eyes, and then jump to conclusion straight away, based only on what we had witnessed? The answer is a big NO. Well, recently, I did something and some people thought it was not appropriate for me to have THAT kind of reaction/behavior/thinking. So, now I’ve the feeling like being wronged, just because we have different perspective in dealing stuff/something. Some might think I was inconsiderate, but does anyone know my heart was bleeding too? Ouch… I just tend not to reveal my real feelings. Hey, I’m the one who went through all this, and I’m the one who know what actually happened... You all are just onlookers, who are unaware of all the every little bit of the details. So, never judge a book by its cover.

And Wee Chieh, sorry for your birthday present too. I judged the storybook by the cover too. I’ve learnt my lesson now.