12.18.2011

10-minute-model

Went for a photography session today. Free make-up, free hair styling and one free A4 size photograph. I never asked for it but my mum registered it for me before i came back from Sydney. Honestly, i was a bit shy to go for this kind of stuff because I'm not a great fan of comestics and sorry to the promoter because i'm STILL NOT even after the photography session. However, it was quite a great experience for me, ESPECIALLY the photography session. I had to post like a model - cross my legs, twist my body, twist my head to different angles, hold the jacket, hold the hat, change the shoulder angles... I was really shy about it initially coz i'm not used to it but in the end, i still able to go through the session without much troubles. One thing i realise about modeling is YOU REALLY NEED TO BE CONFIDENT TO YOURSELF.

TADAAAaa...


It doesn't look like me right? and my finger looks so short. T.T 

12.15.2011

Summer break

It has been more than two weeks since i come back from Australia and it has been more than two weeks too i have running nose. I have been sneezing every morning and sometimes just out of sudden. It really makes me feel sick and tired. What to do? Who ask me to have sensitive nose.

However, my sensitive nose doesn't really spoil my holidays. I heard friends complaining about feeling bored though holidays just started but glad to say that so far, i have been enjoying my holidays. I have done nothing much so far but everyday I did have something to do and even better, i have more things to be get done before my holidays end. Shopping, accompanying mum running around city to run some errands for dad and herself, knitting, dramas.. these are the things that so far i have done. There are more to go, mostly more serious one like learning new design software, reading up about architectural history, lose weight and keep fit, learn some foreign languages, improve my listening and improve my english. HOPEFULLY, i will have the mood to start working on them. hehehe.

11.14.2011

20th Birthday

My 20th Birthday! Again, it’s an awesome one. Thanks to my friends for making my big day a really great one. First the blind-folded walk from Haymarket to Darling Harbour (around 10 minutes), then the 1m high super CUTE, SOFT and LOVELY teddy bear, then the apple cocktail specially ordered for me to mark the day that I had grown up, then have KANGAROO MEAT for the very first time, then the very unexpected FIREWORKS, and finally the very surprising chocolate chip birthday cake! Thanks you guys for everything! The happiest thing is not in having all the things that I like on my birthday, but in having FRIENDS who remember the things that I like. Thank you! I feel LUCKY to have all of you. I feel LOVED and SECURE! Thank you thank you thank you! <3



On this very special day of mine, it’s sad to hear that one of my friends who had together made my birthday a great one suffered from the loss of her dad. I seriously didn’t know how to react to that news when she told me about it and it did affect my mood because my greatest birthday wish is to have all my friends and family members to be happy, healthy and safe always. Anyway, hope she will be alright and stay strong always.

Letter to my tutor

Hi! It’s Mei here. First of all, I would like to say thank you to you for being such a great tutor!=) Honest speaking, I did learn a lot of from you, not just stuffs about architecture but also some LESSONS IN LIFE.


Coming from a different family and cultural background, I find that Westerners are less hesitated in showing their disagreement or dissatisfactory compared to Asians. For Asians, or maybe just for me only, confrontation seems to be impolite especially when it is done towards someone elder than me. Throughout this semester, I can see how my group members directly throwing their frustration out when you are criticising their projects. If I were being put into your situation, I might be afraid of giving too much negative comments on their projects and ideas anymore, hoping that they would hate me less. However, this is not what you had done. You continued to give us valuable comments and help us to refine our projects from various aspects. This is great! And I think this is the right thing that one should do too if one really concerns about the others. I salute you for not being afraid to tell the TRUTH! Your comments and feedbacks are all for our own good. I can see that! You had done a good job! Thank you!

The second thing that I had learnt from you is don’t let our pride stops us from saying sorry even to people younger than us. Remember at the early of this sem, due to your disappointment to our progress and quality in work, you sent us an email with discouraging words saying that we will most probably fail for our final presentation. Frankly speaking, that email was a bit demotivating but it really surprised me to hear you apologize for that email on the following week. I never expect a tutor will apologize to his fellow students. Besides apologizing, you, together with Joseph, even brought us go around university to show us real life examples on how to create sense of arrival for a building. I was touched by your effort in helping us to learn. I was even touched by words that you had said on that day which sounds like this : “ Joseph and I are here to HELP you guys. I apologize for last week email. I admit that it’s a bit harsh and I’m sorry about that...”. Thank you for being such a good tutor.

Another thing that I had learnt from you is responsibility. Throughout the semester, I can really see that you are taking up your job as a tutor and lecturer seriously and sincerely. Starting from the very first week of semester, you sent us to-do-list every week summarising work that we have to accomplish for next week. Together with the to-do-list, there’re links to useful websites which help us to learn a lot. In order to help us learn more effectively, you show us how to make full use of the library to get the information that we want. Even for the Technology lecturer, it’s great effort from you to re-teach us about type of forces and bending moment just to make sure that we are clear about them. Arriving at lecture hall earlier to make your final preparation for lectures that you are about to give also shows to me that you are a responsible lecturer. Thanks for your effort! ^^

Finally, the one last thing that I had learnt from you throughout the semester is self-reflection and willingness to accept criticism and make changes. Starting with each of us presenting in front of everyone and listen to your feedback on everyone’s project, you change to have the timer system after having many of us shouting “time’s up” while you were giving useful feedbacks and ways for improvement for us. Starting with you being very insisting on having us following the idea that you have provided us, you gradually change to make more allowance for us to have our own idea that you don’t really like being used in our projects. You are constantly making changes to improve the way things work. This is something that can hardly be done by a lot of people but you had done it. Great!

I guess this is pretty much what I had learnt from you. THANKS again for being a marvellous tutor and lecturer. THANKS even more for being a good role model to me. I feel lucky to have you as my tutor. You are indeed a great educator who has not only educated me about architecture, but also about life. Thank you. Keep up with your good work and don’t lose your strong character. We need this kind of educator. Last but not least, I’m sure you will be a good father! [You will now have more time to spend with your daughter =)] Happy fatherhood and all the best to you!



Yours sincerely,

Mei

10.30.2011

I am happy! I am happy! I'm HAPPY!

Yesterday I was really really happy because ... hehe! I was actually happy for my elder brother for being able to find a really really really good girlfriend. They are really sweet and nice to each other and they always support and help each other. I like the kind of relationship that they have – a mature type of couple relationship. They both have their own group of friends but they can mix around very well whenever they have outing together. They are loyal to each other in the sense that although they both have a bunch of good buddies, each other is still take the first place in each other’s heart. This means they both are actually independent individuals. They are “complete” individuals before they go into a relationship. They are not draw together to complete each other life, but the true love and I think unconditional love they have for each other. They share similar characteristics too. They are energetic, optimistic and funny/naughty. ‘Funny’ or ‘naughty’ this characteristics is sort of a spice for their relationship. They will constantly disturb each other with funny words and actions (OPENLY somemore) which will always make my day. All in all, I really really like them – like the kind of relationship that they have. Most importantly, I am really HAPPY for them! I know I repeat this phrase for many times already. =p


The second reason I was happy is because I am getting closer and closer back to the original me! Before going to college, I never try to figure out who am I actually. I don’t understand about myself. I dunno what’s my weakness, what’s my strength, what are the things that I like and dislike and so on. This caused me to be so easily influenced by friends around me when I was in college. I felt pressured for not being able to tell others about myself because I dunno. I was upset for not having an identity. People couldn’t relate anything to me not because they don’t understand me, but I never know what I want. I tried hard to find out my likes and dislikes but I ended up having the rojak of everyone’s interest. The worst thing is, they are all NOT what I want. So, how did I find out what I want?

First, thanks to the course that I’m taking now. I’m not sure how, but I know it does assist me in self-discovery and be more confident with myself. Second, it’s again my elder brother and his girlfriend! Hehe! They are the reflection of the original me. Being energetic, optimistic and ‘naughty’ is the original me. That’s my identity. I did have an identity actually all this while. It’s just that I didn’t notice about them and I was not strong enough to hold them tight with me. I am happy that I have found the original me back, maybe the improved version somemore. =)

Along the journey of self-recovery, I have learnt something valuable - It’s okay to be different because somehow you are not different. We only feel different when we are among a group of people who are different from us but I believe there are still people who share the same characteristic with us at the other corner of this world. It’s just that we haven’t got the chance to meet them. Another valuable life lesson that I had learnt is embrace the difference between people. Thanks to my friends in college, now I know more things than when I was I high school and I had tried, explored and leant a lot of new things. Difference creates variation and variation makes our life wonderful! ^^

K la. I dunno how to continue with this SUPER long post already though I believe I still have more opinions to share in my mind. Thanks for reading, guys! =)

10.19.2011

寂寞?

对电脑对了整个早上和下午, 好累啊! 还要是没把今天定下的任务做完就回家了. >.< 不是我不要把它完成, 而是我已经累到有点想作呕的感觉了.


回家路上, 我的脑袋内总有想要找个人来聊聊天,诉诉苦, 散散心的念头, 但想到身边的朋友们都已经在为自己的功课而烦恼, 所以最后我还是一个人默默地走回家了. 我有曾想过在面子书shoutout, 看看谁能来陪陪我谈天, 逗我开心一会儿, 但我又不怎么想让大家知道我又emo了,所以最后我还是没在面子书写任何东西.

回到家了.还是没有人. 寂寞?

9.12.2011

为别人付出

突然发现自己其实是很幸福的. 从小到大, 常常都会有人对我很好, 而且常常都是别人在迁就我. 但是我也发觉到, 一向来都好像就只有我在接受别人的好意, 而我却很少会为别人付出. 这好像不太好. 所以从今天起, 我要学会为别人付出, 不要继续成为只会接收别人好意的人.

8.29.2011

T.T

It's actually nothing for my skatepark idea to be banned. It's alright for me. Really. But just dunno why, I felt like crying when my tutor told me about that.

I am willing to continue to work on it no matter what because i did like the idea of building a skatepark, but, I need time to do research and to come out with cook ideas and also, the time to REST.

T.T

8.23.2011

Inspiring movie!

Just watched a Singapore movie. A supposingly funny movie but I don't really find it very comical because things that audiences laughed at are something that i think shouldn't be laughed at but have to think seriously about the message behind it.

As usual, Singapore movies are very realistic but also challenging, in the sense of they provokes our thinking but not to world problems but something that relates to us very closely like family conflict, family love, money, marriage etc. I like watching this kind of movie because it makes me think. Issues that are being evoked in those movies are worth being thought about and we should have been looking into those matters more carefully. The movie sort of brings me back to the right path, stopping me from being carried away by things that have not been and still not the most important thing for me.

While watching the movie, a lot of thoughts have come to my mind.

- While hoping children to become a successful person in the future, what's most important to parents are still their children's happiness and welfare.
- After graduating from university (university is just a like a factory. the only difference it has from other factories is they produce human resources.), we are expected to have the basic labour force quality to do something that can contribute to the society and our nation and then the world. So, university is a very important stage to prepare us for he job market.
- Though having a normal, stable and happy life is the thing that ask for the most in the future, i shouldn't stop pushing myself harder to become a competitive person in the job market.
- While becoming a more successful person, we should never ever forget our root.
- Always take care of our parents. Be more aware of what they need. What they ask for is just something very simple. Spend more time with them. Talk to them. That's all they want.
- Respect!
- It's important to find a good man to marry to. It really determines your future. Good man, not in the sense of good in making lots of money, but good in having positive thinkings, strong will, not easily give up, confident but not proud. If can't find a good man, rather don't marry.

After watching that movie, I feel grateful that i have a very harmony family. I have loving and understanding parents, I have supportive elder brother and I have obedient and caring younger brother. We live together happily and we appreciate the presence of each other.

Good movie! I felt revived! =)

(I don't know what's the title of the movie, will come back to this post when i found out about it. i think... it's really important to give credit to this movie director)

8.12.2011

需要人陪

突然间觉得好累, 好不想开口讲话, 但很想找个人来陪陪我. 他不需要说话, 只需让我紧紧地抱着他就好.

8.01.2011

Terrible presentation

"Terrible" is the only word that i can come out for my presentation just now...I know i did it very badly and i can imagine what's the things that my groupmates will say about my presentation...I got whole lots of information with me but i just can't bring it out fluently and share with them..

There're whole lots of emotions that i feel now but i just duno how to put them down in words here...

I duno...

I duno how to say it here...

Anyway, i somehow, like always, gotta regain the spirit of fighting after something really terrible happen...

7.29.2011

Dinner with my housemates ( 27.07.11)

After the American housemate of mine moved out on July, a girl from London took over her room. Sophia is her name and she is so kind and friendly. I know this is a bit too soon to say this, but things really change after she moved in. Well, at least for this very first week. The kitchen is cleaner and tidier now. The house is livelier and you know what have we done tonight? My three housemates and I prepare, cook and have dinner together. This is the first ever activity that my housemates and I had done together since the early of the year. This is just so rare! But it was really fun. And a barbeque is coming next. Next Saturday. Most probably.


We were chatting while taking our dinner. They are the one did the talking almost all the time and I was the listener, just as I wish. I think they do realised that I didn’t talk much but the good thing is that they didn’t try to make me talk. They talk about all kind of stuffs – car renting, poisonous animals, beer, wine, pub, clubs, dance, work, none of the topic will provide me the opportunity to share my experience with them but I do enjoy listening to their stories. I gotta train myself to listen better and listening to their stories just make me suddenly truly realised that the westerners lifestyle is just so so so different from the Asians or at least Malaysians. Their life is about party, clubs, pubs. They go around the city or anywhere trying to search for good beer and good bar.

I had a wonderful night together with my housemates tonight. I should be able to finish my research tonight if I didn’t sit so long at the dining table listening to their stories but it’s definitely worth the time to do. I gotta know more about my housemates without having me to do the talking and I gotta know more about westerners. =)

7.16.2011

Against

Eventually, I had made up my mind not to go to send my friend off to Melbourne. I struggled to make the decision because I can see what others will say and more importantly, I care about what they say. “What kind of friend, are you?” “This will be the last time you see him, how come you don’t want to go?”. I am CERTAINLY not that kind of FRIEND. I am NOT a bad person. I am NOT. I am NOT. I really treat him as a FRIEND.


I had a few reasons here for not going to the airport. The first reason sounds really absurd, I know but I’m really trying very hard to save money. I know I know. It’s only $10 ++. It’s really a small amount of money but I can mean a lot to me since I’m on tight budget.

Another reason is that I’m trying to avoid the awkward feeling of dunno-what-to-say to my friend in the airport. I don’t want to purposely find some topic to talk about just to feel the silence. I don’t want to force myself to say what I am supposed to say. I prefer it to come naturally.

This whole thing is really a small matter only but it can just make me EMO. I’m going against something that everyone will expect someone will do when a friend is going to leave. It makes me feel terrible about myself especially when I know what others will say about me but I would rather not fit in then doing anything that I don’t wish to do so that next time when I do it, people will know that I really want to do it and not just to follow the crowd.

6.21.2011

Caught red-handed


左散右散,散到UNSW 的电脑室, 再散到另外一位朋友的家, 最后, 我还是被抓到了, 还要是在我冲凉后一踏出冲凉房的那个时候被抓到, 这整个事情的发生都应该是注定了的, 因为我在不对的时间到别的地方去避避风头。

这一切都是我的错,是我坚持要搬过去住, 是我坚持不要交租金。
 
被抓到的感觉很不爽, 很不好意思,很丢脸, 看到了那一封短讯后更是感觉羞耻。 虽然一个星期$90是有少少贵, 但是他会要收租金的原因是能够理解的。 连续几天看见我在他房子里活动, 会怀疑, 会脸黑, 是能够理解的。
 
这件事也许会导致他从此对她们所说的信任有所保留, 但我真的希望我从此不在她们家出现的现象能够让他再次相信她们。
 
因为这件事, 坚持搬去她们的家住也许是个错误的选择, 但我却不完全这样认为。 刚来到的那一天, 老实说, 我有些许不自在, 因为这里始终不是一个我熟悉的地方, 但凭她们招待我的方式, 我很快的就能把这里当成是自己的家, 自由地在家里走动, 自由地做任何我喜欢做的事情, 包括准备早餐, 午餐及晚餐给她们吃。 在这几天里, 开心的是虽然我们已有半年没见, 但坐在一起的时候, 还是有话题谈, 就算没有, 也不会觉得怎么样, 总而言之, 感觉就是很自在。
 
在他们的家“偷度”几天, 我还真有口福。 每一天都有不同的菜式, 每一天都有好料吃。 她们还为了迎接我的到来, 特地买了一大堆的海鲜, 打算煮好料来请我吃,你说我是不是很幸福呢?!吃完后又没有什么工让我做, 我只需把碟放入洗手盆就可以了。还有还有, 她们让我在厨房里自由发挥我的厨艺。 我一向来都很爱煮,但是没机会煮, 因为我都是一个人住, 自己煮, 自己吃, 自己爽, 好可悲哦!就算是在家, 妈妈也不会要让我煮,所以在她们家住的时候, 就是我大发我的创意的时候了。煮了又能一起吃, 感觉比较棒!
睡多几个小时的觉, 我就要回家了。 不知该怎样形容我现在的心情,但回去也许不是件坏事,  我可能可以到附近的店找找工, 赚些钱也好 (虽然有担心自己不能把工做好)。 回去之后, 还是不会放弃学烹饪的念头, 因为我真的有那个passion!=)

6.13.2011

我会想念你的!


交了所有ASSIGNMENTS 后的那几天, 我过得还很不错- 去了CHINATOWN 吃我一直都想要吃得铁板烧 (超辣的四川铁板烧鸡),再次去了我一直都想再去的 DARLING HARBOUR, 去了FISH MARKET 吃了我一直都想品尝的 grilled seafood, 煮了我好久都没吃的 TOM YAM 米粉, 柠檬鸡, 看了我一直都没时间看的 GOSSIP GIRLS 继续 knit 我的围巾和弹了钢琴。 我那几天做的每一件事, 都是有着一位朋友陪着我, 但是今天她就要乘搭夜航班飞回马来西亚了,说实话, 我还真的有很舍不得。 虽然她不是回去之后不会再回来, 但她突然间的缺席, 使我觉得有点孤单。 想着想着, 其实我们一起做过了很多的事情- 我们一起去上lecture, 一起煮东西吃, 一起去找好吃的食物, 一起看戏, 一起去弹钢琴, 一起去走走, 一起唱歌, 一起敢ASSIGNMENTS 感到要生要死, 一起挨过了痛苦的SEM 1 我们常常互相给对方support, 常常在对方快要崩溃的时候给予安慰。 想着想着, 虽然USYD 并不是我的第一选择, 但能够和她一起来到这一间大学, 是很庆幸不已的事。 = 想着想着, 她不在的下两个月, 我闷的时候不能跑去她家找她聊天, 连想要打电话去问问她今天做了什么也不行了。 =
哇!我干嘛那么的伤心?都怪那阴沉沉的天气, 是我整个人那么的EMOHergn!
Anyway, WONG SOOK YAN 我会想念你的!我会记得在我去MELBOURNE 的时候拍多多照回来给你看, 但是 hor…, 你不要拍那么多马来西亚的美食给我看, 我会被你的照片给逼疯了!=p

6.11.2011

Love


Love is something that everyone has been craving for and it seems to be the best thing that we could ever want to have but because of the same reason too, we will be hurt the most when out of a sudden, it leaves. With love, life is really wonderful! With love, we can almost feel like we are living in the fairy tales! But love is not something as easy as what we think. Reality comes first and reality is always cruel. Love need to be cultivated but to start it, we need a sudden moment of irrationality and urge and the right time too or it will be screwed! Love is just not easy.

6.07.2011

想念马来西亚!


在澳洲吃东西, 不管怎样吃都不会比在马来西亚那样吃得那么过瘾。因为天气的关系, 就算是怎么热腾腾的食物, 在它们被捧到面前再被放进嘴里的那一时刻,大多数的时候都会凉了少少,所以吃起来一点都不起劲,好不爽哦! 好想念马来西亚! 好想念马来西亚的食物! 好想念在马来西亚吃东西的感觉!好想念在马来西亚吃东西吃到汗也流,鼻水也流的感觉!好想念你哦, 马来西亚!