love &hearts,

Our Song - Taylor Swift

Just few days ago I experienced this throbbing migraine which completely burned my left brain into ashes. Excruciating much.

After giving some thoughts, I hypothesized that it could be because of the peak level of stress I experienced the night before. With Human Personality assignment due on the next day, guilt of having one of my friends stay up late to submit our then, incomplete assignment to turnitin.com and the troubles some sissy bastard has been causing.

I think at that time, I felt like I was on the verge of exploding into thousand pieces of smithereens and nobody was there to pick me up and put me back into pieces. I would be then, like a messed up jigsaw puzzle, where people will just drift past me, showing no signs of compassion

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Friday and Saturday were two consecutive days with things going on under SASA. Friday was a talk on the psychology of people's management by my beloved lecturer, Dr. Goh. He used to be my lecturer for Social Psychology and since then, I always thought he looks very much like a teddy bear, so cuddly I feel like squishing him. Yeap, its not like I have a crush on this particular lecturer but I think he's quite an eye candy for a lecturer and few of my friends actually agreed with me!

Nevertheless, Dr. Goh is such good lecturer he don't need his super cuddly looks to keep me awake. I even love the way he conducts his lectures and talks. Very professional and interesting.

Showing some signs of envy over here heh... But its true. *shows straight face*

On Saturday itself was the highly anticipated SASA Awards Day. Well, kinda.

Because this is when we give out certificates to our new SASA juniors of 2011 who will then, lead the SASA team besides to the SASA seniors of 2010.

Time to step down folks. We're old already.

Basically, everything went well and I got a scroll with my certificates in it, just like everyone else. So niceeee... but, what am I supposed to do with it? Clueless *shrugs*

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Yesterday, I was supposed to wrap up all the ohistillhavelotsoftimetocompletemyassignment feeling and begin to work on the remaining parts of my Western Philosophy assignment. Alas, after having breakfast out at Kayu Nasi Kandar with my aunt, who left to Singapore after breakfast, uncle lizard and wife came over to my place to pick up something and dragged us out to Sunway Pyramid. I thought, oh maybe its a good opportunity for me to just scout for my dress and heels for ball on Friday. So I tagged along.

After lots of strolling around, trying out many dresses and heels, proceeded with looking at some really pretty looking winter trench (they leaving for Scotland on Tuesday), my mind sort of drifted away from the real intention of me being there. I actually felt like ditching ADP ball, ditching assignments, ditching classes, ditching everything pending in my to-do-list to go to some winter country. With them to Scotland would be great :)

Lunch at Fullhouse was a little less than satisfying. I would say the food there is just ordinary. Not worth the price I paid for. Though, I would suggest you try going there on weekdays instead where they have the super deals for set lunch, I think that is worth it. Headed to Coffee Bean for some really nice scones, muffins, cheesecake and of course, ice blended hazelnut coffee. mmm...

I was eventually stuffed in the end :D

Went home empty handed while mum got herself a nice blouse with a really sweet pink tone. I would say I have decided on the dress and heels and reserved it. Gonna go get it on Wednesday cause it would be then, cheaper! *:)

Happy feeling was not short-lived. It even endured past the struggles I went through in completing my Philosophy assignment. I am still a happy child. *smiles smiles*

Lovely,

SASA Farewell Dinner.

When I Look At You - Miley Cyrus

Quote of the day: Insanity - doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein

It certainly cannot be gainsaid that there were and are true talents and bright individuals in the SASA team. Of course, not all of them are very committed to it; someone like me is worth a smack in the arse, but, just one smack, not more. :)

So, the leaders are in constant switching and I guess and hope its all settled down now. Our beloved president, Pauline left us to pursue her beloved subject goal and to-be-ambition - Law under the JPA scholarship, which also means, penniless education under certain terms and condition of course.

Our present president, Lily Foong, I heard, got the Sime Darby scholarship and is most probably leaving us too.

The group 3 leader, Ezreena, if I'm not mistaken, got the JPA scholarship and left us.

A few of other friends were the same too. All doing different courses.

In order to honor their efforts and contributions to SASA of these outstanding scholars as well as a celebration dinner for all the successful events we've accomplished so far, hence, we had a dinner! Nyomnyomnyom... :D

July 10th, 2010.

Anyway, this was held at the LaLaChong restaurant located at Kayu Ara. Great food.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

Cheers to people who made college feels even more like home. Love.

Fete de la Musique 2010.

Airplanes - B.O.B ft Hayley Williams

It has been a while since Fete de la Musique. The only reason to the delay of this post is obvious. So I guess that it is still unnecessary for me to go into any indulgent explanations.

Fete de la Musique is an annual music event organized to celebrate music. When I say music, I mean every genre you possibly know or may not. Keeping to the 8-year-old tradition, Malaysia becomes part of this worldwide celebration, while giving opportunities to local amatuer and professional musicians to showcase their musical talent without discrimination of background, style and experience. Plus, it is a music festival held in more than 300 countries worldwide, happening on the same day - the day of pure summer solstice

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I initially signed up for a whole day shift from 8am till 10pm, not a clue about what this event has got to offer. I thought, maybe this is a golden opportunity for me to burn my way-too-much internship hours. I stepped out of the car onto the hard bitumen pavement where my canvas shoes gripped on, just to have a series of drum test noise bombard both ears. I exhaled heavily and immediately shrugged off the negative thoughts a pessimist like me can come up with then headed towards the red booth set up about a hundred meters away. I sauntered pass the Volkswagen showroom and managed to have some envious moments. Shared some light moments with Reuben and the others who came along soon while watching some of the bands stepped up to do sound tests.

The string of back to back performance which lasted till about 11pm began at 10.30 in the morning. As expected, the morning performances did not attract any crowd at all. The shoppers merely took glances at the performers on stage as they strutted by. As I was in charge of floor managing, my boss instructed me to go around explaining to people what the event was about, or even wheedle people into joining the fun out of desperation. The scorching sun was one of the pullbacks of the event, I mean, who is willing to risk standing under the hot sun just to watch some random people perform? No doubt, some of the pretty performers with pretty voice and awesome, undeniable musical talents were able to hold on to a number of shoppers for a short moment, the other average ones failed to do so.

I hung around with the UOL's first year students, Foundation, HMC, A Levels and some of BComm students under the shades at HELP's booth. Next to us was the Digi's booth (Digi was the sponsor for this event). We were busy munching on the free popcorns provided by Digi while admiring the Digi girls' pretty Converse shoes. Was fantasizing while waiting for time to pass.

Bands and individual performers went up stage and came back down. Busiest people were the backstage people. Did some surveys and found out that they have some serious stuffs going on back there. Lots of coordinating, instruments check plus phoning up performers and ensuring their attendance. Of course, I wished to help but clumsy people like me was afraid that I might screw everything up in the end, so I politely apologized for not being able to lend some help. (:

Things began to heat up when the shift changes around 3o'clock in the afternoon. Yet, the crowd wasn't enough for us to begin our work. So we continued maundering stories, one after another while cheering after every performance. A quarter of the cheerleading team Blitzers from BU4 came to perform their short yet skillful routine as well! Loving the blazing charisma and energetic movements out there. Not to forget, HengLing, for treating the girls ice-cream sundae from McD. It was surely a perfect dessert to satisfy our cravings in such hot day

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As the golden sun set for the day to some twilight moments, spotlight shone to highlight the performances on stage. My friend, Clement,

who was the drummer for his band - Pop The Cherry, took the stage and rocked it, just like how the other bands did. Apparently, his drum stick flew out of his hands accidentally when he waved it but he made it so cool looking as if it was a planned thing. Good thing he brought an extra because it had happened before in his previous performance. The crowd size was gradually increasing in number and of course, there were some rare sight of some crazy audiences and lead singers of bands, shaking their heads so vigorously like their heads were detaching from their necks. Felt like they were on crack, Ecstacy or some sort. Freaky. At that time, crowd control was all about preventing these psychopaths from going over the top and crashing the stage. It wouldn't be a beautiful sight if they did.

As the night veiled over the entire area, I grew used to the loud, heavy metal musics above my average tolerant level. I imagined how my eardrums were less flexible and insensitive to sounds right above inaudible level. Yet, that did not keep me from getting all pumped up during the event. I was shouting and cheering, easily blending into the crazy crowd out there, except for the fact that the shirt I was wearing was chilly red. I actually silently hoped to lose my voice the next day, but as usual, things I wished for never come true. Oh well, that was one frivolous and weird wish anyway.

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The night ended well with me trying to calm myself down. Kiss The Rain by Yiruma was on replay mode. I fell asleep with much ease eventually.

Love.

SASA BBQ Night.

Kara DioGuardi & Jason Reeves - Terrified

Last Saturday ( 5th of February ) was supposedly SASA's barbecue night. Arrived before 6.00pm with Ivory. One sight of the condominium, we knew the exact reason why was it called Rivercity. It was right beside the "dirty & polluted" Gombak river. Anyway, that was not my point.

So the sky was all gloomy and dark with occasional lightning and thunder, drizzle which stopped after split moment, strong wind which is able to lift up short skirts. I was doubting we could actually have a barbecue party since the weather forbids. Soon after our arrival, others began to arrive too and we gathered and chatted outside by the pool but moved in under the shades after it began raining cats and dogs. That did not disrupt our conversation either.

The barbecue plot was wet and certainly impossible to barbecue but we helped ourselves with a little of the fried meehun and some sandwiches.

The ice breaking game wasn't that fun at all unless you were luckily chosen and punished. :D Such fortunate person like me obviously could not run away from littlest things like this. So my name was picked along with four other people and the question was, " How many hours of intern do you think SASA-rians should complete? " What the heck? I don't even know or wasn't even sure that we have to do an intern! So I ended up in a very very scandalous punishment which I think most of you will be like, " What the hell? Pei Ning! You actually did that?? " Well it was not as bad as it sounds like but for your information, I actually did my punishment with a guy, a total stranger at that time. I don't even know his name until I checked through Facebook just to find that he is Eugene? I guess its him. But yeah. Pictures will pretty much explain what I have been through. :)

Me + Everybody = SASA-rians 2010!

So yeah. We were stuck playing many lame games which I don't even find them fun or whatever but yeah. Its just another thing to bond and to pass time.

Tiktoktiktoktiktok...

Alright. Back to business. So time management was lousy. Yeah. They should have put the election section right after the dropclothandshoutname game instead of making us play games we don't find amusing at all.

P.S. : Sorry if my piece of mind offended anybody but as I say, its a piece of my mind. TeeHee!

Vice Presidents. Rachel & Naomi.

Anyway, I found out I was really the only person studying ADP in SASA 2010. Seriously. That practically makes me kinda cool. Stands out. :D And also according to a guy whose name is Trixton or something? Yeah. He said I was best known as The ADP Girl in SASA, which I don't find it quite convincing afterall, since asking quite a few which have no idea about this. Perhaps he was stalking me all these while? NAH~ He is in Foundation? But what I am 100% sure is that his class would be at main block while mine is all at Wisma HELP except for Computers tutorial class which is... well... in main block. But that is only like 2 hours the most per week?

Owh! Come on Pei Ning... Stop being paranoid. :)

Yeah so that was it. The SASA barbecue night. It didn't turn out as good as I expected but at least there were a few moments worth laughing out loud. Peace out! :D

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So today was the day of my presentation. Seriously. I was so relax and chilled yesterday night that I was watching You Tube all night instead of practising. I was actually so engrossed with Ryan Higa's videos that when my computer shut down by itself for no valid reason, I realised that it was already 1.15am in the morning. So i just gave up on the attempt of wanting to practice and SLEPT! This morning, I knew I couldn't run away from it but to practice once more before giving my shot in front of Mr. Marzuki. Alas, I have forgotten quite a big portion of my presentation but phew... it came back to me just once practicing.

Owh. Just random but its 11.11pm now. Making a wish. :D

Yeah. So Mr. Marzuki said I didn't rush like the others and was in control. I was nervous but surprisingly not feeling cold. :/ But yeah, he said I have to improve on speaking, just like any other times which I don't really get how can I do that and also my eye contact. That's about it but overall, I got a whole 9 over 10 marks. GREAT! *shoots confetti at myself* It is somehow a great motivation yet. Ahh... psychology comes in again.

Owh. Another random. Its 1.11am now. Making the same wish again. :D

Yeah. Its a superstitious thing but yet its amazing how I see 1.11 or 11.11 almost everyday. It sort of became common for me already. Oh well... You might be wondering what took me so long to write this post but frankly speaking, I was busy packing my clothes for Chinese New Year since I am leaving very soon like the others? Yeah I am. Miss me.

I am acting as if there's no lesson in the morning cause I am still awake! I guess I am going to doze off later in Psychology class. *yawn* Yeah. Dr. Annie is kinda boring. Just like how Pn. Ang used to do when she taught me Moral in Form 2. Like singing lullaby when they start speaking in class. :) Oh. I better get ready for bed now.

But before that, take a look at my all time favourite video. You Tube removed all of the related ones so I've got no choice but to set down for this lousy quality video. Its the Argentine tango by Mark and Chelsea ( So You Think You Can Dance contestants ).

That's all for now. See ya after the Chinese New Year! Taa~ :)

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. Be the best version of YOU.

I realised

I beamed at almost every sentence you wrote

Love, eve

SASA Dining Etiquette 2009

Falling For You – Colbie Callait

Hola, I just came back from one of SASA’s events and trainings and it was the dining etiquette. I guess you might be able to figure out what it was about through the name of it. It is indeed about table etiquette.

Unfortunately, I didn’t bring my camera along and so did everyone else. Everybody was expecting somebody else to bring the camera and in the end, no one did. So no pictures on this event.

Dinner etiquette was a function and training session where we had one of our HELP staff who is a French, taught us some of the basic things about dining in. It is rather important especially when we dine with our bosses or clients in the future.

Surprisingly, most of the SASA-rians were quite raw in this kind of event. They didn’t know how to work with napkins and the myriad cutleries. They do not even know how to place their cutleries after meals. Maybe they weren’t exposed to these kind of functions before this.

So it was just another kind of complete dinner for me and I manage to talk to many other SASA-rians who attended the dinner too. It was crazy to see that everyone were so good in socialising and it was at the same time overwhelming that we are now a big family and is going to do many more interesting activities organised by HELP university college specially for us SASA-rians soon.

However, there is still a sad thing that I got to know everybody whom I talked and conversed with are either taking A-levels or Foundation in HELP and NONE OF THEM ARE TAKING ADP! I guess I just have to make new friends when I enter my brand new classroom in days to come. For that, I’m feeling enthusiastic and anxious at the same time for going to college. * shrugs *

 

Till my next post. Tata~

Love, eve.