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| an update of whats been happening with my life. two weekends ago, i was heritage row on thursday, friday, and saturday night. it was insane. it wasnt planned. and it awesome. i had seriously the best weekend of my life. haha thursday, we were at mojo and it was ladies night and it was just amazing. ran into lavi's friends there actually. the place wasnt that packed so it was a really chilling out kinda night between all of us friends. friday night, we were actually thinking about where to hang out then bernard says we still have a bottle left over at mojo from the night before we didnt finish, so we headed over again. lets just say the night was again pretty insane. saturday night was more planned. we were going to a party for a friend of a friends at the loft, and i think i found one of my favorite places to hang out. the loft is really nice and its just epic. haha and while we were partying, i look over at the table next to us and i see my sister!! so i went over and surprised her and our huge group of friends met her huge group of friends and it just so happens that both our group of friends (along with the whole club probably) was here for this guy's birthday. but none of us actually know who he is.. and the just past weekend, well friday night, i was actually in penang with my parents cause i had to take my toefls. i know dont say anything. just had to get the test over with and so now its off my back finally. but it wasnt as easy as i thought it would be eh. its that stupid internet version and its slightly tougher now. hehe lavi still has to take it.. lavi still has to take it.. yeah so that was friday night, came back on saturday morning. but i had a pretty good time up there. spent some quality time with my parents and you know, it was still fun. i miss hanging out with them the way we used to before when i was younger. so yeah saturday night, we headed over to passion cause bernard said it was his second home. this time cassie, jo, and ben came along with us as well. along with our group. lavi had to bail on us, but thats ok cause im gonna party with her like everyday in hawaii so whatever. but when we reached passion, i guess it really was bernard's second home. the rope got lifted for us right away after we reached. it was awesome and totally cool cause the line was massive and there were heaps of people that were just life wtf! haha. so we went upstairs and partied. upstairs was cool cause there was a balcony overlooking the street so you could just chill outside and have a talk with some friends. basically, the whole night was fun. seth's white boy friends came later around 1, and they were a totally great group of people. they really knew how to party. haha jo had to leave at 1 cause she had church early the next day so that was kinda sad but we'll party more together soon, and the next time with lavi eh! btw its lavi's birthday today so everyone wish her!!!! so i just wanna say that i love all you guys who made the two past weekends a blast: of course, the two people i hold closest, natalie, sunil. you both know how i feel about you two. and to the rest of my beloved friends, and these are in no particular order, bernard, lavi, cassie, jo, ben, seth, jack, lucinda, jimmy, nicole, alfred. and my sister's group of friends too i guess. thanks to everyone. hope the rest of you guys had as much fun as i did. hawaii, counting down, 90 days. wait for me. | | |
| the last two weeks of my life has just been an absolute eye opener to the blessings i have. to the many blessings we all have here. i was watching a documentary on cnn the other day and they were doing a report on the amount of people living in poverty in america. now first of all, america is supposed to be the land of opportunity and the land of the free, but yet 30 million people are working FULL-time jobs but are still living under the poverty level, just because they are earning only the minimum wage. and these people are working in jobs that are essential to all of us. most of them are teachers, aide workers, librarians, emergency personnel, and more. some have families with three or more kids to feed and at the end of the month, they never usually have anything left to put into savings. and all of them can never afford to have anything mess up their schedule, for example, there was a family that had two kids that needed medical attention. one of them had a sprained wrist and the other was falling really sick. after recovery, the medical bills were so immense for them that they were left behind two months amount of rent. some families live off 30 dollars for food in a month. but its not just in the states, move closer back to home and there are poverty stricken lives all over asia as well. in manila, the poor live directly on garbage sites because thats where they all get their essentials to live on. practically living on a dump site where the rest of the capital city throws their thrash. you could give them 20 pesos and that would last them for two weeks. 20 pesos sounds like a lot but actually its not, its 1.50 ringgit. thats about 40 cents american. that would last them two weeks. recently, my family agreed to help out a new organisation here in kl by sponsoring a child somewhere else in the world that needs our help. i didnt really know much about it other than the fact that it was gonna help someone. we got our first letter including a picture from our sponsored child yesterday and it just touched my heart. we're sponsoring a 5 year old girl, and her name's Sok Ny. she's cambodian and she's just one of the most adorable girls ever. she lives with her family in a house made out of dried palm trees, and their walls are made out of leaves. her family's livelihood is based on one cow that they own. her parents are rice farmers, so you can see how vital their one cow is to them. one stroke of bad luck and their lives could go spiralling downwards. and all of this doesnt even cost us that much. my family and i didnt know really that much about the organisation before it started, but basically we're just gonna be giving 50 ringgit to sok ny's family every month. only now do i realise that our 50 ringgit a month is gonna pay for her education, her entire family's health care, and many more things that will help them tremendously. and all of this shook me because before this, sok ny didnt have enough money to go to school. and all we needed to do was give her 50 dollars when about a week ago, i went out with some friends for dinner and our meal was about there and that itself was enough to have her go to school for half a year. i dont really know what else to say right now exactly, cause i feel like i might just be rambling. but maybe a lot of us are living lives that we take for granted. i feel that about myself. there are a million things in my room that i could live without, but when i bought those things, i didnt even think first. i feel like our society now has lost a lot of things. many of us dont know how to live simple anymore. sometimes i think a lot of us need to keep our feet on the ground and realise that we should actually be embarassed by the way we live. when there are other people right next to us who cant afford a car and have to take the bus to work everyday. when there are people that skip breakfast and lunch just because they dont have the money for it. i think its really sad and i feel like we all, including myself, need to be aware of this. to be more helpful and to open our eyes and broaden our view of life. there are tons of methods, organisations, ways to help someone. and it probably wont cost us anything at all. | | |
| to start with, I GOT A NEW CAR. yyyeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss! i got a new car. but its only coming in two weeks time. but i still cannot wait. i got a new car. changed my background color to yellow cause i wanted something bright to show my happiness. haha. so saturday night was sunil's birthday bash at poppy garden. the whole day was just an entire day of fun. checked into our hotel at 3 and spent the day chillin. took a cab to klcc with natalie and had dinner there. then came back and took a dip in the pool for a few minutes before getting ready and then waited for sunil's friends to reach. puvy and edwards came then we all left for the garden. waited outside for a few more friends before going in and opened a friggin big magnum. seth, bernard, and a whole lot of people were there with us. partied hard. the rest of sunil's classmates only came like later in the night but those guys are just the best. haha especially yasir and his dancing. edwards left early though and melissa & dasan left everyone wide eyed. left when the place was closing and had some drinks down the road. went back to the hotel and drank some more with daniel parr & tak yie with puvy, sunil, and natalie. good times. fantastic night. great company. i still cant believe im getting a new car. even if its only a few months before i leave kl. | | |
| ok another entry cause i forgot to say something that i really needed to express.. i was really touched that grace had written something about me because it shows that she was thinking about me- well here, thanks grace-
Sunday, October 26, 2003--------------------------------------------------
geeze can i stop updating please?
but this is important. or kindaa at least. hahaha.
previously put in my profile:
hmm i wonder how long it would take me to read through all my old xanga entries. i think i will do that someday when i feel like not doing my homework. wait, that's all the time. and i will surprise myself with how extremely shallow, boring, random, psycho, and pissy i can be. but then i will read stuff that will make me think 'wow, that's deep. i can't believe i wrote that."
so i decided to act upon it...yeah whatever it's like 11:30pm and i have school tomorrow and it'll take me like a freaking day cuz i used to blog like 2 times a day.
but i came upon this entry
yeah i was pretty down during that time...but i reread all the c0mments that people left me. and i dunno...was just really touched.
there was also that last comment left there by minjun. he put that there about 3 weeks after the entry was posted so i never read it until now. but wow...seriously. cares enough to read all my pointless entries :]] just to "catch up."
i guess you can say me and minjun's relationship is kindaa...strange. met face to face once...talked a total of maybe 3 hours max...couple of times online...sporadic emails to each other when we have time. it used to be him in malaysia, me in taiwan. now it's even farther apart. and with a time difference. but somehow we have that connection and somehow still manage to keep in touch. it must be cuz we have the same birthday ;P
i dunno why i decided to write about this..but just wanted to give a little shoutout (ew that sounds so middle school) to my buds. sorry if i'm always pissy or don't show that i care...but really i do. but i'm sure you don't need me to tell you that :]
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well thats it- im happy. | | |
| wow.. i havent written in here in a very long time- hmm i was reading my first few entries because i dont have that many anyways but i sound really dumb- haha i was like woah thats quite lame..
hmm anyways, it was soooo sweet to be able to get an email from grace and to get a message from her- yeah i wrote that message even after it was awhile but i just hoped that you know i will always be here- whether im in malaysia or down the street from you, i'm always here for you to be your friend~
yeah i guess we have had a strange relationship together- with grace and me.. this girl has never failed to make me smile whenever she wrote me or sent me pictures or anything. even though we're so much further apart now then we were before, it still seems like i'm close to her in a way, i think we do have some sort of a connection together- maybe it is our birthday's huh?! hmm.. yeah we've met only once and that was unforgetable, i had such a great time just laughing and talking it was amazing- and after that only talking for awhile when we were online and now with the time difference, it may seem worse but i still think about her everyday during school and when im at home doing nothing or am at home online- and somehow miss seeing her name not being online anymore.. well anyways- it is weird but we keep in touch and that makes me happy..
well ok its time to go to practice-
peace | | |
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