nth really much to update. well, my mum recently got a promotion. So now she is the general manager of the HR department. Thing is, i dunno how come she got promoted. I mean, not that i doubt my mum's ability or anything, but she always tells says things like she sneaks off and comes home early whenever the boss is not around and stuff lidat. And then ever since she got promoted she has been coming home earlier and earlier! Not that it is a bad thing though.. we had some "celebratory" lunch at a pretty good Cantonese restaurant. I myself dun really appreciate Chinese cuisine but the food was really good! There was dim sum, roast duck, some soup with pig stomach and the wood from the pepper plant etc. but eeh sry no pics cos i was too busy bargaining with my parents about the payment of my driving license fees and gobbling down the delicious food lol


so anyway this is something i saw from some stranger FB friend. See if u can read in between the lines lol.

Good job marines.

Semper Fi

Kolo mee, insomnia and school

My dad just returned from Kuching, Sarawak and guess wad he bought back some Kuching's famous kolo mee!

For those ppl who dunno wad kolo mee is, it is one of the more famous cuisines of Kuching. It looks like normal wantan or char siew noodles but it is alot drier, alot less "liao", and its taste is very different! It is actually a very low budget hawker fare though. The last time i was in Kuching, my dad or grandparents use to buy it off this small makeshift shop that seems to only open in the morning. Then it is always wrapped up in a clear plastic as seen in the pics. It is really nice because, i dun really like Kuching. It is hot, run down, just like a typical small city in Malaysia. But this. I have fond memories of this. It is too bad that sg's version of kolo mee is so expensive. come on, its supp to be a budget dish!

Anyway here i am, blogging early in the morning waiting for sch to start. The holidays were very short, but they were fruitful. Project Madonna and gym has been keeping me busy for the last week, till the point that i think i am starting to fall sick. That and my cursed insomnia is giving me problems. Anyone has suggestions to beat insomnia? exercising dosen work anymore, i will just feel dam shag but cannot sleep =/ If this carries on, think i have to invest in those music cds designed to help you sleep faster.

oh well, anyway school has come again and there is no running away from it. Hope that my lecturers will be fun and interesting! now i will just lie on my bed till its time to go sch hahaha

Madonna, I have great expectations of you


Omg the holiday is ending so fast! ive been so busy that i lost track of time! anyway, i have really outdid myself this time. I scored pretty well for my exams; 3 As and 2 A-s. Didnt really expect to do so well! Now im just waiting for the letter of the dean to come. This could very well be the biggest accomplishment of this year! which i hope its not the case... since im planning to take a leap of faith haha.




“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”

belated mother's day

celebrated mothers day today at some buffet at some hotel somewhere in sg. forgive me for the ambiguous details. but i guess it wasnt really a mothers day present since the meal wasnt paid for by me or my brothers. oh well, at least i had a good meal =)

anyway just smt funny to note. my father created a fb account and named himself "WIlliam Brooke". I mean, where did that name come from?? LOL best part best part. he added me and my brothers, then used my youngest brother's unattended fb acc to accept it. so now he only has 1 friend hahaha. I had a hunch that this weird no face guy was my father because.... his only activity and interest is.... channel 8 and channel u. good 1 troll dad lol

ding ding

i never used to give much thought to animals. to me, they were like any other 'object' or non living thing that u see around u. its like, as long as they are not disturbing me i shall not bother about them.  i also cant really say i am a animal or dog lover because im not those kind of ppl who upon seeing reports of ppl abusing animals go "OMG THIS BASTARDS SHLD BURN IN HELL!!!" Rather, i would just look at them and go "meh".



But this dog is just too cute! it was simply love at first sight the minute i stepped into its house. I didnt know one could feel so attached to a dog. btw it is not mine, it belongs to a friend. it is a 1+ year old poodle, and playing with this dog really makes me want to get one too! but then, my parents dun like animals. But then even if they allowed me to get a dog, it is a fact that they live much shorter than humans, so inevitably they will die earlier than us. Sooo the thought of actually having a companion but knowing that it will leave u after 10 or so odd years makes me feel kind of sad. i dun think i can deal with the heartbreak =(

anyway these are all photos that ive already uploaded to facebook. just that these are the best ones =)

Lies

yesterday was a pretty awkward day. i was caught in many awkward situations. looking back, all these awkwardness caused and followed by one thing.

Lies.


that were made by both\ me and people around me, in the past and in the present.

A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future. ~Author Unknown

this is just the way it is. one may think that he can deceive others with his words. yes, he may. but only if he is never going to see the other person again. In the short run, a lie may save u, it may even empower you. but in the end, ur own actions will expose ur own lies.


And worse still, is to attempt to deceive ur friends. Do you really think its possible? when my friends do that, i really wonder if they are in fact, trying to deceive themselves. maybe not. maybe they are. AND people may hate me for doing it, but i MUST point it out to them. For to me, there is probably nothing more tragic than attempting to deceive urself. 

we shld never attempt to deceive our friends. They WILL see through the lies. and all one does is to make himself seem dishonest. but since they are 'friends' they will silently accept u for who u are. A dishonest person.


really? u may ask. but i only tell white lies. Here is smt to consider 

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind. ~Austin O'Malley

A white lie is a lie nonetheless. the best part is that this is the kind of lie that we usually tell ppl who are close to us. And these are the ppl who will likely uncover our lies. Will they be grateful? well, would u be grateful if u were the other person?


In the end, it just boils down to how white is the lie? think back to the reason about y the white lie was made in the first place. was it because u were worried that the truth would hurt the other person? or was it because u were afraid of the person hating u for the truth *aka u being hurt*. just smt to think about before we justify ourselves making a white lie.


A lie, white or black, is a lie nonetheless. It may be useful to get one out of a sticky situation. but a short term solution is never useful when used in the long run. when i say this, i mean that one shld not CONTINUE to deceive that person or themselves about things that are untrue. we shld always keep these lies to a bare minimum. In economics, there is smt called the principle of the second best. there are times where lies may be told to keep someone from getting hurt. But we should neither attempt to nor is it even possible to deceive them forever. In short, its not feasible to completely stop lying, but it shld always be kept to the bare minimum.


And to end off this reflection, here is a interesting quote to ponder over.

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger. ~Tad Williams

End of exams

so many things to update! but where do i start?? okok exams are over and it feels great to be free! but holidays are only 2 weeks... its feels too short to compensate the the amt of effort i had put in this semester. at least my efforts paid of for 1 of subjects, UGC112 *or world history 2* in which i scored an A-! its a huge jump from my previous UGC *or world history 1* in which i got a B. same teacher, same exam style all, this grade actually means alot to me cos it represents my willingness and perhaps ability to look back at past mistakes and learn from them to further improve myself =)

ok moving on. Ever since i last posted, i have made some new friends! well, actually they are not really new friends cos i do know them and they do know me, but we do not really tok much. well anyway, its been really fun hanging around them and they are really friendly! i really hope to one day break the shell of my current "clique" and integrate them with them

ok last thing to tok about. recently a friend has broken up with her bf. I am really sorry for her. although i do not fully know or understand the details, it is still saddening to hear that 2 ppl who have been together for so long have decided to break. i have always tot that they were the perfect couple till just recently when i realize that things were not really wad they seemed. I do not want to comment on who is right or wrong and i dun think it matters to me, or to her and anyone else anyway. what is important is that now she is back to her normal self *well, sort of* and i am really glad for that. I wish this fren a speedy recovery so that i can continue disturbing her without feeling guilty =)

anyway, I did a cover of a song called Rolling in the Deep by Adele. nice song. stuck in my head all week. and well, suits the mood of the week too. I dedicate this song to all the heart broken peeps out there, including the one i talked to this morning in fb. hope u guys will get over it asap =)