Wise Words

It's interesting to learn oral interaction skills here in university. I get to know that Malaysian pronounce a lot of simple English words wrongly. Wrong in pronunciation and rhythm. Not being stereotype, Malays speak in English with monotone, Chinese tends to speak with the addition of extra exclamation while Indians speaks like singing a song or added a lot of tongue-rolling. Well, we can't change the way Malaysians speak in English, this is our accent anyway.

Speaking of interaction, tone always doesn't matter for me, even the content. What is more important? The way that people play around the words.
I like to see people playing around with the words they saying. This can show one's intelligence. I admire those people that can rapidly arrange nicely those words they wanted to talk and manage to convince another so easily. I mean, how can your brain process so fast and function so well.

I guess that is one of the reason why I always keep myself updated to the political news in Malaysia. Politicians use mouth to make money, and I always like to listen to what they say, although I know most of it are a lie or a blank promise anyway.

I'm almost 21. Most of the people surrounded are similar to my age. So it's quite funny to know that some people still can't get the importance of "words play". I know sometimes they said it without really meant it but it's still better to modify a little the sentence trying to present. Part of it is to do some actings. What's is in your heart does not mean that it is needed to be exposed out entirely.

So in this case, a "Thank you" is just fine, although another hidden word is in your mind.

And ya, no hatred is in my mind, because I don't hate you, I'm just not excited about your existence.
What a "word play"!

And when people just directly speak something that is hard to listen, close your ears then.

Awww, cute little animal~

Writing this post makes me feel so guilty. I speak without using my brain sometimes. I definitely hurt quite a lot of people in the past. Sowwie~ hope you forgive aH Wai~... I'll try to avoid it this time. HEHE~

Today is the leap day.
29th of February happens 4 years once. Rare indeed.
72 years old man celebrate his 18th birthday today. Hooray for young old man!

I don't like to memorize any special day or date. I'm quite a forgetful person.
Today was just another normal day for me in UPM. But for those who enjoy celebrating special day, hope you guys have an interesting day. Stay reading!

Control

Something I worry about when I'm back in UPM, besides new subjects and lectures, is my adorable coursemates. Speaking of uniqueness, each one of them has their own kind.

Besides through regular interaction and chatting like "pass me the tissue paper" or "the rice of the cafeteria today is a little bit harder to bite", there's one more thing just came to my mind according to my observation - EQ.

All of my coursemates ain't that bad, maybe I'm just biased all this while, or I still don't really understand them well enough, even after 18 weeks of "coursemate-ship".

So I asked Uncle Google about this EQ thingy. This EQ thingy has bothered me for quite a couple of days after the opening of the new semester. What the hell actually is EQ? 

Emotional Intelligence (EI) describes an ability to and manage the emotions of one's self, and of others. So, Emotional Quotient (EQ) is the measurement of EI.

Think again, with the intention to survive in this 4-years-course, without failing to communicate properly with your working partners, managing own EI is the best way. I think this is simply the only way yet hardest survivor skill for me to make it. So, the other way to substitute it is to ignore.

I had a written note stuck in front of my study table during my first semester - "Don't ever think too much, it ruins your life" as a reminder before I step out of my hostel door. Not any philosophy, but sometimes we can't deny the power of one simple sentence like this. We only can understand it when we experienced it.

Well, life's too short to eat a carrot whole~ even care at all ohh~

So here's a song introduced by Glee, originally by Young The Giant - Cough Syrup.

One of my latest favourite song and wanted to introduce to all my friends here.

Music always speaks what words can't. 

That is why I never stop listening to songs.

I guess it's one of the way to control one's EQ, isn't it?

:D
Cheers!

Second day of Second semester ~

As what I expected, semester 2 kicked off with a busy schedule.
First day I had my lecture from 8am to 7pm. With breaks in between. Without mentioning the time wasted to catch buses and travel from one place to another.
Second day was another hectic day for me. Homeworks were given with due date.
This so-called Student Centred Learning (SCL) system in UPM is one of the factor to make students suffer. 2 new topics were asked to "learn by ourselves" first.
Duhhhh, engineering subjects ain't that easy.
Within this week, I will also have to make up my mind whether to rearrange my timetable or to drop any courses. I definitely dropping Japanese Language. I went for the class once, and I find it very interesting! Learning new language is fun, but when I look back my busy schedule, I can only give up taking this subject and make my semester 2 with 18 credit hours so far. It is rather less but I know my own capability. I'm quite a slow-learner. And after much consideration, 18 credit hours is just enough for me.
I really hope I can cope with that.


Go aH Wai!! go aH Wai!! GOGOGO!!!
Keep fighting man, keep fighting!

I hate it when...

I hate it when people start talking about other topic whenever I still wanna continue with the initial topic.
Seriously, stop dodging! Just let me know more about it! I'm curious!Hoho!
Never mind~ I always have the way to turn back to this topic. You just wait~ *evil face*

I hate it when people uses weird example to replace the actual meaning of the words they trying to say.
Seriously, how do you expect me to concentrate to your story you trying to express when you give us those ridiculous example to describe your words.
"The meaning of life is like you are wearing a astronaut jacket, swimming in the Pacific Ocean to search for the habitat of kangaroo."
*Rolling my eyes*
I would clap for your imagination anyway.

I hate it when I'm in the awkward moment where two person just about to start a fight.
Seriously, one of you just calm down and step backward a little. Pride is not that important after all compared to relationship isn't it?
I'll always be the one chilling the situation out~ Eg: Make jokes about myself.
The sad side of a joker. T__T

I hate it when the touching/sad story of a movie comes only at the ending of it.
Seriously, I need the time for my tears to dry up before the lights of the cinema switch back on.
NO! I refuse to use my sleeve to sweep my tears away. It will be too obvious to let people notice I'm sobbing!

I hate it when I realise there are only 3 days away before my second semester of my university life.
Seriously, 5 weeks of holiday? Why so short?!
Some people enjoy their university life so much. Some of my friends even go back to uni after 2 weeks of break. I don't love my university that much.
Have to start packing my stuff already.
Not sure will update my blog as frequent as now or not.
Stay reading! :)

Internet Sensation

Some people enjoy reading novel to spend their free time. I tried. It just doesn't work for me. I eventually felt asleep after few minutes of reading. (The book I tried to read on is my sister's The Twilight Saga )

Lack of reading - that's the consequence for my poor English grammar.
But anyway, here's an equation for myself :
No bombastic vocabulary is used = No pressure for blog readers = Happy reading ! :D
...............
I'm sorry loh, it's just an excuse for me for my poor English.

There are reasons why I can always stay at home for the whole day with my computer and internet.

1. You-Tube
Besides watching to music channel on You-Tube, there are several other awesome entertaining channels too.
I selected some of my favourite subscribed channel of mine to share with you!

Mystery Guitar Man
This Brazilian-American makes crazy creative videos. Superb video editing skill. I bet this guy has very good music background too. He can literally use anything to create amazing music video. Here's one of his video :

Ray William Johnson
Famous You-Tube star. He created this show called "=3". 3 short random viral funny videos will be introduced by him every week. If you never heard of him :

The Ellen Show
Hosted by 56 years old Ellen. A talk show like Oprah Winfrey Show. Very energetic, hilarious and always prank the celebrities on her show. This show doesn't broadcast on any Malaysia TV channel, not even on Astro. So I watch her show on You-Tube :

Wong Fu Production
By 3 Taiwanese-Americans. Another famous You-Tube channel. They direct videos with meaningful stories.
Here's one of them :


Niga Higa 

Japanese-American. He can talk real fast. Funny, and sometimes quite lame. Depends how you look at his video. Here's one of his song with his bunch of Asian friends in America :


They all can earn money from You-Tube under You-Tube partnership where if you notice it, those videos will have a Google ads comes out after a few seconds starting of the video which eventually you will close it by clicking the "x" button on the top right of the rectangle ads. Under this partnership, every views of their video makes money and go directly into their pocket.

Same goes to blogging. There are professional full-time bloggers make money online. By renting advertisement on their blog. But at the first place, you must have the popularity first. So when reader click on the website, views count will become the income for these bloggers.

2. Blog

kennysia.com is actually the first blog I read. Kenny Sia is from Kuching. What I like about his blog is that he takes beautiful pictures from the places he visited. He travelled to quite a lot of places around the world. He writes funny posts. Been awarded the Nuffnang's Asia-Pacific Award - Best Entertaining Blog.
But then he decreases his blog update in recent years as he is currently concentrating on his own fitness company in Kuching.

xiaxue.sg is a more girly style blog. She is very good at photo editing. Every photo of her she posted on her blog are all edited. I normally will skip those posts about those cosmetic products she introduced. What I like about her is that she is hilarious and very straight. Totally fearless and just write whatever she likes to write.
Been awarded Nuffnang's Asia-Pacific Award - Best Influential Blog and Region's Best Blog.
But I actually prefer her internet video series on You-Tube : XiaXue's Guide to Life.
Watch and you'll know :

I'm not sure have you watched this wedding proposal video which gone viral on the internet last year.
This cute Malaysian couple both are blogger too.


"A Thousand Years" by Christina Perri is just so right for this video !

In case you are not familiar with the cartoons on the card the lucky guy's holding, there are actually all from 9gag.com, another superb webby that i can spend my whole day on.
9gag.com is all about funny pictures, cartoons and comics.

This is all the website I surf on the internet. This is where I spend my free time on.

I don't write blog during my free time. I write when I feel like writing, even how busy I am.
If you notice, I'm always trying to make my blog not to look so dull and "self-centred".
Promise no more emo post! NO MORE! Happy Blogging! Happy Reading! :D

Woah.. This is the post with most videos! Enjoy watching !

Slacking at home

I did not make myself an activity list for this semester break.

I always wanted to learn something different and new to fill up my free time.

But not a single effort is given. Until I realise there are only 9 days left before my new sem!

NOOOOOO! Time flies!

So I decided to learn something that is easily to be achieved, and able to make me feel the pride of achievement. Last time I've learnt guitar on the internet. This time -  photo editing skill.

I've chosen one of my cute photos to practice on. I have plenty of cute photos of myself though.

And here's my masterpiece :

Come and guess which 1 is the non-edited one!

1.

2.

3.

4.

I know it's hard to figure out which 1 is me right? 

All are equally handsome! Keep distracting me from guessing which 1 is the original 1...sigh...

I always have the interest in the field of art. Comics, drawing, story making, telling lies, making jokes, etc.

I find that photo editing is really fun. Those pictures are the result after only half an hour of You-Tube tutorial. Cool right? With You-Tube and Google, you can literally learn anything you wanted to learn. Photo editing, baking, guitar, piano, cooking, folding origami, dancing, you named it. Just make full use of the internet. Watashiwa otaku Kah Wai des!

I can't find a free Photoshop download on Google, so I downloaded GIMP instead.

I guess GIMP is not so good compare to the famous Photoshop. But this program is definitely well equipped  with all sorts of tools for photo editing and art work. Most importantly, it's free.

Here is the link if you are interested : Click me.

Remember, just make full use of the internet. 

Don't know how to use it? Just type "how to make me slimmer by using GIMP" on You-Tube or Google. 

Whatever you wanted to know will just appear in a second.

You can basically search for anything you like to solve the millions "how to" in your mind. Like I always do, ask Uncle Google or Auntie You-Tube! Search anything : "how to play Friday by Rebecca Black on guitar", "how to bake cookies in my auntie's house", "how to deal with my emotional problem when I'm having a quarrel with my course mate", etc.

See I told you. Staying at home can be fun also right? I got reason why I always "nua" at home one. 

With internet and a computer, everything is done.

Frankly speaking, I feel that I've wasted damn lot of time at home. I should have hang out with my buddy here in Klang more often. T___T

Laziness kills.

The Merlion Country

What comes to your mind when I mention "Singapore"?
National University of Singapore?

Or Singaporean with those "kia su" attitude?

By claiming on Yee Sang as one of their invention and belongs to them? First it was Bah Kut Teh, then Hainanese rice chicken... now Yee Sang? So what's next?

Come on, we all know that Yee Sang is originated from China! Yeah, it doesn't belong to us Malaysian either... but please don't claim it as one of your traditional/cultural food in your country.
Sigh...

Anyway, speaking of Yee Sang... CNY was awesome.
Hanging out with bunch of true friends is seriously amazing.
Went to Singapore with my family for vacation during CNY.

This is Singapore.

Singapore is a small country about half the size of Pulau Langkawi.

Fun fact about Singapore:
There are 3 types of car plate for the vehicles in Singapore.
The black one : like Malaysia, private car a.k.a. own car.







The yellow one : vehicles by a company for employee.







The red one : only can be used during non-working hours. The price of the car is cheaper and they do it this way to prevent traffic jam.




These are some of the places I went in Singapore:

1. Jurong Bird Park Singapore.

Look what I found! PINK FLAMINGO IN THE POOL~
They make me wanna sing the song "Last Friday Night" by Katy Perry~ xD

2. Marina Bay Sand Singapore

There are 2 casinos in Singapore. One is opened by our Malaysia Lim Goh Tong in Resort World Sentosa, Singapore. The other 1 is opened by "guai lou" i.e. the Marina Bay Sand. In case you can't see clearly the building, it is actually three buildings holding a "sampan" on top.

The night view of Singapore in Marina Bay Sand.

And there's a water show opposite there. Where water vapours are made by the splashing of water as the screen and a projector behind projecting the animation. Very creative. Here's a video :

3. Clark Quay

I don't really know this place. The tour guide brings us here. A place for all the "guai lou" gather. Pub and bar along the street. 

Some of the interesting bars I found : 

 4. Singapore Flyer

 A giant observation wheel to view Singapore. Half an hour for 1 whole circle.

5. Universal Studios Singapore

 The Transformer Ride 3D which just opened in December 2011 in Universal Studios Singapore.

Look how long is the queues!!! More than 1 hour of waiting ! Siao!

But it was awesome. I would say it is more like a 4D ride... Worth waiting !
Really really great graphic and effect ! There will be opening one in Universal Studio in Hollywood soon on May.

 6. Merlion

 I don't really know the story behind it. Our tour guide sucks. So I searched it on the internet about it.

The Merlion (Malay: Singa-Laut) is a mythical creature with the head of a lion and the body of a fish, used as a mascot of Singapore. Its name combines "mer" meaning the sea and "lion". The fish body represents Singapore's origin as a fishing village when it was called Temasek, which means "sea town" in Javanese. The lion head represents Singapore's original name — Singapura — meaning "lion city" or "kota singa".

Credit to Wikipedia.

7. Bugis Street

Shopping.

Around 4 hours + ride back to Klang. Hmm... Overall the trip was okay. Not much expectation though.
Guess what I brought back to Malaysia ?
"Don't mess around with me, cause I'm back in Malaysia with Singaporean attitude now." *ngek ngek*