A letter from a Keh Leh Feh

I don't normally blog when it's around Week 11 ~ Week 12 of my semester. Because I will be so damn busy until I feel that going toilet for a pee is a waste of time. But this is definitely an exception. Coz I'm SO gonna write about what had happened last week.

So the other day I received a FB inbox message from a guy I don't usually talk to. It's kinda a "Hi-Bye" friend in my faculty. I was kinda doubting what he wanted me to do. To vote for you in a FB contest you currently joining? Not again? But apparently it is not something I'm expecting. He asked me whether if I am interested to join a musical organised by a bunch of UPM students under the course "Play Production".
And the musical is Les Miserables.

LES MISERABLES.

And then I was like, ARE YOU EVEN F-ING SERIOUS?
FOR REAL?

The movie Les Miserables is the first musical movie I've watched and I LOVE EVERY PART OF IT. It's so perfectly done. The storyline was perfect, the casts were perfect, and the movie is a BOMB.
I literally cried like 5 times throughout the whole movie. (Of course lah, before the cinema's light on back, I still manage to wipe my tears, in case,... you know, it's quite embarrassing for a guy having a sobby eyes looking at your friends)

So the moment I got the offer from this guy, I was like, WHY NOT? LET'S DO IT!  老子没在怕。
Although it's just a very small role, but I have the instinct telling me not to miss this opportunity or I'll regret for life.
I did know that my tests were gonna held on the same week with the performance days. And I know this semester, my academic performance is everything to me. But I still take up the offer, for the sake of my... interest.

I did feel regret afterward. (like a few hours after I say YES)
Rehearsals are time-consuming. And I can barely squeeze out some of my time to read up some notes, which eventually didn't manage to keep them in my brain though.
What's worse is that when some of my tests were postponed to the week of the performance days, which turned out I have 4 tests and 1 presentation consecutively on the SAME DAMN WEEK.

This is definitely depressing.

No choice. It's something I've chosen to be. So the thing I can do was only to stay up late everyday to finish up the stack of notes.
I cannot afford to go in the examination hall with my brain empty.

It was quite a "roller coaster" week for me.
So many mixed feelings.
The seconds before my performing scene was so ganjiong, the moment after the whole show was so satisfying, and the time when I rush back to college to prepare for my exam was so pathetic. wtf

But everything paid it off lah.
I met a bunch of talented people in the musical theatre team. 

This is kinda the first time I joined something that is not organised by our faculty. And I realise there is a really big difference between the students in our faculty and the "main-camp" people. (we normally categorise people who are not from our faculty as the Main Campus' students)
Everyone there is so nice to me! I know lah I am a keh-leh-feh and a last-minute-join-in, but every single one of them didn't want me to feel that way. It's really cool lah.
They've been training for months and I was there for days only. Too bad I didn't get to know them so well. But if I do, I think they are definitely peoples that worth-to-be-friends-with.
And then I learnt a lot from production team also lah. How musical theatre is being carried out, how the lecturer train their casts, how to sing correctly and stuff like that. Lecturer even ask the casts to lie down on the stage and "make love" to the stage. This is something so abstract that AN ENGINEER WILL NOT GO THROUGH.

Curtain calls.
Today is the day that my result has been keyed in into my SMP.
I've prepared for the worst for my tests' result.
I know how much I did.
But guess what?
IT IS SURPRISINGLY SATISFYING!
AHHHHHH! THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST MOMENT EVER IN MY LIFE !
I JUST SHOT 2 BIRDS WITH A STONE. *punch fist to the air up high*

To be a part of the musical theatre is so much fun. 

TBH lah, I learnt a lot leh.
Learn a lot as in to be able to let go to do something that I want to do, to be able to bare the consequences of taking risk, etc etc lah.

P/S: HAHA.
I was smiling the whole time when I'm typing this post, this post is way too lengthy for a keh-leh-feh cast to write. But who cares? 老子没在怕

I know I'm an engineering student when...

There are altogether four guys in my room.
So here is how the story goes.
We were given a mini project for our electronic design, and we are asked to come out with a proposal before the due date on next week.
It's really mind cracking to come out with a title that can fulfill the mini project requirement, and also by considering the components that is available, along with the program we could execute.
This thing carries certain amount weight-age of marks that we couldn't afford to lose.
Lecturer ask us to have an invention that is beneficial to human/the environment. If it is something that is already exist in real life, then he wants something that is more advanced and improvised.
And four of us almost gone mad after several round of brainstorming. I believe most of my elder brain cells just died in one night.
Until I almost forget I'm in all-boy-residential-college, when my friends reminded me back to this cruel reality,
Friend A : ahhhh!! What else? anything else that the world lack of?
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Friend B : kind-hearted people.
Friend C : people like me.
Friend D : girls. We lack of girls.
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Ok stop. I think I need to go out to breath in some fresh air. I almost choked when I woke up to the reality.
I'm in engineering faculty and people here are thirsty, and I know it.
...
Two more years.
Two more years....

Draw my story.

So yeah if you know me I am quite a person that have big interest in art. And by art I mean drawing kinda art. Ever since I was in primary school, I draw comic for my friends to read. I think I did mention about it long long time before in this blog. No big secret tho. I really enjoy drawing very much.

When I was small I was quite an introvert. Eating alone in the canteen is not a big deal at all. I do have friends at that time. But I was not that kinda person that will tell my everything to friends. Even when I was an innocent kido. And ya, my academic performance was never my advantage at that time. Quite a loser right? For your info, I was in the third class in my whole school, well, if counted from behind. (it's not a thing to be ashamed of tho, just to clarify) 小时了了，大未必佳。But I guess in my case would be 小时不了了，大未必差。*wink and shrug shoulders*

okay back to my story, so the only way of expressing my emotion, is to draw. Draw things that I like. Pokemon, Digimon, anime, Ragnarok, my own self-created-and-imagined love story. LOL. It was fun and funny at the same time, TBH. And showing my masterpiece artwork is the only way to make me feel proud and happy, and the compliment I get is priceless.

So when about the time when I stepped into secondary school, and people started asking what you gonna be in the future, and that was the time I started doubting. I was just milimeters away to choose Graphic Design as my course for my tertiary education. People say doing something you like means everything to you, especially when it comes to working. My interest is art, art is my interest. So why not?

But after further thinking, I thought, why yes? reality means everything to the people in this world. It's not that choosing Graphic Design has no future, but in a conservative way, well, to be really conservative and a bit biased-minded, it's just not something that I THINK I can manage to make it "big". Competition is strong and I'm not sure I'm capable of those.

So I gave up my so-called "dream". I chose the other route instead.
Regret? Yes. But I've already paralysed. Ain't no time to regret for something I can't change. I've regretted enough in my 21 years of life. (always throwing big philosophy, chehh!)
But in a bright side, I still can do something that I like.

If there is time for me, I will still be doing something that I enjoy doing.
For instance, playing guitar, listening song, singing, watching reality shows. Keeping up with the Karsashians! FTW! Yay! (=.='' why so "unhealthy" one?)
And ya, if time permits, I really wanna post something that I draw in my blog instead of just typing/crapping things about my life.
I look up to a lot of Taiwanese(especially) comic blogger who are really talented and creative. Like Wan Wan ~ CUTE !
So now, introducing :

This is aH Wai !

But I think it would turn up as a 三分钟热度 for me. I'm too impatient to continue something that if I think it is troublesome.
=.=''
wait, what?
Nothing to do here. #kthanksBYE

Your pineapple tart taste better than mine

So it's CNY. It's the day I've been waiting for a long long time.

And guess what, I couldn't believe my fourth semester is starting next week. Omg. 5 weeks just past so freaking fast. I can't even recall what I did for the entire 5 weeks of long break. I think I did leant how to play some new songs on guitar, finished reading 2 books of The Hunger Games trilogy, erm what else? Almost finish watching thousands of video clips from The Ellen Show YouTube channel? Argh.
Ya I know right.
Apparently my every semester break was a joke to my life. I literally just wasted so many hours doing nonsense. (Including spending time blogging? Ops.).

Nah, never mind. Because every time when I feel regret, I will find something else more meaningful to do afterward. (Which is to go back to university and start a happening, meaningful new life all over again). Argh. Why am I keep reminding myself that I have to go back to college soon. I know I have the "less right" to complain about it, compare to those whose university is located thousands kilometers away from their home sweet home, but I still hate going back to university la. This place is definitely not a place for me to make friends or enjoy life.

I live my life to the fullest only to spend time with family, on vacation, or shopping in a hypermarket. I'm quite a family guy right. LOL. And what is worse is that my whole CNY week is the week I have to mentally prepared for the new semester.

People says, motivation doesn't lasts. Neither does bathing. That's why we have to have it everyday. So be mentally prepared for new semester is pretty crucial to me, especially after knowing my damn teruk result.

Ok, it's new year. Which means I have the chance again to make another new year's resolution? Haha.  Ya, not to say I'm being greedy, I really hope I can perform better in the next academic semester. Fighting!

Oh ya, I will mostly abandon my blog for a while. Maybe it would be a long while. I really want my focus on academic only. I know it's gonna be a tough semester for me, A tough one.
NERDY MODE, ON.

Love you guys. ^^

Day Trip to Bukit Tinggi and Bentong

Last year around August, me and my family went to Bukit Tinggi. By Bukit Tinggi, I mean the Bukit Tinggi located on mountain in the state of Pahang.

With the intention to make this post a little bit more "useful",  I am now trying hard to flash back how my daddy drove us there. We actually over drove to the wrong side of the highway, and then my mummy, as usual, was so ganjiong until my daddy have to stop by the petrol station by the highway to ask for the direction to U-turn back. Told ya, my whole family has the fear of getting lost. And I bet no sense of direction is genetic. Well, at last we successfully made it to Bukit Tinggi though with the help of my sister's iPhone's navigation.

I do not know the name of the highway, but as far as I know, to get there, just follow the signboard along the way to Genting Highland, and when there's a suspicious wild "Bukit Tinggi" appears on the signboard along the way, just turn left and you will reach there eventually.
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Nah, get yourself a GPS !

Once we reach there, there were two beautifully painted guard houses, which I named them "the overpriced toll station", welcoming us. And the entrance fee was RM12 for each adult and RM8 for each child in the car. Note, IT WAS RM12, I'm not sure about the price of the tix now, since they are insanely increasing it every year. They can priced a can of 100 Plus RM8, how can't they increase the price every year, with the massive amount of foreign and local tourists visiting every year.

So once you've paid for the tix, there will be a small car distance of road leading to either the direction of the Japanese Village, Animal Park or Colmar Tropicale. The Japanese Village was just built not long ago, after the French-themed resort and the bunny park.

We actually been to the French village before, so we went to the Japanese Village first. There is actually nothing much for me to relate the place as a Japanese Village. Except the two small Japanese-style houses and the one or two Bonsai plant in the botanic garden.

 

A signboard in Japanese Village

 

Me and my very short ELDER sister

Most of the plant in the, so called Japanese Botanic Garden, are those can be found in tropical rainforest.

 

Those trees in Japanese Village

And there is this house, which rent Kimono for tourists. If I haven't forget, RM30 for a Kimono rental for 2 hours and you can photograph with it in the house and in the garden. But my sister thought it was too expensive, and so she didn't want it. Well, I can see that she wants herself in the real Kimono and photographed in the real Japan. Biiiaaatch, lao niang want a real Japan. LOL. Then we headed to the French village after that.

Don't need to afraid of no parking. There is a wide area of newly-built car park. With the amount of money they earned each year, they can't afford to have a small parking area. I must admit that this place is like the small Disney castle. The only Disney castle in Malaysia? But of course there is still a big gap of difference between the real Disney castle with this one though.

 

The French village

There are actually nothing much inside. Except the huge amount of people busy passing by and posing in front of their camera. Also, this place is not that big. About 20 minutes of slow walk, we can manage to reach to the end edge of this place from the entrance of the castle. Along the way are restaurants, restaurants, and restaurants, and a small fountain, a typical-castle-like-fountain as if it is mandatory to be built in order for this place to look like a castle. There are actually nothing much inside. Oh wait, didn't I mention it before already? Because it is.

 

Tourists everywhere, mostly are local tourists.

Then we went to the animal park. Children all around and the smell of rabbit, chicken, horses. Oh, FYI, we have to pay another RM5 entrance fee for this one. It is not included in the RM12 entrance fee that we've paid before. See how they earn money? BUSINESS. If you are an animal lover, especially a bunny lover, then you must definitely check it out. We can enter inside and hold every bunny that hopping around. Well, not every bunny is hopping though. Some of them looked very tired being carried and bullied by the children around.

 

I mean, ya, like this.

 

 Rabbits

Still remember I said that the 100Plus there costs RM8? You can definitely imagine the price of the meals there. So it is not advisable to dine there. So we headed to Bentong for lunch ! Food ! So excited !
Along the way back to KL, there is a way to Bentong. Bentong 新村.

 

Packed with cars and people

 

FYI, this place produced the well-known Bentong ginger. You can see how excited my mum too. She bought like kilosssss of ginger back as souvenirs for grandma and aunties. We ate our lunch at a chinese restaurant, which coincidentally has the same name as my daddy's name. LEONG CHEE HONG RESTAURANT. LOL.

 

CHEE HOONG restaurant

 

Highly recommend their 瓦煲淡水虾冬粉 (claypot freshwater prawn with glass noodle), which is SUPERBLY DELIAAAACIOUSSSS! I am drooling right now ! @.@

Delicious !

 LOOK AT THE SIZE. COMPARE IT WITH MY FORK AND SPOON !

After that we headed back to Klang Bukit Tinggi.

Oh there she is, so happily holding the 100Plus I bought for her when I lost in a bet. ISH!!!! Wait for the revenge sista!!

You-Tube Music Sensation

I know right ! Blogging can be very additive. Although I'm not getting feedback from anyone, but I feel very satisfied lah, in a indirectly way? Ya, my social life sucks, so I 'self-social' by blogging. (sound so pathetic right) *forever alone*

So, most of the time I'm on internet is either Facebook or You-Tube. And last time I did a post about how I spend my time on You-Tube, and posted bunch of interesting channels that I subscribed to.
This time I'm trying to do the same thing, by sharing some of the You-Tube cover singers that I like. 

1.Music producer KurtHugoSchneider
No doubt. I really love how the producer make the singers always sounded so cool in his videos. Great effort in editing his video, very talented music background, always manage to make the cover song better than the original singer. Super thumbs up for his production team.


2.Sam Tsui
I actually felt in love with English pop song for the first time because he covered all the songs so incredibly good. I'm sure everyone heard of him. I am very surprised that until now why he is still not signed to any singing company.


3.Christina Grimmie
Very pure, raw, and I just love her voice. No fancy production or editing, just pure acoustic cover with her piano. Really love her very much. Listen to this cover ! Even Jason Mraz posted her video on his FB.


4.Boyce Avenue
A band that covers pop songs. Not every songs they covered are great, because sometimes they tried to change the pop song into a very weird band-genre-type of song which doesn't quite fit into the original song. This is one of the best song they covered.


Other You-Tuber like Tiffany Alvord and Megan Nicole are, sorry, not really my cup of tea. But they are really good as well. The songs they cover are more to the girl-ish type, I guess.

And then I found this Jason Chen who is also a very well-known Taiwanese-American You-Tuber, who sometimes covers chinese song on his channel. His original songs are just amazing. (provided if you can accept auto-tuned songs)


Oh ya, and then I somehow discovered pure-instrumental music You-Tube artists like Lindsey Stirling and The Piano Guys. They are really good lah. Great production, incredible talent.

1.Lindsey Stirling who plays violin and dances modern-dance in her video.
Violen instrumental music with dubstep! Imagine that!
Watch her video, 44 million views !


2.The Piano Guys
If you really enjoy listening to pure insturmental music, try watching their videos on You-Tube. They have the best production team to shoot their video.
Pretty impressive !


Dot.
Actually there are more amazing You-Tube singer out there. But those who came to my mind are only these people.

I've always wanted to blog about all these people long time ago. But lazy. And this long holiday can let me to do anything I wanted to do. Including blogging.

P/S: My poor language makes the expression of the words become not so good. Sometimes it's dull and blunt. I apologize for that.
But I take blogging as my interest.
In some way, I feel like to share something that's in my life is something very enjoyable. And blogging also a way to record down how much I've grown when I look back to these posts in the future.

My personal blog indeed.

A short semester break.

I am actually having a culture-shock right at this moment. By culture-shock, I mean, I'm not very used to the way I'm spending my time right now. I was just so hardworking last week and now I am, literally, doing nothing at home EVERY FREAKING DAY. I think I've made a used-to-be-very-promising-and-meaningful-holiday-plan. (wtf so long haha) But I still don't see this plan is working out.
Well, I guess I should list it out in my blog first, so that I can always remind myself again what to do to fill up my time.

A very rational holiday plan will do.
I have 5 weeks of semester break, and I just wasted a week, which leave me with only 4 weeks of holidays left.
Let's see, what comes to my mind I will just write it here. 

1. Finish reading The Hunger Games Trilogy.
To be frank, I actually hate to read books, like every kinds of book, textbook, exercise book, or novel, as long as it's a book. The last book I read was Twilight. wtf. Well, my interest towards a thing will be always a flash in the pan. So I actually bought these books because I think the movie is good. And since I bought it, no matter how, I have to force myself to read. HAHA, yalah, weird Ah Wai indeed. Eh, I have this uncle attitude also lah, don't waste lah, this 3 books cost me about a hundred bucks you know, must read them all only worth my money mah. lolol. Reading is not a bad activity tho.

 

I am reading...

 

2. Be a good boy.
I am a mama's boy, even until now. Well, I am proud to be, even I am already 21. I am so happy and blessed that I am the one be loved. So when next time people starting to be mean to me saying I am a mama's boy in a mean way, I will gonna admit it with a very "of course" attitude. This way doesn't work on me, bitch. lolol. Okay, wait. So what is this gonna do with my holiday plan? To be a good boy clean the house for CNY ! I am excited for CNY like everybody. But don't like to do spring cleaning. Normally I will just do whatever that is easy. This time also. HAHA. Oklah, at least I'm behaving as a good son. Not a jia liao bee. lolol.

3.Start preparing for my next semester?
I know everyone is gonna punch me REAL HARD right to my handsome face when saw this.
But wait. Part of it is because of my kiasu attitude. No doubt. But the main reason is because my CGPA is keep dropping every semester, and I really don't want this to continue.

Here's the thing, I am not really sure about it, but as far as I see, to score in public university can be really easy if we really put a little more effort into it. I always blame myself every end of semester for not doing my best. And I am tired of regretting anymore. Besides, I am just starting to know what direction I should go. So I definitely should put more effort academically.

I guess that's all. Well, at least all are achievable. And confirm better than slacking at home.
I'll start my meaningful holiday tomorrow !
Let's do it !!

*setting my alarm clock to 11.59am*

*yaoming face*
*I will still wake up at 2pm in the afternoon anyway*

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