:: SEE ME FLY ::

Good afternoon readers! The weather today is literally burning me. It's really hot now and thinking about the fact that I will have to go to school tomorrow just makes me feel so down. Yesterday when I was just roughly looking at the up-coming events of my school in the school calendar, I realized school exam is in 2 weeks time and I freaked out so much. I thought I would at least have 1 more month to prepare for exam but unfortunately, until now, I haven't even touched any of the books yet and I can now officially declare that  my death is around the corner. Before I came to this school, I promised myself that I would bring out the best in me but it seemed like things are going completely opposite. I am becoming such a couch-potato lately that I really feel like smacking myself at times. And I hope, after the smack and punch and all, today will be the last day for me to rott so much and to think of when I can get a day off or whatsoever. 

Last Thursday was my school's Sports Day and initially, I wasn't planning to go but in the end, I decided to go check out how awesome or how lousy it would be. Practically less than 10 students from my class attended and to be honest, I was totally 'amazed' by how skipping school in my school is such a normal thing to everyone. Well, our Sports Day was held in Stadium UITM, the worst stadium I've ever gone to in my entire life. I don't understand why couldn't the school book a better stadium for us when we're paying so much for them. 1) It's got no shades (but at least they've set up tents at our seats, so we weren't really under the sun), 2) It's extremely small, 3) It's located at a place where nobody is familiar with. In short, the stadium was plain terrible. Despite how horribly terrible it was, Sports Day was fine and I don't think it was bad, erm, not that good too. Band was okay but their march wasn't really synchronized. As a matter of fact, we couldn't really watch clearly as we were seated far away from where they performed. Hence, we couldn't watch the march formations and I think it was a waste! Cheer was good to me 'cos KC doesn't have cheer, so to me, cheer is always good :) . 

If you've seen me posting about BERSIH 3.0 on Facebook, you should know I attended Bersih with my dad yesterday. Yeap, it sure was an exhausting day but it was totally worth it. I've comprehended the exact definition of '1 Malaysia'. I'm really greatful that my dad supported me to attend the rally and he brought me along. I asked some of my friends if they were interested to come along but all of their parents disallowed them to come. Their parents might be probably worrying about their safety and I understand. At first, my mom discouraged me but during yoga class, virtually all of them were going and I was pleading my mom and so she reluctantly allowed me to follow my dad and I was darn happy. I asked JiaYing to come along too as my dad and I were planning to go to Masjid Jemak, which was the same place where her dad would be going to, and yes, she promised to join. At night, I packed by bag pack (check list: umbrella, spare clothes, towel, masks, camera, dot dot dots) and was looking forward to the next morning. I felt really awesome to be able to be a part of Bersih AND Anti-Lynas to stop this chaotic mess in Malaysia: Politics, economy and society. 

So, early in the morning, we had ordinary brunch near IOI Boulevard and headed to Bukit Jalil LRT Station. It was absolutely amazing seeing everyone in yellow or green shirts. I felt like everyone in Malaysia was united to bring about peace and clean politics together, hand in hand. While we were waiting for the train, they cheered BERSIH! BERSIH! BERSIH! and of course, I cheered together and it was absolutely FUN! When the train arrived, we went in and the train was partially occupied by greenies and yellowies. Felt good that I didn't miss the chance to witness how united everyone was. We stopped at few stations like Chan Sow Lin and finally, we reached Masjid Jemak. In the train, I saw a green and yellow ocean. From the top, it actually looked really cool 'cos as the people were moving, it was like the waves of the ocean. I was jumping like delirious monkey and I couldn't wait to join them and I bet daddy felt embarrassed. 

There were leaders to lead us. We cheered after them and I envy how LOUD they could be. That, was the power of disapproval, injustice, innocence and filth. The cheer was almost the same but each time we cheered together, it got louder and louder, like a force that pushed us to scream even LOUDER. 'Bersih Bersih! Pilihan Bersih! Hancur Hancur! Hancur Lynas! Selamat Selamat! Selamat Malaysia!' It went on non-stop like the waves that would never end. Then, there were people holding humongous banners or normal boards. Coincidentally, I saw the uncle from my yoga class and he was the head of a gang. It was fantastic to see him lead :D ! Oh not to forget, I was anxiously waiting for JiaYing but I couldn't reach her. I attempted calling her, texting her, but she didn't call back and I was really worried if she got kidnapped or whatsoever (not joking). Then when it was 2pm, I called her few times again and finally, she picked up. She told me she arrived at 1pm and she texted me so many times but I didn't reply and as a matter of fact, I didn't even receive any of her messages. She then went home after an hour of waiting for my reply while I was ALSO waiting for her reply and guess what, we were standing at the same friggin' place (OCBC Bank) but we couldn't see each other! It was too crowded. I felt kind of sad to hear that she's gone home :( . But what has exactly happened was (according to today's newspaper) the government cancelled the network coverage around Dataran Merdeka! You cannot imagine HOW PISSED I WAS, and still am.

Later at around 2.30pm, my dad said he was hungry so we walked around to see if there were any nice restaurants. Then, I smelled something peculiar and doubted that it was from the restaurants. But the smell was really strong and it hurt a lot. I pulled my dad and told him my nose was feeling really unwell, and when he turned his head back, his eyes were red and were covered with tears. I then noticed something was wrong and people were dashing everywhere (covering their face with towels too). I immediately took out my towel from my bag pack but it didn't help at all. I had trouble breathing with my nose, so I tried breathing with my mouth, but my throat was itching really badly and I coughed a lot. Also, I could slightly open my eyes but I couldn't really see things clearly as tears were covering both my eyes. My tears just couldn't stop trickling down and I felt like I was going to die at that time. Then when I asked my dad what it was, then only I knew it was tear gas and I have to admit that I'm awesomely dumb. After that, we went to the toilet in the LRT Station and we smelled tear gas again! It was darn terrible and I really felt like screaming out swear words loudly. Man, the police definitely has got nothing better to do! Many of us decided to leave and when we were waiting for the train, 2 friggin' trains didn't even bother to stop. They just went straight away while we booed together. I was plain disappointed by how they treated us. So, so SO DISAPPOINTED. 

After such a longggg journey, we reached home at 6pm. My mom asked if I regretted going and I seriously CANNOT find a reason why I had to feel regretful attending BERSIH 3.0! Other than the tear gas (which made me feel unwell for the entire day. I couldn't stop sneezing and my eyes were tearing even when I was having my dinner. I felt like the smell was stuck in my nostrils, or my throat), everything was fine and I had a lot of fun! In spite of the difference of religions and races, we united to hope for a better tomorrow, a better future for our future generations. Is Malaysia going to be better, or worse? It depends on ALL OF US and WE can make a change! No point sitting on your couch and wait for this country to collapse, or to be saved by others. It's the sincerity and how true your heart is towards Malaysia, towards humanity, towards our children, our grandchildren. We are like a tree and they are the seeds. If we're a good tree, they are good seeds. However, if we're a polluted tree (pokok yang tidak BERSIH), they are polluted seeds and they can NEVER grow up in a good environment to see more of the world. I'm sure no one hopes for this, right?

My name is Emily and I am proud to say that I'm a Malaysian. So are you? 

Bukit Jalil LRT Station, never so crowded and fun ;) !

DUDUK BANTAH! 

The police car came to halau/kacau us. Everyone was pissed off.

Concur?

Lynas is the worst idea ever.
What is not safe in Australia is not safe for Malaysia too!

The power of yellow :) !

This is what I call - Unity.

Negara bersih, raykat sihat!

A rare experience of a moment at daybreak,

when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness,

cannot be explained at noon.

Yet it is a part of day's unity.

xoxo

:: TOO LOST IN YOU ::

Heyyyy peeps! Today's my school's sports day rehearsal at Stadium UITM in Shah Alam and more than half of my class is not going, so might as well just stay at home and have a longer sleep :) . Yesterday was like the hottest day in my entire life and my metabolism was heck active and I ended up sleeping with the air-cond on. For your information, I don't really on the air-cond when I sleep because my nose is very sensitive to it. Sinus, curse you. So yea, right now I feel so unwell because of my nose and I feel that it's going to collapse in no time -.- . I just want to chop it off so badly :( .

Today, I'm not going to write about the Concerto Night because the videos have not been uploaded YET, but SOON, heh. The photos are also not on Facebook yet, so I shall just wait 'till when they are all uploaded. What I can say is that it was extremely awesome and it is the BEST Pastorale concert in my eleven fabulous years being a part of Pastorale :) . To those who did not make it for the concert, it's your loss :P .

From what I mentioned earlier, I went to Boulevard with YiTeng, ZhiSan and JieXi on Agong's Installation to help out with their ICT project. Earlier, I wasn't allowed to blog about this until the video is presented but since ZhiSan has blogged about it, I shall do as I please too :) . In her blog, she said I was willing to help them because I missed them too much. Frankly speaking, the main reason why I was willing to help them was that my school doesn't offer ICT classes for senior students (except for those who are in Pure SC with ICT) and I totally missed all the homeworks/projects I used to have last time.

The theme of their group is 'Louis Vuitton', which I personally think is quite unsuitable, haha. It was ZhiSan's idea and yes, her brain is simply extraordinary (in a bad way :D). In the video, JieXi and I are the so called 'models wannabe' and the process was superbly epic. Well, at least JieXi could tolerate her laughter and she could do her part seriously. I just COULDN'T DO IT. I burst into laughter when ZhiSan told me not to smile/laugh or to look at her DSLR with the kind of elegant/seductive facial expression. God knows how Tyra Banks could be such a modeling queen in front of any cameras.

Sad thing is, I can be bitchy but I just can't be SERIOUS.

                        

The part where I had to repeat for million times.

JieXi and I 

A fun day with them but it was too tiring. We even got chased by the security guards of IOI Boulevard. That was why we ended up being in the 'lorong' which was a completely UGLY place. Oh anyway, Blogger has updated everything and I'm lovin' it! It's so convenient and my favourite is the photo uploader! It's something like Facebook photo uploader and it is sooooo many times better than the old version. I can now add captions to all the photos, move the photos to anywhere I want to and enlarge the photos on the spot! I'm a happy girl right now :D !

Time for lunch, TTFN ;D !
- Can't stop listening to Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.64

All good music resembles something.

Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance

to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

xoxo

:: IT'S GONNA BE YOU ::

Hellooooo people! I feel awesome right now because today's FRIDAY! Friday is the best day in a week as school dismisses early, Saturday is no longer a school day for me and I get to flex my muscles in the evening during yoga class! And see, I'm blogging just in front of the windows in my bedroom and I can see the beautiful scenery over here, OH I see Taylors Lakeside Campus too! This is fantastic, I JUST LOVE FRIDAY TO THE MAX :) . Plus, tomorrow's violin class is CANCELLED (best damn thing ever) and tomorrow is time for my appointment with the dentist, which means I GET TO CHOOSE ANOTHER AWESOME COLOUR FOR MY BRACES, teehee.

Yesterday, I skipped school and went for KC sports day (again? Yes, again). Initially, I decided not to go back because I rarely skip school and skipping school sounds like burning myself in a flame to me. But on Wednesday, I was so sick of going to school, so I decided to go back and have fun with them AGAIN (also consoling myself that it's just one day, JUST ONE DAY). Unfortunately, it has become an addiction to me. I feel like skipping school every day after my second attempt of skipping school. I've changed so much :( . However, I'm really thankful that my parents are being really considerate recently. They understand how much I missed my friends from KC. Hence, they never stop me from meeting up with them.

Kay, back to the topic. When we we reached there, we had to walk from the opposite side of the place where we should be seated, which was like an extremely long diameter of an oval. We were saying how we were only walking a very smart part of it and we already felt really tired. Later when all of them reached, it started to drizzle but the students of senior 3 were still performing in the rain. Their performance was awesome and I can't wait for our batch to perform (even though I'm not a part of them who are performing but isn't it just FUN watching your friends performing for the very last year of high school life? ).

Then, the competitions started. Some of them were doing Advance Maths so me, Wendy, JiaWen, KahWai, Joelle, Reika, NiTing, HoYan, SoonYin and KerXin ditched them and had our typical 'French Revolution Meeting' with plenty of FOOOOD at another part of the stadium. We talked and laughed a lot, then we started snapping crazy photos together. Oh and not to forget, we even recorded a video of us dancing like delirious people :D . I had SO MUCH FUN 'cos it's been such a LONG TIME since I ever laughed 'till I had to force myself to stop 'cos my tummy ached so badly.

At around 10.30pm, JiaWen's mom fetched JiaWen, JiaWei, HoYan, Wendy, ZhuanYuan, ZhiSan and I to her house. Our plan was to watch Beauty & the Beast with her 3D TV but then we were having too much fun taking photos with her brand new instant camera. It sure was tiring 'cos the park was like the favourite habitat of peculiar mosquitoes, humongous red ants and unknown bugs. Wendy had so many mosquito bites that it sort of freaked me out. We took a lot of photos and they were all beautiful memories that I will never ever forget. The memories are carved in my mind, my heart and my senses so, tell me how can I ever toss this part of memory to somewhere else? It will be even better if RueChien, YiTeng and others were in the photos too :) . .

By the way, I am currently very excited about the Penang trip in June. Not all of them will be going 'cos they will be having a 'Science Camp' in school so yea... We will be staying in an apartment and I'm craving for BARBEQUE now :D . Before that, I shall be looking forward to the Concerto Night on this coming Sunday! I hope tomorrow's practice will be a perfect and successful one! Will be updating about the concert in my next entry. Stay tuned ;) !

Intense love does not measure,

it just gives.

xoxo

:: PARTY ROCK ANTHEM ::

Phew~ Finally I get to sit down and blog about what happened so far. My week was totally awesome! It sure was a tiring week but I felt that everything was worth it and I definitely did not regret a single thing. Today is a a Hindu festival and my school is off. It's weird how other schools have no holiday for this particular festival. My parents and friends are saying that the school is giving us too many extra holidays. Quite true to me 'cos last time in KuenCheng, it's already a big relief for us when we were given a break on Saturday. But most of the time, we would have to go to school from Monday to Saturday and holidays for us were like once in a blue moon thing. Now this explains why people say students and teachers from Chinese independent schools are so diligent :D , heh. Not quite exact on me though ;( .

On Monday, the 'South Australia Youth Orchestra' came to our school to perform. The musical concert was very nice. At first when Mr. Chew told us about the musical concert during the assembly, I was happy because we got to skip classes. Surprisingly, the concert was something like an orchestra and ensemble but there were very few violinists. They started off with 2 choir performances and Tharchanaa and I loved the performances SO MUCH! They sounded really good and synchronized together and we wanted more choir performances so badly :( . Later, the orchestra performed 'Somewhere out there', then followed by jazzes which were only performed by percussion, woodwind players and a keyboardist. After 3 or 4 orchestra performances, 5 very awesome vocalists performed with the accompaniment of violin quartets. Lastly, they jammed and when they were about to end the concert, we yelled for an encore, so they jammed 2 more songs and we were totally hyped up, heh. In short, the musical concert was a blast and I really loved it :) .

I got the ticket for Jaslyn on Saturday and it's with no doubt, well-designed and attractive. The tickets are sponsored by an association in Kiwanis. I genuinely hope you all will be able to make it for our Concerto Night on the 22nd of April. We have put in a lot of hard work and I'm pretty sure all of you will enjoy the music and feel the love we convey through music. Some people will think it's going to be like any other typical boring classical musical concerts but the pieces we are going to perform are some of the exciting songs by Mendelssohn, Vivaldi, Mozart and a medley of Pirates of the Caribbean! If interested, contact me anytime and I'll get you the ticket(s) as soon as possible! Please consider :) .

On Wednesday, I went to Wendy's house after I bathed after coming back home from school. HanYin, JiaWen and KahWai went too. We couldn't stop talking LOUDLY, laughing LOUDLY, being hyper LOUDLY and I ended up having sore throat when my dad went to fetch me back. For dinner, we ordered MCD and it was my first time eating fish fillet burger. It tasted pretty good! I thought it would be extremely oily and fattening 'cos I personally don't really like eating burgers. I so need to eat it again someday! When we were halfway talking in the living room, her mom came back from Taiwan and her relatives from Alor Setar came too. Hence, we had to go to Wendy's room and try to not make so much noise. Sighs, I really hope I get to go to her house with them every night :( .

On Wednesday, it was our agong installation sooooo..... IT'S A PUBLIC HOLIDAY! I went to IOI Boulevard with ZhiSan, YiTeng and JieXi to help out with their computer project. Their project is something like a few groups divided and they have to make a video, flash or whatsoever promoting something. I can't really blog about it yet 'cos they say I can only blog about it after they have presented their project. We took a lot of photos and I enjoyed myself so much! After that, we went to Ochado and I ordered oreo chocolate. Trust me, Ochado is soooo many times better than Chatime and I seriously DON'T GET why people can get so obsessed with Chatime. Chatime, is terrible. We talked about the Penang trip in June that I will be going to with KC school orchestra, which made me feel hyper :D . Sadly on that same day, tragedies striked in Indonesia. Earthquake, then tsunami. -Longggg whine- what is wrong with the earth? While the friends and I were happily having fun, the people in Indonesia were struggling to survive. I'm so tired of listening to the disasters in other countries but we can't really do a thing that is effective enough to stop everything.

On Thursday, I skipped school and went for KC Sports Day (preliminary) which was held in Stadium Petaling Jaya. I had to sneak in by pretending as a KC student 'cos outsiders are only allowed to attend for the finals on next Tuesday. I had no choice but to wear my KC PE attire AND .... to tie my hair up into a bun. I didn't know how to, so Shuqi helped me in the van. I looked like a nanny but oh well, for my friends' sake, I DID IT OBLIGINGLY. Everyone was so shocked when they saw me at the stadium. I lied to some of them that I transferred back and they actually believed. Well, how I wish what I was saying was true :'( . When I reached, I talked to ZhiSan, LingYi, ZhiQian and CheahQi. We were talking about school societies and some of the new teachers in KC.

When the gate was opened, I went in with Sam and seriously, HE'S SO TALL :DD ! I went in and saw YiTeng and others. The stadium was so TERRIBLE I don't know how am I going to describe it. It's dirty, small and lousy. I don't get why the school can be banned by Stadium Bukit Jalil -.- . How I wish our Sports Day is always in Stadium Bukit Jalil every year so we won't have to suffer in those small and terrible stadiums. Plus, Sri KL's Sports Day is in the same stadium OH DANG. Forget about how terrible it is. We took photos and we were so hyper that the junior prefects came to lecture us. I practically spent all my time over there eating and chatting. It sounded boring but I had so much fun I just didn't feel like leaving. I felt like I was a part of KC again :D . However, the bun was very troublesome. I felt like it would fall off in no time. Also, it was good to be able to hear the discipline teacher's voice again!

At 1pm, me, YiTeng, HoYan, JiaWen, Wendy, Shuqi, ZhiSan and Reika went to IOI mall for DARK FLIGHT. When we were about to enter the cinema, I had the urge to turn back 'cos I was extremely afraid of watching horror movies. Wendy sat next to me and somehow I think I was more steady 'cos her legs were shivering, she was covering her eyes with YiTeng's pinafore and she didn't even drink her coke. At least I ate my sweet corn and pop corn XD ! The movie wasn't as scary as expected. The trailer looked scarier though :D .

This week, I had so much fun and I guess it's time for me to really settle down now. I have to start doing my homeworks and my projects. Getting really exhausted now. Goodnight peeps ;) !

In three words I can sum up everything

that I've learnt about life:

"it goes on"

xoxo