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Monday, 07 December 2009
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Another Reason to Love my Home State
I love Penang because....
Where else can you find a state with the sea splitting it into 2 parts, the island and the mainland, and with both sides connected by the 23rd longest bridge in the world?
Where else would you get people who upon being introduced to a fellow from the same state would then ask "Mainland or island?"
And regardless if one is an islander or a mainlander, all can laugh and poke fun at the island-centric islanders who are strong believers in the statement that "there's nothing on mainland penang!", and likewise poke fun at the mainlanders who try to convince the islanders otherwise. Where everybody can find at least 5 island friends who can count the number of times they've been around mainland penang on just one hand, not counting passing through in order to travel to other states via the highway.
Island or mainland, we're still Penangites to the core. I'm Lovin' Penang!
Friday, 04 December 2009
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Indecisive - Empty Decorations
I wake in the dawn to showers of light
Moments of emptiness surround
Floating away, No other hope
Reality brings me...
...To the ground
What can I do? What can I say?
I need a place to hide away
Just for a while, just for a smile
Just for a life I used to know
For every song was filled with
Words of love and not with anger
What if they go?
What if they leave me far behind?
chorus:
'Cause I don't wanna be alone... (uh oh)
Living life for all my own (uh oh)
I don't want to live my life in isolation
Filled with empty decorations
'Cause I want to be with people that I know
Who would do the things I do (uh oh)
Making all my dreams come true (uh oh)
I don't recognize the shadows at my door
Though I've seen them all before
Because the only thing I really want...
Is to be with you...
I look at the sky, it looks back at me
I can't hear the silent melodies
I know that i'm here yet i am lost
Blown in confusion by the breeze
Hiding my face, crying alone
I need to find my way back home
Back to the place, the wonderful days
Living the life i used to know
Where every smile
Was born out of a love and of sincerity
And every tear of everflowing joy
This song entry is dedicated to life, and everybody who are and who have been in mine, including you
! I want my old life back, being happy and being me and being with you. Here's to life! I'm making it a point to have worthwhile one. I'm bouncing back! 
Happy Friday

Thursday, 26 November 2009
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Girl Guides
Years ago, when i was in secondary school, we were required to join a uniform body and so i was in the Girl Guides. Back then the decision was pretty easy for me. My father was a King Scout, brother was a Boy Scout, my sister was a Girl Guide, so naturally i took the path of least resistance too.
When i first joined the Guides, i remember being too lazy and also too scared of my mom to ask for a new uniform since my sister who was/is alot taller than i am left me a uniform that didnt fit well at all. Definitely the navy uniform was a lot cuter than the next one.
Within my first year as a Guide, a new ruling was announced and we had to change from cute navy blue blouse with navy blue skirt and yellow scarf to a bright green blouse covered all over in 20 sen coin sized splotches of what was actually the logo of the Girl Guides' Association paired it with a dark blue short skirt and yellow scarf
. The only consolation was that it was also the same uniform (swap yellow scarf for blue) as the Rangers a.k.a. big girl guides, so we wouldnt need to spend money buying new ones when we "moved up" into Rangers.
Since my sister couldn't hand me down her uniform yet as she needed it still as a Ranger, with a lot of grumbling abt expenses, mom got me my own blouse and i re-cycled my skirt from my years as a prefect in primary school. One of the advantages of not growing vertical much since age 12 is that i could wear the skirt from form 1 (height: 153cm) till i finished form 5 (height: 156cm). Not bad huh
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Life in the Guides was fun. Campfires, gatherings, camps, cookouts, drilling contests, tying/lashing wood to create furniture/fences/towers, tenderfoot exams, it was fun because we learnt many skills which would come in handy in later years. In form 3, i was part of the EXCO team (formally known by the super glamour name Court of Honor) as Quartermistress. One of my duties which i enjoyed the most was being in charge of the Fire-lighting Test portion of the Tenderfoot exams. To this day, i still cannot light charcoal fires as well as wood fires
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It's been years since i thought back about my short time in the Guides. As the years go by, most of the skills are getting rusty but they have come in handy time and time again, from basic first aid, to lighting fires for bbq, even right down to knots i used to tie my stacks of lecture notes together at the end of each semester
! If i had a choice, i'd repeat it all again
. I'd be like those others who worked harder at learning what could be learnt and i'd sign up for more activities and try harder instead of trying to find ways to avoid work. Ah if only i had foresight back then to realize the skills would be useful, instead of hindsight now. Makes me wonder how those super hardworking schoolmates of mine are now, wherever they all are
.
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
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The Climb - Miley Cyrus
I can almost see it
That dream I am dreaming
But there's a voice inside my head saying
"You'll never reach it"
Every step I'm taking
Every move I make feels
Lost with no direction
My faith is shaking
But I gotta keep trying
Gotta keep my head held high
There's always gonna be another mountain
I'm always gonna wanna make it move
Always gonna be a uphill battle
Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose
Ain't about how fast I get there
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb
The struggles I'm facing
The chances I'm taking
Sometimes might knock me down
But no, I'm not breaking
I may not know it
But these are the moments that
I'm gonna remember most, yeah
Just gotta keep going
And I, I got to be strong
Just keep pushing on
'Cause there's always gonna be another mountain
I'm always gonna wanna make it move
Always gonna be a uphill battle
Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose
Ain't about how fast I get there
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb, yeah!
There's always gonna be another mountain
I'm always gonna wanna make it move
Always gonna be an uphill battle
Somebody's gonna have to lose
Ain't about how fast I get there
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb, yeah!
Keep on moving, keep climbing
Keep the faith, baby
It's all about, it's all about the climb
Keep the faith, keep your faith, whoa
Sunday, 22 November 2009
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Mini Updates
the a.n.d.r.e.e.e.e.e.a -- missed squash on wednesday
- completed emcee-ing on thursday
- slept from 630pm to 630am and packed for friday on friday
- thanks E for taking time off from work to drop her at the airport
- thanks F for his corporate rates
- arrived in kay elle after a 1 hour flight delay
- had a brilliant dinner on friday with friends
- watched 2012 on saturday afternoon with old buddies
- embarrassed herself on saturday night. totally and completely. although cannot even remember most of what happened. sorry if i offended anyone.
- is grateful to Z's family for being so kind and generous the entire wkend.
- is grateful to Z for being a friend, no matter the circumstances
- now wonders how to pretend something, that wasn't supposed to happen, has never happened
- is missing her KL friends already
- promises herself to never have both brandy and whiskey in the same night
- loves her friends and values friendship very much
- wishes the weekend was longer
- is ready to face monday anyway! Hello, Monday!


