Story about pencil!

 Just come across this inspiring story about pencil in my sports and wellness class, and thought maybe i should share it :)


The Pencil Maker took the pencil aside, just before putting him into the box.

"There are 5 things you need to know," he told the pencil, "Before I send you out into the world. Always remember them and never forget, and you will become the best pencil you can be."

"One: You will be able to do many great things, but only if you allow yourself to be held in Someone's hand."

"Two: You will experience a painful sharpening from time to time, but you'll need it to become a better pencil."

"Three: You will be able to correct any mistakes you might make."

"Four: The most important part of you will always be what's inside."

"And Five: On every surface you are used on, you must leave your mark. No matter what the condition, you must continue to write."

The pencil understood and promised to remember, and went into the box with purpose in its heart.


Now replacing the place of the pencil with you.  Always remember them and never forget, and you will become the best person you can be.

One: You will be able to do many great things, but only if you allow yourself to be held in God's hand. And allow other human beings to access you for the many gifts you possess.

Two: You will experience a painful sharpening from time to time, by going through various problems in life, but you'll need it to become a stronger person.

Three: You will be able to correct any mistakes you might make.

Four: The most important part of you will always be what's on the inside.

And Five: On every surface you walk through, you must leave your mark. No matter what the situation, you must continue to do your duties.



Allow this parable on the pencil to encourage you to know that you are a special person and only you can fulfill the purpose to which you were born to accomplish.

Never allow yourself to get discouraged and think that your life is insignificant and cannot make a change.

Hello!

Well, i realised there are still some people who bothers to read my blog, and kind of think that maybe it is time for me to update people about my life, but as you know, i kind of got lazy and just decide to put pictures :D

Since pictures says a thousand words, i guess i will just put pictures and let them do the talking. 

Previous sem classmates, suuper funny and cute people :D

So from the first picture, the semester ended, and i just started my new semester for like 2 month, but time really flies, in a blink of an eye it is like 2jan2013. wow, i haven't really gotten used to writing or typing 2013. Hope it will be a good year to me! :D

So the pic below is a camp i have been to after my final exams in sem 1, and these are the awesome people i have met! All girls! yay!

Awesome girls i met in TCP camp! Really learnt a lot from them! Hope they are all doing fine in np! :)

 Next, i went for this IDARE camp, ok, just from the name you should know what kind of camp it is, it is a really enriching camp, where i experience independence friendship, teamwork and many different emotions! Even though in the camp, i am like quiet quiet, but it just takes me longer to open up to people a,d all of my camp mates are really kind people! :D Not to mention they are suuuper fun loving!!!
And of course it is led by a awesome SSF ZIJIAN! HAHAHHA his face is the biggest in the photo! :D
For more info abt what i really do there, can watch the video below! HAHHHAHAHA
Omg i saw the section about the jumping jacks, forever engraved in my mind,
ONE FOR ALL ALL FOR ONE! IDARE! WHOOHAAA!
Close to 1 week of staying in Pahang together really made us bonded! :3
Love all these awesome mates :)

AWESOME CAMP MATES!!

HAHAHAH SEE POKERFACE

 I also managed to go USS with my family, though it is not the full members there, but i am happy to go for some light activities with my parents! and Cousin! And Aunt! And Uncle! It is a realllyyy great bonding session for all of us :DDDD

Penguins from madagascar!

Awesome or what! *photoshop sis face in*

 This semester, i have met new people! and new classmates! hahaha! though my old classmates took up like half the class cause we are just so awesome to allocate timetable together, but there are still some new faces! :D
i see another awesome sem potential! HAHAHAHAH

First "class photo!"Hopefully more to come!

 Being such an äwesome class, we went for halloween scarefest together!! yippee! :D Though not everyone managed to stay for the scarefest, but it  is a really good bonding session!!! :D

Collation of scarefest memories HAHAHAH!

 Well, if i did not mention, i join mentoring cca, it is reall enriching and if you ask me what is this cca about, what i can reallly say is that mentoring is a cca that  mentors, like a DUH answer, but really, it is something you have to experience yourself, and not to mention, mentoring people are suuuper kind and caring :D Love them!

Mentoring!

ok, i am too lazy to type more, time for my afternoon nap! WOOTS! HHAHAH Byes :D

P/S Here is my IDARE videos :D Enjoy!!

My life

I was just glancing through my facebook photos and saw some memorable ones, so i have decided to upload a few and share it. And all these photos basically summarised my life. Maybe that is the reason why i love to take photos, professionally taken or not, it is something i can keep with myself and take out and laugh or smile at it when i am older and perhaps when my memory start to fail me.

The past is something i reflect on, i mean, we cannot change the past right? so why not just accept the past and move on in the present. If you have something you regret in the past, then just make sure you don't commit the same stupid mistake or whatsoever in the present. Learn from the past. I don't think the past is something to be embarrassed of. Everyone has their own unique past and their own unique memory.My memory is something precious to me. Good or bad times. I treasure it all.

My Primary 6 fun shot class photo and it is also my favourite class photo!!
Can you spot me? Hehehhehe!

Racial Harmony day! Our is the only class with everyone wearing other cultural clothes! Sooooo proud of my class! And soooooo proud to be part of this awesome class!! :DD

Daphne zoey and me! Random but who cares! Daphne is one of the few friends i meet up with since we graduated from primary school!

Guzheng trip to Taiwan!!! Hehehhe! it was an awesome memorable trip for me. Damn cool to travel overseas with friends!!

Me zoey and Shiyang! hahhaha! Another primary school friend i hang out with! :D We all live in the same area! So we meet up often!!

Awesome guzheng friends!! All so pretty! hahahahah!

Me zoey jinpei! Hehehhe! One of the few secondary school friends i have made! KEEDING! I HAVE GUZHENG GANG REMEMBER?! MUWAHAHAHAH! ok la, but jinpei is one of the few friends from secondary schhol i meet up with even when we are in poly! :D

See all the chiobus? heheheh! It was prommm! And all these ladies here are precious friends of mine! :DD

Poyl friends! I didn expect to meet such nice girls in poly , i mean i thought i will have have like 1/2 close friends but look at this!! Muwahahah! I am obviously adapting well to poly life eh?

To my friends, if you are reading this, heh, thanks babes!
I am glad i get to meet so many people in my life!
heheh! Maybe time to add a boyfriend in to make it better? hahhah!
Kidding la, i mean romance i think it is something i should leave it up to fate! hahahahha!
But to all these people above, thanks for being my friend, you are in deep shit i tell you!
Cause you guys have no way to escape! Muwahahahhaha!
 Friends forever FTW! :D

Envoys Main Camp! :D

Wooohooo! Common test is over!
I was sooo busy after common test that i did not even have time to post a birthday post for myself on 10June :(
So what was i busy with?
The title speaks it all, i was busy with ENVOYS MAIN CAMP!! :DD

WARNING: This will be a long post! LOL

LOL, i should start off with how i know i was in the camp, all the GLs are freaking jokers man.
I was studying POA, my last paper when i received this call, basically, the caller said that my paper was lost and i have to take a retest. it totally caught me off guard, but i was still doubtful since the number is not the school number, the 6704, something but it starts with 9something, so i was like ok....
but on the other hand, my mind was kind of celebrating cause i totally did not do so well for my MIEC paper, and this retest could be like a chance! HAHAHAH
ok, but it is a false alarm, it is juts my GL calling me. Cheyyyy! LOLLL


So~ i went to the camp! :D
it is a 3 days 2night camp! Honestly i was quite anxious when i was going there, it is my first time going to camp alone, without knowing anyone and stuff, and i was scared that it might end up me being left out and stuff since there are people there who actually know each other and stuff, but when i reach there, everything went fine, i was sitting there and i know that i am not the only awkward one~ LOL!
We started off with the usual camp briefing or something like that which my GL say that they will actually give us a written test on it, totally fake!! LOL


After we are done, we start to move off to Block 50 in our groups, ( for those who didn't know block 50 is known to be one of the "haunted" blocks in ngeeann)
so i was like O_O... We are gonna sleep there?  WOAH.
But since it is like one whole grp of us, i think it should be fine,and yeap, it is still me typing here!! LOL
We went in to one of the class room, pushed all the tables back, put all our things and start our ice breaking,
basically everyone told something interesting about themselves, which is all very funny and cool,
ok we have dancers, singers, weight lifter, camp go-ers, thai, and "bimbo" in our grp, still got alot more, hahaha! our grp is so fantastically cool that i was soooo glad i am in the grp! :DDD

KEFKA!! 

We played station games and it was all fun and stuff, moreover KEFKA got first placeee! <3 we rock! HHAAHAHA :D
Unlike other camps i have been to, this camp was especially fun because everyone dares to cheer, dares to do all sort of silly stuff, which makes it suuuuper fun!! :DDD
 LOL i basically summarize day 1 with station games, but yeah, i am too lazy to go into details of each game :PP


At 11pm, we were brought back to the LT we started off in, and i was wondering what they are doing, maybe telling us what to do prepare for tmr? so i went there with a neutral heart,
and the LT was blasting music and everyone was dancing and partying and the atmosphere was so high and fun~
And then, they started to show us horror movies. LOL
yes, movieS.
i watched two horror movies, Coming soon, and the exorcist. When i say coming soon, i mean the show title, not a trailer, one guy in the grp actually thought that it is just a show coming soon, not shown yet and he was confused when the "trailer" actually lasted like 1 hour plus. LOL!


And when the third movie was just starting, i was called outside la, obviously for night walk. LOL
we have a team of 6 people, 3 guys and 3 girls.
they gathered us and kick start the walk by telling us some ghost stories and stuff,
and we were send to block 50 for our night walk. woohoo!
i was very very thankful that the guys in our group was not scared and are gentlemen, who actually looked out for us.

THANK GOD.

Basically they know most of the "ghosts" and they are like "Eh, xxx, don't scare us leh!!" those, so i was actually comforted, like oh, ok, acutally they are just people we know, don;t over scare myself and stuff.
What the helpers prepared for the night walk was acutally damn good and damn scary.
Actually i thought i would be scared even with friends, but i was not, i am surprised myself.
Seriously, the night walk made me realised what friends can really do to people. 
They are actually the reason i was not scared. * touched*


Ok, maybe i can share with you guys what made the walk suuper scary,
remember we watch horror movies?
yeah, they tried to mimick and copy as much as possible from the movie. i was pretty scared, there was actually "ghosts" chasing after us and stuff, totally scared the daylight out of me.
 but like  i said, thank god i have friends!!!
the settings where similar to haunted houses, i mean seriously, they changed the classrooms into horror movie  setting with a lot a lot of props, and alot of effort. the ghost even put make up and stuff.
there was one station there they tell us to sit down and there will actually be people who will grab your leg below and there will be a ghost who will pop out from behind to grab you and at the same time, someone will take photo when all that happened. LOL
But one guy in my grp did not get grabbed and did not see the ghost, so he was twisting while all the others, especially girls are screaming their heads off. LOL!
And after that he asked us and he was like, omg, i didn't know siah! LOL


Another station was in the toilet, which i think is one of the biggest sacrifice of the helpers, they are in the smelly toilet, and the toilet is flooded, and hot, with no air ventilation,and they even put candles, whcih makes the toilet even hotter and more unbearable.
the setting in the toilet was scary too, they smeared red wordings on the walls and toilet doors and on their faces and on the mirror too.
we have to open the cubicle one by one and there are different "ghost" or things in each cubicle to scare us.


I heard that the first few group who went actually cried, and they cancelled some stations.
One of the cancelled station is that the  lift will actually stop at level 3 when you are supposed to go level 6,
and when the  lift door open, there will be someone kneeling there and then there will be zombies and ghost rushing into the lift to "attack" you. Yeah, it was so scary that some people actually start to cry before they reach the  first station....


I ended my night walk at around 3.30 am?
And the rest of my group members actually came back later like around 4am plus.
My GLs who participate in scaring us only came back at 6am plus.
One good thing about this camp is that the waking up time is not so early,
we only need to wake up at 10am. hahaha!
but our grp got the wrong message and heard that we have to wake up by 9.
So being good campers, we actually woke up at 8am to prepare.
by 9am, our GLs then wake up to see everyone stoning; LOL!
and they were like, Why you guys wake up so early siah? 10 then meet leh... omg.. then she went back to sleep. And everyone was like :O. we woke up too early!! LOL


Day 2 was amazing race, we initially started off first, we are the first grp to go to the next station,
but we were held back at the other stations and the last  station was the worse one!!
we have to eat the sweet, sour, bitter and spicy stuff.
namely, garlic, onion, bitter gourd, green apple, small chilli and lemon.
i tried almost all, except small chilli and bitter gourd. i seriously cannot stand those!
i heard that one guy in our grp actually ate 6 small chilli at one go! LOL
he say he lost his sense of taste after that. xD
See! thats how awesome my grp is!! :DDDD
And onion turned out to be quite nice.. LOL
Just saying~ XDDD
Yeah but because our grp is held back too long, we were the last to go back for amazing race and only got 1 point :(((
LOL the change was pretty big, from 1st to last! LOL!!


And after that we played wet activities!!!!
It was DAMN FUN!!
Our grp are seriously all crazy and stuff and couldn't even care what was poured on us.
And for most of the wet activities, we are like wet from head to toe. LOL!!!
Some more some station is soap water, some is mud water. which we call it Milo. LOL!!!
Got one station is called Milo Dinosaur, which we have to cat walk there and dive into the water which is like totally brown and full of mud.
We have to make our cat walk as interesting as possible. which mine was kind of normal la.
But after we dive into the pool we have to squeeze the "Milo" into a container. and our grp totally filled the whole container up!! BEST RECORD! HEHEHEHHE! :DDD


And we bathed and in the night we each did our grp performance!!
Our response wasn;t as great as we expected, mainly because it has too many private jokes and stuff in it LOL!!!

Gotta get gad! XDDDD

But all the other grps were great!!! :DDDD

Love all the performances!!!! 

After the performance everyone went back to eat tibits and chit chat! it was fun and cool,
we just gathered together and chit chat, until we drop!! HAHAHAH!
ok la, we slept at 3am, going 4am....
Next morning was the best part.
Apparently, when we were asleep, some of the X-deaths came in to draw on our faces!!! LOL
And of course mine is drawn. -_-"
i got a harry potter scar on my forehead and they signed on my cheek. LOL
ok la, whatever, but i think quite a lot of people woke up when they came in, and i didn even know!!! omg....
And one girl was actually making a fuss about being drawn and woke quite a lot of people up, they even on the lights.
and i was asleep throughout -_-"
i think the rate i am sleeping ah, i can even sleep through earthquake -_-"....


And on the last day, everyone was drained, and we took photos and thats about all i guess.
HAHAHAHH!
ok, tatas!!

Time

Tell you what, if i could be granted an ability, i want to control time.
Time is the only thing that stays constant throughout.
They are the highest level of amount of damns i give attitude, and yes i need it!
Even though it is elearning this week for me, i have practically no breaks,
teachers still give us homework, but i think they assume that now that we don't have to spend time travelling to school etc, we have lots of time.
which we did, we do have some spare time.
And so, they all decide to cut short the deadline to enrich our lives.

Wonderful teachers they are. 

apart from that, lets just say i really really have just enough to manage with the short deadline,
they decide to further occupy us with projects, and twice the homework.
whats not, we have lessons using laptops.
like really webcamera and speaking into it and those.

How am i supposed to revise?

Unlike JC, you can fail all you want in school exams,
just don't screw your A levels,
but for poly, the marks are accumulative and we cannot risk.
if i want to go to university,
3.8 average is my minimum.
like what my sister say, there is a big difference between those who want to pass and those who want to do well.
passing is easy, but i am not going for just a pass, i want my distinctions.


Having said that,but  i am still me.
i will not go all crazy study mode to view my friends as rivals and stuff,
but i will try my best.
I don't really feel any need to compare myself with others, we each have different talents, capability, likes and dislikes.
why go against my own nature? it is just being hard on myself.
i might be bad at it, but it does not mean i am hopeless,
i rather be bad at it than giving up and not trying just because others is doing better than me.
I find it quite comfortable to be in the average range,
i know i am doing fine, and have people i can look up to and seek help.
if i am at the top, who can i ask? 


By the way, for those people who have the misconception that poly people are just slackers.
think again.
We just play hard and study hard.
tiring but we are surrounded by many such people, so thats what makes us awesome.
I don't believe in choosing between school and cca,
or school and relationships,
or school and rest.
i just go with the flow.
if i spend my life putting regrets, my life will be miserable.
i only live my life once. for those who believe about second life, well i do too,
but in this lifetime, it is only one lifetime, just live it to the fullest.
tatas!

New environment

 Hey people. Many things happened since BAOC.
But i was too busy adapting to school, so yeah, here i am!
i will try to blog more often!
But thinking that i need to type 6 blogs as my final project, updating mine might not be as appealing...
So if, IF i  went MIA, it does not mean anything happened, it just mean i might be too busy or something. yeah.


Well, poly life is hectic.
Yes the timetable is more relaxed, no strict curriculum, no reporting at 7.30 am in the morning, but doesn't mean you can sleep longer.
there are still lessons that starts at 8am, so yeah, for those who think that you don't have to wake up early, sorry to burst your bubbles!
Well, most of the lessons are lectures, for tutorials, is is mostly to go through the homework,
which you are expected to do, and to clarify your doubts.
So, not much of last minute studying anymore.
I joined quite alot of ccas,
which some might think i am like "siao" or something,
but whatever~
Cca in poly is not that strict, it is not compulsory to go, but best to attend.
I joined,

Mentoring, Rotaract, Japanese Tsubasa, Leo club and tried out for BA envoy.

I went for interview for mentoring and BA envoy,
well, what i can say is that  confidence is the key. i don't think i am supposed to disclose the BA envoy interview questions so, one advice is to be confident i guess.


I went for rotaract running man camp!
Well, it was fun, and i made friends,  even though my team didn't really win anything, but the games are fun at least. hahhaha!
 Btw, me and a guy paired up for the couple running man, and our team got the first place! WEEE!
And zoey totally scared the shit out of me man,
what i know is i turn one corner and BAM, her smiling face coming closer to me.
OMG. WHY WILL FRIENDS CHASE EACH OTHER?!?
but whatever, it is quite fun, though we died at the last minute, hahhah!


I made new friends too! But i do stick with the old ones too, fridays are the days i meet up with my secondary school friends :)
Oh yeah, i went for one session of japanese tsubasa too! the first session is quite slack, watching drama and stuff, but i am cool with it ok! TOTALLY LOVE WATCHING DRAMA.
Seriously, watch drama also got cca points?! COUNT ME IN MAN! LOL
Well, common tests are coming up and projects are piling up, so i shall not blog too long!
tatas!

Smile

 Hello, i am posting this just in case it might become my last post when school starts.
Today, i just remembered that when i was young, how easily satisfied i was.
I could just swing the swing at the playground for hours and not get bored of it.
I could spend the whole day looking at the clouds and forming different shapes and images as they passed without complaining.
I could talk to friends or my sisters for hours and hours and not runout of topics.'
And those are what i really enjoy.
Nowadays, i realised, in the past, how i cherished the monents i could eat Mcdonalds or KFC.
How i enjoy helping my mother or family members to do chores, without groaning.
How i could sit beside my sister and watch whatever she is doing with the one and only computer we have in our house.
But now, it is totally different. I eat fast food whenever i like.
I groan and whine when someone asks me to do chores.
I negotiate with my sister to fight for extra time on the computer. ( which issn't really happening anymore since i have got my laptop and she bought herself a iphone)


Simplicity really rocks. i love simple things.
but as we get older, we are expected to do more things and more complicated things.
no more simple things for us.
I just cannot figure out why,
in the past, i nearly have nothing but i did not complain or anything.Everything is neutral. And in fact, because i have nothing, i appreciate everything given to me.
but now that i have alot of things, i  complained, get bored, and things given to me are treated as though they are given for granted.
why?
I guess it is just because i got greedy. When better and better things are given to me, i forgot, i forgot to feel contented.
We shd be contented. Even with all these high technology and iphones and such, it still doesn't make me feel satisfied like i did in the past.
why?
I guess it is because i love smiles.
with all these technology, we become more and more IT savvy, people communicate through internet.
I don't know why, but the ":)" used by many seems fake to me.Well, for some.
I do use it too.
But i prefer seeing the facial expression, the smile on the face.
The smile what makes your heart feel warm and want to smile back too.
I miss those smiles.
So everyone, let's smile more! :D


Anws, i have some friends feeling depressed, be it relationship problems, or because school is about to start and you don't have friends, or you are in the course you hate, blah blah.
Just cheer up! Just try, try to think in a more positive light or something.
Really, i smsed my friends the day they went for orientation camp.

To make friends, the first step is to put down your phones.

Stop looking at your phones and try to talk to people. Just try. It won't hurt to try.
It may start off awkward, but who knows what will happen if you won't try?
well, i may not be a pro at making friends, but at least i tried, and am still trying.
yeah. good luck to my friends and really, stay in contact with me ah!
tatats! :D