Friday, March 9, 2012

Good Old Time

This post is all about videos.
Song I listened in the past. 
Song that tells a story. 

1.戴佩妮 - 街角的祝福

2.张惠妹 - 我可以抱你吗

3.戴佩妮 - 你要的愛

4.戴佩妮 - 怎樣

5.孫燕姿 - 開始懂了

They just bring me back to the past. 
The good old memories.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Priority

Time flies! It's almost the end of the third week of my second semester. I didn't even notice today's date until I checked the expiry date on my Gardenia's bread. 

My first semester was sort of a mess. Assignments and projects were all done in a chaotic way and thanks god I still manage to survive through it. Frankly speaking, I'm still kinda blur on those subjects I've taken in my first semester. But my result is surprisingly better than what I've expected. 
I was counting down with my Computer Programming course together last year. 

I had a chat with one of the best buddy of mine recently. And then I started to feel guilty about my complaints in the past since I first stepped in this campus. As a engineering student, I always thought that we are among the busiest student in the university. But this soon-to-be-mathematician + academically excellent student is way more deserve to talk about his busy life. Being a student holding so many president and other top posts of most of the activities in the campus, he deserve a "superman" title for his amazing multitasking ability. 

My sister and I just had a short conversation too on Facebook last week. 
She often gives advices to me. She was curious about my extra-curricular life in the university. First year students are supposedly to get involved more into those activities that involve socialising and management skills. But I didn't. 
Yeah, I've been so inactive that I didn't even join any other university activity besides the compulsory credited extra-curricular course. 

One of the reason for not being so outgoing as compared to Form 6 last time is most probably because of the peer pressure. You can always feel the competition surrounding by your side. Plus, not many of your "colleagues" are involve in this kinda activities. With this "kia su" attitude, and after the consideration of my ability, I gave up so many interesting happenings here in my campus. 
This course freaks me out at first and I definitely missed a lot of events here in UPM. I feel so regret for not joining any activity here in UPM. I should have taken the opportunity to get involve into the program more last time. 

As for now, my second semester is so much more free than my first semester. This is also out of my prediction. 
It is still not too late for me to realise that I've not becoming active enough all this while. I don't wanna regret anymore after then. There're still whole bunch of "first" in my list to let me start crossing out of them. 
As what my sister told me, result is not so important after all if we're in university.
I should have let go and start stepping out of my little box. 

Ahhhhhh, wake up wake up! 
Remind me with a slap when you meet me next time.

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

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!

Friday, February 24, 2012

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!

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

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!


Thursday, February 16, 2012

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! :)

Friday, February 10, 2012

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 !