.:: My Eye Hurts ::.

Mood: My eye is feeling so sore.

Don't know why,

but my eye's swollen.

Badly.

And it hurts

everytime I blink.

And it's not helpful that siblings are making

fun of it.

Almost couldn't wake up this morning

for St John exams cause my eye was killing me.

I hate waking up knowing I have a swollen eye.

St John exam, was fun, I guess.

I think I failed CPR though,

did the head tilt chin lift thing wrong.

But what the heck,

at least I tried. =)

Maybe 4 years of inactivity was a bad idea.

The important thing is,

I had fun =D

And I think that's what St John's supposed to be about.

Not about state comps,

not about ranks,

being a commitee member or not,

not about being perfect at bandaging,

and most definitely not how perfect you are at footdrill.

St John (in my opinion)

is supposed to be about the sole purpose

it was made in the first place.

The joy of helping others out.

Then again, I could be wrong,

but who cares. It's my opinion.

And I might not have any rights to define it,

but that's sorta like a personal definition.

After that,

I had a complete knockout cum all-cure nap

in the evening till 9pm.

Might as well call it hibernating.

Decided to blog since it's been awhile.

Hopefully the swelling'll be gone by tomorrow.

Or at least, by Sunday.

[you know what day that is]

Can't wait to meet all of you guys again! Missed Ya! =)

.:: 中国人の新年 ::.

Mood: A bit tired, but happy =)

I had an extremely hard time
trying to describe Chinese New Year to my Japanese friends.
So in the end I used: 中国人の新年
As in directly translating, Chinese's New Year.
but hey, at least they understood and actually
wished me happy Chinese New Year

Lols.
Anyway, as usual,
for CNY, we went back to Terengganu
as always. Had the huge family dinner.
Delicious.

I loved the soup, as always.
There was like tons of food,
so it was time to stuff myself lols!
But I had too much cheese cake before dinner,
only managed to eat a plate and a half. =(
[hey, the cheese cake was good, wasn't my fault!]

Anyways, at night, after emailing,
yes I do this almost EVERY night)
I went to watch fireworks and ended up playing firecrackers.
It was fun because I haven't done this
in a while.


(LOLs)

And like always, I don't get much sleep on CNY eve.
Mainly cause, the phone's really noisy that night,
due to the overflow of SMS-es coming in
for me and each of my family members.
Thanks a lot all of you! -- in a good way)

Next morning, new clothes -- like that isn't obvious enough!
Started out eating breakfast and stuff,
a little TV
and before we left the house to go hunting for red packets,
we took a family picture.

Income was pretty much the same as always,
I just loved the satay at one of my relatives' houses.
And this year, I ate a hell lot more.
(for some reason)
And I know for a fact that I've been
eating way too much cookies during the whole two days there.
(like a cookie goblin)


Got caught taking pictures of dinner! (the night before) =x


Family pic!


2nd family picture =)


Satay! =D


Just us girls and an ET in Ben 10 shirt.


Just so happy to get deli!


Isn't that cute? Hurt my conscience a bit to eat it.


Lols! Stuffing ourselves.


Can anyone see that bubble?

Anyway, we had a gorgeous steamboat dinner
at night before leaving for Kuantan.
Usually, we stay till the 2nd day of CNY,
but this time Pinky had to rush back for Uni on the 3rd day
because she doesn't have holiday for that.

Another reason's cause:
I wanted to meet my cousins!
It's been like one heck of a long time since I last met them,
so was kinda overjoyed. (a little)
We reached home around midnight and
like chatted around till 4am!
LOLs!

I showed them the Japan video I made,
and the KWN one and we camwhored a bit.
(okay, maybe quite a lot)
Then, they left for Rompin.


Me and my cousins.


Camwhoring again =D


For some reason, my face got blurred in this one.


The Ben 10 fanatics.


Me and Kevin.


Qian Li and Kevin.


Vincent, Resha and Qian Li


Me and Vin (this proves Qian Li's a bad photographer)


Us again. It's much clearer when Pinky's taking it.


Pinky, Qian Li and Vin with his 'muka mengada'

And that concludes Resha's CNY.

.:: Yiruma : River Flows into You ::.

Mood: Totally occupied.

I can't believe I barely have time to post.
Have to like buck up after CNY holidays.

I definitely have to make time.
Otherwise, when am I ever gonna watch my anime?
=P

Anyway, here's a clip of me playing River Flows into You by Yiruma.
Just cause during the JENESYS programme,
Ariel played this on the grand piano
and I fell in love with it.

Haven't completed learning it yet though,
didn't really get the piano sheets.
But so far so good, considering I haven't
learned piano for 5 years.
I guess I'm still lucky I can remember how to read notes.
=P

.:: ガアヤ-ちゃん,お誕生日をおめでとう! ::.

Mood: Happy to have met my best friend again.
At the same time, dissapointed, yet not
surprised by the behaviour of some.

Yesterday night, I went to Gaaya's house
for her belated birthday party.
Was hired as her secretary =P
Well, sorta.

Anyways, it was a blast.
Really missed her tons.
And Sabrina too =)

However, some people dissapointed me really badly.
And proved me right the one time I
wanted to be wrong.
Remember when I discussed about the Level E-s?
Met a few there, but plenty enough to
upset me.

But then again, I never mention names,
so rest assured.
I hope you enjoy what you're doing as a Level E
and hope you finally meet a day when you know what true friends are.
Good luck with that.

Anyways, scratch that unhappy thought.
Good news is Gaaya's happy, so that's all that matters.
And I finally finished my cyber-diary-like-video
about my trip to Japan.

Already sent it in for the report,
(finally decided to use it as my report)
and showed it to Gaaya yesterday.
Although, the rest of them did see it,
only like near the back,
because I figured they were too busy talking.
Will upload it ASAP.

Although, I think I still need to make adjustments
before I send it to my host family
as a sign of thanks. It was finished in a real rush,
so I have to touch it up a bit.
And for those who have already watched it,
YES, I did it by myself.
It took me a long week of no sleep, but it was worth it
because Japan was awesome.

We finally signed the SPM papers,
I'm still considering how many subjects to take,
but I've marked 12 at the moment.
Trying to negotiate with myself whether to add or subtract.
Because I definitely do not plan to limit
my co-curricular activities for SPM.
Anyways, since the post tittle's
Happy birthday Gaaya,
here's the pictures.
Have to steal some from Aimi's Facebook later,
when my Facebook can finally get working.



Besties forever!


The whole group
[Kevin, Adele, Aimi, Amanda, Me, Gaaya, Priya,
Thanusha, Ummaira, Sabrina, Pinky & Wong]


Me, Gaaya, Amanda, Sabrina

Owh, and I'm like extra-super-happy
because Agnes finally got her internet fixed
so we can chat now!
I miss her sooo much now!!!
It was super fun being with her
and especially when we accidentally ended up
in a love shrine. >.<


Me and Agnes.  I definitely have to go to Australia someday.

And remember the special someone coming to Malaysia?
Haha, she's finally back in Japan now.
And since she had a great time,
I'm super happy too. Just got her email yesterday,
with a cute picture of her new friends with her.

Yesterday, I was staring at the sky at night
at the beautiful stars and couldn't help but
remember what a special someone said.
No matter how far we are apart,
 we'll always be under the same sky.
It made me smile to notice that at that very moment,
a second star shone bright beside
that lonely star that I chose to resemble me.
You really have a way of doing things, don't you?

The wind is finally blowing once more,
and the me who was nearly losing my confidence,
is getting my doubts blown away.
Like a weed, so weak yet strong,
I will grow back even after being pulled out
countless times.

.:: 学校 ::.

Mood: I'm missing Japan more than ever now.

I keep thinking about my host family and school there.

Totally random picture taken in the morning. Lols.

School's finally started!!
Which led me to think of...

前橋南高校
[Maebashi Minami High School]

This was my school.
Now, I'm missing all my form mates.

(Mainly because we didn't stay put in one class,we moved throughout the form.

I was really glad to receive their email, its become a habit for me to check my email every night now.

Anyway, one more reason to miss my host mum

other than her being the kindest and most caring-

not-to-mention-awesome-super-host-mum she is,

is that bento she makes every morning for me to take to

school. She makes super cute ones.
So, not knowing what came over me,

I woke up early today and on the 1st day of school

to produce this:

Yeah, I know. It doesn't look all that great.

I forgot to get a bento bag home.

(That's not very smart of me)

And that's technically not the bento box I bought from Japan.

I'm keeping that one, haven't had the heart to use it yet.

SO anyway, because I forgot to get a bag,

I had to settle with the furoshiki wrapping techniques

Ishii-san showed us on the bus.

Life-saver! =P

Should have gotten a bigger hanky though.

And what's inside?

Ta-dah!

We don't cook rice in the morning like Japanese do, so have to make do with what I have.

Compare that to this:

Oka-san's bento. I already ate an onigiri before taking this picture.
Craps, I miss my Japan bentos!!

But anyway, its not like I'm complaining about

Malaysia because like I don't think

I can survive without all the spicy food Malaysia has to offer.

Yum.

Hrmm. So the post tittle's 'school' and

here I end up talking about food.

Geez. Way to go out of topic.

Owh well.

But now I'm keeping my fingers extra-crossed for a second

chance to return there.

And I'm still working on the video.

We're supposed to like pass up a report on this JENESYS Programme,

so I thought of using the video, but its still in progress.

Will I make the deadline?

It's time to be nocturnal again, I guess.

Here's a video of us doing air guitar at the welcome party
at the host community.

Credits to the table on which the camera was put on and Andrew who uploaded it.
I'm barely in the video (thank God) but I'm the one in
the red cheongsam (1st one to be dragged in).
And someone actually tore his jeans in this,
I'll leave that for you to guess who he is. =P
Look at Julie-sensei though (she's the one in the formal black dress)
Yeah, Gunma group rocks!

-あけましておめでとうございます!!-

Mood: なんかねむい。

[Feeling a bit sleepy]

Tittle says it all:

HaPPY NeW YeaR!

Can't believe Yuki's year's over.

This year's Hatsuharu's! Yay!

(Refer to Fruits Basket if you have no idea

of what I am talking about)

Well, for New Years,

I didn't exactly do much..

My family and I stayed up watching

Pirates and the Carribean 3 on HBO.

Hate the ending, so sad.

Well, 2008 has been a great year and

I wanna thank God for that.

I can't believe my Form 4 life ended so fast.

Well, good things pass by fast don't they?

I did so many things that I couldn't dream

of doing the years before.

And now, my Form 5 life is starting.

I have a feeling its going to be another exciting year.

As for SPM, well... it's just another exam,

(which happens to be the most important exam in my life)

so no biggie.

Let's see, my New Year's Resolutions:

1. Like always, I wanna be myself.

2. I want to do my best in everything.

3. I want to try and rank top 6 in the KWN Globals

so I can go back to Japan again.

4. I want to do well in SPM, but I'm not going to

limit my activities.

(It'll be too boring)

5. I want to enjoy this year! =)

And someone special's coming this 8th January,

so I hope she has a great time here!

.:: 大好きの日本 ::.

Mood: Still can't find time to
completely blog about trip. Missing my host family.

As all of you might have or have not noticed,
I changed the blog header!

Yup, I'm back from Japan.
Miss my host family so much!!
It was such a wonderful, wonderful experience.

Let's see, I made new friends,
did new things, went to places more beautiful than
I could have ever immagined
and spoke a language that I learnt through my favourite thing,
anime.
Owh and I got a new family too!!
And I even did air guitar,
thanks to Andrew.

And I really miss my friends tons, especially from Gunma Group.
There's Agnes (we both love BoA!!), Sarah, Kate and Andrew from Australia, Erna from Indonesia, Sundus from India, Nat from Thailand (he has the funniest laugh ever), Erika from New Zealand, Adie from Philippines, Cherry from Finland (you should see her air guitar!), Max from Chile and Toh-chan from Malaysia =P

Well, its way too long for me to blog.
A 2-weeks post, huh?
I'll never be able to write that much.
So, instead, I'll just make a music video.
Some sort of cyber diary.
Managed to finish about Day 1 yesterday.
Uploaded it on Youtube but in a compressed format.
HD wasn't meant to be on Youtube, I guess.

This is the compressed version, way blurr-er,
but hopefully, it'll pull through.

Enjoy!! Will update soon!

Still working on the rest.
[NOTE: I learnt all my Japanese from anime and so,
if I made any mistakes, please do inform!]
That's all for now.
Can't wait to see everyone again.

Gunma group rocks!
Maebashi City is the best place in Japan!
And D is for Daijyoubu. =P

Wanna take this opportunity to thank everyone;
starting from Gunma group, to Bus D,
to Malaysia and JENESYS Japan.
ありがとうございました!!