When I received the birthday present from my mom, immediately I knew it must be the Camel slippers my mom mentioned to me and insisted on when I said I didn't want a Camel slippers as I know they're expensive and I had plenty of flipflop or slippers. I knew it through the rectangular shape of the present and also the weight but she still ask me not to guess anymore and open it as if I didn't know...
Yes, it was a pair of Camel slippers INDEED. I tried it on and it was a bit too big for my feet. My sister tried and they fit hers, so now my birthday present is hers and hers will be mine. I'll have to wait till May then... and I told my mom that no more Camel slippers. She thought I didn't want Camel brand, so she said, "I'll buy you other brand's slippers ya..."
Oh well, life goes on... you'll still need to accept things that you don't want...
Monday, April 13, 2009
How to Save before Trip?
I had Iranian food on Saturday with Navid as I promised him long time ago- RM15
Played badminton after that- RM8 for shuttlecocks
Korean food for dinner, some sort of last dinner together before Taiwan trip- RM20
Dim Sum for breakfast with Bryan and family etc- RM11
Spent: RM54 in 1 day
Tueday...
Seniors' gathering cum farewell dinner- RMXX, definitely double figure cause they were expecting western food or buffet
Movie- RM10
Should be spending: RMXX (definitely more than RM20)
How to save money before trip?
Answer is no
Played badminton after that- RM8 for shuttlecocks
Korean food for dinner, some sort of last dinner together before Taiwan trip- RM20
Dim Sum for breakfast with Bryan and family etc- RM11
Spent: RM54 in 1 day
Tueday...
Seniors' gathering cum farewell dinner- RMXX, definitely double figure cause they were expecting western food or buffet
Movie- RM10
Should be spending: RMXX (definitely more than RM20)
How to save money before trip?
Answer is no
I'm FREEEEEEE!!!
The feeling of stepping out of class for the first time is not an exciting feeling as usual when we were so looking forward to go back home. This time, the feeling is unexplainable. I guessed I already started to miss my college life. I will miss my friends, I will miss the lecturers, I will miss doing assignments, I will miss presentations, I will miss receiving my marks and comments, I will miss all the gossiping sessions about lecturers and students, I will miss being late and skipping classes, I will miss eating in classes, I will miss doing last minute work and submitting it just right on time, I will miss having arguments in group works, I will miss chatting in class while there are presentation or lecture going on, I will miss hanging out with friends after classes, I will miss the activities, the events... I will miss each and every bits of my college life.
But at the same time, I'm free of worries and stress. I don't have to worry about the time anymore, whether I online a bit longer will delay my time in doing assignment; whether I should appear offline or busy in order to do my work in peace; whether I can go out watch movie or sing k with friends, afraid I will not have the time to do my work; or I need to keep thinking of what to do next, afraid that I will leave out some assignments; or have to keep doing research and seeing lecturer for consultation... I'm free to do anything now... and most importantly, I'm very looking forward to my graduation trip- Taiwan.
Therefore, the feeling is complicated...
After I'm back, it should be a new chapter for my life- working life. And if lucky enough for me to pass all my subjects including internship, I will be officially graduating. And I will officailly say goodbye and close my chapter in UCSI. I will move on to my working life...
But at the same time, I'm free of worries and stress. I don't have to worry about the time anymore, whether I online a bit longer will delay my time in doing assignment; whether I should appear offline or busy in order to do my work in peace; whether I can go out watch movie or sing k with friends, afraid I will not have the time to do my work; or I need to keep thinking of what to do next, afraid that I will leave out some assignments; or have to keep doing research and seeing lecturer for consultation... I'm free to do anything now... and most importantly, I'm very looking forward to my graduation trip- Taiwan.
Therefore, the feeling is complicated...
After I'm back, it should be a new chapter for my life- working life. And if lucky enough for me to pass all my subjects including internship, I will be officially graduating. And I will officailly say goodbye and close my chapter in UCSI. I will move on to my working life...
Happy Easter!!
Went to church today, heard a meaningful story on the power of reviving which is why we need to celebrate the day of reviving- Easter Day
Q: 2 same flowers planted at the same time same day but in different place and died at the same time same day. One in soil, one in a bottle with only water. The one in soil revived when the sun appeared but the other one still the same, dead. Why?
A: Because of the flowers' connection with the soil. The roots were the one who supported it to revive. Whereas the one in bottle didn't have any roots and connection with the soil
This theory same applies in human life. If we have a strong connection with god, anything can be revived. The term revived is not only for you to come back alive after death. It means that one can stand back after failure; can live a better life after going through all kinds of obstacles. These are what 'reviving' means, which I fully agree on the importance of reviving and believing in Him actually gives you the strength to believe in going through all kinds of obstacles.
Previously, in the same church, I saw another meaningful video which says...
There's always a pile of bills waiting there for me to clear, but I know it's because I still have a job
There's always a long way for me to walk, but I know that it's because I still can walk
There's always a pile of laundry waiting for me to do, but I know it's because I still have clothes to wear
There were still a lot more and I only can remember a few... but this video showed me the greatest meaning of gratitude. Never just complain of what you don't have, instead of complaining, why not appreciate what you have. Don't just have what you like, but like what you have.
Thanks Angeline for bringing me to your small but wonderful church :)
Q: 2 same flowers planted at the same time same day but in different place and died at the same time same day. One in soil, one in a bottle with only water. The one in soil revived when the sun appeared but the other one still the same, dead. Why?
A: Because of the flowers' connection with the soil. The roots were the one who supported it to revive. Whereas the one in bottle didn't have any roots and connection with the soil
This theory same applies in human life. If we have a strong connection with god, anything can be revived. The term revived is not only for you to come back alive after death. It means that one can stand back after failure; can live a better life after going through all kinds of obstacles. These are what 'reviving' means, which I fully agree on the importance of reviving and believing in Him actually gives you the strength to believe in going through all kinds of obstacles.
Previously, in the same church, I saw another meaningful video which says...
There's always a pile of bills waiting there for me to clear, but I know it's because I still have a job
There's always a long way for me to walk, but I know that it's because I still can walk
There's always a pile of laundry waiting for me to do, but I know it's because I still have clothes to wear
There were still a lot more and I only can remember a few... but this video showed me the greatest meaning of gratitude. Never just complain of what you don't have, instead of complaining, why not appreciate what you have. Don't just have what you like, but like what you have.
Thanks Angeline for bringing me to your small but wonderful church :)
What A Birthday!!
This was my most extraordinary birthday ever
Because on that day I spent most of my time preparing my Advertising Campaign and spent half a day in class, presenting and listening to other groups and a few things happened in a day which left me with a mixture of all kinds of feelings…
Exhausted:
I stayed awake ALL night and I know it’s very rare of me; usually I’ll rather sleep than to finish my assignment even though the due date is at 5pm the next day and I only completed 10% (that is why I always have late submission…); but this time, I didn’t sleep at all in order to complete my ad campaign designsss, reportsss and also grammar checking and compilation… The assignment ended up with 120 pages. The most ever… I think we can even sell it as a text book.
Frustrated:
At 4am I only started checking my group mates’ report (no choice cause I was the leader and have to ensure all reports were well written), and only found out that ALL her reports were quite off track. That was the time I began to panick but thank god Stephanie and another group mate shared my burden and stress together. They too stayed awake all night… rewriting her reports and also rechecking what were left out. Apparently, there were quite a few left out and they have to do it while I rushed for my design. The situation was bad until I nearly cried and gave up the entire project. It was my worst ever project as I had NEVER felt so stress, so frustrated, so panicking and so unconfident. When I’ve decided to share this burden with Stephanie together, she went nuts half way and was quite pissed off when she heard about it. On the other hand, another group mate asked me, “Do you think we can finish it?” I know we only have 7 hours to presentation and we haven’t finished our reports, designs, compile everything, printing, prepare what to presentation and also our slides. We didn’t even have time to double check our work. I didn’t have a certain answer either and I was really panicked and worried too, but being a leader I have to convince myself first even though the chances of finishing was 50-50. I told her, “Can one… we try… we work as a team…”
Panicked:
At 1.20pm, our group was the second group. First group had already started presenting and what was our group doing? My group mates were still rushing their slides and thinking of what to present. Half an hour passed, the first group was presenting their conclusion and I thought we were done with our slide. But when I check the slide, some of the things were missing. How long does a conclusion takes? Less than 5 minutes? And our slide is not ready? My hand was trembling while quickly typing in some of the points and rearranging the entire slide. They finished their conclusion but we’re not done yet. Everyone applause but they stop the applause saying that that was their first plan; they have a back up plan. I was relieved a bit but was still rushing off the slides and by the time they really finished, I did not have the time to double check the slides.
Upset:
When we started to present not long, my lecturer began to throw questions at us that we couldn’t answer as we intentionally present our lousier plan B first and so, we didn’t went into details, we couldn’t answer most of her questions. We were left there like a bunch of fools. Then when it was Stephanie’s turn, the whole thing went chaos. We noticed the slides wasn’t the latest slides and therefore the arrangement was wrong, some of the content was wrong, there was typo errors etc etc that I just have to stop the presentation before it is too late (my lecturer wasn’t tired of shaking her head when it comes to my group) and went back to search for the edited slides and repeated the presentation. Already said it was plan B and therefore we were supposed to just go through it briefly. I really mean briefly since my lecturer already shown signs of impatience. But one of my group mates went really into details until the lecturer seemed so bored and I thought she wanted to stop our presentation so much. I was having a heart attack at a side listening to her long and torturing presentation and seeing the lecturer’s expression, I said to myself, “there goes my ad campaign…” After dunno how many torturing minutes (probably 10 mins), another group mate was indeed fast but it wasn’t the original concept we discussed. She changed pretty much of the concept into her own concept and I told myself, “There goes my plan B…”
Disappointed:
I told myself, there goes my biggest birthday present even though I managed to pull it off for my part. But the entire marketing plan went so wrong. Additional to that, the rest of the groups were far better than ours. But as a leader, I should not pin point at any group mates. We work as a team and I knew I had to hide my sadness and disappointment.
Surprised:
After all groups’ presentation, everyone was ready to leave and go home but Yang announced that there’s another presentation and that stop everyone from going back. It was a final presentation on “Effective Ways to celebrate Evon Chong’s Birthday”.
Touched:
I cried toward the end of the video knowing everyone was so busy with their assignments; they still spent time on this meaningful video. Everyone had their thoughts on me and why they can’t live without me… It was indeed a final presentation as that class was my very last class in UCSI. And I will no longer be going to college and by next year I probably will lose contact with some of them and so this video I treated it as a farewell video…
Relieved:
When asked my lecturer for her opinion toward our campaign, she told me that she knew who did most of the job and who did not. In the end, she told me, “Evon, don’t worry, you’re safe.” Besides the video, this should be my second greatest present.
Happy:
Ms Lina called me and wished me Happy Birthday. She even asked how I will celebrate my birthday. Hehehe…
There you have it. Extraordinary right? I figure out the reason I cried so hard after watching the video. Cause I really had a very tiring day, mentally and physically, and never expected anyone will remember my birthday or do anything for me. And it’s a combination of surprised, touched, happy and relieved.
Thank you so much to all those who were involved in the video, I watched it for 3 times already and I don’t think I’ll ever get bored with it…
Thank you so much to my group members, especially Stephanie and Siew Lee who worked hard together with me. Poor thing, Siew Lee even asked me, “Evon, can I rest a while? My head really painful…” Without you guys our group will be dead! Our work should be alright ;) Will pray hard on it…
Thank you so much to those who helped me in my Ad Campaign when I was in desperate moments. You know who you are ;)
Will never forget such a birthday…
Because on that day I spent most of my time preparing my Advertising Campaign and spent half a day in class, presenting and listening to other groups and a few things happened in a day which left me with a mixture of all kinds of feelings…
Exhausted:
I stayed awake ALL night and I know it’s very rare of me; usually I’ll rather sleep than to finish my assignment even though the due date is at 5pm the next day and I only completed 10% (that is why I always have late submission…); but this time, I didn’t sleep at all in order to complete my ad campaign designsss, reportsss and also grammar checking and compilation… The assignment ended up with 120 pages. The most ever… I think we can even sell it as a text book.
Frustrated:
At 4am I only started checking my group mates’ report (no choice cause I was the leader and have to ensure all reports were well written), and only found out that ALL her reports were quite off track. That was the time I began to panick but thank god Stephanie and another group mate shared my burden and stress together. They too stayed awake all night… rewriting her reports and also rechecking what were left out. Apparently, there were quite a few left out and they have to do it while I rushed for my design. The situation was bad until I nearly cried and gave up the entire project. It was my worst ever project as I had NEVER felt so stress, so frustrated, so panicking and so unconfident. When I’ve decided to share this burden with Stephanie together, she went nuts half way and was quite pissed off when she heard about it. On the other hand, another group mate asked me, “Do you think we can finish it?” I know we only have 7 hours to presentation and we haven’t finished our reports, designs, compile everything, printing, prepare what to presentation and also our slides. We didn’t even have time to double check our work. I didn’t have a certain answer either and I was really panicked and worried too, but being a leader I have to convince myself first even though the chances of finishing was 50-50. I told her, “Can one… we try… we work as a team…”
Panicked:
At 1.20pm, our group was the second group. First group had already started presenting and what was our group doing? My group mates were still rushing their slides and thinking of what to present. Half an hour passed, the first group was presenting their conclusion and I thought we were done with our slide. But when I check the slide, some of the things were missing. How long does a conclusion takes? Less than 5 minutes? And our slide is not ready? My hand was trembling while quickly typing in some of the points and rearranging the entire slide. They finished their conclusion but we’re not done yet. Everyone applause but they stop the applause saying that that was their first plan; they have a back up plan. I was relieved a bit but was still rushing off the slides and by the time they really finished, I did not have the time to double check the slides.
Upset:
When we started to present not long, my lecturer began to throw questions at us that we couldn’t answer as we intentionally present our lousier plan B first and so, we didn’t went into details, we couldn’t answer most of her questions. We were left there like a bunch of fools. Then when it was Stephanie’s turn, the whole thing went chaos. We noticed the slides wasn’t the latest slides and therefore the arrangement was wrong, some of the content was wrong, there was typo errors etc etc that I just have to stop the presentation before it is too late (my lecturer wasn’t tired of shaking her head when it comes to my group) and went back to search for the edited slides and repeated the presentation. Already said it was plan B and therefore we were supposed to just go through it briefly. I really mean briefly since my lecturer already shown signs of impatience. But one of my group mates went really into details until the lecturer seemed so bored and I thought she wanted to stop our presentation so much. I was having a heart attack at a side listening to her long and torturing presentation and seeing the lecturer’s expression, I said to myself, “there goes my ad campaign…” After dunno how many torturing minutes (probably 10 mins), another group mate was indeed fast but it wasn’t the original concept we discussed. She changed pretty much of the concept into her own concept and I told myself, “There goes my plan B…”
Disappointed:
I told myself, there goes my biggest birthday present even though I managed to pull it off for my part. But the entire marketing plan went so wrong. Additional to that, the rest of the groups were far better than ours. But as a leader, I should not pin point at any group mates. We work as a team and I knew I had to hide my sadness and disappointment.
Surprised:
After all groups’ presentation, everyone was ready to leave and go home but Yang announced that there’s another presentation and that stop everyone from going back. It was a final presentation on “Effective Ways to celebrate Evon Chong’s Birthday”.
Touched:
I cried toward the end of the video knowing everyone was so busy with their assignments; they still spent time on this meaningful video. Everyone had their thoughts on me and why they can’t live without me… It was indeed a final presentation as that class was my very last class in UCSI. And I will no longer be going to college and by next year I probably will lose contact with some of them and so this video I treated it as a farewell video…
Relieved:
When asked my lecturer for her opinion toward our campaign, she told me that she knew who did most of the job and who did not. In the end, she told me, “Evon, don’t worry, you’re safe.” Besides the video, this should be my second greatest present.
Happy:
Ms Lina called me and wished me Happy Birthday. She even asked how I will celebrate my birthday. Hehehe…
There you have it. Extraordinary right? I figure out the reason I cried so hard after watching the video. Cause I really had a very tiring day, mentally and physically, and never expected anyone will remember my birthday or do anything for me. And it’s a combination of surprised, touched, happy and relieved.
Thank you so much to all those who were involved in the video, I watched it for 3 times already and I don’t think I’ll ever get bored with it…
Thank you so much to my group members, especially Stephanie and Siew Lee who worked hard together with me. Poor thing, Siew Lee even asked me, “Evon, can I rest a while? My head really painful…” Without you guys our group will be dead! Our work should be alright ;) Will pray hard on it…
Thank you so much to those who helped me in my Ad Campaign when I was in desperate moments. You know who you are ;)
Will never forget such a birthday…
Monday, April 6, 2009
Good Luck
I posted a shoutout in FaceBook.."Wish me luck in my MC final presentation today!!"
I've attracted 9 people including my Red Comm supervisor (really a surprise to me) and a few more college friends to wish me luck..all in different ways of saying luck..some say luck luck! some say good luck!!! some say all the best!!
Anyway, really thank you for all the warm wishes..I'm so touched..but I would prefer all these people wish me again tomorrow..
for I didn't present today :D
Cause I was too freaked out for all the comments the lecturer gave to the presenters today..and she said some might fail this subject..so, I'm gonna buck up my work and my power point..so afraid of failing!!
Wish me luck again for tomorrow!!
I've attracted 9 people including my Red Comm supervisor (really a surprise to me) and a few more college friends to wish me luck..all in different ways of saying luck..some say luck luck! some say good luck!!! some say all the best!!
Anyway, really thank you for all the warm wishes..I'm so touched..but I would prefer all these people wish me again tomorrow..
for I didn't present today :D
Cause I was too freaked out for all the comments the lecturer gave to the presenters today..and she said some might fail this subject..so, I'm gonna buck up my work and my power point..so afraid of failing!!
Wish me luck again for tomorrow!!
Kids Survive..
I got freaked out when angie msn me yesterday..
"I saw bus accident bo.."
It was roughly the same spot again, this time involving a school bus. When I first heard it I was so concern over the school kids.
News came out today revealing that all high school kids were safe, just some minor injuries. The bus went falling a side for the road was slippery after heavy downpour. But the driver was too freaked out that he ran away immediately. The police couldn't find him till now..
So irresponsible of him, darn idiot!! But thank god that they were all safe..
"I saw bus accident bo.."
It was roughly the same spot again, this time involving a school bus. When I first heard it I was so concern over the school kids.
News came out today revealing that all high school kids were safe, just some minor injuries. The bus went falling a side for the road was slippery after heavy downpour. But the driver was too freaked out that he ran away immediately. The police couldn't find him till now..
So irresponsible of him, darn idiot!! But thank god that they were all safe..
Zui Jin
你最近不说话
怎麽了为什麽
是不是有什麽事让你不快乐?
I like this song very much..It's zui jin by Lee Sheng Jie
I know I've upset someone and I might lose a friend..
A friend of mine that I might never ever hear again..
A friend of mine that might never talk to me again..
A friend of mine that might never smile to me again..
I know u're unhappy,
Deep down, I really want to apologize so desperately..
When can we be like before?
I'm missing yesterday..
怎麽了为什麽
是不是有什麽事让你不快乐?
I like this song very much..It's zui jin by Lee Sheng Jie
I know I've upset someone and I might lose a friend..
A friend of mine that I might never ever hear again..
A friend of mine that might never talk to me again..
A friend of mine that might never smile to me again..
I know u're unhappy,
Deep down, I really want to apologize so desperately..
When can we be like before?
I'm missing yesterday..
Sunday, April 5, 2009
I'm like Animal
I want to sleep like pig,
hibernate like bear (be like O Hui Lei),
be lazy like snake,
but I can't be any of them...
I have to work lke cow,
Be quick like cheetah,
Be lively like monkey,
Be wise like owl,
Cause the amount of workload is as high as mountain,
The tension is like shit,
Being a leader is like crap...
Cause everytime I procrastinate like...
like...
like...
Bobo Chong (only word to describe)
I want to be a pig, a bear and a snake
cause I did not have enough sleep recently and energy level is really low
for I was, am and will be awake at night like bat,
Wake up early like bird...
Be a goddess no more...
But how long more?
hibernate like bear (be like O Hui Lei),
be lazy like snake,
but I can't be any of them...
I have to work lke cow,
Be quick like cheetah,
Be lively like monkey,
Be wise like owl,
Cause the amount of workload is as high as mountain,
The tension is like shit,
Being a leader is like crap...
Cause everytime I procrastinate like...
like...
like...
Bobo Chong (only word to describe)
I want to be a pig, a bear and a snake
cause I did not have enough sleep recently and energy level is really low
for I was, am and will be awake at night like bat,
Wake up early like bird...
Be a goddess no more...
But how long more?
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