Warmth From Home

Fruits, Vitamin C and red bean soup, all from home~

My parents and my sis came to Kampar for a short visit yesterday evening. Hehe, I know my parents are missing me, cause they had been asking when I'm going home for the past two weeks. My sister however, is a different story. She didn't know she have to tag along until my mom suddenly told her an hour before they start their journey here, teehee!

Their timing was really great. I just barely close my room door after I reach home from campus (stranded there for more than an hour, stupid rain!) and there they are! How can I know? My sister kicked my door, like usual...Hm, time to teach her how to use her knuckles to KNOCK on the door, not kick eh!

Spent few hours chatting with mom. Sis use my laptop to poke around and gossiped with us. Dad? Napping of course~ Wanted to bring them for dinner at 'wo wen tian' , the famous claypot Dong Po Rou, but as usual, no luck =( Out of all places in Kampar, we had McDonald's for dinner. Mom and sis happy lo~ Haha!

Although it's a short visit from my parents, I felt recharged! Note to myself: faster finish up my thesis writing, lab reports and start revising for upcoming test! Then, I can go home~ Mom, I'll bring to you to have McD Breakfast when I'm back ok?

无题

有没有这种经验? 满怀心事，但是说不出口。不是不要说，而是完全不能说。。。

地，肮脏了，抹了抹，就没事了。

那么，心灵呢？

Gathering. Chats. Picture-taking

Yup, the title pretty much sums up the 'must-do-list' in most gathering.

The meaning of gatherings: we gather; we eat, talk and listen, update on each other; and most important, we take pictures, lots of them! By the end of the day, we look at the pictures, and think:' Oh my, how time flies!'.

Just had my form 5 class gathering yesterday. This is the first time we held it before Chinese New Year since 2008 (due to short Chinese New Year break and exams that kills the mood). Wow, 4th year already. Clap! Clap! Clap! Keep up the tradition guys! One suggestion (shall not mention who made it) though, can we change location next year?

As usual, few of us hanged out after class gathering, few hours is simply not enough for us talkative girls! Hence, we changed location to Secret Recipe at Marina Island. A slice of cake and a cup of tea was sufficient to make us sit there for 3 hours, and chat non-stop. Yup, girls.

Cam-whoring session! Okay, nicer term...photo-taking session. Did not take much picture with my camera though, since there were so many cameras around. However, I did take these~

It might be few months later, or one year later, it will still feels like we just chat not long ago for me. Till then friends! Am already looking forward meeting u girls again~

Final Semester

Time flies. 3 years ago, I was still a fresh graduate from Form 6, working as a clerk at The Store to earn some pocket money, gain some experience and pass my time.

Now here I am, 3 years later, starting on the final semester of my undergrad studies. With the deadline of thesis draft submittion approaching, I didn't really have the time to reflect on myself (excuses!)

Where will all of us be 3 years from now? I don't know.

All I know is, no matter what our decision will be, either continue our studies, or join the working force, I'll forever remember the precious few months we will be having together.

Study hard, study smart, study like there's no tomorrow(if there's no tomorrow, I won't be studying, won't I? Hehe!). Cross our fingers and wish for the best. Make full use of the remaining times we have together and make more memories!

Dear coursemates, cheong ah!!!!!

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~