Busy week ahead. Oy!

I've been really busy lately. Didn't have the time to update my blog properly.

Anyway, first up; my 19th birthday. I had to attend an extended tutorial class but we watched a movie that day so it's alright. I was dead tired by the end of my tutorial though, but I managed to stay awake for dinner with my family. The usual celebration(I wouldn't call it a celebration by now), with the family. But I am satisfied with celebrations like that, after all, I don't really have the luxury to have a mega celebration with my tasks screaming for my attention.

But the day after, I managed to celebrate my birthday with one of my favourite people, which is my bestie:) Since she wasn't around last year to celebrate my birthday with me and since I do not have much time last year to celebrate my birthday(but I did went for dinner with my favourite peeps from college), she insisted on celebrating my birthday with me this year and thank goodness for the Malaysia Day break, I have enough time for another round of celebration. More like a good catch up with the bestie!=)

We had Japanese for dinner(I love going for Japanese whenever I go out with the bestie) and we went Starbucking after that since we both wanna catch up on more stuff.

Thank you bestie, for the birthday treat!^^

And so sorry about your gramps. He's in a better place now.

Received tonnes of birthday wishes some of them were extremely pleasantly touching=') A good friend of mine wrote me a card which I find it really sweet of him to do so=)

So yeah, enough with the birthday cause I'm more excited about the datelines of my assignments, which matters more to me now. On my birthday I handed in my proposal for my Community Mental Health workshop project! So one down god knows how many more to go since yesterday Dr Alia decided to give us another assignment to do since she realized that we didn't read the journals that we are supposed to read before every lesson, hence we have another assignment to work on. Oh well.

I did my job analysis observation last Friday and today. I saw how much the kids that I used to teach months ago grow not only physically but mentally.

They were so eager to get their photographs taken by me. When I took out my camera, they started positioning themselves in front of me to get their photographs taken.

I saw how lil Jolyn taught her classmate how to work on her task when she's done with hers and how lil Yong Yuin helped Vee Lynn who was late to school since she only came during break time, by carrying her bottles for her when she's done eating. These kids are so eager to help each other. And I also spot how they develop in their fine and gross motor skills which includes organizing things.

I also realize that, I begin to look at things in a more psychological way. Without me realizing me, I try to find reasons to why certain people behaves in a certain way especially little children since I'm learning about their stage in my Development Psych class and I am trying to relate them to what I'm learning right now. Which is really fun.

But of course I don't study anyone or everyone. Somehow, it just hit me to relate things that I'm learning with the things that I'm experiencing right now.

Handed in my Social Psych essay yesterday, and it feels good to get another assignment done and handed in=) I think this week is one of my busiest week so far. I had quizzes to study for(which I didn't really do so), brain storming session to do(Jyun and I didn't managed to come out with any conclusion out of our brain storm session), assignments datelines to meet(two of them are due next week), and a symposium to attend tomorrow! Yay?=s

I went to this lantern festival celebration last week at the kindie and it's like one of those time where I get the chance to chill for a bit.

I love the new twitter!^^ And I think I am not the only one who is swamped by uni tasks, cause I know STPM and SPM peeps are busy with their exams preparation, so good luck guys! And I also know that my other uni mates will be sitting for their mid terms this month, good luck to you guys too. To my friends who just started their course, HAVE FUN? =)

Yeah, I added that smiley so I don't sound too unconvincing. Tee hee!=p

Keep holding on

Last day being EIGHTEEN

This will be my very last post while I'm still eighteen.

I about 4 hours time, I'm no longer a kid. And though it doesn't make any difference since I've been treated like an adult since I left high school.

What's my plan tomorrow and whether I'll be celebrating, I really have no idea about that. Though I really miss my mates from Taylors a heaps load and my besties, but with the assignment submission dates so nearby each other, sighs. You guys know what I mean by that. I am almost done with some of them, but there are more datelines to meet.

So, I am gonna see what is up for me tomorrow and just go with the flow? After all, I havta spend half of my day at campus tomorrow and my tutorial class will be an hour or so longer. Meh. Good thing we are only watching a movie tomorrow for our Social Psych tutorial class. But I have Organisational Psych tomorrow! BOO!=(

IO, please spare me tomorrow. Pretty please?

I have this extremely nagging feeling within me that I have to get something done, but I do not know what is it about. It's really annoying cause I can't stop thinking about it!

Fairy tales?

Why am I not the messiest person you know or the nest person you know:

I am working on my assignment, hence that explains the messiness.

I usually leave my table in that condition for a while before I decided that it's such an eyesore=X And fyi, I don't sleep with those books scattered on my bed.

But my other babies in my room are pretty much organized, alongside with my other shelves in my room.

I went to the bookfest last week and I had fun shopping for novels to add them into my collection. I finally settled down with 12 books(one for my lil bro since I am still trying to instill the reading habit in him) and it costs me a total of RM200+ all together which is reasonably cheap.

So far I managed to finish reading Water by Bapsi Sidhwa which is an amazing book based on the life of the widows in India back then. And I am almost done reading Silent Boy by Torey Hayden. I thought that would be the one and only Torey Hayden's book that I haven't read but I saw a new release of her books being sold, but they are pretty costly, hence I am gonna get those later.

My sister on the other hand is still into Jacqueline Wilson's book and although she's already 14 years old, she shows no interest to other genres, which includes chic lit books, classical, fantasy, or horror. She still in her teenage book reading phase despite of the constant attempts to get her to read a more mature books/genre. But heck, she doesn't even understand the content of those simple classical stories, it deemed too complicated for her apparently=___= Oh well.

So yeah, I should stop ranting about books. I have a fetish for them, so don't mind me.

My cousin sis is back from the UK and she bought me a new backpack! She's gonna get married really soon since her boyfriend can't wait to settle down. To be honest, I find it really sad. Since weddings never seemed to leave that "living happily ever after" impression to me ever! No joke, and I ain't gonna exaggerate or trying to. I personally feel, view, and think weddings are the mark to the end of someone's life especially when they decided to get married at such young age or immediately after they've graduated.

I always see there's so much for everyone and anyone to do besides marriage. Especially when they are done with their studies, there'll be so much more to look forward to and marrying just sorta put an end to it. And when the lil ones emerges in their life, there mark another HUGE and MAJOR responsibility and more headaches that will troll along with them. So yeah, I find marriage depressing=X

Even my girlfriend agrees with me on that:

Moon Willow: "HAHA!! OMG Lynnie!! I drag my feet to a wedding, cross my arms and scowl the deepest scowl I can give :P We're funny aren't we :) I'd rather a masquerade party anyday, would go as a sexy zombie :P And I HATE WEDDINGS :) Haha. Too cheesy :/ Let's elope ;)"

So yeah, I don't think there's anything "magical" or fairy tale-ish about weddings. Well, I did mentioned about that in my previous post when I attended some chinese weddings and I havta drag myself to that event out of respect.*rolles eyes*

I hereby quote my bestie, "Not every girl dreams of a white wedding. Not every girl believes in fairy tales."

Dr Priya laughed at my statement when she asked us about our schemes on weddings. I mentioned, "It's the end of your life." But most people still find it really weird when I don't favor weddings or marriage and don't even believe in them. My aunts almost always ask me about it. That thought of mine hasn't been changing since I hit my teenage and it remains the same for I can't see what is so nice about marriage, since to me it's just a piece of paper and I have had enough of watching people marrying for the sake of marrying or having to marry since they accidentally got themselves pregnant. So, practice birth control alryte? You don't want to make such decisions cause you have no way out. There is a way, but it's gonna be a looooong way. And who say there's a short cut in life anyway? Go for the long way if you must, then there'll be no regrets

About my week this time. Uhhhh..I remember the part where I had to do this career test and lawyer is in the list which is what I wanted to do before this but my parents weren't supportive about it hence I settle for this course and I am happy with my decision. Then there're other pretty weird jobs in the list and I didn't know there are such jobs exist or what are they supposed to do. Or I don't even bother thinking about pursuing them such as being a marine biologist. Runa and I got a rather similar code in the career test. And we are about to conduct a career test on some high school student later as part of our assignment. Wish I can't conduct the test on my brother though, since I know he, like me back then was clueless about what he should pursue after he's done with his high school.

Then there's this Vineland stuff that we learnt how to score. And that reminds me that I havta make an appointment with a "client" or "participant" to conduct an interview and there's another on the observation thing for my Organizational Psychology which I havta get them done son and I am sorta looking forward to them. We played a rather interesting game during our Social Psych tutorial class which involves a couple of silent kills and some stabbing at the backs here and there, not forgetting a lot of strategy planning and mental games/war going on between the few groups. I managed to get even but at the same time, I felt bad about it later

Another, I'll be turning 19 real soon. I didn't really give much thought about it but I have my mom and my bestie to remind me. Not sure what do I want for my 19th birthday though. I mean it's not something that I should ask. If God ask me, I'll ask Him stop violence against women.

That's all for now.

But before that,

If you ask me how's my Raya break like. I would tell you that I have no Raya breaks and it sucks when I can't gain access to my uni library's database since my uni site decided to take a few days off to celebrate Raya *grumbles*

A woman

"Be very careful if you make a woman
cry, because God counts her tears. The woman
came out of a man's rib. Not from his feet to be
walked on. Not from his head to be superior, but
from the side to be equal. Under the arm to be
protected, and next to the heart to be loved."

Missing who?

Kids are quick

This week has been a rather interesting week. I was caught in the incredibly massive traffic jam for at least 2 hours for the very first time on Thursday since I decided to stay back to my group discussion alongside with the one hour of sleep before I decided to drag myself to campus the day before. How I miss those days where I can decide not to go to school just because I wanna sleep in. So tempted to tell mom that I have a massive headache(a lie of course) and I don't wanna attend Thursday's lecture and tutorial which is of course rather impossible, knowing that I have to finalize a few stuff with Aruna regarding to the interview which we are supposed to conduct on Friday.

So yeah, I managed to survive my week without sleeping properly(especially Thursday) and it's all thanks to the help of caffeine =p

Anyway, I can't really recall what happened on Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday. But I do remember what happened on Thursday and Friday. I finally met the bestie! She gave me my dosage of hope and the energy that I need for the next couple of hours that night. She still laughs at that humiliating incident which takes place in front of everyone 2 years back but at least I don't blush whenever she mentions that now. Gosh Davy, you will never leave that incident alone do you? I still love you regardless =)

Friday arrives and I receive a rather unexpected call from the kindergarten headmistress informing me that I have to get myself to the kindergarten in a few minutes to conduct the interview since the teachers will not be available after that. Quickly got myself ready, called Aruna for a few times before she finally texted me. Met the two very wonderful teachers who will be helping us with our interview. And after strings of questions and them putting up with our endless questions about their job(Thank you teachers!), the interview ended.

Stayed back for a while and entertained the kids. I used to spend my one month of break with them and now when I am back to the kindergarten after months, I do wonder if those kids will ever remember me. So lil Chloe and Michelle came into the room when I was half way interviewing the teacher, she greeted me and I looked up in surprise at the familiar voice and I saw Chloe staring at me, flashing me her shy smile and for a moment(a few seconds), I forgotten that I am conducting an interview since I got rather excited seeing lil Chloe again. But I managed to get my attention back to the interview of course. I'll be more than dead if the report didn't turn out right.

The other kids were having their mandarin class so they weren't in the same room when I conducted the interview(phew!). I decided to give the kids a surprise by standing by the door 10 minutes before they are done with their mandarin lesson(I can't be there earlier since they'll probably get distracted), and as I stepped into the other building, I saw a couple of them sitting quietly watching tv. It didn't occur to me that lil Gerard, lil Hui Sin, lil Eunice and the rest were the ones who were watching tv so attentively. But as I sat next to those kids, I saw those familiar faces and since I was sitting right next to Gerard, I managed to study his facial expression and he looked downright serious. For a while, I thought he has forgotten about me so I asked him, "Hey Gerard, remember me?" He looked up and there's this really furious look painted on his face. Thinking that he got mad at me for not informing them that I'll not be teaching them again, I decided to ask him what is wrong. Turns out that, he's furious at himself since he forgotten to bring along his shells to school. HAHA!

Caudia ran out and saw me. Began squealing with joy and after that she began chasing me around the room. The other kids who were staring at me when I was talking to Gerard stopped staring and decided to approach me. I have about 5 kids trying to bring me down by squashing me. Gerard forgotten that he's supposed to be mad at himself decided to join the fun. There were a lot of laughing and squealing from the kids and me but I havta stop them from being too loud since the 5 and 6 years old might find us rather distracting.

Read them stories and boy. I've forgotten how chatty some of them can be. I love to see their eager faces when they are trying to tell me something. Claudia on the other hand cannot sit still, as usual. And lil Jolyn was rather miffed at those kids for being so restless and it's so funny looking at Jolyn giving the other kids instructions when they barely listen to her. No wonder she began sulking. Lil Natalie got rather shy around me, which isn't surprising. But her vocabulary improves tremendously! She even grew taller! Even lil Jaslyn, got rather chatty.

I got Aidan's name mixed up. I called him Ethan instead of Aidan and he got rather mad at me. Whoops! My bad. I had so much fun being with them. Although it's only for a couple of minutes but they managed to distract me from thinking about the more serious stuff. Thank you little ones, you guys are amazing!

With the job analysis interview done and also the proposal for my workshop done, I feel a lil lighthearted. I am hoping that there'll be a couple of days break for us next week..=p

Happy birthday baby

Our baby turns 14 today!!!!

Yesh, she's our baby.

She will be our baby forever and ever amen.

She's my rather annoying lil sis, incredibly smart, painfully creative sis of mine.

I remember back in those days when we were younger, we used to argue A LOT!

You can hardly put us together in the same room(not joking/exaggerating).

But now that she's a teenager.

OMG! I am actually admitting that you are a teenager which is a miracle, since you've always been a baby to me.

Although we don't have a similar liking to almost anything from books to our dressing, but we share our clothes, she reads the books that I used to read back then, and now she began to take some interest in movies and music which she probably got influenced by my lil bro or her friends.

Our age gap weren't too far or too near, which allows us to share our experiences at school or the people that we managed to bump into.

Anyway, she's a really really sweet girl. And unlike me, she's soft spoken. Not at home though. I still love blackmailing her or bribing her into helping me to get certain things done. But at times she made me begged. Which I did actually.

So sorry about not wishing you when the clock strikes 12am last night. Will make it up for you soon! I promise.

Oh yeah, did I mention that this sis of mine is extremely calculative? She calculate practically everything that I do or don't do for her. She always has her ways to get me to buy things for her, since apparently, it's my responsibility being the eldest in the family to attend to some of her needs. Oh wells.

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY!

You are a teenager now, do act like one at home ok?

Kor didn't wish you either didn't he?=s

I reckon that my sis understand that I've been so caught up with my assignments that's why she didn't bother to give me a hint.

Fluffy lions

Fluffy lions!^^

Sunday...

I am patiently waiting for the arrival of the day.

I miss you heaps!

I hope to see you real soon!

♥

Hello September, goodbye August

Hello September!!!!

Owh man! This suck. Time flies and I just bid goodbye to August.

Sighs.

I am getting really fidgety thinking about how easy it is for me to loose track of the time. I hardly keep track of the days and time or month. Most of the time, I need a close friend of mine to remind me what day or time it is.

Anyway, today marks the first day of September.

My life is like a freaking roller coaster right now.

Anyway, I needa get myself to bed soon. Am still waiting for that slide of mine to load.

Dear September, please don't make things any harder.