shy

This morning. Before the hair cut. xD
I haven't been smiling a lot in pictures recently. I wonder why. :D

Zomg. I'm happy yet not very happy. I was happy that I had a great time chatting with lotsa people last night. I'm unhappy because my eyebags aren't going away cause I've been sleeping at 2 every night/ morning.

I was waiting for 3 hours for my mom at the hairdresser today. Well, yeah, I had my hair cut, which is pretty much nothing like the picture I took this morning. It's almost as short as when I had my hair shaved off last year. Sort of like that. :D

Anyways, I was waiting for my mom, so I went to Popular to get some stationeries for my brother and myself. THEN THEN. I saw this book, "How to Feel Confident."

It was like, "Shit, I've just gotta read that book!"

..and so I did. All these while I've been worried about what others might think of me when I'm walking past them, but in actuality, they, too, are worried about what I think of them. I'm just gonna believe in that. Don't spoil it for me. :)

The book also said some stuff about asking myself questions during my absolute free time. I've been doing this for the past few months, actually. Now that I've finally found a book explaining why I've been doing this, it actually makes me feel happy that I'm not the only one feeling this way. Maybe it's the shy part of people that the author emphasizes on.

The author also mentioned that even if someone appears to be an extrovert, greeting people when they first meet them and do not appear shy at all (LIKE MEEE), they actually do suffer a lot inside. Everything that the author used to describe these "people" was actually applicable to myself. D:

So yeah, people.

I'M SHY.

Anime cosplayers. Not shy, but very shy. :D

cheerioseets, arty.

try

The sky is a lovely sight. Outside my window. It was a Sunday morn. :)

It's not that rare of a sight. I think that we really miss out the beautiful things in life. If you can miss out these big, beautiful cloud formations in the sky, can you imagine the small, gorgeous things that we have easily ignored?

I'm not one to tell people how to enjoy their lives and all, but I guess appreciating the small things in life is important as well. I've been ignoring lotsa things recently. The people around me especially. I'm not sure why either.

I don't wanna come up with a whole list of reasons as to why I'm being anti-social to some people and others not. I guess I'm just picky. I'm pretty *shy* when it comes to talking to people I want to talk to. It's either, 1) I think they're too good-looking to be my friends, or 2) I'm just scared they'll have a bad impression of me.

I think I try too hard sometimes.

cheerioseets, arty.

huggers

I spend too much time there. :O

The weekend is here already. Kill me please. :D

I have no idea how many times I've used that phrase HAHA. But oh well. :)

TODAY TODAY. I had our very first Tree Huggers' meeting for the year with Kee Aik. It was.. Better than expected. A lot of people turned up and most of them are actually excited about the activities that we're gonna be doing this year.

We've already started planning for Jog For Hope this year. I hope it'll be just as successful as the one that we had last year. Minus the problems and everything else that we encountered. Since we have the experience now, it should technically be easier for us. :P

Aiyo, Tree Huggers. I ♥ you. :D

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Die. Physics test that I didn't study for was so hard. *insert unsmiley here*

I kinda hate Physics now. Not because the teacher sucks or anything (Well, she does. :D) but because the topics scream "Wtf!" in your face just from reading the introduction. That's the fun part of Physics, I guess. Knowing how things work and how they're done. ♥

Circular motion; Electric Fields; Gravitational Potential Energy; Oscillations. Sigh. I hope I won't fail this test. I'm so not used to failing anything. Except Sejarah. :D

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Random lamp @ Old Town. :D

Completely random post, I know. I have every right to do so, right? :D

Omg, I finally yawned. I can go to sleep now! (:

cheerioseets, arty.

satisfied

Regarding my AS Level results.

I'm satisfied with what I have. :)

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Taylor's University College Main Campus ECA Drive Day

What a mouthful. Seriously. :O

Aiyo, tired. I was at the main campus as a representative from Editorial Board of Taylor's College Sri Hartamas. :D

Purpose: Stalk good looking people Observe how the ECA Drive Day is run in comparison to the one we had in our campus last Friday. :P

Capoeira performance. SO AWESOME CAN. :D

I had fun la, lotsa freebies as well. :D

I met so many people, which I can't really list all out here. But I know I met my mom's Goddaughter there as well as friends that I haven't seen for more than half a year. :P

Other than that, I spent most of my time hanging out with Miss Dachaini and the Marketing department staffs. :D

OH, the best part of the trip was the jam at Sri KL. We were supposed to go into the road after Sri KL BUT it was the time after school and there were so many cars parked before the turning into the road that we needed to go to. The best part? We thought that the parked cars were actually waiting for the traffic light. So we waited, and waited, and waited, and waited. Then we realized that the cars were actually parked by the roadside. What an experience.

ANYHOOS.

Congrats to Sheng and Gee. :)

cheerioseets, arty.

poke

Rant post. You need not read. D:

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Today is Mew Mew's day out. Yes, that's her leg. :D

I've been sleeping like hell recently. If only hell would've been a bit better, I wouldn't be complaining. I'm not sure why I've been so sleepy or I'm just recovering some sleep debt over the past weeks of sleepless nights. I actually do believe in sleep debt and how much it affects my life. I kid you not.

Exam results are due to be released tomorrow at approximately 8AM in the morning, provided the CIE servers do not crash and burn as my friends had said. I really hope not. I really wanna know how badly I've done in the exam. I just realized how important my AS exam results are. How they play a significant role in the overall A Levels results. If I screw this up, I would've basically screwed my entire A Levels results. D:

I'm sorry for the bad paragraph structuring and everything. I'm just not in the mood to actually think how to write. It's so bloody hot today. The weather's been really awful to me. I don't think I'm drinking enough water either. A bowl of cendol isn't really good for my health, too.

Someone, kill me please.

On a side note, I think I should seriously start socializing IRL.

Speaking in acronyms or abbreviations are signs of online social addiction. IRL stands for "In Real Life." That's how bad my case has become. I need to start socializing in real life. It's as if my online self has a life of it's own. *online online online*

I've met lotsa people during the past week and I would really love to get to know them. Non-online-ly. I've got some of the new students from the January '10 intake on my Facebook account and it's sad that I have to talk to them that way, instead of IRL.

Sometimes I wonder if I can live without Facebook. Many of my friends would immediately hit me with a "NO" smack hard centre in my face without a single hint of hesitation. That's how addicted I am to online social networking. =(

I'm so not proud of it.

I'm not afraid. I really am not afraid. D:

It's not that I do not want to smile. I just don't have a reason to anymore. Apart from all the normal "I'm grateful to be alive," or the "I'm grateful to even have clothes to wear!" type of reasons, I'm actually unhappy about some parts of my life. Especially the loner part of me.

You might say that I'm not a loner cause I speak to the people who needs people to talk to, but most of the time, people don't even talk to me by themselves. I have to approach people to talk to me. It's an issue that I alone will understand. I doubt anybody will be able to understand that. Not one person has spoken to me regarding this. Maybe because they don't see the need to? I don't know. Aiyo, I'm not thinking straight right now. I swear the heat is really getting to me.

Fudge this. I wanna enjoy life. Let me enjoy life.

I want somebody to enjoy life with. Friends, maybe?

Someone special would be nice too. )':

cheerioseets, arty.

doomz

Happae 19th Barfday, Jessica Mak! :)

I went straight to Palate Palette after ECA Drive Day from college to celebrate Jessica's 19th birthday with her. Little did I know, the birthday girl herself came late. Haha. :D

Well, we had fun introducing ourselves to each other as Jessica wasn't there yet. At least I knew one of them that was there. The guy in the checkered shirt in the picture above is a friend I met at KLPAC Open Day, Justin. :D

I was really really tired and I lost my voice cause I was getting students to join the Photography Club that I'm currently helping to revive. I feel uber lazy last night. Hence, the thought of socializing just made me even more emo. Sigh. I don't think I've ever been this quiet in my life. T.T

But it was like a pseudo-reunion thing, I guess. Kaki Blue peeps she invited.

I look like shit. I always do. =(
But you guys look fabulous. :D

College has been hectic recently. I could only get like 3- 4 hours of sleep everyday for the past two weeks. I may not be in Student Council or anything, but I really felt like I was. (Though I really do not want to be in Student Council.)

I napped for about 3 hours plus without knowing the time just now. Then how did I come up with that figure? Iono. Just a hunch, I guess. *tired tired*

One of the pics that I was trying to sell on ECA Drive Day.

No one bought it. I'm cheerfully depressed.

One, the Tree Huggers Club won best booth and we got RM200 for that.
Two, no one bought my pictures. I can't even cover the printing cost. Sigh.
Three, I managed to get about 60 odd members. So that makes me happy.
Four, my AS exam results are coming out on Monday, the 25th. =(

Therefore, I'm cheerfully depressed.

See that? That's like, two good things and two bad things going on simultaneously. I don't know how I'm supposed to feel. Sigh.

AS exam results gonna be online on Monday! GRR.
8AM. 25th of January 2010.
The end of Arthur Chia.

uncheerioseets, arty.

tank

Life is like a tank of water. It's gotta run out in the end. D:

cheerioseets, arty.

wedding

A wedding gift for my friend which I went over the weekend. :)

It's my first friend's wedding. It means that I'm getting old as my friends are already old enough to get married. Her name's Ain and she's 23 years old this year.

Just saying. :)

CONGRATULATIONS, AIN.

It's also part of my portfolio. HAHA. :D

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Okay, so I lied. I've been emoing recently cause no one wants to talk to me. It makes me sad, but it's the truth. I'm not sociable.

Face the fact, I really hate approaching someone to talk to them. But that is what you need to do to make friends! Grr. Annoying much.

*annoyed*

cheerioseets, arty.

ugly

This is Kah Fai. His blog is privatized. Even I can't see it. D:

But he's a classmate of mine. A very nice one at that.

Random post for today. Cause I'm emo and it's not doing me any good. Just pictures. I wanna be happy. I WANNA BE HAPPY. OKAY? :D

My theory is that:

Arthur's Theory of Emoticons and Happiness:
The more happy emoticons you use, the happier you are.

..But pictures of good looking people makes me sad. I don't know why.

Miss Tina, Ian and Miss Dee, our new ECA director.
She's so cool. Part-time model too. :)

..and the ugly one. I won a bottle and got a free can of Revive isotonic drink. :O
Yeah, I was wearing all blue today. Including my underwear.

Hell, I think even my brother's toothbrush is better looking than me. :P

Thus, I bought myself some oily unhealthy food to make myself feel better.

But oily food doesn't make me feel better. In fact, it actually makes me feel worse cause I'll get a sore throat, grow fatter and even get some pimples! Grr.

College life has been terribly irritating. The new intake has made the new student population to be around an estimated value of seven hundred odd students in a three-floor college that is built to house roughly around a thousand students.

I don't think I can take it any longer. This new intake has granted me only headaches and more headaches as the campus is now like a giant loudspeaker. Sounds bouncing off the walls like nobody's business. I got a 9.8 magnitude throbbing headache just from the sound. It was like hitting the back of my head countless of times without sympathy or whatsoever.

I had to take a break from Maths class as well. I couldn't freaking concentrate.

Sigh. I hope it all ends soon though. Like, they finally settle down to college life and actually stop making so much noise and start paying attention in class. That'd be great, really.

I hope I'll be happy over the weekend. Bad week. Bad noise. Bad headache.

cheerioseets, arty.

sick

Orientation. :)

Meh. I'm not feeling well mentally again. I don't know why. Don't ask me. :O

cheerioseets, arty.

brother

My brother doesn't usually smile..

BUT..

:D :D :D LOL.

China trip '09.

I love my brother because he doesn't show that he cares.
I love my brother because he always gets mad at me, but try to be less angry.
I love my brother because he drives me around when I don't have a car to drive.
I love my brother because he takes care of me when I'm sick.
I love my brother because he tries to take care of my when I'm sick. :P
I love my brother because he's so shy when it comes to strangers. Especially cashiers. LOL.
I love my brother because we wrap Mew Mew in a blanket yesterday and laughed all the way.
I love my brother because he memang cannot be replaced. :D

I would tell all of this to him, but he'll just shrug it off with an "Okay."

So I'm keeping it for his funeral. :)

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On a completely different note, I was at the Taylor's January '10 Orientation today!

So tense for what! xD

It was fun overall, for them and for us it was just so effing tiring. T.T

Congrats to the Student Council! Not all of them are here though.

cheerioseets, arty.

wrap

That's Mew Mew. That's what my brother and I do when we're bored. ^^

Oh well. POSTER DESIGN. Haha! I've been so fixated on getting LIKEs for my poster design. xD

Here's what I need you guys to do:

FIRST THING'S FIRST!

1) Become a fan of PC Guru Malaysia here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/PC-Guru-Malaysia/189481291750

2) Then go to my design and LIKE it! http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3766073&id=189481291750

I need at least 800 LIKES to secure the winning spot! XD Get your friends to help me too! ;D

Thanks. :)

cheerioseets, arty.

family

Cousin's birthday at my house.

Just a small dinner. My mom's cooking's the better out of all 5 siblings. XD

Today's been a really interesting day. I spent half of my day outside the house instead of promoting my poster design on Facebook. My mom was being unusually rude today. But it's okay. I'm already used to it and it's okay for family members to be in a bad mood once in a while.

As a family, we should be tolerant for things like this so we can do the same to them the next time. :)

Anyways, I spent the rest of my day doing this:

Here's what I need you guys to do:

FIRST THING'S FIRST!

1) Become a fan of PC Guru Malaysia here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/PC-Guru-Malaysia/189481291750

2) Then go to my design and LIKE it! http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3766073&id=189481291750

I need at least 800 LIKES to secure the winning spot! XD Get your friends to help me too! ;D

Thanks. :)

cheerioseets, arty.

poster

My poster design! :D

I'm pretty sure most of you has heard about the SPAM I've been spreading on MSN.

Truth be told, it's my first time participating in a competition like this! I mean, I've always been sucky at competitions but this time I really wanna win!

How did it all start? My brother sent me a link over on MSN about this competition. So I decided to read up on it. Mind you, that was on Monday. The deadline for the competition is 5PM today. At that time, I thought it would be a bit too rushed for me.

BUT YEAH. In the end, I decided at 12AM this morning to participate haha. And so, after 3 hours of drawing something out, I came up with the design above. AND SO.

Here's what I need you guys to do:

FIRST THING'S FIRST!

1) Become a fan of PC Guru Malaysia here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/PC-Guru-Malaysia/189481291750

2) Then go to my design and LIKE it! http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3766073&id=189481291750

I need at least 800 LIKES to secure the winning spot! XD Get your friends to help me too! ;D

Thanks!

cheerioseets, arty.

365

2009 was a good year, I guess. :)
Yi Wenn wrote that on the wall btw. LOL.

I made many new friends in 2009. Most of which I truly enjoy spending my time with. My classmates, Kaki Blue people, T4YP 09 and others.

I improved as an individual as well. I learned more about myself. What I can and can't do, my limitations as a friend. I can't really explain what I feel overall, but it's just that general happy feeling about yourself. I really hope I get more of that this year.

I'm turning freaking nineteen this year. That's how old I'm gonna be in about 10 months time. Sigh.

TWO ZERO ZERO NINE.

I wanna:-

ONEGrowAsAHumanTWOGrowAsAnArtist
THREEPassMyPianoDiplomaFOURLoseFiveKayGee
FIVEGetStraightA'sForMyA'sSIXGetIntoAGoodUni
SEVENStayStrong!

Iza took this last year. ♥

I just realized a lot of people are taking up Project 365. But I'm not. Should I? LOL.

cheerioseets, arty.

lightroom

Chaozhou back alley. In front of my uncle's house. :D China.

I guess I went *a bit* overboard with Adobe Lightroom. I just downloaded Lightroom 2.5 an hour back and maaaan, kinda confusing at first but it's fun to play with.

It's so much more easier to edit photos with Lightroom and Photoshop. I kinda regret not getting it earlier. I'm gonna start getting used to using Lightroom from now on. Uber amazing program!

Anyways, off to bed for me now. Editorial Board meeting at 2PM today. D:

College starting again next Tuesday! SO EXCITED. :D

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The post above was written at 12 something in the morning. Hence, this one below is the morning post. :D

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What I did for Christmas

..was that I was hanging out with my family in Chaozhou, Guangdong, China. :)

Of course, my uncle's birthday fell on Christmas day as well. Major coincidence, but we had very very good food at Baker's Hotel there. Traditional Chaozhou food. Familiar to me cause I kinda grew up eating those food. xD

But since I spent my Christmas in China, I didn't do anything Christmas-y apart from the family time. So, I bought myself a webcam. But I haven't used it much since I bought it, except for my new MSN Dynamic Display Picture. xD

I was feeling like shit this morning, after dropping off my mom at work cause of the horrible, horrible traffic. The camwhore in me decided to take over. I guess it's like a self-defense mechanism. In order to save my camwhoreness from losing out, it took over me and I had the compelling urge to camwhore.

It's all true, believe me.

I printed this out on Monday, at college.
I printed another one at the printer shop thingy on A3 harder paper.
RM0.80 for the paper and RM3.50 for the printing. I need a cheaper printer shop. D:
It's for a wedding gift for my friend's wedding next Sat.
Keep it a secret aite. :)

Feeling a bit moody, hence a moody pic. Can't blame me now, can you? :D

..and yes! Bloody hell. My legs are huge. HAHA.

Meh. Editorial Board meeting at 2PM later. I'm so looking forward to it. D:

cheerioseets, arty.

kong

Taking the train to Mongkok (Hong Kong) was pretty awesome.

It's good enough that we didn't have to follow a tour guide. But traveling to Hong Kong by train? I don't think you'd get that with tours. xD

I wish I could've brought some back but I didn't buy any in the first place. :P

The roads were pretty crowded. Just like Chow Kit. But my mom posed anyways. :)

The street where I got my jacket dirty cause I squatted to take this picture. =(

After walking around the north part of Hong Kong, we stopped at the mall on the right to go weewee. :D

But meh. That place reminds me of KL. I did enjoy everything else though. The time we spent looking for a shop to eat WANTAN MEE. The wantans are the size of a golf ball. Bigger, in fact.

The ones back in KL? The size of my thumb.

cheerioseets, arty.

chaozhou

A bridge in Chaozhou. Where my ancestors lived.

China is a nice place. Especially when you don't have to follow a tour. I spent more time with my cousin's family though. China isn't that bad when you have relatives there. :)

My nephew, the glutton.

My uncle, the birthday boy. :)

cheerioseets, arty.

fireworks

01/01/2010 00:06
1/2 Shutter speed without a tripod. I damn giler babi proud. xD

The booms at Tropicana City Mall.

Blue fireworks. So special. :D
1/2 shutter speed without tripod! Heh. ♥

Happy New Year! :)

A lot of things happened this year. Some that I'm proud of, and some that I'm not. It's kinda stupid if you regret doing those things, but what's the point of regretting?

Time doesn't rewind just for you. You might as well plan out what you should try to do to prevent it from happening again in the future. That's what I think.

I'm not about to list out the various things that I've done throughout this year, nor do I want to boast about the achievement that brought me thus far. I've still got a long way to go. 20 odd days more to my AS results which I'm deathly afraid of. I didn't do my best and I think it'll bring dire consequences to me. But too late for regrets, huh? :)

Too many things to look forward to this year. I really can't wait for the end of 2010 and sit in front of the computer, looking through the pictures that will bring these changes for the new year.

Have a great new year, everybody! :)

cheerioseets, arty.