Stepping Up.

Its beeeeeennnnnn aaaa loooooonnnnnngggggggg whiiiiiiiillllleeeeeeee

I just couldn't bear to open my blogpage again...for good reasons excuses which I shall keep to myself, making it an even better excuse...

And many things have happened no doubt. I only remembered to hit on the blog again after so long, when Ann Ee told me to update my blog, to which I reflexly replied "oh you read it ah?" lol. Never thought people would open my blog, or whats left of it. But its time to talk again, as briefly as possible (but it won't be), on what transpired over the past 3 months or so.

I'll call this post...

Stepping up.

A highly condensed life story for the past..uh. 6 months?

Now its no secret (or it was?) that I was a "sleeping" Christian for a good part of my teen life, degenerating to a point when I was no different than the average crowd, I'll admit, and had a lot of underlying problems coming along with it. Despite this, God had still provided for me and delivered me through the times I needed it most, such as PMR, SPM and even AUSMAT, when I thought I'd be just a normal dude who would just get through it, do well enough, and get to some half-decent course in some decent uni. But more than that, the Lord blessed my Biology exam in a way that up till now I could never understand, elevating it to getting 91 in the final written exam, scaled to 100 after evaluating internal assessment and performance compared with others in the cohort, getting the Special Cert. of Distinction and Special Subject/Course Award in Bio, which I received in Perth back in February. That was indeed a joyous moment for me, as I was definitely one lacking in confidence (my bio lecturer would attest to that, and has tried to buck me up and I thank her immensely for being a blessing to her students) and am known to be a horribly slow learner (and still am, lol). Just to show how much God has blessed me in spite of my "low point" in life.

Now, some of you know I nearly got into Pharmacy either in Perth/Adelaide. But as wayy before my dad insisted I applied for Medicine, so I applied only Monash, partly cos' I was lazy to repeatedly travel to different parts of the world (exaggerating here) for interviews and what not. And in the end I got offered Medicine. My first response? The ever infamous 'Why Lord'? We all know Medicine is a killer from the get-go. The study workload is obscene. The expectations gargantuan. And the burden of responsibility insurmountable by most, as its lives we're handling. Pharmacy in comparison still gave me time to myself, and sufficient cash to get by. I didn't get it. But I knew that at the moment that offer came, its like God telling me "Step up to it, boy". And step up I had to, even if it meant "sacrificing my youth" (I'm about to see how true that is, eventually).

So up I went mid-late February. Later joined by my JB gang consisting of Sin Nah, Eric, Weng, Vysh. Orientation and transition camp was a great time of knowing my to-be PCL members in Group J - which I'll talk about another time. One fine day Eric just asked me to attend Acts Church 10th Anniversary on 28th Feb, which I tagged along with Weng. And that day wasn't that...impactful for me at that time yet anyway, as one - we came late. and two - I was still in the "sleeping" mode. The food was the draw at that time (admittedly, hehehe), BUT one perhaps unnoticeable but great blessing was the Acts 10 Umbrella door gift, which up till now has actually bailed me out many times - Praise the Lord for such a simple yet helpful item. But later, I had this feeling that just prompted me to go to Acts. And I did the following Sunday. Nowww I don't remember details but I enjoyed it, and kept coming back again and again.

And at one particular service by Pastor Kenneth (which again, I don't remember. Terrible memory T.T) I just felt a tugging by God, telling me to come back to the right path, as I've been gone away long enough. Which brings about again the story of the Prodigal Son, long gone, wasted his life away, but comes back broken and the Father accepted him again lovingly. Right hand shot up and then on, the fight to rededicate my life back to the way Christ wanted it, has begun. As always, stepping up ain't easy, having being on "hiatus" for what seems like many years, degenerating to near nothingness. But with the help of the few good people and friends in Acts who supported and encouraged me, like Charles, Shaun Kang, Lucas, Michelle, Alvin, Ann-Marie (sorry if I didn't mention your name, but I appreciate it nonetheless!) and so on, its been less difficult.

But its still difficult. Workload is immense. Still lagging behind. But I try to put in the quiet times and devotion any time I can. Still, the one thing that has made life so much better to live, is that I only need believe that Father, Son, Holy Spirit, are always with me. No matter what. That knowledge and believe and faith in it alone was all it needed to take me out of a generally solemn depressive state to a more accepting and optimistic outlook of life. No doubt stumbles and hits come their way, but with this renewed purpose and strength, the Lord will take me by the hand and up to my feet again.

As for the colourful words from previous posts and previous phase of life? Lets just say I've put those days behind me. The "big time colourful words" ( you know what I mean) are shelved for the most part. Smaller ones still need some work around it. But with God's grace and providence, it too will fade.

Stepping up to it has been hard, and some times what we do might not make sense, but I feel that its for better things to come.

I'll stop here for now. Gotta study now @.@

God bless!

The Smell of Hell....

...should basically consists of several sessions involving anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, histology, pathology, microbiology, biochemistry, psychology (yes we have to do that too...) and...what did I forget? Ah yes, genetics. Not to mention Law units (or rather only the relevant parts/sections of it), ethics, professional development...its an exhaustive list. Oh and did I mention that are a chockful of assignments to boot? Man, I'm starting to love MBBS. Hmm....

Okaaayyyy so the seniors (and all the countless doctors, past and present) have made it through and lived to tell the tale and even made a huge difference to their communities so yeah how bad can it be eh?

One things for sure though, I'm gonna get my ass worked off like never before. Which is something my ass has never really gone through before.

You may have heard this from me before, but the internet in the hostel is absolutely marvellous. To a point when you'll feel like trashing it out the window 24 floors down. The only other problem being that I only live on the 4th floor. Not that its a problem per se but dropping things from only the 4th floor leaves more to be desired. But then again you can't drop anything you can't hold. So there. Uni internet roxx. Its my 3rd home now.

On a brighter note, I've made quite a number of good people in the (takes deep breath) Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine, and Health Sciences. Which I'll henceforth refer to as just "School" (or med school, if I decide to be specific) merely for the sake of being reader (and type-r) friendly. So yeah I mention the school and not just the course as they come from MBBS and Pharmacy, and uhm just one from Psycho/Business. And the school has many coughcutecough girls too =P. Hey there would be something wrong with me if I didn't put that in somewhere now, eh?

So yeah transition camp which is for the med school people has been a blast and has essentially become the platform of meeting new people, as there will be essentially no time (or less time, rather) to hang out and chill. Its whole day in the library yo.

So thats it for now. And once again apologies to Soobs for not being able to join the parody game as my creative juices has been drained completely. Almost.

So before continuing the path to Hades' luxurious mansion (in no relation to Lightning Thief, however coincidental, or not, it may be) I just wanna tell any of you reading this to think carefully and not get yourself in to a lifetime of working your ass off...



But hey its not to say I'm dreading it, I just need to adjust....

I gotta feeling...

that tonight's *not* gonna be a good night.




Anyway the worse feeling that I (that's just me) have experienced the past 3 months is....



NOT heartbreak.





NOT losing anything valuable.





NOT being yelled at





its when I've exhausted all the games I have and am left with virtually nothing to play and too much time on my hands. Dammit.


The good stuff this year is only gonna be out mainly in march-april.


At least Mass Effect 2 was really good stuff. 2 playthroughs x 30 hours = 60 hours. Might play it again after a breather. Insanity difficulty maybe.








This goes to show how desperate I am to start uni life as this is all I have to say of life at this point of life. sigh

Jump up high, fall straight down through a thin ice path and FREEZE

To sum up what happened in recent days

1) I got something I wanted.

2) I went for a freezing trial and I got frozen with little resistance. Sad eh?

3) Thankfully, I managed to claw my way out of the ice cage and into a relaxing sauna.




And like you see in some movie/game reviews....







****SPOILER ALERT****








Okay so the real events were...

1) Not telling. lalalala....

2) ASEAN scholarship interview which...well lets just say I gained more *during* the interview than what I could gain *after* it. Geddit?

3) Okay so I got an offer elsewhere and I've accepted it.









****MORE SPOILERS ALERT!!!****








1) Still NOT telling. lalalala....

2) Okay fine so I got frozen solid in the interview. Some may wonder how an icy person can get frozen even further. But yeah, its just the way interviews are. No sour grapes though.

3) The offer is from Monash Sunway campus.









****FINAL SPOILERS ALERT!!! TURN AWAY IF YOU WANT AN AUTHENTIC EXPERIENCE!!!!****








1) Fine...its a PSP. No surprises.

2) So the guy shot down my lack of passion (which is true), he sort of..."revealed" the backbiting nature that exists with extreme competition (DAMN RIGHT THERE!!!) and etc etc etc. I have a knack of forgetting insignificant details. Only the 2 aforementioned ones were of significant value. No sour grapes...wait did I just say that. Anyway he didn't personally attack me unlike what some interviewers would do and he even said "have fun" after I thanked him, and before I left. o.O not the words I'd expect after an extreme-freeze session. But oh well...humans can be interesting heh.

3) So yeah off to MBBS @ Monash University Sunway campus. Slowly it'll be the end of games...then the end of a relationship...and then end of social life...and then reclaim all these in the later stage of career. Supposing I get through it.










1 month to the beginning of the end leading to a new beginning. With a lot of thorns, hellfires, and whatnot in between. Phew...

Time for miracles.

And a miracle it was.

To those who know my Year 12 result, know that its indeed, a miracle.

More than just the overall ranking score itself, how I did in one particular subject stunned me, and others, more than anything else. Dwarfing all other just-as-worthy achievements impeccably.

It was something so unprecedented, so shocking, even, that it can be declared a miracle.


Anyway, now that results are done and dusted, time to get back to sleep and gaming all I can before the time of endless, sleepless nights torment me the rest of my life. For real.


And I'd appreciate any info on a PSP, its pricing, best deals, etc that you know of. Might have to switch gaming approach from heavy mainstream gaming to lite, quick-fix gaming, in light of aforementioned sleepless nights.

Some of you may actually know my REAL reason of getting a PSP....

supposing I even decide to get one.

I'm just considering, bummer.

Wonder how it'd feel like the day my gaming life ends.

Miserably.

That time of the year. Again.

Christmas dawns

The eve draws to a close and the day itself draws nigh

Christmas itself has different meaning to many people

For Christians and some curious people who know about it, its to celebrate the birth of Jesus roughly two thousand years ago.

For the others, its probably santa, his reindeers (or not) and multicoloured wrapped gifts, candies, sweets and of course, the warnings that come with being a naughty kid.

For those whose idea of Christmas is neither of the aforementioned two, its probably just another mundane day, where the cycle of survival continues.

Or something else I don't realise.

Anyhow for a random info I'm installing FIFA 10 while typing this.

Speaking of which my Christmas gifts were....(surprise SURPRISE)

Borderlands
Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor
Need for Speed Shift.
FIFA 10

Actually the last 3 were my brother's choices. Only Borderlands was personally requested. By yours truly.

I'll play all the others anyway. Cos they're decent games too. I suppose.

Soobs I sincerely, dearly hope you're right bout this game (Borderlands). If not....well, lets just say I might just take something straight out of a Nazi guidebook and run you through with it.

Just kidding.

In fact, I think it'd be better to lend you the game so we can both perhaps go at it together online which would be a helluva lot more fun than solo-ing.

Lets hope it works out.

Moving on...

Final Fantasy X was a great experience.

At time of writing this I've clocked in approximately 155 hours of gameplay in one playthrough

Although admittedly most of it went to ol' repetitive grinding.

Its rewarding anyhow.

And I've yet to be fully prepared for the ultimate boss of the game.

All goodgreat things must come to an end.

And so will my FF X run. In a few days time.

Damn I rambled on games for about nearly the whole of this post.

But thats all I did for my holidays

Cos I'm expecting next to zero time for games come varsity life.

So yeah happy gaming, shopping, partying, sleepover-ing, turkey feasting, and gift tearing to all of you.

And to fellow Christians lets just say Happy Birthday to Jesus

And cheers to AUSMAT results in 6 days.




Dammit...

Day of the dead living

14th August, Friday

0400 hour.


Sunway JB day trip to Monash University Sunway campus, Sunway University College, and Sunway Pyramid.



Codename: Operation Phoenix Rising



-Information classified-




and the main point of the whole day, (and counting the day before, for all intents and purposes) was that I was awake for 31 consecutive hours beginning from 10 hours before departure of the bus. Or if you don't count a meagre and uncharacteristic 1 hour nap on the 13th, it'll be 41 hours since last period of full, restorative sleep (the 7-8 hours sort). I wish I knew why I couldn't sleep AT FUCKING ALL during a collective 9 hours of journey (to and fro). I could give a few hypothesis as to why such as:

-the soothing sound of the bus engines

-the one movie being played (on return trip, Apocalytpo, which I eventually just watched anyway, not bad show)

-mum calling me every few minutes on return trip

-someone spiked my drink with morphine



and of course, upon return to home sweet home, after cleaning up, and grabbing some antibiotics, I crashed to bed and said hello to lalaland for around 11 hours.



Thats talking about before AND after the trip, which I felt you guys wanted to know most.....or maybe not.






Now during the trip...

I got an emo guy sitting next to me.




Ok actually thats just Chew Sin Nah, a cute adorable little girl in Ausmat who, cos of hoodie + cap + artsy angle = slightly emo-ish shot.

Thought I'd might as well join her. Minus the artsy-ness.

At Monash.

"The" Bridge. Its that Iconic.



Empty lecture.


Business school. Failed in artsy attempt.

Monash's Library + Learning commons. Obviously a lot more stylo than Sunway JB. Cos its 11 years old this year.
If I'm not mistaken.




Too tired for more pics.






Only 3 pics from Sunway University...cos I was too tired to bother taking any thing else.


Sunway University College pal, bearded viking of old, and fellow blogger, Eric Chia.


AHAH!! Miss Pearly caught sleeping in a lecture. Tsktsktsk.
Can't blame your students if they fall asleep in your lecture, but not that they will =P



Pang + Me in front of Sunway University (College).
Artsy shot fail #2




@ Sunway Pyramid.
And the only highlight here is ice skating. And subway. Nothing else. I need a whole day at least to sniff every corner in Pyramid for f--ks sake.

Groupie pic. courtesy of Sin Nah.






KU JUN PYO!!! (Daniel Chan, "seated"), Tracy and Me. OUTSIDE the skating ring.

Daniel was re-tying his laces while Trace gave up on ice-skating for the meantime. I was just catching a breath and you can see how f-ed up I was. Bad hair too.




Subway. Eat fresh.



Subway. Eat fresh part 2.




Revolve your eyes around the circle 10 times. Thats how its like walking in Sunway Pyramid. For the first time anyway.




This....doesn't really mean....anything. Artsy shot EPIC FAIL. gahh!!!









So the conclusion is, I should just give up attempting artsy shots altogether =/

Running In Phase

A trend that I've noticed of late is

Big names seem to be passing on at relatively high frequency of late.



MJ, Farah Fawcett, Yasmin, and now Sir Bobby. They share one thing in common in their deaths.

They all died due to a medical condition.

MJ - suspected drug abuse leading to cardiac arrest
Farah Fawcett - Anal cancer
Yasmin - stroke and hemorrhaging
Sir Bobby Robson - several cancers, the decisive one being lung cancer.






While its tragic that all these influential people had to pass on, one can't help but wonder











Who's next?

Making up for lost time

Ausmat Evaluation Exam has ended a few days ago and I find that this sad space in the blogosphere has been left dilapidated for ages.

To catch up on very belated news.

#1
Transfer saga comes to an end.



Well, almost, but certain.


Cristiano Ronaldo finally moves to Real Madrid for 80 million pounds, a world record deal in what would seem like re-elected President Florentino Perez's next attempt to rebuild a galacticos team, having snapped up Kaka from AC Milan for 62 million pounds.

I suppose it was a matter of when, rather than if, Ronaldo will leave Man Utd, to satiate his never ending thirst for challenge and glory. In 2003 he was virtually unknown when he came to Man Utd from Sporting Lisbon, and now, he's worth 80 million pounds. Not a bad deal on a want-away star.


Lets just see how the new season shapes for Man Utd, minus Ronaldo. And likely plus a few new fresh faces...







#2
Kris won. Huh?

Yes. Its one of those hot topics that (at least at the time it occurred) basically dominated chats and conversations amongst quite a handful of my peers. Getting comments which goes something like...







"WTF?!!??!? KRIS WON?? DUMBF**K AMERICANS!!"







"AMERICA IS STUPID!!!"



Something like that.




Okay well I'll say first that both are good singers. Just that IMO Adam puts in more emotions and energy into his songs, compared to Kris, whereas Kris, to me, seems more of a ...hmm..sentimental kinda singer. But feel free to disagree.


But by talent alone, I still feel Adam should've nicked it. I don't see a problem with him being gay, as long as he keeps it to himself, and doesn't go round on a public rampage =="


And, as Daughtry has shown, you don't really need to win American Idol to be successful.




#3
How can we forget. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE



Evaluation Exam. Its definitely something with which we would compare our future results to. And a slight taste of the real thing which Ausmat-ians will face in mock exams, and then the real thing itself, the Tertiary Entrance Examination (TEE).


But suffice to say, it was a really disappointing effort. From EALD, to Applicable Maths, and the Science subjects, I never really felt I gave my best. Maybe one of which I felt so-so with my efforts would be Physics.

No use crying over spilt milk, as is often said. I just wanna waste this holidays (if you can call it one)

Shiny exterior, creaky interiors?

I know, I said no updates. But this is something enlightening, especially those who are THINKING of doing medical studies in Russia



Letter posted by a person with the pseudonym "Weasley", at MalaysiaKini



Hope it enlightens some of you.

IMBA

Lets sum up a damn f***** up pretty stressful period of life in AUSMAT. To be depicted in the form of IMBA-ness.


IMBA-ness #1
Physics topic test 2 was too IMBA. Electric power. Basically the part of physics which I really detested in high school, from electric power right to electromagnetism and all that crap. (and my bro's a PhD in Electrical Engineering. zzzz)

Calculations and all were basically do-able in spite of the occasional blips and bumps. But the concepts, principles, comprehension question................lets just say theres more than a reason to retreat to my emo corner.

IMBA-ness #2
3 Applicable Maths assignment FTW. =.= 9+20+2 questions. Each with long long long descriptions and a), b), c), d) etc sub-questions. And I've started on.......none. Yay.

IMBA-ness #3
EALD assignment NO.3 was safely delivered with...love and care. Interview and documentary in 3 weeks! And we're not even done with assignment NO.2 yet. Sigh.







Thats all for the IMBA-ness series for this time of the year. More to come next time, definitely.






p.s. No idea what IMBA means? Ask me.

Somethings creeping up the sleeve...

The only reason I've hardly updated, seldom update, and will rarely update, is that I'm feeling the old old olddddd habit (read: gaming) creeping up again.

I don't think its so much until it'll severely affect studies....







...but it'll surely means less blog-o time.

Thats all.











kthxbye~

Defining moment

I'm Eu Vin. And yesterday was (definitely, for sure now) the longest day of my life.

Anyway, To make a reeeeaaaaallllllly long story short,




8.30am - 4.45pm : Final day of hospital attachment in HSA
4.45pm - 5.30pm : Commuting
5.45pm - 10.00pm : Sunway College JB Freshie's Nite






1) I'm dead tired. Period.
2) You don't know how immensely relieved I am.
3) Freshie's Nite was a blast! Even though it ended on a bit of an anti-climatic note.
4) Now comes JPA interview, a battle I'm doomed to perish in. zzzz.
5) My stress level is building. Below is a checklist to de-stress stress level. ( more will be added into the equation, of that there is no doubt)


a) Finish EALD "thesis"
b) Study Chemistry and Biology for their respective tests.
c) Complete hospital attachment
d) Make Freshie's Nite a blast
e) Get through JPA interview without looking like a dumbass, at the very least.
f) Catch up on every damn thing I missed during my 1 week absence from college. (yes, missing for one day hurts, but missing for one week is excruciating!)
g) find out what the heck "Moral" education is about. (since I was absent the recent week, remember?)








Useless trivia: March is about to end.

Sprinkles of pepper

Applicable Mathematics test ended. Anxiety in its purest form up to the very last second (and beyond, considering we all...ahem..exceeded the given time of 2 hours)

And I feel like I've just handed in a piece of crap, considering the mess made as a last ditch attempt to rectify any sort of potential dumbass silly errors. Just need 60 marks out of 120 to pass and stay in.

Or should I aim higher?

********************************************************

March intake peeps in SYCJB are in! As I predicted, more opted for A-levels than the other courses (or so it seemed, from my beautiful view at the AUSMAT counter, ideally situated next to the A-levels counter). Can't say I blame them. It gives them ample time to catch up with the syllabus and be settled before AS and AL comes about.

Didn't really check out the other courses, but it seemed healthy enough.

And Freshie's Nite tickets have (finally) sold like hot cakes! For the first time in a very bleak 1 1/2 months. You really gotta hand it to the March-y (I made that one up) people for their zest to live college life to the fullest, unlike some people...ahem.







Ah, yes, and for the AUSMAT March-y people.....honestly, I pity you guys. I pray your sanity won't be compromised.

*They MAY survive, although the probability of that would be less than 0.5, as mentioned by the Applicable Maths lecturer.
**Not to further intimidate those doing AUSMAT, but you know well not to doubt a Maths teacher when it comes to probability
***Still, how often do we listen to teachers anyway?

The day the earth will stand Still

In less than 16 hours from now;


Fates will be decided

History will be made

Joy will be dampened with sadness

Dreams may be realised

Dreams may be crushed

Destiny awaits








The earth shall stand eerily still, for the moments after the revealing.




















*CUT*

Too cheesy.





To fellow 08' SPAM SPM-ers, hope your colours fly vibrantly across the (hopefully) blue blue sky.~~

And do remember that theres more to life than just an examination result slip.

Cheerio. Share your good news yeah.

Pause.||

Like those famous words of Jack Bauer we've all come to love and find it so bloody overused

Today, was the longest day of my life.

1) Wake up at 6.30. Sobered up. Grabbed a light meal.
2) Rushed through the final stages of Biology research project, on environmental factors with mutagenic properties, from 7.30-10. No small act, that.
3) Just as I was about to print the stuff needed, my dad's printer gave up on me with those lovely words

Your ink may have run out. Please replace the ink cartridge.

&$#@

4) Packed up and rushed to college, crucial encrypted data in hand.
5) Once there, quickly bought credits to print (yes, to use the printing services in the computer lab, we gotta buy prepaid credits too. Sounds familiar?)
6) Saw the petite lady in charge of surveying the computer labs, and asked her to print out the supposedly crucial data and also a section of maths assignment. Deducted bout RM2 from my credits. heh.
7) Photocopied the particular section of maths assignment for fellow peeps.
8) Rushed through the maths assignment, or whatever was left of it, during....maths.
9) Completed maths assignment just as maths class was about to end.
10) Had lunch, and then proceeded to Biology class, where the encrypted data was handed in, and followed by regular lessons
11) Helped in arranging stuff for camp. And got a bit of shredding due to errors in the arrangment. So I re-arranged it. bleh.
12) Stayed back till 7pm for "aerobic exercise" practice. (more like dance routines, actually)
13) Back home. zzz.






Its not yet 24 hours. But its already THE longest day of my life. sigh.




But thank goodness for AUSMAT break next week, even though theres a trailer load full of things to do. A momentary pause for a continuous sprint. Will update more on this sapping long distance run, in the days/weeks/months to come.

Days are hard to live
And nights are hard to keep;
All I want is to close my eyes
But I just can’t seem to sleep.

Hypertension

I won't hide it from you guys. Not that its something you're gonna be keen to know anyway.

Life Australian Matriculation gets harder as the days go by. I get assignments/homework/duties thrown at me like confetti, when one gets settled, another 2 more gets fired right at me. Like a geometric progression, you know?

No real serious blogging till who knows when. My workload is as such:
- Homework (duh, its the bread and butter of every worn out student)
- Experiments + lab reports (being a triple science students mean triple the pain)
- Assignments...I'll name some major ones:
~ Debate (has since been settled, but some post-debate stuff to finish up)
~ Biology presentation (Environmental factors with mutagenic properties)
~ Maths assignment (to date...theres 3 sets of it)

-Topic tests every now and then to study for.
-Extra-curricular commitments
-Preparation for Freshie's Nite
-Facilitating a camp later this week
-"Working" on Open day (lasting 2 days) end of next week.

...and more to come.




To some of you, enjoy your freedom while it lasts peeps. And think carefully what you're getting yourself into.



For instance, don't think Australian Year 12 programmes are as easy as it looks. You'll regret thinking that way.
Cheerio.

Liberation

Finally. Manual labour has been officially ABOLISHED.



For me and some others, anyway =)









P.S. No idea what I'm talking about? Ask me. I MAY oblige.

That time of the year again.

Where food, joy and laughter are the languages of the family.

(especially the food. and some wine for good measure =D)

Hmm. But this time round, it seems just a tad bit more pale. If only because I have more homework and assignments than usual.

Or maybe my ties to traditionalistic chinese roots is weakening, knowing I'm not as bonded (or at all) to "traditional" beliefs and what not, compared to most of my brethren. A modernist through and through, as I've always been.







Or perhaps, I'm yearning for more firecrackers weeee it just doesn't feel so critical at this stage of life. But in future, such reunions will be a thing to cherish and endear. Of that, I'm pretty certain.

Your feet so firm on the pavement,
your eyes so clear for what is fallen --
can you climb into the air,

& leap like a kite unstrung?

New beginnings

At 9.00 am tomorrow, I'll begin what would be my 1st foray into college life. Sunway College, in JB. Not exactly the most glamorous, or the most established in the eyes of the general public. But yeah, it IS in JB. Within 20 minutes driving distance (barring jams, and what not). Australian Matriculation it is. 50% internal and 50% external assessment respectively, meaning it takes a load off the end-year exam pressure. Starting with orientation tomorrow.

Hope it works out in the year.

Or it'll be RM 16k-odd (not potentially including scholarships) down the drain...