So why study Lit? (continued)

Okay.. coming back to the question, "why study lit?" Sigh* I know there's no definite answer but I'm not satisfied with not finding out either. The more I answer I don't know..the more I want to know.. this is the part about being a girl.. hahaha.. typical!

I did however put this question aside over the weekend but somehow 3 other people asked me by chance this week the same question, "hey, so why did you take up Literature?" It's like I have to answer for real this time.

I would say, I like learning literature. In fact, I love it a lot! I began to notice that I look forward to reading poems more than anything else. I began to notice I try to think more than is needed. How shall I put it..? It's just like I'm being trained to be a lit student from scratch. Your senses tries to be more alert to things which to most people it may seem...ordinary?

I'm sure even till now that I do want to do psychology after A-Levels, that I'm sure but I feel a little guilty and wasteful to just forget all I learnt in Lit. Of course there's always the option to do a double degree or a twinning programme but that means I'll spent more time studying before earning. I think i began to understand why mom was greatly encouraging me to come for A-Levels instead of jumping into foundation straight away. Maybe that extra time would prepare me better to choose what road I want to take hence forth.

I think as sure as a person can be sometimes, God will put you to the test and it's His way of giving us an option in life, a second choice. It's still months away before I need to worry about this but the actual comes down to either a twinning or double in either psychology and law or psychology and lit. Wah..tough choice!

Eunice asked yesterday, "Eh..why did want to take literature anyway?" I was a little dumbfounded at first but I think I gave an answer something like that, "That was actually the first subject I choose, Law and Econs were the only subjects I think I could cope with. I really like studying Lit cause I enjoyed it with Pn Lyla back in school so I did the same when I came into MCKL." Eunice said it was good that it was my first choice and that I like it cause not many poeple who will truly enjoy it these days.

Everyone keeps saying that I'll become a lawyer and I don't think I would (I hope not la..) not that I don't like it but I just think my family doesn't need 2 lawyers. Ahahaha..! I want to become a psychologist cause one I love to talk and two cause I want to help people by talking them through their lowest moments in life and just be there for all those I love and care about.

Well..this post is long enough, I'll leave it here first...maybe I'll find more answers.. :)

Poems from E.E.Cummings~

I carry your heart with me

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)

i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)


I thank you God for most this amazing

i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings:and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any--lifted from the no
of allnothing--human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)


Once Like A Spark/If stangers meet

(once like a spark)

if strangers meet
life begins-
not poor not rich
(only aware)
kind neither
nor cruel
(only complete)
i not not you
not possible;
only truthful
-truthfully,once
if strangers(who
deep our most are
selves)touch:
forever

(and so to dark)


This are some poems by E.E.Cummings. The first one was recommended by Ms Melalyn, and I happen to come across the next two. I read a bit about E.E.Cummings and according to the info his poetry are mostly sonnets which largely deals with love and nature, as well as the relationship of the individual to the masses and to the world. His poems are also often rife with satire. Some of his poems are free verse which they follow no rhyme or meter.

I think when I was about 11, I started writing poems myself. I have a little collection of them kept hidden behind my books. I never did show them to anyone cause I think my poems are depthless and somehow pointless to the world. It only means something to me which I think is why I kept writing them cause I believe that it's my way of self expression without fear or bondages.

I pretty much a loner when I was younger, of course I do have a lot of friends I can giggle with but I don't seem to truly belong to any one group. As I'm much older now, my social circle is of course better, I can mix with any 'gang' but still I doubt I belong anywhere. Nope, I'm not a pessimist or some depressed soul but I think it's just that God hasn't brought me to meet the people I can truly belong with. =) However, He did bring me to 2 people (Jia Rong & Ai Jane) which I can call best friends though we have now moved on with life and there's an ocean between the 3 of us.

Being alone often makes me think more than speak and I think it's one of the reason why I write poems or stories(will never be shown to the world as well =p) or blog. My thoughts can just go about wandering and it makes me a very very random person. Since I started writing poems and also reading psychology articles and books, I began change my mind set slowly. I tend to see things much more complicated than they are (haha.. :p) like a glass of water isn't just a glass of water or a leaf isn't just a leaf..

Long story short, I just think too much but since it doesn't strain me brain..I shall leave it alone. haha.. Kai Li asked Ms Melalyn just now, "what are the benefits of studying English Lit?" I was waiting for Kai Li so I just joined in the convo. Ms Melalyn gave us a lot of her view points which made me think. I asked myself that moment, "So why did I choose to study Lit now?"

Hmm...why?? I know I do like literature and I like English but hmm..what more??Ok..having a headache...shall answer this question later..need to sleep.. =p

All the way from Redang~

You must be wondering what or who has come all the way from redang eh??? Haha...this is a really unique and cute thing...yes, it'a a thing..so what could this 'it' be??? hehehehe... Guessed it yet? Okay, fine just let me show it to ya then!!!






















READY!?



























TA-DA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




A CUTE LITTLE TURTLE!!!!!!!!!!! (Krystal points out the amazing feature is that it knows how to nod!)

Haha... Thanks Krystal for the wonderful souvenier though it took quite some time to reach me =p But still, I like it! Shall proudly stand it on my shelf!

Faces

Names may change and faces pass,
But the tune's the same, we'll make it last,
(This is from the song 'Within These Walls' from BBGS. It was sung to celebrate the school turning 100 years old. FIY, it's already 115 years old..)

Out of the entire song, this is my favorite line. =) It may sound sad but I find it depicts life very much. Faces just brings us back to memory lane, when you see a face, it tells different stories and accounts, don't you think so?

I have a tendency of either laughing, smiling, grinning, pulling a long face or going a little agitated when I see different faces that I had encountered throughout this 18 years of my life. Think about it.. wouldn't you? As I said, I like people watching and sometimes... I like to just look at photos, when I do, it makes my thoughts travel and ask questions like a curious child.

Hahaha...I'm very random today =D oh well...I gotta go..

Randomness~

E.E.Cummings ~

l(a

le

af

fa

ll

s)

one

l

iness

This is a poem by E.E. Cummings. Yes, as weird as it may seem..this is a poem. I think out of all the poems we studied in literature this would be my favorite. At first impression this poem seems nothing more than codings but it actually holds so much hidden meaning in it. If you look at the poem vertically, you won't get it, but if you turn it horizontal...


l(a leaf falls)oneliness If you take away the words in the bracket and the baracket itself...

loneliness


Get it??? Even then, 4 words don't seem to mean much eh? This poem actually talks a lot about life. Think about it.. it's actually very simple. Simple as it may seem, it's sophisticated at the same time. Life..like how a falling leaf would be, the falling process is short but slow all at the same time. Picture how a piece of falling leaf would look like. It glides gently in the air in a pretty slow pace like as if it would take forever to touch the ground but when you look at the watch it only took a few seconds.


One of the main things I think this poem strikes me the most is the message that life is actually very short and brief but at the same time long and draggy. There's 2 sides to the coin, it's short yet long. Life can go by us so quickly and if we are not appreciative of what we have, it'll soon burn out like a candle and that's it.. Yea, I know it's complicated but it's meaningful despite being simple.



When I first read this, I was like "Har..?this is a poem?more like codings.." Then when Ms Melalyn and all of us discussed the shape and messages this peom conveys, the entire picture is clearly painted out. I was shocked and very impressed by this short poem. I won't go on about what I wrote in my essay cause it's too long winded and crappy but think about it... isn't life depicted this way?


What do you think?? :)

BRATs 08' - Kajang (Country Heights) Aug 16-19

I think I was jumping up and down with excitement when I recieved the e-mail from BRATs. The BRATs camp was supposed to be in Kuala Selangor but due to some unforseen circumstances, it was held in Country Heights, Kajang instead.The entire camp was really awesome! I learnt so much and made a lot of new and sweet memories.

I've got so much to tell but I don't even know where to start from. But erm... let's just go with the lodgings first. I was in Country Heights 5 years ago for a DUMC camp and I think nothing much changed in this place. We stayed in Green Scene Coast which is the same place I stayed at 5 years ago! Our villas are awesome!!! I shared my room with Alethea and Atiquah (all 3 of us are ANIME freaks!!XD)

Food? TOTALLY DELICIOUS!! Duh! It's Country Heights we're talking about. Every meal is a wide buffet spread and it's just so awesome. Getting hungry just thinking bout it..~ Food glorious food~

The people I met in BRATs are all really very creative, smart and funny. Everytime we had some free time, we would all mix around and talk about anything or we would all sit in a small groups and torment people with the IQ/Trick games like Grandma, Horses, The clock game, numbers, Black Magic and etc. It was really fun!

I met a lot of BU4 students, 2 students from SBU (I'm just so proud =]), other schools, colleges and states. All of just warmed up almost immediately and we jsut constantly had fun together. The games aside, we all were exposed to a lot of aspects of journalism. Other than writing articles only, each group had to do sound slides (so not easy) and videos (not any easier either!).

The first task we had was to take pictures of a glass of water anyway we like it within 10 minutes. My group chose to show my picture XD (so proud~) and the photographer, Chan was like, "This is a very good shot. Very creative but I just dunno what name to give it. I can't picture a name for it..hahaha." Ok, just for your info, everyone decided to named it "Defying Gravity" =p

We had quite a number of assigments to do during the camp and all the deadlines are absolutely making us stressed up.

Assingment 1 > Do a sound slide about Kajang Town. We wore our BRATs t-shirt and went to Kajang town to do interviews with random people (co-calling) and also to grab shots of the place for our sound slide. It wasn't an easy task cause Kajang isn't really that exciting so all of ushad some trouble finding our focus on the story but we managed to do it in the end though we passed the deadline by more than 6 hours!

What was funny bout this assigment was most of the people we ask to interview either don't know about the history of the town or they just simply don't know a thing about the place *sigh* How very helpful..but nevertheless a good experience. =)

Assignment 2 > Do a video. Our group had to do a video on a shoe factory located in Seri Kembangan. I was the videographer (yup!I got the chance to hold the video cam like some pro!) and it was actually a pretty tricky job. We did 2 interviews; Wen Jie was supposed to interview the founder but after atempting the interview for about 3 times, Wen Jie couldn't connect with the guy.

It was kind of scary when he just stopped Wen Jie cause he said the questions are not properly phrased. So I just stepped in to do it in cantonese cause my mandarine is so "GENG". I was freaking out a little during the interview but we didn't have a choice. I just asked 3 questions keeping it as simple as possible and praise God, the interview was over and done with.

Assignment 3 > Photo essay. The SIMPLEST assignment! yeay!! XD XD


It was a really good exposure and experience for us. Then it came to video editing..GOODNESSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!! It's one of the most draggy process ever! We had to do voice overs (voice recording) for our sound slide and video with only one laptop. My group members didn't know how to use the windows movie maker except me, Marcus and Crystal (our leader). We were practically rotting in front of the laptop!

The video editing took us a lot of time but it was fun doing it with everyone helping out. The voice recording was also fun though a very tedious process. @_@ Our videos are not exactly good but we did it as a team, so we're proud! Go PHABs!!! (that's our group name by the way..)

It was really eye opening for all of us, being a journalist is hard work and it takes a lot of creativity and skills. Ivy our coordinator said, "I think those of you who came here wanting to be a journalist will now think twice before you choose this line ar..haha..got scared already." If it was me, ya, I think I would reconsider picking this profession! =p Very stressed and tiring!

All in all...I think I'm proud to be a BRAT! XD

Go check out the photos >>
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BACK!

BRATs ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just came back today and I'm very tired. Been sleeping really late in camp but made lots of memories and met lots of really cool and friendly people!Will blog about this tomorrow. Pictures are going to facebook now so I'll paste the link at the bottom of this post. =)


I MISS EVERYONE FROM CAMP!!!!!!! Especially the PHAB BRATs!!!! (PHAB BRATs is my group name > Passionate Hot Amazing Boisterous BRATs! XD)


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Miserable

Miserable.. I think I just about said this word a lot yesterday. According to Kai Li, I said it about 16 times! Hahaha, well the rational behind this was... *drum rolls please*





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TA-DA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"MY RESULTS!"

Surprise, surprise.. Well I think I did badly for my English Lit but surprisingly, I did okay for my Econs. I actually got an A for Econs but I failed to do so for my Lit. *sigh... Cried plenty yesterday but I wasn't the only one. It's only the 1st sem results and as Ruben said, I still have 2 chances to resit them.

Done crying, so I'm fine now =) I think after getting my results, I just had this stupid miserable face but thank God for the lovely people in college that were encouraging me. The moment I got my results, I was utterly shocked and left speechless that I nearly broke down on the spot..

Ms Angeline kept saying, "Carmen.. SMILE!", whenever she says that I can't help but pull a small smile. =) Even Jennifer, Ms Grace and Ms Mel were encouraging me. I'm begining to find that my lecturers are really sweet people. Thanks for being there! Noramlly my teachers couldn't be bothered but with you people it was different, so thanks again!

Then Kai Li is another person who was accompanying me the most when I was in need of someone. As miserable (the 18th time now =p) as I was..this few people made me smile and look forward to tomorrow. Thanks for the push!

Flowers

Went to Petaling Street yesterday right after Malaysian Studies to buy Aunty Janet a bouquet of flowers since it's her birthday. I chose Spray Carnations; carnations represents mothers and I thought nothing would be more suitable and besides spray carnations are very beautiful =)

Everyone turned to look at me as I walked along the street to the train station, no no...it wasn't because of me..it was the bouquet. Hahahaha... When I entered into a lift at Prince Hotel, there was this couple in the same lift and the girl said,

"The flowers are very beautiful. Who gave it to you? =)"

"er..technically, I'm giving it to someone."

"Aw..that's so sweet..."

"Why don't you ask him (pointing to her bf/husband/fiance..?) to buy you one?"

"Him?? (rolls eyes..)*Sigh*"

She was very pretty and funny too though it was a mere 2 minutes conversation. I think for most of the girls including myself, we do like the thought of recieving flowers from somebody. Be it on our birthday or any special occasions. Flowers to me are very special things and delicate, but I'm not exactly the kind that really likes to receive flowers..it's just the thought that would make me really really happy. =)




When I surprised Aunty Janet with the flowers she was speechless which made me really happy. Often we would think the reciever would be very happy and delighted with the flowers but actually the giver is the one who is the most thrilled. It's a great rush of excitement and glee when we stand in front of someone and presenting to them a bouquet of flowers. To look at their smiling faces with a mixture of shock, happiness, surprise and excitement altogether... abosolutely priceless~

I enjoy 'people watching' and the place I'd always observe others is when I'm in the airport waiting to board the plane or when I'm in a cafe. It's not exactly fun but I like to see how people would react to the littlest gesture. I'm the kind that would be laughing to myself when I see something sweet or something that reminds me of any piece of memory. According to my mom, that's pretty crazy and silly but I somehow enjoy looking at people. Weird hobby eh?

Sieh Shen-Myin

This post should have been posted last week but it's never too late..hahaha

It's been 5 long years since I last saw Shen. She was my senior from SBU, when she was in Form 5 I was only in Form 1. I still remember I met her through a public speaking competition in school. She was giving us the 'newbies' advise and some pointers for the competition since she represents the school. Turns out that Shen knows my elder bro, Edmund through public speaking as well!

In SBU, seniors to us small fries are actually someone grand, respected, and someone we would admire or think them very cool la. Often we get the feeling they are pretty cold to us but this is not true, especially with Shen. She was really a big sis to me throughout the entire year and she is actually so sweet~! I remember she actually wrote me a card wishing me good luck for exams and also an encouragement card telling me that she would always be around if ever I need to talk to someone. I melted on the spot when I found the card in my locker...

What amazes me more is the fact that we are still keeping in touch till today though there's a huge gap between us already. She never once forgot bout me or thought of me as some junior only. I have to admit as well,hahahaha... when I was still in form 1 I did admire some senior girls (I'M STRAIGHT K..!) and Shen was one of them. She was shocked when I told her the other day and asked me why..Well I shall leave out the why part here but it was some what natural for me to admire a big sister.

I never had a sister as I'm the only girl, so I never knew what a big sis would be like. One of the things I would share is, I think I admire Shen is because of her energy, her spirit and the fire in her. She has that strong command and elegance in her which actually made me feel pretty timid when talking to her but once I got to know her all the ice just melted away. :)

There's a lot of sweet memories we did make together in school though it was that 1 year only. *reminiscing* Glad we are able to maintain this friendship and glad we are able to meet up. I'm also glad that God had allowed or paths to have crossed and I thank God for a really sweet big sis like you, Shen! You rock, so keep rocking on! God bless you!

Olympics 2008 Official Theme Song~

Well since it's Olympics after all... I like this song~! It's very slow for an olympic song but I find it so sweet, so gentle. I can sleep listening to it..! No, it's not a lullaby but the two voices are just so soft and comforting. Liu Huan and Sarah Brightman makes such a good team.

Their voices just fits together. I like the theme of this video. Water.. it suits the song, so soft so gentle. Well enjoy it..but there's plenty of other official theme songs..so I have no idea which one is the main one. Since this song was sung in the opening ceremony I shall assume this is the main one.

Olympics!!!

Had a tiring week... exams n assigments are unfortunately piling up. Sigh* My mom is getting more paranoid too...well can't blame her though. Our maid is back in indon (not ever coming back as well) and the chores needs to be done so it's been tiring all of us. The most hectic one so far has been the laundry, the ironing is worst...so much to do!!! But oh well, it's not like as if we're queens or princesses...it's just that we're so busy everyday we hardly have time but no worries...we'll work it out. XD

I just finish washing the bathroom,wah hard scrubing...but never mind, I'll be getting muscles from all this! but currently it's muscle pain... =p

But on a happier note... it's OLYMPICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was a little pissed when my stupid Astro didn't have the 816 channel but later found out that me n Ivan forgot to off it to let the decoder update, so I was freaking out without reason..sorry lo.

My family ate fried rice, ba ku teh n siew kai yik whilst enjoying the opening ceremony at my grandma's place. We were actually amazed by the weird and new names of the participating countries. When Malaysia's athlets were marching out I had to laugh, for reasons I'm not really sure.

I fell asleep after watching for more than an hour of the marching session cause it just too long winded and tiring. Then when I woke up, I saw Yao Ming holding the China flag and this little boy next to him "yeay Go China.." (very sleepy tone..)

I shall be a horrid Malaysian and support China and Japan this year! =p I've always supported China for olympics or any international games. Japan??? I support them because I think that country's citizens are ingenious and they are really hard workers! (besides..i like Japan and ANIME!) Go China! Go Japan!

*sigh* Alas..... I didn't get it again. Oh well, there's always a silver lining to everything. So I'll keep my chin up and think positive! I didn't fidget this time, was pretty calm actually. The lecture was pretty similar to last years' but the questions were so much harder!! This year there was 4 rounds instead of 3. Wah...more work!

Round 1 : I got one mistake out of 25 questions.

Round 2 : 7 mistakes out of 15!!

I was really very encouraged by all the sms I recieved. Thanks people! Love all of ya! But something did make me tear up a little.

My Dad...*sigh*

(in the car)

"Carmen..."

"yea"

"why do always join so much of all these 'crap' (he said the crap part in chinese which is > "gao si lap sap") ?"

"..."

"Like just now, your suppose to have an advantage over others cause you joined last year. Why didn't you read the notes you got last year? Why didn't you prepare enough? Waste of time..!"


By this time, I couldn't stop the tears welling up from my eyes. I feel like scolding back but I just couldn't. One, I don't wanna start a stupid arguement out of this. Two, I don't need to explain myself to an arrogant father like you! The only reason I joined the competition is to get the scholarship, which is to say to relief my dad's burden! He just retired in March and he just started a new job in June, I know the pay is less and it's taxing to have 3 kids especially when the first 2 are already out of secondary school.

I won't even need to try to get that scholarship if I don't care about your wallet! Excuse me! Why can't you be more encouraging! Even my friends can encourage me better than you did! Your my father! Your suppose to be my role model! I can't forgive him for what he said though I know I should. I can't do it now,cause I can't. How painful was that!?

Crap??? Can you please regard what is important to me with more respect! Yea, it's not exactly a swell idea that I come back late the past 3 weeks because of all the events in college that I had to be involved in but I don't usually get involved! I've never been involved until I came to college! I'm growing up! Teenagers are usually more active and we do have more stuff going on than adults! Sorry that I want to get involved!

I mean it's all good exposure! Not like your daughter is going to some night club or mixing with the wrong people! I'm doing this with your full knowledge and consent! How dare you regard all these as crap!? How can you ask for my respect when you can't even respect me?? You never scold Ed when he gets involved with all these stuff, even the things he joined outside college! Why me?

Fine...I'm a girl, yea it's a dangerous world, yea, I need to be more careful, yea, I'm your only girl but hey...this can't be a long term excuse. Yes, your worried but please don't regard my stuff as crap! Watch what you say! You have just permenantly scared your daughter! You can never repay nor mend what you just broke with those words! I'll definitely forgive you but not now...not today...I don't know how to convince myself.

When you don't like it, you put on a black face and everyone has to let you scold them or let you push them over as you like! What kind of parenting is that!? Can't you say things in a better way? Just because your stupid temper, your children has to hide in their rooms, your wife has to find an excuse to busy herself with whatever she can find to do, our entire schedule for the day is disrupted because of you! Sometimes I don't blame Ed for saying he wants to get out of this house.

Yea, we understand your getting old, so your temper is worse but hey, don't go about bitching just because you had a bad day! Don't go about ruining other people's days just because your in a a bad mood! I'm not as great as other people, I don't know how to forgive so quickly.. I find it hard..very hard in this moment. Just so you know...I've never asked nor begged my dad for anything in my entire existance! I didn't dare! The three of us never dared to get him angry or pissed, we never asked for toys, we never even ask for candy!

Just once...just once...why can't you acknowledge us for anything??? Why can't you just support us??


I've had my say here....I've let out everything here....I'll say no more..

HELP Psychology Challenge 2008

I got short listed!

Finals : 2nd August

Time : 9 a.m.

Venue : HELP main campus

Preperations before hand : No idea... =p Can't prepare much anyway

Strategy : What?? Tak da!

Confidence Level : Pretty low, hope I won't fidget again

Current Self-motivation : Okay so far..If I don't get it then I'll start telling myself that

the third time's the charm!

Aspectations : Clueless!

Moral support from friends and family : They are very supportive! Love you ppl!

Current health meter (on a scale of 1-10) : 6, started having sore throat today, muscle

aches all over and in desperate need of sleep~
Current stress meter (1-10) : 3, it's tomorrow, so haven't felt it yet. But it'll be 11

tomorrow..

Hotline for encouragement : 017-6274711 (my darling twin~)
017-2928337 (currently in Ausy)
012-3282763 (my elder bro..eh..sekarang ada di

Vietnam..)
1800-444-HELP!!

Shout-out & Stress Release screaming : ARH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hahahahaha, yea,

I'm scared but excited at the same time. So

whatever happens tomorrow surely is under

Daddy's control. So I can only put my trust

in you! Before I go for tomorrow's

competition ..a shout out to a few people>>

1) Pastor Victor : Thanks for all the ideas and advise! LoVe ya!!!

2) Ms Melalyn : Thanks for the advise and all the checking you did for me! Couldn't have gotten this far without your help!!

3) Jia Rong : Thanks my darling twin for always being my angel of encouragement! Your support and encouragement has motivated me to go for it again! For that I love ya so much!!!

4) Jane : Thanks for all the smiles and encouragement!

5) Ed : hmm..ok la...thanks my dear brother for everything. Wished you could be present tomorrow. (p/s: no costumes from Vietnam please..!)

6) Mom and Dad : Hahaha..thanks for putting up with my late returns from college this 3 weeks..

7) Ivan : Thanks for being caring though you are younger, haha..at least my little bro is encouraging and mature when I'm panicing! You are allowed to keep my gameboy after UPSR..(key word : AFTER)

8) Kai Li : Thanks for encouraging me and cheering me up when I was down!

9) Eunice : Thanks for the motivation, the constant encouragement and the rides home! =p Glad to be working in the student council with you~!

BBQ Nite~

Yes, yes, you must be thinking "MCKL sure has a lot of events going on" Normally, the treasure hunt event is always in April but then due to elections this year it was pushed to July (don't really see the logic here but anyway..) The BBQ nite is an event for the students to socialize with each other and it is also an event to welcome the july batch as well as the hand over ceremony from the outgoing student council committee to the incoming student council committee.

We were so busy with treasure hunt last week that we hadn't the time nor energy to think about BBQ nite. We only started planning on Monday, so it was a rush. All of us had to stay back for meetings till at least 10 everyday to plan and prepare. It was very very tiring!! We discussed every single detail possible from food to drinks to performances to the schedule. Everything was really packed but we all made it somehow~!

Free cheers to everyone in the committee!!!! (self praising..! =p)

The food was good cause it finished off very quickly leaving nothing behind. Hahaha...all 16 of us were so busy and tied down that we didn't get the chance to eat. Too bad la.. The hand over ceremony was really cool! It was like a tribal council thing with tiki torches and all! Definitely memorable! All of us are very happy and we enjoyed ourselves, though the planning, the preperations, the cleaning and the washing was very taxing on us but it was a good a experience! Well we don't need to worry bout anything now till OB nite comes at least.

Thanks to all those who performed last night! You ppl were amazing!

Thanks to all those who bought the food and drinks! The food looked so delicious!!

Thanks to all the lecturers who were so cooperative and patient with us last night!

A special thanks to Ms Melalyn, Ms Grace and Ms Angeline for coming early to help and also for helping us with the frying! You rock!!

Thanks to our senior committee members, Ruben, Hashim, Priya, Regina, Wen Shan, Alithea, Nigel and Irna.
What all of you have taught and guided us through out, will stay with us.
What you have built for the college and the student body, we will take it and we will pass this legacy on.
Thank you for all that you've done! Do continue to advice and guide us! It's been great working together! Love you guys!!!


And finally to the new committee members I work side by side with... We make a great team! Hope that we can keep it up together!!!