Entry for 11/6/12 to 24/6/12

       Well, holidays are over. School's started and I got all my marks back. I'm not proud to say that I didn't do well. I could have done much better. I got only 5As, 5Bs and a C.*sigh*Well, I shouldn't be surprised since I only started studying history two weeks before the exam and a day or two before for the other subjects. Hopefully I will do better for my trials. Other than that, everything else is pretty ok. For English, I was assigned a book entitled 'Rebecca' to read. Just last Tuesday, my whole class got to watch 'Freedom Writers' in the bilik tayangan. It was a very interesting movie as it touches on discrimination and other social problems in our modern society today.

       This Sunday morning I was suppose to go for the E-thon in my school to help out the Science and Maths Society with the face painting stall. The Form 3s planned to set up a face painting stall and a haunted house but in the end it didn't work out for reasons I don't want to know. So, I spent my day with my parents and grandparents in 1Utama. I had the opportunity to watch part of the Charms Cheerleading Championship. There were quite a number of teams there such as the Stompers, Vulcans, Angel, Cyrens and our very own Mickeymitez. Not sure whether the Dynamitez were there. Couldn't stay and watch for very long. Ok, I better sleep soon, after I finish watching an episode of Charmed. I bought Season 1 just last Saturday and I am hooked! I love this show so much!

Entry for 4/6/12 to 9/6/12

This week was pretty much the same as last week. I did my friendship bracelets, the beaded animals, read my new storybooks, my chores around the shop and teach. On Thursday though, I went to Susan's shop at the Curve to give my birds and do more birds. I bought two more storybooks at Borders. My parents decided to go up to Penang so yesterday, my parents and I left the house at 7.00a.m. and reached Penang around noon. My parents are staying at Tanjung Bungah Hotel and I am staying at my cousin's place. Usually, I would have  no time to do my homework when I am at my cousin's place as she'll keep me busy with her endless talking about school, her stories, animation she has created using a programme called 'Scratch' and stuff she finds online. She is such a talkative person, in a good way. She is also so full of energy. Today, she has to go to school to finish up her robotics project with her friends for a competition so her I am, updating my blog with her puppy, Nutmeg, giving my feet a tongue bath. I'll be leaving Penang tomorrow as it's the last day of holiday.*sigh*I am not really looking forward to my exam results. The second week of exams was really a very bad week for me. That is it for now I guess.

Entry for 28/5/12 to 3/6/12

It's the holidays! Finally, after three horrible weeks of exams. I still have to wake up early though and follow my mum to the shop. There I have to help clean in addition to all my other chores and teaching students as we are clearing up the storeroom. It was not fun at all. On Thursday, my friends came over to do the beaded animals. I learned how to make a bird that day. It was really fun but tedious. All of them loved Tubby(my dog) especially Susan. When we were having our lunch, he kept looking at them with his big eyes, begging them to feed him. He is such a greedy dog. On Saturday, I went to 1 Utama with my dad to watch Men In Black 3. Oh, I also bought two new story books right after exam. Well, that's it for now. Sorry for the randomness, nothing much to talk about this holiday.

Letter to the editor

Dear editor,

      As a proud citizen of Malaysia, I have unfortunately come across many Malaysians who blatantly do not care for their country and this is obviously seen through their behaviour and inconsiderate acts in public.

      Firstly, many Malaysian smokers do not have the decency to smoke in an enclosed area or at least away from people. I'm sure many restaurants provide a section in the premise for smokers so as to not bring discomfort to non-smokers. Not only does the smoke and chemicals in the cigarette affect the smoker but it affects the people around the smoker as well, thus the term passive smoker. Besides that, I'm sure many of you agree that the smell of a lighted cigarette is horrible. Just the other day, I was walking in a shopping complex with my parents when we walked by a smoker and that idiot just blew the smoke at my face! Well..not directly at my face since I am vertically challenged. The smoke was above my head and I could still smell it. Before I could say anything to that person, he sprinted off in the other direction and threw the cigarette butt on the floor.

      In addition to that, Malaysians like to litter. They throw their rubbish everywhere, on the floor, in the drain except the dustbin. I often see a large pile or a mountain of rubbish bags in the alleyway containing all sorts of trash from plastic bottles to tin cans. Most of the time, the garbage is not disposed off properly therefore making the whole area smell and the air becomes difficult to breathe. Not only that, people like to throw their used tissues or candy wrappers by the roadside or in the middle of the road. Sometimes, I see roads, especially roads near coffee shops and restaurants, strewn with rubbish. It is such a gruesome sight.

     Last but not least, Malaysians have many bad habits when it comes to queuing up at counters. Just three days ago, I was at McDonald's with my friend to buy our lunch. After ordering, we waited at the side for our food. The lady after us was not that considerate. She just stood there after ordering her food, hogging up the queue, waiting for her food until the cashier had to tell her to wait at the side. Since there many people that day, a lot of us had to wait at the side at the same time. There wasn't much space but the lady waited beside us instead of behind us and kept grabbing her french fries when it was placed on her tray. Her bag kept bumping into me and my friend and I were literally pinned to the wall until our food came.

    It is people like this that causes foreigners to look down upon us. Day by day, our country is becoming such a discomfort to live in. Malaysia is such a beautiful country filled with multitudes of culture. Nowadays, is so hard to believe that Malaysia has an interesting and beautiful culture because of the behaviour and inconsiderate acts of most Malaysians. I hope that these people will change their ways so all of us can live in harmony and in peace.

Sincerly,
Frustrated and angered citizen.

Dinner at Rakuzen

Yesterday, I went to eat Japanese food at Rakuzen! My mum and I went with one of the school's students and their mum. Normally, my mum would not have the oppurtinity to go out with her friends as she only finishes work at 6.45 and by that time she is way too tired to do anyting else. But so happen yesterday she finished at 6.00 and she had a few cancellations in between. It was a nice change for me too as I don't have to be at the school for almost 10 hours listening to the students' horrible playing(not all, just some), the elephants(there is a ballet school upstairs. I can't comprehend how one so small can make so much noise with each step) dancing upstairs and the construction of a new church just across the street. Anyway, this particularly Rakuzen outlet was located at Hartamas Shopping Centre. We made reservations earlier as this restaurant is usually packed at lunch and dinner time. Despite that, we had to wait for 15 minutes before our table was ready. I have never heard of let alone been to Rakuzen before so I was a bit sceptical of the food served there but turns out they have a huge variety of Japanese food from tempura to soba and the food is sooooo good! We each ordered our own set and picked at each others' food. I ordered a grilled fish set. Two hours later, we were all stuffed from the delicious food. I would highly recommend going to this restaurant to eat. Eventhough it is a bit pricy, it is really worth it.

Entry for 16/4/12 to 22/4/12

Late entry again. Ha ha! Sorry Pn. Monica.:( Last week or rather last weekend was exceptionally busy for me. First of all, I went to FRIM last Saturday. This trip was organized by the school's Science and Maths society. To tell you the truth, that trip to FRIM was my first school trip and it was so much FUN...and tiring. We hiked for about 3 hours in the forest. Thankfully, we had a guide, Dino, to show us around FRIM. He told us amazing facts about FRIM and pointed out some of the plants there such as the Liana tree, 'Tembaga Suasa' or Crinum asiaticum, 'Jelutong' or Dyera costulata and Ficus or Ara tree. We also saw the giant fish or arapaima and apparently it comes when it hears clapping. While Dino was showing us all of this, I was busy taking pictures and writing(well, typing actually) notes as instructed by Pn. Lim, our teacher advisor because this trip is suppose to be educational and we have to hand in a report about it in two weeks time. The most exciting part of this trip was the canopy walk. I have this little fear of canopy walk because a long time ago, I went to Bukit Bendera with my cousins and when we were on the canopy walk, they jumped on it making it sway. Despite that, I went on it so I would spoil the trip for everyone. The person in charge told us to walk in groups of five. Our group was the last to go but I was the first one in the group to get on the canopy walk. At first it wasn't so bad, but when I reached the second part of it, the wind blew and it started to sway! I quickly walked to the next platform. Miraculously, I manage to brave through it all. We reached school about 1.50. I got off the bus and walked to the nearby park with my friends to do our project. We finished around 3.45 and I went back to the music school as I had choir practice. My legs started to hurt after that due to our long hike in FRIM. Ok, I finished talking about Saturday. Now, about yesterday. My legs were still hurting but it was not as bad as the day before. My mum and I got to the music school around 2.00 to make sandwiches before our last choir practice for our performance in Sunway Pyramid. We made sandwiches because there were small kids singing with us and we figured that they were going to get hungry sooner or later. Anyway, we had our practice then left for Sunway Pyramid around 6.30. My stepdad had to bring our electric piano there because the people organizing the event could not provide a piano.O.o We performed at 8. It was so nice and entertaining to see and hear the small kids sing. Their voices are so small and cute! Their parents took a lot of pictures and videos as this is the first time their kids performed with us. We had better microphones than the last performance so the audience could hear us sing. According to some, the sound was much better this time. I don't know, I couldn't really hear myself sing on stage. There were no speakers facing us. After the performance, we went to Aunty Anne's to eat pretzels! That's all for now.

Entry for 26/3/12 to 15/4/12

I haven't been posting my entries for two weeks now because of several reasons. Firstly, a week after the drain incident, I had wind in my stomach for a whole day and could not go to school on thursday. I was a bit worried that my class teacher might not accept my letter on a friday but she did so my name was not called during assembly on monday(*phew*). Then, just last week, I caught a cold right after school on tuesday. I skipped school the next day. I went to school on thursday thinking that I was well enough but I had to go home early as I was still coughing really badly that I could not breathe properly for a while. I think is because I was in the hall during the first period and it was quite stuffy in there. Anyway, one thing happened after another so that is why I was unable to post an entry for the past two weeks. In addition to not feeling well, I am also very stressed up due to our funds for our pages in Nostalgia. I am in charge of making friendship bracelets and I am also helping Susan with her beaded animals. The order forms for the bracelets were only distributed yesterday, about 2 weeks after I got the strings. So, I can't start making the bracelets because eventhough I have the strings, I do not have any orders yet and according to Yi Lin and Mun Yan, I do not have all of the colours to make the frinedship bracelets. Mun Yan went to buy the rest of the strings today. Hopefully, I will get all the colours by tomorrow. I am getting really worried whether or not I have enough time to finish making all of the friendship bracelets. Well, the good thing about this month is I get to look forward to my Science and Mathematics club's FRIM trip next Saturday followed by Perfect Pitch Choir's performance that very same night in Sunway Pyramid. I hope I  will be well enough then to attend the FRIM trip as well as sing for the choir. Wish me luck! It is going to be quite an eventful month!