Be prepare!

I wanna be a billionaire so freaking bad!!!!

I said this is because i am listening to billionaire by Travie Mccoy.

I have left out my blog for almost half of year, can't believe it...

Well, i guess it's time for me to start to blog again.

No matter what, I have decided to write at least one article a week!!

Maybe you might think I'm being lazy or so whatever. But I really don't have time for myself

thought.

I will try to post more once I have my own free time.

Last thing of all, I really miss all my friends in Malaysia, Taipei, Melbourne, Poland, Japan, U.K

and the states...etc.

I hope our friendship won't fade because of the distance. Good luck for everything for what u are

doing.Keep it up and all the best!

I wish u guys can correct my english. In fact,one of the main purposes for me to blog is to improve my english. Because i seldom speak english in taiwan, and i really need all of urs help~ just tell me in my blog once u found any mistakes.It's wont hurt my feeling:) thank you

Exam preparation

When I surf the internet today, I randomly found out this interesting event from Facebook. The event was" One day before exam I will be the most religious person in the world". Yeah! That’s right!! I can tell the whole world I know myself than anyone else, and I will only do things last minutes sometimes, but I’ll become very unstable and nervous before the exam start, and I believe everyone does. Especially 5 minutes before the supervisors put the exam papers on my table, I would pray to whatever god I know in the world and hoping for higher grade, Because I am Chinese so I pray to buddhish god the most, even though I know praying does not helping anything for my grade, but at least I can stay calm and reorganize my mood to answer the questions. In fact, personally I have some tips for preparing the exam, and I guarantee you won’t fail your test anymore if follow it step by step. Firstly of all, making flash cards can be time consuming, but they are helpful tools in remembering vocabulary, formulas, and key concepts. They are also easy to carry around with you so you can review them anytime. Secondly, get enough sleep is really important, I think the whole class already knew that I love to sleep however especially for me, if I get a full night of sleep I will become more alert than usual, more focused and learn things easier than those who are sleep deprived. Especially during the weeks preceding exams keep your sleep schedule as consistent as possible. Somebody might have laugh at me, because I always have my eye bags with me every day I go to the class, even though I feel like I have recharged myself very much. That's because I'm allergic to dust, despite of the eye bags I will sneeze like hell in the morning almost every day. However, to keep you in a good grade, practice is unavoidable. To ensure that you are prepared for your exam, make a mock exam for yourself and you would be able to understand how well you know the material you have absorb from the books, just like how we used to do in high school. Remember Trail exams? I really hate trail exams, and I am saying this from the deep of my heart. I get really stress up during trail exams when I was in high school. I just can’t understand why is exam so important to us? I strongly have a though that we are not going to us most of the knowledge or source we learnt in the college in the future. Many of my friends or cousins are graduated from top university in the world, of course people may think this is very helpful for our future, and that is true, a high qualifications could have help you to get a job easily in the future, but the time has changed in our generation, think in this way, when you think you are good at something actually nevertheless there are millions of them who is much better than you. In my opinion, I think having a good skill in something is better than a qualification, although qualification is important to us as well, but in the same time we should always find an opportunity to enrich ourselves and get more experience to associate oneself with other people in the society.

Exam is approaching!!

Yes, the exam is approaching in 4 days time, and I haven’t really started my revision yet. The reason why I haven’t start my revision is because I wanted to quit college and go back to Taiwan, remember? Luckily I didn’t have to go back, but the disadvantage for me for not going back is to continue doing my assignments, and I’m doing one of them right now. Flashing back in time when I was just in high school, everything was just so relaxing compared to the life I have now. Every day in high school, my classes finishes at 3 o’clock and after that is basketball session for those “basketballers”. In contrast, I am rushing with all the assignments and exams in this particular time, it makes we want to shout and throw everything out of my room just to release my stress. I know that is not related to the topic at all but I just feel like saying it.

Do you guys know I keep scratching my back when I get nervous? I bet most of you don’t know. As you can see during the exam I will lying on the desk and put my hand on my back then start scratch. Especially when I am answering all the structure questions. I hate memorizing things, and I have swear to the god after I graduated from high school I am not going to take those subjects like history, geography and English literature anymore. Because I keep failing my history and geography, I just can’t remember like a robot and absorb everything that has happened in the world. Honestly, what can you do after memorizing everything which has happened before? We won’t be able to fix anything other than learning the mistakes from the past, right?

On the other hand, I really love to study physic and chemistry. I feel excited every time I see all the technology that has improved by some engineers. Moreover my ambition was to become an engineer, somehow after attending few classes of engineering I felt like I am more interested in advertising. Commercial advertisement really attracts my attention from the television and that’s the reason why I am willing to spend almost whole day to blog for my assignments. Because this is just a small step for me to achieve my success, furthermore, blogging can improve my English writing. In other hand, I can have some other benefits and not just to tell the whole world about my boring life in the blog. Back to the topic, in case I fail my midterm exam, I have arrange my timetable for studying and the notes to read. I just hope the exam papers won’t come out so difficult. I remember midterm exam is about 20% out of 100% in our overall grade right? I am starting to panic again. Well, even though I can’t make it for our midterm life still goes on, but I just don’t want my parent to be disappointed again, because I have disappointed them many times. Anyway, good luck everyone. All the best for midterm exam. :)

Musician wanna be :P

Music has always been a part of my life. I can die without music.

Most of my friends learned to play music instruments when they were young, but unfortunately I didn’t have the chance to learn to play an instrument, because our family doesn’t take music as important as our education. Actually I think by learning music in a young age could help build up a personality of a child. Moreover music touches our emotional being and evokes moods and feelings that are sometimes difficult to express. It can change a difficult mood and make it happy or excited and that is the reason why I listen to music most of the time. The wonderful melody of music attracts my attention and I would be obsesses with the person who plays an instrument well . My cousin played good piano and I can remember curling up in the big chair next to the piano and listening for hours.

Besides that, I love singing. Whenever I feel bored it would help to chase away my loneliness.I bought this guitar when I was 14, it is my first guitar in my entire life. But it has been placed in my room after the strings broke.

Jason Mraz is one of my favorite musicians. He released his first album, “waiting for my rocket to come” in 2002 with a really retarded album cover and that was the first time I got to know this musician. All I can say about his music is awesome. Jason Mraz is a popular singer.
We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. Is in fact his 3rd actual album, he has 2 live albums as well, so it is his 5th album in total. His song from "The Remedy (I Won't Worry)" is my favorite song. Because the song has the element of Pop Rock and I really like pop rock music. I believe my life always have something to sing along and related to. It is to the world as a whole because it brings us together. Just like music created by Jason Mraz. Perhaps some of the people don’t understand his music due to the different languages, but the melody of the music can express and makes it easier for us to understand other things. Here is a specific example, the song ‘We are the world’, written by Michael Jackson. This song contain a very meaningful lyrics and it was to convince the world stop fighting against each other. “Peace” was the significant he was trying to express.

In addition, I learned dancing when I was in high school. Out of sudden, I have a flash back to the time learning rock and roll. This was probably the first time and the last time I will to learn dancing by myself. It was something new to me, in my opinion, learning dancing was pretty difficult to me and especially for someone not talented in dancing like me. Well, it is always good to learn something new, because you can meet more different people and also can learn how to balance your body.

enjoying playing sports with ur friends

Sport is fun all the time with your friends, but injuries occur when we fail to warm up properly, over-train, use incorrect equipment, wrong posture and adopt a faulty technique. I have plenty of experience can tell you if you would like to ask me any questions about injuries. The most recent injury I had was about a month ago, that was the first time I playing American football. I was so excited when my friend first invited me to play American football. Therefore I joined the American football club without hesitating. It was fun to see them throw the football around, and I found it interesting because American football requires a lot of strategy during the game. Before the game starts, I was able to run like a monkey and catch football like an obedient dog fetching a stick. Set! Hut! Hut! Everyone was concentrating on the football and the person who was carrying it. The atmosphere was pretty intense because we have to attack the person that was carrying it and try to take him down. That’s because it is the fastest way to get the ball from our opponent. After few games of changing of strategy and position of our teammates I started to feel a slight pain in my knees, and something I expected has happened. Because I never warmed up properly and seriously, therefore I think god was trying to punish me by twisting my knee. Regardless of my injury I still finish the game, see, how responsible I am. Haha! I am just kidding. What I am trying to say here is, warm up is a very important procedure before doing any sports, even a small movement can cause an serious injury sometimes. Well, like Ameera said, maybe I am old already. Lately, I just don’t feel like doing any exercise anymore after the injury caused by American football, I have seen a doctor but the medicine and cream does not seem effective on my precious knees. I really hope I can still run like how I used to. Meanwhile, we might think we are still young and our body can cure whatever injuries, for example bruises is an injury caused by bleeding from blood capillaries beneath the skin, but do you know if you do not take care of it properly, when you are growing older the specific part of your body will face internal injury. In addition, you will have to suffer for the rest of your life.

Despite of the sports topic I can tell you guys out loud that I used to play guitar when I was in high school, but I gave up playing guitar after a while, my passion of guitar has faded, so I didn’t continue playing guitar but I regretted after I quitted playing guitar. My guitar has been placed in my room for almost a year now. I hope after I am done with my assignments and midterm exams I would have more time to practice my guitar skill.(And usually I won't do it even thought I have make the promise to myself XD)

Lakeside campus 2

I think I have mentioned quite a lot of things about how awful lakeside campus is previously, but there are also some benefits for students after we moved here.

Well, Taylor’s provide shuttle buses in certain places for students to come over to the lakeside campus, I remember they have bus stops in front of Suriamas, LCS, TBS and also many other places. The reason why I know they provide these shuttle bus is because I have taken it many times and I can say it is very convenient and punctual.

FOOD!!! Obviously most of the people love to eat. Thanks to most of the lecturers, we always finish our classes before schedule, therefore we usually linger around in the college instead of going back to our home. Most of us hang out at dessert bar, crispy popian and waffle shop after class. The foods the sold there are not bad though, unfortunately the prices are a little bit higher than other places. Nowadays my appetite is becoming bigger and bigger, I shouldn’t talk about food in the first place, because now I am starting to miss the mamak food we used to have in LCS. Before LCS, I studied in Subang Jaya for almost a month but, due to personal reasons I switched my course to Diploma in mass communication. The difference between Subang campus and Lake side campus is in Subang campus, the building is much higher, more choices for food, for example, Subway, Mc Donald, PaPa Rich and many more. Everything taste nicer and much cheaper compared to Lakeside food court, the money I spend in the food court here cost me about almost 10 bucks every freaking meals! Moreover, they are tasteless! How sad is that?

The best thing I love about lakeside campus is the scenery we can see from our class room. Every time in the class, I would spend at least 5 minutes just standing in front of the glass and enjoying the view from my class room. I know I am a weirdo and people might think my behavior is weird but I don’t really care, as long as I know what am I doing, I don’t really care how people judge me. Honestly I love nature, that is the reason why I like the scenery in lakeside campus, I am always looking for the chance to go mountain hiking or water rafting. I guess Taylor’s college is going to make water rafting available on the lake in the future, right? Mr. Winson I wish you can suggest to your boss about it, soon, we will have one more activity for our athletic! By the way, why have I not hear of athletics or sports day in Taylor’s college? I always think an university should organize sports day for everyone to attend just like how they use to do American TV shows. Also some of us can represent the program and go for the competition. I would like to feel the enthusiasm for sport from every University students. In Taiwan, most of the university takes sports day as a very important event, because university students will be able to show how creative they are. Can’t wait for the day to come :D

The new environment, Lakeside campus

It was sad because everyone in LCS is moving to lakeside really soon. Before moving to lakeside I have heard many bad comments from my friends about lakeside campus, the food is expensive, campus is hot because of the reflection of the glass, lift sucks and many other things. Besides, I have been to lakeside library before we moved there, honestly lakeside library gave me a good impression compared with the traditional library I have seen in my previous school. Most of the furniture they purchased and the decoration makes me feel comfortable. Furthermore, most of the furniture is painted with bright color like orange, light green and yellow. If I have the chance to visit the library again, I would definitely spend my whole day and studying with my friends there. This is because when I study at home, I normally is very reluctant to open my book.

Actually, I was pretty excited before I join Taylor’s college because I saw the new campus from the poster and the poster was everywhere. I think that was one of their strategic to attract more students and also to increase our school fees. But I was quite disappointed because the environment wasn’t as good as I expected, the lake is dirty like dead water, moreover there is a illegal cow farm right behind the campus. We can even smell the cow’s poo from miles away. In spite of that, there are still constructions going beside the lake, and in the morning we can hear the excavator digging the ground like no one cares. Maybe I’m exaggerating but that’s my first impression to lakeside campus after moving here.

Despite of the cow’s poo, I discovered there is not enough car parks for students to park their precious car. They might waste their time finding car parks and be late for the class. In addition, I have no idea why Taylor’s willing to spend so much money on the bumps instead of the painting of the walls. Everywhere I walk around the campus is plain grey. However, if the facility department is willing to paint the walls into plain white color I think the environment will be more graceful.

Anyway, I actually hope Taylor’s will provide us more ECA or clubs for the students since everyone’s class ends so early and we have so much free time to enjoy our life, therefore I think we should spend our time in doing more meaningful things like volunteer work and charity. I love to help people, and every time when I am having my holiday in Taiwan I would volunteer to join the charity organization to collect the receipt from other people(in Taiwan, the receipts are collected and being sent to an organization. Certain percentage of our money spent would be donated to the poor ).

Certainly, the feeling of helping people and being helped by other people is totally different. You might think helping other people might be troublesome or boring, it might be troublesome but actually it is not boring at all. You will feel like you have accomplished something after you see the person you are helping smile back at you.

I hope in the future Taylor’s college could provide more charity clubs for us.

Stomping Street

The street is a public easement, one of the few shared between all sorts of people.

As a component of the built environment as ancient as human habitation, the street sustains a range of activities vital to civilization.

Its roles are as numerous and diverse as its ever-changing cast of characters.

Streets can be loosely categorized as main streets and side streets.

Main streets are usually broad with a relatively high level of activities.

Commerce and public interaction are more visible on main streets and vehicles may use them for longer-distance travel.

Side streets are quieter. Often residential in use and character, and may be used for vehicular parking.

Mr. Winson. Please don't worry about the number of the words in this article, because this is just to explain what is Stomping Street.

Today!! Is the first day of holiday :D

YES!!! Finally I have finished all the boring lectures! I know it’s rude to say that but I just can't stand it when the atmosphere of the whole class room is in absolute silence. After one week of torture waking up early in the morning, I am able to take a break. Today is the FIRST weekend since I join this course, therefore everyone decided to have some fun instead of struggling with assignments. Being said that, most of us went Sunway Pyramid straight immediately after class. Below is our plan in Sunway Pyramid.

Ÿ Delicious lunch for our greedy tummy

Ÿ Karaoke session at red box

Ÿ no plan…..

Unfortunately, we were in the rush after our class finished, and we only had a quick lunch before going karaoke, everyone seemed excited. Personally, I love karaoke. It is like a MUST for me to go karaoke once at least every month. Well, I know by singing out loud my neighbors would be disturbed, but too bad, they can't stop me from doing it. Especially when I’m listening to the bands like Fall out boy or Boys like Girls, when the favorite part of my song is being played, I would even start jumping and singing. I was surprised that red box only charged us RM10 each and we could sing continuously for three hours!! Moreover we got two jugs of drinks to clear the saliva in our throat before we start singing again. It's been awhile since I have been to karaoke in Malaysia, surprisingly they have thousands of mandarin and English songs, I will never have the chance to find so many English song in Taiwan KTV. Obviously most of the Taiwanese only sing Chinese songs. Well, I was extremely happy when I saw all the English songs. There were 11 of us in the room, can u imaging when 11 of us jumping on the sofa while singing the songs? No doubt that today’s karaoke session was the best I have had with my classmates. Usually from my experience with my friends in karaoke we would just sit on the chair and drink beer, but next time if I have the chance to go with my friends again I will ask them to stand on the sofa like how we did today! I guarantee it will be fun and extremely hyperactive even without involving any alcohol :D

After three hours everyone looked exhausted because we were singing and running here and there non-stop. First time singing with mass comm people was satisfying and I have explored something. I found out Yee Mun and John are actually a good singer! Yee Mun is talented and I recommended her to join the TV program in Taiwan , it’s called Star million pathway, perhaps? I have one friend who is very talented in singing, too. I guess I will introduce him to Yee Mun and let them compete each other!!

First Holiday for this year makes me insane!

My first week of holiday was depressing. After joining Mass Communication for merely 2 weeks, I have no choice but to leave the course and go back to Taiwan to further my studies. Reasons are P&C. I spent my 14 days with all of my closest friends thinking that in the future I might not be able to see them again. My emotion for those 14 days are indescribable. It felt as if I have gotten bipolar disorder. When I’m spending time enjoying with my friends, all of a sudden an image would flash though my mind, a very horrifying picture. A picture of me in Taiwan, meeting all the new people of different culture, all my closest friends are miles away and there would be no one to be there for me, to back me up, to accompany me through this process of changing to a new environment. I would consider the culture over in Taiwan as different because I have been studying and living in Malaysia for almost 4 to 5 years now. Even though I am so used to the culture over here in Malaysia where everyone is so friendly, converse in multiple language, and the best part is, they would help you whenever you’re in need.

I was suffering a lot before leaving back to Taiwan, the reason why I am mentioning it again it’s because all the memories I have with my friends in high school , college and everywhere else might fade slowly with the passage of time in Malaysia.

During the one week break, I would think of all the different possibilities and events that would happen when I’m in Taiwan and even if I were to stay back in Malaysia. Comparing them would just make me want to stay back even more, I spend my quality time with my friends and try to hang out with them as much as possible. But every time when I see them it makes me even more emotional . Therefore I planned to stop doing my assignments and blogging!! , well, I know I am doing it now.

In fact , I have created another blog in other website , but because I’m a lazy person so I seldom post a new article on it. I have found out that blog is actually a good place to release all my stress, the reason why I think of it this way is because by typing out what I feel is much easier compared to speaking. On the other hand , I kind of hate posting a new article on my blog. It’s so stereotype! Especially when you have to do this almost every week. I never felt so stressful and struggle to write a blog which is my mass communication assignment in my life. Sorry to say that Mr.Winson but I actually want to save some of my idea for my next post , currently I don’t have any inspiration to continue this article anymore. Yes!!! Finally I have reached 500 words HAHAHA!!!

Penang trip

We have planned this for almost one month, and today is the day.

Penang here we come!!

My friends and I were preparing this road trip since a week before their final exam started, as you can see how playful they are. Well, I was extremely excited and looking forward to visit Penang after a long time. All I remember was the food and as we all know that Penang is the heaven of the seafood in Malaysia. I mouth will turn watering when I think of it. Along the journey everyone was introducing the tourism spot from the source we found from internet. But the most annoying thing was my friend Daryl who always played the song – Jay Sean – Down all the way to Penang. It really spoiled my mood and I feel like I rather take a bus or cycle to Penang by myself.

Anyway, in spite of it he is good guy, but he was snoring out loud when he was sleeping in the car. The reason why we didn’t tell him is because we have recorded down the sound and therefore we can threaten him. LOL.

Finally, we have reached Penang and it was about 10o’clock. The worse thing was we haven’t had the chance to eat our dinner along the journey. This is because we will go to meet my friend’s uncle to have dinner with him in his own restaurant. OMG. Big prawn, big lobster, big crab and seafood that you can see is bigger than usual compare to those in KL. Daryl and Noppa ordered a lot of seafood although they know they can’t finish it. I guess us very hungry because we can finish the whole plates of seafood by 30 minutes. After the dinner, we went to the beach just beside the restaurant. We bought lots of firework to celebrate the first day in Penang.

The air in Penang was too fresh, and we try to pollute it by playing firework at there. It was awesome and finally we get chased by a police officer. Then, we went back to Tune hotel. It was a cheap ass and noisy hotel. The reason why I say it was noisy is because I can hear people fighting and banging the wall in the next room. Isn’t Noppa and Voni were staying at the next room? I can’t sleep well at that night. The following day we woke up in the early morning to have a great breakfast in Bali Hai restaurant. There got many dim sum and Bak Pao. As you can see the amount of food Daryl ate in the morning and we can know how he increases his body size easily.

According to our schedule we should go to snake temple. In the snake temple, the person that owns this temple, who explained to us that there got many species of cobra in this temple. We took a lot of pictures with the snakes except the coward, Noppa. XP

Finally I have finished my last post, I would upload the rest information of the journey after I complete my midterm exam. To be continue……

New Beginning of my life

Once upon a time, in a land far far away from Taiwan, a new chapter of my life has just begun; "College".

Just few days before I registered myself into the mass communication, I was studying in American Degree Program majoring in E&E engineering.

I decided to change my course because I found out that just in case I change my mind and decide not to go to the US, there are very limited Universities where I can transfer my credits to and also the credits cannot be fully transferred. On the very day I found out about this predicament my heart stopped for a moment.

It felt as if my whole world was coming to an end because in the four stages of culture shock, I was already in the Enthusiasm stage where I enjoy being in the culture and is already functioning well in it. I had the thought of going back to Taiwan to further my studies but it's actually tough for me due to the different education system compared to the English education.

Went to lake side campus after 2 days to find out more about the other possible course I can pursue. When I was there they told me to fill up this online form and later consulted a counselor to enquire the various courses that are provided. I was enlightened by counselor about the courses and everything I needed to know.

Back then, I was more interested in environment engineering, since environment is becoming a big issue for the whole world in 21 century, everyone is now recycling and the countries are trying to be eco-friendly to reduce carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere.

But I know in the future I will not have the patience to do all those kind of re-search for twenty years just to win Nobel prize, so why don't we just choose something which we are really interested in and it will last for a long time......

Therefore in the end I decided to join diploma in mass communication.

I was keen to find out how are advertisements created when I was young, and how entertainment like Music Televisions are created and designed behind the scene.

That's why I decided to join Mass communication!!

During that period of time before I switched course from ADP to diploma in mass communication , I wasn't willing to tell my troubles to my friends and my parent because I thought I could handle them by myself. But I was wrong, I was looking at things at a negative angle and it was killing me.

Fortunately, I discussed every problems and possibilities with my friends and my parent, I have got their support and give me so much encouragement , finally I could overcome those problems. Thank you for backing me up. I really appreciate you guys.

Now in LCS campus, during the first day of class I have met many new friends , everyone treated me like a member of the family, I felt so placid when I see them...now I just hope for the best for the future of studying in mass communication class.

Life’s like a rollercoaster, filled with ups and downs. But no matter what kind of problem is coming towards to you, you would have to solve them in order to be a better person and have a better life. :) good luck everyone!!!