First wedding dinner

Last weekend, I went back to Penang. This time, I knew that I would be terribly busy of helping  Li Hui family up during the preparation of wedding dinner. The first wedding dinner was held on last Friday night and the host was the bride's side. I reached the restaurant 金喜楼 at Butterworth 30minutes earlier than where I was supposed to. I just helped them to lead the guests to their tables according to their identities. Nothing special happened during the wedding. The dishes were tasty enough and the people on the stage did enjoy in singing.

I forgot to describe the bride and bridegroom at that night. Actually the bridegroom wore in a formal attire with a white shirt and a black color coat. He looked dashing with a tiny black ribbon on his neck and joyful with a full-time grin hanging on his small and charming face. Everybody know that he was very happy and satisfied. Besides that, our bride - LLL looked so gracious that night with a fashionable wedding dress in purple color. Her height made the dress on her more attractive and well-looking, and making her the most wonderful lady that night. The way she grinned was amazing and telling us that she was really in love with this gentleman. No one would be able to keep their envy towards both of them.
 
I was happy to see them getting to this stage in their lives, it must not be an easy path for them to undergo. Deep inside my heart, I wish them all the best in their future lives and everyone will never stand between them to hold them from loving each other sweetly.

Ups and downs

Early in the morning after the first wedding dinner, I woke up by the talking noise from the gate of the house. I just noticed that people started to crowd at the gate there as the time was near for the bridegroom to come and bring his lovely wife back to his home. I jumped out of the bed and rushed to the last room and hided myself up, as I was like very guilty to be late prepared. After washing my face and taking bath, I helped them up to prepare the tool of punishment for the coming games specially prepared for the handsome bridegroom. The atmosphere was good enough, it's just a long blank when we were waiting the YOUTUBE to load gangnam style. I was brought into a very terrible moment, when it came to the punishment of all the gentlemen. They threatened me by saying that I will lose my job in the future if I dare to punish them. What??!!! I just noticed that they are workers in consultancy firm, they can anytime be my senior in my career. Thank God, I have succeed to escape from that horrible situation.

Finally, they managed to go through all the troubles and the bridegroom brought the bride out of the room gentlemanly. The mode was up to the peak when she came out with a white and typical wedding dress. Then, they started to offer tea to the elders, afterwards the youth came to them and congratulate them with all the pleasant wishes. Actually, I was not really sincere in giving wishes, but today I know that that was really meaningful to give your sincere wish in this very moment.

I would like to write down a sentimental moment in that morning. When it came to the time that the spouse dedicated a tea for kmak to drink, kmak started to bow down her head sadly and wept soundlessly. People asked her not to cry, if I were her, I would ask them "Go to die.". You would never know how it feels like when you are going to let go your dear and obedient daughter away from you. After a long period of tears and laughter you had for her and with her, now it came to a very cruel and realistic part, when you have to let go her familiar hands.

Everything in future for her is uncertain afterwards, and uncertainty is the only thing you are usually scared with in our whole life. I believe that she trusts the bridegroom will give her a better life in future, it's just that she will never be able to let go the memory of sweetness and toughness with her dear daughter, she has no reason to let go those amazing memories.

We can't get our lives stagnant like a blocked river in a milky color looks lifeless and unattractive. Life is just like an electrocardiogram, there must be a non-stop ups and downs in the diagram if we consider the pupil is alive. It will only be a straight line when the pupil is no longer alive. Life without ups and downs has no meaning to look forward anymore. Therefore, cherish every moment we have and every breath we used to take for granted.

Thank you and Sorry, brother.

Finally, I am home. Alone, I stayed at my room studying on my bed while a poodle (Rice) was lying on the floor silently. My younger brother came in, and started to talk with me seriously. He said that my eldest brother was unhappy to be rejected by me every times he asked me out to have a sharing about Amway.

I was shocked of this statement, meanwhile I felt terribly bad of myself. I did promise him to go out with him several times, but finally due to the meetings in College, I have to turn him down. Three times he found me for the same purpose, but I failed to even follow him all of them. I can't help but just hope that my younger brother can help me to explain my situation, I was not willing to reject anyone especially him. But that was my duty to be in the meetings and occasionally the meetings crashed with the Amway lessons.

I didn't mean to get apart from him at all, actually I am quite willing to know something new and beneficial. I heard that Amway gives a lot of motivation talks to the members and it does help them to be passionate in their lives. I am quite curious of the system actually, and wonder how the policy and system can turn a people 180 degree. For instance, my brother was a gamer who often spent his free time to slouch in front of the computer, used the late night time to do his assignment or work. His life style was never considered to be healthy. But after joining Amway, he is getting more and more passionate and concerned to his own health. He gets really motivated and determined to make this business a success for the sake of his life. I could never imagine this kind of change will happen on him just merely because of this Amway.

I have met people changing due to love, someone, religion or belief. But I couldn't believe that Amway could make a change on people. I quite salute this kind of change in fact. I am a people who always looks for further improvement. Hence, I managed to accept this kind of good change instead of finding the company very weird and brainwashing. However, it is sad for being incapable to support him through my action. I hope he really can understand my busyness and forgive my rejection to his kindhearted invitations.

After all, I just hope that he doesn't get so disappointed due to my rejection. I hope that he knows that rejection doesn't mean disapproval. I wish him all the best in everything he does, and wish to say to him, "Thank you and sorry, bro."  

Crazy day ever!

Today is a crazy day to me with a lot of unexpected surprises which turned our mood up and down drastically.
Before that, I have to mention that last night Chinese Community of 11th college was having a long meeting. We took about 3 hours to discuss many important issues in 11th CC, and I was happy that most of us were so active to response during the meeting though we spent quite a lot of time. It was tiring at the end of the meeting, most of us looked so sleepy and tired. However, the spontaneous king - Soh Chun Chyn forced us to have a supper, and convinced them to follow by giving lousy reasons. Who expected that the action worked effectively, and everyone suddenly got so excited to go to Fifth college to have supper? It was weird enough and i couldn't figure out what happened until now.

We reached over there noisily as usual, while the people in cafe turned to see us curiously. I met some of the friends there and having a short casual talk with them. They are Diane and her small angel. They reminded me that 5th CC has a tradition called Angel system which is used to enhance the relationship of CC members. It worked effectively until I can see the intimate caring behavior in the cafe. It was amazing and unbelievable to me, and also made me feel like to improve my own CC.

Back to the topic. Before we started to drink our beverage, we started to play some exciting pokers games and also a round of killer. The process was really noisy and cheerful with all the laughter and some periods of silence we caused. I don't think we pretended to be like this, as I know this should be our nature originally. At about 2 am something, we dismissed tiredly and went back to our college happily. (we will never forget that our Doctor (in killer game) - Yoke Woon always chose to save her own self. This one was epic enough! What a selfish doctor!

After that, I straight away got onto my bed for I would have to wake up after 3 hours sleep. I can't believe that I managed to wake up on time, while I failed to do so for most of the morning classes!!
I knocked the door of SCC in order to wake up him up to get ready. Anyway, after all the procrastination, we managed to get ready inside the car at 615am. What happened next really made me speechless was that his first alarm belled. It gave a hint to me that he was actually setting his alarm at 615am while he promised me that he will wake up on 5am. What a lousy promise I have been given! Without much delay on traffic, we left KL easily.

On the way back to our hometown, we were getting more and more hungry and after a while of struggle, we decided to make our way to Ipoh for satisfying our hunger. Casually, I sent a message to a friend Ms Ngoi and asked for suggestion. Eventually, we were brought to Foh San Dim Sum under the assist of GPS. It was so embarrassing to be having breakfast with her family. However, they were so hospitable to entertain us, we appreciated this kind of breakfast. It was unexpected and meanwhile very unworthy for me to receive this kind of kindness. Anyway, I thank God for everything happening at the morning.

After that, we were led by her to the second round of breakfast - Original Old Town White Coffee. It was really hard for us to find a parking in Ipoh Old street. Anyway, we managed to find one due to the blessing of God. The taste of white coffee there was excellent and memorable indeed, though I am not a big fan of coffee after all. Buying a couple packs of 蛋塔, we dismissed with her and started to get on the way to home. We got into the car and started to leave Ipoh. "eh~What is it?", SCC asked curiously by pointing the front whipper. We were down to encounter a beautiful pink compound for the fault of parking without parking card My goodness!! I thought it must be a good day thoroughly  but it just remained until the moment we met the compound. I can't believe the bad luck I am having recently!

Helplessly, we headed to Majlis Ibu Pejabat Bandaraya Ipoh Perak to pay our compound. The process took us about half an hour, thank God that no one was lining to pay the compound.  The mood was down really after receiving the compound, but we got it back right after knowing that we were given a 30% discount for that. This made us crazy although we pay quite a lot of money in fact, but we already neglected the payment we made but only remember the discount we got. It was terrible to feel so crazily good after paying the compound. Then, we headed to home happily with a lot of unexpected things happened. The car was full of MayDay music throughout the time we were driving! We were supposed to be very tired but somehow we were extremely excited by those crazy things!! Safe to be home! Yeah! Thank for the crazy day!
  

We change our lives, or it works oppositely.

Some people were fed by using a golden spoon, but some people were in hunger always once they were brought to the world. Seemingly, it is blessed to be born with a golden spoon but meanwhile it can be the worse one if they don't cherish the grace and take it granted in their life. They found nothing but emptiness throughout their life. On the other hand, those people who are born with a poor family background can be a doom if they didn't strive to change the so-called fate. However, it can be a blessing if they are trying their whole life to overcome those problems with all sorts of great attitudes determinedly. That's why I strongly believe in a principle : Attitude is altitude.

Life keeps making change of them, molding them into someone in the future, we have no idea how bad or good they can be. Some people accept their life is fated in some ways, but some choose to make a change in their lives regardless what they may sacrifice for it. I believe that in fact life really changes our own mind unwittingly. For instance, our family background, the environment that we were born and live at, the people we meet in our lives did determine what kind of persons we are. How can be a poor guy so arrogant when he finds his family so shameful to be financially incapable? Most poor people really get used to be slave-like and diffident, in the world, poor people rarely get entertained or concerned in our society nowadays. In this situation, our life is considered fated without precious changes.

Thank God as I found that there have been a lot of changes throughout my life and I have to admit that the people around me and the experiences I encountered before did help me to change my mindset greatly and positively. Many of my friends told me that I have changed a lot. Surely, they didn't mean that I am still growing up physically.=.=

I wish to share something over here.
I got a crazy friend who is currently at Nepal. If it is not mistaken, he went there with an crazy intention - Mt. Everest hiking. I am not so sure, that's why I am looking forward to read his blog, by the way I am pretty sure that must be a great one! This friend has left his foot prints on many places of different countries without much friends followed him in any trips. Some people talked at his back about what he is doing in these few years, some people admired while some people find it inappropriate somehow. In my opinion, I think he is trying to make changes in his life while hoping for something new filling the world of his mind during the process of traveling in so-call adventurous trekking.However, I quite admired this kind of life, and the passion he is possessing now, no one dare to make changes in their own lives with actions, it takes quite a lot of courage and faith to do so. Perhaps this friend gets used to be so rebellious to the rules and regulations in an ordinary life, so it might not be a problem for him to break the rules. Haha~kidding~ It seems like he is changing his life, but in fact he is actually allowing his life to mold him little by little. I am not sure whether he knows or not, or I am thinking wrongly, what we did is like the pieces of puzzles that complete the beautiful figure of our life. After all, we can see that our life does the matter to mold us anyway.

Sincerely hope everyone of you can strive to make a change of your life so that your life can change you as well. 

Convocation in UM

Date: 05/10/2012                   Convocation of Engineering Students

Early in the morning, I woke up for attending a morning class from 8-10am. Honestly, I never find the morning class enjoyable, instead I find my eyelids both very heavy and suffering to keep them open through out the lecture. This morning, I managed to keep them fully open during the statistic class, as it is familiar like Form 6 mathematics. I found it comprehensive enough to understand. However, at the same time, I was worrying about the situation at DTC. I worried that 11th CC didn't get prepared well at DTC. Hence, I did call the person in charge to take action in order to avoid some problems. When I reached the place after leaving from the lecture, I found that the situation of the convocation was totally chaos especially at the place that all Chinese gathered. Those Chinese are Engineering supporter, Residential Colleges supporters and also the Society of Engineering supporters who came to congratulate their honorable seniors. They were making noise and cheers while waiting for the seniors to come out from the ceremony. 
There were people holding their designed banners of different sizes and different positions in order to attract the attention of seniors. In this uncontrollable situation, I just sneakingly mixed in the crowds and eventually found myself hard to make a stand while there were actually several different groups asking me to join them. Those are PKUM - Engineering Society, Civil Engineering, and 11th Residential College Chinese Community. Finally, I had no choice but to support 11th College Chinese Community, as I ought to do so.

After waiting for a long time, most of us spoiled our throat seriously by making noise and cheers. We sweated a lot as people were standing too close over small place. Finally, we saw many seniors coming out from the hall. Spontaneously, we asked them to come and took away their specs, mobile phones, wallets, and watches, then we started to throw them high to the air. Civil Engineering students were crazy enough by throwing the seniors exactly like a car's whipper. It was exciting and crazy, but effective to make the day more memorable in our seniors' lives. I am proud of being one of them!! 

I didn't expect so much, just sincerely hope they can enjoy and appreciate what we have done for them. It is a tiring day which made me unable to focus on my evening practical class. However, the memory does matter for today and also the future. 

Busy But Meaningful

I am supposed to write this post during the PM preparation camp. Actually, i thought it should be some sort of training camp, but in fact, we were only trained to be more motivated and more alike a role model of a good leader, other time were spent in preparation. I thank God for being chosen to be the student assistant (Pembantu Mahasiswa - PM), although I know I have let go several important chances in UM life. I have been blessed after knowing the real God, meanwhile I have suffered for being so prideful and self-centered in my life. However, may Lord get the praise from my mouth and spirit greatly for everything I encountered recently, as I know you deserve the praise no matter what.

MHS - Minggu Haluansiswa
I had been busy of this orientation week for the new intake freshies sesi 2012/2013. Before that week, we - PMs had been hectic for preparing all the important things before the orientation week. It was really torturing and memorable to me. Good thing was that I started to mingle with non-Chinese people, this did make me a big change in my life that I never expected to happen on me. Due to the change, I found my mindset has been changed unwittingly as well. I learn not to be racist and try to treat the people in the same way. I found Chinese has to learn this behavior also, as being in your safety zone can only make our Chinese getting weaker and incapable in our society. Getting out of your box - safety zone is not enjoyable, but worth absolutely if you want to improve the way you think and learn to have critical thinking.
Back to the topic, it was funny and interesting to meet the juniors with all unique faces from all different family background, it made me hard to keep myself from being excited. It was some kind of pleasure to help the juniors up during MHS, some of them were too weak to fall sick and some of them were extremely home-sick. We were just trying to be kind and helpful so that they could undergo the tough moment during MHS at ease. During MHS, I was given two hours to sleep for every day, as I need to give them a Moral Slot every morning with other non-Muslim PMs. It was pitiful that they didn't have a period time to exercise to get their tension off, I felt sad extremely of that.
After MHS, I was glad to get some appreciation letters from juniors, it was my pleasure to be appreciated and I didn't expect any letters from anyone. Besides of being appreciated, I would like to appreciate the assists from other non-Muslims PMs to me during the preparation and also MHS. Without their assists, I think I would not be able to handle the tension and hectic pace. I believe the bonding is there, and I am pretty sure that is a strong one.

After MHS, we prepared a Chinese Community Interaction Week in our college for the Chinese Freshies. I thank God that the interaction week was kinda well-organized and effective to enhance the relationship among Chinese. Besides that, we were given a lot of good feedback from the juniors, it was successful. I felt sad for those who were not able to join us during the interaction week, as we may not manage to link them well without this interaction week. Hope that we can have a good relationship among each and every one of us. For CCIW, I would like to give thanks to the high committees who contributed a lot during preparation and the week. I am blessed to have all of you so helpful and capable.

After CCIW, there was another event called MISJU - Minggu Interaksi Senior Junior during the following week. Very "luckily",I was chosen to be the event's director by an unknown. I was given chance to be the leader of the people from different races. Thank God for it was a really difficult and special learning lesson to me. Argh... >.<*
However, with the assists of the committees, everything was carried out smoothly, many good feedback were given by our Master of college after the event, it was unbelievable. I was happy to see the people enjoyed during the event especially with a huge hamper on their hands. The effort made was worth as long as people appreciated it so much.

After that, I was too "free" to plan for a junior's birthday surprise. The birthday surprise was requested by the junior's friend. Basically, I had no duty to do that, but somehow I did it for them. Anyway, it was a blessed birthday celebration which could get all the Chinese gathered again. Hope them to have all the best in future.

After all these busy week, I started to be settled down little by little. I believe there are a lot problems for me to face in future, and I know that with my own strength I can't manage to cope with them. May God bless me. :)
Happy Moon Cake Festival!!       

Good to Realize:)

I started to love travelling after a one week study scheme in Korea as I got a lot of knowledge and this experience has opened my eye and mind greatly. It was a good experience to realize that we are not good enough and have to be humble to learn something good habit from others.

I like travelling. However, the searching for fun is not the most important at all but knowing the special culture and habits that the people conduct over the place is worthwhile the most to me.

Genting Highland is not the option for me to travel normally. But this time, due to some important factors I followed my friends to go over there having fun. I just realized that it is just a short distance from KL sentral to Genting Skyway. We took about 45minutes to reach there. It has been a long period between the time I used the cable car ( Skyway ) before and now. I  just remember my family and I were waiting there helplessly with a lot of bags surrounding us.

If I am not mistaken, I just tried the dragon train last time I played outdoor game. This time, my friends brought me to play several games which are flying chair, pirate ship and mini car race. We were having fun honestly. For instance, the unfair car race with different level of car performance caused a large different of the maximum speed among our cars. As a result, I was the lucky one to get the first place with the highest performance car. No one was going to praise me even though I was keeping boasting about my performance after that. Haha!!

After that, they chose to get into first world indoor to take our lunch as I was complaining over there on behalf of my hunger. After lunch, one of my friend suggested to bring us into casino to take a look. As we went to the entry with a big branch of group, the security hold us and ask each of us to show our own ic. Eventually, some of my friends didn't manage to enter the casino. Regardless their situation, I followed my friends to go around casino.

I didn't gamble, as I didn't like to lose even for a single gambling. But I found something very special thing. As a Engineering student, I am quite sensitive to mathematic. I strongly know that the probability to win the gambling is less than 50% for majority of the games in Casino. But there are still a lot of fans sitting patiently on the chair in front o the gambling table. Perhaps some of them are confident of their luck that day, or some of them do not believe that their luck isn't good that day. People sitting in front of the gambling table have a common thought that they will win for this gambling.

I find it interesting to realize that the people in Casino are 100% optimistic. Normally, they will leave the place when they either do not have credit anymore or to avoid losing after they won a large amount of credit. They never think that they will lose. in fact, many of the believers of all kinds of religion should learn from their attitude, the instinct of being optimistic and not easily to lose hope as long as they have a single credit. They never lose hope, even though you do all kinds of calculation telling them they will be losing most probably. It may be for excitement for them to gamble, as it is such a pleasant to win in gambling. The secret under the pokers of you and others on the surface of gambling table can make your heart beat faster and it is always glad to know that you are the lucky and blessed one. I hope that everyone know that their life is great without the proof from the gambling table. Nothing is more lucky than having a breath in this second and the following second. Life is good always as long as you believe this is blessed to have your heart beating.

I think it is undeniable to say that every people are believer of something and follower of something. Religion believers believe in Gods and the theories of  humanity, follow and obey the teaching of the religion. However, some people don't really have religion but they may be the followers of pride, money, power and even the believers of greed.
 

First day in Survey camp

Yoyo~ Here I am to start my survey camp. It will take about 2 weeks to finish and the purpose of having this camp is to update the map of our UM campus. The current map was produced several years before so there are many places haven't been updated in it. We are sad to be here actually because we expect to be sent out for any other project. But they arranged this kind of job to us in an area that we are familiar and found boring the most. I think we deserve some great treatment and experience from that. However, we just have to carry on no matter how, because we can't do anything beside fulfilling the job. last night, my friends and I were playing poker. We had a good time and fun. After that we just quickly went on our bed as we would have to wake up early in the morning to gather. But helplessly, I couldn't sleep nicely and properly. Finally, I think I just took several hours to sleep only. It is down enough. This morning, we made ourselves gathering at our department and waited for our lecturers and stuffs. But they were late and we waited for about 1 hour. == After taking the breakfast they brought to us, we got into the room to discuss about the plan of the surveying.We decided to cover the surveying job around the IPS area which is the Institution of Postgraduate Students. This is the beautiful building and easy for us to do surveying. But we didn't expect that we have to do the leveling twice, extra one for checking. It is a long distance ever among other projects! We took the stuff and surveying instruments all along the way to the institution while doing the leveling measurement on the way. Everyone seems to be very thirsty and tired. What to do? Move your ass on to make whatever task done today. The sunlight is charming early in the morning, but annoying and killing during afternoon. I can feel that my skin is going to be dried up thoroughly, and my throat is burning. Thank God I have finally gone back to my room after the task finished. We bother nothing even though we found that our result has a large figure of error. We just changed some data so that we won't have to repeat the task. Haha~It is down to imagine how tough the days I have to undergo in these two weeks! However, I pray for God's guidance and strength so that everything will be fine and something can be learnt. Anyway~ Cheers!!!:D