Happy Blood Donation

Today is a happy day for me, coz I have donated my fourth time in blood donation!! and guess what, I've donated a bigger packet this time (450ml!!) haha.. feel so great after that.. a good deed to be done everyday.. yay!!:)

Used vs. Loved

Wei Chien forwarded me an email, which I thought very meaningful and would like to share it here as a reminder to myself:

While a man was polishing his new car,
his 4 yr old son picked up a stone
and scratched lines on the side of the car.
In anger, the man took the child's hand
and hit it many times not realizing
he was using a wrench.

At the hospital, the child lost all his fingers
due to multiple fractures.

When the child saw his father.....
with painful eyes he asked, 'Dad when will my fingers grow back?'
The man was so hurt and speechless;
he went back to his car and kicked it a lot of times.

Devastated by his own actions......
sitting in front of that car he looked at the scratches;
the child had written 'LOVE YOU DAD'.
The next day that man committed suicide. . .

Anger and Love have no limits;
choose the latter to have a beautiful, lovely
life & remember this:
Things are to be used and people are to be loved.
The problem in today's world is
that people are used while things are loved.

Let's try always to keep this thought in mind:
Things are to be used,
People are to be loved.

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character;
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

I'm glad a friend forwarded this to me as a reminder..
I hope you have a good day no matter what problems you may face
it's the only day you'll have before it's over.

Through the Bus Window

I saw your motorbike passed by,

Not sure it was yours, at first,

Then, I saw your familiar figure,

With the usual and common white-tee and blue jeans;

And your short hair and specs,

With the brightest eyes, blinking,

Towards the morning sunlight.

I was watching you all the while,

After having some time we have not met,

And of course, you did not notice me in the bus,

Coz you are hurrying by.

快乐崇拜

有时候，快乐可以很简单。
有时候，孤单也可以很快乐。
今天，一些朋友出外看电影，我没跟着去，但是和屋友去附近的小吃档吃小吃。我们吃了rojak, satay 和烧豆腐。吃完了，我们逛杂货店， 还回顾了童年时玩乐的游戏机。嗯，还真是一种享受呢！
虽然转出来的‘鸡蛋’没有想要的东西，但是，我们笑闹一番，也是一种简单的快乐。那种毫不花太多钱的快乐。真的可以很简单，也很轻松自在。
现在，一个人在房间，做自己想做的东西，听喜欢的音乐，享受这片刻的孤单，也蛮过瘾的！哈哈。有时把烦恼抛开，轻松一下也不错！：）

Life can sometimes be boring..

So, the new sem started, I went back to my hostel yesterday.. met my mates, chit chatted until midnight n nobody's willing to go to bed!! haha..
Then, woke up early today, went for the first tutorial of this sem, business ethics and actually done nothing much on the first day, but got a shock becoz our assignment is due on week 3!!.. after that, went to mid valley, ate portugese grilled vegetable, tasted good for me, spicy as usual.. :) but we didn spend much time at mid valley. After a few walks, we just head back around 2.30 pm. reached home at 3.30pm, done nothing but online, and finally got the pps chinese input right but alas the line is slow, cant watch my favorite movie... then do nothing much.. except restless n bored... haha
life can be so boring sometimes.. its just like wasting time.. i hope i can have my movies ready or my books.. btw, thx to sufei, I saved my money on twilight series!! haha

Another Disappointment

Again, my results for this semester has gone worse. I'm not expecting much and I did not put high hope to my results but the fact is no matter how hard I've tried, the outcome is always undesirable. I do not want to give up but is this where I will end up to? I've tried harder and harder and my aims are still the same and again I fell. People are improving day by day but I will still go worse. Imagine from all the years I've been studying my results are dropping? What's wrong with me now? It's not that I did not study, I've spent my time doing tutorials, notes, memorizing, past years.. and everything turned out not enough for me. I don't want this to happen and it still happened. Sadly to say, I'm numbed to this kind of results. Maybe being too good at the beginning made me feel harder to maintain in the end. I know I shouldn't give up. I know I should keep holding on.. but do I have the courage to strive on? In fact I can predict what is my next result. I wanted to graduate with first class, having a book prize. That is my final target. But with these undesirable outcome of my finals, I really doubt that I can win in the end. Well, what will be will be. All I can do is to work extra hard for the last two semesters and pray for a miracle. Hope I can achieve what I want to achieve in the end.

嘲笑自己

老毛病又犯了，最后受傷的還是自己。下定決心，不再理會，愛惜自己更重要！！
YAY！ 活在當下！自己選擇快樂的軌道！不要對那些蠻不講理的人計較！ 修自己的內德，多行功了愿， 少說話， 多做事。忍一時風平浪靜， 退一步海闊天空。

Being Alone

Sometimes, I just love to be alone at home.. sounds weird huh? but that's what I like to do.. haha.. coz when you're alone, u can actually do anything you like with nobody disturbing you.. you can sing as loud as u can, play piano as long as you can, online, watch movies, play games or on the radio n sing along while reading.. bla.. that's what I normally do when I'm alone at home.. haha
Simply love this feeling.. with your own space, your own privacy n freedom...and given a choice, I rather stay at home than going out to shop.. ( yea I know I'm prone to being a 'Homegirl')
But... Freedom should be doing something purposeful and legal.. haha :)

My Cravings...

Recently I'm crazy bout music and books... Yiruma, Kevin Kern.. all those relaxing, sentimental music.. especially these two pianists.. they are superb!! And, the happiest is that I've managed to get their piano scores and I've been playing Yiruma's Kiss The Rain, River Flows in You, I, Maybe and When The Love Falls..Feels so excited when you can play all day long, with nobody disturbing you and your fingers can run freely on the black and white keys.. other than that, hitz songs like Taylor Swift, The Saturdays-- Issues, Akon's Be With You, Colbie Caillat's Falling for You, etc etc.. haha these songs will lighten up my day when I turned on the radio. XD

Next, I've been craving for New Moon!! wonder how should I buy it? Bookstore? online? well the prices are bout the same and I really want to read the series, coz the movie's coming this november.. cant wait..

As usual, I'm still reading Reader's Digest and some chinese novels as well.. ooh love them as well!!

A Bit Frustrated...

One week gone.. now its the start of my second week of my sem break... but I'm a bit frustrated coz our thesis data source is stucked... I have sent letters to alumni boards of various universities and sadly to say.. there were only two replies and all of them are unfavorable.

sigh... Malaysia's universities has lack of support and effort for research programs.. the excuses given are they are buzy, confidentiality.. bla.. come on.. if you really wanna help, these are not excuses!! hmph.. feels like we are begging u for the data or something..

Being stucked like this is not good.. I'm trying to think of other sources to find the data but where? I haven't discussed with my group members.. seems like no one knows what is the next step.. sometimes i just hate for being doing nothing..it feels so useless and wasting time..maybe I'm bored at home too.. and I'm dragging along alot of things.. hate that feeling.. anyway, what needs to be done has to be done.. we got to figure out someway somehow.. cheers...

中秋节

中秋节刚过，今年吃了不少月饼， 有自己做的，买的，别人送的.. 呵呵还真爽! 昨天去了佛堂, 听吴讲师讲课, 摄受了一些论语的精华。 也祈求上天让众生平安，离苦得乐！

八月十五也是恩师老人家的成道日，他老因为我们必须顶劫。忽然很想念老师，感谢恩师对徒儿的爱！

莫忘本

这是我第一次用华文写部落格，哈哈，感觉还蛮不习惯。

前些日子，阿叔来探望爸爸，顺便问爸爸意见，说要送他的宝贝独生女到家庭学校读书，原因是华小的功课压力很大，女儿不爱做功课，那学校是教会所办，学生只有18名。

爸妈没说什么，只是要他们再三考虑清楚。他们走后，爸爸说，他们太溺爱自己的女儿了，一点点压力也怕女儿辛苦，只怕那孩子以后娇身惯养，承受不了挫折。另一个原因是，那间家庭学校读的科目是根据美国的教学，孩子不用顾虑华文。

我听了，心里暗自讽刺他们。现在什么年代了，还那么崇洋！中国已经渐渐崛起，连老外都学华语，他们还不把女儿的华文教好，反而要女儿放弃华文？？ 什么思想啊！

这让我想起一位中学时的好朋友。她叫瑞霖，成绩顶呱呱，华文程度更是一级棒。就连写部落格，她都用华文。别人多数用英文写的，她却用丰富的词汇把心情描写地洽到好处。她非常热爱华文，一直以来是我欣赏她的一大优点。

但是，世界上有人爱华文，也有人放弃华文。 10 岁时到新加坡游玩，经过一处是中国商人贩卖景德镇名瓷的摊子。我们在那儿欣赏瓷器时，突然一位妇人走来，好像是要买瓷器。虽然看上去不像什么有钱人，但是她却用英语和中国商人做买卖。拜托，那些中国人哪会英语啊？她就在那里说他们应该学英语。她还无耻地说：“I know Japanese, French, and chinese but I dun wan to 讲！”我的天啊！这妇人也该拿个镜子照照自己，她和我们一样，黄皮肤，黑头发的中国人，但是不讲华文，那嘴脸还很排斥华文的样子。

想到这里，我不禁悲叹，我们身为炎黄子孙，如果保持这样的态度，简直是忘本。中国人5000年仍然保留着丰富的文化，历史和思想，那时我们应该引以为荣的。我们更应该好好地保留这些文化，饮水思源，不能忘了自己的祖先啊！