2 more days...and 8 weeks worth of freedom from lectures will be over...
wonder how sem 4's gonna be like. oh wait, there's IMU cup, there's Campus Friends stuff, there's a summative in every 4 weeks, there're afternoon killer lectures and IMU is still having the all wonderful community clinic postings. my life will be changing from 10km/h to 180km/h.
Which reminds me, driving for the very first time in my life, without a license and with only ChiaMing by my side coaching me is a truely wonderful experience. Superbly exciting!! The thought of it now still excites me. And i navigated that turn out of guardhouse A! Not without ChiaMing hyperventilating by my side though. Should have let me drive some cheapo car rather than his BGA8000 Waja. Hmmm...didn't know the accelerator and brake pedals were so soft. A bit of leg pressure and you hit the bottom of the pedal, which is extremely dangerous, i should think. And the steering wheel...how come it was so hard to turn? But anyway, looking forward now to anyone who would offer up his car for me to drive. Got to be auto though. Until Lena lets me have a go at her 4612. Actually, why not I just go and get a driving license??
Friday, August 27, 2004
Tuesday, August 10, 2004
there's a problem with having holidays last too long. one has too much time to himself, ends up thinking too much. and it's never healthy to be left alone with only one's thoughts to accompany him. I always think thinking too much is a sin. you see...there goes another one of my useless thoughts. argh!
a quote from my dad: Many things look good from far, but are in fact far from good. I think I suit that description very well. always trying to appear good, the miss-know-it-all....argh! sometimes, i can't stand myself. must change. must learn how to keep my mouth shut. but you see, by changing my personality, I'm changing the real Aiky. which means I'm portraying what other people wants to see of Aiky, and not the real Aiky. but then again, it was my decision to make a change in my personality, so then the changed person will be the real Aiky. You see, this is what I meant by thinking too much. It's a dead-end. You never get out of your own thoughts. It is never edifying to oneself.
a quote from my dad: Many things look good from far, but are in fact far from good. I think I suit that description very well. always trying to appear good, the miss-know-it-all....argh! sometimes, i can't stand myself. must change. must learn how to keep my mouth shut. but you see, by changing my personality, I'm changing the real Aiky. which means I'm portraying what other people wants to see of Aiky, and not the real Aiky. but then again, it was my decision to make a change in my personality, so then the changed person will be the real Aiky. You see, this is what I meant by thinking too much. It's a dead-end. You never get out of your own thoughts. It is never edifying to oneself.
Monday, August 09, 2004
9 things I learnt from Taiwan...
1. The Taiwanese are a crazy bunch. They are so superbly generous and warm-hearted. The hospitality they showed...Me felt like I was from a royal family or something.
2. They eat any part of an animal's body. They have this jelly kinda thing, like tofu, made of pig's blood and starch. There're stalls selling this everywhere in Taiwan. Oh yea, and duck's blood too.
3. Why, oh why, are all Taiwanese girls so pretty, slim and fair?? seriously, pick any girl off the street and there's a 90% chance that she's a killer. Lawrie, Dexter and Jack were in heaven i think. It must be the gene pool in Taiwan...
4.There is, to my despair, NOT A SINGLE GOOD-LOOKING GUY in taiwan. or at least, i didn't notice any. there are many gaya ones though.
5. The people in Taiwan are more reckless drivers than KL!! It's crazy, the roads there. But funny thing is...it all seemed to be in an ORGANISED chaos. The drivers there all know what they are doing.
6. Chinese Medicine is not some kinda myth or bomoh kinda thing. There is a basis to it all. And the Chinese Med doctors there have to go through reallystrict exams and all to obtain their license. It's like the Western Med doctors here. Acupuncture is effective..at least the patients there tell me so. Oh and there's this method in Chinese Med to cleanse your body of toxins - 'letting go blood' (literal translation from Mandarin, fang4 xie3). It's where the doc pricks many tiny spots on a pt's back, then use a suction tube thing called ba1 guan4 to suck that part up. so under pressure, all the spots will start to bleed...profusely. And the blood is all really darkish red,which shows that you're excreting a lot of toxins in your blood. Weird...the lady doing it said she felt great after that...psychological effect?? But anyway, it's not really practised these days.
7. There must be close to a billion motorbikes in Taipei city...or at least it felt so. Pretty scary. Especially at a trafic light when it turns green. you'll see all the motorbikes suddenly riding off.
8. The tallest building in the world is now in Taiwan - Taipei 101. But it doesn't reallylook that tall and erm...i must say, not pretty at all. I will still stay true to KLCC. It has that majestic look that beats all other tall buildings flat.
9. In any streets of Taiwan, you will never fail to see these 2 shops - a 24-hour convenient store like 7-11, and a drink stall which sells all kinds of juices, & of course, all kinds of bubble tea with pearls.
I'm sick of meat...shall turn vegan.
1. The Taiwanese are a crazy bunch. They are so superbly generous and warm-hearted. The hospitality they showed...Me felt like I was from a royal family or something.
2. They eat any part of an animal's body. They have this jelly kinda thing, like tofu, made of pig's blood and starch. There're stalls selling this everywhere in Taiwan. Oh yea, and duck's blood too.
3. Why, oh why, are all Taiwanese girls so pretty, slim and fair?? seriously, pick any girl off the street and there's a 90% chance that she's a killer. Lawrie, Dexter and Jack were in heaven i think. It must be the gene pool in Taiwan...
4.There is, to my despair, NOT A SINGLE GOOD-LOOKING GUY in taiwan. or at least, i didn't notice any. there are many gaya ones though.
5. The people in Taiwan are more reckless drivers than KL!! It's crazy, the roads there. But funny thing is...it all seemed to be in an ORGANISED chaos. The drivers there all know what they are doing.
6. Chinese Medicine is not some kinda myth or bomoh kinda thing. There is a basis to it all. And the Chinese Med doctors there have to go through reallystrict exams and all to obtain their license. It's like the Western Med doctors here. Acupuncture is effective..at least the patients there tell me so. Oh and there's this method in Chinese Med to cleanse your body of toxins - 'letting go blood' (literal translation from Mandarin, fang4 xie3). It's where the doc pricks many tiny spots on a pt's back, then use a suction tube thing called ba1 guan4 to suck that part up. so under pressure, all the spots will start to bleed...profusely. And the blood is all really darkish red,which shows that you're excreting a lot of toxins in your blood. Weird...the lady doing it said she felt great after that...psychological effect?? But anyway, it's not really practised these days.
7. There must be close to a billion motorbikes in Taipei city...or at least it felt so. Pretty scary. Especially at a trafic light when it turns green. you'll see all the motorbikes suddenly riding off.
8. The tallest building in the world is now in Taiwan - Taipei 101. But it doesn't reallylook that tall and erm...i must say, not pretty at all. I will still stay true to KLCC. It has that majestic look that beats all other tall buildings flat.
9. In any streets of Taiwan, you will never fail to see these 2 shops - a 24-hour convenient store like 7-11, and a drink stall which sells all kinds of juices, & of course, all kinds of bubble tea with pearls.
I'm sick of meat...shall turn vegan.
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