flap flap .. out of the lion's island

Goodbye 2010

2010-12-06T12:10:00.000-08:00

it was an eventful year, hectic yet enjoyable.. filled with success, laughter, dissapointments, and decisions. Here are the top 10 things ive remembered last year and hope things will only gets better in 2011.

1. The success of an Orientation Camp.
Perhaps like what my president said, last year's orientation camp was the hardest to organise given my uni was hosting Youth Olympic Games during the period of time and many things/dates kept changing to accomodate for the olympic games. Nevertheless, i am delighted that ive contributed to the camp as programmer, and Malaysian Student Association (MSA) will always be the one and only Club i will say yes and willing to help deep from my heart, no matter how busy I am in other activities.

2. A failed exchange outcome and a lesson to learn
This time, last year, I would had kept dreaming about an exchange to University of Newcastle, University of Western Australia.. etc.. as long as it's in Western Continent and it's not that expensive as Europe or America. I learned about lifestyle in Australia thru my previous tuition frens and it certainly excited me.

Okay, some may say that Australia is boring, and its hard to travel around unlike Europe. I believe it's quite true. But my main aim was to getaway from this kiasu-and-no-life land and go to places which are relaxing, and Australia certainly meets all my criteria. Not to mention why on earth Chemistry undergraduates requires 4 years of study in Singapore whereas its 3 years in all other countries, and why am I forced to take alot of useless modules and many of us ended up having 6-7 papers per sem whereas my friends having only 3-4 papers averagely in Australia.

Maybe I have not thought so much, maybe if im in Australia i might regret not going Europe instead. But thinking about an extra $4-5K SGD of my parents money wasted just for my small egoness, I would rather spending Aussie dollars than pounds which cause less burden for my family. But oh well, all these plan were sublimed to air when I didnt get the offer due to my result and ive no choice but to stay here and fight for my GPA and go for sumthing else (eg: school election)

3. An exponential drop in results and a wake up call
I enjoyed my year 2 life alot, in fact.. too much -_- My results dropped to drain and I only started to pull up this sem, and it all came from encouragements from frens. Time to wake up and hopefully all the suey-ness are over now. =S

4. Understanding who was important for me all the while.. But I cant give in
I will always remember u said ''For a moment, I really feel like taking a knife and chop you''. It was the first time u used such words and I can just feel u were really angry of me for telling you those things in msn. I regretted till now for having feelings for other girls. It shouldnt had even happen and i will never want it to happen again for life. I hate it when im being labelled as ''easy like other girls'' by you, and I realise that no one.. will never and ever know so many things about me, or neither do I willing to tell them things about me in the future.

Perhaps its this mistake that made me realise that you actually still cared for me? even though how a jerk I am.. from losing contact with you when I first came to Singapore, made empty promises, till finding you only once in a blue moon... I m really sorry for everything, and I really agree why u said ''dont you think its not the right time?'' to me last time. I am not even ready to give in time and effort for this, even in the near future, not at least till im graduated. And im really thankful that you once told me that I am a great guy, even if thats some time ago, and I want to continue be a great person, always dependable and understanding you more.. even if it means challenges because we are distance apart...

5. An increase in popularity in school, but it doesnt mean a thing
I realise that i came across many people whom I dont know, or barely remembers them when i stumble upon them in school. This is wierd especially when I talk to people around me, sumtimes not even knowing their names. Perhaps its because I joined many MSA activities last year, or its the school's election. Honestly, I dont feel comfort when too many people knows me in school, and I would rather have small circle of frens whom I can share, trust and express myself, sumthing like 9th PJ scouts frens in Malaysia, than having a large pool of frens whom barely knows me..

6. Life's tough when you have screwed up presidents
Im no puppet, and I certainly dislike taking orders from you. The school's president once told me, my job here is to get feedbacks from students about what they think about our school, and response to those feedbacks and provide better service to students. What did I do is i wrote a survey to all students. Very well, I expected to recieve feedbacks and suggestions from the pres, and the reply did come fast. We then amend everything according to those suggestions, and it was the entire effort of the whole welfare team, and it was sent during the mid sem break (aka recess week). This time, we were least fortunate. We couldnt get any reply from the president for almost 2 weeks. And after we recieved the reply, he changed everything, as per his wish!!

Whattheheck!? It was his suggestions that we amended accordingly, and it was a collection effort from the entire welfare team. He changed it as though it's his own survey. I talked to him and asked for explanation, he just gave me a fake smile, with sum words persuading me to use his survey instead of ours. Fine, I lazy to argue ady, and from that day onwards.. I started to hate school club, and become reluctant to put in much effort as I will for MSA. The survey was dragged till 3 weeks before exam, instead of after recess week, thanks to the awesomely late reply from the pres and the conflict caused. Thankfully, it was done now.. And I cant wait to end my semester 2 and stepping down.. and leave with points in my hand but not memories...

7. Getting elected means nothing if you cant produce
What does my position do? Many asked the same question after I get it. I told them, well, we get feedbacks from ppl around the school about what they think about school, club, staffs.. etc.. and what do they wish to have in future. The feedback i get is that many students wanted to have their lectures being recorded. Without much thought i talked to the people around the office, and school to ask them about this plan. Unfortunately, the response wasnt that good from Professors and school as many were scared they might say wrong things during lectures, and gave us lots of excuses to disapprove with our proposal. It was still undone till now, and im still trying to persuade.. Partly cause I want things done, and leave this club with people remembering me as sumone who contributed to the school community, not sumone who comes and go.. without bringing any benefits to students..

8. Miss home and Ethan
Love your family, Love your parents, Love Malaysia but hate the politics =P

I believe that home is always the best place to be. I dislike Singapore's hectic life, but I think I will continue working here, due to the currency and travel back to Msia oftenly. I left only 1 year plus to graduation. I believe its not far to think about my future.. and all Ive ever wanted is to be together with family, and in the meantime work hard for a good future. I enjoy my time with parents, and also Ethan ( my naughty nephew..), and these will be my driving determination to go back more often in the near future... :)

9. Im not a good guy as potrayed to others.. and I do have lots of weakness -_-
Some may think I am quite gentlemen, kind, obidient guy.. I am not here to praise myself.. of course not.. Those people who said these things about me are usually frens whom Im not really close.. and usually just went out once or twice with me in the past. True friends knew my behaviour, I am quite easily gets jealous, kiasu, easily angered, emo.. and of course.. money minded. I wonder how many of those whom describe me as the above actually saw me letting go of my tantrums easily. I have friends who understands me well, whom I believe I can freely being myself as long as I am with them.. and im really thankful for having such frens who were understanding enough to me all the while. am i a 2 faced guy? Nah.. I just dont want to spoil the image you potray on me.. perhaps till the day when we became closer frens..

10. Getting a good roommate is important
I had such lousy roommate whom I really felt like writing a complain to the hall office. In the end, it was no use as the hall office didnt even bother my email and I wanted to keep such strategic location and I believe, im not the one who was supposed to be shifted out, but him!! Such 'considerate' of him for not switching off the lights at night, sleeping at earliest 5am plus, always sick, especially near exams, and being extraordinary dirty!! I cant believe i have stayed with him 1 year, and thankfully its all over and my roommate this sem was way better, disciplined and considerate. Not to mention that he brings his gf back room.. just like my year 1 roommate... he is quite a good person and we sumtimes share thoughts on technologies, and he teaches me photographing skills..

now he is off to US for his exchange.. hope everythings good for him! and to all readers, thanks for reading such lenghty post... and Happy New Year !! Best Wishes :)

SAO = student affairs office?

2010-07-29T06:23:00.000-07:00

**NOTE** This post is written based on my personal experience, plus a little bit of angerness towards certain management, please refrain from reading this if you dont wish your mood to be spoilt. Arigatou~~

Youth Olympic Games (YOG) is going to held in my Uni!! ohhhh Yeeepyyyy!! Its like a dream... the world is watching ntu, im so proud being part of NTU family...

NOT!!!!!!

ive just wasted 2 minutes of my life telling lies...

The reality is far from what it seemed to be happening in NTU.. no NTU students like YOG.. in fact complains were everywhere, emails were written , numerous facebook campaigns were setted up.. still... who-gives-a-darn-shits about us being just a pathetic student who are just as annoymous to others as compared to their big "well planned" (Akhem!!!) projects!

Since YOG is announced in Sg, being such a small country.. they have no place to organise those games... No place den dun organise lahhhhh ... Kiasu betul... everything oso wan to take.... kang sei lei ahhh ....

Since then, NUS was voted as the organiser for this event.. but they rejected it... (what a smart move), but weeee... thought that we found "gold" in the basket, a.k.a zap dou bou, decided to pick it up and hold the event instead!

**Peiye u r gonna be so grateful that NUS rejected the offer**.. and so.. its the begining of tortures and pain to our students.

First comes, the Hostel renovations..

I didnt say that renovations are bad... but having renovations only on those newly built halls are totally rediculous...

Looking at these buildings...

as compared with the old halls

The old halls have not even been renovated for years! and yet they dont spend a single cent on renovating these halls. Some of these halls are almost 50 years old !! And yet they are renovating those halls that are just barely 5-6 years old. Leaving students with bad toilets, study rooms, and non air conditioned... Why ??? New halls are used for athletes accommodations and old halls are not!

As a result of renovations ? Hostel fees raised !!! Both renovated halls and non renovated old halls.. im like... WTH !!!! why raise the fees for those old halls as well ?? Arent those renovation money given by the Sg govt, where did all those money went ? Makan ady ahhh ??? How can you let all your students to bare these burden? We didnt even get renovated and yet every month we have to pay extra for NOTHING!!

Some NTU students even argued that our hostel is quite cheap ady as compared to NUS... Come on... you cant compare NUS with us... they are located in the big city area... of cos expensive lahh ! NTU is located in such an rural area on the west. It's quite a pity that they did not know how to calculate the travelling time needed for a typical NTU student to go to places like Orchard, Bugis, Sentosa as compared to NUS student.

Besides,
what drives everyone (including foreigners like us and locals) crazy is the raise of the cut-off-point for hall allocation. For those ppl who doesnt know what is cut-off-point, heres a brief idea of what its about... To stay in halls, students must reach a certain amount of points based on joining club activities, and distance points. This year, they raise the points to enormously high, leaving most students unable to secure a hall. Reasons behind? Many halls are used for YOG and we left little rooms to provide to students in such short period...

Also, these this rule about staying with a Singaporean can increase the points. Some of my frens who did so much for the club activities but did not get to apply with sgreans also fell into the same category... what a shame... it wasnt because they don't want to apply with sgreans, is because theres this call student affairs office (SAO) who promised everyone of us that they will not raise the point. Leaving at least 1.6k students home-less !! Gosh.. how can they trick us like that ?? They are making empty promises... We are the ones that are paying money.. not YOG.. how can they treat us like that ! **Angerriiii **

*Photo taken from facebook*

Think everything thus far is bad enough ? Think again *_*
For the upcoming students to NTU, the school fees raised again! It was 9.6K after subsidy every year the moment I came in.. and my year was the 1st time after so many years they raised from 6k to 9k plus... its 50% raised omg ! Nevermind that, now after 2 years, the fees further raised to 11k plus! Gosh... in short... in just 3 years time... they raised from 6k to 11k.. where does these money goes to ? Who still want to come Singapore ??? My uni is not even top 50 either, and its still dropping.. considering the amount of workload, clubs-i-must-join-to-stay-in-hostel, numerous kiasu ppl who fight for grade crazily here, and many more...is it really worth coming here for a new student anymore?? It isnt far more expensive as compared to Australia unis right now..

Guess these miseries will last all year through and many of us are going to suffer more with the delaying of school starts, delaying of december holidays (my december holiday is almost gone T.T)... and many more... and its just gona worsen with all the lousy managements from SAO..

call yourself Student Affairs Office... SAO pei lahh !

its just too good to be true!

2010-07-13T10:51:00.000-07:00

You're just too good to be true....
Can't take my eyes off you....

You'd be like heaven to touch....
I wanna hold you so much~~~

At long last love has arrived....
And I thank god I'm alive....

You're just too good to be true....
Can't take my eyes off you....

I love you.....

my Samsung Jet S8003... phewwitt XD

Hasn't been blogging very long...

2010-03-03T10:27:00.000-08:00

I used to start blogging after I graduated from high school.

Back then, Ive been rotting in front of my comp day and night.. playing online game Maple Story, talk craps during the night... without mentioning that this kinda fairytale lifestyle has lasted for about 7 months.. ;)

One of the reason Ive started blogging was because I had shitloads of time for me to kill... With a friend's encouragements, Ive decided to do something more useful in my life and start blogging.. My blog post created was used to be english or chinese... very much dependent on my mood.. which is usually emo as I was about to leave Malaysia to Singapore... Over time, I even felt the need to privatise my blog as certain things I wrote were too private to tell everyone else..

Soon to know that many of my friends started to flame me for privatising blog, and Ive been tagged as an emo person who always try to be secretive. Having privatised my blog gave me freedom to really write what I want, but i am soon to realise that sharing blogs among friends also helps us to keep in touch with each other... especially when we are all going overseas.

And so I re-opened my blog....

Life turning point came when I went over to NTU, Ive became a nerdy fella who studies day and night. Not mentioning having the time to blog, those days I cannot even find time to talk. Left alone my blog..

It came to a situation where many other friends log on to lihuiz.blogspot.com, all they see is the same old dusty entries... And i will have to find myself answering questions to many friends like... why no entries so long? busy? why u always 3 minutes hot de ? faster go update !!!

T.T

Ive got to admit that Im not very good in time managements, and sometimes I do find myself having so many short and random feelings to say, but I would rather not blog everything-simply I felt I have nothing but 1 - 2 sentences that are enough to describe it all...those short sentences will certainly not pass my lihuiz.blogspot Quality Standard test...

And so ive decided to be less studious and blog more during my Year 2. What ive experienced during my year 2 was more friends, participated in more events, and doing things that brings more satisfaction to me other than studying.

Ive gotta say that I am proud of what ive changed so far, my lifestyle has changed, club activities, friends, had led me to different view in my thoughts. I mustnt say that Ive achieved alot in this short period of a year. But these helped in changing my character from an emo to a cheerful person, participating in more activities also gives me more things to write in my blog.. but also less time to blog as I became more active..FML..haha

Recent comments from friends made me more enthusiastic towards blogging.. I may not be blogging very often.. but stay tune as I will update more after my exams :)

Affections

2010-02-14T21:16:00.000-08:00

This is my first emo post that i thought i would never write again..

I can still vividly remember the outrageous thing Ive done in the last Valentine's Day..

I still miss her.. didnt I ?

Hello world!

2010-02-14T09:15:00.000-08:00

Everybody say hi to Ethan!

I became an uncle... for the very first time.

He is now only 1 month old...

Cute little baby, I was so anxious to come back to see this lovable child.

May you grow as adorable as I am :)

FOC Beach Outing @ Sentosa

2010-02-11T08:50:00.000-08:00

Its been months of preparation and ive gotta say that I'm truely enjoyed the outing.

Many gathered in the early morning even thou there were some tired eyes after ytd's pre CNY celebration. We headed off to Sentosa early as we were excited about the island. Most ppl are 1st time visitors to Sentosa. I hadn't been to Sentosa for quite some time either ever since my last club outing.

That time Sentosa was only jam packed with ang moh walking by the beach, old uncles playing frisbee with dogs, some couples walking by the beach together, and of course.. some bikini hot babes tanning their bodies under the hot sun. *ak hem*

Now, the place is slowly turning into a rich people's leisure island featuring clubs and bars by the beach and a soon-to-be opened casino.

So now we headed off to Sentosa with lots of anticipation.

*Photo taken courtesy of kennysia.com*

Some prefer to sleep during the bus ride...

Some people prefer to make use of their time posing,

or act cool in the bus..

and some just prefer not to give any thoughts when pictures were taken,

Maybe it isnt the best time to disturb them day-dreaming :P

We reached Sentosa about an hour later, settling down at the siloso beach side before heading for our 1st game. The first few games was the ice breaking games.

We had toilet paper game as our opening game.

huhhh !!???? what does ice breaker games has got anything to do with toilet paper rolls !?? Well, it's basically letting members to take as many toilet paper rolls as they want in the beginning. And each member will have to say a thing about themselves afterwards depending on how many toilet papers taken.

Hoorrrr horrr.. this drives some members crazy as some were struggling to understand themselves...some were quite introvert to tell their secrets. But there is some people who are grateful that they have taken so many paper rolls. Just like...

For eg Gwo Shiou..

And so we granted his wish!

Obviously his gf isnt as happy as him =P Dunno what they gonna do lah when they get back to their room a.k.a. honey moon suite soon.

We had some cheers before the beach games starts..

Its basically to hype up everyone and get them into the mood =X
But some people prefer posing than cheering ...

So we headed out from the shelter to the sunny beach! Some were busy applying sun block... some were busying... ehrrrr posing again...

But still its better than acting like a chimpanzee ... lols

he really loves to pose isnt it...

So we played water challenge, a game where we have to walk from a distance, den talk with a mouth full of water, to let other members guess ur word...

*It wasnt like that.. really*

imagine with your mouth full... the moment u sing lady gaga's song, ur probably gonna end up like this...

On the other side of the beach, we have *Facial*

Its probably a forfeit for the inter group games where we have... =D
Some groups were high, some groups were SS *Syok sendiri-ing* ... and some groups are even dancing ... =P

We have chicken dance as our group dance after lunch..

Follow me erriiyabody... *shake ur bon bon shake ur bon bon shake ur bon bon*

Yeap thats right... everybody shake their butts as we sing the chicken dance :)

Until.... *Klak*

Sim dou you kuat timmm......

Thats what happens if we are lack of warm ups.. ><
After having some dance, we headed out to have our next game, passing the Banana.

Its not an ordinary passing game of course.. instead, we have to pass using ONLY our legs !!!

See how flexible he is... as compared to this....

*FAIL*

As a forfeit... he has to eat the banana... ><

In the meantime between games, we have some girls who are fascinating about Beyonce Knowles & Nicole Scherzinger...

Again, FAIL...

Or some girls who are still posing =P

Then we have beach soccer, well not ordinary beach soccer... more of a beach fussball =P

See how determined is she to get the ball ... and no teammates help her ... =(
After that, we have some water games...

Dog bone in the sea...

And this is what i get for talking too much craps...

So wu gu... ><"

p/s: Special thanks to Eng Sean for his pictures =)

Din-per

2010-02-02T11:10:00.000-08:00

back in last week, i was sitting next to a singaporean guy whom i knew not even a week. We ended our entrepreneurship class late and all canteens in NTU were closed.

Heading over to Mcdonalds to have our so called din-per ( dinner cum supper), heck... it was a new phrase created by him ( doesnt sound nice isnt it ... *puzzled*). I had to admit... i was clueless and thought he was going to give me something when he said : "lets have din-per at McDonalds?"

Thought it was some new creation of new toys from HappyMeal... obviously i was too starved to think much about it *grinz*

heres a picture of some Happy meal toys..

it looks like food, feels like food.. too bad it tastes like plastics..*damn*

obviously i didnt buy one. =) i got this picture from the internet and these (toy) "foods" can even transform into some wierd creatures above when its played. well, guess i will probably pee in the pants if i were a 4 years old kid, playing all these toys without knowing that there is a creature behind... lols

As i was eating with him, some random ppl approaches us, distributed some flyers...

lucky they didnt ask me or him to buy for my gay partner sitting in front me. NOT!! They were smart enough to ask us contact them only when we feel like buying.

It was a pair of guy and girl who approached us.... and guess what , it was the poor guy there holding those flowers while the girl does all the talking ... Guess he must be thinking..."gosh girl dont waste ur time on these losers... i have got lots of flowers to carry and its heavy!" =.=

Obviously he didnt say this ... in fact he gave us a forcing "smile" when I happen to look at them. LOLS...

it was just minutes after they left, my singaporean friend asked me.. "so are you going to buy it for your gf ?"

I looked back at him and said : "i don't have one"

He looked at me with a shocking face.. as though im an alien from somewhere over the planet... =.="

I turned my eyebrow, looking at him..with the face... must i have one ? obviously his facial expression tells all about the answer. *bleah* not into any relationships doesnt make me an alien... unless im willingly become an alien by getting an alien gf...

Personally i have no offence on Avatar. I like that movie alot... but that doesnt inspires me getting an alien gf of course... or my mom will probably kick me all the way to Pandora if she knows this ... lols

Obviously his intentions werent mean when he asked me that question. =)

I continued ask him: So would you ?

He answered yes ! That triggers my kepoh-ism to continue ask about his story... usual me ... =P
So i asked, but this year the CNY falls on the same date as Valentines day. How r u going to celebrate with your love ones?

Well, i dont plan to celebrate CNY this year.....
Now's my turn to give him a shocking face... as though he is an alien from somewhere over the planet... NOT !!! he is a chinese not an alien of cos ...but...where can !!!!????

personally i would prefer angpows more than valentines day =P Kidding kidding.. i bet all the couples in the world will throw me into bullshit if i say this..

But its true what! getting pocket money is much better for future plannings than get incredibly bored looking at others having their romances. Still i would prefer to go back to meet parents, meet relatives... and of course... meet my baby niese...

Obviously im still bad in romance...

but im still better than that singaporean who forgets his family

=)

please pray everyone...

2010-01-18T09:10:00.000-08:00

A new life is coming to this world soon !!

i am anxiously waiting for the call from my parents...

Hope she is safe and as well as the baby..

Lets pray to the god =)

overwhelmed~

2010-01-14T09:17:00.000-08:00

Because im just so busy that i could barely get my ass out of my chair and get some rest.. =(

I must say that living in Singapore does lets me think of the movie "Just follow Law"!

Cast by Gurmit Singh and Fann Wong

where we are always pointing arrows from here to there just to avoid ourselves being shot and blamed by others or delaying timeflows. By replying emails, it actually took me more than 2 hours every night since beginning of the sem! It is crazily efficient here as everyone is replying emails so fast that i could barely breathe >.<

Not to mention that Im still so slow that people have few blog posts after their new year resolution. But im still here.. thinking of what i want to achieve for this year.. Well, not much that i can think of now.. but i do have 1 in my mind...... The Ultimate of All Time... I want a BUFF UP!!

No.. not the guy on the left... i would rather be aneroxia than becoming that! haha... walking around the road, crying ..."Where is the ice-cream mannnn?????" is definitely going to be a nightmare for me.. lols

Just about 10 more kgs will do.. With the fats that i have that time.. i will be able to look healthier!=P

Ah and of course...... it still depends on where the coming fats goes to.. haha hopefully not on the tummy.. I definitely wont want to look like a pregnant woman but instead carrying a child, im carrying a spare tyre around... lols Damit!! i feel like a SISSY !!! everytime i walk, ill have to hold to my back, taking a deep breath before i can start walking..

To start off my resolution, 1st thing comes, eat more... sleep more... im still unsure i will be able to live on with this luxurious life in NTU anot? Hopefully im not stressed up after the events are over and get on with my weight gaining life..

Afterall... whats more .. than eating good food and live on a balance life ? =P

Hui is back !

2010-01-09T07:23:00.000-08:00

Yeah ure right ! Once you step into this blog, beware, there is no more turning back!

Ah.. didn't imagine that i will actually blog again .. just inspired to do so after some my my ntu friends decided to blog together...a new year , a new blog =) thats what my friends say to me.

Im still quite n00b in blogging, thinking back the previous blog post was like almost half a year ago already, and i only blog often when im having holidays.. The old blog has got past memories which im not thinking it anymore. I really feel like changing to a new blog for a long time ady.I finally did it !! =D
Thanks for those who supported me and spend your time in my previous blog. Imma gonna try to blog more often for this =)

So stay tune.
p/s: remember that i said before that i charge entrance fee rm 5 per head?? One thing thats not gonna change is this! now what r u staring at?? entrance fee rm 10 per head peluezzzzz...... (inflation mah) =P