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Pangkor Trip

2012-02-11T10:40:00.000-08:00

My bunch of friends and I headed to Pangkor Island on the 3rd February this year. It was just a plain Friday and we chose Pangkor because it was still holidays for some of my friends and most importantly, we have free accommodation! Since it is the hometown for one of my best friends, Alson Beh, he became our tour guide for this memorable 2 days 1 night trip.

We took a bus from bus station to Lumut jetty and the journey was slightly more than 2 hours. After that, we were again moved from the jetty to Pangkor for half an hour across the sea. It took us 15 minutes of walking to travel from Pangkor jetty to Beh's house.

We were supposed to stay in Beh's house for the day but since the air-conditioner there was malfunction, we then moved to his Red Bean Ice shop opposite his house and unload our luggage. To my surprise, there are plenty of rooms available there.

After lunch, we departed to the Dutch Fort in Teluk Gudang by van. The fort was 300 years old and it was constructed by the Dutch to defend against the pirates and local Malays. What's left there was just the stone foundation and some carvings.

We proceeded to Fu Lin Kong (福临宫) Chinese Temple after that. Perhaps the greatest attraction there is the mini Great Wall of China.

Each block of the mini building was carved with the name of the people who donated the required construction fee. Since the temple was located uphill, we did not explore further up. We even did some photo gimmicks, there is just hard concrete wall behind the unmovable wooden doors in the photo timeline below~

The final destination of the day was at Pangkor beach. 1Malaysia logo could be seen anywhere in the island including the beach as the current Mentri Besar of Perak was the MP for Pangkor.

The beach was not as dirty as expected. The sea water is clear and there is hardly any garbage there. Chris, Yee Lim, Pui San and Vizent hopped onto the water upon reaching.

We wanted to cover Vizent's body with sand but he refused. So we just managed to cover up half his body and snap a few shots before the tides wash away everything, haha.

Distance has no barrier on true love! See what Chris did for her girlfriend~ =)

We spent few hours on the beach and departed back to Beh's shop before dawn. Initially we planned to play banana boat and some other water sports but unfortunately, there are nobody open for business there.

Feeling tired and exhausted, we have one final shot at the beach before we left. My friends said the sitting position is similar to the movie You Are The Apple of My Eye (那些年，我們一起追的女孩). We went to a nearby seafood restaurant for dinner later on.

We only visited some souvenir shops on the second day before heading back to Ipoh. I sincerely thank Beh (cool photo above) for providing his warm hospitality in ensuring our trip an enjoyable and organized one. Next time sure treat you yumcha~ =)

Sa-Wa-Dee-Kap

2012-01-10T07:06:00.000-08:00

The whole trip to Thailand on the 19^th December was better than I expected. With the totally different cultures and lifestyles there, the journey to Bangkok and Pattaya was certainly an eye-opening experience for me.

The itinerary for my 5 days 4 nights trip was the first day in Bangkok, second and third day in Pattaya and the forth day back to Bangkok. The last day was just sufficient for us to have breakfast in the hotel as we departed from Bangkok at 11.05am Bangkok time (12.05pm Malaysia time).

I went with my family of 5 and with my sister’s boyfriend, Jacky. My cousin and his wife came along too as they travel to and fro Bangkok quite often for business purpose.

It was the first time for me to travel overseas as I have not been on board before. The feeling of excitement boosted up when I looked down from the air plane to the tiny buildings below me. The moment we reached Suvarnabhumi (su-wa-na-boom) airport in Bangkok, we were greeted by our tour guide, IU (ai-you). She told us that the airport was named by the King of Thailand himself, King Bhumibol (bu-mi-pun). Suvarna means gold and bhumi means land, it short it is the land of gold. Unlike Malaysia, most of the buildings in Bangkok and Pattaya have the picture of their King in the most eye-catching spot of the buildings. So it is difficult to say that you do not recognize the face of their King.

First day was free and easy as our trip starts on the second day and we had loads of free time after we had checked-in to our hotel. We went for shopping at Platinum Plaza nearby our hotel. My cousin told me that the chicken rice in Bangkok is better than in Malaysia. The chicken is boneless and the rice they served can even be eaten without any dishes.

My second day started fresh with the journey along Chao Praya river. There are slum along the river as the government have not taken any action against them yet. The tour guide told us that the nicest temple along the river is Wat Arun (Wat means temple) also known as Temple of Dawn. It was build beside the former palace. The whole temple was made of magnificent stones and bricks as you hardly find anything like this in Malaysia. After the visit to the temple, we were brought to a leather factory where it was less popular among our 20-person group.

After that, we went to the world renown four-faced Buddha in the centre of Bangkok. It was believed that the Buddha was build by a local hotel owner and he became successful in his hotel management later on. It was surprising that the Buddha is just situated at the corner of a junction and the number of visitor was greater than hundred in just a small corner.

After our lunch at Red Dragon Restaurant, we went to Sriracha Tiger Zoo. We watched crocodile show and tiger show respectively at different time. The tigers were trained to stand on both legs, jumping across fire rings and performed various tricks to entertain the audience.

Before we left, we even witnessed pig racing and pigs doing mathematics. It was unbelievable as the mathematics questions were asked by the spectators and the pigs knew which number to choose as the correct answer.

Our destination after dinner was at Alangkarn cultural show. It was a fully furbished air-conditioned hall with a capacity of almost 1000 spectators. The show tells the history of Thailand and how the royal armies fought with the invaders.

In the midst of the show, they even invited some of the spectators to go up to the stage and dance with them. I was one of the two who were invited. Both of us were made fun by the performers in front of the spectators and we were asked to follow their dance moves.

The final destination of the day was at Alcazar or better known as Tiffany show or Ah gua show. The performers are actually males who undergoes sexual transplant to become females. I can definitely tell that the dancing performance of Alcazar was amazing and of world-class standard as it is hard to describe here in words.

Third day started off with the cold and chilling air of Pattaya beach. We were transferred to an island with a speed boat and it was there where I experienced 5 minutes of hanging in mid air with parachute. I was afraid of dropping into the sea as I don’t know how to swim. I even tried banana boat ride for 250 baht per person which is approximately RM 25.

After a long and tiring morning on the beach, we departed to a local bee farm. There we were briefed about the benefits of honey and royal jelly as well as the methods of consumption and storage of bee products.

We went to Pattaya Floating Market too in the late afternoon. It was just an ordinary kampong style market which was build above a man-made lake. I even saw fried bird eggs in a cute pan specially designed for the eggs.

On the forth day, we visited the Elephant Zoo. All of us were carried by giant-sized elephants from one stop to another. My younger sister and I have to balance ourselves to sit in the middle because the elephant can feel our weight too. After the elephant ride, we were brought to see monkey show.

The final agenda of our trip was in Safari World. In the marine section, we enjoyed watching the synchronized and awesome performance of the dolphins. They were trained to perform multiple tricks and only listen to their trainers' command.

After the dolphin performance, we rushed to another section in the Safari World called the Spy War Zone. It was something similar to James Bond but it involved real live actor in front of our eyes. Initially I thought it was plain boring because I am not a fan of James Bond or any spy movie but the simple plot of the show and the huge actions by the actors amazed me. They used explosives to make the show interesting and I can feel the strong heat for every explosion. At one point the engines of the jet skis even splashed water to the front rows of spectators.

After everything ended, our bus drove past the Safari Animals Zone for around 20 minutes. Some of the animals have not been transported back due to the flood that destroyed the Safari World last month. Pillars of woods and scattered tree branches could be seen anywhere and the place was tarnished by heavy mud. We went back to the hotel after that.

Overall it was an enjoyable trip as the tour guide was good and the things were selling at a relatively lower price compared to Malaysia. I would definitely love to visit Thailand again in the near future.

Lego Fever

2011-12-16T11:25:00.000-08:00

This is the result of 4 hours non-stop in fixing the oriental style lego building. As life after exam is quite boring, I decided to bring this whole box of lego which was sealed from the outside from my aunt house back to my home. I am suppose to bring it back home 5 years back as my aunt was complaining that no one was playing it.

The process of finding a tiny piece of lego in the sand of bricks was nerve-wrecking. Sometimes I spent 300 seconds just to find a particular piece but failed, and it appeared out of a sudden when I never had the intention of looking for it. It was fun to experience the same excitement during my childhood in fixing this building.

See~~! My dad even helped me to search for the bricks I needed. I will not complete the building in merely 4 hours if I am alone without my dad's help. Now there is a new decoration for my living room during Chinese New Year and it's awesome!

I found these miserable pieces of bricks in the box too. This reminded me of the times where I used to play with my younger sister. That was during our primary school time. These pieces used to be her restaurant where the red cone-shaped bricks represent the glasses. I can't believe it is still intact. All these certainly bring back memories.

Remembering Pak Cik Din

2011-12-13T22:20:00.000-08:00

The person on the right is the ice-cream man in St. Michael's. The moment of enjoying the mouth-frosting ice-cream during the hot and sunny afternoon with Eugene and Jin Hong was one of the best memories that I had when I was in the afternoon session. Even though the ice-cream selling business was taken over by another food stall operator, but the feeling of enjoying the simplest yet delicious ice-cream with my dear friends is never there anymore.

The person on the left is Pak Cik Din. He was my bus uncle for 3 years since form 1. The students and I used to call him Din. Looking back at the friendly face of him reminds me of the generous and kind personality of Din. An eye-catching school logo of St. Michael's is attached in front of his tiny bus which can accommodate for around 20 students. He only provide transport for the students of St. Michael's throughout his life. There were a lot of times where I have to chase the going-off bus from the covered-pathway till the mosque.

Sometimes I will sit in the front row and have a little conversation with him as I am almost the last to reach my aunt's house. He used to tell me that 'rumah? kat langit la' when I asked where his house is located, the answer is still the same when I repeated my question a few times, haha. He even told me that he had gone through 8 generations of principals in St. Michael's.

Din was the lab assistant in the school when he was young. He told me that he gave up the post because his brother was unemployed at one time and is desperately looking a job. Din offered his brother his job and resigned. He became a bus driver since then.

I stopped taking his bus when I was in form 4. I heard from my friends that there's one time where his brake failed to function and the whole bus rammed into someone's fence. He stopped driving his old and rusty bus when I was in form 5 in the year 2009.

I really hope I can see him again in the near future...

Photo courtesy of Michaelian Heritage Gallery and peterkhiew.blogspot.com

Sports Day with USS4

2011-07-29T09:11:00.000-07:00

Sports Day this year was held on 23rd July, long after the scheduled April. Besides the must-have sport events, I personally love the tradition of having march past for each and every class under the roof.

The lower six this year was lucky to have participated as I don't have the chance last year since sports day was over when I enrolled into lower six. Hopes were high for my class as we are aiming to be the best marching class in the form. Challenges such as to complete the march past within 2 minutes and the lack of time to practice during school hours definitely make us headache.

Nevertheless, we practiced with our own initiatives for 2 days after school and we managed to synchronize the timing which turn out to be the best in the form. Credits to Geston and Chau Yeong for designing and making the class tee for us. Special thanks also to my class one and only commander, Kar Heng and the formation planner, Zi Xuan.

The atmosphere during sports day is filled with energy every year. Cheers and yells could be heard from any part in the school. We were practicing for more than 5 times on that day I suppose. Before the real march past, we even went to the food court to quench our thirst.

As form 6 are the ones who will be marching lastly. We waited for quite a long time and just few classes before us, it started drizzling. It keeps getting heavier and for a short period of time, it stopped but not completely, so we went on with our marching. Thank god when we are doing our formation, the rain was not heavy and we managed to complete our formation successfully.

With the blessing of God and everyone, we emerged as FIRST RUNNER UP! It was still better than nothing after all. To be frank I really appreciate the time with my dear USS4 classmates outside the classroom:

Xinh Guan, Sandra, Kar Heng, Zi Xuan, Mark, Hui Ling

Chau Yeong, Hoe Ching, Sheau Miin, Jia Poh, Carmen

Jegendran, Kelvinder, Vikneesh, Yogamalar, Yammini,

Yee Mei, Khee Soon, Ern Theng

Geston, Woei Hong, Si Ling, Dina, Sai Yeng,

Pooi Yan, Xiao Hui, Hana

XOXO

Happy 19th Birthday

2011-07-10T04:42:00.000-07:00

I always considered myself as one lucky guy on earth. Surrounded with friends wherever I go and back to the warmth of my home everyday, I have no regrets in life. When i woke up early in the morning, I saw a figure walking towards me and dropped something which appeared to be a present on my bed. The figure was none other than my elder sister. My phone beside me flashed with 7 messages. I read all the 7 and of course the first was from my dearest. While I was bathing, it's so random that I suddenly thought of Donivald. I remembered he was the first to call and wish me on phone right at 12 midnight few years back. I was rather disappointed to know that none of the 7 messages is him. However, when I checked my Maxis phone, the one and only message was him.

My awesome birthday started off when I reached prefect's HQ at 7.00am. Tihn Chern announced my birthday to everyone and the birthday song was sung for once. I never had the chance to stand in the middle and let everyone admire last year because I was late. So it's quite amazing to boost up my mood on that day. Comm. meeting after that. My fellow comm. members sang the song again. It reminds me of last year where Tzen Shoong's birthday was just a few days before mine. So many things slipped past my mind that day. I wonder how would ISUC be after AGM.....

Just before school ends, my awesome classmates gave me a birthday card with a domo face as the cover. It's a tradition that the birthday boy will receive a card from the class. Birthday song was sung once again. To be frank I really appreciate all the wishes which my classmates wrote for me and I can't seem to find a suitable word to express my gratitude.

Not long after that, my fellow friends from other classes joined too. They bought me a cake and the song was sung for the 4th time. It was really a moment that is impossible for me to forget. The red adidas shirt was from my elder sister, green nike from my parents whereas the lime northern rock was from my 5 close friends - Yee Lim, Bear, Chris Chow, Vincent and Haw Tung.

Went to parade to meet up with my younger sister and she gave me a mug. Thank you to the 247 friends who wished me on facebook. I replied to each and every post without the 'copy and paste' function. Thanks Xin Yan for being an awesome friend of mine since form 1.

Above all, I still like the pig and swimming pants by someone special ♥

Happy Dad's Day!

2011-06-20T06:04:00.000-07:00

The title says it all.

Love my DAD forever~

Happy to be back blogging again~ ^^

2010 Birthday Video

2011-03-05T08:37:00.000-08:00

The video below was taken last year at moon river beside my school. =)

Tommy

2011-01-28T10:38:00.000-08:00

28 January 2011 - This is what happened.

I was walking from the school bus stop towards the parlour along the cover pathway after school today. I saw a group of people surrounding a boy who was lying at the basketball court. My initial thought was he had fainted while playing basketball under the hot sun.

There are a few St John members there. I lifted up both his legs to improve blood circulation but Khai Vern told me that the boy had no breathing. I was shocked and I checked for his pulse. His pulse was slow and weak and his heart stop beating. He was lying down without moving his chest and his face/lips were pale blue.

Not long after that, Mr Khiew came and called the ambulance. He said the boy whose name is Tommy had heart problem and he fainted last year but they managed to rescue him. One of the witnesses said that Tommy was playing basketball and he felt uncomfortable out of sudden. I asked Adrian to inform the St John excos who were having their meeting at St John room located on the sixth form block. The excos rushed all the way to the basketball court from the third floor. St John room used to be on the ground floor 2 years ago but my beloved principal, Mr Phoon shifted it with the band room. It was indeed a very very wise decision.

When the excos arrived, I started CPR with Justin. Tommy's face turned red for a while when the resuscitation is going on. We did not stop doing until the ambulance arrived. The paramedics used an oxygen pump to force oxygen into his lungs. The ambulance rushed him to the hospital then.

I returned to school with Chris Chow after 3pm to look for Joe Hang's spectacles. There Jevin told me Tommy had passed away on the way to hospital...

I thought that I managed to save him but I cant.. As a senior instructor of St John in the school, I failed to save him despite all the efforts and hard work.. Just like what Mark told me, God is there protecting him and us. May you rest in peace Tommy...

Thanks to all of you who care about me, I am alright now..

Happy Birthday Kar Heng!

2011-01-23T01:52:00.000-08:00

22 January 2011 - It was a superb Saturday night to celebrate Kar Heng's birthday which falls on the next day. Zi Xuan had planned this celebration weeks ago to give him a surprise. Both of them went to Jusco for a date and then Zi Xuan requested to come to Goodtimes Restaurant for dinner. When both of them arrived, Kar Heng was surprised to see most of us were there waiting anxiously for their arrival.

We shocked the whole restaurant with the singing of the birthday song to him. He said he was touched till almost cry, almost only la, haha. The food there was awesome but... we saw a small cockroach on the table, the waitress removed it then. However, it's not over yet. Our second encounter was a small bug that looks like a mosquito, it was taking it's 'spa' in the soup. Since it was just a small bug, we ignored it. Not long after that, we noticed another bug crawling on the handle of the pot... OMG!!! totally speechless.. The restaurant really deserve an A for giving customer surprises. (y)

Almost every gatherings or birthday celebrations of my friends were held here. Yee Lim said he was quite bored because he came here last week for Yi Mei's birthday celebration. Haw Tung and Sandra was talking and fighting non stop the whole time. ^^

Chris was playing with Mark's iPhone all the time too. He played a ball game that required him to slice the balls by moving his fingers on the screen. I have a peek on what's he playing and I saw him desperately slicing the fruits that were popping out on the screen. =_= pity Mark....

All the non stops have to end as I have to fetch my younger sister at 10pm. Before I left, we took a group shot so that the all the laughters can remain in the photo. There will be no photos without Mark's DSLR, so... thanks Mark~ ^^ and............

Happy Birthday Kar Heng!
=)

The Leaders of Tomorrow

2011-01-21T08:08:00.000-08:00

18 January 2011 - The annual Installation Day was held today to acknowledge the prefects, librarians and monitors in the school. For the past few years, Installation Day in St. Michael's have no impact on me as a student. I have seen the pledging of them year by year and I have never thought that I will be one of them this year.

This year, the pledging was led by Tihn Chern as the head prefect alongside Kah Chuen and Xinh Guan as the head librarian and head monitor respectively. The prefects' exco were standing behind Tihn Chern and as one of the commission heads, I was standing behind the excos as well. Certificates were then given out the the respective cabinet members of the Prefectorial Board, Board of Student Librarians and Monitorial Board~

My Lower Six Life

2011-01-02T06:31:00.000-08:00

2 January 2011 - Times flies. That's what I can conclude after the long weeks of school holidays. Perhaps it will be the last school holidays I'm having? Before school starts tomorrow, I will be reminiscing my lower six life here and share it with you guys. =)

From the very first orientation week in St. Michael's, I was assigned to LSS4, an acronym for Lower Six Science Four. Tan Kian and Mark were the first two whom I talked to when I first entered the class, followed by Sandra, Yee Mei and the rest. My mood for studying still hanging somewhere when lessons started. I even failed two of the four subjects I am having during my August test. Realised that my laziness may lead to fatal consequences, I worked slightly harder during my October exam and passed all my subjects within the borderline.

Xinh Guan was appointed as the monitor cum Head Monitor in the school whereas Sandra as assistant monitor cum Deputy Head Monitor. Xinh Guan was my 2-year classmate before we came to lower six. To be frank, I was aiming for a monitor post. However, this can't be fulfilled as I have applied to become a prefect before the nomination for monitor. The condition of the class was totally different compared to my previous years in this school. Most of my classmates were from ABC (SMK Aminuddin Baki, Chemor), JPP (SMK Jalan Pasir Puteh) and MC (Main Convent). Although we came from different background, but our rapport are getting stronger day by day~ =)

I have never been a prefect since primary school until lower six, where a sudden urge in me decided to apply to be one. Perhaps it's because the influence of my senior, Hong Wei. I saw the friendliness and the way of doing things among prefects in him. True enough, the entire board is like a family. I still remember my birthday this year where I came late for duties. I was given a late slip by Hong Wei. I was like 'WTH, it's my birthday and I got a late slip =_='. I filled in the slip and passed to Yen Chiew, the deputy lady head at that time. Moments later, she and Kartini passed me back the slip along with a Yummy chocolate candy box. I was touched at that moment. I never thought that the excos knew it was my birthday. T_T. There were some times where conflict arose in the board, but thankfully, all well ends well. =)

Inter-Society Understanding Commission or ISUC. There are 5 commissions in the prefectorial board and I was assigned to this commission. Leadership under my previous commission head, Tzen Shoong was cool. He will be calm and steady whenever anything happens and he taught me to think twice before making any decisions. I am the current commission head and now it's my turn to shape the route for this commission. Thankfully, Nicholas as the commission advisor is always there to advise me and to monitor the commission's progress. =)

I joined badminton club simply because I likes to play badminton. Being appointed as the Treasurer of the club, I can say that this club gives me no stress at all compared to other clubs that I've joined. My best friend Swee Kwan was the president. He became the vice president not long later because according to some teachers, one may not hold 2 president posts as he is the president for ADAMS (Arts, Drama and Music Society) too. A game of badminton once a fortnight on Wednesday definitely boost my stamina and freshen my mind. =)

The editorial board is mainly in charge of the annual school magazine production. To be frank, this club was my second choice as my first choice of joining the photography club was not granted by the admins. Nevertheless, I was appointed as one of the 4 main editors in the school. For the first few months in lower six, I have never imagine the stress that this club could cause me. When we start compiling everything for this year's magazine, it's where my nightmare started. The members of the club including me have to sacrifice our lesson time to collect informations for the magazine.

However, I did not regret joining this club. It's not because I have high post or my face will appear in the magazine. It's mainly because I've never tried doing things like this in a team, what more the friends I've met in the club? I have to sincerely thank my fellow editors namely Jane Lam, Lai Lin and Nicholas. I am nothing without you guys. =)

I have been a St John member since form one. So my first choice of uniformed unit when I came to lower six of course it will be the same too. Since the only former members in this school was Joe Hang and I, I knew that both of us will be selected to become the president and the vice-president to lead this form six uniformed body. I was selected as the vice-president with Joe Hang alongside me. Meetings were different from what we experienced in the lower form because our sole aim is to teach first aid to the form six members.

I don't know but somehow or rather, I have trained myself to speak with confidence during meetings. Unlike the lower form, there are always questions to be answered by us. That's why we have to prepare ourselves all the time. The only challenges is that we have to prepare what to teach and what to demonstrate a few days prior to the meeting. St John is still a board that I can speak without any pressure in front of the members. To make it short, I enjoyed the most here. =)

Prefect Room Cleanup

2010-12-28T08:02:00.000-08:00

28 December 2010 - The once in a blue moon prefect's room cleanup was held today. The room was abandoned by the prefects for years. Cobwebs and layer of dust could be seen on every corner of the room. The cleanup was held from 9am to 12noon.

Since the size of the room is just average compared to the classrooms, so only the prefect cabinet members were involved. However, only half the number of the cabinet members were there. Thankfully, Swee Kwan came to help us too~ =)

Tihn Chern Deborah R.J. Kevin

Mark Nicholas Swee Kwan

Chee Hoe Kar Heng Ting Yuan

Really appreciate the time with you guys in cleaning up the room~ especially the jokes by both head and deputy head~ LOL

Let's Get Wet

2010-12-21T11:53:00.000-08:00

20 December 2010 - Just days before Christmas, I went to Kledang Hill in Menglembu with some of my friends for hiking. The photo above was shot when we reached the garden, half way till the peak of the hill. 6 of us including Haw Tung were there. He went home early to fetch someone I think.

The name of this event in Facebook was funny:
at menglembu hill of couse is hiking la! if not? got there bath mea? ==!
creatively created by Yee Lim~

From the moment we arrived, the sky turned cloudy and drizzle. As we were walking, the rain getting heavier and heavier. The whole journey turned out to be a raining-hiking experience for all of us.

I heard a very hilarious word from Haw Tung during the journey... Yee Wing Hoe aka Iceman as most of the people called him, is Yee Lim's classmate. Haw Tung address him as 'Icy Gor Gor' during our break at one of the resting place. Hahahahahahahahaha~ ^^

December KL Trip

2010-12-13T01:02:00.000-08:00

11 December 2010 - Went for a 2-day trip in KL with my family. Basically just hunting for clothes and foods, not me, but my mom and sisters~ ^^

Went to Thai Thai Restaurant for lunch when we arrived Sunway Pyramid. My pineapple shrimp rice was nice but the amount was quite little for me. LOL. The price there also not cheap~

Not to mention the condition there. The lighting perfectly suits the environment with some simple Thai touch.

This is the decorations outside the pyramid. Quite simple but at least better than Ipoh. Santas could be seen anywhere in the town~

I spotted this dooodolls stickers in MPH. There are some dooodolls for sale too but quite expensive for poor boy like me to afford~

Domo keychain for phones! I lost my domo on the second day after i bought it. T_T

At last but not least, I saw JOE at 1Utama. He was wearing the orange S&J shirt. I don't know what is he doing, he keep walking up and down through the escalators. He even ignored me when I called him =_=!

Note: S&J is the abbreviated form for Shan&Joe ^^

Joe Hang's Birthday Bash

2010-11-13T02:30:00.000-08:00

12 November 2010

Celebrated Joe Hang's birthday at Hui Shan's house

AWESOMMMMME!

had tons of fun during there

Vizent came back too~

Happy Birthday JoeJoe!

Hope you like the bag~

Rui Xin Birthday

2010-11-13T02:20:00.000-08:00

11 November 2010

RUI XIN's birthday

bought an Alvin for her~

LSS4, Jom Pergi Cameron!

2010-09-24T09:10:00.000-07:00

25 September 2010

I love you LSS4! Had a superb trip to Cameron Highlands last Wednesday, 15th September. The trip was initially mooted by our beloved Biology teacher, Mr. Liew Boon Ket before the 2-week school holidays. Then, planning were carried out by our awesome monitors, Xinh Guan and Sandra Elizabeth. At last, this 1-day trip brought us tons of laughters and happiness at the end of the day.

A total of 27 people were present for this trip including 24 from LSS4, Mr. Liew and two strangers whom became friends with us, they are Tan Ke Ying and Lee Sin Wei. Both of them are Carmen's friend. Sadly, Jegendran, Kelvinder, Vikneesh and Dina were not able to make it for this trip. =(

The 'actual' purpose of this trip was to collect a plant which we named it as 'weird plant' and put it into a poisonous solution to preserve it. My mom was shocked when I told her that I don't know the name of the poisonous solution and I don't even know what plant am I collecting to do the experiment. LOL! Besides that, we have to buy certain amount of beetles or bugs to do another experiment.

We hired a private bus and took off from Ipoh around 7.30am. Reached Tanah Rata around 9am+ and had our breakfast at a mamak store nearby. After that, we went to visit 'Sam Poh' Temple located up the hill, further down from Tanah Rata.

The Buddhist and Taoist like Xinh Guan, Woei Hong had their prayers there whereas Kar Heng, Sandra and Mark were walking around since they are Christians. I remember I heard something from Hana, it was 'I'll get killed if I enter this building'. LOL!

After they have done their prayers, camwhore frenzy started! Most of us took our cameras out and kept shooting non-stop XD. Geston, Woei Hong, Xinh Guan and me have became the shooting models out of a sudden. Haha

After that, we went to Strawberry farm. There was a sign there saying: Pick your own strawberries, RM5 per kg, minimum 1 kg. But Yee Mei suddenly ask me to change the word 'strawberries' to 'nose'. Epic! LOL

Besides strawberries, there were also different types of plants there such as the extraordinary large pitcher plant and extremely big-sized cactus.

Imagine you're exhausted and there was no chair around so you decided to sit on the cactus for....... ^^

We went to BOH Tea Centre at Sungei Palas too. The air there was cool and refreshing. Felt like spreading my arms and jumping off the cliff. LOL. We enjoyed the hot tea thanks to Mr. Liew. I don't remember how many times we refilled the jug, uncountable~

The last place we visited before going back was the Bee farm. Well, I don't enjoy looking at bees to be frank. The only thing that we enjoyed was the beautiful flora planted there.

I still miss the moments that we shared together at Cameron Highlands until now... Memories Alive~

I've selected 2 lucky photos as my LOL photos for this post, they are....

1) Mark do not understand a single word of the signboard?

2) Both Yammini and the 'Hot' guy were staring at each other.

Credits to

Kendra Ng

Phoon Chau Yeong

Zidane Tan

Mr. Liew Boon Ket

for the awesome photos in this blog~

家好月圆 Steamboat Reunion

2010-09-11T04:44:00.000-07:00

11 September 2010

The word 家好月圆 simply means a full moon symbolizing a harmonious family. The pronunciation in chinese is 'jia hao yue yuan' or in cantonese 'ka hou yuet yuen'. We have used this word to represent the friendship among us few years back.

Few days ago, on 9th Spemtember, we have a gathering at Goodtimes Restaurant opposite Tower Regency Hotel. As what my title said, it's kinda more like reunion. I'm happy and thrilled to see my friends again. Chuah came back from Malacca, Teik Sum came back from Penang and some of my friends from Kampar, Sunway.. MISS THEM DEARLY~

I was the 5th/6th person to arrive. When I arrived, I noticed a trend among us. Majority of us are wearing black, white or blank and white shirt. Chris was the only one wear RED. So we decided that those who are wearing shirts other than the colours mentioned above are required to pay~ (Wahh, Chris was so happy upon hearing that, hehe)

One by one arrived as time passes. Eon and Olivia, Haw Tung, Teik Sum, Esther...
When we thought the last to arrive were Chuah and Pui San, Vizent proved us wrong. He's the last one as usual, AS USUAL AHH!!!

There was a man, in his 60/70's, I've met him few times in different location before this. He will ask for donations of any amount and he will give 2 packets of tissue and play a song using his 'Erhu'. However, this time he was using his harmonica and played a song named 'Auld Lang Syne' in english or 'Friendnship Forever' in chinese. It perfectly suits the environment there.

The one that ate the most was Teik Sum! He said he miss the food in Ipoh, wow, so touching~

MIA:

JoeJoe, Guo Sheng and Pig?

Chris Chow Birthday Bash

2010-09-08T20:53:00.000-07:00

9 September 2010 - Celebrated Chris 18th birthday at Yee Lim's house last Sunday, an enjoyable start for the long weeks of school holidays. We had our bbq session around 7pm when everyone was there. Too bad Alson Bear couldn't make it because he went to Pangkor Island for some kinda prayers session?

The superstars of the day - Kar Heng and Xinh Guan. Both of them brought their guitars and dedicated some nice songs to all of us including their hit song - Somewhere Over The Rainbow. At first it was the traditional birthday song. Then they manipulated it to some funny lyrics, creatively thanks to Kar Heng~

Later on, Yee Lim and Chris joined them and 'demonstrated' their guitar skills. Picture above clearly displayed the 4 of them and their supporters:

Sze Ngou, Natalie, Eon Chen, Olivia,

Vizent, Kin Ho, Boon Hong, Joe Hang,

Pui San, Esther, and last but not least,
Leon and his Soul Crew

Chicken wings, sausages, meat balls, etc. These were not the only foods that filled our empty stomachs that night. The presents and birthday cake were presented after everyone has settled down.

As usual, we have the strong faith in upholding the Michaelian tradition. However, besides the usual tradition, there's a new tradition which...... Geez, where's the video?
It was a splendid night of bbq accompanied by the harmonious melody of the guitars. The only imperfection was Kin Ho. He did not talk much with us and was eating from the beginning till the end of the celebration. =(

Ooops, before i forget...

HAPPY AWESOME BIRTHDAY

CHRISTOPHER CHOW SWEE KWAN

My Dearest Friend in Hospital

2010-07-31T06:35:00.000-07:00

Name: Andy Lau Khin Foong*

Location: Ipoh Specialist Hospital, 3rd Floor, Ward 716

31 July 2010 - I went to ISH to visit him together with Yee Lim yesterday. He is having high fever around 40 degree Celsius and coughing non-stop, suspected of having dengue. The latest news that I get from him was he was vomiting a few times today. To those friends of him out there, please do not hesitate to visit him if you're free. Hope to see him recover soon~

Katrina's Birthday Bash

2010-07-31T00:46:00.000-07:00

31 July 2010 - We celebrated Katrina's birthday on the 28th this month, approximately 4 days ago. After the co-curriculum ended at 5pm, we made a surprise celebration for Katrina in the parlour. She was waiting for Yee Lim to fetch her back and totally unaware of the celebration we did for her.

We bought a simple cake for her as usual. We were actually looking for sponsors for the past few days for the real present. So there was around 10+ people contributing to the present. The first present we gave was a small teddy bear and the names of the 10+ people were written in the card. She was shocked and confused at the same time. 10+ people for a small teddy bear?

Nevertheless, she accepted it and was touched by the celebration we did for her. The real present was presented to her when the celebration ended. It's one of the product of dooo-dolls! The price is not cheap and that's the reason we were looking for sponsors. For those of you who don't know what is that.. google it! =)

First Prefect Outing

2010-07-25T02:26:00.000-07:00

25 July 2010 - So we, the prefects had an outing at Kuen Wei's house last night. It was a combined outing by ISUC and SAC but almost all prefects from different commission attended. His house was extra large and I think it's 4 times larger than mine. Hong Wei said it was the best house for outing ever! LOL

I went with Joe Hang and Swee Kwan and reached his house around 8pm. We had trouble seeking for his house as we are not familiar with the area there. Everyone was enjoying their food before they went crazy and splash everyone with water.

I thought it was some kind of formal outing. Never did I expect that they can play till all wet and really had their own happy moments there. It's the feeling of a real bond between each and everyone there.

After all those rumble and crazy water-splashing was sharing moment. We formed a circle and one by one, we share what we feel and what we hope for the board. I salute Swee Kwan for what he has said to us. He felt unfair for not being elected as the commission head and he dare to speak up. He is willing to accept the fact and he is willing to share what does he feel to all of us. My respect for him has increased tremendously.

I left around 10.30pm for Yee Lim's birthday celebration. =)

Prefectorial Board AGM 2010

2010-07-24T23:08:00.000-07:00

25 July 2010 - What happened last Friday was totally unexpected. I will start off with Mr. Karu's AGM which began at 1.00pm on that day. The way he handle the AGM was unacceptable for all of us. There were no reports from the 6 Excos and the commission heads because the seniors are barred from entering the lecture theatre. So this is the first time in history only juniors are allowed to attend the AGM. The only agenda in the AGM was the statement of accounts from the treasurer which no one is there to care about what he is crapping and the election of the new commission heads.

Okay, I'm not gonna critize anyone anymore. So the list of the top 6 Excos are:

Head Prefect: Tan Tihn Chern

Lady Head Prefect: Yogamalar

Deputy Head Prefect: R.J. Kevin

Deputy Lady Head Prefect: Deborah Yaw

Honorary Secretary: Nicholas Chen

Honorary Treasurer: Mark Ooi

And the newly elected commission heads for guys are:

Discipline Commission (DISCO) - Foong Chee Hoe

Cleanliness and Security Commission (CS) - Teoh Ting Yuan

Home Affairs Commission (Homies) - Lee Kar Heng

Inter-Society Understanding Commission (ISUC) - Ivan Tan

Student Affair Commission (SAC) - Wong Joe Hang

I've forgotten the lady comm. heads. Sorry~
Frankly speaking, I felt that it's unfair to choose all the non ex-prefects as the commission heads because they have less experience than the ex-prefects. Majority of them are not satisfied with it and it's not even considered a handover. My comm. head is not there. No one is there to acknowledge them. I'm not happy. =(

However, what's done is done. I can't reverse what has happened. What I can comment is, in order to show others that I can manage the commission,

I WILL STRIVE FOR THE BEST AND WILL NOT GIVE UP,

I WILL BRING THE COMMISSION TO GREATER HEIGHTS,

I WILL GIVE MY FULLEST SUPPORT TO THE CURRENT BOARD,

I CAN DO BETTER THAN THE PREVIOUS COMM. HEAD!

The photos in this post is the real AGM conducted by Er Vin and a family of true prefects. Enjoy~

The Brave One

2010-07-18T00:16:00.000-07:00

18 July 2010 - Exactly 1 week ago, I went to school for this year's drama, The Brave One. It was a superb 3-night drama on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Since I've my prefect duty on Saturday night, I thought I will have free access to watch the drama. However, prefects are only allowed to enter 30 minutes after the drama started and we have to go in and out the hall frequently for duties. This leaves me for watching only half of the drama.

Therefore, I decided to watch the drama again with the free tickets given to my class on Sunday night. Nobody in my class seems to be interested to watch the drama so Xinh Guan gave out the remaining 2 tickets to me and Sze Ngou.

The first part of the drama was quite boring to be frank. It was totally different from Corrinne Mah's production. This year's drama they have too much talking and lesser actions. Some said it was more like a comedy than an actual drama.

They slotted in some of the Michael Jackson's songs and Yiruma's Kiss The Rain in the second part of the play after the break. I was sitting with Yoong Xiang and his dad since some of my close friends are not around.

That's all basically. Enjoy the photos that I took after the drama for both days~

An Unexpected Compliment

2010-07-15T08:22:00.000-07:00

15 July 2010 - Last Wednesday was co-curriculum day right? So as usual after St. John meeting, I went for Editorial's meeting. As we were discussing half-way, I saw a man, his right hand was holding an umbrella. He was walking and stopped at my class, looking at us with a confused face. I walked towards him and ask him: 'apa u mau?'... No la of course, just joking. I walked to him and ask him what can I do for him. And then he told me he was looking for Rotaract Club. He told me he is a Rotarian. I know what does that means. I'm an Interact Club member too when I was form 3.

So I walked and walked from class to class to find for the Rotaract Club he was looking for. And true enough, the club is located at the end of the lower six classes, I don't know exactly which class is that but it's opposite LSA3. He thank me and I'm back to what I was doing then.

But then today, Wen Jie suddenly hand me an envelope with a card inside. It was a nice card from the same man that I've helped out last Wednesday, he is Rotarian Arthur.

Dear Ivan,

Hi! This is Rotarian Arthur Yeong from the Rotary Club of Kinta.

Thank you very much for helping me to look for the Rotaract Club last Wednesday.

Thank you for going from class to class in your effort to help me.

If I can be of service to you, don't hesitate to let me know, ok?

Wish you the best in your future endeavours.

Yours in Rotary,

Arthur Yeong

I'm touched as I did not expect anything in return from him. Thanks Rotarian Arthur for your compliment~

Mei Yen & Jing Wah's Farewell Gathering

2010-07-11T01:46:00.000-07:00

11 July 2010 - So we had this farewell party on the 30th June I think. Actually the day was the drama ticket-selling day for our class from 9.30am till 12.30pm but we stopped selling around 11.15am and the 6 groups were ordered by Xinh Guan to gather at Old Town Kopitiam opposite St. Michael's for this class gathering.

Sitting on the left is Mei Yen whereas on the right is Jing Wah. Mei Yen will be going to Sunway to study A-level while Jing Wah is still waiting for her application to the arts stream. I think most of us were present except for Jegendran because he went back to school for some photograph-taking session.

Look how happy Xinh Guan and Sandra was? LOL =D

After we finished eating, all fo us decided to snap some photos as remembrance for this meaningful farewell and gathering.

The farewell cake was the last to be brought in, cheers! Happy Farewell to both of you, Mei Yen and Jing Wah! We will miss you~

Now i See! Tour

2010-06-14T21:54:00.000-07:00

15 June 2010 - Exactly 3 days ago which is on the 12th, I attended a concert which they named it NowISee! Spiritual Revival Tour Concert. Since the admission was free, I called Chris Chow, Kin Ho and Joe Hang along to explore this event at Syuen Hotel. The event was scheduled to start at 7pm but we reached approximately an hour later.

The event was all in chinese and it was about Jesus and Christians. It taught us how to appreciate what we are having now and God's love towards each and every soul in this world. Although I'm not a big fan of Jesus, but I start to accept their culture and their religious view towards their God. Okay, enough of this. So when we entered the ballroom, someone was talking and not long after that, a group of people sang some nice songs on the stage.

This was the emcee of the day. He was one of the singers too. And the photo below was one of the female singers too. Her voice was extremely sweet and sound or she can even considered herself to participate in the Astro Talent Quest next year. =)

The best part of the event was the sketch act by a group of 5 people. It was about a kid who have a rational thinking trying to stop the other 4 from day-dreaming and hallucinating. One of them was waiting for her lover to come which will never happen. The other one was showing her ping-pong ball ring to everyone and claimed that it was a diamond ring. The 3rd one was building a KLCC out of rubbish whereas the last one was wondering at street in lost of hope. The show woke us up from doing unrealistic things and highlighted the importance of having faith in yourselves.
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The final part of the event was a talk by a local music producer. It took almost an hour for that particular talk. As expected, he talked about the importance in life and said that we should not run away from problems. Online games for example, bring the user to a fantasy world where they have the ability to compete with other players and to kill big bosses monsters. And when you turned the switch off... POP, it's just a blank screen in front of you. That's one of the reason I seldom touch online games nowadays compared to last time.

Okay, let's present you the photo of the day~

Yea, it was me being interviewed after the event ended. I was wondering will the video be uploaded soon..

PHOTOS COURTESY OF NOWISEE FB GROUP

Starwalk 2010

2010-06-07T12:03:00.000-07:00

6 June 2010 - Woke up super early on this day, actually not considered early also, just slightly earlier than schooling day. Went along with Yee Lim, Joe Hang and my younger sister. After that, we were planning to fetch Vizent along. However, he refuse to go with the excuse very tired and can't wake up. Derr, we were already talking on the phone and he still say can't wake up and very tired. Nevermind, we forgive him.

Met the Brother Bear and Haw Tung before the walk started. Then all of us went into separated ways except for Haw Tung and me. Both of us walk together till the end. Yee Lim and Joe Hang reached earlier than us as expected.. because both of them were running all the time. =_=''

The closing ceremony was held beside the Stadium Indera Mulia as it was under renovation according to the emcee. As expected, the lucky draw numbers are indeed lucky to the winners. I noticed the disappointed face of Bear when the ceremony ended. LOL

CONGRATULATIONS

TAN XINH GUAN

for getting 24th placing in the Mens Open category

Before the prize-giving ceremony, he showed me the 41st position cards which indicated that he was the 41st person to completed the walk. However, 17 persons ahead of him were disqualified due to certain reasons. Congratulations once again~ =)

Form 6 Orientation Week

2010-05-16T03:47:00.000-07:00

16 May 2010 - So, I made it to form 6 eventually. I'm gonna blog about the long and tiring orientation week for this post. The first 3 days was quite boring if you were to ask me. After registration, we were directed into the hall and were given talks by those moderators and Penolong Kanan such as Pn. Tan Cheng Choo, Mr Karu and Mr Chong. Childish ice-breaking games were then intorduced to all the lower six students.

3 boring days passed. At least there's some activities that lighten up the day a little. We were divided into classes! Bear and Haw Tung were assigned to LSS2 whereas Yee Lim was assigned to LSA3 along with Sze Ngou. I think he was quite happy for that? I was assigned to LSS4 as I'm choosing Biology. Kar Heng, Tan Kian, Xinh Guan, Mark Ooi and some michaelians were there with me too. I'm grateful for that I admit. Joe Hang was quite down for going into LSS5. He said that no one was there to accompany him.

Miss Ling Lidi (spelling correct?) will be my class teacher and my MUET teacher for this year. I don't know what's wrong with her. I raised up my hand when she asked who are the michaelians last year. She was shocked and said that she never see me before. I mean... what's wrong mann? There are so many students in St Michael's and she told me that she never see me before? =_='' Nevermind, I forgive her.

Friday's the last day of the week. All the subject teachers entered the class and introduced themselves. Pn. Fairoz will be my Pengajian Am teacher. Hong Wei told me if I'm not going for tuition for this subject, I will fail badly. Mr Paul's my Maths T teacher. Pn. Choong, the teacher that I dislike so far, will be teaching me chemistry. She's arrogant and stubborn. She told us that if we followed her lesson with full attention, then tuition is not required. She even asked us whether she looks fierce or not? A loud YES was my reply and she was looking to Mark who was sitting beside me that day. LOL! The one who has yet to show up is my Biology teacher, rumours said that Mr Liew Boon Ket will be teaching my class. It will be great if it's true.

For the overall, I personally felt that the class is lacking of something. Something which I have it last year but it disappeared completely this year. Maybe it's my confidence, maybe its the way I present myself, maybe it's because I'm separated from my close friends, maybe and maybe... I don't know. JPA JPA, when are you showing up?

PHOTOS COURTESY OF ALEX MORRIS =)

My DiGi Job

2010-05-09T01:51:00.000-07:00

9 May 2010 - Gosh, my blog has been missing updates. With no interesting activities happen recently, I decided to post about my digi part time job for the whole 5 months since I've been working in January. Initially, I worked alone for the first week. Yee Lim and Joe Hang joined me later in mid-January.

We travelled everywhere for almost all digi roadshow, so there's no fixed place where we worked. Selling normal sim packs for the locals was the most boring roadshow of all. They were ignorant and most of them already have their own numbers so they don't even bother to look or listen to us. Migrants market was interesting. They came like a swarm of bee and wipe out all the sim packs. Unexpected right?

Raymond and David Ong are the current leader for D&U Distributor, the digi company I've been working for. They drive their van almost everyday, everywhere and few times a day to set up roadshows. Places that are far from Ipoh such as Teluk Intan, Ayer Tawar, Sitiawan were common places where roadshows were being set up.

However, there are some places near Ipoh which were worth working such as Menglembu and Silibin pasar malam, Shen Jai High School, Kampar UTAR, Keris College, Gunung Rapat, Pengkalan and many more. These places does not require much travelling time.

It was quite fun to work with friends actually, especially there were no strict rules to follow. We just need to wear our digi or broadband shirt along with jeans. Promoting skills can be trained too. This gives us more confidence in communicating and understanding our customers. I admit that sometimes it was quite frustrating and tiring to work in distant places but as time passes, I treat it as an eye-opening experience for me to explore places which I will never go for nothing.

Kar Ming joined us for just once for Simpang Pulai roadshow before he worked in Kenny Rogers. After chinese new year, Haw Tung joined us too. So, the 4 of us have been working together for quite some time.

Photos taking are common. They have to submit those photos to digi center for reports. Besides setting up umbrella and tables, we have to wear those sandwich can man costumes to give away balloons and free pop-corns to anyone who passed by. We called those costumes rubbish bin, its the same as what Haw Tung's wearing in the photo above. LOL

Throughout my working life, I've met quite a number of strangers who later became friends. Travelling, travelling and travelling. I will never get boring from those travellings. Vizent worked with me once in Kampar. We were in shortage of promoters that time so I called up him. Katherine was the one who called me for work everytime. I think I've updated about her in my previous post for her simple birthday celebration.

Last but not least, Wai Hoong joined me just 3 days before I quit my job to further my studies in form 6. We worked in Casuarina Hotel along with Katherine for international players market. Players from China, Pakistan, Egypt, Australia, Korea and India were staying there for their 19th Sultan Azlan Shah Cup competition for hockey. It was the best working place as we only sell sim packs for them to use throughout their 10-day competition. They were extremely friendly compared to those Malaysian players. It was indeed a pleasure to meet them in real although I'm not a big fan of hockey. That's all for this post. Thanks for reading =)

State Competition - Day 1

2010-04-25T22:32:00.000-07:00

26 April 2010 - The 2-day state competition ended yesterday. Actually I should be going as a spectator but I ended up being a steward for the cadet team. Nevermind, here are some updates for day 1 of the competition.

Registration started as early as 10am. Then it was speech by Sir Kevin Peter. Stretcher Drill or Kawad Usungan will be implemented from new year onwards, so our division was selected to demonstrate it.

It was taught by Yoong Xiang's dad, Mr Wong Seng Kin. He said the main reason of implementing this was because some of the members don't even know how to transport the casualty using stretcher during events or duties.

This drill is mainly for the Ambulance Adult and Cadet team as the nursing are not going to be involved.

There were many members and outsiders recording and snapping photos. At least 5 to 8 were recording the whole process. Too bad for those who didn't record.

After written test and uniform checking was footdrill session. 3 teams for the adult category whereas 6 teams for the cadet. Our division's performance was not so bad after all.

5pm concluded day 1 and we went back to La Salle center after that.

KL Trip

2010-04-20T10:10:00.000-07:00

21 April 2010 - Last week, I followed my family to KL leaving my younger sister in Ipoh (too bad she has to attend school, kesian..). We reached my aunt house on Thursday and overnight there as not much activities were planned. The day I wished to highlight was the second day in KL. Since my aunt gotta go Singapore that day, we woke up super early to stay at my dad's room @ One World Hotel because he had to attend some kind of seminar there, so my sister and I spent hours in the room before going for a shopping spree at 1Utama.

Had our breaskfast at Sakae Sushi. It was nicer compared to Sushi King in Ipoh.

Monitor screen to order our sushi directly to the kitchen. So advanced~

Their unagi is so delicious, totally different with Sushi King's unagi.

Tamago also fresher, YUMMY egg! And my main dish was....

Yea, teriyaki ramen! Super nice but the ramen is too less for me =_=''

My sister and I visited the Action City shop again. There was not much action in the shop through except for the giant Domokun which is my sister's favourite. Don't look at the price tag if you have a weak heart!

After that, my sister's friends joined in and have drinks in some nearby kopitiam. Almost 2 hours sitting there like a nerd looking and listening them gossiping bout their life. Walked for approximately 6 hours! OMG, it's 6 hours.. bloody tired after that. Mom called around 6pm at told us their seminar has finally ended. Joined them and headed back to Ipoh after that... And the photo of the post is...

MOM and ME!

Sushi Bonanza!

2010-04-15T22:23:00.000-07:00

15 April 2010 - 3 days ago, I went to Jusco along with Wai Hoong, Yee Lim, Joe Hang, Hong Tat and Kin Ho. We were there for the sushi bonanza which cost us RM2 per plate for those sushi. It's only for Sushi King members so as a loyal member of his majesty, Wai Hoong volunteered to treat us ^_^

Not bad also, although those sushi were not as tasty as Sakae, but it's worth it since they were having promotion. Less than 100 bucks for 6 persons.

Sushi King is smart. Only those rice-based sushi were cheap.

Not much photos were snapped because I was busy eating and cleaning the kaiten belt but failed. After that, we went to watch Being Human by the famous singaporean director, Jack Neo, who had an affair months ago and last but not least, KBOX!

饭可以唔吃！但是K唔可以唔唱！

Goodtimes Steamboat Gathering

2010-03-31T22:46:00.000-07:00

31 March 2010 - Well, this gathering is considered as a late post because it was held on 15th March which is 2 weeks back. The main reason was I've waited Eon to upload the group photo because my camera's battery has exhausted earlier than expected. LOL! Let's see, we managed to gather up to 12 persons in a table. Not bad..

We came at 7pm and started eating around 7.20pm. The latest to arrive was Mr Tan Xinh Guan. I've only selected those shots with my friends in it to be posted here. The first photo here are Swee Kwan and Kar Ming with their 'PEACE' sign~

The next photo is Joe Hang and Vincent. Look properly and you will notice Vincent without his cap. I've posted those photo of him without cap in Facebook and tagged him but he removed all the tags. =_=''

Next, Guo Sheng and his Shew Ping. They were there for a few moment because they were rushing to Yeolde English for their candlelight dinner since its Shew Ping's birthday that day. I bet everyone will agree with me for putting the caption of 'MR DOG & MS PIGGY'. =)

After this was Teik Sum, Haw Tung and Kar Ming. See the photo after this.

Haiz.. under 18 of age please skip this photo. Actually they were used to it since schooling time but they were not so fortunate like this time to have me snapped it! Sorry Teik Sum, Sorry Haw Tung and Sorry Kar Ming for posting this.

Next was Xinh Guan, Eon and Swee Kwan. Xinh Guan told me he will be going for form 6 whereas Eon is currently studying for accouting in Sunway College, Ipoh and Swee Kwan went for NS without saying babai to me. =_=''

Finally, the 4 persons that have their own personality described on the photo. Agree or totally agree?

And the main photo for this post is...

YES! Name and call it whatever you want =)

Jungle Trekking

2010-03-27T08:48:00.000-07:00

29 March 2010 - WOOHOO, jungle trekking! Went to Gopeng jungle with my St John division 2 days ago. We went there by bus and reach Gopeng town around 9am. Then, the person in-charge from Adeline Rest House transported us to the rest house using their lorry and van =_=''

The journey from the town to their rest house took approximately 15 minutes.

Adeline Rest House is a kampung style village. The air is so refreshing there~

Those who went along with me were Joe Hang, Wai Hoong and Kin Ho. The 4 of us were the only seniors there.

Before we departed for our journey, there was warm up session led by Mr Prakas.

After that, we were off to the jungle!

The route was not easy to walk after all. One mistake and you will fall deep down to the bottom. Not to mention the thorny plants and disgusting insects which you will never encounter except in the jungle. I nearly fall down few times due to the slippery route there.

We came to halt in front of a river.

With the assistance of the guides and a rope, we managed to cross to the other end one by one.

We were walking slowly and patiently with our sweaty body for almost 3 hours. Before we went back to the rest house, we stopped at a river bank near the road side to refresh ourselves and to clean up some dirt and remove those 'cute' leeches.

We were back to the rest house around 1pm. Lunch are provided so we took our meal there before going back to school around 3pm.

I've snapped plenty of shots during the jungle trekking and the one I would like to highlight here is...

Wai Hoong the cat molester!

Car Test

2010-03-25T21:07:00.000-07:00

24 March 2010 - Finally, I took my car test after months of practicing. I felt quite nervous at first because I've failed badly in my pre-test which is weeks ago. Arrived LSA super early which is 8am+ with Uncle Patrick and a girl whom he fetched along. To my surprise, Ting Yuan, Sheng Rong, Steven Liew and a few schoolmates of mine were there too. Firstly, there was a short ceramah which I ignored totally due to the boring environment there. Then, we were tested on slope, parking and three-point turn.

I passed those sections with lady luck on my side. Then, I was made waiting in the pondok menunggu for almost an hour =_=''. I don't know why my heart was beating so fast, my friends told me if I did not give duit kopi then it's difficult for me to pass the Jalan Raya section.

It's my turn around 11am+, things goes on smoothly at first, but then the engines goes off in a sudden when I reach the road beside Tesco Extra. Haiz, need to restart back the engine. My instructor told me if my car engine goes off for three times, then it's time to say babai~ The route I was assigned to was 'E' road (This makes me like the word E). The simplest and nearest route back to LSA.

Overall result 17/20 =)

(Passing Marks: 16/20)

I passed~

6(5) Reunion Dinner

2010-03-24T07:17:00.000-07:00

20 March 2010 - As what's written on my blog title, I was invited to Momo Steamboat Restaurant for a reunion with my former primary school classmates. Actually I was in the fifth class for two years which is standard 4 and 5 and was transferred to second class for the final year in my primary school. I was glad that they still remember me! T_T

Let's see.... One.. two.. 13 of us. Not bad too, we managed to gather 13 person in a table after five long years. The last gathering I went was two months ago. That time was not as fun as this time as we have our 'Prince Charming' Chan Li Heng attending. He really jokes and talks a lot. Too bad we deleted his self-snapped photos.

I recognized almost everyone in the reunion except for Joey. Her arrogant face was not the same anymore, kinda weird O_o

Anthony was getting slimmer, Kit Kei and Zher Han's hair longer and most of them their face were unchanged.

Ting Tian was present too. I recalled back the scene last year when I met him in Yuk Choy High School. He was the photographer and I was the secretary for a St John camp. He passed me those photos on the last day of the camp. I shook his hand and ask for his name and I introduced myself too. The most funny and surprising thing was he added me in my msn and told me he was my former classmate. I was like 'OMG', why am I so blur?! =D

Li Heng, Ting Tian, Sze Ngou,

Wai Pin, Anthony, Kah Keen, Chee How,

Kin Soon, Joey, Kit Kei, Pei Kuan, Zher Han

Thank you for you guys and gals for attending =)

He is the Prince Charming that everyone falls in love with..

Those who wished to get his contact number please do not hesitate to ask me~

SPM Result

2010-03-11T22:48:00.001-08:00

12 March 2010 - SPM result day was yesterday. I went to school with a bunch of my former classmates and had out breakfast at the mamak store opposite our school. After that, I was waiting patiently at Ipoh Padang with them.

I was waiting, waiting, waiting and kept waiting. The scheduled release time of 10.00am was postponed to 10.30am. I think they did it on purpose to let us suffer from nervous breakdown.

I did not snap any photos after 10.30am. My heart was beating faster than the speed of a toy plane and the sweat on my face was dropping like a tightened pipe. Nah, I was just joking. But the situation in the school hall was terrible. Everyone was lining up to get their SPM slips.

This is Kisor - 7A+,2A

I saw my friend took the files containing the slip, some certificates and a copy of The Michaelian one by one from Cik Siti. I was nervous and afraid. I've prepared for the worst and hope for the best for the long 3 months. Finally, I walked slowly to Cik Siti accompanied by Joe Hang and some friends who comforted me. They asked me not to be scared and be calm.

When Cik Siti saw me, she clapped her hands in a sudden and showed me my slip. This reminded me of my form3 class teacher, Puan Hartini who congratulate me before I take my PMR slip. To my surprise, a string of A's appeared right in front of my eyes with some positive and negative signs. STRAIGHT A'S!!! YEA, IT'S STRAIGHT!

I was so lucky after all. I knew that I did not push to my 100% during the examination but I still managed to get some A- which is equivalent to A2 for the old grading system. It's quite weird and funny for some of you if I tell u I did not get the A which is equivalent to A1. It's only those positive and negative signs. Okay okay, here are my results:

Bahasa Melayu : A-
English : A+
Pendidikan Moral : A+
Sejarah : A-
Mathematics : A+
Additional Mathematics : A+
Physics : A-
Chemistry : A+
Biology : A-

Although I'm quite lucky and cheer up this time, but my happiness was dashed when most of my friends were sad and turned moody on the same day. Some will said it's their lucky day, some will say it's the worst day of their life. For me, of cause I'm proud of my achievement because I will get some praises and compliments from others for now.

However, this result does not guarantee anything in my far future. The same goes to everyone of you. Successful people does not necessary have a good academic achievements. Some said knowledgeable people have to work for those uneducated ones because they have knowledge and can handle various stuff and those uneducated have no knowledge at all and they have to hire people to work for them. This makes them the boss. But don't you think it's the best of both worlds when you are educated and you are the boss hiring educated people to work for you too? In this way, you wont be cheated by others too.

Anyway, CONGRATULATIONS from the bottom of my heart not only to those who achieve excellent results but also to those whose result met their expectation. There's one friend of mine who I wished to highlight here too.

CHRISTOPHER CHONG WENG YEW

He told me he was happy with his result although he managed to grab 2A's which is very less compared to some of you and mean a lot for some who are weak. The moment I chat with him I can feel that he was satisfied with his result and have no regret after all. His targets was..

Minimum target: Pass all Average target: 5 credits
Maximum target: 2A's

I felt so surprise and admire him at the same time. He get all his targets done and was proud to achieve it. He has aims and goals in life. This makes him an all around winner of all.

In a nutshell, there's NO good or bad results in life. The good or bad depends on how you see it and not how others see it. You see things in your way, when you feel that you've done nothing wrong, then you will be right although the world is blaming you. If you feel that you are wrong in certain things, then you won't be right too even 10 angels are supporting you.

So, cheer up all of you =)

Cameron Highlands One Day Trip

2010-03-02T05:52:00.000-08:00

2 March 2010 - Went to Cameron Highlands last Sunday, which is 2 days ago. I decided to refresh myself there after some long hectic life. I went with 5 others who are my uncle, my aunt, both my sisters and Sze How.

We did not visit much places as the time of arrival is around 1.30pm and it's already afternoon.

The first place we went was Green View Garden. I don't recall any places there most probably because the last time I visited was 4 or 5 years ago.

I decided to snap some photos since the flowers and plants there are so colourful.

Green plants were planted there too~

My aunt loves those vegetables so much.

After that, we went to Boh Tea Center. The center has been renovated since the last time I went.

Saw the photo below? Our car have to be parked down the hill and we have to walk up all the way towards the center.

RM3+ for a cup of BOH tea..

Then we decided to post in front of the center's name.

Random shots were taken later as remembrance.

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, jump-shot, the photo of the day.

And the last thing which is a must to eat before we leave was.....

Yea, the yummy strawberry ice-cream~

Katherine's Birthday Bash

2010-02-28T06:19:00.000-08:00

28 February 2010 - Celebrated Katherine's birthday yesterday which falls on 28th February.

Joe Hang, Yee Lim and I bought her a present which is a doll that almost look the same as her. We called her out to meet us at PappaRich in the afternoon.

Surprisingly, she did not work on that day. For your information, she is the 'boss' for the three of us in the working field for DiGi. We used to call her 'miao miao' because of her funny name =)

Went to KBox at Jusco after that. Nothing much, Happy Birthday Miao Miao~

Xinh Guan's House Warming

2010-02-27T07:11:00.000-08:00

27 February 2010 - 2 days ago I went to Xinh Guan's house warming with a warmly heart. His new house is located at Gunung Lang area. Frankly speaking, I was shocked when I arrived. His house is so big compared to mine! Saw the photo below?

And what is so uniqued about his house? Answer: It's uniqued because it's filled with antique. Don't be surprised when you saw the photos.

One, two, three, four...... Argh, please count for me the number of deity (神像) in his altar.

Almost everything is his house are valuable stuff. I like this smiling buddha...

After that we went to Xinh Guan's room to chat and have some fun joking there. He played some nice songs with his guitar to suit the environment there.

First Driving Lesson

2010-02-24T22:42:00.000-08:00

25 February 2010 - Uncle Patrick came and fetched me at 11am today. The first 2 hours for a total of 10 hours. Actually he should fetch me back to the center and teach me some basic skills first but instead of doing that, he let me drive and go wandering outside the center, OMG! Went to places like Chemor, Sri Klebang and those roads out of the practice route.

Will be going for another driving lesson tomorrow, YAY! =)

Jelapang Highway Duty

2010-02-21T23:48:00.002-08:00

22 February 2010 - Went to highway duty at Jelapang again. But fortunately, no accident occur unlike the last time I went. Those who went with me were Wai Hoong, Hong Wei and Cheong Wai Kit from JPP. Free KFC as usual~

We played Chor Dai Di, Blackjack and some crazy card games introduced by the person in the photo below..

Then after playing for quite some time, we checked the ambulance for its first aid equipments.

Slept around 2am and woke up at 6.30am. Then we went to Foh San to eat dim sum with Joe Hang, Yee Lim and 2 of his friends (Nescafe and SiFuttLong). We ate around 130bucks but Nescafe treat us so YAY!

Chinese New Year's Blast

2010-02-18T10:24:00.000-08:00

Had my reunion dinner on the 13th February. It was the same every year. Relatives will be coming back for dinner. As usual, my uncle who is my dad's big brother will be cooking at my grandma house. The dinner was superb!

The elderly will be sitting at the dining place whereas the grandchildren will be setting up a table and enjoy our dinner at the living room every year due to insufficient seats.

My grandma's daughter in laws a.k.a my mom and my aunt were busy serving, preparing and cleaning up throughout the day.

Chicken wings, roastducks, fish, vegetables and my uncle's famous's bak kut teh soup. Those are the food we enjoyed. Not to mention that the delicious roastduck was bought from Sun Yeong Wai roastduck shop situated behind Tesco.

Frankly speaking, I don't know why we pose with the packaging of the roastduck. But to tell you the truth, the roastducks are extremely wonderful. The smell is so strong that I will eat the whole package if I continue smelling it. It's crispy-skin is the best in Ipoh!

We took some group photo with grandma after dinner. She was so happy that we decided to continue snapping.

And this photo was taken with grandma and her grandchildren which includes me.

Yeah, grandma and me! I used to call her 'ah ma' which means grandma in teochew.

Both sister joined in later.

The day after reunion dinner was 1st day of chinese new year. Went to grandma house again but sadly the 1st day is always meat-free day. Which means have to eat vege for the long hot day.

My cousin, Adrian preparing some 'nien gao'

First day of chinese new year was the same after all. Had lunch and dinner at my grandma house too.

After dinner was some mini singing performance by my cousin's daughter (I don't know what to name that). Her gap with my grandma is 3 generations. Which means she is the daughter of my grandma's daughter's daughter. Complicated right?

This is Tan Jia Huey. My grandma keep advising the same thing again and again.

Alex Tan with a poser shot!

This photo was taken during the 2nd day of chinese new year. Most of my nephews and uncles went to my aunt house for lunch and dinner on that day. We used to celebrate it in my grandmother's house (mother side) few years ago.

As what the photo caption says, I feel hungry!

And this reunion dinner was from my mother side.

3rd day of chinese new year slide in slowly. Went for badminton with my cousins and my uncles in the afternoon to spend some free time and to warm up our hardened muscle after so long of missing in action.

This cake was made by my uncle, Michael Liew (I have many uncles =D). Its to celebrate Wei Yoong's birthday which falls on 30th February. Gong Xi Fa Cai on his cake. I bet you hardly have any cakes with those greeting words.

2nd day also means my dad's colleagues will be coming in the evening. Coincidentally, my friends suddenly called me and told me that they will be coming to visit. To my surprise, Cheng Zheng who came back for new year break from NS also came.

Wai Hoong, Hong Wei, Teik Sum, Joe Hang, Cheng Zheng, Yee Lim and 3 others anonymous who followed Cheng Zheng came too. We then played blackjack for some entertainment since everyone is so excited bout gambling. Yea, the dealer was Yee Lim and Joe Hang. The last match of blackjack highlighted both of them for getting 21 and we the unfortunate have to pay double for them.

As for my sister's friends who were not so interested in blackjack, they played chor dai di instead.

It was supposed to end happily on the 3rd day. However, my neighbour's fusebox suddenly burst and the lights for a few houses sharing the same row as mine went off. We called for help for the TNB.

While waiting and watching them to fix the cables, we brought some chairs out and started chatting. Lights out 'party'? It wasn't really a party anyway. That's all for some minor new year updates. And for those whom I have yet to wish, Happy Chinese New Year~

My DiGi CAMPUS

2010-02-11T03:36:00.000-08:00

11 February 2010 - Finally, my own digi campus number after waited for so long. I've been busy promoting and selling this plan to most of the people but unfortunately, I'm not qualified to use it myself as it was for university and college students aged between 18 to 24 only.

However, today's task was to give out free sim packs for some sort of students from SMK Seri Manjung so I personally grab one for myself, shh. It was kinda wasted because those chipmunks mostly from form 1 to form 3 will not know how to appreciate this plan. 250 is the number of packs given out, and it's equivalent to an increase of a few percent of garbage dumped outside the school compound the next day. Really wasted!!!

The advantages of using DiGiCAMPUS compared to normal digi plan:
Saw that? Free call after daily RM2 usage but that's not my main focus. My favourite was the free sms to 11 friends and family numbers. It's totally free even though your credit hit zero throughout the 4 years validity. OMG! Free sms for 4 years. It's the best plan for any network in Malaysia!

KL Trip

2010-01-22T20:59:00.000-08:00

22 January 2010 - 2 days are what we called a trip? Went to KL for some fast shopping with my family since my dad had to attend some sort of business meeting.

These are the photos taken at 1Utama. Frankly speaking, Ipoh really need to catch up on the decorations for festivals.

After that, my mom, aunt and my sis were busy shopping for clothes and those kind of stuff.

Photos below are taken for Miss S with her S shirt. I realised I'm hooked up with photography nowadays.

Around the time stated in the photo below, we went to Wong Kok Restaurant for lunch.

My french style fried rice~

And the final photo for this post....

6(2) Reunion Dinner

2010-01-13T21:51:00.000-08:00

13 January 2010 - Went to Sky Corner at Ipoh Garden East on this day. It was because on one fine day Yixin suddenly sms me and said that there will be a gathering for primary class. The last reunion I went was 2 years ago.

My first reaction was like erhm... because some friends are working whereas some went to NS so there will be less people compared to last time.

At first I can't make it due to time constrain and transport problem because 7pm was the time I went back to home after a tiring work. For me, I was quite happy cause can meet up my former classmates. Even some of the faces I've forgotten. Eat, eat, eat, drink and talk~ That's what we did there. Those who present were Me myself, Bing Loon, Sheng Rong, Lip Sin, Kar Keat, Boon Hong, Chee Kuen, Woei Hong, Hoe Nam, Yi Xin, Elynn, Pui San, Pei Kee, Tweedy, Carmen. I think that's all. Where are the rest?

That's all. Hope to see you guys and gals next gathering~

Happy 18th Birthday Eon!

2010-01-11T03:03:00.000-08:00

11 January 2010 - Today is Eon Chen's birthday but we celebrated it yesterday @ Kbox. Those who absent were Vincent and Chuah because they are so unfortunate to go to NS. Esther's birthday falls on 12 January too. So some of us besides buying Eon's presents also getting Esther's some small gifts. 5 hours non-stop inside the room makes most of us sufferred sore throat and leave us voiceless at the end. Pui San and Esther went in for quite some time and left early. I heard from Yee Lim that this cake was bought by Pui San and Chuah. How the hell did Chuah shared with her to buy it? A piece of cake equals to a chicken rice - by Nike Phang. I wonder what he means...The birthday boy blowing the candle. Luckily I managed to snap it right on time. =) Eon said some of the pictures actually have white dots on it which makes him believe that the dots are those spirit or ghost or whatever you call it. Haiz, I do admit that he is quite superstitious sometimes. A slight abnormality or unusual things that are out of the picture will make him energetic for some time. I tried to convince him that those are just flash lights from the projector but it seemed that my words have fallen into deaf ears. =_='' For more of those pictures, please go to his profile and look for it yourself.

This is the one I mentioned earlier. They shared the cake since the gap between their brithdays is just 24 hours. Yee Lim said they look like couple whereas Alan said they have the brother-sister look. That's all for this post. Not forgetting to wish my dear friend, Eon Chen..

HaPpY BiRthDaY

He will be going to Singapore soon.

Will miss him dearly~

Pre-Driving Talks

2009-12-23T02:52:00.000-08:00

22 December 2009 - Went for the so-called Kurikulum Pendidikan Pemandu (KPP) talks in a driving center somewhere on the way to Tasek. Quite boring there. The lecturer told us that all of us are compulsory to have 5 hours of talks hosted by the JPJ officers in order to take their driving license either for car or motorcycle. I went there before 8am with Kin Ho as Chuah suddenly said he is not interested.

The first thing we did there was to enter a mini hall and took a small colour-blind test before everything starts because it was the most important thing before you can proceed any further. 23/23, that was my score for some simple questions which can be easily answered by any standard one kids. The first-half of the talks started at 9.30am till 12.00noon. It was still okay as it can keeps me from sleeping. The second-half was terribly sucks. The second lecturer failed to impress me as she was talking non-stop and I was dreaming non-stop too. Seriously, someone has to treat her a cup of coffee so that she wont be so depressed and talking to herself all the time. Ended around 3pm and Phang went there to fetch me. Now I'm still thinking when to take the test.

Special thanks to my agent Kiemee, Phang called her 鸡尾 which means chicken tail =_='' for saving us in those long queue and helped us a lot throughout the talks.

Special Update: 42/50 - I've just passed my undang test!

Langkawi Trip

2009-12-22T07:44:00.000-08:00

21 December 2009 - Went for a 4 days 3 nights trip to Langkawi with my uncle alone. Nothing much to post about, see pictures below for further details. Quite boring although visited many places.

During the ferry ride from Kuala Perlis to Langkawi. It took almost an hour.

The Garden Hotel. The so called high class hotel with poor maintenance and cut-throat price. RM165/night for just a small room. The manager is a greedy man.

Deluxe Room? If this is what they called a deluxe room then i bet all those standard rooms are dead.

RM140/day which is super expensive and the gear was half-broken.

Black Sand Beach. The place where the sand suppose to be black but instead of the sand, I saw majority of the people were sun-tanned and make the beach black.

My uncle enjoying a cup of hot coffee.

GALERIA PERDANA

Some kind of japanese gift from Japan

I don't know why the Wright Brothers ended up in the Prime Minister's Gallery

The place where all the potraits are hanging

I personally liked this photo but it will be better if the angle was lower

Ships, Boats, Ferries

The shops located in the Eagle Square

UNDERWATER WORLD

I don't even know what are those hanging potraits and landscape doing in the Underwater World. Maybe they were drawn by those crabs and penguins.

Penguins - Standing Proud. Sorry but no fishes pictures uploaded because fishes are just plain unattractive and I hate the way they swim.

The Seven Wells with waterfall that almost dried up.

Petronas Quay

The overall map of the islands

Eagle Square

RANDOM SHOTS

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SPM - Full Coverage

2009-12-08T06:15:00.000-08:00

8 December 2009 - SPM is finally over, gone, disappeared, vanished, out of sight, down, cleared! I can't imagine it ended so fast, too fast that I did not even realise it ended today. Right after the last paper, an empty feeling suddenly striked my mind.

'' This is the last day of schooling where you will be wearing your school uniform ''

To make things simpler, I decided to break down my post to 5 main parts. Viewer discretion is advised to prevent any eye-sore or time-consuming for this long-winded post of mine.

The Cancerian Personality
Only by that time a smile scratch my face as I walked passed the heavenly stairs towards the ground floor. I did not even grab the chance to bit farewell to some of my teachers, teachers that really care for the students and hope that they will excel in the respective subjects. And now here am I missing them for some of their boring lessons which will be more interesting if I would have pay more attention to them. The end of secondary life means no more wearing green pants, no more childish act, no more care-free attitute maybe, and most importantly, no more Sejarah!

SPM Showdown
I am quite happy at the beginning of this exam when I saw the first karangan question which the topic is so wide and so many points to write about. This indicates that my exam have a very good start and ~~probably~~ definitely will have a good end for it. It proves me right today. Not to say that I'm confident on my subjects or I'm basically too good to score, but at least I have gone through the papers smoothly and thank god because I did not miss any of the papers. That's one of the reasons why I promised myself to accept whatever result that will be coming out next March.

If you were to ask me again how many subjects I was taking, I will tell you the same answer again and again. Compared to most of my friends from other schools, I can be considered taking the least subject for SPM - 9. It's the school system, don't ask me. It is most probably because the number of subjects are not important but the subjects themselves are vital to determine your direction after SPM. What's the use of taking 20 subjects with all those easy-to-score Islamic subjects that are similiar to one another? Furthermore, 10 subjects are the limit for those taking SPM starting from next year.

Its has been more than 5 times since I dreamt about my SPM. The condition inside the hall, the result day, and the most terrible one - how I missed two of my papers in one day. BM and Mathematics were on the same day in my fantasy world. And I keep on blaming my friends for not reminding me, my parents who doesn't realise my exam date. I was struggling to call the school office to ask whether the exam can be replaced to some other date or not. Of cause they can't, because the whole nation start and end at the same time. I'm glad that I have woke up from those terrible nightmares. This shows that I'm so irresponsible, careless, naive, and being irrational in my dream land. However, it is vice versa and does not affect me throughout the 4 long weeks in reality.

Okay okay. Let's back to the topic. Everyone were so tension and some of them almost crack their skulls at the beginning of the exam. However, situation was getting better as time passes and the pressure was less applied to them. For me, it's just the same and every papers count. I can't afford to distract my attention to elsewhere and crying over the spilt milk later. I am quite satisfied because I have done my best, unlike my trial results which is an eye-sore.

What am I aiming for my results? Surprisingly I did not target or expect any A's in my result after my trial results disappointed me. That's why I have set a new aim, that is...

Aim: Pass all my subjects

Condition: With flying colours

Irony: You either know or doesn't know what it means

The Next Chapter
The 2-year SPM syllabus which is not easy to cover up has reached its finale here. What have you learned or wasted in this 2 short years is all sum up. I firmly believe that the result day is the judgment day. There will be total fairness. So what's my plan after SPM? Most probably will be studying form 6 in my alma mater unless my matriculation application succeed. After that? Waste no time and pursue my studies to local college, or maybe somewhere else.

Simple Plan
While waiting for my result, I decided to relax for the month to be jolly and maybe find some work elsewhere to utilize my time effeciently. It is going to be a long time until next March to decide my fate. Undang test, driving license? All cramped out in my tiny brain all at the same time. Hang out with friends? Holidays with family? It's all going to be packed up this month. So I need to be doing something useful and not to waste my precious time.

Golden Words
Whoever or whatever you are, thanks for reading my long-winded extraordinary blog post of the month. I like to blog about almost everything or every event that comes into my life. This will serve as a diary for me to glance back in the far future. For those who have yet to take your SPM or going to engage to it next year, you still have a long way to go. The main element for my principle is very simple, just pay 100% to the lesssons in school and you will definitely not going to lose out. Last-minute studying or burning midnight oil? you will gain nothing except for some headache and extra pressure in yourselves. That's all from this post, stay tuned for more updates @ ivantan5.blogspot.com

Half Time

2009-11-25T08:08:00.000-08:00

26 November 2009 - 6 down and 3 more to go. 2 long and tiring weeks have passed and 2 more challenging weeks to face. With only 3 science subjects left, my SPM is getting more and more exiciting!

The first week was the most stressful one. BM, English and Sejarah in 2 days. I was quite satisfied with my karangan for BM but the English essay that I wrote was below satisfactory level. I felt that I have not push myself enough for that particular subject. Sejarah paper 1 was not so tough and not so easy, 10+ mistakes. Fortunately, I managed to score in my essay part for paper 2.

Second week has just ended. If Add Maths was just a piece of cake, then Mathematics was just a portion of a piece of cake. I'm sure most of you will agree with me. However, Add Maths paper 2 was not so up to standard. The questions are all jumbled up and not following the orders according to the previous years. Quite tough for the first question, tricky for some questions and confusing for most of the questions. 80% of the candidates will be wiped out mercilessly. Moral was some so-so questions and there was not much trouble for it.

That's all for the half time match for the 4-week SPM. Pray hard for the subjects that have yet to come! TQ and Good Luck~

My sister's UPSR result

2009-11-20T01:33:00.000-08:00

20 November 2009 - Despite being busy preparing for my SPM, i decided to post this news for you viewers.

Yesterday was the UPSR result day for my sister. I did not go to her school because I was having exam on the day. My parents and some of my relatives went there. When they reached, they saw her crying. My mom's first thought was which subjects did she failed that she have to cry so badly? But then it tells everything when she showed seven of her ten fingers.

She was overjoyed for her splendid result. For me, I did not expect her to get a string of A's but her results proved me wrong. You make us proud~

Congratulations and well done!

THERESA TAN LI LIEN

Form 5 Farewell

2009-11-06T17:41:00.000-08:00

3 November 2009 - The form 5 farewell ceremony was held today. The ceremony was just as simple as I thought. With Mr Ravindran as the organizing chairman, we were provided with food and drinks to make the ceremony looks meaningful.
Representatives from various colleges and universities were invited to brief the form 5 too. For my class, we have taken lots of pictures as memories in our beloved alma mater for 5 years.

Snapshot with my monitor, Kar Heng and Swee Kwan.

We even approached and asked our respective teachers to snap a few photos with us since it was the only day we were allowed to bring camera to school.

Mr Panirchelvam, Moral teacher

Pn Nor Hamisah, my Add Maths teacher and dedicated St John teacher advisor

Pn Shaw Wanni, Sejarah teacher. Some say she talks a lot.

My class teacher, Cik Siti Noraisyah. She's quite cheerful that day.

Nothing much to post about. I have been missing nice updates in my blog for months. The farewell reminded me about the 5 years of my schooling life. It really makes me and some of my friends changed from cheerful to moody on that day although we will be having classes as usual the next day. Presenting you the few from the luckiest person who managed to grab the chance to snap a shot with me.....

Teik Sum and Joe Hang, friends since form 1

Monitor of the Year, Lee Kar Heng!

Alan Beh, one of my best friends. ~~Quite dangerous taking photo with bear~~

Tan Guo Sheng, some honest people used to call him 9 zai.

And some of them were crazy about taking photos with insane post to make the situation looks even out of control. We went to the pavilion to take millions of photos. Here are some of the photos...
Preparing for war - Bing Loon saluting, Swee Kwan posting whereas Kar Heng is the main tanker
The battle of the monitors, as you can see, both Chuah and Swee Kwan were terrified!

YOU FAIL! Mourn for Chuah for his lost in the war..

The V-Rangers

They thought they are cool but they are superb cold =)

When they felt there is not enough of those photos, they decided to snap a few harmonious pictures. Don't worry, they are not gays, they are just not too straight. ~~Most~~ ALL the victims below were tackled by Phang Yee Lim. Haha =D

Yee Lim with 1st victim, Eon Chen

2nd victim, Chuah Teong Hui

3rd victim, 9 zai..

Lastly, with a bear

There are still millions of photos which I can't upload all due to time constrain. So I have selected a few to be in my top 3 photo of the day list, they are....

3rd
Swee Kwan demonstrated his fantastic break-dancing skills and one of his fans managed to have a snap on it

2nd As a result of his failure to impress the 'fans'

AND THE PHOTO OF THE DAY GOES TO

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~~Sweet couple~~ - Chuah has waited for this moment for the square root of 289 years!

Hope you enjoy those photos. My SPM Left: 10 days. Best of Luck to all my friends!

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Some short updates:

1) Sister drew a cartoon cute version of me and for me. Really appreciate and like that.

2) Mr Tan, my tuition Add Maths teacher said he will be having a mini 'food fair' next week as the last week for him to be with us. How touching..

3) Anonymous sent a message to me and claimed that he/she is a person who care for me but refused to reveil himself/herself. This is extremely untolerable and insane. How can I text a person which I don't even know? I told him/her off and feel sorry for her last message.

4) Khoy Wan requested me to jot down the news that, she laugh non-stop when I told her I can't find my way to toilet when I was form 1. How funny ^^

5) I am getting better for the departure of my beloved cousin =)

Death leads to Sorrow

2009-10-30T03:32:00.000-07:00

30 October 2009 - Can't really willing to accept the fact that my cousin is dead. I can't imagine how a person feel when he passed away. However, I am sure that everyone around him will be in deep sorrow. That's the thing for sure.

Why people have to leave without saying goodbye? It will be one of the most cruelest thing for them to do before they emerge into another world. They are so selfish if you were to ask me. To have abandoned their parents and siblings... I believed they will be fine when time passes.

Now he has gone forever, leaving only good memories that can never be flushed away by tides of time. He also brought my study mood away as I've been absent from school for 3 consecutive days.. What else more can I say? He can be considered as my greatest cousin which I never realise when he's here...

Aaron Liew Jyi-li

2009-10-28T02:36:00.000-07:00

In Loving Memory Of

BELOVED COUSIN

Aaron Liew Jyi-li

13 June 1986 - 27 October 2009

May You Rest In Peace

Rise in Pressure

2009-10-23T08:25:00.000-07:00

23 October 2009 - Less than a month until my SPM now. Anything can happen during SPM. Either you fail or pass to fulfill your expecations.

Am I prepared for it? NO I am not quite sure. Just hope that everything will be fine and smooth. I still have plenty of model papers and exercises waiting for me to explore. That's why I decided to spend lesser time for blog.

Good Luck for myself. Don't panic and make yourself tension because...... Rise In Pressure = R.I.P.

New Look For A Nice Change

2009-10-04T02:41:00.000-07:00

4 October 2009 - Aloha readers, I seems to be disappeared from the cyber space and abandoned my precious blog. It feels good to be able to blog again. Time passes quickly when you don't even realise it, it's October now. My SPM will be next month. My trial results were below satisfactory level. However, I believe major changes can take place in me myself within this short month, or I hope so. Therefore, I must work extremely hard and spending my time lesser in this cyber space in order to achieve my aim..

PEACE IN MY FANTASY

I like the new theme for my blog compared to my previous' Electro Fantasy. I am a bit superstitious if you were to ask me. But many things doesn't seem to go on smoothly this year. That's the reason I decided to dress my blog a new layout and grant her a new theme. Enjoy~

SPECIAL THANKS TO MY BELOVED CREATIVE AND INTELLIGENT SISTER:

SERENA TAN

FOR HELPING IN DESIGNING THIS ALMOST PERFECT PICTURE FOR MY BLOG, TQ~

The Joy

2009-09-16T05:53:00.000-07:00

A smiley is reflected on the keys, double up the joy and not forgetting the harmonious music of the piano...

16 September 2009 - Go online, go blogging, go listening to your favourite tracks, go watch movie, go do whatever you dream of. That's the lifestyle right after the long 3 weeks trial, but not for long, it's just a temporary mind-relaxing way. 10 days holidays to study before trial, and 10 days to relax after the exam, what else can be better than that?

Okay, the review for the exam. First week was quite hectic, with 5 subjects on the line in the short 4 days. Tips were received by each and everyone in mass, not mess. Tips for sejarah, biology and every subjects. The most important thing is, all the tips are 80% accurate. So scoring in those subjects will not be a problem, or I think so..

Second week, two subjects consisting of add maths and biology. Add maths quite easy for me, biology is the probem. It's just either too hard or not easy for me to stuck the informations in my head. It's the problem of memorizing the facts. Third week, the last week of examination. Physics and chemistry, I studied according to the tips and almost all of it came out.

Today is the last day. And right after the exam, some of my buddies told me that we need to retake all the subjects because the question papers were all leaked out prior to the exam. So, whose fault is it? I even know that some tuition centers are selling trial papers for RM45 per set. Therefore, the irony is how the question papers managed to get into the students hand before the exam. The main reason is the teachers themselves. Some of the schools checked their papers early and those wonderful teachers sms-ed their cute students the question. And all the tips were spotted flying in and around Perak.

Last but not least, let me present u the schedule for my exam, I will post my results once I have collected all the marks =D

1 Sept 2009 - Bahasa Melayu 1 & 2
2 Sept 2009 - English 1 & 2, Sejarah 1
3 Sept 2009 - Sejarah 2, Pendidikan Moral
4 Sept 2009 - Mathematics 1& 2
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8 Sept 2009 - Additional Mathematics 1 & 2
10 Sept 2009 - Biology 1, 2 & 3
_______________________________________
14 Sept 2009 - Physics 1, 2 & 3
16 Sept 2009 - Chemistry 1, 2 & 3

ME: Updated

2009-09-11T20:37:00.000-07:00

12 September 2009 - It has been 2 weeks since my trial started, and a short week left to end it. I will update it in my next post. I have been facing quite a lot of problems and worries for the past few weeks. As I have always said, I hate others to comment on my actions and behaviour, I never like it because negative comments will affect my performance mentally.

According to what my friend said, you just have to be what you are because it is what you are that determines who you are. Your personality, attitude, behaviour and everything is the criteria that reflects you yourselves. Change for the sake of others will makes you to be out of yourselves sometimes.

It is indeed true for the golden advice from my dear friend. However, I have my own opinion about it. When you change, it can be for better or even worse. Accept the fact that you must change to be a better person sometimes will help too. That's the reason why I never explain myself to anyone. Because the person who likes you doesn't need it, and the person who dislikes you won't believe it.

And for the person whom I've hurt

due to my stupid behaviour,

SORRY

is what I can express my apology...

Holiday Life

2009-08-28T02:56:00.000-07:00

28 August 2009 - First of all, I have made myself so busy that I have totally forgotten my friend's birthday which falls on 26th August, my buddy Donivald Tham. Really sorry for not wishing you on that day. I always tell my friends that those who have the chance to appear on my blog are considered extremely lucky because I seldom post other's face on my blog. You must be angry or feeling sad but I hope this picture that I edited for you will cheer you up. Happy Belated Birthday....

I never feel so hectic when holidays strike. The joy of books-free in every student's mind gurantees their happiness. However, the 10-day holidays made me study even more and (almost =.='') push myself to limit. To know that SPM trials will be right after this holidays, I have no time left to play or enjoy my life. Study in the morning and afternoon and online at night is the best way for me to organize myself.

Besides that, there's a gay who added and disturbed me in my Windows Live Messenger yesterday. Asking me whether I am gay or not, whether he handsome or not, and those cheap stuff which I was totally not interested in. The part that really irritated me was when he showed his display picture with his bloody naked body. You will definitely feel like vomiting if you were me. Enjoy the conversation below:

Ivan 明仔™ : siapa u?
IpohGayZai : i m cheah from anderson school
Ivan 明仔™ : how u know my email?
IpohGayZai : facebook and friendster
Ivan 明仔™ : o
IpohGayZai : u r gay?
Ivan 明仔™ : no
IpohGayZai : why?
(start showing naked pictures)
Ivan 明仔™ : fuck off from my sight
IpohGayZai : y? i m 13, from anderson, i from ipoh also
Ivan 明仔™ : I not interested in u
IpohGayZai : why? I not handsome?
Ivan 明仔™ : no
IpohGayZai : then?
Ivan 明仔™ : fugly
Ivan 明仔™ : fucking ugly
IpohGayZai : my asshole, nice or not?
IpohGayZai : my gege help me take
Ivan 明仔™ : its damn freaking hell fugly
Ivan 明仔™ : dun u have a mirror? go have a look at your bloody face la

(OMG, my coolness and impression level dropped 100% after you have read that conversation. Believe it or not, I seldom use vulgar words, i hate it. That's why I salute those who can really makes me say those words)

Furthermore, my cousin brother has been admitted to hospital for injuries due to gun shot. Don't be shocked! Here's how the story flows..
1) 4.00+am, 2 robbers suspected Indonesian went into his house.
2) Took LCD TV, laptop and jewelleries.
3) Robbers asking for car key, he refuse to give.
4) Robbers gave up, decided to run away.
5) Cousin brother chasing for his information-filled laptop which is extremely important.
6) Robbers fired a shot. Bullet hit his right ear, strike the wall and recoil, hit his left ear.
7) Second bullet, shot his ankle, the area between your humerus and ulna/radius.
8) Call for ambulance.

Anyway, he lived in Tambun. So to those who live near that area, please be careful especially at night. Do not fight back or do something stupid please. You only have 1 life and 1 opportunity to do anything and everything you want.

The Truth Within

2009-08-17T06:39:00.000-07:00

17 August 2009 - Some people are just either too lucky or did not realise that they are currently in a very fantastic divisions. Yet again I'm mentioning about other St John Ambulance divisions. It's around mid August now, and I believe each and every uniformed units, clubs, societies or watever freaking games should have their AGM by this crucial period.

I joined the division of SJAM since I was form 1 and it wasn't an easy task to complete the 5 years in it. The discipline level during that time was so strict that only 1 out of 10 birds will survive. We are so used to scolding and punishments that we believed that were happening to other divisions too. The headquarters Cadet Camp that I joined in 2007 proved me wrong when the punishment given there was not even 10% compared to my division. Members from SMI were obviously having a great time enjoying there. It was there that I realised we must endure hard and painful times in order to appreciate and treasure the easier life later on...

I am not sure about other divisions but their members seems to be complaining each and every then. Even scolding from officers they dislike whereas my divisions was hoping for an officer to lead us for almost a decade. We tend to lead the division by ourselves with the help of seniors. However, the division's standard is decreasing year by year. It reminds me of how strong and stable the division is when I was just a form 1 member. Some members from other division even cried when they get scolding from officers. I was thinking like.. WHAT THE HELL.. If it was me, I am willingly to get all the cursing and screwing than running rounds like mad dog almost every week.

It is unpredictable that what is going to happen in the future to my division. Even the friendster profile, group and blog were abandoned by the current exco board. I just hope that the division will regain it's glorious time like in the early 20th century. It was quite a long time..

Influenza A, H1N1

2009-08-05T06:27:00.000-07:00

5 August 2009 - YES, it's a picture of a pig wearing mask! Although it's funny, but it showed us how serious H1N1 nowadays. Everyone including kids should educate themselves on H1N1, the latest pandaemic globally. Here's a friendly reminder for all the readers of this blog...

Signs and Symptoms of H1N1:
1) Fever 发烧
2) Cough 咳嗽
3) Sore Throat 喉咙痛
4) Runny of Stuffy Nose 伤风
5) Body Ache 骨痛
6) Headache 头痛
7) Chills 寒冷
8) Fatigue 无力

Diarrhoea and vomiting may strike too. If you have most of the symptoms mentioned above, please have a check up either in your nearby hospitals or clinics. So, please take extra good care of yourself before you can protect your friends and family including your loves one. TQ~

A Glorious Night

2009-07-25T05:56:00.000-07:00

25 July 2009 - The Interschool Band Competition was held yesterday. The stadium was filled with loads of spectators and supporters who pledge their never-ending support to the respective schools. For me, I support the Michaelian Military Band! They had been training for so many weeks that they have to sacrifice their studies time only for this competition. 7 schools from in and around Perak took part. Without saying much, here are the results:

Champion: SMK Sam Tet, Ipoh

1st Runner-up: SMK St. Michael, Ipoh

2nd Runner-up: SMJK Nan Hwa, Sitiawan

Best Drum Major: SMK Sam Tet, Ipoh

Best Colour Guards: SMJK Nan Hwa, Sitiawan

Best Preparation: SMJK Nan Hwa, Sitiawan

Links:

1) Malaysian School Band Site

2) Michaelian Military Band's Blog

Congratulations to the Michaelian Military Band for bringing back the pride to our alma mater.

Green and White Unite!

Open Sesame

2009-07-09T04:13:00.000-07:00

9 July 2009 - First and foremost...

HaPpY BiRthDaY

to my elder sister, Serena Tan for reaching 20 in her life.

Open Day falls on this day too. That means parents will be coming to school starting 10am to collect their child's report card. From what I can observe, various comments were given by my class teacher, Cik Siti to the students, mixed with positive and negative.

My mom went and when it was my turn to collect, Cik Siti showed the comments written by all my subject teachers to my mom. The longest comment came from Puan Shaw Wanni. The rest are just mixed reviews from the teachers.

Some teachers were praising me a good boy and has high potential but some are just telling the truth by saying me talkative and playful. I have to admit that those comments are partially true because only on certain subjects I felt boring and my concentration dropped. In less than 2 months, I will be sitting for my SPM trial and what I get for this mid-term exam was 2 fails and the rest just lying on the borderline. Buck up!

The consequences? Banned me from all activities for my St John Ambulance. Can't go out with my friends more frequent too....

Big Day or Trouble Day?

2009-07-08T07:45:00.000-07:00

8 July 2009 - Today marks the day of me being 17 years living in planet Earth. That's basically not my highlight for updating my blog post. This morning I went to class as usual. First period was English, my form teacher's class. She did an amazing discovery by finding out the friendster™ profile of my class - 5sc4. Splendid! I never tought how she was able or how she managed to find it. Nevermind, that's not my concern anyway.

But somehow, someone from my class edited the profile by slotting in unecessary stuff and negative reviews about the teachers. Cik Siti was damn pissed off today from the way she talked with us. She even printed out more than 4 to 5 pages of that profile. I can't and don't remember whether did I put any negative comment on that profile or not. Big trouble!

Cik Siti cursed that individual who owned that profile for unable to get a good teacher in the future. OMG! I mean, the situation was so serious today. Everyone was speechless that time. For me myself, I don't know what to say. The profile even have my class namelist there. That means it represented us who did such things to our teachers. What the...

Rain, Rain, (Wont) Go Away

2009-07-04T21:02:00.000-07:00

5 July 2009 - I am damn pissed off today. The day has come for the Ipoh International Run. I have been waiting for this day for a couple of months or more, but it ended up raining for almost 3 hours. From the moment I woke up until 8am, raining non stop. When I reached the stadium around 8.15am, my friend told me that the run has started 15 minutes earlier. DAMN la! Feeling frustrated, I went home to continue my slumber. =D

Anyway, congratulations to those who managed to complete the work within the time limit. And well done to you, Xinh Guan who get a certificate and a medal for the top 200.

Haiz

2009-07-02T06:34:00.000-07:00

I really should change my attitude lo....
.... before it destroy me
start to hate everyone around me, funny ^.^
HATE EVERYONE...

A Walk To The Star

2009-06-23T07:11:00.000-07:00

21 June 2009 - I participated in the Starwalk event this year. Nothing much, no picture is taken so no need bother looking for my pictures, lolz. 11,000 participants this year, that's a huge amount, and the organizers are looking forward to a 15,000 heads next year? Get a certificate as usual, not challenging at all. Went with my younger sister and my friends. There is no need to mention how I walk or did I follow the rules, the answer will always be YES =D. For the overall point of view, Starwalk was just like a warm up for me =P, the real challenge is the long-awaited Ipoh International Run! Here I come, haha.

Link: Starwalk 2008

Holidays = Holy Days

2009-06-14T00:09:00.000-07:00

14 June 2009 - The last day of the 2-week break from school. I had attended 2 camps namely the Universal Camp III and SMI Annual NCO Camp. 8 days passed for both camps. The only day to relax with my friends was the first Friday which we managed to hang out at Ipoh Parade. Get a life man. Revision was not done much too!

Holidays homework? Just a few pages from a few subjects. Haiz.. Almost spent all my free time online and surfing the web. Busy chatting with friends. Met freaking lots of new friends from the Universal Camp. All talkative and like to say nonsense.. =.=''

Have to start revising after the holidays. That means I will be less online and joke around with friends. Haiz.. Really no life..

Universal Camp III

2009-06-05T09:50:00.000-07:00

The Universe

5 June 2009 - I went for the Universal Camp III jointly organized by the St John Ambulance of my division and a few other divisions. The 4 days 3 nights camp at SMJK Yuk Choy (SUWA), Jelapang started from 31 May to 3 June. Approximately 140 members joining and if including the committee members, there were around 200.

All Members Fall In

I have nothing much to do in that camp as I was the secretary. First day was a big rush. 5 hours before the registration at 1pm, I had to rush for the makings of the campers' nametags as the officer likes last-minute work.

Tents Were Being Set Up

Second day, rushing for certificates, so many errors from the list given and until the end of the camp, the certificates were yet to be done. DAMN IT!

SMI Performance - Singing 'Here In My Home'

From the feedbacks from the members, it was indeed boring for the programs or games carried out. The members were complaining about how boring the games were. The RM75 was not worth it, what the hell?!? They even have the golden opportunity to slumber at the tents for their nights. And what they said was too many mosquito and too hot. Go sleep in the hotels VIPs!

Program Leader - Tai Zhen Yeik

We had jungle trekking for the Outdoor Pursuit badge on the second day. It was a very very fun and unusual experience for me. We came across obstacles and slides which requires robe to climb through. Wasted much time there.

Sweet 'Couples' - Ivy and Joe Hang

Thanks for the scout which led us to the wrong path, the whole group which I was following stepped through a muddy place and our lower limbs almost sank into the soft ground. The scout really deserve a certificate of excellent with a 5 star gold stamp on it.

Mr Lau and Sir Leong Kar Heng

Mr Lau Kok Weng. A very supportive teacher advisor from SMJK Yuk Choy (SUWA). He granted me permission to print all the 200+ certificates using his Canon™ colour printer. WOW! I don't know how to describe, but he is really really kind. Maybe it was due to the no-officer or lack of supportive teacher advisor for my school's St John Ambulance.

Closing ceremony. I was appointed as the emcee/ master of ceremony. I was informed on the eleventh hour and I don't have much preparation. Luckily I managed to gone through it without much trouble.

Presenting Sourvenir to The Superb Magician

Overall, this camp lacked of planning and cooperation between the committees. However, new friendships were made and the bonds between divisions were strengthen. That's the one and only thing we treasured the most.

Camp Commander - Looi Hong Wei

Teh Sek Kit and 'His Girl'

(Left) Camp Commander's Crush and (Right) Donivald's Friend

Medical Leader, Wong Ee Ling - ARGHHHHHH!，cute girl!!

Universal Camp III

Joining People From the Universal

Conversation and Consolation

2009-05-28T07:39:00.000-07:00

27 May 2009 - The comments by my Sejarah teacher, Pn. Shaw Wanni...

SW: Ivan, come here.. (distributing Sejarah paper 2)
SW: Class, did the sejarah paper asking you who is your Sejarah teacher?
SW: Ivan.....Ivan...
SW: As far as I know, you have been a very good boy when I taught you in form 3. But I have to tell you honestly, from the first day in my class this year, you have been talking non-stop.. You mixed around with the wrong people..(looking at Jashen). You tell me that you deserved to get that mark for your paper 1 or not?
ME: Yes.......
SW: You are a very smart boy, and in fact, you are very handsome too...
SW: I mean he is presentable right? At least he is better than some of you here. Ivan, I have to tell you seriously, you will be going downwards right after you finish you SPM. Do you know that you are digging your own grave?
SW: And now you are doing things like this. 32/40 marks is very good, but you are soooo kind-hearted and that makes you get the marks you deserved.. And you did the same thing on your paper 2, writing my name, so is it fair if i deduct 10 marks from your paper?
ME: Yes.....
SW: You show that to your mother and if she is not satisfied, ask her to come and talk to me..

Zero Lesson

2009-05-26T06:24:00.000-07:00

26 May 2009 - So many things has been happening lately. The piles up troubles were enough to make me headache. However, the problems aren't just problems when you did not realise your mistake and what you are doing. For the first time ever, I get a big 0 for my Sejarah paper 1. The excuse given by teacher was I am the main supplier for answers to the people surrounding me. It's undeniable because the person sitting behind and beside me were getting the same marks with me. Geez! I was totally speechless that time. DAMN

The second part is, I realised that I have changed a lot since form 1. The change towards a more bad and more uncomfortable ME. Maybe it was the friends that I mix around with that influences me. But there is one thing for sure, I strongly believe that the friends around you makes your character. To make things simpler, what your friends do and what friends you are mixing with are what you are. A change of character can be good or vice versa. I feel like going back time and look at what I've behaved throughout my schooling life.

Busy Weeks

2009-05-22T17:25:00.000-07:00

23 May 2009 - A very busy and tiring 2 weeks for me. Although the exam has yet to finish, with the remaining one day, but i feel like screaming my heart out. I have been revising and studying for the past two weeks, which I have never done it before. WHY? Well, it's the final preparation before I face the SPM trials.

From what I can say about myself is:

1) A day before exam study is extremely insufficient time.

2) Too late and too rush for the not too prepared examinations.

3) Realised that by doing exercises is more effective than reading without aim.

I expect all my papers to pass but if we are talking about A1s, then I'm afraid that I will be disappointed. Ivan Tan, study smart la next time, don't regret later...

Voice Out to Laugh Out

2009-05-09T03:45:00.000-07:00

9 May 2009 - I have came across a blog post of my friend which i think it was 80% true facts and 20% laughing factor in it. I can't stop laughing when i read the post. The post was posted by my buddy, the 'great Donivald Tham'. Enjoy the blog post below:

Nut Heads

I've always hated the counselors in my school. They kept organizing speeches and motivational talks that is a total wastage of time and crap. Maybe they are too free cause no one's asking them for counseling. They kept talking bout how great they are and how much power they have. They said that they can write bad remarks on our certs and we'll have trouble getting into university therefore we'll regret and come back to ask them to change their remarks. They even said that everyday 2-3 parents meet them to beg them to change their remarks. Total CRAP. I hate how they exaggerate too much bout their power and stuff. They are plain stupid and useless if you ask me. Everyday you see them threatening students that they will call their parents and blacklist them. Get a life idiots =.= Really, I'm so pissed off by them today. They dare to call themselves counselors when all they do is make life miserable for us students? Go to hell. Especially the thick face counselor and boobs-woman counselor. Grrrr.. Hope someone puncture their tires later.

Hope you enjoy reading it =D
Link: Blazing HOT: Nut Heads

The Climb and The Fall

2009-05-08T07:50:00.000-07:00

8 May 2009 - Mid-year examination will be next week, and that will be the final examination for me in my 5-year schooling term. The final battle, before going for trials and finally, the (not-so) much awaited SPM. My preparation? I think it will be 60%. I have not fully focusing on my form 4 and most of the teachers in form 4 are too 'good' that I don't even understand what were they teaching so far. I think I will have to buck up on my form 4 syllabus.

507 Perak State Assembly?
Just stop the drama and get to work! If they are really working and serving the Rakyat, then they should be concentrating on the peace and harmonious life in Perak, not creating troubles and bring more chaos in it. When are you guys going to wake up?

Arghh, EXAM EXAM EXAM!!!!

Uncertainties

2009-04-26T01:22:00.000-07:00

26 April 2009 - I participated in the First Aid Quiz organized by St John Ambulance headquarters today. Nothing special at all, we managed to kick out AMC in the first match and thus enable us to qualified to the finals with 2 other teams - Anderson and Ayer Tawar. Anderson get Silver whereas Ayer Tawar grabbed the Gold. Zero trophies for us. 'Us' = Wong Yoong Xiang, Fong Teik Sum, Eric Ewe Yow Choong, Wong Joe Hang & Me. By the way, congrats to cadet team who get Bronze.

Yesterday I saw the horoscope reading in my friendster. It says that I should not start any relationship if Im not reading, Im just wasting my time. Then today = With all the uncertainty in your life now, you need to seek the comfort of home. Maybe Im not clear what Im doing right now. Sorry for disturbing! I will try to be more rational and stop the childish thing in me.

Seriously, I hate those fella who always emotional (EMO) and talk bout the world's going to end or something like that. Sometimes I feel like Im quite near to that situation. I hate that part in me, that why Im changing now, I don't like the me who was in primary school. I want to be me right now.

SPM. My mom keep on bugging me to study hard. June holidays is coming, Two 4 days 3 nights camp in 2 weeks time. I have to stop all my St John activities.... SPM SPM SPM!? Go to hell!

T.T

LOST!!!

2009-04-18T04:05:00.001-07:00

18 April 2008 - On the way to school, still sms-ing Joe Hang. Arrive school, realised my phone missing. Call my dad who fetched me there immediately. My mom at home answered it. I called my phone again. No reponse. 1 hour later - confirmed lost!

Its Accomplished!

2009-04-18T03:11:00.000-07:00

18 April 2009 - Today was the Annual General Meeting (AGM) for St John Ambulance of my school. Reached school super-early to prepare for my last meeting as an EXCO. Luckily the slide show for AGM can be viewed in the lecture theatre. The AGM officially started at 9.00am. Each and every EXCOs give out their respective reports and review for the term 2008/2009. I was waiting for this moments to come, to handover to the new board. 5 years is how long I have became a St John member, and this is the time! I believe that the new EXCO board can do a better job to improve the division, a greater teamwork in managing the members. Nothing much, view the photos below for a full review.

Links -

i) My AGM 2008

ii) Alex's AGM 2008

iii) SJAM SMI: Annual General Meeting 2009

EXCO Board Term 2008/2009
Treasurer, A/L/CPL Chen Explaining.. Sercetary of Records report

Teacher Advisor, Pn. Nor Hamisah Storekeeper, A/L/CPL Lim Kin Ho handover

Treasurer, A/L/CPL Chen Chee Zheon

Secretary of Duties, A/CPL Fong Teik Sum handover

Secretary of Records, A/CPL Tan Tek Ming handover

Head of Training, A/SGT Wong Joe Hang handover

Head of Operation, A/SGT Kisor handover

3 For Hardwork, Cooperation and Sacrifice

2009-04-09T06:17:00.000-07:00

9 April 2009 - The last Annual Sports Day for me. Our class, 5sc4 have been training hard for this sports day event which ended at 1.00pm today. 5sc4 was lead by the class monitor, Lee Kar Heng and followed by the cooperative students in it. Our class was rewarded for our hardwork with a 3rd place for this inter-class marching among the form fives.

Overall, we were not aiming for 1st place as there were other classes which better than us. Special thanks to my following friends who ensure 5sc4 a 3rd placing:

Lee Kar Heng - The self-sacrificing, best monitor among the classes. He lead the class with his superb voice in shouting commands, organize the students and patience in bringing up the name of 5sc4. The only form 5 class who have the banners 'WE SEE' and 'WE CONQUER' thanks to him.

Karavin - Although he seems to be playful sometimes, but he showed his class spirit when he offer himself to buy the black GIORDANO™ tee shirt for all the students as our class shirt.

Beh Peng Cheng & Vincent Tang - Thanks for the wonderful yet amazing formation. Both of them contributed in designing and organizing our class formation.

Chow Swee Kwan - The one and only who design and paint our class flag. Designed by, painted by and edited by him.

Last but not least, ALL 5sc4 students who came for this glorious and meaningful Sports Day. Thank you.

- WE SEE WE CONQUER -

So Close Yet So Far

2009-04-05T02:45:00.000-07:00

5 April 2009 - The 53rd State-level Annual First Aid and Home Nursing Competition ended today, leaving its glory and memories for the year 2009. My school, SMK St Michael, Ipoh sent two teams, the Ambulance Cadet and Ambulance Adult for this competition. The two teams were as below: Ambulance Adult, A/A 5 :-
1) Wong Joe Hang
2) Wong Yoong Xiang
3) Kisor A/L Thaiala Rao
4) Fong Teik Sum
5) Cham Swee Wen

Ambulance Cadet, A/C 12 :-
1) Donivald Tham Kam Loy
2) Yoong Lip Zhang
3) Teoh Jia Heng
4) Lim Boon Kong
5) Justin Lui Tet Yoon

The performance of the adult team was good and surprising. I myself who recorded their footdrill session was stunned by their amazing performance. Unfortunately, other teams in and around Perak were better and thus, zero trophies for their footdrill. The adult team's short case and long case was satisfactory. Seriously, their performance is way better than area-level competition. From what I observed, they have the confidence to win and at last, bronze for both their short and long cases.
Cadet team was not so disappointing after all. Their leader, Donivald Tham raise the impression of their team with his voice in their footdrill session. A stunning Silver was awarded for their footdrill and uniform checking. Short case was quite good, coordination and teamwork surpass most of the teams. Long case, hmm... it was funny. There was a casualty lying unconsciously, they found the medication, they put the medication inside the casualty mouth. Ahem, is this competition or real case situation? I doubt myself.
The overall result for my school is as below:
A/A 5 :-
Short Case - Bronze
Long Case - Bronze
Highest Individual - Fong Teik Sum - Bronze
Highest Individual - Cham Swee Wen - Silver

A/C 12 :-
Footdrill and Uniform Checking - Silver
Short Case - Bronze
Long Case - Bronze
Highest Individual - Donivald Tham Kam Loy - Silver

Since there will be only 1 team selected to enter the national-level competition in KL, both Adult and Cadet Teams did not make it. It was not because they are weak or unable to perform well, but mainly due to the more-experience teams who were slightly better than them. Congratulations and well done from the bottom of my heart. So guys, you have tried your best, you have made your alma mater proud, shout it out and loud
~THERE WIL BE NO LOSER IN OURSELVES!~

Dream? - Reality!

2009-03-15T05:52:00.000-07:00

'' Once there was a drought in a country, it lasted for 2 years. The people in the village live peacefully and happily until 2 years ago, when the cruel drought snatched everything from them. The people in it pray and hope for the rain to fall once the rainy season started but they ended up with disappointment. But one day in 2009, dark clouds covered the sky and a large storm broke out. Although it looks normal and nothing unusual to other country, but for the people in the country, it symbolized success for their hopeful prayers. ''

15 March 2009 - The Annual First Aid and Home Nursing Competition for area level started yesterday. St Michael's Institution was sending two teams for the long-awaited competition, the Ambulance Cadet (A/C 12) and Ambulance Adult(A/A 5). High hopes were put on them as the Ambulance Cadet team was not up to standard and did not qualify for state level in the past 2 years. The Ambulance Adult team (Wong Joe Hang, Wong Yoong Xiang, Kisor A/L Thaiala Rao, Fong Teik Sum, Cham Swee Wen) and Ambulance Cadet team (Donivald Tham Kam Loy, Yoong Lip Zhang, Teoh Jia Heng, Lim Boon Kong, Justin Lui Tet Yoon) performed well during the competition.

The prize giving and closing ceremony was officially ended at approximately 1.30pm. The result for the competition is as below:

Ambulance Cadet(A/C 12):
Footdrill and Uniform Checking: Bronze
Short Case: Silver
Highest Individual: Donivald Tham Kam Loy - Silver
Highest Individual: Teoh Jia Heng - Gold

Ambulance Cadet(A/A 5):
Highest Individual: Fong Teik Sum - Bronze
Highest Individual: Wong Yoong Xiang - Silver
Highest Individual: Cham Swee Wen - Gold

CONGRATULATIONS for both teams which qualified to state level competition!

~ FOR THE SERVICE OF MANKIND ~

Happy Birthday Alan!

2009-03-09T01:14:00.000-07:00

~ Birthday Boy, Alan Beh Peng Cheng ~

HaPpY BirThDaY
MAY ALL YOUR WISHES COME TRUE

7 March 2009 - 6 March 2008 is the day where he turns 17 this year. We bought a so call Teddy Bear for Beh. Celebrated at K-Box as usual. Nothing much, 生日快樂!