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; humble beginnings

2012-01-05T21:10:00.001+08:00

Oh hello blog, hope you didn’t miss me. Cheers to another blogpost ahead!

Writing again, feels weird. I haven’t actually written anything for the past 3 – 4 months or so. I'm pretty sure I’ve grown into laziness and sloth, which both shares the same meaning come to think of it.

Happy new year!? I guess? The Mayan calendar supposedly ‘prophesized’ that humanity will all die out this year, but honestly, I don’t think it’s true, humanity has grown so much to just end like this. I wouldn’t be surprised though, if people quit their jobs a day before the world is supposed to end, especially in America (cause their the big shots, right.)

Over the months that I’ve been absent, I was finishing SPM, working during the PC fair, on Bali for a holiday, enrolled myself as a Taylor’s student and just going a lot. I can say my holidays were… pretty productive? Sadly this ‘holiday’ is about to end and it’s back to books once again.

Anyway, I’ve started this project called Project 365, I shall put a link to that blog in this paragraph itself. It’s basically a project in which you put a photo up everyday and talk about it. It’s interesting, so I really really want support from anyone and everyone! Check out : http://chasingthreesixtyfive.blogspot.com/

Don’t worry, I’ll update this blog from time to time again, this blog is just more personal if I put it myself, anyway, have an awesome 2012 ahead of everyone!

“ I want a song called Back To January, seriously, Taylor Swift, write me one!”

; not the last goodbye

2011-10-31T00:17:00.001+08:00

Hi everyone or anyone reading this, glad you stuck by me so far, to finally read a cheery post. That’s right, it’s a HAPPIER POST. :P

Anyway, I’ve decided to cut myself from my online social life after today, until SPM ends (or my temptations overcomes my will, depends). So this blog might be kind off dead for awhile. I might not even post anytime soon after SPM. So consider this my farewell till SPM ends.

While the start of SPM is a mere two weeks away, it also means the end to my secondary school life. I wouldn’t say it was perfect, but I’ve certainly learnt my lessons, and pulled myself back together again, time and time again.

This post, is for all those that taught me those lessons and made my days brighter, much much brighter when I’m down all the time.

Heh, you don’t know how much I love my photographers by sticking by my side and dealing with my mood swings. First off, Jun Yu and Jake, thank you for being awesome bros. You guys brighten up my day any day with pathetic remarks and lame ass jokes. Don’t worry, I’ll join you two one day for yam char. Gavin, thank you for being a surprise, you are a quiet boy, I know, but damn, when you speak, you never stop, so blessed to have you on my team. Jeremy, thank you for dealing with me all these years, you’ve been a wonderful friend, we never really became best friends or super close friends, but I know you were there for the times I needed some backing. Bryan, you are one of the first people to pull back up to my feet when I was down those donkey years ago, and I’m happy to say that I really thank the Lord for having you as a bestfriend really. Thanks for being my drummer and my photographer. My girls (MINE I TELL YOU) Alicea, Audrey and Rayshell (SORRY, I’ll find a picture with both of us soon k) heh, ya’ll are amazing at what you do, really. Being there all the time during dummy week, being around me when I call you urgently for last minute photo shoots / events. Thank you so much, for doing such a great job. Alicea, thanks for the randomness that we both share, Audrey, thanks for being so KAWAI. (sorry) and Rayshell, thank you for being so supportive and loud. :3

Joseph, we’ve been friends since 9 or 10? I think? We’ve had our ups and downs but we made it through all those tough times. You’ve been a great friend indeed, just so you know. Priya (since you’re in the picture. :P) it’s okay, if don’t people like you, as long as you know you’ve a few people around you, it’s fine, you’ll make it through, cause quality is better than quantity. Fina, we’ve had a history only you and I both know. We didn’t work out, and till this day, I’m still sorry for that. I’m just really blessed to still have you as a very close friend, really. Even though we’ve known each other for a short period of time, the things we’ve done and conquered makes me feel like I’ve known you forever. Thank you so much, and stay K-pop in those new bangs. hahahah. :P

Two of my favouritest (is that even a word?) best friends in the world, gosh we look so hot in the picture (especially me, hahahahaha). Wei Siang, thank for the bromance since we were 11 till now. Gosh I feel gay when I talk about you. You’ve been an awesome guy, really. You might not think you’re great, but I can tell you, you are born to achieve great things really. Don’t look down on yourself, cause you are who you are. Jo Li! I know you just won nationals, damn proud okay. :’) haha, but yeah thank you, for being around really. Not so much this year, but the presence of you just makes me feel so loved all the time.

Hi cute stuff, sorry, I like calling you that. The only reason that we’re best friends is because you saw my Tropicana Golf Club card and recognized my childhood face. And I’m still amazed at how much of a small world that we live in, really. Thank you so much fore being there for me and wanting to continue our friendship that we left behind at Q-Dees. :)

Hi Lee Ann hi. We weren’t this close this year, but, you certainly made my secondary school life, a whole lot special-er (that’s not a word as well). Remember those times when we walked to Terrys, then Mr. Goey for tuition? That was awesome, and then we’d usually have bubble tea in between. Ahh, how time flies past doesn’t it? Thank you for giving me support all the time, just so that I can stand back on my feet over again. And don’t worry. I’ll certainly cherish the memories that you gave me. Ed-Lynn! You’re probably the person that understands me the most really. And I’m grateful to have found someone like you as a friend. I hope you know that, I’ll always be here for you, if you need to talk. I’ll pick up your any call, reply your any text any day.

My hair is messy and I don’t care. (JOSEPH, Y U IN PICTURE AGAIN) Sam, you are an amazing editorial boss, never doubt yourself really, you’ve done an amazing job. Thank you, for tolerating with my extreme randomness at times and telling me to wake up every time I’m at a low. Andrea, you so awesome I tell you, your Indian accent is so good. hahaha, nah just kidding. Thank you, for teaching me that, if I really want people to love me, I gotta love myself first. I’m still bad at loving myself but, I’m trying just so you know. Krystle! First off al, no I was never afraid of you when I first saw you. Hahaha, I know that’s the first impression you always get. Thanks for being my daily dose of sarcasm really, you really brighten up my day when I try to think of other sarcastic remarks to shoot back at you. YOU DON’T KNOW HOW HARD I TRY. Heh, but thank you for being an awesome HEBAT co-captain, you’ll be great in life, I know. Resh, thank you so much for designing my class page, it’s so amazing that it’s more amazing than the design you did for Sam (just saying that mine’s better) you’ve been such an amazing senior that it’s really hard to come by as all my other senior friends (LOL) have been busy with college that I don’t want to disturb them. :(

Peiii, (such an old photo of us, lol) hope you’re doing fine in Australia, I’m sorry for those days when I can’t cheer up your mood with whatever commotion is going on there. Just so you know, it’s okay to lose friends, because at the end of the day, it’s the real ones that will never leave. (LIKE ME, I think.) Thank you for reminding me that I can achieve what I’ve been longing for in SPM. Thank you for pushing me, thank you for listening to me every time I call you on skype. You don’t know how amazing you are. See you soon. :)

Waliaoeh, Nicholas Cheng. Why I take so many photos with you, that’s it’s so hard to choose. You know, it’s really okay, if you ditch me sometimes just to talk to other people because we all know those others are girls. Sigh, you and your obsession with girls. Thank you for having the lamest jokes that sometimes (Okay, most of the time) put me to shame really. :( I want your brilliant brain just so you know.

I think my parents are gonna kill me for this. (ONLY ONCE) Yes dad, I do have a girlfriend. Andrea (LIM) you really don’t know how much I love you, really. I’m sorry if I’ve ever made you cry, which I perfectly know I have. I’m sorry that at times I can be such a douche. I’m not the most perfect guy, but just so you know that I’m always trying to be perfect for you, even though it leads to disastrous outcomes. No one expected us, I didn’t expect to have you. Thank you for the best 6 months I’ve ever had in my life really. It’ll be hard when I start college, but I promise you that I will try. I love you. I really do.

I’m sorry if I missed out anyone in my life, really, cause I can’t find any pictures of you. (I’m disorganised) But yes, thank you, anyone who has been in my life up till this point, those who walked away, and those who stayed. Thank you for being part of my high school life. I’m going to miss all of you, after high school and that’s something I’m pretty sure of.

Yeah, sounds like I’m about to die eh, this post? hahaha, I know. :( But don’t take this as a farewell post, instead take this as a post for those special people who has played a huge role in my life. A post of gratitude and appreciation. Thank you so much.

; See you after SPM. Or maybe even later. :)

; reckless

2011-10-23T01:58:00.001+08:00

Hi, everyone. Back for another post? Don’t worry this won’t be as dark or scary as my previous posts (okay, a lot of posts)

You know, it’s real funny how people tend to misunderstand others so much. Not just by looks, but just by the way we sometimes act, could give others bad impressions about ourselves. For instance, let’s say you were walking down the hallway, and then we pass by me. And I don’t give any look to you, it doesn’t mean, I hate you or anything right?

It’s all psychology. Girls would think that others are giving her the bitch eye stare, not because others are giving her the bitch eye stare, it’s because she THINKS others are giving her the bitch eye stare. Thus she’ll probably return the bitch eye stare back to the “others”, as most of us, no matter how much we deny it at times, are a vengeful lot.

Action certainly speaks louder than words. So much louder in fact, that misconceptions are made. You don’t judge someone by his looks, you don’t judge someone by what he does, you don’t judge anyone by what they’re trying to do. First impressions are always the key to socializing these days, nothing more, nothing less. Give a bad one, people will hate you forever, give a good one, people will love you. That’s how the world works these days.

Most people never try, they never try to find out the other side of the story. We never try. The world is getting colder, I swear.

I was speaking too fast, all I wanted to say was: “I had a great day with you.” It’s a lie, but I just wanted to say that, just to let you know. Humbly, I admit, I was outshone. Very much outshone, in all aspects. It’s okay, I know I wasn’t born to impress. Wasn’t born to impress you or anyone.

; let’s call a toast

2011-10-11T00:25:00.001+08:00

Cheers to me, a total failure in life. After JPS decided to change they’re grading scores. I have an extra C and two less As which makes my results look even more bad enough. HAH, C+ that’s so genius. That’s way too genius. New grade eh, I solute you government I really, fucking do. Cheers to myself for not being able to get hold of marking schemes, being too fucking careless and just having a high enough absorption rate even though I study. I don’t study the hardest, but I study most of the time.

Cheers to fucking Delon Wong who went to the toilet for 20 minutes just to read the answers again. DON’T FUCKING DENY YOU DIDN’T FUCKING YOU CHEAT, YOU MOTHERFUCKING LIAR. Cheers to him for accusing me of being jealous of a stolen 92 marks while I’m just 2 marks away from that supposed A-, but then again even if I get a 70 it won’t be an A-, it’ll be an B+. Who the hell gets a 50/50 for paper 1, who in the fucking world gets a damn 97/100 for paper 2. Who the hell gets a 38/40 for mod maths paper 1 and get a 52/100 for paper 2. HAHAHA, I’M KINDA FUCKING GLAD YOU FUCKING FAILED YOUR FUCKING ADD MATHS. HEH, 28. GOOD JOB, BRO. Yeah I hope that form 4 girl of yours breaks up with you after she finds out how fucking small your penis is. that’s right. your small penis. And if you’re reading this. I don’t really care, if you punch me in school you know why? Cause I know you’ll take off my glasses before you punch me anyway. and btw. I might be skinny but hell I pack a bigger punch than you do.

Parents, be disappointed in me all you want. Really. Be disappointed in my grades all you want. Cause I know I disappoint all the time, I know deep down inside you really just wanted me to be an overachiever. I know deep down inside, you always wished I was smarter. Don’t deny. Don’t deny it mom, I’m not like other teacher’s children, cause I’m supposedly smart, but no, I’m different. And dad, I know you had excellence bio and physics back then, and yet, I can’t live up to your scores, I can’t live up to who you are. I’m just not you. Or grandpa who is so damn excellent at chemistry. I just can’t live up to both your standards. I can’t live up to my mom’s excellence in Maths, I know I can’t. So be disappointed cause I already can’t live up to my own self. I already hate myself for who I am.

What’s the damn point if you study and yet you don’t get the reward in return. What’s the damn point being stuck in a class with so many smart people around that just demoralise you time and time and time and fucking time again. I see everyone around me getting such high grades while I get satisfactory, but not amazing grades. What’s the damn point if everyone around you is using marking schemes and tips. FINE I FUCKING ADMIT. I DID USE TIPS. but I didn’t concentrate on just tips, I studied every. single. damn. thing.

It’s just so damn tiring to not get what I want. to not live up to my own expectations. I’m not an amazing photographer. I know I will never live up to Luke or Zheng Yang, my directors for the past two years. I’m a horrible Buddhist society president, I know. I look at Timothy and his army of CF and I’m just jealous. I really am. I’m a failure for my house team. I didn’t improve on your 4th place for the past few years. in fact i made us last. See, how much of a failure I am.

I don’t remember crying so much. over my own life. at the moment I’m sad and angry at the same time. the reason I’m typing this? it’s the only way I release my anger and sorrow without actually trying to kill myself. heh, pathetic I know, crying over marks and grades. THAT’S HOW I AM, DON’T JUDGE ME. OKAY. I want to live up to my own damn expectations and it’s saddening to see that I can’t. I just fucking can’t.

I’m not proud of myself. If you don’t love yourself who will love you. heh, it’s okay. I’m okay with being alone. I was alone anyway. Yeah, true. Don’t love me, this is to everyone.

; when you try your best but you don’t succeed.

trust me, I’m trying to fix myself.

; near perfect

2011-10-04T22:54:00.001+08:00

I remember Weng, during one of our Chemistry chats earlier this year, he told me this; “Wah, Jia Wei, got girlfriend, got driver’s licence, got camera, got guitars, your life damn perfect.”

I chuckled at that cause I know my life isn’t perfect. I’m not perfect.

I don’t look at the world as a horrible place, yes I know, my previous posts has been depressing (sadly this one is a depressing one as well) and you might think so, but honestly, I just look at myself in a bad light.

I know my flaws, I’m hot tempered, materialistic, too straightforward, a liar, procrastinator, those are my major flaws. People say that what’s makes me who I am and love me for it, but what if I don’t love myself? I am truly grateful that my parents had born me and gave me what I need to succeed in life. I am very grateful for the friends I know that’ll stand by my side all the time, but I just feel, so insecure about myself, I feel like, I don’t belong.

I try, I put in my effort, to study. I really do, I don’t study the hardest, but I really really, do study, but in the end, the results I get are all the same. I always fail myself to achieve those As that I want and need. What do I want them for? For the improvement of my life, for my family, for myself. I know I’m not satisfied till I achieve what I want, but for the past 2 years of form 4 – 5 life, I have never been satisfied with my results. Never ever.

What do I do, to push myself that extra mile, to go even further, to do even better? This is the hardest push, I have ever done, for exam preparations, but yet, I still feel like a slave compared to others who look like kings to me. Kings that are way too good in intellect and wisdom of subjects.

Yeah, I’m complaining about myself, blah blah blah, if you don’t want to read, then get out. Sigh.

I just want to feel smart for once, please.

; Frued

2011-09-18T00:41:00.001+08:00

Sigmund Freud, an early psychologist, states that early experiences shape us for who we are today.

He states that the human mind is like an ice berg submerged in artic sea. The part of the ice berg which you can see is the conscious mind, the sea is like a divider acts as the pre-conscious mind and the part of the ice berg which we all can’t see is the unconscious mind. He states that the unconscious mind stores the memories which makes us who we are today, these memories will come up to the conscious mind and affect us in some sort of ways, well, that’s my interpretation.

I don’t know when or why I get so depressed when it comes to studying wise. It’s like whatever I try to do to improve myself, I just can’t grasp it, I just can’t reach the finish line. Terry, my add maths tuition teacher says that “Try is for losers, do is for winners.” If you do put in all your effort and push for something you really want, but yet you don’t get the reward that you’ve been longing for, does that still make you winner? In my theory, no, cause in the end, you still haven’t achieved what you want in life, you haven’t achieved what you really want.

People always tell me, “Just try your best,” but you know, deep down inside, your best isn’t enough, that the world won’t revolve around oneself. It’s either you walk with it, or get left out, that’s how modern society is right now. If you actually tried your best by being your best, does that still make you a loser? Most people would say no, thus for motivational purposes, I would disagree as well. Grades, intellect, are always the things employers look for, and sadly I have neither good grades or intellect.

When I see people going for interviews for scholarships at Taylor’s, HELP, Sunway, I get jealous, because I can’t do the same thing, because I don’t have the grades to prove that I’m as smart or as good as them when it comes to studying wise. I get jealous when I see people overachieving; debating, sports, popularity in school, all of that in a couple of years. Whilst I still sit around in school, being a nobody outside the schooling area not being to achieve what these people have achieved.

Call me lazy, call me not being able to grasp onto the moment and take advantage, yes, it is my fault that I’m jealous of all these things. But with that being said, is everyone actually born with the gift of intellect? Some people have communication problems when with others, does that mean they don’t get a chance to prove themselves in the form of intellect at all? Yes, the modern society won’t want to be listening to a debater stuttering all the time. But then again, there isn’t anything wrong with me, so yes, once again it is my fault.

You know I can never be proud of my achievements over the past 17 years of my life. When it comes to school achievements, yes, I can be partially proud with the post I held during the past years. When it comes to outside of school, I can’t be. I had the chance to prove it today, and yet I can’t prove it, I can’t prove to myself that I’m good enough to be accepted, to be good enough to be someone who actually has a future ahead of myself.

I failed today because I didn’t have a fast enough brain absorption rate, because I wasn’t smart enough when applying things I’ve learnt into an essay. Yet, are we to be blamed for this? Are we to blame our parents for this? Are we to blame our genes for this? I don’t know. I mean we’re born like this, it’s not like we can do anything about it no? Yes, we can improve ourselves, but till a certain extent I believe.

An extent that I won’t exceed.

I really don’t know what I’d do without you sometimes. I’m still sorry about our yesterdays, still sorry about what happened. I just wished I took action earlier, to prevent all of this.

; Bittersweet

2011-09-02T01:00:00.001+08:00

Hello readers, again to a blog update. I don’t really have anything to say these days, cause life is just so dull. You wake up in the morning, shower, brush your teeth, get dressed, eat breakfast, start studying, rest… and it goes on and on, in the same old cycle.

Happy retirement Pn. Saik! I wouldn’t call you my favourite teacher, or the best teacher, but I believe you’re the teacher the most cheerful teacher, heh, you’re always smiling! I’m sorry if I’ve ever slept during your classes (probably have) or not do your homework, but just so you know, I admire your dedication in educating us monkeys (yes, I’m indirectly calling everyone monkeys) to become better leaders and people in the future. Thank you so much for everything! 5 Cengal will never be the same without you.

I guess that’s about the only thing that is interesting? I know, I’m so boring. Boohoo, any who, good bye. :)

I don’t know if I’m happy with what I’ve found or regretting on what I could’ve had. #10factsaboutme

; so watch how good I’ll fake it

2011-08-10T22:17:00.001+08:00

OH HAI.

Yes, it’s August already and, wow, time sure does fly past, I feel old now. So for the past few weeks of not posting any content at all on this blog mine, I’ve done a lot of pretty interesting things I must say.

World Stage 2011 was freaking awesome I can tell you that, I should’ve gotten my “I’ve been to World Stage three times” shirt printed out, but didn’t have the time. OH WELL, Jared Leto was amazing and Neon Trees was down right good. BEAST, despite Shock’s addictive tune, you haven’t turned me into a fan. And Pop Shuvit, so far, of all M’sian bands, you didn’t impress me, sorry.

That was my last day of July for you, and my first few days of August? Was pretty much busy, spent the whole entire time in the Nostalgia room (which surprisingly is much more important than some language room but school decided not to give us an air-cond and good internet.) finishing up the magazine which the deadline is nearby, which is getting everyone worried.

See that worried face? You know what, never mind. So yeah, that’s as much as I can give for myself for the past few weeks (cause Nostalgia secrets shall not be told!). Have a great day everybody! :)

; Political

2011-07-20T20:18:00.002+08:00

Immature
Recently, two of my classmates had a row which included punching, a swollen eye and the taking off of glasses (Don’t ask me why.) But anyway, I felt the need to express my views on this matter, so please do not be offended. I know I can’t exactly say anything because I wasn’t there when the incident happened and all, but yeah, from what I heard from a lot of other people, both parties had a fair share in fault and even though I’m close to one of them, I won’t, I repeat myself, I will not choose sides.

Okay, so first off all, I would suggest people that who are not in the same class as me and the two of them to not get involved into this incident. I really despise people who only listens to one side of the story, while just completely ignoring the other party’s story and cursing them to hell saying that God will certainly punish them. Remember, God has eyes of his own, Karma has eyes of its own, so whoever is truly wrong will be proven wrong at the end of his or her life. So, do not bad judgment just cause one person’s story seems all too believable. At the end of the day, God or/and Karma will punish you that has cursed him or her whom you did not listen to.

Honestly, if a person hasn’t done anything wrong or is innocent, he wouldn’t be scared, he wouldn’t have fear in his or her heart, he wouldn’t complain 24/7 about this matter in class. Look, if you continue being all scared, that means you HAVE done something wrong, and the truth will come out, thus making the lies you tell people useless. You need not tell the whole world about some real-life story that you edited, because when the truth comes out, everyone will change their minds and turn their backs on you.

Don’t go condemning other people just because you think you don’t have a weakness. If you really are a man, you would face reality and accept your own weaknesses and turn them into strength instead of pushing the blame on someone else. “OH! He has a weakness I know! Found it already, sure kena this time.” Open your damn eyes and listen to what you’re saying, a guy, who made a huge fuss about this so-called-small problem, went to complain to the discipline teacher, told everyone in the whole world about your ‘story’ about how manly you were and even called your dad? I think you’re the one with the weakness.

Moreover, do you call yourself a man? Hiding yourself from reality? Complaining to every single person on the face of this Earth? Blocking all of your classmates on Facebook? Playing the same video game 24/7 every time you come home? Fighting over a stupid rune you didn’t get in HON? mmhm, if that makes you a man, what does that make me, God? I don’t think so. Yeah, I know I sound one-sided, but you know what? This IS the truth cause I sit just right in front of this guy (LOL). So, think twice, before calling yourself a man, because as far as I can see it, you aren’t one. And to all the Form 4 girls and others that find him handsome and are planning to date him, don’t be surprised if I call you desperate, because dating a guy like this? Well, you’ll certainly be having a fun time listen to him play his games, while you just sit in the corner like a trophy. :)

This is the third post, I’ve written about you, please don’t be so arrogant and start changing for the better because everyone certainly likes you. (SURE.)

; no I’m not colour blind

2011-07-17T00:31:00.001+08:00

It’s certainly been a long time since my last blog post.

So here I am once again, typing away the thoughts and memories in my head. Life has certainly caught up on me, but yet, I don’t want to abandon my nearly 3 year old blog. This is my safe haven.

For the past month of so of not posting anything at all,

I went to Vietnam (which I can tell you this, that place is heavenly)

Found out about my natural talent (even though not shown in this picture) of cam whoring, yes I know.

And lived through what should be my final high school sport’s day ever. (ended in misery though)

I was finding some Leo photos yesterday which I supposedly owe Pn. Wong. I had to look in every single album in my computer, and to no prevail, I couldn’t find the photos she wanted. Looking through the files, time certainly flies once you reach your teenage years. My photography has certainly changed into a more distinct style which I can call my own. My hair, well, my hair, is forever changing. My friends that I hang around with certainly differed here and there. All in all, looking back, my life has been pretty interesting. Interesting in a sense that my life is always providing challenges for me to overcome.

Wouldn’t call it perfect but, life’s pretty good now. I got my driver’s license (but still no car *sobs*) I got a team of awesome photographers, I got my family, I got my friends. For those horrible memories that I endured before, it all happens for a reason, things aren’t meant to be. For those happy memories that I lived, it’s great but I won’t cling onto it, cause things done the second time will never be the same as the first. Conclusion? I might not love myself, but now I know, life’s pretty much worth living for.

; I told you I wouldn’t write anything about you, but, Lim Andrea Tzejia, thanks for being that added bonus to my life, thanks for taking the risk with me.

I love you.

Science & Faith

2011-05-31T00:23:00.001+08:00

Oh hai everybody, I am back to blogging after 2 weeks or so? School holidays has started, so I’m probably gonna blog more often these days.

It feels like, for the entire, 3 weeks of exams up till this point, my faith has certainly been tested. Not that, I feel like converting, trust me, I’m still very much a strong believer in Buddhism. I certainly try to believe in the teachings, but when it’s mixed with science, it’s so anti-climatic.

How can you openly accept concepts of science when religion is telling you something different. Stephen Hawking recently openly told the public saying that there isn’t an afterlife. The world’s smartest man, is telling us that there isn’t such thing as a heaven or hell or reincarnation. I don’t believe him entirely, as he doesn’t have any evidence to prove the non-existence of an afterlife. On the other hand, does religion provide any proof to the existence of afterlife?

Certainly, they’ve been stories of reincarnation and Lazarus, do I believe them? My heart tells me to believe, but my brain says otherwise. You see, in school we’ve been taught about so many sciences from Biology to Chemistry, it has made our thinking become too realistic, too narrow minded I guess, well at least that’s my opinion.

But I guess, it comes to show that some if not most things are better left untouched, better left unexplained. No one can explain the miracle of how Christ sacrificed only to come back alive on the cross after three days, no one can explain how flowers can grow beneath baby Buddha’s feet when he first walked the Earth. Life’s long questions about religion, as people who are strong in religion, should be taken in openly, no matter how absurd or how miracle-ish it might sound.

As for science, well, I’ve nothing against Stephen Hawking, so I’ll happily accept his point of view. It’s a 50 – 50 chance, there might be an afterlife, there might not be an afterlife, it’s only when we near death, that we’ll only find out the truth behind this mystery.

Heritage

2011-05-05T23:26:00.001+08:00

I lied, it’s too early to stop blogging.

Hey all, so here I am with another blog post.

So my family and few other families went to Malacca last Saturday till Monday for a short holiday, and I guess you could say it was all about food, food and food. We all squeezed into my grandma’s house there, cause my grandma (Mom’s side) is currently staying at my old house with my uncle.

After all these years of going back to Malacca to visit my grandmother, this is actually the first time that we actually went to explore Malacca I guess?

What disgusts me though is the fact that people actually vandalise the historical buildings? I think that’s really bad of them, it gives a bad impression to tourists, the government ought to do something about it.

But other than that, the trip was awesome, I didn’t exactly learn anything, but the extra walking around while eating awesome food was.. basically just awesome.

Before I wrap things up, good luck to everyone for mid terms, and stay safe. :)

; I guess it’s time for you to start appreciating and stop pushing people away.

3.34 PM, 4.35 PM, 9.05 PM

2011-04-27T22:00:00.001+08:00

Okay hi. I am back to blogging, (like finally duh).

I shall apologize for not blogging for the past 2 to 3 weeks? I think? So here am I typing my out what I feel like typing out.

Recently, dad brought us to this place called The Han Room at the Gardens for grandpa’s birthday. And I can tell you, the food there is fantastic, especially the pork ribs (lower left) and some-kind-of-fried-fish with mushroom sauce (top right). The fish is cooked to perfection and the pork ribs, even though a little oily, is well seasoned (I think that’s the word). The food there was expensive, large and delicious.

April, other than great food, has been pretty topsy turvy (and busy). This month, has really tested my patience when it comes to people around me and all. “What doesn’t kill you, only makes you stronger” and I’ve certainly come out as a stronger person now. From that tiresome class photo shoot to having handling 3 events in one go, this month has certainly proven it’s worth as a challenge.

Won’t be blogging any time soon as exams are coming, so yeah, till then, good luck and good bye. :)

; If you’re a man, you aren’t supposed to hit girls, nag like an aunty, taunt like a loser, show off like you’re some big-shot or to seek attention like you’ve ADD. Looks like you’ve broken the rules above, you are therefore not a man. ;)

A Sucker For Lovers

2011-04-08T23:02:00.001+08:00

Okay, so my mood is better now for a cheerier post.

Alright, so this post is for anyone and everyone who tried to make me happy on my birthday, well, in all honesty you guys did, it’s just me that has the issues and problems.

First of all, I would like to thank (beware if you see your name twice) the people who wished me from 12 o’clock till late, Andrea. L, Jo Li, Elena, Ju-Ann, Amanda, Lee Ann, Joseph, Joanna, Kimberly, Maddy, Andrea. P, Jian Wen, Estee, Rachel, Ed-Lynn, Zhi Chung, Freda, Natasha and Sarah. Thank you. :D

Lee Ann, Elena, Ju-Ann and especially Aaron (for your super duper creative card. ) thank you for the awesome birthday cards. Wei Siang and Jo Li, thanks for the gigantic one, I have no idea where to hang it in my room, but why does it have to be pink I have no idea. Hah.

Aaron, Bryan, Chuen, Yuan Ann, Zhi Chung, Amanda, Shawn, Wei Siang for trying to throw me a birthday bash, I’m sorry for my attitude, you guys did a great job. Thanks for paying my dinner, I should’ve gotten a steak instead, if I knew you guys would be paying. (Not that evil) Chuen and Yuan Ann, thanks for getting me the gayest yet tastiest cake I’ve ever eaten. (IT HAD HEARTS EVERYWHERE)

Chester, Ho Khai, Justin, JZ, Daryl, Kevin, Jian Wei, Benjamin, Stanley, Zhi Chung, Hakim, Chuen, Shawn, Kheng Wei, Bryan, Andrea. L, Amanda for getting me Black Ops and Brotherhood. (You guys trying to make me fail my SPM?) Oh, and Amanda again for the wonderful cookies, they are awesome, trust me.

Last but not least, Fina. Your present might not be expensive, but it’s the most thoughtful present I’ve gotten. Trust me. I feel real guilty cause I feel like I’ve let you down this entire week, I know you’re sick of me apologizing, but I’m here apologizing again. Thanks for your present, I’ll certainly write stuff on it, and yes pink is very manly. :P

Thanks to those who wished me on Facebook or Twitter, real nice of you all spamming me, and yeah that’s about it. SO YEAH, much more cheerful sounding? I hope so. That’s about all I wanna thank. Have a great day yah.

*Gayest guys you’ll ever meet*

; you and your denial

2011-04-03T23:03:00.001+08:00

“What did you do for your birthday?”

“Oh, I went to take photos for moral.”

It’s really either I don’t appreciate the things around me or I just like making assumptions out of my own life. The guys tried to throw me a birthday bash on Saturday, but the turn out was poor.

I got home, pissed and confused with my own thoughts. Drowned in a sorrow I created for myself. I shouldn’t blame anyone who tried to organize the bash for me, I know I shouldn’t but I did. I shouldn’t blame the others who didn’t make it, but I did as well.

At that moment, in time, I find myself unimportant to anyone, in anyone lives. I truly did, I’m probably thinking that at this moment as well, I feel unimportant to anyone at all. I mean c’mon who needs a guy like me. I’m not smart, I’m not athletic, I’m not THAT funny. I just occupy space.

I’m still drowning in my own thoughts, for this whole week I’ve been drowning in my own thoughts. I just wished the noise would stop, I just wished that my brain would stop thinking so much, but yet the more I tell it stop the more it continues to think.

After the tantrums that I threw this year, and all of this, I think I need to start opening up, once and for all. My jar of thoughts is about to crack. (any volunteers? ha ha, funny)

But yeah, thanks for everything guys. Thanks for the effort, but it can’t cure my insecurities.

“…my sister told me that she saw her at tuition with a guy, she told me they’re together.” : (

Penultimate.

2011-03-30T19:50:00.001+08:00

Been running around the school for the entire day today, I even walked back in the glaring sun just now.

Today we had another photo session for the clubs and stuff, and it was really tiring and hectic. But that’s not the point of this point, this post isn’t about what we did today or how we arranged the people or even how we tried to keep ourselves calm in the midst of hardship.

The reason why I’m typing out this post, is not because that my birthday’s tomorrow, no, it’s cause I feel like writing something out. For the past 16 years of my life, I feel like I’ve been trying to hard to make everyone happy, but then again, I feel like I’ve not been putting enough to make everyone happy.

“You can’t satisfy everyone in life,” that’s what I would tell myself, but the more I tell myself that, the more I try to. I try to make up for the mistakes that others have made, when I’ve done nothing wrong at all, just to have a neutral relationship with everyone. At least I try to, try to not have enemies in my life.

But with that being said, you can’t live a life without a few enemies once in awhile. I’ve outgrown, I’ve learnt to stop thinking about what others say and continue living how I want to live. For the past 16 years, honestly, not bragging, but amongst my friends I’ve probably changed the most. I know I’ve changed a lot, for the better and for the worse.

From that Form 1 kid who just wants to hang out with popular kids, to that Form 2 boy I was, which started finding real friends instead of people who uses you. And when I was in Form 3, I learnt that even the people you put trust in the most, can turn their backs on you, and want to walk out of your life forever. Last year, I learnt to recover from my downfall. And this year, I just want to live to be a happier person.

Happy birthday Jia Wei, happy birthday.

; look at this photograph, every time I do it makes me laugh

“Will Be There Soon”

2011-03-26T00:57:00.001+08:00

Whenever you ask people where they are at or maybe what time they’re coming to a particular place or gathering, they’d always reply “Will be there soon” or maybe “Will be out soon.”

So during the holidays, this ex-classmate of mine, well she, woke me up with a sms asking me whether I would be interested in making money and stuff like that. Since it was 7.30, I didn’t bother to reply her, cause sleep is much better. So anyway, she called me at around 3 o’clock with her horribly spoken English which made me confuse and all sorts. Then without even agreeing to anything, she told me to meet up with her at Taman Megah’s Secret Recipe at around 4 o’clock. Since she sounded desperate (and me being too kind) I agreed to meeting up with her.

So I started to head towards there at around 3.45, and I probably reached there at around 3.55, cause I’m usually at a place 5 minutes before time. So I waited, and waited, and waited (outside Secret Recipe). And soon, it was 4.30. I’ve been stoning for half an hour, just waiting for her to arrive.

I got pissed and then I started cursing to myself. Half way through my journey back, she gave me a call, saying that she’s gonna be there in another 5 minutes. I told myself to keep calm, and wait for her once again. For another 15 minutes, I stood and wait, yet she never came. I got pissed once again, so I bought myself a Slurpee and started to walk back home, again. Anyway, as I neared my house, she gave me a call asking me where I was. In the most polite pissed manner ever, I told her off and said goodbye to her (In a pissed tone of course).

And then she messaged an apology saying that she was caught in a jam of some sort, and stuff like that. When I got home and started playing my computer games, my Facebook chat started to make noises. And yes, you guessed apologized some more, two dozen more to be exact. Me being the cold hearted bitch that I am, didn’t bother to reply cause I felt like that she was spamming. The next day, she texted me and apologized (again) and asked if we could meet up again. I didn’t bother replying. She tried calling me, but I just silenced my phone.

It’s a horrible habit really to be unpunctual. So hopefully this story will enlighten any of you readers to be more punctual (especially around me, hah!) And also, I probably think it’s best to not bug people when they’re pissed (especially me, again) cause it’s annoying. I find it annoying. I know this is a small matter but there are some things in life that you can’t just cool down instantly about. And to this ex-classmate of mine, if you’re reading this, don’t bother inviting me out anymore. :)

mmhm, cause I’m bitch like that.

“Friends”

2011-03-18T01:26:00.004+08:00

According to stats, Malaysians on average has the highest number of friends on Facebook.
There are 3 types of people on Facebook;

People who most of the time thinks for awhile before accepting a friend request
People who accepts any friend request
People who adds practically everyone they see

You see, us Malaysians, we accept friend requests from anyone we know, from enemies to people who we know just by their looks and that sort off contributes to the high average number that we have. I currently have, not bragging but 847 friends on Facebook. I know at least 95% of the “friends” I’ve added, but probably only 20% of them are people that I actually talk to. So as you can see, it’s a trend for Malaysians to just accept whoever they sort-off-know.

Now, I’m probably thinking that I (and most people) fall into the first category as I have rejected and deleted some people off my Facebook profile before. Now, the people from the second category are usually the people who would just accept any friend request they receive. I don’t understand why would some people do that, but they are among us which does this. Honestly, why the heck, would I let 2000 people stalk me, look at my photos and look at my wall posts? I’m open to anything, but not THAT open till I let strangers see what I just liked or what photo I just got tagged in.

People who, to me are categorized in category two aren’t half as bad as the people who come under category three. Like this guy, named A (I shall not reveal his name), has 1268 friends on his Facebook, and by the looks of it, most of the things he comments on are girl statuses and photos. So yeah, use Facebook as a girl stalking device, awesome, he’s certainly did what Zuckerberg started out before he created Facebook

Then there’s B, he goes to other people’s Facebook profile (including mine), clicks on the list of friends and starts sending friend requests to everyone in the list. Now that’s really scary, I mean, seriously, invading my friends list just to claim you’ve got 2688 friends on Facebook? I'm probably thinking that B doesn't know half of the people he randomly adds. B, doesn't really have friends in real life, so yeah, explains a lot.

I’m not jealous at the amount of Facebook "friends", cause I know that I’ve got real friends. So yeah, this, in my opinion are the types of people that you might find on Facebook. I’m not typing this to change their minds on how they should use Facebook properly, this is just a public service announcement. If you fall under category 2 and 3 (especially category 3), I’m sorry if I’ve hurt your feelings, cause that’s how I see things.

To A, if you want a girlfriend, go out there and get one, don’t just sit in front of the computer, look at girls and start to masturbate to yourself (sorry female readers, that’s the truth). And to B, if you stopped being such a pain in the neck, maybe people would come to like you a little bit more. If you could put a little change in your life, why not do it? It's certainly better than staring at Facebook the whole day, just to see who you're next prey is or who you might want to randomly add.

This is not a rant or complain, this is just how things really are for Malaysians on Facebook.

Somewhere Only We Know

2011-03-15T23:05:00.001+08:00

So hi, I’m back from Kuantan and no I did not have a Tsunami encounter. Kuantan, hasn’t changed (except for the annoying traffic lights) at all since I was last there when I was 13.

The tide has certainly been higher though, so I had no chance to swim in the ocean, but I guess it’s for my own safety.

This certainly was a much more interesting trip than the last one, due to the series of events. On Saturday morning we (plus a few other families) headed to our first destination which was the turtle sanctuary, which proved, well, uninteresting.

I mean, there wasn’t really much to do there other than look at turtles, we’d probably should’ve gone at night during the egg-laying season for turtles.

After that we went to Kemaman Kopitiam, which for your info, serves the best ice coffee on this entire planet (according to me). It’s hard to get seats, as it’s really famous, but if you’re patient, the coffee is certainly worth the wait. I’d like to point out, they’re not that eco-friendly, but I guess they can’t really do anything as they get a lot of customers a day. The iced coffee is at RM2.50 and it’s certainly worth your buck. Food there, is not bad really, but I would say it’s a tad bit too expensive. Like this piece of tuna sandwich cost RM 4.80

Headed to a few beaches and a place where people collected fish.

And when we got back to the bungalow, the maid went missing. Okay, so here’s the story, my maid, is an old woman who claims she’s 48. So she decided to try and runaway while we went out, which delayed my dinner. Fortunately my parents found her in some Indonesian camp? Well, that’s what I heard or think the story was. She’s been sent back to the agent now, and yes once again maidless.

Went to Teluk Chempedak the next day, and yeah, that’s about it for my 3 day 2 night trip to Kuantan.

#prayforjapan

Rainy Days.

2011-03-09T23:07:00.001+08:00

It’s funny how things change in a blink of an eye.

Here’s a little update on what I’ve been up to, and honestly I’ve been up to nothing. I mean other than studying for monthly test, doing homework and stuff like that, there isn’t much I can do as a student. I’ve been doing a lot of photography work I guess? Just burned 5 CDs filled with photos from events just last week and that’s about as interesting as my life gets! *sarcasm*

Holidays are coming up pretty soon and I’m looking forward to it. I need a break from all the commotion that has been happening these days. Speaking about commotion, for those who asked me what happened when I went on a huge rant on Sunday on my Twitter, I want to say thank you, cause I like attention. No, but really, thank you guys/girls for telling me to keep calm cause if I didn’t keep calm, I would’ve smashed my keyboard even further. My keyboard has to live with the abuse I put it through, pity it. *sarcasm*

Anyway, back to holidays, I will start my holidays with a trip to Kuantan, so there’ll be photos about it. Then when I come back, I’ll probably start to get busy as I’ve got 4 Tugasan Harian, a Civics project and a couple of outings. I don’t even understand why I’m taking civics project this year so seriously. I mean, what do you actually learn from civics? Oh, how we should respect our parents, sureeeeeee.*sarcasm*

That is about all I can think of right now, to type out (as I wanted to make this post a cheerful sounding one). Will blog more soon. See yah. :D

Kuantan, 2007.

Misunderstood

2011-03-05T22:57:00.001+08:00

I got this question from Formspring a few months ago, from Zee, one of my CoD buddies. He asked me;

“What do you think is the cause of most problems?”

I answered : Misunderstandings between people.

For the past few weeks, I’ve been learning and observing how misunderstandings can tear a friendship apart, how it can tear people’s rationales towards other people. For some of the people who are reading this post right now, I’m probably thinking you know who I am talking about.

If there’s one thing I can get rid of in my life, I would get rid of all my enemies first. Not to say, literally get rid of them, rather have them as friends or have them as neutral buddies (hi-bye friends). With that being said, no one can go without having everyone as friends, it’s only reality.

I hate choosing between sides. I didn’t cast my vote when the class had to decide between two scripts. I didn’t choose to believe anyone when both my friends were having an argument over my role. And I certainly didn’t choose to make someone an enemy when I just made up with him. It’s hard enough to see people fight, so don’t make me choose.

I was pretty sure you had no confidence in my acting or memorizing. It’s alright, but you didn’t have to speak it out to the others sitting around you till they could hear. You didn’t have to make me feel bad for what has happened two years ago.

On the other hand, you didn’t have to give the idea of kicking me out, while giving some perverted remarks about hugging. Cause there’s nothing wrong with hugging. And also you didn’t have to start a fire over what you’ve had heard from others.

Both of you are wrong in my sense.

Why must people, come up with evidence, or act as if they were innocent to prove something? Does that make them even more innocent or are they just trying to overreact so that you will believe them? You know what happens after that? They keep pestering you to side them or maybe they’ll keep apologizing as if nothing has happened. You know what, when you say nothing has happened, there’s always something that has happened. There’s never a nothing in life.

I’m not pissed at anyone, at the moment. I just want to let go my thoughts about the things that has happened around me. There are much more stories to tell about the misunderstandings between people from me, but that will be another time. So yeah, I’m sorry if I offended anyone in this post.

It’s time to start having a little humanity. It’s time to stop blaming or assuming of others intentions. It’s time to set our mind to the now. Don’t bring up the things of the past, don’t start planning for our future cause there’s only one now. Disagree you will, but I don’t care, this is how I will live for the world.

-“I’d do anything”-

Literally

2011-02-26T00:16:00.001+08:00

Drama competition today, and I must say, I am surprised. Literally.

Wouldn’t say we practised the hardest, wouldn’t say we had the best story line, wouldn’t say we had the most smooth sailing of things, but yeah, we did it, we won and now we get to skip English oral (but honestly, I like English oral, don’t tell anyone.) It took a couple of slaps to the face, a few awkward moments, but you know what it was worth it. So yeah, good job class.

My mood hasn’t been the greatest for the past couple of days. The school board, teachers, classmates have been giving me headaches and sleepless nights. There are days where I just ranted everything I wanted to release on my Twitter, there are days where I smashed my keyboard when I was typing. I guess, keeping in, is not working for me anymore.

I keep in my troubles, cause I feel like as if I’m complaining. Complaining is annoying to me, whenever I hear someone complain. But with that being said, is it really worth bundling up all your emotions in a small box and then letting them out like a volcano when the box starts to burst? I don’t know the answer, I guess time will only tell. Time and patience.

At least, I’ll have my sexy (I’m sexiest of course) friends to help me. :D

Oh and btw, Yuan Ann, your loafers are the prettiest shoes I’ve ever seen. That sounded gay.

On A Valentines’ Day

2011-02-20T00:38:00.003+08:00

6 days overdue. I am really bad at keeping track of time.

On a Valentine’s Day, I did a lot of things,

I was helping out with the photo shoot for all classes.

Gambled with a bunch of idiots (just kidding), and between all of that I had tuition, which honestly isn’t very interesting.

Valentines’ to me this year, doesn’t mean much to me, so fret not, this shall not be some post where I rant about how lonely I am. In fact, I’m going to rant (not exactly ranting) about people about how they rant about how lonely they are. (Confused?)

I could remember, exactly on the 13th of February last year. This guy instead of concentrating at the great food at his own reunion dinner, decides to message me at my reunion dinner, complaining how lonely he was.

He asked me,

“If I send a girl credit so that she can reply me, would that appeal to her?”

I told him,

“It depends if she wants to talk to you or not.”

Okay, so after those two lines, he started typing out words like ‘sigh’ and ‘lonely’ and ‘I need someone to hold’. And all this while, he has never come up to me and ask me how to approach a girl and stuff like that till that day before Valentines’.

‘Just cause tomorrow is Valentines’ , doesn’t mean you need a girl to be by your side, you do know that right?’

But yet, he didn’t seem to listen, in the end, he continued being moody even though, it was a day before Chinese New Year.

There are things in life, which don’t happen for us, and if doesn’t happen, then it’s not meant to be, it’s not fated to happen. From there, we learn to move on, move on to better things in life. I admit, before I turned 15, during Valentines’, I would be moody and I would start playing Taylor Swift songs on the guitar (how gay, Jia Wei). But I guess it hit me that, I don’t have to be in a relationship to be happy.

Do I get jealous of people? Yes, it’s only human nature. But do I have to have to stay jealous? No. I don’t have to. You don’t pull yourself down, till you start to hate your own life, that’s stupid. You don’t go all sad and moody just cause you have no Valentine, that’s idiotic. Valentines’, is just a concept, a day where you show more love than usual to everyone around you. You know what, Valentines’ should be celebrated everyday, so that we can love everyone around us more than usual.

I can honestly say, a cupcake, a small note, a packet of sweets and a day filled with hanging around with people has made a great Valentines’ Day for me. Happy Valentines’ Day everybody. (6 days late)

*Shout out to Chuen, Bryan and Rufina* (cause they wanted me to mention their names in this blog post)

Street Side Singing.

2011-02-07T23:51:00.001+08:00

Hey readers/bloggers/twitters/formspring-ers/foursquare-ers?

I wanna start off by wishing everyone a Happy Chinese New Year, cause Chinese New Year is awesome, cause of the awesome food, the awesome red packets, the awesome… food! Just wanna share my Chinese New Year story. (It might sound like me bragging so please bear with me)

So, me and my cousin went to Jonker Street at Melacca to get some fried ice-cream (btw, it’s awesome). Unfortunately, the shop that sold the fried ice-cream was either gone, sold out, or just left. Anyway, we made our way back, then we saw this guy in front of the first Chicken Rice Balls store singing.

(Yes, I noticed the two random guys as well)

This isn’t the first time I’ve seen this long-haired singing/harmonica/guitar playing guy, in fact, I saw him during the New Years Eve celebration, once again with my cousin. He played with a broken CD and not guitar picks. So I told myself, what the heck, I’ve got a guitar pick in my wallet, might as well give it to him. We started chatting and then he made me sing.

Okay, there is a video of it (me singing), but I’m not gonna upload it. But this isn’t the point of the story. I’ve always wondered if he ever dreamt of being what he is when he was smaller, a singer. To me, he’s not a beggar, a beggar just sits around and begs, he sings. He is the heart and soul of Jonker Street, every passers-by, every foreign tourist, every single woman and child will see him before the entire the almighty Jonker Street (I think the street is awesome, ‘nuff said)

We, are allowed to dream big as people. We are told that we can be what we really want to be, but is that all true? When I was a kid, I wanted to be a doctor, at least my parents did, or maybe my mom, but yeah, it stuck to my mind, being a doctor could be awesome, that’s what my 5 year old brain said to itself. Now the reality is, I’m having a hard time studying Chemistry and that’s stopping me from being my 5 year old dream.

There’s always this, wall, that blocks us between reality and staying true to who you are. Do I want to end up like him, a singer with a street for his stage, or do I want to do what I love doing instead, and enjoy life? I don’t know if he enjoys doing what he does, I don’t know if he’s eats and sleeps well, but from what I can see, whenever he plays and sings, he always gives his best and I probably can learn from that. That spirit.

'”Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.”

- Winston Churchill

Legend

2011-01-24T21:49:00.001+08:00

This post is dedicated to Ju-Lien!

HELLO,

if you’re reading this, all I wanna say is that you’ve been a great friend of mine, and you’ve never left me when I needed a shoulder to cry on (I’ve never cried on your shoulder, me and and my over-exaggerating-nes) Anyway, I’ll certainly never forget the times we’ve had from Hebat marching till random moments we’ve had in the middle of school.

I hope you remain the same going into Sydney and never change who you are, cause you are that awesome (I’m awesome-er though). It’s hard to find someone that is actually equal funny or funnier than me (feeling perasan again).

Anyway, have a safe trip ahead of you and good luck down under, don’t let anything change you (except for how you speak, I like people who speak the Australian way of speaking English).

You freaking ruined the photo dammit!

‘You have disgraced our people, we shall engage in combat.’

First Days and Week

2011-01-19T22:47:00.001+08:00

Hello readers, it has been at least 12 days since my last post which greeted the new year. Since tomorrow’s a holiday, I shall be blogging today.

So the past 3 weeks has been real hectic. Already started running around the school during recess for editorial board work, and the tons of homework given by teachers is certainly killing me… softly. But it’s alright I guess, I know it’s for my own good (how sarcastic).

Two (failed) surprise parties on the second week, so happy belated birthdays to Bryan and Wei Siang. :D Hope you guys enjoyed it, even though it was fail.

And today we had the form 1 photoshoot, and yeah, I’m the boss now. Feels kinda funny being the boss, honestly saying. I’ve always been following orders, but now I’m actually giving them the orders now (I THINK). Photoshoot today was productively, funny. Enjoyed being around the new company, with most of my photographers being new, I guess it’ll be a new experience dealing with all of them.

Old traditions never changed though, even with new company.

Two Oh One One

2011-01-07T23:34:00.001+08:00

Heyyyyyyyyyaaaaaaa,

First of all Happy New Year to everyone out there, reading my blog, I know 7 days late but that’s what you get when you’re still stuck in high school, not enough time to do the things you wanna do.

Anyway, first week of school was pretty hectic, for some strange reason. Homework loads are slowly but surely piling up, which is about to stress me out, because I certainly do not want to do look through the History book just to fill in a couple of questions.

Getting loads and loads of posts as well for curricular activities (not bragging) which is also the ‘best’ part of being a senior. I feel so old nowadays. Seniors I used to love (still love ‘em) are all gone, and they’re being replaced by myself and all my other friends.

Time to really put effort into my resolutions then. 2011 is gonna be awesome.

One Decade

2010-12-31T01:30:00.001+08:00

…are the years 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010.

2010, was eventful, was spectacular, was better than last year. Even with all of that, I just don’t feel or seem any happier than I was before. I still make assumptions about myself and everyone around me, I still try to pick fights that I shouldn’t be involved in, I still try too hard most of the times.

I would say, I’ve learnt a lot of things this year. (other than Bio, Physics and Chemistry) Even with all these lessons of life, does that make us ready for what will come to us in the future? Partially, in my opinion, at least we have the experience, at least we know what to expect.

For 2011, I will to follow my resolutions. I want to be happier. I want to lower my pride. I want to be me.

Thanks guys for making my year. :)

Northward Bound.

2010-12-27T22:38:00.003+08:00

This is the second post of the three part blog posts of my journey up North to Teluk Intan, Penang and a little bit of Sungai Petani. In my last post, I talked bout how amazing Teluk Intan was when it came to good food, now I’ll be talking bout the trip to Penang.

The trip from Teluk Intan to Penang took around another 3 hours, so of course I decided to sleep the whole way through. It was a Sunday and there were jams everywhere in Penang. We reached our hotel at around 3 in the afternoon.

At night, Uncle Yoong, my dad’s friend took us to this new shopping place called Quayside (I think). It sure is one of the prettiest (yes, I did that) shopping malls, I’ve ever seen.

OH and by the way Merry Christmas, even though it was like 2 days ago. It’s never too late for anything. We headed for an Irish restaurant when we got there, which had the slowest food service ever. All of us had to wait for at least, an hour and a half to get their food.

The food was alright, but it wasn’t worth the wait. We had Dim Sum on the second day of our trip in Penang in the morning.

After relative visiting we headed up to Kek Lok Si Temple, the one with the huge gigantic statue.

For lunch we headed for some legendary Char Kuoy Teow, if you know me well enough, Kuoy Teow is my favourite M’sian food ever. And of course, I wouldn’t miss the opportunity to taste M’sians best.

It’s called Ah Leng, and it’s located on Dunlop road. Ah Leng, fries two kinds of Char Kuoy Teow, the normal one, with the typical ingredients and a special which costs extra. I suggest trying to special cause it’s awesome, it has cricket meat and cooked with duck eggs. I kid you not, it’s the best ever, and you won’t be able to get such big prawns nor quality if you get a plate of Char Kuoy Teow in PJ.

I shall continue later on with the third post, I hope you guys enjoyed the pictures. I just started a new blog on Tumblr which showcases food pictures from around the country (and the world) if you love food as much as I do and have a Tumblr account, please start following the link below.

http://suckersforfood.tumblr.com

K bye.

Slightly North

2010-12-22T23:05:00.003+08:00

Hey guys (and girls), so recently me and the family went up to Teluk Intan, Penang and a little bit of Sungai Petani (it’s in Kedah). So I shall blog about the food, the sights and the stories throughout this whole trip in a 3 part series (blog posts).

First day, we started our journey at around 8.30. Our first destination was Teluk Intan which is a small town located somewhere in the state of Perak. I’ve posted bout Teluk Intan before in one of blog posts two years before, but in case you haven’t been following back then. Teluk Intan is famous for its leaning clock tower.

Sure, it doesn’t lean as much as the much-more-famous Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy, but at least it’s leaning! So at around 11, we were taken for some famous Rojak.

The place is called Rojak Ah Chai, and it’s located (that is if you’re ever going down to Teluk Intan soon) on Jalan Woo Saik Hong and if you need a map, just google damn it! This is a must try at Teluk Intan because, it is to me the best Rojak I’ve eaten in a long time.

In fact, I think it’s the best Rojak I’ve eaten. The fruits seems really fresh, and the dark sauce is fantastic. It’s a must eat dish when you go down to Teluk Intan.

Next, we headed to a Mee Rebus stall.

I can’t recall on which road this stall is at, but let me tell you, Teluk Intan is very very convenient when it comes to looking for good food because all the stores and stalls are located closely as it’s a small town. So looking around for famous stalls around Teluk Intan should be the least of your problems.

I didn’t try the Rojak here cause I’ve already eaten Rojak earlier, but I can tell you, the Mee Rebus that’s being served at this stall is awesome. Usually in KL or PJ, typical mamak stalls will serve the Mee Rebus with some weird tomato or chilli gravy, which honestly, it’s too sweet and too disgusting for my taste buds. But here, they serve use sweet potatoes as their gravy. This is the best Mee Rebus I’ve eaten.

It isn’t too sweet, and it isn’t that hot either, it’s just right. The price is quite reasonable as well, as they have combo packs and special prices if you buy at specific number of bowls of Mee Rebus.

For Syrup Bandung lovers, they serve this syrup with blended ice, which to me is way better than the usual ones you get at mamaks all around PJ or KL.

But make sure you head early to this stall, as it can really really crowded at peak hours. And if you can’t find a place to seat? Don’t worry about it cause the people running the stall are pretty friendly.

During dinner at a local hawker centre, me and my mom walked over to get the famous Chee Chong Fun. It’s at Jalan Hill of Teluk Intan, and let me tell you, that I sort off liked it.

A lot of people has called this Chee Cheong Fun legendary, and it’s certainly worth a try. As a PJ person, I’m used to the Chee Cheong Fun with gravy all over it, but this ones dry. It’s certainly a different taste, so I don’t know if this is a really good Chee Cheong Fun or not. It’s certainly worth a try, it has a very pleasing taste I must say.

If you're heading to Penang, try to stop by Teluk Intan cause it is fantastic, the food, the small town scene. It might not be Penang but it's certainly a small haven for delicious food to me. So that’s about it for my small little food trip in Teluk Intan, hope you guys enjoyed it and I’ll be posting bout Penang soon.

Yes, my brothers told us to do the peace sign for fun cause we cool like that.

Suicidal

2010-12-17T01:15:00.003+08:00

Hi, my name is Jia Wei and this is gonna be my final blog post as I’m going to say good bye to everyone at 12 o’clock today. Don’t miss me. Below is the last photo of myself.

This is the first time that I took a picture of myself when I look like a sponge. So ugly. Meh.

Please do not take this seriously, cause I don’t wanna die a virgin. Yea, you heard me I shall not die a virgin (or not get married)! Yellow-ish thoughts aside, it’s sort off rude of me to make fun of people who plans to take their lives just because their relationships don’t work out.
So yeah, I’m here to talk about the current ‘trend’ of taking your own life just because something didn’t work out. So far, I’ve read three suicidal notes on Facebook and here’s what I noticed:

They’re all Chinese (uh oh)
All of three of them have hair like SpongeBob up there
All three of them killed themselves because of relationship

Killing yourself over a relationship that lasted for 4 to 5 months. I wouldn’t do that. If one breaks up with another to me, it’s just a sign that it’s not meant to be. Sure you’ll have a hard week or months just trying to face the person, but if you’re will is strong enough (which most of us are), you can get through the storm and see the light (no, not heaven).

If life isn’t without it’s hardships, then I don’t think life is worth living. We get frustrated over problems that we face, no doubt bout that, but sometimes if we put our hearts to it and if we keep on trying, I can guarantee that, we will get through whatever that is happening now.

Life, isn’t meant to be thrown away just like that. I would only throw my life away if I needed to save someone’s life if I was held hostage by a bunch of terrorists, but I sincerely don’t want that to happen. These past few days have been hard for me, but have I taken my own life yet? No, I fought till the end of what I was supposed to do.

Sure, you might say, planning the Inter-fellowship night isn’t a relationship, but it is stressful. Stressful enough to make a Japanese to kill himself (Japan has the highest number of suicide cases in the world). I know this isn’t a really happy sounding post, but I want to spread the message, I want to share my thoughts.

When things get you down, when things doesn’t go as planned, you just gotta put your head up high, and tell yourself you can do it.
Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.

- Hypocrites

Life is short enough so why make it shorter? It’s a journey of a life time, and if we have been given the chance to go on this adventure of ours, why end it so soon?

We don’t have to pretend;

2010-12-15T02:15:00.001+08:00

that airplanes in the night sky are shooting stars anymore.

It’s 1 o’clock in the morning and I stayed up to see the shooting stars tonight. It seemed hard to spot to me at first, cause I thought that the shooting stars are aeroplanes. Rookie’s mistake. If I could only get out of the house, I would’ve seen more than 5 shooting stars.

As a kid, I always remembered this particular scene from one of the cartoon shows. There’s this little boy and this little girl sitting by the balcony, when they see the shooting star, the little girl tells the boy to make a wish and it’ll all come true. First of all, there wasn’t a ‘little girl’ sitting next to me telling me to make a wish, I found out about it on the internet. Secondly, I don’t think that it’ll make your wish come true.

Yes, I do think very realistically, but I also believe that such ‘things’ might happen. (oh, you’re living in your own fantasy, Jia Wei) So yeah, I did make a wish. Three wishes actually, cause you know genies gives three wishes to the person who rubs the lamp and stuff. A wish for myself, the people around me and the world.

I guess living in your own fantasy for just a little while could be worth the time. The world surrounding us is, just unfair sometimes. Fantasies to me, is probably the only way we are able to leave this reality of ours just for awhile so that we don’t explode because of stress.

Some people might say, “Oh, living in your own fantasy for awhile is running away from your problems, you shouldn’t be doing it.’ I agree, but do you want to face problems that gives you a huge headache everyday? I certainly wouldn’t. It’s funny how life is so repetitive when it comes to everyday problems.

http://www.molleindustria.org/everydaythesamedream/everydaythesamedream.html

This link leads to a game called ‘Every day the Same Dream’. Try it out and you’ll find out.

At school, it’s the same math problem that’s giving you the headache. At home, it might be the annoying brothers you face. With friends, it’s the gossip that hurts you the most. It’s all the same, and life shall always be the same unless someone tries to change it. That’s the reason why, our small little fantasies are useful (well sometimes).

Like This For Me (v2)

2010-12-10T23:24:00.003+08:00

Alright so I made people like my post on Facebook which sounds a little something like this:

Like my status and I'll tell you:
1. How we've met
2. My first impression of you
3. What I like about you
4. Favorite memory with you
5. And a song that reminds me of you
6. Dare you to put this on your status

Not trying to boast my popularity (no where near popular actually) but in 3 days I’ve gotten 51 likes. It was an extreme pain to answer all of them, so frustrating in fact that I’ve stop writing on other people’s wall after the third day.

Thus, this shows the power of persuasion and curiosity. Why persuasion? Cause I asked them to like my status and well some of my friends went on to like it. Curiosity? Notice the questions, most of it is about what you think about the person, so of course people would want to know. Then after you let them know, they start sneaking into your brain and start to tear your brain up like a cat.

Anyway, went to school yesterday to pick up next year’s books, and the first thing I’ve noticed is the brand spanking new English Literature book. First impressions of it? It seemed thicker and the title, ‘Step by Wicked Step’, sounded like a ghost story to me. So I decided reading it.

Yes, believe me when I say, that I have completed reading it and I must say it has nothing to do with horror. Neither it was a crime/law/justice book. It is in fact a book about how parents get divorced and how the kids feel. Okay, ‘Step by Wicked Step’? Seriously? Why would you name a book which actually contains so much depression, ‘Step by Wicked Step’? I would’ve named it, ‘Confessions of a Teenage Child’, or maybe ‘The Times of the Past’ or even maybe ‘I Hate Divorced Parents’ Sure, those title look depressing, and the only reason I came up with them is because this book IS depressing. But I have to say, the author Anne Fine has won numerous awards for her other books, but why in the world choose this?

M’sian education has certainly came up with the brilliant idea of telling us teens not to get divorced with our future partners. And the worse part is, the cover of a book has a 1Malaysia logo on it (btw, the one on top is the original book cover). If 1Malaysia is about unity between all three races, then this book is the wrong book to talk about unity. I would rather read some tragic patriotic story that is written by some M’sian writer than read this oh so depressing book with a misleading title.

The dream of having ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ for literature shall never become true. By the way, have you all seen the cover of the form 2 BM literature book?

“Go go Power Rangers!'”

Like This For Me

2010-11-24T20:49:00.001+08:00

Hello world, this is my 210th post on this blog and I must say I am proud.

So, these past few days while being online some of my friends all instant-messaged me on Facebook or Messenger Live, asking/begging me to help them vote for whatever their cause is. They go something like,

‘Pls help me like’ or,

‘Hey Jia Wei, could you do me a big favour to vote for this thing, thanks! :D’ or,

‘Hey, I just signed a petition to bring Taylor Swift to Malaysia (no offense)’ or,

‘Help me pls 2 vote 4 her, thnks~~~~ ^.^’ or,

You get the idea. So recently, there was this girl, who instant-messaged me on Messenger (her name shall remain anonymous), so her help-me-like/vote-message goes like this,

‘Hey, do you mind doing me a favour by voting for this Korean boy band, they’re so cute and stuff, and they make good music, (bla bla bla bla) Please help me, thanks!’

This was the most horrible help-me-like/vote-message ever. It’s not that I hate Korean music, I never did hate Korean music or listened to Korean music despite knowing so many Korean stereotypical girl/boy groups (no offense again). It’s the fact that she’s telling me to do this when North Korea has just attacked South Korea. Are you trying to tell me that you value the lives of superstars more than the people living in Korea?

First off all, this is really nonsensical for someone to not the news from where their favourite boy/girl groups come from. If you really did care, you would care for the people there as well. Plus, from the news, there are hundreds of people injured on that island that North Korea, so you’re telling me that, the lives of hundreds of people are less important than the fame of a single stereotypical Korean group.

Look, I’m not saying it’s wrong going around, telling people to vote for whatever you vouch for. But I think it’s pretty wrong to go round telling people to vote for this group, when they just got attacked. I think it’s wrong to put the importance of celebrities in front of hundreds of injured people. Sure, you may say that, ‘I can’t do much to help, I don’t live in Korea!’

I don’t live in Korea either, but you could’ve had a Facebook status update saying, ‘Guys, please pray for Korea’ instead of ‘Please vote for this cute Korean group’ ; or maybe go to your twitter account saying ‘#koreanpeace’ instead of ‘Please vote for this cute Korean group’ ; or maybe have your personal message on messenger set as, ‘I feel sorry for the South Koreans’ instead of ‘Please vote for this cute Korean group’.

Like I’ve said before, I don’t hate Korean music, in fact, I admire how K-Pop has beaten J-Pop over the years. But I find it of me to vote for something I do not vouch for and when their country is under fire. That, my fellow readers, is the worst part of that message I received. Why make the lives of celebrities better, when their people are suffering?

Two more people has posted on my Facebook wall saying that I should sign the petition to bring Taylor Swift to Malaysia. After typing this post, and thinking bout the Koreans and everyone else who is suffering in this world, I’ve decided not to sign it, yea, sorry to disappoint, but I value human lives more than celebrity lives.

Feature Article : Friends

2010-11-10T21:28:00.001+08:00

‘I secretly wanna be a cow’

Hello! This is my second attempt to write about life once again. So today, my class, 4 Cengal went to the National Monument and the Parliament.

Got on the bus by around 8, I guess cause we were all wondering where Ben Yew was, and then we found out he didn’t come to school. Our first destination was the the National Monument as you can see from the picture above.

The unexpected happened though, the guys (including myself) decided to run down the hill near the National Monument, so when we all ran down, Bryan who got excited, whacked my face, and then I lost balance, and did 3 rolls down the hill (that’s according to Delon). No scratch, cuts or bruises, just a really dirty uniform. Everyone thought I did it on purpose. So I would like to thank Bryan for giving me my first roll-down-the-hill experience, seriously, I had fun rolling down the hill.

The National Monument, there’s really nothing much to do there except take photographs of yourself. (cam whores, sigh)

The whole class then stopped by Muzium Negara for brunch, awesome Ramly burgers there.

I think it’s idiotic to charge a person 15 bucks just to take a photo with the animals at Muzium Negara. So after that we headed to the Parliament (finally), unfortunately no cameras were allowed in the Parliament for safety of the MBs. (I THINK)

Funny thing that happened when we were in the Parliament. When we went to see the MBs have their debate, it was really really boring. My knee constantly hit the row of so-called-chairs in front of me. We even had to sit in a proper, no leaning forward, no crossing hands, stuff like that. So then we listened to this woman interpreter (who had well, okay English) talk about how the Dewan Rakyat and Dewan Negara works, the ex-solider dude that sits in directly opposite the Yang Di-Pertuan who chases MBs out if needed and all the other boring stuff.

So when we were about to leave the Parliament, from the TV, we saw some of the MBs having an argument, and we begged teacher to go back into the Dewan Rakyat to see it, but of course she said no. Now we all know what we wanted to see, MBs fighting against MBs. Hah! Overall, great trip out with the class.

Got back to school, and then started interviews with the Form 3’s which was a pain in the ass. Seriously horrible. Three girls, all applied for the language departments, all had the same answer for the same question which goes,

‘What would you write for a feature article in Nostalgia if given the free reign?’

The first girl that answered this question says that she would write about friends, a dedication to them, that friends can be sometimes real bitches, stuff like that. After she left, I told the panel of ‘judges’ that it’s a bad idea.

The second girl came in, and we asked the same question, and she answered nearly the same thing, except that she spoke in Malay (horrible). ‘Saya akan menulis tentang kawan – kawan….’ By then I was already frustrated with the answers their giving.

The third girl came in, and again we asked the same question and she answered in BM as well, ‘Masa…’ I breathed a huge sigh of relief, but she wasn’t finished with her sentence. ‘Masa dengan kawan - kawan…’ And then I laughed behind the copy of Nostalgia that Krystle brought. I am that rude.

The moral here is to never discuss the questions that the interviewers will ask the interviewees cause you’re unlikely to get chosen, enough said.

Thursday, Friday, Saturday

2010-11-07T13:22:00.001+08:00

The last time I wrote a post about my activities on my blog was 29th of August. Just realized.

Hello readers! Yes, this is an update about what I’ve been up to recently (finally). These past days has been the most interesting of days for me since, well, 2 months ago. I’m glad I finally had a break from exams and all the other shitty things we’re supposed to do as students.

So on Thursday, I went out with a whole group of people to Petroscience at KLCC. We went there only using public transport, which meant LRT and monorails. I haven’t taken a LRT trip since I was maybe, probably 10 years old. So taking the LRT again, certainly gives me some memories I shared with my grandma and grandpa.

As usual, everyone expected me to bring a camera, but I decided to go against the grain this time. All the pictures taken we all used by our 3.2 megapixel camera phones that we all owned. 3.2 megapixel is not bad, I guess?

It was a good day though. I certainly didn’t regret being 8 once again.

By the time I got home from KLCC, my cousins and my aunt were already at the house talking to my grandma. We were all going up to Fraser’s Hill on Friday.

P/S: I don’t know how to write normal blog posts about my daily life anymore. Uh oh.

Writing About Happy.

2010-11-02T00:07:00.001+08:00

First happy thing of today, exams are over, which kinda makes me happy;

Second happy thing of today, I got a 75 for history, which kinda makes me happy too;

Third happy thing of today, currently talking to my ‘owner’ and my ‘Too Much Bestie Normal’ (yes, it doesn’t make sense but what the heck), which kinda makes me happy;

Ailsa told me that I should write more about the happiness in life rather than the true raw emotions of every single one of us which she defines as emo. Honestly, I don’t know how to write about happy and those three happy things that are stated above only made me happy for 10 minutes or so. But since I promised her I’ll write about something happy, I’ll try my best to do.

When you think of happiness, usually, it’s a memory you think of. Your first concert, your first time playing paintball, your first time going out with friends even though it’s just half an hour of spending time with them. Happiness, it doesn’t last a life time, but when happiness comes and goes, it can truly be special.

When I think of happiness, the first thing that comes to my mind, is my Singapore trip with my old classmates. It was the time of my life, no parents (sorry mom & dad!), just me, my friends and some teachers (unfortunately). Back in the day, in primary school, no one judges you, I mean yea, you might say like ‘I hate you!’ back then but it didn’t really mean a thing unless you’re oversensitive (like me). Now? Life, it just gets tougher and tougher, and that memory of that trip, honestly, keeps me going. Memories of my primary school past, keeps me going.

I’m not saying that being in secondary school, is entirely a dreadful, or filled with misery and stuff. No! All that I’m pointing out is, back when we were all kids, things were so much simpler and easier. There are things in my secondary school life that did make me happy, like World Stage with Ailsa, Aida and Sandy, paintball with the guys, performing with my dad when I was just form 2. Yea sure, I learnt how to go to concerts, pull the trigger, or maybe how to go on tour (SORT OFF), but it didn’t really make an impact on my life somehow.

I don’t like hanging onto the past, but sometimes, that’s just what you need to keep going on. I don’t know bout you, but when I think about all the stupid things, the stupid decisions I made in primary school, I laugh to myself. And then I think about the stupid things and stupid decisions I’ve made in secondary school, I don’t laugh to myself, instead I hate myself for making those decisions. Yes, I am a very self-hating person (confession).

This whole exam week, I think I learnt about happiness the most. Usually, before the exams start, I would go around wishing people good luck. Maybe not everyone, but I wish good luck to the people that means the most to me. It’s amazing how two words can give support to someone to do well in a test. I was spreading happiness even though everyone is moments away from answering questions. I don’t know if I actually felt happiness myself, but I certainly saw the happiness in some of their eyes when I wished them lucked (perasan much?).

If everyone in the world, would sacrifice their time, just a little bit of time, to spread some happiness, I would think the world would be a better place. But of course in truth, not everyone has the same mind set as me. I believe that everyone wants to be happy forever but that’ll never happen. We just gotta try and find some happiness even in our darkest of days, we gotta stay strong to fight another day, we gotta be what we are, without anyone else trying to change who we are.

Happiness, I wish it lasts a life time. But that wish can never come true. Are we suppose to strive for happiness all the time? I think that happiness is something like fate. If you’re fated or if you take your chances, happiness will sooner or later come to you. I know, this isn’t the most happy post there is out there, but I’m trying hard. This has become one of the hardest posts to type out. Because honestly, I’m not the kind of person that always stays happy. My grandfather has this motto he always says to me ever since I was a kid,

‘Keep Smiling’

I somehow I don’t understand, how someone can keep smiling all the time, even my grandfather himself can’t smile all the time. But I think, the message he is trying to convey is to keep smiling whenever you can. When you go through something happy, keep smiling, because this might be the greatest day of your life or maybe the happiest moment you’ll ever have. I guess, it’s time for me to put this motto into use, after 16 years of hearing it from my grandpa.

10 Months

2010-10-23T00:50:00.001+08:00

Nostalgia. A yearning for the past, often in idealized form.

Nostalgia. Homesickness.

Nostalgia. School magazine.

I finally got my hands on the school magazine today. Our hard work has finally paid off. When I took my copy of the magazine, and started reading it, I did not expect any praise from anyone. It was self-satisfactory. To know that you have contributed to something that had such importance in the school’s society, is a blessing.

Sometimes, I get questions like, ‘Do you get paid for contributing to Nostalgia?’ I would answer no. Then he or she would ask, ‘Then why do you still take photographs then? Why do you still stay and help out with the production of the magazine?’

I would answer, ‘Because I do it for self-interest, I do it because of my passion towards photography and contributing to the school.’ If I never joined Nostalgia back when I was in Form 3, I wouldn’t know what I was living for anymore. I was living for my own passion.

These past 10 months of has been tough. Juggling between studies, production of the magazine and friends is always tough, but I’m still hanging on, hanging on to what I believe in.Producing this magazine feels like getting some important award. The only difference is that, the memories that the whole editorial board has shared is more important.

If you’re reading this, Joanna, thanks for being a fantastic boss. Zhen Yang, for being a boss that always creates humour out of nothing. Farhana, for sticking with me for two years. Mae Ling, for just being an incredible person. Rueben, for being someone who can I rock out with. Krystle, Andrea, Sam, Joseph for not making me the only Form 4 who helps out all the time. Stefan and Chan Yong for just being the random people you are. Reshween, for your dedication. Foo Wai, for your random dance moves. Jason, for doing too much work as a Form 2 kid. I’m sorry if I missed out any names because words cannot describe how amazing you all are.

I really need to stop writing posts with so many words.

Innocent

2010-10-15T23:04:00.001+08:00

I was listening to the D. Cook’s version of Innocent, so I decided to write. It’s been awhile.

My mom was in the car just now, and she was telling me how annoying this parent was which I already know because this parent was talking to my mom and I overheard the conversation. We were in the car and then we suddenly switched topic to that childhood incident that happened to me a long time ago, maybe when I was 5 or 6, maybe 7, I think?

I remember myself obsessed with winning competitions, games and stuff which involves competing with other people when I was younger. So, my Mom was telling me this incident where I was Mark (Poon)’s birthday party. As you know, kids are obsessed with gifts after winning a competition and stuff like that, I was more obsessed than obsessed, my mind, body and soul had only one thing in mind, winning. So there was this dance competition thing, my mom said, she told me that the other parents that were there said I danced pretty good, but in the end, the first prize went to Mark.

My mom then told me that I cried out, ‘Unfair, unfair, unfair'. Because I played every single game really really well but I didn’t win a single prize. After that, Mark’s dad confronted me and then scolded me and then told me to shut up. I think I cried after that. Yes, I was over-sensitive when I was younger, way over-sensitive.

Life is unfair, in many ways. I’m not saying that the life I live is unfair, in fact I live quite a fair life (except for the fact, that I can’t get good results when I study oh so hard, and other people just play the computer every single hour of their lives) But this posts actually goes out to anyone who’s reading. Look at the government, you think it’s fair to us citizens that, they’re getting all the riches and getting away with every single dirty thing they do? No.

Unfairness, when is the world ever going to be fair? The answer? Never.

Well, truth be told, there are things in life, where you are the 5 year old version of me screaming, ‘Unfair, unfair, unfair.’ No matter how much you scream, no one will hear what you say and then you keep quiet cause you know it’s not no use. But, honestly, I think, a little bit of unfairness in life, is a good thing. It’s like an equilibrium to our lives, to the entire world. If everyone got what they wanted, wouldn’t we want more things?

Darkest of Days

2010-09-09T01:49:00.002+08:00

Some of my friends has said that I’m not using enough emoticons during conversations on msn and sms-es so, I will attempt to use emoticons for every single sentence (okay, maybe paragraph) today. :D

Why the title ‘Darkest of Days’ you may ask? Well, do not take this as a moody post because I am going to use emoticons to cheer you up. :D Maybe not, anyway, everyone (to me) is kinda moody nowadays, I mean, really moody, if you had my twitter password, you would know. The people who I follow, mostly friends has been writing updates about how suckish life is when you get thrown away in the dark and stuff like that. Same goes to me, I guess, for the past few weeks, but now, my place of expressing my own thoughts and feelings, Twitter, has now been invaded, so I guess I might as well come clean about what I have to say. :/

Facebook, twitter, blogs are really meant for people to get to know who the person better. Well, now they’re tools of stalking etc etc. :/ My last resort of expressing my own feelings has been invaded just yesterday and I was DEVASTATED. I mean, yea, I know that before this there were a couple of people whom will read my updates, moody updates, mind you, but all these people who follow me and I follow are the people who I seem to trust the most and I know that for sure, they would respect my privacy and they wouldn’t even think about replying my moody updates, because they know I need to sort things out myself. D:

Myself, is so self-centred. I’m not self-centred, I’m just secretive. There are times, when I just pour everything that I feel to someone random, and those times are well past behind me, really. Sometimes, I think that it’s better to contemplate by ourselves, because only by ourselves, we are able to find out the problem. :) Well, not exactly find out the problem, but just you know find out what you have done wrong in that relationship/friendship problem you got into.

As I am typing this post, I’m still deciding whether to privatise my twitter account, so that she doesn’t have to see my moody post. But the more I think about it, the more I don’t really care. Well, it IS the Internet, heck everyone’s stalking each other nowadays. Come to think of it, if I can’t express my feelings, just because she’s following me on twitter, hell, I might as well privatise everything and just tweet to myself or blog to myself. Well, that’ll be kinda stupid right? You’ll be like talking to a wall, except this is a wall of webs? Get it? The web is the Internet! xD

Okay, that was lame. Anyway I guess, being moody is all part of human life, people have different ways of expressing their moodiness. For example, the way I do it is, be anti-social for a whole week and post a bunch of stuff on Twitter. No, it is not fun to be moody. D: But still, like I said, it is human nature, to react when something bad or sad occurs, unless you’re a maniac. :S

I really have no reason to get moody right now, really. She just told her friend on Facebook, that she has someone else in mind, that doesn’t surprise me at all. Who needs to be in a relationship when you’ve got friends/photographer buddies? Well, yea, we do get lonely, sometimes, and yes it does affect us on a daily basis. But you know, all things must come to an end, like what Chaucer had said in 1374 (don’t ask me how I know). And, I believe that one day, we will get over the problems we have. Cause, a life without challenges is a boring life. :D

Thus being said, I have completed my challenge of putting at least one emoticon in each paragraph. I have a feeling I won’t be using emoticons for a longer time because emoticons are really annoying.

Runaway Children

2010-08-29T00:02:00.004+08:00

Today I went to a refugee school in a disclosed location with some BUDDY members. Started my day at around 6.57 in the morning, with mom telling me to wake up, saying that if I don’t wake up, I wouldn’t be able to follow my long-time-no-see BUDDY members. Got to the BUBS centre first (technically second because Ken Hui came over first, but then she went to eat at a mamak.) The others reached at around 8, and then we all left at around 8.30. I was sitting in Li Synn’s dad’s car with Calvin, Nick, Chong Lim and of course Li Synn herself. The others went with Melinda’s mom’s car while the committee sat in Chris’s ‘Ferrari’.

At around 9, we all stopped at McDonalds before we continued. The coffee at McDonalds made me high even though I know it’s cheap.

We continued our field trip to our location, we kinda got lost, but we found our way in the end with the help with the man we’re supposed to meet, he is the care taker, his name is David. (Too bad, I didn’t have a photo of him) He showed us to the place and we were greeted by at least 20 to 30 children sitting in rows patiently waiting for us.

So since they were all sitting down, we decided to go interact with them. They started off shy, but I guess, with me pretending to do Kung Fu moves in the middle of the kids, the chain reaction started and all of a sudden we were teaching them how to do the banana dance and stuff.

Note to self, kids love hairy legs.

So, in order to get rid of the kids touching my leg, Jie Tson started playing his guitar, and well all sang some songs.

I stole Jie Tson’s guitar after he was done playing, surprisingly, they knew how to sing Ronan Keating’s When You Say Nothing At All.

But our reason, going to this refugee school wasn’t to have fun with them. We came to help. These are Burmese children, every single one of them. And the reason why they’re here is because they can’t live in their own country because it’s too dangerous. They’re refugees, they’re runaway children.

I’m not sure if you are aware but they are refugees in Malaysia, but no one is actually giving them support, no one is giving them what they need. All 20 to 30 of these children, all of them live in a small condo in the middle of PJ. I was surprised when I saw that all of them lived in this condo, because when I heard school, I thought it was an actual school but it wasn’t. This condo has only 2 rooms, a store room and a small living area. It’s probably the size of my living area. They only have a small study table, that’s where they do their homework and study. They study, they learn, the live in this small condo. We decided not to give them any electrical appliances because like I said, they’re unsupported. The condo was given to them by a Christian lady who some times does come over to help out.

Some of these kids, some of them arrived only a day before we came. According to David, some of the kids that wanted to runaway, but unfortunately some of them died on the way here. That’s just sad. That’s really sad. If they came all the trouble to get here, just for the sake of their own safety, I really think the M’sian government should do something about it. But as said before in one of my previous post, the government is so corrupted, they wouldn’t even give a damn about these Burmese children. We should give them a chance, a chance to live, a chance to be something, a chance to be inspired, a chance to give them hope.

I have done charities before, but this? This is different. Unlike the Spastics children home at Taman Megah, these children only have a small condo to live in while the Spastics home has a row of houses and also better facilities. These children are in hiding, hiding from the law. If a guest comes to your house, would you really chase them away and treat them like crap? I believe that the government is doing that. They came here for a reason, they came here so that they could continue their will to live. This group of children made me happy but also sad at the same time. They touched me unlike any other charity drive has.

Something has to be done, if the Government doesn’t want to bother about it, then we should do it ourselves. Only by ourselves, we can only give them hope. This world we live in, it’s cold. No one really cares about anyone, really. Honestly, I find myself being selfish sometimes. It all comes down to whether we want to continue being selfish or do we want a change for the better.

Change, something everyone has been thriving for. Change.

Flings hair

2010-08-22T19:54:00.001+08:00

These days I’ve been pretty much called, ‘Jia Wei Bieber’ or maybe ‘Beaver’ or ‘Black Bieber', just because I fling my hair just like him. I think I’ve gotten used to it despite hating him so much. And yes I do admit that I fling my hair every 5 seconds. Hair flinging is an art, if you can’t do it, well you just can’t that’s the fact.

With that said, *flings hair*, I have successfully organized a surprise party for Nicholas Cheng on Friday.

*Flings more hair* So happy birthday cutie.

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Unify.

2010-08-19T23:22:00.003+08:00

So last Saturday I went to help out with the road, which the developers so kindly well, dug a huge gigantic hole which made cars difficult to go through. According to the MBPJ, that particular road that the developers has blocked is in the PJ map, which doesn’t really give them the right to block it, or dig a huge gigantic hole so that cars won’t be able to go through. A selfish act? Judging from the pile of sand used, the number of people who attended to help out with the road, yes it is a selfish act.

My mom’s friend told my mom this story. The day after the developers dug the holes, an old man actually went to put bricks on the road so that the cars don’t get stuck in the holes and get caught in an accident. The man even though old, slowly but surely put the bricks one by one in the deep holes. My mom’s friend was touched when she saw that old man. I was touched when I heard the story .I guess it’s time to speak up. Why should we follow what the developers want? Sometimes we just have to be leaders and not the followers. If they won’t speak up for us, then it’s time to speak up for ourselves.
In text books, they always talk about unity, how the three races are united and stuff like that. But do you really see that in today’s government? We are not even speak. Moral teaches us, ‘kebebasan bersuara,’ which means the freedom of speech.

Freedom of speech? I believe that every single person in this country are actually united not including the government. Why are they making people suffer? When I was younger, I was pretty happy that we lived in a country with many races, clouded by so-called patriotism and the willingness to die for my country when needed. As I grew older, I wasn’t clouded, in fact, I saw the truth, I knew the problems, the politics. I doubt that a single blog post will change anything for the country. Nothing will change unless the people that are trying to give us rules and laws change. It’s always rules, rules, rules, don’t talk about this and don’t talk about that, why should we listen to these rules, when the people who made them don’t even follow.

‘Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted’

Somehow, I really know what this quote means now. The phrase, ‘nothing is true’ to me means that, everything you see and hear is false, every single rule that has been made up isn’t true. It’s just there, just to cloud out your mind, to hide everyone from the truth. ‘Everything is permitted’, every should be able to do what we want to do. I agree, we all must have limits, but if it’s fighting for a cause, then yes, everything is permitted. But in a country where you can’t even speak for yourself, I should think that actually, nothing is permitted.

So, we’re suppose to grow in this kind of state? No. It’s time for a change.

The filling of the road thought me something very important. You may score well for your Moral tests, but you need to realize that it doesn’t teach you anything unless you really put them into use. And I thought that the people who gathered for the Anti-ISA vigil has a lot of moral values running through their veins. They even had a Muslim man saying prayers at the end of the vigil. The reporter who came that day to report about us filling the road, she called us, residents gangsters. Gangsters? So, she’s saying that we, residents, filling up the road is something that will harm other people? You’re saying that the people who live in my residential area, which so happens to be filled with professionals at what they do, are gangsters?

I don’t understand why some people are so blind. Blinded by the truth. Blinded by everything this country has become. Just blind.

Caught Up

2010-08-10T23:02:00.001+08:00

‘She’ll have a lot of explaining if she plans to continue next year.’

‘… was passing it to his friend so that she can play around with it.’

‘… one hell of a slacker.’

Hey guys, I’m here once again to update on what I’ve been up to these days.

First things first, I got my new mouse, The Razor Abyssus!

Best mouse I have ever got, because it’s Razor, like duh. That’s not the only reason for liking the mouse, I also like it because, it’s a normal looking mouse with a super high DPI, which means it’s the best mouse I’ve ever gotten. For now.

But other than the mouse, life has been pretty much just life. Laughing with Bryan, Ele, Sarah, Krystle for no absolute reason, eating Rocky at tuition with Lee Ann and Ben Yew, meeting a Jap dude with Stan, Jon, Ben, Shi Wen, etc etc. Speaking about Ben Yew, he had some crazy gastric reaction today, which got me so freaked out. We were half way through Physics class when all of a sudden, he kept touching his stomach, and then he went crazy. So crazy that he put his head on the table saying, ‘Call my mom,’ Then he told us about the meds she’s supposed to bring which I know started has Magnesium. Made him walk to the canteen, called his dad, took his bag, went to find the keys to the St. John’s room, sent him home. The most surprising thing is that after all that commotion, he still came to tuition. AND, made a Facebook account at the same time. Which now reminded me of how my brother made my mom a Facebook account, so now she’s gone crazy about it. Since she’s not so good with computers, I have to type everything she wants to comment on Facebook, yes, I am my own mother’s secretary.

My new favourite hobby is probably writing remarks, yes, those three lines up there was what I wrote for some of the photography department members. It was so fun that I could’ve written one whole essay about how bad that person was. I’m not that evil though, I wrote nice stuff about others. So now this post must come to an end. It’s my 200th blog post, after two years of pure blogging. I would like to thank myself the most cause I did the writing. TAKE THAT, BLOGGER! Thanks for reading and following this oh-so-random blog. Much appreciated. :D

World Stage 2

2010-08-05T19:37:00.003+08:00

A two timer at world stage? That’s me!
Last Saturday, went for World Stage once again which once again was held at Surf Beach Park at Sunway Lagoon. So this years line up included, Bunkface, Wonder Girls, Tokio Hotel and Katy Perry. This time I went with Mae Ling.

Bunkface certainly gave me the biggest surprise of all. Initially, I really never liked their music cause they sounded so stereo-typical Simple Plan-ish wannabes. But they really proved me wrong, their performance was certainly a great one. They played songs like ‘Prom Queen’, ‘Through My Window’ and some of their other hits. Turned me from a hater to a fan, yes they did that in one night.

Honestly, I couldn’t understand any of the lyrics that Wonder Girls had sung. And honestly only two of them were hot. Being honest once again, their dance moves were nicely coordinated but real simple. But they weren’t that bad. Never liked Korean music anyway.

They guys from Germany, Tokio Hotel was really amazing. Wonderful performance by them. Really hyped me up, if that’s the correct word to use. The only problem was the lead singer, Bill, he sounded gay. Real gay. Really really really gay.

Last but not least, they’re was Katy Perry. She was equally amazing, she sang her hits like, ‘California Gurls, Hot n Cold, Waking Up In Vegas.’ She also sang some her new songs like Teenage Dreams and Peacock. I like Peacock. Cause, it’s funny.
Overall, good day. It could’ve ended earlier, maybe around 10.30, but still it was an amazing day.

I regretted not going for Orianthi and I’m currently regretting not going for Slash. Yes, stuck at home, but like everyone says, you can’t get what you always want. So Daryl Khoo, you better be happy, your dad allowed you to go for both concerts. And make sure you bring me back a Slash pick, otherwise I’m going to steal your Orianthi pick. I guess that’ll be all for today’s post. So, I’ll just run along listening to Orianthi and Slash songs all day just to cheer me up. Which somehow reminds me of the number of people I've seen in concerts. Till then, good bye. :D

You gave me my best week ever, now you’re giving me my worst.
Thanks.

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2010-07-24T22:20:00.001+08:00

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Spammers, always finding a way to get attention. Fyi, I did not click the link despite not having a six pack (boohoo).

This week has been pretty hectic. And yes once again, I was doing Nostalgia work, since Monday all the way till Wednesday. I found out that,

My netbook’s been really suck at connecting to school internet.
Photoshop has been my best friend.
I can spend 7 bucks in one day just to eat food.
I can Facebook while the others are having a meeting.
Datin can’t differentiate between, RM7000 and RM700. (IT’S ONE WHOLE ZERO)
Thinking of a theme for the magazine is harder than I thought (cause the only things that me, Sam, Andrea, Krystle and Joesph can think about are some lyrics from Glee, which sounds so cheesy. Very cheesy.)

But other than that, life’s been pretty good, (other than catching up with my pile of homework) as a matter of fact life has been brilliant, (except for this moment that I’m typing this post, because I’m hyper and sick at the same time). Every day of my life has been nostalgic, like this nice, sexy Rolls Royce here.

Jakuns.

How time passes by, really. That was just last week. I remember getting sore legs after that event because I was following the newly retired (wed) headmistress everywhere she went. With that said, I just realized that July was gonna be over soon, (WITH A BANG!) Stay tuned, peeps.

Ayam A Satu

2010-07-18T18:09:00.001+08:00

So today, I was at the Yuk Chai carnival cause my mom wanted me to help her sell Ayam A1 chicken.

Oh yes, I can totally feel the tastiness in the chicken.

Me, my mom and two brothers reached Yuk Chai at around 7.04, and the only reason I typed 7.04 is because Jessie told me I was 4 minutes late. Exactly. After meeting up with Jessie, we soon found Jun Han wondering around and then Nicholas came over. So thus began working. The first hour and a half was pretty easy going, not too many people.

That’s the stall,

And yes, that’s me wearing an apron.

By then, Joseph and Wei Siang has already arrived and Jessie has gone to her Taekwondo competition thing. The guys went around especially Joseph trying to get more customers to buy ‘OUR’ chicken.

And by the time it was 11 o’clock, the customers kept on flowing until they had to wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and…. (you get the idea)Overall, good day out selling chicken.

And taking photos of course.

Cheer ‘10

2010-07-12T23:39:00.001+08:00

It was my first ever time going to Cheer. It was unforgettable.

I started the day by getting over to Jo Li’s house to get her dad to fetch me to the stadium. I got to her house way early to finish the banner we made for Bryan (I’ll show it to you later). Anyway, when we got to the stadium, the whole place was crowded, and we couldn’t find a seat. Thank god, that I, as a photographer for the school had special privileges. The atmosphere was amazing.

Cardboard words… check.

Headband… check.

Mascot… check.

Gigantic flag… check.

Vuvuzela… check?

The competition soon began. And the whole place exploded into life, after nearly an hour’s delay. Here are some shots of the event.

I probably hated the breaks the most, as they were so time consuming. Nevertheless, the things they did during the breaks sure kept me entertained.

It was a really long time before, Mickeymitez from my school came out. Too long in fact.

By this time, I had only come to realize, that nearly every team has been using music from Kesha, Lady Gaga and 3OH!3

And soon I had to wait again for the other team from our school, Dynamitez.

And finally the wait was over.

Aftermath of all this cheering? Mickeymitez with the best newcomer award and Dynamitez with third place. And as a student of SMKDJ, I am proud. Remember the card I was telling you about?

Note to self: Never stick words ever again. Yes, the slant-ness of the words are my fault, but I still spelled the name and words correctly.

And that concludes my post (report) on cheer. Hoped you enjoyed the pictures, because I sure enjoyed taking them.

Kalyana Mitra

2010-06-21T23:05:00.001+08:00

… means spiritual friend.

Went to BUDDY camp on Thursday and came back on Sunday, overall really fun camp even though I’ve lost my voice already. Met a lot of new people, interesting people, a lot of new experiences overall a fun camp.

I’ve learnt a lot of life lessons from the camp, but I shall keep it to myself cause I believe I’ve given too much already.

Short post, yes.

Good night world.

High Def.

2010-06-16T19:54:00.001+08:00

The house has finally got the PVR which is a Astro Byond which plays certain channels in High Definition and a mix of a MyMax which can record programs. World Cup in HD will be awesome, too bad for me though, cause today is the only day I can enjoy World Cup in HD as I’m going to a camp tomorrow.

Speaking about HD, the E3 expo is going on at America right now, I wish I was there right now. Just in case you don’t know what E3 is, it is the world’s premiere trade show for computer and VIDEO GAMES. Since, I can’t be there, I’ll just have to Youtube the trailers for the video games I want to know about. Yes, this is another post which is talking about gaming. Boohoo.

But hey, just enjoy the CGI for the trailers in HD, and you’ll understand why I’m excited for some of the games that are going to come up late this year.

The first game I am absolutely excited about is Assassin's Creed Brotherhood. As the assassin I am (maybe not), I can’t help but notice my all time favorite franchise’s trailer. Like I said, if you’re not interested in the game just watch it for the sake of CGI, and great graphics. This one is worth it.

FYI, the videos I’m going to post are all in HD, so it might take a longer time to load.

This next one trailer was released way before the E3 expo started, but yes it’s worth a watch too, it’s EA’s Medal of Honor.

For the Call of Duty fans, this one was also released way before the E3 expo, but like I said, IT IS worth another watch, this is Call of Duty : Black Ops

Okay, okay, three videos should be enough to keep you occupied (I hope), that’s all for today’s post, see you readers soon!

Waka Waka

2010-06-11T21:41:00.001+08:00

Past few days have been somewhat productive, finally finished reading Devil May Cry by Sherrilyn Kenyon.

Great book, but I do not recommend to young readers, parental guidance needed for some scenes of this book. When I read this book, it somehow feels like reading one of the Percy Jackson books, a mix of Greek Mythology and modern times, except this book is more adult-ish. So kids, stick with Percy Jackson, it’s awesome enough already.

Thursday, went out to ‘help’ with magazine. And when I meant ‘help’, I meant, helping Hilman getting his last Glee episode through my external hard disk, playing with Krystle’s Macbook (drooling) and making Chan Yong get me my McDonalds. So, basically I went there to waste my time and to avoid doing add math. Rueben then brought us outside of the school and told us there was a condom in the middle of the road. Yes, there was a condom, seriously. Went to lunch at Nandos with Thong, Farhana, Jian Wen and Desmond. Thong eats like a barbarian, Desmond loves the Nandos sauce and I free loaded Farhana’s drink. Stopped by Jo Li’s place after that, so that she can watch Puck.

I just saw Shakira shaking her booty on TV just now, which means the World Cup is about to start. Actually, it’s starting in half an hour’s time from the time I’m writing this post. I support Germany, just for your information. Yes, I know Ballack is out injured. But still supporting them anyway, but I’ve got a feeling that Spain will win the World Cup.

Renovated my blog.

Yes, I made full use of blogger’s new services, and I would like to say thank you, cause I’ve been stuck with my old template for a long time and I suck at using HTML. I just wished that the background picture was me instead, it’ll be really really trademarked, really really trademarked. No more ads for me I guess, cause I’m getting really little money out of it. And no more trademark guitar maple character thing at the end of every post anymore, keeping things professional. Until then, see you!

Public Enemy

2010-06-08T17:37:00.002+08:00

I was named public enemy by the guys. Feels good to be feared in the fields of paintball.

I always wanted to type something like that about me for a long time, now I feel narcissist, really narcissist. Anyway, went to the TT Sports Park today with Bryan, Clement, Chuen, Daniel, Nicholas, Yuan Ann, Adrian, Shawn and Weng Han to get some paintball action. Had a real fun day, it could’ve improved if the guy actually gave us 45 bucks a person, but it was all worth it.

For the first time, I actually wished there was a camera man taking pictures of us playing, cause the other pictures of us are pictures when we were not playing, which probably sucks, maybe I should get some camera robot thing to help me do the job next time. I now have this huge red thing on my neck, cause Bryan shot me there, causing me to vomit just a bit, but after that I was good to go. Yes, he shot me on my neck.

Bryan’s rambo style feels like a suicidal act all the time, too much Call of Duty. Tsk tsk. I’ve got 4 kills (hits) which makes me the biggest winner (I think). Once again, narcissism hits. Being proud of myself for once.

‘I know the scars on your legs…’

Everyone wanted to sit on Bryan’s car because he’s the only person who could fetch us, so we had 8 people squeeze into the Hilux. We couldn’t sit behind the Hilux when we were on the highway, so we had to squeeze into the car, I sat on top of Adrian, hopefully, he had some blood flowing into him.

Fun day overall, till next time,

I Might be Dumb.

2010-06-05T01:05:00.002+08:00

Exams are finally over. Never really liked them. Never wanna take any of them anymore.

So, this guy from my class, he lost 3 friends, like a chain reaction in just one day, amazing. Here’s the story, he cheated during exams. Okay, I understand, it wouldn’t be nice if I actually typed out every little single detail there is, but I had to say something about this incident.

‘Why must someone make something so small become so big? Cant they just forget and look behind? Why must make thing so complicated?’

This was his Facebook update, and I’ve got something to tell him. First off all, YOU are the one who always make small things become BIG! Like for instance, sorry but I have to mention your name, Ben, BUT that incident was probably much much smaller than the crime you have committed, which makes you an idiot saying that first line. That’s because you are the one who can’t change, you are the one that can’t think straight. YES, I SAID IDIOT! The second line, to me, means that they should forget about this incident and look towards the old memories they USED to have. Well, first of all, friends don’t take advantage of other friends. Just because she’s your friend doesn’t mean that she’ll let you cheat during exams. I might be dumb, but I ain’t stupid (a line from Glee), I might not be good in studies but at least I know I’ve tried my hardest to score and not copying the ENTIRE Chemistry or Biology paper from a person I care about. And the last line, totally defines YOU as a person. YOU, YOURSELF tend to make things so much complicated, in fact, even for the smallest of reasons, like getting pranked or insulted in some sort of funny way.

The truth is, I never wanted to give you the class monitor position, (yes it was supposed to be my position), but out of kindness I gave it to you anyway, cause I got real lazy to take care of the class and stuff like that. But after all the things you’ve done to the people around me, to me, you are no class monitor. It seems like the stories of you just never die, from when I was an innocent form 1 student till a form 4 pure science student, your stories never die. You seem to gain and lose friends all the time. ALL THE TIME! So where will you head now? The group of girls? In fact, you just barge into every single conversation they had. Oh, let me see who else? OH WAIT, NO ONE!

Unless you change your freaking attitude, no one, will ever go near you. They’ll probably treat you like some sort of garbage to them. You made so many people pissed off at you throughout this 4 years. Heck, I remember the incident where I tried talking some SENSE into you, but hey, you went on to back stab me anyway, but I didn’t care, cause everyone knew I was correct.

Just writing for justice, cause no justice has been done against him yet, and yes I am cranky.

‘Where Have You Been’

2010-05-29T16:46:00.001+08:00

That was my English composition, 4 pages long.

I’m starting to think that my blog posts are getting more and more predictable every single time I blog. Come to think of it, I haven’t been unpredictable for a long time. Heck, my blog is suppose to write about what I feel.

So I feel like NOT talking about exams and talk about music. Lee DeWyze has become the latest in long line of American Idols.

But I don’t really care because this year’s American Idol sucked, probably the only reason Lee won was because Bowersox was so stereotypical to me, and the best thing from Season 9 this year was Casey James.

Heck, I had enough of stereotypical singers, like Iyaz. His songs are catchy, but I can’t help but think, ‘Hey, he sounds like Sean Kingston!’ Coincidentally, Sean Kingston was the one who signed him to his own label, and look who stole the show from him. Probably the most annoying part of him is that, he goes on with his reggae talk every time before a song starts, which is probably the most utter annoying thing I’ve heard. Is it suppose to be a watermark or something? Moreover this Iyaz dude can’t really sing to me, wanna listen to his rendition of Green Day?

Heck, some of the comments on YouTube on this video were nice comments surprisingly, but of course they are fans of this stereotype. I know calling him a stereotype might upset a few of my readers, but as you know blogging is all about expressing yourself (and that line sounds exactly what I took out from Glee.) I don’t hate him but I just find that people like him aren’t really that special and should probably work much harder to break into mainstream.

I had a friend, she once told me that she would go deep into the history books to find a few 40’s or 50’s singers who could actually sing. I agreed, with that singers these days use too much electronics to cover up their not-so-nice voices. So I’m gonna disappoint Boys Like Girls fans here, including myself that Martin, can’t for some strange reason, sing. I love their songs on the cds and all, but when I was at World Stage, YouTube-ing Boys Like Girls live videos, Martin sounds like he couldn’t reach the notes he COULD reach in the recording studio. Yes, unloyal Boys Like Girl fan here, hit me if you want.

With that said and done, here’s a poll for all of you, so answer this question truthfully,

“Do you prefer Jay Sean or Jason Derulo?”

I know, I’ve asked this question a million times, but I really need to know how many prefer Jason Derulo or Jay Sean compared to Jay Sean or Jason Derulo. Please vote! :D

Alright, that’s enough for today’s post,

For the Underpaid Heroes

2010-05-17T22:58:00.001+08:00

Underpaid heroes, etc. janitors, nursing home volunteers and most importantly teachers. They might be underpaid but they’re certainly not unsung, and that’s the reason why Teacher’s Day is celebrated. Even though we might get crappy teachers who can’t teach us everything in good English or maybe teacher’s who elongate a short formula, we still have to be grateful that teacher’s are here to try and teach us. It’s hard to be grateful in this day and age, but if we practice it well enough, we can and will be always grateful.

And to that conclusion, Happy Teacher’s Day.

Obviously, I’m not gonna post the teacher’s day photos here, you’ll just have to wait and see in the school’s magazine, but I’m certainly gonna post the ‘other’ pictures.

Most Perasan from Ryan Chong on Vimeo.

Yes, from Ryan Chong,

The Silence

2010-05-04T21:34:00.001+08:00

Wong Ben Yew a.k.a. ‘Bang You!’, I just wanna wish you a Happy Birthday.

(Dude in blue)

I really wanna get you something but those things you have in mind are either torrented by yourself or super duper expensive. It’s a great honor listening to you telling me how good your add math is, which makes me uber dumb. Thanks a lot!

Koperasi day was once again a total bore. The form 3’s seemed more united than us form 4’s cause we form 4’s treat everything as a popularity contest which I absolutely despise. The only people we have to blame is ourselves for making the form 4 community horrible. Cliques, gangs, etc. We don’t live in the US for crying out loud.

(Evidence)

Now, I’m completely sure that Shi Wen is bisexual.

I guess that’s all for today’s post. I need to blog more!

LEGS! Thanks Elena! :D

Into the Sun

2010-04-17T12:29:00.001+08:00

Sport’s day was on a Wednesday morning. A hot Wednesday morning. It was so hot that I’ve got a super obvious white line on my face. The sun has made me into a roasted chicken, but a skinny one of course.

For the fourth time, my house, Hebat once again did not get the deserved top 3 spot finish for marching. So I assume we got 4th, once again. But it’s okay, I had much more fun compared to the past few years.

Outta here,

16

2010-04-07T19:35:00.001+08:00

Yea, I’m late for my own birthday post.

But thanks guys for everything. You made my year so much better.

I wanna thank you for all the wishes on Facebook,

Jeremy Tan and Lai, Bryan Loh and Cho, Kar May, Lee Ann, Pow and Talisa for the wonderful present, (FYI I’ve finished it already.)

Jo Li for being my David Tutera/Jamie Oliver,

Wei Siang and Wong for the wallets,

Nicholas and Thiam Joo for staying back the latest just to watch football,

Jian Wei for the awesomest guitar picks,

Shi Wen for the rocks and stones,

Ben Yew and Aaron for getting me a game each,

Soon Len for the wonderful cookies,

Hannah and Assikin for the up and coming present (I hope).

Turning 16 doesn’t feel any different compared to other days, but it’s certainly worth the celebration.

The Lights and Cameras

2010-03-25T23:44:00.001+08:00

It was that time of the year again, the photo shoot.

Oh yes, I managed to relive the days of 6 hours total slacking thanks to this. The good thing this year is we’re totally ahead of schedule by one day. And still manage to have with the camera. (My camera)

Can you believe this fella is the photography head, yes believe me he is.

‘Answer me laaa please!’

Outta here,

A Passion

2010-03-21T16:43:00.001+08:00

I’ve never really watched Anime in my life, and I certainly didn’t expect myself to ever attend one of these events.

GACC stands for Games Anime Comics Circle. Probably the only reason I ever followed my cousin to attend this was probably because I heard the ‘Games’ word first, but it turned out to be a Anime populated event. After looking around at people with red, blue, green hair, I understand why people are so interested in the world of Anime.

Anime is a passion, it’s like a drug once you get hooked, you’ll never stop. Anime is a world of wonders and creative imagination. It is a dream.

Who knows, I might turn into an Anime freak when I’m older. Oh wait, I AM getting older.

That’s all for now, until next time

“ I’m your shooter! '”

That must be Dota.

Half Way There

2010-03-15T17:24:00.001+08:00

Hello readers! I’m finally back to finally blog. School holidays just started which also means exams are OVER… for now. All the papers I took were somewhat a horror, everyone agrees with me though, especially for the History paper. But of course, enough of exams already, everyone’s probably sick with it.

Went to Bukit Kiara on Sunday, to take pictures.

I know, water’s slightly overblown, I’ll be back waterfalls.

I guess taking photographs is a great way to start the school holidays. Other than looking at some gigantor reference books all the time.

Shall continue trying to teach myself to learn the piano, till then,

How We Do It

2010-02-22T22:12:00.001+08:00

Chinese New Year holidays has gone by too quickly, now it’s back to boring, stressful studies of school. I shall relive CNY moments by well, blogging about my CNY.

The day before CNY, went to grandma’s house(dad’s side) as usual to burn ‘money’,

Ate lunch there as usual again. And of course the usual ‘Lao Sang’.

1st day of CNY, went back to Melacca(mom’s side), and yes when we got there we ‘Lao Sang’-ed again.

Then my cousin started posing for the camera. I THINK it’s posing.

Second day, took a group photo.

Third day, DAP promote themselves by doing lion dance.

‘DAFTAR PENGUNDI BARU’

Got back from Melacca on Thursday, on Friday…

Mom’s students came over.

WHERE ARE YOU JOCELYN HO?

On Saturday…

Monks came over for house blessings.

AND YESTERDAY! Played some fireworks. With some cool effects.

And yes L for LAME!

So far so good, outta here,

So called Pure Science Students

2010-02-12T23:27:00.001+08:00

That boy in that video probably is Shi Wen, so don’t mind him.

‘Woi, Jia Wei tag me on Facebook’

‘Eyh, Jia Wei!’

This is exactly what happens whenever I bring a camera to school. It’s not such a bad thing but it’s not so much of a good thing either.

So the festive season is here, once again. So I shall wish you all a happy Chinese New Year which so happens to fall on Valentines Day. And once again, I had chocolate melting, and this time it melted in my bag, the triangular Toblerone chocolate became, well, flat. This is what happens when you don’t have a portable fridge with you all the time.

For this whole curriculum week, photography for these events has been really really boring. It always feels like I can fall asleep while taking a photo. Not to mention, today’s Form 5 drama competition taught me a lesson that we should always get ready like really really early. SO I’M GOING TO WRITE THE SCRIPT!

Enough of me, that’s all for today,

It’s Enough For Now

2010-02-06T23:06:00.002+08:00

Hey everyone, sorry for the recent update drought, homework has really been piling up ever since school has started. It’s hard to updated my blog while having loads of unfinished homework on your table.

Life’s been pretty hectic, secretary work, photo shoots to attend to, tuition to go. I knew that Form 4 life wouldn’t be easy at all. Other than that, I can’t believe that I’ve survived the first month as a student of the 2011 SPM. And I also can’t believe that my brother is in the same school as me.

Yes, this little boy right here, it can get annoying at times whenever he screams, ‘Hey Jia Wei!’ when I walk back from bio lab or chemistry lab, but what the heck, he’s still my brother. Oh, and did I mention that the afternoon session editorial board members are ‘professional’ cam whores?

Especially Jason, he just won’t stop molesting my camera.

My class 4 Cengal is pretty awesome.

Wai Kheong(right) and Mole hair dude, Jia Hoong(left)

After one month of being a student of 4 Cengal, I have realized THAT, Sarah and Elena laughs for dumbest of reasons for at least 5 minutes, Yuan Ann curses a lot, Delon loves his ladies, Shi Wen’s favourite line is ‘My sore throat makes my voice sexy,’ and Bryan’s ‘I met this girl.’ line which is starting to annoy me.

That’s about it for this post. I promise I’ll update a lot more these coming weeks. Until then,

So long (PAZ style)

Since I'm Such A…

2010-01-14T21:06:00.001+08:00

… bad friend, I’m gonna wish my dearest friend a happy birthday on my blog now!

SEE THIS POSER HERE!

His name is Wei Siang or you could call him Clement. And this fella has been my friend for, um, um, 6 or 7 years? I think? But anyway, since I never got you anything and you never got me anything for my birthday, I’m just gonna give you this as you’re birthday present.

Thanks for being an awesome friend just for following me around in school or going to parties with me or maybe shooting up other idiots in Call of Duty. You’ve always understood what I’ve said and thought(okay, that sounded gay). BUT ANYWAY! HAPPY BIRTHDAY! OKAY?! I promise not to borrow money from you ever again! AND AND! Don’t stress too much, cause you’re white hair is getting more and more by the day(just advice).

School is so hectic these days, so far, I know that writing a 200 word malay essay is possible, being the only form 4 photographer makes me feel special but makes me feel alone at the same time and and WHY ARE THERE SO MANY PARTIES ON FRIDAY, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY!? HELP ME! I wish I could go for at least one of them at least. *Sigh* I need to have fun at least for one day, I feel like I’m gonna explode! (mostly thanks to physics, which I still can’t spell properly). OH WELL, that’s life right, no guts to ask your parents cause your brother has red eye infection and parents are busy, not complaining but that’s just the fact.

That’s all I gotta say for now, wish I had photos to put but unfortunately I’ve got none sooooooo,

The Midweek

2010-01-06T20:33:00.001+08:00

Hello all, so I’ll be writing about my first three days since school reopened. So I was placed in 4 Cengal which was a pure science class. I guess I can’t complain much about the teachers cause they’re all okay I guess (except for Pn. Lim’s voice for moral classes), but anyways, Form 4 life already sounds hard and tough.

So I’m sitting next to Bryan a.k.a ‘Shut Up la’ and Justin which is kinda cool, the only problem was that Bryan couldn’t stop singing Fireflies for some reason. But anyway, school is really just the normal school, teachers come in teach, leave the class and the same procedure goes on and on and on again. The other thing I realized that most of the students who transferred went to Sri KL. Must be amazing to take O Levels huh?

My first three days are pretty jam packed with after school tuition too. I had the usual Mr. Goey on Monday and the a Mr. Hong for chemistry right after Mr. Goey’s BM tuition. Tuesday I had physics (which I still can’t spell correct but thanks to the spell checker I typed it correctly) with Mr. Moey and his was real interesting, he kept using words to call us like ‘sweet boy’ or maybe ‘Sir’. He was really interesting. And then today I had Terry’s Add Math tuition and yes, he turned 31 today, so I shall wish him a happy birthday and hopefully you get married soon, you’re getting oooollllddddddd.

That’s all for today I guess, so until next time,

The First Day

2010-01-02T16:02:00.001+08:00

Hello all! So the fresh new start has begun, a new decade has dawned upon us but yet I still feel the same. Oh well, so on the first day I went with dad and mom to the new BUBS centre which is now called Uttama Bodhi Vihara(UBV) at Bandar Utama to test the sound system and take a few shots. First thing I noticed about it that the new building is just next to Puay Chai (2), I’m not sure if that’s actually a good thing but I just noticed. Anyway, I’ll let the pictures do the talking.

3 floors high with a roof and basement, this new building is kinda cool.

After that, we went home took a rest and then went for dinner at Jaya One. There were so many restaurants there and it’s really hard to choose from so I chose this restaurant called Kinnaree Thai Restaurant and the food was simply amazing.

For starters which was the Pineapple Fried Rice,

The taste was simply unbelievable, prawns tasted fresh and most importantly the sambal that came with the dish got ‘KICK’! For the side dishes which was supposed to be the starter meal, the family ate…

Chicken Skewers

Kinnaree Wings

… which are both quite delicious but a little bit pricey to me. Overall it’s an amazing restaurant to eat at. And even though the portion is quite small, but it’s worth it. And I’d probably be going back there for more.

Oh well, that’s all for this post, until next time,

What the Year was

2009-12-31T18:58:00.001+08:00

After a long holiday, I’ve finally got my hair cut today. Today is the 31st of December of 2009, and I shall blog about the days before this date. I’ve totally rewritten and rethought on how to approach this blog post.

2009 was bittersweet, I had a few moments which I really enjoyed and a few moments which I really disliked, but I’m glad I could end it on a high note with good PMR results and a new guitar (FYI my old electric guitar is on sale). With all this said, I believe that what has happened this year shall always stay on this year only, like the saying goes, ‘Lightning never strikes twice.’ What has happened always happens for a reason, we just have to live and learn.

I expected myself to write a really long post about 2009, but come to think of it, I don’t have too because all I’ve done in this past year has been written on this blog, told to friends and most importantly some of the happenings are part of my memory.

So I shall bid you all a very happy new year and hope for better things to come. Until next time,

Just A Blog

2009-12-29T23:08:00.001+08:00

Since I’m so utterly bored and have totally nothing to do, I shall blog about a blog today.

You got that right mates a blog, so the blog belongs to Yin Qin, one of my primary school mates.

And this is his blog URL, http://diaryofa-bambi.blogspot.com/, and this is how it looks like,

Personally, it takes a long time to load, but it is much better than his last layout which was a picture of a freaking Bambi. Easy to navigate, readable, nice layout, it’s everything you need in a blog.

So that was advertising for me, out of here,

It’s Just That Time Again

2009-12-22T20:33:00.004+08:00

Remember the time where we were standard 6 students and we couldn’t wait to know our results. And because of that some of us waited for teacher outside the corridor, some of us pretended like UPSR never happened and some of us well kept quite all the time. Ah yes, the memories of a 12 year old, it never goes away. Were exams made to scare us? Or maybe prepare us for the real world outside? We all have different views about major exams but we share one common thing that is we can never change the results we get.

Neither can we turn back time and undo what has been done . So here I shall bid all PMR result takers, including myself good luck because sadly I won’t be able to take my results by myself as I will be in the highlands of Cameron. But nevertheless I will still remain the same old 12 year old kid waiting nervously for my own results.

Once again, I wish you all a HUGE…

GOOD LUCK!

And just in case I don’t blog on Christmas day, I shall wish all a very Merry Christmas.

So I guess I’m outta here,

‘I See You’

2009-12-18T18:30:00.001+08:00

Hello readers, so just yesterday I went to watch this movie called…

And it’s one of the best movies I’ve seen like seriously, it’s about a man named Jake Sully (or as the Na’vi like to call him Jakesully, with you pronouncing the sully part in a higher tone) a former U.S. Marine paralyzed from the waist down due to wounds sustained in combat, is selected to participate in the Avatar program on the planet Pandora. And an Avatar is basically part human part Na’vi (them blue people) DNA combined and these Avatars are used for better relations with the Na’vi. And why are these better relations needed, it’s because the humans are on the planet Pandora to collect a valuable mineral that sells, quote ‘20 million per kilo’. Them greedy humans.

I wouldn’t want to ruin your movie, so I won’t reveal anymore, but all I can say now that this movie is a really good movie and you guys should watch it and not stick to the crappy television series you all know…

Yes, I’m talking about that stupid flying monkey, super human with the funny arrow on his head (as if he’s some sort of Harry Potter). That’s about it, so I’m outta here,

My Own Chart

2009-12-16T18:18:00.002+08:00

Hello readers! So if you guys have noticed, 2009 is coming to an end and so recently Billboard.com has compiled the top 100 songs of 2009. And the top 20 songs are:

Boom Boom Pow – Black Eyed Peas
Poker Face – Lady Gaga
Just Dance – Lady Gaga
I Gotta Feeling – Black Eyed Peas
Love Story – Taylor Swift
Right Round – Flo Rida
I’m Yours – Jason Mraz
Single Ladies – Beyonce
Heartless – Kanye West
Gives You Hell – The All American Rejects
You Belong With Me – Taylor Swift
Dead and Gone – T.I. featuring Justin Timberlake
You Found Me – The Fray
Use Somebody – Kings of Leon
Knock You Down – Keri Hilson featuring Kanye West & Ne-Yo
Blame It – Jamie Foxx featuring T-Pain
I Know You Want Me – Pitbull
Live Your Life – T.I. featuring Rihanna
Kiss Me Thru The Phone – Soulja Boy Tell ‘em featuring Sammie
Down – Jay Sean featuring Lil’ Wayne

When I looked at this so called best of 09 chart, I was kinda disappointed. First thing you’ll notice is that this chart is mostly dominated by R&B and rap with the likes of T.I. , Flo Rida, Keri Hilson etc. Secondly you’ll probably be saying, ‘Hey, what’s that Jamie Foxx song doing there?’ And last but not least, you’ll probably be saying, ‘Why isn’t Taylor Swift number 1?’

Okay okay, that last sentence was probably for mega Taylor Swift fans (like myself but of course I did not say that line). This list of the top 20 songs are probably not in correct order to me and most probably you too. I felt that Lady Gaga’s Just Dance should be at the top position, cause she has worked the hardest this year. Yes, people critic about how weirdly she dresses, how she’s so weird and all, but she is one hard working lady. Secondly, I never imagined Flo Rida making it to the number 6 position with his song Right Round which totally unacceptable because I don’t really think Right Round got was as popular as Low.

And probably the worst song to be in that chart is Kiss Me Thru The Phone which I believe didn’t really make a huge impact to the music scene plus it’s really annoying. So if I had to come up with a chart, it’ll probably be…

Just Dance – Lady Gaga
I Gotta Feeling – Black Eyed Peas
Love Story – Taylor Swift
Poker Face – Lady Gaga
I’m Yours – Jason Mraz
Single Ladies – Beyonce
Boom Boom Pow – Black Eyed Peas
Gives You Hell – The All American Rejects
Use Somebody – Kings of Leon
Dead and Gone – T.I. featuring Justin Timberlake
You Belong With Me – Taylor Swift
You Found Me – The Fray
Live Your Life – T.I. featuring Rihanna
Viva La Vida - Coldplay
Halo – Beyonce
Hot n Cold – Katy Perry
Circus – Britney Spears
Second Chance – Shinedown
Down – Jay Sean featuring Lil’ Wayne
Don’t Trust Me – 3OH!3

Now isn’t that a more colourful interesting chart yet honest top 20, whose do you prefer mine or Billboard.com’s chart. You decide on my poll, so for now I’m outta here,

Photography’s Next Level

2009-12-14T19:55:00.001+08:00

Gaming photography. Ah, they joys of being able to just pause and not set shutter speed or aperture. Now only if real photography was like that.

The Land Beneath the Winds

2009-12-08T13:38:00.002+08:00

Hello, I’m back from my Sabah trip and I found it quite enjoyable. So I’m gonna start telling you about my trip.

This was my first time flying with Air Asia. And well it’s not that comfortable, small leg space, bumpy-ness throughout the flight and most importantly, cup noodles at the price of RM6! Ahh yes, now everyone can fly. Funny thing that happened, Air Asia staff even put us on the wrong flight which we thought was delayed.

So we landed around 1 o’clock in the afternoon, with Uncle Vincent fetching us for lunch and to our hotel, and for the first time our hotel was just next to a shopping mall. It is called the 1 Borneo, which size is relatively small compared to One Utama but as big as The Curve. After the rest, we went to this place called Lagoon Park which was located at Karambunai at around 5. The sun sets pretty early there, so I thought we were gonna get a glimpse of it, but of course, I thought wrong cause we were just there to look around but it was a nice park though.

But for the most part of our short look around there, we saw locals fishing, a few boats, the peaceful living.

After that we headed for dinner and then back to the hotel, so that concludes my day 1 at Sabah.

Day 2 started at around 9 o’clock where Uncle Vincent fetched us to the jetty. From there we got on a boat and headed towards the Tunku Abdul Rahman Marine Park which consists of a few island for example Pulau Manukan, Pulau Sapi, Pulau (I forgot what’s the name), etc etc.

That’s our boat driver named, Bai, I think.

And yes, the boat was going fast enough for the wind to blow on my oh so smooth hair.

We first stopped at Pulau Sapi which is one of the small islands located…

…near Pulau Gaya, and I HAD to see the map. Anyways, Pulau Sapi is one of the smaller islands, all we did there was look around for awhile.

After around 20 minutes there we headed towards Pulau Manukan at full speed, Pulau Manukan is a popular spot for snorkeling, water activities and well, just basically sleeping there since the wind itself gives you the ‘I wanna sleep’ feeling. Me and my brothers went snorkeling and it was such a beautiful sight, I wished the camera had a water casing so that I could take some shots, but nevertheless the sight of fish swimming around you is beautiful.

A few shots on Manukan.

After basically ‘swimming with the fishes’ we headed to check out Pulau Mamutik. We didn’t exactly got off the boat we just told the driver to go round the island cause we realized all of the island were almost the same. We headed back to land after that.

It was still 2 o’clock in the afternoon so we went to the Philippine Market, which I certainly thought it was the most boring part of the trip even though it is listed as one of the top ten places you must visit when you are in Sabah, nearly everything they sell is the same. Necklaces, magnets, wooden baskets, fake ukuleles, necklaces again, magnets again, etc etc. The items they sell just keeps repeating itself for every stall you visit. We went for some coconut water and satay at Tanjung Aru and then we headed for dinner. While heading for dinner, Uncle Vincent passed through a windy road up the hills and half way through there was a place for people to look out into the city, and yes it was pretty.

Day 3 started early as we headed up to Kundasang, we didn’t know about where Uncle Vincent was taking us earlier until he told us in the car. It was cold and misty at Kundasang and I was freezing as I was only wearing a T-Shirt, shorts and flip flops. We stopped by at Kundasang for awhile. A hot cup of Teh Tarik and a toilet break was pretty much needed. Before we left we stopped by at the Kundasang War Memorial.

My brother expected guns, huge tanks and explosion thanks to his colorful imagination which only consists of Call of Duty games. But there wasn’t any guns or tanks there, instead a meaningful history lesson.The Ranau – Sandakan Death March (1942-1945) during the Japanese occupation saw prisoners which walked from Ranau to Sandakan. Out of the hundreds that died during this ‘march’ only 6 Australian soldiers survived.

We continued our journey into the mountains, and reached our destination which is the Poring Hot Springs and it is located in the rainforest. We were greeted by the sounds of splashing water from the nearby river which was too die for.

After a few minutes of hot spring-ing(stating the obvious). We headed towards the canopy walk which was deep in the jungle.

That’s Uncle Vincent and that’s the high hanging canopy walk, which is 200 meters of the ground. The trip up top to the canopy a long one, but the sights and sounds on the way up were priceless.

After a late lunch we headed down to Kota Kinabalu, had a quick rest and then went out for dinner. Three things that you’ll notice in Sabah is the countless number of roundabouts, small, big and even painted. Secondly, the time taken just to make it to the specific destination when you can get to Johor in the peninsula by the time you reach your destination. And last but not least, and probably my most favorite, the super duper fresh seafood.

Especially my favorite prawns, they’re so fresh that that you can probably have that single dish for the whole dinner. And talking bout eating dirty, I probably had the biggest mess of prawn skin/crab shells/shells. That concludes my day 3.

Day 4 was the last day for us in Sabah. We headed towards the mangrove park near the city centre. It was an amazingly hot day, but it was a good trip to see nature up close and personal.

And that probably wraps up my Sabah trip, and yes it was fun. And that concludes my long long long post today. Until next time,

A Quarter of Us

2009-12-02T13:31:00.001+08:00

Hey readers, this is my last post before I head to Sabah which then I will be only back on Sunday evening. So yesterday, my class had a so called ‘picnic’ at central park avenue. And out of the 34 students only around 15 came. The ‘picnic’ started slow with all of us basically walking around 1 Utama cause it started raining with food in our hands and people looking curiously at us. When the rain stopped we headed back to central park to eat. Most of the food was sausages, 3 boxes of them I think. And after that, we played ‘Ice and Fire’ that kiddy game that we used to always play when we were still kids. It was a fun day out, it wasn’t a total success but it was okay.

And Sean, cats do not like being chased away,

You’ve been warned, they’re gonna get you.

Outta here,

Waves and cuts

2009-12-01T10:11:00.001+08:00

Hello readers! I know I haven’t blogged for a long long time, but here I am anyway to start blogging. So as you know I’ve been going to work these past few days and work has been okay I guess, well except for the fact that toner liquid is everywhere and I always get my hands dirty, but it’s been fun. I’ve got my first paycheck of RM _ _ _ today. (Ain’t gonna tell you, cause I don’t want to get robbed.)

So recently I’ve got my invite to use the Google Wave preview.

Ahh yes, I was chatting with Lee Ann, so Google Wave is a facebook/twitter/e-mail/blogs/etc etc, but that’s not well developed yet so it’s not shown here, but the cool part about it is you can chat and while you’re chatting you can drag items like photos, files, music to the chat box to show or to send it to the other person. And on the plus side you can invite a lot of people to chat but as you can see here this is not a very good example of ‘a lot’ of people chatting. I’ve got 5 more invites to Google Wave, please say you want one, just leave a message on my cBox and I’ll send you one.

So that’s about it for today, I’m still waiting for photos from JOCELYN HO but she’s taking too long, I’m gonna persuade her to put them on Facebook or her blog now. For now,

All About Stocks

2009-11-23T19:29:00.003+08:00

Hey readers, I’m back to blog once again. Okay, I wasn’t planning to blog until Jocelyn put up the dinner photos and since she’s not planning to do it any time quicker, I plan to blog about it now. So on Saturday, me, Jocelyn, Aaron, Clement, Rachel and Hui Yee went for this dinner thing at Yuk Chai. I’m not sure about the translation of this event but if I directly translate like all other Chinese menus in China, it’ll probably sound like ‘Million People Dinner’. I know! We shouldn't directly translate Chinese into English, but what the heck, it sounds funny.

So we ate and walked around for awhile and took a lot of pictures, it’s just that SOMEBODY hasn’t put it on Facebook or her blog yet. Just joking laaa. Anyways, that was about it, y’know blog post seriously goes better with pictures in it.

So today’s a Monday, and yes for the first time in my life, I went to work. I know I’ve worked at school or maybe worked out a little but this is WORK WORK! I’m working at a place where they sell printer toners stuff like that, no I do not where a specific shirt or anything, I just go there and start carrying stuff, count the stock, you know the usual boring stuff you do at work.

Continuing with my current job until Thursday cause Friday’s a public holiday and I still wanna go out with friends. I’m still enjoying my experience with Tumblr, and I so so so wished that Blogger has that cool effect whenever you write quotes on to Tumblr, observe! RIGHT?! SEE IT?! SO COOL RIGHT?! HAHA! I feel like a child again.

That’s all I guess, I’m so so so outta here, I promise pictures next post, cause life without pictures is just, well plain dull,

Tumblr

2009-11-21T11:47:00.001+08:00

Hey guys, I’m back to update my blog. So recently, Lee Ann and the gang influenced me to make a Tumblr account. Fortunately I’m proud enough to say, I will not leave this blog to rot. So yes, I have two blogs now.

Tumblr to me, feels like a twitter/facebook. You get to like post, which is like Facebook and you get to reblog post, which is like Twitter when you retweet something. It’s kinda nice, but I guess Tumblr is for people who loves fast updates, HD photos and are too lazy to write much. As for me, I am a writer, and Tumblr is not what I really needed. But nevertheless, it’s good to try out new stuff all the time. As much as I like to drag on about how Tumblr compares to Blogger, sadly I won’t do it. Cause different people has different types of views. Oh well.

http://byjiawei.tumblr.com/

Outta here,

Epic.

2009-11-18T22:20:00.001+08:00

Hey readers, I finally got my eyes, head and mind out of Modern Warfare 2, so today I’ll blog about it.

So Modern Warfare or MW2 for short is a game for the Call of Duty series which I know Jun Jie loves it. Anyway, this new game to me is a fantastic game. Let’s start.

As much as I want to put my own pictures of the game I gotta take them out from the Internet because well, all you will see is a first person view.

So in usual Call of Duty fashion you play as two stories, it’s either Roach from Task Force 141 or Sgt. Ramirez from the Rangers. I certainly enjoyed Task Force 141 as it provides much more excitement and energy. The game play has changed, while in previous games, you have to follow a certain route to reach your target, in this game, you have different routes but you’ll end up at the same target, so it kinda gives you some freedom. Secondly there are so many types of guns to choose from and it’s really hard to choose which gun is best. And there are much more attachments to guns, such as the heart beat censor. More types of RPG’s to blow up the helicopters, and most importantly, dual wielded weapons, such as the Mini Uzi, G18 and Ranger shotgun.

This game is a work of fiction so I really doubt the Russians will attack the US or even blow up the White House. However there’s a slight problem to this game, multiplayer kinda sucks. No Lan all Internet, so Garena users might have a slight problem. Max players are only 18 and well, no console. And with the single player game only around 5 and a half hours, you’ll get bored pretty soon if you don’t get a original copy like me.

Overall: 9 out of 10

Until next time,

PEW PEW PEW

2009-11-15T11:45:00.001+08:00

YES! I freaking want my copy of Modern Warfare 2 right now! But it’s 3 DVD’s, damn it.

Okay, so it was a Saturday yesterday, just stating the obvious. Went to my guitar lesson in the morning and then followed mom to her 6J reunion at Tropicana’s Coffee House.

Right after that me and mom went to Yuk Chai too pick my brother from school camp. And then we went for dinner. So dinner was at this place called Be Lohas(I think) at DU. I couldn’t say I enjoyed it cause it was all, organic. That means it’s vegetarian. And there was this burger there.

It was black, and I don’t know how to describe cause I didn’t have a bite out of it, but what Dad and the others said, it’s really good. Oh well. It is said to help clear out the toxins in the body, something like that.

Come to think of it, that was a short post. Until next time,

Simplicity

2009-11-12T19:45:00.002+08:00

Let’s get this over with, congrats to the Beating Biscuits in beating me and my gang and also to Sean and Kevin for the Michael Jackson dance. THERE I admitted defeat!

I’m just joking, I won’t admit defeat ever, I’m still gonna prove myself. Actually no one won or lost to me, everyone did a good job, everyone had fun. Now, I know, I take things too seriously, I wasn’t frustrated because I lost or something, it’s because of THEM! No, not the Beating Biscuits or Michael Jacksons, it’s THEM! I’m okay now after few episodes of CSI.

(I wished I could stop saying no for once. Such a horrible word.)

I don’t know what else to type cause nothing interesting has happened so far. So I’ll let the pictures do the talking. Sorry for the lateness!

See Clement, there’s nothing wrong with a smile. It won’t kill you. That reminds me, I have to smile more.

Was going down memory lane the other day by playing my already corrupted Call of Duty Worldat War. Well, this is what I saw.

Kids, the lesson is do not use gigantic torpedoes to blow up your enemies as it will, well give you the most disgusting pictures on earth. I hope I didn’t cause any nightmares. What I’m trying to say is, BEN YEW do not make me jealous just because you’ve got Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and I haven’t got it, if not I’ll blow up like I did to this fella. I’m kidding but don’t give me spoilers.

Until next time,

Blades, Hoods

2009-11-10T20:10:00.001+08:00

I promise I’ll update my dead blog soon,

First Pairs

2009-11-06T18:08:00.001+08:00

It was a Thursday and it was drizzling, and students were preparing for a run. A Nike Training Run.

Okay, enough with the dramatic-ness, yes, Nike came over our school to have a Nike Training Run with my school’s students and teachers. Basically, I think that this whole Nike Training Run thingo was too promote their new products, the Lunar Glide shoe type, and stating that this kind of shoe IS rocket science.

They started borrowing us some Nike shoes to run with.

Mind the hairiness of my legs. Yes, those were mine, for just awhile. I didn’t run thus no sports band which sounded kinda cool. But all the introductions and stuff were beginning to bore me for the first batch of people until the Nike people said:

“ Let the camera man tumpang the truck.”

And so I did, that’s on top of the truck. And those there are people running, just stating the obvious.

Anyway, it was a great day out in the sun, but I’ll admit it, the Nike shoes were great too wear even though it’s a tad heavier. And the sports band concept with the USB and everything is great. No I’m not going show more pictures cause,

Nike’s gonna buy them, hopefully.

Oops, guess I said too much,

I’m outta here,

NIKE PLEASE BUY! AND PAY FOR MY BLOGGING. I’m asking too much am I?

Where’s the Moonwalk?

2009-11-04T20:06:00.001+08:00

‘Did you cry?’ asked my Dad

‘Cry? For who?’ I answered back.

‘Michael Jackson, you just went to see the movie, correct?’

‘Just because I watched the Michael Jackson movie doesn’t mean I have to cry, right?’

So today, I went out with Jian Wei, Tjen Yao, Jia Yang, Jia Shen, Jia Shen’s lil’ brother, my two brothers, 3 other guys and a couple of aunties to catch Michael Jackson’s This It.

I’m not sure what genre this movie is, but it’s some sort of documentary/musical? This movie showcases the best of MJ, all the cool dance moves, his strong voice and how amazing the concept of this concert was. It didn’t exactly make me cry but it certainly was a touching movie. The guy’s 50 years old, yet he still has new concept that can shake the world.

Once again, R.I.P Michael Jackson.

I wondered off from the group to meet up with Aaron, Nicholas and Thiam Joo for some snooker, then I left at around 5.30. Overall good day out.

The only down point was, well, the fact is I’ve never been to One Utama for a long long time, so I kinda got lost with Aaron and the gang while looking for Roxy, Quicksilver and Forerver 21. So I didn’t manage to meet up with Jo Li and Li Wen. Yes, we got lost. Pfft.

That’s all for now,

Shots of Boredom

2009-11-02T23:37:00.001+08:00

Since I’m not wanted, I think I’ll be on my own.

I’m picking myself up again.

Outta here,

On a Halloween Day

2009-10-31T22:57:00.001+08:00

So, I’m promising myself to make up for those days which I didn’t blog. So the post just now was for Tuesday, this post is for Wednesday and the post later is for Thursday. So I’ll need one more post by then, but let’s just concentrate on this post first.

So I with Lee Ann, Talisa, Chien Han, Marcus, Bryan, Pow and Siew Ho went for a party at Chung Ling whatsoever you call it. Organized by the Leo Club, well, most people were Leo’s. But nevertheless, it was fun not bad for their first.

Pictures shall describe the party.

I AM outta here again, I might have a third post, I might not have one but nevertheless,

Semi, Finals

2009-10-31T22:37:00.001+08:00

THAT’S ALL! No more pressure from Facebook junkies to put the photos on. The cam whores and group photos can wait, kay?

I just realized I haven’t blogged since Monday, and that sucks. Psh. PMR is OVER LAAA, JIA WEI! Blog more often.

*Smacks head*

Outta here,

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