Recent Uni Life update

First thing to say, the computer system in UTAR is so "state-of-the-art".
They totally can drive me nut when it had to restart all over and over again.

Second point, I parked my car a thousand mile away from the campus these days. It's not a good thing to wake up earlier than birds at 5am. And it has been terrible a experience to start driving from 5.30am along the roads which don't have street lights at all. In another case, if I start driving when the sun rises, I would be facing the massive traffic congestion at Batu11, Batu 9 (severe), Connaught Highway, Midvalley (insane) and lastly the Federal Highway. So, life has been hard these days.

Thirdly, for sure I met new friends in university. The stupid "Introduce Yourself" session was time wasting and I think everyone hates it so much. However, via introducing ourselves, I found that there's a lot of guys selecting Actuarial Science as their degree in the coming years, and there's only 2 girls, including me. Some boys are smart, and I think I'm chicken. Their English is good, proficient, fluent and I don't feel confident in myself to study with these genius in the next 3 years.

Lastly, I have no money to buy books. And do university students do notes? I'm saw some of them doing notes so hard just as my old friends who did amazing job on their notes with a lot of colors and so-what-systems.
So, anyone can answer me?

My students

It's so bad to say that I only teach cute children. Who's not cute enough has to pay extra fees. Ha ha ha...

But basically, all the kids are adorable.

We not only learn music in class, there are still a lot of teaching like

• Which is your left and and which is you right hand?
• Who is boy and who is girl (This is totally insane)
• What's that color.
• Basic movement like grabbing ball, jumping, turning round ... etc
• cooperation and interaction with each other.

Sometimes I give chances to my students to teach each other. I'm glad that they are not shy at all in anything, just anything and this characteristic made the lesson more fun. 

To be honest, I prefer teaching kids range from 4 years old to 7 years old. They can get what you mean incredibly fast just like a sponge absorbing water. For them, playing games while learning is the best part. Sometimes, they are so easy to be motivated by little rewards such as stickers, erasers, pencil and so on. These little rewards are so powerful to attract them to play well and most important, keep quiet.(They are noisy, you know) But I don't reward them much as they will not appreciated it so much later. 

I enjoy teaching them so much. =D 

motivation quotes

"Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward" ---Victor Kiam

" Expect problems and eat them for breakfast" ---Alfred A.

I only know how to sing the Last Sentence

Finally I know what "Mass Call" is and how guilty I am for attending this activity today. It's totally time wasting!
Okay, let's talk about the school song of UTAR.
We have to pretend we know singing UTAR Song in front of the Dato in the official ceremony. Everyone's standing and blocking my vision in the same time. I can't see the words on the screen displayed. So what I did was just mumbling... until the last sentence, this is the word only I can sing it clearly :"UTAR~~~~~~~~~" ... yup.... made it long.
It was so funny to do that.

But it's a little bit, just a little bit worth attending.
Let me give some good points I did remembered from their speech. (I don't usually listen to speech, it's depends on my mood)

"Be a problem solver, not a problem creator"

"What made you smart doesn't really made you a wise person"

"When a girl said nothing, IT MEANS SOMETHING"

Well, I love the third. I'm a girl too. It's REAL.




After sitting too much in the hall, I went exercise in Mid Valley. This was the first time I drove to Mid Valley. Yes, by myself and I'm kinda proud of myself. It was so lucky that I didn't turn into the wrong way. Otherwise I will not writing blog now.

It has been a long time I didn't came here, it does changed a lot. MPH bookstore was gone and being replaced by UNIQLO. There's Forever 21 and Sticky coming soon while Mango and Zara shops are renewed.

I'm so lucky to meet a load of mickeys in Mid Valley today. They really made the shopping mall colorful. And yet, I'm extremely fortunate to pass by UNIQLO and I found that there is a BIG sale . So, thrifting was my best job. In the end, I'm proud to say that I bought myself a RM40 shirts by RM20 using my hard-earn money. It's the first time I buy myself a shirt. (Usually I wore free shirts from Padini which I have priority to take it as free). *secret*

Sharing some financial education I read in Borders today.

"Money is not everything in life, but it affects everything important in life"  

Yes, everything important such as cars, education, places to live, food and health need money.

"Everyone's facing financial problem"

The poor:" I don't have enough money"
The rich:" I have too much money, how can I invest?"
For sure I prefer the rich's problem. But what I can do now for my 18 is get myself survive in the Money Game.

Have a nice day. Good luck.

Utarians' Orientation

I'm home today! Yeah. Just because today's the ice breaking day which I'm not registered.
Okay, let's talk about yesterday.
Everything seems good except the hall.
The hall is a half smaller than Yu Hua's hall. And there's 500 new candidates being squeezed like tuna in it. Feel  very uncomfortable.
Yup, I did make friends. There's a Sabah cute guy who called "Mak" which means "mama" in Malay.
And then I met Yu Hua's friends there. I think there's quite lot of Yu Hua graduates there. Around 13 or 14, maybe.
Unfortunately, I met a mean girl who's in my February group. Yes, we are divided based on our birthday month. This girl really made my university life a great start, which starting deal with this type of annoying and mean people. And finally, I did great job cooperating with her by keeping silent for 2 hour. She don't accept other's idea and just saying bad words about it. I forgive her, I'm good.
That was a good and tiring day.
Great.

Saturday Night

I should be so busy at this time. 

But I just want to have the last time for some relaxing before the school open.

My schedule would be FULL, after tomorrow, and life would be colorful.

I'm excited. I think it will not be a good sleep tonight. 

I love busy life. 

I work hard, play hard. 

So, wish me good luck tomorrow. =D 

Let's set the fire! Yoooo~

Visiting Teacher

Yesterday I drove to Yu Hua and wished my previous teachers a Happy Teacher's Day.
Unfortunately, I only met Mr.Ng and Miss Yong that day. We chatted a while, great each others and update with our current life.

Miss Yong just asked me why do I came myself and don't bring Jolie along. Ha ha ha... she looked sorrow when she said this. But I explain to her that Jolie was already off the Nilai.So, finally I exchange phone number with Miss Yong and left with a great gift in my hand from her. She's sweet.

I'm kinda disappointed that Puan.Ean and Puan.Tan weren't there yesterday. I just miss them so hard and I believe I have a lot of thing to chat with them if I met them. So, I just put the thank you notes on their table and left as I still have some errands to run to. Hope it wouldn't blown away by the strong wind in Kajang. =.=

After meeting school teachers, I bought a Coca-cola from Seven-Eleven then flew to Excel.
Mr Phoon didn't changed, same clothes, same belt, same shoes.
I'm so glad that he still remember me, and he's glad that I remember he loves Cola. He just said:" oho~ cola arh, thank you arh, where you study now? ..... .... etc"

Oh this has been a sweet day. I feel so lucky to be theirs student. Love ya teachers.

Happy Teachers' Day

Today is the very first teachers' day for me as a piano teacher.
It feels so weird that there is a special day for my first job. @.@ Just, get so strange with it.
No gifts.
No surprise.
But wishes. I'm so grateful for what I had done for my job.
It started with fear of talking to the parents, difficulty in handle a class and children... to today's 6 private students I owned. Thanks to everyone who helped me and give me support whenever I fell.
I really enjoy my job.

I will go to my secondary school tomorrow and meet my previous teacher. Just because I miss them so much.
And so, wish my friends who is a "double" teacher a Happy Teachers's Day too.
 Good luck.

Happy Mother's Day Special Event =.=

Yup, this is my sister, 17.

Basically, she haven't wore skirts for about 12 years since she know that boy should wear pants and girl should wear skirts.

Usually, she is a tomboy who will be stopped from entering a female toilet by a toilet cleaner. And yup, everyone saw her at the very first time just assumed that she's a boy.

And my mum was wishing desperately that she can wear a dress one day and go out and walk like a lady. (not a boss, okay) 

So, in conjunction with the Mother's Day, my sister decided to sacrifice her appearance by putting on these dress borrowed from my mum (as my mum no longer fit this skirt... haha) and we went to jusco cheras selatan to celebrate Mother's Day with a great lunch at Ichiban Ramen.

Actually, we had celebrate Mother's Day a day earlier by having steamboat. And because I'm the boss, so I lost some money to it. It's kinda sad that my hard-earn-money flew away in a wink of an eye, but I know that I can't even pay back my mum the money and a full jars of loves which brought me up till 18. 

Anyway, 

I love you mum! 

=D 

Feeling Down at This Moment

After watching Valentina Lisitsa's piano performing via Youtube.
I'm being so sad and sorrow throughout the day.
She's just a brilliant and virtuoso pianist, and even the fastest pianist in the world.
I have to admit that my fingers can't go as light and as quick as hers go.


This really get me down.
The longer the times I practice, the worse the song being played.


Valentina Lisitsa practices for 16 hours everyday.
Is it a possible mission for me to do that?

Music Monday

Hi friends, I just fell in love with the "Always with me" from the movie named "Spirited Away".
I used to watch this movie with my siblings at night as they are afraid of the ghosts in the movie.
This Japanese movie is great. And I just printed the piano sheet online and played it. Enjoyable. Ha ha...

Sometimes I was just thinking should I record a video that I'm playing a song and upload to Youtube our onto my blog. I had had this thought since young, but I never did it. Just wondering what's the reason that stop me from doing this. Is it my camera not "high definition" enough or I'm just lacking some self-confidence?

Music Loves

"Don't only practice your art

But force your way into its secrets

For it and knowledge can

Raise men to divine" 

---Ludwig van Beethoven---

Is Actuarial Science my cup of TEA?

It has been hard time for the eighteens to think about their future in these few months. When we talk about future,

Psychologist would said :" Just follow your heart and let your talent shines in the field that you're interested in." 

Our parents(Mostly the Asian) would said :" You either start working or studying now, if you're going to study, you must be the doctor, lawyer, CEO or any big bucks after studying, just don't waste my money." 

My relatives think :" You're good in studying (maybe not working?), why don't you continue studying and get a great certificate in the future. It's all about certificate and money after eighteens.

And I think :"Just fuck it off, I love piano. But Malaysia's piano/music education is totally sucks compared to UK and US."

But, recently I found that there's a job called "Actuary" and it's ranked the best job in the past few years. Besides that, the global markets demand a ton of actuaries in the future. So, it has great job opportunities. 

So I decided to choose this as my future career as: 

1. My maths is quiet okay. I usually didn't jot down notes those given by teachers in secondary school and I found that I can catch up pretty fast with teacher. This should be an advantage in actuarial science as it needs good math skill and understanding. Hope it will help =D  
2. I love expecting and planning since I was so young. I remembered when I was in primary, I always love to calculate how much I have to save my pocket money everyday to a certain amount in the next year and how could I spend it wisely. So clever right? Ha ha, and I used to plan some "unprofessional saving plan" for my families when young but they kindly rejected it as it was still a kid's stuff. Got talent right? Blah...
3. According to the actuaries nowadays, they said to be an actuary, what we should do is study, work, work and study. And mostly, the study time is insane so we will be always alone and become not sociable enough. So I think this REALLY SUIT ME as I loved to let myself studying alone in a locked room since I was in primary school. To be honest, I always love to be alone. Ha ha ha...
4. Actually I'm not that interested in the salary because basically money is not a big matter for me. It's just a "medium" for us to exchange some product or service. Why we need it so much? So, the high salary paid for actuary literally not attractive to me. =D 

Great Day

It's Labour Day today and my mum was so excited yesterday that she will have a great rest today. Ha ha...
So we woke up so early in the morning and drove straightly to Taman Bukit Jalil for some nice jog.
It's a great day today but so sadly we haven't plan for a picnic or something. The weather in the morning was perfect so we had had a great jog in the park for almost an hour. We love the way we sweat.  =D

Happy Labour Day and holiday.