I think one of the most amazing gift a person could give me is a ticket to a Les Miserables musical.
Which of course will not happen anytime soon because I doubt it'll be held in Malaysia in the near future. Haha. Or anytime in the future future.
But still, it's AMAZING. :-) :-) :-) Ask me to watch it a 100 times over and I will!
Anyway, am currently in Malacca, taking a break from my hectic, mad life I led the past few months.
Had the most stressful exams ever since STPM. Can't quite pinpoint the reason why it was so stressful, but it was. Exhausted, slept about 2-4 hours per night. By my final paper my brain was so fuzzy I couldn't see straight. I slept 12-14 hours the next few days after it.
Nevertheless, it marked the end of my Sem 1, Year 2. I'm actually a REAL year 2 uni student!! Time flies. Like the wind. (Nevermind the fact that I'm graduating later than most of my friends who didn't do form 6/entered private unis.) But I'm happy to be in UM!
Oh, and I never wrote a birthday/end year/new year note this year. Time just flew, was so caught up with exams and life. Oh well, there goes some ancient tradition!
I wanna join a gym! Haha. Suddenly feel the need to work out and to lead a healthier life. No more exercise-less, sedentary lifestyle for me. I used to use the lame excuse of climbing up many flights of stairs in uni but that's hardly exercise la.
Joash is back in KL entertaining his parents now.. and being my housekeeper/plant waterer. Lol!
Still debating whether to take 18 or 21 credit hours next sem.
Am worried 21 credit hours is too heavy for me, on top of my tuition classes (I give tuition 4-5 times a week).
But 18 credit hours means I'm limiting my uni experience and stifling the education I should be getting. Haha. Knowledge is power. Really, it is. Call me a geek if you will but I've picked up so very many skills in uni I won't trade it for anything else in the world.
But how.
I'll decide later.
Oh, I actually performed on a fantastic stage last week together with my sayang, his bro - both guitarists, Elaine - dancer and Tien Mie - pianist! Hahaha. 'Twas awesome. For my Muzik Dalam Teater uni course. Tell me as a kid that I'll actually have the courage to do it and I'll tell you to eat your own shoes up. Hahaha. But turned out it was no big deal, I wasn't even nervous! Me, speaking over the mic in a huge theatre. ALONE. The rest were performers. :-) Truly a remarkable experience for each of us although we had a very small audience to watch us.
Oh, I brought fireworks to Joash's workshop on Friday night and watched the grown men play with it! LOL. That was funny, all these big burly men running in fear after they lit their fireworks. =P Too innocent though, the ones I brought. Haven't played in so many years that I realised what seemed dangerous as kids are now just little things exploding. It was fun though. I did buy one that the man warned me would be "very3 loud" and actually didn't want me to buy it (me being me stubbornly bought it, telling the man that "men, not boys" would be playing it), even Joash's guys took one look at it and claimed it would "bergempar" so they didn't play it. And because I trust their opinion on this I'm rather reluctant about lighting this particular "bomb" in Malacca. How bad is bad??
Anyway, I'm on an extremely tight budget now. Haha. No budget, actually. Somehow finished up all my money/put away some in long-term savings and next thing I know, my purse is empty. :-( But I went shopping with bro earlier today and he paid for my CNY clothings! :-D Haha, good thing my bro's one of the very rare guys who shops willingly. =) If he hadn't gone with me and patiently waited for me to choose them I wouldn't have bought any new clothes!
Waiting for next JPA/next pay soon... won't be earning too much next month, didn't write articles and gave less tuition due to exams...
Haha I sound pathetic! Nah I'm ok!
Anyway, Happy Chinese New Year!!! Gong Xi Fa Chai! (Erm, I think that means Happy New Year. I think.)
Fireworks tonight! ;-)
Ok, enough rambling.
God bless!
Jo
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Friday, January 13, 2012
I can vote! =D
Haha, had a wonderful 21st birthday today, after the toughest exam paper of my life. :-)
Had lunch with Yan and Elaine, 'twas a good catching up session. :)
Had a wonderful romantic candle-light dinner in a fine dining restaurant with Joash! =D
And we talked about marriage. =P
No la, not proposing. Just talking!
Then Joel Low brought a cake when we reached home. :-)
Had a good, close-knit celebration. No big big ado for me, thank you very much! :-) Although I think that's happening tomorrow... *paces around worriedly*
Received a lovely pendant from bro and... an anklet with my keys to freedom from mom! Haha! Pretty rare to receive birthday presents from my family, so I'm pleasantly surprised. :-)
Received a birthday card by Pos Express from the Low parents! Haha, such sweet characters, they are. :-) No wonder they got such a wonderful son! (Ooh, Andrea I'm sorry. Too sappy! :D)
The ayang has gotten such a complicated gift it can only be given this weekend. haha!
Anyhow, the gifts aren't important, it was the thought and effort and time and love put into all these that I really appreciate. :-)
Next thing: Register as voter! CP wanted to do it with me this afternoon but I was exhausted and had to rush somewhere with mom in the afternoon.
=D
Sleep first, been sleep-deprived the past few days due to tough papers + diarrhoea.
Have a great day!
God bless,
Jo
Had lunch with Yan and Elaine, 'twas a good catching up session. :)
Had a wonderful romantic candle-light dinner in a fine dining restaurant with Joash! =D
And we talked about marriage. =P
No la, not proposing. Just talking!
Then Joel Low brought a cake when we reached home. :-)
Had a good, close-knit celebration. No big big ado for me, thank you very much! :-) Although I think that's happening tomorrow... *paces around worriedly*
Received a lovely pendant from bro and... an anklet with my keys to freedom from mom! Haha! Pretty rare to receive birthday presents from my family, so I'm pleasantly surprised. :-)
Received a birthday card by Pos Express from the Low parents! Haha, such sweet characters, they are. :-) No wonder they got such a wonderful son! (Ooh, Andrea I'm sorry. Too sappy! :D)
The ayang has gotten such a complicated gift it can only be given this weekend. haha!
Anyhow, the gifts aren't important, it was the thought and effort and time and love put into all these that I really appreciate. :-)
Next thing: Register as voter! CP wanted to do it with me this afternoon but I was exhausted and had to rush somewhere with mom in the afternoon.
=D
Sleep first, been sleep-deprived the past few days due to tough papers + diarrhoea.
Have a great day!
God bless,
Jo
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
"You used to get much higher than this."
Shucks.
Went to see my lecturer today about feedback for my assignment.
I'll need near perfect marks for my 3 essays tomorrow if I want to dream of an A.
And this is for the EASIER paper. Thursday is my tougher one.
:(
Went to see my lecturer today about feedback for my assignment.
I'll need near perfect marks for my 3 essays tomorrow if I want to dream of an A.
And this is for the EASIER paper. Thursday is my tougher one.
:(
Sungha Jung
Been following this brilliant fingerstyle guitarist ever since his first few early videos when he was a tiny lil' kid.
Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O'Mine - Check out the brilliant guitar slapping at 2:10 onwards!
Yiruma - River Flows in You
Haha, I can only dream of playing like that.
I used to comfort myself by saying that he was an ACOUSTIC fingerstylist, and as a classical guitarist I'm different.
...
Until I mustered the courage to google up Sungha Jung - Classical Guitar. -___-
Cavatina (My grade 8 exam piece!)
Antonio Banderas - Cancion Del Mariachi
Hahaha.
Where does talent like that come from??
A better question would be:
Why am I online at 4.24am, and why am I watching Youtube when I've got killer papers on this week??
Hehe. Destress jap la! =P
I'm gonna start giving BM tuition soon! *Frantically scrambles to dig into her BM lexical thingamajig* Per..-an, memperdalamkan, memperdalam, tambahan pula - tidak sama dengan selain itu, hal ini demikian kerana BETUL.. hal ini SALAH... shucks. I daresay all these complicated rules will return to me quickly enough because of my linguistic classes now. I hope! Used to have wonderfully excellent BM teachers who gave me As and A1s in BM papers although I had COMPLETELY NO EXPOSURE to BM apart from them. Heck, I even considered taking STPM BM. But decided on History instead. Haha. My Malay friends had worse BM than me and some spoke & wrote better English than me! And many of my Malay teachers spoke English. Hmm. Welcome to Little Britain.
Tingkatan 3 je.. ape susah sgt? *cross fingers* This parent practically pleaded with me to rescue her child from the very depths of I-dunno-what so I couldn't very well say no.. besides, how hard can PMR be? Colouring contest, right? RIGHT??? That's what CP says all the time! I sincerely hope so..
4.41am. Adios!
Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O'Mine - Check out the brilliant guitar slapping at 2:10 onwards!
Yiruma - River Flows in You
Haha, I can only dream of playing like that.
I used to comfort myself by saying that he was an ACOUSTIC fingerstylist, and as a classical guitarist I'm different.
...
Until I mustered the courage to google up Sungha Jung - Classical Guitar. -___-
Cavatina (My grade 8 exam piece!)
Antonio Banderas - Cancion Del Mariachi
Hahaha.
Where does talent like that come from??
A better question would be:
Why am I online at 4.24am, and why am I watching Youtube when I've got killer papers on this week??
Hehe. Destress jap la! =P
I'm gonna start giving BM tuition soon! *Frantically scrambles to dig into her BM lexical thingamajig* Per..-an, memperdalamkan, memperdalam, tambahan pula - tidak sama dengan selain itu, hal ini demikian kerana BETUL.. hal ini SALAH... shucks. I daresay all these complicated rules will return to me quickly enough because of my linguistic classes now. I hope! Used to have wonderfully excellent BM teachers who gave me As and A1s in BM papers although I had COMPLETELY NO EXPOSURE to BM apart from them. Heck, I even considered taking STPM BM. But decided on History instead. Haha. My Malay friends had worse BM than me and some spoke & wrote better English than me! And many of my Malay teachers spoke English. Hmm. Welcome to Little Britain.
Tingkatan 3 je.. ape susah sgt? *cross fingers* This parent practically pleaded with me to rescue her child from the very depths of I-dunno-what so I couldn't very well say no.. besides, how hard can PMR be? Colouring contest, right? RIGHT??? That's what CP says all the time! I sincerely hope so..
4.41am. Adios!
Random...
I remember when it was time to select our IPTA's and courses we wanted..
I filled it in and left it alone, waiting for the deadline to see if I changed my mind. We were allowed to change our choices 3 times...
Hahahaha. Wai Yan and I filled ours in and then abandoned till the deadline.
Or should I say 'deadline'?
Cause when we accessed it on the 'deadline'.. we discovered we had gotten our deadline wrong, and it was in actual fact PAST the deadline! =O Haha, I forgot what the deadline was, but it was something like we thought it was the 31stm, and it was actually on the 30th.
I think a big risk when I filled mine in. I knew I only wanted English Literature in UM. The only other place I would have considered English Literature was in USM (matter of fact, only 2 unis I would have considered for anything - UM & USM) but when it boils down to language, UM is better known for its language courses. Anyhow, at that point of time my mind was focused on staying around home, rather short-term thinking but I did what my heart told me to. :-) Seeing USM had a different application process altogether, I didn't even bother applying for it because the rumour says that if we get USM and reject it, we'll be thrown around any other unis. Rumours that my seniors apparently claimed to be true cause they rejected USM 'for fun' as they knew they were already headed to NUS/overseas/private.
Anyway, when I filled in my courses, I didn't put courses that would require interviews - Law, TESL, & English Linguistics. Although technically, these were my 2nd, 3rd, and 4th choices. Haha. But as they say, if they call you for the interview and you pass, it'll automatically over-ride your top choice.
I filled in courses I don't even remember.. haha... erm... Bahasa Melayu?? Anthropology?? Something like that la. WEIRD choices that if I had gotten I would have straight away rejected and entered private straightaway.
But anyhow, I got the course I wanted (with 5 A's they had better give it to me, after my hellish STPM experience!) and I'm happy where I am now (as you faithful blog followers-whoever you may be-know). :-)
And I'm happy with Joash!
Haha, so random. But hey, it's a random post that I decided upon after I saw some Facebook statuses about IPTA applications. =D
God is good.
Have a wonderful day ahead of you!
*Still in disbelief that I'm having a horrible paper on my 21st birthday*
Oh well.
God bless!
Jo
I filled it in and left it alone, waiting for the deadline to see if I changed my mind. We were allowed to change our choices 3 times...
Hahahaha. Wai Yan and I filled ours in and then abandoned till the deadline.
Or should I say 'deadline'?
Cause when we accessed it on the 'deadline'.. we discovered we had gotten our deadline wrong, and it was in actual fact PAST the deadline! =O Haha, I forgot what the deadline was, but it was something like we thought it was the 31stm, and it was actually on the 30th.
I think a big risk when I filled mine in. I knew I only wanted English Literature in UM. The only other place I would have considered English Literature was in USM (matter of fact, only 2 unis I would have considered for anything - UM & USM) but when it boils down to language, UM is better known for its language courses. Anyhow, at that point of time my mind was focused on staying around home, rather short-term thinking but I did what my heart told me to. :-) Seeing USM had a different application process altogether, I didn't even bother applying for it because the rumour says that if we get USM and reject it, we'll be thrown around any other unis. Rumours that my seniors apparently claimed to be true cause they rejected USM 'for fun' as they knew they were already headed to NUS/overseas/private.
Anyway, when I filled in my courses, I didn't put courses that would require interviews - Law, TESL, & English Linguistics. Although technically, these were my 2nd, 3rd, and 4th choices. Haha. But as they say, if they call you for the interview and you pass, it'll automatically over-ride your top choice.
I filled in courses I don't even remember.. haha... erm... Bahasa Melayu?? Anthropology?? Something like that la. WEIRD choices that if I had gotten I would have straight away rejected and entered private straightaway.
But anyhow, I got the course I wanted (with 5 A's they had better give it to me, after my hellish STPM experience!) and I'm happy where I am now (as you faithful blog followers-whoever you may be-know). :-)
And I'm happy with Joash!
Haha, so random. But hey, it's a random post that I decided upon after I saw some Facebook statuses about IPTA applications. =D
God is good.
Have a wonderful day ahead of you!
*Still in disbelief that I'm having a horrible paper on my 21st birthday*
Oh well.
God bless!
Jo
Thursday, January 05, 2012
:-)
Started English class with 2 young kids today, was astounded with their sharp minds in grasping the lesson so quickly!
I think that's the true joy in educating: Giving people wings to soar, not crutches to handicap them.
Of course, the extra income helps A LOT because my guitar fees just went up by a lot.. started grade 8! Hopefully can finish it by the time I graduate.. haha. I adore my classical guitar :-) Although I still have horrible timing (which is why I attempted to take up drums, it did help me a bit though, I can actually feel some rhythm now)..
My guitar teacher thinks I can teach guitar someday. Lol! That will be fun but not in the near future la. Still a lot to learn.
The whole idea of passing on knowledge fascinates me aplenty. To pass on skills to someone else.. the satisfaction gained.. Even last time when I did some small-time coaching in badminton, just passing on simple footwork to beginners..
Yeah, I think I'm destined to be an educator. Haha.
Teach WHAT, though?
Hmm..
Back to the books!
God bless,
Jo
I think that's the true joy in educating: Giving people wings to soar, not crutches to handicap them.
Of course, the extra income helps A LOT because my guitar fees just went up by a lot.. started grade 8! Hopefully can finish it by the time I graduate.. haha. I adore my classical guitar :-) Although I still have horrible timing (which is why I attempted to take up drums, it did help me a bit though, I can actually feel some rhythm now)..
My guitar teacher thinks I can teach guitar someday. Lol! That will be fun but not in the near future la. Still a lot to learn.
The whole idea of passing on knowledge fascinates me aplenty. To pass on skills to someone else.. the satisfaction gained.. Even last time when I did some small-time coaching in badminton, just passing on simple footwork to beginners..
Yeah, I think I'm destined to be an educator. Haha.
Teach WHAT, though?
Hmm..
Back to the books!
God bless,
Jo
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