Moving out

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!

Improvements

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.

WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH, THE TOUGH GETS GOING!

13 Sept and Mid-Autumn Festival

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.....

HAPPY MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL
or
HAPPY MOONCAKE FESTIVAL
or
HAPPY TANGLUNG FESTIVAL

Sept 11

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......

the streak 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.

The Evidence of the End

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.!!!

Heck, this is da farking 200th post

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.

我恨我爱你

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



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.
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