What's better than...

x.x

2009-12-03T15:17:00.003+08:00

backspace. delete. pull out. remove. throw. bury.
sleep.

~.~

Roller-coaster

2009-09-16T01:45:00.002+08:00

Have been enjoying a roller-coaster ride for the past year, savouring every moment through the ups and downs, and the highs and lows. No evident plateaus spotted thus far and it's simply amazing how so many things have changed.

And if i were to fall one day, my hope is to fall from the highest point... because i know the harder i fall, the higher and the quicker i will bounce back. yes, this is definitely what im looking for, though i'm not discounting the fact that i may die on the spot, face-down. (lol i prefer something dramatic and tragic.)

So long as the long term trend is going up, never mind the short term fluctuations.

Wake up!

2009-09-09T21:45:00.002+08:00

Had two unexpected wake up calls today. Loss of focus is really a scary thing. =/

I'm back, world!

Had the most interrupted nap this afternoon: 3 sms-es and 3 calls @.@

Unfinished memories

2009-08-08T02:35:00.007+08:00

Stumbled upon a beautiful sad song.

* Best listened to during the middle of the night. My whole mood sank by a few rungs after listening to it =/ but I thought it really suited the timing of the day lol.

I'm trying to collect nice songs that I can listen to at late hours (like 2am?)...
u know, when you're alone and when almost everyone is asleep, with good music as company, u get the chill when the music keeps playing. especially when ur half asleep, closing your eyes but your ears are subconsciously listening to the lyrics. Anyone? send me! =)

Teaser:

Funny stuffs will be coming up.

Faith, yes, faith.

Cinta Hello Kitty!

2009-08-01T09:50:00.004+08:00

Xiong/leng reminded me of this song that I used to love so much.

And yes, it does feature the infamous mouthless cat in it:

hello kitty, tolong aku?
lol i'm not too sure whether she is smiling but anyhow, enjoy the song!

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Sources of inspiration:

One is a total stranger who showed that real confidence is grown NOT out of mere self-belief but out of real actions to improve yourself.

Another is a friend who was in a similar position as i am just 2-3 years back and is now doing great in life.

Confessions of A Dota-holic

2009-07-12T00:22:00.002+08:00

~Prologue~

Wanna get a grasp on the first-hand experience of an ex dota-addict? Read on or find any other things that will interest you in this page or just click the X button. Feel free to recommend this page to your dota-infested friends =)

My memory always fails me so I just want this post to be a reminiscence of dota's good times and... bad times. But before we start, please be warned that it's some long text coupled with heavily-loaded images ahead.

Now, shall we begin?

~Confessions of A Dota-holic~

One hundred and sixty-five;
1...6...5... days without dota.

For 5 years, the popular LAN/online gaming at any particular point of time will be either

DotA & WoW,
Dota & CS (yes it's my initial),
DotA & COD or
DotA & L4D.

From v5.84c till v6.xx now, DotA's fad never dies. It has never failed to live up to expectations and has never, ever, been out of popularity. And just by hearing Lich, CM, SA, stuns, blink or any other dota heroes and skills, chills would be sent down the spines of all dota players, me included (okay, i know i'm exaggerating lol).

It feels so so good to play dota. I played for 4 freaking full years and i loved it so so much that i could literally call dota (and books) my gfs. They argued kinda often. But me being me, my time-management skills (ss detected) allowed me to devote enough time in both. so they could actually still live in harmony lol.

I still miss this loading screen. Talk about memories!
I had looked at this for at least... a few hundred times?

And people asked me, how did i stop dota so easily?! well, there is obviously a motivation behind my stopping dota but too bad, it is the only part of the full confession that will be kept a secret. Seriously, it is that simple. Just stop playing, tell your mind to stop and you will!

The 'uninstall warcraft' trick won't work if your mind is not engineered to uninstall it. In fact, one of my friends (ek hem, L&F lol) have reinstalled many times but they are still playing it! lol. And you may be surprised to hear that I still have war3 in my hard disk, and as a matter of fact, the garena and ventrilo icons still appear on my desktop! swt

Now moving on to confessions.

I was a disciplined kid (i still am =p). In fact, I was so disciplined that i woke up at 7-7.15 every off day (no-class day) just to play dota. Cool? I would sometimes dream of dota and my heart would be beating so fast that I had to wake up and cure this addiction lol. And no, u won't understand what no-life is. But at least, the everlasting effect of this symptom is good: now i can wake up early at any time! ask anyone around me? =)

On top of that, I would spend hours on forums to study dota. We even had formulae to calculate what items you should buy at what stage, which skills to learn before which and/or which skills to throw at the enemy first.

Apart from causing mental disruption (as some would call it because we need dota drug) and time-wasting that could seriously damage your life, almost all other aspects of dota are good if you know how to control yourselves!

First, it is a stress-reliever. Killing people in-game, assisting teammates and dying (and shouting profanities) bring some feel-good factors. But okay, there is a bad side to it as I have encountered three separate incidents where my good friends actually argued with each other over ks (kill-stealing) issues. lol but another upside is that you would learn anger management along the way too =p

Second, it improves your typing speed. When the game develops so fast and backstabbing happens every other minute, you would have to learn to type fast. What i enjoyed the most was scolding people (non-friends in pub games) while i was being revived. Just imagine when the death timer starts ticking and you would have 30-90 seconds to scold as much as you want. lol syok like crazy.

Third, it improves your vocab. Being someone who had 1 year of malay (and jawi!) education in tadika and 10 years of education in a chinese school, and without much exposure to english-speaking people around, you would have guessed how my english vocab's like. Limited, yea that's the word. DotA taught me a lot of words that I would otherwise not have encountered elsewhere. And seriously, those non-gamers who think that most games use low quality english, I am here to tell you that you're wrong! =)

December 08 - January 09 was the best and worst dota period of all. The best part? I met three pro and nice kaki's (not sure whether i should list their names here but the initials are L,F,H lol. u know who u are.) Those were easily the most enjoyable dota sessions that i have ever had for 4 years - no offence to those who teman me play before that.

We actually had a clan (yea Xn.C) and played clan wars almost every night. And we even installed software so that we could speak to each other in real time. I enjoyed the arguments we had on picking roles and heroes but the best thing in a team game was that we knew that we could count on each other and that each of us would be willing to sacrifice anything in-game to win as a team.

Caption: Wee, i have the highest number of assists here... and just for the records, I always had the most team assists in clan games because i don't ks! =)

During that period of time, my normal working hours were from 8.30 to around 8.30. I would get home immediately after work, have dinner and sit in front of the pc waiting for my kaki's to come online. The weirdest thing is that even though i often slept at 2+ and woke up at 7, i felt energetic all day long even when i was working. I did yawn a lot while working but my mind was as sharp, and that my commitment to my work never diminished. Quality of the work was assured too, so much so that the partner and director liked it a lot. =D

'Quality in everything we do'. Does it ring a bell?

And I don't know whether this is normal but the best part of dota that I like is to start things afresh. Each game brings something different and will rarely be the same. Events are different, actions are different so of course, the outcome will be different too.

For those who have played with me for a long time, they would have noticed that I love to play the opening 10 mins and that I suck especially at late game. I am not sure why either but I guess the reason is that I like to start things out in the best possible way? It's similar to the Pokemon's concept when you save and load the game every 10 seconds just so that you will meet rare pokemons instead of the same old boring ones in the bushes or that you can hypnotise or use ultimate skills successfully every time. lol

My all-time signature heroes: Chen, the Holy Knight, and

Boush, the Tinker.

Where I dominate and own early game, and then feed all the way to heaven =)

Last month's exams were really a special testing time for myself. While in the previous years, I would have struggled a lil bit to stop dota, I had never failed to motivate myself to get good results. But remember that i said i was disciplined? Right, i would stop dota 1 week before exams without failure everytime, almost everytime i mean, okok i meant most often that not or err... maybe 'a simple majority of the time' is more accurate lol.

And you know what, I thought about this critically and I think the real reason could be attributed to the fact that while I was going for personal achievement in the prior years, my subconscious mind had been telling myself to get good results to justify the view that all the hours spent (most poeple read it as 'wasted') on dota do NOT affect one's results!

Fortunately, I think the exam for this sem went okay eventually. But it's most probably because i'm lucky to have open book exams for 3 out of 4 papers!

~Epilogue~

Dota is not a bad thing after all but unless u know how to find a balanced lifestyle, please leave it alone. I was not good in handling it, and that was why i stopped.

I have been wanting to write out my thoughts about this a long time ago and I guess this is the time to release it. For those who want to stop dota addiction (namely L, F, H and others), please contact the hotline: 999. =)

I have taken a big step and I am set for more. But before that, I just need a day some time soon to hibernate and recollect all my thoughts. Self-renewal is in the list.

* Some parts are fictional but most are facts. haha.

POV 1,2,3

2009-07-07T00:02:00.004+08:00

"A happy cat, an extremely happy bird or two happy birds?

"A <insert disgusting stuff> , a ocean-deep shit or two deep shits?'

"Quality, quantity or don't bother - choose another one?"

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Although i used lots of shits in my two latest posts, this doesn't mean I'm having constipation ok! lol

On another note, I think my blog layout has changed. Anyone noticed that or is it just me? Nvm, I think I'm dreaming. It will change back once I wake up...or maybe not. =)

Life = Eating

2009-06-28T00:41:00.006+08:00

Have you ever wondered...

why don't people just eat the simplest and plain-est food,
why they spend tons of money on food,
why they waste so much time and effort preparing food,
why they just can't stop thinking about food, and..
why they enjoy food as if it is the most wonderful thing in the world,

... when they know that the final outcome, be it watery, mud-like, rod-like, cone-like, or yellow, green, blue, brown or black in color, is still... shit?

The reason is simple. Just enjoy the process!

"Live, just like how you eat - Don't stop eating even if you already know the outcome is shit."

lol enjoy the exam guys & gals: the final 6 papers in taylor's/unisa.

True meaning behind it

2009-06-04T07:27:00.000+08:00

This signifies free supply of cakes and cookies in the future...wakaka

This signifies the love between my "husband" and his "mistress"...

This signifies one-way love lol...
(see how reluctant the dove is)

And this signifies cuteness...

.... NOT! =)

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Smile like how the sun smiles at you,
when its heat brings you warmth,
when its blaze burns your desire,
and when its light gives you hope.

~.~

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random-ness

2009-05-24T15:11:00.003+08:00

24 May

random numbers

break in - +/- 42 days
exam in - +/- 27 days
assignments due in - 5, 8 days
conference in - 6 days
gbc result, dinner in-1 day
asgt draft to be completed in - 2 hours
pee in - 2 mins
korek my nose in - 1 min

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20 May

Before my nap:
cs: i think im going for a haircut this week.
mom: hmmm, i thought u had it trimmed not long ago?
cs: oh, i wanna appear smarter for the dinner and the conference next week.
mom: but u will be too handsome, later all girls flock to u.
cs: ...

During my nap:
i dreamt of someone singing kelapa song. either that or someone was actually singing.

After waking up from my nap:
sis: eh, i know how to sing coconut song d: C~~O~~C~~O~~N~U~T, coconut, kelapa, coconut, kelapa... o~~
cs: ...

not funny i know, just random. but while u r reading this, flex ur face muscle and smile. if u have a mirror, even better. look into it and just smile for 5 seconds.

....congratz, u just smiled like an idiot for no reason =)

~back to asgts~magic touches?~ 順其自然

Nightmares

2009-05-08T02:30:00.008+08:00

When the assignments deadline looms, when a special project goes under way, when ur brain cant absorb all the things that come to u, and ...

when u dream of bananas in pajamas,

u know the nightmares have just begun! =)

take a lil break. 也无风雨也无晴t

The Way =)

2009-04-30T10:55:00.007+08:00

Added 3 may 2009:
ever wondered why my emotions are rarely very extreme- like feeling super happy, sad, disappointed, angry or emo? secret's revealed now! i think it's because that my mind tend to 'rehearse' something that i have anticipated. it's something like chess where u anticipate many variations of moves in advance, and it won't only be just 1 move in advance, it can be 5, 6, 7, tens, to twenties. if ur opponent makes a move that is so different from what u would have expected, then ur not a chess player! so essentially, i would hv predicted something to happen anyway.

so.. seriously, i think i have the chess player syndrome lo, i hide my feelings, trying to have a straight face or most of the time, act dumb (making stupid facial expressions lol).

and somehow, i also think that i have the self-consoling and self-motivating capability. for girls, their aunties visit them once a month. for yours super-duper ultra sincerely, my uncle visits me once a year - in the month of apr/may. lol it is a month where i get emo easily and this could be due to many many factors. it happened last year too but i guess once my mind starts to wander around the possibility of success and failures, ups and downs, thrills and dullness, expect a lower possibility of the best to come about and expect for the worst to come, i start to feel better and more positive.

it's the weird thing in me, so... the next time if something happens and ppl ask me 'don't u get upset by this?', 'aren't u disappointed?', 'why are you not surprised?', u can expect my response to be "no-lah, deja-vu, i already knew that it will happen! lol' =)

Random pieces of thoughts

2009-04-20T01:54:00.004+08:00

This happens when you are thinking of too many things at a time - scattered pieces of thoughts.

I believe in chances and luck. Be ready to strike them when they come though.
I like short hair that is a bit longer than crew cut. I look smart and decent =p
I like a big big, wide wide, teeth-baring smile/grin, just as how i taught my cat to smile. =D
I used to wish to have bigger eyes but come to think of it now, CS brand does not come with such eyes and is more suited to smaller ones.
I am confused now but less confused than yesterday. Mind you, not in terms of sexuality lol.
Red hot baby!
Gonna be cleaning up my desk at such wee hours just coz I'm waiting for something. lol
Post ends here. If you can understand all the above, this post is not meant for you because it is supposed to confuse you.

Good luck and all the best to my readers. May luck be by your side.

Make an impact!

2009-03-04T20:37:00.004+08:00

Final year, yes, final year... I am on my way towards completing my Final Year. It is the same mixed feeling when you were still in Form 5: you want to grow up and move forward but you just won't know what the future has in store for you. It is a never-ending paradox.

But it's not a matter of choice because the time will come eventually. 9 months may seem a long way to go from now but time flies, maybe even faster than Superman.

After 19 years + living in this world, I realise one thing. Since going through my internship stint that ended less than two weeks ago, I realise how important (at least for myself) it is to leave an impact wherever we go. But of course, the impact has to be positive in one way or another!

.. And in our whole life, if we don't leave a footprint or a single trail, what is the exact purpose of living?

I once told my friend through msn that I want to die as a legend.
Yes, I will.

But just for this final year, let us all start making impacts.
Make everyone like you (I agree with Mr Goh)
Make everyone remember you!

Have fun guys & gals.

This year shall be the year to be remembered when you turn 50 or 60 next time ;)

Make an impact today!

(sounds like a slogan for a charity event :D)

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Notepad:

My resolution/ to-do list:

1. TUC-CPA Student Charter (Accounting Club)
There is not much point in leading a society without making some impacts right? But seriously, this is the first time that I become the president. oh wait, this is after discounting the fact that I got the president post of the petanque club without having played that game before. lol

2009 - It's time to restructure and implement good systems, besides having more events to benefit the members. It's also a good time to start networking with people!

2. Studies
6 HD's 2 D's, possible? I don't know =.=

3. Gain knowledge / insights of many many things. Research!
This area is wide but there are too many things that I want to learn and be comfortable with.
Career options and economic news are on top of my list now. Planning to pick up golf, maybe within next 5 years? haha

4. Some competitions maybe?
Win 1 or 2? Let's see. :P

The tale of monkey and peanuts

2008-11-18T10:09:00.005+08:00

And so it started,

I C Big Monkey (ICBM) looking for something.

So I said, "Finding peanuts?" (FP)

Big Monkey, "Ya, Finding again" (FA2)

"Really Cari Peanuts Lagi?" (CPL)

"Tak boleh ke?"

boleh...Monkey boleh, Malaysia boleh, petrol price is down to rm2/litre, diesel to rm1.90... im not crazy yet but hope it will rise again in Feb - June 2009...and dropping back forever and ever :D

I'm going nuts, and i bet everyone is too. lol

Good luck in exam, fellow UniSA mates! can't wait for exam to be over, just can't wait to... just graduate! ;)

-cS-

My feeling ;)

2008-10-29T08:37:00.008+08:00

*REALLY REALLY REALLY LONG POST ahead!!*

It's been a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time since I really blogged. The last post was more like a notification rather than a blog post. But still, it yielded my highest single-day page visits and views:
*I knows it's not the WORLD RECORD but maybe if I do that more often, I can generate enough views to attract nuffnang and/or other ads. =P

That story aside, to compensate for the previous lack of posts, I'm going to do a long post, a really long one. Don't ask me 'how long' please. It's longer than that. =.=~

And so, the semester began...with the CPA Passport Undergraduate Conference, fair enough. I was not the OCP but that does not mean I can hang my boots up and shake my legs. The multimedia video I did for the opening of the conference is a satisfaction , a BIG satisfaction for me =)

Then comes the first peak of the sem:
Of all times, FA2 assignment, FP assignment, TUC Mid-Autumn Festival, Business Plan Semis written submission and presentation have to done within two weeks.

BP submission: other than researches for two full days, there is nothing much to do actually...just copy+paste previous bp, alter relevant parts and tada! That was what i thought before submission. then i realise the financial model has to be rebuilt T.T...but seriously, I enjoy making a financial model. I dare to say it looks semi-professional (close to professional =P) even though it is not the exact kind of model that will be build by real financial modellers!
FA2 Assignment - Seriously, have to thank Datuk Hong and P***** for allowing us to have a look at the past assignment. If I were to start the assignment from scratch during this time, I think I wouldn't have time to sleep throughout this 2-week period. Also, thanks yi qian for her meticulous nature in checking every single detail =)
FP Assignment - I thought it was supposed to be an easy assignment....and yes it was! the easiest among all 4 assignments =.=. Thanks to kx, datuk and shireen, we managed to pull it off, yielding 'excellent!' from ms lisa. Or was it the grammatical phrase of 'very excellent!'?
TUC Mid-Autumn Festival - I was not big-time involved in this. Really have to say sorry to those who had expected me to help a lot in this event. At the beginning of the sem, I really thought I could contribute a lot, but ... sorry I was really bad to turn off some of your calls in asking me to help =(... Anyhow, I was the emcee of the night, and I would rate my performance with a 5/10. A fair mark for the constant hesitation :S
BP Semis presentation - copy+paste previous slides, the proposal, the model...some rehearsal and tada, a good presentation from 3 of us.

The stress that I have got during this period was not merely completing the asgts/event/bp with quality, but also the stress of working with people. Thanks YQ, kx, datuk, shireen, li san, yee leng for not rushing me like hell.

*But at least I told you a dateline that I will be able to finish waaaay before it right? lol

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If that's not enough, here comes the second peak!

But this time with pictures la...(to reward u if u have read this far =P)

...ICBM. Not exactly very hard for calculation part. But for the essay, we never what's the requirement and most of the time are spent judging what's important and what's not. It would be easier if s* is well though, as she is so resourceful, attentive to detail etc.
(@s* - No worries though, it has been taken care of...get well soon!)

...and next:

Taylor's Business Plan Competition 2008!
The bomb of my uni life in 2008!

Introducing Li San, the CEO...

Without her, I think we wouldn't have joined this competition again!

... Yee Leng, the CMO ...

... and me, of course! the CFO
*Hui Jing: Thanks for this photo! I looked handsome HAHAHA!

...and the three of us form this formidable partnership:
POWER UP CORPORATION!

being the CHAMPION finally!

... and of course, for all friends who came to support us!
THANK YOU!

No doubt, the feeling of winning is good though it is not as intense as last year! Great working with you, san & leng! Lets' rock HSBC next year, with a new name?

(but I'm kinda attached to this name already...right? Power Up!)

...........

... and finally CPL 'Cari Pasal Lagi' (Chow 2008)
finaaaaaaaally finished it laaaaaaaaaa! but I am still wondering how could li san & yee leng have finished CPL q2 before the BP final presentation?! they should be busy what?! or maybe i was just exaggerating? XD

lol....

p/s: 2-3 days for me to breathe before I study for exam =)
p/s: @ Everyone: good luck in revision and exam!

*Photos courtesy of Vi-vian, Suet Yen & Hui Jing!
*I noticed that I used a lot of =) , =P and ;)....=.="

But to end this post: Let's have a look at ...

... the trademark smile that I have been teaching my cat all this while! =D

ICBM Q1

2008-10-23T00:35:00.002+08:00

For those who asked me about q1, apologies for providing the wrong info:

Please check this out:
http://www.oanda.com/products/bigmac/bigmac.shtml

Think in this way: If
spot rate: domestic currency/Rand = 1
PPP : domestic currency/Rand = 2

common sense says that rand is undervalued (should worth 2, but only 1 in spot rate),
thus DC is overvalued (+) if PPP>spot rate! CHECK THIS!

p/s: I slept for only 2hours+ in the past 24 hours, and going to have a sleep of around 2-3hours tonight. so my vision and brain capture less things now, and sorry if i seem to ignore u.

good luck!

Update that looked like an update

2008-09-05T09:38:00.003+08:00

Issue: Was my previous post an update?

Rule: Hmm...unprecedented case - no rules.

Application:
Yes, the previous post did not look like, sound like or smell like an update of my life.

But it was an update that looked like, sounded like, smelled like and even farted like an update of my BLOG~!

Conclusion: The full court (Lord CS C.J., CS A.J.A, CS J.) unanimously held that it was an update. The plaintiff (Ms Vi-vian) will bear the legal costs incurred by both plaintiff and defendant.

wakakaka........ I actually found that IRAC method is really good in resolving a certain issue, anyone agree?

Here is a small update of my life:
- I think I'm 51~53kg now, not far from my target.. lol

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This blog is not solely reserved for the purpose of updating about my life anymore. It will be more on serious stuffs (expressing my views on anything) and funny stuffs (to reward my "blog-ders" by lowering their stress level) (or in simple terms, to type anything i like la).

Now that I'm more certain that this Ms Vi-vian will appeal to higher court, the next post will be reserved for the judgment of the appeal case.

-J-

~ Bring me to life ~

2008-09-03T20:03:00.004+08:00

Yes, this blog will be given a twist and brought to life again.

And as promised, there would be 2 long funny posts right? But the probability for them to appear in my blog are extremely low because I have forgotten what they are(were)! At the time when I made the promise, I really had inspiration to blog about them.. but too bad! blehh

By the way, the promise was made without you paying any consideration to me. So, it was only a gratuitous (spelled correctly thanks to SpellCheck =p) promise, thus you can't sue me! HAHAHAHA

(syok sendiri only lol)

..........

Also, in this post, I would like to clarify why I did not blog for 3 months! The reason as follow:
- It is similar to a singer who won't re-enter the stage without encore.

hahahaha...I'm not saying that I'm a star and I need fans to motivate me. ahem.

But I'm still touched because even during these 3 months of inactivity, there were 176 visitors in total, which meant 3 visitors per day. So, this is for you, you, you, you and you x 173 more.

Nonetheless, pn another more likely ground, maybe there are only 3 visitors that checked this blog out daily. So, this is for you, you and you!! =)

***Yes, this post does sound a bit (or very much) law-ish because I just got over the craze of the subject. Soon, my posts will be related to currency, mooncake?, financial planning: diversification, diesel (anyone?) and accounting standards.

I promise this blog won't stay inactive for another 3 months. But maybe, the next post will appear in 2months' time =0.

Stay tuned. You won't want to miss out anything.............................

Yang syok sendiri,
J&J 8-0 =p

Reflection of life for May

2008-05-31T10:08:00.006+08:00

Someone 'tok' my back saying my blog became fossil d wo. Haha, it's damn true though, so i'm not gonna debate on this =p

This shall be the final post before the exam. Now that almost all assignments and society stuffs will be completed (put aside XD), it's time to study looooo- 4 relatively heavier subjects than previous sem - 1 month's time - full stop.

Time to push everything onto the right track! And this is the time when i will self-motivate myself the most wahaha. I wanna achieve 20 Hds!

And i promise there will be 2 long (maybe funny or lame) posts coming up after the exam! huahuahua

Anyway, here is the link to Taylor's University College Chinese Society Forum: TucCS07.forumer.com

Since its inception exactly one month ago, it has reached 700hits, still not bad huh? But most of them were actually made up of hits from some die-hard fan of this forum, so it's not that amazing after all @.@. lol. Come support support if u r interested in any chinese society's activities; or come crap in the kopitiam.

To make things sound cooler:

A visitor from Ghana! (but it's not that cool also)

LoL!

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Reflection for the month ending 31 May 2008:

"If everyone can do it, why can't I?" sounds motivating but to me, the real quote shall be "If I can't do it, who else can?".

Why? Because everyone is unique in their own way and will surely be able to do something that nobody else can do! Get out of the comfort zone and lead the pack. There is no such need to wait for people to set a precedent first.

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Ah!

2008-05-18T09:25:00.002+08:00

Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

so many things to do, so many disturbances. aiks> Maybe i worry too much on things that i shouldn't be so bothered about.

Although i alwiz say "tomorrow will be better", i duno if it will tomorrow.

It's a bit contradicting that I always tell people who are troubled that everything will be fine at the end but I don't believe in it. Maybe I should believe in this again: "If everything is not fine, it is not the end yet!" Bring it on!

And my first sub-emo post? lol

Reflection of life for March and April

2008-04-28T11:31:00.009+08:00

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Preview

The reasons why I have not updated my blog for 2 months are because this period is definitely very eventful, dramatic and semi-tragic. I have actually drafted my blog post for March but too bad it ain't published because it was not touched up.

So here are the review of those two months at one go! Enjoy! (Beware of a very, very long post)

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MARCH

March marked the recommencement of my university life. Things started normally but went to a big slump with that tragic (oklar, not so tragic) accident on 24 March 2008. My Hero's face went bengkak and his eyes were virtually blinded. From the start, i know that I'm at least 70% right but the other driver wanted to make a police report. So, due to the delay in police reports, insurance claims and repair, I finally got to drive my Hero once again after 4 weeks!

[And yes, I'm gonna give him some body treatment later.]

This incident, had given me a totally different kind of experience and brought me to see many things differently. I have definitely grown up in some ways even though I don't know how to explain. LoL

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Cold joke for the month ending 31 March 2008:

"Why is a penguin 's skin white near the tummy and face, while the other body parts are all BLACK? (Farm 2008)

(Highlight to view answer):

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Okay, imagine you are a penguin, with short arms (or wings?!). Try to rub your body as if you are taking shower (NOTE: YOU ARE STILL A PENGUIN!). Yes! The answer is because penguins can only wash those parts, other parts are still dirty and black XD.

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Note that I can only provide one cold joke each month so as to prevent my blog from being too cold until frozen, like what happened for the previous month.

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Quote for the month ending 31 March 2008:

"Many complicated things now, when reviewed in the future, are mere *(pea)nuts*, or any other nuts that you like-lah =.=", be it kacang putih, kacang tanah, cashew nuts or coconuts!" (Chua 2008)

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APRIL

April is a relatively busier month, although I did not get to prank anyone on the 1st. Wasted!

With some society stuffs from both Chinese Society and Accounting Club and two exams, it is still manageable, at least.

Firstly, it would be the CS forum that I have created and that will be open to the members soon. I spent one whole day creating it and learning the basic stuffs to enhance its appearance. Special thanks to a net friend of mine for resolving one funny technical issue:

We tried to apply "IPDynamite Lite" function but there seems to be no difference in the end-result. So we tried various buttons and functions which might have accidentally overridden that function. After wasting his 2 hours, he sent me a link and from then, only we know that the end-result was already there, but it was just hidden in another page! Swt

Trial and error does work although it is very time-consuming and inefficient (See the quote below)

Please check out the forum on 1 May 2008, by the time the link would have been posted on 30 April!! (give me some support la -and feedback too, ok?) If you are pro in IT or if you wanna join CS, please please contact me! Help needed for this forum!

Secondly, CS is organising yet another mooncake festival in September, this time an even bigger scale than the previous one because it won't be a one-day event, it will most likely stretch to one full week!

Help is definitely very much needed from everyone! Hope we can source enough manpower to pull this event off. Gambateh everyone!

Thirdly, AC is collaborating with CPAA to form a student charter. In August, we shall have one business/technical conference for 250 university students from various CPAA-accredited courses. Again, help is much needed here from accounting- and finance-major students.

Come join AC and CPAA Passport and gain all sorts of benefits. More seats are allocated to AC members when it comes to talks and industrial visits. Meanwhile, CPAA Passport members will also receive a monthly magazine on accounting stuffs. Sounds cool huh?

On top of that, you have the opportunity to be part of the committee to organise the conference, which would be fun and exciting!

LoL, many of you might not read until this part because you have closed the page already. But why my reflection/review sounds like PREVIEW pula?! (If you do read until here, please leave a comment or shoutout typing: Char Siew! This is part of my experiment testing whether internet-users do read long posts or long e-mails. If they don't, I need to change my writing style looo...haha)

Anyway, there is too much dota, and it needs to be reduced. But i believe it will automatically stop once all deadlines of assignments and events come near. Now that 4 assignments are gonna be due in 5 weeks' time, let all the stress come in one shot! XD

I shall now end my post with lol:
Cheers - LoL

Still trying to gain weight,
CS (latest acronym- Char Siew)

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Quote for the month ending 30 April 2008:

"Smart and resourceful people learn mostly from others' mistakes, not from their own mistakes, UNLESS they are the leading pioneers in the field." (Chua 2008)

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Another chapter of life begins

2008-02-28T13:10:00.001+08:00

So so many things happened since I last blogged 1 month ago.

My internship officially ended 2 weeks back. It was a great experience getting to learn lots of things and having to know more people, though I doubt we will 'keep in touch' often as promised. Lol. But still, I have to specially thank all my seniors who taught me well and gave me a lot of advice and encouragement. Thanks!

Secondly, CNY flew past. Having not made any new year resolutions early this year. I have decided to make CNY resolutions! It sounds cooler and also does not stress you out to achieve your resolutions by the end of the year. You can drag till the next CNY, which will most probably lie in the months of January and February. Haha.

There are only two simple resolutions for me. My first resolution is of course, to gain WEIGHT! 55 looks like a nice number and that's exactly my target!! lol. My second reso would be to do something BIG this year. I'm not sure what it will be or how big it will be, but I'm gonna do something BIG that I will remember the rest of my life. Life is not that long anyhow =S

Hohoho, UniSA semester's gonna commence in 4 more days. I missed the challenging life so much. It's so fun meeting deadlines and getting some stress XD. I'm all geared up mentally!

Voiced by,
S o-o N

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Small Talk:

How would you define perfect?

Personally, I would aim(aim only) to be perfect like a polished diamond, not only because it is shiny and attractive but because it is multi-faceted in a way that it looks good from all angles. Being perfect means being good in every single aspect. So yes I'm going to be a diamond!

(No, don't call me Diamond Chua please!)

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Joke of the day:

And I was coming across this friend's blog, of which I noticed that the display picture looks very familiar (not in the sense of that face, but the pose):

So when I compared the picture against this, is he copying my pose?!

LoL! Sorry, Ron =P

原来我不帅 ~ I'm not handsome

2008-02-28T12:35:00.001+08:00

林俊杰 - 期待你的爱(Qi Dai Ni De Ai)

OST for 原来我不帅!

Getting lamer #1

2008-01-19T00:23:00.000+08:00

Oh darn, I'm getting lamer like what I used to be few years back. Here is case #1:

So there was this case where we were having lunch at one mamak stall. Everyone but me has finished ordering drinks. While I was still thinking, N* told the indian guy, "Aiya, bagi dia susu panas lah." While everyone was laughing, the indian guy tried to join in the fun: "Susu lembu ada, susu kambing pun ada, mau apa?"

So my spontaneous response was: :"susu manusia pun ada?" lol really getting lame. Then A* was even lamer: "So macam mana perah ah"? (another milk joke)

...

Then while we were eating, suddenly N* dirtied his hand. So of course he asked whether anyone got tissue paper. As Y* is the only girl there, all of us were expecting her to speak up because (almost) all girls have tissue paper right? But then the poor girl really did not have tissue paper with her so she received "one-kinda-look" from all of us.

But the lame killer sentence was from me: "Nvm-lah, no tissue paper we go order roti tisu lo."

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LoL

Signing off with swt,
s o-o N

N*, A* and Y* were used to protect the privacy of these people.

2008-01-12T14:09:00.000+08:00

~ Drumrolls ~
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~ More drumrolls ~

With this, http://noossoon.blogspot.com is officially open!

Introducing the author:

OmG, RAIN!!

but hold on, it's actually Rain's lookalike (or so):

haha ya it's me! Soon!

Rain-Soon-Rain-Soon 傻傻分不清楚 (translation: hard to differentiate)~

Ok now, introducing myself: I'm CS, which is the acronym for a lot of things:
1) Counter-strike
2) Chinese society
3) Consumer surplus (economics)

and 261 more here

but the latest now:
Choy-San lol

~ English name ~

I have always wanted an english name, which I have actually had 5 of them before but ended up without any now.

First, it was 'Jason' which I adapted from the red Power Rangers (cool huh). It sounds like my name right? but it is too common =P

Then next, I became Bond Chua which I always mistakenly wrote as Bone Chua in my exercise book. Ha! This explains why I look so boney...

Moving on, I became Lenard Chua which I got from one cool-looking NBA player (8 years back la, don't search for his photo now!)

Haha, and then i was unwillingly called Jackson. I don't like MJ!

Last but not least, I created an english name for myself, which sounds nice (at least for me) and sounds like my name.

"Charlson" - Chye Soon

(highlight above to see)

But when I told my family about that, my dad's first response is :

"Charlson-Charlson, not good-lah, sounds like Chow-serng." (busuk/smelly in hokkien)

and that's it, no english name for me till now. Sad right? Anyone has nice english name(s) for me?

LoL

Ok-lar. That's all for the opening post.
Give face a bit, dun flame too much k =P

Signing off,
Soon