Today, 24th September is my third day in the University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus (fondly called UNMC by the people here), and to tell the major truth, it is that I still don't feel quite at home with it.
I haven't made any new friends yet, it's quite sad to say, but I bumped into a former form-mate of mine--Qi Yan, or known more as Bob of the Bio class. The fuzzy feeling of meeting someone from the same place as you and which you know and have common ground with is such a pleasant feeling that it definitely did help to take the edge away from the lurking loneliness in the background.
I still remember how at home I felt at Chung Hwa, with the exception of my first month over there back when I was in Form 1. And every time I walked into it for these past few years, I've never felt out of place, because it was a place that has become a part of my life in the past. But when I went back recently to take the school mag, the awkward feeling of standing out and feeling oddly uncomfortable made itself known, and for the first time in seven years, I understood that Chung Hwa could no longer be treated as a second home, the feeling of belonging had faded, and while I still missed it and will cherish the memories dearly, and might even hope to return to visit it sometimes, I understood then and there that it is time to move on from the place.
UNMC should by right become my second home now, but I guess it still feels so unfamiliar and strange to me that I can't feel that ease yet. And hopefully, when my lectures starts next Monday, I will have met a few more people and even made a few more friends, and like how it was during Form 1, I guess I would eventually progress to be able to roam the hallways and buildings with practiced ease and comfort.
But for now, I still have my reservations, and while I am not madly home-sick and crying my eyes out or losing appetite or some other weak stuff that a person who left home for the first time should be doing, I know with an aching dull to my heart that I miss my house and parents and cats back in KB, and I miss all my dear and wonderful friends that I have made over the years.
Hopefully, in the near future, I might feel more at home.
But for now, I end this post with a small smile and a longing to eat Chung Hwa canteen's Yong Tauhu, while sitting at my study table and typing fervently away to vent my frustrations...
Until next time then, adieu~!
Friday, September 24, 2010
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
New Blog!
I have a new blog!!
The address: http://fish-hobbies.blogspot.com
This blog will be dedicated mostly to reviews on movies, musics, pictures, dramas and such~So if any of you have interest you can check it out~!
And yeah, yeah, I know I have been neglecting this blog, but that's because I have nothing to update...XD
So, please check out my new blog!
And don't worry, I won't be abandoning this blog too~!
The address: http://fish-hobbies.blogspot.com
This blog will be dedicated mostly to reviews on movies, musics, pictures, dramas and such~So if any of you have interest you can check it out~!
And yeah, yeah, I know I have been neglecting this blog, but that's because I have nothing to update...XD
So, please check out my new blog!
And don't worry, I won't be abandoning this blog too~!
Monday, February 8, 2010
Things I Missed...
CNY is near and I am going back to SP in the next few days. I will probably be staying till end of February. And although the prospect of CNY is exciting, I find myself reminiscing the good ol' school days. And I find that I missed a lot of things.
Thing I Missed:
1. Seong Yong's way of saying 'feeling'.
2. Chia Hui and Chang Yong's "Oo-Oo" of imitating a bird.
3. The frenziness that usually occurs now which involves decorating notice board and class for CNY.
4. The act of conspiring together and vote for certain people to be monitor, ass. monitor, bendahari and so on...
5. The chatter among classmates.
6. The sort-of off-key singing of "我爱的人，不是我的爱人！！" by Shu Wei and their gang.
7. The Kuala Krai slang of Wai Lok and Pei Chin gang.
8. The ridiculous antics of Keng Sheng.
9. The teasing of Zhee Shin by both Kok Yong and Yi Wen.
10. The gossiping.
11. The plotting.
12. The huddling around in groups with the guys and talking of *ahem* things.
13. The hidden competition of saying things which have double meaning. (Usually will always be heard by Yi Wen/Keng Sheng/Kok Yong as something 'qiao')
14. Mr Lim's face and voice teaching us Physics.
15. Mr Ng's shocked expression when the boys come in late and he says: "Olor...!!"
16. Ms. Lim's blushing face when Kok Yong shouts out his compliment for her dress.
17. The way me and Kok Yong always discuss about Ms. Lim's clothing. >_<
18. The childish bantering and joking around.
19. The sight of Chia Hui eating her food from tupperware secretly.
20. The sight of Khang Siang sleeping on table. (Without Yi Wen beside him...XD)
21. The asking around to borrow homework.
22. Canteen's Yong Tauhu and fried kuew teow.
23. Searching of toilet keys.
24. Studying in library with Ah Kheng and Mei Jiun them.
25. Jason's sarcastic remarks.
26. A lot of people's hugs. (Yi Wen, Zhen Jee, Pei Chin, Qian Ling, Chia Hui, etc.)
27. The molesting. O_O
28. Acting silly. (Like scolding at a wall for 5 minutes...=_=")
29. Korek secrets from people.
30. Laugh and joke together.
31. Watching Zhee Shin try to collect class fee. (Which usually involves a lot of high pitched shouting which damage ears.)
32. The obtaining slip from guru bertugas to leave early.
33. The shouting around and grabbing of newspaper.
34. The high demand and circulation for '学海'.
35. The borrowing of stationary in the class.
Well, that's all I could think about. I will add some more if I think of it...>_<
Happy Chinese New Year everyone~!!!
Thing I Missed:
1. Seong Yong's way of saying 'feeling'.
2. Chia Hui and Chang Yong's "Oo-Oo" of imitating a bird.
3. The frenziness that usually occurs now which involves decorating notice board and class for CNY.
4. The act of conspiring together and vote for certain people to be monitor, ass. monitor, bendahari and so on...
5. The chatter among classmates.
6. The sort-of off-key singing of "我爱的人，不是我的爱人！！" by Shu Wei and their gang.
7. The Kuala Krai slang of Wai Lok and Pei Chin gang.
8. The ridiculous antics of Keng Sheng.
9. The teasing of Zhee Shin by both Kok Yong and Yi Wen.
10. The gossiping.
11. The plotting.
12. The huddling around in groups with the guys and talking of *ahem* things.
13. The hidden competition of saying things which have double meaning. (Usually will always be heard by Yi Wen/Keng Sheng/Kok Yong as something 'qiao')
14. Mr Lim's face and voice teaching us Physics.
15. Mr Ng's shocked expression when the boys come in late and he says: "Olor...!!"
16. Ms. Lim's blushing face when Kok Yong shouts out his compliment for her dress.
17. The way me and Kok Yong always discuss about Ms. Lim's clothing. >_<
18. The childish bantering and joking around.
19. The sight of Chia Hui eating her food from tupperware secretly.
20. The sight of Khang Siang sleeping on table. (Without Yi Wen beside him...XD)
21. The asking around to borrow homework.
22. Canteen's Yong Tauhu and fried kuew teow.
23. Searching of toilet keys.
24. Studying in library with Ah Kheng and Mei Jiun them.
25. Jason's sarcastic remarks.
26. A lot of people's hugs. (Yi Wen, Zhen Jee, Pei Chin, Qian Ling, Chia Hui, etc.)
27. The molesting. O_O
28. Acting silly. (Like scolding at a wall for 5 minutes...=_=")
29. Korek secrets from people.
30. Laugh and joke together.
31. Watching Zhee Shin try to collect class fee. (Which usually involves a lot of high pitched shouting which damage ears.)
32. The obtaining slip from guru bertugas to leave early.
33. The shouting around and grabbing of newspaper.
34. The high demand and circulation for '学海'.
35. The borrowing of stationary in the class.
Well, that's all I could think about. I will add some more if I think of it...>_<
Happy Chinese New Year everyone~!!!
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
New Post...?
I haven't been updating this blog since last year's August. And since a particular whiny cat and my lovely third wife Zhen Jee asked me to update, so here I am.
For this new year post, I am going to write a list of "10 Things You May Or May Not Know About Me"~
1. I hate the Twilight saga, books and movies included. Particularly I don't get the rave over Robert Pattinson's bird nest hair and Taylor Lautner's so called 'hot-bod'.
2. I do needlework. I don't think a lot of people know about this. I don't look like the type I think. But I have nimble fingers and love doing cross-stitch, which is very easy. A lot of people think it's hard but it really isn't.
3. I hate those movies with the title like "XXXX Movie". Example: Scary Movie, Disaster Movie, Date Movie etc etc. Although the minds behind such crude and mundane movie plots have recently gotten creative with other titles such as "Meet The Spartans", I still find the movie and plot and dialogue and...Oh who am I kidding, the WHOLE thing is just like a pile of crap. Yeah, crap, as in SHIT. So sue me if I don't share your sentiments.
4. I am a supporter of homosexuals rights, although I am straight. I think there's nothing wrong in people loving other people and I can't fathom why some think it's wrong to love. And besides, some who say that it's wrong because God condemns it is plain bull. If God is Almighty, then he wouldn't have made a mistake in creating homosexuals. That's how God wanted them to be I guess. I am not religious at all so I won't continue this rant, just expressing some opinions.
5. I collect notebooks. It is a weird hobby of mine. But I don't collect normal boring notebooks, I collect pretty, beautiful or meaningful ones. Some will have colourful covers while others will have well designed pages. Some have both of these combination and those are really hard to find. Maybe someday I will upload pictures of the notebooks I collect on FB or here. Depends I guess. But back to the topic, I now have maybe about or over 30 notebooks collected~>_<
6. I don't really like listening to hip-hop or altogether too loud and rock music. That's why I listen to Mix Fm I guess. A lot of people that I know are listening to Hitz Fm and some always ask me why I listened to Mix. Well frankly, it's the type of music they play which makes me made this choice I think. MIX is more for me, and I can't listen to HITZ at all. Sometimes I will get a bit irritated when people who are listening in to MIX with me suddenly says something like: "Woah, this channel got play such modern songs one ar?" God, I feel like bashing them in the head for their way of thinking and one-tracked mind. MIX actually plays a nice mix of songs, mostly pop, and none too rap-y or rock-y for my taste. Don't get me wrong, I listen to all genres of music, I do listen to some rock like Muse and Nickelback and Daughtry and so on. It's just HITZ isn't for me.
7. I love Studio Ghibli movies and Joe Hisaishi, the composer for the music of these movies. A lot of my friends don't really know the movies, but I have been watching Totoro since I was small and had been hooked on ever since. The music I only learned to admire when I was older, and I have to say its absolutely breathtakingly beautiful just listening to one of the pieces. One of the reasons I love the movies is how thought provoking and simple it is. No catchy phrases, simple dialogues, wonderful artwork and yet, it manages to bring out pure magic. Some people don't understand it though, they think it's just cartoon and find it boring. I find this pretty sad. Sad for those people who can't appreciate such work or sad for the movie unable to get through their mind I don't know, but I don't think I will ever be un-fascinated by them though. Once, when I was playing Joe Hisaishi on my car radio, someone told me that it was plain weird and creepy. I still feel offended. You can listen to people shouting all day long yet you can't appreciate a simple piano with orchestra piece? What is the world coming to? But maybe it's just not their thing. For those who are interested in Joe Hisaishi's pieces, The Legend Of Ashitaka of Princess Mononoke is a good piece to start on. It is a thoroughly magical song.
8. I am a lazy person. I love to procrastinate. Which is not something good. Look at how long I took to update my blog! Haha...But for my new year's resolution, I will TRY to not be so lazy~Do you think I will succeed though? Honestly, even I myself don't know. But some things are worth procrastinating right? There's a beauty in everything, as how I like to delude myself...O_O
9. I love Korea and Japanese songs. My recent addiction is Super Junior. I keep playing their songs over and over again. And my playlist is a huge mixture of english and japanese songs. In fact, I don't really listen to that much Chinese songs...>_< So whenever someone asks me about the new song that is playing on My fm, forgive me for not knowing a clue about it.
10. I love my cats.
...
...
...
Okay, so technically, that is something which I think everyone knows about, seeing that one of my friends said, if someone doesn't know I like cats then they definitely don't even know me. I like cats. And I love my cats. That is the first thing that one might pick up on me at first. =D
But since I ran out of things to write I just decided to write that. Haha. I think this post has been long enough, and for anyone who read through the whole of my self absorbed rant, thank you very much yo~!
Until next time then, which I hope will be in the near future~XD
For this new year post, I am going to write a list of "10 Things You May Or May Not Know About Me"~
1. I hate the Twilight saga, books and movies included. Particularly I don't get the rave over Robert Pattinson's bird nest hair and Taylor Lautner's so called 'hot-bod'.
2. I do needlework. I don't think a lot of people know about this. I don't look like the type I think. But I have nimble fingers and love doing cross-stitch, which is very easy. A lot of people think it's hard but it really isn't.
3. I hate those movies with the title like "XXXX Movie". Example: Scary Movie, Disaster Movie, Date Movie etc etc. Although the minds behind such crude and mundane movie plots have recently gotten creative with other titles such as "Meet The Spartans", I still find the movie and plot and dialogue and...Oh who am I kidding, the WHOLE thing is just like a pile of crap. Yeah, crap, as in SHIT. So sue me if I don't share your sentiments.
4. I am a supporter of homosexuals rights, although I am straight. I think there's nothing wrong in people loving other people and I can't fathom why some think it's wrong to love. And besides, some who say that it's wrong because God condemns it is plain bull. If God is Almighty, then he wouldn't have made a mistake in creating homosexuals. That's how God wanted them to be I guess. I am not religious at all so I won't continue this rant, just expressing some opinions.
5. I collect notebooks. It is a weird hobby of mine. But I don't collect normal boring notebooks, I collect pretty, beautiful or meaningful ones. Some will have colourful covers while others will have well designed pages. Some have both of these combination and those are really hard to find. Maybe someday I will upload pictures of the notebooks I collect on FB or here. Depends I guess. But back to the topic, I now have maybe about or over 30 notebooks collected~>_<
6. I don't really like listening to hip-hop or altogether too loud and rock music. That's why I listen to Mix Fm I guess. A lot of people that I know are listening to Hitz Fm and some always ask me why I listened to Mix. Well frankly, it's the type of music they play which makes me made this choice I think. MIX is more for me, and I can't listen to HITZ at all. Sometimes I will get a bit irritated when people who are listening in to MIX with me suddenly says something like: "Woah, this channel got play such modern songs one ar?" God, I feel like bashing them in the head for their way of thinking and one-tracked mind. MIX actually plays a nice mix of songs, mostly pop, and none too rap-y or rock-y for my taste. Don't get me wrong, I listen to all genres of music, I do listen to some rock like Muse and Nickelback and Daughtry and so on. It's just HITZ isn't for me.
7. I love Studio Ghibli movies and Joe Hisaishi, the composer for the music of these movies. A lot of my friends don't really know the movies, but I have been watching Totoro since I was small and had been hooked on ever since. The music I only learned to admire when I was older, and I have to say its absolutely breathtakingly beautiful just listening to one of the pieces. One of the reasons I love the movies is how thought provoking and simple it is. No catchy phrases, simple dialogues, wonderful artwork and yet, it manages to bring out pure magic. Some people don't understand it though, they think it's just cartoon and find it boring. I find this pretty sad. Sad for those people who can't appreciate such work or sad for the movie unable to get through their mind I don't know, but I don't think I will ever be un-fascinated by them though. Once, when I was playing Joe Hisaishi on my car radio, someone told me that it was plain weird and creepy. I still feel offended. You can listen to people shouting all day long yet you can't appreciate a simple piano with orchestra piece? What is the world coming to? But maybe it's just not their thing. For those who are interested in Joe Hisaishi's pieces, The Legend Of Ashitaka of Princess Mononoke is a good piece to start on. It is a thoroughly magical song.
8. I am a lazy person. I love to procrastinate. Which is not something good. Look at how long I took to update my blog! Haha...But for my new year's resolution, I will TRY to not be so lazy~Do you think I will succeed though? Honestly, even I myself don't know. But some things are worth procrastinating right? There's a beauty in everything, as how I like to delude myself...O_O
9. I love Korea and Japanese songs. My recent addiction is Super Junior. I keep playing their songs over and over again. And my playlist is a huge mixture of english and japanese songs. In fact, I don't really listen to that much Chinese songs...>_< So whenever someone asks me about the new song that is playing on My fm, forgive me for not knowing a clue about it.
10. I love my cats.
...
...
...
Okay, so technically, that is something which I think everyone knows about, seeing that one of my friends said, if someone doesn't know I like cats then they definitely don't even know me. I like cats. And I love my cats. That is the first thing that one might pick up on me at first. =D
But since I ran out of things to write I just decided to write that. Haha. I think this post has been long enough, and for anyone who read through the whole of my self absorbed rant, thank you very much yo~!
Until next time then, which I hope will be in the near future~XD
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