Holiday, holiday n holiday..

Finally another posting on my blog after a long lay off untill me myself forgotten what was my last post. I had been super free during this sem break as I was too lazy to look for a job but I do not have anything to post as my holidays are spent staying at home. Luckily there was this Sarawak trip planned at the start of my first sem if not my body will be full of maggots crawling around.

This trip marked many first of my life. My first time on an aeroplane, my first overnight stayed at 2 of my friends house and many more. The aeroplane ride was short of the wow factor except during the take-off and landing part.

Talking bout the Sarawak trip. The initial figure was 16 people: 11 people from the so-called "12 brothers and sisters", 3 of my coursemate who wanted to join as my another coursemate is a Sarawakian and 2 guys who were quite close with us since the start of our journey in university. But then suddenly 3 people joined in making the total amount of people boarding the plane 18 as 1 was unable to join due to illness. (some will think that why should I bring up this subject but I have to tell that facts undergo twists and turns will still be facts) 4 of us guys chengloong, kinmeng, allan and me stayed at ivan's beautiful and spacious house as he was super kind to offer me accomodation after noticing my fall-out with the initial gang.

Sarawak was better than expected. Most of the houses in the Kuching town are either semi-d or bungalows. (mind you not made of wood but of concrete) The price of the food are cheap and enough to fill the stomach.

We had a tentative to follow as it was a good guide so that we have a better time management. But most of the time we went 2 separate ways in a group of 10. The places we went include Sarawak Museum, Civic Center, The Spring Mall, Cat Museum, Cultural Village, Damai Santubong and Semantan and etc.. Let the pictures do the talking.

The day before departure

At the airport

Holidays...

Today is unofficially my last day of this semester as I have finish all my papers already. Some of the results are out and although it was not up to my expectation but I have to concede as I get paid according to the effort I have put in.

Lets looked back to what I have achieved during this semester. I have learned how to socialize with people which I seldom talk to. Study wise I am getting lazier with my laptop around and also the super-slow internet connection in my room.

I had been looking forward to this semester break as it didn't started of well with several misunderstandings with the people around me. Well you will know who are your true friends when you are in trouble. But now on the last day of my year 1, my heart is getting heavier to leave this place although I can just pack my things and call my mom to pick me up this evening. All the memories will remain you will never know what will happen next.

I would like to thank those who have been at my side all these while although I can be irritating most of the time. You know who are your.

Here are pictures from the outing this pass 1 week. I am proud to say that that I have try ice-skating but I keep clinging on the side railing.

Signing off here and will online back after two-and-a-half month.

Another Life Journey

I really don't know what to include in my blog. I am afraid that one day people who I mentioned in my blog is not happy with what I wrote about them or some others whose name is not mention get offended. I also hope that my every actions can satisfy every party.

"I am not satisfied with what I have." This is what people will always say when you compliment them on what they owned. Well sometimes it is difficult to judge whether a person is happy. I am also an introvert person who finds it a difficulty to go up and approach someone to check whether they are fine or not but I hope that people will come up to me to check on me when I am feeling down.

Time is getting shorter now. Everything seems to be unfinishable but I am still taking it step by step.

Ever since primary school, I always heard the phrase "Friends Forever" but how true is this phrase in today's world. I have been through my life with different friends but I lost contact with most of them after we went separate ways to pursue our study. Many of them are in my Facebook and MSN friend list but do we care to ask each other out. I am maybe at wrong because sometimes I really can't join the gathering due to work, university and family commitment. Now I learned how to appreciate them but i think it is too late already. i hope that anyone who is reading this post will come up to me and say it is better late than never.

Day Out with Friends...

It has been a norm for me to leave my less-than-comfortable hostel room to somewhere in the city centre every Friday because I don't have any classes on that day. Greenbox Cheras Selatan was our favourite haunting ground until we found out that Redbox The Gardens Midavalley head charges were equivalent to those of Greenbox Cheres Selatan.

Well this week I went out with Kime, Allan, David, Poh Wei and Xiao Bai. I have to admit that I don't have a good voice but I really enjoyed going out with this bunch of friends. We reached there around 12.20pm because 2 of the boys came back to their room after their class to bath, went to the bank to take out money etc.

Before reach Redbox, I received a troubling call from my room mate telling me that he is shifting to another block and he asked me what was my plans but i could not answer him because I don't have any idea of what was going on. Soon after that when we enter our room, another person called me to inform me their plans. But everything get hair-wired because there were miscommunication between all of us that were affected. This problem affected my mood the whole day.

The audio and video qualty were not up to our expectations but the set-lunch was really worth the money. We did not get to sing for the full 3 hours.















David, Allan and me

Kin Meng, David, Allan and me















Poh Wei, Kin Meng, David and Allan















Poh Wei, Kin Meng, Allan and me

Later I went searching for clothes with black and white stripes as my Malaysia Nationhood lecturer wanted us guys 2 wear black and white during Monday lectures and stripes on Thursday lectures. After searching for some time, I finally made up my mind and bought a collar T-shirt from Jusco. We later bought 7 pieces of donuts from Big Apple and four cups of Extrema Mocha from San Francisco Coffee. We head back to our hostel straight away as it was getting late.

I don't think we will have the time to hang out with each other this few weeks as we will be preparing for our final examinations. Well, hope to get to hang out with you KLites during the long semester break starting next month.

Hopefully my problems will be settle by this afternoon. Pray for me.

P/s: Sorry for the poor quality photos. Hope to get a camera before the Sarawak trip.

Reflection...

Sitting at a corner of a noisy university's library lead me to think of what had happened for the last one semester. At the end of the last semester break, I was waiting impatiently for the new semester to begin as I can meet with my uni friends after 2 months of lay off. At the start, everything carried on fine, it was smooth flowing until the end of the one week Chinese New Year break. I was feeling uneasiness as people around me started to change, they became a totally different person. My current semester English lecturers has once quoted during lecture, "Never tell everything to the person closest to you as they might one day become your enemy." This quote will stuck in my head for the rest of my life as it described about my current situation.

I think I have to take this as a blessing in disguise as I am now closer to people whom I previously refer to as stranger and they have all brightened up my days when I am down. A million thanks to those who have been at my side during this transitional period of my university's life.

Talking back about my personality, well I have be more lazy, talkative and not taking my studies seriously compared to previous semester. I wish to have back the kind of push to study while at the same time socialise with people.

In 2 weeks time, I will be having my final examination. I really hope that I will change for at least this 3 weeks to reimburse the time lost and then I can return back to my comfort soon.

Before signing off, I would like to which all my friends success in the upcoming examination.

It's coming to an end..

It's going to be the 4th month of my second semester in UPM and this indicates that it will be the end of my first year in uni. I have been through lots of up and down in this one year and I hope all these will make me a stronger person in future. This one year has opened up my eyes on what to expect in my future work life and the way i communicate with others.

Kuok Foundation Get-Together

This event was held on the 28th February 2009 at Armada Hotel, Petaling Jaya. The main aim of this get-together is to bring all awardees from different campuses around Klang Valley to mix around. It started of with an ice-breaking session, speeches and also a memory talk by Mr Lim Teck Hoe, a former recipient of this grant. Later, we were served buffet-styled lunch. After the sumptuous lunch, there were few more speeches and the winners of the ice-breaking session were announced. A photo session followed after that.