100 truths

001. Real Name → Chong Pui Mun
002. Nickname(s)→ Munx2, Minnie mouse,Mui,Darmun, darl,Bzz, Ah B, Ah B Chan,michy, Ah Pui , Ah Mun, Pui Pui, pm, laopo and the list goes on...
004. Zodiac sign →Libra
005. Male or female → Female
006. Elementary → S.J.K (C) Yuk Chai
007. Middle School → S.M.K (P) Sri Aman
008. High School → S.M.K (P) Sri Aman
009. College School → Sunway
010. Hair color → Black
011. Long or short → Shoulder length
012. Loud or Quiet → Quiet
013. Sweats or Jeans → Jeans
014. Phone or Camera → Camera.
015. Health or freak → Health
016. Drink or Smoke? → none
017. Do you have a crush on someone? → Temporarily none.
018. Eat or Drink → Drink
019. Piercings → 2
020. Tattoos → none
021. Social or Anti-Social → Intermediate
022. Righty or lefty → Righty

First
023. First piercing → When I was 7.
024. First relationship → he he he
025. First Best friend → my neighbour, bing bing.
026. First award → I don't recall it, probably at 6.
027. First Kiss → another he he he he question
028. First pet → Dog--> Bobby
029. First Big Vacation → I don't remember it. Probably the H.K trip when I was 7-8.
030. First Love at first sight → none.
031. First big birthday → When I was 9, I had my first birthday party at home.
032. First Surgery → none
033. First sport you joined → I think I think it was swimming.

This or That
034. Orange or Apple juice : Orange juice
035. Rock or Rap : Rock
036. Country or Screamo : Country.
037. NSYNC or Backstreet boys : Backstreet boys.
038. Britney spears or Christina Aguilera : Christina Aguilera
039. Night or Day : Night
040. Sun or Moon : Moon
041. TV or Internet : Internet
042. Playstation or xbox : Playstation
043. Kiss or hug : hug
044. Iguana or turtle : none
045. Spider or bee : Bee
046. Fall or spring : spring
047. Limewire or iTunes : iTunes
048. Soccer or baseball : Neither.

Currently
049. watching nba game → not my game
050. Drinking → nope
051. Excitement level → 50%
052. I'm about to → exercise
053. Listening to → 明日晴れるかな
054. Plans for today → Relaxation.
055. Waiting for → term 2 to be over.
056. Energy Level → 100%
057. Thinking of someone → yeap.

Future dreams
058. Want kids? → Maybe not.
059. Want to get married? → I doubt so, let's see.
060. when → When someone can change my mind.
061. How many kids do you want → I've no idea.
062. Any name on the mind → Nope, out of my current plan.
063. What did you want to be when you were little → Police and headmaster
064. Careers in mind → Food chemist
065. Mellow future or wild → wild
066. Something you would never try → Hurt the others.
067. When do you want to die → When the time comes.

Which is the better in the boy/girl you like (in the future)
068. Lips or eyes → Eyes
069. Romantic or Funny? → Funny.
070. Shorter or taller? → Taller. A must.
071. Protective or Caring? → Caring
072. Romantic or Spontaneous → Spontaneous
073. Nice stomach or nice arms → No idea
074. Sensitive or loud→ Anything
075. Hook-up or relationship → Relationship
076. Trouble maker or hesitant → neither
077. Muscular or normal → Average

Have you ever
078. Kissed a stranger → lol. nope.
079. Broken a bone → nope
080. Lost glasses/contacts → nope.
081. Ran away from home → nope
082. Held a gun/knife for self defense → nope
083. Killed somebody →nope
084. Broken someone's heart → I hope not, but I'm not sure.
085. Had your heart broken → yeap
086. Been arrested → nope
087. Cried when someone died → yeap, always.

Do you believe in
089. Yourself → I should.
090. Miracles → Maybe
091. Love at first sight → Not so
092. Heaven → Sometimes, life can be as good as heaven when we are content.
093. Santa Claus → In my dreams.
094. Tooth Fairy→ Nope
095. Kiss on the first date→ Depends.
096. Angels → Yeap.
097. Is there one person you want to be with right now → I think nope.
098. Are you seriously happy with where you are in life → Sort of in the middle, transition state.
099. Do you believe in God → Yeap.
100. Post as 100 truths and tag 10 people

I like the new me.

People always ask me a question when they browse through my recent photo albums on Facebook.

' Why didn't I see you in the pictures?'

To be honest, I've actually taken quite a massive amount of pictures (with myself in it) in Vancouver. My habit is to take photo with and without me at a same place, and then keep both of these versions and upload the scenery photos onto Facebook. I thought, that would very much help to explain what I've been up to.

Also, I decided to leave some of these photos for my blog,the personal space I own. I try to make my blog as interesting as possible, but not using all of the photos that I've uploaded elsewhere and reuse it on my blog.

This post will be full of my pictures to show all of you my 7-month life in Vancouver.

I've never stopped sightseeing since I came here and I always find time for myself to explore this new place from mountains to watch towers right to parks and temples.I love spending half a day just to wander around the park or even go to downtown just to mingle among the agile souls. Also, I enjoy taking photos and sharing my experiences with those who are not by my side at the moment to give them a big picture of this city.



New things are always what I urge to try on , with bungy jump and watching horror movies as exceptions. One great experience I had in Vancouver was skiing.I'm not very skillful at it, but I feel happy after trying it. It's one of those activities that I'm willing to try on several times and still won't get bored of it.



I've also enjoyed my course so far, as it leads me to do things which are beyond textbook knowledge. I participated in several activities that I never thought I could get my hands on them in Vancouver.I did a volunteering service activity last term for one of my courses, AGSC 100 and it was about helping out to control the traffic on the Apple Festival in our uni for a few hours. If 'ant' like me could speak up and direct the traffic, I bet it wasn't a hard task to anyone out there. Seriously, I had a 'great' time training my voice. Another enjoyble thing I did in my Biology course was the field trip I recently went to. I went to a forest near our uni to collect vegetation profile, which was basically recording and counting the types of trees and shrubs in a given area. I'm so ashame to say, I have never been to a forest prior to this, despite I live in a country where tropical forests are abundant and they are full of precious species that foreign ecologists fly all the way just to visit our forests. It's time for me to be more aware of the surrounding, to understand Malaysia , this piece of valuable land before understanding the diversed cultures of the other countries.




I've become much more fairer after spending just a few months here, that I was not used to seeing myself in mirror initially,because never in my life have I become so fair like this. Some say I blew up my cheeks and am going to bring some Canadian fats back home, some say I'm left with skeletons to support myself. Receiving these extreme comments from different people makes me feel that, whatever it is , just stay happy for the thought that people actually remember me even after so many months. I'm always the minnie mouse/chubbymun/ant you all know , nothing is going to change.=P



7 months, 7 months. It was all worthwhile although it started off in a harsh way.I daresay, I'm really proud of myself, for buiding my own circle of life in Canada, from zero right to the steady state now. Although once in a while I feel the exhaustion of having to manage my own life and learn everything by myself.Also,I need a lot of courage stimulation in myself, and this is where I started to encourage and try to believe in my ability when things are failing.Fortunately in the end, the efforts inserted were paid off and I had a good lesson about life.We must make the first kick before moving towards to make a difference.Don't dream big and work less.

I'll be heading back home next month. After getting rid of the uneasy self-stimulated depression,I'm prepared for anything to come because I know that it ain't gonna be the worst thing in life as I learn everytime I fall, then only can I sprint toward my future. I chose to filter all the negative thoughts to not ruin myself under any conditions.

I love the new PM, never give up, not afraid of failures and a tough person who now knows what's more important in her life and tries to do something about it. She believes that she doesn't collapse for nothing, there must be some underlying values she'll gain after a big sweep out in her life.



I like the new me,a lame B who will take lame pictures with tigger plush toy when she feels bored.=P

Why am I here?

I felt extremely stressful and exhausted at the beginning of March, as if I had been through a war.I didn't want to think it as a war since this 7-month journey was beneficial to me.

I'm just feeling grateful for all the good things that happen to me, despite I did qualm and hesitate.Studies have been progressing smoothly. I've also passed my English proficiency test.

Before the arrival of these fortunate things,I did think of a question I've never thought of thoroughly, yet often being asked by people.

Why did I come here?

Yea. Why am I here?

Last time, I believed I left for good.I came with a hope, a hope for a change in myself and my perceptions. I hope, that I can at least keep myself occupied with beneficial activities besides studying. I hope that I'll let go myself and hop on to new experiences.Lastly, I hope I'll find more time for myself to explore the world through my own eyes.And it turned out to be a knowledgeable journey, I've gained a lot during the entire 7 months.I think it's more like a self-discovery, to learn how to live and how much potential I have to acquire skills for survival.It's just like I don't feel lonely when no one is cooking for me or having dinner with me. There will surely be times as such. So, I cook and do something else while eating to kill the boredom.I think, the more easily you feel lonely, the more ignorant you tend to be on those silly little things which can uplift your day. I learnt a lot of skills such as managing my finance, cooking, arranging my flight etcetera,to better myself, that it wouldn't be a problem for me to live independently in future.

Although once in a while I'll think, will life be better if I chose U.K or Australia instead of Canada since most of my friends are there? But I believe everything happens for a reason, so I don't spend time regretting on history. I should believe in my decision.


Life is not very fantastic here, it can be very dull sometimes but I managed to live through it .I cherish every of my sweat and smile here, because challenges are adventures to me. I'm going to nail them one by one. It's not about getting ahead of the others, but what matters more is how much I can get over the obstacles.Of course, there will be times when I get mad at myself, feel like bursting out and start yelling, but I'm good at repressing it and channel these externalities into activities like sleeping and playing piano. Also, I think there isn't anyone that I can reveal my true feelings here, so I keep it to myself.

I'm quite lucky recently.Everything has been going back onto its track, and I really appreciate it. Enough blessing for me, it's my turn to bless for someone else,you know who you are, we run together, ok?

Bah. I need a long long break to have fun. Although I may miss the weather here, but those friendly figures waiting in the homeland are always the best, the snow and wind in me are going to melt because of them.

I'll show you guys more pictures of myself on the next post, stay tuned !

Pleasures derived from Chemistry lecture and lab

So, my Chem professor-Dr.Wasell shared an Irish joke with us before he started the lecture in conjunction with the St.Patrick's Day.


'Shayne had been drinking at his local pub all day and most of the
night.

Mick, the bartender says, "You'll not be drinking anymore tonight,
Shayne".

Shayne replies "OK Mick, I'll be on my way then." Shayne spins around
on his stool and steps off. He falls flat on his face. "Shite" he
says and pulls himself up by the stool and dusts himself off.

He takes a step towards the door and falls flat on his face. He looks
to the doorway and thinks to himself that if he can just get to the
door and get some fresh air he'll be fine. He belly crawls to the door
and shimmies up the doorframe. He sticks his head outside and takes a
deep breath of fresh air, feels much better and takes a step out onto
the sidewalk.

He falls flat on his face.

"I'm fockin' focked," he says. He can see his house just a few doors
down,and crawls to the door and shimmies up the doorframe, opens the
door and shimmies inside. He takes a look up the stairs and says "No
fockin' way".

He crawls up the stairs to his bedroom door and says "I can make it
to the bed." He takes a step into the room and falls flat on his face.

He says "Fock it" and falls into bed.

The next morning, his wife, Mary, comes into the room carrying a cup
of coffee and says, "Get up Shayne. Did you have a bit to drink last
night?".

Shayne says, "I did Mary. I was fockin' p!ssed. But how'd you know?"

"Mick called. You left your wheelchair at the pub again!" '

I think, it was my first time LOL-ed in a Chem class. Seriously, I enjoy Dr.Wasell's classes not only because of his patient teaching, but very often he throws in his own ideas onto his lectures, be it some extra information or just some random jokes which I find it delightful. I still remember when he started introducing himself on the first lecture ,he showed us the slides of his educational background, student's life and even his family. He's a British who has migrated to Canada after getting married with a Canadian. Somehow, he's a British with pure American accent, I can barely sense any Britishness in him. Friendly and cute professor who's in his 50-6o's, doesn't mind eating his slice of pizza while walking, he's just so down-to-earth and makes me feel approachable.I guess, he's the reason why I've been able to do well in my first-year Chemistry.

Also,I finished off my last Chem lab today. It was quite enjoyable as we prepared Azo dyes for clothes and colouring for plastics.

My lab partner then shared with me an interesting food today.

She gave me a small piece of Greentea Kitkat which her friend got it from the Japan airlines.

It gives Kitkat a whole new refreshing taste, the taste is not even near to the regular ones because the milk filling and coating are all in green tea. But I quite like it since I've always liked green tea flavour.




I wonder if it's available on stores here. I'll definitely buy it if I could find it.

Love yourself more.

A friend recently asked me about my current perception on love.

She said, trustworthy and honesty are deteriorating between couples.

I believe so. There's not much trust left nowadays, except for those people you can die for.

I messed up some relationships recently, I think it was my bad for not handling it properly.But I learnt a hard lesson, never carry out ambiguous actions which may cause people to misinterpret it as overly-concern actions. Also, my intuition tells me that some unusual things are going on, so I shall keep a distance on those things.

Many friends encourage me to try on a relationship. I think, at this point of life, I'm happy with my free-to-bump-around sort of lifestyle. I don't need to try it to know how it feels, and somehow the urge of trying is lacking in me.

They say, I'm overly-protecting myself and too fear to accept one. I guess I am, I understand myself too well that, if a relationship fails, it doubles the time for recovery. I would do anything to force myself to speed up the process, and end up being more traumatized.I'll need to sacrifice a lot of things to collect pieces and pieces of me. Painful I know, that's why I'm quitting it. Love is not a game I can afford to play.

They say, I must be confident to myself since I'm up for choices, not down to being chosen by someone else .I tried to lift up a little hopes since then, and everything went worse. Qualities aren't factors that will be taken into consideration in love. I guess, it's not wrong to have low confidence since I rarely have expectations nowadays. I'm a little numb to romantics and sweetness within a couple. To me, those feelings are nice to see, nice to hold, once broken, everything's gone.

I won't become a third party. I can understand the feeling of not being chosen, so I won't make the mistake to hurt someone else. Girls should support girls more, not snatching each other's boyfriend and start bitching about it.

But I'm quite happy that some of my friends have found their loved ones in life. I'm glad to see your smile, hoping that it will turn out to be a successful relationship this time. For those who're hoping for one, just wait with a peaceful mind and you will eventually meet one.

I just want to say, don't prioritize a person in your life. Learn to love yourself more. Don't live your life solely for a person, do open your life to more options for your own good, and the supportive friends behind you. We're always here opening our big arms to welcome you.

I appreciate the friend who sent me that e-mail. Because I feel, this world is full of nasty people. We need to find a way to live through it. To my friend,stay calm and let's just wait and see what will happen to you later.

3月4日-候文君日

我也忘了上一次用中文写网志是多久以前的事了。不过这一次，是为候文君写的。

第一次没在文君身边为她庆祝生日，感觉很奇怪。

第一次觉得3月4日有点空闲，感觉很奇怪。

第一次没跟文君讲话那么久，感觉很奇怪。

第一次跟大家分开6个月，感觉很奇怪。

最近你都习惯在sms中加个爱心，我想那是你默默关心我的方式。

有时候，我会觉得我的生活跟你们息息相关，有种在跟你们拍拖的感觉。因为就算到那么远的地方，
你们的声音好像从来都不缺少，你们送我的那只鸡还代表你们一直在我身边支持着我。来了6个月的新地方，说长不长，说短不短，但好像常会在某个角落找得到你们的影子。不是我见鬼，而是我跟你们之间的回忆很容易被勾起。请放心，我并不寂寞，反而学会自己寻找快乐，因为快乐不会老，会一直等到我发觉它的存在。

好朋友不需要很多，因为我相信，该来的会来，该走的也不会留，所以一直的都很感谢你们8年来的陪伴。踏进第9年，真的觉得自己长大了，开始变得豁达，总觉得人进化的速度加倍地在进行，甚至超越自己的成熟度。还好有你们包容我的傻气，还会感激我的耐心，让我很喜欢这样的自己，因为可以为家人，为了你们，甚至为自己而一直努力。这一路来的8年，我们几乎也没吵架，虽然当中会有一些误会，一些人受委屈，我觉得大家最后还是一二三，一步步走到今天，大家共同见证彼此的成长。这8年里有很多小时候的精华在渗透当中，很多傻傻的小细节在为它增加有趣的味道。没想到8年前吵吵闹闹的我们，8年后还能保持联络，在废话连篇中，这是一种平凡又难能可贵的幸福。

第9年，我会跟大家一同前进。

累积了半年的话，好想亲身一一告诉你们。不过，机会也快到了，我保持期待。

3月4日，只能用这个方式祝你：

候文君，生日快乐！

×3月4日，我想起周杰伦的‘最长的电影’，都是你在redang的效应，下次旅行时一定要换歌！=P×

Aloha study break!

I've totally utilized my reading break. But, instead of getting in touch with books, I went out to gain a bunch of fun and stress-free life.

On the first few days,I went to hunt for souvenirs for my dear friends.Up till now, I'm about 80% done with my souvenirs shopping, only scratching my head on a few more people's gift because I've no idea what to give them.

I spent a day for :

Granville Island


Lions Gate Bridge



English Bay

Harbour Tower


A round of Japanese buffet

For your information,they are geographically close to each other, so a one-day trip will be just nice to fit in all these tourist spots.It was my second visit to all these places except for Harbour tower, I just wanted to get a closer touch on things I've neglected on my previous visit, and I think I did it pretty well as I was caught up with a lot of interesting things on my recent visit.

I love the kids market in Graville Island. There were so many tiny cute stuff I could play with to entertain myself,besides looking for toys for my fellow 'kids' back at home.Well, I'm quite good at self-indulging myself for more fun and happiness.Speaking about that 3 little kids at home, they've grown up faster than my aging rate, Big Kenn starts to seek for my dad's attention and begins to get jealous by yelling when my dad is hugging JH. Small Kenn starts to learn crawling, and he grows more hair, so leng chai now! The self-proclaim big sister JH knows a lot of words nowadays so much that she can sometimes have a short conversation with me on the phone. The conversation usually starts off like this:

JH: Yiyi, how are you?
Me: I'm fine, how are you? Barney leh?
JH: Barney mou zho (no more).
Me: Baby hai bin dou ( where are babies-my nephews).
JH: Baby fan gao (sleeping).
Me: Oh....JH leh?
JH: JH ngam ngam fan seng (Just woke up).
JH: Bye bye yiyi. Baby oi xu xu ( Baby wants to pee).
Me: Okok, bye bye.

Everytime when I talk to her , I've the urge to pinch her chubby cheeks and give her a big fat hug. Yes, she's that adorable and hyperactive. She always reminds me of my sis ( JH's Sam yi), because I think they both share some similar characteristics, I bet that's also the reason why they can mingle together so well. My sis can be a big kid sometimes,but a cute one. Once in a while I would think, I would marry her if I were a guy, because she's just so optimistic, sweet and nice to be with.Something big is going to happen in her life soon, and I'll mentally support her. Nothing breaks the family bond if we hold it strongly, there isn't a way to deny it. Just follow what your heart desires, and what do you the best.

Then I treated myself a good Japanese buffet at night.When I was eating,I suddenly thought of Lian, my partner for Jap food. I remember she used to apply Unagi sauce on every single sushi,soft-crab shell she puts into her mouth.But recently the more health-conscious Lian told me that Unagi sauce is deleterious,and she advised me to reduce my dependence on it. Yes, I'll heed your advice and try to avoid Unagi sauce,ajinamoto and stuff like these on my food.I kinda had the 'post-buffet-syndrome' on the next day with losing appetite and was a little phobic to fried food. I realised I can be influenced by seeing people eating a lot of foods. Maybe I have a worm in their stomach that I can slightly feel their satisfaction. I'm such a weirdo though.

I spent the following day for:

Casino

The Dark Knight on IMAX




I was in luck that day. Why??

Listen here....

I won the jackpot in casino. Prior to leaving the casino, I decided to spend my last 3 dollars on the jackpot machine by playing it a credit by a credit. When there were about 5 credits left, I saw 3 diamonds in a row and suddenly the lights were on. I was totally blur when the lights lit up , (O.S : What the heck was wrong with it?).Then I pressed on the button that lit up and I got a diamond.But but instead winning a big fat one, I got a 'small skinny' amount of 6 dollars, which was enough for me to get a popcorn combo for my movie. Hahaha, stick with me when you want to go into the casino next time, my plain free luck may contribute to your great winning.

To wrap it up, my break was all about fun and walking.I've spent 'a little bit' of time on a badminton match, more time for piano and the most for outings. Yay, that was the time I could spoil myself for sightseeing and relaxation,so obviously no revision for me. Tee hee hee, I'm not that hardworking actually.



Besides that, I did spend a portion of my break time for cards and presents, since lots of birthdays are coming. I sent out a total of 5 cards and a letter in February , so just wait and see who gets it.I'm gonna miss out so many birthdays this year, please reserve a seat for me when you take pictures okay, although I'm still 'diving' now, but I will fill in the gap later. This is especially to mK and buddies.

Alright, time's up for assignments. Enjoy life people !