Okay, forget about the New Year resolution thing for 2007. I've got a better idea. XD

 

Here's my New Year motto.

 

To have...

 

Peace enough to pass all understanding

Hope enough to keep my heart looking forward

Strength enough to battle obstacles and overcome them

Commitment enough to not give up too soon

Faith enough to please God

Fun enough to enjoy every aspect of life

Patience enough to let faith complete its work in me

Love enough to give to those who deserve it the least but need it the most

Focus enough to often say no to good ideas

Forgiveness enough to never let the sun go down on my wrath

Honesty enough to never have to remember what I said

Character enough to do in the light what I would do in the dark

Gratitude enough to say "thank you" for the small things

Purpose enough to know why and not just how

Perseverance enough to run the entire race that is set before me

Wisdom enough to fear God and obey Him

Responsibility enough to be the most dependable person I know

Confidence enough to know that God and I make a majority

Kindness enough to share what you have and who you meet with others

Mercy enough to forgive and forget

Devotion enough to do the right things on a daily basis

Courage enough to face and fight any opposition to what I know is right

Optimism enough to know that God's plans are blessed

Trust enough to know that God will direct my steps

Expectancy enough to be on the lookout for miracles

Enthusiasm enough to show that God is in me

Obedience enough to do what is right without thinking twice

Direction enough to know when and where to go

Knowledge enough to keep my mind continually renewed

Credibility enough to cause others to want to work with me

Generosity enough to give before being asked

Compassion enough to be moved by the needs of others

Loyalty enough to be committed to others

                       and

 

 

Loooong list aye? But I once read that without trials and thorns and whatnot, you'll never grow. And growing is no easy matter. But, a new year, a new hope, a new resolve. I shall!

 

And a HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE!

So finally, my results are out and last year’s New Year resolution # 10 can be assessed. In fact, I didn’t do this entry earlier for precisely that reason. Anyway, wanna see how far I made it? Here goes.

#1 Study hard(er) ß Definitely! I never thought that I’d become a junior version of my brother, but I did this year. It’s addictive, lemme warn you first. Hiak hiak.

#2 Set my priorities straight ß Hmm…let’s see…I thought my priorities were always okay? If not, I’m somewhere on the track anyway, so I’ll just give this one a tick. XP

#3 Grow spiritually as well as physically (lol, taller, I hope) ß I know I have for the former, but for the latter…*sigh*

#4 Not be that affected by peer pressure ß Well, I can’t say much, but I do know that Amy doesn’t apply peer pressure because she appreciates my own style. She made life much easier for me. XP Thanks!

#5 Increase my common sense. ß I think I have…But people usually call that pessimism. Hehe. It’s realism lah!

#6 Be a nicer person ß Ahem. Not my place to comment, hehe. I know Eddie would probably object. XP

#7 Memorize a Chinese and BM essay each and every month (resorting to desperate measures) ß Okay, this one I failed flat-out. But I hand-copied plenty of essays to make up for it. Hahaha.

#8 Forget about xia-soi-ing myself and just have fun ß I definitely improved, but I don’t know to what extent. Perhaps not yet to the degree that I can commend myself on. But with your support, I’ll become a better person! Muehehehe.

#9 Celebrate my birthday by getting at least one best subject on that day. My birthday falls in the middle of the semester exams. ß This I did! I got highest for History, which fell on my birthday. ;p Yeap, this loco still remembers what subject fell on her birthday. Hey, I commemorated it in my journal marh!

#10 Hold my head up high even if I don't ace for the PMR. ßThis I'll never find out, because I didn't not ace my PMR. XD All glory and praise to God! I was praying and having quiet time instead of studying during D-week, so you DO know what to attribute my PMR results to.

 

SO overall, I think I fared okay. Let's just say next year's list is already on the way. XP

 

 

All good things had to come to an end. We went home, exchanged hugs, kisses, email adds, contact numbers, heart-prints, lip-prints....Lol. Not that desperate larh.

 

Anyway, the bus service wasn't that great. We expected to start from Port Dickson at 2pm and reach Kluang at 5pm. Let'st just cut the long story short and say that we started about 5:30pm and reached home about 10:30pm.

 

Of course you can't just go from Kluang straight up to KL with tonnes of dirty laundry from camp and such. We stayed another day, washed and dried the clothes, and packed up. I guess Grandma was sad to see us go. She gets pretty lonely there by herself.

 

So, KL here we come! No big deal. The very first day we set our feet on that promised land, we got stuck in a traffic jam. That despicable word is on my top ten list of hated words. Yeap, we went there by bus. And stayed in my aunt's house in Subang Jaya the whole 5 or 6 days. It was good to have a KL guide to bring us to all the hot 'n happening places. Oh and before I forget, I'd like to list down all the people I happened to meet during my stay over-the-sea.

 

Unc. George Chong

Unc. Nilus Phang and his wife

Phoebe Law and her relatives

 

Esther Ling

Achang

James N

Lillian

David Ling

Claire Chang

Isaac <s>Newton</s> Lawai

Unc Cheli, Aunty May and their son, Caleb (I think)

 

Unc Matthew Wong, Aunty Jenny and Anne

Pn Sabiah (my dad's ex-collegue)

 

*drumroll* Madam Helen Teo, her hubby and Emmanuel! (Now I think there must be some significance in this opportune meeting. Even when I'm far away from my Add Math workbook, someone pops up to remind me of school. Get the hint?)

 

I don't usually call kids cute, but Emmanuel is too cute to be true. He's only 10 months old and he looks as sweet as his mum.

 

So you see, my holiday was more of a reunion than anything - with Kuchingnites. Is God trying to tell me something? XD

 

About shopping, all I can say is I'm really glad for all those months of running up and down school corridors, because on average, we walked 5 km everyday in the KL shopping malls. And more often than not, ended up with only one or two things. *sigh* Picky me, remember?

 

I even went to MidValley Megamall, walked through one whole wing and found nothing that I liked there. In the end, we came back to Carrefour, and bought a pair of sandals. Guess how far Carrefour is from Subang Jaya? Right. You get the idea.

 

In the end, I ended up buying the most clothes from Jaya Jusco in One Utama. Like you care, lol. Nevermind, I'm satisfied enough to abstain from all shopping within a one-year span of time. Never really liked shopping anyway, and shopping without a PURPOSE is the worst. Waste of time when I can be studying or improving myself. XD

 

Other than clothes, books got a lot of attention too. My dad even bought a book on Physics! It's really interesting, and I feel smarter already. XP

 

Enough on shopping and KL. Tommorow's Christmas! Hehe.

 

 

 

 

Famous excerpts from Ps Victor :

 

Okay, here I have some porno for you. Uh, not porno, it's porNO! (handing us a little something to keep us away from internet pornography)

 

Let's just say you take this girl out to Mid Valley Megamall. Take her to Starbucks, drink coffee. Ah wait, Starbucks is out of date already. Take her to...(some posh restaurant, I forgot the name).You can't expect the girl to pay, so you must pay lor. Even if you fast and she eats, at least RM 50. OKay, this one, you use the credit card to pay. The credit card, wah, got a NAME on it somemore. Whose name? Your DAD's. After lunch, of course you cannot go straight back home, so cheapskate ar you? Okay lah, bring her for a movie. A movie would cost about RM 10. And for two people, RM 20. Can't just buy ticket only, have to buy popcorn and drinks too. RM 29 lah altogether. Whose money? Your dad's money. And the car and the petrol fees, also your dad's money. XD  (expounding on the fact that we do not have the financial ability to date yet)

 

Let me tell you, girls, find a guy who would go and ask his parents whether he can date you or not. After that, let him ask your parents whether he has the permission to date you. Like that, you can both date with your parents' blessing.

 

Let me tell you, it was the ONLY time I ever felt....LIKE A GIRL! ( describing one of his most embarrassing moments, when his bra slipped off during a play)

 

You want to know what a kiss feels like? Just take a slab of meat, dip it in water, and piak, smack it to your lips. Yeah, just like that! Romantic arh? (describing his first kiss [the girl kissed him against his will], also included in embarrassing moments)

 

 

These are just some of what he said. As you can see, we didn't lack any entertainment at all. XD

 

Part Three coming up next.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I just LOVE learning about my personality! I'm obsessed... XD

 

Besides that yeah, left-right brain thingy I was sooou preoccupied about just a few months ago, I enjoyed researching about the influence of birth order. Then recently, I found out that there's such a thing as the four temperaments, and I'm passionate about reading up now!

 

And about the genes, LOL, I just talk to my parents and voila, all the info at the tip of my fingers. XP Don't even have to talk to them lah, just observe them enough liao.

 

Back to the topic, the four temperaments : Choleric, Sanguine, Melancholic and Phlegmatic. Now I understand why I'm so weird, hehe. Because I'm a mixture of....I'll just keep you guessing, hehe.

 

Not good to membuka pekung di dada, like my brother said.

 

Learning about myself really helps me in learning to connect with different sorts of people, so don't say my passion is misplaced. If you want to, I could go back being passionate about shopping for reference books in KL. Now THAT's what you'd deem um....masochism. XD

 

And there's such a thing as the Myers-Briggs personality what-not, so I'll just go back and enjoy my journey on self-discovery. I'm lovin' it!

Dear W.I.L.O.T. (whoever is listening out there)

 

To my utmost disappointment, certain people have been compulsively lying to me. It's not so much of the lying that's disappointing, it's more like, oh, so here's another one I shouldn't have trusted soooou soon and well, I did. Now that's disappointing. To me.

 

Here's something for them : Really, guys, if you had to lie? Lie a little smarter. Don't let me find out. Or seriously, if you're really that smart (I don't know but I think these [sick] people get a kick out of acting), tell the truth. And there's nothing wrong with saying "I don't want to answer" if you don't want to. So hard mer? Did you really have to weave a tangled web of deceit until you get trapped in your own words? Somehow, the truth has a way of popping up through discrepancies in lies. Even MORONS know when two things said don't tally k?

 

Trust is an integral part of any relationship. I usually trust a person when I meet them for the first time, but if anything threatens that trust, then it has to be built up slowly again over time. Common sense. I open up my heart to you, and you stab it in return? Who wants to get hurt again? And I won't know if anything else you say in the future has any value, because if you can lie between your teeth like there's nothing to it, how much can I trust you?

 

You don't have to answer that question. It's rhetorical. You know who you are. I don't hate you, but I'm not sure if I love you either now. Yeah, like Rachelle said, friends don't set friends on fire. Or perhaps, friends don't lie to each other would be more appropriate.

 

Signing off,

A disappointed soul.

Its shadow blocked out the moonlight shining through the attic window. I tried to suppress a scream as I cowered behind a shelf in an obscure, dark corner. Sweat ran down my brow like blood and my heart pounded ever so loudly, threatening to give me away. I was trapped. In desperation, I berated myself for heading towards the attic, straight into my would-be grave.

 

That odorous stench was getting more overwhelming by the second. I held my breath and curled myself into a tight little ball, wondering if one could suffocate by holding one's breath. This was not the time to think such thoughts, I chided myself. Running from it, there was no chance of getting a good look, but I knew that those numerous, bulbous, liquid-like eyes would forever stay etched in my memory, if I lived to tell the story, that is.

 

It was still searching for me. I silently willed the seconds to pass by faster as I shuffled my cramped body into another position. Fate wasn't on my side. My foot found a loose plank.

 

The noise that reverberated around me was the last thing I heard. The creature was on me in a second, and I finally realized what it was as its jaws closed over my head : The Log Ness Monster. As I breathed my last, I thought, "KM knows, he knows what happened to me. I warned him already."

 

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Compliments to Kong Min who inspired this story. XD   Get 'im for me, won't you?