Songs

Just to shout out the songs that I love most this year. The song might not be launched this year, but yea, this is from my point of view

1) Chao ren bu hui fei (Superman don't know how to fly) by Jay Chou

Talks about pressure from every side of the world. Do this, you will be judged, do that and still will be judged. It's like everything you do, it will be negatively looked at.

Like for example being a student. You don't do well in studies, people say u stupid. Do dang smart, other students don't like u and outcast u, see u as a nerd. On average, people will say you not outstanding enough.

Expectation is so high that it's almost impossible to achieve. Which leads to.. a person having low self esteem.

Bu yao wen wo ku guo le mei, ying wei chao ren bu neng liu yen lei

Don't ask me whether I have cried, because Superman can't shed tears

Moral of the song: Do what you want and it's ok to not achieve the society's expectation because it's ridiculously ridiculous. As long as you reach your own expectations, you should be proud of it.

2) Mei na me jian dan (Not so simple) by Huang Xiao Hu

Talks about how it's not easy for 2 person to come together. Each having their own personalities and differences.

This song is especially flavorful during emo time. lol. it really reflects the reality of love life as compared to all the fairy tales and the lovey dovey stories being portrayed by mass media.

Moral of the song: Love is not easy. Sacrifice is a must in the equation.

3) Just the way you are - Bruno Mars

Very lovey dovey song as compared to the harsh reality of no. 2. I like it because it gives hope and it's lovely la. It's good if I got someone to sing to, but then i don't. sucks to be me. XD

Happy New Year

God Bless~

Graduation Volleyball Journey Post

Since I have a graduation post for my studies, takkan I don't have a graduation post for my volleyball life throughout college right? My volleyball life has been very colourful during my university days.

I remembered when I went to college the first few days, I went to Department of Student Affairs (DSA) and asked the person whether there's a volleyball club in HELP. He said NO. I was disappointed. :x

But during my first year in Psychology, the volleyball club is being established by A-levels people. And so starts my journey. They initially played at Bangsar Sports Complex and there's where everything started. The first time I went, I still remember vividly some of the faces, most prominently, Sufan. He was the first person which caught my attention because his skills were above the rest. I think he had the same reaction to me too. Ok, this bit is probably my perasan-ness. XD

We played on a weekly basis, and rain or shine, there will be people. Seriously. hahaha.. then I brought in Ying Zhou when I got to know that he plays volleyball during MC 100. We were in the toilet discussing about it :p

At that time, it was just playing for fun, as there were no tournaments yet. In 2008, the president of the volleyball club said to me that I will be taking over the club. i was like @@. why me? ahahaha. So yea la, i did took over the club, and the first big thing was to bring in people to play for Masiswa 2008, which would lead eventually to MAPCU 2008.

Masiswa 2008

Belle, Alvin, Vi Yi, Verene, Candice, Ronaldo, Jun Hao, Farey, Ying Zhou

MAPCU 2008

Kaven, Wei Leng, Xinrou, Verene, Dee May, Ian, Belle, Chiann, Alexis

Panjang, Me, Vi Yi, Candice, Crystal, Annis, Khye Lie, Shamiso

After 2008, then I started to enter and find more competitions. It's fun, and college pays for it. What's not fun about that? XD Many competitions I joined, both open, invitation and closed. Normally don't win la.. but play for the fun of it ;p

Beach Volleyball in Cyberjaya 2009

Ah Phat, Me, Ai Li and Ying Zhou

Beach Volleyball in Sunway 2008

Tai Siong, Zheng Zoe, Stanley, Shawn

Ah Phat, Gee Chong, Thean, Kar Wai, Me, Sze Yah

Friendly match with one of the Singapore Uni 2009

Kay Chong, Lionel, Ying Zhou, Shin, Me, Yan Jiong

KC, Jun Hao

MAPCU 2009

Saed, Candice, Me, Alvin, Sek Meng, Ying Zhou, Xiao Zou

Lionel, Jonathan, Candice, Krystel, Yean May, Crystal

Xinrou, Vi Yi, Kaven, KC, Kay Chong, Khoi Yit

MAPCU 2009

Sek Meng, Saeh

Ying Zhou, Mark, Me, Xiao Zou, Lionel

Khoi Yit, Kay Chong, Jun Hao, KC, Jonathan, Alvin

Sports Carnival 2009

Alvin, Ying Zhou, Me, Khoi Yit

Ai Li, Kaven, Ian, Kelvin

Sports Carnival 2009

Ian, Me, Alvin, Kelvin, Ai Li, Kaven

Fuiyoh. Dive! XD

Sports Carnival 2009

I can jump that high? Maybe net low lor hor? :p

Telematch 2009

Denise, Lionel, Sek Meng, Ying Zhou, Kay Chong, Xiao Zou, Me

Ian, Xinrou, Yuinnie, Shin

Jun Hao, Candice, Maggie, Vi Yi, Yean May, Alexis, Khoi Yit

Titiwangsa 2010

Fadzly, KC, Kay Chong, Me, Ying Zhou, Aevent

Li Huei, Shin, Krystel, Candince

The two red girls are not our team ok. XD Wei Fen and Yean May

Titiwangsa 2010

Li Huei, Me, Aevent, Kay Chong, Shin, Candice

KC, Ying Zhou

MAPCU 2010

Mark, Saed, Shin, Kevin

Alvin, Xiao Zou, Aevent, KC, Me, Sek Meng

MAPCU 2010

There are many more competitions which I joined and did not put any photos here like TARC-Digi 2008, 2009 and 2010. lol.. I also joined Kepong team to play at UPM Open. Oh i so memalukan mamalia when play with them. ><

Besides playing ball, we also got kam ching kam ching 1.. some of the many outings that had happened

Karaoke. They LOOOVE singing songs.

Taman Pertanian

Taman Pertanian

Steamboat at Yuen

Now that I am done studying in HELP, i suppose my life volleyball will be less colourful. hmmm.. memang stress dealing with those monkeys. :p but these are all cherished memories~

Yours truly

God Bless~

Pre post Prom

Before prom, i did not managed to sleep well. There's a few things going on in my mind and it keeps on repeating and repeating and repeating itself. actually it's repeating now too!! :s

After prom, which is today, i had a strange interesting dream(s). i slept at 3.30. cool huh?

I dreamt that inside my dream, there's Dr. Anansu, together with her other half, a White dude. ahahahaha.. so funny.

also i remember of me getting hit by girls. another very funny thing in the dream.

Inside the dream, there's also Zhang Dong Liang. So hilarious when i woke up and think back about it. Of course when you read it this way, it is disconnected pieces, but when I dreamed, it was all connected.

Christmas is coming.

God Bless~

Graduation Post

Finally. Graduation!! Ah, it's been a long journey, and a very fruitful one. This is going to be a very very very very very long post, because I will try and put some of the most eventful things that have happened throughout my university life. Just want to show everyone how awesome my life is. XDXD

Let's start from Foundation onwards:

This is the photo that I have, English lesson together with our lecturer. I think not many people remember this photo. Not even me actually until i saw it the other day. I was so stressed up and I wanted to online, but then that day i couldn't connect to the internet. So I looked at photos. Brings back memories. That was when we were younger.. oh my goodness. XD

Kwok Weng, Derek, Tawfik, Farid, Cheah, Siva, Maxveen, Me

Nasha, Amanda, Li Shen, Stephanie, May Ching, Dionne

Lynnette, Ally, Mrs. Chuah, Isabelle, Sarah.

Sorry for the two person i forgotten the name. :x

Another very important event in HMC was Trolak camp of course. This photo remains one of my personal favourites. ^^

Besides Trolak, there's another 3 important events in foundation which was the campaigning during election, HMC annual ball as well as the PD trip. But I don't have any nice photos to show.. so that shall be that.. Some other interesting things would be MISbed, Juz Do It cafe, all the scandals during foundation *wink wink* Lam *cough cough*. XD Now moving on to Bpsych years. Even more interesting. hahahaha

Bpsych Years. The beginning was of course Orientation Day. This was the very first day of Bpsych for me.

That's Cha Loo, Liggy and Hui Sin there. So much changes in how they look now. They look better now. ^^

During Freshman Lunch, we were required to wear robes, as motivation for us to complete our years there. Inilah kita masa itu.

First class honors student (Take 1)

Us without the robe

We of course studied hard, and along the way did many assignments

Active Citizenship Project

Meng, Shyuan, Evie, Joel, Charissa, Jian, Sara

Winning Colloquium ^^

Some other colloquium. Muka first class honors (Take 2)

Group Process.
John, Me, Adrian Stevenson, Sarah and Cheryl

Not forgetting, our Treasure Hunt.

Now onto some of the outings that we had. I am trying to put it according to time frame, from those days until most recent. But if there's mistake, look kindly on me. hahaha

Genting

As the name suggest, Rakuzen

KL Tower. The surrounding is pretty nice actually.

Putrajaya

BBQ in Sunway

Career Exploration Club visit 2008

This is in Penang Kek Lok Si Temple

Ah Bit, Yue Ying, Jun Kit, Filbert, Khoi Yit, Vin, Leong

After finals 2008

Coral, Liggy, Hui Sin, Cha Loo, Jian

John, Me, Filbert, Seng Li

A&W, right after beef ball noodles in Masjid Jamek.

I am not in the picture, cause I am the one taking the photo. :p

Crystal's 21st birthday. I especially like this photo.

She's laughing so happily

Melaka 2009, nearing Christmas I remember

You can stand under my umbrella. XD

Sushi Tei in Tropicana City

Melaka 2010

Melaka 2010 in Nadaje

Penang

Penang too! On the ship

We had many other trips and events, which I don't have the photos. So sad. Like the swim in river, Melawati, our makan at Hulu Langat, Ipoh trip, ARUPS, the presentation on insight for Open Day, presentation on Autism and many other things. All in all, it has been a great journey, because I had good people by my side. And these are not including my volleyball life. I guess I will dedicate another post to that :D

Leave you with this last photo

Muka First Class Honors (Take 3) XD

God Bless~

Teachers oh teachers

How many of us actually remember our teachers? Who have sacrificed their time and life to teach us the things we need to learn in life?

The first teacher which left a deep impression on me was my Standard 1 and 2 class teacher, Ms. Azizah. See.. i remember her name. but i don't remember her face.. ahahaha.. but I know that she's kind and really patient. Another teacher i remember was my Moral teacher during standard 1. A tall Malay man with moustache, I don't remember his name sadly. He always like to use our Moral period to tell us stories about a fat man and a skinny man. and it has continuation, which would make us wait in eagerness for the next class.

I also remember my English teacher for standard 3. Pn. Kasmawati (not sure if spelt correctly), a plump Malay lady, who is very strict. She spanks people. hahaha.. and everytime I want to go to toilet during her period, I would rehearse in my mind a few times how to ask for permission, before mustering up my courage to walk to her and ask.

Also, I remember Encik Suhaimi, my Maths teacher (or was it Science? maybe both) in standard 6. And my BM teacher who is really kind. Forgotten her name :x

In secondary school, I remember my Form 1 English teacher. A pretty big size (for a Chinese female) and she's really fun. Likes telling us stories. My form 2 English teacher is also good. She's a Malay, petite, lovely lady. And because she's a Malay, some of my friends thought that she isn't good in English. My friends went to find her and came back saying to me "Oh she's a Malay, but she speaks perfect English" XD Rahul.. u remember this? XDXD

Cikgu Prema, history and BM teacher in Form 3. She takde suka kita, sebab dia ingat kita amat berlagak dan angkuh kerana kita kelas pertama. ahahahaha, and this persisted until when we were form 5 (long after she taught us) lol..

Moving on to form 4 and 5, Datin (Chemistry teacher), Tahiah (Physics teacher) and.. oh biology teacher not important (She made us all dislike biology :x) Add Maths teacher, Mr. Thean (also our volleyball coach then) was a person of small stature but likable by many girls. XD

History teacher, Pn. Norizam, Moral teacher, Encik Jamil, and i forgotten my BM, BI and Maths teacher's name. Dang!

And how could i not put his name in? Mr. Lee Kean Sing. My tuition teacher for Add Maths. Likes to blow water, but his teaching methods are good. At least it gives me a deeper understanding rather than just managing to solve the problems.

Tuition teachers... My BM tuition teacher in Johan during primary school was pretty nice. Also, Science was also pretty nice. I had quite fond memories of Johan. Especially with Boon Kit, Weng Soon and the person who always poke my back, Ms. Valarie Seow. XD

Biology tuition teacher was great. Great because he revived my biology from my school teacher. XD he's funny also. and loves to enter the topic of sexuality. lol.

I am really thankful for my education in the public school. It made me less prejudiced I would say. It made me have the opportunity to come together regardless of races. It made me realize that despite our differences and difference in perception, our perception of the others may be wrong. It made me who I am today.

Thank you to all my teachers. May God always show mercy unto all of you

God Bless~

Tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow

Tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow. Those who have taken English literature should know these famous words where we were forced to study.

tomorrow is going to be my last class in HELP. let's hope it stays that way. being nostalgic about leaving. so many memories and friends i got to know. so many things learnt. some people can't wait to get out of uni. me? ambivalent.

where am i heading to next? i want to go work and travel, but the plan doesn't seem to fit properly as yet. I WANT GO STUDY IN THE US!!

past few days, have been in a very contemplative mood. all because of bobo chee. :p influence me then make me emo pulak. muahahaha.. undecided.. how? :x

if i own a camera, i would so want to go stalk lecturers and ask them to have a photograph with me. also to all my kawans kawans.

entering hmc, student council, leadership camp, MIS bed, HMC ball, psych colloquium, volleyball club, all the volleyball competitions, visit to Dominos with shelther home, experiments, research on autism and all other researches, counselling, play therapy, group processes, visit to old folks, out there finding out about taboos, ARUPS, tutoring, Dota charity competition and all other things have made me grow as a person.

christmas is coming. and my course is ending. a new beginning.

God Bless~

Hatch, Mismatch, Dispatch

November 26th 2010

Fr. Christopher once said that many Catholics comes to church only on a few occasions that the priest have termed it as "hatch (baptism), match (marriage) and dispatch (anointing of the sick)" Funny, but have some truth in it.

This semester, I learnt about the whole 3 categories from hatch, to mismatch (rather than match) and dispatch. It's really cool to be able to learn all these things from on hands research and assignments. Again, this semester is probably the semester which I learnt most in terms of gaining experience. It's been a wonderful experience and i see it fit to be an ending semester for me :)

Hatch - learnt about children. more specifically how to do therapeutic play with children. children are awesome beings don't you think so? they have such immense live in them. So good at gaining insight and yet at times asked the silliest question ever. Cute max! The special thing about this course is that we have to go out and actually do real play sessions with real kids. No longer like counseling skills where we video record role play. This is REAL PLAY! and it's really a challenging experience, a great experience

Mismatch - y mismatch rather than match? because of contemporary psych, where we learn about different ideologies humans have as an adult. Children don't fight for ideology. Old people are probably at an age where it doesn't matter as much. It's the adults who fight for what they think should be and there's where the mismatch comes in. Many people just don't understand the other parties' point of view and don't 1 to listen. So what happens? mismatch and therefore fight. war happens, sadly.

Through this subject, I learnt a lot about different ideologies and at the same time got to explore my own beliefs. Beliefs about religion, sexuality, law, prejudice and discrimination etc. and it's really been an eye opener to learn about how different people view the same thing. We have to interview people regarding what their thoughts are about certain topics. And it is here that I went to a mosque for the first time. Do you know that mosque are actually a pretty nice place (forgive me cause i never entered a mosque before)? At least the mosque at my place is really pretty :) It was also the first time i have been to a tattoo shop and an indian temple. Challenging, yet memorable experience.

Dispatch - Old people. Group process' assignment was about older adults and we got to go to an old folks home, and the experience was just AWESOME! really proud of the old folks home that we visited. Proves that old folks need not live a miserable like how I always thought would happen. From group process subject, I managed to learn more about different groups of people from children to older adults and it expanded my horizon on things. Not challenging, but really good experience. Not to mentioned the fact that I got to make good friends.

I was pretty anxious with taking these subjects because I do not have my normal friends to take it with me, which means group assignment might be screwed up. Amazingly, the group experience have been awesome, even with random selection for contemporary psych. I guess God have His mercy on me. ^^ Group counseling is good, although I felt that it should have been a lot more better.

Before I end, there are a few myths that I would like to debunk

1) Sex workers choose their 'profession' - they did not. Because of lack of education and the need to survive, they have no other alternative. Do you really think people enjoy having sex with anyone anytime?

2) Drug addicts are stupid and society's trash - they are not. they are pretty smart actually because if they want to, they can get what they want (drugs) by any means, without getting caught. Why else you think there are so many drug addicts out there? They are not society's trash. Many of them actually can contribute to the society, but very little people believe in people who have history of drug addicts. So what do they do? Nothing. Simply because people don't believe in them

3) People who don't believe in my religion will go to hell - ok, for this 1, i shall not say 'not true' because ultimately, I am not the one who makes the decision. But I do think God is merciful enough. Protestants (sorry if i am generalizing) love to quote this verse from the Bible to show that there's a clear distinction between them and others

2 Corinthians 6:14 Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?

From what i see, the Bible cannot be taken literally and the point to be taken here is what does it mean by 'unbelievers'? Protestants (Sorry if i am generalizing again) seems to take the word 'unbelievers' as those who are not protestants. but are all non protestants bad? If the answer is no, then the following words "for what do righteousness and wickedness have in common" does not make sense.

Then it comes to the question. Who are believers? Believe in what? Believers of course is to me believers in Jesus, but more importantly, what is Jesus? Jesus is love. God is love. And therefore believers in love and those who work towards spreading love are known as believers. Naturally, unbelievers would mean that they don't believe and don't spread love. Following this line of thought, then the second part of there verse now makes sense no?

In conclusion, i learnt a lot of things this sem. nice for me :) You might want to rethink of some of the things you believe in. If you reject certain things and believe in certain things, it might be time to re explore what are the rationale behind those thoughts and beliefs.

God Bless~

Life's Journey

My time in HELP is going to end (Terence)

This is sad as I want more (Sharon)

Look forward to the future... the best is yet to be

Have a great future ahead

All the best in all you do (Charissa)

It may seemed like an end, but it really is just the start (Ser Li)

Fill up your future with your dream (Yi Wen)

It will be another start in my life

Perhaps I might just find a wife (Amanda)

And sacrifice my whole life (Terence)

Thinking about it is depressing (Sharon)

Look forward to the future with open arms

Not everything out there is bad

Marriage can't be that sad? (Charissa)

Just knowing that there will always be light at the end of the tunnel (Ser Li)

Go for the light, go for your dream (Yi Wen)

Kick all the obstacles away in the future

with God above, everything is pure (Amanda)

And in Him I have faith, faith to carry on (Terence)

This is the poem written in PSY 215. Not very poetic, but it's not too bad I suppose. Pretty meaningful when we have to complete each other sentences. Mine wasn't very funny, there were others who were funnier. lol.. but at least mine has got meaning ^^

God Bless~

Little Sisters of the Poor

This semester, me and my group mates went to an old folks home to do our assignment for Group Process. The old folks home is the Little Sisters of the Poor and my my.. the home is dang nice. I want to go there when I am old and when nobody wants me. In order to get into the home, u need to be poor cause they only take in poor old folks. hahaha.. so go donate all your munney to charity and come in :p

We went there twice cause we did it pretty early. The first time we went was to help with their open day. So we helped out with whatever that we could like decorating and arranging things.

It's pretty isn't it? :p

The second time we went there was half for assignment and half for fun i suppose. XD this time, we went and helped out with playing bowling. They actually have real bowling balls and pins. So cool right? And it's tiring to be the 'machine' who picks up the pins. sweat like.. oink oink..

But all in all it was a really nice experience. At the end of the second visit, we walked around more and explored the area. There's a reflexology area where we walked on it. And then some smart person (who's the smart 1 ar? forgotten dy. XD) suggested we ran on it. and so we did and it was not a smart decision. I had aching soles for 2 and a half days.

Still, it was a nice trip. Thank you all for making this a success, Adrian, Cheryl, Sarah, John and not forgetting Cheah. Without all of you, it wouldn't have been this good.

God Bless all of you~

Birthday 2010

I guess i should dedicate some time off from assignments to update my blog. :S been lazy to post up things these days. So this is the happenings for my birthday this year.

1) Outing to Klang for... celebration (Sat, 23rd October)

So first we went to a restaurant in Klang to eat baked crabs and lamb. My friends told me it was dang good. it was OK-LAH! XD the shop was packed with people and seems like it's really famous. almost every table got order baked crab

After dinner, we went to I-City, and I paid for the entrance fees. Fuiyoh i tell u, all of them were surprised that i said i will pay because i very cheapskate 1 normally. for me to pay is like waiting for rain to fall during drought.

There was nothing special inside actually. Just that the lights are pretty pretty and there's lots of people inside. We walked for a while, took some photos and it began to drizzle which made us leave the place. The photos aren't clear which is a waste. :x

Then we went to Station 1. they still refuse to go home. XDXD don't 1 to let me go right? :p So we went there and yum cha. I had a cake. awww so sweet of them. So there goes my lovely celebration with them.

2) LookoutPoint (Sun, 24th Oct)

Went to lookoutpoint and the weather was super nice. Was windy and cool up there. Awesome! I enjoyed the company, and the food. Thanks for the cake RACHEL! XD

Nice time catching up with friends who i don't see always. Chan hoe talked about his experience travelling, Suet and Kong got some juicy stuff to dig from. XD

3) 25th, Monday - I actually had another celebration with another person. But.. i shall just keep it to myself :)

A big thank you for everyone who celebrated my birthday with me. It's been a wonderful time spent with all of you. Jika ada apa-apa tersinggung, harap maaf zahir dan batin.

God Bless~