My November

Well, here I am, on the last day of November. It's been three months since my first day in university.
It has been two hours since I depart from Penang, and I'm still on the road.
There is so much different between the last time I wrote something on the road and today.

So what's going on so far?

I've organized a ghost house event together with my collage friends and it's a successful event although we had some problems with the JKPS seniors. We have been through a lot together.

How did we come up with this? Well, it's actually an idea of three girls from my collage, and they asked us whether we would like to help. We all agreed to help and we had a meeting. I was well, kinda elected as the Vice President of this event.

Things get nasty when I went back Penang in a random weekend. I received a phone call and was told that I'm the director of the event.

So we had meetings, some arguments, some trouble from the JKPS and of course, some fun time together and finally we were there, the ending point of this journey.

Somehow I'm really tired, but I've managed to survived this, and I'm glad I did, and also happy to be a part of the team.

Here are some photos taken during the last few days of the event.

Was doing preparation, covering up the open space.

My zombie make-up time!

Tadaa! a mini scar in my face ;)

A Man of Freedom

So my one week holiday is going to end soon, and I have to go back to UUM.
I'm so reluctant and I don't feel like going back.

My best friend Hean Tee asked me why, well, that's a good question.

First, you have to know the life in UUM. Well, there's curfew in my university, lights off after twelve. Although the authorities seldom check on us, but you feel guilty if you are not in your room after twelve. Even though you are not afraid of that and think that the school is busy enough to leave us alone, where can you go without a car? There is no entertainment within 10 Kilometers radius after twelve around you, and the nearest cinema is 45 minutes drive away from your hostel!

Dear authorities, I'm a man of freedom, in the age of twenty, I've been to 16 countries over three continents.  TEN countries and TWENTY ONE cities over two continents on 2013 itself.  No one gets to stop me where I want to go and I'm able to go alone. Culture different is not a problem and I have no problem walking alone in a country where they don't even share a common language that I know. I've met pickpockets, robber, scammers, poor, wealthy, nice guy and all different kinds of people and situations, and I manage to survive them all without a problem.

I couldn't say that I'm the best and I'm always right because I'm not perfect, but I believe that I've seen more then the others in the age of twenty and that's not the way to treat a mature guy by locking a freeman in a cage.

This is not how a university life should be, this is not how I imagine my life would become.

游子归家

虽然我在大学里生活了一个月半，回槟城却多达四次，这非一般的数目，相信在大学里没几个人比得上。
即使如此，今天在回家之前，我还得为亲爱的槟城写上一篇。

咱们这21世纪的Y世代，踏上升学这段漫长的路不算稀奇，留学他乡的有的远至英美国家，一年都不知能回乡几次，农历新年也只能与异乡同胞吃上一顿，Skype回家说上几句。
而我的情况比他们好多了，大学就离家乡区区两小时车程，每一个星期都会有两三趟巴士从校园出发，回家路程就象进电影院看上一部戏。不过每次说到回家，我心里总是会有一份莫名的兴奋感；回家，让人联想到那张温软的床，那干净舒适的私人厕所，餐桌上那热腾腾的家乡饭。回家，你能不兴奋吗?

当大家陆陆续续离开大学，当大家忙着整理行李，当课室走廊外空无一人，你知道你离你的家不远了；上课时想着回家要做的事情，谈话时想着在家乡的老友们，收拾时想着回家要带来的东西，上车时想着踏入自己家里的感觉。

那两个小时的车程，游子们不断地查看定位系统，不断地寻找路牌，不断地告诉自己，我离家很近了！

我亲爱的槟城！那漂亮的海峡，那繁华的岛屿，在标志性的渡轮里，看见了迎面而来的大厦，黄昏时分，夕阳下的槟城更显得特别壮丽，这时，脑里狂欢着，心里尖叫着，我告诉自己，我到家了！

槟城，我爱你！

My Weekends

Instead of staying in UUM, I usually spend my weekends in Penang. This is just the second months I'm here, but I had went back Penang for more then three times. Well, It's not because that I'm home sick, I just feel like going home and have a break from all those activities and get myself ready for the coming week.

Well, my grandfather was admitted into hospital not long ago. This is one of the reason I went back often. I was so worried, but he is getting better by now.

So, I was just on time for two big thing this week! my dad's new Accord have finally arrived and it's my grandmother's birthday! Oh boy! it's almost five years since my dad last bought a new car, I'm so excited with it because I'm allowed to drive it! Look at this beauty!

Celebrated my grandmother's birthday that night. Although it's just a simple celebration, but I wish that you like it :)

YiLynn's birthday

So I was suppose to blog about her birthday last week, but unfortunately I left all the photos back in Penang. We, the TL gang celebrated YiLynn's bday on the 16th of September, five days earlier because I couldn't make it on the 21st of Sept. Sorry Lynn, I really wish that I can be there during your birthday.

Anyway, I booked the restaurant a day earlier before the celebration. Guess what, this is the second birthday celebration at 32 at the mansion. A great place indeed for birthday celebration and fine dining.

well, we had a great time together, updating each other about our university life and oh yea, Hean Tee is joining me in UUM!

32 at the mansion is a nice place, but too bad, Hean Tee double dated again and I have to drop him at Abu to join his friends so we left in a hurry and didn't managed to take more photos in this beautiful place. Hean Tee, do you have to do this always??#

7.9 a Life as a Student

Well, my IT lecturer wanted us to upload a lyric of a favourite song and I have to make this post relevent to what I want to blog for myself, anyhow, It's cool that I attended an underground music society few days ago and I'm going to blog about it now.

7.9 (in Mandarin) is an underground society in UUM. It's where a group of Chinese students gather during the evening to play music and sing songs together. I was introduced to this group by my senior and I'm really interested.

Attended the first gathering and I love the feeling of it. some of the seniors played guitar and electric piano and the rest of us singing the song played together. It's really relaxing and maybe because of the song and lyric, I feel the sense of belonging and this is how a university student's life should be like.

My University Life in UUM

So I'm finally back!

This is my third week in university, I wanted to update my blog badly but well, there's always an activity going on!

 

How was my orientation week?

I'm glad to say that I survived! Two hours of sleep everyday and our orientation last for one week! UGH! UUM is not the only university having this kind of crazy orientation week, well, although we (the UTBs) are all apart, but we managed to stay in contact using wechat. For what I know from the others, all of them are having the same crazy orientation week like I do. WHY Malaysian university have this kind of tradition? It's so torturing! All those talks and workshops! I was named the fishing king by my new friends because I was always sleeping during the talks. And one more thing, the toilet is really dirty during the orientation week, I think the janitors are still in their holiday, cockroaches and toads everywhere in the toilet and corridor! GOD! Imaging you are having a bath together with a toad in the middle of the night!

 

My DPP.



My bed room in DPP TM

So we call our hostel DPP and I stay in DPP TM (I think TM sponsored or funded this hostel). I was given 3 hours to clean up my room when I first arrived in UUM. My roommate, Hong Wai was there first, so he get to choose which side of the room he want so sleep in. Good for him, I got the side which the outsider can look into my bed and study desk whenever the door is opened. It's really dusty and I have to clean my side of the room, but luckily the furniture are all new and my bed sheet matches the colour of the furniture very well.