Haha!!

So a few days ago (Monday morning actually), I went out for breakfast with two of my childhood friends after settling some certificate stuff in school.

So while eating, I asked one of them about her business proposal assignment and she told me she was going to do about Popular Bookstores.

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Oh? You’re doing Popular? I did MPH last year!

Yea, I know. I saw your assignment.

Ar?

My lecturer let us take a look at it as a sample for us. She said it was a good example. I think it got quite high marks out of 40.

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You have no idea how happy I was when she told me that. I mean, to be honest, that assignment caused me so much of problems and we finished it the night before we had to hand it in. I was the editor/leader of the group so I think I had more to worry about compared to the rest.

My group members were all really supportive. All of them came on time to the meetings and all helped to make the assignment happen.

That was really the first time we did an assignment of that scale. We had to plan everything from scratch on how to start up a business here in Kampar. Since the more common themes like entertainment and food were taken, I decided for us to do MHP Bookstores.

That assignment was one of the most rushed ones I ever did, like I said before. Even after I printed the whole thing out, I still found mistakes in them. It was my fault, I didn’t read through it thorough enough before I printed it out. Too lazy and too tired. Haha

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so the above is a print screen of my FB status and my lecturer's comment! haha (yes i do chat with her on FB comments.) haha

I Want....

Don’t worry, I’m not going to rant or complain (at least I think I’m not but I can never be too sure of what is going to happen in my head…haha) again.

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Ok, I saw a post made by one of my band seniors (yes, I’m talking about this so if you want to leave, please go ahead) and she said that she hasn’t gotten a lot of ‘how are you’ questions since she moved overseas.

When I was in the band and she was my senior, I can say that I never got the amount of attention that I gave my juniors. The only time when I got it was the first few practice when I learnt how to play scales in under 30minutes. That time, two of my seniors were really proud and started showing me off (cheh wa..haha). I was really happy that time, I made my seniors proud. It’s a really good feeling. They were even talking about letting me join the Independence Day parade which was going to be held in about a month or so. Obviously I didn’t join the parade; I was still too much of a noob to be in the block.

Back to the topic;

After that I tried my best to be noticed but most of the time, it ended up in failure. I joined the band fairly late while my friends (of the same age) joined earlier. Common sense would tell you that they’re most likely closer to the seniors than I will ever be. Plus, they go to the same church so I’m guessing they spend quite a lot of time together too. So how am I to compete with them for attention? I sort of gave up after a few months of trying honestly speaking.

I don’t know why but somehow I felt as though I never lived up to their expectations during practice or the actual performances. Even if I did try my best, somebody else would have shined brighter and I’m casted aside. Still, I admit my limited skills in music and also I lack in many ways when it comes to the instrument and score sheets.

I can never make you feel proud of me again, can I? Ever since the day I learnt the scales, I don’t remember hearing a praise or anything of that sort. Yes, I’m being very DFA mainly because my seniors never paid attention to me T^T. I very sad you know. (haha joking la)

I was jealous of the other sections because they all seemed so close; seniors and juniors getting along well and always playing around, joking with one another. And if we shift our attention to my section, things were very different. There wasn’t a close bond between the members of the section, we were all individuals there. There was no such thing as ‘we are one section therefore we are one’. Sad isn’t it? (haha)

Of course, I was determined to make a difference with this section. Once I got the post of Section Leader and once my 3 little juniors came in, I was determined to make our section into a closely knitted unit. And of course being the usual sakai, siao siao, sampat-ed person I am, it was easy to get them together. Even other members told me that my section, we are always together.

I was really proud of my achievement.

I have this habit, which I’m not sure whether is it bad or not, I tend to give others what I never got. In this case, I never got the attention I wanted so I gave my juniors a lot of attention. Nothing goes unnoticed during practice. I try to be the friendly senior instead of a nasty and mean one stereotypically portrayed on TV. One of my members told my juniors that they were really lucky to be in this section because every other section has their very own senior that scolds a lot whereas ours didn’t. We had crazy, joke-able members and seniors. I rarely scolded them (I will if I was PMS-ing…haha!!), don’t really used really harsh tones on them and more importantly, I was a friend to them, not a senior.

That’s the important part; being a friend. My senior was a senior; I was a senior who was a friend. All formalities were dropped among us. We joked all we wanted, talked about ridiculous things etc. It was really fun going to practice knowing that I have them. I’d play around with them and frankly speaking, I don’t feel tired at all after marching for hours.

It’s hard work being in the band, but I don’t regret joining one bit. Heck, I’m really proud to say that I was a band member. I mean, how many people can say that “I was a band member back in the days”. Not many I can tell you. Haha

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This is really long isn’t it? Guess I ended up ranting/complaining after all. I’m sure that during your course of reading this post, you’ll find that this post (esp from the second part onwards) is really SS.

So what? Life is a learning experience. Learn to deal with the SS-ness that is my blog posts. LOL

Till the next post (most likely tomorrow?)

Get A Life Please

Ok, I think I’ve said this many times before, but I’ll just say it again.

*ahem*

I hate spoilt brats!

Seriously, they can’t expect the whole world to be at their hand and feet all day long. Like hello, reality check, the world revolves around the Sun not them! Honestly man (imagine British accent LOL), they really do expect the world to bow at them the minute they see them enter through the door or perhaps even curtsey? Ridiculous minds these people have, I would have to say.

Next, *clears throat*

I absolutely cannot stand people who calls and says nothing. Goodness! (fans self) those people have got to find something better to do than to waste my time with meaningless and empty calls. AH. MAI. GAWD. (grunts in frustration). Can there be anything more annoying than a person calling and not talking and just leaves the line hanging there and interrupting my personal schedule.

Which brings me to my next point.

Don’t you just hate it when somebody disrupts your schedule? Well I do. Even if it doesn’t look like it, I do put in effort and take time to plan out my schedule, like do homework from what time to what time, online for like half an hour then hit the books etc. I have everything plan out perfectly and the only thing that can get in the way of me executing it is my laziness to get my butt moving. That was until, a caller comes around and my schedule goes down the drain. Hate it when that happens.

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Ok, calm down, calm down. Breathe in, breathe out.

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Ok, I’m calm.

Reminiscence

It seems my sister has managed to dig out my old Bio book from my big trunk of books recently and I did remember myself drawing something on one of the pages while I was supposedly studying.

That picture must've been drawn when I was watching an anime called Wagaya No Oinari-sama, which is about this fox deity taking the form of a human and has fox ears on the head. I found it really cute and decided to try drawing one myself.

Anime characters like that are called Nekomimi characters.

So what do ya think about it? Obviously, I edited the colour etc because my camera can't really give a sharp focus.

psk..its really blur if you view it in full size so i suggest you just stick to looking at the small version =]

Remastered

A SONE by the username MEKEMEKE has been making remastered version of the covers the Girls sang live throughout the years. Vol 9 was released a few days ago and I downloaded a few songs from it and when i saw in the track list "02 Taeyeon-Tiffany-Jessica-Seohyun - There You'll Be (Hall-Live Version)", i was like, "yes!!! finally!! oh yea!"

It was a performance back in 2009 where the Girls performed at the Pusan International Film Festival.

I found several fancam of the performance and the quality was horrible, the fans were screaming, the audio was all over the place, that was until Vol 9 of the Remastered Album was released. Hahahah!!!! (yes i’m in love with their version of this song right now!)

a print screen of the web page^

for those who want to download the song, click here

and this is a video a fan made by combining a fancam video and the the remastered version of the song.

the video quality isn't that good though since it was just a fancam

enjoy ^^ i know i will hahhaa

Epitome

The Oxford Dictionary defines ‘epitome’ as a perfect example of something.

To me, contentment is the epitome of happiness. One can only be happy if one if contented with the current life he/she is leading. Is it not? Well, that is my opinion.

How can a person be happy if he/she is not content? Of course it is human nature to always want more and more things which are not necessary in daily life. Always wanting more is a typical human behavior that cannot be stopped. This problem leads to scarcity in economic terms, where human wants exceeds the limited resources the society has and thus, leading to humans making choices.

In life, there were times when I was not contented but there are also times where I am contented with my life. However I can say that I am not particularly fussy in the things that I want. I take them as they come and also as events happen.

Still, I don’t understand how others cannot seem to be contented with their current life and the things they currently use/own. For instance, why envy others of new items when you already have one version of it that works just fine but is just slightly older. True, new stuff is always nicer and much cooler compared to the older version; that I have to admit.

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In the events that took place recently, I really do feel that it is important to be contented with what you have at the moment. Life would be so much more miserable if you’re not and envying the others around you. Isn’t it? You’re just making your life miserable and also making others’ too because you’re always trying to get their stuff for yourself, that’s just sad.

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Manja?

I am not spoilt; I think most of my friends will agree on me when I say this. Being brought up as the eldest sibling in the family, I was taught to be independent and to rely on myself to get the things I want.

Obviously being the first born, there’s nobody older than you to help when you’re in need of it and there’s nobody to teach you anything which you don’t understand. Well, of course there’s always asking your parents but they’re busy too, you can’t bother them all day like you can with your older siblings. Right? I’m not sure; I never tried because I don’t have one. This is a mere observation from my sister constantly bothering me.

But still, believe it or not I am spoilt one particular aspect. Does anybody want to take a guess?

If you guessed food, you’re absolutely, spot on correct!

I am very (not a bit) spoilt when it comes to food. Growing up in a family of awesome cooks (my mom & maternal aunts) and also in a town of delicious food, it’s hard not to be fussy about the food I eat.

Here in my campus town, the food here is, as I like to say nowadays, “Ah Mai Gawd”. I am being the very flexible (chin chai) person that I am with the food that I eat here. With obvious reasons (coughcertainkiamsiapfriendscough), I practically kissed proper food (western food) goodbye throughout my stay here (well duh, western food is obviously more expensive). I think I'm a person that prefers/enjoys western food more than Chinese food at times. I clean the plate very well if it's western food in restaurants.

Secret Recipe has been opened for almost 3 months now and I still have not stepped in it yet (what is this man! I miss my Chicken Cordon Bleu!!)!!!

When it comes to food, I prefer to eat better food and pay more. After all, satisfaction is the key to enjoying ones meal! (cheh wa, philosopher *cheoreom). Why be miserable and eat something which only brings me little satisfaction when I can eat happily by paying slightly more? After all, with the way I’m currently spending, eating good food should be no problem since there’s nothing to shop here and I don’t buy things that often.

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I’m obviously writing this after a not-very-nice dinner, but I have nobody to blame for that. After all, I ordered that dish myself and it was a pathetic excuse of a plate of char kuey tiow I have ever seen and tasted.

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Hahahah!!!

*cheoreom: Korean for ‘like’

Eg: babo cheorom = like a fool (babo=fool/idiot, Korean equivalent to Japanese’s baka)