RC Youth #19’s Small Christmas Party

I was surprised when I received a message from Grace on 28th night, inviting me to their Christmas party. I was honoured when she say I am invited because I’m their ex-leader and I go for free. I tried to invite few of my friends, but they declined.

On the night of 29th Dec, my brither and me arrive at the SMK Bat Lintang school hall around 7.15pm. We arrive just in time for the eating part of the party, and I found out they started as early as 6.30pm.

My juniors lol! Aaron (right) is VP+Commander for 2009

They set up a mini christmas tree.

Their food, some are ordered. Typical Malaysian party food. I ate just enough. Most time, I jus chat with Aaron and Teacher (Mdm. Teng). I did manage to take a peek in their Find the Hidden Santa game.

Finding the hidden Santa

No, the santa is not the hidden santa

After the short group game, there is a singing performances by 2 young members. They sang 2 English songs. Followed after, there is a game that never happened lol. Although the committees tried to teach the members, but they never get it. So, they quickly move on to the exchanging presents part. Surprisingly, I drew out my own number! So, I got my own present back, no 35.

Santa didn't slide down the chimney to give presents this year xD

Near the end, there are few lucky draws. About my present, Grace exchange mine with another girl who got back her own present as well. What is the odd of that! I got a jigsaw puzzle that I have yet to begin.

Overall, I still consider the party premature as it isn’t that well organised. But stll, their efforts are appreciateable. What I like is that this party is some sort of gathering rather than party, and there is no big big ranked guys in the party, no speeches that sort. It isn’t formal, just cozy and nice. Thanks for inviting me

A Christmas Party

On the 26th Dec, I joined my group of friends for a post-Christmas Gathering. 15 of us includes, Patrick Choo, Jason Chong, Shane, Bryan Kho, Bryan Ng, Alvin Ng, Angeline (Alvin’s GF), Benjamine, Ho Kui Lan, Grace, Nicholas,  Pau Horng, Pau Horng’s GF, Steven Yeo, Poon Tzia Shen, and not least me. We are related to Batu Lintang one way or another. Most of us are ex-BL, one as ex-BL’s GF and few continuing in BL.

Group photo

At first, we grouped at Kuching Civic Center. I was unaware that the library has turned into a gym. We waited for more than 1 hour for Patrick to arrive. About 8pm, we went to Jacky Studio which is located at Jalan Deshon. It was a house-studio kind of building, quite cool. It was Patrick’s idea that we all take a group potret photo with the reason that we do not often get to see each other again. As we havent make our reservation, we have o wait till 9pm for our turn. So we headed to Memories at Padungan there for our dinner.

Crispy fried chicken

Blackforest (Ice cream)

I ate RM 27.90 there on Grilled Chicken, Fried Chicken Salad, and Orange Juice. Then, we all rush back to Jacky Studio at around 9pm. We were the final group of people. Jacky who took our photos is a cool guy. He make us laughs especially when he snaps pictures while doing some limbo shaking. We totally laugh the hell out. So, I am expecting our photos to have 15 smiling faces xD (Benjamin left early so he was not included).

Then around 9.45pm ,we went to Kado at Jalan Chan Bee Kiew off Jalan Padungan, last row of shop behind Public Bank near Lok Thian. I never knew it existed! I heard its just opened around October this year. There are a lot of youths there.

Kado

For RM5, the Spicy Chicken Burger is huge!

Whats up there?

Their interior design is very cool and pretty. And, their toilet is clean yet pretty =). I had the Spicy Chicken Burger and Vanila Milk Green Tea which added to a total of RM9. We leave at around 11.30pm, greeting everyone Merry Christmas.

Being with Patrick, he always take weird photos and take photos at unlikely places, examples are below:-

Group photo taken at staircase to Kado

obnoxious eating behavior (Patrick)

eating frenzy (me)

A Birthday Celebration in Advance?

Yesterday on the eve of eve of Christmas, I went for a birthday celebration masterminded by Steven (Yeo) as Grace (Sow)’s birthday is approaching and he somewhat heard that Grace will be leaving Kuching on 25th this month. Which later turns out to be false, as she is not going anywhere.

Never mined, we went to Bombastic Cafe because another friend Patrick (Choo) is working there. I work there as well just that on a different day, it was like going to work but being the customer. I knew what to order already as I have read the menu countless of times = =”.

Grace, going 18 years old on 27th

We ordered as much as RM58.50 for 3 person’s share. Patrick’s not eating. Boss don’t pay us to eat lol. We ate and talk and drank from 7pm to near 11pm. We waited for Patrick to finish work, then We head to McD at beside Tun Jugah’s one. I’m surprised by the amount of people there, all queuing politely at the counter.

we had fries and cokes

And while Patrick was telling a joke,

We made a mess!

We migrated to the table behind us. We continued chatting, laughing and talking until 12am and everyone rush home.

Happy Birthday Grace.

Beautiful Memorable Trip of Graduation

Santubong Resort for 3 days and 2 nights may not be fun if your alone. But when your with friends, all the fun in the world gets to you. I went to Santubong from 7-9 Dec.

At the end of the trip. A group photo.

On day 1, I reached the resort early. Went for a quick explore and fell asleep at the beach. When I woke, it was raining and my friends reached. We arranged or luggages, and clean the whole chalet at first. The chalet was surprisingly good for me. After the cleaning and is done, we rested. A lot of the boys went to the pool. Some played basketball. I stayed back and read Wan Ying’s Twilight I missed the first 20 minutes of the movie the previous night, waiting for my other friends to show up. After that, Irwin, Kelvin and Min Heng came for a visit and a quick chat. Soon after I got a knock on the door and followed 2nd group of my friends to the pool. This time in the swimming pool, I learnt how to discard my fear of sinking and manage to float! My very first improvement.

At night time, I followed Kwong Yong to Choice Mall to withdraw money. When I got back to the chalet, they were all dining. Steamboats, wines, meats, lots of foods. After having enough soups and steamboats, I went for a grill at the meat station. Sze Hog and me fried all the meat. We even pour red wine on the chicken. LOL. But it tasted great!

chukmoi(left), wendy(centre) and wanying(right) preparing the steamboat ingredients.

camera friendly fui lip

That night I slept quite late. Played a lots of card games. Especially poker cards, we played variety of fun games with it. We tried to control our volume but it was laughters all the way.

Day 2, I woke quite late at around 7.30am. Had breakfast and around 9.30 am, I am already jumping in the swimming pool. I was taught by many friends on how to swim. Freestyle, doggy style, and many more. I did have an improvement in swimming but I am still not that confident with my skills. The whole morning, we play in the pool. A lot of my friends were too learning how to swim. After that we headed back to the chalet. There is noone who wanted to prepare lunch. So I volunteered to fried kueh tiaw. Suddenly, Wan Ying wanted to fry too. So we had this idea of competing out of the air. Kwong Yong offered to be judge but I prefer the people to choose. At the end, I do not know who won. The kueh tiaw that we both friend finish in an instant. They must have been starving. But I think Wan Ying did not bad for he first time frying kueh tiaw the kitchen.

In the afternoon, it was raining. A lot of the girls we’re sleeping, Andrew says they were having ‘pillow talk’ LOL. I was reading my own novel when Jerren propose we go out. Andrew, Boon Yee, Jerren, Min Huang, Fui Lip, and me went out for a walk around the lobby. We ended up sitting in the lobby and end up on the comfortable sofas. We are having our ’sofa talk’ and we ended up playing a game that ‘never take place’.

fui lip and min huang

jerren faking it

When the rain stops, we six when to the beach to fly the kite. We flew the kite so high that the line finishes. Then we snap a few photos. Before we head back for dinner, we shouted to the sea. We sang our school song loudly, at least half of it anyway and ended with everyone laughing.

min huang flying the kite

the beautiful rough sea

fui lip (left), andrew(centre) and jerren(the one face covered by hand)

min huang and jerren

We headed home and we are in getting ready for dinner. I had simple Maggie Mee dinner and didn’t follow a few of my friends who went out for dinner because I caught a minor stomach ache. After my bath and shower, I relax and watch TV in the living room. Near midnight, Gloria, Jing Jing, Natalia and gang came. Before going to sleep, I played few rounds of PS2.

Day 3, the last day, I woke and we went to the beach. Not all of us went but we have fun there. I made a sandmans with help from Gloria and Jerren, while Fui Lip, Andrew and Min Huang made Sand Balls, drew Mr Lee J.K. and threw the balls at him. LOL. After that, I went to the pool with the guys for a dip. When I rained we all ran back. After shower and packing, I followed Wan Ying, Phei Sze and Wendy to the pool. They wanted a quick dip so I was there as a timekeeper.

fui lip, jerren, me, min huang

suk thin, jing jing, min huang, andrew, fui lip

suk thin, boon yee, jing jing, min huang, andrew

My creation

Gloria, me and Jerren posing behind our Sandpeople.

At the end of the trip, we all posed in front of the lobby. All of them went home while I waited for my mum to follow them to Damai Beach Resort for 2 days 1 night stay. These 3 days with my friends are a memorable one and I will always cherish those fun-filled moments with all of them. Perhaps we all amy meet someday and catch up with each other’s life. I will surely miss all of you.

Damai Beach Resort: 9-10 Dec

Day 1 at Damai Beach, I went to the pool, again. I successfully learn the swimming way of the Doggy. LOL. Damai is much better condition than Santubong. I enjoyed the facilities there. At night, it was raining heavily and I was stuck in the room.

View from my room

Day 2. I had a great big Damai breakfast at the cafeteria. After that, I almost fell asleep near the beach. Finally, I did go to the pool again and at last headed home.

IT’S DONE, Finally

The battle that I have been fighting for the last 1 year and half is finally over. With a lot of unexpected questions coming out for this year not to mention they are hard I did my very best and whatever result I may obtain I will accept it as it is.

I boldly think that I under-perform in STPM although I tried my very best. I didn’t study as hard as STPM when I was doing my SPM. STPM is hard, but I live life by learning lessons each day. STPM does teach me a lot. From it, I learned how managing time is important, how short my time is, the ways of studies. Generally I am much much more mature in many aspects I am now than when I am after SPM.

I do think that this will be somewhat my results, Chemistry: C-, Physics: C-, Math T: C-, General Paper: B+. With CGPA of 2.085. This ‘prediction’ of mine is me accepting my results. It may turn out a little bit better, or far worse. STPM is and will be, I hope be the lowest point in my life. Its a big lesson this time, and I will strive to go up, up and up.

Sadly, my result may not get me anywhere in the Science stream, so I prepared half of my heart to Art stream. If my results can get me into few Engineering courses I want, that’s very great, but if I cant I will go into Finance, Art-related kind of courses for my degree. I will do my courses-info hunting while waiting for the result to show.

Well, life is a lesson and better live to its fullest.