Transformation Part 1

We had the floor tile retouched, this was after the retouched.

After the cements that left on the surface were cleaned. Floor tile finally showed its shine.

The next day, 5 wiremen came for around 5-6 hours of work, installing fans, lights and CCTV points.

Before the wiremen left, they actually helped us to clean up all the mess, and left us this. We really appreciated it. It saved us a lot of cleaning works.

Hypersensitive tooth

Went for a dental filling not long last week, and after a few days, it kind of pain whenever i eat something or drink something cold/hot. Went to the dentist again and the dentist told me that my tooth becomes hypersensitive. She prescribed me some meds and asked me to see how it goes, and advised me to avoid hot and cold food. Haih.....Even after taking the medicines, still i can feel the pain whenever i eat something slightly cold or warm. The meds will make me feel really sleepy after taking it. Hopefully the pain will just miraculously disappear when i wake up tomorrow. Pray hard!!!!

FIRE

Around 3 a.m. this morning. I woke up by the ringing alarm. It somehow sounded like an alarm clock ringing but due to its persistence and my alarm clock just didn't sound like this, i woke up and left my bed. I looked out from my window, saw nothing unusual, no smoke, no fire, no fight, no people running and almost no movement of any living creature. The ring persisted and still i didn't see anyone on the opposite building came out to their balcony to see what happened.

Then i saw my brother standing in the balcony, and he saw me. We two started guessing where was this ringing came from. Our first guess was the house alarm that the owner has not moved in yet. Minutes later, we both saw fire engine arrived at the guard house there. Only then we realised that there was a fire, but curious why no one seemed panic or running for their life.

Then we saw smoke near building B, around the height of middle floor. We decided to go to 4th floor, to have a look on what happened there. The room behind the guard house, which is used as rubbish storage room was on fire. We were there watching the firemen put off the fire, not a big fire since it was in a closed room. The fire was all along contained. Only then i saw around 4-5 peoples looking here from their balcony and some just peeked out from their window.

I feel it very strange as i saw not more than 10 peoples actually care to wake up in the middle of the night even when they heard this loud alarm. What kind of people are they who just ignore the alarm? Even if it was a false alarm, we should also be awaken and check out on what happen i suppose.

New neighbour

I received gifts from my newly( around one week ++) known neighbour. We are now table tennis mate for almost everyday on weekdays. I got the soya taste agar-agar from her last week. a diary, a calender, 4 mandarin oranges and a bar of Cadbury Chocolate few days back and this evening, she gave me a cup coaster from Australia, a Koala bear key-chain for my brother. I really appreciate it and i am feeling grateful for giving me all these gifts. A big thanks to them.

P/S: We had some great table tennis games on Monday, which even her son and other neighbour came to join us. One funny thing happened when her son asked me how i knew his mum. I told him i knew her because of the table tennis game and i met her in the table tennis room.

One month anniversary

Moving in to the new place for a month, things happened and we try hard to overcome them.
In a month, i have experienced a lot of things, i have learned a lot. Starting to get use of the environment and people here. I am glad that i am blending in pretty well.
Things can be dramatically changed in a month, or sometime can be almost nothing changed in a month.
From knowing new people to know them more, things are going pretty well. I am actually enjoying this type of life where i dump away my stress with the sweats that i shed. Stress can still be dumped, what about sadness? Sadness goes with us all the time and time is just no healer. People always saying that time will heal, but in real, it just never works. The pain and the sadness will not go away since they will never change. What changes is ourselves, we changed ourselves so that we won't get hurt so much after a while, but still, it hurts.
One month anniversary, one year anniversary, ten years anniversary.....they are all the same. They will still remind you of those good and bad moments no matter how long it has been.

24 Jan 2011

Went to meet with Dr. Harlina today, here came my first assignment as a GA. She handed me a book, and asked me to prepare lecture notes for her of out the book, and the book named, a really familiar one, "Unit Operations for Chemical Engineering", totally was a nightmare for me when i was doing my undergraduate. Luckily, the lectures note are for next semester, that means i will still have time to prepare it without rushing it. So the first task is to prepare a chapter and show to her after Chinese New Year. Now i finally understand why we always feel very difficult in understanding the lectures note. Haha.....

I was in a air-con room, standing which i don't really mind, what make me feel uncomfortable the most was the second-hand smoke. I ended up smelling like a smoke-pot and was having headache for hours.

Just when i was planning to hop into my bed for a small nap after popping in the Panadol, my brother came knocking my door and said our neighbour called and asked us to join the table tennis game at 7 as her son will also be here to join the game. She even asked for me. So i have no choice but to leave the bed and walking with heavy footsteps along with my throbbing head and join them. It ended up quite a good match as they are good player. I am just an amateur player that play for fun.

Food

My quick lunch that provides me with instant fullness and protein. Preparation time: 5 minutes.
[creamy hot coffee+ bull-eye style fried egg + a triangle of cheese]

Americans have their favorite baked beans on toast, i have fava beans on light toast.
Preparation time: 5-8 minutes

This is how the fava beans look like in can. Ingredients: Premium Fava beans, water, salt, sunflower oil, lemon juice and natural spices. Open it up and heat in pan, voila, ready to be served with bread or toast.

邻居

最近几天， 认识了住在同一栋楼的邻居夫妇。认识的经过都因乒乓而起。他们是非常有趣的一对夫妻， 孩子们都年长了， 夫妇二人独居， 非常的活跃， 乒乓，羽球， 健身，游泳都给玩上一份。 当发现我和小弟都有玩乒乓时，他们可是乐得。虽然才认识几天， 但是也渐渐的开始熟络了。昨天还特地的拿了两杯燕菜给我和小弟。今天， 在补过了牙后有点不舒服，回到家， 忍无可忍的， 倒头睡了一下， 但是在炎热的天气外加那恼人的建筑工人敲敲打打的情况下小休， 其实并不是最好的选择。起来后， 头还是有点重重的， 可能是补牙的后遗症， 因为在补牙的时候精神太过于紧绷， 也可能是最近这热死人不尝命的天气。走出房门， 见到了上完课回来的小弟， 他说邻居说今天7点，乒乓室见。我弄好了晚餐， 7点了， 我让小弟先下去， 小弟说他会告诉邻居说我不太舒服， 没那么快下去。东西收拾好了， 晚餐也弄好了， 碗碟也洗好了， 衣服也洗好了后我就下去了。

见到邻居的时候， 她还很亲切的问说我好点了吗？是不是有感觉比较好了？感恩啊！还算是没什么严重的， 不去想它 也就没事了。后来， 邻居的女主人说让我们打完乒乓后到他的家去， 她还准备了Ice-cream给我们。我们也不好推辞， 结果我一面挥拍， 脑子里就一面的在想家里有什么东西可以让我在第一次到他家时带去的。结果， 拿了点cookies, cheese 和已经开过包装了的Lady Grey Tea 去。我们还真是聊天聊地的， 一直聊到男主人都打完羽球回来了， 我们还继续的再聊， 聊到站起来， 聊到接近大门口要离开，女主人还说我们明天再继续聊。结果我就说明后天我们两人都回家去了， 担心说他们不知道， 还在想说可以在周末约了一起打乒乓。

和他们聊天， 长了很多的见识。 很感谢他们对我们那么的友善， 又不计较的给予我们很多的忠告。这是一个很好的开始， 我感到很安慰。虽然说出来让人的感觉很怪， 但是我们倒也不介意， 而且相处下来， 也渐渐的没有当初那么的压力了。

Dentist

Dentist appointment at school this morning, due to some small accident that happened last Thursday night. Lost my dental-filling that aged around 6 months after i brushed my teeth that night. Although the dentist had helped me with the temporary dental-filling last Friday, but still, this morning, i had to go and removed the temporary one and replaced it with a better one. Not really afraid of going to the dentist, but i have to admit that it was kind of scary when you were sitting there with your mouth widely opened, bright spot-light shine on your face and the dentist was using all type of electrical tools that made extremely frightening and unpleasant sound. It was no doubt very scary to us.

After the dentist appointment that only lasted for 30 minutes(Luckily), i went to meet with my supervisor. He was not around at that time so i was wandering around the school and saw a notice wit my name on it. Ah.....it's the list that showed who i am assigned to for the GA scheme. It means who should i report to or who should i ask for task in order to fulfill the responsibility of being a GA holder. I met the Dr. that i am suppose to report to, i nearly spoke something sound "Ma'am, i will be at your service." Very military like??

What a beautiful coincidence, i met Su Hui with her mum at Tesco Extra nearby USM, as we both just met each other yesterday.

2 photos

From evening to night fall.

Star at the top right, blinking dimly.

Good news that come in pair

Had two good things happened that i feel really grateful today. First was the car sticker, i managed to apply one after all those summon and "illegal-driving-around-campus" years. What a loser that feeling exhilarated because of this.

Although the second good news came with a little drama, but still i am grateful, really grateful.
I was checking with the GA extension at school, the person in charge told me i didn't get the extension of the scheme. Just when i was about to leave the office, the head of person-in-charge of all these students' financial thingy(Pn. Juliana) appeared at my back and said to the officer that she got the wrong list. She told the officer that the list that she was looking was the list for new application, and for my case, she should check on the list where the students applied for extension. Pn Juliana said that she remembered me( that was probably because i just went to see her last week to ask about this), that was why she knew that the officer was checking the wrong list. So, at the end, i found out that my name is still one the list, and so do my friend's that i promised will help her to check it out. Luckily the Pn.Juliana appeared on time, if not i would have to spent my days worrying about money before finding out the real good news.

Congratulation to both of us, as i know she was very happy after knowing it and i was too, almost experience the moments of ecstacy.

[Food] Breakfast

Home-made breakfast, cheers up your morning and makes up your day. Pic: Scramble eggs top with sprinkle of salts and black peppers, piece of whole meal bread, lightly toasted with a cup of creamy hot coffee served in my bohemian style mug.

Breakfast is an important meal of our day. I always take it seriously and for me, it's a habit now.
I willing to spent more time on preparing breakfast rather than dinner.

纪念

左：Yi Ling, 右：Huan Yi, 和还没把长发给修短的我。

在原本以为是最后一堂课的星期日早上， 和我的两位学生合照了一张。 很感谢他们一直以来都很合作的。虽然说两位学生都是由家长叫来上课的， 但是他们也没有埋怨， 可以说是尽心尽力的再学习。 在教学的日子里，我观察了很多， 也学到了很多。 学生的个性和他们学习的态度的连带关系， 我也渐渐的了解。即使不是在学习的时候， 有的时候我也会在他们身上发现很好的心态。所谓教学相长， 近几个月来我开始渐渐的体验到了。 　

突然

因为这样， 自己开始怀疑自己的能力。
开始觉得自己为什么会活成这个样子
仿佛我是写了“请利用我"在我的额头上，
然后又到处的去招摇， 才" 幸运" 的得到这样的下场。
我就那么的简单， 我的生活在别人的眼中就那么的一文不值吗？
还是自己太天真， 掏心掏肺的， 牺牲到乱七八糟的却还被人给嘲笑？
这样的感觉就像是被某人设计掉入陷阱之中后，
还被某人指着鼻子的大声嘲笑。
这样的情景， 你想象到吗？
如果跌下陷阱的人是你，
你脑里浮现的画面是这样：
你信任的人， 站在陷阱的一旁嘲笑你，
你那一霎那才恍然自己被利用了。
但是又能够怨谁？ 是我自己导致的吧！
这种感觉， 就是这种很难言语的感觉，
这让我很冲动， 很冲动的想要离开一下。
放不下的东西很多， 但是如果没有处理， 心理上的包袱却又日渐加重。
我什么时候才会从这种经历中学会成长？
什么时候才开始不会再感觉到心疼？
希望我可以快点拥有强壮的心
那时，
我也就不会再难过， 不会再那么心疼。

生活二三事2

这一夜， 我难以想象明天醒来的时候会是什么样的光景。
原来， 有的时候， 我还是很脆弱。

回归

终于， 第一次感谢TM的效率， 昨天电话才刚能够用，今天Streamyx得人就上来帮我安装好internet了。 感恩啊！

晚餐， 到了楼下的中国穆斯林餐馆打包， 拿到Menu，看到封面时有暗自的惊讶一下。整体都弄得很好， 翻开菜单， 哇，有被吓到的感觉， 东西多样化， 很有特色， 唯独适合一个人吃的选择就很少。 见到菜单第一面的西夏炸羊背， 好想叫来和家人一起尝， 但是今天就只有我一个人， 就等下一次和我那民以食为天的家人都到齐的时候才打电话去预定吧。

另一厢， 自己在晚餐之后就再次埋头， 为了自己的承诺而继续的痛苦。

生活二三事

打从年尾开始就为了搬家而忙碌。总算在新的一年的开始， 可以说是近乎齐全了。
新的一年， 得拥有万马奔腾的气魄才能够顺利的把大事小事，事事化小。
为了生活可以更为潇洒，利索， 特地剪了一头麻利利索的头发。
新的一年， 希望各位可以大展宏图， 杀气逼人！