My first update in my new home.

Hello everyone! Due to the requests of many people. I have decided to update my blog. Sadly, as some of you may know, I am no longer living in Malaysia. So starting from this post, this blog will be about my life in Canada. Although I feel very reluctant to do so, I have no choice. But let me warn you though, this post may be pretty long. So if your bored just stop reading. Ok? Here we go.

Well, it all started on the 15th of December.

Our flight was at 9 in the morning and we had to be checked in at least an hour earlier. We had only slept a wink the night before because we were up packing until 4 in the morning. We also had to wake up at 4.30 in the morning. We were woken up by the sound of the doorbell at 5 in the morning. A half hour later than the time we had planned to wake up. It was both uncles and my aunt and cousin (from my mothers side). They were here to pick us up and take us to the airport. We basically had to force ourselves to wake up and we didn't even have time to say goodbye to our house. The house which I had lived in all my life. We never moved from that house for 16 years. But we didn't even have time to feel emotional. It was a long and quiet ride to the airport. When we arrived at the airport, my Uncle Richard said he had to go. So we said our goodbyes to him and then we checked in our luggage and went to McDonalds for breakfast. Then my mum and dad's good friends showed up. I was really feeling crushed at the time. Then my Uncle David and his wife Aunt Helen and their daughter my cousin Lydia said they had to go. It was so hard to say goodbye to them. But of course, we had to. Suddenly, out of the blues my sisters friends showed up! They gave her lots of gifts and her good friends the twins Woon Kwan and Woon Teng gave me, and my brother gifts too! Their mum also gave my parents some things. Then after taking some pictures and chatting a while, it was time to go. Again, tears rolled down my cheeks as I said goodbye to my parents good friends Uncle Charles and Aunt Arun, and also my sisters friends. As I walked away and waved my heart felt so heavy. In my heart all I could think of was how much I'm going to miss this place. As we got onto the plane, my eyes couldn't help but tear. I was officially going away. Away from the place where I lived for my entire life. As the planes engines started I couldn't stop looking out the window. I could still see some houses far away. The entire plane ride to Hong Kong was just so emotional for me. I kept seeing flashbacks of my time in my beloved Malaysia. I felt a little happier when they served 'Nasi Lemak' on the plane as it was like my last taste of Malaysian food (besides my mothers cooking of course).

We landed in Hong Kong at about 12.30pm. It was of course a little colder than Malaysia. In fact it felt like I was in Cameron Highlands. Of course besides the Chinese writing everywhere and the fact that everyone spoke Cantonese. But it did remind me of home a little. It was also pretty misty. At the airport, we were met by a lady whose name was Sharown. She was one of the helpers for Pastor Gloria. Pastor Gloria was introduced to us by My parents really good friend, Aunt Yvonne. Pastor Gloria was the lady who volunteered to give us a place to stay during our 1 day transit to Canada. So Sharown met us at the airport and took us to the bus that was going to take us to the place we were going to stay in. Instantly my mum and Sharown became really close as my mum speaks Cantonese and she is the most fluent in our family of 5 because my dear Grandmother only speaks Cantonese. I guess Sharown reminded her of home. We took a bus from the airport to Pastor Gloria's home. It was about an hours drive as the airport is located on a different island. Let me tell you this, almost everyone in Hong Kong lives in an apartment. Almost like Singapore. When we arrived, I found out that Pastor Gloria didn't live in the apartment that we stayed in but she lived a few floors down. The place we stayed in was specially for guests. So after we got settled in, Sharown took us to meet Pastor Gloria who was in the city. I think it was called 'Mongkok' Again, it took about an hour and a half by bus for us to reach 'Mongkok'. Of course I fell asleep on the way. We then met Pastor Gloria and another man who was also a pastor named Pastor Abraham who was visiting from China. We then went for dinner at a very nice restaurant. And I discovered something about Hong Kong and that is the food in Hong Kong is superb! Pastor Gloria ordered plenty of dishes as we couldn't read Chinese. We had a wonderful and life changing time during our dinner. It is to long to explain but all I can tell you is that it was amazing. After dinner, we went to a church for a night sermon. It was not very different from the sermons in Malaysia as it was a guest speaker from Africa who spoke English! So that was good. After the sermon it was raining so we went for supper and ate 'Wan Ton Mee'. After that Pastor Gloria, Sharown and Pastor Abraham took us to a prayer tower. After that we took a bus home. During the bus ride my heart kinda felt heavy again because we had to leave, again. I still missed everyone and everything back home. Especially my Grandmother. You see, my Grandmother and I are really close. I love her very much and she was one of the people that really made me feel sad about leaving. Anyway, after a tiring day, we went back to the apartment for a good nights sleep. The next morning, it was time to pack up and leave again. We said our goodbyes and headed of to the airport. Our flight was at 12.50pm and we had left the apartment at 9am. So we had a nice lunch at the airport and then it was time to fly again. This time our flight was to Vancouver. It was going to be an 11 hour plane ride. In the plane I watched 5 movies and ate nothing for the plane was experiencing plenty of turbulence and I kept feeling like I was going to puke. Of course I drank lots of water though. I didn't sleep a wink during the entire journey.

When we arrived in Vancouver, it was raining and it was cold. And I mean like 4 degrees Celsius. But hey, you get used to it. I mean last night it was -22 degrees but the wind chill factor was -33 degrees Celsius. Hows that for cold? So when we reached the Vancouver airport we felt like we were going to faint because none of us slept in the plane for more than an hour. After going to the immigration department, we went to the food court for some sandwiches and delicious hot chocolate. And of course you know whats next, yup you guessed it. Time to fly again.

Finally, after another flight for an hour and a half we finally reached Calgary, Alberta. In the sky, all I could see was the colour white. All over the ground. And yes. It was snow. How beautiful! All our energy was drained out by then. I couldn't even recognize my Aunt Irene when I saw her! And I didn't even know she was standing in front of me when she was! Anyway, we then got our luggage and my Uncle Joe drove us to our new home.

Well, thats all for now. I shall update more about my stay here later. I'll even throw in some pictures! Well, see ya! And thanks for reading! :]

BOOM! Crash and burn!!!

You must be thinking, another weird title?!?!?! Whats wrong with this girl??? Well, I guess it does kinda seem to be the way I'm feeling right now. Why you ask? Well because it is!!! My reasons are classified. Anyway, the holidays have been good. Well, sort of. I've been spending loads of time with my friends!!! And at the same time, I've been thinking about a lot of things. I actually went for quite a few trips. One to Melaka and one to some orphanages. You can read about them in my friends blogs. Oh and yeah! I'm sorry I haven't been updating my blog. I've been pretty busy lately. Or actually, I've been pretty lazy. Forgive me. Did I mention, I GOT MY NEW GUITAR!!! Finally!!! After so long!!! And yes I can play it!!! I'm not that bad you know! I feel content now. Sigh... Its weird actually. I can remember the time when my friends and I would talk about PMR and life after form 3 and we would always say "1 more year or 2 more years" and so on. Now, its like no more years. Just months. Even days. Time truly passes fast... I thought this year would go by really slowly. But it turns out, it went by in a flash!!! I will truly miss the past but hey! The future will be better right?! I hope so. I truly do.

Anyway, I guess that's all for now!
Bye!


Here are some pictures of my trip to the orphanage!!!


My all time favourite picture!!!


My 2nd favourite picture!!!


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Its so unbelievable!!!!

Hey people! I'm back! I know, I know your all wondering what happened to me. Well, I was having my exams (PMR, Trials and Gerak Gempur). So now that its over, I'm back to blogging. I'm feeling kinda happy and sad at the same time. Weird right? Well, that's how it it. Anyway, Its good to be back. I'm really planning to have lots of fun in these 3 months of holidays. Hopefully I'll be able to do lots of stuff! I'm currently going through boredom. Isn't it sad? You must be thinking, PMR is over and she's bored?!?!?! Whats wrong with this girl?!?! But well, hey. That's the way it is. One thing good though, I'm feeling much more relaxed. Which is really great. I also get to do all the things I've been wanting to do!!! Now that's nice. To bad it wont last forever...

So, I better get started!!! Oh and here are some pictures from the prefect dinner!!!
That's all for now!
Bye! :]

At the 2009 Prefect Dinner with the form 3's!!!
(Can you spot me?)

Installation!!!

Hmm... Speaking of installation, it was today. But I'm going to start from the beginning ok?

Well, first of all, we the form 3's planned to make a movie for our performance. It was all set. We planned everything out and were sure that it was gonna be a blast! We started filming last Wednesday I think. First, everyone went home after school to get ready and come back to school for the shooting. We filmed a few scenes in a few different locations in school and that took like 3 hours? Well, it was tiring. We took quite a few takes. Then the next day we did another shooting. We filmed a few scenes in school and then we headed outside the school to shoot one scene. We then went to the park and shot another scene. Then it started to rain and we all went to Sakinah's house to shoot the last few scenes. After 2 grueling days, it was all over! And then, the next day some of us went over to Daryl's house to record our voices. It turned out to be a lot harder than expected and so when all else failed, we decided to put subtitles.

And then, it happened...

We discovered that one of the cameras memory cards was spoiled and that the files were no where else. Not on the computer, not on a file, no where. Needless to say, they were GONE. All that hard work just disappeared. And all our best scenes were in that memory card. When I found out I was going to burst out in tears. We spent so much time shooting and reshooting for no reason!!! But well, it was no ones fault. And there was nothing any of us could do about it. Me, Ashley, Nadine, Wei Beng, Li-Kenn, Firdaus, Azmeer and Subash sat down in Daryl's hall brainstorming about what we were gonna do for our performance since our movie just crashed and burned while Daryl and Kay Vin tried their best to find ways to fix the memory card. Finally, after a long while, Wei Beng came up with the most brilliant idea!

It was a talent show thing. We would all do something that we were good at and make it look like a talent show. We would have a few judges and an announcer to spice things up. It turned out great. I sang a slow English song while Wei Beng played the guitar (thanks for the song and for playing the guitar for me Beng!), Ashley and Li-Kenn did some martial arts, Wei Beng and Daryl did their bucket drum thing, Safura, Hafiz and Firdaus sang a fast BM song, Azmeer did a gay act and Firdaus played a BM folk song on the recorder.
It was good. Ben was the announcer and Leonard, Sakinah, Amirah and Nadine were the judges. That was it! That was our performance. Well, a lot of us kinda thought that it went better than the movie would have. So I guess we form 3 prefects work good under pressure.

As for the installation day itself, it started of nicely. The weather was great and not sunny at all. But when we went to the seminar room, it became terribly hazy and smokey!!! I couldn't even breath!!! Thank God that the weather during the installation itself was great. After it was over, some of the form 3's went for lunch while the rest of us waited for them to finish their lunch. After that we all went behind block C to practice our performances and get Azmeer or should I say 'Germany Sheraton' for his big debut. After that it was performance time. The form 1's did a drama entitled the frog prince and then it was our turn. It was fun!!! I must say, it was one of our best performances. Then the form 2's performed the song 'The show by Lenka' with a few interesting effects. The form 4's did and awesome stop motion film which I personally think was just downright cool!!! (good job guys!!!) And then the event ended with the form 5's who showed a few videos of their memories. And that was the end of Installation day!!! It was one of the best installation days I had been for I guess. Well, thats all for now!!! Pictures will be coming later.

The End :]

Subang Rally!!! (P.U.S.H.)

Hello people!!! I know, its been a very long time since I last updated and I'm sorry about that. Anyway, subang rally was a blast!!! Well the day started of like this,

I was an usher so I got up at 6 and went with Ming Wei to Sunway College at 7 something. We were briefed and were put at different stations. It was an exhausting experience. I was so tired that when I came home I just fell on the sofa and dozed off!!! Well,I think partly it was because we were not allowed to use the elevator and the hall where the rally took place was on the forth floor!!! So I think I spent most of my time climbing the stairs than doing anything else!


Session 1

The first session of the conference was a blast! First we had worship and then Hannah Yoeh gave a short speech. Then, it was Pastor Daniel Singh's turn. He was really good! I went out for alter call and then all the SMK USJ 4 students gathered for prayer. We then broke into small groups. I led my group in prayer. Then it was lunch time. Everyone lined up to get their lunch but because the line was so awfully long I decided to just get a drink from the vending machine. Jean Ann (don't ask me why) waited in line at a stall for the longest time just to buy a sandwich!!! And I thought she wanted to buy a hot dog so she had to wait but instead she bought a prepacked sandwich which was already on the counter!!! Lol. She can be a very funny girl la sometimes. Then she gave one of her sandwiches to the boys. It was so amusing to see Wei Beng, Daryl and Ben Sern fight over a sandwich!!!


Session 2

The second session was awesome!!! Worship was good because they sang my favourite song!!! Pastor Andy spoke and knowing pastor Andy, his sermon was full of life and energy!!! He was like those wind up toys that would never stop jumping and chattering until you stop them!!! It was cool. Well I went out for alter call again. This time I got filled with the spirit. It was a nice feeling to experience it again. After that, the conference was over. And now for the night concert!!!

Night Concert

Well, after the conference, all the ushers were given a briefing. It was 5.15 and they told everyone to be back at the hall at 6.30! And the worst part was that the only place to have dinner was at Sunway Pyramid and the only way to get there was to take the shuttle bus or a taxi! Jean Ann, Wei Beng, Daryl and Ben Sern had already gone to Sunway Pyramid so I decided to just have dinner at the College Cafeteria with Amy. But well wonder of all wonders, the cafeteria was closed! On the way to the cafeteria, me and Amy met some of the other ushers from our school. We all decided to rush the Sunway for dinner. We ran to a bus outside the college and realised that it wasn't the shuttle bus. Then Ming Wei spotted some taxi's and they said that it was only gonna be 5 bucks from where we were to Sunway. I thought it was an ok fare. So 5 of us crammed into a taxi while the others went with the 2 other taxi's. When we reached Sunway Pyramid, we ran to McDonalds. But well, it was packed! So we decided to go to KFC instead. We had a really quick meal (except Darren cause he was such a slow eater) and then we ran to get a taxi and were taken back to Sunway College.

The night concert started of well with one of the best worship sessions I had ever been to. It was really like a concert! Then there was a cool dance performance by the City Harvest Church. The sermon was by Pastor Clement Wong. Then, it was alter call time. It lasted for quite a while actually. I prayed for Pamela and gave her a word. And the night ended with one last round of worship were they sang my favourite song again. After that all the ushers and other volunteers gathered to stack the chairs and clean up. It was already 11.45 by that time. I had spent 18 whole hours just having fun and praising God!!! It had a very nice, fun and exhausting time! Alas, it was time to go home. Because I had no transport, Anna sent me home. (Thanks Anna!!!)


Home

When I got back home I dug my bag for the key and opened the door because no one was home. I got in the house and literally fell on the sofa and dozed off! When my family came home it was already around 1 am? It was one of the nicest times I ever had.

Thats all!!! I hope you enjoyed reading this post!!! :]


Here are some pictures,


Me and Vivian!!!


Me and Ming Wei!!!


Me and Shu Run wearing the P.U.S.H. t-shirt!!!
(mine was the normal one and hers was the committee one)


Me and Anna!!!


Me and Pamela!!!

Woot woot!!! Camp results!!!

Lol... I know... Weird title... Anyway, here's the verdict, camp was a BLAST!!! And I mean literally... As in it was fun most of the time and a not so fun at sometimes. But still one of the best prefect camps I've been to so far. Good job O.C's! It must have been real hard to put the pieces together. So, here it goes.

The first day.
Hmm... Well, went to school with Christy, got my tag from my group leader manveer, by the way, I was in group one. In my group was Manveer, me, Barret, Christopher, Leonard, Izzati, Lucas, Maria, Farah, Soffiyah and Sue Anne. And yes. I was the oldest girl in my group. Sat on the bus with Prasanna. Went for lunch at some stop. Lunch was of course, tasteless... Got a big cracker from my G.A. (guardian angel) and I do mean cracker as in food. It was the size of a big plate!!! And there were 3 of them!!! Lol... Went back to the bus and played with Li-Kenn's lovely fedora hat!!! (Thanks Kenn!!!) And after that, we finally reached our destination a while later. At first, the place seemed to be very painful to the eyes. But after a while, I kinda got used to it. To tell you the truth, it looked way better than the camps before. At first, the girls got the upstairs dorm while the guys were downstairs. After everyone was settled in, they suddenly made a switch because there were not enough beds for the guys downstairs and plenty unused beds upstairs. We went for our first activity in the Dewan which was much nicer compared to many others before. (Obviously!!!) The only bad thing about this place was that it was fly infested!!! And I mean INFESTED!!! Everywhere you went there were flies!!! An average of 10 flies per person!!! Ok, ok maybe not so much but an average of 5 or more definitely!!! And there are like 105 people!!! So you do the math... Then we had some games and stuff. We then went to the so called 'padang' and did some sort of senam robik/dance thingy. After that, we had dinner. It was just so unappetizing that I skipped it. And my G.A. gave me and empty plate!!! Then we had some activities in the dewan. After that we all went to sleep.

The second day.
Well, we got up, did some senam robik again, went back to the dorm to freshen up and I gave my mortal some cheezels and then went to the cafeteria for breakfast. And again, it was terribly unappetizing and so I skipped my breakfast. We started our 6 hour race which consists of a fear factor competition, jungle trekking and river crossing and an explorace with the fear factor competition. But before that, we were given a loaf of bread, a can of kaya and a 5.5 litre bottle of water to last 11 of us for the rest of the day! Is that stupid or what?! Thank goodness group one went first because we only had to put a live worm in our mouth while others had to eat it. Blech!!! Then one member of our team which was manveer had to eat a raw salted egg!!! Double blech!!! Then we ran to our next destination which was a bridge. There we found out that we had to kiss an ugly, slimy, creepy, disgusting, annoying frog!!! And it was huge!!! Triple blech!!! Then we all had to share a raw egg. We then ran up a stupid steep hill and did the usual obstacle course. We ran back down and went back to our first stop thinking we had finished this challenge. But oh were we wrong... There was one more stop! So we ran there and realised that we had to have a 'Malaysian sandwich' and eat the 'apple of Malaysia' in order to finish this challenge. The Malaysian sandwich was bread from the loaf we were given earlier, belacan as in uncooked and cincalok, uncooked as well. Disgusting right? Where as the 'apple of Malaysia' was a big, green, smelly, spicy, throat burning onion that almost brought me to tears!!! Everyone was really wanting to throw up but alas we could not because we would lose 5000 points... Stupid right??? So everyone kept drinking water to stop the burning. And don't forget! It was supposed to last us for the entire day!!! Then when that was finally over, we started our next activity. Jungle trekking and river crossing. Well the jungle was of course like any other jungle I had been to before but then I certainly got more injured this time. And my shoe soles broke so my feet were almost exposed to the groud if it wasn't for the cloth and sponge layer. Everyone else got leaches stuck to them and sucking their blood but I had to get poked by thorns. Man, you could see almost everyones shirt stained with blood due to the leaches dropping off their skin or getting squished. Then we went down a steep, dry, desert like clay hill. We finally finished our 3 hour hike and I was dying of thirst and my stomach was killing me due to me not eating.Everyone sat on the grass and looked dead. I almost felt like I was about to die of thirst and stomach pain!!! So I finally surrendered and went to the river to fill up the 5.5 litre bottle which was empty with so called 'dangerous' river water while the others finished up the bread and kaya. But what was I to do? Die of thirst? That was definitely not the way I planned of dying. We waited on that field for at least an hour because the O.C's were deciding whether we would continue with the explorace and cancel the night walk or the other way around. But they finally decided to continue with the explorace and not go for the night walk which I personally think was a good idea. So they started the explorace of with smsing us some questions. The objective of the explorace was to get 40 peoples name, ic number, job and etc. We also had to get 12 stamps and signatures of big companies from the town nearby. So we walked all the way to the small, quiet town while it was raining through lots of estates which were kind of scary. After stopping by a few houses, it stopped raining. We then reached our first big company. A police station, where we had to wash and clean two cells and the toilet... The cells were scary and dark with writings on the wall. It was just a small room with a blue metal cell gate and a platform on the floor and 3 very small, high up windows on the wall. The toilet was just like your average school toilet only cleaner, bigger, a metal pipe sticking out of the wall for a shower and a cell gate for a door. Me and the other girls I think washed the toilet while the rest swept the cells. Then we went to a petrol station and then a mosque. By then it started to rain again. While the so called trainers sat on their butts at the bus stop while we went walking aimlessly around the ghost town, the teachers had no idea where we were. When they realised where we were, they gave the trainers a real scorching because we should not be allowed out unsupervised. The trainers kept trying to deny their wrong doings and soon after the teachers gave up. The trainers kept trying to taunt us by telling us about how the other teams were back at the training center having their dinner. Me, being already tired, thirsty and hungry really couldn't care less about what they were trying to do. Manveer wanted to walk back to the training centre because the trainers said it was only a 5 minute walk back but was stopped because one, the teachers would not allow it and two, we would lose 10 000 points. So we kept trying and trying to hitch a ride while watching others go by in cars both small and big. We finally came across a lovely couple who was riding their storm car when we stopped them and asked them to give us a ride. Willingly, they agreed! We were overjoyed!!! Some of us including me stood up and held on tightly to the car while the wind and rain water combined blew on our faces. It was the best experience I had at the camp. And it also turned out that it was a 5 minute driving distance back and not walking distance! If we had actually walked, we would have taken at least half an hours time!!! When we got back, I finally made myself eat. This particular meal wasn't to bad I guess. At least it was better than the ones before. Got another empty plate from my G.A. After that we all went back to the dorm to get ready for our malam kebudayaan which theme was pirates. The guys idea of a pirate costume was a fake hoop earring. Of course they tried lying to me and saying that they really pierced their ears with a needle and candle but of course I didn't fall for it. I mean, come on la... Do you really think I'm that stupid? Lol... And besides, its for little girls!!! Not guys!!! That's why it kept falling of and couldn't fit your ear!!! We then had some games, the O.C's did a really great performance. The seniors also did a performance. After that, we went to the the cafeteria to listen to some very painful karaoke songs and for supper where I gave my mortal a drink. After that, it was finally siesta time...

The third day.
We got called to wake up by the O.C's at 5.45 and we, me, Christy, Ashley and Nadine, not caring about the wake up call, went back to sleep. We were asked to wake up 10 times and went back to sleep everytime! I'm sorry O.C's!!! We were just so tired!!! We eventually got up at about 7 something. Gave my mortal some sweets as she kept begging for her G.A to give her some! Had some team activities and stuff and then went back to the dorm to get dressed into our uniforms for the majlis penutupan. My G.A. then gave me a chocolate bar. Then I finally found out that my G.A. was Rahman!!! My mortal, Nurul Asyiqin, was totally surprised that I was her G.A. cause I really tried my best to convince her that it was a guy and that I did not give my mortal anything! Finally we got onto the bus and went back home. The journey for me certainly was short as I fell asleep!!!

So that's it!!! I really hope you enjoy reading this post just as much as I enjoyed writing and experiencing it!!!
Bye!!!

Camp???

Hello people!!! I'm really sorry I didn't update my blog for so long. Anyway, life's fine. Nothing much has changed. Got my results back. Not to good though. I'm definitely not proud of it. Well there's BM-62%, BI-90%, Maths-84%, Science-87%, Sej-4o%, Geo-48% and KH-56%. So? What do you think? I think its bad. Really bad... Ok. Enough about that. Back to the point. My day today was kinda fun. Not to fun, not to boring. We had a briefing about camp today though. After thinking and struggling to decide I finally decided to go for camp. I guess I should right? I mean my friends know whats my reason but I'm so not gonna tell you guys!!! Well, I checked out the website of the place we're going to have the camp and I guess it seems ok. It doesn't look to bad, but hey! Pictures can be deceiving!!! Here's the link so you can check it out for yourselves. I'm really hoping and praying that everything will be fine. If it isn't I really don't know what I'll do... To bad Ms See Jean Ann can't go... I'm really glad the rest of them are though. Thank God for that! Or I would have had to be alone!!! So I'm really kinda looking forward to it. Not a lot!!! But a little bit... Well I hope your happy guys!!! I'm going for camp!!! HAPPY!?!?!? Lol... Sorry about that... I needed to get that out of my system. God! Please make sure this camp will be better that the ones before!!! Thank you!!! So I guess thats it! Hope I make it out alive!!! Lol!

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Chiao!!!