我的宝贝们啊！

我的宝贝们啊，世界上没有比看见你们的笑容更幸福的事。

我的宝贝们啊， 你们还真是一群很会逗人开心的小家伙。

我的宝贝们啊， 有你们的这5年里让我重拾了很多美好的童年回忆。

我的宝贝们啊，你实现了我当大姐姐的心愿。

我的宝贝们啊，你让我好喜欢这个逐渐扩大的家庭，即使我已不再是家里的小宝贝。

我的宝贝们啊，这个夏天因为你们而充满了朝气与活力。

我的宝贝们啊，我不求别的，只希望你们要健康快乐地长大就好。

我的宝贝们啊，我还真舍不得离开你们回到世界的另一端去。

我的宝贝们啊，长大了可别忘记‘小姨姨’这个人物。

我的宝贝们啊，我们明年再见了，好不好？

Back with a stronger heart

Oh my, I finally have the time and mood to properly blog about my entire summer. I can’t believe how much I’ve done in my life while leaving the blog empty simultaneously, and I really mean it when I say ‘much’! Having visited 3 countries in a month, I’ve definitely had a taste of staying in different city every night and breaking my own record of taking the most number of flights in a month, to an extent which I felt the need to take a break from a break. However, I think I’ve also qualified myself as a helpful travel buddy from all the things I’ve learned in this traveling month. Also, it’s definitely the best time to know more about a person through the experience of  traveling together, and I can’t help but to emphasize the importance of finding good travel buddies for a truly good trip. 

This summer has got to be the most fulfilling and fruitful season in these three years, as I’ve brought myself closer to my dream while witnessing the accomplishment of some other peoples’ dreams. For the first time after a long while, I’m actually breathing in the joy of dreams coming true again, which is such a down-to-earth and fulfilling moment.

Being the last summer of my undergraduate years, I’ve given myself sufficient time to consider about my future to set things clear. Having to talk about myself with family and friends makes me feel like a grown up, but keeping them from everything they should know about me is not the way I love them, because they are such an important piece in my life. They complete me more than anyone else.

It's just the right time for confession this summer, and I'm glad that, I'm back with a stronger heart after everything.

Eyelash extension

So, I tried on eyelash extension for the first time in my life. Those people who’ve known me well should know that I’m not an entirely up-to-date person when it comes to girly things because there are just so many new services and things creeping into our daily lives, far more than I can handle! Therefore, I won’t be aware of the new services/treatments available in town for beautification purpose but I’d rather stick to the few areas that I usually keep an eye on to beautify myself, like fashion and make up which are enough to eat up my time.

Gah, I’ve nobody to blame but myself, I’m just lazy!

My sister gave me this coupon for eyelash extension that she bought earlier and I thought I would just give it a try since it’s free. Why not? Ugly also for a while only mah~~~~~~~~

Surprisingly,eyelash extension is absolutely painless because all I had to do was just closing my eyes throughout the process, just so that the beautician could put the eyelash on my eyelash strand by strand. The result was surely effective as I could now feel the burden on my eyes because of the new members. Also, my eyes look dolly all the time, as if I had put on eyeliner because of those black eyelash strands, so I'd say that the effect is quite obvious.

The only flaw is just the maintenance part, since the fake lashes can’t come in contact with water. That means…… I’ve to change my habit in splashing water on my face while I wash it and use cotton pad and wipe off the foam/milk carefully. Ah, that is so annoying! I just hope that my face won’t be like a strawberry after all, I want my taufu face all the time okay!

But...but...but... I can now go to Seoul looking pretty and spending less time to draw eyeliner. Hahaha, just stay tuned for my new batch of photos if you want to take a deeper look on my eyes, comes with nice sceneries summore,see I’m so humble! *joking joking* I shall blog once more before I leave, adios!

A new accomplishment

So, this is the project I've been talking about since last month- the 2NE1 lonely cover contest. I can’t believe how long it has taken me to an extent where I had to abandon most of the regular activities to accomplish this. I think the product is the best I could come out with after working on it for almost a month. I just scooped out a huge part of myself to make this happen, and when I think about it, I still feel very excited in making impossible things possible, despite of the frustration and stress undergone throughout the project.

Speaking about script writing, musical arrangement and directing, everything just seemed to be so new to me and I dare not put myself together with these things last time. In fact, this is my first audio-taped instrumental performance because I've not tried to compose a medley and recorded it before. Since I've never let that thought slip in me, I knew that the task was going to be challenging the moment I decided to give it a try.But still, I gave it all out and did my best to keep up with the faith. I felt so incredible to witness the entire transformation from a truckload of ideas to the formation of the actual product.

Let alone of the result, I’m glad to have started on this project because it boasts up my confidence and triggers some musical inspirations in me. I can sense the musical growth in me and that is really one of my ultimate goals. Although I’m not sure how far we could go in this competition, the new things that I’ve picked up along the way are great enough to make me a winner. The togetherness and self growth is just so significant and makes me feel proud.

Thank you everyone for making this happen, you've brought up another side of me and I really appreciate the opportunity. This is just a start, and I know that there's much more to be discovered in me in terms of music.

Do have good thoughts, because thoughts will turn into things!

I’ve been having runny nose since last week and it seems to be unstoppable. Seriously, the amounts of tissues I’ve created make me feel guilty! I might as well start using handkerchief if the stubborn mucus doesn’t go away by this week.

Credits to PY.

Otherwise, my life is good as it is, with the increasing workload starting from June. I’ve been trying to keep up with 2 outings per week in May so that I can do my job as a part-time babysitter responsibly while having fun with my friends. Also, I’m caught up with the competition for its music arrangement and script writing, to an extent which the thought of striving for a better performance worries me sometimes. I always try to calm myself down by enjoying the entire experience as much as possible, just to ensure that I’ve learnt something new even though the result may not be what I’ve desired.

Gladly, I’ve been receiving a lot of support from my friends, some people are genuinely impressed with my musical ability, while the others are more focused on the mental and physical support. Seriously, I feel very touched for everything, you guys may not know how much all these mean to me, but they really keep me working harder to better myself.

On a side note, I’ve just met up with an old friend today and he complimented on my changes. He said I’m a tough cookie, but to me, he is always on par with me when it comes to toughness. Instead of keeping my head so high up for the compliment, I’d say that gaining strength is a must to everyone to stay in the competition. Thoughts turn into things, and if you want to stop tragedies from happening to you and influence your life continuously, then leave them out of the game and patch up the hole with yourself and other important people and things.

适时取舍，清扫心灵，告别过去，消除忧虑，大步向前

Trust me, it really works!

Life as a multi-tasker

I’m giving all out to music this summer break and devoting a lot of time in composing my own music pieces besides learning about music editing, not only for the sake of competition but also for my own collection. This is not something that I would love to show off ostentatiously because my skills are definitely not matured enough to be proud of, and I’m still in the progress to make this happen. Summer break is the only time where I have full flexibility to unleash my inspiration and put them into words and melody. Therefore, realizing my ideas instead of allowing them flying in my all day long is what my day is really about nowadays!

I’ve actually had a lot of ideas in mind since last time, so it’s just a matter of time and determination to realize my ideas. Everything can be a source of inspiration to me, a tiny sound or touching story etcetera, and I give myself sufficient time to expand on it everyday. Most importantly, I don’t deny about my creativity and the fire in me for music anymore, I unleash them instead.I really want to know how far I could go when I take music seriously.

My recent source of inspiration is G-Dragon’s music.I'm genuinely impressed by his musical creativity and imagination because there are just so many possibilities in his music, to an extent that it gives you a very good picture about the story he is trying to deliver.

OHH I LOVE GD!!!*becoming a fangirl suddenly, blush blush*

Inspirations and hard work are really my valuable assets when it comes to music.

Not only that, I’m also writing script for the first time to prepare for the competition. This is an absolutely new experience to me and I’ve known nothing better than to extract some ideas from tones and tones of music videos, and allow the scenes I’ve created to play in my mind over and over again. Wow, I’ve finally gotten a taste of the frustration of scarce resources throughout this process. I ain’t no perfectionist but having to consider about combined constraints like equipments, time, and results are really killing me sometimes.

Having said that, please please stay tuned for my first music video still, I think it’ll be out in a few weeks time.

Had baking session with mom last week to make up for the lack of CNY cookies I had eaten for the past 3 years. Baking session can be quite painful when it’s done alone, I’ve tried it before and it was extremely exhausting!! However, it’s a totally different story when it comes to baking with a few people since it can turn out to be a fun memory with more people sharing the work.

OOO I haven’t had homemade peanut cookies in years and my mom’s loving act has really melted my heart. She always has a place for me despite of her busy babysitting life, and I truly appreciate that.

I’ve been working out frequently thesedays, and I’m pretty satisfied with the outcome with 2 KGs being lost in 3 weeks. I just have to work hard to shred off another 2 KGs for my ideal weight. Turning my gear on for diet again, and I think this will be my life-time goal.

Of course, how can I miss out these 2 kids when it comes to summer break. Jo Kenn has grown up so much and looks slightly different from the previous pictures.

Babysitting can be quite frustrating at times with the lack of freedom and time. It does enable the thought of giving up on having babies in future to grow in my mind during frustration. And then I’ll come to a self-dilemma and start hating myself for having such a selfish thought. I often think that people who have perfect picture about marriage and children at my age have yet to see the real picture to destroy their ideal thoughts, because I used to think like them too! It’s only until I started getting in touch with children all day long and this experience brings about drastic changes in my thoughts.

Perhaps, I’m not as matured as these people when it comes to handling family issues. I really hope that this is just a phase and I’ll eventually get used to it someday.

Calm down, calm down!! I can do it!

Working hard as always

Took this on the last day of February, Eu and I were too excited about the snow. I really love this photo because it looks very artistic and poetic, like I was longing for something when I was just pretending. It’s sad to note that my very own photographer is leaving Vancouver soon, and that would mean lesser photo shooting sessions since she’s the best when it comes to capturing different sides of me. She’s just the best!!


Came across with this song a few months back and I really like it, it resembles my past in some ways.

I’m glad that I’ve drawn myself to happiness after 1.5 years of effort. It’s not just about individual effort and I can’t thank enough for those who have walked me through the dark, since it wasn’t something that I could take it easily and wipe off instantly. These hands are so precious because they have taught me that it’s okay to have false belief and tumble down, but never inhibit yourself from a brighter future and better life. Physical self is now recovered despite of the scar, but I’m still happy with the rejuvenated life and finally developed the courage to draw a line between things I should and should not associate with.

每一道傷痕都是紀念自己勇敢的印記。
在愛情裡，依然憧憬，繼續夢想，幸福其實離我們很近。

Close chapter officially. I will continue to work hard. =)

Most motivated summer break.

I’ve never felt this organized before during my break, I feel like I’m following a constant schedule I set for myself just so that I spend my time wisely. Everything is progressing smoothly fortunately. Indeed, I’ve never been learning so many things before during break time like this, so much that I actually feel excited about all the new things coming to me. As a late 21 year old, I would love to maximize my time for beneficial things rather than pure luxury in summer.

It’s all about improvement and achievement this time.

Although I’m shuffling my time among family, friends, and myself, I can never get bored of the time when I’m home because there are just so many activities that are attainable to me even at home. I sweat, study, try out new things, have fun and be inspired by all these things continuously. As much as I'm exhausted with the activities, I'm always rejuvenated by the wonderful time with BFFs weekly as a sweet retreat.

Who says we can only waste time at home? You have yet to know about the awesomeness of home.

For the first time in summer, I’m feeling very healthy about the lifestyle I’m following.

I think, I still love the feeling of being somebody to myself and challenge myself with new things from time to time. Most of us have the learning power to be what we want to be, so it’s just a matter of how you activate the button to make it happen.

‘Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are seeds. You can either grow flowers or weeds.’

I chose a colourful garden, thus I’ve already started all the gardening work. And you?

Plans for May

It’s the time of the year again for our BFF reunion. Seeing them brings me an indescribable sense of comfort and security, that’s simply because they know me much better than myself, I daresay. Being the last Summer break for most of us as a Student, I think this summer is going to be extremely precious to us since it’s the last time we can enjoy all the student privileges.

Cost of graduation= no discounted movie tickets and karaoke

This summer is also my busiest break with so many plans ahead of me, but I’m definitely enjoying it delightfully because I know I would have accomplished much after the break, knowledge and experience wise. This is my plan for May:

1. Diet.
Oh my god, my life has always been in a dilemma! People either say that I’m quite skinny or I’m fat. As much as I’m confused with the contrast, what upsets me the most is hearing the remark of me looking bigger-sized than a guy, when I consider myself a distance away from 'big sized'. Anyway, criticisms are only going to make me better, and I won't wait for another inflow of criticisms to come. So,I will lose some weight healthily until I don’t hear anything negative about my size anymore. Diet go go go!

2. Hangul.
I can read most of the words for now, thus I’m working on the vocabulary and sentence structures by watching online videos. I’ve a competition with Xin on our Hangul proficiency at the end of the break, and I've faith in myself to do well when I’m very determined to pull off something. I decided to self-learn make it more challenging, so please stay tuned my rival!
=P Good luck on your summer Korean class too!

3. Music composition.
It’s just a continuation on what I’ve been doing for a few months now. I’m also learning to play piano without music sheets to train my ears. I believe that mastering this skill will enhance my music composition to make them sound more vibrant and smooth. Wish me luck, peeps!

4. Nihon-go
Although I’m focusing more on Hangul now, it doesn’t mean that I neglect Japanese completely since my goal is to master both languages in 5 years time. So, I’m revising my past textbooks nowadays and planning to take the JLPT before going on to the next level. I once told a friend that I can expand my career opportunities in Asia with the 7 languages I’ll soon master, since I’ve always wished to work in different countries in future as a way to travel to different parts of the world. Of course, I understand that opportunities do not drop by without efforts being made, so I’m equipping myself from time to time to make myself a better rival to the others.

Keeping myself busy is the most efficient way to keep me motivated and make good use of the break time. After learning a bit about emotion management, I realized spending my time with worthy people always brings the best out of me and makes me feel calm. That's what matters to me at this stage of life.

Live life, love life, then only can I bring myself to my dreams.

P/S: Photography by PY, arigatou!

Christmas in Disneyland California

Disneyland California was one of the stops during my California winter trip, it was also the second Disneyland I visited after Disneyland Tokyo. Being the loyal Disney fan, I’m very proud to say that I had been growing up together with the Disney family, and I’m still joining my niece and nephews for Disney cartoons occasionally without getting bored of them. Come to think of it, I’m so glad for the presence of these cute characters in my childhood because they brought me tonnes of joyous childhood moments and left me with very good impression on cartoons in general. At least they are not some no-brainer programmes parents use to stalk time or distract their children so that they can do their own things. That’s how I learned the names of various animals by remembering Mickey MOUSE and Donald DUCK etcetera to build up a good foundation to start kindergarden. Also, some Disney cartoons are quite educational indeed as they consist of many morally right values, apart from some other ones which test children on their mathematical and scientific skills.

Hahaha, Disney please hire me as an ambassador, I can definitely do an excellent promoting job!

Anyway, we went there a day after Christmas, thus the crowd was still huge due to the seasonal holiday. The huge crowd affected our schedule by a whole lot and we ended up playing a few rides only because of the nasty queue.
Even taking pictures with mascot also required a super-long queue ok!! Everything seems to be so precious in Disneyland.
That makes pre-planning important with so many events and shows going on in a day, so we picked a few shows of our interests and had rides in between these shows, in hope to maximize our fun times in this wonderland. It was slightly ruined in the end as some shows had very limited seats to cater everybody, so we had to pick up Plan B – the spontaneous plan by taking rides with fewest people and watching shows that fit our timing.

Everybody please take a look at this ferris wheel carefully, can you notice the difference? This was the nastiest ferris wheel I had ever taken in my life, because the carts weren’t fixed in a specific location, so it would slide from one end to the other end as the ride was in motion. OMG, can you imagine the carts sliding from left to right at the top of the wheel continuously? It was just a nasty idea for an acrophobia person! Fortunately, I had my friends who joked with me at that time, if not I would have just closed my eyes for the entire ride, that’s for sure!

Honestly I wanted the Disney hats so much, was even thinking of getting a few for my nephews but the cost was a bomb, so I did it in an economical way- taking pictures. Sorry kids!

I feel you, bug!! It’s also tough to be a human.

Okay, this workshop caught my eyes as it provides information on the process of Disney animation. You can see a frame of animation which comprises of hundred of slides or so when you rotate the handle or the ball, it’ll show a series of step-by-step motion of the Disney characters. I’m so amazed with the skills these Disney’s graphic designers possess after seeing all these crazy work.

After struggling with the long line-ups for half a day, we gave up queuing for rides in the end and decided to wait for the Christmas parade in the evening. Taking pictures is definitely the best way to leave as much memories as possible to compensate with the lack of thrilling mechanical rides experience.

Finally the Christmas parade was here! I couldn’t really take a lot of pictures as the Disney characters were moving too quickly. Thus I took some time off camera to enjoy the Christmas atmosphere with Christmas carols re-sounding the otherwise busy street.I believe that living in Disneyland is many girls’ dream with fantasies embracing every corner of this wonderland. Seriously, even a street looked so dreamy and fancy, as if you could just build a hut there and live for the rest of your life.

Okay okay *slap self*, I know that this is way too impossible, but that’s how most girls will sink into the fantasies the moment they step into Disneyland.

Our whole Disneyland experience was very unforgettable, and it even ended with an epic moment. I had the most epic fireworks-watching experience in my life!

Why said so? Because it started raining right before the show. We watched it under heavy rain without any shade nor raincoat, the fireworks were shooting to the sky while the raindrops pouring on everyone of us simultaneously. So irony I know, but how could you leave Disneyland without watching the signature Disney fireworks at night?

No way, the rain could not water off our enthusiasm for fireworks! Fortunately the performance did not disappoint us, everything was just incredible except for the rain, and we definitely paid a physical price for the awesomeness, since some of us fell unwell on the next day.

Never mind, how many times in life can you actually watch fireworks in rain right? It would probably be my one and only.

My Disneyland California visit wasn’t an entirely pleasant experience,but I blame the crowd and weather for bringing down my excitement by a bit and caused me to prefer Disneyland Tokyo visit over it. Well, it wasn’t an uncontrollable decision due to our packed schedule and 26th seemed to be the ideal date for our visit. Hopefully I could visit another Disneyland in summer next time and make up for the things I missed out during this trip.

That very well predicts my next Disneyland trip---Disneyworld Florida.

梦想

梦想是很抽象的东西，有些人不努力实现它，只因为害怕面对现实与梦想之间的差距。当梦寐以求的机会真正来临时，自己却开始怀疑起自身的能力而停滞不前。有些人一辈子只为了一个梦想而活，在他们的世界里，没梦想就好像是在过着没意义的人生。也有些人，梦想里夹杂了很多外在因素，梦想对他们来说，是很复杂的东西，也并不是单靠个人意愿就能实践的想法。我跟欣就是属于这一类型的人。对我们来说，梦想，不仅仅是梦想而已。

我并不是输不起的人，也并没有雄心大志。这并不是因为我害怕输的感觉，而是经历过数次失去与输的感觉之后，我开始感觉到它的渺小与变幻无测的结果， 这些都不是我能操纵的范围。输赢并不可怕，可怕的是输掉自己与失败后的一蹶不振，但只要经历过那个阶段，就会重生，也会对世界多了另外一种看法。我的人生的成功不再与‘大志’与‘输赢’挂钩，而是偏向于丰富心灵的收获与简单朴实的幸福感为主。我能够扮演好的角色，就是深思熟虑每一步，再从梦想与身边珍贵的人与事物取个平衡点，以尽量不伤害别人为前提来实践我的梦想。梦想对我来说，并不一定是站在顶端享受着胜利滋味的瞬间；梦想对我来说，只是单纯地为了完成自己喜欢的事情而存在的使命。很多人都觉得拥有远大的包袱才是真正拥有梦想的人，但凡事都必须拥有大小两面才能够得到平衡，大志也只能在小志的扶持与衬托下才能发挥它最大的作用，这是人生的定律，缺一不可。很多事情都是始于一小步，再逐渐迈向一大步才会发生的，如果没有当初的一小步，那之后的一大步也会相对消失。

我只是觉得，很多梦想都是自身对未来的预测，也是能够随时间与耐性所完成的使命。喜欢让梦想保留于梦想的人，应该就是缺少了耐心与最精髓的冒险感，在面对未知的恐惧时，突然感觉到自己的渺小而觉得梦想不是能够被实现的事情。与其对大家说所有梦想都能够被实现这类的谎言，我觉得能够吸取当中的希望与精神再为自己喜欢的事情而努力，这也是一种对梦想所付出的努力。梦想并不一定需要对全世界的人做出无比非凡的影响力，它也可以专属于一个人的人生，承载着他一生奋斗的故事。梦想，很多时候，都不是件很遥远的事情，是大家无意间把它扩大，延伸到它貌似遥不可及的地步。

其实，梦想，一直都在你的身边。

Home

Today’s my third day back home and everything seems to be going pretty fine and that includes the lovely weather which is much better than my expectation. Although I do miss my peeps in Vancouver, it just feels so good to be home after a long 10-month of consistent battle with the books.

Ahh, I feel so glad to meet my niece and nephews again although my nephews failed to recognize me now(Hmmm, I need some time to patch up our ‘relationship’). Fortunately my niece shows her extremely friendly side to me, she holds my hands whenever she goes everyday and asks me a lot of questions.

JH: I sleep with you on Saturday ok?
JH: You play toys with me ok?
JH: We go to find ‘lao shi’ together ok?
JH: I hold your hands and we go back to Vung Tao together ok?
Me: Ok.

The feeling of re-joining the innocent world definitely puts a smile on my face.

Besides that, I've started my K.L life and everything’s familiar yet strange to me. Since I moved into a new house, I can’t recognize the roads and the buildings nearby completely, so now’s the hard time for me to learn everything from the start again. Therefore,I’ve to commute and live on ‘car-less’ days until I’ve mastered the new roads.

Right, that’s all for now! I gotta start my busy ‘socializing’ life again according to Susie.

Sky bar night!

Told you, my night life in K.L can be much more exuberant.

6 of my primary buddies and I headed to Sky Bar for a drink on the 13th May. After living in K.L for so many years without knowing much about this vibrant city, it’s necessary for me to start exploring what’s truly lying around me.

So my K.L explores start from Sky Bar in Traders hotel. Considering that the number of bars I’ve been to is pathetic, I’ve not set up my expectations on how a bar should look like. This bar is slightly different to me because not only the atmosphere is good, the outside view is equally breathtaking. All this while, I’m trying to find a good spot to capture down the Twin tower but I never succeed.Courtesy of this bar,my desire is now fulfilled.


We had our good time there, 120 minutes filled with laughters and camwhores. It was my first time seeing ST blushing and MK had ‘post strawberry haze syndrome’. I myself didn’t feel good after drinking the Strawberry Haze either, only managed to close my eyes in the morning.


It’s not a good drinking place, because there’s a big pool near the walking path, which is approximately an inch from it, I’m afraid drunk people will have trouble walking through it without turning into wet chicken. Otherwise, the pool is a fantastic add-up to the romantic atmosphere.


That night was a good one to me. Perhaps it was because of the right bunch of people around me at the right time to perfect the outing.



What a wonderful night I spent!

P.J is such a small place to be.

Incident 1- JPJ office

2 days ago, I accompanied my sister to the JPJ office at the state to renew her driving license. On the way walking to the office, I met Brandon, my college mate who took a few same subjects as me last year. He curled his hair and it looked very different from his previous hairstyle, the "Rain's" hairstyle that I recall. We greeted each other and kept the whole conversation to a 2 minute long. It wasn't the first time I bump into him as I met him at his workplace last time with my other college mates.

Incident 2- On the way to Federal Highway

Then another day while I was driving and paused for the traffic lights, I looked out the window and surprisingly I saw Valerie's parents waiting on my right. I waved to them like a ShaPoh until they saw me! =) After that, we went on to separate roads when the green light was on, but car-meet-up incident was very out of expectation and slightly lightened my day, Val's parents are one of the friends' parents I'm familiar with, partly because the binded friendship Valerie and I have, and the neighbour relationship we share. There was one year whereby I met Val everyday from Monday-Sunday because we joined the same society on Saturday and self-defense class on Sunday. Those were the days I had with Valerie.

Incident 3- Fotosun Digital Image shop

Today, I went to take passport-size photos at a digital image shop in SS2 but unfortunately I was told to either change into a shirt of a darker colour or to wear the provided L-sized coat, which the length of it is quarter longer than my usual one. I decided to go home and change it because I feel it's a must and since I'll be paying, I'll make sure I look alright to worth my pay for it. On my second return to the shop, I met Melissa, my secondary classmate when I was waiting for the photos to be fully developed. In a small shop, a afternoon, of all places, it took place in a photoshop. Everything happened in that 20 minutes of my stay in the shop, and we met in between that, how coincident was that.

This chain of series happens one after another and I feel strange as these places aren't very highly crowded public locations, moreover I don't visit those places regularly. Some people claim this as fate, but I think it's disarranged plan for me to meet up as many friends as possible before I leave, in between my packed schedule. Friends have been grumbling on my schedule these days, I feel bad as well because those are the unavoidable things needed to be done, such as Visa application, air-tickets arrangement, course registration,training for my work, becoming the driver of my both nephews etc, I feel dried up at the end of the day(head straight down to the bed). Speaking about farewell, I'll leave it to all of you to decide it , whether to do it big or do it small. What I really seek for is the quality of time I spend with the good friends here before I fly off.Gah, going to celebrate birthday alone this year =P, don't laugh at me okay? Hahaha, I think there'll be more self-celebrating birthday to come in the few coming years.I've the most invitations during my busiest time, I feel extremely bad to turn down every single of them, but I promise will settle everything as soon as possible so that I share equally good time with every one of you. That's very important to me.

End of the day, I can't help but to agree with the saying , P.J is such a small place to be. With the limited people I know, I still managed to meet few out of the few.

Petronas Television Advertisements

Petronas New Year advertisement is always one of the highlights during my Chinese New Year celebration.Each year they'll come out with a CNY advertisement with different storyline, but somewhat all of them are connected because family love is revolved in all of them.For those who haven't watched their advertisements ,you might doubt on my favour on them.

But let me tell you the reason why....

I salute the professional crew who always squeezes every bit of their creativity to produce an impulsive piece of work.I find it uneasy to have always come out with good ideas wandering on the same theme for so long, whereas they manage to keep their quality work all the time.

I used to be a TV-lover but as time goes by, I hardly keep the same amount on time spent on television with the "a-little-heavy" work load burden on me most of the time.(I bet my mother will scream at me if I daresay what I have done was extremely heavy work load lol). These meaningful advertisements are definitely attractive factors to keep me beside of television occasionally, especially during CNY and National Day, where television is closely associated to my daily life at that time.

Merdeka 2004-Return Home


Merdeka 1998-Local Hero


Advertisement is an important chain for entrepreneurs to win the publics' hearts,the only survival factor for this is to be "original and creative" for every publicity they make.Sadly to say, there are not much inspirational clips shown on TV,in fact, I find most of them being crappy and hardsell. You don't need someone to dance while mopping the floor to show that the cleaning products are effective right? Or smelling the detergent and smile to prove its great scent?
I mean, not many of us will do so when washing or mopping.

TV commercials by Petronas are meaningful.This is why I enjoy watching it a whole lot. Many of them are inspirational in which I feel these are the moral values that should be instilled in us. Such an advertisement makes us think back twice the significance of it and reminds us that it must not be something that loses touch in our lives.

The storyline is very down-to-earth and it's happening everywhere around us. Children neglecting their parents,close bond between grandparents and their grandchild etcetera. This might not be issues which pounder on us but surely we've witnessed it elsewhere,perhaps listening stories from the people around us would be sufficient for us to realise the truth that occurs.

CNY 2001-Chopsticks


CNY 2005-Letchumi & Rokiah


CNY 2006-Our Sons



To show their "Muhibah-ness", they often have TV commercials relating multi-racial friendship the love and care they share for each other. Well, it's always much more pure and beautiful to watch it on television,compared to the complicated and conflicting world outside. Seriously, I admire the multiracial friendship they bond on TV, because it's purely trust and love, no discriminating, just friendship.

CNY 1999-2000


Merdeka 2003-Three Friends


A big applause to Petronas for the effort on all these adverds.

Speaking about advertisement, there's also one piece of work which I can hardly forget, I bet most of you left deep impression on it as well.



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That's why I feel,originality and creativity matter a lot in the advertising field to spice up a piece of work.A good advertisement is enough for us to remember for the rest of the 10 years, surprising but somewhat true,isn't it?