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I read an article on christmas about what christmas meant to this guy, and for him christmas reminds him that in 6 days, the year will be ending and a new year begins. So i thought to myself during christmas, and i vowed to spend my last 6 days in 2010 wisely, sad to say i wouldn't say i did. However here I am writting my-year-end review slash maybe new-year-resolution-post on a brand new year. =)

So what did i do this year,

1. Took my SAT begining of this year, which was hell. I wasnt really prepared, and i dont think I put this test to use, but it taught me quite a bit. =)

2. Celebrated CNY in Taiping-Kota Bahru-Tok Bali-Cherating-KL....=), one of the best CNY ever. =)

3. Finally put my driving licence to use although I got it in April 2009, Its feels good being able to drive around, I m quite proud of my driving skills, =). As of end of this year, i have driven to, subang, pj, bangsar, klang, taiping and my lastest accomplishment is to drive from tpg to kl although not Solo.

4. Wooops got my first pay this year, hopefully more to come in 2011. ;p

5. First trip with friends from INTI to Langkawi. The trip was good, we chose Langkawi cause there was a discount for Airasia, and i think we paid just around RM 50 for the round tickets, but because our flight was delayed, we got a rm200 voucher from them. I kinda heart air asia...
6. My first prom!!! Haha, it was just alright, but still had fun playing dress up.
7. My first community service kinda work. Joined EPIC, 2010 where i signed up as a volunteer where we helped compiled a village census of their demographics, played with the kids and help in cleaning up the village a bit. My first time in a orang asli village too. It was a great experience and this program will mark the begining of me joining a program like this, cause the feeling after is just epic. =)

8. First time to Bangkok, but once is enough for me to fall in love with Bangkok! Shopping and food there is just awesome, I think its one of those place I will never get tired of, okay maybe not never, but you get what i mean.

9. Also took some weird subjects in 2010, and i secretly kinda like them. Naming, public speaking, philosophy, world religions and business communications. Though i complained about having to study for it, I have learned quite a lot from religion, I am no longer religion-noobed though I still stand by my beliefs before taking the subject. The two project that I did was also very interessting, might talk about this one day when I feel like it.

10. Went Bangkok for the second time, on a charity program sponsored by BRANDS. Some awesome stuff which marks my first time overseas alone for non holiday purpose.

11. Night out with ash which I will remember for a very long time. XD

12. Officially became an EX- intian.

There are also several farewells this year where I bid goodbye to some of my friends to Canada and US. And soon, 12 days from now, it would be my turn. This is what makes the 2010-2011 transition so special for me. 12 days, I m a liltle freak-ed out, okay maybe alot but it's the new year, what better way to start a new year than to start anew.

Honnestly I thought I was gonna come out with a list of new year resolutions although I dont usually make a list, but right now I am too nervous to do so, so lets just enjoy my 12 days, and hope for the best for ALL.

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Playing with the continuous shot feature in the lake gardens, Pictures taken by calyn, we should do this more often. FUN.!!!!! =)

christmas eve

Woke up super early today, 7.30am not bad right.
Started the day with boring school stuff, apply transcript, write letter, send letter bla bla bla but had yummy nasi lemak and nasi dagang lunch at village park uptown...=)
After that went to one utama to get my specs done. Yay, cant wait for my specs to arrived, wished they had it in a different color though.
Head to curve next, to Daiso- a all rm5 Japanese store. Such a cute shop! They have everything and anything at all. Bought a few random stuff like umbrella, highlighters etc
Next up IKEA, my parents super like ikea!!!! This deserve a story of its own one day.....
After all the shopping had thai dinner with the family..yummy food again. Am please. =p
And after that came home and dyed hair with sister..hehe, its brown-er now, still not vr obvious but brown-er.
So did quite alot on christmas eve, I m happy. I like busy days, days i dont have time to complain im bored. =), the bad thing though is that its only 11pm on a christmas eve and am already sleepy.=(

Thats all, nights and merry christmas y'all.

I is in the news!!! LOL...


p/s- they got it wrong, beside me in the 1st pic aint xinhui....;p

pictures credits to xinhuiphuah..=)

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I feel like im standing in the middle of the ocean right now,

1. Part of me wants to swin towards the beautiful blue skies, swim across to the destination, all excited to discover the other side.
2. Another part of me wants to just continue standing there, worried if I have made all the wrong choices, worried if the other side isnt as pretty after all, and maybe secretly hopping someone will come bring me to the right side
3. And another tiny part, wants to swim back to the shore, to where I am comfortable with.



p.s- just a thought, not emo.;p

love

you know what i love????


GLEEEE!!!


That and many things...;p

Hope in a Bottle- BRANDS

Went to Thailand as a student volunteer last month for a charity program by Brands. "Hope in a Bottle" was indeed challenging, but yet super fun!!! =)

1. The accomodation

One of my favorite things about the trip was the hotel we were hosted in. The room was great, sharing it with another friend of mine, Xin Hui, we had the whole place to ourselves. The place was huge, and the place was pretty as all the walls in the hotel were decorated with pretty paintings. We even "complained" that the bed was too big for us we dint bump into each other at all. The staff were very friendly too.

Our BIG BIG Bed

Living Room

Pretty LiftThe room was so nice, that we couldnt help but take crazy lots of camwhore pictures on timer. =P

2. The Program

Basically, the Hope in the Bottle program aims to build 4 new houses for several families in Thailand, so off we went during the day to help build houses. It was a really eye-opening and fruitful adventure.
The building process involves;

a) Mixing the cement- Now i know what you need to mix cement, cement powder, water, sand,and pebbles!

b) Carrying the liquid cement, forming a human chain to pass it along to be poured on the base-
Sounds easy but the cement damn heavy okay.

c) Laying Brands bottles on the ground- This process has been researched to save the cement up to about 25%

d) Did a liltle bit of painting too. =)

After two days of building, I will never look at cement the same way again. It wasnt a super hard job, but I never imagine it to be that tough. Thank god for machines, really. But glad to have experienced it anyway.

One thing impresses me a lot was how the organizer thought of everything, and when i say everything, i mean everything. Imagine building at a site, hot weather, in a village, what do you need?

Packed sushi lunch- checkedMobile Toilets- CheckedWhole tub of ice drinks and even chilled handkerchieves! - Checked

Rest place, with snacks and fruits- checked

Gloves, caps, hand socks for UV rays protection- checked

3. The company

Spent most of my time with roommate/ collegemate/ Malaysian-mate, introducing Xin Hui!!

Shes good company especially if you like camwhoring and shopping! =)- Problem with her was she just so super super tall, and i m like super short, so every picture with her makes me look like a dwarf. =(
Funny though a few asked if we are sibblings, we look nothing alike, and DNA must have gone wrong somewhere, she got all the tall genes. Anyways if we are, then who's the younger one??(she is)

From right, Xin Hui, Thai Ronald MC Donald and dwarf. =(

Besides, met people from different countries too!!! Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong!. They were all super friendly and impressive too! Although at times I might be rather lost among them due to my "good" mandarin skills, it was great getting to know them, comparing cultures of the different countries.

From right, me and xin hui from Malaysia, Charmian and Jackson from Singapore, Alistor and Pei-Chi from Taiwan, Alvin and Alan from Hong Kong and our very berry cool staff from Malaysia/ our "babysitter", Corrine.

4. Thailand

Thailand was just super awesome. Shopping and food in Thailand is just heaven!

Need I say MORE?

And I shall end the post with a picture of,

ELMO AND COOKIE MONSTER. =)