Merry Christmas!

             I celebrated Christmas in Tanjung Malim for the first time this year! It's totally a different feeling. Away from my family, away from the church service which involves hundreds of people. I had this simple yet meaningful and warm Christmas here in Tanjung Malim Methodist church. On the 24th night we had a Christmas musical night which went really well! Praise the Lord! There were more people than expected.

24/12/2011 Christmas eve

Qing Qing and I. She's so cute! XD

               Christmas musical night went on very smoothly and it's the grace of God that brought all of us together as a family to make this successful! On the next day we had our Christmas service here at Tanjung Malim, too. This day, is the day our sister in Christ is baptized! Congratulations to her! May God's grace be with her always and forever! Ii just thought about a year ago, at this day, me too, was baptized. It's already been a year and I God's grace never cease to pour on me. Halelujah! =)

During baptism. =)

Congratulations! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 

Course registration

            This morning we were supposed to sing in class, for the edu subject class. Somehow he forgot because he was barking at those people who were late and complaining about the stupid add drop system. Once he said, class dismissed! My coursemate and I rushed out of the room at once because we don't want to be called out, in case he remembers. Haha.. What a joke.
             
              Course registration. We have to do it every semester. This time, we were supposed to be able to register at 12am, 21st Dec but the system only opens to some courses and we were told that the system opens course by course. I waited till 1am+ and I went to sleep while my friends kept watch. I woke up at 6am to find that my course registration is still closed until I went for class only it opened. Because of this most of us did not have enough sleep. Moreover most of the groups are taken. Please, give us the information if you want to open it course by course, don't keep us waiting! I really don't understand their system. Do we have to go through this every semester? Well, probably no for me because I only have to add EDU papers and Ko-ku papers. There'll be plenty of place for my major course. Thank God for that! =)

Laksa

            My coursemate brought some laksa ingredients back here from Bintulu last few weeks and we didn't have the time to cook laksa, yet. Today my housemates and I planned to cook in the afternoon. I went back home to help out. Throughout the process we had small talks, chit chats and some laughter going on. It's really tiring process but after all these I feel very relaxed indeed. The laksa wasn't as good as it was supposed to be. Somehow it lacked of something, I don't know what. But it's still nice though! We enjoyed the food.

Tim Tam!

            Tim Tam made my day! Our lecturer will give every one of us a Tim Tam each at the end of the class each semester. I had quite a bad morning and I really felt so happy after taking the first bite of Tim Tam! I wasn't very happy this morning. It's just because of some things he said that offended me. I hate him, seriously. But It wasn't a very big matter. At least I know I'm not like what he said. I should try to love these not-so-cute people.  Forget about it. We had Malam anugerah and it's a time where lecturers and students of FMSP gather here to take our certificates and watch performances. I got another sijil dekan for last sem. Yay! Hopefully I'll get another one for this semester. jia you! XD

Caroling at the MInes

            After these few busy nights I finally manage to take a break. We went to the Mines for caroling! It's 7 churches altogether that went for the caroling. We went there straight after service and we had few hours to shop. I didn't manage to buy any clothes because they are not very suitable. Haiz. Guess I have to get some when I'm back home this study week. I really enjoyed the moment where everyone come together as a family in Christ to spread the good news. I really had fun caroling there although I was really quite tired after all the KS thingy. Glory to the Lord who made this opportunity for us!

KS day 3

            It's finally the last day of KS. Finally we can put all our attentions in our courseworks. WE started our KS late again today. What was supposed to be at 8.30PM turned out to be a 9PM show. Everyone was very happy after the show ended, but I don't really feel anything. I don't know why. Yeah, I'm happy that they managed to finish their KS but I didn't have the mood that night, not like the previous KS where I joined them in the craziness. Well, at last it's finished! Hooray! I can have my lovely sleep.

KS day 2

            Second day of KS, one more day to go. Our performance started officially at 8.45PM. I feel quite sorry for the audiences because the time wrote in their ticket was 8PM and they can only go into Panggung Budaya at 8.15PM and still they have to wait till 8.45PM for the performance to begin officially. There were so many people last night. At 8.15PM the door was opened and they all came in, more like a rushing in. Haha.. There were so manh people I can hardly get my way through. I had to show the audiences their seats.

             When I was doing that, I saw a "corpse", yeah, corpse. They were distributing flyer for their upcoming theater, "Mayat". She was complete with white cloth wrapped around her and the spooky makeup. I was stunned when she actually stood in front of me. What in the world are they doing? Don't they know they are going to scare people?? Some of the audiences actually screamed and some backed away, shocked because she stood behind the door. It's really creepy you know... Another one actually dressed up as a "Pocong" and she jumped around the entrance. Oh please... Stop scaring people. This is Kemuncak Seni, not corpse theater.

            No more of that. We had a great performance today and the total time taken was 2 hours! Hooray! That's our target since the first day! Hopefully we will have another 2 hours show tomorrow!

KS day 1

            First day of KS. Had to prepare for the 3PM show, so we girls have to go for makeup at 10AM. I totally forgot about the 11AM class till my coursemate told me about it. I didn't make it in time bacause they finish my makeup only at 11 something. When we went in to the lecture room he was like, hey! It's already good night! Haha! Gosh.. Well, at least we go for your class ok... And we already told you we have Kemuncak Seni...

Last rehearsal

            It's our last rehearsal for the coming Kemuncak Seni, that is tomorrow. I bought my contact lenses this morning, finally. Hopefully I'll be able to wear it after such a long time of not wearing contact lenses. I remembered that I took about one hour to put on the lenses for both sides last semester. That's the first time. Haha.. Anyway, hopefully the makeup won't turn out ugly rather than pretty because the colour of the eye shadow during yesterday's full dress rehearsal looks quite ugly...

Full dress rehearsal

            We had a full dress rehearsal today, complete with makeup and accessories. We have to be there at 3PM for makeup. I had to wear Cheongsam for my performance and... I think it's too short. It's above knee length when I sit down and I can't walk too fast. That's the disadvantage of being too tall. I had once bought a dress online and it turned out to be a blouse when I got it. Great. Well the rehearsal today was not too bad, we had good comments from our lecturers. Hopefully it'll be as good as this, or even better for the time to come.

Fill in the blanks, anyone?

            had another day of useless class for 2 hours today. He got to know that both of us are music students and he was like, why didn't I see you sing last time? I want you to sing next week. Gosh. What is he even thinking? Please... This is not a singing class... More like time wasting class.. Fine, no more about that. English class today, every group had to find a newspaper article and make 15 blanks in it to be filled in. We had loads of it to do today, and some doesn't even say what should we put in. At last I didn't really want to do it. I don't feel like doing it. LOL

Exam!

            It's Sunday and we have to take our exam today. We got ourselves ready with warm-ups and some snacks in case we are hungry because it might take the whole morning until our turn. As expected, I was in the 13th group, if I'm not mistaken. After we finished everything it was like already 3PM. Thanks to pastor who asked someone to pack some lunch for us. Love them so much~ We ate like people who didn't have food for whole 3 days! We were so hungry that time. The exam is done! Yeah! Although I got a few punches and kicks, but still, It's done!! XD

Taekwondo and practices

            Had Taekwon-do as usual today. We had another day of it under the sun! Gosh.. Luckily I knew it earlier and I brought along my sunblock and put my cap on. If not, I'll be roasted again. We are going to have out final exam tomorrow, including sparring. So out instructor decided to have our practice extended to 1.30PM... Our faculty is having Kemuncak Seni, we have practice session at 2PM. We had to rush to lunch and rush back to practice. Yeah, with our smelly sweat smell. eww...

Mid-term

           Had my mid-term exam today. As predicted, I don't really know how to do it. I can't really remember what I have read. Arrrgggghhhhh!!! So many marks gone!! Sigh. Fine. I'll work harder in the final. Something surprised me. The assignment we handed in last few weeks was given full marks to me by our lecturer! I din't even think that deserved such mark. I didn't refer to a DVD when I should, I watched a youtube version of DVD instead. And the content is mostly like... made up. 8 of us did a good job in that assignment she said, and we are required to present it. Well, I'll try to present some better information. Anyway, I really thank God for the blessing. <3

Laughter is the best medicine.

            Had another whole day of activities. Well, not exactly. I stayed back in the afternoon to study for my mid-term tomorrow. I didn't manage to finish all of it in detail despite all the activities. Sigh. Guess I will not have good result for tomorrow's mid-term. We had full rum through today, and yeah, I had yet another good laugh. The Chinese Opera still made me laugh. Gosh... I really have to stop this nonsense if not I won't be able to concentrate. There's still another few things that made me laugh like mad today. Gosh.. What a wonderful day! XD

Chinese Opera

            The Kemuncak Seni is next week! We started practicing every night since yesterday. It'll be a very tiring week, again. I think i'll have dark circles again. Sigh. We had practice for oriental session just now, and this is the first time our Chinese Opera singers performed. The dialogues were in BM. Ouch. But the effect is quite okay though. Somehow I tend to laugh when they are performing. I don't know... I think it's the opera thingy mixed up with BM plus their acting. I had really a good laugh. That's also what made me missed a few notes during the rehearsal. =p

Another day of assignments

            I had only one class this morning, and since I have to stay back tonight I decided to bring along my laptop to do my assignments during my free time. That's what I love about my faculty. I can eat, online, refill my bottle and practice here. I can even do my practices and online without disturbance in the individual rooms provided. I love my faculty so much. <3
             I was halfway through my arranging for Caklempong when my battery went dead and it shut down suddenly. I didn't have any of my new arrangements saved inside. It all went "poof"! Gosh... That was devastating. I had to start all over again. Stupid me. And it's quite a task putting in the notes for that song... I used "Busy Cowboy" by Jay Chow as a piece to be arranged. Well, I had it almost done now.

Annoyed

            I had my class cancelled and the lecturer didn't inform us about it at all. We waited in the lecture room for more than one hour. As she was always half an hour late for the class so we decided to stay back another half an hour to see whether she comes or not. Alas, she didn't. What a time wasting afternoon. Fine. I went to a short meeting for KS protocol just now. Our leader said that we have to be at faculty that night. I went. And I was told that they only need the crews. So frustrated. Luckily I brought my laptop with me. I spent my time doing my assignment and I think it's not bad because I can really concentrate more if I don't do it at home. Had a very packed Monday and there's something that make me angry again. Well, think on the bright side, I finished one of my assignments, in few hours. Wow...

Water, again?

            I was sleeping very well last night until I heard the water dripping again at about 5AM this morning. That sound is really really annoying. It disturbed my beauty sleep, which I didn't have since a few weeks ago. I was still wondering where is it from because it never happened before until last few weeks. It's already the fourth time it happened. Should I call the plumber? Or it's just the drainage system? I'm not sure what it's called though. Haha

Accompaniment

            I always thought that my piano accompaniment is not good enough and it's not up to the standard. But this morning a church member of mine told me that my accompaniment makes people feel at peace. Wow! I didn't know that and I was really very glad to hear that! I was having difficulty in writing in chords and to play everything nicely without making mistakes. I need chords for me to look at to be able to play a song. I can't play by heart and even if I look at the chords I can still play those wrong. Yeah, I'm a music student but that doesn't really make me look like a music student. I think I have to improve on that. Thank God for the blessing!

Assignment week! Argghhhhh!

            I still have many assignments to be handed in this week, next week and the week after next.  I really have to get everything done before the Kemuncak Seni makes me busy. Although you might say that assignments of 5 pages is easy to do. Not for me. I will find out lots of information for the assignment and end up taking only a little, and I tend to get distracted. I need quite a long time to finish even the simplest assignment. It's really annoying. I wish I could do things more effectively, faster and informative. I think that most of my assignments didn't reach the informative level.

Sleepy..

            It was my friends birthday yesterday and his housemate planned a surprise for him. As we had practice at night, we had to make it 10.30pm. He was really caught in the surprise that time. Thanks to his housemate who prepared everything nicely! I went home yesterday evening to find one of my senior came over for few hours before flying off to Korea. So glad to see her! So after the celebration, we went out for supper together in a group. There were laughter and joy, we really had a great time! Since we have not finished our EC assignment, we decided to interview her before she goes off at 3am. We did the interview in the middle of the night. Funny right? We were so grateful that she is willing to help us. She's going to Korea to teach, I pray that she'll excel in everything she does!
             I went to sleep about 2am, and I have class at 8am today. I was so sleepy that I came back home to sleep in the afternoon. I didn't really sleep well, not because of the weather but because of some noises. I even heard doors banging. That's really annoying as I'm a light sleeper. But however it's still refreshing.