Day Trip

On impulse yesterday during lunch I texted my mom if I could go home for lunch today since it’s a public holiday and I have absolutely nothing better to do here in Kampar and to my delight she agreed easily to that and also to me bringing along two friends!

I really like bringing my Uni friends to our hometown. I feel so proud being the tour guide when driving them around and introducing them to the places’ history and whatever stories I can remember.

Today would be my third time bringing them back with me and by far is the most successful trip, in my opinion. There were only two of them this round, Chingoo and her old high school buddy. The two of them are really laid back people, really chinchai and sui bian so things were really easy to be settled.

We left early in the morning to reach around 11am then hung around in my house then went out to lunch!

Lunch was so awesome I don’t even….

The previous two trips I had wanted to bring them to Bei King Restaurant but on both occasions they were closed to cater to wedding dinners. I remember getting so pissed and my friends were disappointed because I rambled quite a bit about how awesome the food there was.

But this time…bwahahahahaha

SUCCESS!!!! /ala Dexter/

They enjoyed their lunch so much and were so stuffed afterwards. It was next to impossible for me to hide my smug face and grin seeing them enjoying the food. I was so proud it was as though I just saved the world or something haha!!

Then we headed to Aeon, which is like the ‘hang out’ place now in our not-so-little town. As predicted, we spent the most time in Daiso and the book store.

The highlight of the day would be the beach. The two of them really love the beach so I’d be pretty guilty if I didn’t bring them to Marina (Teluk Batik no way man..lol so dirty there omg).

And I never knew that place could be so scenic!!! Like seriously!! Maybe because I’ve always went at night or in the evenings during the low tide so I never saw the high tide and how beautiful the turquoise water was. The sun was partially hidden behind thin clouds and there weren’t many people around causing the place to be quiet and peaceful just the way I like places to be.

i am so happy about these pictures :) they turned out well!! haha yes a bit edited but in my defence i only clicked on "auto contrast" hehe 

p/s: right click, open link in new tab to see full size :D

We left after about 20 minutes or so because the sun was fully out and it got really sunny and hot.

We went back home to chill for a while before departing for Kampar and now I’m back in me dorm, waiting for tomorrow to come so that I can go home again haha!!

As Lately As Today

I know I really don’t have to but I feel that I am obliged to do at least a short explanation as to why I disappeared for almost two weeks after the new years and came back with a rather ambiguous post and then another one of a depressing song, I Dreamed a Dream.

Depressing, the word that has flowed out from my mouth more often in these few weeks compared to my whole life, is the most perfect word to describe my current situation. Why you may ask? Well, it is rather simple. Results were released around the 10^th of this month and I did very, very badly. The worst set of grades I have gotten in my entire academic life (I’m serious).

And what have those grades done to my grade point average? With 2C+s and an F, I fell below the minimal requirement of 2.0000 and am unable to repeat the failed subject this semester like I originally intended to. So that has caused me to have accumulated an extra subject to be brought forward to the following semester, which would be my last before I go for internship and then graduate directly after.

Because of that subject, I would have to take a total of seven subjects next semester if I want to graduate on time/as planned but one of my lecturers that I’m quite close with advised me to not do that because it would be very, very heavy. So, after much consideration I have decided to stick to her advice.

Meaning to say I will not be graduating along with my other friends and this is just depressing. Like seriously, so depressing. Because think about this in practical terms, when they’re having their convocation, I will be interning and when it’s my convocation, they would probably be busy working and won’t be able to make it.

So yes, the thought of not being able to graduate on time and the thought of not being able to be at my friends’ graduation and also the thought of me having to graduate alone without them sort of put me into an emo period or a mini depression (yes I know depression sounds so serious but I’m not kidding).

On the day the results were released, I didn’t really feel it but the next day after letting it sink it fully, I fell into the emo period. I lost that zest for life or whatever is it that you call it. I lost all motivation, I lost that spark, that glint in my eyes when I’m up to mischief or when I see anything I like. I just lost it. I would just sit there in front of my computer and just stare at the screen but do nothing. I literally glued my butt to the seat in front of my computer and just sit there and do nothing the whole day.

It didn’t end when the semester started. In fact, it got a whole lot worse and it went from “emo period” to “mini depression”. At the start of every semester we would have our “add drop week” where we can add and/or drop any subjects from our time table. I had initially planned to retake that failed subject now but I found out on the first day of add/drop that my credit hours got limited by the school so there is no way I can and thus the whole “lecturer gave me advise, me listening to the advise, so not taking 7 subs in a sem” situation came along.

The moment I knew my credit hours got limited; it was like all hope was lost. There was no way I’ll be graduating on time after years of toiling in this hot and barren land. I was going to graduate alone because the only person who shared the same fate as mine refuse to give up and wants to go down fighting by taking 7 subs.

That was what had happened, at least that is the rough idea. So now you guys know why I Dreamed a Dream is currently my life’s theme song because I’m just like Fantine, trapped in a bottomless pit of despair and there’s no way of me being able to climb back out.

But….having said all that…

Turns out that friend of mine thought things through and has decided to stay back with me and extend a semester. I’m still not very happy with the whole extending business but hey, at least it won’t be so bad with a good friend by your side.

I dreamed a dream and in that dream I graduated on time and with my friends.

Life has killed the dream I dreamed.

I Dreamed a Dream

Personally, I have never heard this song before. From the time Susan Boyle surprised the entire British Got Talent audience that day to when she shot up to fame, I have never heard this song before. Well one of the reasons would be that I have not really heard of Les Miserables. The most I’ve come across it was in “Totally Spies” where in an episode in the first season, Sam and Clover were fighting over the role of Cosette for their school play.

I am not very well literate in big Broadway productions and in musicals in general. The only reason I was so adamant on watching Les Miserables the movie was because of Anne Hathaway….and also Kristie said it was really good.

So according to Kristie, I take it as she has heard this song prior watching the movie, “in that scene you really understand what it means ‘I Dreamed a Dream’”.

And I couldn’t agree more.

*Warning: spoilers ahead. Proceed with discretion*

This song is about Fantine, a character in the story who was impregnated by some rich brat who left her to raise a daughter (Cosette) alone. She left her daughter in the care of two worthless innkeepers while she went to work in a factory and sent all her earnings to them to support Cosette.

However, she got fired. (I still don’t get why she got fired but nevermind..moving on…) In desperation to cloth and feed her daughter, she cut her hair and sold them. When she ran out of options, she became a prostitute, one who is both ill and unstable.

In the movie, the song starts slightly after her first “customer” was done with her. Sitting alone in a cold and dark room she began to reminisce about the time where men were kind and gentle and slowly moved to the time when it all went wrong. Fantine had a dream of how her life would turn out to be, instead of the one she was currently in.

In her grief and desperation, it’s difficult to miss the meaning of the song. Anne Hathaway did a brilliant job in portraying Fantine and also she nailed that song. Fantine was merely, just a simple person, a mother who wishes the best for her child and works hard in order to do so. She would’ve turned out fine if there weren’t the wrong people around her at the wrong time. She wouldn’t have suffered the way she did for her daughter. She wouldn’t have died believing her daughter was with her when Cosette was really away in an inn being bossed around by two thieving innkeepers. She would’ve lived and kept her pride.

This song seems to be my life's theme song at the moment haha! except for the part where..you know..the guy slept with her and left her...haha!

Sadness beyond words

as usual, please read from bottom to top. thank you

finished? rights..this is just depressing ya know..just..depressing

New Tracks

Ayo!!

Girl's Generation just released their 4th studio album, I Got A Boy, yesterday and I, the whipped fan that I am, listened to the entire thing already and gotta hand it to them, it was aca-awesome!!! (yes i just had to put 'aca' there XD)

i picked out a few tracks from that album which i think you will enjoy listening to =]

1. Dancing Queen

this song is a remake of Duffy's Mercy for those who find this very familiar. this MV was actually shot in 2008 but was never released due to copyright issues so they did Gee instead

2. Baby Maybe

i really like this track. it's very light and fresh and not to mention one of my fav ang moh singer, Pixie Lott, was involved in the composing of this track and i really can feel that Pixie Lott vibe when listening to it haha

3. Promise

can't find the lyrics yet, it's new and all. but i really do love this track a lot!!

4. Lost in Love

ohohohoho!! the duet that all TaeNy fans have been waiting for since Lady Marmalade, this is a beautiful ballad sung by Taeyeon and Tiffany about two lovers separating. man it's so beautiful i swear i cried. easily my fav ballad EVER. =]

5. Romantic St.

THIS.

the track which i love most in the whole freaking album, even more than Lost In Love.

this track is light, fluffy, a bit retro and is just so..so....light? lol 

it gives off that "sha la la" feel if you get what i mean..XD

honestly, this song is completely my style

that is all from yours truly =] hope these tracks will be the new additions to your playlist.

Cheers!!

HNY

hey hey hey hey!

Ms Procrastinator here would like to wish all my readers a very happy new year and wishing all of you that may 2013 be better than 2012 :D

And also, I would like to congratulate all of us for surviving that supposed "end of the world"

CHEERS!!! YAM SENG!!

Here's to us 'surviving' and also to the new year!

I heard this on the radio yesterday, the DJ was talking about New Year resolutions and said that the best resolution is not to make any resolutions at all. i am in totally agreement with it since..ya know..we don't really accomplish all the resolutions we usually make so why make them in the first place right?

but still, i came up with one or two (during the process of typing this lol)

1. .........procrastinate less? not a very workable resolution but i can give it a go. i'll be starting my final year project soon and i can't be wasting my time away like i did in the last 3 years

2. ....at least be a bit more active, not like there's no pool for me to swim in Kampar anyway, i just need to find a kaki to go with me, a kaki that know how to swim that is. i really don't like babysitting people in the pool. can't swim in peace because of the constant worry of them drowning /choi touchwood/

so what are yours? =]