我的名字 ^_^

一直以来，我都以为“郑雅璐”是我的专属名字，因为它胜在够特别~哈哈...
刚才，我突然心血来潮，Google了我的名字一下...
原来，单单我的名字就有365个result了...
原来在这个世界上，还是有些人跟我同名同姓...
原来，我的名字不是独一无二的...
哎... 顿然不知道我该感到高兴还是失望...

The first ever "non-instant" coffee I've made... ^_^

I found a packet of coffee in the cupboard, and thus decided to make a cup for myself. I couldn't figure out what went wrong because I couldn't find the taste of coffee. It was bitter though so I can't be sure whether the coffee powder was too little or the coffee itself simply taste like that. Urgh...

As what I've mentioned in the previous post, these idiots simply don't know how to queue up eventhough they were given the number! Can't they wait for their turn? Damn... Please do not jump queue!

公德心

在我们这个社会里，华人经常被视为高尚的族群...
许多华人都认为自己的族群得不到公平的待遇...
然而，我国的华人都没放弃自己...
凭着坚强的意志力，刻苦耐劳、默默耕耘，为的就是挣一口气，不怨输给友族同胞...
我们都想告诉全世界，我们不用依靠政府的津贴，我们不需要任何特权，我们也能闯出一片天空...

然而，在这充满竞争的社会里，一部分华人似乎过于求胜...
怕输的怕输... 怕穷的怕穷... 就算户头里有几千万，他/她还是觉得自己很穷...
有些人不顾脸皮，公然忘了何谓公德心... 为的就是达到目的...

没有公德心的社会，家长都把责任怪罪在教学系统上...
经过今早的一番观察之后，我完全否认了上述的说法！
那些插队的人，不是他人，正是那些拥有后代的中年人士...
那些光明正大在银行里乱丢卫生纸的人，不是他人，正是这些中年人士...
怪政府，不如怪自己...
年轻人为什么没了公德心，就因为自己的父母也是这群败类...
上梁不正下梁歪... 华文金句果然不是浪得虚名...

为什么这篇文章是针对华人？不是我痛恨华人，我自己也不好过...
但是，当你在批评其他种族的时候，请看看你的四枝手指是指向你自己...
我想把这篇文章献给今早我在银行遇到的这群华人...
当你们公然在那数落友族同胞，试想想，你有什么让他人敬佩？
要得到他人的尊重，请首先尊重自己，也尊重他人...
虽说银行系统欠佳，但如果每个人都合作，不插队，那场面就不会这么混乱...

我很荣幸，也很骄傲，因为我是马来西亚华人的一分子，因为我们都有一具硬骨头...
我们坚强、努力... 我们不畏困难... 我们有着丰富的语文能力...
但最基本的公德心还是该有的，不是吗？

~Memories~

I started to miss USM badly... huhuhu... or more specifically I miss my university life!!!
Can time be reversible?

人生...

前屋友问过我：“你有没有想过人生是什么？”
当下第一个想法就是“挖靠，我才几岁？问我酱深奥的问题！”
当时没多加理会...
最近可能太闲了吧... 这问题又突然出现在我脑海里...
我爸说：“我理他人生是什么？最重要就是要好好地享受我的人生！”果然是我潇洒的老爸...
某人的部落格说到：“人生有起有落，懂得掌握人生，才懂享受人生”挖靠，还帮他做mai广告叻！呵呵...
戏剧里说到：“人生就像一场游戏，输了还是可以重来...”
前屋友说到：“人生很奇妙，有些人可以贸贸然地结束自己的生命，有些人不管多艰难都要活下去”（我还是不知道她的重点是什么啦！哈... 不过我是觉得她要跟我传福音啦... 她说是分享噢）
我呢？人生是什么？我还没找到答案...
答案重要吗？或许我爸说的对。管他人生是什么？！最重要就是活的没遗憾不是吗？（惨了！思想开始老化了... 呵呵）
也不知自己干嘛要写这些... 也不知重点在哪... 就当作是一个无聊人在写一篇无聊的文章吧！

26/5-5/6/2009

26/5/2009 (Tuesday)

I'm "non-officially" graduated from USM after submitting my thesis. I had a memorable graduation trip after that. So, it was time for me to leave Penang, the place where I was staying at for these 3 years. On Tuesday morning, after having breakfast with a friend of mine, I started my journey, heading south to Skudai, Johor to meet my family. It was a long drive (around 8 hours), but it was definitely a good experience for me although it was bored. After all, it was the first time I drove alone for such a long journey. Special thanks to my MP3 which kept me awake on the road. Ha. I reached Skudai around 6 pm. After meeting up with my eldest sister, we drove back to her house. Oh yeah, she kept grumbling that I turned her house into a rubbish bin! Haha.

27/5/2009 (Wednesday)

There was nothing special happening on Wednesday. Since my parents would only arrive in Johor around 8 something at night, we basically had nothing to do in the day time. Oh yeah, we went to Red Box in the afternoon! We didn't plan for it actually. It just happened after we heard a song by Fish Leong over the radio, 小手拉大手. Ha. My sister suggested to go to a local karaoke "shop", 天上人间. Ha. Till now, I still feel weird with the name of the shop. Ha. It sounds like the pub in the 1940-1950s. Ha. It is quite cheap there, with RM7 per hour per room. But, after much consideration, we decided to go to Red Box in JB. The branch here in JB has much better karaoke tools (eg. a wireless mic!) than in Penang, the rooms are bigger as well. The only thing which is the same as the branch in Penang is that the food sucked. Red Box really needs to improve their food!

28/5/2009 (Thursday)

We had a 3D2N visit in Tioman Island. Around 10 am, we drove to Mersing, a small fish village approximately 188km from Skudai. We managed to catch the 2.30 pm ferry to Tioman Island from the jetty in Mersing. After 2 hours on the sea, we arrived at Paya Beach Resort, the place where we would be staying for these 3 days. During the evening time, we decided to have some "basic training" on snorkelling techniques since we did not snorkel before, except my sister who had visited Tioman ages ago. We did it near the seashore, but honestly, it was a bad experience for me. Ha. It was hard for me to breathe with mouth, without using nose. After all, I can't swim, so please bear with me. Ha.

Pic 1: Our rooms (2 rooms upstairs) in Paya Beach Resorts

Pic 2: Me, trying out my snorkel... Do I look cute? Huahahaha...

29/5/2009

We gathered at jetty around 9 am with other visitors. My heart beats rose drastically when we were heading to the snorkelling sites. My sister told me we would snorkel in the middle of the sea today. Wow... I started to panic! "I don't know how to swim! Will I get drowned?" Although we were having life jacket, but when you were in panic, you just couldn't think realistically right? Ha. What I could say after this trip was that swimming is a torture! Ha. But, snorkelling is definitely a good memory for me, and I've made up my mind to visit Redang someday in my life. Is there anyone who would like to join me? We can plan this out. Ha.

Pic 3: Part of my family, on the way to the snorkelling site.

So bad I couldn't get a shot for myself in the sea. Haiz...

Paya beach is a very small village. Basically, we had nothing to do on the island beside snorkelling. We spent the entire afternoon sleeping in the room. Ha.

30/5/2009

We were fooled by the resort receptionist. She told us there would be a ferry coming at 10 am. So after checking out, we walked out to jetty. It was raining heavily before that and we were lucky that the rain was getting smaller when we were heading to the jetty. There was a group of divers there, preparing to go for diving. We wondered how could those small-sized girls manage to carry the heavy oxygen tank all by themselves?! Ha. Ok, back to our own matters. We waited and waited... The ferry finally arrived after 3 hours!! Wow... and finally we arrived at Skudai around 7 pm! What a long journey... We had seafood for dinner...

31/5/2009

We spent the whole afternoon shopping at one of the Jusco in JB. According to my sister, there were 4 Jusco in JB! Crazy man. I don't know which branch is that, but for sure it's neither the Taman U nor the Tebrau City. We started our journey to KL around 6 pm. There was a serious traffic jam near Seremban. Everyone was heading back for work the very last minute! Sigh... We finally reached Tune's Hotel KL around 1 am!

1/6/2009

We had a day trip to Bukit Tinggi. We were a bit disappointed actually. There was nothing very special though. We had a visit to the horse trail, rabbit farm, Japanese Village and also the French Village. The weather there in the afternoon was normal like that on the ground. What is happening with our climate here in Malaysia?! Haiz... Global warming is really a serious problem nowadays.

We had simple lunch in Japanese Vilalge. Guess what.. a set of Unagi meal cost RM50 here! Crazy man... and a cup of green tea cost RM5 here!! Siao... So, we decided to have a REAL simple lunch. Ha...

Pic 4: Japanese village... I'm too lazy to post those pic up... ha..

Pic 5: French village

Around 3.30 pm, we decided to have high tea in French Village. We orded a not-so-nice pizza with ham inside.

We went back to KL after that. Around 6.30 pm, my sister and I left KL, heading north again to Penang. I do not wish to mention the reason we headed north since it was not a good memory for me, but some of you might know it already. So, we can skip that part.

2/6/2009

We spent the afternoon time shopping in Gurney Plaza. I bought 2 singlets and a sweater. Huahahaha. My sister went for gathering with her friend that night so I spent the whole night in the hotel downloading drama series and watching them! Huahahaha... I love Tune's Hotel in Penang so much! The wifi speed was far too fast, so I suspected they subscribed to Penang Fon, a local internet service provider. I managed to download 10++ episodes there. Ha.

3/6/2009

We gathered some information from internet and thus planned to have famous char koey tiao for brunch at Jalan Selamat, but we couldn't find the stall. I suspected a stall, with RM6 for a plate of CKT! But my sister did not believe it because she said there was no customer there. So, we ended up having ban mee near BJ. My sister complaint that I did not tell her that there is nothing special about the soup ban mee! Ha. I told her, "you should realize that when you see I ordered the dry one". Ha. After lunch, we headed back to Georgetown, visiting some historical places.

First stop was the Khoo Kongsi Clan Temple. I visited the place 2 years ago with my parents. But since my sister had never been there before, so I visited it again. Pity me.... =p

Pic 6: Khoo Kongsi Clan Temple.

Next, we stopped at the Peranakan Mansion. {Contained in this mansion are elaborate traditional costumes and accessories, lovely porcelain pieces, furniture, works of art brought in from China and Europe as well as artefacts related to the history and colourful lifestyle of the Baba Nyonya people of Penang.} (info obtained from internet.. ha)

After watching the Singapore drama series, The Little Nyonya, I fell in love with the Baba Nyonya culture ever since. So, I decided to visit this place right after I read the description in the map. Ha.

Pic 7: The Pinang Peranakan Mansion. I was inside the 洞房... Ha.. We had a great visit there because there was one uncle who explained everything detailly for us. Great job uncle! Ha. Sorry I couldn't upload more pic as it's really hard to upload pic in blogspot! Ha.

After that, our camera ran out of battery. So we had no choice, but heading back to hotel to charge the battery. Before that, we stopped by at Penang Road to buy the famous Penang Road Chendol. (But, we don't think it's very special though... but there were quite a lot of customers there =p) So i spent the entire evening watching drama series again. Around 6 something, we went for a visit near jetty. We visited the MPP Penang, and a fort there. We had dinner at Gurney Drive. My crazy sister suddenly had great appetite that night! She ordered 2 char koey tiao without telling me, and yet she asked me to go order my food! So, I had double dinner that night!!! Another incident happening after that! My passenger seat's window couldn't be wound up! and there was no workshop since it was 10 something at night! So we had no choice, but left the car without the window by the road side overnight! Luckily we managed to find a car parking lot just in front of 7-Eleven of Tune's Hotel. And special thanks to the helpful guard and the 7-Eleven cashier who promised to have an eye on our car. Thank you. *Bow*

4/6/2009

It's time to leave Penang again. We reached Skudai around 7.30 pm.

5/6/2009

It's time to go home. My flight was on 4.15 pm, but I went to airport at 10 am! My sister and her boyfriend went to East Coast that day so they "dumped" me at airport early that day. I spent the whole day watching drama series again at Coffee Bean and Marybrown. Finally I reached Miri at 6 pm. Due to the H1N1 cases in West Malaysia, passengers flying from West Malaysia were required to have health check after the immigration counter. I was not required for temperature measurement after telling them that I did not visit Singapore when I was in JB. Hee...