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Heys!

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:44:43 GMT

Yea, so I havent updated my blog in like a long long...super long time. But I've been very busy with school life here. Haha. I had my SPA test today. SPA test is like a practical exam for science subjecst and they comprise of 20 marks out of you o'lvls marks. *mumbles mumbles mumbles mumbles*

Anyway, whats up with the petrol strikes in Malaysia man? I read from Andrew's blog about something like the petrol stations would be close for a couple of days. LOL. I mean, how would buses and trucks all that refill? Especially for those buses that make long journeys between the various kampungs. Hmmm... its kinda dumb la anyway.

Hehe. Sorry for this like really stupid post, but I'm like trying out something, and it so happens that I'm trying it out on my blog first. XP.

COMPUTER!!!

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:36:02 GMT

Oh man. GUYS!! GIRLs!!....my computer is HERE!!!!!! Hehe. This is seriously like great great news for me. Really really really. Its like now I can like have my entertainment system up...I can use it as a dictionary....and my text books are also in the computer in digital form....store my music and movies here. Its and all in one solution :)

Well.....It isnt the best computer in the world...simply because it runs WINDOWS. Im so not trying to be biase here....but really...after using my Imac for such a long time I just got so frustrated at the lousiness and messiness and unstability and complexity of windows Xp. Yea....it doesnt run Vista because even the school thinks Vista sucks. So anyway....I just started up my comp for the first time....setting up the settings in my computer when it hanged on me. The same thing happened to all other ppl wh bought the computer.....I was like so so so ....amazed. Xp. And ......the vendor of my computer is Toshiba. And they installed so many crappy programs into my computer that I WOULD NEVER ever use....but im scared to delete ie...so i just move those useless program into a folder.

Anyways...I have to buy new earphones. Im like using my roomates one for the time being....hee...but I so hate to be a freeloader....and I also dont feel good to keep using itl. Cos he is like seriously nice to me...so I dont want to like step all over him. Xp

Singapore is like seriously seriously getting fun. I now hardly go out at all except on saturdays...which is like always fun. Other than that I dont go out to school unless I walk to the Dover Market or Fairprice to buy stuff. Just now I went out with Darly and Pawin (he's a thai guy) to Dover market to eat lunch. And we...being on budget was just going to eat chicken rice....which is about 2 sing...but 4.30 back in malaysia. Ouch. Then I like saw this group of girls forom Fairfield something something high,,,This school is like just nearby and co-ed...as in boys and girls. So they were like giggling and looking at me. Then I like heard my name. I was like really shocked...because I dint recognize any of them...but they somehow know my name. So I was like loooking at them trying to recall where I met them...but I couldnt ...so I just walked on while they walked another direction. Hmmm...guess I met some of them in Church or Youth or my friends introduced or something but cant remember.

Im going back to kk in like 3 weeks time. IM SO SO excited. SERIOUSLy.....hehe. I got so much i wanna do back home. hehe. some really special stuff.

Hehe...oh well. im off to go and download programs and music videos to fill up my comp. And this is like one really cool music video

Anyways. Next times....

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Wed, 13 Feb 2008 06:41:34 GMT

Anyways .....

I really cant wait for my computer. I just really really cant...once I have it I can set up my entertainment system :). One of the hall tutors here is gonna give me his old subwoofer...so I just need to buy a mouse and ear phones and Im good. Oh....maybe an external hard drive too.

School here is kinda tough. Im serious. Im like studying a lot now... Really really a lot. But at the same time I try to sleep a lot too. Like after Im done in the library here...Ill go back and sleep.

Hehe. Oh yea, About my chinese new year collections. I got about 203 dollars without counting in Ang Pao from parents and relatives. Pretty good :). Some of my classmates....especially the really rich ones get about 1000 dollars ang pao from their parents. Hmm. Talk about extravagance.

Anyways. My brother Daniel is like going to KL to study medicine at one of those Australian based Malaysian Uni or something like that this Friday. I just wanted to say that i'll miss you and that you reall have impacted me in many ways and I still look up to you and respect you. :)

Time here really flies. Im going back to Malaysia in like about 3-4 weeks...if im not mistaken that is. Weeee.... It's been really fun here...but I just can't wait to get back too. Especially to my family...friends....and my COMPUTER. Man...I really used to take my computer for granted. Now its like i have to use this crappy machines in school. Hmph. Just wait till I get my laptop.

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Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:50:42 GMT

GUYS!!...and..um... GIRLS!!!

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!!.

Well well...I hope you guys all had a great day today..cos I did :). And the rest of the holiday is gonna get funner and funner :)...for me of course.

Actually I just want to thank God for all he has brought me through. Looking back on all the choices I made and things that I want....they sort of like worked out beautifully and it just seems like part of Gods bigger plan. One of the things that worried me the most before I came here that my circle of friends was gonna get like really small and just be limited to the school. Well..I met up with this Dude called Joshua Simon on like my second day in Singapore at Church. The way we met was really really random...but I really thanked God that it happened. Cos throught him I met lotsa new friends from other schools (mostly the Polly's...cos he is like 17 and studying film at Ngee Ann Polly) and am going to a great youth. A bit like the one back at Skyline :)...So Im really right at home with their wildness. Xp.

Ok...about the randomness of how we met. Me and my older bro went to covenant evangalical church on like Sun morning. My dad wanted me to like try out the church cos I was looking for a great church to grow into. Anyway...I dint really feel like coming to this church cos to travel to it from my school was a bit of a hassle (take a bus..take an MRT..take an LRT..then walk for 1 km). So when we went there it was like really packed...so we just like stood right at the back of the church and sat down. Then after like 20 mins this dude just walked over to us and our friendship just like sorta hit off. A few weeks after that...Joshua just suddenly said that on the Sunday he met me...he actually dint feel like going to church at all. But his alarm somehow just dint let up..and he got up to go to church. Then he saw us standing at the back of the church and just like sorta inched his way over to us cos he wanted to invite me for youth.

Guys..............You see. God works in mysterious ways and though you might not understand it at first..just have faith and all would come through. I've learn it this way a couple of times already. The other time I was hurt so really badly by something....and it really took me a long time to come to gripes with it an just accept it. Then one day I suddenly found out that things werent actually how it was...and at first I was angry with all the pain that I had to put up with for nothing. Then after that a few more things happened...and it dint affect me like in the way it would have last time. This time in fact the feeling was a bit more like ...hmmm.. indifferent....and that you dint mind whatever happened cos it could not be worse than you have endured.

So now that I have my friends issue settled..I so have to focus on studies. But now its like I feel so much more happier...knowing that whenever I need to chill out.. my friends would be there for me or something.

Oh yea...its like 12:30 now...and Im in one of my Singapore friends house. Nice house he got here...big and comfy :). At first I thought my CNY hols would be like really boring...but then my classmates like started inviting me to their house to stay over. So from like boringness to like 4 invitations....so I had to pick one. Tough choice guys.....tough choice. Xp. But a good problem see.

-----Coming to Singapore really has made me realized the many things that I used to take for granted back home in KK. I had a loving family...a really great group of friends... good church....good school...and overall a happy, fruitful and great life. Coming here it was like I had to build it all up again. Make new friends....get a new church and everything. I sometimes like just feel regret that I dint spend more time with my friends and just treasured them more. Its like last year I recieved 5 presents from my birthday.....all of it came from girls. Not a single thing did any guy get me. My family dint even get me anything :(. Then I started thinking about this year...what would I get for my birthday....how many of my friends here would bother with the time and effort just to get me something..like my friends back in KK did.

One more thing. I really really miss my little sister now. I just wanna shout baby at her and have her come running after me to beat me up. Xp. Hey baby!! What did you call me? Mom, Yeeko called me a baby. So ur a big girl now eh...why dont you do it urself? Cos im still young:( So ur not a big girl but not a baby....hmmm...well..ur a big baby then. Xp

Oh yea. Since im a bit hight tonight (I dunno why. XPXPXPXP..) might as well continue. News spreads fast. They really do. Its like Andrew....and I mean ANDREW IN AUSTRALIA knows some stuff that not really a lot of people know. And its not just Andrew that knows..it was his sister that told HIM??? And when a guys older sister knows something that my friend doesnt even know about me. Somthings wrong. XP. But oh well...im not complaining. Its life :)

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Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:38:18 GMT

Anyway....so now my titles are all continuous numbers. Something I learn from Thomas by the way.......but I think my implementation of it is better. Xp. As it goes....simple is style.

So......................Yea. Im still waiting for my Laptop to come. Which by the way is the Portege MX 700 thing with 2 gb ram and ....actually its quite high end la. Except the video card. So I really cant wait to get it as then I can make my schedule a bit more interesting and everything.

About schedules. My schedule is more or less the same everyday....cept for the weekends where it is much more fun and relaxed. So...I usually wake up at 6:50. Then I go down for break fast at 7:05.....school starts at 7:25. So Im like in school until 2:45. We have one 40 minutes break everyday in school. Once school ends I usually eat my lunch then rush to the library to use the computers there. Then we have dinner at 6:30....then PREP at 7:30. PREP is usually just time that we are forced to study la. After PREP its supper...then lights out. Its more or less the same every single day. So and anytime I have free time I usually sleep as its quite straining in school. On weekends...I usually go out the whole day la....or stay back the whole day and study and sleep.

Anyway...I dunno what to blog to nowadays...cos I cant remember what I said in my last post so it sorta makes it like no contuniuty or anything. Heck. I dont care la.

Oh yea. Music. The first few days here I only had like 6 Songs in my handphone....which I played like over a thousand times. Luckily I bought my 1gb memory card and now I have a lot of new songs. Some really nice and mirrors what I feel and think and everything, And now with my handphone that has a camera...I find myself taking so many photoes. XP. Its memories that I want guys. Memories. The single most thing that has the most value once something is done.

Anyway...coming her really opens ur eyes to many other things. Like now I have like korean, Thai, vietnamese, Indonesians and Indian friends...Alll of them really friendly ...and being with friends from different races you have to like expect different things to happen.

My first few days here I was really really homesick. As in seriously. My subject combination had not been decided yet ...so my class was not fixed...and I spent my first few days changing classes here and there. Its kinda embarassing la....but once I found my class and started making friends. Things started to get pretty good.

Anyway anyway...coming here does have its affects on me. Everybody swears here. Everybody. And some of them are like really gay kind....whose behaviour so wont be accpected in a co-ed school. So coming here I find myself speaking more and more like them la......so its like I have to be careful to see what changes I let happen to myself.

All in all...I think coming here was quite a good idea.I remember last time I learn something in Youth...A man can plan out his life...but God is the one that directs his steps. So to me...what ever it is...I dont have to plan. Xp.

Haha. Neways. Ciao.

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Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:51:08 GMT

+6582251395

EDIT: Note the +65..thats the country code for Singapore by the way.

That my friends...(speaking to andrew) is my Singapore handphone number.

Finally...I managed to access xanga....by skill. Xp. They actually blocked it.

So many things to tell and pictures to share....but hey...that has to wait.

Anyway....Schools getting off quite well. School work is tough....made many many new friends.... found out some cool places to hang out....and found a church which seems interesting :)

Actually I had really a lot of stuff to blog about which I promised myself I would blog about once I could access xanga...but it seems now like I have nothing to write about.

School here is different in so many ways more ways than one. Last time back in STTSS...its very important to have a good seat...and in good seat I mean near girls that are fun. Xp. Oh...my seat was pretty good for the whole of last year. Xp. Here....seating doesnt really matter much. Oh...and here classes here doesnt really feel like classes.....rather like an extension of recess where theres a teacher talking. LOL. Thats the kind of atmosphere we have in our class. And the Singaporeans here are really good at talking back to the teachers. Really really good. The excuses and arguements they come up with are like so extreme you just have to laugh. Anyway...Im really lucky that Im a Chinese Malaysian Scholar. Being a foreigner...I mix easily with the foreigners. Being a chinese I mix easily with the majority of Singaporeans...and being a scholar....hehe...thats something. XP. Actually it isnt la....the people here are all really smart.

Oops. Library is closing. I have to run.

One more thing.

Life is a present to be enjoyed....not a problem to be solved.

So treasure life and have fun on the way.

Singapore

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 04:08:01 GMT

Hey Hey Hey.

First of all..I just want to thank all those who saw me off at the airport...and those frieds that kidnapped me and dump me in the pool.Hehe. You guys are just seriously the best and the coolest :)

And for those of you that dont know what happened..a short summary is that Andrew, Melvyn, Jonathan, Debbie, Hero aka Darian, Bernard, Nigel, My younger and oldest brother came into my room while i was haf asleep...blindfolded an tied my arms and legs together and drove to Bay Shore and dumped me into the ppol. After that while dripping wet and still i my houseclothes we went to McD to eat. Worst of all...they taped the whole thing down on tape.

2 Lessons learned. Wear houseclothes that arent too old or have to may holes. The other is..with frieds like you guys...who needs enemies??

Singapore is actually quite a cool place.Serious. Orchard road is like a so much better place to hang out than centre point or aything.Things here are also pretty reasonable if you dont convert them back into Malaysian Ringit....which automaticaly makes things expensive.

Anyway..life here is quite cool too. My room mates are reall friendly...one of them even lets me borow his laptop...which is actually a really cool thing. The school is really really big...STTSS looks like some smal bugger compared to it.

Oh...and i have a new hand phone now. Its the K550I...I really like the phone..Hehe. Maybe its because it is so so much better than my old one...which doesnt even have a color screen.

Guys...Im a bit rushing here...cos Im at my aunts place and Im suposed to go meet up with some frens later.

Ciao. Happy new year.

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Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:15:14 GMT

This picture is like so funny to me. Im scared of dogs.....the big and scary and barking and chasing kind. My frens know that...Im like so frequently teased of that. Anyway...I thought I could relate pretty well to the dog that was being snapped at here. Hehe. If the dog could think....the main word be "SHIT!!"

Anyway. I think I have become pretty sentimental ady. I guess Im leaving soon already...so this is expected.

Im like so busy this few days. Really....I have planned like so many things...It's like im going out once everyday. That plus my preparations for Singapore..Hectic. Thats one word to call it.

Sigh. Im still waiting for a new phone. This is one thing about my parents...if they say u can buy something...you have to really bug them to eventually buy it. The time they give permission to buy it until the time when u actually get it has like a big gap there. Guess they are just too busy to buy it.

The phone I want has to like fill a few requirements. Namely...A camera better than shitty VGA...and a memory stick slot. Bluetooth would also be a nice addition. The camera and memory stick is so that I can take pictures easily. It's like I can take...keep...and carry my memories around with me. That to me is dam cool (Oops, more of my sentimentalism here). I would have picture with me and my frens all in my handphone. That is like so cool man...I can like just look at the pictures to remind me of my frens and what not.

Ok...moving on.

Songs. Music. Noise. = awesomeness.

Trust Company: Stronger. Havent heard them in a long time ady. I dun really understand the lyrics...but hey..I like the spirit in the song. Xp.

Brooke Fraser: Hosanna. This is like one of the worship songs that I like alot. As in really really like it.

OK....Moving on once more.

I think I really have to get my priorities straight once more. By going away to Singapore, I have to once again realign my focus and make new priorities. This is like super the important for me so I wont be hurt and spend to much time on stuff that arent important to me. One of these days I gotta really sit down and think through my life....what I want to accomplish and set some goals for me. Hehe...so at least I can start getting busy.

And on other news...I have to start dreaming again. Xp. Last time I use to dream alot....as in A LOT. I like plan my life in my dreams. Like last time when I was in primary school...I always used to dream that I would get a scholarship and how life would be in STTSS. And TADA - it happened. Then I dreamnt that I would get a scholarship To singapore...and I got it too. But thats where my dreams ended...I guess I got to start to see what I really want to happen.

Anyway...LOL. I cant believe that Joanna Hiew actually created a xanga account just to comment on my last blog post. Haha. Im still like shocked. Xp. And talking about that.....Im like starting to see my friends in a new light. Some ppl I consider frens have like back-stabbed me so badly that I actually dislike them. Then again there are always times when my frens stick up for me....even when other ppl are like blasting me while im not around. Kudos to you.

And of course. Andrew...UR COMING BACK. Hehe.

16 days.

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:12:21 GMT

16 days left. It just like suddenly hit me at how little time I had left. I was sitting down planning what I wanted to achieve in my hols and planning my study time - I know its late, but hey...I work fast :).....So i was looking at the calendar and Woah. 16 days left. Sigh....the number of days just like jumped out at me. Sheessh.

Well...to tell the truth. I'm quite excited. If I look past at everything..I mean EVERYTHING im leaving behind...It's like I get a chance to like live again. There...everything would be like brand new. Everything I ever thought the world was like would prolly be different in singapore.

The good thing I can think about going to singapore would be
1.Learn to be independant.
2.I get a new Laptop :)
3.I get a new phone
4.New friends
5.New enviroment
6.New school

Anyway...lets talk about my year.

I think I said it before...but i really cannot stress how fun this year has been adequately. It really really has been the best year out of all my school year so far. I thought that this year would be really busy studying and everything for my PMR...I wouldnt have time for fun and so forth. Boy, was I wrong.

In the beginning of the year....I was usually hanging out with the same group of school friends. If we went out for movies or something...I could usually guess who else would be coming with us. So it was really fun la. Since we like a group of frens..being just frens..we could usually do anything without needing to worry about the consequences.

Then in the middle of the year.. some of the girls were starting to like having problems with each other. So our group was like split into different factions. And its at this point in time that I learnt that you can't please everybody.....Just please the ones that mean most. Anyway..it was quite an interesting experience....since like they would complain to me about how the other person made new frens...while the other person would say how her frens forgot about her. Then after hearing all their complaints about each other and then seeing them trying to be friendly with each other in class is something u guys should at least experience once. :)

Near the end of the year...I was totally busy studying for PMR. Totally. Its like I remember a few weeks in a row I stayed up to 12...1...2...like that just studying. And studying. The handphone was my only companion in those lonely times. I could like have somebody accompanying me throught he whole "ordeal" as some say it. It was constantly a struggle to study more than sms...but hey. In life is all about beating the temptations and challanges. Xp. So anyway...after my PMR..i was so relieved. I had done what was expected off me...to the end. Anyway..when I recieved my Letter with the Offer Of Scholarship from Singapore during the second last day of PMR...my first thoughts were "This is great stuff. If I do badly for PMR..im exempted." and "All the stuff like Sej and Geo and Malay I studied for 3 years - useless"...and then the realization "My life.My frens.My family. - what am I to do"...and then the decision "I'm taking it up. Its the thing I always wanted. And it would be much better for my future."

Hehe.

Anyway...Lets talk about the UEC exams. This exam could be said as the most fun exam of my life :). Im so the serious. First of all...I had been planning to study only for PMR the whole year. This was because I knew that I needed much more time and skill to sit for UEC without being disappointed. So I made the choice to let it go. Secondly was my letter of Offer...I guess I still was pretty excited that I got it. Thirdly...Cos it was special. To me. And Only a few know why. :)

This year, I studied hard, played hard. Made lots of new friends, lost some. Experienced lots of new emotions, some bad. Learnt a lot of new things, some useless.Tried out a lot of new stuff, some with painful consequences.

Philipine Trip

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:43:39 GMT

Anyway?Now im gonna talk about my not-so-recent Philipines trip.

I can really remember the exact details?.but hey, at least im trying. So here goes.

My flight there was right after the last paper of my UEC examinations?Me and my dad was flying there to meet up with my mom, 2 brothers and the younger sis who had went there a couple of days earlier.

We stayed at this hotel cant really remember the nameut it was in a good location because it was just a couple of minutes walk from a megamall named Robinsons or somethingant quite remember.

Oh waite landed at an airport in Clarkhen we took a bus ride down to Manilland the journey which should have only taken 2-3 hours?took 4-5 hourso thanks to the jam. And ohman?the way the drivers driver theret can really make you jump out of your skin. You can literarily touch the cars as they go by.

So anyway?the whole trip was basicly a long shipping trip. I spent about only 3 days 2 nights therend most of the time spent there was in shopping malls. The main activites we did were hoppingrying out the foodsleeping..and watching tv. That really all we did there.

Oh..I also visited the biggest mall in south east asiats called the Mall of Asia or something like tat.

Hmmhey also had all this kind of security guards that like checked everything that u bring into the malls guess its because of a recent bomb that went of in one the major shopping complexes.

Oh..when ur shopping..U usually see really big numbers like 300 plus pesos for a shirt or something like that. So everything there seems expensive until u convert them to RMhere they seem more reasonable.

Soo cap it up. The trip was hmmmun, a new experience (trust me..shopping for a whole day is bad for health)?fun..bonding?Yea, that kinda thing. So I guess I have to learn to be gratefull.

This computer is the exact same one im using now