PROTON Malaysian Open 2011

没亲眼看到李林交战，真是很不爽啊！！人家已经"预算"他们会在决赛相遇的，结果林丹却在quaterfinal的时候退赛，让我失望极了。人家也不就是因为要看这场赛才去看总决赛的嘛，怎知会是这样。 真是人算不如天算！没有李林的交战，李宗伟与陶菲克那场赛的比分数是一边倒的，也不怎么激烈。反而是男双，女双及混双比较激烈，四位球员们在场上的交流实在是精彩！

究竟要等到什么时候才我可以亲眼目睹这场李林交战呢？？

思。念。

思念与你们混在一起的日子。

思念与你们相聚的日子。

思念到戏院看戏及唱卡啦OK的日子。

思念追着看戏看到三更半夜 才睡， 隔天又得七早八早起来的日子。

思念睡到十一二点才起来的日子。

思念过着无忧无虑的日子。

思念不用担起任何包袱的日子。

思念十三年的读书生涯。

思念与全体家人相聚在一起的日子。

思念想念他的日子。

永不停止地思念。

原来，是这样。

现在的我才真正的明白这个原理：

原来，存钱不容易。

因为，花钱很简单。

上班都有半年了，可是，却存不到许许多多的钱。真是“佩服”我自己啊！但是，也不能怪他人啦。毕竟，我都是花在必需品上。单单保险都拿去我两个月的工钱了，再加上生活费用。。。

虽然是跟父母一起住，可是我也有义务出钱啊。看着存折里的数目越来越少，心里真的不是滋味。

以前，我总是认为只要自己能够赚钱就能随心所欲的拥有属于自己的东西。谁知在拥有之后，心情是如此的糟糕。唉，真是的。

这让我想起ABBA的Money Money Money这首歌的其中一个歌词：

Money money money,

always sunny in the rich man's world.

是啊，有钱人都不必思考该如何花钱。他们真的是可以随心所欲的买啊！看来，我还是到梦里做个可以随心所欲地买东西的有钱人吧！因为，发梦不必用到一分钱， 反而能让我开心一下！=）

Filler-Music-Adam Lambert

Lyrics:

Hey, slow it down whataya want from me

Whataya want from me

Yeah I'm afraid whataya want from me

Whataya want from me

There might have been a time

When I would give myself away

Oooh once upon a time I didn't give a damn

But now, here we are so whataya want from me

Whataya want from me

Just don't give up I'm workin it out

Please don't give in, I won't let you down

It messed me up, need a second to breathe

Just keep coming around

Hey, whataya want from me

Whataya want from me

Whataya want from me

Yeah, it's plain to see (plain to see)

That baby you're beautiful

And there's nothing wrong with you (nothing wrong with you)

It's me, I'm a freak

But thank's for lovin' me

Cause you're doing it perfectly (it perfectly)

There might have been a time

When I would let you slip away

I wouldn't even try

But I think you could save my life

Just don't give up I'm workin it out

Please don't give in, I won't let you down

It messed me up, need a second to breathe

Just keep coming around

Hey, whataya want from me

Whataya want from me

Just don't give up on me

I won't let you down

No, I won't let you down.

So just don't give up

I'm workin it out

It messed me up, need a second to breathe

Just keep coming around

Hey, whataya want from me

Just don't give up i'm workin' it out

Please don't give in, I won't let you down

It messed me up, need a second to breathe

Just keep coming around

Hey, whataya want from me

Whataya want from me

Whataya want from me

Gen XYZ in The House!

Gen X, babes born in the 1960s-late 1970s

Gen Y, babes born in 1980s- early 1990s

Gen Z, babes born in early 1990s-2010s

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From playing guli (marbles) to playing video games...

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From playing teng-teng to watching televisions...

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From having complicated meals to fast food...

When there are 3 generations in the house, one can feel the differences in each other. I'm in the Generation Y, so I was influenced by the Generation X in the early of my life and adapting the new technologies from the Generation Z while I'm growing up. Things changed with time, and I can see that my parents started to improve themselves with time from using manual stuffs to electronic stuffs, the most significant example would be the usage of typewriter in the past to computer nowadays.

I would say that Gen Y were a bunch of people who can adopt changes. Gen Y was in between Gen X and Gen Z. People from Gen Y does not grew up with gadgets like computers and PS and Ipods with media technologies such as the World Wide Web, SMS, MP3s. But I "met" them while I was on the way growing up. It's easier for the Gen Y to adapt these new stuffs as they were still at the young age when those gadgets were made famous. Whereas, the Gen Z was born with those stuffs around them. So, they're like growing up with them. All these stuffs were made by inventors from Gen X. So, when these things became a part of human's lives, people from Gen X also have to learn to use them and adapt the major changes in their working routine.

The world is changing. Thus, the Gen X have to follow the steps in order to be at the same level as others. As their children from Gen Y and Gen Z (that is, me and my younger brothers) grow older, my parents too, learn from us in order to be in the same "time zone" as us. My brothers and my grown up's environment were totally different from my parents, so our perspectives of life are different from them as well. What we think as an important subject may be some unimportant subject to them. So, there were times where I was upset because my request to eat at certain place or buy certain thing were turned down. Their reason: Not worth it; waste money. When I was a kid, I used to be very upset when that happened. But as I grew older, I understand it!

So, what's next after Gen Z? It has been suggested that the next generation will be called "Generation Alpha", for those babes born from 2010. Generation Alpha.....Gosh, even the suggested name sounds so "high-tech"!

For Better or Worse?

I used to hate Saturdays during the school days, because it means that a new week is coming, with all the school stuffs and classes. But now, I can't wait for Saturday to come, because it means I can totally forget about my work and spending the time doing all the things I want and Saturday is one of the day that I can go to places other than my workplace! So, each Saturday, I try to be out of the house and go to somewhere else. It doesn't matter if I go to the same shopping malls each week, but at least I get to see different things other than ABCs in computer!

That's one of the things that has changed since I'm an employee. What I used to hate in the past, I kindda like it now. It's the same thing, but the feeling inside me is different. It has changed. All I can say is, "It's life". When we are in the different stage of life, the feelings and opinions on certain things in life changed. No one knows it changed for better or worse as I think it depends on how a person enter a stage of his life. It's all in the mind of the person.

As for now, I can only think back what I used to do in the past and why I did that. I may do differently now and in future if my perspective on certain subjects have changed. All I can do is accept the new me and to be a better me!

Hello 2011!

While everyone started the first day of the year by celebrating either went for holiday or shopping, I started off by attending my high school mate's wedding ceremony. It's the second wedding among my high school mates and I guess there will be more (hopefully!) to come! Congratulations to Atiyah Azmi and her husband!

Met some school mates there but only the four of us we went for a drink at Starbucks after attending the wedding kenduri. Spent about 2 hours with Yasmin, Ezzah and Fadilah, chat about our lives so far. Well frankly speaking, I listened most of the time as I don't talk much. =.=" But then, it's good because it's a gathering!

Right after I came back from the small scale gathering, my family and I went to Seremban to attend a relative's son 1 year old birthday party and to pay a visit on my aunt who had just given birth to a baby girl yesterday. So, yeah, it's a triple wonderful occasions that I was celebrating in the first day of the year!

Happy year 2011 ahead! =)

From my left: Yasmin, Fadilah, Ezzah

Flashback of year 2010

So yeah, it's literary the end of the year. From study to graduate and to work, I've entered the most important phases in a human's life in just a year's time and I shall say year 2010 is the year I fulfilled my dreams.

I started off the year 2010 with a picnic with my lovely sistahs at Batu Ferringhi, Penang. All of us had a last "pre-sem" outing for the last time as this was the last semester for most of us. After the enjoyable outing, it was back to reality: all of us were busy with final year project, classes and tutorials. But than, we still managed to find some time to have some happy hours: movies, lunches, dinners, birthdays celebration and karaokes.

I was only a student for about 4 months. Starting from May 2010, I was officially known as a free person, because I'm not a student nor an employee! During the 4 months student life, I enjoyed as much as I can as a student, but I also made some critical thinking of my future. At first, I thought of continue to do Masters. I've made discussions with lecturers and even passed up the application forms. At the end of April, my lecturer passed us a message informing us there was a job vacancy in a subtitling department. It's a job that I used to dream of after I knew that I was not able to be a crime scene investigator. So, I took the chance, and now here I am, had passed the 6 months probation period and got the confirmation letter.

Apart from getting the job that I want, I also managed to watch a world class badminton matches during the Thomas Cup final event at Bukit Jalil in May. Through the match, I was able to watch my favourites players playing in front of me. I was happy as I was able to feel the real atmosphere of an international badminton match and "meet" my favourites players, although they were far from me. =)

I had a sweet time during the trips with my sistahs from Taiping to Penang to Kedah and to Sarawak. It was the wonderful moments we shared before we leave the uni's world and I thank them for being apart of it to make our trips so sweet and memorable. My family and I also spent some time to go back to my grandparents' hometown in Hainan Island, China. During the trip there, I was able to recognize most of the relatives there and the relations between us. It was a meaningful trip as I learned things and I saw different things in a different country.

The major event in year 2010 was non other than my graduation day in August. It's an honour for me to be able to walk on Dewan Tuanku Syed Putra's stage to get my scroll from the Vice Chancellor of Universiti Sains Malaysia, Tan Sri Dato Dzulkifli Abd Razak. The graduation day itself was kindda bored, as we had to wait for some time for the speeches and other graduates to get the scroll 1st before I can get mine. And after getting mine, I need to wait for others to get theirs, before all of us can went out to get photos. Graduation day was a small scale gathering for me and my classmates, but a big scale of gathering for me and my lovely sistahhoods. It was the last outing we had as an 8 piece sistahhoods, because we will walk in different path at different place. Who knows when we will meet again in 8 piece sistahoods?

My year 2010 is fulled with joyous moments, but there were some "down" moments too. I choose to cherish the sweet moments and put the bad moments behind me. I will also remind myself of all the wrong doings I had and keep myself on track so that I wouldn't make the same mistakes again.

As for the coming year 2011, I wish to enter another different phase of my life and wish myself all the best! =)

Picnic at Batu Ferringhi...

birthday celebrations...

BATI night...

Taiping-Kedah trip...

Sarawak trip...

after the rehearsal for convocation...

one last outing with sistahs...

while visiting Hainan Island...

team building with colleagues...

pot luck...

and the day I wore the robes, sache and mortarboard!

Good, But Not Good!

Congratulations to the Malaysian Football team who put up a solid defense against Indonesia to win the Suzuki Cup for the first time. K. Rajagopal's boys played very well in Indonesia yesterday and in Malaysia four days ago. I guessed it was really a boost for Malaysian, especially the football team. Everyone was so happy for the win, until it was declared a public holiday tomorrow (31st Dec) by our beloved prime minister.

The sudden public holiday announcement did no good for workers, especially for me and my colleagues. Our job is to do and edit subtitle for tv programmes. For editing part, we need to wait the subtitle files from the freelancers to send in before we can do editing and after some technical stuff, it will be air. Normally, freelancers will be given a time frame to do the task and a due date to send in the files. We have no problem if there are fixed public holidays because freelancers will be acknowledge about it and they'll send in the file before the public holidays. But if it's a sudden public holiday like this one, we can only hope that the freelancers will send in before the office hour, or else we will be working on the public holiday!

It is not a good feeling to be working since it's a public holiday! Yes, we can still get an extra leave/OT, depends on how the company works, but it feels bad when everyone else is off but we are working! I rushed my translation file too, as it is needed to be edit by my colleague, and I have 3 files to be edited. It's like having a war, trying to finish as much as I can. For me, lady luck is with me this time, as the file I was waiting came in in time. But it was not the same case with my colleagues. They still need to go to work tomorrow.

I wish the sudden declaration of a public holiday will not happen frequently. May God bless me.

Happy Yuletide!

Merry Christmas!!

I wish everyone a merry merry Christmas! Enjoy the festive season! =)

*I myself is enjoying this Christmas with my lovely family!