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Friday, December 30, 2011

First Holidays away from home_Day 11

29TH DECEMBER 2011:

Hmmm... What did I do today?
Nothing much. I was just lazing around in the house again after two days of outings. :)
Today I went to watch my cousin's basketball game in his school. He is a pretty good basketball player. There were a lot of articles about him in the newspapers too. Wow! Amazing eh!

After the game, I came back and started to read the book about the inspiring Canadian stories. Most of the stories were about hockey (Canada's national sport). I am really impressed with their patriotism to their country. I felt the goosebumps while reading their stories. WOW!

Then I was chatting with my aunt. Nice little chat. Then we had our dinner. Guess what we did after dinner: we played scrabble. That was my second time playing it. I really loved the atmosphere. Playing games with family is the best part because it shows how we are capable to work or play together, despite the difference between us.

Here goes another day. :)

First holidays away from home _Day 10

28th December 2011

Today was a long day too. My friends and I met up in the train station at 10.30 am and came back to the same train station at 8.00pm. Just imagine that long day. Where did we go and what did we do?

First stop: Yaletown- We walked down to Yaletown Dock, on the way we saw a building, which exhibits an old train. It was closed and I don't know the name of that building.

Then we walked down the dock while taking pictures of the beautiful scenery. Then we walked to BC place and Rogers Arena. On the way, we ate lunch in a shop. The food was pretty good and not expensive. I ate grilled chicken with rice and mix vegetables.

Then we went to Terry Fox plaza. That moment the atmosphere has changed. I did sense it. From happy atmosphere, things became gloomy and sad. I felt moved too when I was looking at Terry Fox statue and admire him for his intention and deeds. It is very hard to get people like him, who united the nation with only one cause: raise awareness about cancer and funds for cancer research. Very impressive and inspiring.

At this point, words from my teacher came to me: Inspiration is everywhere, it is just a matter of oneself where to find it.

Then we took sky train to waterfront station and met with another friend before going to Stanley Park.


We went to Vancouver aquarium in the Stanley Park. :) OMG! The line up was so crazy. We waited almost 20 minutes to buy ticket. Oh man! But WORTH it. There were mind-blowing animal shows and I learned a lot about aqua animals here. So long I don't know whether I was not aware or ignorant about them. Oh well, now I know them now. :)

When I was in the aquarium, all I could do was being amazed with the nature when all just fall just nicely like a fixed jigsaw puzzle. This is also one of the places that I wanted to bring my friends and family to visit. :) I also experienced 4D movie in the aquarium for about 15 minutes. Haha. Pretty good experience that you couldn't get everywhere. :)

Then, went to eat dinner in food court of Pacific Centre Mall. Pretty good dinner too. Headed back home tiredly.

After reaching home, I had a hot shower and felt so good. Then I ended up watching movie with my aunt. The movie was: Aqeeela and the Bee. It was an AWESOME movie. So inspiring.

Then my cousin bought us some Nando chicken and the food was good.:)

There goes the day with these awesome activities.

First holidays away from home_ day 9

27th December 2011:

Today I went out for shopping for boxing week sales. Last night I talked with my friend Rupin and Ruben and we made arrangement so that we could meet today. I was so happy to go out after hibernating in the house for three days. Probably because I am so eager to buy stuffs for nieces and nephews for their birthdays. I loved shopping for them. It reminds me of the days I used walk around the mall with my dad to look for presents for them.

I met up with my friends at 11am and we went for lunch together. Then what? SHOPPING! I just love window shopping. Some people find it frustrating when I spent the whole day in the mall without buying anything. Hahaha. But today I did some real shopping. I bought myself a pair of court shoes and then a t-shirt for each nieces and nephews.

My friends bought their own stuffs like t-shirts, winter coats and etc. They actually went grocery shopping on boxing day. :P

When I came home, my uncle's friend: Uncle Mark was there. He had made "Sambal Tofu." I ate dhal made by my uncle with the dish made by Uncle Mark. It was amazing and the dinner was enhanced with salad made by my aunt. :) It was a good, but tiring day. :)

Monday, December 26, 2011

First holidays away from home _ Day 8

26th December 2011,

Boxing day! It is the day after Christmas and the perfect day for shop because there will be loads of sales going on nationwide. It is similar to Black Friday in United States of America. :)

Well, I didn't go out for shopping today. Why? Because I don't know what to buy. So what did I do today? Well, pretty much nothing expect baking with my aunt. She taught me how to bake cashew nut short bread. It wasn't that difficult to bake. You just need to know right amount and some techniques. Well, I learned them today. :)

She taught me while cooking soup for lunch. Then, Grandma went back to Vancouver Island. :( I wish she stayed longer. After lunch, I watched movie with my uncle and cousin. Guess what movie it was- Home Alone 2. I was LoL-ing.

After the movie, I was so lazy to go out. So, I decided to read, but ended up skyping with my family. I have the urge to skype with them although I skyped with them yesterday. Probably, because everyone ( my dad side and mom side cousins) were at home. The kids are growing up fast and my dear Dayaliene is also started talking.

Then my uncle talked with my dad after dinner. I called my friend in Toronto and talked with him. Another day of the holidays is gone and I am excited for tomorrow because I am going shopping for gifts for my nieces and nephews. :)

Till then good night, folks.

First holidays away from home_ day 7

25th December 2011,

Christmas!!!

This is my first time celebrating Christmas. Back in Malaysia, I don't celebrate Christmas with my family. Last year I went to one of my friend's open house. But this year, it was amazing. I woke up and had my breakfast, then what? Gifts time.

Well, I wasn't aware how gifts were so important during Christmas. I just got a box of chocolates and two very little gifts for my cousins. In return, I got so many presents. Everyone in the family gave me gifts. I was so touched. It was so overwhelming when my cousins gave me indoor flip-flops. I didn't expect that and I feel so bad for not preparing decent gifts for them. :(

Then, I helped Grandma to do salad for the dinner. For lunch, I had some soup. Then, I was helping my aunt and Grandma in the kitchen preparing Christmas dinner. :) I loved working in kitchen. It reminds me of how I used to help my mom and sis-in-law occasionally back home. I saw how they roast turkey and do gravy. Indeed, I did the gravy and helped mashing the potatoes.

My very first Christmas dinner was amazing. We took our food and sat down in the table. After everyone got their food, we prayed and wished the best for the people who couldn't make it for the dinner. Then we ate. It was so nice to get together and have dinner. This reflects the strength behind you is your family. Wow! It was just a very good day. :)

Sunday, December 25, 2011

First Holidays away from home _Day 6

24th December 2011:

Christmas Eve!!

I woke up in the morning and went down for breakfast. I had some milk and cereal. :)

Then, my uncle and I went to pick up Grandma from ferry terminal. She lives in Vancouver Island and coming home for Christmas. My uncle brought me around a town called Tsawwassen and we drove until the USA-Canada border. It was nice small road trip actually. Tsawwassen is a small town with flat land. Then we saw the coal harbor, where coal from Canada is transported worldwide through big cargo ships. The beach in Tsawwassen seems very pretty during summer. So, I can't wait to go there next summer.

After picking up Grandma, we went back home. Then we headed to Richmond Centre, a shopping mall for last minute Christmas shopping.:) We ate lunch in the food court. A surprise happened to me in the mall. When my uncle was taking a picture of me in front of the big Christmas tree , the Santa was right behind me in the picture, which I didn't realize until my uncle says thank you to the Santa. It was just unbelievable how lucky I was. :)

At night, we went to a Unitarian church for Christmas eve celebration.

Unitarian: " We are a community of diverse beliefs and shared values. In fellowship with one another, we seek spiritual growth, social justice, and environmental sustainability through worship, ethical action, education, and artistic expression. We welcomed all who would join this compassionate and visionary community." << right from the pamplet :P

The celebration was amazing! We sang few Christmas carols. I can only recognise "silent night" and "we wish you Merry Christmas" . My favourite was "Deck the Halls". Then we had seasonal reading and a little meditation in the end. We lit up candles in the end before singing the last carol. It was such a nice atmosphere, when everyone in the building gathered to celebrate one event with unity regardless of anything. I was just amazed and realised that celebrations are social constructed events which are meant for unity and joy.

On the way back home, we went around the neighbourhood, looking at the houses decorated with lovely Christmas lights. It was so beautiful.

The highlight of the night: we played monopoly. Although I bankrupted in the end, but playing it was so fun. I remember how my cousins and I back in Malaysia used to play it all the time when we have family gatherings. It was so nice and I have no words to describe the joy I felt today!

First holidays away from home_ Day 5

23rd December 2011

Today I didn't so much. I just went to my uncle's place in Richmond from North Vancouver. I left my friend's place after lunch. She drove me to the sea bus terminal. That is very kind of her. I am really grateful to have such good friends. :)

First time getting into a sea bus. Well, its like ferry but its smaller than that. Initially I thought of reading my newly borrowed book during the trip, but I ended up looking at the window with awe and taking photos. I wonder how others would have thought about me. But, I don't care. :P

The trip wasn't that long. I reached Vancouver and I thought of going around the streets there to see how the Christmas preparation is going on in the west world. But it started drizzling and I don't want to bring my big luggage around too. So I decided to head towards my uncle's place in Richmond using sky train from the Waterfront station, which is in the same building as the sea bus terminal.

On the way, I decided to drop by a mall called Oakridge mall to get a box chocolates to my uncle's family. I went into the mall and hunting for the chocolates. I got a birthday card to my niece,who is turning 3 and debating whether to get her a toy or a dress. Well, I should decide before boxing week.:)

The atmosphere in the mall was great. Everyone was high in Christmas spirit and the line ups were so crazy. I wonder how it would be during boxing day though. The mall was decorated nicely and there was a photo shooting with Santa session in the mall. I took few pictures in the mall.

Then, BAM I am in Richmond. My uncle fetch me from the train station and we went to grocery shopping. This reminds me of Deepavali shopping I used to do with my mom and dad. Old good times.

Back home, I was welcomed warmly by my aunt. We ate dinner and I showed them my family photos. Then we planned what we can do during this break. I am so excited. :)

Its time to go for bed.

Thursday, December 22, 2011

First Holidays away from home_ Day 4

22nd December 2011

Fourth day:

Day started off as usual with breakfast. Vanessa made me scrambled eggs and I made myself a toast. I know that this is not a big deal. :P

Then we did dish washing together. It was so much fun. The work was done faster too. I had good time doing it as it reminds of me doing dishes back at home. :)

Then we relaxed a while because we are going to go to Vanessa's family friend's house after lunch. Vanessa's mom went to work, so we had to do our own lunch. Guess what was our lunch: last night's salad roll and ice cream. :D Ice cream tastes great with cakes! You definitely should try it. :P

Then Mr.Bob picked us up and we headed to their house in Burnaby. We took a highway and it wasn't that long, probably 20-25 minutes and this is because we had stop in a vet clinic on the way. Or else, I bet it will take shorter.

Today is their youngest daughter's birthday. She is turning to 4 today. That is exciting. Her name is Ella and she reminds me of my nieces. She is so cute too as them.

Next, we walked to Burnaby Village Museum to see the old fashioned Christmas celebration and carousel riding. The place has few building which look like the buildings in a little village in the past and it portrays how the first village in the town would have looked like. It was more awesome with Christmas spirit.

The highlights of the place:
-> you can know how an old town in Burnaby or in British Columbia would have looked like.

-> You can see the father of Christmas ( now we call him as Santa Claus). Its pretty classic.

->You can visit a model of old house.

-> There is a guy who sings the Christmas songs and spice up the spirit. :)

-> Carousel riding! Even adults can do it and its pretty fast too. I enjoyed it very much.

I must thank Morrie and Sigrid for the wonderful outing and dinner!

What's next? We walked back home and then played. I didn't know that I could play with a 4 year old kid without getting bored easily. Then we had dinner and saw shows put up by Stephanie and her friend! Cake cutting ceremony and we had Christmas crackers. I don't know how to describe them. It was fun. Finally, we had presents opening sessions. It was something really different from Malaysia, where we don't open the gifts in front of the guests but here its opposite. It was great actually!

That's all for today. I am so tired and gonna snuggle my pillow now.

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

First holidays away from home_Day 3

21st December 2011.

Today was so awesome!

Morning wake up call from home! Skyped with them randomly as early as 7 am! This was not planned! It was so awesome. My youngest niece called me aunt!! Oh yeah! :)

After refreshing myself, I went upstairs for breakfast! Vanessa (my friend) served me breakfast!
I ate cereal with milk while reading Vancouver Sun for the first time! :)

Later, Stephanie's friends came over. (Stephanie is my friend- Vanessa's sister) . Then we wanted to do some Christmas baking, and browsed through the recipe books. Unfortunately, we didn't have ingredient to do gingerbread house and the time was so limited. Then, Vanessa's mom had this ready make ginger bread dough and all we need to do is bake it. So, we did that. :)
It was my first time to do gingerbread man! Because it was ready made, we couldn't mold the dough, so it wasn't a real gingerbread man. :( The process of doing it was fun!

Next, we decorated the Christmas tree. Wait, this sounds so plain. It wasn't an easy nor plain work to decorate the tree. First, Vanessa's mom put on Michael Buble's Christmas songs as background music and Vanessa brought us the ornaments. The atmosphere was so nice and christmassy!! :P Stephanie's friends were there too. Then, we had some photo shooting sessions to capture the moments. Vanessa and her sister wore their first ballet performance costume.

Mission one completed. Then what? Lunch time! We had cheese sandwiches with salad and sparkling apple juice. After an hour, we walked around the neighbourhood. We went down to Vanessa's elementary school and Edgemont Village , which is a small commercial place. It was decorated with light and everyone is in holidays mood! Then we went to North Vancouver library and spent an hour there. I borrowed a book called "Chicken Soup for the Soul- O Canada" to learn about the culture and lifestyle of the people in Canada!

Then we walked back home. Guess what today was the first day of Winter and it was shortest day of the year. Yeay! After a nice hot shower, I went upstairs and had dinner with Vanessa, Stephanie and Vanessa's mom. :) She did Udon soup and prepared Vietnamese salad roll. Stephanie did the dip sauce and Vanessa put the salad roll pieces together. It was a great dinner. I have never eaten both dishes. One thing I realised is that Canadians' culture is being multicultural even at home.:)

Then we had another movie night again- The Letters to Juliet. It was a good romantic story. A qoute I like the most, " I am madly, deeply, truly and passionately in love with you." Ha ha ha. It was a very beautiful scene. You should watch it! if you haven. That's all for today. Oh yeah, I totallt forgot about this. I had good night call from home too. Aww.. :)

Its quite late now and I have to be in bed soon as tomorrow we have even more stuffs to do! Oh yeah! Till then folks take care.

First holidays away from HOME!_ Day 2



What did I do on the second day of the holidays?

Well on 20th December, 2011

Woke up in the morning.
Went to see the student advisor regarding second term courses.
Met my friend, Ahrthyh and spent an hour and half with her.
Then came back and did the laundry, remaining cleaning and express packing for my winter break!
My friend's mom fetched my friend and I from the residence.
Went to a japanese restaurant in 4th Avenue for dinner.
Here I go to North Vancouver past Downtown, Stanley Park and Lion gated bridge! It was so colourful and beautiful! I loved it so much.
Settled down in my friend's place, went around her house!
Movie night--> Get smart!

Had an awesome day and pumped for the 3rd day! :)

First holidays away from HOME!_ Day 1

Hi there,

Guess what? I am done with my first term in university and 1/8 of the way to my first degree. Oh yeah, sounds great. Anyways I never regretted that time flies because I did so much fun, crazy and serious stuffs in first term as I have mentioned in earlier posts.

Back to my holidays, do you wanna know how it went? It starts from 2.30pm on 19th December 2011 after my physics finals! The test was terrible though. Oh well, it is over and I don't want to talk about it. Lets move on to the first day.

19th December 2011,

1) Cleaned my room about 50% of it.

2) Went to dinner with my seniors to red robins and we were supposed to go to an event in Stanley Park. But because we ended up eating so long (the burger was too big for me!), we didn't go there.

3) Instead we went to Downtown Vancouver to watch movie- Sherlock Holmes. That was so random actually. Before watching the movie, we went strolling down the streets and had great photo shooting session! I hope they are not in facebook.

I came back at 3 o'clock in the morning because of the movie. The Christmas and holidays atmosphere in Vancouver and Canada in general was so good! Now I have the Christmas spirit too! Oh yeah!


That's how the first day was!

Friday, December 9, 2011

Exam but its holidays!

Hello there,

How are you been doing? Well, I am pretty good. Just little sad that 1/8 of my university life in Canada is going to end soon, in two weeks. :(

But its ok! I had done so many new things this term and I am really satisfied! By the way, today is my first niece's and first nephew's birthday! They are turning to 10 and 7 respectively! I am so happy for them! May God bless them. I just skyped with them, Hell yeah, I miss the great birthday atmosphere back at home. But, I am glad that I could actually join the celebration virtually! Thank to these technologies. :)

Oh yeah, I am done with all the lectures in the university and having exam period now. Two papers: psychology 101 and chemistry 121 are done! These are my one of most favourite subjects. I have done my best and keeping my fingers crossed now! Well, three more papers to go: Biology 112, Math 100 and Physics 107! Wish me luck peeps.;)

Well, I am signing off now. Have a great day ahead, people!

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Random!


Hi there,




How are you doing? I am doing great here. My first term is over and now I am waiting enthusiastically to end my finals and looking forward to next term, where I planned to do a lot of interesting stuffs. Well, let's wait and see how things go next year.



This was totally random. I thought about this when I was walking back to my room after my math class. What triggered me to think the following was my friend's text message. How she was happy to read my previous post. So yeah.




This is what I was thinking about:




This is what I told to people back at home,

I won't be back till 2015,
Bet that they will miss me so much,
I will overcome that feeling easily soon,
Now when I am walking alone,
All I can think is about home,



What would be kids doing?

What did mom cook?
What is my dad up to now?
Who is carrying Dayalienie?



Two more weeks I will be done with finals,

Now what?
Break?
Hibernation?
Social life?
Fun?
and fun without them?



Oh no!




Khugaan, Subhatra, Vasundthra

Jananie, Dayalienie and Visvarupa
The precious jewels in my heart.
What would holidays be without them by me?




This is when I thought

Why not I fly back to home during winter,
Home is not as near as 5km,
19 hours of flight,
I have better choice than that.
Enjoy the winter!



I bet one day I will bring them here and show the places that I have been.

Relive the moments with them again.



I miss home badly!! :''( and I am so sad that 1/8 of University life is gone, but no worries, I did so many things in that period.




So bye bye 1st term and welcome new term. Let's get it started!! :)




Signing off and till then take care folks.





Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Finally cleared from CONFUSION!




Hello,

How are you doing people? I hope you are doing great! No matter what, do not worry because everything will be alright at a point in your life. Do not wait for the time to come, but make it happen. I know that you can do it.

Past few days, probably few weeks I was in a big dilemma and confusion. I was doubting my own believes and thoughts. Apparently, I learned that the more I read, the more I talk and the more people I meet, I will allow myself some space to doubt my own thoughts due to other people's belief. That is not bad actually. Indeed, it increases the strength of my belief eventually.

I have to confess that I am not knowledgeable in religious topics, but I have a great faith in God. In my opinion, religion is something very abstract and it is created by man for man in order to make this earth as a place that can be lived in comfort. Yet, I will not deny that the knowledge in religion is very vital because this knowledge shapes one from being a blind follower to a person who is aware about what he is doing certain things.

Now, you might ask me, what was your confusion? My confusion was why we need to have religious knowledge when I believed that having strong faith in God is sufficient enough. The irony is that, in the name of God, people fight, people go for war, people discriminate and people do all sorts of crazy stuffs. How knowing religious knowledge can help to prevent all this when most people who misuse the name of God are the ones that have read the scriptures of their religions?

This leads to the common confusion, why do God let all this happen? Does He exist? If He does, why not He stops all this. By questioning my belief that I held for 19 years, I finally got the answer.


All these things happen not because there is no God. But, it is due to the religion and its people. I know that I am making a strong statement here. Who said that God is favourable to people who praises and glorify him all day? Who said that God is bias towards his devotees and will only help them? If this is true, then people whom suffer from war and discrimination do not pray to God? Or the ones who discriminate them do not believe in humanity?


God in Tamil is said as "kadavul" which means beyond and within. It was an ancient name for Lord Shiva "http://www.experiencefestival.com/kadavul". Well, that is the literal meaning of it, yet people can interpret it differently.

My basic understanding of this word: Kadavul is someone who is beyond you but within you. Confusing right? Now you know why I end up being confused. :P

Coming back to this serious topic, He is beyond me but within me? How is that possible? This is where now my belief is strengthen so much.
Lord is nowhere else but in oneself through his self realization, his activities and his thoughts. He is beyond the access of the conscious mind. That is why I say that Lord is beyond you but within you. But if He is my activities, how come he can't be accessed through my conscious mind might be your next question. I can highly guess it.

Well, don't worry about this. I was confused too. Later I realized that one can access Him. How? By realizing that He is within you. It is not easy to realize that when people around you see God as one who is separate from you. In fact, God is your soul. He is you and you are Him. The power is inside you, through your actions, thoughts. That is how I believe "the law of attraction" came about too. Utilizing the power of your thoughts, which is believed to be as strong as a magnetic interaction. In order to realize Him, cleanse your thoughts and always act in a way that can benefit the world. There is no point of being very religious but do less good deeds. That is why religion is created, to cleanse people's thoughts by saying that you will be punished by an Ultimate power if you are not behaving properly. Eventually, people learned to forget that the ultimate power is within oneself. When they become corrupted, they are destroyed by their own deeds( the ultimate power within them). After all, what goes around, comes around.

Now, the discussion has become far more complicated that I have thought. I know that this is a never-ending story that goes around all the time. All that you need at times is the faith. There are a lot of things that are not explained. Science is not all and all is not science. There are things beyond scientific explanations which just need some commonsense to understand it.

I wrote this solely on my personal opinion, so no offense please and leave a comment if you think that I am wrong.

That's all for the moment. These are the things that bottled up in myself for such a long time. I never thought that I will be writing this article for an hour on a week before my finals. :P

Take care people and may God bless you.

Sunday, October 9, 2011

LongBoat event!




Yo folks,

How are you doing so far? I am back again after few hectic weeks. I just finished the 1st wave of midterm in first year and I have another wave coming up pretty soon in two weeks time.

Last weekend, 1st &2nd Oct was a great weekend with completely new experience. I went to a longboat competition in Jericho Beach. The event is one of UBC Rec's annual activity and also it is the largest canoeing competition in North America.



There were several categories in the divisional longboat race. Some were representing their faculty, some were representing their residence and clubs in the race to name a few.I represented Seri Malaysia Club and we raced against other clubs in UBC! It was pretty fun and new experience.

I really loved the atmosphere in the competition. People were so crazy and random.

The participants were so pumped and super energetic. Some teams dressed up in 80's costume(the theme of the event). They were pretty cool though. Many had their faces painted with various designs. I had mine too. As a team, we painted in gold and black. It was really nice when everyone is participating and having the team spirit!



On the 1st day of the competition, we had heats and all there teams from Seri Malaysia Club was in the same heat. Literally, we had to compete among ourselves, but that didn't keep us away from having fun. I never minded whether we win or not, as long as I had a good time in the race.

We qualified for the finals. The hilarious part is that only Seri Malaysia Club Teams turned up in our category and it ended up racing among our 3 teams. My team was in second place and I was very happy. The game was very tiring but worth for its experience. This race reminds me about the importance of team work especially when we row the boat in synchronized motion. The boat moves quickly than the messed rows. LOL!



For me, it was all about the experience and having fun! No matter what the spirit lives on.

Malaysia Boleh! Seri Malaysia Club pun Boleh!!!

Have a good day.

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Vanier OLIMPICS!! 2011/2012

Hey,

I am back again. I hope you guys are wondering about the title of the post. I am gonna talk about a superb activity that I went to today. It is called as Vanier Olimpics. It is just like my primary school sports day with fun and silly games. It is just participated by old kids. LOL!

It was an event organised by my residence association, Place Vanier Residence Association (P.V.R.A). In the residence we have 12 houses or buildings namely Ross, Mackenzi, Robson, Hamber, Okanagan, Kariboo, Korea U, Tec and so on. Every two houses are in a team. Mine was with Mackenzi. My team is called as MackRoss.

We are the blue team and each team had their own colour. There were red, orange, yellow, green and black. We simply cheered and participated in the games and collected points for our team. So, now let me tell you what we did.

Early in the morning, at 8 am, the residence advisors a.k.a team leaders knock everyone's door and wake them up, so that we will join the event. Then I came down to the house lounge and did some face painting with blue colour. That was fun. We painted each other's face. Hahaha.

Anyways, we were given breakfast- half muffin, fruit juice and hot chocolate. Wow it was pretty tasty. Then we gathered in front of the house field and practiced our enterance dance. It was cool. One of the advisors did a rap song for the house and choreographed it. I had fun dancing. LOL!

Then we had our opening in the Vanier field (it was just a bigger field than the house field). Every team did their house enterance. Every team did it differently. Korea U just entered the field randomly from everywhere. It was pretty cool. Then RobKoot house sang a song in super big group. We went the last but I just feel that we rocked the stage.

Then we headed to the first station- human foosball. OMG! It was awesome. Some of my friends actually had their head knocked with the football. Pity them.
Second game was catching water balloon in bed sheet. Few people from the same floor hold a bed sheet together and catch the water balloon thrown by the opponents using a bed sheet. Then we have to shoot the water balloon to the opponents using the same bed sheet. The hard part was that we weren't allowed to see the opponents. It was a super nice experience.

Third game was called Under and Over if I am not mistaken. I don't really get what the game is about and just followed others. LOL! The last game was going through a spider web like thingy and flipping a mat with all your teammates on it. It was hilarious but we did it almost perfectly.In the end, we won third place and the BEST SPIRIT award. It was really fun and new experience.

I met more friends and learned some house cheers. One of the all time favourite is MackRoss is like a BOSS! Hahaha..

After the event, I had the best lunch so far. Guess what? It was Malaysian food- Roti Jala, chicken curry, currypuffs and keow teow goreng. Wow the curry was really tasty. I love it man. Thanks to Seri Malaysia Club. :)

That's all for the moment. Stay tuned for more experiences.


Have a good day ahead!

FUN! FUN! FUN!






End of 3rd week.

This week had been pretty busy. My time management was super bad and I was lost in most of my classes. It was really hard to catch up once I have slacked. Probably I will use this weekend to catch up with my stuffs. It is not easy to be top of everything while still trying to seek balance between life and study.


Although the week was busy with schoolwork, but I had fun too. Last Tuesday, we had Girls night cum biweekly meeting with Residence advisor of the Ross House of Place Vanier at the 2nd floor lounge. It was super different from other dorm meetings that I have been through so far. It was fun. We had chips and cookies. Thanks to my friend, Jasmine for sponsoring them for us. =) Then we did two activities. Initially I was taken aback with the idea. I thought "what the hell is going on here?" Do you want to know the activities?


Well, the 1st one was about writing on a manila card on the wall about what qualities you look for your partner. The 2nd one was to write pickup lines. Initially I felt awkward, but later I realised that it was a teen norm. LOL! We also did a jigsaw puzzle in the lounge with sisterhood qualities and our names. That was so sweet!


Friday, as usual I went to temple. This time I went to different temple with different senior, Tamil anna and my friend, Revii. The temple was inside a shop. I didn't feel weird indeed I was amazed with the temple. It was quite grand for a small community unlike in Malaysia, the Tamizhian population isn't many. I really liked the trip to temple although it was two hours long.



Tomorrow I have Vanier Olimpics. It like a sports day in the residence. I got to wake up early. So signing off now. Stay tuned for the next post.


p/s I didn't bring my camera when I was going to temple. =(




Sunday, September 18, 2011

Hello New Place?


Hi,

I am really sorry for the super late post. I was suppose to continue about CPU, but after such a long time I became lazy to talk about the past and doubtful to think about future. Therefore, I give you the present.

After my graduation from Canadian Pre-University, I had two months of fun with family and friends. Now, I am in Vancouver, the best city to live in the world.

Being a first year science student in a renown university, University of British Columbia makes me to feel proud, responsible and scary at the same time. However, a warm welcome by the university during one-day orientation called Imagine Day boosted my confidence.

I never knew about this place very much. I didn't do my homework well. I never researched about Vancouver properly. I just thought of diving into the new environment and then start swimming.

After being here in 3 weeks, I learnt a lot about this place and life.

1- Vancouver is the most beautiful city I have ever seen.

2- The campus is gorgeous and full of trees. You can literally take a documentary about plants in this campus.

3- The sunset in UBC is the most beautiful one from the little collections of sunsets that I have seen.

4- People are so diverse and friendly. They can be mean or rude also.

5- No chili sauce, only tomato ketchup. :( But Heinz tomato tastes good too.

6- No tissue, but napkin. There are plenty of works I used to use in Malaysia are never used here. I can't think of any now.

7- One card for all public transportation services-translink.

8- It is not easy to transit into a new environment, especially new country.

9- Malaysia is awesome.

10- The phone plan here is very complicated

11- Inspiration is everywhere and it depends on an individual where to find it.

12- Listen to your heart although mind speaks the logic.

13- Friends will be there when I need them.

14- When I am lost, there will be at least another person in the same boat. After all, life is SIMPLE!

15- Home is just a call away.

16- Friends are just a text away. :P

17- Finally, I learnt that my heart lies here and I will definitely rock it.

p/s the building in the picture is one of the oldest building in the campus.

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Awesomeness of CPU I


Semester one in Canadian Pre-University (July 2010 - Dec 2010)-Part 1

The awesome experience started on July 10th 2010. It was the registration day. I was little nervous to study in Subang Jaya for all the negative comments I received from people around me about the lifestyle in Subang Jaya. Then, as time goes, I figured that it depends on the people in that city to choose how to live. After all, I shouldn't have let the prejudice about the place to haunt me even before I go to that place. If you are going to a new place, keep your mind open and ready to accept any chances readily.

During the registration day, I saw people from all walks of life. It was intimidating to see a lot of smart people around me. That was a terrifying experience for me even until now. Very less people around me smiled, they were serious and were too smart looking for me (no offense my friends). Now, when I think about that day, Oh Lord, I realise how timid I have been and CPU took only one year to change me and give me the self-confidence. That's the power of Canadian Pre-University of Taylor's College.

After all the registration formalities and speech, we were brought to our accommodation, Casa Subang, an apartment which is 15 minutes away from college (if there is no traffic jam). While waiting for the transportation, I talked with my two new friends from Sarawak. One was from Kuching and the other one eventually turned out to be my housemate in Casa Subang. That was a good chit chat about how we ended up in Taylor's College.

After having a good introduction with my another housemate in the apartment, I started unpacking all my stuffs. I was so excited until I did all the arrangement on that night itself.
The next day, we went for shopping in Mydin. That was my first time going to Mydin in Subang, when everything seems new, everything went wrong at the same time. Maybe that was the first time I am shopping myself without my parents. I really wished that they were around, at least my mom, so that I don't have to think things like which brand I should choose and so on.

The next day, first Monday in Subang, I expected massive traffic jam, so I took the earliest shuttle bus to college for the orientation. After reaching college I realised that it was not a very smart decision after all. I reached college like 2 and 1/2 hours earlier than the time orientation starts and I don't know what to do. I sat on a beach near The Web and start falling asleep. That's bad if you fall asleep on the first day of your college. There was an advantage too. I got an opportunity to meet my old school friend in the college. He was doing A-levels.

During orientation, we were given a chance to meet with a lot of people under one roof. I wasn't talking much, but much more were observing people. As I have said, the prejudice about the people and the place prevented me from mixing with new people. I always had the fear to talk with people. But not anymore, after a year in CPU. We had a lot of activities. Out of all the activities, I enjoyed the Time Management seminar from Mr.De , one of the awesome lecturer in CPU, the most. His tips on time management really helped me a lot. It was superb, fantastic and great.

Orientation went on well, I met quite a number of new friends. In the end of the day, I was skeptical whether I can survive through this program for year. After all, I set my mind to accept any obstacles that comes in the pathway to finish this program well. So many of them have done it, why not me. Always I keep these words in my mind: Nothing is impossible.

continue...

Saturday, June 25, 2011

End of another chapter and starting of a new one.

Today standing in front of my mirror and looking at me made me to realise that I have changed a lot. I don't know whether that is for good or not. Again, when I looked into my eyes, I feel more confident for what I am now. I wouldn't be who I am now if I was not studying in Canadian Pre-University (ICPU) in Taylor's College.

I have just graduated from my Canadian Pre-Univeristy programme on 24th June. During the graduation, just like other graduates I also had mixed feelings of excitement, happy, sad and nervous. Not only my friends and lectures in CPU but also because of my family, I was able to make all the way up to this stage. Thank you very much everyone.

Today I was reading my CPU yearbook and reflecting on the awesome memories I have had in Taylor's College. Although CPU wasn't easy, it was definitely FUN! The awesome lectures, hectic lifestyle in Subang Jaya with its massive traffic jam all the time, craziness in randomness with friends and the list can go on and on. Who would want to miss all those fun stuffs in CPU? CPU can't be described in words, you should experience it by yourself..

So, stay tuned for more CPU awesomeness.