Woohoo. Another round up. Nah this year its nothing special, quite flat. But somehow I'm really excited to write this post. Well just for an introduction. I'm not just going to round up the year, but i'm going to have a post to round up the 4 years journey to pursue my bachelor degree in Germany. I guess the main adrenaline source is the fact that i'm finally done. I actually read the last years, and i remember i really wrote it with a jiwang heart. This year i'll write it in a neutral heart. Also, I think I'll write this post first as I have christmas post, which I'm still waiting for pics from a friend. So here it goes...
January
I've started my internship. Was really a noob there. Asking questions until probably they feel like kicking me out di. Get exposed to DOTA because of Oliver, Nikki and Adrian during Christmas 2007. Abit addicted la, but at least I don't talk DOTA when I'm not playing it.
February
The fourth CNY I missed. However it was not that bad since we had a dinner in a chinese restaurant and I went for a CNY party organized by the Uni. Was quite boring actually as I remember the highlights was they called a bunch of GUAI LOU to perform wushu. The fun part was that there was live music and pretty cool music. Had my first expensive haircut in a salon. Cost me 18EURO but he did it quite professionally. Great hair cut. Valentines was emotional as usual, but I manage to get it through with minimal pain compare to the past years. And first time i wore Phua Choo Kang's yellow boots and helmet lolx.
March
Kelsen came over to Germany. We gayed alot in the room and we went Cologne to have some nice pork knuckles and night scene pics. Didn't know Kel was so talented in photography. Sadly, one of the days where he was here, we received a really bad news where we learned that our friend Samantha passed away in a tragic accident. I had some exams to do i remember so we cannot travel far, but good thing is that despite his visit, I still manage to score well in those 3 papers. Thanks to the determination in the library.
April
Starting my second task in the Institute. My birthday but was flat. Nothing much. A buffet lunch celebration. But I'm thankful enough to have friends who celebrated and wished me. Next year probably I'm gonna have a poolside party. Still planning. Oh yeah I shaved my hair lolx. Kelsen's farewell home. Though I wasn't able to sent him off, but we did have a long chat before he left Finland.
May
Spent quite alot of time writing blog and making funny post/pics. Internship was finally over. But immediately start with project work. Was quite into cooking at that time. Made some good foods. Watch Man Utd won double. Got some health problems, but later found out that it wasn't anything serious.
June
After so long, I finally get to play some basketball. Start watching Euro 2008 like mad. Went to Bon Odori(maybe not la but its some Jap fair) with Nikki and Eriko. Those two fellas were like cats and dogs and its really funny listening to them arguing in German.
July
The month of Electronics failure. First my keyboard. Then my laptop TFT screen. Then speakers. Other side of it, My bro finally graduated. Sent Edwin off. Though we only have 1 month ++ to hang out, but finally get to play basketball. Somehow basketball is the sport I'm always interested in.
August
Emotional. Fully emotional month. But anyhow still get to enjoy some of the moments. Bought a new PMP with a super cool earphones. Best earphones ever invested. Lots of olympics. Watch it day and night. Made loh mai kai. Was really cool. Tharsis's birthday celebration. Officially start my Thesis and counting days.
September
Ultra Emotional month lolx. But slowly adapting to it. slowly letting it go. Just started the Thesis so was busy reading on stuff. Flooded with problems but solve it one by one. The last month I stayed in Kammerstrasse. Really nostalgic.
October
Living a nomad life. But its turning point. I mean since I don't have my room, I actually went out more and meet up people more. Have more time to hang out outside. Can't remember exactly what I've done, but I remember it was outing after outing. Was quite busy with my thesis too and struggle it with at some point. But I manage to handle it well.
November
Had my haircuit which looks like william soo. Again lots of gatherings, parties, badminton every week. Went shopping and got a wallet. Was tempted by the Zara blazer, but in the end didn't get it.
December
Final stage of my thesis. Pretty stressed-up but manage to get it through finally. Had my first serious presentation which turns out to be relatively good. Went to Kajin's place for baking party, made my first ever cookies in my life, but failed however. Hang out in Christmas Market in Duisburg, Essen, and Bochum with Jia-Uei, Tharsis, Adrian, Jason, and many others. Played badminton every weekend and even played badminton when it was -2degrees lolx. Had a great christmas eve and christmas(which i'll update it later) and also a good new year's eve.
Overall,
Positive :
1.)Completing my Internship,Project,Thesis and finally finish my studies
2.)Guitar and Cooking skills improve even more
3.)playing PES ALOT!(get to play in Barcelona FC yeah!!!)
4.)Meet many new friends like Edwin, Ricky, Kajin, Quan Wei, Soon Wei and many more...
5.)Meet up with Kelsen again in Germany.
6.)Meet up with Nikki and Eriko in Duesseldorf, Oli came down to visit me!
7.)Had my first hair cut in a salon in Germany
8.)Did alot of sports this year
9.)Spend even more money!!!
10.)Wonderful Christmas and New Year
Negative :
1.)Still very emo sometimes
2.)Still couldn't control my temper, poor anger management
3.)Lost some friends
4.)Rush things too much, screwed up some good stuff
5.)Lost my room lolx...
6.)Waste alot of time doing stupid things
7.)still as "squarish" as I am
Happy 2009!!!!
Man, I'm really in debts in terms of blog post. I mean, I had alot of things to update and I've told some of them that I would update but everytime I'm just lazy or finding excuse not to do so. Its year end and I'm suppose to do a annual round up of the year just like in the past. In addition to that this year I would do a 4 years round up in Duisburg, Germany. Oh by the way, I proudly announce that I've unofficially finished my studies. Unofficial because I still have to wait for my marks to be sent to the examination commitee and then wait for my certificates.
Ok I'll at least do a short update here. I've been seriously enjoying my last days in Germany. But first let me talk about the serious stuff first -- The presentation and Thesis. After 4 months of hard work, it's finally done. It's finally handed in to the Uni. It's finally there. The slack shirt and pants I bought for just for the presentation paid off. I didn't wear the coat but I wore my blue blazer, which made me look 70% formal and 30% casual. The presentation started early as everyone was there already, though there're people who are late. Normally in our Uni for bachelor thesis, only the people from that department will attend plus 1 or 2 professors. In my case, there were 3 Prof, 4 Dr Eng, and about 20 others. Ok there're not here just for my thesis, they have event after that. But it made me felt very tense as I've never seen so many high ranked people in a bachelor thesis presentation before. Anyway, I still did what i'm suppose to do, I was abit nervous in the beginning, but after a while I was fine. The speech went well, and the question session went well but there's one Prof who's not involve in my thesis, asked blardy deep questions, as if I'm a PhD student. But the good thing is that my supervisor spotted the difficulty of that questions and answered for me. Other than that, I tackled every other question well. I'm not sure bout the Professors, but for the colleagues in my department, they were satisfied and they praise my good presentation, including the boss. Ok he mentioned there're parts where i could have done better but in overall it was good.
After the presentation on wednesday, I was like suddenly lost of goal in life di lolx. I mean i had this feeling that i'm suddenly free from everything. On thursday n friday i was like just sleeping and playing PES at home. Good thing is that on Wednesday itself I went Bochum to visit Tharsis and he treat me a "nice" spanish meal and starbucks. Saturday I went Essen for shopping(window) and the famous annual christmas market. After that a tiring badminton session. Today I had an outing with friends in a cozy coffee bar and then a walk in Duisburg's christmas market. For Christmas this year, I will have a small Racklett party(some sort of BBQ cheese thingy) and a Siedler(a type of boardgame) session. I mean in this 4 years, I never had a good Christmas celebration except for 2005 where I was in Ireland. Throughout this 2 weeks holiday I had some plans already. I mean, I've been really enjoying my life in this few months comparing to the whole 4 years. Honestly, if its not my parents and CNY and meeting friends, I would start to think this place is more suitable for me. Yes I do admit I've been dying to come home and complaining bout it all the time. I guess all I can say is that the money factor is bothering me. I don't want to waste anymore of my parents money so lets do it quick and finish it. Of course some people ask me to try to get a job here, but I didn't take it seriously because right now my primary plan is to do masters. Depending on where my masters is, I might then consider working here if I'm studying masters in Germany. Yes I still face the language and culture barrier, but this I felt is the least problem of all.
Anywayz, nobody knows what will the future be. So let it be......
Ok I'll at least do a short update here. I've been seriously enjoying my last days in Germany. But first let me talk about the serious stuff first -- The presentation and Thesis. After 4 months of hard work, it's finally done. It's finally handed in to the Uni. It's finally there. The slack shirt and pants I bought for just for the presentation paid off. I didn't wear the coat but I wore my blue blazer, which made me look 70% formal and 30% casual. The presentation started early as everyone was there already, though there're people who are late. Normally in our Uni for bachelor thesis, only the people from that department will attend plus 1 or 2 professors. In my case, there were 3 Prof, 4 Dr Eng, and about 20 others. Ok there're not here just for my thesis, they have event after that. But it made me felt very tense as I've never seen so many high ranked people in a bachelor thesis presentation before. Anyway, I still did what i'm suppose to do, I was abit nervous in the beginning, but after a while I was fine. The speech went well, and the question session went well but there's one Prof who's not involve in my thesis, asked blardy deep questions, as if I'm a PhD student. But the good thing is that my supervisor spotted the difficulty of that questions and answered for me. Other than that, I tackled every other question well. I'm not sure bout the Professors, but for the colleagues in my department, they were satisfied and they praise my good presentation, including the boss. Ok he mentioned there're parts where i could have done better but in overall it was good.
After the presentation on wednesday, I was like suddenly lost of goal in life di lolx. I mean i had this feeling that i'm suddenly free from everything. On thursday n friday i was like just sleeping and playing PES at home. Good thing is that on Wednesday itself I went Bochum to visit Tharsis and he treat me a "nice" spanish meal and starbucks. Saturday I went Essen for shopping(window) and the famous annual christmas market. After that a tiring badminton session. Today I had an outing with friends in a cozy coffee bar and then a walk in Duisburg's christmas market. For Christmas this year, I will have a small Racklett party(some sort of BBQ cheese thingy) and a Siedler(a type of boardgame) session. I mean in this 4 years, I never had a good Christmas celebration except for 2005 where I was in Ireland. Throughout this 2 weeks holiday I had some plans already. I mean, I've been really enjoying my life in this few months comparing to the whole 4 years. Honestly, if its not my parents and CNY and meeting friends, I would start to think this place is more suitable for me. Yes I do admit I've been dying to come home and complaining bout it all the time. I guess all I can say is that the money factor is bothering me. I don't want to waste anymore of my parents money so lets do it quick and finish it. Of course some people ask me to try to get a job here, but I didn't take it seriously because right now my primary plan is to do masters. Depending on where my masters is, I might then consider working here if I'm studying masters in Germany. Yes I still face the language and culture barrier, but this I felt is the least problem of all.
Anywayz, nobody knows what will the future be. So let it be......
Man, its too long I didn't update that I don't know where to start. But I'll make sure I'll include all the important agenda from the last update till now. I don't even know where I end last time and I'm lazy to read my own post again.
So, lets start with serious stuff first. So, finally! really Finally!!! I am 2 steps away from graduating. One is to hand up the Thesis document OFFICIALLY to the examination committee, and the other is the presentation. Considering this is my first Real Important presentation, and despite it will only last for 20mins ++, I still splash some money to get a suitable dressing. So, I can forget about LV, Gucci, Armani etc...Then I can forget about Pierre Cardin, Bugatti, Hugo Boss CK, etc etc. But I don't want to go pasar or some cheap shop to get chaplak slack and pants. So, the brand that I went for is ESPRIT. I bought pair of slack pants and shirt for 80EUR. Don't question me is it worth it or not. I'll answer u now. YES. Firstly, considering that the original price are 50Euro for the shirt and 80Euro for the pants, it's definately a good deal. Secondly, most likely I'll be in Masters. Otherwise work. Either one of them, I need to have a proper formal wear. So why not spend now? This is how I MIGHT dress for the presentation. What MIGHT not occur is that I MIGHT not wear the coat, since I obviously can't dress better than the Professor right??
Yes yes, you can't see the shirt and pants. I will take pics of them when I have my tripod ok?? It's damn freaking hard to take it without a help of someone else or tripod. Unless, u just want to see the shirt and pants...not me posing with it. Well, then I'll be damn disappointed lolx.
Wuts next?? Yeah. I've booked my flight back. Sadly I don't want to announce it here. I'll let my close friends know bout it. As you might wonder why am I so low profile this time, well honestly I am not really excited to come back other than being able to celebrate CNY with my family. Anyhow, I will announce when the timing is right.
I would also like to take this opportunity to say thank you to my lovely guitar for accompanying me throughout the 1 1/2 years. Because of the guitar(and also other factor), my skills have improved and I found back my interest in MAKING music which was lost since form 4/5. Oh, it's not dead, just that I sold it to someone else. Well, I have to since its gonna be troublesome to bring home. I hope the new owner will take good care of it.
Wut else? Ahh yeah. The other day, a few of us visited a German's baking fest to welcome the month of christmas. Its a tradition to bake cookies during this month. Of course we(me, Jia Uei, Quan Wei, Adrian) also participated in baking cookies. Well, the outcome wasn't as expected but hey take note that the four of us are engineers and have NO experience in baking! But we did enjoy the process of doing it. The funny part is that we don't even listen to instructions at all. We were told to use hand to mix the ingredients, we used the mixer machine instead. In the end it turns out that we have to use extra flour coz it doesn't stick and consequently affect the texture of the product after baking. The recipe book stated clearly to make it into a dimension of 8x20x3cm, and the best thing is that we actually took a RULER to measure it lolx. The worse thingy is that we actually forgot to put SUGAR in our ingredient lolx!!!!! Imagine cookies without sugar?!!! haha!!!
This is our intended cookies :-
This is where we were told to use hand, but fark it, why do we create the mixer if we don't use it lolx!!
Honestly until this stage we were still full of hopes that we can surprise everyone...still looks good
Before baking. Hmm, still doesn't look that bad despite having too much flour around.
This is after baking. WTF? wut is that??
See what is professionally done??
This is what i called cookies...
Aha....well we do have some remaining mixture, so we decided not to waste it and we made the Jalur Gemilang Cookies.....yeah!!
Well haha...clearly baking cookies is not our thing.
So, lets start with serious stuff first. So, finally! really Finally!!! I am 2 steps away from graduating. One is to hand up the Thesis document OFFICIALLY to the examination committee, and the other is the presentation. Considering this is my first Real Important presentation, and despite it will only last for 20mins ++, I still splash some money to get a suitable dressing. So, I can forget about LV, Gucci, Armani etc...Then I can forget about Pierre Cardin, Bugatti, Hugo Boss CK, etc etc. But I don't want to go pasar or some cheap shop to get chaplak slack and pants. So, the brand that I went for is ESPRIT. I bought pair of slack pants and shirt for 80EUR. Don't question me is it worth it or not. I'll answer u now. YES. Firstly, considering that the original price are 50Euro for the shirt and 80Euro for the pants, it's definately a good deal. Secondly, most likely I'll be in Masters. Otherwise work. Either one of them, I need to have a proper formal wear. So why not spend now? This is how I MIGHT dress for the presentation. What MIGHT not occur is that I MIGHT not wear the coat, since I obviously can't dress better than the Professor right??
Yes yes, you can't see the shirt and pants. I will take pics of them when I have my tripod ok?? It's damn freaking hard to take it without a help of someone else or tripod. Unless, u just want to see the shirt and pants...not me posing with it. Well, then I'll be damn disappointed lolx.
Wuts next?? Yeah. I've booked my flight back. Sadly I don't want to announce it here. I'll let my close friends know bout it. As you might wonder why am I so low profile this time, well honestly I am not really excited to come back other than being able to celebrate CNY with my family. Anyhow, I will announce when the timing is right.
I would also like to take this opportunity to say thank you to my lovely guitar for accompanying me throughout the 1 1/2 years. Because of the guitar(and also other factor), my skills have improved and I found back my interest in MAKING music which was lost since form 4/5. Oh, it's not dead, just that I sold it to someone else. Well, I have to since its gonna be troublesome to bring home. I hope the new owner will take good care of it.
Wut else? Ahh yeah. The other day, a few of us visited a German's baking fest to welcome the month of christmas. Its a tradition to bake cookies during this month. Of course we(me, Jia Uei, Quan Wei, Adrian) also participated in baking cookies. Well, the outcome wasn't as expected but hey take note that the four of us are engineers and have NO experience in baking! But we did enjoy the process of doing it. The funny part is that we don't even listen to instructions at all. We were told to use hand to mix the ingredients, we used the mixer machine instead. In the end it turns out that we have to use extra flour coz it doesn't stick and consequently affect the texture of the product after baking. The recipe book stated clearly to make it into a dimension of 8x20x3cm, and the best thing is that we actually took a RULER to measure it lolx. The worse thingy is that we actually forgot to put SUGAR in our ingredient lolx!!!!! Imagine cookies without sugar?!!! haha!!!
This is our intended cookies :-
This is where we were told to use hand, but fark it, why do we create the mixer if we don't use it lolx!!
Honestly until this stage we were still full of hopes that we can surprise everyone...still looks good
Before baking. Hmm, still doesn't look that bad despite having too much flour around.
This is after baking. WTF? wut is that??
See what is professionally done??
This is what i called cookies...
Aha....well we do have some remaining mixture, so we decided not to waste it and we made the Jalur Gemilang Cookies.....yeah!!
Well haha...clearly baking cookies is not our thing.
I gotta say, despite having those blardy emotional feelings of being so close yet so far, I should say I'm really enjoying my last few weeks here. Yeah though this thesis thingy is dragging me back, but it doesn't really matter since I'm not really in a hurry to come back. I've just discussed stuff wit my mom, and most likely I'll end up in Singapore if I am doing my masters and I get admission to the lion city. So, I guess I should really appreciate my last few weeks in Germany.
Lets see what I've done the last few weeks. Last last friday, I went to a party organized by Tharsis's church friends. Was not a religious party, just party. We had food, live band, pool, KTV(of course English songs), Wii and much more. All of us were forced to sing at least one song and though I was really desperate to sing more, I try to hide myself because I have a bad soar-throat. In the end me and Tharsis sang Mambo No.5 and did entertained the crowd. Man, that was Form 2 stuff and I still remember a few of us in Uncle Bus singing loud in the bus. Then there was a pool table there. The table sux though as it's not totally flat and the cue stick is totally warned out, but I still had lots of fun as its free and i played lots of round which obviously i won't be able to do so in malaysia. So next time if I'm rich I'll definately get a personal pool table. I didn't play Wii though as my arm is still injured from the badminton session last month.
Other than that I had lots of meeting with Thars' church friend. Some of it we did some religious studies but it was ok. Sorry to say, despite listening to lots of it, I still prefer to be religious-free. But it's interesting to have some bible discussion, share of opinion between Christians and non believers. I actually attended few cell groups before in Malaysia, but I find that the cell group here are more relaxing, less awkward to non-Christians like me. Maybe it's because they don't put all the attention on me, compare to those i had in malaysia. Back home, it's like everything line in the bible they will explain and then ask me what is my opinion. I mean, of course i understand u want me to participate in the discussion, but if every line i hav to answer, then i'll get annoyed. It happens also not just in religion studies but in normal lecture. Imagine ur professor ask u every single question during ur favourite subject, I bet until a point u will start to hate that subject either. No offense to any Christians out there. I hope that u listen from a point of view of a non-Christian, when u invite someone to church/cell-group, don't give too much pressure to them. By the way, I'm not really sure why but I do like to attend these meetings especially here in Germany.
Anyway, enuf of those stuff. I just watched 007 on Monday. Well despite some bad critism, I kinda like this bond especially with monkey face Daniel Craig. Maybe because I like it when they use less Gadgets and the agent is less Superman-like, meaning he's not undestructable. Last bond was good, at least we saw he get whipped in his balls, and this one lots of banging here and there. And of course Bond girl was hot, the one from Hitman.
Also, despite now running tight in budget, I got myself a new wallet though. I love my old one, but unfortunately its time to change. Because it is too small and i like to put my wallet in the back pocket, 9 out of 10 of my cards were broken. Good thing is that the crack on my bank card didn't affect the chip so i still able to redraw money from the ATM. So I got myself a Marc O' Polo.
Hoenstly, I still prefer RENOMA in terms of the brand, but this Marc O' Polo seems to be a marge larger designer brand in Europe, I was told. Maybe they just want to comfort me because I've already bought it and there's no turning back. Anyhow, it's still a good deal though. On that day when I was doing shopping, I walked into Zara and there was this Blazer which is quite similar to my white blazer, but looks much more casual and stylish. It cost half the original price and since its Zara, I was really tempted to get it. In the end i gave up the idea, coz i don't think I'll wear that often in Malaysia. People will look at me one kind and start thinking to themselves, "this LCLY fella dress like Ah Beng!". Well at least this is what we'll do if we saw someone doing that in MV. HOWEVER, when I get my Deposit back, I might consider walking into Zara again and grab it. YEAH, I'm AH BENG!
What else? Oh I actually learnt how to cook the "mui choi kau yok" already. Well according to Kennysia's Kenny learns to cook post, "I have been told many times that women find men who knows how to cook sexy and attractive". That's what he said. So, am I sexy now?? YEAH!
Lets see what I've done the last few weeks. Last last friday, I went to a party organized by Tharsis's church friends. Was not a religious party, just party. We had food, live band, pool, KTV(of course English songs), Wii and much more. All of us were forced to sing at least one song and though I was really desperate to sing more, I try to hide myself because I have a bad soar-throat. In the end me and Tharsis sang Mambo No.5 and did entertained the crowd. Man, that was Form 2 stuff and I still remember a few of us in Uncle Bus singing loud in the bus. Then there was a pool table there. The table sux though as it's not totally flat and the cue stick is totally warned out, but I still had lots of fun as its free and i played lots of round which obviously i won't be able to do so in malaysia. So next time if I'm rich I'll definately get a personal pool table. I didn't play Wii though as my arm is still injured from the badminton session last month.
Other than that I had lots of meeting with Thars' church friend. Some of it we did some religious studies but it was ok. Sorry to say, despite listening to lots of it, I still prefer to be religious-free. But it's interesting to have some bible discussion, share of opinion between Christians and non believers. I actually attended few cell groups before in Malaysia, but I find that the cell group here are more relaxing, less awkward to non-Christians like me. Maybe it's because they don't put all the attention on me, compare to those i had in malaysia. Back home, it's like everything line in the bible they will explain and then ask me what is my opinion. I mean, of course i understand u want me to participate in the discussion, but if every line i hav to answer, then i'll get annoyed. It happens also not just in religion studies but in normal lecture. Imagine ur professor ask u every single question during ur favourite subject, I bet until a point u will start to hate that subject either. No offense to any Christians out there. I hope that u listen from a point of view of a non-Christian, when u invite someone to church/cell-group, don't give too much pressure to them. By the way, I'm not really sure why but I do like to attend these meetings especially here in Germany.
Anyway, enuf of those stuff. I just watched 007 on Monday. Well despite some bad critism, I kinda like this bond especially with monkey face Daniel Craig. Maybe because I like it when they use less Gadgets and the agent is less Superman-like, meaning he's not undestructable. Last bond was good, at least we saw he get whipped in his balls, and this one lots of banging here and there. And of course Bond girl was hot, the one from Hitman.
Also, despite now running tight in budget, I got myself a new wallet though. I love my old one, but unfortunately its time to change. Because it is too small and i like to put my wallet in the back pocket, 9 out of 10 of my cards were broken. Good thing is that the crack on my bank card didn't affect the chip so i still able to redraw money from the ATM. So I got myself a Marc O' Polo.
Hoenstly, I still prefer RENOMA in terms of the brand, but this Marc O' Polo seems to be a marge larger designer brand in Europe, I was told. Maybe they just want to comfort me because I've already bought it and there's no turning back. Anyhow, it's still a good deal though. On that day when I was doing shopping, I walked into Zara and there was this Blazer which is quite similar to my white blazer, but looks much more casual and stylish. It cost half the original price and since its Zara, I was really tempted to get it. In the end i gave up the idea, coz i don't think I'll wear that often in Malaysia. People will look at me one kind and start thinking to themselves, "this LCLY fella dress like Ah Beng!". Well at least this is what we'll do if we saw someone doing that in MV. HOWEVER, when I get my Deposit back, I might consider walking into Zara again and grab it. YEAH, I'm AH BENG!
What else? Oh I actually learnt how to cook the "mui choi kau yok" already. Well according to Kennysia's Kenny learns to cook post, "I have been told many times that women find men who knows how to cook sexy and attractive". That's what he said. So, am I sexy now?? YEAH!
I know it's been a while since i update myself here. These few weeks it's all about gatherings, small parties, Thesis, and going friend's place for dinner. Also because I'm not able to connect to the net all the time unlike last time.
Anyway, Like my status in facebook, I had a haircut. I went to a chinese salon this time which is cheap and i thought maybe chinese hairstylist knows better what kinda haircut i wanted. When he asked me how should he do my hair, i told him not too nerdy, and that guy was like "huh?". The moment he gave me that response I've already expect another "German" hairstyle, the squarish soldier style.
But actually it doesn't turn out that bad, I felt. Well at least most of my colleagues in the Institute and my fellow Malaysians here felt it looks better than my long hair. Here's the pic...
What's worse is that, now everybody tells me I look like HIM!
WTF??? A side by side comparison....
I'd say maybe the glasses made me look like him......not the haircut!
See....now i don't look like him anymore without the glasses!!
I mean, it's not that bad if i look like him since his also a star, but the fact is that I'm not as good looking as him, so felt paiseh(embarrassed) when people say that.
Anyway, Like my status in facebook, I had a haircut. I went to a chinese salon this time which is cheap and i thought maybe chinese hairstylist knows better what kinda haircut i wanted. When he asked me how should he do my hair, i told him not too nerdy, and that guy was like "huh?". The moment he gave me that response I've already expect another "German" hairstyle, the squarish soldier style.
But actually it doesn't turn out that bad, I felt. Well at least most of my colleagues in the Institute and my fellow Malaysians here felt it looks better than my long hair. Here's the pic...
What's worse is that, now everybody tells me I look like HIM!
WTF??? A side by side comparison....
I'd say maybe the glasses made me look like him......not the haircut!
See....now i don't look like him anymore without the glasses!!
I mean, it's not that bad if i look like him since his also a star, but the fact is that I'm not as good looking as him, so felt paiseh(embarrassed) when people say that.
There's no connection between those 2 by the way. It's just that this post is about the both of them.
I finally have the courage to send my laptop for servicing. The main reason why I didn't do it long ago weas because I couldn't imagine 5 days without a lappie. I've actually experienced those days before when I bought my desktop and found out that the graphic card was not working well with the motherboard and so have to return and order a new card. Actually it wasn't that hard at all and it's actually a good way to trin my self not to be too dependent on computer these days.
Well, though I've solved most of my problems from the series of unfortunate events that happened to me last month, one thing that still remain is the Emo problem. Exactly one year ago from today Kelsen and I were on the bus from London to Cardiff. We had a night in cardiff and visited some of cardiff's beautiful scenary, which includes the Welsh chics during the night. They were so different from the Dinosaur German chics. The cardiff chics have great body figure and most importantly they were wearing really sexy & seductive outfits. Man, I gotta tell you despite the super cold temperature thery were wearing so little cloth, while Kelsen and I were wearing about 3 layers of clothings and yet still felt cold. You gotta love British chics. Cardiff was just one of the stops in our great UK trip. Before that we visited leeds and Manchester. Though it was my second time going to Old Trafford, but it's so different going wif my best bro. about 2 days from now one year ago we left CK's apartment to Bakerstreet station to meet up with Soo Fan and her friend June. Then we walked around London, covering alot of places. Though I don't remember exactly the whole agenda, but I remember we visited Hyde Park, Westminister, Tower Bridge, Tower of London, British Museum, St. Paul's Cathedral, Harrods and many more.
Though I was sick during the last days in London and despite some bad incident that happen to the hosts, overall the trip was fantastic. Second best after the Genting/Singapore trip.
Back to present. I always mentioned about the whole jiwang feeling about being so close yet so far. Today my friend Adrian gave me the whole pack of 3 in 1 Ipoh Old Town Coffee. Honestly it smells like soya sauce and doesn't taste as good as any oft he coffee here, but it reminds me of home. It taste exactly like those coffee we had in coffee shops in Malyasia. Then these few days when I login to facebook to check out the SJ4P group, suddenly I saw 70 new wall posts! Normally at most 2 or 3 per day or sometimes none, and only regular active members will spam it. Those spamming sessions made me felt more desperate to go home and have gatherings with them. The last time I had a grand gathering with them was in Lucas's house 4 years ago. The second grand was 3 years ago during nD's bday in Thai Sabye Sabye @ OUG. It's been too long and I really missed them.
I had a general question for you guys. Of course most of you have your own life now, but do you guys ever missed your primary/high school or college life? OR it's just me being such an emo bozo having flashbacks too often????
Wooo, I'm MIA for quite some time in blogosphere. Yeah, been busy really these few days and I'm no more having my own room/internet. I'm living a life of a nomad now, and the owner of this room will come back on Friday from his lovely holiday back home in Malaysia. I will stay with him for couple of days to see if it's ok, coz his room is relatively small. Although I still manage to squeeze a matress in, but I am afraid it might cause inconvinience to him, so I'll look for alternatives. This owner guy reminds me of my holiday 2 weeks ago. He went genting with his friends and posted heeps of pictures in Facebook, and he also got a gf, which reminds me how I spent my holiday 2 years ago.
I'm feeling less emo these days, until today in the train back from Bochum (another town) after a small outing with Tharsis, Poong, and a new Msian kid. I took out my watch and that blink of a second i remember this watch was given to me exactly 2 years ago from today. Time really flies like crazy. Man, I'm still in the state of "so close yet so far" as I'm almost there but not there yet. But yeah, things are quite ok for me these days. There're 1 new Malaysian who came here for the whole bachelor course, and 6 others from UKM transfer. All doing Mechanical Eng. I've never met any of the other UKMers yet, but hav hang out wif that new msian guy (named Quan Wei) a few times already. He was just like me when i first came, without a room and lots of problem, but the lucky thing about him compare to me is that he have us, and he had more support these days as the Uni made alot of effort to give more support. But yeah, I don't complain anymore as these are all part of my experience gained which i felt more valuable than any other things in my life. We brought him to the chinese buffet thingy which we ate many times already and that guy was like tapao the whole place. See, people learn how to appreciate chinese food more when they're outside although the restaurant also made some changes to suit the European taste.
We're going to have a big gathering on this weekend to bring all the Malaysians together. With the amount of Malaysian who come to Germany to study, we actually learn how to appreciate each other more. Although we only meet once in a while, but I always put Malaysian as my first priority here, especially when it comes to help. Maybe it's bcoz i've beeen thru all these and i felt there's a need for me to help them.
Back to me. After 2 weeks I returned the room, I still felt abit nostalgic about the room. I've been there 3 years. Many sweet memories there. I've hosted a couple of VIP in that room before, including Oli and Pailing (December 2006), my parents (May - June 2007), Kelsen (February 2008), Nikki and Eriko (May 2008). It gave me a warm comfortable room to stay in. I miss my 6Mbit/s internet connection, my lovely double matress bed with my "coffee,tea or me" comforter, my blardy movable table, my ugly shelf and wadrobe and so many others. Here're some photos of the room after cleaning and painting.
Well, my thesis is not going so well at this stage as it comes to the hardware level but I'm confident it can be solved. New semester starting soon and today itself I spotted damn freaking many chics in the canteen, mainly from Business Faculty. Yeah Godfathar, you're right. Engineering is probably the worse gayish course in history. I should have developed my business mind from young, so i can be in the same classroom with the chics :) Lolx, sounds like I'm really desperate.
What else?? I've been learning how to cook 梅菜扣肉 these days as my friend taught me how to do it. He made super delicious, and he added some dried chilli which makes it even tastier. Yeah, though I'm not talented in cooking, but I'm interested. Maybe my future wife would be impressed of my cooking skill lolx. I'm one step closer to sell my guitar now, and as much as it has great sentimental value, it's a lousy guitar i have to admit. No point paying extra to bring up the airplane as i can get a better one back home. I've promised myself if I'm staying back for long period, I will sign up for guitar course and learn more advance skills. Again I'm not talented in music, but I'm super interested in it. I'm no doubt a lazy person, but I'm a person who doesn't like to just use things without knowing how it works. I love listening to music, but I also want to know how to make music. I love food, which is why I want to learn how to make them. I love electronic gadgets, which is why I took up E&E engineering.
Ahh, another long post. I should update more often.
I'm feeling less emo these days, until today in the train back from Bochum (another town) after a small outing with Tharsis, Poong, and a new Msian kid. I took out my watch and that blink of a second i remember this watch was given to me exactly 2 years ago from today. Time really flies like crazy. Man, I'm still in the state of "so close yet so far" as I'm almost there but not there yet. But yeah, things are quite ok for me these days. There're 1 new Malaysian who came here for the whole bachelor course, and 6 others from UKM transfer. All doing Mechanical Eng. I've never met any of the other UKMers yet, but hav hang out wif that new msian guy (named Quan Wei) a few times already. He was just like me when i first came, without a room and lots of problem, but the lucky thing about him compare to me is that he have us, and he had more support these days as the Uni made alot of effort to give more support. But yeah, I don't complain anymore as these are all part of my experience gained which i felt more valuable than any other things in my life. We brought him to the chinese buffet thingy which we ate many times already and that guy was like tapao the whole place. See, people learn how to appreciate chinese food more when they're outside although the restaurant also made some changes to suit the European taste.
We're going to have a big gathering on this weekend to bring all the Malaysians together. With the amount of Malaysian who come to Germany to study, we actually learn how to appreciate each other more. Although we only meet once in a while, but I always put Malaysian as my first priority here, especially when it comes to help. Maybe it's bcoz i've beeen thru all these and i felt there's a need for me to help them.
Back to me. After 2 weeks I returned the room, I still felt abit nostalgic about the room. I've been there 3 years. Many sweet memories there. I've hosted a couple of VIP in that room before, including Oli and Pailing (December 2006), my parents (May - June 2007), Kelsen (February 2008), Nikki and Eriko (May 2008). It gave me a warm comfortable room to stay in. I miss my 6Mbit/s internet connection, my lovely double matress bed with my "coffee,tea or me" comforter, my blardy movable table, my ugly shelf and wadrobe and so many others. Here're some photos of the room after cleaning and painting.
Well, my thesis is not going so well at this stage as it comes to the hardware level but I'm confident it can be solved. New semester starting soon and today itself I spotted damn freaking many chics in the canteen, mainly from Business Faculty. Yeah Godfathar, you're right. Engineering is probably the worse gayish course in history. I should have developed my business mind from young, so i can be in the same classroom with the chics :) Lolx, sounds like I'm really desperate.
What else?? I've been learning how to cook 梅菜扣肉 these days as my friend taught me how to do it. He made super delicious, and he added some dried chilli which makes it even tastier. Yeah, though I'm not talented in cooking, but I'm interested. Maybe my future wife would be impressed of my cooking skill lolx. I'm one step closer to sell my guitar now, and as much as it has great sentimental value, it's a lousy guitar i have to admit. No point paying extra to bring up the airplane as i can get a better one back home. I've promised myself if I'm staying back for long period, I will sign up for guitar course and learn more advance skills. Again I'm not talented in music, but I'm super interested in it. I'm no doubt a lazy person, but I'm a person who doesn't like to just use things without knowing how it works. I love listening to music, but I also want to know how to make music. I love food, which is why I want to learn how to make them. I love electronic gadgets, which is why I took up E&E engineering.
Ahh, another long post. I should update more often.
Everytime i want to update my blog, i just can't. I can't find a time to do so. I'm really busy these weeks because I'm moving out of my room. I'll explain later in my post where I'll stay now, and how long will i take to come back. Well, just that I've been cleaning and painting the whole day, i finally get to have some rest time. 2moro, I have to clean the bathroom and the kitchen. Moving out is really shitty especially you have to keep things clean in order to get the deposit back. Well, 3 years living in this room, and although it's just a room and it's located in a shitty town, but it still have sentimental value to me. Now that I have to move out, I felt a bit emotional.
Sighz, Now that i have time to update blog, I felt sleepy. I guess I'll do it after I've settled down in another place. Oh btw, I'll not have my unlimited 6Mbits/s internet anymore. So, I'll seldom online these days. The good thing is I can finally learn how to be less dependent on this fast speed internet so when i come back malaysia i don't feel the pain. I might not even have internet connection unless I'm in the institute. Patience, it will be soon over!
Sighz, Now that i have time to update blog, I felt sleepy. I guess I'll do it after I've settled down in another place. Oh btw, I'll not have my unlimited 6Mbits/s internet anymore. So, I'll seldom online these days. The good thing is I can finally learn how to be less dependent on this fast speed internet so when i come back malaysia i don't feel the pain. I might not even have internet connection unless I'm in the institute. Patience, it will be soon over!
Man, it was really a hectic two weeks for me. Not even including my thesis work yet. Surprisingly my thesis looks easy, but I've not really done the main part of it, so i can't tell for now. So far, it has been easy. Programming part was not that hard, hardware was already built. Maybe the Analysis and Optimization would be hard. But anywayz, I'm slowly clearing the problems, so i can focus on my thesis soon enough.
Anywayz, it was a dramatic and hectic week for me. I shall talk about the Visa problem first. A brief introduction, to study in Germany, normally they will give you a 3 months visa from the German Embassy to settle down in Germany. Within that 3 months, one has to register with the town's local Foreigner Office as a resident. Then after that, an appointment would be made for the Visa extension and the documents required differ from town to town. In my town, things are more strict than others for a reason only God knows. I had visa problem when i did my first extension and throughout the years, things get better but this time again some trouble. They want me to present some of the documents which are really hard to get in 1 week time. I had to run up and down to different offices located at different places just to obtain the documents. One of it was a Formal Obligation by my parents and that my parents have to go all the way to the German Embassy to obtain it and then send it to me by DHL. Good thing is that DHL is very efficient(German company bah) though it was not cheap at all. Within 1 working day it arrive. Then there's this BIATCH from this International Office in the University who lost my document and even blame me for not submitting it. She was fucking rude to me and I will file a complain about her as soon as i get my degree. I had to argue with her with my broken German for almost half hour before she agree to help me, and yet she couldn't even assure me of a solution. All she said was that she'll see what she can do, just like those typical Malaysian offices. Luckily she was sick today(probably because of me) and they direct me to another person who's nice to me. Yeah many of us had an impression that European countries, Germany in particular, had a very efficient and good system. It's true, but there're always minority cases like this, which is the majority case in Msia.
But the good thing is that, finally it had be settled. All the documents have been handed up and now i have less one thing to worry. You know when you're at the last stage of your studies and you are having such a high hope to finish and go home, you'll get more worries. Probably it's because I'm not giving myself any room to make mistakes. Nah, not that i don't give myself room, it's more like i can't afford to make mistakes.
PROBLEMS in SEPTEMBER
1.) Visa Problem(solved)
2.) English exemption(solved)
3.) Project results (solved)
4.) Credit points accumulation to graduate (solved)
5.) Laptop LCD failure (not solved, not planning to solve it for the moment since I have an external TFT screen and i need the laptop for my daily routine)
6.) Speaker cable failure (not solved, easy solution but lazy to solve it. Don't need the speakers anyway)
7.) Moving house (in progess, moving stuff batch by batch every weekend. Should be done by next week and start painting the place)
8.) Emotional problem (not solved, can never be solved )
You know, I've been repeating this, but this is the only proudest thing I can tell u from my point of view of studying in Germany. It's not just about the study environment and lecturers quality, nor the travelling, but it's the life experience that i've gained by solving problems throughout the studies. I can say I've grown up much faster in this 4 years than in my whole 23 years of life.
Anywayz, it was a dramatic and hectic week for me. I shall talk about the Visa problem first. A brief introduction, to study in Germany, normally they will give you a 3 months visa from the German Embassy to settle down in Germany. Within that 3 months, one has to register with the town's local Foreigner Office as a resident. Then after that, an appointment would be made for the Visa extension and the documents required differ from town to town. In my town, things are more strict than others for a reason only God knows. I had visa problem when i did my first extension and throughout the years, things get better but this time again some trouble. They want me to present some of the documents which are really hard to get in 1 week time. I had to run up and down to different offices located at different places just to obtain the documents. One of it was a Formal Obligation by my parents and that my parents have to go all the way to the German Embassy to obtain it and then send it to me by DHL. Good thing is that DHL is very efficient(German company bah) though it was not cheap at all. Within 1 working day it arrive. Then there's this BIATCH from this International Office in the University who lost my document and even blame me for not submitting it. She was fucking rude to me and I will file a complain about her as soon as i get my degree. I had to argue with her with my broken German for almost half hour before she agree to help me, and yet she couldn't even assure me of a solution. All she said was that she'll see what she can do, just like those typical Malaysian offices. Luckily she was sick today(probably because of me) and they direct me to another person who's nice to me. Yeah many of us had an impression that European countries, Germany in particular, had a very efficient and good system. It's true, but there're always minority cases like this, which is the majority case in Msia.
But the good thing is that, finally it had be settled. All the documents have been handed up and now i have less one thing to worry. You know when you're at the last stage of your studies and you are having such a high hope to finish and go home, you'll get more worries. Probably it's because I'm not giving myself any room to make mistakes. Nah, not that i don't give myself room, it's more like i can't afford to make mistakes.
PROBLEMS in SEPTEMBER
1.) Visa Problem(solved)
2.) English exemption(solved)
3.) Project results (solved)
4.) Credit points accumulation to graduate (solved)
5.) Laptop LCD failure (not solved, not planning to solve it for the moment since I have an external TFT screen and i need the laptop for my daily routine)
6.) Speaker cable failure (not solved, easy solution but lazy to solve it. Don't need the speakers anyway)
7.) Moving house (in progess, moving stuff batch by batch every weekend. Should be done by next week and start painting the place)
8.) Emotional problem (not solved, can never be solved )
You know, I've been repeating this, but this is the only proudest thing I can tell u from my point of view of studying in Germany. It's not just about the study environment and lecturers quality, nor the travelling, but it's the life experience that i've gained by solving problems throughout the studies. I can say I've grown up much faster in this 4 years than in my whole 23 years of life.
WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH, THE TOUGH GETS GOING!
Again another emotional and memorable day for me. Rewind back 4 years ago, just before I came to Germany, I had mooncake festival with my fellow ex-college mates. Maybe we were a lil too old for lantern, but it was a fun night for me. Now it is obvious why I love them so much, because we were so united and I can never find any boring days when I'm with them. But I'm not sure if time changes anything as all of us are not in 1 place anymore. We still keep a forum where we can leave messages there and we had a great plan in the future for a Grand Gathering. Lets see if it will work.
2005's Mid-Autumn celebration was slightly simpler but I still get to spend time with my 2 best bros. We went down to Singapore for holidays and it was around MA festival. My uncle brought us for a nice and expensive meal and a for a walk down Chinatown where they had decorations.
I didn't go anywhere special to celebrate during 2006. No lanterns, no dinners, just some normal hawker stall dinner outing but it was special because after the "normal" dinner I spent the evening wif my ex at her place, enjoying the full moon. It's always special if you're spending your time with someone special.
Honestly I can't remember what I've done for MA last year. All I remember was that I was as emotional as now. Partially because at that time I'm having some money crisis and I was applying for an internship but still no reply from any company. I was shy to ask my parents to give me more money at that time because I was not doing anything besides sleeping at home.
This year it was about the same. Initially I was given free tickets to Amsterdam. I didn't wanted to go because I don't have the mood. Then there was also some plans to have some small dinner but it was cancelled. But it doesn't matter because I really don't have the mood to do anything at all. With all those troubles and the Emotional problems, I'll rather just stay at home facing the full moon alone and start having thoughts about life. Nah, I'm not trying to show the world how pathetic I am now, but just trying to express my pathetic feeling during this time around. The month have been half way thru and nothing really good happen to me but those bad things came in volley. The only good thing was that I had a 2 hours chat with Wenni today via skype which I didn't do for long long time already. It does make me a lil less emotional. At least now I know for sure that I can totally remove the label "sweet september" from my personal brain storage and replace it with "schlecht september"(schlecht means lousy in German).
Anyway.....
2005's Mid-Autumn celebration was slightly simpler but I still get to spend time with my 2 best bros. We went down to Singapore for holidays and it was around MA festival. My uncle brought us for a nice and expensive meal and a for a walk down Chinatown where they had decorations.
I didn't go anywhere special to celebrate during 2006. No lanterns, no dinners, just some normal hawker stall dinner outing but it was special because after the "normal" dinner I spent the evening wif my ex at her place, enjoying the full moon. It's always special if you're spending your time with someone special.
Honestly I can't remember what I've done for MA last year. All I remember was that I was as emotional as now. Partially because at that time I'm having some money crisis and I was applying for an internship but still no reply from any company. I was shy to ask my parents to give me more money at that time because I was not doing anything besides sleeping at home.
This year it was about the same. Initially I was given free tickets to Amsterdam. I didn't wanted to go because I don't have the mood. Then there was also some plans to have some small dinner but it was cancelled. But it doesn't matter because I really don't have the mood to do anything at all. With all those troubles and the Emotional problems, I'll rather just stay at home facing the full moon alone and start having thoughts about life. Nah, I'm not trying to show the world how pathetic I am now, but just trying to express my pathetic feeling during this time around. The month have been half way thru and nothing really good happen to me but those bad things came in volley. The only good thing was that I had a 2 hours chat with Wenni today via skype which I didn't do for long long time already. It does make me a lil less emotional. At least now I know for sure that I can totally remove the label "sweet september" from my personal brain storage and replace it with "schlecht september"(schlecht means lousy in German).
Anyway.....
HAPPY MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL
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HAPPY MOONCAKE FESTIVAL
or
HAPPY TANGLUNG FESTIVAL
or
HAPPY MOONCAKE FESTIVAL
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HAPPY TANGLUNG FESTIVAL
It's a memorable day for many people from all around the world, and for different reasons. So do I. I have to start clearing things in my room because I have to move out at the end of this month. I have some clothes that I didn't wear for a long time already and I decided to donate it and so I walked out to the nearest donation box. At the same time I need to clear my mind a lil as I was again emotional when I face the four walls in my room. So I decided to take a short walk around the neighbourhood. Well, it does help a lil although I'm still pretty much emotional.
Anyway, I've been moving alot this whole week, visiting so many offices to settle some stuff. On Tuesday I went to the Immigration department to notify them that I've not receive a letter. Right after that I went back to Institute and my boss wanted to see me about my Project grades. I didn't get a good grade though, but it doesn't really matter to me now. The project was really hard and limited support because my supervisor also don't know much about the things. The main thing is that I gain alot of experience in it and it will be a good point to write in my CV. Then finally my Thesis contract is ready although I've started 3 weeks ago unofficially. It's just some paper work and the Germans are really crazy bout those. Then on wednesday I have to go to the examination office and the student secretary's office to get some paper for the fees exemption thingy but it was a quick process. Today again I have to visit the examination office to hand up my project grades to them and get the form for my Thesis registration. Sometimes when you're in a country so organize with all these Paper work thingy, you kinda miss the slackness that we have in Malaysia. Cincai cincai. Btw, for the next 2-3 weeks I'll be moving up and down again coz i have to collect document for the visa extension, then have to move things out of this room, painting, thesis....So much for the sweet september!!!
Back to the Sept 11 thing. The meaning of this day to me is pretty much related to my ex of course. Hey it's been 1 year and I know I should have been over with this. Yeah my friends told me, I'm only 23. I will have a long journey ahead and when I have the money(or career to be more polite), this girl issue would be the least problem of all. I mean, I do believe in fate. I believe that I will meet with the one I'm fated to no matter what it takes. But you gotta know this, my ex, which is the first and only so far went too deep down. We both were really commited to this relationship at that time. I don't know how she felt but I am different. I am inexperience and I hate it when I had a good memory when it comes to all these special dates. But don't worry, I am walking on the right path. I am recovering, slow but recovering.
The emotional month continues......
Anyway, I've been moving alot this whole week, visiting so many offices to settle some stuff. On Tuesday I went to the Immigration department to notify them that I've not receive a letter. Right after that I went back to Institute and my boss wanted to see me about my Project grades. I didn't get a good grade though, but it doesn't really matter to me now. The project was really hard and limited support because my supervisor also don't know much about the things. The main thing is that I gain alot of experience in it and it will be a good point to write in my CV. Then finally my Thesis contract is ready although I've started 3 weeks ago unofficially. It's just some paper work and the Germans are really crazy bout those. Then on wednesday I have to go to the examination office and the student secretary's office to get some paper for the fees exemption thingy but it was a quick process. Today again I have to visit the examination office to hand up my project grades to them and get the form for my Thesis registration. Sometimes when you're in a country so organize with all these Paper work thingy, you kinda miss the slackness that we have in Malaysia. Cincai cincai. Btw, for the next 2-3 weeks I'll be moving up and down again coz i have to collect document for the visa extension, then have to move things out of this room, painting, thesis....So much for the sweet september!!!
Back to the Sept 11 thing. The meaning of this day to me is pretty much related to my ex of course. Hey it's been 1 year and I know I should have been over with this. Yeah my friends told me, I'm only 23. I will have a long journey ahead and when I have the money(or career to be more polite), this girl issue would be the least problem of all. I mean, I do believe in fate. I believe that I will meet with the one I'm fated to no matter what it takes. But you gotta know this, my ex, which is the first and only so far went too deep down. We both were really commited to this relationship at that time. I don't know how she felt but I am different. I am inexperience and I hate it when I had a good memory when it comes to all these special dates. But don't worry, I am walking on the right path. I am recovering, slow but recovering.
The emotional month continues......
Some people say, when you keep thinking of the bad things, then the bad things will come. But all the bad stuff that happen to me so far are unavoidable. It happens because it was meant to be. Although most of the problems aren't settled, but I'm working my way through. I used to be the person that run away from problem. But i guess, I don't have any where else to run. The good thing is that I have a very great parents that support me all the way. I express the problem to them and they did their part to help me although it's abit troublesome to them. Though it didn't help much, but they gave me the strength and motivation to face the problems.
My parents and my brother are going to Taiwan on the raya holiday. I am not jealous that they're going, I'm just sad that I can't join them. Since 5 years ago, my family had never celebrate any festival with all the members present. The only time where four of us were together in a trip was in Ireland 3 years ago. I remember the first time seeing my mom in Ireland after 1 year didn't meet up with her, I nearly cried. I can see that her hair is getting white. I remember I actually cancelled 2 exams just to meet my parents in Ireland, but it was all worth it. After that we never had a full family gathering before. The worse period was that me and my bro were both in Europe and left only my parents. I remember my mom told me that she only cook rice for 1 portion and my parents share them because they don't eat that much lately. They even told me that they don't have a proper rice cooker anymore. Not that they can't afford, just that they don't see a point to buy one. I've missed 4 birthday celebrations with them, 4 CNY celebrations, mooncake festival, dumpling festival, Hari Raya, Christmas and so many others. I'm not gonna make it for my dad's birthday this year either, althought i thought i can make it. Now i'm not even sure about christmas.
When I was in high school, I hate it that every year I have to celebrate all these with my family because they are really boring. In college, I finally have my freedom. Besides CNY, I spent the other festivals with my friends, especially during birthday. Everything changed. I really want to have those celebrations with them.
This month is just gonna be emotional for me.
My parents and my brother are going to Taiwan on the raya holiday. I am not jealous that they're going, I'm just sad that I can't join them. Since 5 years ago, my family had never celebrate any festival with all the members present. The only time where four of us were together in a trip was in Ireland 3 years ago. I remember the first time seeing my mom in Ireland after 1 year didn't meet up with her, I nearly cried. I can see that her hair is getting white. I remember I actually cancelled 2 exams just to meet my parents in Ireland, but it was all worth it. After that we never had a full family gathering before. The worse period was that me and my bro were both in Europe and left only my parents. I remember my mom told me that she only cook rice for 1 portion and my parents share them because they don't eat that much lately. They even told me that they don't have a proper rice cooker anymore. Not that they can't afford, just that they don't see a point to buy one. I've missed 4 birthday celebrations with them, 4 CNY celebrations, mooncake festival, dumpling festival, Hari Raya, Christmas and so many others. I'm not gonna make it for my dad's birthday this year either, althought i thought i can make it. Now i'm not even sure about christmas.
When I was in high school, I hate it that every year I have to celebrate all these with my family because they are really boring. In college, I finally have my freedom. Besides CNY, I spent the other festivals with my friends, especially during birthday. Everything changed. I really want to have those celebrations with them.
This month is just gonna be emotional for me.
One year ago, I mentioned that the streak of sweet september had come to an end. This fact have been proven right at the start of September this year.
Since 2001 September have always been the sweet month for me, or you can say lucky month. Sigh, it's all over. As a proof, I've mentioned in my previous post that I face so many problems, personal or not personal. They come all at one shot. Yesterday night, my LCD screen of my laptop died. It turns on for 3 seconds then go black screen. Sighz, I suspect it's the inverter of the LCD that is dead, but despite knowing the problem I don't dare to open up my laptop and fix it. It's probably the most expensive electronics I have and I heavily depend on the laptop so much, so i think I'll let the shop do the job. Good thing is that I still have a CRT monitor and I can still use it for the time being until I felt it's ready to be sent to the shop as they would take some time to repair it.
Yesterday I was moving around my things because since I have to use the CRT monitor as my main monitor now, so I decided to bring it closer to the desk, and while moving things around the table fell on my speakers. Now the cable is broken. The worse case is that it is the cable of the speakers which has the controller that is broken, which is very hard to find replacement. Of course it's not something very important if compare to the LCD screen, but the speakers are not cheap though.
Sighz, this electronic defects and the formality thingy sums up to total chaos. I mean, of course it's coincidence that it happen during September, and it could also happen any other months of the year, but I'm frustrated. I'm just making conclusion that September is no longer the happy month for me.!!!
Since 2001 September have always been the sweet month for me, or you can say lucky month. Sigh, it's all over. As a proof, I've mentioned in my previous post that I face so many problems, personal or not personal. They come all at one shot. Yesterday night, my LCD screen of my laptop died. It turns on for 3 seconds then go black screen. Sighz, I suspect it's the inverter of the LCD that is dead, but despite knowing the problem I don't dare to open up my laptop and fix it. It's probably the most expensive electronics I have and I heavily depend on the laptop so much, so i think I'll let the shop do the job. Good thing is that I still have a CRT monitor and I can still use it for the time being until I felt it's ready to be sent to the shop as they would take some time to repair it.
Yesterday I was moving around my things because since I have to use the CRT monitor as my main monitor now, so I decided to bring it closer to the desk, and while moving things around the table fell on my speakers. Now the cable is broken. The worse case is that it is the cable of the speakers which has the controller that is broken, which is very hard to find replacement. Of course it's not something very important if compare to the LCD screen, but the speakers are not cheap though.
Sighz, this electronic defects and the formality thingy sums up to total chaos. I mean, of course it's coincidence that it happen during September, and it could also happen any other months of the year, but I'm frustrated. I'm just making conclusion that September is no longer the happy month for me.!!!
I was really emotional these days, and I'm having alot of problems actually. Yeah, the thesis is hard, but the worse thing is not the thesis. It's the formality thingy. I have to renew my visa next month, but to do that I need some documents to prove that I am still a student here. Currently my exams are all over, and everything is done except that it's not "officially" shown in my transcript. Therefore I can't register "officially" for my Thesis and that, is gonna give me a big trouble. Germany is quite efficient in many ways, except for student affairs. And they're pretty strict with this thingy, it's like I can't just go up there and tell them that I'm doing my thesis without official prove. Lets see what my institute can provide me as I've told my supervisor about my situation and he will try his best to help me out.
2ndly, I was really down with headache yesterday. This is the first time I lost all my appetite having a headache. I skipped work, and I slept almost the whole day. I only had 1 meal yesterday and that I didn't even finish it. I felt that my life is so so so screw up eventhough it seems I'm gonna reach the finish line soon. Lets hope this illness and formality thingy doesn't spoil my graduation plan. I don't want to be sent out of germany without a degree.
Man, I can go on and on with my problems and my emotional thingy, but heck this is the 200th post and I want to make it a neutral post, if i can't make it a happy one.
Yesterday was the transfer window saga. First of all, I am kinda glad that Berbatov finally signs for Manchester United, but I really doubt he would be an outstanding player. I mean, players are good but you have to fit in the club. Look at Henry for example, he didn't do well at all in Barcelona, and also Shevchenko, which didn't do well in Chelsea either but both of them are world class player. What I really think is that MU needs a playmaker, a player that can create chances for others as they already have good strikers such as Rooney and Tevez. They didn't perform well because they are lack of support. Bringing in one more striker would only make the front line more crowded i think. But hey, there's a reason why Sir Alex Ferguson is top in football management and I'm only a student talking trash football. Maybe he foresees something in this guy and he felt it's the best for the club. They normally won't go more than their own budget to buy players, but this time they actually went for higher price. Furthermore, Ferguson never fails to bring players to its best, so we'll see what will happen in the premier league. Congratulations to Manchester City as well, and hopefully with the help of Abu Dhabi United, they can shoot all the way to compete with Chelsea and MU.
Enough of football. Now I really hope I can come back soon. Many Malaysians who are in malaysia now told me that I would rather prefer here than back there. I can only say one thing, hey...you're not me! You don't know how much i wanted to go home. Yeah, you guys have a point, saying that I was only back home for holidays and that's why I was happy to be home, but for a longer period I'll be sick of here. But let me tell you what I've predicted. Here's the list :
1.) Yes I would be sick of the weather back there, but I'm pretty sure I would enjoy some sunny days and some sports which I can't do it here during winter or bad weather.
2.) Yes Streamyx sux big time and to make things worse I'll only able to use 512kbps(supposingly) because my parents didn't subscribe the faster line. 6000kbps compare to 512kbps, are you nuts?? But hey, do you think I'll spent time staying at home as much as i do here??
3.) Yes the public transport here is fantastic. But hey, I have been missing driving and sitting on a car for so damn long. Yes yes, fuel price increase, but still we can take turns to drive us around during outing. I can even take LRT since there's one relatively near to my house. I am not even worried about not being able to go out late nights, cause I am not really those nightcrawler. The only thing I enjoy doing during midnights are mamak outings, basketball and midnight movies. But that don't happen everyday so I can still drive out.
4.) I get to watch movies in ENGLISH. I get to watch football in ENGLISH. I get to speak ENGLISH. I don't have to worry about PAPER WORK like here in Germany.
5.) I miss swimming. I miss it damn much. There're pools here but always crowded and cold.
6.) I'm quite sad to announce this. Although I have many friends here, but they aren't as close to me as those in Malaysia. I'm pretty sure Kelsen would understand this fact.
7.) I don't even need to think of what should i get from the market or what should i eat tonight because even in the middle of the night when i felt hungry, I can still go to mamak stall. Yes I do enjoy cooking and making new dishes from recipe book, but I simply find life here abit too hard where I have to think of studies and cooking.
Farking shit. I have at least 100 more facts I can mention but I'll just end it here. I'm pretty sure u get my point so far.
2ndly, I was really down with headache yesterday. This is the first time I lost all my appetite having a headache. I skipped work, and I slept almost the whole day. I only had 1 meal yesterday and that I didn't even finish it. I felt that my life is so so so screw up eventhough it seems I'm gonna reach the finish line soon. Lets hope this illness and formality thingy doesn't spoil my graduation plan. I don't want to be sent out of germany without a degree.
Man, I can go on and on with my problems and my emotional thingy, but heck this is the 200th post and I want to make it a neutral post, if i can't make it a happy one.
Yesterday was the transfer window saga. First of all, I am kinda glad that Berbatov finally signs for Manchester United, but I really doubt he would be an outstanding player. I mean, players are good but you have to fit in the club. Look at Henry for example, he didn't do well at all in Barcelona, and also Shevchenko, which didn't do well in Chelsea either but both of them are world class player. What I really think is that MU needs a playmaker, a player that can create chances for others as they already have good strikers such as Rooney and Tevez. They didn't perform well because they are lack of support. Bringing in one more striker would only make the front line more crowded i think. But hey, there's a reason why Sir Alex Ferguson is top in football management and I'm only a student talking trash football. Maybe he foresees something in this guy and he felt it's the best for the club. They normally won't go more than their own budget to buy players, but this time they actually went for higher price. Furthermore, Ferguson never fails to bring players to its best, so we'll see what will happen in the premier league. Congratulations to Manchester City as well, and hopefully with the help of Abu Dhabi United, they can shoot all the way to compete with Chelsea and MU.
Enough of football. Now I really hope I can come back soon. Many Malaysians who are in malaysia now told me that I would rather prefer here than back there. I can only say one thing, hey...you're not me! You don't know how much i wanted to go home. Yeah, you guys have a point, saying that I was only back home for holidays and that's why I was happy to be home, but for a longer period I'll be sick of here. But let me tell you what I've predicted. Here's the list :
1.) Yes I would be sick of the weather back there, but I'm pretty sure I would enjoy some sunny days and some sports which I can't do it here during winter or bad weather.
2.) Yes Streamyx sux big time and to make things worse I'll only able to use 512kbps(supposingly) because my parents didn't subscribe the faster line. 6000kbps compare to 512kbps, are you nuts?? But hey, do you think I'll spent time staying at home as much as i do here??
3.) Yes the public transport here is fantastic. But hey, I have been missing driving and sitting on a car for so damn long. Yes yes, fuel price increase, but still we can take turns to drive us around during outing. I can even take LRT since there's one relatively near to my house. I am not even worried about not being able to go out late nights, cause I am not really those nightcrawler. The only thing I enjoy doing during midnights are mamak outings, basketball and midnight movies. But that don't happen everyday so I can still drive out.
4.) I get to watch movies in ENGLISH. I get to watch football in ENGLISH. I get to speak ENGLISH. I don't have to worry about PAPER WORK like here in Germany.
5.) I miss swimming. I miss it damn much. There're pools here but always crowded and cold.
6.) I'm quite sad to announce this. Although I have many friends here, but they aren't as close to me as those in Malaysia. I'm pretty sure Kelsen would understand this fact.
7.) I don't even need to think of what should i get from the market or what should i eat tonight because even in the middle of the night when i felt hungry, I can still go to mamak stall. Yes I do enjoy cooking and making new dishes from recipe book, but I simply find life here abit too hard where I have to think of studies and cooking.
Farking shit. I have at least 100 more facts I can mention but I'll just end it here. I'm pretty sure u get my point so far.
面带微笑离开你怀里
我听天由命
最后一张王牌在手里
二选一的机率
不能放纵爱你
就放过自己
爱情已经过了甜蜜期
多说也是无益
爱不爱我已经没关系
一点小伤而已
你可以很放心
我不会为了留你
假装可怜兮兮
都怪我太不争气
我恨我爱你
oh~我爱你
只是因为你是你
oh~我恨你
你有我看也看不清的小聪明
你有我说也说不完的坏脾气
你有我数也数不尽你的…
.新恋情
没关系…
我有你拿也拿不走的旧回忆
我可以一个人安静的忘记你
我恨你最后那一句
我爱你
我听天由命
最后一张王牌在手里
二选一的机率
不能放纵爱你
就放过自己
爱情已经过了甜蜜期
多说也是无益
爱不爱我已经没关系
一点小伤而已
你可以很放心
我不会为了留你
假装可怜兮兮
都怪我太不争气
我恨我爱你
oh~我爱你
只是因为你是你
oh~我恨你
你有我看也看不清的小聪明
你有我说也说不完的坏脾气
你有我数也数不尽你的…
.新恋情
没关系…
我有你拿也拿不走的旧回忆
我可以一个人安静的忘记你
我恨你最后那一句
我爱你
This song is by 张惠妹. It's old , but it had been the top of my most played songs recently. It's mainly the lyrics btw.
First of all Happy Independence day to all the Malaysians there who felt that they are a true Malaysians, and therefore a truly Asian(just some quote from the tourism Malaysia). To those who went for countdown, I hope you enjoy your outing, and those who did not, I hope you enjoy whatever you do.
I've mentioned too many times, 30th August and 31st August meant too much for me in the past that whenever it comes to this date, at this hour (10.00pm), I'll be ultra sensitive and emotional. It's like Werewolves and full moon thingy. The funniest thing is that I only had a rough idea what I did last year, but I had a clear picture of what I did in 2003 and 2006. It accumulates all the emotional feelings these days. First from the feeling of "so close yet so far", and then some issue of a friend here being kicked out of Germany, the final month in this Student house, the never-ending thesis, and the Merdeka decease in me. To worsen things, I'm feeling pain around my right knee for no reason today, and hopefully it's nothing serious as it looks swollen. No, I didn't knock anything and I didn't put any excessive stress on the knee. It's just so sudden that i felt this pain.
Yesterday I watched UEFA super cup, Zenit St. Petersburg vs Manchester United. I am a MU fan, but i can say they suck so far in the last few matches. Paul Scholes would have been a wonderful Volleyball (or handball) player. I mean, what the heck is he thinking?? Already booked and still played a handball on purpose?? They should get Berbatov ASAP but I'm not so convinced either that he would make a difference.
Back to the emotional thingy. I wonder when would I really get rid of this Merdeka spell huh? Maybe next year I should find something to do on Merdeka's eve and Merdeka day that would totally erase the memories of the past Merdeka day, provided I can control the emotional feelings next year.
I had so many things to say, but yet I am blank now. Forget it....
I've mentioned too many times, 30th August and 31st August meant too much for me in the past that whenever it comes to this date, at this hour (10.00pm), I'll be ultra sensitive and emotional. It's like Werewolves and full moon thingy. The funniest thing is that I only had a rough idea what I did last year, but I had a clear picture of what I did in 2003 and 2006. It accumulates all the emotional feelings these days. First from the feeling of "so close yet so far", and then some issue of a friend here being kicked out of Germany, the final month in this Student house, the never-ending thesis, and the Merdeka decease in me. To worsen things, I'm feeling pain around my right knee for no reason today, and hopefully it's nothing serious as it looks swollen. No, I didn't knock anything and I didn't put any excessive stress on the knee. It's just so sudden that i felt this pain.
Yesterday I watched UEFA super cup, Zenit St. Petersburg vs Manchester United. I am a MU fan, but i can say they suck so far in the last few matches. Paul Scholes would have been a wonderful Volleyball (or handball) player. I mean, what the heck is he thinking?? Already booked and still played a handball on purpose?? They should get Berbatov ASAP but I'm not so convinced either that he would make a difference.
Back to the emotional thingy. I wonder when would I really get rid of this Merdeka spell huh? Maybe next year I should find something to do on Merdeka's eve and Merdeka day that would totally erase the memories of the past Merdeka day, provided I can control the emotional feelings next year.
I had so many things to say, but yet I am blank now. Forget it....
I don't normally read forwarded emails because sometimes there're too many of them and mostly junks anyway. But whenever there're friends who seldom forward emails, but they do once in a while, most of the cases it'll be a meaningful or extremely interesting one.
I bet you've seen these before if you're a frequent forwarded email reader, but i find it kinda funny so just post it up here to let u guys see...
I'm not sure if it's too small but try clicking on it to enlarge it...enjoy
I bet you've seen these before if you're a frequent forwarded email reader, but i find it kinda funny so just post it up here to let u guys see...
I'm not sure if it's too small but try clicking on it to enlarge it...enjoy
The tag post below was simply crappy, although some questions really spark up the emotional side of me. Actually I wanted to put there in the billionaire question that i would trade money for happiness because i'm not really a person that take money so seriously. What i mean is that, of course I'm not a rich person and I know it'll be hell a hard life without money, but I don't wish for a rich life, just sufficient for an average life would do.
Anyway, today is the 27th August. 3rd day officially I've worked for my Thesis in the Institute. I wish i could speed things up, but unfortunately I don't even know exactly my task yet. I mean, I am given a task, but not in details yet. So it's all about collecting information and loads of reading this week. 2 years ago, it was the day I went Genting with my crazy bros. Well, the pics of Gabe and his chic in facebook reminded me of the trip. Yeah like i said, I've been to many wonderful places and i can say Genting is no where compare to those places, but the fact that it's one of the top trip in my personal list is purely due to the two brothers that went up with me. I really miss it so much but i know things have changed. I don't know how much we'd be able to get together again despite the fact that i'm coming home "soon".
I just talked to Kelsen about a nice song by Chilam Cheung, 祝君好. Besides being a very nice song, it's also a memorable song for me and Kelsen. Before I came to Germany, we went karaoke a couple of times and this is the song that Kelsen will sing solo. Everybody silently listen to him when he does that because he presented it really well. I remember during the journey to KLIA, I requested Kelsen to sing this song for me, but he was just too shy to sing in front of my parents. It was the last song I listen to before I took off to Germany. Now everytime I listen to that song, I would think bout the past, those moments. Man, it was 4 years ago. I just hate it when it's history. Kelsen also told me that nowadays, people don't really fancy karaoke anymore. I am still in desperation to come back and sing as much as i can. I guess probably Kelsen and I would end up singing alone in a gayish room ,lol. But I don't care, I want to sing!
Sigh, I've been really emotional these days. Damn you Adelyn, being tagged by you force me to answer question that I didn't wanted to think off. lol. Nah, even without those questions I'll be emotional anywayz. I'm just waiting for the DVD of Dark Knight to be release and probably purchase it if i have the money, or download it and watch it again...
Anyway, today is the 27th August. 3rd day officially I've worked for my Thesis in the Institute. I wish i could speed things up, but unfortunately I don't even know exactly my task yet. I mean, I am given a task, but not in details yet. So it's all about collecting information and loads of reading this week. 2 years ago, it was the day I went Genting with my crazy bros. Well, the pics of Gabe and his chic in facebook reminded me of the trip. Yeah like i said, I've been to many wonderful places and i can say Genting is no where compare to those places, but the fact that it's one of the top trip in my personal list is purely due to the two brothers that went up with me. I really miss it so much but i know things have changed. I don't know how much we'd be able to get together again despite the fact that i'm coming home "soon".
I just talked to Kelsen about a nice song by Chilam Cheung, 祝君好. Besides being a very nice song, it's also a memorable song for me and Kelsen. Before I came to Germany, we went karaoke a couple of times and this is the song that Kelsen will sing solo. Everybody silently listen to him when he does that because he presented it really well. I remember during the journey to KLIA, I requested Kelsen to sing this song for me, but he was just too shy to sing in front of my parents. It was the last song I listen to before I took off to Germany. Now everytime I listen to that song, I would think bout the past, those moments. Man, it was 4 years ago. I just hate it when it's history. Kelsen also told me that nowadays, people don't really fancy karaoke anymore. I am still in desperation to come back and sing as much as i can. I guess probably Kelsen and I would end up singing alone in a gayish room ,lol. But I don't care, I want to sing!
Sigh, I've been really emotional these days. Damn you Adelyn, being tagged by you force me to answer question that I didn't wanted to think off. lol. Nah, even without those questions I'll be emotional anywayz. I'm just waiting for the DVD of Dark Knight to be release and probably purchase it if i have the money, or download it and watch it again...
I do this because I have to do it at least once, but I'm breaking the rules stated below. I'm not going to tag anyone else anywayz...
Rules:
1. The rules of the game get posted at the beginning
2. Each player answers the questions about themselves
3. At the end of the post the player then tags 5 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves a comment, letting them know they got tagged and to ask them to play and read your blog
Starting time: 7.30 PM
Name: Douglas Chin
Sisters: None
Brothers: 1
Shoe size: 9 1/2(US) 8 1/2(UK) 42 1/2 (EU)
Height: 170cm
Where do you live: Duisburg, Germany
Favourite drinks: Coffee, all types in General. Particularly Caramel Macchiato from Starbucks.
Favourite breakfast: Erm, Asian style like porridge with fried oil ghost??
Have you ever
Been on a plane: Yeah, and the next will be heading HOME!!!
Swam in the ocean: Can say so.
Fallen asleep at school: NEVER
Broken someone's heart: Yeah, probably the most regretful thing I've done
Fell off your chair: yeah, but can't recall when...
Sat by the phone all night waiting for someone to call: Yeah, but not anymore...
Saved e-mails: yeah, gmail gave too much capacity..
What is your room like: Imagine rubbish truck, and you'll know exactly how my room looks like..
What's right beside you: My gadgets...
What is the last thing you ate: Self-made steak with barbecue sauce...
Ever had
Chicken pox: yeah
Sore throat: yeah
Stitches: yeah right below my lips...my front tooth cut thru the lower lips when i slipped inside the swimming pool and knocked on the surface...
Broken nose: Nah....
Do you
Believe in love at first sight: Nope, because nobody will love me at first sight anywayz...
Like picnics: yeah...not in malaysia though...
Who was were the last person
You danced with: standard 6, on stage for some performance...and it was macarena that time...
Last that made you smile: myself...why so serious AHA..AHHAAHA.....Joker actually...
You last yelled at: Lee Chong Wei...on TV
Today did you
Talk to someone you like: Nope...
Kissed anyone: Nope, btw wtf question is this??
Get sick: Huh??? I'm a sicko btw...
Talk to an ex: Nope
Miss someone: Erm, yes but not telling who...
Eat: How bout asking me this question when i'm dead of starvation?? obviously yeah!!
Best feeling in the world
Do you sleep with stuffed animals: Nope
What's under your bed: Some junks...
Who do you really hate: The list is too long...
What time is it now: 7.45PM
Random
Is there a person who is on your mind now: Yes and No
Do you have any siblings: Yeah, a genius bro, which is now a Doctor...
Do you want children: Yeah, if only i get a wife in my life...
Do you smile often: Yes, i guess..
Do you like your hand-writing: Never
Are your toe nails painted: huh? I wonder if this tag questions are for girls?!!
Whose bed other than yours would you rather sleep in: My girlfriend if i have one.....
What color shirt are you wearing now: Black
What were you doing at 7:00 p.m. yesterday: Watching drama
When did you cry last: About 1 year ago?
Are you a friendly person: you judge me...
Do you have any pets: Nope
Where is the person you have feelings for right now: Malaysia
Did you hold hands with the person who mean anything to you now: Unfortunately nope
Do you sleep with the TV on: Nope
What are you doing right now: Drama again...
Have you ever crawled through a window: yes...
Can you handle the truth: depends on the scale of it...but i guess we have to learn how to do it someday
Are you too forgiving: I am not really a forgiving person...
Are you closer to your mother or father: hmm, dad when it comes to hobby, mom when it comes to life talk...
Who was the last person you cried in front of: My ex...
How many people can you say you've really loved: 3 i guess...
Do you eat healthy: Nope, live to eat and eat to live...
Do you still have pictures of you & your ex: yeah
Have you ever cried because of something someone said to you: Used to, but learned to deal with it
If you're having a bad day, who are you most likely to go to: Friends whoever that's available...
Are you loud or quiet most of the time: i am loud in front of friends, quiet in front of strangers..
Are you confident: certain things, certain level..
5 things I was doing 10 years ago
1. Study like hell?? I was a nerd at that time...
2. Being farked around by Kelsen lolx...he loves bullying me in form 1..
3. just learned how to play basketball
4. work hard to be head of librarian (which i succeed but in the end resign because i hate that job)
5. ICQ and internet....with the blardy cool 56.6kbps modem.....
5 things on my to-do list today
1. thesis
2. facebook
3. mail
4. drama
5. sleep and eat
5 snacks I enjoy
1. none...
2. none....
3. none....
4. none...
5. none...
5 things I would do if I were a billionaire
1. give to my parents...most of it..
2. travelling
3. buy a nice car?? nice gadget??
4. throw it into the sea??
5. i don't know, ask bruce wayne how he spent his money la..
5 of my bad habits
1. Very emotional
2. bad tempered
3. lazy
4. teasing people without limits...hey but it's purely for entertainment purpose
5. too strict to rules sometimes...well you know what i'm talkin bout if u're close to me...
5 places I have lived in
1. Happy Garden
2. OUG
3. Germany
4. Germany
5. Germany
5 jobs I've had
1. Promoter/coordinator
2. Office boy
3. student
4. intern
5. thesis(counted as a job too because i'm doing research for an institute)
5 people I tag
1. None
2. None
3. None
4. None
5. None
Rules:
1. The rules of the game get posted at the beginning
2. Each player answers the questions about themselves
3. At the end of the post the player then tags 5 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves a comment, letting them know they got tagged and to ask them to play and read your blog
Starting time: 7.30 PM
Name: Douglas Chin
Sisters: None
Brothers: 1
Shoe size: 9 1/2(US) 8 1/2(UK) 42 1/2 (EU)
Height: 170cm
Where do you live: Duisburg, Germany
Favourite drinks: Coffee, all types in General. Particularly Caramel Macchiato from Starbucks.
Favourite breakfast: Erm, Asian style like porridge with fried oil ghost??
Have you ever
Been on a plane: Yeah, and the next will be heading HOME!!!
Swam in the ocean: Can say so.
Fallen asleep at school: NEVER
Broken someone's heart: Yeah, probably the most regretful thing I've done
Fell off your chair: yeah, but can't recall when...
Sat by the phone all night waiting for someone to call: Yeah, but not anymore...
Saved e-mails: yeah, gmail gave too much capacity..
What is your room like: Imagine rubbish truck, and you'll know exactly how my room looks like..
What's right beside you: My gadgets...
What is the last thing you ate: Self-made steak with barbecue sauce...
Ever had
Chicken pox: yeah
Sore throat: yeah
Stitches: yeah right below my lips...my front tooth cut thru the lower lips when i slipped inside the swimming pool and knocked on the surface...
Broken nose: Nah....
Do you
Believe in love at first sight: Nope, because nobody will love me at first sight anywayz...
Like picnics: yeah...not in malaysia though...
Who was were the last person
You danced with: standard 6, on stage for some performance...and it was macarena that time...
Last that made you smile: myself...why so serious AHA..AHHAAHA.....Joker actually...
You last yelled at: Lee Chong Wei...on TV
Today did you
Talk to someone you like: Nope...
Kissed anyone: Nope, btw wtf question is this??
Get sick: Huh??? I'm a sicko btw...
Talk to an ex: Nope
Miss someone: Erm, yes but not telling who...
Eat: How bout asking me this question when i'm dead of starvation?? obviously yeah!!
Best feeling in the world
Do you sleep with stuffed animals: Nope
What's under your bed: Some junks...
Who do you really hate: The list is too long...
What time is it now: 7.45PM
Random
Is there a person who is on your mind now: Yes and No
Do you have any siblings: Yeah, a genius bro, which is now a Doctor...
Do you want children: Yeah, if only i get a wife in my life...
Do you smile often: Yes, i guess..
Do you like your hand-writing: Never
Are your toe nails painted: huh? I wonder if this tag questions are for girls?!!
Whose bed other than yours would you rather sleep in: My girlfriend if i have one.....
What color shirt are you wearing now: Black
What were you doing at 7:00 p.m. yesterday: Watching drama
When did you cry last: About 1 year ago?
Are you a friendly person: you judge me...
Do you have any pets: Nope
Where is the person you have feelings for right now: Malaysia
Did you hold hands with the person who mean anything to you now: Unfortunately nope
Do you sleep with the TV on: Nope
What are you doing right now: Drama again...
Have you ever crawled through a window: yes...
Can you handle the truth: depends on the scale of it...but i guess we have to learn how to do it someday
Are you too forgiving: I am not really a forgiving person...
Are you closer to your mother or father: hmm, dad when it comes to hobby, mom when it comes to life talk...
Who was the last person you cried in front of: My ex...
How many people can you say you've really loved: 3 i guess...
Do you eat healthy: Nope, live to eat and eat to live...
Do you still have pictures of you & your ex: yeah
Have you ever cried because of something someone said to you: Used to, but learned to deal with it
If you're having a bad day, who are you most likely to go to: Friends whoever that's available...
Are you loud or quiet most of the time: i am loud in front of friends, quiet in front of strangers..
Are you confident: certain things, certain level..
5 things I was doing 10 years ago
1. Study like hell?? I was a nerd at that time...
2. Being farked around by Kelsen lolx...he loves bullying me in form 1..
3. just learned how to play basketball
4. work hard to be head of librarian (which i succeed but in the end resign because i hate that job)
5. ICQ and internet....with the blardy cool 56.6kbps modem.....
5 things on my to-do list today
1. thesis
2. facebook
3. mail
4. drama
5. sleep and eat
5 snacks I enjoy
1. none...
2. none....
3. none....
4. none...
5. none...
5 things I would do if I were a billionaire
1. give to my parents...most of it..
2. travelling
3. buy a nice car?? nice gadget??
4. throw it into the sea??
5. i don't know, ask bruce wayne how he spent his money la..
5 of my bad habits
1. Very emotional
2. bad tempered
3. lazy
4. teasing people without limits...hey but it's purely for entertainment purpose
5. too strict to rules sometimes...well you know what i'm talkin bout if u're close to me...
5 places I have lived in
1. Happy Garden
2. OUG
3. Germany
4. Germany
5. Germany
5 jobs I've had
1. Promoter/coordinator
2. Office boy
3. student
4. intern
5. thesis(counted as a job too because i'm doing research for an institute)
5 people I tag
1. None
2. None
3. None
4. None
5. None
Well you couldn't blame me for watching it so late because Germany only release this movie last Thursday both in English and German. But finally I've watched it today in a cinema. As I've mentioned in my previous post which i don't remember which one, there's a cinema that is in my town that shows English version of the movie every monday. So this week, they put up Batman. Normally the English version movies were never full, in fact i should say it doesn't even go up more than 20 people. Today, it was blardy hell full which is one of the indication that this is really a huge huge Blockbuster.
Well, as most of you have already watched it, so I don't have to talk much about this movie. I just wanna say, WICKED. This is one movie that you would hold on to your pee, sit still and watch the entire movie trying to guess what's next, and you will enjoy everything in it. This is one movie where although you know the good guy will win at the end, but you will still want to stay put and really hope he'll win. Christian Bale wasn't that good if you compare it with Batman Begins, but the other casts were fantastic. Of course much credit goes to Heath Ledger.
Well, as most of you have already watched it, so I don't have to talk much about this movie. I just wanna say, WICKED. This is one movie that you would hold on to your pee, sit still and watch the entire movie trying to guess what's next, and you will enjoy everything in it. This is one movie where although you know the good guy will win at the end, but you will still want to stay put and really hope he'll win. Christian Bale wasn't that good if you compare it with Batman Begins, but the other casts were fantastic. Of course much credit goes to Heath Ledger.
For the past 3 weeks I've been wasting time and money, that's all. Finally 2moro I'll be heading back to the institute to do serious work. No regrets actually coz I watched quite some Olympic games which only happens 4 years once, and so many WR broken this time, but quite sad to hear that our blardy Garverrmannt is not using the brain to give Grandfather-ship. As for the money spent, i felt it's quite worth it too. The mp3 player is great, Shure earphones is great, those outing was great, the lo mai kai experiment was great and the buffet dinner on friday was great.
Sometimes i really missed creative birthday celebrations. In this 4 years here, we either celebrate birthday in a chinese buffet restaurant or we make 'grand' dinner for the birthday boy/girl for one and only obvious reason, to save cost. It's been a while that I had a real birthday cake or a real celebration. But yeah, what can i do about it? Money doesn't flow like water for me and my friends. But sometimes it's not just about the money, it's also the environment. In malaysia, I can think of plenty of ways to celebrate birthday without really spending alot of money. But here, sighzzz. Anyway, here's some of the pics of friday's outing..
Well the food obviously taste the same as those typical buffet food, but at least it's all you can eat so no quality but quantity.
Sighz, it's 24th August today. At 10.15am, I was waiting for my luggage bags in KLIA i think. Honestly I really missed home so much. August + Sept + Oct was the most sweetest months for me. I don't know about this year though. Yeah though it looks like I'm almost done here, but yet I'm not. I hate this feeling of being so close yet not there. At least 1 year ago, I know that I still need around 1 year before I complete my studies. I'm going no where so don't think too much. 2 years ago at least i know i'll be going home for holidays, so there's much to think about. But now, it's like I doon't know if i should set myself in a going-home feeling, or staying back and work my ass off. Fark!!!! I want to go home!!!!
Sometimes i really missed creative birthday celebrations. In this 4 years here, we either celebrate birthday in a chinese buffet restaurant or we make 'grand' dinner for the birthday boy/girl for one and only obvious reason, to save cost. It's been a while that I had a real birthday cake or a real celebration. But yeah, what can i do about it? Money doesn't flow like water for me and my friends. But sometimes it's not just about the money, it's also the environment. In malaysia, I can think of plenty of ways to celebrate birthday without really spending alot of money. But here, sighzzz. Anyway, here's some of the pics of friday's outing..
Well the food obviously taste the same as those typical buffet food, but at least it's all you can eat so no quality but quantity.
Sighz, it's 24th August today. At 10.15am, I was waiting for my luggage bags in KLIA i think. Honestly I really missed home so much. August + Sept + Oct was the most sweetest months for me. I don't know about this year though. Yeah though it looks like I'm almost done here, but yet I'm not. I hate this feeling of being so close yet not there. At least 1 year ago, I know that I still need around 1 year before I complete my studies. I'm going no where so don't think too much. 2 years ago at least i know i'll be going home for holidays, so there's much to think about. But now, it's like I doon't know if i should set myself in a going-home feeling, or staying back and work my ass off. Fark!!!! I want to go home!!!!
I wanted to blog about the grandfather award given to our "Hero" today but I'll leave it to 2moro maybe coz i was back late from a more interesting things today. Maybe I'll just make it a summary. only one phrase to describe it, WHAT THE FUCK!!! DOES HE DESERVE IT??? The moral of this thing is to stop teaching your kids to study, just go and do sports from young, and go through heeps of training and just go win a medal, and guess what you will be given a rank very soon lolz!!
Forget about the thingy, lets talk about today's experiment. Loh Mai Kai!!! Loh Kar Sang's brother lolx...nah....i mean Glutinous Chicken Rice. Well, as i mentioned before, I am not a pro so I won't put up the recipe. Go search for it online yourself lolx. Anywayz, check out the pics ya.
This is the first one.
This is the one with EXTRA chicken and mushroom on it. I call it the X-LMK....for obvious reasons and NO, it's not a new member of Prof. Xavier's new student.
This is the comparison of the big bowl and small bowl. Hmm, doesn't look so different in this pic though. Hehe.
So, people what you think about it??
Forget about the thingy, lets talk about today's experiment. Loh Mai Kai!!! Loh Kar Sang's brother lolx...nah....i mean Glutinous Chicken Rice. Well, as i mentioned before, I am not a pro so I won't put up the recipe. Go search for it online yourself lolx. Anywayz, check out the pics ya.
This is the first one.
This is the one with EXTRA chicken and mushroom on it. I call it the X-LMK....for obvious reasons and NO, it's not a new member of Prof. Xavier's new student.
This is the comparison of the big bowl and small bowl. Hmm, doesn't look so different in this pic though. Hehe.
So, people what you think about it??
I lost count how many emo post i've posted, so the best is to use variable n to represent lol. I actually wrote this post at 5am in the morning, but didn't manage to post it up. It's pretty weird if I'm not sleeping at that hour these days. Nah I'm just kinda feeling emotional that's why. I had a really bad heacache yesterday though it hasn't been visiting me that often these days.
All the olympic streaming feeds are down today, so I guess I won't be able to watch anymore but it's gettin gboring anywayz and there's nothing i can do about it.
I should be talking about my emotional problems but the question is I don't even know why am i so emotional. Maybe it's the month of August. As mentioned before in my blog, August, Sept, and Oct had been the most wonderful months in the history. Maybe now things changed. August will no longer be a happy month for me anymore. I'm wondering, why have I forgotten all the things I've learned in the pass 3 years but year those Augsut memories are still as fresh as those seafood newly caught from the sea. Crab!!!! And I'm not just talking about last year or last 2, but it's like last 5-6 years.
I just had a chat with my ex a few hours ago and I enjoyed the chat although it was only a short 20 mins. I always enjoyed her company no matter what. But it's always after that chat, I'm starting to feel more emotional.
I really missed those old school days. I miss those midnight mamak and basketball hangouts. I miss movies outing. I missed so many things that I couldn't put it into words. Jimmy once asked me do I prefer Germany or Msia, I answered him both equally. But now, I think I changed my mind. I think I prefer Msia more because of the precious memories I had!
All the olympic streaming feeds are down today, so I guess I won't be able to watch anymore but it's gettin gboring anywayz and there's nothing i can do about it.
I should be talking about my emotional problems but the question is I don't even know why am i so emotional. Maybe it's the month of August. As mentioned before in my blog, August, Sept, and Oct had been the most wonderful months in the history. Maybe now things changed. August will no longer be a happy month for me anymore. I'm wondering, why have I forgotten all the things I've learned in the pass 3 years but year those Augsut memories are still as fresh as those seafood newly caught from the sea. Crab!!!! And I'm not just talking about last year or last 2, but it's like last 5-6 years.
I just had a chat with my ex a few hours ago and I enjoyed the chat although it was only a short 20 mins. I always enjoyed her company no matter what. But it's always after that chat, I'm starting to feel more emotional.
I really missed those old school days. I miss those midnight mamak and basketball hangouts. I miss movies outing. I missed so many things that I couldn't put it into words. Jimmy once asked me do I prefer Germany or Msia, I answered him both equally. But now, I think I changed my mind. I think I prefer Msia more because of the precious memories I had!
Thank you Sheng Wa for correcting my English in the previous post lolx. Anywayz, Lee Chong Wei won today's semifinal and the best thing of all is that he kisses the flag when he won. Abit ugly when he jump on the coach and hug him. Ish tak halal!!! but yeah, kiss da flag!! Show the Chinese we're MALAYSIAN chinese not from china!!!!
Just speaking about badminton, I am of course one of a badminton fan. I knew this 21 points system hav been long implemented but I kinda dislike it. It makes player really hard to come back if you're lagging behind. I mean in any sports, of course when you have a big lead you will hope that you will go on winning then. But sometimes you want to see a fight spirit. Manchester United was like that in 1999 treble. They were down 1-0 until the very end in stoppage time 2-1. This is what we call drama. But wif the 21 point system, you not only win the service back but you also win a point. So what's the point?? when your opponent is already at 20th point, it's so rare that he made mistake or the opponent somehow kill his lead. But the previous 15 points system, it was good. You can win the service back and go on chasing up until the very end. As long as you keep the service and win every point, you get to catch up.
Anywayz, can't do much.
Just speaking about badminton, I am of course one of a badminton fan. I knew this 21 points system hav been long implemented but I kinda dislike it. It makes player really hard to come back if you're lagging behind. I mean in any sports, of course when you have a big lead you will hope that you will go on winning then. But sometimes you want to see a fight spirit. Manchester United was like that in 1999 treble. They were down 1-0 until the very end in stoppage time 2-1. This is what we call drama. But wif the 21 point system, you not only win the service back but you also win a point. So what's the point?? when your opponent is already at 20th point, it's so rare that he made mistake or the opponent somehow kill his lead. But the previous 15 points system, it was good. You can win the service back and go on chasing up until the very end. As long as you keep the service and win every point, you get to catch up.
Anywayz, can't do much.
Just when you think having pimples all over your face is very painful, I just had a pimples
IN MY ASS!!!!
Too bad I can't take pics coz it will turn my blog into porn site. I just feel damn pain sitting down and lying down on the bed.....fark!!!
Too bad I can't take pics coz it will turn my blog into porn site. I just feel damn pain sitting down and lying down on the bed.....fark!!!
Well, my sifu Sheng Wa asked me to post it up here. I didn't wanted to because if u compare side by side with his cooking, mine is shit!!! I really don't know how to decorate my food although some of those that i made really taste good. The good old shallot decoration have been used too many times, and doesn't look nice anymore. But anywayz, here's some of my "masterpiece"...
Tom Yum Soup.....
Well, it's easy if you have all the ingredients. Don't ask me for those coz i'm not a pro. Go google and type "Tom Yum Soup Recipe" lolxxx....and the best of all...i cook normally for 3-4 meals.....save money!!!! The best thing is that the longer u keep the more spicy it gets. Spicy is good. I'm HOT!!!
Tom Yum Beehoon Soup....
It's the same soup as the previous one. Just that i ate it with beehoon, and i purposely put all the chicken/mushroom visible for photos compare to the previous one lolx.
Pure Egg Fried Rice......
This is the most economic fried rice as it only has egg and rice. But it's tasty. The pic was taken wif the blardy camera of N70, so it sux. And remember what i said bout decoration, this is the sample of my ugly work.
Kung Pao Chicken
This my fren, is one of my proudest ever made. It was the second try though since the first try it was too watery and salty, plus the meat was not properly defrost. This version, which was done today 11th August, taste good n looks more like it. Only thing, again bout decoration and It's not spicy enough. Somehow the dried chilli is not spicy anymore. Probably kept too long di. Last time i used the same dried chilli, it burns my tongue, but this time it doesn't.
So sheng wa, when ar u gonna give me some decoration lessons??
Tom Yum Soup.....
Well, it's easy if you have all the ingredients. Don't ask me for those coz i'm not a pro. Go google and type "Tom Yum Soup Recipe" lolxxx....and the best of all...i cook normally for 3-4 meals.....save money!!!! The best thing is that the longer u keep the more spicy it gets. Spicy is good. I'm HOT!!!
Tom Yum Beehoon Soup....
It's the same soup as the previous one. Just that i ate it with beehoon, and i purposely put all the chicken/mushroom visible for photos compare to the previous one lolx.
Pure Egg Fried Rice......
This is the most economic fried rice as it only has egg and rice. But it's tasty. The pic was taken wif the blardy camera of N70, so it sux. And remember what i said bout decoration, this is the sample of my ugly work.
Kung Pao Chicken
This my fren, is one of my proudest ever made. It was the second try though since the first try it was too watery and salty, plus the meat was not properly defrost. This version, which was done today 11th August, taste good n looks more like it. Only thing, again bout decoration and It's not spicy enough. Somehow the dried chilli is not spicy anymore. Probably kept too long di. Last time i used the same dried chilli, it burns my tongue, but this time it doesn't.
So sheng wa, when ar u gonna give me some decoration lessons??
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