Re Union Dinner

Tis year is just the same as the previous years i guess =). My family will be having our own dinner together. Mum lazy wanna cook, so we end up going to Penang Time Square Reunion Dinner Event. Saw the inside of Penang Time Square, not bad but its still freaking empty. =X

There were some live entertainment as well. The chinese orchestra was splendid (I vow that one day im gonna learn how to play one of them xD), then there was a fan/ribbon dance, lion dance, fire breather , someone who can eat glass , lion dance and of course some singers to sing us the chinese new year song... and also the Penang Time Square theme @@!!

Our food for the night

Me, Mum , and my Sis

Us together, one big happy family =)

Chinese New Year Reunion Dinner ver. KYUEM

21st of January , the day of the A levels result are announced, the Student Council election day and also the first event of the year, the Chinese New Year Reunion Dinner hosted by the Chinese Cultural Club (CCC for short).

Was there at 3.30pm to decorate the hall, skipped accounts class(do past year question). Snip snap the banner, arrange the tables and watch them practise =). Around 5pm i had to go and wait for the lion dance team. Sad thing is that it was R-A-I-N-I-N-G! Breeee, so cold and wet. The only arrived at 6.30pm++ . Pity me that I had to wait for them so long.

The event went well except for some quirks that we couldn't avoid. The lion dance went a bit too long, resulting the students becoming too bored and left the hall and Master Wong ( The person in charge was scolding his pupils during the performance @@!!).

We had 3 performance by the students. The fan,ribbon and hankerchief dance, kun fun fan dance and the nuchaku dance.

Me and Sue Faye

Orange and Apple

The Chinese Kung Fu Dance

Kok Din having his dinner at 11pm after its all over =)

Theresa, Abigail, Ching, Apple, Malina, Kuk, Faye

Btm : Chi Han and Me

Happy ^^~

Prety cold these few days... been shivering mostly. I wonder why =(.
Chinese New year Reunion Dinner is today ^^. Wee~
Got my AS results finnaly, 2 'a's... The As have to be in small letters to differentiate from the As in the full A levels. Happy for now, would be more happy if both my components got an A later in Maths. Will be updating later with pics from the CNY reunion dinner... till then. Toodles

As world collides and crashes down the lowly path of life

Universities offers seems to be the buzz around the college lately. We have one holding an offer from Cambridge and another two from Oxford. Which doesn't matter much to me as I didn't apply to any of those.

Practically I am more worried about my offers. So far I have gotten Manchester, Lancaster and Bristol. The other two in the unconfirmed list would be Warwick and LSE. For the past month, I have been content that if I didnt get LSE, Sime Darby would still send me to the UK as Manchester was in their list. Imagine my horror today, 2 hours ago when I call Kak Muja about our university application.

"The University list is out and I'm afraid that Manchester is not in the list, only Oxford, Cambridge and LSE is in it. But don't worry, I'll send the list to you guys soon and I will also be coming to KYUEM to meet all of you..."

Man, those words just keep ringing in my head for now. Only LSE? =( It is my dream university but I'm just afraid that I'll get rejected by them.

Which leaves Australia for me... To think of it, Melbourne aint that bad after all ( or perhaps ANU). At least there are some people that I know there =)

So for all the ramblings that I'm having now, I still have that tiny spark of hope I guess. I still haven't gotten any reply from LSE yet, which probably might be good or bad since the news that I heard from my friends are the bad ones. Them being rejected.

I guess , I'll just cross my fingers and hope for the best.

Just couldn't sleep

Been awake since 1am. Apparently I woke up at that hour and my mind and body refuses to go back to the blissful dreamland which I had endulge myself in for the past few days. Its almost 6am now and I have been rolling on my bed, practically trying to go back to sleep but couldn't. 

First week at college ain't that bad I guess. I have been waking up at 4~5am in the morning and doing my revisions, going for breakfast and so on. A new me I guess instead of the previous Adrian that sleeps till 7.45am in the morning and skips breakfast.

However, I'm still falling asleep in class. Its pretty hard not to. Twice a day I'll be in the same room, in the same place listening to the same person. Mrs. Beadsworth. Its not that bad but when you remain too long in the same place listening to the same tone of voice, it sorta become a lullaby after a while. One thing that I never expect to do was to sleep in Maths class. Seriously, how could I? However I did. Mr. Highton was teaching us about vectors and he was speaking for a solid 50 mintues, giving various examples and so on. 

Somehow I just got too bored listening and started dozing off and only woke up when its time to do the excercise. Its a good thing that i know how to, as everything was still on the board and i only needed a few minutes to understand what was written there.

Economics class was however, well what can I say, filled with presentation. Ms. Zai, (Or should I call her Mrs. Zai now?) taught us Market structures and we are suppose to have our January test on the 15th January. Our tracking marks. 

I asked myself this question. I thought the only exams we are having are our trials and our real A levels exam. What's the tracking result for anyway?

Its 5 minutes to 6am now. I should probably clean the room up a bit, or should I just leave that for latter? *Adrian, your such a sloth!*

How about you tell me what should I do since I can't sleep anyway? I just hope that I can stay awake in class later. Not sleeping for the night isn't good for the mind when you want to have lessons. 

Day one of my third semester

Nothing much realy, just trying to make my taste bud adapt back to the local delicacies. 

Had our first presentation of the year, Sarah with her Perfect Competition. Apparently mind was one of the last one, so a few more weeks to go then =P.

I have just realise that I don't have my CIE book on my computer. The curse of reformatting a computer = ="

Celebrated Siew Hong's early birthday after the CCC meeting though. Lucky there weren't much action except Dominic splatting cakes on Siew Hong's face and her chasing Dom but failed.

The good news is, the rest of us were clean ^_^

Back to the Jungle

Its 6.30 am when I'm writting this. I'm dreading that the fact that my escape from my duties are coming to an end. Where I have to go back to college, to continue striving for excellence. 

Excellence... it kinda reminds me of KYS, of Tan Sri Halim himself.

How that words rang in my head for the past 5 years in highschool, and still rings up till today. To strive to be the best, no matter what. To achieve excellence in every field that we can. That was our oath.

I have just completed my Economics assignment. Well I think I did. =X I better ask Ms. Zai if its sufficient because I can't seem to find anything else in the book about economics development. So it shall remain untouch later till i get back to college.

Next on the list is Psychology past year papers. I still got 6 hours before my car leaves and well, if I'm too lazy I'll probably do it tonight. 2 hours is more than enough. The papers is around that time limit as well.

Bought a stock of Livitas. Need it to help me to readjust my biological clock I guess. I have been sleeping at 7am in the morning and waking up at 6pm at night. I guess I'm turning into a noctural creature. However, for the past few days, I seem to be less energetic than usual. Probably a result of oversleeping, or is there another factor?

Mum had insisted that I leave my hamsters back at home and bring it later during CNY. It would be troublesome to bring it back for a four day holiday. Seriously what are they thinking? Us returning to school on the 2nd day of Chinese New Year? = =" Well probably its the last one I have in Malaysia for the next few years, unless I wanna fly back here. Haha! ( Which probably I might and I might not).

So back to the title of this post. Back to the Jungle. For me, KYUEM IS A JUNGLE. However it is filled with people and thats what make a community. Although we don't have clubs, cyber cafes, malls, cinemas and etcetera, its the people that makes life interesting. Think of the Cave Mens and those who didn't live this modern life, they still make through it and had an enjoyable life (cross fingers).

Besides, its my last semester there. Gonna leave it soon. Which reminds me. Leaving highschool back then was sad, although I prety much hate attending that school (Although it helps to shape who am I today). I'm not pretty sure about leaving college. Would sadness fills the emptiness in my heart again? Or will it be anticipation this time? To finnaly leave Malaysia and experience life somewhere else. To live the culture day by day and not by just visiting there for vacation.

Questions and questions fills my head. But I guess its best to let time to answer then for me. When the time comes, I'll know whats right for me and whats not. 

And I'll definitely make the right choice because I make the choice myself and I must love the choice I make. Can't love something which is wrong, couldn't I?

=)

Ben's Wedding

First of all congratulations to my eldest cousin on his wedding~ ^^

Went to his wedding on the 3rd of January. It was held at the Mas Ballroom at Bayview hotel in Georgetown, Penang. The wedding dinner should have started at 7pm but well if we take into account of Malaysia timing, its started at 8.30pm instead. As usual they have singers entertaining us while we ate our dishes. 

For me, I think the nicest part was when they had their slideshows. Clips of them when they were young and till the day they meet and so on. There's a total of 3 slideshows. The most beautifull one would be the slideshow showing their wedding photos.

The stage with their wedding pictures on it.

Smile Daddy!

My mum and I

At the receptionist

 

Ben posing for picture.... while his wife checks if everything is fine.

Big day, shouldn't ruin it. xD

And this table is where my close relatives sat. Gramps are here together with my aunties, uncles and cousin.

My youngest cousin, only 2 years old. She hate the speakers, somehow. =)

Sweet isnt it?

Cake cutting ceremony

A drink for two?

I guess I'm gonna have little cousins soon =)

A well written respone from a friend

Dear Adrian,

Throughout your note(Click here for the note), you have touched on many topics; but I gather that in its essence, your article is asking one of the most profound and difficult questions that have baffled even the most renowned philosophers throughout all time: what is the meaning/purpose of life?

I write not to disprove or disagree with anything you say, neither do I claim I have the final answers to your questions, I merely found your article very intriguing, thought-provoking, and would like to offer my point of view on this matter for the sake of good discussion. Btw, Adrian, very impressed with your language and style, very nice and formal, something like an article in some intellectual magazine.

Adrian, I agree with you that deciphering life isn’t easy at all and indeed demands perseverance, determination, time and effort. But it is excellent that you are at least trying and working at it. The problem is that most people don’t even bother and live life simply trying to fit in to whatever that is immediately ahead of them.

So what is the meaning of life? Nobody can tell you the answer, cause even if somebody told you his/her answer, it wouldn’t convince you unless you searched for it yourself. Look at it this way, (I put aside my Christian belief for the time being and) from a purely logical viewpoint, every thing that has a meaning or purpose has a maker. This might sound religious but it is actually quite common sense: for example, a pair of scissors has a purpose, to cut things, because the inventor/maker of the scissors made it to cut things, you look at a pair of scissors and straight away you think: ‘cut’. Conversely, if something has no maker, it doesn’t have a purpose by itself, like a rock has no maker, it has no purpose, it is just lying on the ground, you can use it do something, maybe break open a lock, you gave it a function for a while, but still by itself it has no purpose.

So you see, as humans, most of what we do: study, sports, work, responsibilities, are merely functions, you wouldn’t say that is the purpose of our lives would you? When you ask, ‘what is the purpose of life’, logically speaking, you must first acknowledge that life/humans have a maker. One may choose to believe otherwise, but then, they would not be able to ask ‘what is the purpose of life’, for that which has no maker cannot have a purpose. So if you want to know the purpose of life, and therefore acknowledge the existence of a maker, where better to start searching for the purpose of life than by first searching for life’s maker?

You say: We are all lost. What is truth? What is lie? Yes indeed, truth is hard to find. But it doesn’t mean it cannot be found, it just takes effort and dedication, and I believe it is worth every effort when searching for the truth, should there be one, for something as important as the meaning/purpose of life itself. Faith and blind faith is different. I believe Atheism is more a case of blind faith than religion, to say ‘there is no god’ is actually saying: ‘I believe there is no god’, it is still a faith in a statement that cannot be entirely proven true or false, it is the easy way out, when things are not laid out in big bold words across the sky, to pronounce Atheism is to simply give up searching, and have blind faith that there is no god. Not all religion is blind faith, and Christianity is certainly not, in fact, Christianity encourages all its believers to test everything (1 Thes 5:21), not believe blindly, and Christianity itself is grounded in solid historical, archaeological, scientific and prophetic evidence. Blind faith is to believe there is no God and ignore that the universe had a beginning out of nothing(the Big Bang) and believe that replicating life on earth was started by random collision of molecules. Ya, sometimes we get too busy in life and forget or don’t care about many basic things.

One word about friends: friendship is good, one of the most beautiful things in this world. But base not your whole faith upon it, for everyone(yes, I mean every single one without fail) will let you down, simply because no one is perfect. True friendship is hard to find, but not impossible, and even so in one, forgiveness plays a part every once in a while.

And personally if you ask me, the meaning of life (in order) is: to know God, to live for God, and to enjoy the things He created for us in the way He intended for us. Seems simple and naïve, but how I came to it is certainly far more profound. May you find for yourself the meaning of life too. Cheers.

Something in BM

PERSONALITI ANDA - 80% BENAR..!!

Januari 01-09 ~ Anjing

Januari 10-24 ~ Tikus

Januari 25-31 ~ Singa

Februari 01-05 ~ Kucing

Februari 06-14 ~ Merpati

Februari 15-21 ~ Kura-kura

Februari 22-28 ~ Harimau Bintang

Mac 01-12 ~ Monyet

Mac 13-15 ~ Singa

Mac 16-23 ~ Tikus

Mac 24-31 ~ Kucing

April 01-03 ~ Anjing

April 04-14 ~ Harimau Bintang

April 15-26 ~ Tikus

April 27-30 ~ Kura-kura

Mei 01-13 ~ Monyet

Mei 14-21 ~ Merpati

Mei 22-31 ~ Singa

Jun 01-03 ~ Tikus

Jun 04-14 ~ Kura-kura

Jun 15-20 ~ Anjing

Jun 21-24 ~ Monyet

Jun 25-30 ~ Kucing

Jul 01-09 ~ Tikus

Julai 10-15 ~ Anjing

Julai 16-26 ~ Merpati

Julai 27-31 ~ Kucing

Ogas 01-15 ~ Monyet

Ogos 16-25 ~ Tikus

Ogos 26-31 ~ Kura-kura

September 01-14 ~ Merpati

September 15-27 ~ Kucing

September 28-30 ~ Anjing

Oktober 01-15 ~ Monyet

Oktober 16-27 ~ Kura-kura

Oktober 28-31 ~ Harimau Bintang

November 01-16 ~ Singa

November 17-30 ~ Kucing

Disember 01-16 ~ Anjing

Disember 17-25 ~ Monyet

Disember 26-31 ~ Merpati

Anjing:

Kamu memang seorang yang setia dan manis orangnya. Kesetian kamu memang tidak boleh disangkal lagi. kejujuran dan keikhlasan adalah kekuatan kamu, malahan di dalam kerjaya kamu memang boleh dipercayai. Kamu adalah orang yang sederhana dan sering bersikap rendah diri.Kamu bukan orang yang akan mencari masalah dan sukakan suasana yang damai.Kualiti itulah yang menjadikan teman-teman suka berada di sisi kamu. Cita rasa kamu di dalam fesyen juga diakui baik dan kamu akan mudah terasa malu dan sedih sekiranya alamari pakaianmu tidak lengkap dengan pakaian yang mengikut peredaran fesyen. Biarpun kamu tidak mempunyai teman yang ram ai tetapi teman-teman yang bersama dengan kamu memang mempunyai kualiti yang baik.

Tikus:

Kamu ini memang penuh dengan muslihat! Namun, sikap itulah yang menjadikan kamu nampak bijak dan menjadikan wajah kamu comel dan mudah menarik perhatian orang disekelilingmu. Ramai yang suka berkawan dengan kamu kerana sikap kamu yang memang mengundang keseronokan kepada orang lain. Memang kamu sering dijemput untuk memeriahkan majlis dan ram ai yang menyukai kehadiran kamu, tetapi kamu begitu sensitif orangnya dan itu menjadikan orang sekelilingmu berhati-hati untuk berbicara dengan kamu. sekiranya ada yang berani menggunakan perkataan kasar, memang mereka akan mengundang kemarahan kamu di tahap maksimum! Kamu perlu bijak mengawal emosi kamu kerana teman-teman juga manusia yang tidak lepas dari melakukan kesilapan.

Singa:

Begitu kontra dengan spesies kamu, rupanya kamu ini memang pendamai orangnya. Kamu tidak suka terlibat dengan pertengkaran atau pergaduhan. Kamu begitu sukakan aktiviti luar rumah dan tidak gemar melepak tidak tentu arah tujuan. Memang dilahirkan untuk menjadi ketua dan memberikan arahan kepada orang lain dengan cara yang paling disenangi. Kamu memang suka menyayangi dan disayangi orang lain. Namun, kamu memang mudah dipermainkan oleh orang lain, jadi berhati-hati.

Kucing:

Kamu memang penyayang, disayangi namun kadang-kala begitu pemalu. Kamu sukakan keadaan yang senyap dan damai. Di dalam kehidupan, kamu suka mempelajari tentang perkara baru dan sentiasa melakukan setiap sesuatu dengan bersungguh-sungguh. Di dalam situasi normal, kamu memang nampak tenang tetapi apabila kamu dicabar, serta merta kamu mudah mengamuk! Mereka yang bernaung dibawah kucing memang bijak bergaya. Orang sekelilingmu sering menjadikan kamu sebagai idola di dalam berpakaian. Kamu bijak bersosial tetapi hanya bercakap dengan orang kamu kenali. Kamu memang begitu berhati-hati memilih teman.

Kura-kura:

Kamu semakin hampir dengan kesempurnaan dan begitu baik hati. Kebaikan kamu akan sentiasa dikenang orang sekeliling kamu. Kamu sukakan kedamaian, sekiranya teman-teman ada menyakiti hati kamu, kamu tidak akan cuba menyakitkan hati mereka pula. Kerana ini, kamu memang disayangi dan disenangi teman-teman. Kamu juga tidak suka cakap belakang dan orang sekelilingmu begitu senang dengan cara kamu melayan mereka. Kamu sentiasa akan memberi kasih sayang dan tidak pernah mengharapkan balasan. Pemurah juga adalah sikap kamu dan kamu sentiasa melihat kehidupan sebagai latihan praktikal.

Merpati:

Kamu adalah simbol sikap yang sentiasa riang. Apa saja yang kamu lakukan, kamu akan enjoy setiap detiknya. Kahadiran kamu menjadikan teman-teman serta orang sekeliling begitu riang dan senang dengan sikap kamu. Kamu adalah ketua di dalam kumpulan teman-teman dan bijak memujuk dan menghiburkan hati orang yang sedang gundah-gulana. Hipokrasi adalah sifat yang paling kamu benci dan orang yang sebegini memang kamu tolak tepi. Di dalam pekerjaan, kamu memang teratur dan sistematik. Namun, awas! Kamu mudah jatuh cinta!

Harimau Bintang:

Kamu seorang yang misteri. Kamu boleh berhadapan dengan tekanan dengan tenangnya. Kamu juga boleh menghadapi setiap senario yang menguji kesabaran tanpa perlu mengamuk untuk melepaskan ge ram . Kadang-kala, kamu ini kejam orangnya. Hmmm...kamu suka bergosip tetapi hanya bersama dengan teman-teman yang kamu percayai sahaja. Mereka yang bernaung di bawah harimau bintang adalah begitu teratur dan kemas orangnya. Tetapi, apa yang tidak tahan dengan sikap kamu yang mahu setiap sesuatu mengikut cara kamu. Sikap itulah yang menjadikan kamu senang hilang kawan. Namun, apabila teman-teman menghadapi masalah, kamu adalah orang pertama yang mereka cari.

Monyet:

Tidak sabar dan begitu hiperaktif! Kamu mahu segala-galanya dilakukan dengan pantas. Namun, kamu memang sederhana orangnya dan begitu suka apabila ram ai yang memberikan perhatian kepada kamu. Kamu bijak berhadapan dengan masalah dan tidak mahu terlibat dengan sebarang kontroversi. Setiap langkah dan keputusan, kamu akan berfikir sebelum melakukannya. Kamu mempunyai kata hati yang kuat dan itulah yang menjadi penyelemat kepada kamu. Jangan tidak tahu, mereka yang bernaung di bawah monyet memang begitu bijak mencari wang dan begitu pandai mengatur kewangannya. Kamu memang akan berjaya di dalam perniagaan

So somehow I'm a cat.... I hate cats! Anyway these personality things are taken from a sample space, and often when you read it, you will feel as if its true. Thats is because we are trying to relate this to our selfs. A cause for mind trickery.