Roller coaster ride

I watched Shrek 3 last tuesday (I wanted to type out "not too long ago" but tuesday is quite a while ago. keke). It was good. the humour is very much intact and the story line is not too bad although sometimes I get the feeling that the writer is running out of ideas.

Anyway, fairy tales are always that

"...and they all lived happy ever after"

Last time, I used to take it literally and thought that they may be someday a "happily ever after" for me. As I grew older, reality sets in and there's no such thing as a perfect ending. Heck, nothing is perfect in this world. It is fun to read story books and watch shows with a happy ending to it but it doesn't turn out that way most of the time.

Ok...I'm beating around the bush. Take the example of The 10th Kingdom.

By the way, I LOVE that show =D

This show does have a happy ending but the lesson that was highlighted at the end, i think, was that we should cherish our short and probably just momentary happy ending. This message was highlight quite clearly as Virginia (the lead actress) said that she found her happily ever after but her peace was soon interrupted BUT that was another story.

We would encounter all sorts of obstacles in life and if we conquer them, we would experience a happy ending. but if we don't conquer them, it just basically means that the story has not ended and your happy ending is yet to come.

Some people may have more happy endings than other people but one thing is for sure, we would surely have ONE happy ending.

I know a few people who are....well....sad....they keep saying how unlucky they are, how miserable they feel, how much stress they are experiencing and what-not. I guess we just need to look for our happy endings amidst all the troubled times we face. Although I don't know exactly how hard is it to do this (I'm grateful for that) but I think that's the only place that we can find happiness.

Life is a roller coaster ride
We will eventually, with experience, feel many many human emotions that exists in the world

bliss

sadness

depression

fear

love

there will be happiness, but then hardship comes and happiness again, then hardship

and it goes on and on...never ending till the day we die

where we would find,

hopefully,

eternal happiness

and that,

ladies and gentlemen,

is our

HAPPILY EVER AFTER

the end

exams part 2 - final part

I'M DONE WITH EXAMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

well, at least for this semester. haha.


I shall make this post about exams really short. I don't want to think about it anymore. I want to enjoy my holidays ^^


I just want to say that exams went pretty well. Passing is one thing...which i think i've achieved (not to brag...but if u want to know how well i felt the exams went, this is what you'll have to read) but to get a distinction or high distinction is another thing. keeping my fingers crossed, i'll achieve that D or HD ^^


Did I mention in "exams - part 1" that i felt so relieved after my first paper???
yup, i felt very relaxed after the first paper, human biology. It was as if i've finished my exams. I was THAT relaxed. but still, you can never be too confident. so, i became a good girl and studied...with some play time in between. tee-hee...


The ugly part is that i fell sick!! luckily it wasn't bad. sore throat, cough, cold...

Oh...oh! On friday night, I went out for an early supper. I had my dinner and my sister hasn't but i felt hungry so i followed my sister out for my early supper and her late dinner. LOL. anyway, I wasn't exactly feeling hungry, it was more like having gastric pains and i thought that eating would help. How did i get gastric pains??? it was a dumb move...

On Friday, my paper finished at around 2.30 pm. After that, I thought i'd go to the near by shopping centre to do some job hunting and also accompany a friend of mine to buy some groceries. It took much longer than expected...till 5 pm in fact. I thought i was fine, didn't feel hungry. But when i actually started cycling back home, wow...the pain was coming. I was like die...better reach home fast and eat before it gets worse. Usually it'll be fine after eating...I was in this same situation quite a few times...but nope, the pain didn't go away...

so, the whole point of me telling this is to tell you that this is my first ever full blown gastric pain experience. hehe. lame, i know. but i can't help it. I'm feeling too happy that my exams has ended...officially at 2.55pm on the 18th July 2007. tee-hee...I was very tempted to just answer all the questions and not check and just get out...but can never be too safe. I manage to recheck just before they disallowed anyone to go out of the examination room, that is 15 mins before the end time.


after that, i played badminton with my sister and a friend. hehe...refreshing.

ok...going off topic. will blog about my week sometime later.

That's all for now!
Signing off...

some long over due photos

Hey, these are a few OLD pictures which i tried to post on friendster blog...BUT due to the fact that it didn't allow me to allign my photos, it wouldn't look nice on the blog, i just didn't post any photos.

new photos should be on the way...but slowly wait la. hehe. i'd have to take some in the first place! keke

The only pictures I have taken in Australia are all pictures taken in April. so, the following are some April photos. haha!

sorry...this picture is blur. anyhow, this is my cell group who went for Easter camp

Now this is my Easter camp group picture =D

This is me on a platform on Frementle beach...I'm suppose to look like I'm going to commit suicide. Apparently not.

Playing some ball game on Frementle beach

My sister and me after her awards ceremony night...hehe...wearing my new trench coat ^^
(By the way, this picture was not taken in April but in May. teehee)

That's all for now. Toodles!!

Exams - part 1

I've decided to tell how every exam has gone.

Well, yesterday was my very first major exam uni paper. I think it was the toughest paper of all my 4 other examinable papers...Human Biology. Somehow, I've always failed to score well in Biology. Proof, STPM: I scored a higher grade in my Physics paper then i did for my Biology paper and I was in a Biology class. But anyway, back to Human Biology 133 (the unit/subject is called that way). My paper was supposed to start at 9 am. Arrived in Uni at about 8.40 am and by the time I manage to find the rooms, it was already 8.50. It took me quite a while to get there partly because I bumped into another person who was heading to the same place, doing the same paper and (I don't want to sound evil) she has muscle dystrophy so she can't walk properly...she had to take breaks...quite 'ke lian' also la...she didn't know where was the building and I decided to walk her there. But she was also understanding. When the building was in sight, she said that she'll be able to find her way and I could go off. I think she knew that I was getting anxious...I think she feels the same way too. hehe. In the end, the examiners made us wait even longer outside the exam rooms. So, we started at 9.15 am.

The paper went pretty ok but I would have liked to perform better (obviously). The 'pretty ok' part was meaning that i won't fail and the 'I would have liked to perform better' part was suppose to mean that i left out a few questions and I couldn't recall many things and thus being uncertain of the answers. Oh well, what has passed has passed. I shall now concentrate on the next paper which is Chemistry 123 on Wednesday night...yes, NIGHT...and also Human Biology 133 PRACTICAL the following day.

Oh, another thing I forgot to mention before the Human biology paper...My hands were sweating profusely! hehe. And the interesting part is that i don't think my hands stopped sweating till........i think before i slept. The lesson learnt is that I would have to bring in a handkerchief with me for the next paper otherwise I'll be rubbing my hands against my jeans several times. LOL!

Now to help other people who are also taking exams or just plain stressing out (but specifically for those who are sitting for exams) to DEstress. hehe...Sanji sent me this sms...it goes like:-

When you are feeling stressed

and about to break down

just remember

STRESSED

spelt backwards is

DESSERTS!

So, exams are just a piece of cake!!

^^

Ain't it cute....! hehehehehehe.

well, wish everyone all the best! whether it being examinations or applications into universities or just plain stress from the work place/relationships/everyday life.

A visit to an Aussie home

Today, I went to a friend's house...an Australian Burmese. Her house is cosy =) She's got like a really nice kitchen and living room but the rooms are relatively small. Probably because her room is shared with her sister. They said they're halfway renovating.

I was suppose to be studying there. I DID study but not as much as I'd prefer. If was loads of fun though.

I took a bus from my place to uni and met up with a few other friends from the same area to go to my friend's house (Jasmine) which is like an 45 mins drive away. Then from uni, we took the same bus to a bus station near Jasmine's house. It took us 45 mins to get to the bus stop and then she and her Dad picked us up. When we reached her house, we started studying except for Jasmine who was occupied settling down...at her own place. Ironic, but yea...hehe.

Not too long after, it was lunch time! Her Mom cooked such lovely food. They said it was Burmese food but it seemed so much like home cooked food *sniff*. I took beef curry (tasty....yum) with spaghetti. It's an odd combination but they said that it was the best noodle combination...to replace a Burmese noodle which they can't get here. We also had some chicken vegetable soup...it's sssssssooooooo CHINESE!! Even my other Malaysian friends who went said so. We were pampered guests...tea, chocolates, cake, crackers and also offere ice-cream but we all decline the very very generous offer. hehe. There was fried rice, fried toufu with peas and egg curry.

After lunch, we had a little chat. Actually, we have little chats the whole time through (hehe). So, I should be saying after lunch, we had a chat. HAHA! talked about all sorts of stuff...you know, girls stuff. But I can't say that because there was a guy there.

Ok, the conversation was stopped and we went back to the books. MUST CONCENTRATE!!!! FIRST PAPER STARTS ON MONDAY!!!! We studied for another 2 hours or so and it was dinner time. lol!!! that's all we think of...FOOD!!! We were served the same dishes but this time I ate beef curry with rice (both white rice and fried rice). Wow...we were really pampered. after eating, it was already 6.45 and one of my friends needed to go to the doctors...she needed to get an injection done. so, we quickly finished up the last topic of the subject. All in all, we manage to study 3 topics (out of 5). I suppose we achieved quite a lot. hehe....

Jasmine's Mom let us take back some food...hehe...so sweet...And we left at about 7.30. This time, her Dad fetched us all home...all the way to our door step. again, sssssooooo ssssssssswwwweeeetttttt.............. =D

NOW, I'm happily blogging.

ok, I'm done. Just wanted to put up a quick update before I get back to studying.

Toodles!!

ps: to all my friends who are sitting for exams, GOOD LUCK!!!! and...to Jasmine and family, thanks a MILLION for the wonderful hospitality.

badminton

Today, 5 of my friends and I played badminton for 3 hours!! so syok... ^^

If you remembered, the last time I played badminton, I accidentally threw the racquet on to the floor and it broke. This time, the racquet slipped out of my hand again but it didn't break. Luckily...because it was one of my friend's racquet. the one that i broke belongs to the recreation centre, so it's ok to break it =P hehe...no la...they did say that breaking the racquets is not an unusual thing (a relief on my part).

I practiced my smashes and blocks with Jon. hehe...he represented his school once. so, had a 'training' session with him. so fun =D I think because we played for so long and i had a 'training' session, that is i exerted a lot of energy, i've got a headache now. well, not really a headache but my head feels heavy. oh, don't worry. i get that all the time if i'm too active. say, if i've got a full day of school and then extra activities (tuition, club meeting, etc)...all needing a lot of thinking (keke) and may be quite a bit of energy, i'll get a headache by the time i get home at night.

after that, we went out for lunch. by the way,we played from 9-12 noon. well, i took a snack because i've got curry at home. hehe ^^ although it's left overs from yesterday's lunch, it's still yummy tasting curry............the rest had their lunch.

overall, the session this morning was very nice. sweat quite a bit considering that it is winter. yeah, burnt some calories ;-)

I'll do this again in a heart beat (extend to 4 hours - LOL! - siao!).