Here In My Home + Wesak Day

I want to share this piece of multi-artistes racial unity song & video project produced by Pete Teo and directed by Yasmin Ahmad and Ho Yuhang.
Unity is what we need!!!!

But politics in Malaysia is getting sucky (sad!!)

Sunday is the day I need to use to catch up with studies but sadly it did not happen. I slept in and woke up by 8am!!! So late and after completing the house chores it was 10am already. Read newspaper and had breakfast, it was already 12pm. Took out my notes but end up sleeping till 4pm. Watch some TV drama and online and well, there goes my day. So I set my mind to start studying and reminded myself that exam is just round the corner but still, I end up ironing clothes.

By 8pm, mother came home and we went out for dinner and bought movie tickets for Narnia which will only start at 11pm. To kill time, we drank lots of tea end up peeing so many times before entering the cinema. Narnia was OK, I mean after the show ended it did not really gave me the impact of wanting to watch again.

Anyway, by the time the movie ended, it was already 1.35am. Wow, I just realised that the movie is 2 hours and 15 minutes long (worth my money eh). We decided that since it is already Wesak Day, we might as well visit the temple. I have been going to this temple (Maha Vihara at Brickfields) since 5 years old and have been helping/ volunteering during Wesak Day but since last year I stopped contributing and hence I've made up my mind that next year onwards I'll continue helping out. (JW if you are reading, will you be back from US? It wont be fun without you around here bossing ^^)

Here I am blogging and slacking. Gosh I wonder why can't I study at home...hmm....


Happy Wesak Day to all!!!!

PPKKCTM

PPKKCTM stand for Pusat Penjagaan Kanak-Kanak Cacat Taman Megah..

Yup, that was where I went this morning. I was so tired and even though I put my alarm at 7am, I could not wake up because I was just too tired. My mind was telling me to skip this trip to uni and sleep in. But if I don't go today, I won't go next week too so I managed to drag myself up from bed and left house by 8.30am to the train station. Wow, the train was so full with people but after KL Sentral's stop, I managed to sit and had hard time keeping awake.

What is this PPKKCTM all about? It's a shelter for mentally disable children or adults such as kids with Down Syndrome, kids that are mentally challenged, kids that have damaged brain and stuff like that and also some orphans that were left there. Some of them could not move at all due to the damaged brain that leads to stunted growth. There's this boy who is 16 years old but he was as big as a 4 years old kid. His legs were tensed up and all his toes were crunched up and he can't speak or really move hence he just lie on that mat and stare. There were kids that were sitting on chairs and (sadly) tied to the chair I think to avoid them from falling because they can't walk.

I reached uni by 10am and we left by 10.15am. This is not an assignment or club thing, its just a programme organised by the seniors for people like us to join in some community service work. The whole time I was there, I keep hanging out with the immobile kids and tried to massage them. There's this gal called Gal Gal (13 years old but looks like 7)who likes me and likes people touching her. She can make sound and move (crawl) but can't talk or hold things. It was so sad because she keep making sound and point at the place where she wants you to touch/massage/pet.

There were also adults that were mentally challenged / Down Syndrome. There were also a few who were able to speak but their mentally are not of their age like a guy who is 20 years old but have a 10 years old kid's mind. Ya, there were a few who loved to be carried. There were a few who loves to pull you to one corner and make you sing with her/him.

When I first reached the place, I was a little surprise at the amount of children there. But after a while I got used to it. Besides that, I was a little uncomfortable at them touching me (I never like people touching me). There was this gal who suddenly put her hands around my waist and said ~Hi, how are you? I was shocked but looking at her condition, sadness just overwhelmed and I entertained her.

At about 12pm, food was served and I fed a Down Syndrome gal. She keeps having fits. They were having chicken rice and when she saw the chicken (drum stick), she extended her hand then back to her body then repeated till I put the plate nearer to where she can reach. It was just so sad but we managed to cooperate and had fun while eating. After feeding her, she went to another place to play so I went back to Gal Gal and we were laughing because I was clicking my tongue which amuses her. She even managed to give me a High-5!!

Looking at them crawling, tied to chairs, running around with distorted limbs just make me feel how lucky I am to be born as some what called perfect. I just could not believe my ears when I heard that they were abandoned by their parents and some even did not leave their birth cert behind and giving the management hard time because when they bring those kids to the doctor, they need identification.

After that whole experience I am so proud that I actually made an effort in taking some time out to help, that whole 1 hour of traveling is just so worth while (tiring though). Yes I am going to commit myself in this small project. Even though I can't do much but by entertaining and making them happy is something that helps them too.

Want to know more or look at their pictures, just click here.

me and art craft

On Monday, my friend Natasha asked me to make 20 bookmarks for the crusader's club (some AIDS awareness club) and how did she tell me?

At the escalator, me going to ground floor while she was walking on the ground floor.
Me ~ Hey hey (waving on the escalator)
Natasha ~ (looks up) Hello...(walking towards me on the ground floor), hey can you make 20 bookmarks by this Friday?
Me ~ Err, what is it for?
Natasha ~ Oh, we'll selling it to raise fund for this AIDS foundation.
Me ~ Oh, sure.
Natasha ~ OK, thank you so much, I'll give you the designs later..

After that conversation, I honestly totally forgot about my task.

On Wednesday, I saw Esther making bookmarks and lots of red ribbon. Some of the others were sticking the red ribbons to those RM1 candles.
Esther looked up when I approached.
Me ~ hey hey, what are you doing?
Esther ~Oh, making the bookmarks and candle to sell on Friday. You are making the bookmarks too right?
Me ~Err...ya but Natasha said she'll pass me the design or something....
Esther ~ Oh, you can actually just do anything you know.
Me ~ Oh (and feeling ashamed)

I quickly smsed Natasha and asked her about the details. My mind was thinking and thinking what design and what slogan? These bookmarks are for sale, I got to make it worth it.

After spending most of my study time thinking about the design, I decided to google for some ideas for the design and slogans. Surprisingly google gave me a lot of complicated and hard design so I went home and asked for my mother's opinion. Typical mother just gave her oh-my-great-ideas opinion but it wasn't all too great for me. Suddenly, I recalled brother having lots of such bookmarks so I went to his room to hunt them down.

Sadly, after much nagging from mother, he cleaned his room last month and not even one single trace of bookmarks or awareness slogan were found. While watching TV, my mind was thinking and thinking and finally my last resort was just do what I think is nice.

My 20 bookmarks used up my whole Thursday and I was so "semangat" that i purposely went out to get papers and plastic covers for it. Yes, it was done but when I showed my mother, her reaction was~ So ugly!! So dull looking!! Why you use black? Not nice la. you so bodoh do all 10 only show me. Who want to buy? But after seeing my face, she just added ~ since you did it already then done la. And she walked off. Yup, thats my mother but when I did my remaining 10, she tried to help by passing some opinions because before I added any new design I asked her opinion.

Friday came and I gave the 20 (10+7+3 different designs and colours) bookmarks to Natasha and couldn't help telling her they're all ugly. LOL
Before I went for lunch, I went to the stall and the people in charge there was (shockingly) said mt designs are nice and quite a number sold off already.

At about 6 something, I went and look and noticed those designs that mother said was ugly all have been sold off!!! And apparently because my bookmarks have plastic sheets over it, instead of selling it as RM2, they sold it for RM5!!!

wah, so proud of myself (still beaming)^^

updates....

hey people....

I know, I have not been updating my blog regularly but honestly I am in a dilemma. The main aim of this blog is to keep in touch with college friends and share with them what's going on in my life, but on the other hand, I have uni mates that check on my blog too. What's the problem then? Well, if I start blogging about my uni stuff, definitely many uni mate's name will be involved and you guys (college mates) know none of them. If I write about my past, uni mates and some of you guys will also don't understand!!! Argh, so what to blog?

Whatever, this is my blog and I will blog what ever I want to but I hope you guys will still keep on reading^^

So, what have been happening? Nothing much really. After the last blog, I totally lost my study stamina due to fatigue-ness, hence Thursday till Sunday, I took a long break and when Monday came, I was blur as ever since I lag behind =(

Err, having a writer's block now. Ya, I want to tell you guys, I really really miss you guys a lot!!! Uni life is definitely different from college life, people around me are also different (in personality wise). I think I've changed too!! Well, I got to change to adapt right? But don't worry, I am still as lame and as dumb as ever!! Sounds familiar? LOL

There is nothing much to tell you guys except that I am really afraid for this coming exam. All the things that I've revised the past month have been digested in my stomach but sadly, it did not get absorbed in the small intestine but was defecated. Ya, this week we are learning about GI tract (gastrointestinal tract). I don't want to bore you guys with facts of anatomy or the physiology of all these organs.
*physiology= study of the function

How is everybody? I missed my Chemistry lecture so much that I emailed her 2 weeks ago and she replied my email yesterday (at last). She started her sentence with
IT's so nice to hear from you again. Was thinking how much I missed
your class too after I came out scolding my A49 class. Ha! Ha! Sounds so
familiar doesn't it? Well, the scolding works. The class is working so
hard now. Just like my previous A48 group B - hmmm - doesn't that ring a
bell?

Hahaha, I know you guys may think that Ms.Ng is fierce or bad or something negative because she scolds us but look at the result from our class!! It was all worth it. You wonder how Ms.Ng scolds us? She'll raise her voice and say that we have not been putting much effort, express her disappointment and she always threatened to call our parents (she did called CK's dad..lol), last resort meet us one by one and lecture us according to our weakness. It was a very scary yet exciting experience!!!! Haha, call me crazy!!!

OK, honestly, I have no idea what to blog about but I hope all of you guys out there, stay healthy and happy. Stay true to yourself. I really miss you guys!!!

my 1st time acting

We were put into groups and given a case study to present. My case study is about Peter who got a call from Mary (a gal he likes since he entered IMU) asking him out for a date at KL Aquaria. But unfortunately he has phobia for fish. We got to design a program to help him.

So since I was so unlucky to be the 1st name on the list and was the only gal in my group, I was forced to be the doctor. It was not fun at all at 1st because I do not know anyone of them but when shooting this short clip, I found out that they are funny people and I guess I enjoyed laughing with them.

The whole shooting process, I NG quite a few times because the background people was making funny faces or they were trying not to laugh and those trying-not-to-laugh faces are just sooo funny. Anyway, I just realised that my hair is really straight when I watched the video. WOW!!

Synopsis of the video- Peter will come to me for help and I'll treat him with the program called systemic desensatization where he got to see pictures of fish, touch and watch moving fishes. Eventually he got better and went for his date. The whole video needs to be in 5 minutes hence a lot of scenes were cut off. Anyway, I'll try to get those funny clips from my friend who taped the whole video with his hand phone (5 mega pixel dude!!).

Enjoy and don't laugh, I looked weird and you might find it boring.