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This is what I got from an email. Very funny! Merry Christmas to all!

I think it is merely an equation~~

Wow! Finally the last day of 2006, coming on the first day of 2007. Not a happy 2006 year though, with all those natural disasters happened last minute in the nick of time, as if to prove God is always there to punish on our human sins. The flood, not to far away from me, because my grandparents still worry they will stcuk in the heavy rain. They live in Johor, the area that still not yet affected by the great power of cats and dogs. But half way to their house was quite adventurous, according to my little sister, who experienced the first ever water coming into the car during the journey. I was exceptional, as I won't be home for Christmas, missing the trip to my grandparent's house. I hope the clouds will clear soon, and not coming to Penang for God's sake, 'coz I'll be in Penang until my mid semester holiday and Chinese New Year. Chinese belief water brings money and prosperity, hope this blood brings some good in the coming new year.

haha! Last friday, which is Dong Zhi (the coldest day in winter), I went bowling with Siew Ling, Lian Huey and Zui Yu. 3 out of 4 of us, this is the first time we play bowling! And when we get there, we didn't even know the rules of paying the games, haha! And the ball, huh, the lightest ball is also very heavy! My ball alllll went into the 'longkang'! We played two games, first game, I got the lowest mark, 36 only, second game I became the highest! Duno why, but although I strike once, but my strength is still not enough, coz my ball 'walk' slowly towards the end of the pin! My 'coach' siew ling said, your aiming is good, work up your strength. I said, man, if I could play hard, I will. The commentator, also Siew Ling, said that all of the players have good potential, only need more training! Wow! We're pro, man! But not enough $$$ to invest in training, that's all. A special experience of bowling! Next time, better try ice skating before getting to...

Fairuzizuan-Pei Tty upstaged the top Korean pair of Lee Jae-jin-Lee Hyo-jung in a quarter-final match in Doha last night. Fairuzizuan-Pei Tty defeated the world number eight 22-20, 11-21, 21-13 to earn a place in the semi-finals against China’s Zheng Bo-Gao Ling. I watched the late night delay telecast. Oh no! Pei Tty is not very good in coordination with Fairu. Sometimes they clashed their rackets together. And she also made some mistakes that shouldn't be made. But maybe Lee Jae-jin was making mistakes as much as in the early match with Koo-Tan. So this gave Malaysian pair luck! And Lee Hyo-jung, although the Korean pair lost, but her back hand smash was awesome! She could back hand smashed until the shuttler was out! How powerful she is! Yeah! For now, we can also expect another medal from this mixed double! And who knows? Maybe this pair will create the history of clinching a medal in mixed double game.

I went to Kek Lok Si recently, nothing really changed. The visitors were mainly primary students with their teachers. And poor me, Siau Chee and Shun Yi became their protable human camera tripod for them! Haha! It's quite fun having children all around you. Made you think that you are old (?!) and you still own the something tiny childish thing in you. Here's a few photos of us. Besides being others human tripod, we took our own shots. The left is the only picture with three of us! haha! The right is the Kek Lok Si pagoda and I! Admire our skills to shot it in the same frame?! Haha! We are the best photographers!

Actually a good movie should not be reviewed. We have less words that we could use when come to giving credits to someone or something. So does this course, LHP 459, that I took. At first, I took this course, out of good reputation from the previous year, when my coursemates took it as part of our major papers. Out to our surprise that this course is not even boring! So, they had tried, we have a good profile, so I go for it this year. Luckily this course conducted this year did not let me down at all. I still enjoy what they had enjoy, pleasure through learning, a precious element that seldom exist in english learning course, as far as I experienced, haha! I enjoyed this course. The movie reviewing, the lyrics making, the sharing opinion part is what that kill me most. I dislike expressing in public, so, this is the part that I need to overcome my own fear to meet the course requirement. But the learning surrounding was great. My classmates, luckily, didn't create a so-called comp...

Huh! I had the worst day in this semester yesterday! I had to meet two assignments yesterday, one is for my Japanese minor course, which was to prepare specific vocabulary for a special field, another one is for Sociolinguistic. Huh! Then the debate! I can’t even debate in my own mother tongue well, and now in English! Our group’s topic is homosexuality should be excepted or not? I think I did well, ‘coz I didn’t pause too long or stumble. Later in the evening, test for Semantics. At last, another interview, two in a week roll. Huh! Luckily I survived after these terrible nightmares! Haha! At last no assignments awaiting me! Heeeee! Oops! I forget about LHP459 final project! Next week, the last to conquer!

When You Believe -by Mariah Carey & Whitney Housten. whitney Many nights we've prayed with no proof anyone could hear In our hearts a hopeful song We barely understood Now we are not afraid Although we know there's much to fear We were moving mountains Long before we knew we could There can be miracles When you believe Though hope is frail It's hard to kill Who knows what miracles You can achieve When you believe Somehow you will You will when you believe mariah In this time of fear When prayer so often proves in vain Hope seemes like the summer birds Too swiftly flown away Yet now I'm standing here With heart so full I can't explain Seeking faith and speaking words I never thought I'd say whitney and mariah There can be miracles when you believe Though hope is frail It's hard to kill Who knows what miracles You can achieve When you believe Somehow you will You will when you believe... Hebrew Children A-shi-ra la-do-nai ki ga-oh ga-ah (I will sing to the...

Independence , as defined, is the state of being obtained freedom from political control by other countries. Independence Day is the Day we celebrate our country obtained freedom from the colonization government. But for me, independence has something more than this definition, and Independence Day is more than just watching parade and ceremony each year, or just enjoy another day off. Malaysia celebrates it 49 th Independence this year. For people, 49 th years old are the golden ages which represent the best performance year of life. A person at this age has polished up his skills, has ‘learnt things from the hard way’ and has great experiences, has good connections and relationship with others. Malaysia as a nation also has these criteria to make this time as our ‘golden age’. This is the time to make a difference, whether as a person or a nation. Malaysians should be ‘independent’ in the mind state, which is not relied on others when Malaysia is in trouble. Actually in...

» It begins... Imagine a world in which Alchemy is not only possible, but used frequently. Alchemy, though, is a science, and with all sciences there are laws that must be followed. Welcome to the anime, Full Metal Alchemist. The story begins about two brothers, Alphonse (left) and Edward (right) Elric. Ever since they were young they had practiced the science of alchemy. You follow their journey of being alchemists and their quest to regain that which they have lost. Their father was a well recognized alchemist, which is probably where their knack for it comes from. However, when they were young their father left, and they remained in the care of their mother. One day their mother died, and in their innocence and ignorance, they attempted what was forbidden, human alchemy. What happened next, they were obviously not prepared for, and in the aftermath the brothers lost more than just their mother. In the freak accident Alphonse loses his body, and in a moment of panic Edward ties his b...

For me, the biggest achivement would be peace. After the incident May 13, we never have any riot or war in our country. Whether it is all hidden, waiting for another explotion, or actually Malaysians are really living in harmory only God knows. But at least we display such a image: Peace! (They kept saying that even US can't do this.) Another achivement would be the education and economic policy that bring Malaysians progress in a big step. Now, at least a kid can obtain 11years of free education, (or at least cheap). The per capita income of Malaysians is average according to UN's standard. Almost every Malaysians can earn a living, (except those 'great' undergraduates). Almost no starving cases occured. I think this meant a lot to me, because there are still many starving people around the world. But there is still something bad Malaysia has achived. The bad influence from the West, violence, increasing in crime rate, even accident rate is the highest among the world....

A superb movie! I'm actually a fan of musical movie, and this movie is my favourite of all. Imagine there are a group of children singing in front of you, and their voices are angels' voices! Actually I should talk about bully and discipline, but I always think that using violence to control violence is nonsence. The principle in the movie used 'action-reaction' to control the children. In my opinion, this would only encourage the children to use violence to settle problems, to handle frustration and to express their feelings. I would not justify this kind of act, although it is always 'for your own good'. Another thing that made this movie enjoyable is the music. Music can heel the hurt. This is best represented in this movie. The students earned respect through their love in music. I also think that this movie is based on the theme of 'action-reaction'. In the case of Mordan, the villain. He came back to burn down the school because he hate his princi...

Actually I’m quite satisfied with Malaysian’s English proficiency. We have many elderly that could speak well English because of colonial education system. We may say that nowadays the youth could not speak English well, but we are evaluating them using native speakers’ scale. We are not native speaker of English, but why can’t the Malaysian tolerate with our less-perfect English? It may because half of Malaysian using English as their education medium. So, they treat themselves and other half of Malaysian as English native speaker. So, they grade those who could not speak and write well as low proficient in English. Yeah, maybe indeed we don’t speak and write good English, (indeed good is not enough, because I once had a teacher saying that the language used in local press were dull) but we are progressing, in our small way. As we look at most of the Japanese, they do not speak well in English (maybe they write well, but who knows?), but they do not feel ashamed of themselve...

Every media is criticizing our undergraduates do not have ‘soft skills’. The media claims that the reason our graduates unemployed is that our graduates do not know how to communicate with other people, to cooperate with team members, to sell themselves as a product in the real world. ‘Soft skill’, as defined, is the ability to communicate effectively, build rapport, persuade people of your position or ideas without alienating them, get along with a wide variety of people, be an effectively contributor on teams, and lead teams to achieve exceptional results. ‘Soft skill’ for me, is actually the wisdom of life. We cannot learn it from book, maybe we know the theories of it, but it is another thing when we practice it. The reason our grads lacking this ‘soft skill’ is that our grads are overprotected by all parties, including their parents, schools and also government. Since when finding a job became an national issues? Our nation also suffered a few economic crisis throughout hist...