~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...

三年的“财产”

星期二要搬走了，终于提起劲来收拾东西...

三年，说长不长，说短也不短...

东西嘛都可堆成一座小山了... 呵呵

够多吧？！保佑我~ （张智成上身...呵呵）

身为“环保分子”的我，纸张当然不可乱丢咯，一定要拿去再循环！

好多哦！真是自讨苦吃！

接下来，重头戏来咯... 收拾杂物，少不了..........垃圾！Dang dang dang dang ~~~

拜托！这只是一小部分好不好？！之前已经丢了好几袋了！哎！

-全文毕-

2009年3月25日凌晨3.44

毕业旅行

一生人一次的毕业旅行，原本是计划到吉隆坡-马六甲-GuaTempurung的...
结果，一个脑膜炎把我们的行程给打乱了... 哎... 人算不如天算...
由于不想让父母们操心，马六甲之旅就被这样被免了...
人数突然凑不到8人，GuaTempurung也被去除名单了... 哎！

15/5/2009
中午12.30与三位朋友抵达吉隆坡Puduraya巴士站... 到了对面的KFC等待其他的朋友... 为了节省时间，午餐就在KFC解决... 虽然不想，但不想浪费时间，就将就了一下...

2.00左右，人到齐了，午餐也解决了，7行人便乘搭LRT到酒店去...
（顺便来介绍一下，酒店是TuneHotel, 个人觉得这是不错的一间酒店... 虽然房间很小，但倘若你不讲究住宿上的享受，TuneHotel绝对满足到你... 就一点一定要记住，切记要携带自己的毛巾和洗澡用品...)

3.00左右，我和两位朋友出发到PWTC出席一年一度的职业展(career fair)... 其余的朋友有点没意气，说是去MidValley逛街，结果跑到独立广场去拍照！气ing... 哈哈... （肯定被骂... =p）
说回职业展，我们三人从PWTC LRT Station 下站后，原本以为PWTC就在对面，结果走啊走，就是没看到它的存在，我们就跟着人群走，幸好大家都是前往PWTC，我们才不至于在吉隆坡迷路！哈哈... 可这PWTC实在是太大了吧！原本以为只要进到门口就可看到职业展了，怎知我们走啊走，走啊走，几乎用掉了15分钟，才从门口走到了职业展！天啊！
更气人的是，6000个摊位里，只有10个是Biotechnology的摊位！天啊！更夸张的是，10个里面，只有6、 7 个与我们有关，其余的都是HealthCare集团，请的都是Phamarcy，Nursing之类的人才... Biotech 在马来西亚未免太落后了吧？！几时才能像日本这样发达啊？！
没有OpenInterview，只填了一些ApplicationForm和Drop Resume... 5.30左右就走人了... 蛮失望的，早知就不用带些Certificates去，加重行李！

7.00左右，和其他的朋友集合后，我们就开始了我们的毕业之旅...　晚上没什么节目，首站就去Shopping 咯... TuneHotel 的好处就是它位于LRT和Monorail站的中间... 只需要五分钟的路程就可抵达这两个车站... 首站是Bukit Bintang... 到站时，call 了一位coursemate，因为他说想见我们，他建议我们到Pavilion Food Court 等他... 结果，他竟然放我们飞机！因为他说严重塞车，他不想来了... 可怜的我们只好自己找吃... 结果不知怎的，大家似乎只对韩国餐有兴趣，不过很不幸的是，韩国餐的确不合我们的胃口... 哎！
吃完就在Pavilion狂拍照，因为我们没钱在那里逛街，倒不如拍照留念！哈...
拍完照之后就前往平民逛街的好去处，Sg.Wang... 可是，到头来我们还是没买到什么... 呵呵

10.00左右，店面都关得七七八八... 没处逛了... 朋友们说想去GreenBox唱k，可是再过不久monorail就没走了，所以大家就乖乖地回酒店休息... 我啊，则约了两位中学朋友去second round,　哈... 被他们“拐”去吃田鸡粥（生平的第一次，哈）...

1.00 回到酒店，“室友”开始不想等我门了，幸好回到时她们还没睡=p　对不起咯！

16/5/2009
8.00 集合，早餐在楼下的 7 Eleven 啃面包，哎！

吃完早餐，送走了两位朋友，我们一伙就出发到KLCC去...　抵达时已是9时左右... 朋友建议我们去Skybridge参观，所以我们就跑去排队拿票。怎知，一去到那里，就看到那里已排满了人群！够力！而且，外国人特别多．害我们个个都担心了起来，因为昨天马来西亚终于证实了第一宗A(H1N1)型流感病例... 大家可要保重啊！拿了票之后，我们就前往Petrosains去，结果看到了三大群幼稚园小朋友在门前排队！够力！结果大伙儿就决定舍去Petrosains, 往Aquaria前进... 虽然学生价只需RM20，可我们觉得好像那钱白白被吃掉似的，因为比起新加坡Sentosa的Underwater World，这个Aquaria真的没什么... 因为很多species都没看到！就连最基本的水母都没有... 有点失望... 怪不得有个朋友的学长叫我们别去那儿...　还有，真是“冤家路窄”，在Petrosains遇到的那几群小朋友此刻也出现在这！虽然我喜欢小孩子，但就是不喜欢一大群小孩子出现在公共场合，因为场面真的很难控制！哎！还有，发现现在的小孩子真有钱。个个手上都有Digital Camera或Camera Phone！太幸福了吧？！中餐吃BurgerKing... 拜托！又是快餐！若不是赶时间，我们才不想走进快餐店！2.00pm上Skybridge狂拍照...

三点左右，一个本地的朋友约了我们到Damansara的某个角落喝下午茶... 从KLCC搭LRT去 Kelana Jaya，再搭德士到达目的地... 忘了这里叫什么名字，可这里真的很安静，没什么人来... 店员个个闷到去偷闲，根本没人在看守摊位！若不是我们都是诚实的小孩，我们早就把一大堆的东西扛回家去了！哈... 下午茶就在这里的某间店度过，名叫Full House，好像是跟韩剧Full House 的Concept建的。这里的装潢和装饰蛮有趣的，所以我们又开始猛拍照了！哈...

晚餐到Petaling Street去。想说应该可以吃到又好吃又便宜的一顿晚餐了．结果，选错了地点... 我的“三鲜面”吃到一半就没办法再吃下去了！那面未免太硬了吧！听说炒饭也没味道！饺子又太油！建议这家老板去学会了几道像样的菜色才出来摆摊吧！哈... 在这里没逛很久，因为个个都累了，再加上我本身不是很喜欢逛夜市，尤其是这样复杂的夜市，就算东西再便宜都好，都吸引不到我... 10.00 左右，个个都赶着回酒店休息去了... 洗完澡后，大家又聚集在我房间里玩牌！其实，我很困了，再加上脚又很痛，但看到她们兴致勃勃的，我又不好意思不玩... 哈

17/7/2009
又是８点集合... 在7 Eleven啃面包... 送走另外一位朋友，我们就只剩６人了。之后，我们便出发到云顶去... 在车站被霸王车“骗”，一个人RM20，因为最快的巴士要等到１１时，那是才９时左右... 况且估计在缆车处又得排很长的队，为了省时间，我们就只好搭霸王车上去... 场面乱到大家都忘了跟他们减价... 无所谓啦！都忘了，后悔有什么用呢？可是啊，这Uncle也够力！他以为他是Formula 1车神啊？全程７０km/hr上山，完全没踩break，一直第一条lane割去第三条lane，再第三条lane割回第一条lane，谢天谢地我们还有命到山上去！没有下次了！下次乖乖地搭巴士算了...

午餐在“好味”解决... 好味它的头！又难吃，又贵，服务又烂！没下次了！
吃完就往ThemePark杀去... 这一次进ThemePark，不刺激的游戏我们几乎都没去玩... 除了最刺激的跳楼机！哈... 似乎人老了都很怕死！以前天不怕地不怕，现在... 呵呵... 不过，我还可以说服到我自己，我终究也玩过两次了，也没什么遗憾了！哈哈...
一玩就玩到八点出... 呵呵... 我们可是玩到最迟的一堆人哦！哈哈... 拍手！

晚餐吃肉骨茶，比午餐好吃多了... 虽然贵了点=(，还有refill 汤竟然要RM2！真是上了山后，样样都要Double Price!　吃完就没事干了，就一直逛啊逛，逛啊逛！这晚，我的脚真的痛到不想走路！

18/5/2009
我们有４张免费的早餐固本，可我们有六人，所以我和另外一位朋友就volunteer说我们不吃早餐了！我们甘愿睡迟点！呵呵！结果，一睡就睡到早上１１时！哈哈...
午餐，我们在一家小店解决... 忘了叫什么名字，不过挺好吃的... service tax 又低！爱死它了！！哈哈...
大家都不想逛了，可巴士又２点半才出发。没事做，就跑进赌场参观... 不知这些赌徒钱从哪儿来，几百几百就这样在一分钟内败完，真想跑上前跟他们说，不如把这钱送给我，这样比送给赌场更有意义吧！哈哈哈哈...

晚上７点半回到槟城，路途上朋友传简讯来说，槟城证实了大马第二宗H1N1病例... 到底还有哪里是安全的啊？！哎！大家请保重吧！

此趟旅行，若不是与一大群朋友一起疯狂，想必我是闷坏了吧！毕竟这两个地方我都去过好几次了... 有了一群朋友的陪伴，欢乐自然少不了... 谢啦朋友们，大家请多保重，有缘再相见...

《小娘惹》

最近，我疯狂地爱上了这部剧集-《小娘惹》...
当初就在报章上看到《小娘惹》的收视率创新高... 更是十几年来收视率最高的一部新加坡剧集...
原本对它没有特别的感觉，因为我对以三四五十年代当背景的戏剧真的没什么兴趣...
但，考试考到极度无聊！又没特别的港剧好看... 又在网上看到了这部剧集... 就好奇地下载了第一集... 看完了第一集, 我就知道我完蛋了... 书不用读了！我真的真的爱上了它！幸好MajorPaper都考完了... 不然啊.................

《小娘惹》是一部以马六甲和新加坡为背景的戏剧。它讲述了Baba&Nyonya的历史与文化...
爱上了戏剧里美味可口的娘惹糕点... （原来平时吃的糕点都是娘惹糕啊？！hehe）
爱上了娘惹服装... 真的很特别，因为它综合了中西马来文化...

三四十年代的女人地位卑贱...
但菊香和月娘那不认命的精神真的深深感动了我...
命运是自己创造的...
要成功，就要靠自己！

欧宣...以前都有看过她的戏...
但，就觉得她没什么特别...
她是美丽，但就没觉得她特别的美...
但，第一次在这部戏里看到她的时候，真的是让我眼前一亮...
她，真的很美...
有一种说不出的气质...
可能是她穿上了娘惹装... 把她的美都呈现出来了吧！
人靠衣装，这句话也蛮有道理的...

白薇秀饰演的玉珠也是我个人蛮喜欢的一个角色...
她真的好善良...
但好人似乎都没什么好报应...
她落得如此下场，我真的为她叫屈！
干嘛剧组要让她这么可怜啊？！

结局，不是大家所希望的大团圆结局...
不过，我还蛮喜欢它的结局...
它让我们看到了世界真实的一面...
有情人终成眷属固然是好...
但世界不会这么完美...
很多时候都是“在你身边的人不是你一生的最爱”...
爱情不是自私的...
能包容，能够不伤害到任何善良的一方，这样的爱情才是完美的...
若月娘选择了陈锡，她要怎样面对玉珠呢？
因为，玉珠为他们这段感情真的牺牲了很多很多...
虽然男女主角没能在一起，但他们知道对方都会永远留在自己的心中...
这样或许就足够了吧！

《小娘惹》真的是一部很值得观看的剧集...

接下来的路，要如何去走？

即将毕业了... 头脑就开始胡思乱想...
接下来的路，我该怎么走呢？
这18年里，我到底在学校里学到了什么？
这些知识都能在生活上派上用场吗？
自己到底是读活书，还是在读死书呢？

无可否认，我是在读死书！
平时就很爱怪政府的教学制度欠佳...
但，回想起来，也得怪这一代的小孩子自己不争气...
现在的学生，只读学校里所教的课题...
究竟有几个会去额外读写无关紧要的课题呢？
我想... 应该很少吧！
“没时间”是大学生最基本的借口...
试问，自己真的没有足够的时间吗？
看戏、上网、逛街等等基本上已成为我们生活的一部分，是不可缺少的一块...
那试问，上一年代的学生们都在空闲时做些什么啊？
读书，就是为了考好成绩，顺顺利利毕业，然后找份薪水不错的工作吗？

最近头脑老是在想...
是该继续学业？还是打工？
继续学业... 又觉得自己不是当科学家的料... 因为头脑“不灵活”...
出来打工... 又觉得自己好像什么都不会... 外头竞争剧烈... 自己要凭什么本事出人头地？！
有时，多希望自己别想太多...
真希望自己能豁出去...
被人讥笑有什么好丢脸的？
跌倒了才能让自己更坚强...
但，我能做到吗？
唉... 女人啊... 果然是多脑的动物... 哈...
我想... 这就叫做《毕业前夕忧郁症》吧！