music

I somehow feel very... Quiet and empty... A very vague feeling, kinda hard to describe... Maybe it's because I've not been listening to much music lately, when back then I listen to music a lot. Hmmm.. Time to turn on the music player!

sem 2 life

Today is the start of my second semester in uni. Sigh. Got back to the hostel yesterday evening, about 5pm. Took my keys. Lucky I was in time, a moment later and I'll be too late to collect my keys. If I didn't collect it in time, and since my roommate was on the way back from Taiping and would definitely reach after 5pm, then we won't have a room to stay in!!! Because the office is closed after 5pm -.- Mistake made and learnt from. Thank goodness.

Anyway, after taking my keys, chucked my luggagessss (plural, yeah) into my room. Cleaned up the room and then went out for dinner with Wei and my parents in Serdang. Or rather in Sri Kembangan. After dinner, we got back to the hostel and coincidentally my roommate just got back and gave me a call. She was standing outside the door without a key (office is closed and she couldn't get hers, I'm the only one with the key at that moment) and I just reached the hostel. We met outside our room door. haha! After unpacking and catching up for a bit, and a failed attempt at going online (internet didn't work), we both decided to watch a drama :D fun fun~

Today, the first day has been quite... bleh... Basically woke up early and rushed off to the faculty for registering courses stuff. Had some things to deal with. Then went to class. The lecturer looked mean, and not too friendly. But later on she started showing a not-so-scary side of her. Although she still scares me...

Gah I can't believe I'm back in uni so soon. Feels just like yesterday when I was in Genting with my coursemates. When I was watching Coraline with the girls in Poh Yee's room. When I went to pasar malam with my coursemates. When I went to Mines with my coursemates. When I went to Mid Valley with my coursemates. And now I'm already here, starting my second sem. Blahh...

Anyway that's enough for now, since I'm gonna go watch drama hahahahaha!! At least something to look forward to in uni ^^

president's cup day 3 and 4

Alright, here's day 3 and 4 of President's cup! (Warning : many photos!)

Note on Matthew's right, there's an 'electronics kid' playing DS and another one standing on the right of the picture.

Taking Lih Hui and Sonia to the reporting room! Their first competition...

The girls, from left, Lih En, Jin Ann, Ethlyn, Tze Wen.

From left, Xiao Yen, Ghost Security, Housekeeping girl XD

Father and daughter - Mr. Ong and Lih Hui (and her really over sized shirt)

The first time swimmers! 2 girls and 3 boys.

This guy is the electronics kid of the century!

Nicholas, one of the first timers.

Joshua, the other first timer.

(Not so happy) Sonia and Lih Tyng

Lih Hui and (very happy) Sonia

The tired team manager :)

Nervous!

Again, the electronic kids and their electronic devices!

Camera shy Maryann

The older bunch. The un-electronic-ified group remaning.

The boys

And some kids with the parents

Haha!

The 5 of us with Mr. Chan

From here on, we were on a mission to take random pics with random ppl, starting with not so random ppl :)

The 5 of us with Mrs. Koh

The 5 of us with Nicholas

First pic with random people. The boy wearing the jersey had JB WONG on the back of his shirt, which was our reason for taking photo with him :)

The 5 with Tania

5 with Samantha

5 with PADE dance performers

5-1 (Lih Tyng disappeared) with Jun Xiong

5-1 with Coach May

5 with Sharkies performers

5-1 plus Tania with Stingray performers

With Cempaka performers

With Blue Marlin performers! *sorry sorry*

Chan Yen and the extremely-reluctant-to-take-photo Ethlyn... :)

Matthew-Chan Yen-Yit Wei

The two coaches, Matthew and Coach May

Sleeping team captain Jing Wen ^^

Sleeping team captain Chan Yang ^^

Chan Yen and meeeee

Electronic kids going back to the traditional cards.. Chor tai di!

Maryann, Jaclyn, Chan Yen

Mother and daughter

Bryan! Cute kid~

Sonia still swam even though she fell and had to get stitches on her head :)

Chan Jie, Jing Wen's handphone and Jing Wen

Bryan with Ethlyn's dog

*bright smile* Tsien Ee!!!
(Note the new Milo shirts! It doesn't have swimming printed on though)

It's been a great 4 days 3 nights, eventful, fun, and getting to know the younger kids better is a real bonus point too! Something I really enjoyed, took my mind of things and let me just enjoy the present moment.. Thanks to everyone who made it fun ;)

president's cup day 1 and 2

Went for President's Cup swimming competition (Ong Kee Hui swimming competition's new name) at Paroi. Spent 4 days 3 nights there, taking lots of pictures and enjoying. Here's some pics during the trip!

Day 1 - Going to Paroi, lunch, check in at hotel, warm up at pool, dinner, shopping for food at Giant...

Day 2 - Competition, dinner, hotel~

At a restaurant for lunch, the usual that we go to when we're at Paroi (forgot the name -.-)

The boys... (not all)

The girls...

The team of swimmers

Shopping for hot cup!

*contemplating which is the best buy* haha

Matthew's flooded room!

There was a problem with the tap, and apparently it leaked till their whole room was floodedddd

The corridor outside their room was also flooded with water

Day 2 - The start of the competition.

The front of our shirts for first day of comeptition

The back of the shirts. All 3 shirts have this design on the back: Dual-Coach inside lol!

Tze Yang and his electronics :)

*pure concentration*

Playing cards to pass the time...

cardsss!!!

The tired coach resting his eyes

HAHA.. ;)

Chan Jie and me!! :D

Chan Jie and Tze Yang~

Me and Tze Yang

The boys looking for some snacks

The girls~

Da Yang and Xiao Yang - big and small Yang XD

Electronics again~

Stitching Yit Wei + Matthew attempt 2 or 3.. The eyes are not level haha

Lih Tyng + Yit Wei - apparently he/she is pretty ;)

Bryan, Tsien Ee, Tze Yang engrossed with a handphone :)

So far this is it for Day 1 and 2!! More on the next post... Continuing Day 3 and 4...

okh post coming up sooonnnn

I haven't been blogging much lately. Well, I do have photos and stuff about OKH/President's Cup I want to post up, I'm just about working on the post now. It'll be done soon, I hope, then I'll post it up! This competition/trip has been a good one, and I want to share it :)

Tomorrow I've got to wake up early... I hope I can wake up! Well I should be able to, but I'm planning to watch a football match tonight, Liverpool vs Arsenal, and it starts at 12am. After the match ends it'll be about 1.30-2am, and then only I'll go to bed.

Oh, I've been enjoying taking photos with the camera lately. Although the photos are nowhere near professional and my photography skills (or lack of them) are nothing to shout about, I really enjoyed taking the pictures. Mostly shots of my father's plants out in the garden, since I forget to bring my camera to anywhere else. Hahaha. (I need to learn to never leave the house without a camera, lol!) Anyway, I'll post those pictures up sometime too. I need to compress or whatever first otherwise they'll take forever to upload... :)

That's all for now, do be patient and wait for OKH/PC post!

holidays so far...

Since I got back from Genting, I think I haven't posted much... Well, basically I've done alot, yet at the same time not much, over the past 2 weeks. I'm left with 4 weeks before I start the next sem!! Oh my...

Well, for my holidays so far, I've definitely been getting some exercise. Not a lot, but much more than the "exercise" I get in uni. Badminton, polo training, a little bit of swimming and dry land exercises so far. Yesterday was the most I did, where I had two solid hours of badminton and after roughly 2 hours of rest, I had polo training. And the first thing we did, 10x1 lap sprints, really got my heart pumping. I was dead tired, even standing on the edge of the pool made me feel a little light-headed because I was sprinting hard. Feels damn good to exercise like that again!

And today I woke up and after going online for a while, I get an SMS, saying results are out. I f.r.e.a.k.e.d. o.u.t. Yeah, I was just totally enjoying myself, not bothering about results, expecting it to come out it at least another week or two, and I get that kind of SMS, it definitely shocked the hell out of me!!!!! Panic attack. And the internet was not working. Panic attack worsens...

When I realised why the internet wasn't working (the phone line was not plugged in O.o ), I went to esmp (the website UPM students use for all the academic stuff) and clicked on the link to get my exam results. I entered my matric number (identification for students) and password, clicked enter, and panicked. The website asked me to contact Bahagian Akademik. Did I fail so badly that they won't even show me my results online!?!?!?!? AARGHHHH... After asking around, figured out how to check the results (the indirect way, had to log in to a different part of esmp) and... *phew* I didn't fail. But this day has probably given me too much shock for me to handle. No more shocking news, please!

Well, results are, simply put, shocking and unexpected. (period.)

Some other random things : Still quite into Taylor Swift's song. And New Moon is out!

some photos - flowers

Some photos I took with the new camera in the house. Testing out the camera on my father's plants and flowers in the garden, using macro mode (by far my favourite mode! :)

Light purple-ish bougainvillea


The leafy part of this plant has been, er, 'connected' to the rest of the branch.. Grafting is what it's called, if I'm not mistaken...


The graft of the plant!


Some more bougainvilleas... This one's a very strong colour.


A lonely orange-ish bougainvillea flower.

My father is in the background, telling me what flowers to take pictures of =p


Some white ones


These flowers, (no idea what they're actually called) look like little birds flocking together. Cute! :)


More pink little birds...


The colours on this bougainvillea are mixed orange and light pink~


A purple orchid


White bougainvillea


More pink little birds~~~


Yes, I like them very much that's why I'm posting up so many pics of them :)


The 'birds' look like they're crowding together for food or something...


One of the pitcher plants in the garden


Some white I-don't-know-what-you-call-this flowers that float on the "pond" in my home...


The strong bright colours of this flower made it really hard to focus on!!! Maybe the picture didn't turn out well?

These are just some of the photos that I took with the camera. I've wanted to post them for quite a while but never got around to doing it. Now that I have, hope you all enjoy, although it lacks quality and professionalisme, at least enjoy the flowers.. hehehe :)

the final battle

A few pieces of white paper, printed with black ink and held together with a piece of metal, also known as a staple. That is what's standing (or, in this case, lying on the table) between me and my freedom. Yes, a few sheets of clean white paper splattered with specks of black and clipped with a tiny little staple, is stopping me from my blissful, uni- and studies-free 6 week long wonderful holiday. *sigh*

I've got myself ready for the final battle. It's been a long war, it's been tough. Tomorrow is the final battle, after which the war is over, and victory (or defeat) will be determined. The final hurdle that I have to jump, before I can race on to the finish line.

I've been preparing for this battle, the last battle of this long and draining war will be important. Like how the last lap of the F1 race can determine who wins first and second place, or how the last straight stretch can determine the winner in a 400m run. It may be the final battle, but it doesn't make it any easier or less important.

I have my "weapons" to aid me in this war - pen, pencil, calculator. I have my "armour" to protect me from "attacks" - eraser, liquid paper. I have my battle plans and strategies - formulas, theories, calculation methods - in my head (well, maybe not all, but trying to get most of them in).

Good luck for the last battle!