UTeM Spring Festival Roadshow to The Salvation Army, Malacca

I did my first volunteering job. The UTeM  spring festival Committee visited The Salvation Army, Malacca for our first roadshow. As our theme was  承翌 (Cheng Yi ) basically it means sincerity , going out to help the folks, to share , spread and enrich others with the tradition/ culture of Chinese.

We went there by bus, arriving at our destination at 8.30am. We were furthur separated into small groups and divided the chores. My group was in charged of gardening. Pulling out the weeds and plants that twirls on the fence all around the house , its hard work! The children over here actually hand grown their own garden, they even have a few stalk of paddy ! 

Others teams did the cleaning of rooms, wiping the windows , sweep and mop the floor , etc. Later on, we played with the kids, most of them are not around because its a Saturday, they only come here on weekdays for their leaning .

To be given the opportunity to make the kids second home a little cleaner, a little better and a little safer , its worth every sweat.

Will not be posting pictures over here, you can get them at UTeM Spring Festival first Roadshow for the pictures that will tell you guys what we had done on that day. Credits to the ever awesome Multimedia team.

Do come and like and support our Facebook page too :  UTeM Spring Festival

I am thankful for the opportunity given. I am thankful that I have both parents with me , both parents still alive and well , both parents who are so supportive of all my decisions, both parents who are there always. I am blessed.

 Till then,
Cheers.

Taman Seribu Bunga Malacca

I did not have class the next day so I wanted to go and visit some places. Asked my friends weather they want to accompany me but all of them have stuff to do so end up decided not to go .  But I accidentally woke up at 8am the next day, so might as well just go alone.

I visited his place 2 years ago, my sis brought me there. So its actually nice coming back again. The park is so empty , and yeap, I anticipate to see the garden of orchids but sadly, worse than my expectation, there were just one or two of them blooming . The small man made fountain at the entrance is so lifeless, I remember there were tortoise and some fishes on my last visit, but now its just water flowing.

Some pictures taken in the place. There were monkeys swinging on the tree so be careful. Will be spamming pictures taken.

 

There are a few ponds inside the place, with fishes inside them.
Had a quick breakfast at Cafeteria 2 before going back to my room and sleep. 

While writing this, its only 1 month away from my Finals. Time passes too fast! Gonna finish my sem 1 so soon, its feels like just yesterday I came and registered with my parents. So far, life has been great at UTeM . Will be posting some photos on my roadshow to a Children's home on my next blog.

Till then,
Cheers.

Pesta Konvokesyen 2016 UTeM

I did not that there is a Convocation Festival, first time experiencing this. Today i have 3 class, but 2 of them cancelled because our lecturer need to attend the convocation ceremony. Nice!

After our Material class , my friends and me walk to our Dewan Besar, there are so many food stalls selling a variety of food and drinks , some digital stalls, even opening a booth for those housing estate kind of thing, and a lane of stalls selling flowers for the convo too.

We spend about 30 minutes over there, looking at those delicious food, looking at our seniors who graduated that day, and imagine ourselves in four years time.

There were students selling pretty designed rose soap too. RM25 per box. I think their sales were bad as I saw them even approaching those vendor that set up the stalls if they wanted to buy. My friends say that its actually more worth buying these, at least the soaps are pretty and can be used instead of flowers, cause flowers will wilt and die. But what is a convocation without a bonquet of fresh flowers?

Some small activity and contest held over here.
 

Cool

 

 

 There was this bubble forming game , wanted to play but needed to pay RM2 , so nah, I skip this.

Just when we decided to head back, there was this samyung challenge , eating the spicy korean noodle. We wanted to see the contestant eating them but sadly Malaysia as normal, they are taking too much time to prepare, we waited for like 10 mins as we saw some contestant on the table already with their plates of noodle ready , but some of the contestant have not even got their noodle yet. We waited a little longer.  Then the MC announce that the contest will start in another 10-15 minutes , so yeah, we did not want to wait anymore so we left.

 Must take class pic .

To be able to be classmates with them, I am blessed.

Hoping we will be part of this convocation in 4 years time.

 I stole this shot as i find the girl is pretty and the guy equally handsome. Hahaha

Till then,
cheers.

UTeM English Week 2016

This is the first time I am joining English Week at UTeM and its quite fun (mainly because I won some cash, hahaha )

Picture taken from UTem English Week 2016 Facebook page

So this year their theme is Let's Connect, Engage and Experience. As you can see, throughout this period there were many contest and activities held and organized , both equally fun and in the same time wanted to help students to improve and increase the usage of English language among students in University.







I joined Creative Minds Writing Contest and also Best Selfie Contest (by chance ) , both consolation, I wanted to join Scavenger Hunt too but they said its full.

Winning the Selfie contest was total shock, cause there we too many entries , maybe my caption was better. Actually did not plan to join this, I actually asked the girls in my class to enter this but they were reluctant, until I saw a post on UTeM English Week that states the contest will end at 5pm and it was 4pm at that time. As I was in the library with one of my friend, I just randomly took a pic and posted. I glad I did. Time to treat him later.

I was suppose to attend the closing ceremony on Thursday at 2pm, but then my RESPONSIBLE math lecturer decided to hold a class exactly that time, because the day before he cancelled the class .

Not gonna post here how much cash I won, but I think the way of them rewarding us by giving us cash is a thumbs up! I rather take the cash and buy something I really need then having them giving me books, notes , files and those student-needed-material .

Here's my essay. We were suppose to choose from the theme 1.LOVE 2.Friendship
And obviously I wrote on LOVE.

      LOVE IS BLIND

    They say love is blind. But who can defines what true love is? There is love between couples, there is love between parents and their children , the love for religion, the love to explore , the love that worth sacrifice for. You see, love is just a matter of perspective and how it is expressed by a certain individual.

    Now I am going to tell you a story, a story about how love can be so fragile, how love can be so easily disguise, how love can be there yet not seen by the naked eyes of human, how love changed my life.

    “Go in your bedroom now and complete your homework, don’t you dare make even a noise or else no dinner for tonight, you had caused enough trouble for me today’’ she shouted as I quicken my pace, passing the tidy living hall, as I entered my room. I caused trouble in school again today. Rebecca my classmate called me an ugly duckling and I hit her on her forehead with my bottle. Mum was called and I saw her apologizing on my behalf, while I got fidgety sitting on the chair, desperately wanted to leave. Since birth, I know I am different. By the looks and judgmental eyes of others, I know I will not fit in this world. You see , I have this big horrendous ugly scar that covered half of my face. It is like Beauty and the Beast, and I wanted so badly to be Beauty.

    I was treated different  all the times, but God must have been a fair God, because both my parents still shower me with love and the joy every child deserve. But not in school. Since the first day I stepped into kindergarden, I know I am living in a cruel world. The others kids look at me as if I am a monster from some horror movies, they did not want to play with me. When I enter into primary, many of them turned their backs on me. When I entered secondary, the girls in my class either act as I do not exist and the mean girls will picked on me for no apparent reasons. No guys wanted to be friends with me. I got sneers and glares everywhere, every time. Yes, I did get everyone’s attention, but not for the right reasons. I have not being to any fancy birthday parties as I was not invited at all , did not join the graduation prom in Form 5  as I have always being insecure with my looks.

    My world became better after I befriended this guy on Facebook, he has been lending his ears to me , he is the person I run to when I have no one to talk . Through daily chats and online video chatting, I can see that he is a charming  guy, with intelligence and manners that fits a prince, had good sense of humor and apparently he told me that looks does not matter and that he have feelings for me, that he finds me so special and different from the other girls that he know.

     He requested for us to meet. I hesitated but he gave me assurance and I gave in. We decided to meet at a park nearby my house at night. That night ,there were hundreds of stars that hung high above the pitch black sky.  The park was so big but sadly empty with people. The street light that which was the only source of light in that park, flickered once a while , illuminating the beautiful guy that is standing just 15 feet away from me, he smiled slyly at me. He was there. He was in front of me.

    The first look into his eyes as a person in front of me, it was not love at first sight, but there were fireworks in his eyes. I was anxious at first, we began chatting, he made me feel that I am worth something and worth fighting for. He likes that I am different. He made me feel strong. He made me feel secure. He was like the gush of wind that blows away my cloud of worries and troubles. He made me look at my flaws as it is so insignificant and small.

      We meet up more often after that day, going out for dates as a couple, not to shopping mall and movies that often because I still do get uncomfortable with the stares from others, instead we go for stars hunting and promised to go to Iceland,  to get a glimpse of those beautiful Aurora.

      We are now married for 11 years, blessed with twin girls. Those vivid images of me being shut down by others, being bullied by the bad guys still exists but I managed to climb up to be an executive manager at a company I am currently working and using my own money to set up a NGO organization to reach out to those that face similar problems like me. I believe in myself even more now because he have been my pillar of confidence. They said love can change a person.

    Yesterday, before going to bed. I asked him again why did he choose me , the ugly duckling instead of the pretty swans out there . He whispered : “ They say love is blind “.    

Normal looking essay. Expected ending :)

And yesterday after our final paper for mid-term , my friends,  of my senior and me visited BBQ Plaze (non halal ) at AEON BANDARAYA MELAKA , we stayed till quarter pass 11 in the mall . Its nice hanging out with them.

And some random shots taken this week .

Mistiest night

 

 

So Handsome!

Till then, cheers.