So this is it?

After 3 and 1+ sem here in the Pearl of the Orient, is my life as a student over and life of a working bee just about to begin? I'm so torn in between! No, i'm so STUCK in between!! I wanna work, I NEED to work.. and yet the thought of furthering my studies overseas (or at the very least overstraits) seem so much more enticing. How do i choose?

Is my life gonna be stuck in this limbo till my thoughts straighten up by themselves? I'm hoping my thoughts will straighten out itself asap. For now here's the score:

Working in SG : 56%

Working in MY : 24%

Studying : 20%

ARGHH!!! Decisions, decisions, decisions.

I hate making decisions!

='(

You heard it here first

I'm going to Shanghai!!!!

for an IAESTE Forum/Workshop
(not going there to play)

from

12 - 16th November!
(anyone planning a trip there perhaps?)

Whee~!!!! =D

I'm glad my opportunity to go somewhere on IO's account finally came.
I've waited 2 long years, babe...

It's a trip back to the motherland!
(although, i can't say i'm a pure Chinese inside. a banana can't change its skin afterall =P)

But, must I go with 2 ppl i barely know / want to go with?
Why can't i go with my peers??!!! Tian ah...

Anyhow, i'm happy happy! ^^


Oh, any tips (food, shopping, travelling etc) from anyone who's being there before??

That's all. Thanks!! =)

It's amazing

how facebook connects.

The incredible, addictive, time-wasting application Facebook is sometimes so irritating, but at times it serves its purpose too. Just a simple post mite trigger a whole lot of revelation.

An example would be like today,
1. I saw Hemavathi Nalathamby (whom i've not spoken since F6?) posting Deepavali wishes.

2. Left a comment asking how was she and how i missed those days when she would sit in front/behind me during exams (ever since we were std 3!).

3. She replied saying she remembered those mornings in primary school, when Winnie, Hema and I would be the earliest to arrive and open our class doors. (Gosh.. those days we had so much fun while waiting for others to arrive one by one.) hahaha..

4. Next i find out she was studying in Indonesia. In Padang, in Universitas Andalas to be exact - the university where the medical faculty building collapsed! And all these while I had NO idea at all that she was a student there, and that I mite have lost a friend in that earthquake without even knowing it!

It suddenly hit me that there's so many ppl whom i've lost contact, and have no idea what they're doing now. Feels terrible.

Note to self: shd Facebook more often now to look for old friends. hahaha... =P

This is a very random post. =)

Oh and another random observation: Cockroaches in Penang are much much slower n dumber than those in JB. They walk around in circles n don't run for their lives even if "scare" it. I wonder why? hmm..

Technology

The wonders and horrors of it.

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Humans always want something they can never have.
The truth hurts.
But, truth is less painful than a lie.

Heard This Song Before?

Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)

by Baz Luhrmann

Ladies and gentlemen of the class of ’99, wear sunscreen.

If I could offer you only 1 tip for the future, sunscreen would be it.
The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists,
whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.

I will dispense this advice, now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
Oh never mind, you will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded.

But trust me, in 20 years you’ll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.
You’re NOT as FAT as you imagine.

Don’t worry about the future, or worry.
But know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum.

The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind. The kind that blindside you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday.
Do 1 thing everyday that scares you.

Sing.

Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts.
Don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Floss.

Don’t waste your time on jealousy.
Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind.
The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself.

Remember the compliments you receive, forget the insults.
If you succeed in doing this... tell me how.
Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements.

Stretch.

Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life.
The most interesting people I know, didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t.

Get plenty of calcium.
Be kind to your knees, you’ll miss them when they’re gone.

Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t.
Maybe you’ll have children, maybe you won’t.
Maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary.

Whatever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either.
Your choices are half chance.
So are everybody else's.

Enjoy your body.
Use it every way you can.
Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it.
It’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.

Dance.

Even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room.
Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them.
Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel UGLY.

Get to know your parents.
You never know when they’ll be gone for good.
Be nice to your siblings;
they are the best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go,
but for the precious few you should hold on.
Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle,
Because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard;
Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.

Travel.

Accept certain inalienable truths -
prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old.
And when you do, you’ll fantasize that when you were young -
prices were reasonable, politicians were noble, and children respected their elders.

Respect your elders.

Don’t expect anyone else to support you.
Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you have a wealthy spouse;
But you never know when either one might run out.

Don’t mess too much with your hair,
Or by the time you're 40, it will look 85.

Be careful whose advice you buy,
But be patient with those who supply it.
Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for MORE than it’s worth.

But trust me on the sunscreen.



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Heard this like a decade ago - i am so old, i use "a decade ago" to tell time. =/ (this song was released in 1999). And today, my lecturer reminded me of its existence by using it for our consecutive interpreting class (thanks Dr. Leelany!). As it is, i'm attending classes with my juniors who are at least 1 yr younger than me, except for nice Uncle Koay... but to know that you're the only one who've heard of this song, even Vince the "music jukebox" doesn't even know it, makes me feel so old! Am i really THAT old?? hahaha.

Therefore, i need to know, IF anyone of my peers (besides my HBT304 classmates) out there has ever heard of this song before? *crossing fingers*

Hope this song has inspired you as it has inspired me today! =)



**Note: Wear Sunscreen or the Sunscreen Speech are the common names of an essay titled "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young" written by Mary Schmich and published in the Chigago Tribune as a column in June 1, 1997. In her introduction to the column, she described it as the commencement address she would give if she were asked to give one. The column soon became the subject of an urban legend, in which it was alleged to be an MIT commencement speech given by author Kurt Vonnegut in the same year (in truth, the speaker that year was Kofi Annan).

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Banner

make your own here


Sleepy is an Autobot! hahaha... =P

Guess it's not over yet...

9th June came at last. Met up at 9am in the new lab at school and 10 of us started staring into comps, looking at endless tables of data... And through hard work and cooperation, we all finished by 5pm! What a relief.. The job that has tied down the past 40 days had finally came to an end.. or so we thought.

Went home feeling happy, thinking i could finally begin to enjoy my last month of hols.. but then a message arrived. Dr wants me, XY n ZR to continue helping. And so, here i am at 4.30am, just finished unzipping 185 files, distributing them n zipping them back, uploading them onto the email and waiting... n waiting... till it's finally uploaded before hitting "send".

And that's just the beginning of the work. -.-"

But no matter what, i've to finish this task asap, before Ming Eng arrives on Friday!!!! Yeah baby! Can't wait to spend my entire time with her!!! So far, i've got nothing planned.. but scaring ourselves at the movies is already on the list. hahaha... So exciting!! tralalalala... =D

Happy Birthday Pete!!!

Dear Pete,

HAPPY 27th BIRTHDAY Bro!!!

You've grown another year older, but you'll always remain forever young n adorable to me!


"Wishing you from across the 'miles',
happy birthday and
a year full of smiles.
Missing you Pete!!!"
xoxo

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On another note, I finally achieved 100 tales!!! haha... tralalala... =D

Summary of Life in KL

OMG. Guess what i found among my list of blog posts? A draft i made roughly 1 year ago...

6/19/08 @ 10:27pm

KL life is tiring.
It's not for me.

For the past one month, i've been waking up at 5.45am, sleeping before 12am and staring into the computer while surfing aimlessly on the internet from 8.30am-5.30pm. Work sucks. We got conned during the first week -- we were brought to interesting events but did no interpreting, then the weeks after were like peas in a pod -- exactly the same repetition everyday. Sighs.. It's not the company's fault actually, but there just wasn't any work for us to do! And finally work came. Work consisted of:

1. Making phone calls
calling ex-participants to come for some new course or there's some new job for them to do

2. Emailing
sending mass emails to the same participants for the same reasons

3. Making proposals
creating a proposal for an Interpretation Awareness Workshop

4. Clean text
basically removing all symbols such as ()*&$#{}"":; and so on from a perfectly normal text. Had to clean 200+ pages on Microsoft Word -- and every time i see the text, i fall asleep, literally.

5. Tear and separate papers
tear sheets of papers from a test pad and separate A4 papers into stacks of 5 for 130+ participants in a 4 day course. -.-"

6. Wipe and sharpen pencils
sharpen and wipe mold off 2B pencils that are very VERY old.

7. Prepare files and so much more
They're too lame and stupid to talk about.

8. Sleeping
Seriously, that's what I did -- whenever there was nth to do of cos. =P

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Ok, that's where my draft ended. I think it was too idiotic and boring to publish it back then. There's no harm continuing it now, rite? haha...

6/7/09 @ 3.27am

So, besides wasting and wasting and wasting time away at ITNM, KL was actually quite fun. During weekends, time flew by quickly. A little too quickly than we want it to. Well, as much boredom as there was in KL, at least i managed to live some sort of life:

1. get trapped in between doors (if you don't know about it, DON'T bother. seriously.)
   
2. met up with old schoolmates (Ally, Kelly, Sabanana, Janet, Liping, AiWei)
   
3. gossip with old schoolmates =P
   
4. window shop in super expensive shopping malls (namely KLCC, The Pavillion, Bangsar Village) and then actually shop at more affordable shopping malls =D
   
5. ate fantastic IKEA Swedish Meatballs (yum yum!)
6. ate super cheap HUGE portions of spaghetti meatball at William's (an awesome western food restaurant by the roadside)
7. ate Bangsar's Banana Leaf rice *drools*
   
8. finally visited the famous Cheras Pasar Malam (truly a roadside shopping haven - good food, good variety of stuffs, good prices)
9. ate at McD's almost every week -- and get FREE Reg Fries coupon for every goal when watching FIFA World Cup 2008 there (i think i had almost 20 by the end of it all!) ;)
   
10. watched endless movies in Kevin's house and even had steamboat! ^^

Not too bad afterall eh? Ahh.. lovely memories. haha.. Wonder when's the next time i'll drop by KL and go about another food hunt. Cos if u noticed, almost half of the list is about food. lol.. Gotta plan a trip to KL one of these days! Anyone wants to join me?! =)