Dreams and Memories: 2007

Chirstmas time = ???

12/28/2007 04:11:00 PM

Christmas is that special time of the year which i always look forward to. Apart from the annual family gathering which involves lots of family members and lots and lots of food, it's also the time where one gets to receive tons of presents.... Okay, maybe not tons of presents, but quite a number of presents from aunts, uncles and of course, not forgetting our beloved presents.

All this indirectly means that, there will be lots of things to be done and part of the list will include the following

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cook lots of food for family gatherings

go present shopping, which involves the tough situation of deciding the best present for so and so

Set up the Christmas Tree

Bake lots of cakes and cookies and all the good stuff which will contribute to horizontal expansion

the important activities such as EAT, EAT and EAT !!!

.....

...

But amidst all this excitement, most of us often forget about the importance of the spirit of Christmas. One thing which i realised this advent season, is the importance of forgiveness.... The need to forgive and to be forgiven.. Not only throughout the year, but possibly for the many years past, we might have done wrong or was wronged in one way or another. However what helps to make a difference is that we realise our mistakes, admit

our wrongs , ask for forgiveness and forgive other as well. And so, for those of you whom i have hurt in one way or another, I sincerely ask for your forgiveness and I hope you'll be able to find it in your heart to forgive me. (For the record, I mean what I say and as for those who choose to believe otherwise, the choice is entirely up to them.)

Okay, I guess that's quite enough of melodramatic talk for this post, back to more jolly things... I simply love all the presents from my beloved family, relatives and friends. Thanks for everything. MUAXXXXX

Below are some pictures which were snapped on Christmas day. Not showing some of the presents cause have already started using some of them :-P

AUDREY

Its Christmas Time at The Gardens

12/25/2007 11:35:00 PM

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It's been a while since i updated my blog... Kena sounding from Charles and Stef edi about letting my blog die a gradual and painful death.. :-P Well, anyway, been rather busy becoming my mom's chauffeur since i came back home for semester break. And when I'm not on duty as the driver, or as the assistant cook I'll be meeting up with my friends, watch a movie, do some Christmas shopping and take my sister out when she's in the mood for some shopping.

Anyway, met up with Mr Charles Tan Ian Kun aka super perasan friend of mine on Sunday at Mid Valley Megamall since he's doin internship at Cyberjaya now. Had lunch and talked abit bout what we've been doin since sem break started, or rather in his case since internship started. then we went on for our movie "I am Legend".. Rather good movie I would say. Definately worth watching.

So anyway teman Charles to get something for piggie who was visiting soon... :-P Hope you like your present piggie. Charles put lotsa effort into thinking and finding presents which u would like... We then decided to take a walk over to The Gardens, just to have a little look see window shopping.. Hehehehe... A rather nice place, but then again, it's a place where everything is rated super EX-pensive so it would definitely be nice... :-P

We found this shop, at one of the top floors, selling some really interesting stuff. What really caught my eye was the miniature sets which were on display. Everything looked of pretty, cute and real. Was really really impressed with it all. There was a whole collection of furniture to the many different types of cuisine from around the world. Managed to sneak take two pictures before i was cordially informed that 'pictures cannot be taken of the display' :-P
Check them out below.

looks so real and appetizing. Yummy yummy..

an interesting array of things with something to do with strawberries.

And then of course there was the awe inspiring harp performance which was really wonderful. Managed to take a photo of the talented young lady performing on the harp...

And of course, the outing will not be complete without some Syiok sendiri pictures. :-) The theme would be 'Christmas Trees' :-P

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!

AUDREY

COW ALERT !!

11/20/2007 04:13:00 AM

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On the way to church yesterday evening, we came across a herd of cows (lembu) as we normally call it here in Malaysia. They were happily munching away to the grass at the road side.. It's actually rather common to see cows along the road to Ipoh from UTP. That by any standards is still considered rather normal.

Well anyway, the story goes that as we passed the cows, Bismo suddenly exclaimed "Hey, look at the cows, they're so skinny.." I don't remember what exactly was the topic of discussion berefe that statement popped up. But somehow, it wasa totally unexpected statement at a totally unexpected time. Next thing i knew, Roy, Edgar and me were laughing like crazy people. Me in particular.

Not even 1 minute after that incident we suddenly saw a cow happily trotting on the road in the lane we were using. It was slightly scary, because we had to do a drastic slowing down, and try to zap into the neighbouring lane. (Well, logicaly, it was either that or ram into the cow.) Ramming into the cow isn't exactly an option coz from stories that I've heard before, chances are, after ramming a cow, the car might be in a wreck, whereas the cow, will probably fall on the ground, get up and continue walking as if nothing happened.

As we passed the cow, another funny statement came out from Bismo. "Now cows not only cross the road, they actually travel ON the road like cars." :-)

I simply couldn't stop laughing at the hillarity of the situation... Supposedly now the joke about why chickens cross the road shouldn't be about the chicken anymore, but rather 'Why do cows cross the road?'

AUDREY

2 down, 4 more to go.

11/15/2007 02:30:00 PM

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Its that time of the semester again, where everyone will be flooding the library, or staying up till goodness knows whatever time in the morning... (Actually, I'm one of those staying up till wee hours of the morning... burning the midnight oil as my mom would say.) Yeap... It's time for....

FINAL EXAMS !!!

Exams started off yest with Probability and Statistics.. Well, it was supposed to be an okay paper, but ended up with being not so okay after all... Sad case really.... And then today there was Communication Systems. Not that bad on the whole, except that my brain chose not to cooperate properly in helping me to recall the definitions to be penned on the paper.. Conclusion is, got quite a number of empty and sad looking holes here and there in my answer booklet. Oh well, that's done... and hopefully for good. Next up, got four more papers to go.. which are

i) Control Systems

ii)Mandarin Language

iii)Analogue Electronics

iv)and of course EMT - Electromagnetic Theory ~~~

---> which is definately gona blow some fuses in my brain..

Oh well, anyway, might not be updating for a while. Supposed to be studying... :-P

Here's to the remaining four papers. Time to start work again.

Last but not least, all the best to all who are sitting for final exams as well. :-)

AUDREY

Inter Campus Gathering 2007 - St Anne

11/03/2007 12:51:00 AM

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ICG 2007 - Our Faith Our Freedom. It was two years ago since the last ICG which was held at Peace Haven, Genting Highlands. It was such a great experience attending the workshops, praise and worship sessions, dinner sessions and of course, all the socializing and the picture taking sessions with new found friends, long lost friends and unimates. Just like the previous ICG, ICG 2007 was great from all these aspects as well. I met some people who attended the previous ICG. Made more new friends, and had a great time with my unimates as well. All UTP-ians were so outgoing and probably the noisiest and paling semangat of the bunch of people. (Pardon my mixture of Malay there, can't think of a better way to phrase that sentence.)

There were a list of workshops of which each participant was required to attend only four. The four workshps which i attended were War and Peace, Gender Equality, The right to marry as well as Religion in Malaysia. These workshops were all very beneficial in a sense that one might have some basic knowledge regarding the discussed issue, however have never gave more than a second thought to it. However, during these workshops, one is prompted by several questions prepared by the speaker to reflect and ponder about how it might affect us or probably the future generation in the ver near future.

Not forgetting of course, there was the very wonderful and meaningful theme song. All i could say was i totally loved singing it everyday. I have included the lyrics as follows.

There are cries, there are sorrows,

there are people hoping losing hope for tomorrow

Life is just not, an option for them

People keep on living in tears and despair

Jesus came, to bring the good news,

To the poor, marginalized and prisoners

He's the light, the light of the world

to be shared and make it shining everywhere

Hold your steps

Look at people surrounding you

In their hearts, they are thirsting to be free

Let's proclaim, now is the time for freedom and peace

All sing.....

It's our faith, that gives us freedom

Every mankind, every life,

Is precious in God's eyes

We are called, to seek the truth

The truth that sets us free

It's our faith that gives us freedom,

We are voices of the voiceless

We are all children of God

Hold our hands, moving forward

To build kingdom of God

New chapter will begin

J.E.S.U.S He is the way

J.E.S.U.S He is the truth

J.E.S.U.S He is the light

J.E.S.U.S He will set us free

In a nutshell. It was a wonderful and memorable experience. Looking forward for the next ICG in two years time.

Guess thats enough talking. Now it's picture time.

:-P

A groupie picture in the church of St. Annes, Bukit Mertajam

The posing version

All the sleepy heads in the morning.

after lunch and waiting for the next workshop session to start.

the UTP posers (guy version)...

and of course the theme is ICG T-shirt. :-P

Here we have the girl version. :-P .... Soooo Green.

Me, at the grotto

Meet out CSSUTP President Bart...

He's taking a picture of us, and we're taking a picture of him taking a picture of us.

Another biggie group photo.

Me and Camy with Wilson and Lawson

CSSUTP.

Smile everyone and show off your poses.

Erm, suppose everyone tak sempat do crazy pose for this one.

~~Memories ~~

Bart buat muka cute~~~ :-P

Gabriel, my groupmate during the previous ICG..

Am glad we met again this ICG.

Nice to see you again Andre (3rd from let in the back row). It has been a while.

Love the background colour combination of this picture. .... Sooooo Sooo Green

Another posing session on our last day.

Henry, my groupmate for one of the workshop.

Very very hot day. Mata pun tak boleh bukak.

A candid shot of the guys and girls singing at the main entrance of the church

Wuhu, gayanya Bart with the guitar.

The Chapel Of St Anne.

the side view of the chapel

The main church.

A very very nice tree. Everything is soooo green...

The parish center block.

This was taken above one of the entrance of the church.

There's a different depiction for every entrance.

AUDREY

Diarrhea day

10/30/2007 03:10:00 PM

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Huhuhuhu, having diarrhea is definately no fun at all!!~~

Basically I am stuck in the room... Or stuck in the Toilet to be more exact. This whole series of unfortunate dealings started sumtime in the wee hours of the morning... Geeezz, cannot even tido properly.. Definately look like a P.A.N.D.A already

And then comes the big question which everyone is bound to ask, ~~~What's the cause of the diarrhea??? ~~~~.

Well, honestly, I have no idea. Am trying to focus more on reducing the visits to the toilet and fixing one super upset tummy.

:-(

Since I'm room bound for the day, take this opportunity to blog about my so very unfortunate day... else kena from people again that blog sudah mati

:-P

AUDREY

Penang... Pearl Of the Orient

10/21/2007 02:08:00 AM

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Unlike the normal Raya breaks for the past 2 years, I decided not to go home for the holidays. But instead, joined the trip to Penang organised by the Catholic Students Society (CSSUTP). Well, did have some nagging sessions from my mom for not going home (ahem... because i know she misses me so much.. :-P ). In the end, I still got to go for the trip. It was basically a two days two night trip, before we headed on for the Inter Campus Gathering (ICG) 2007 which was at Bukit Mertajam. Will elaborate more on ICG 2007 in my following post.

As we all know, Penang is a Food haven. There will be food anywhere and at anytime of the day. Among the Penang dishes that shudn't be missed are of course

i) Penang Char Kuey Teow - translated to be Penang Fried Kuey Teow.
ii)Penang Asam Laksa
iii)Cendol
iv)Samosa

The smell of the Penang Char Keuy Teow was so heavenly when we passed it on the way to SCIC (the place where we were staying during the trip). We were all practically salivating and the rumbling in our super hungry stomachs grew louder by the minute.

Unfortunately, due to the fact that we were like starving refugees when we arrived at Penang on the first day, we wolved down the food the moment it arrived.. :-P
Therefore, didn't manage to take a picture of the yummy yummy char kuey teow. (It was one of the nicest char key teow i've tasted. But probably the fact that i was super hungry enhanced the taste. )

the organising commitee prepared a treasure hunt around Penang island for the second day of the trip to guide us to the famous tourist spots around the Island. Among these spots were Little India, Penang Street, Komtar, Prangin Mall, Quessnsbay Megamall and many more.

The following are the pictures which we took throughout the trip.