Family

Spent the whole weekend with my family for a shopping spree in KL. Didn't know when it started, but it has kinda been a 'ritual' to my family to buy clothes during December for the coming year's Chinese New Year.

This time around we stayed at The Summit, Subang again. Spent the whole Saturday at Mid Valley again. Burned a huge hole in my dad's pocket again, hehe =P.

I love it when I'm with my family, even when we were staying at a hotel, it feels like home to me. Many things remain unchanged: brother and sister being silly and childish which they'll never act in front of their friends, mom's nagging and her style when she's tired (multi layer eye-lids and very moody, haha!), dad's snoring when he's sleeping soundly.

While some of the things remain unchanged, many changed as well. Noticed that daddy and mummy are getting older. It's not that they are old, but their body is obviously not as young as few years back. I have to talk louder when I'm talking to daddy, I have to walk slower when I'm walking with mummy (as usual, hehe), their skin feels softer due to gradually sagging skin, there are more wrinkles on their face, more white hairs prodding out from their hair. Suddenly I feel that I'm not a good daughter. I should be taking care of them instead of still letting them worrying about me.

From now on, I'll: listen patiently when chatting with mom even if she is repeating the same old story again and again, call home instead of waiting for mom's call even though it cost few ringgits (okok, i'm stingy, happy?), listen patiently when dad is telling his story from company even when I dunno who are the uncles he is referring to, call my brother instead of chatting through msn, nag my sister less (maybe) and chat with her more....most of all, take care of myself before I can take care of my family, right?

~Home is where my heart is, where my family belongs~

Longing

For the first time in Kampar, I cannot sleep because of the weather. Slept for three hours when I needed more of it. The fan was already spinning almost to the maximum speed yet my room is so stuffy. Looking at the statuses in Facebook does not help either. Everyone was complaining about the hot weather. In Daoist's beliefs, there are suppose to be shower during Nine Emperor God festival. It came and went this year, without a drop of rain. Someone joked that even the God couldn't overcome global warming.

October, monsoon changing season. Expected to have lesser rainfall. I'm not the one who usually remember when it last rain or shine, however it has been at least two weeks since it last rain, or as far as I could recall.

~Let the rain fall down,

And wake my dreams,

Let it wash away, my sanity,

Cause I wanna feel the thunder, I wanna scream,

Let the rain fall down,

I'm coming clean, I'm coming clean~

Come Clean- Hilary Duff

p/s: feel the thunder? No thanks, haha!

仰望星空

突然间，我又多出了一个星期的假期，无言。。。

昨天下午四点多收到了教授的电邮，告诉我们她下星期不在，要我们十八号再去实验室。早些告诉我嘛！让我呆呆的呆在金宝一个星期，快发霉了^^

怎么办？回家咯，反正才一个小时多的路程，回家免得妈妈担心。。辛苦爸爸了，晚上八点多来载我，十一点多又去上班了。

在回家的路途上，突然望上天空，发现有好多星星哦！一路上没什么路灯，天空还蛮晴朗的，没有月亮，让星星闪烁得更亮。好久好久没有在车上看星星了，很舒服，但是过后还蛮晕的，哈哈！

看到这些星星，让我想起与朋友去年躺在足球场上看星星的时候。很快的我们就要毕业，开始令一段新生活了，将来会是怎样？没人知。但我相信，我们会活得更精彩！

p/s: 第一次用华文打不落格，好不习惯哦！华语又退步了 T_T

Payback Time~

God, it feels so good to be able to blast back..*evil smile*

After disturbing me for weeks, finally I discovered the source of evil! Ok, I'm exaggerating. For weeks, someone living near my house has been switching on his/her speaker really loud (with bass) randomly. Early in the morning, afternoon, near midnight, middle of the night..you name it.

Now I know. The person that I had been silently 'cursing' for weeks is a guy, living just opposite my house, 2nd floor, also facing the back alley. He blasted his speaker moments ago, I follow suit by increasing on my laptop volume to almost 70 and blasted some korean songs. Thanks to the echo, it was really loud, lol! Luckily there are so few people in this housing area now, with the nearest a few houses away, no worries of disturbing other people =P

Please be more considerate, if you want to enjoy the sensation of bobbing your head along with the bass, use a headphone!

Home Comfort

It's Saturday night, 12 more hours to go before I'm leaving from the comfort of being pampered at home to Kampar again. I'm usually not a homesick type of person. How can you be homesick when you are at home? Guess there's a first for everything.

Days I'm at home since last year:

December 09-Jan 10: 3weeks

February: 1 week (CNY)

May: 2weeks (sem break)

Sept:2weeks (study week and raya), 1week (sem break)

Dec: who knows how long my project will take???

Come and think of it, I had 9weeks of holiday, not suppose to be whining right? Have only a few days of break after final...didn't even have the time time switch my mood into holiday mood, as I need to switch it back again few days later, no point right?

Maybe I'm never comfortable with facing the unknown, and of course the possibility of staying alone in an empty 3 story house (and maybe the whole street) for almost 2 weeks...no one to talk crap to!

It's time to grow up mentally girl, but right now, I just wanna be daddy's mummy's little girl and sulk about the fact that my holiday is so short!

Rainy Days

Two songs I hummed a lot recently:

~you are my sunshine, my only sunshine
you made me happy, when skies are grey~

~rain, rain go away, come again another day~

Yup, the weather in Kampar is once again, unpredictable! Just the week before finals for this semester, everyone was complaining how long since it last rain heavily. Guess we got our wishes, it just can't stop raining for days! Drizzling, raining heavily, stop...suddenly rain heavily again, then stop, rain again! The cycle goes on and on until I had lost count of it. The weather is so cool that it makes you just want to cuddle up with your blanket and forget all about your exam.

Missed Mid-Autumn celebration this year because of the rain too, please let the sun shine next Monday? We need to celebrate the end of our exam =P

~ in the heat of Summer Sunshine, I miss you~

Stacko? Jenga?

We used to go out every night at 7pm in a group for our dinner. Due to 'unlimited' test, assignment and reports, the bad weather, laziness..and of course some 'issues', our 'dinner gang' has been very unstable. So, only Eileen, Kaswin and me when out last week, forgot when is the day...to Forest Cafe...

Remember the game where we stack up 3 wooden sticks on every floor into a tower and we have to pull out the sticks one by one and hope it won't fall? What is the name of the game..jenga? stacko? The label says the duration for a game is around 15 minute and we finish it in 3 minutes for the first few games.

We were extremely fast? Or badly skilled? I choose the first choice though..^^

Sorry, Sorry - Winter Solstice version

There's an old saying in chinese about winter solstice: 冬至大如年 which means winter solstice is as great as Chinese New Year. I was preparing 'tang yuan' with my mom and sister last night. We were chatting and joking when both me and my sister came up with this silly idea....

Original version by Super Junior:
Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry
Naega naega naega meonjeo
Nege nege nege ppajyeo
Ppajyeo ppajyeo beoryeo baby

My version:winter solstice ( 冬至) Sing In Hokkien!
sou nyi, sou nyi, sou nyi, sou nyi,
dang zek, dang zek tio bui sou nyi,
ang sek, pek sek, ngui sek, qeng sek,
di, di, nyi, nyi, chiak liao happy!

translation in chinese:
搓汤圆，搓汤圆，搓汤圆，搓汤圆，
冬至， 冬至，必须搓汤圆，
红色，白色，黄色，青色，
甜甜圆圆，吃了happy!

Happy Winter Solstice! 冬至快乐！

In process last night....Presenting.....Tang Yuan!

Hot Showers + Broadband

I'm BACK!!

Just completed my internship at Pathlab HQ in Kelana Jaya two days ago. It was very educating, interesting, fun, chaotic, boring...you name it..but in a nutshell, I do not regret applying for internship. It might be boring sometimes, and the reports are killing (this internship is only an optional, why on earth we have to write soooooo many reports, and soooo detailed for the final report??!!!). Anyway, I made a great number of friends, and gained a lot of experience.

Back to the topic. Hot showers!

I never fully appreciate the wonders of water heater until I had my real hot shower yesterday for the past 11 weeks! We (Cindy, Eileen, and I) were staying at Pathlab's company house for the whole duration of our industrial training. I can stand with everything there except for one: there's no HOT SHOWER! I'm not used to cold showers, especially early in the morning and at night. It's so freezing! I think I deserve a pat on my back for bearing with it for 11 weeks, haha..

Next: Broadband Connection

Although Eileen got Celcom Broadband, but it was very very slow.. I can't even open my e-mail sometimes, let alone updating Facebooks, chat on MSN messenger, watching movies at ppstream. So, when I finally online using my house's Streamyx connection yesterday, I was sooo excited! Felt like I'm back, no longer outdated..update me people! Haha

Anyway, going to Penang from next Wednesday till 2nd of January (if not, I'll be left alone at home with no one to chat with, what a nightmare!). Hope can catch up with some friends there!

Penang hawker foods, HERE I COME!!

Being Me

I remember reading a scene in Harry Potter series where Hermione snapped at Ron with his ability to process only a little amount of feelings at a particular time.

I think she used the word teaspoon to describe it. Some people, especially guys really lack in the field of sensing feelings (or they just simply choose to ignore it). What a boring life one will have, because there will be only a little excitement, right? Some on the other hand is blessed with the ability to sense a cauldron-full of feelings at a time, and most of the time, they tend to over-analyze stuffs. What a life, it's like having a firework-thunderstorm hybrid machine embedded in your head, keep getting 'explosive waves' of thoughts and feelings all the time. Really, I'll think that I'm going insane if I could be excited, depressed, stressed and relaxed at the same time. Hm, I think I'm in the middle....

What has been going on my mind in the last hour:

Happy:
Yeah, it's Sunday! Who doesn't like Sunday? No class, off-day, can sleep in, slumber.... had always like weekends since I could memorize the days of a week.

Excited:
Going to Sunway Pyramid tomorrow, and since my sis is following her school trip to Genting and is going to spend their first day of the trip in Sunway, I'LL GET TO MEET HER! YES!!! Going to buy a long overdue birthday present for her (let her pick her own present, because she is really picky this year and I have no idea what to give her...), bring her for a nice meal...I'm such a good sis..hahahaha...(syok sendiri-ing)

Relaxed:
Drinking hot milo in a air-cond room, watching movie, typing a blog entry, and started reading Where Rainbows End while waiting for the movie to load. One friend is sleeping, while another is chatting with someone on her phone in another room, complete silence except for the steady typing sound..

Frustrated:
Halfway through the novel, can't stand the stupid male main character in the book, skipped to the last few pages and regretted immediately. Omg, use 50 years to realize that you like her? It's not stupid, it's plain DUMB! Ohya, kinda frustrated with a friend of mine now, the more I think, the more I'm mad.....

A lil-bit stressed:
Haven't type a single word in my weekly report, and still altering my over-due monthly report. I rather do experiment report than monthly report. Everything is still like a giant piece of puzzle.

Guess I'm still normal for a average 21 year-old, right?

-ciao-
xoxoxox