snow

Snooooow.

Snow on a leaf! :D

It's not easy taking pictures of snow. REALLY REALLY HARD. But yeah. :D

I had a great time. Guess who acted like a small kid when he got a text that it was snowing outside when he was in a lecture?

I wonder. :3

..and thus ends November!

cheerioseets, arty. :)

blog

Hello there, dear blog. :)

I feel so ashamed of myself for not being able to constantly blog about my life. I really wonder what made me stop blogging. Maybe it was my A Levels exams? Or was it just simply because I lost my mood to blog or all emotions whatsoever (which really happened, btw, when I was working in Coffee Bean).

Have you ever experienced a point in your life where you were just simply on autopilot? Now, what do I mean by autopilot is that you are so used to a very sequential, mundane routine that you have to follow everyday and thus not actually thinking when you're carrying out certain actions. It happened to me this year, and as hard as I may have tried, I just couldn't get my brain working at all.

..which I think was the main reason why I stopped blogging. Maybe I couldn't cope with my exams, the pressure from my fellow classmates who are geniuses. Maybe I'm just not suited to be "the best of the best" which I have always imagined myself to be.

I work hard. I strive. Most of the times I succeed, seldom I'd fail and often I'd be super upset over the failure.

But

Now, I am a first year undergraduate at University of Bath studying Architecture.

Now, I am a proud student of the esteemed Architecture and Civil Engineering department at University of Bath, for which, Architecture is ranked second in the whole of UK, second to Cambridge.

[Source: ONE and TWO]

Now, I am spending most of my time, having fun designing in design studios. Something which I longed to do for a very long time now.

Now, I am also able to score full marks for my Structures test just now, which consists of a mixture of Mathematics: Applied Mechanics and Physics.

This is bliss. Pure bliss. :)

Apart from that, I brought Domokun along with me to the UK. It accompanied me throughout the entire flight here. Which was freaking long, mind you. Six hours from KL to Dubai and then another seven hours from Dubai to London. After landing in a foreign country without your parents' supervision, I got extremely scared, but Domokun was there to comfort me. :)

My family was there with me at the airport that day. It was a night flight, so I kinda spent my entire Saturday out with my brother and mother. Then we just talked, and talked, and talked. Until it was time for me to go.

It was good, I suppose. I've never seen my dad so teary-eyed before. I didn't know it would be this difficult, saying goodbye. They always say that I love you are the hardest words to say, but I beg to differ. When you're departing with your loved ones, try saying goodbye. It hurts, knowing that you'll probably not gonna be able to see them in person for the next three to four months, but for me, it's about ten

I couldn't stop crying. I looked back, and I saw them waving goodbye to me. I held back the sobs, the tears. As I passed through the gates to get to the departure lounge, I took out my phone and texted my mom. She was replying till I got on the plane. The entire time, I was busy taking tissues out of my bag pocket and wiping away the tears that just wouldn't stop. Annoying. Really annoying.

Well, the flight was pleasant. I met a lady flying to Dubai. She's Malay but she looks really Chinese. She was wearing a scarf (tudung) but still looked really Chinese. She was nice. I was glad that I made a 33-year old friend. HAHA. But still, she was great company to sit beside with on a six hour flight. She was definitely better than a 3-year old baby kicking on my seat for the seven hour flight! D:

Haha, damn. At least now I Skype with my family every Sunday. Because I spend a lot of my time in the studios. It keeps the homesickness at bay. :)

I can't wait to go back to Malaysia in June next year. :)

- - -

I met a lot of different people. My flatmates are amazing people. I learnt so much about the UK, like places they're from and the different slangs that they use. It's pretty much like the different dialects they have at different provinces in China. It's super cute when my Hull flatmate speaks HAHA. :)

But yeah, the Malaysian society here, aka BAMSA, Bath Area Malaysian Singaporean Association is pretty cool. :D

Got cute Malaysiaaaaaan. :)

Until next time, dear blog. Hopefully sometime soon. :D

cheerioseets, arty. :)

university

University of Bath is beautiful. :)

Full rainbow! :)

Architecture is awesome, too.

cheerioseets, arty.

mocha

Mocha - I TOOK THIS 10 MINUTES AGO. :D

LOOK AT THAT WINCED FACE, SCRATCHED EAR. *cute*

Mocha is so clingy to me. It's so annoying yet adorably cute. I took so many pictures of Mocha omg. Let me upload them. :D

Scraaaaaatch. :D

..but I have to put eye medication for him cause his eyes will close themselves.

That white colour thing at the edge of his eyes will blind him soon if I don't put the meds. D:

I'll upload pictures of Latte as soon as she's attached to me. xD

cheerioseets, arty.

college

Things that I'll probably miss when I'm not in Malaysia

Arty Farewell Notes
♥ 2 - My college third home

College.

I think the one and a half years that I spent in this place were the most productive, emotional and eye-opening time that I've spent compared to anywhere else (in an educational way, the artistic way still belongs to KLPAC. *kudos*)

Imma miss college so much. My lecturers, my college mates, the staff and the LIBRARY. With freaking bean bags! Haha. :D

There're one too many experiences to list out, but I wanna point out that I met one of my closest friends in the whole wide world! HAHA. I think I blogged about her when she left for Australia the month before last. D:

Go see, go see. xD

cheerioseets, arty.

mocha-latte

Cute kitty is cute. :3 :3
He's called Mocha. :D

..and this is Latte. :)

cheerioseets, arty.

bed

Things that I'll probably miss when I'm not in Malaysia

Arty Farewell Notes
♥ 1 - My bed

The book I bought today at the Big Bookshop warehouse sale @ Atria shopping mall. :D

Face it. The place where we spent 50% of our lifetime (sleeping) on, is our beds. That very one comfy slab of a thing that lies on wooden planks (mine lies on wooden planks, cause my dad made my bed frame when I was younger) is the haven that most people retreat to at night.

I would definitely miss the bedsheets that I have been using since I was a child. The one in the above picture had been with me since I was like, ten years old? I used to love the days when our (my brother and I) bedsheets were going to be washed. The smell of a freshly washed bedsheets really makes me feel like I'm in heaven. Maybe it's just a personal preference, maybe it's the same for everyone else, but I definitely love to sleep on a freshly washed bedsheet. :D

There were also the days when I started going for late night rehearsals at Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre back when I was in Theatre for Young People (T4YP) and various other KLPAC productions that I was in. When I got my driving license, my curfew got extended to 12AM and boy, how glad I was to have my bed to greet me back home!

Being in a musical was really tough. Even though I wasn't the male lead or a supporting male actor, Kaki Blue was one of the musicals that I know of that has a strong ensemble to back the leads as well as perform most of the dances and songs as well. We are so cool that we could sing and dance at the same time! :P

So yeah, when I reach home late at night, all I wanna do is take a nice warm bath and sleep on my bed. Once my head rests on my soft pillow, I fall instantly asleep.

Oh, how I'll miss my bed. It accompanied me during my (many) sleepless nights, provided me the comfort that some children in other parts of the world might not be able to experience and how it wouldn't ever betray me. Like, stabbing me in the back. It can't stab me. It doesn't have hands. :D

- - -

I'm starting this new series of posts to get my blogging mojo back.

I'll slowly include people posts as time goes by, it's sort of a way to tell people how much they mean to me, as well as leaving them farewell notes before I leave for the UK on September 24th.

cheerioseets, arty.

really

I am so happy.

cheerioseets, arty.

rawr

Mrawwr.

I haven't camwhored for a very long time now. :D

Life has been hectic. Kill me. D:



I still haven't finished reading my book(s) which I started reading a month ago. I don't know why. I WILL FINISH READING "The Time Traveller's Wife" TONIGHT. I SWEAR I WILL.

The other book's called "The Cannon," which is a non-fiction book and is *kinda* nice to read. :D

AIYO. Sleepy la, but I need to go work nao. I WANNA PLAY WITH MY CAMERA TOO. D:

cheerioseets, arty.

hope

Update on my life. I did lotsa things the past week.

Yi Wenn. I ♥ this pic.

One of the many cute shots we took the night before she left for Aussie.

I spent the next few days doing this. I like it, a lot. :)

Stupid boy. :D

Jog For Hope made us cool people emo.
That's how awesome Jog For Hope 2010 is! :)

So yeah, we raised a total of Twenty one thousand ringgit for the Children of Bario and Paws Animal Welfare Society.

Great job Jog For Hope 2010 Committee!
I'm so proud of you guys! :)

cheerioseets, arty.

goodbye

The first to leave.

There will always be times for these kinda things to happen. You know it's bound to happen when you're studying in a well-known private college studying a well-known pre-university programme. Even if your friends aren't the ones that's gonna go, you'd be the one that's gonna be going. It sucks but there's nothing much that you really can do about it.

I've had my share of fun throughout these past eighteen months. Truly, it's a time that I've never laughed so hard during class with Yi Wenn cracking jokes like freaking all the time. There's also the other classmates that'd laugh along because my laugh sounds like a duck quacking with a sore throat. I'm gonna miss these lil' things when I leave college. Sighh. D:

I'm dedicating this post to Yi Wenn first, just because you guys don't read my blog that often. :)

Yi Wenn

We've got to thank Mr William for putting us four together, back when we had our first Malaysian Studies thingy going on. That's how we really met, if not we wouldn't even be having regular lunches together haha. I really enjoyed just spending time with you, macam waiting for time to pass. It's indescribable HAHA.

You're indescribable. Whichever man that you're gonna marry has got to be a funny man, okay? I wanna see a family of comedians when we all have a reunion in twenty years' time!

When you're in Australia, please, randomly pick out the hot JK and make sure he's super nice and funny too. It's a must la. Studying Commerce is gonna be a bore, so you must keep yourself happy and smiley always. You'll make lots of good friends and have even more fun times than you had with us. Without you, it's gonna be so different haha. But oh well, better move on than being stuck. :D

And there won't be another Arthur Chia to teman you to help you do your stuffs anymore! Hah!

So that's one. Yi Wenn's gonna be leaving for Australia the week after next. Which is totally sad. D:

I haven't gave her birthday present to her yet. )':

GOODBYE YI WENN.

Adieu.

An excerpt of a poem by Anne Bradstreet

Taught what was good, and what was ill,
What would save life, and what would kill.
Thus gone, amongst you I may live,
And dead, yet speak, and counsel give:
Farewell, my birds, farewell adieu,
I happy am, if well with you.

:)

cheerioseets, arty.

panorama

Singaporeeeeee.
My first panorama. Wee~

I'm delaying my blogging-ness.

Reasons are such as but not limited to:

(1) Lazy

(2) Writer's block

(3) Jog For Hope's is in less than a week!

(4) I have other better things to do than blog now. )':

cheerioseets, arty.

singapore

Singapore was AWESOME. :D
My first HDR picture, btw.

I wanna blog about it this time! :D

But it's 1am, so maybe tomorrow. :)

cheerioseets, arty.

frutti

Happae Barfday, dancer girl! :)

I'll miss you, like a lot. )':

- - -

I'm worried like crap.

I'm worried like crap.

I'm worried like crap.

But there's no point in worrying like crap.

I shouldn't worry at all.

After all, all I've been doing these few days is "enjoying myself without much regrets."

But I'm still thinking to myself,

I'm worried like crap.

- - -

Happy that I tried Tutti Frutti for the first time the other day. It's like heaven melting in your mouth omfg! :D

Okay, sorry for the lack of updates, blog. I officially just screwed up my diary. )':

cheerioseets, arty.

waiting

Notice the flowers. :D
TCSH Graduation Ball: Spring Equinox

It's been a while since I logged on to my blogger's account. I think it's been more than a week. Yeah, definitely more than a week.

Lots of things can happen in a week, like shit loads of things.

Number of significant things that happened in the past two weeks.

one I've finally finished my A Level exams. A whole freaking one and a half years since I started college have passed. I've met countless of people, bonded with hundreds of people (literally) and I made really good friends that would probably last me a lifetime.

My A Level exam results would be out at 8AM on 12th of August. Hopefully everything goes according to my plans. If not, really too bad la. Jialat. I have to cancel plane booking, accommodation application and my hopes and dreams of becoming a UK Architect graduate. Sigh. D:

two TCSH Graduation Ball 2010: Spring Equinox was last Thursday. The picture above is one of the many pictures that I took from the event. We started organizing the graduation ball about three months ago? I say it was very successful. I'm happy, and I think everybody who went that day was happy. So it's all good, right? :D

There are more pictures of that on Facebook, so yeah. Facebook me. :D

three I started playing MapleStory again. Yes, it's something significant to me, so yeah. Let's see. I started a week before my exams ended. Now I'm level 46. Pretty amazing, I dare say. I've also started a new character yesterday and I just made my second job advancement just now. Level 30. :D

Okay, just let me say this. There's nothing wrong with playing online games! :)

four That's pretty much it. My life is lifeless now. Nothing to do, just freaking waiting for my exam results to be released. I think I'll die if I don't get 3A's. D:

Sigh.

I feel like going out nonstop and waste all money until I die.

Or maybe.

Anybody wanna take me go clubbing? :D

I never tried before, and I really wanna try once, at least.

Mm.

Ask me something on my formspring account here! :D

I'M BORED.
WHAT SHOULD I DO?

cheerioseets, arty.

dye

My holidays started, and seriously, I really had nothing else better to do.

I bought 3 tins of dye powder, 3 sachets of dye fixers and 3 pieces of 5 metres of cotton cloth.

It took me three hours to complete my project.

And probably wasted a lot of water, but it was rewarding. Fun, too. :)

It turned out great. :)

Happy Holidays, everyone.

The end of A Levels.

What do I do now? D:

cheerioseets, arty.

charming

I wish I was as charming as Mew Mew. D:

A Levels end in two days for me. Freaking two days. One and a half years of studying, friends-making and other activities at TCSH will end in two days.

I'm not particularly sad about how I will miss the people I've met, but sad because I didn't do my best for my exams. What if I don't get my 3A's to meet the conditions for my offer? What happens then? D:

Sighhhhhh.

Simple stuffs make me go D:

On another note, I wanna be as cute as Mew Mew. D:

cheerioseets, arty.

smiling

Smile, even if others aren't. :)

Smiling is something you can do for free. It doesn't cost you anything, but it gives a lot more than what you think it does. Smile. :D

cheerioseets, arty.

poses

Youth Fair '10.

It was.. okay.

I took the train back.

..and that's the end of a boring day.

I'm not ashamed of my pimple scars.

I had two papers on Friday. Maths Paper 3 (hard paper) and Physics Paper 4 (HARDER paper, so hard that the paper didn't even tear when I attempted to tear it). I was busy studying for Physics Paper 4 the whole of last week + the week before last. It didn't actually work. I think I'm gonna fail the paper. It was just too tough. I feel like killing myself now. )':

To top that off, I had to ride on an emotional roller coaster that I didn't want to ride. Painful, excruciatingly so.

I.

Do.

Not.

Know.

How.

To.

Feel.

D:

- - -

On another note, I watched Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time yesterday, with my brother and my aunt. :)

Gemma Arterton is so pretty and Jake Gyllenhaal is surprisingly hot. *cough*

I'm so downloading the game. I'll wait for Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands. CAN'T WAIT. :D

In the meantime, I want a body as hot as Jake Gyllenhaal's. HAHA. *wishes*

cheerioseets, arty.

mask

My first facial mask. HAHA.

Eh, so malu to put a picture like this up on my blog. xD

cheerioseets, arty.

dreams

Something I have always wished for.

Looking back into something that never existed seems kinda pathetic, and a lot of people also say that "look forward and not backwards." But I can't really help it.

Now is not the time to be thinking of stuffs like this. Exam periods are important for a reason. I should really put my mind into studying and not about unimportant things (in this context) like how badly structured my social life is. That's really unimportant now, isn't it? D:

Sometimes I wish that I haven't met you.

Sometimes I wish I was nicer to you in the beginning, so you'd talk to me more often.

Sometimes I wish you'd like me just a weeeeee bit more. :P

But yeah, wishing for things like this is kinda impractical and whiny. Therefore, I'll stop complaining and start doing something. Maybe something pessimistic like, "Make myself hate you more so I won't have feelings for you anymore." Sounds like a great plan to me. :)

Anyways, I wrote something during Physics a few weeks back. I was feeling a bit down that day, cause I had a dream about someone and I really felt sick in the stomach. I mean, I'm already dying cause I can't tell that someone how I feel, then I have to dream about that person summore. Damn giler babi mean one my own subconscious.

Bah, but it's alright. I've already let the person read this. So I guess it'd be fine if I put it up here and let the emoness seep out. :P

Dreams

You were in my dreams last night. It got more vague as I became more aware that it was a dream.

I remember that I was feeling sleepy. We were in my living room, you sitting on the single seat sofa. My head laid softly across your thighs and you gently stroked my hair as I fall more and more asleep.

It felt good. I've been having these weird dreams as I fall into restless sleep every night. It does me no harm, but all I feel when I wake is that empty void that I want your warmth to fill in.

I don't think you'll understand how I feel, cause I myself don't know what I feel. I don't know what I want from you. It's disgustingly horrid to even think about it logically. Is this what they meant when people say, "Life is not all about looking for someone to love?"

Yeah. Kudos to me, aye? :)

Time to sleep nao. D:

cheerioseets, arty.

fierce

Mew Mew starting to look fierce. Not.

Took this shot of her just now. :D

FURTHER MATHS PAPER 1 OVAH! (:

I should start on Maths P4 now. *going*

cheerioseets, arty.

octagonal

Hakka Octagonal Village

Further Maths Paper 1 on Tuesday.

Maths Paper 4 on Wednesday. I haven't started studying for Paper 4 yet. =(

cheerioseets, arty.

flexible

You are not alone.

You are beautiful, in every single way. Cause words can't bring you down.

Looks doesn't matter.

Good looking people might appear to be nice, but they can be devils behind that beautiful masks of theirs. Not-so-good looking people on the other hand, can be really nice if you actually know them for who they are and not how they look like.

*tells self*

- - -

Happy 19th Birthday, Jie Cong. :D

I know it's a bit late, but I was looking through the pictures I took during the past month. So many things were going on at once, so yeah. :)

Anyways, did you know that I'm quite flexible? xD

See, I can stretch over another person! :D

Fun times. I need to go out more often. xD

Maybe my exams. :)

cheerioseets, arty.

Beggar stray cat. :O

A2 is a bad word. It's like a curse. )':

I hope I'll pull through this hurdle. I don't wanna face failure for this one. The consequences are too severe if I don't get through this. My future, and everything else.

May I have the wisdom to do my best, my absolute very best.

cheerioseets, arty.

swivel

Domo needs to be saved! :D

I've been doing some thinking again. I think I need to slow it down. My exams are coming, I really need to start studying and cloud my mind with everything else that's unimportant to my future.

I had a few dreams about you this week. It was freaky. I mean, dah lah I no chance to be with you, then you come and appear in my dreams. Leave me alone. D:

But yeah, I've been feeling like craaaaaaap these few days because of that stupid dream. So yeah, get out of my life. I already blocked you on MSN, that's my first step to help me forget you.

Forget. D:

*emo*

I'm better off with Domo.

cheerioseets, arty.