My stories~!!!

I’ve back to UNIMAS. Now is 10.30pm, 31 December, 2008. One more hour to leave 2008 and welcome 2009. Hopefully 2009 will be a smooth year for the people around me and of course for myself.

What is in my mind now? I’m actually thinking about my big family. Before my sister’s wedding, I felt nervous knowing that my relatives will be visiting us from KL to Tawau. I wondered what kind of people I’m going to meet. Are they lovely? Are they proud? Will they like me? I had a lot of uncertainties in my brain.

At the first acquaintance, I was a bit awkward to meet my cousins who appeared in my place when I was away to fetch my mum’s side relatives to go to my place. Once I entered my house, I saw 4 youngsters were sitting on the couch, with the look that they’re cool and proud. Well, this is human, we always think that others are proud when we are still strangers to each other.

Then, I was surprised that actually my cousins are very cute people! They are actually friendly, lively, happening, naive and cute. We only got to know each other better during my sister’s wedding dinner. We took crazy pictures during the wedding in front of every guest who sat behind us. We were enjoying ourselves taking pictures while the guests were just staring at our family who like to play a lot. LOL. It was totally fun messing with my family.

After that, I got to know my relatives more. We become closer after some talk. However, time goes by just like rocket speed. They were back to KL 2 days after the wedding. I just got to see them in a dinner, waving my hand and said goodbye to them. Now we keep contact via SMS and MSN. I’m missing them. This was actually the first time I met them since they were born. I wonder why we can get so close just within a few days. Maybe as my cousin Qiao Li said, “this is the power of relatives”. Haha, what a phrase.

All of us have back to the places we are supposed to be. They also continue with their life, working, studying. I hope in the future, I will see them again and travel together to have some more fun! Cousins, I love you! Hahaha… Let’s begin 2009 with good wishes and hope that we’re all doing well throughout the years with little disappointment but FULL with JOY and FUN!

Today is my second day to be in Singapore. Well, what I can say about here. The transport system is very good, the people here are very helpful and polite as well. However, the culture is kinda almost the same with Malaysia, but the currency is 2.4, which makes me feeling a bit overwhelmed. So, personally, I don’t think it’s worth travelling if you don’t have a friend to let you stay in his place (well, in my case, I’ve, luckily =)).

I went to Chinese Garden, Japanese Garden, Singapore Science Centre, and China Town. Basically, these places are lovely. Just that I walked too much, until I feel uncomfortable with my pelvis (I will feel like it’s shifted from my upper body). Haiz, go back tawau really needa exercise already, walk a bit then feel not well, how to travel overseas wor~

I still prefer to stay in KL indeed. Ah, another thing, Singapore does have minimal citizens, I think ONLY KL citizens is already equal to the whole Singapore citizens. Don’t feel the crowd here all the time, kinda quiet streets as compare to KL.

Anything you wanna ask? You can ask. If you still like to come Singapore, perhaps I’ve some tips on how to travel and save money =) Have a pleasant day.

张惠妹，一开始听，总觉得这个名字有点土，不会很红的感觉（先听我说完）。刚开始，只注意到她的热歌劲舞，也由于我并没有很喜欢快歌，所已对当时的阿妹，只有“三天三夜”那种感觉。

想想我是怎么开始喜欢她的。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。我想不起来了。我想，大概是因为她的满歌吧！“我要快乐”，对这首歌印象很深刻，听她在电视现场演唱，竟然可以让我深深被她的表演吸引着。她表演的表情，神情，感觉，实在太诚恳了！你说她在演，我也很难相信！

“我要快乐”，“如果你也听说”，“谁爱我”，“我恨我爱你”，“勇敢”，这几首歌，我都百听不厌。她的歌唱功力，实在深不可测。我在电视上看她的演唱会，第一首歌和第二十首歌，她竟然可以保持和第一首歌曲一样的水准！可以想象她是怎么练习的吗？其实，我听过她被访问时说，“我在家每天都sit-up五百下”，我听到傻掉，怎么有人可以这么强。所以想想，你可以说她的嗓音是天生的，但是后天的努力，使她可以发光发热整十年，利害吧！

今天，在巴士上无意间听到她的访谈，她述说她在波斯顿尝试一个人走出内心的低潮期，让我感觉，她就是用感觉在唱歌。每一字，每一句，都听得到她背后的沧桑，一路一来谦虚学习，不断进步自己，才能有今天天后的地位、架势。然而，我并不曾听说她有大头症，真是实至名归的天后！！！

现在，在电视一看到她，就不会转台了，真的祝福她，可以一路唱下去，把我的耳油、耳屎什么都唱到喷出来！哈哈，阿妹加油！

Today I didn’t sleep since last night, I think I’ve not been sleeping over 30 hours continuously, just because my mind was in mess (someone distracted me by hurting me) and really no idea how to pack my stuffs! Goth, damn it!

Then, after I packed my stuffs, technically from 1130pm to 8am, literally was spending around 3-4 hours in between when msning with others. It was a short night, even though it sounded long. Luckily, I still have my housemate, Ah Chua with me to company me, or else I will be really crying alone.

Come to the morning, after I’ve taken my shower, I started to move my stuffs to my senior’s house. Second people I wanna thank to, Jenice, Sze Yin, and Mei Yun, they let me put 20+ boxes inside their house without charging me a sen! Really appreciate that. Ok, come back a bit, I really needa thanks Edison, for offering his van to send my things to seniors’ house. I save another penny for the car rental and fuel. Edison, good luck in your LI!!! got time remember find me yamcha.

Then, come to the place I’m staying and writing my blog now. They are always the persons I can count on after the final exam, since they will be here later than anyone else usually- Albert and Elissa. A very sweet and nice couple who always willing to help people. They make my trip more convenient by letting me overnight at their place and sending me off to airport tomorrow.

I’m a bit contented now, compared to last few days mood. That was terrible. I looking forward for my KL trip to meet my friends and my Bangkok trip to see how’s the culture in Thailand. But I heard that BKK is a bit messy now, hopefully it doesn’t bother me much. Wish me luck.

Will update you guys after I’m back from the 10 days trip (KL and Bangkok). =)

Why people address students as the most unproductive group of people? Let me summarise it in points, see whether you agree with me.

1. They ask for money saying need to buy books and for academic purposes. What I can see is some of them are freed from home, so they spend their money outing with friends. Some of them use the loan to buy brand new hp and sophisticated laptop. When come to REAL academic usage, they will say, “oh, my loan already finished during the first 2 months”. Well, I mean SOME students, not ALL.

2. Yea, students try their best to do assignments, exams, whatsoever. BUT, are these so-called academic articles or work of undergraduate students appreciated? The answer is NO. I just see myself throwing away the 19/20 marks of assignments which had a “very good” red written word from my lecturer. Finally, it’s still useless. You can’t bring it to your job interview and show them, “nah, my assignment got very high mark wor”. If you do, now that’s funny.

3. Link to point 2, since the work done are not collected and published or whatsoever, meaning to say, all the trees are cut down just for teaching and learning process. Then, are recycled to become rough toilet paper or newspapers. As for Malaysia, most of the papers will be just burned into ashes and pollute the air. Well, you can tell how bad is Malaysians’ recycling mentality by putting ANYTHING into the DIFFERENT recycle bins. Yea, I mean even the students who received tertiary level of education of course.

4. Students kill themselves by sleeping really EARLY. When I say early, I mean the time you can see the sunrise. Well, I’m one of them. What we call this? Making ourselves become unhealthy and make the parents worry. Seriously bad son, I think some students do that after they came to university.

5. Since most of the facilities and fees are supported by government, our students love to use all the things to its fullest! Again, when I say fullest, it’s fullest! It’s not difficult to find that students do not turn off the fan, computer, lights, radio, etc 24 hours just like 7-11. They will say” I already paid the hostel fees, so i use lo”. 9th class mentality detected. You will do that in your house? See how your mum will say. Your 450+- merely enough to pay for the cleaning service for that 4 or 5 months I perhaps.

6. Link to point 5 again. You won’t be surprised some students are living inside a trash house. What is trash house? Yea, you got it right, house with a lotsa trash. Of course, with the toilets and bathrooms like jungle, with the greenish and yellowish lumut (well, they are really healthily grown). The toilet bowl will be just like you pour the very thick chicken curry gravy into the sink. No kidding. What is the use of student who can score 4.00 CGPA but he stays in trash? Can imagine? Yea, I can’t, but I’ve witnessed.

7. Students are just students. They don’t understand what is society YET. Therefore, they don’t try to improve themselves, but try to beg for more marks. You dream on! They just think of getting a Degree with help and shortcuts. Well, they can do it. As a result, fresh graduates are perceived as “people who don’t know a thing compare to a worker who works since form 3″. Pathetic? I would say hopeless to those who I point to.

8. Link to point 1, students come to university look for their “another half”. I don’t like writing love story. So, you imagine yourself what people can do when they are adults and away from parents. Pity the parents who have to support 2 persons instead of their OWN kid. Well, you will know what I mean when you read carefully.

Erm….. let me stop writing about students’ unproductiveness. I will have to salute students because we are the ones who contribute to economic growth too! You see, we always buy new hp, reload non-stop just to sms “how are you?”, “ok”. Talk crap with people we don’t even know their names sometimes. Buy bags and shoes like our father owns the shop. Eat like no tomorrow saying it’s the need for study (but too full and hit the bed straight away after the heavy meal).

Finally, I just can conclude that, I don’t blame people to hate students. I hate myself as well since I have half of the bad things mentioned. However, I’m productive in some ways!!! Hope you enjoy reading this. Have a nice day.

Hi, welcome to the 3rd pathetic Scott-all-alone-in-campus post.

I am not trying to say that I feel alone or whatsoever. The fact is, I’m REALLY alone. I’m not complaining about it now even though it sounds so. I just need a way out in which I can balance myself. So, don’t bother to tell me, “haiya, it’s like that one la, you can do it de” In my bottom of my heart, I will reply “of course la, you are not me, say say, talk talk, so easy only ma”. I need to tell you that, It’s really easy to say, hard to do ok.

Imagine, you are ALL ALONE in the campus now, since all your friends were like straight away rushing to the airport after the last paper. Seriously, most of them go back on the same day or next day of the final paper. Well, I don’t blame them. That is their “interest” or way to live their uni life without really attached to the uni system. Sometimes I got pissed off by them because of their seriously serious continuously-homesick. I sweat…..

Now, in fact we need to work in team, however, I work alone for the convention 2009. It’s just because my lecturer hopes that the proposal could be done so that everyone can try to find sponsorship in their own hometown. I believe that, nobody will realise who was the one actually work out the whole proposal. Yea, you will say, “you don’t delegate the jobs to others, how others can help you leh?”. Well, you better stop replying me that in my blog, or else I will really get angry. I was trying to delegate, but what I’ve got here??? “ha? I already go back home lo”, “you email me la”. WTH, email you, are you gonna check it right away and amend it and resubmit to me at the same day? I still need to deal with the lecturer. So, for me, email doesn’t suit to be the best solution as compare to work together.

FYI, now I’m in the library, alone, feeling hungry (the stupid cafes not open, the open ones I can’t find vege food), frustrated (amend the proposal for times but the supervisor didn’t point out the points need to be corrected at once!), messy (haven’t packed my bags and stuffs), disappointed (my best friend flew my aeroplane-she can’t entertain me for my KL trip), a bit of depression (just mixing all of the things mentioned above, I think light depression won’t be too over, agree?)

Ok, time to stop, I needa go to do something more meaningful now. Whining here is actually making people think I’m useless and wasting my time. Well, you don’t know me well, I can be stronger than you think I’m, don’t you think so? Bye.

I did once mention about the meaning of examination. It’s just a process of testing your memorizing and retrieval skills. Therefore, 100% exam oriented results will actually be unfair for the students who are not good in memorizing + retrieving.

Why would I say the retrieval skills instead of just memorizing skills? It’s because, some people they can memorize, they even can memorize the lecture slides from the end until the beginning (yes, from the end until the beginning, it’s a Chinese proverb). Nonetheless, when you looking at the exam papers, if the question sounds this way “List down 2 concept of X theory, of course the memorizing does work! What if the question sounds this way “Based of the case study given, give your opinion about it”. Ok, now shit happens, even though you already swallowed the whole book and photocopied it into your brain, but what’s the purpose when you don’t know how to apply to it? That’s the problem of students. Well, by that time, the “what is your opinion?” will become a very good phrase to look at. With the sure and unsure face, must answer it anyway. Before passing up the papers, looked back and realized that, OMG, I wrote nothing with what I’ve studied last night (or this morning). After a month, the results released, some people scored, some people cursing the lecturers “why I studied so hard you gave such damn questions which led me to answer wrongly”. Well, who to blame, examination has it pros and cons. The pro is, you always can cheat people by using your “skills” in answering, the con is, you don’t always score well in practical like you did in exam.

Ok, come back to MY story, since it’s my blog. Frankly speaking, I don’t fall within one of the 2 groups, instead, I fall between them. Sometimes, I do excellently well but sometimes I failed miserably. BUT, when I failed, people keep quiet pretend that nothing has happened and don’t wanna hurt me. AGAIN, when I scored, people will come and tell me, how come you got so high (well, I don’t have to tell people when I study when I don’t, don’t you agree with me?). What’s wrong with that for me to score high? I’m Scott Cheong, remember that, the one who always can make miracle to happen. (well, no good miracle happens in exams, bad ones always happen). Just that, I study according to my present motivation and emotions. When I wanna study, I will make sure I will finish it, even though I don’t sleep for the whole week. (ok, that is exaggeration, one night only).

When people ask, “how do you score when you just studied for 2 hours”. Well, what I can say, I use my short term memory, that’s last minute study, and write it out before it goes away from my brain cells. Also, I use acronym to do my memorizing instead of try to swallow the whole book, that’s impossible for me to do that. I just memorize keywords, and READ once of the elaboration and examples, then that’s the time I go to sleep already…. Don’t try to memorize 100% of the things given, it will saturate your brain and make you become stupid (well, that’s my personal comment, not subjected to friendster’s responsibility, solely my responsibility).

People always wanna kill me because I performed better than them in the exams and assignments, most probably they think that I always do it last minute so I don’t deserve it. When I say last minute, it’s last minute. I get it done and print it and I go to take my shower, come out already 7.40am, needa go to submit on 8am, you think leh? That’s not last minute called what then? BUT, I’ve my principle, I never asked for an extension, I’m proud of myself. Ok, back to the score. Does last minute = bad quality? Say it isn’t so. I don’t agree with that when it comes to me. I don’t do sloppy assignments. Even though last minute, I make sure spelling and sentence structures are correct, and the points are answering what the questions are asking, that’s what we are required to do right? Unlike others, do a lot of things, one month before the due date, but unable to answer the questions of assignments and exams.

*hint*, I’m actually giving tips on how to study and score in assignments. I have to admit that I’m not a good student, I don’t learn things by doing a lot of research, I learn things through heuristics and via practical. I don’t enjoy to be called as a geek. I enjoy to be called as smart. I enjoy my life as it’s the last day of my life. I don’t do things that I don’t feel like doing, I don’t entertain people when I don’t feel like to. That’s the best thing I learn to be a counselling student. I do things because I like to do it, not because of people like me to do it. That’s why you can find out, I don’t go out much to social now, since it’s wasting my time to be with the people I don’t feel like talking to. You might say. Hey, it’s useful in your future. Well, yes, it does. Therefore, “hi-and-bye” that kinda social come in. “you already eat?” (well, I don’t do that, coz you won’t invite me to eat with you anyway). I would rather ask, “how do you do recently?” (I sound sincere to people even though it’s just hi-and-bye friends ok. That’s me.

Gosh, I didn’t know my post has been this long already. If you enjoy this post, feel free to drop some lines and ask what you would like to hear from me. I think I’m free enough this lately to post a blog more frequent. See ya. =)

There have been a lot of things happening around me during this end of semester. I did want to write about them, but I didn’t have the enough motivation since I was busy as well. So, let me start with exercising.

My body has been burdened up with my bad habit – sleep when the time is almost morning. Well, that’s uni life people call? Ok, it’s my life, not uni life. I can feel that my heart is not as strong as before. What did I do with him? I sleep late, and I compensate my sleep during day time, which is very unhealthy lifestyle (People who read my blog, please do not attempt to try, since you don’t want to die soon).

In a very good evening, enthusiasm, good aspiration, motivation, companion, television or whatsoever-tion, I text my friends, Ms E and Ms SC (it’s not master in sciences please, just coincident), asked them to for jogging. And with the as fast as furious response (ok, it’s just for the rhythms purpose), they wanted to join as well. Then, at 5.30pm, we waited at Cempaka bus stop, as usual, Ms E late for 10 minutes. Ok, fine, I budgeted that time for her to makeup (literally she doesn’t).

Wait…….. let me reverse my timeframe…… At 5.23pm, when I wanted to go out for a jog, I asked my housemate to keep my room key since I don’t like to bring anything that contains mass which is noticeable, I will just bring 5 or 10 bucks for drinks or dinner later. So, please don’t rob me when I jog or else I will die cause of exhausted and starvation after that. Oppz sorry, dragging to far away. When I utterly feel confident that my housemate has kept my spare key, I locked my door, then I went to his room, and asked him, whether he has my key. He said “no”, well, I interpreted that as a joke, then he repeated, “I really didn’t keep that”, ok, now that’s fun, I forgot I borrowed my key to my temporary roommate – Mr. N. I should feel grateful about that, since it will look more stupid if I left 2 sets of key inside my room, don’t you agree? -_-“, ok, I know it’s still stupid since I locked the door before I asked. Again, that’s outta topic no? let’s get back to 5.35pm.

(I arrived the bus stop at 5.35pm indeed, cause of the idiotic forgot-my-key incident). Well, I late for 5 minutes, Ms SC was where already indeed. We started our jogging “journey” after 3 of us were there. Why I said “journey”, it’s quite a long distance for 3 of us who already didn’t exercise for a long long time. I had to admit, the jog was like an apek “walk” instead of a “jog”. We jogged half of the time and walked half of the time. Damn it! Shame on me! I could feel my stomach squeezing its muscles asking me to stop, it was painful! That’s the reason I stopped jogging and walked. Imagine, I’m 22, and feel the symptom of getting old. So, please, please go to exercise whenever you are lazy, seriously, go when you feel lazy, if not, your laziness level will become GOD level (tahap dewa-dewi) where you will UNLEARN exercise soon.

Don’t ask me how kilometers was the “journey”, it was at least 3.5km I think. Finally, we settled down our “jog” by the riverside (well, that was part of our purpose), to sit there looking at the evening view of UNIMAS, and gossiping (in counselling term, we call that counselling session, since it will become private and confidential (sometimes only)). We are still human beings bah…… We spent around 30 minutes talking there, then we went back with drinks on hand. Wow, such a perfect flow of cold soya bean running inside my throat and trachea!!! Try that after exercise, you will know what fluid is by then.

After that night, I feel that exercise is seriously refreshing and able to demolish the laziness. I feel myself is energetic and full. In that week, I jogged for 3 times, 2 times with Ms E and Ms SC companion, once by myself, I no longer jog like an apek, but still like people who don’t exercise regularly, AT LEAST, I rest less during the jog .

Folks, try to move your ass outta your bed or chair, enjoy the beautifulness of nature which still exist so far(we don’t know when our government will clear ALL the trees soon). Eat healthier, sleep healthier, work healthier, stay healthy! =P

Welcome back to my crappy session (yes, this blog). Well, what I’ve been doing this lately until I rarely post up anything? You not need to guess, there’s only a word for it - lazyness. I still remember that when I was in my first year, I was posting a blog almost every single day. However, I stopped. Coz it’s useless to whine to people who are feeling sick to read your crappy whining. So what I’m going to write for this time instead of whining? Ah okay, sorry, it’s still whining, but a bit of the combination of whining and updates.

Currently, I’m working on my Final Year Project. Really feel headache with it, until I don’t wanna do anything for one or two days to refresh my mind, before head to it again and working non-stoply. FYP is like that, if you stop, you can’t seem to back to it too soon, it is for me la. Some people can work on it 24/7 without feeling stress or bored, but in this case, definitely not me.

I will need to submit on next monday (27 October), I still haven’t done anything about it after the previous comments from my supervisor. It’s a bad sign, where I need to concentrate on it 24/7 during the weekend.

Another news is, I was selected(forced) by my classmates and lecturer to be the chairperson of the next year counselling convention. It’s a grand event that will involve the counselling professionals in Malaysia. Or if budget is enough, we might want some foreigners to be our speakers as well. Is that a good sign? There are always pros and cons. Pros are I can learn many things such as managing people, allocate human resource, meetin NC, TNC, etc etc big bosses. Besides, I will have a beautiful resume later. About the cons, i don’t think you can’t imagine the stress that will come to me. meeting the NC, TNC, doing the proposal, find sponsors, never-ending meetings, never-ending amendments and resubmission of paperwork, conflicting with classmates since I can’t fulfill everyone’s needs. I will see what i can do (WE or YOU will see what I can do). I can’t do much without help. I’m a weak person where there is nobody be there to be my support system. I need encouragement from others to make me feel good about myself and what I’m doing.

Currently, I hope things will be going fine. Later gonna meet the supervisor for this seminar/convention discussion.

Personally, I don’t think I’m eligible for this. I’m an unethical person. I always wake up late, I didn’t do my obligation on time, I always procrastinate, I’m forgetful. Why people choose me then? there are probably 3 factors:

1. Scott is friendly, easy going, responsible AND Scott LOOKS OK to handle such a grand project.

2. It’s a grand project, so let Scott handles it since nobody wanna do it.

3. There’s really nobody who wanna take up this responsibility.

people, feel free to comment why people wanna choose me to become the chairperson of this program. I’m confused, I doubt about my abilities and capabilities. I rather to be the editor of the proceedings since I admit that my English is presentable. Have a nice day.

I’ve been waiting for a chance to get out of Malaysia for some days. I thought I will only be able to go for it on Nov to Thailand. However, my brother was having this idea to go to Taiwan for a family vacation trip since we have a one week holiday there. I was excited when I know I will be going to Taiwan.

I’m leaving today to KL, and depart from KL to Taiwan on 26th Sept morning. I will be back on 2nd Oct to KL. So, within this week, you won’t be able to reach me.

I’m still rushing for my assignments and haven’t packed a shit for the trip. Argh~~ why my life is so hectic! I hope this trip will make me happy (even though my wallet is burned with a big big hole by that).

Guys, please don’t expect me to buy anything or souvenirs for you guys. I’m going vacation for myself, not you. You try to put your feet into my shoes and be in my position, when everyone is asking you to buy something for them (even though they will pay you). It’s not a vacation anymore, instead of a souvenir hunting trip. I’m going there for a week, I can’t make a shopping trip, I needa explore as much as I could instead of the shopping spots at Taiwan. So, don’t blame me, I will yell at you if you do that.

Just all the best for all of us. Selamat hari raya and have a nice, warm and great holiday. =)

Regards,

5cottie