Christmas 2009

it was a white CHRISTMAS.

caroling, laughing, eating and just having fun on the eve.

it started in khang zhen's place in puchong then uncle larry's place and finally sue-shen's.

and it made me realize that it kinda ended like that last year.

out till past midnight on a weekday.

my voice became hoarse after the 1st house.

we had a youth party on sunday which we also had the christmas service in the morning. was out the whole day. after service, we had lunch and then went to sunway to get presents for exchange and then came home to collect my gift.

i met joyous! she's doing nursing too in segi college.

the event started late as people came late too. the food weren't ready and the place wasn't even organized when we arrived at 5 pm (which was the time stated in the invitation card). still needed help to arrange the tables and chairs, lay out the food..it was all a BIG mess.

however, THANK GOD we managed to get everything in order in a short time. there were a lot of food. cakes, tarts, rice, noodle, fish, spaghetti, bubble drinks which were really SWEET, sparkling wine, pizza...somehow i realized that i enjoy helping out at the back then just watching the whole thing prepared.

on christmas day, we attended the christmas service at life chapel. jasmine and u=i were half awake during the service. enjoyed their choir cum drama presentation. very creative indeed. had christmas lunch at home. then mum, dad and i went to bangsar to get some herbs for the roast pork on saturday. aftr dinner, the 3 of us went to the curve to watch the foam/snow fall at the curve. i think it's the same machines used up in genting. we watched it from high above to avoid getting in contact with the foam. mum and dad went on their own after that. i went to look for more novels at cineleisure.

and i bought a book. it's glenda larke's 'the mirage makers'.

and that's christmas!

surprise!

i bought a new novel

entitled 'the magicians' by lev grossman.

about the book

Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A senior in high school, he’s still secretly preoccupied with a series of fantasy novels he read as a child, set in a magical land called Fillory. Imagine his surprise when he finds himself unexpectedly admitted to a very secret, very exclusive college of magic in upstate New York, where he receives a thorough and rigorous education in the craft of modern sorcery. He also discovers all the other things people learn in college: friendship, love, sex, booze, and boredom. Something is missing, though. Magic doesn’t bring Quentin the happiness and adventure he dreamed it would. After graduation he and his friends make a stunning discovery: Fillory is real. But the land of Quentin’s fantasies turns out to be much darker and more dangerous than he could have imagined. His childhood dream becomes a nightmare with a shocking truth at its heart. At once psychologically piercing and magnificently absorbing, The Magicians boldly moves into uncharted literary territory, imagining magic as practiced by real people, with their capricious desires and volatile emotions. Lev Grossman creates an utterly original world in which good and evil aren’t black and white, love and sex aren’t simple or innocent, and power comes at a terrible price.

people i've met

during my holidays, i've been out and seeing a lot of familiar faces though i know they cant remember me but i know them..

mun tat (senior from school)

joyous (from ns camp)

dino

charles ding ( senior from school)

chee meng

what is so surprising about remembering people's birthday after so long?there's something called a calender.

almost the end

the first week of holidays had been devastating. however towards the end, some enjoyment came up.

from monday to thursday i was contained in my room almost all day, sitting in front of the laptop, downloading series of dramas since the previous hard disk 'died' i've been spending a lot of time 'feeding' it.

friday came and i was out at tropicana city mall to meet jen jen. we bought tickets to watch the 5.45 pm 'new moon'. we had about 2 hours before the movie. so we went window shopping. the movie was still great and awesome for the 2nd time. i waited for mum a little longer to come while jen jen left earlier after the movie. i watched the christmas performance presented by the st. paul church. it made me look forward to christmas this year.

mum sent to taman desa to meet up with ct at pm. surprisingly, low kent and sue were there too. i was hungry but jia yi had no more laksa left. jia yi and ct left for gym at idaman while i went to mamak with low kent and sue. sue drove but couldn't find any parking, so she dropped us both there and went home. i filled my tummy with roti telur. it started raining really heavy. we just sat there and watched 'air force one' on axn. later on jia yi and ct joined us. jian hua, jeff, and kevin came too. all of them were puffing away while i was suffocating. so they planned to do something but wasn't sure. we dropped low kent home and went to jia yi's as he needs a shower before going out again. then kelvin came. so they decided to go to asia cafe since it's on the way back to my place.

saturday was not that bad. i managed to bake a cake and it didnt turn up the way i expected but it looked like a cake. stephanie, jasmine, aunt girlie, and aunt esther came after shopping i think. they came to see grandma who had been at our place since sunday. at night mum, dad and i went shopping. i went shopping for gift to exchange at the christmas party on sunday. and cant wait or christmas to come!!!!!

F.E.A.R.

i’m always afraid of exams. feeling light-headed, cold sweats,  butterflies in the tummy-were all the common signs. i didn’t like them. however i overcome them everytime somehow. i think praying helps alot. mum reminded me every morning to pray before my papers when i was sitting for my spm. and even now in college i’m going through the same thing again but it seems to have evolve. the feeling is not so prominent. but it only happen when i’m sitting the written papers. the practical part is the worst of all.

the thought and feeling of not reading or revising enough always conquered the mind. but i’d made up my mind. ever since i started college, when exam was near i would not spent alot of time studying instead i would be lazing around or watching tv the whole day or be on the internet for hours. the notes are always there but i didn’t touch them. i would go into the exam hall and spill out was i remember during classes other than that are what the others told me before the paper begins. i think it works better like that. the whole last minute studying doesn’t really work on itself. it needs a hard push.

i’ve gotten through the papers, now it’s the worst part again. practical exam is tomorrow. the feeling of my guts coming out before the exam is so real. i can’t even predict what will come out. my mind is blank when it come to procedure. i can’t bear to see what i’m gonna face tomorrow. i’m praying very hard that the easier procedure would come out tomorrow. it might not come true but no harm trying. and the results are coming out next week. the fear of not seeing christmas in peace is vividly painted.

*SIGH*