Childhood vs Future

Suddenly, I think of playing masak-masak. Yes, believe your eyes, is masak-masak. The game kids play out of paper and plastic and pretending they are cooking. I guess I'm missing some childhood memory here.

Got my random that day and watch this on Youtube and I told myself: "Ah~! They were my childhood idol! Gosh... it's so long a go already! We've all grown up and so does things around me. Those days, we listen to music using cassettes! And walala, we have internet now and would can never imagine life without it anymore." *sighs*

Just realised something just now, I think I have a 'thing' for guys that plays/ sings well. I'm definitely those girls that fall for guys that takes a guitar and sings love songs in front of me. Haha. So typical right? Ah~! But the best part of it is, I'll love to sing along with him too! So I suppose, another criteria to my BF-checklist is need to love singing Karaoke, since my whole family does that. It's gonna be part of our very own Chin family activity I tell you! I ain't kidding! Imagine your uncle will be singing an oldies and your auntie pops in and sing along and soon enough you see from the youngest cousin to your grandma is opening their mouth and singing the same song. Gosh. Imagine that and what you see is my lovely family. :D I love them lots~!!! *muaks*

Keeping things short!

Urgh! I need to complain about myself. I always attempt to write posts and tend to write so damn long till I always make the flow of thought gone in the half way because I got distracted by other stuff.

So from now on, I'll learn to keep posts short and sweet. Good for my readers (if any) and good for me too. Hope this will make me write more often. Like one of my friend once said: how can life be interesting when one can't even write and express his/ her feelings?

OK, my first short post here.

I was glad today spending quality times with people I care for in life. :D

I know I don't need to worry about how my Mr. Right should be because I know He will provide the man in my life. :D

>>>THE END<<<

Let's talk about bananazzz 香蕉人

Disclaimer: You do not need to agree with my theories and I would welcome (and feel honoured) if you would like to debunk all my ideas. I got inspired my a friend, which I call him the "Absolute Banana". This idea will be discussed further in the article. :)



Definition of Banana
Banana, in general is a fruit, the yellow slimy fruit we see in tropical countries. *side track: just if you don't know, 7-eleven sells his super quality Dole Banana for RM1. It's really good fruit! :D Buy one and stay healthy peeps!* However, the banana that I'm trying to talk about is those Chinese that don't know how to speak their mother tongue. Why they're called banana? Very simple! Banana is yellow in the outside but white in the inside, just like them where they looks Chinese with their yellow skin but they talk like a white. :)

Categories of Banana people:

1. Absolute Banana
Absolute bananas are those which couldn't speak and listen to any Mandarin and dialects at all. Other than "Wo Ai Ni" [I Love You] and "Wo bu zhi dao" [I don't know], they basically knows nothing. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!! They don't watch any TVB dramas or know anything about Chinese culture. Most of the time, their parents are bananas themselves too, but most probably does not include in this category. Absolute bananas can be seen as knowing nothing about being a Chinese. There are a White-man living in a Yellow-man's body.

2. Normal Banana
Normal bananas are those that know a bit of everything. They may know how to listen to some Mandarin or any dialects. Most of these bananas went to Kebangsaan schools. So, they only know English and BM. Grandparents might only speak in dialects and aunties will be talking in dialects during family gathering such as Chinese New Year. So, throughout the years, they get a hint of what people are trying to mean out of their talking in Mandarin or dialects. Most of the bananas are in this category (I hope), so they're normal bananas.

3. Half Banana
Half bananas are those who speaks a bit of Mandarin or a bit of dialects (to some extent, fluent enough to make a conversation). Some of this type of bananas are unfortunate to get a Chinese education but still was able to learn some mother tongue throughout the years. They may not be as fluent as those learnt it properly, but they know a bit more than the other 2 categories of bananas. *applause*


So friend,
which category you belong to? I hope I didn't insult anybody. This distinction is just an analysis of mine. Some might ask, why we need Chinese when English is the international language? Yup, I agree with you that English is the most commonly spoken language. Nevertheless, I am proud to be a Chinese that speaks Mandarin, Cantonese and Hakka. I can say I'm proud to be a Chinese. I'm not saying being a banana is a sin or something, I'm just trying to define how westernised some of the Chinese are today.

That tonight is a good night with great people :D

Went dinner with 4 awesome people today. Just a random dinner, like I told Miss. E. Chin, 'just do dinner for the sake of dinner'. It turned out greater than I thought it'll be, as we all shared our dreams and thoughts about life with each other.

Just to start off, I must say the place E.Chin recommended was just such a cozy and lovely place to be. The food was good and the price was even better. I just felt in love with the place with it's romantic jazz music and the ikea-like lighting. XD

Roast Beef Sandwhich - RM 7.50. Hot Mocha - RM 7.50
Total Bill = RM 15 nett
Food quality: Good. :D

Anyway, what really made my night was really the accompany of my beloved friends. We was technically there to celebrate 2 of my friend's birthday, with didn't really celebrated as in cut cake or giving present, but was really just to spent some quality time together with each other.

After dinner, the conversation somehow turned into a sharing session about our life and dreams. I didn't really know what exactly my dream is, until I truly needed to figure out an answer. Now, if you ask me to repeat what I've shared, I might not be able to tell you as good as what I did, but I still know one fact very well, I want to be successful in life, like really successful.

What is success to me? It need not be as rich as a women owning a Lamborghini, driving it down the city or having a mansion. I would consider myself being successful, if I can truly live a life that can impact others, giving back to society, that have been giving me so much all these years. I must say I haven't lose all my hope in my country, Malaysia. For the fact that I'm still acknowledging Malaysia is my country shows that I still love this country, right? As a Malaysian, I'm sure everyone of us is disappointed by certain things- the politics, the racial tension, the nation development, etc, etc...... Nevertheless, it's such a beautiful country, isn't it, my friend? The people are just so lovely and kind. The food just so beautiful that you'll miss it after 2 weeks away from it. So going back to my point of giving back to society, yes, I haven't give up all my hope in this country and I have so much that I can give back to the society. Will I be able to give all out and do it? I don't know. I really rest my life upon God's hand and truly believe that one day, I'll learn what my calling truly is. Till then, I'll just learn every single lesson from the people I met everyday.

What was amazing about tonight was the pleasure to listen to other people's dream in life. I shall not share it here but it's been thought provoking for me, for me to ponder upon what's life all about and what I REALLY want to do in life, my life. For once, you really need to put your self on the centre spot light and think, what role you want to play in society? Like William Shakespeare said, everyone is a role in a play as life is just like a play. (sorry, don't quote me for this, that's all I remember from the very lovely poem that I can't even remember the name now.... literature class? epic fail!)

There goes some pictures of those awesome people! XD


O, btw, Mr. J and Miss M, I'm still so amazed that you both can blog so frequent and blog so well! *thumbs up* I always end up losing my thoughts and emo-ness half way through my post! :s That explains why I rarely blogs.... haha....

需要人陪

我，天生怕孤独，又有谁知道呢？

Messy Thoughts

I have 10 thousand different tweets that I wanna tweet about it.


Possible/ Potential Tweets:

"I need to learn how to book a flight ticket."
- Just realise I don't even know how to help me friend to book a flight on Air Asia when she needed it the most.


" I hate thunder."
- The thunder was real loud and I remembered I told someone that I'm afraid of thunder last time.


"I don't feel the burning, because you're not with me."
- People's thoughts: It this about a guy? Or maybe life?
- My true thought: I don't feel the burning sensation after eating nasi lemak because the person which gives me extra sambal is not with me.


" I saw super scary lightning."
- I'm in the library now and seeing the thunder and rain outside. Scary.


" I would go the extra mile with you, because I love you."
- A love dedication to people I loved. I will go all the way for people, especially my friends, because you're all that meant to me in life.


"Rejoice, because she's in heaven now."
- It's so difficult to say this when you love one passed away and when all the joyful memory start rushing though your mind.


" ouch! It hurts and I still don't know how did it happen."
- I hurt my finger, AGAIN and as usual, I don't even know when or where I got the cut until it hurts.


"Perfect timetable."
- I have the perfect timetable I suppose, because this timetable allows me to stay so much in my second home, the library.


"My new best friend- purple pen."
- When I look at my notes, I realised how much my purple pen served me over the past 2 weeks and how pretty did it made my notes look like. :D


"I'm dating John."
- I'm making a commitment to read the Bible, the book of John, every night.


"Phone calls and shopping list."
- I need to make phone calls to lots of people to confirm things and I need to go shopping.


"My world paused as you came into it."
- A friend that I met out of the blue moon and changed my schedule of the day. It was so impact-ful and it just makes you keep thinking of that friend.


" I love you, my life."
- Life is unpredictable and that's the factor which makes life so interesting.

"It's so comfortable and I can just pop into wonderland in split second."
- My purple jacket given by my lovely friends as birthday present is just so comfy and I can just sleep in the library now.



Guess what I tweet-ed?
" I updated my blog, because I have too many little stories to tell." :)

Camera

What's your definition of a good camera? For many people, it will be an user friendly digital camera with a great feature called the AUTOMATIC mode and just allows you to snap pictures just like that (what we called- camhoring). Those where professional camera lovers will call dummy cameras.

But what I like is technically still a dummy camera, perhaps dummier than what normal people would expect out of a normal camera. It does snap pictures out a click and it only allows you to click it. Most of it is not digital, so that means still using films my friend. Professionals would once again praise: Oh, good. Picturing in films are still so much better than the mega-pixels that you're talking there! But wait, this type of camera does not have any function other than the click button and some don't even have flash light. Why would somebody want such a camera? Because the pictures that this wonder can take for you its just awesome. :D

What camera is this? It's a lomo camera.

How awesome can lomo pictures be? Not bad at all compared to professional cameras.

What so different from professional camera? OMG, my friend. Too much to list down. First thing first, the price. A normal lomo camera just ranges from RM 100-500 where a decent SLR will probably cost you RM3000, or even more. If you say: So what? Screw the price. Let's talk about picture quality. How can I trust a cheap camera and expecting good pictures? Yes you can, with lomo. The concept of lomo camera and all the SLRs are so different. Professionals would take at least 10 seconds for them to adjust and change the settings (the exposure, the ISO speed, etc, etc....) before he ever press the click button. Most of the time people will be smiling for years di just to wait for that picture to be done. But lomo, the major concept is: Don't care, just click it! Every picture has it's beauty in it. No such thing as a bad picture. You might be thinking: HUH? Are you nuts or something? How can I not think and just click it? but my settings are not right?! LOL. That will be the most contradicting point about SLR lovers n lomo lovers. They work totally opposite. Last but not least, SLR are like science students and lomos are like art students. Scientist goes by formulas and steps where else artist just goes by the mood of the moment. Professional camera aren't easy to handle. All SLR lovers spend lots of hours trying to learn how to take a good picture. Or else you're just clicking the button as if you're having a dummy camera. Lomo lovers wouldn't care less to learn. Every picture is a lesson by itself, whether or not it's clear/sharp/bright. Like Nike says: JUST DO IT!

I guess the debate between lomo and SLRs would never come to an end. But why on earth am I talking so much about these two? All I wanted to have all this while was to own a lomo camera. It doesn't need to be the best lomo. In fact I was just thinking to buy a super kawaii lomo camera (maybe even underwater camera). I love freestyle. BUT, it was until today when my dad told me he's thinking of selling off his current CANON dono what range and downgrade to Canon 550D or maybe spend a little bit more to buy a CANON 7D and in a year time, when I will be going to UK, he'll give me the camera.

You know how great is 550D? It even comes with video function!
Imagine those HD videos that you can make?! So cool!

Yes, I know 7D is way beyond awesome...

Say what? I will be getting a DSLR?! WOW. Normal teen: Wu! I love you, Dad! You're giving me the hottest and coolest 'toy' in town?! WOW! Weird teen: OMG, can't you just save your money and buy me lots of film to put into my lomo camera?!

Yes, without a doubt. I'm the weird kid here. Not being too crazy over expensive cameras and would just like to have a cheap camera. But I guess I'll be getting a really insane camera in a year time or so. I surely have a big task to do with that camera- I'll need to take lots of scenery when I travel to countries during my break time. YES. Ain't fun at all not be able to get what you dream for. Anyways, thanks in advance for the awesome camera DAD. I'll take the pictures you would like to see on facebook and I make sure I'll tag you. Please don't comment too much about technicals. You'll be giving me lots of pressure to just take a picture and really tempted to push it to automatic mode everytime.

Thank you and peacing out...