Wednesday, December 31, 2008

The Memorables

... in the year of 2008

1 Dublin Trip
- 19th-22nd March
Bpeng, Peiman, Jocelyn, Ruby and me went to Dublin, Ireland during our Easter break.
A relaxing and comfortable sight seeing trip with nice friends.
Although my wallet was stolen by a @#$%^& Italian guy on last day. (爱尔兰之旅 - 小偷篇)

2 End of my Voluntary Work - 13th March
Started my voluntary work for the University Student Union Next Step Kids after school social club from 1st of November in 2007
A great and useful experience for me
A good way of getting to know local people and learn more about their cultures
It's taken many of my first time in the UK (e.g. bowling, playing basketball)

3 Final Exam of my 2nd year - 6th-15th May
Having 5 exam and had been doing revision like no life..
(I just need to mention something academically.. but I have nothing much to say about it)

4 My 21st Birthday!! - 17th June
Celebrating it at home.
Being at home itself could make me feel more than happy : )

5 Redang Trip - 18th-20th June
Went to Redang for the first time with my high school friends - Bpeng, KokChin, Neo, WaiSiang, Zhanyi, WinWin, JingLeek
It's just good to be with good old friends...

6 Langkawi Trip - 15th-17th July
Papa, Mama, Erge, 2nd bro's Gf, Ahjeh, me
Guess it's the only family trip in my memory, although gogo was still in Sabah that time
Enjoyed it very much, relaxing..
It's just damn syok.. to be with family : )
Saw penguins for the first time in the Underwater World

7 Vietnam Trip - 26th-30th July
Pama have been doing lots of travelling since their retirement
This is the only one I was involved..
Had learnt lots of their culture and experience different things..
Love to travel with parents, you just wouldn't have to worry about anything,
bring your body and heart, the rest, mama will worry about it! : P

8 Best Summer in Malaysia - 12th June- 6th Sept.
Gatherings with high school friends, ELS friends, prefects, KMT friends, and some random friends..
Being companion of pama going everywhere and anywhere,
and they were with me while buying stuff and preparing to come to the UK
Learnt that there are friends who are always best friends of yours, no matter how long you guys don't meet each other


9 International Student Welcome Event - 10th-12th Sept.
Flied back to the UK early to be one of the helpers in the welcome event
I was incharged picking up those new comers in both train and coach stations (and lucky enough to pick most of the new Malaysians)
Great to work with other international students like Rita (Hungary), Mateus (Poland), Olga (Poland), Naina (Germany), Sharon (China), etc etc
Thanks to Cathy Green for giving such a opportunity


10 Beginning of the final year of my degree
- 22nd Sept.
Incredibly, it's now my final year and I've to do dissertation apart from those conventional assignments and exams..

11 Back to work in Primark
- 4th Oct.
The place that I've been working for 2 years
Most of the nice colleagues left unfortunately : (

12 Started my new blog - 17th Oct.
Moved my blog from Window Live Spaces to here.

13 Parties, Parties & Parties

Karthik's 21st birthday - 10th Oct.

Halloween's party- 31st Oct.

Jeffrey's 21st birthday- 1st Nov.

Angeline's birthday at Nando's- 23rd Nov.

Kian's 21st birthday- 2nd Dec.

Winter solstice- having tangyuan at Sammi's house - 22nd Dec

Christmas Dinner - 24th Dec.

and more nice and friendship building gatherings ...

14 Austria Skiing Trip - 13th-20th Dec.
Bpeng, Jeffrey, Kian, Jocelyn, Shinyee
First time of skiing and playing with lots snow, great views and experience..
One of the most wonderful and enjoyable trip..


Here comes to the end of the year 2008
and.. Happy New Year 2009!!!
May everyone has a healthy and blessed year : )

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Disgusted

Despise those who never respect their friends and instead, use lots of lies and hypocritical acts to treat their so-called old friend.

Despise those people, who when in need, wants your comfort, love, help, care; when they don't, treat you like shit!!

Despise those who set themselves as the centre of their lives, and want others to revolve around them and act in accordance with them! Who do they think they are?


That's not how friends should be.


P.S. I'm not involved directly in the whole incidents.. Just feel like grumbling, and.. that's it! : )

Monday, December 29, 2008

Simplicity

Just had steamboat at Sammi's house with our housemates. Guess I've been enjoying my life quite much after coming back from my skiing trip, and realized you will see life's treating you good easily when you are free from stress and long hour work.. Shopping, dining, chatting, reading fictions, listening songs, watching tv together (and criticizing this and that lol) etc etc.. Although I guess my superego starts reminding me that there's only one week left and I've one research report that I haven't even touched.. And my dissertation (which is still 0/10000 words)! There comes the stress.. and.. enjoyable life is saying goodbye soon, perhaps till end of May.. :( :(

These days, apart from shopping and dinners etc, I found myself really, really enjoy lying there, playing songs, and reading book. This was what I used to enjoy very much back in Malaysia and I abandon the habit soon after I came here. It's indeed much more spiritualize, instead of watching dramas, dramas and more dramas (I still love TVB though : D). I need more time on my own for the rest of the holiday I guess, and without any hesitation decided not joining them to the New Year countdown in London.. Hope they will make lots fun and enjoy to the fullest, hmm and ya, how am I going to countdown myself if Bpeng is joining them? Good question, will think about it : P

Saturday, December 27, 2008

菩萨心肠

我也想要有...

可是曾几何时教我学会心胸开阔的中学麻吉都不在身边了..
我该怎么办? :'(

Friday, December 26, 2008

Crystal Ski

A few words about the travel agent of our skiing trip - crystal ski as I think they really should receive credits for their service...

Booking online at http://www.crystalski.co.uk and each of us got £50 off

A little book sent to us soon after we booked and paid for the holiday. It contains nearly everything we need to know, from passports & visas, money matters, flight details to driving abroad, insurance & medical matters.. and even things like luggage labels are provided in the book!!


A Welcome Pack with lots of information helping us get started when we arrived.


A Welcome Meeting to provide further information and to answer queries if there is any
(They had the meeting at the 2nd day after our arrival, which as I mentioned in the travel diary, could be better if we had it at the first day so we could get to know everything and sort everything out initially)

Organizing events throughout the week, and more importantly, they stated the cost clearly..

Visits during the week to see whether we're doing good and if they missed us...

(if you've paid a bit attention you might see that the title was "Mr. Teh and family".. My dad or bro wasn't there, don't know who they're greeting? : P and the address of "family" made me realize all those that going to the trip with us are all families!! we're probably the only group of friends.. so it's still.. forgivable calling us "Mr. Teh and family".. : D)

Clear details given..


If you're an advanced skier, they planned a very enjoyable yet challenging skiing day for you, entitled "An Unforgettable Day"..
However, if you're a novice like me, you could at least use the papers to write diary or record your expenses.. XD


I'd say generally they've made our trip nothing much to complain about.. will recommend it before I experience any other better..

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Happy Christmas!!

It's Christmas day and I'm going to spend it at home : (
supposed to be going to church this morning,
but the warm bed was so tempting that I decided to spend more time with it XD
Then this afternoon Jeff and me should be paying a visit to Jon Travers and family, and have a christmas meal with them
but don't know why so suey,
one of their family has small stoke and is now in hospital,
so (being really kind and lovely) they decided to postpone the meal to this Sunday
it's actually kind of relief for me too, because I was so sick yesterday
and I prefer to be healthy and good when I see them .. haha
still looking forward to it,
just wondering whether the flower we bought for them can last so long or not

The flower that costs only £5 with little bell on it..

Yesterday we had a Christmas dinner and got the present from Secret Santa
my secret santa is Marvin and I've got Twister from him
Thank youuu : )
(it's actually not that pek cek to receive present like this la okkk XD)

My Christmas present, from secret santa Marvin

I bought Jocelyn a book - White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, who won the Man Booker Prize 2008 with his first novel!
I suppose that's the kind of book she likes
hope that's a really nice book la, because I chose it finally among a few other books and things like spa soap, music box...
There were many other "interesting" presents, like Milo, packs of tissue, instant noodles etc

Anyway, Happy Christmas!! Hope everyone is having a good one.. : )

Monday, December 22, 2008

Austria Kitzbuhel Skiing Trip - Diary

Date: 2008.12.13- 2008.12.20
Location: Kitzbuhel, Austria
Accommodation: Hotel Hofer
Type: Skiing + Salzburg city visiting
Travellers: H. Teh, J. Chong, W. Chin, S. Lim, B. Lau, S. Lim
Cost: appoximately £600

13th Dec
Leaving Cheltenham in the early morning and the bus was delayed but luckily we were still able to catch the flight. Surprisingly there was in flight meals and it was good! We arrived in Salzburg Airport after 2 hour flight and met the Crystal Ski reps immediately. Got our stuff settled and went to the hotel by coach, which took us 1 hour and 15 mins. On the way, we realized that the lift pass was not included in the price (in which initially we thought the pay of £380 has already included everything!), and that could cost €143.50 for 5 days (but we didn't get it). That did spoil my holiday mood quite a bit. Anyways, the hotel looks good and the dinner was a 3-course meal!! Suprisingly, we were going to have 3-course dinner every night and we could choose the starter, main course and dessert from a few options! But initially we thought it costs to order drinks so we decided to get just skyjuice (But the next day a kind lady from the next table told us the wine was free, and in fact all the drinks were free). We all went out for a walk after the dinner, the lightings were really good, and you could see snow around... although it wasn't snowing... But we could always pick some snow and make the effect ourselves.. couldn't we? : P

14th Dec - Sunny
The breakfast was kind of plentiful - various kinds of cereal, milks, home made smoothies, juices, yoghurt, various types of bread, croissants, fruits, nutella/butter/honey etc, boiled eggs, wafer, hot options- beans, mushrooms, fried/scrambled eggs, hash browns, saussage, bacon (all served as buffet other than the hot options). First day of our skiing lessons, we went to get our skiing equipments- boots, pools and the skis at the Intersport shop (the 1 week locker to keep all our skiing stuff costs €19,20). Everyone couldn't really walk properly after wearing the ski boots, it's just like 打石膏 (encased in plaster).. in both legs! XD And the skis are really heavy! They were fit with our heights and weights. Next, we started our first lesson and met our coach- Hans Peter. The views at the hills were unbelievably beautiful!! It was a bit too sunny that I felt like I would have a heat stroke because we were all sweating and really thirsty.. -_-" (isn't it hilarious if you get heat stroke in the winter? haha..) and Kian's nose bled. Later we went up slighly higher of the hill with a rope and skiied down. It required a bit of skill to be brought by the rope too and I think Joce, Shinyee, Kian fell down by the rope, especially Shinyee had made a few of kids behind her fell with her, which is kind of funny view, you'd see a group of kids fell down together : P. I kept ski to the direction of the rope and crushed on others too but didnt cause any accident luckily.. haha. I realized skiing just wasn't that easy that I expected today but I did enjoy it very much although it's hard to control sometimes. In the afternoon, we attended the welcome meeting (This is no good afterall, we should have our welcome meeting at the first day of our trip ma...) and had afternoon tea. Got our 3 days lift passes as well (€91). Then we played cards and 见识了 Kian's cards washing machine. (kind of lebih la right? bringing the machine all the way to Austria.. : P) And I started to realize I came to this trip with 虚伪的一家人 (i.e. Jeff Kian Shinyee) because they're always pretending, no matter it's for good or not, later on in the trip we did realize it's indeed quite true. We played some games like bluff, big 2, 叫名字 (guess some of them played this game for the first time and we all enjoyed it quite much! hahaha...), 抽乌龟 etc after dinner. Those who lost had to eat half of a Rolo doughnut (you know the doughnuts were very nice one ley!! I don't know why we treated it as a punishment). Jeff ate 1.5 and Shinyee ate half if I'm not mistaken : P.

15th Dec - Sunny
Had the similar breakfast and still found it nice. Today we got the chance to get up to the mountain Hons by cable car (1650m). The views on the way were reallllllllly superb!!!!! seriously, they were all like fake ones, those on postcards or in pictures, and incredibly we saw them with our eyes!!! It makes us feel the trip is all worthwhile already! Then we tried the "seat" too, it's basically just seats with a few iron steaks but function like a cable car! A bit nervous before each of us get on it but we're all fine with it soon. A very nice experience for me. I feel everyone's improved a lot today, can control and turn ourselves (apart from Joce, don't know why la, she just kept going out of tracks.. ha, but she got better soon in the afternoon). It's really enjoyable. We learnt snow block to control the speed and also turning. Oh ya, and we like the magic carpet quite much, it's like those escalater in the airport, flat one, which could bring us up so that we wouldn't have to walk uphill (which is really energy and time consuming!). Then we moved to another side and they've got rope and a little plastic to bring us to the uphill. I was the third person to get on it and guess what, the first two infront of me (Bpeng and Joce) both fall. That scared me a bit but luckily the rest of us were all fine (although at the end everyone did fell at least once because of it and mine was kind of serious one XD). It's quite steep and it's really great to feel the speed, skiing on our own. Shinyee was skiing really speedily and made we all include the coach quite worried la.. Kian curi tulang, kept resting =/ whereas Jeff ski the most. Feel that everyone is really nice, reallly.. because whenever one of us fall, others will help whenever it is possible, or sometimes me (or any of us) can't wear the ski successfully, others will stop and offer a hand to either let me hold their shoulder or clean the snow under the boots for me.. Today I realized I've got really heartwarming travel friends. Appreciate that very much : ) I fell down twice today, both time also weren't skiing -_-" Legs were kind of pain at the end of the day, bruises and wound all around without any apparent reasons. We went for a walk at night, and were in search of the local christmas market but failed because it closed quite early (just like those in chel.). Walked around and spending lots time "watching" the shop windows, especially there was one interactive ice-skating decorate.. which caught our attractions everytime we passed by there.. lol (to see whether the fake persons skating in there fall down or not.. and of course, they didn't and will never fall.. XD)

16th Dec Sunny too!
The first bus was on 10a.m. so it was impossible to start the ski lesson at 9.30a.m., which was disappointing as we missed nearly 1 hour skiing time. Today we learnt the same things again but we skied at a more advanced hill. It's now more like skiing because we had a much longer distance to ski and practice our turns, to feel the speeds and also control it. Joce and Shinyee fell quite a few times and thus, they got the chance to eat ice kacang : P (by burying their face at the very soft snow). I fell down once and laying on the snow too. It was really, as Joce said, comfortable! but super damn difficult to stand back up la!! (actually those snow that we ski at, has already been 輾-ed so it's not that soft and easier to control for us..). Later we were down-graded and went back to the less advanced hill to ski. He didn't tell us why : ( : ( : ( Anyways, enjoyed the long distanced ski and the speed very much today; feel better with the ski boots today too but both legs bengkak : ( (Note: You shouldn't put any part of your skiing pants into your boots, they will hurt, I knew that from Kian after they hurt me for 2 days =/) Nice dinner, had salmon and apple tart, know what, the restaurant in the hotel made really good 饼皮, whatever pies, tarts, cakes they made, the 饼皮 is normally very delicious! We all chatted after dinner and got to know Shinyee better. Started by Kian (saying me and Joce have 躁郁症), we started keep saying 你有病.. and created many different kinds of diseases, 沾沾自喜病, 小队病, 一直讲人有病病 etc. LOL. And we started learning how Shinyee speaks in mandarin too.. 就日..可日... etc. Whenever we heard those, we focused on the words themselves and forgot what that person really said.. XD Apart from that, we have been saying "O..H", which is from Kian (after coming back, I found it difficult to change this habit edy =/). I wondered later whether Joce thinks we were all really childish la.. although she herself is quite childish also sometimes.. : P. After that we went to casino, (they allow people above 18 entering it) and they lost some euros, apart from Bpeng. For two nights I didn't have nice sleeps because... I think I can't really share a bedroom with others.. unless I get to sleep first.. Haha.. : P And, amusingly, some of us felt like we were skiing even when we're sleeping.. Is this the reason we all improving? XD

17th Dec foggy+snowing
We're getting a bit bored with the breakfast although I did try to make it more interesting and different in each day. It's reallllly foggy today and when we're on our way in the cable car, it's like we were all in heaven.. LOL, because we "crossed" the foggy layer and went above it, so basically we were unable to see anything down there and in the world of white. The views were reallllly superb. We practiced again at the more advanced hill and I guess everyone was better this time. After lunch (snicker bars for 5 of us and cereal bar for Joce everyday.. lol), we skiied down from the hill (the main hill we had been practicing all these days and normally we came down by the "seat")! Supposed to be enjoying because it's a longgg journey, but because of the super foggy views (visibility was something like 5 to 10 meters I guess) and some kept falling, it became a bit.. agitating. Then we practiced a while and another day lesson ended again. Time was really fast when we're skiing!! The afternoon tea today was flapjack, which was not nice.. at all. Too sticky and yet they don't stick together -_-". We played 积木 after that. Two rounds, Joce and Shinyee each lost once, they were supposed to eat the expired doughnuts (really a punishment this time) but didn't : P. Because the chef has every wednesdays off, 5 of us (jeff bpeng kian shinyee) went to a restaurant called "....", it was recommended by our rep Richard, although he never been to the restaurant, too -_-". The meals were good, a bit too salty though. The environment was good too, but the 檀香味很重 =/ As usual, we talked and made some fun, and this supposed to be 华语进步班 trip has become 华语退步班, especially due to Jeff and Kian XD. I was kind of happy because finally I met people who like to say "小明就哭了" like me : P (it was first created by Jacky Wu I think and I like to say it at home, ask Bpeng, she knows) Hahaha... It started snowing a little bit when we walked out from the restaurant, and getting heavier very slowly.. At night we settled money matters and play cards.

18th Dec snowing+damn cold
We skipped the skiing lesson today and joined a coach trip to Salzbury city (€33), which according to Jeff, is the 3rd most beautiful city in the world. Entered the Germany border on the way, too. Wow.. which means we all now have been to Germany as well.. hahaha! The Christmas market was really huge! and sell quality stuff. They had hot dog bread and Shinyee had tomato soup. We joined a one hour walking tour (which cost €8.50) around the city centre but I wasn't really paying attention.. Next, 5 of us (exclude Joce, she doesn't like musuem and wanted to walk around the Christmas market) visited the Salzburg Musuem, which costs only €4 for young people (under age of 26). It mainly focuses on Salzburg and Art, and it's kind of different from typical boring musuem, modern, interactive. But because we were running out of time, so didn't really look everything in details la.. It was snowing heavily and really cold!! We took some photos at the Mozart Circle before departing back to Kitzbuhel. Experienced the snow quite much today and like the feelings. But I don't think I'd like to stay in a city like that, because it's wet and slippery afterall, and could be quite inconvenient when you want to go out (just like raining la, but it's colder and comes in white colour... literally.. hahaha). Eh but, it's still important to stress that I still love snow kkk. We missed the afternoon tea. As usual, rest+ bath, dinner, play cards, watch CNN. We played the 叫名字 again.. and this time we didn't exchange names, but we had 水果, 明星名 and things in toilet. Shinyee lost the first round, I think that's because the mi hou tao (Kiwi) is too special for us and thus easier to remember. Then, guess what, first time shinyee wants to be called 叶子媚 XD XD XD!! Seriously couldn't stop laughing la that time..!! I can't even remember what the name she had after we laughed.. But of course, she lost again! : P Then we have toiletry, 清新剂,体香剂,清洁剂,洗手盆,水龙头,沐浴乳... At night, Joce and I talked a bit before we slept, for a very long time, I never had a roommate, never laying there chatting with anyone before I sleep..

19th Dec foggy+heavy snow
The last day of skiing. No hot option for the breakfast today, but there was porridge with berries. We walked to the cable car station easily, with the boots but we were all used to it now! : ) We got up to the hill. Initially we planned to practice skiing ourselves but due to the heavy snow and fog we ended up playing snow, building very little snowman and 猴子抢球 using the snowman's body XD. Really enjoyed it to the fullest playing the snow, and taking photos with them. And we realized building a snowman is not that easy as we thought! So we made only a little one. Love the snow sooo much!! great experience too : ) Then we started our last skiing lesson. After practicing a bit, we got the opportunity to ski down the the middle station..!!!!!! It's really a long and smooth distance to ski down at, under heavy snow. The first time when we reached we had our lunch there, and due to the fact that we were the first batch of guests of the restaurant of this season, each of us got a free glass of brandy. Then we went up by cable car and skiied down again, and that came to the end of our skiing lesson.. : ( We took pictures with the coach and few others 'coursemates'. It's worth mentioning there was an English man who joinned us at 2nd or 3rd day, named Mark, who wore a different looking ski pants, and skiied very slow normally. I don't really like him to be frank, because he likes to go first (follow the coach's track first because we normally ski in a line), but then he skiied really slow and didn't normally follow the coach's track! So at the last day we had 2 missions- 1 to touch his ski pants to see whether it's really a pair of ski pants (as they look like grey colour jeans) 2 to kick him down hill.. XD we passed our first mission, nearly all of us touched his pants kind of 光明正大-ly when taking photos with him, and realized they are really pairs of ski pants, just with a .. different looking.. XD Whereas we didn't conduct our 2nd mission, as he fell down himself.. hahahahaha... so.. 放他一马 : P (Actually there were many more interesting people throughout the trip, e.g. 黑小明/小小明, Jack, 笑容小姐, 牛小弟 etc) After saying goodbye and all that, Jeff went to uphill to get our shoes while we moved all the stuff down first (we didnt want to miss the bus), although we ended up walking back with the super heavy ski, boots and pools too : ( Anyway, I like the ending of the ski lessons very much, because we got to ski the long journey, and according to hans peter, he thought there'd be problems with the Malaysians as we skipped one day lesson, but we were all fine! : ) nice nice : ) We missed the afternoon tea again because we had to return all the skiing stuff that evening. (Note: In fact we're allowed to return the stuff at any intersport shop, but we didn't know that!! Mark told us later on) Luckily it's not like the first day, we could now walk with the ski boots like wearing skippers : P Then we went for the sleigh ride. Awwwww the horses were freaking smelly, I'd really wish if there were snow dogs : ( The trip wasn't really worth (it costs us €15) as we had been to most of the places and there was just a river, but not an ice lake as told. Anyway it's still a nice experience for me, we can always have fun on our own. We walked around at the main street and then went back to have a rest, bath, dinner, and stayed at the bar for a while, there was actually Wii available. And.. that's it, we went back to pack our stuff ready for check out 10a.m. tomorrow.

20th Dec
Had our last very delicious English/American breakfast. We checked out and went to have a walk in the town again after everyone'd done packing. Bought some postcards, sent them, bought some souvenirs (Mozart's balls, magnet to bring back home for my collection). Took some photos as well. There were quite some big and small cute dogs on the street, love the snow very much! snowy trees, snowy umbrella, snowy roofs, snowy streets... And I started missing the ski boots already! Then we went to have a drink and rest for a while in the McDonald's. Went back to the hotel, played cards. The bus was supposed to leave on 1520, but it was delayed again due the the bad weather (Now, I quite like Malaysia's weather : P). Our flight was delayed, supposed to be 6.45pm, initially was delayed to 7.35pm, then later after we checked in, it had become 8.35pm -_-" The in flight meal was nice, perhaps that's because we were all hungry.. : P the muffin was really quite chocolaty. I missed home (the one in M'sia) quite much when the plane arrived in the UK : (. Then! the luggage wasn't 'arriving' and they made announcement saying they're now short of stuff -_-" and so guess what.. we missed the last bus back the Chel. : ( : ( : ( and we had to wait till 6a.m. the next day for the first bus. Ruby helped us to look for cabs but failed.. thanks for the effort anyway : ) Then we played Big 2 again, Shinyee and Joce slept first. Something funny happened, which could have changed our impressions of shinyee.. Hahahahahaha..!! I can't really describe what it is, but a picture is worth a thousand words.. So.. Let's see later on la.. : P Then all of us but Bpeng, slept for a while and got on to the bus at 6a.m...

That's the end! Although it's obviously not a very good ending, but I still love the trip very much!! One of the most enjoyable and wonderful trip!! Thanks to Bpeng, Jeffrey, Kian, Jocelyn and Shinyee for being such nice travel partners too! : ) I'd like to go skiing with them again!! Overall, I'd say the trip's worth the money, the views were fantastic, the hotel was good, the meals were generally all quite good, the staff are friendly, their service is just good enough.. and last thing, the thing that i mentioned the most after I came back, is that - Skiing is one of the things you must do before you die!! a must!! trust me.. you'd love it : ) : )

P.S. Spent about 3 hours to finish this post, and I'm going to keep updating it, and probably write more about my feelings and thoughts about the trip later on; if any of you think I've left anything out, just let me know k : )

Sunday, December 21, 2008

I'm back!!

We are back from our skiing trip at Kitzbuhel, Tirol, Austria!!
No broken legs or hands, just lots bruise and muscle pain I guess.. ha!
Feel so strange after 8 days not online,
not seeing my laptop,
not coming to my room,
not laying on my bed,
not looking at high street, cheltenham
(especially the scenes without any snow..: P)
not typing using keyboard,
not showering in our bathroom,
not blogging,
not meeting the rest of the malaysians,
strange strange strange!!
everything just seems strange for me now..
But it's a great feeling coming back home
and, we had the most wonderful and awesome time in Austria...
I'm going to share as much as I could as soon as I can..
I have sooo much to share and to say, can't wait to look at the photos too : D
Now I've to unpack my stuff first..

P.S. Thanks to two of my sweet housemates, by slipping in x'mas cards under our doors to "welcome" us back, although they were still in their bed when we're back : )

Friday, December 12, 2008

It's tomorrow!

Tomorrow we all are going to ski already..!!
This time tomorrow I would be in Austria ..!!
to ski, to play with lots of snow!!!
Actually I'm not as excited as previously was.. Feel like a bit strange leaving my sweet bed, room and laptop la.. =/
Hahahaha.. I'm always like that
because last time (europe, we're coming) when we went to Italy and France I felt the same
Hopefully everything will be fine la
because those lecturers and people around are trying to scare us.. so bad!!
Previously when I asked my sis about the details
it already sounds a bit horrible, because she kept saying things like
"need to be... so that when you fall down won't...; can't be..., so that when you fall down won't.."
"Huh?? we will keep falling down one ar..." =/
Then that day we mentioned to Hazel and Dai (our lecturers),
they asked us not to have broken legs and arms back..!!
Dai said he hurt his thumb also.. =/
Doesn't it sound... horrible?
This morning I talked with my parents
I guess papa is a bit worried la..
Few years ago when I was at home and my sis went skiing in Canada
papa was worried too..
So I promised to be very careful : )
Anyway, they wouldn't scare me off
as so far whoever went skiing before, all love the experience sooo much!!
OK, will be back 8 days later..

Let's enjoy it to the fullest.. and.. wish us luck!! : )

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?

Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?

Aristotle (亚里斯多德): To actualize its potential.

Buddha: If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken-nature.

George W. Bush: We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road or not. The chicken is either with us or it is against us. There is no middle ground here.

Bill Clinton: I did not cross the road with THAT chicken. What do you mean by chicken? Could you define chicken, please?

Darwin: Chickens, over great periods of time, have been naturally selected in such a way that they are now genetically dispositioned to cross roads. (Yea.. he's right!!)

Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road moved beneath the chicken depends upon your frame of reference. (Hahaha.. I like this one)

Freud: The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying sexual insecurity. (LOL... Freudian..)

Bill Gates: I have just released the new Chicken Office 2000, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook. (this is rather silly)

Saddam Hussein: This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were quite justified in dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on it.

Carl Jung: The confluence of events in the cultural gestalt necessitated that individual chickens cross roads at this historical juncture, and therefore synchronicitously brought such occurrences into being.

Martin Luther King, Jr.: I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into question. (I like this..!!!)

B.F. Skinner: Because the external influences which had pervaded its sensorium from birth had caused it to develop in such a fashion that it would tend to cross roads, even while believing these actions to be of its own free will. (Behaviourism.. Hmm.. i dont like : P)

Wittgenstein: The possibility of "crossing" was encoded into the objects "chicken" and "road", and circumstances came into being which caused the actualization of this potential occurrence.

Molly Yard: It was a hen! (a feminist..)

Voltaire: I may not agree with what the chicken did, but I will defend to the death its right to do it.



MORE:
Why did the turkey cross the road?
Because it was the chicken's day off

Why did the dinosaur cross the road?
Because chickens weren't invented yet

Why did the duck cross the road?
To prove he's no chicken

Why DIDN'T the skeleton cross the road?
Because he had no guts (LMAO.. true!!)
Because he had no body to cross with him

Why did the chewing gum cross the road?
Because it was stuck to the chicken's feet
(I love this one!!! simple, logical yet ... hilarious!!!)

Well, I hope this does destress or entertain at least some of you.. especially those who never come to this "why did the chicken cross the road" joke riddles : D

Tuesday, December 09, 2008

awwww..

The previous post is just a sign,
of me finishing my assignment already!
and it doesn't mean anything in an implicit or any ways,
I'm not giving any hint about anything or anyone either.. ok?
Just searching my way of blogging ma.. it's just random..random.. see, I labelled it as random, not daily life.. okokok?

Don't know what happened just now, I was freaking moody la!!
Joce msn me about the secret santa game
and.. I was kind of.. ignorant.. =/
haih.. made me feel so bad later
(But, of course, we talked, and things get sorted : ))
then Felicia came to my room
Actually I'm still not sure what her purpose was..?!
Perhaps just to let me entertain her, or destress her a bit la..
so that she won't fall asleep in her sex and gender essay or sexuality resarch report..
I found myself much better then
guess what, I think I really need to keep talking with others to make sure my mood is fine, weird right?

The thing is, my essay is actually not done yet
But, I'm too far from the word limit -_-" (2450/2000)
I think I read too much, now... hmm.. the only means,
is to edit the margins.. so that it wouldn't seem to be too many pages -_-"
Hey Claire or Jess wouldn't be reading my blog right?!

Last thing, I think we are not going to travel around mid-europe
Haih.. actually we can stay in Salzburg from 20th, with my friends,
and next go to Vienna, spent our Christmas there, and visit Prague before we come back on 27th
it's all well planned now!! But.. we are not joining them
I feel sooo sorry to Kian and myself.. : (
we have been looking forward so much to this trip since our last trip to Italy and France 1.5 year ago..
WHY are we not going?
*long sigh* I think that's just too tiring and there is too much to do in the short break
and if we are really going, we have to get everything done before this Saturday
as we are leaving for Salzburg soon..
It doesn't seem worth to squeeze the trip in..
Vienna and Prague.. : ( they are so damn attractive la..
I hope I've made the right decision, we shall go in summer,
without Kian and PeiYing though : (
so now, Oxford? Alton Tower? Anyone??

Monday, December 08, 2008

Trust or Believe

人为什么会互相信任?


可能因为我是家里的老么,或者一些看不见的因素吧, 从小就觉得自己不容易相信别人.记得中学的时候,庄同学曾经给我们玩过一个叫信任的游戏,很简单,就是一群人(10个左右)围成一个圆圈,中间一个人闭上眼睛全身放松地躺下去,由周围的每个人合力把他接着,并"传移"...玩这种东西的时候,我总是会完全的信任其他人...

但是来到生活中就不见得了...高二的时候,也曾经被很信任很信任的朋友..."背叛" (想不到适合的词), 事情不只让我那几个月很灰; 从那时候起,也觉得更难信任别人了,尤其是认识不久的人...而且最近(也不算最近了吧),我也才发现,原来我不太会看人,(看人=evaluate 一个人的好坏) 这样更让我觉得自己应该小心翼翼的..但是人要是这样活着,什么都要防备都不信任,那还会有意义吗?

其实我觉得生活中,有不少朋友是很信任我的,至少我自己这么觉得啦 : P 可能我长得一副不会出卖人的样子? 哈... 只是, 要怎样,才会像他们一样, 做到所谓的"信任"呢? 当他们那么信任我的时候,我也能一样吗?

是不是在什么文化里,都会有信任 (trust)和相信 (believe)的不同呢? 最近才发现,它们原来可以很不一样... 原来很多时候我们只是相信,而没有信任,我想相信是factual based的,而信任是一种感觉,对"人"的信任(而不是对"事情").

是不是应该选择信任,冒着受伤害的"危险",还是从一开始,就谁都别信任呢? 然而我相信,选择后者的人,会一直辛苦的活着...

Sunday, December 07, 2008

Rush Hour

Have no idea why I've spent so much time doing just a 2000 word essay
and it is really exhausting
as you may find, I even gave up my blogging time : (
(I have seriously a lot to talk about..)
and the most important thing-
I've been sleeping just for 4-5 hours everday this week
(Sleeping is such an important thing for me in which it was the last thing I would sacrifice normally.. : P)
Haih.. hopefully it will be done by Tuesday
Perhaps we've spent too much time going out this week and had to work full time during weekends are the reasons..
I want one whole day lying there watching drama la.. please!!
Well, it's better to declare, I'm NOT showing off..
and.. hmm.. ya, can't believe this time next week I'll be in Austria already!!
I'm not in the mood yet.. not even a bit, WHY?

Friday, December 05, 2008

Thank you, LiWei


You made my day... : )
Love you.

Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Victimology

In the Psychology and Crime lecture today,
Claire said that in the year of 1997, the risk of becoming a victim of crime in England and Wales is 33.3%, according to the British Crime Survey, which does the report annually
This means every 1 in 3 persons would have been a victim in the past year
It also represents that in 3 years time, we all will have at least been victimised once
(This is her interpretation, I don't really agree though)
What do you think?

my first thought:
It's now 2.5 year I'm in the England
so I'm supposed to be victimised in the rest half year lor, right?
Besides, if it was 33% in the England and Wales
Can you imagine what it would be like back in Malaysia???
I mean, for example la,
whenever you go mamak with a few friends,
there must be at least one person had their mobile stolen
at least one person experienced thief entered their house (mine was one)
at least one person had their car stolen etc etc
So I'm, sort of predicting how it is like in M'sia
Is it everyone will at least kena once every year?
(know what, when I was writing note during the lecture, I nearly wrote the word "kena" for so many times.. it's such a brilliant word invented by the Malays!)
Well, anyway
it is also very important to note that,
approximately 2%-3% of the population are actually the victims of 1/4-1/3 of the crimes
If you get what I mean,
it's actually some more vulnerable people who get repeat victimization..
Also, I just checked the Home Office site, the rate is now much lower
it's about 22% in the 2007-08, if you really have a bit of time
read the summary of the report, you may find some even interesting information
e.g. Men (age 16-24) were almost twice as likely as women to have been victims of violence..!

OK. anyway, today is the last lecture of the module Psy and Crime (Forensic Psychology)
which is one of the modules I've enjoyed the most
I've always convinced people around me that Psy and Law modules are always interesting
(they are also the only modules that I had to do pages of note in each lecture)
and whenever I was attending the lectures
I would be thinking sharing some information I've learnt that day in my blog
But.. hmmm.. I do so until it's now my last lecture!! =/ piece of shit ..

Monday, December 01, 2008

2008.12.01

It's the first day of the last month of the year
can't believe how fast time flies!
it's now nearly the end of the year of 2008.
There's 9 more days till the end of my assignment nightmare
11 days till I finish the first semester of my final year, unofficially
12 days till our Christmas break
12 days, too, till our SKIING holiday!
16 days till I turn 21.5
24 days till Santa Claus coming to town!
and 30 days till a brand new year - 2009!!

Just got the reply from the ski resort person and forwarded it to all of them,
and within half an hour got a reply from Jocelyn in both email and MSN
seems like she's really excited with the trip
and she spreads the excitement to me already..!!
Well, I hope everyone gets on well with their assignments
and then be ready to play hard during their Christmas break..
Take care people.. I think the weather is getting a bit crazy this year
We never had such cold weather in the previous two years =/
Perhaps it's a good practice for six of us, before we go to ski : D