New Year's 1st Post ^_^

Okay, what should I write? I ain't gonna make my New Year's resolutions public... Lest. I. Fail. D:

Okay, I'll write something. I MUST write something! This is the first post of the year, on the first DAY of the year, the DECADE, in fact!

Oh... but I just did write something. 'kay then~

Happy New Year to all Earthlings, be you animal, plant, bacteria, virus, fungi, human, whatever, I wish you all a very Happy New Year!

May all your hopes and dreams

Which in last year failed you

This year help you

May you remember this year

Memories that will make you smile

May you this year

Correct mistakes done in the past.

May you open your eyes each new day

With a joy and hunger for life

May you live through this year

In better condition then the last

May this year give you more happiness then sadness

In every way, at every turn.

May this year be filled with opportunities and blessings

That will help you sail

Like a ship so smoothly in a strong, gentle wind. 

Hope is what every New Year brings,

Dreams, yet to be fulfilled,

Infinite love yet to be shown,

Tears yet to be cried,

Laughter yet to be sounded,

Music, yet to be heard,

Stories yet to be written,

Books yet to be read,

Places yet to be visited,

Beauty yet to be seen,

Joys yet to be discovered,

Lessons yet to be learned,

LIFE, yet to be lived. 

Wishing you a Happy New Year this 2011~^^

The other half

There isn't much else to talk of. We went to Kuantan after we left Singapore. We checked in at the Swiss Garden Resort. The place is pretty nice, quite clean, it has a nice swimming pool... I think the highlight of the hols was actually the dinner(s) we had at the Blossom. It was a nice Chinese restaurant with an amazing hostess. It was just her (the hosts) who was collecting the orders, and about three waiters manning the restaurant. I suppose there were the cooks too. We went there the first night because it was raining like mad cats and a billion crazy dogs and my parent's friends had no choice about it. Initially, they wanted to bring us to a seafood restaurant where there were some awesome stuffed crab. But anyway, we sat down and had a good meal. After that, we parted ways and decided to return to our rooms. 

My sisters and my youngest brother and I shared a room while my parents and other brother shared the the room. The first night I slept on the single bed while my poor sisters were forced to endure my darling brother's squirmy sleeping habits. (Actually, I knew of his habits, which was why I opted for the single bad~)

Anyway, before we went to sleep, we watched Night at the Museum 2. Believe it or not, we never watched it. The movie was pretty funny, as expected after watching Night at the Museum... So after the movie, we went to sleep. 

The second day, we had breakfast~ I made the mistake of eating cereal with milk and drinking tea with milk... forgetting I was lactose-intolerant... D: Ugh, did I have a stomachache or what? Anyway, I recovered around noon to get into the pool and have a swim. It wasn't sunny there at any given time because of the monsoon season. The weather, in my opinion, was terrific. We had a drive to my dad's friend's clinic and back, and had dinner at the Blossom again~ this was the most interesting part of the holiday, I guess. You see, there were a lot of foreigners on holiday... AGED ones, rest assured. They were probably mostly 50 and above. How should I describe the scene? Let me think.

We were seated in a very strategic location. We had the view of the whole restaurant (not that it was very big)... it was while seated here that I saw a very rare thing. It was not one, but two old couples... now a days, it is so normal to see young couples going places together, and at this age I do not look twice at them. But it is very rare to see couples who have been together for so long, that one would trouble oneself to call the scene sweet. A marriage that has lasted for so long. I could suddenly see first hand what marriage could do to you. I don't know if it was by accident or design, but both couples were dressed in the same colored clothes. Blue. Physically, they were kind off similar too. The first couple I noticed were both plump, and you could imagine them on their own farm. The second couple I noticed were both thin and glasses clad, and you could imagine them as lecturers at Harvard or something like that. Of course, I never asked them if they might just be cousins or siblings on vacation together, but when I looked carefully, I could see no resemblance in their facial features that might mark them as related in any other way but marriage. Am I becoming one of those romantic-addicted idiots with cotton wool for brains girls? I seriously doubt it... xD

That night, we watched one-half of 'Confessions of a Shopaholic'. It was what one might call an exaggerative but highly entertaining movie. I mean, I turned the TV on only to see a crazy woman trying desperately to extract her credit card from a big block of ice with a high-heeled shoe...

Okay, enough of that. After the Confessions of a Shopaholic, there was this show, 'City of Ember' it was pretty interesting. I do recommend a view if you are tired of romance-filled movies and movies that can't do without a few pretty faces (not to say the actors and actresses were bad-looking) they were simply more fresh faced then the normal sort of person you see on movies. The story and concept weren't too bad, though you need to let-be the more complicated sides of it. 

Right, so that's about it, I guess. I just gotta put in a thank you note to my dad who paid for the holiday, making it all possible ^^~

One half of the Vacation

Okay, this year, the year 2010, for the first time in years, we have gone on holiday :D the whole family~ and it wasn't cut short and it was mostly peaceful... not many photos... we are a weird family. When we go on holiday, we hardly take photos, and when we are not on holiday, we don't take any at all... Even though it didn't really go the way it was initially supposed to go...

In the beginning we were going to Taman Negara in Pahang. Then we changed our mind... actually, I think I might have had a big hand in this change. I didn't want to go Taman Negara, 'cause there had be lots of mud and you had get sweaty and dirty, and wet D: D-I-S-G-U-S-T-I-N-G. So we were going to Ipoh to have a look at the limestone caves there. Right. We were goin', and then we were goin', and then the night of the PPS farewell dinner, my mum got a phone call that rearranged half our schedule.

My grandfather on my mum's side died. He was kinda old, yeah. 78 years old. He had suffered a major stroke about 10 years ago. And two more minor ones, and I think a heart attack as well. Mum said the main cause of his death was old age. Anyway, we had to pack off to Singapore then to attend the funeral. It was a Buddhist funeral. There was lots of chanting and bells and a weird instrument that made a sound like the clicking of the tongue, as well as a tiny little drum. There were some rituals... on the 25th of December, yes, Christmas day, granddad was cremated. We kinda forgot it was Christmas day. I didn't feel like it at all. It started raining right after most of the funeral stuff was done, and only when we switched on the TV did we happen to remember it was Christmas, because it was showing a Christmas show. I think it was Alvin and the Chipmunks. Then we had a small scale Christmas dinner with chicken as the make-shift turkey and a bit of chocolate. We couldn't do much because we had to respect our granddad's memory. I guess we were okay with it since we hardly celebrated Christmas, anyway.

So now that granddad's passed away too, I don't have anymore grandparents on wither side of the family. I never knew any of my grandparents very well. I wasn't born when my dad's parents died. On my mother's side, there was a language as well as a distance gap. My grandma died last year. I guess I'm pretty fine with that, meaning no disrespect to my grandparents. What's past is past. What's gone is gone. They were good people who raised my mum and dad and without whom I would never be here. So that's the one half of my 'vacation'...

PMR

I'M ON CLOUD 999999999999999999999999999999999..........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA~~~!!!!

(Do I need to say more? :D) 

Chasing Dreams

That was the title of the video~ ^^ (Don't ask me how it came about) The video I was co-directing with Ngai for the PPS farewell dinner :D

Here's how it all started (I just realized I never blogged about this yet)

One day, Ngai asked me if I could write the script for the drama... I very innocently said I had try... then for real, another day I was called to a meeting room for the Bahagian 3... then Aun Chian was asking me all sorts of weird things... Are you done? Have you got the actors? Blablablabla... And I was like what???!! And Ngai was like: "Didn't I tell you?" And Aun Chian was like: " Didn't you tell her?" And I was like: " What what?" And Ngai was like: "But I told you what, you are the director!"

And I was like: 

Oh. My. Gosh... Was it me who got the details wrong? Or was it them? I really dunno, and probably will never know. So... I was going: "Okaaaay... Okaaaay..." And Ngai was going: You can do it... no worries..." 

I know that actually, she felt I couldn't... 

Right... so that was how I got into directing the video... ^_^hehehe... 
Okay, so now you might want to know: "What happened?"

"I directed the video~" 

So you would like to know:"How was it?"

"It was okay... I hope I wasn't dictatorial... Ngai was >D I was a useless director who hung around the backdrop... however, I am apparently very stubborn... Gee, I never heard myself described so... I am STUBBORN D:"

"Didn't you do ANYTHING???!!"

"Not much... Ngai did most everything, Teik Yin changed the script(but the draft was my original idea~ errr... it wasn't exactly copied from anywhere~) and did the music AND acted~ Wei Xian was the cameraman and technician (I think he did the most work ><) I feel bad... ,  Bryan did editing, and acted... what the *, I shall list everyone out right here!

Ngai Pik Gin

Co-director, Secretary (She contacted almost everyone), Supporter, Idea Giver

Low Wei Xian

Cameraman, Editor, sub-titler, Awesome technician ^_^

Wong Teik Yin

Main Actor, Music Seeker x), Script writer

Bryan Lim

Editor, Actor

Ong Jia Hui

Actress, 

I AM SORRY FOR MAKING YOU FALL SO MANY TIMES!!! :'(

Loi Bi Lian

Actress

Ang Chiew Xian

Actress

Yeoh Aun Chian

Actor 

Bu Kai Jun

Clown  Actor 

Eric Pang ( I only met him once... dunno how to spell his name ><)

Actor

Pan Meng Hong

Actor

Philia Chua

Actress scary one

Yau Jih Chern, Chiew Jing Hang, Wong Sze Xin

Although they didn't act or anything, they came on that disastrous first day. Thank you for that^_^

EVERYONE, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR HELP! 

(IF EVER YOU SEE THIS^^) 

Headache Inducing Thoughts...

Now, imagine taking something apart... say a toy car... or a flower. You are pulling it apart little by little until you can't pull it apart anymore... you take the tiniest piece and put it under a powerful microscope and can see that indeed there is more to be torn apart, and you do that again and again... and you think you have it. You think that it can't be taken apart any further... then along comes this brilliant scientist, "I have created a newer and better, more powerful microscope!" He passes it to you and once more you put the tiny piece which you thought was the smallest bit of matter under the microscope and realize that there is much more to tear apart. You keep tearing and you keep tearing but each time you think:" Ah, this must be what the object is made of, the thing all matter is made of, the building block of the world... but... what is it made of?" But each time, endlessly there is something tinier and something more to discover... what is this thing that we, the universe is made of? What is it called? What is it?



Now, begin from yourself. You are standing in a room. The room is in a house. The house is in a neighborhood. The neighborhood is in a town. The town is in a state. The state is in a country. The country is in a continent. The continent is in the Earth. The Earth is in the Solar System. The Solar System is in the Milky Way. The Milky Way is in the universe... What is the universe in???!!

The mystery of the smallest and biggest, is something that might never be solved. In fact it might be better it is not solved, for who knows what horrors such knowledge holds? As the saying goes, 'ignorance is bliss'. But mankind are very odd. Many times they do not run away from horrors, rather they embrace it, even seek for it. Have you ever tried watching a horror movie, and been so scared, yet you were unable to stop watching because you were just so curious? Humans are such creatures that when you try to hide something, even when something is better hidden and secret forever, they insist on discovering. What is it that fuels our odd and terrible desires?

Ha Adam

Figurative use is obvious in the way Adam was described. The formulation used to denote Adam throughout the first three chapters of Genesis is Ha Adam. But that, in Hebrew, is not a personal name at all. It simply means 'the human'. 'Adam' is not used as a given name, to denote a particular individual, until chapter 4. Throughout the stories of the creation and the 'fall', Adam was expressly and deliberately a human. 

- The Selfless Gene: Living with God and Darwin, pg 122

Does this mean that we require a newer and better, more literally translated Bible, as it was so oddly inaccurately translated to the point that generations of Christians have been reading a flawed version???!! O.O This is one interesting book~

The Rundown of My Day~

Okay, so today's been soooo hectic *sighs* hmmm... where to start...

1. Today was the first day of VBS~ And guess whaaaattt----- I got the date wrong. I thought it was starting TOMORROW INSTEAD of TODAY ==||| Let me get this straight. IT WAS THE IDIOT OF A BROTHER'S FAULT! I have been VERY busy with ALL sorts of stuff, and just didn't have time to make sure of anything, so I asked my brother, and assumed that what he said was right. Guess what. Yeah, you guessed right. The idiot got it WRONG. Sooooo.... We had to rush of to church, and apologize for being such idiots. I STAND BY THE FACT THAT IT WAS MY IDIOT BROTHER'S FAULT, NOT MINE.

2. Ahhhh~ they are cuteys, to be sure~ but those kids can be such a BOTHER ==

3. Okay, after VBS ended, we got ourselves to Mines~ we had donuts at Dunkin' Donuts~ Okay, this was the scene.
We were sitting next to the balcony overlooking the river running through Mines, and you see, I have a Fear of Heights. When I sat there, I kept thinking of horrible things that might happen if I fell down----- the fact that the river was four storeys down was not very comforting. I imagined that the piece of floor I was located on suddenly broke off, and I started sliding down( and you know, the terrible thing was that I imagined it until it seemed so real, I could FEEL myself sliding downward D:) And there were these boards hanging from a line over the river, which I imagined having to catch hold of to break my fall, but that was worse, 'cause I imagined it breaking under my weight and me plunging down into that TERRIBLE depths... *gasp* Am I paranoid? Yes, I am. I freely admit.

4. After that, we went to Econsave to buy groceries... among them were some VERY unfortunate live fish (keli, to be specific~) So, while I waited for my mum to get her shopping done while guarding the trolley, I watched this guy (by the way, I think he was an Indonesian/Bangladeshi, and he was young and had muscles, not too much, and he was doing all that work, hauling stuff in and out, and he didn't even break sweat----- and for some reason, I found the fact he was butchering meat very *cough* interesting~. Yes, I am a sadist) cut up the fish. The first thing he did was put a whole pile of ice into the pail full of the life fish, and I was thinking: "Oh, cool. Cold blooded fish + ice = immobile fish." Then he started slicing it up... and I don't know anything else, because I seriously couldn't stomach THAT... I can't be a very good sadist, huh...

Anyway, that's about it~