Happy Chinese New Year!!

Happy Chinese New Year!! Isk..isk... whenever CNY comes, it always give me a feeling that I am getting OLDER each year. CNY is used to be a exciting event and celebration for me. But I realised that as I get 'older' ...eh..no... as I get mature years by years, CNY is no longer an exciting celebration for me anymore. It is just an occasion where I can get few days holidays and meet with my friends. Hmm... even CNY shopping also reduced at least 70%. I used to shop for myself new clothes at least from first day of CNY to the tenth day of CNY. Yes, I know... crazy right.. very rich right... hahha.. But hor this year I only shop for three days. Recession mah... what to do. Well, this year CNY was not a bad one for me. Looks like my luck is quite good this year. Out of 5 times gambling, I think I won at least 3.5 times.. hahaha... I felt so goood. And no.. this is not the end.. I am still going to continue winning until the fifteen day. After resting for 3 days, and I am back to work today. The whole college's environment is so silent and dead. It really looks like hospital now. A lil errie.. but works still continue...

I just can't stop eating during these few days.. Haha..I know... getting fatter.. but it's CNY.. it's the season of growing! Growing in stomach and also in pocket.. lol... This is the only thing I love about CNY. Alright..time to get into some serious business. Let's see how is this year 2009 going to be for me.

Born in the year of RAT...

- While there are many changes afoot, the Rat will receive help from Noble People. You will enjoy smooth relationships with others, with minimal troubles. Where your career is concerned, you need to stay in your current company this year. Help from others will elevate your stature and improve the situation, especially for those of who have more experience than you. They will be able to offer plenty of useful assistance and advice -

Gosh... stay in the current company for this year... exactly what I am planning to do.. Looks like it's a fate for me to stay in this company until end of this year. Well, it's 329 days to go from today... this will be the official countdown from now... the resolution of year 2009.

Prom night!

It is my dream or wish to organize a prom night. Now that I got a chance to so.. I definitely won't let it slip away. As usual.. it is just me and my gang who will be in the committee. My gang is who??? Aiyo... Andrew...Ke xin... Sean... Efoong... Robin... Wee Han... and a new girl, Jen. Who else I forgot to list here... ermm... should be this few people... I spoke to Kamini today in SSD about this prom night.. She is very supportive. She gave me few venue choices... "Kota Permai Golf Resort, Holiday Villa, Yatch Club, Concorde Hotel..." She also gave some ideas on how to make the prom a wonderful one..." ..a white tent with air-cond ... red carpet all the way..." I like the idea actually. Imagine.. walking through the red carpet to the main entrance of the hall... NICE! The theme of the prom night is Hollywood Glam! Wah... everyone will be the celebrity of the night. Man and woman will dress to kill and everyone will take pictures for each other. A night to remember indeed. This is the last event that I am going to organize for the college. So we have to make it the best and memorable one. I know if all of us want it, we definitely will do the best! Haha... that is the spirit we have. I am still thinking the actual date for this prom night. This is not an easy task.. lots of planning to do... and preparation to figure out. I think all of us need to sit down and start to plan for this. By hook or by crook, this prom night needs to take place! Haha... not that I am demanding.. just that after all the talking.. if the prom night never take place, where shall I put my face at? Ughh... CANOT.. Canot...

One problem with this prom night is which department should I parked this event at. An event for SSD or ADP? My initial plan was ADP collaboration with SSD. But now, how? ADP or SSD? If I put under ADP, I will have difficulty in getting the fund. If I put under SSD, Victor is definitely not happy with it. Arghhhh... how lar... how lar... Actually, I prefer to put this event under ADP alumni.. but it sounds ridiculous. So I also dunno how as for now. Let's see how tomorrow then!

It has been weeks since I am super busy.. until today I still felt exhausted and weak. Haih... No matter how much I rest, still not good enough for me yet. This is something new that I experienced since I started working. This program coordinator job make me realised that this is not what I want. Although this job can help me to get a better secure job in future, but I am not happy anymore. I am not the Shireen Ng I knew.. I do not like the new me. Just one year to go.. this is what I am telling myself.. just one year... bear with it and you can do whatever you want to do.. I used to love working for SIT... it was for SIT... not HICT. No matter how good the college is now.. it can't never replace the SIT I had in my heart. I really miss that moment!

- I am still giving up-

I am giving up!

Reflecting back to my previous post, I felt so stupid. I realised that sometimes I just take things too easily. Now I know the meaning of hopeless. When you got the umpp to change things better, people just can't accept it. After all the explanation, people still do not get it. I begin to doubt myself if I am capable to continue serve as the program coordinator. I really feel like quitting now. If they think that it was the program coordinator failure, I really wish I can tell them right at their face.." If you are so smart, why not you try to do it? Compiling about 30 subjects into a week lectures... and with all the students add and drop/complaints/tantrums." Sometimes, I even have student that tell me that ADP should change the coordinator. Haha... I really do not know how to react to these students. I treat all my students as my friends. I tried all my best to accommodate to them, but sometimes situation just do not allow me to do so. It is heartbroken and disappointing when I get to know that this is how people look at me. I am really at a point of giving up. I realized that maybe this is not suitable for me. People will ask me why I give up so easily. This is just the beginning. I can't stop half way without winning the challenge. What can I do when I am at a point that I do not know what to do anymore? What can I do when I feel hopeless and no one understand me? What can I do when people think that I am not good enough as program coordinator? Shouldn't I should realize earlier and quit earlier? I am so confused now. One thing for sure is that I began to realize how horrible it is to work with human! Just because we are working, doesn't mean that we can perform magic and get things perfectly...

- I am giving up!-

ADP = Best in HICT? Can?

It's been days since I updated my blog.. Why? Cause I am going through some super peak time at work. It is the beginning of the new semester. I do not know why but everything seems to be very messy for this semester. From orientation to enrollment... from enrollment to timetable... from timetable to lecturers... sigh.. I am really speechless actually. I am still thinking how to sort things out. At times I really stuck... not knowing what I am doing. I know that there are lot of things I need to do, just that I am totally out of my mind. What is the actual problems in ADP? Why it is so hard to control the 250 students? How can I do to make it better? I think there are too many manual works that takes away all the times and efforts. Looking at this mess, Say Pin and I are really looking into how to make things simpler and easier. I think we need to sort things out within these two months before the midterm. We really do not want things to get out of our hands anymore. There are too many add and drop this semester. Gosh... can't you guys just stick to what you had pre-enrolled earlier... After what we have been through all these while, I think it is time to make drastic changes in ADP department. I think me and say pin need to prepare study plan for all the first two years students. Fix the subjects that they need to enroll for the first two years. By limiting the subjects offer to each year students, I think we can control the situation better. From next semester onwards, each subject will only take in 40 students. Meaning we need to make sure that only those eligible students are allow to enrol for that particular subject. We are trying to things easier for us and also the students. Creating timetable with so many classes clashes is not an easy task. How do we create a timetable that have no clashes when all the four years students are taking it? We might also need to practice the previous method to do twice enrollment... one pre-course enrollment and another course enrollment. We are trying to minimize the add and drop amendment. IT'S VERY SCARY to see add and drop form that are as tall as a yellow pages book. Gosh... seriously... so many add and drop at one semester? This is why I have decided to not allowing any more add and drop of any subjects once a student has done their enrollment. Erm...I mean from next semester onwards... this semester is too late to do anything. I think me and say pin need to sit down with all the students one by one to prepare their study plan. All the students need to follow the study plan for each of their semester enrollment. No more add and drop is allow in the next semester. Have to be really strict this time... or else we will get crazy! Oh... I nearly forgot about the MQA submission... argh!!!! Need to finalise the MQA reports by March 2009 and we do not even have the time to do so. I think this is ridiculous to ask the program coordinator to do all the reports and submission. Then why do they need to hire someone and put them in-charged of the MQA? I really have no idea on how to get this MQA submission done... To be frank, I hate doing the paperwork and documentation... moreover it is the MQA thingy... if possible, I do not even want to get involve with. See... I am enjoying myself working in ADP because I enjoy working with the students. I am trying my best to fulfill what Victor wants me to do. I want to assist him because I know he needs someone to help him out. Therefore, no matter how much I hate paperwork, I still think on how to make things easier for him... and also for everyone. The worst thing is the people around me that I am not happy working with. The not friendly environment in college really freaks me out sometimes. A place where people are not sincere and hipocrite... a place where people are backstabbing each other... a place where people never wants me to have any achievement... a place where too much politic is going on... a place where people are acting selfish in everything... and a place where people are not united. I really do not want to give up so easily. Oh God... please give me the strength to go on... I do not want to quit so easily.

Can someone please show me ways to make everything simpler and easier for everyone? Can someone tell me how to make ADP department a better one? I just wish to make ADP department the best one in HICT. I want to make ADP to be the coolest school in HICT. But I just do not know how... sigh... depressed betul!

Movie Marathon Day!

Today is the day... the day where I really enjoyed myself watching few movies on my bed. I watched 200 pounds beauty... step up 2... wild child and also the bunny house. I have been downloading movies a lot lately. There were lot of nice movies that I had missed. Time to catch up slowly by slowly. The movie 200 pounds beauty was good! Hilarious it was. Imagine a really fat but cute girl went for a plastic surgery, just to attract the man she has been admiring for very long. Eventually she became very pretty and thin. A huge make over... When the guy found out that the girl he likes was the fat girl.. he got scared and back off. What a jerk! Erm.. can't really blame the guy though... it's plastic surgery! No many people can accept that.. so do I. I mean like plastic surgery? Hmm.. that's freaky.. but maybe it was a solution for someone. Just like the fat girl.. plastic surgery was the only way out for her, or she would choose to die. A touching story line... the best thing was it has a very nice song... "Ave Maria" by Kim Ah Joong.

Wild Child and The Bunny House were quite similar movies story line. They were about college girls and how they were transformed into new people. I actually like one of the sentence they used in Wild Child... " Life is too short to be others. Be yourself." I really liked that. So it will be my new tagline.. "Life is too short to be others. Be urself." Can't used Paula's tagline anymore.. "Don't trust a man, trust a vampire." Haha.. Oh ya, I did not know that Playboy bunnies were actually treated like a princess! This is so nonsenseeee... I mean the mansion... the princess a like bed and room... gosh... so jealous!

Out of the movies I watched today... the best movie goes to Step Up 2. God... that movie was awesomeeeeee! How can someone danced like that?!! I am so envied of those people who can really danced. I really wish I can dance like them too... ermm...maybe 50% or 60% like them.. it would be the best gift I ever have then.. Dancing is like a antidote to all my depression...sickness...sorrow... sadness. Whenever I see someone dances... my attention will straight away follow it. I can be happy by just looking at people dancing. Dancing can really make me very excited. But the worst thing is I can't dance. Sometimes I really wish my parents would have sent me to dancing classes when I was young. If only I have the basic skill... maybe ballet.. things would be much better for me. Sigh... everything was too late now. I can't learn ballet in my age anymore. I can't learn to dance gracefully. This is something that I really felt bad about all the times....

Anyway, no point of just talking now.. If only I could turn back time... hehehe... Time to sleep now.. I have an early morning tomorrow..

- "Life is too short to be others. Be yourself"-

The Fireworks in One-Utama

Hokkien lang speak hokkien pls!

"Hokkien lang speak hokkien pls! Hokkien lang kong hokkien ueh! "

I woke up at 12pm today.. wanted to sleep longer but hokkien song from downstairs has urged me to get up from my bed asap. It was the repeat show of yesterday live "World Hokkien Singing Competition" at Taiwan. I has been following this competition from the early stage. Couldn't watched it live on new year eve had somehow make my sad, and how could I ever miss the repeat show today. Part of the reason why I wanted to watch this was because there was a Malaysian finalist. Malaysian of course must support Malaysian mah... Malaysian spirit betull... hehehe.. Alright... back to the show... Listening to Hokkien song after song somehow made me begin to love hokkien language. I used to have this assumption that speaking hokkien is a lil low standard. That is why I hardly speak hokkien when I am outside. I do not want people to look one kind at me if I speak hokkien. But looking at the supports and cheers people has for the show, I think I should change my assumption now. I should be proud of how I am. I am hokkien and I should speak hokkien. My best buddy, Christine gave me some hokkien songs recently. She said she loves hokkien song, and maybe she wants me to love hokkien song too. That is why she gave me the hokkien songs. But guess what.. I am listening to the songs over and over again these few days. * can even sing few of them now... hahaha*

And when next time if got people started to laugh at me for singing or speaking hokkien, I have to tell them that one of our Malaysian won the world hokkien singing competition and who knows I might be the next! Ok... ok... stop laughing there...I am just joking ok.. How can Shireen Ng sing hokkien song when she can't even speak proper hokkien. So first thing to do now is to improve my hokkien language! ... "ai teo di sim tia tia, siu teo di sim tia tia"... oklar... only learn this two sentences as for now...

Actually a small part of why I want to watch this singing competition is because of a cute guy who also participated. Haha.. I know... because of one guy right... what to do... He is cute mah... summo can sing so well... can compose song so well.. and also can dance so well... HOW TO RESIST HIM??!! Ok.. cool down... cool down... Yes, he already fulfilled few of the criteria to love Shireen Ng. So you tell me now... how not to see this competition right?? Haha... sampat betul.. what to do when the people around me are also sampat... *stop looking here and there.. you know who are u*

Seriously.. I want to change my assumption on hokkien language. I need to take it out and renew it with something better. Something better such as the beauty of hokkien language and how I should be proud of it. So to the people out there, stop looking one kind at me when I speak hokkien.. I am Hokkien lang ok... so I speak hokkien ueh. * Ceh... gaya betul aku.... haha*

Oklar... now I boh eng want to write long long.. want to continue sing my hokkien song... Sayonara and Good night!
~Ai teo di sim tia tia .... siu teo di sim tia tia..... x10~

New Year eve's celebration

As promised in earlier post, I shall share with everyone about my new year eve's celebration. Because of the wonderful holiday break I had during Christmas, I decided to go for something light for the new year celebration. After a few days consideration, finally I decided to join in my cousin's plan to have a simple dinner at Fireman BBQ located in Jaya One. It was a family gathering. Most of my cousins were there that night. There were 15 of us and I could hear our voices echoing the whole restaurant. Well, it was quite a big group of us. Definitely we are a lil 'outstanding' than the others. There was also a show performed by two Thailand man. Neh... those fire show where they can put off fire with their hand and mouth. It was quite scary to watch from a very near distance. Erm.. about this Fireman BBQ, I would not recommend my friends to pay a visit to this restaurant. Not that it was very bad, but it was not worthy to pay that kind of money to have that kind of food. Each of us paid around RM21.50 and yet we are not really full. Probably because it was new year eve, and the restaurant was not at their best level to serve good food. Maybe.... *doubting*

We left Fireman BBQ around 10.20pm.. and we still have not finalised where to go for countdown. Because we were a large group of people, of course we need to look for a good place to watch fireworks. After huhuhaha about the venue, at last we decided to go to One-u because it was nearer to Jaya One. Erm... approximate of 15 minutes driving and the most unbelievable was THERE WAS NO TRAFFIC JAM at all. We got a big shock too. One- U was having this new year concert party featuring Justin from Hong Kong. We managed to squeeze in to join the crowd, but I tell you.. it was very hot and stuffy. I couldn't really breath inside there.. and I decided to go out. Looking here and there... then I saw few people standing at the rooftop across the One-U new wing. It was the rooftop parking lot. And idea came into my mind when I started shouting, "One, two, three.... fifteen, take note! We are going up there!" pointing at the rooftop. And fifteen of us walked quickly across the road and took a lift to reach level 4. It was 11.40pm that time. When we reached the rooftop, "Wah... this is the best location.. We can see the fireworks from One-U and also the Curve, Damansara..Good good... so smart." So while we were waiting for 12am, suddenly I saw crowd started to gather at another side of the rooftop. Wondering what happened, my brother went to check it out. And guess what happen, there was a old man fainted. Fainted? At the crucial moment when it almost reaches 12am? Gosh.. what a waste! And then I saw fireworks started to brighten and colored the sky.. it was from The Curve. I am not too sure why but it was earlier about 2 minutes from 12am. Oh who cares when the fireworks was beautiful.. and a loud bang from One-U! Amazing... One-U's fireworks were extremely big! Maybe it was because of our strategic location.. hehehe... The fireworks lasted about 6 minutes. I managed to record it with my camera... will upload them up later. It was worthy.. worth the travelling from Klang to Damansara. All of us really enjoyed ourselves with the fireworks. And at the few ending shots of the fireworks, the fire actually were bigger and nearer to us... until at a point where I started to feel scare and tried to run away. I know it sounds silly, but serious lor... the boom and bang were very loud and the floor was actually trembling.

We went home after the fireworks and the traffic jam was still alright.. not very jam and we reached Klang around 12.45am. Due to the "not so full" dinner, we decided to join our parents to have our supper or should I called it the first meal in year 2009 at Boston Restaurant, Klang. Yes, I know it's fattening to have food at the hour, but hungry mah... what to do... :p

I reached home around 2.30am and guess what.. I still need to rush my co-op reports... :(

Some pictures taken in year 2008...

I promised to upload few pictures on what I have been doing over the time.. and still have not uploaded them until the very last day of year 2008. Therefore, I decided to upload them today... the first day of year 2009. (I know.. excuses... what to do when I am so lazy to do so... :p)

* Christmas Eve dinner at Hard Rock Cafe.

* Me and the chocolate brownies topped with vanilla ice cream.. yummy!

* The first time baking a strawberry Alaska cake..(Wrong spelling? Opps..)

* Delicious! How can one say NO to strawberries.. nonsenseeee

* The sponge cake we baked for the Strawberry Alaska cake.. the base lar...

Is there anymore pictures that I am supposed to upload them up? Erm... I think there still a few of them.. but not today, cause I am going to sleep now. Will update about my new year eve celebration soon!

Good night!

Some videos to be shared!

The above video was taken in the car when we were stucked in the traffic jam... the wuliao ppl... who else... me lar.. hahaha...



The above video was taken in Hard Rock Cafe during our dinner by Sue Ann..

Enjoy!