Ever experience the good feeling after getting A for essay you worked hard on then suddenly drop back to emo state after few hours?
It was all hope and light then the power got cut off, leaving the spot filled with darkness and loneliness
Maybe I just need someone by my side. :S
Good night world.
Looking back to my old life, the only thing that stay the same was the dreams I dreamed.
These blog posts, regardless of their worth, are a part of me now.
I have always been proud to be a Malaysian and a citizen of Malaysia and have carried myself with the awareness that I too, can contributed to the developing of this nation sometime at some place. So I strive to help this nation, save is not a word to be use here because I know my country doesn’t need saviour, it needs help instead. None of the country in this world is perfect.
I am not sure when exactly is the time I started to redefine my life.
Happiness does not consist in not having things that you would like to have, but in liking the things you do have. In other words, being satisfied with what you’ve got.
Showing no emotion didnt mean that everything is fine, things are really gone when you are ready to face it and feel nothing to it.
Loving yourself is a prerequisite to creating a successful and authentic union with another. Dun ever try to get something that are not urs anymore. Strolling over roses is bad, you hurt urself and also those roses. If it hurts, it definitely is not for you.
If you live in inferiority,
you will only learn to accept and say yes.
He told me that until I read between the line, then I will only start living.
To have someone that have instant connection with you is not easy, especially when it is comprised of two person from totally different background.
And perhaps what we share is beyond friendship, even beyond the meaning of life.
To say he is good is implying that I am better that him thus I can comment of him.
That is not the case.
He is doing things that I simply cannot do. He has a skillset that I will never have. It would be more honest to say that I am proud of myself for being part of the person he is becoming, for not getting in his way, for giving him every support that I can give.
To you my friend, I hope you can get whatever you want in your life.
To us, may we all meet in another stage of our life and telling each others our own story.
Walking down the road today I think to myself. Is there really such thing as unconditional love? Not being religion wise here but really is there any?
I would say the love to self is really the only unconditional one. Whatever you do, you will still love yourself. Even for those who totured themselves to dead, they are still doing it out of love because of the belief of toturing will bring them to who-knows-where. We cant love others more than we love ourself. At least thats what i think.
I know what I want in my life. But still, I constantly questioning about this. I examined myself everyday for I am not a perfect person and I know I never will. I know exactly the dos and don'ts for me to reach the goal of my life. But still sometimes I will do the don'ts because I know if I do enough of dos, eventually I will still get what I want. I never surrender to the word impossible.
If tomorrow never comes, I will still be glad because I have did enough of my part today.
Things start to change since I came here. I realized a lot of things doesnt really matter to me anymore. I can have this momentary happiness feeling grow from seeing people acting nice to others but as I take another glance looking deeper inside the intention I realized its all fake. As much as I feel like leaving this place for good but still I love this place. Its like how hard to get you to go jogging but on the halfway of jogging you will start to love it. This time of my life does have its purpose on me. We all were borned with questions. And what we do is to answer every question in life that we had.
I finally learned to not take marks as something that matters so much in life, rather I value the knowledge that I take home. I know in the future what I want is not about how much I scored for the test but how well I know about how this world operates.
I am a fond believer of discipline myself and acting kind to the other people. So I will jump out from this physical me and start to analyze everything I did. For better or worse, at least I tried.
I believe somehow there is someone that destined a path for us. And what we have to do is to find out where is it and walk till the very end.
But human are 'wierd', truth is only for those who choose to believe it. We all choose what we want to believe in life dun we? In that way we will feel so much better than having to believe something that is incongruent with our innate beliefs.
Its fall season now, the weather is getting colder as how my mind is now.
You have no sun, no squirrels, no T-shirt, no picnic, no leaves, no flowers. But what can you expect? Its NOvember!
Only when the road are full with leaves then we start to realized how amazing those trees used to be. It takes us three seasons to really look up to the sky and start to appreciate the nature around us.
They say autumn is the time of harvest, and I am. For knowledge.
I love autumn because of the smells that you can see and the vision u can sniff.
Its fall season. With death comes reincarnation. Its a new start for everything.
If you are not happy with someone else attitude up their, you have no right to blame it on them. Because in this world, there must be someone who particular like that attitude.
If there is a person to blame, that would be you, for not tolerate enough
I finally got the time to sit down and put all my thoughts together.
It been a tough month, but I really enjoyed it.
It actually does feels like months.
Some people rush into our life and left. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And there is one thing that will never change, ourself. Nobody can deny the fact that we hold the ownership of it. To someone out there, please do take good care of yourself. Saying "I will be ok" and "I will be happy" is not the right way.
"will be" and "am" is two very different thing. When you say you are happy, you are. And you have to believe that you are happy.
They say you laugh because you are happy. I say you are happy because you laughed. Some people pursue for happiness, but I think we are all able to create it ourself.
Appreciate the moment. When you heard everyone is waiting for that "moment" to come. Dun wait, its already here. This is the very "moment", for now is, the next minute is, and every following minute is.
If you want to be happy, be.
Dun ask the question "Why does this happen to me" unless you ask the same question for joys that come into our way.
That is, when you are really start living.
Words are like knives. It can easily penetrated into your heart without any sense of mercy.
You can pretend that you don't care at all, but deep inside its there. And its gonna be there for a long time until you really get over it.
If you follow my blog for quite some time, its not hard to find that I am a rather sentimental person. But the fact is this sentimental part of me always keeps itself hidden from the real world. Sometimes I keep a lot of thoughts to myself. Its not that I am being selfis. To tell the truth, some words are not meant to be spoken.
Even when you shout it out loud, its not neccessary that people would believe in you.
I believe the world is always in an equilibrium and thats how it rolls.
Happy and sadness are the same.
Most of the time I am happy, but when I am alone, I gave some time for sadness to come in and conquer me.
Its me.
This is how I was brought up with, and this is gonna be how I end up with.
Its a kind of feeling that strike you in second but left its mark permenantly on you.
The fact is, its been there you for years but you never really know about its existence.
Funny eh?
Some people around told me that they have characters whom they never would have chosen had they choice over their history.
For me one's background and history is what build up who he/she is right now. Every incidents in life counts, including how you close the door this morning or even how you kicked away the rock that get in your way.
So I come to think about what consituted me. What exactly am I made of. Looking at those food product in the grocery saying "made in XXXX" makes me fall into deep thought myself. Where was I made in? And what in my life that make me feel that I am half eastern and half western right now?
There is no doubt about what I characterized myself as and where I recognized as home. But its the inside that haunted me. As more time spending at foreign country, I think the osmosis effect happen too me. For good or bad, I assimilated into the culture where people get drunk all day long, having only specialize in one thing but not the other, and all-you-can-think-of.
I realize that I start to note about the pros and cons about this world. There are always two ways of answering question. Culture is like water to us, and we are the fish.
Without having to leave the water, we wouldnt even know the existence of water. But when we were forced to leave the water, we will realized how comfortable the water was and how ignorant we were for not being able to point out the pros and cons of the medium.
I still remembered the moment where I sat down alone in the paddy field. The moment imprinted on me the sense of Malaysia as my home, the sense I have never been able to recover anywhere else in the world so far.
Every other place is foreign after this moment.
It always takes an absence for us to know how precious present is. Isnt it ironic how people never cherish the previous "good" moment and only regret afterward?
Shirley Lim, to me she is a totally westernized figure, but whats makes me different from her? There are time I try to ask am I really a Malaysian too.
If me isn't spell by only "m" and "e", what is, me then?
Its been a week since I came back here.
Surprisingly many things still remain the same. Or maybe its actually under the comparison that I actually changed a lot. I felt as if every year I come back with the same body but different mind.
There are something that I thought I wouldnt care, but turns out i really care about .
so here I am, start on the blogging routine again.
I think I had already been through the stage where you will have sudden realization in your life that you had been sleeping through the previous years in your life. I feel alive and really living. Even a small event occured in bus can easily pick up my interest towards it.
Sometimes I still look back to the time where I was so determined to settle down with one girl and to form a family. For me now that is really an act of impulse. I now understand whats with the "too young too make decision" thing that I used to hear so much during my teenager year.
As painful as how the life is like, people have to still go on.
Dun get me wrong, its not that I refuse to settle down. Its just that there are still so much to see in this world and I think I still need time to discover the beauty of it.
Remember how I say I want to be more alive and live out every bit of my life?
I think I did it.
I didnt gave much of thoughts before entering this conference nor reasearch anything about it.
1Malaysia. Good luck.
I once heard that "a friend in power is a friend lost". But hey, arent we already been through that together? We spent quite some sleepless nights together helping others but why not even a few lines now?
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. True friend is something that can grow separately but without growing apart from each other.
"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen."
"Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks"
And now, I think it is cracking.
Its heart wrenching to see a once strong friendship deteriorated to such a fragile state. The feeling is just not that right anymore. There used to be an energy field between us, but now. Its long gone.
Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. I hope I will never have to reach the last part of this equation. Its a mutual thing anyway, by chance we met, and by choice we choose to be good friend.
I take our friendship as a gift, just like how I treasure my own life.
If you found this friendship somewhere, please help me to water it, because it needs it badly
Perhaps its just forgotten at a corner. I wish it is.
To you, maybe it is nothing.
To me, it is the bleakness of mortal realm.
"A kind of rice can rear hundred kinds of people"
(This is why sometimes english is better than mandarin)
When I bath and when I run.
One of the reason why I like running is because you can do it alone. People around you doesnt have to adjust themself to fit your time, your stamina, and your pace. Or the other way around.
This is one thing that you can do alone at anytime.
You don't have to ask other to run with you because you can do it perfectly well without others to accomodate you.
I managed to set my personal best here recently. It was beyond words.
The pace, the breath, the time, and everything is just so right for me.
Shoes does matter. It reduce the time up to 4 seconds.
Not forget the social facilitation theory as well.
With the right shoes, I can do so much more.
I think that apply to life too, with the right people beside you, you gain so much more without having to do more.
I finally have this epiphany telling me that its not the physical thing about running that I love, it also is the mental process.
It was broken, and it still is. But I gonna fix it.
I have never been so sure about what I want before but I do now.
And I gonna go for it. No matter what it takes.
Deep inside I know that nothing is impossible.
I am having that thought now.
And dun worry, I am okay, for now.
我不希望你会被伤害 ,平平凡凡就好。重点我的儿子快乐 ,不要被人耍
16 March 2010 01:02am
I cried.
Why cant I score high grade in exam or even a small test?
At first I was blaming this to my poor english standard. But as the time goes and my english skill is building up, I dont see any improvement in my grade still.
I feel like its not something I can control within me anymore. No matter how hard I try to study for a subject I feel like its impossible to go beyond the gate that I had "technically set" for the first test result I had here. Thats just it.
Its like having something in your hand, but you can never have more because its too far away from you.
C'est la vie, n'est ce pas?
Being in Arts is funny, your professor will tell you that grammar isnt really the main subject in exam's essay, the most important is your idea. But the truth is grammar does a great shitload of things. Even if you doesnt know anything about the question, you can still squeeze something out and get some marks, or even full marks.
I am not the one who really care about the marks. But the point is I just want to find a reason why is that so. I study for the content rather than test. I study whenever I feel like it.
Currently learning how to solve rubik's cube faster and learning korean. Why? Because I feel like learning it.
:) cinquante-huit journee a maison
And basically every shop does it. WHY?
主運(青龍方)解說:
管大環境.家庭中風格.腦中思想 您的主運為以下論述:
屬精打細算、愛財取之有道型,城府深,又好面子,桃花頗多。為人逍遙自在,慷慨大方,但稍有懶散拖延情形,人緣好、樂助人應酬多,勤奮認真,決定之事不容易更改,意志堅忍一意孤行,這種個性容易大成大敗,為人不甘平淡,一生變化大,傾向投機、有橫發事業出現,易有出人意料能成功,一夜如遇貴人成名滿天下。如遇小人一生多難、浮沉不定,多疾多糾紛起伏難定。
此數為貴人之數,此數之人最易患車關,喜歡和朋友往外跑、到處玩,若配局不當,最容易發生車關,在外格,異性緣好,又是坐享其成之人為人聰明、反應快,自尊心強,有領導能力,重承諾,謙和有禮、人緣佳。
副運(砂手方)解說:
管夫妻關係.做事過程.人生規劃 您的副運為以下論述:
子女們有意志消沉的傾向,個性保守不思創新。
男人有此數:對異性較消極,渴望迷人的對象,卻不敢主動追求,對母姊型能幹型女性較有好感。
女人有此數:對異性過於理想化,容易陷入孤寂空洞幻想中,對現實生活甚不滿意卻無勇氣改善創新,而日度一日,容易有憂鬱的傾向。
此數具有謀略、智慧、心思細、內斂,內心空虛,可靠智慧賺錢之數。
個性是保守消極謙和忍讓,精神容易空虛寂寞,能隨遇而安,有不滿不溢言表,喜歡追求哲學宗教心靈,適合單純閒散生活,積極展開社交圈則容易捲入是非糾紛,並受人牽累。外實內虛常為小事煩惱,心胸開朗發揮長才則易成功。有才華卻不見容於社會,多災多疾多糾紛,空虛困苦。
外運(白虎方)解說:
外在的人際關係.行動力.行為表現 您的外運為以下論述:
在工作上或在事業上對友誼充滿熱忱,但對別人要求太高,容易失望而灰心,對別人相當熱心慇勤,也能與人深交,但隔不久即生厭,又另交新友。部屬面前不苟言笑,能樹立權威,是能幹的主管人選。
總運(前堂與後山方)解說:
最終的本質.總體的表現以及給別人的感覺 您的總運為以下論述:
此數為貴人之數,此數之人最易患車關,喜歡和朋友往外跑、到處玩若配局不當,最容易發生車關,在外格,異性緣好,又是坐享其成之人。為人聰明、反應快,自尊心強,有領導能力,重承諾,謙和有禮、人緣佳。
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Until I saw them, I know there are still hopes and loves
Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Everytime we love, everytime we give, its the time the world at its best
Its probably an once in a life time "bomb in the bus" experience.
It was a snowing day, some people slept in the bus while others enjoying the scene from Washington DC to New York. Most of us are sleeping and try to get as much rest as possible before reaching New York.
But one of the passenger in the bus are not.
We woke up by the sudden stop of the bus in the middle of the highway. At first I thought it was just a routine stop so that people can go to restroom or grab some snacks.
The next scene is what makes the day interesting.
About 4 police cars surrounded the bus and ask the driver to go down from the bus.
I wasn't aware of the incident until I saw a tall inspector-like guy come up to the bus and ask us some question about the changing of driver.
So I thought what is actually happening to myself at that moment, but only she knew what was happening.
Maureen, the girl was later asked by the police to go down from the bus. At first I thought it was like some illegal immigrant kind of stuff. But it was more than that.
The bus driver then come up to the bus and whisper to the front row passenger
"That girl is crazy, she said there's a bomb in the bus"
I figured it out immediately. The girl actually thought that the bus was hijacked because there was a change of driver about 1 hours ago.
Duh!
So the whole thing becomes connected, that girl thought the bus were hijacked by this pakistanis-looking driver and that he is going to drive us all to hell on new year eve.(literally speaking).
On the one hand you can say that this girl watched too much movies. On the other, she was just being cautious. A lot of issues actually contributed to this incident, discrimination is definitely one of them.
I believe part of it is because the 911 smashed too hard on the country, it probably will never be forgotten by them anytime soon, though it had been nine years now. It just too painful for them to see their friends or family pass away in such a sudden and unexpected way.
After the incident, I looked out to the window.
I can hardly imagine about living a life in danger, nor in fear.
I couldnt help to look at her in the bus
I think she actually did something good for her, and of course
for us.
2009 was great despite of the swine flu, economy crisis, people losing jobs, but still, it was a great year for me.
I had been to six countries, 7 if you count Macau as one in 2009.
2009 set the down-est record for my mood so far. January 2009, I can still remember vividly how my mood was affected by the result I got for the first semester. It was devastating, I was homesicking, desperating, and food craving for that time.
Trapping in the foreign country without the support and accompany of your family is hard, you have got to do everything by yourself, and you have got to know that its no one but you.You got to buck up and face the coming challenges. Love it or leave it, thats the thing I learnt.
Then just in a blink of time I am home. Nothing can ever beat the feeling of home. I have only one home, because home is built with love and dreams, but house is just made of sand and stone. I may have a lot of places to stay, but home, just one.
There is nothing half pleasant as going back home again.
2009 was probably the year where I had the most buffet lunch and dinner in my 20 years life. I believe I had eaten more than 200 salmon sushis for the past year.
Been to Hong Kong. It was really a great trip, but it could be better without the swine flu.
Bangkok, May 2009. Travelling with friends. Had some jokes that will never ever be forgotten. I realized that squating in front of 7-eleven eating maggie mee can actually enjoyable :) I had so much time well spent with you guys and seriously if the time would just stop for one second, I would grab the chance to spend that one second with you guys.
Bali family trip, June 2009. Travelling with family member is definitely the best thing in life. And of course, I had the chance to meet my brother whom I have not seen for 1.5 years. I really wonder sometimes why is he so different than me. But one thing I can be sure of, we share the lameness. And we absorb each others' lameness and make use of it.
And because of this trip, we promise each other to have a family trip in June for every coming years.
Its funny how three of us ended up pursuing our dream in different regions on the earth , I am at the north hemisphere, he is at the south hemisphere, and he is in the middle of the earth. Three of us experience three different timezone and culture, but still, we share the same blood.
Melacca, June 2009. You can get the best chicken rice here, it is seriously very berry strawberry delicious. Would definitely go back again for the chicken rice alone. How nice it is? I would say I wouldnt mind driving for three hours to Melacca just to have that chicken rice then drive back home. Eat is always a big part of me.
June 209. Pulau Redang, Malaysia. Probably the best island in Malaysia. Recommended for couple as well as a bunch of friends. One thing that I saw in the island make me fall into deep thoughts. The workers there are mainly immigrants. They are really good in term of providing services.
At first I saw one of the workers there holding something and walk to a corner alone. I thought he was planning for something bad. But it turns out he wasnt. He was actually trying to find a silent place to read a letter alone. I can never forget the smile from his face when he was reading the letter. That is just so natural and full of love. When he is done reading it, he kisses the letter and go back to work again. He saw me on the way back to work, and he nodded to me and smile, and that is, one of the best smile I had ever seen in my life.
Working abroad is hard, but it is not when you have the support from your family.
That might just be a letter for any other person, but for him, its something that he couldnt afford to lose.
September 2009. Gathering with friends can never be more fun, you get to know everyone's stories and of course, secrets as well. Sendoff two of my best friend to study in US. Went to sing K almost every twice a week that time, those are the crazy time, but yea, I love it.
Summer 2009. Went back to the things that I once lost interest in, Petanque.
August 2009, Got my first ever DSLR, partly due to the horrible incident I faced where I lost my camera.
Summer + Fall + Winter 2009 Learnt how to solve a rubic's cube online. Now I can solve it within one minute. Finally decided to have something lively in my room, so I start to take up the responsibility of petting fish, and it really helps. As the picture shown, I got to save a little money as well.
December 2009. Before the end of 2009, I got the chance to fly over to achieve my American dream. The country was good. Though its not that good as what I was imagine before but still, its a great trip and I learnt a lot of things during the trip.
Till then, my wish for 2010 is simple.
Better than 2009 :)