Selamat Hari Jadi, Malaysia

Hari ini, 31 Aug 2007, Malaysia menyambut hari jadi yang ke-50.

Saya berasa amat bertuah kerana dilahirkan di negara ini.

Keranamu Malaysia, saya dapat belajar tiga bahasa dan menulis blog ini dalam Bahasa Melayu, Bahasa Inggeris dan Bahasa Cina.

Keranamu Malaysia, saya berkenal kawan-kawan dari negeri lain yang masing-masing mempunyai kebudayaan yang unik.

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Keranamu Malaysia.

"Jalur Gemilang"

Merahmu bara semangat waja

Putihmu bersih budi pekerti

Kuning berdaulat payung negara

Biru perpaduan kami semua

Puncak dunia telah kau tawan

Lautan luas telah kau redah

Membawa semangat jiwa merdeka

Semarak jaya kami warganya

Empat belas melintang jalurnya

Semua negeri dalam Malaysia

Satu suara satu semangat

Itu sumpah warga berdaulat

Jalur gemilang... di bawah naunganmu

Jalur gemilang... kami semua bersatu

Perpaduan ketaatan

Amalan murni rakyat Malaysia

Jalur gemilang... megah kami terasa

Jalur gemilang... kibarkanlah wawasan

Merah putih biru kuning

Jalur semangat kami semua

Berkibarlah Berkibarlah Berkibarlah

Jalur gemilang

The night is still young

第一次用华语写部落格。现在的心情，只有母语能完整的表达。

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今天下了一天的雨，凉风习习的夜晚，让人特别有感受。 也许午睡得太久，虽然现在已是凌晨，我却一点睡意也没有。电脑轻轻的播放着经典情歌，动听的音乐仿佛有安抚人心的作用，好久没有这样放松过。我喜欢现在，这一刻。心，是平静的，脑中有一种空白的感觉，是时候暂时把一切抛开，让紧绷的神经休息。

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明天，我还要走更远的路。

Bon Voyage

"Specially delicated to Fifi and Chun Fan"

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To Fifi: You are really a cute friend whom I enjoy being with. Sometimes I really admire that you could do so well in every areas. You will definitely continue to achieve more!!

To Chun Fan: Thank you for your help everytime I face problems with the studies. Despite of all the medals you have, yet you are so humble. You are the role model of all Malaysian students in NTU!!

"Bon Voyage, my friends, see you guys next year. I will miss you tremendously. Have much much fun in US!!"

I am sorry, Dear

I am sorry, Dear. I should not throw tantrum over the phone just now. Some of my words must have hurted you. I am so bad ; ( I sincerely apologise to you.

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I was just being too stressful. The projects are driving me crazy. Now I realise it's definitely not worth to hurt the people who love you just because of the stupid projects. Stress, it's part and parcel of life. I must learn how to overcome it and not to let it taking control over my life.

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Dear, thanks for your understanding. So lucky to have you supporting me.

Updates

Some updates for past events:

18 Aug 2007, Saturday

I met Lee Woon and Doreen for lunch. They are my dear friends cum secondary school classmates from Muar. We had Thai food. I ordered a Thai curry noodles which caused me a terrible stomach ache and diarrheas at night.

The MSA Alumni Appreciation Dinner was successfully held at Clarke Quay. I think that was the biggest out of campus gathering we ever had. There were 60-70 participants. Thanks for Kam Ling's great effort.

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19 Aug 2007, Sunday

I had the farewell lunch with Chun Fan and Fifi at Boon Lay market. They will be leaving on this coming Saturday but I am going back to Muar on Friday. I once thought of giving up the plan to go back so that I could send them off at airport. Yet I do not think I have any other time to go back in coming weeks. There is nothing more important than family. So I could only bid them farewell earlier.

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21 Aug 2007, Tuesday

I attended the first lesson of Belly Dance. Oh the instructor was late for half an hour. Nothing much I learnt on the first day because the class was too short (due to her late arriving).

Good morning, 22 Aug 2007.

Yeah I have a very good mood today. Haha all sort of good things happen in the morning.

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In the Professional Communiction lecture, I was socialising ;O I finally took up the courage to sms my ex colleague in the company where I did my internship. Oh, please do not misunderstand, this colleague, is a lady. What are you thinking? ;P I wanted to do it long time ago but I just could not find any reasons to sms her. Actually now I realise a simple greeting does not require a reason. Even for myself, regards from "long time no see" friends is a bonus for that day. So I think I shall contact them more frequently, including my very shy mentor (is a guy). They are definitely a group of people who make my industrial attachment meaningful.

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After the lecture, Min Chunn, Ti Liang and me went to grab free goodies immediately. Then we discovered somebody who was supposed to go to a briefing, was collecting the goodies. It's Ka Hong!! This fellow, ran out so quickly from the lecture hall and we really thought he was late for briefing lor. Not too bad, without long queue, I managed to get a free t shirt (the most valuable out of all).

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The next thing, I went to see Professor for his academic advice. I felt quite relieved when he confirmed that I have the chance if I could maintain. (Not to reveal too much what's that. I will announce it when I get it.) I know that is not easy at all to do so. There are some inherent factors or some stupid subjects with default grades. I will work hard.

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(All of those described above happened within 2 hours of this morning.)

My Love, For You

"If I had to live my life without you near me
The days would all be empty
The nights would seem so long
With you I see forever oh, so clearly
I might have been in love before
But it never felt this strong

Our dreams are young and we both know
They’ll take us where we want to go
Hold me now, touch me now
I don’t want to live without you.

Nothing's gonna change my love for you
You ought to know by now how much I love you
One thing you can be sure of
I’ll never ask for more than your love.

Nothing’s gonna change my love for you
You ought to know by now how much I love you
The world may change my whole life through but nothing’s gonna change my love for you.

If the road ahead is not so easy
Our love will lead the way for us like a guiding star
I’ll be there for you if you should need me
You don’t have to change a thing
I love you just the way you are.

So come with me and share this view
I’ll help you see forever too
Hold me now, touch me now
I don’t want to live without you."


Yesterday we celebrated our 3rd Anniversary. We had a simple dinner at Jurong Point, followed by movie. It was a simple celebration. But I feel contented. My heart is full, of his LOVE.

Happy 3rd Anniversary!!

Which one would you choose to offer a ride to?

Below is an interesting test.

You are driving along your car on a wild, stormy night, it's raining heavily, when suddenly you pass by a bus stop, and you see three people waiting for a bus:

1. An old lady who looks as if she is about to die.

2. An old friend who once saved your life.

3. The perfect partner you have been dreaming about.

Which one would you choose to offer a ride to, knowing very well that there could only be one passenger in your car?

Think before you continue reading.

This is a moral/ethical dilemma that was once actually used as part of a job application.* You could pick up the old lady, because she is going to die, and thus you should save her first;* or you could take the old friend because he once saved your life, and this would be the perfect hence to pay him back. * However, you may never be able to find your perfect mate again.

The candidate who was hired (out of 200 applicants) had no trouble coming up with his answer............His answer:"I would give the car keys to my Old friend and let him take the lady to the hospital. I would stay behind and wait for the bus with the partner of my dreams."

Sometimes, we gain more if we are able to give up our stubborn thought limitations... and begin to "Think Outside of the Box"!

A bad experience at Harvey Norman Photocentre

I had a terrible photo printing experience at the Harvey Norman Photocentre yesterday.

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As usual, I went to the self service machine to choose and customise the photos. Everything went on smoothly until the collection part. The photo I have printed, was being cut at the top and bottom. It was printed nicely but just the paper size was incorrect.

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Initially the staff insisted that I have cropped the photo wrongly. He tried to reprint again and found that there was no way to crop the photo up or down. Then only he started to seek help from his colleagues. Those people were not really concerned with what had happened. They continued to chit chat as if I was not there.

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No one was able to solve the problem in such a big outlet. After that, he tried to called for another colleague and so called printer expert for help. No one answered his call. At the end, he told me that the techinical staff was on leave today. I gave him the suggestion to open up the printer and checked whether the papers were loaded correctly.

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"I do not know how to open the printer. Everything is preset and the printer operates automatically."

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This kind of answer seems too ridiculous to me. That was not a very complicated photo printer. A little bit bigger than normal photocopy machine. If they do not know how to load paper, then what will happen if the paper run out? There is no infinite supply of paper from the printer itself! Very obviously, there must be someone who knows how to do that in the center but choose to ignore it. Yet, how could be a big company like that only hires 1 techincal staff? So all Harvey Norman outlets in Singapore will only wait for 1 people to solve the printer problem? What I felt frustrated was, they did not offer solutions to the problem and not even to admit their fault. The staff just wanted to push the problem to other people. He did not even open to check the papers. No sincerity is shown at all. He asked me to come back on another day, with no guarantee I will get the perfect photo. The service level in Singapore is far behind.

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At the end, I asked for refund and decided not to waste my time there. I guess they are very happy of the refund because this means they do not need to solve the printer problem. Or maybe next time when other staffs face the same problem, then only let them solve it. Yeah, this is the art of "Taiji".