My World

Mom came up for aunty ong’s mother’s funeral… tried to booked hotels along tanjong bungah but all seems to be fully booked..well, those within our range anyway.. even places like Sri Pantai was fully booked too…i was at jalan buntu… 2 of my friends were tagging along too…

err..we sort of went to gurney lar… so i thought i’d booked after shopping, mana tau..??!! anyway, this weekend is also st. anne’s feast i think…not sure what festival is that dont ask me..

but i was lucky that my friends were patient with me..:P with their help also lar that i was able to get a room at Sheraton… but if u ask me whether i’l come again..my answer would be ‘i dont think so’… i dunno…i just dont like it lar..i think its the 1st time they came n not stay by the beach..but it was really funny to see them arguing bout what the view outside the window is…just like kids lar..

anyway, we ended up havin dinner at gurney at Golden Thai or somthin like that..had RICE!! so so so happy…hhehe…i miss having rice with my mom…i didnt wanna go back cuz im afraid that when i go back i’ll not wanna come back Pg again..heheh…thats me…

i have been missing home lately…sighhhh….

see any differences? of course lar..different ppl doing different things. but they have something in comman.. one is on the phone with someone n the other was previously on the phone with someone before trying to act ‘pai seh’…

billion thanks to the ppl above for being so so so so so sporting that they allowed me to post their pics on friendster! they are the ‘bestest’!!

oh yea, im working at baskin’s this 31st!! be sure to come n visit…hahaha… but dont 捣蛋。。。it’s so fun, typing in chinese!!

I was late for class today…i was tired anyway. 8 am class, i woke at 0740 today. Last night was a hot night actually.. tho i was sleeping on the floor, it was still a hot night. woke up at 4 am n i was contemplating to open the window or not, but then, tak boleh tahan so i open a bit lar…

late for LHP 456 today. Did i mentioned that we were watching Sepet yesterday for 456? A local film that won many awards.. it’s about the love between a malay girl with a Chinese boy. the malay girl happens to be from a decent family background n the boy happens to be a ‘pirate’…heheh… the ones that sell pirated vcds.

OK, what can i say? well, its really a very very very nice love story. i am a sucker for love stories!! i was late for class, so i missed out on a lil’ bit of the discussion…;p pai seh…pai seh…

some were saying that the family was very liberal, the malay girl’s lar… i think, yea lor, a bit different than the other malay families that i know lar.. nowadays, where can u find malay families wearing "sarong" in the house (in the cities lar)? if kampung, sure got…

mix-marriage? if my mom, well, i think she would be broken hearted if i say i wanna marry a malay guy. if i have really fallen in love with a malay guy, i think i also dunno what to do lar..but from my experience, it’s best to do things that is in favour of God, if not, it is us that will suffer actually..

but then, hey, look on the bright side, if u are a "product" of mix marriage, u get the best of the genes…creme de la creme…n thats real COOL!! 美又美过人，聪明又聪明过人，样样都好。

i think mix marriage is acceptable… probly even more in bigger cities, where many of us are more open. but probly, if u are in a kampung area, probably mix marriage is not acceptable yet, needs more time to accept it. memang lah, u cant teach old dogs new tricks, so the older generation, surely needs some time to digest the fact that their child is marrying a person of another race esp. if that fella is the only child. they (the parents) probably is afraid that their menantu, might not be able to ‘adapt’ to their culture.

the film also show trust. how much the girl’s parents trusted her to make the right decision. they even allow their daughter to go out alone with her bf. imagine…only after SPM lar..if only i had that sort of freedom..hahahha…

it also addresses the problems that exist in our society. premarital sex, gangsterism… is it the parents’ fault or the children? pre-marital sex… how n when would u tell a child about sex?? some feel ok, talking with their children, but some will feel ‘kekok’ talking bout it..i honestly will feel kekok. gangsterism..what bout that? i dont think it’ll stop, no matter what u do, unless all of us die lar. then nobody is left on earth to be gangster. even in school, u’ll be able to find gangsters… n the school can’t do much…

just also wanna correct something..my lec actually asked me whether im a devote(is that how u spell it?) christian..i was actually stunned til my brain was like frozen a sec or two…i think i said yes..or did i just nodded? i can’t remember.. cuz to me, the word ‘devote’ is often used to describe a buddhist…but then again..anyway i just wanna justify that being a christian doesnt mean u are holy or u cant do wrong things…u still do wrong things despite everything said against it.. so i think i am actually in the process of learning how to be a ‘devotee’ of JC!

Woke up to no electricity today. immediately i went to bathe n out i went…to the dks. went to online, then went to have lunch.. talking bout lunch..i think i left my KFC in the car lar…heheh…

i kept on thinking bout the things that i have not done…blog bout my LHP, read my perkamusan notes, find things for my "kamus" etc…

didnt wanna do that yet lar, maybe later… i went to have KFC with s.hwei just now! it was actually fun to have her to chat with. i forgot to take a pic of her whn she was on the phone with someone…heheh…it’s rare to get to see her on the phone with that someone,u know… however, i did get a pic of her, trying her best to be "pai seh"…heheh… will post it another time!! heheh…SHE was really really sweet lar.. on the phone…hahaha… but a lil’ bit different with Kimie when she’s taking her long distance call…ahhaha…that i got on my  camera..heheh..so next time, i’ll put hers n hwei’s on blog…hahah…check it out later!

back to my lhp topic, "How much influence should a parent have on a teenager?" for example, if u have a shop, and ur daughter is just F3, she tells you that she doesnt wanna study anymore but instead help u in the shop.. what would you do? and also, her grades in school is not very good. what would you do?

i think i’d persuade her to not drop out of school! esp if i myself, have not had the chance of studying n i would hope that my children would be able to have the education that they are s’pose to have, esp. at least till F5. i know tht even bill gates grew rich w/o much education, but then i would feel that times in school would be a chance to expose our children to different things. they learn a bit bout science, a bit bout humaties, well, a bit of everything.

though i dont deny that they mite get into a wrong crowd. but u’ll also end up in the wrong crowd even if u work. i think there is where the parents to intervene. no matter how busy parents mite be, it’s still their responsibility to mould their children’s thinking. they mite not b able to teach their children bout science n stuff, but they are able to educate their children in being a good human, the morals n stuff.

tell them bluntly that w/o edu, they mite end up where if the business fails… if at least with edu, they can think of a different career path, if the family business (touch wood) fails… isn’t it?

think bout that…

WOW! at least life now can be considered OK…

For the past few days (since last week lar) i’ve been trying to register with the Wi-Fi in USM… i have been going up and down, up and down the Comp. Centre trying to figure out why on earth can’t I online!!!??? I’ve been there so many times, i think the ppl there is a lil’ bit sick of me…hehehe… but they are nice… super nice!! hahaha…

Actually i have no classes today but we had a replacement class for LSP… our group were discussing about cosmetic surgery-do u agree or do u not? most of us disagree on that… one factor is the money, 2nd is the risks involved… and religion wise, i think it is considered a sin to… alter our bodyparts… The body parts that God has given, mind you! there are many risks involved too… e.g, breast enlargement, after a while, u may have problems like what happened to Pam Anderson, if im not mistaken. Botox injection makes one’s features "kaku", not original…but then, of course, there’ll be no wrinkles…That’s the point of getting BOTOX! even tho, we disagree to this, but when "liposuction" was brought up…hehehe…most of us said the other way round…hahahah… ladies will forever want a faster way of getting slimmer…hehehe… but things need to change i guess..

cosmetic surgery would be ok to those victims, maybe bomb blast victims…that’s ok lar.. but if one does cosmetic surgery to boost confidence…i think it’s not THE way to do it…what bout INNER BEAUTY? just like the proverb, Charity begins at home, we have to change our mindsets as well… we need to learn how to look at a person’s inner beauty not the appearance… who are we to judge ppl? how they look? we are just humans who are not given the right to judge the way ppl look. God may have not given them beauty, but God sure gave them something else that is beautiful. It could be their attitude, voice etc. we just need to learn to look that the inner beauty… if we dont start from ourselves, where should we start from?

think bout that!!:)

Ate durians again….hehehe…DELICIOUS!! not from Balik Pulau lar..its in TI…heheh…

Durians…Durians…Glorious durians…hehehe…

I’m stayin in the hostel now… i got Bakti Permai… I think it’s better than Cahaya Gemilang… cuz the other time, when i called up, they told me that i got Cahaya Gemilang… but i guess that was during the 1st years orientation week…

Anyway, classes are ok… taking 2 LHP papers plus LSP 401. U mite be wondering why am i taking so many english papers, huh? Well, no other papers la… Besides, I’m taking the min units this semester… i was lucky tho, to be able to fit my english papers’ timetable…that i was able to change… plain lucky cuz if the classes clashes time, i mite have to drop, if i have to drop, i’d be pretty busy next semester…:)

LHP 456(Spoken English) is fun… my lecturer, Dr. Jeffri (not sure the spelling), is fun…heheh…funny too… unlike some other lecturers who "bullies" ppl…hahahah….nah…just kidding.. anyway, he mentioned something about us (his students) to make a blog just for english work or something…i didnt really hear what he was saying because it was time to me to leave as i had another class after his…so i was sort of rushing lar… *_* there is a German guy in our class lar… i feel he is kinda shy… kesian jugak la i see when the whole class laughs at some joke or some funny antiques…err… dia diam jer…kesian cuz tak faham… but…all these takes time to understand lar… esp we are talking bout a person from another culture….

so far, hostel life is OK lar… Kimie is staying the next block… n Irene is also in bakti… so at least i have friends still… my room is a bit …err… hot… the room was TERRIBLE when i 1st went it… i really cried…cuz i wanna go home…:p but then my mom n my sis helped me to sort of make the room welcoming… many thanks to them…hehehe… what’d i do without them…???? ^_^

There’s Wi-Fi along the lecture halls…(some of them anyway) but we have to register with the Computer centre in USM. I have been there the other day, but i still can’t log on… frustrating…i went back again on thursday, n they did something to it, n yet, i still couldnt log on… i plan to go back there like sometime next week…

i haven’t been feeding my neopet…heheh…it has gone from bloated to famished to starving and dying…hahaha…

Ppl go do laptop, i go do laptop…but ppl can online i cant…AIYAH!! FRUST! FRUST!…;p

The USM guards nowadays are also very strict…cars without stickers cannot go into campus… i miss home more… so im back this weekend…going back tomorrow… lazy lar… wanna stay home… can sleep, can watch astro…can online…hehehhe…

it is FUN!! Thanks to Kim…im addicted…hahaha….just kidding lar…heheh… im playing now… while loading, im writing this lor!! hehehe…

anyway, im going back Penang on …err… dunno.. either thursday or friday lar…hopefully can get into hostel….arrghh…hopefully i get a good room… i can believe it!! i got cahaya gemilang… my 1st thought was "OH MY GOSH!! I WANNA CHANGE!!" hehehe…

well, im going to start another semester soon… i just hope that i’ll be able to online as well…

today went out "makan" with my friends… basically have a gathering before all of us going away… some of us,going to uni lar..n some of them, going to work, or some of the other them, finding work… so all of us mite not meet again till like, i dunno, Chinese New Year??  we went to Lana to have dinner lar..then we went to the clock tower to celebrate Dr. Wong n Mr. Chim’s bday…. well, i dunno bout the rest, but i do enjoy it cuz it’ll be a long long time before we mite gather again lar…hehehe… well, unless i come back n they are all here…

this is the clock tower that im talking bout lor… its a bit leaning…something like the leaning tower of Pisa…heheh..

but of course it cant be seen lar, in this picture…:)

yea, just a few of us… cuz many of them are not around… some is working, some in finding work…n some is not even in M’sia…hehehe… basically in S’pore lar…heheh…

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Cuz im addicted to it…hehehe…. i’ve been on it for like ages… sure "pokai" lar when the phone bill comes… lucky for me, i’l be back to penang this Fri…hehehe..