四个月的努力

日新中学的女生毕业后在外表上多少都会有变化。除了留一头“合法的”长发（哈哈哈哈我们摆脱校规了！）再加上开始会打扮，就是脸变圆了（T.T）。离开中学一年半来，我足足胖了五公斤（等到发现时真的很吓人，原来我胖了这么多，超羡慕怎么吃也吃不胖的人）！

2013 vs 2011 

所以不减肥不行！胖了的话会穿不下之前买的衣服，很浪费耶（其实爱美的成分比较多，嘿嘿）！变胖也不是没有原因的。中学时期差不多每个星期六都得到学校参与课外活动，为了几面武术金牌在太阳底下进行四个小时的魔鬼式训练，平时在学校因为是学长所以时不时得东奔西跑的，体重控制得还好（虽然那个时候老妈已经嫌我肥了）。结果毕业后就整天赖在家里，运动量减少饭量增加，进入预科班后天天马来餐（而且无论份量多少都一样价钱，所以。。。），压力时就啃零食（星期五为自定冰淇淋日，大家热烈响应，哈哈），赶课业不够睡，渐渐地就发福了。发现问题时已经快预科班毕业了，但也开始行动减肥。首先食量减半（我不提倡skip meal，小心变更胖），少吃碳水化合物，每天一杯咖啡加快新陈代谢，（尽量）不碰零食和罐装饮料，然后每天花半个小时慢跑（龟速前进），跑完去Andromeda（学院里一栋偏僻的建筑物）看朋友做insanity（很激烈的肌肉训练，我曾经跟着做，结果做不到热身的一半就不行了，唉）。看，我不是一个人在努力，哈哈。。。

目前预科班毕业也快四个月了，这四个月的悠闲假期以来我都有用心坚持哦（老妈也很积极地监督我，还为此买了新的体重计）！除了饭量再减半，避开油腻和高碳的食物，有时候晚餐只喝低糖豆浆（被爱孙的婆婆骂了很多次，感动但没办法嘛），每个星期和老妈一起去参加至少三次的有氧运动操（因为很多人一起做，因为我是安迪们当中唯一一个岁数以一开头的，为了不丢脸就得格外用功，好可怜，运动完后的我像刚从水池里爬出来），继续少吃零食（有时会忍不住想吃甜点，这是女生的天性吧，哈哈），晚上睡得饱（不用上课嘛，弟弟妹妹羡慕死了，哈哈），终于有成果了（皇天不负有心人呐）！

体重慢慢地恢复至差不多和中学时期一样了（耶！）。两个星期后就要进入大学了，只能一直祈祷希望体重继续下降，不要再旧患复发，不然会很惨的。。。

Add-on for ''End of My No-worries-and-burdens Holidays''

This is the butterfly releasing activity that I mentioned in the previous post. At least I got to do it after I missed the one which was hold during Valentine's Day. I hope that I will do that again someday, not releasing the butterflies into the farm but into the wild.

Cheers! =)

End of My No-worries-and-burdens Holidays

What date is it now??? I am kinda losing track of time since my matriculation life. Two more weeks I will be leaving Penang to pursue my tertiary studies in University Putra Malaysia, Serdang. Wait, it has been four months since I graduated from matriculation??? What have I done these days without updating my blog???   > <  ( Curiosity kills a cat but laziness kills a blog, haha... )

I realise that nothing much has been done during these holidays. Nothing! Really! I have been wasting my life on Facebook and Youtube and whatever! To revive my blog, here is the summary of things I did during this period:

• Attended UM enrolment interview  (which ended three minutes after I entered the interview room)
• Failed to become a orientation week facilitator in my previous college (due to some reasons that I don't feel like sharing, it still hurts me when I think about it)
• Tried to cook and forced my family to enjoy my cookings (hehe)
• Got my first smartphone Nokia Lumia 920 (which was accidentally dropped to the floor and suffered quite a lot, boohoo)
• Watched Youtube vloggers
• Played Don't Starve (still playing and struggling hard to survive, quite successful though)
• Received my offer letter for Bachelor of Environmental Science and Technology in UPM (Thank God)
• Driving (and getting better in my driving skill, although I am still not allowed to go very far)
• Losing weight (cutting down calories intake and doing some workouts, have to at least return to my previous weight before entering matriculation, the minimum target)
• Shopping (I have no idea since when I fell in love with shopping)
• Spending time with family
• Having marimos as pets (or as children? haha)
• Surfing the net (wandering around like bored ghost)
• Applied for scholarships (and waiting)
• Watched some movies on laptop (I didn't go to cinema since I came home)
• Video chatting every single day (^ ^)

The most memorable thing that I have done is having a very short vacation with my college buddies to Penang island. That is the only vacation I have gone to with my college friends (that's why I treasure the memories so much!) Although I am a Penangite, but honestly I am not familiar with this place. I don't know where we can get the best food, or the best scenary in this mesmerizing island. Even my friends from Selangor are better in this than me! This trip was very low-budgeted as we stayed in Jia Jia's house, making the first floor of her house look like a refuge camp (thank you for the tolerance of your family!) and we have our drivers Gan and Edward and Yeong Sheng. Special thanks to Yeong Sheng too for being our tourist guide FOC, haha. Besides food hunt (which is a must if you come to Penang), we visited the Tropical Spice Garden, the Butterfly Farm, Nutmeg farm and the War Museum (by exchanging the plan to go to the Escape Park but it worthed!).

We were lucky to meet a very dedicated guide in Tropical Spice Garden who worked overtime just to tell us more about the spices in Malaysia. And we were also very fortunate to meet another devoted guide in the Butterfly Farm who gave us the chance to release newly-hatched (I think I have used the wrong word) butterflies. The uncle at the Nutmeg farm was really friendly that he taught us eye-opening knowledges about the usage of nutmeg and how to differentiate between 'male' and 'female' one, interesting right? We spent the longest time in the War Museum due to expensive entrance fee. Nah, just kidding, haha. We have to walk a lot and there was no one to guide us. Luckily Edward has gone there before and he managed to lead us in adventuring through the 'haunted' place (I still smile involuntarily whenever I think of the happenings there). About food, I had tried the best prawn noodle, laksa, curry mee and kuey tiau soup there. Description is not provided as I can't transform the feeling into words (yes this is not because I am lazy, I am very sure). 

Pristine beach of Balik Pulau.

Teluk Bahang dam.

I love butterflies soooo much!!! (that's why I put this photo as extra large, hehe)

These are beyond beautiful!!!

No worries, they are not dangerous at all.

No bias please, they are just as adorable as butterflies!

No matter where we went, the most important thing is that we spent time together, laughing and having fun. Probably after this trip we can barely meet up again like this as we are going on our own way, scattering among different universities. Friendship is wonderful. It is still unbelievable that we can bond so deeply within a short period of time in college. Because of you, friends, I am who I am today. Thanks and all the best for what's coming ahead!

朋友，珍重。。。

二零一三年四月三十日，物理试卷的结束象征着我们从大学预科班毕业了。重拾自由，回到久违的家，是时候收拾心情度过进入大学以前长达四个月的假期。把带回来的行李整理好的当儿，无意中却把过去小学中学的回忆也一并清了出来。一张张的照片，一页页的祝福，把脑海里最深的记忆倾盆大雨似的把我淋湿了。一转眼就溜走的十九个年头，留下许多感动和怀念。经历了四次的毕业，我终于明白天下无不散之筵席的意思。在不同的时期我们认识了不同的人，随着一次又一次的离别，朋友圈子不自觉地换了又换，送走旧朋迎来新友。

朋友，也许下次再见，我们无法像之前一样无所避忌地嘻哈玩笑，但你们在我脑海里留下的脚印是永远也洗不掉的。一同走过的路看过的风景唱过的歌成了美好的纪念。当年共同背负的责任和面对的巨浪，见证了我们之间友谊的成长。回忆里掺杂着泪水和笑声，也有争吵赌气，造就我们无法离开彼此的关系。朋友，也许下次再见，我们会觉得生疏，但一个微笑和一个拥抱，就足够让我们确定那些经历都是真实的，没有谁被遗忘，没有谁被冷落。不管遇到什么困难，依靠的肩膀还在那里等着我们。朋友，也许下次再见，大家的身份地位都不同了。我们不再是学生，有人会拿起手术刀，有人会穿上律师袍，聚在一起时我们又会变回当时的我们，述说着令人回味无穷的往事。闹过的笑话犯过的校规闯过的祸，成了过去最好的点缀。

朋友，也许下次不会再见，我们的友谊会一直在心底无期限地保留着，生命中因为你们的出现和逗留而灿烂。就算后来有了新的朋友同事，闲时翻看过去，也能感受到你们带来的温暖和爱。谢谢你们，亲爱的朋友。祝你们前程似锦，找到自己的幸福快乐，但愿我们在另一个时空还会一同走下去。


后记：其实这篇文章我写很久了，现在才发帖。。。

外公，安息吧。。。

昨晚和爸爸开了四个小时的车往返怡保中央医院，于一点多才赶到家。外公在我和爸爸离开医院时心脏三度停止跳动，病逝了。。。

八点多，妈妈接到姨姨的电话，说外公病危了，在抢救中。妈妈赶紧收拾了行李，我和爸爸开快车送她下怡保去看生命垂危的外公。高速公路上没有人说话。到了医院，得知外公在普通病房急救着，现场只见眼神焦虑的姨姨和姨丈等待着我们的到来。由于长期服用不适当的药物，外公大约一星期前因胃溃疡入院，健康情况很糟糕。前天医生说他的胃康复的还不错，但肾脏功能不好，血液呈酸性，得洗肾了。其实早在两年前，医生已经劝外公去洗肾，但外公百般不情愿，以客话说道：“人活这样久做什么？” 姨姨为了说服外公接受治疗，威胁他说再不洗肾八月时就喝不到小舅舅的媳妇茶了。那时外公顿了一下，想必是心动了。就在昨晚，外公因肺部细菌感染必须插管，有生命危险。

那是我十年来第一次踏入医院。晚上的医院人来人往的，伤的病的老的幼的都有。看见病床上受病魔折腾的老人不禁觉得感伤。消瘦的身形和布满皱纹的脸，我看到了孤单。由于爸爸今天有重要的学校任务在身，把妈妈送到医院后我就得陪爸爸赶回家。知直到转身离开那一刻，我都没有去看外公最后一面，不忍心看他老人家受苦的样子。今天早上我才知道，原来当我和爸爸在停车场准备离去的时候，外公心跳已经停止了。妈妈不敢告诉我们，一直到我们安全到家了，她才捎来电话和爸爸说。

对不起外公，在您还在世时没有尽孝没有对您好。感谢神带走了您的痛，现在您在天国和外婆团聚了吧！我会记得您呵呵笑的慈祥脸庞和情切地呼唤着我 “ 雯雯啊 ” 的声音，您会永远活在我的记忆里。外公，安息吧。。。

Just to Show Off

Kitchen is not a place for me to cook, seriously, because I am not a very good cook. I can cook rice and instant noodles fairly well, but I can't fry an egg without breaking the yolk (I can actually, before I went for matriculation where I could not get a kitchen, even if there is a kitchen, I don't think I will cook either). The reasons that I go to kitchen are merely to find something to eat, to do the dishes and to look for mum.

However, I had prepared the dinner for this evening (kinda proud of myself, haha)! The credits go to Ang, Gan and Xuan. A few days ago Xuan shared a photo on facebook showing spaghetti being stuck through sausages which looks cute, that triggered my interest as it looks easy to make. Then, Ang and Gan who are quite familiar with the kitchen kept showing off their 'masterpieces' on facebook. Yeah, I succumbed to peer pressure. So I decided to cook something for dinner today after some plannings.

I cook once in a blue moon, about three or four times a year (you can't blame me, my grandma and mum cook well), but I do know how to cook spaghetti. The bigger challenge was the chicken. It was the first time I deal with meat, to be more specific, chicken breast for this time. Unlike baking cakes and cookies, I don't measure the amount of ingredients required, I just guess (and take the risk). It took me two hours to finish cooking and the results were satisfied (the spaghetti and chicken were fully cooked and no one complaint that the food is not nice, so I declare myself as a success, hehe). Erm, as the recipes are not mine, so I'm not going to share it, sorry.

Roasting chicken breast (covered in garlic butter and bread crumbs) in the oven. 

It may not look nice, but you never taste it you will never know.

The purpose of this post is just to show off my first experience in the kitchen after graduated from college. See, I made it!!! I feel wonderful after cooking the dinner. Hmm... Hopefully this will be the starter for me to explore the world of cooking more.

Matriculation Life

This is the first post after I graduated from matriculation a week ago (I have been procrastinating for the past few days)! So, where shall we start? Hmm... Me and a few of my fellow Penangites took the night train on 30th of April from KL central back to the Butterworth terminal, spending approximately seven hours on the nice tidy bed of the train, heading towards North, bidding farewell to Selangor.

Now here I am, sitting in front of the computer screen, trying to pull myself away from facebook and vomit something out for my blog, haha. Being successful in entering matriculation (as we know, only 10% of non-natives will be shortlisted in enrolment of matriculation) is one of the best things that ever happened on me. To be a matriculation student, we must stay in the hostels even though the college is just a stone's throw away from you home sweet home. Hostel life can be quite enjoyable, and the first rule to make your hostel life enjoyable is, don't go home during weekends.

Yes! Weekends are the times when you don't have class and there is plenty of free time for you to allocate any activity you want (use it wisely or else you will cry during the exam). Basically, our weekend activities are studying, revising, rushing homework, doing assignment and getting ready for presentation. Did I scare you? Haha, what I have mentioned just now is a fact as our load is considered as heavy, but it is quite fun to do that with a bunch of friends, though. Ok, those are just part of it. In Selangor Matriculation College, sometimes we go outing to explore the Banting town (the most important thing is to get some good food) on food, or you can go further to Pantai Morib, Pantai Kelana or Bukit Jugra for an Eco-tour. If you yearn for shopping, take an one-hour bus ride to Aeon BukitTinggi! No matter where you go, as long as being with you crazy friends, you sure can figure out something more meaningful than struggling with the syllabus to do.

Here comes the weekday. Science students like me will have classes from eight o'clock in the morning until five o'clock in the evening (except Friday) with two to three hours in the interval unless your lecturers want to have extra lectures or tutorials (NOOOO!!!). After classes, it's our leisure time of the day. It lasts until the next morning, where the same routine starts all over again. The timetable of matriculation is quite rigid, so no worries to adapt to life here. 

As stated above, we are having hostel life, which means:

- you can see your friends twenty four hours a day, seven days a week

- you clean your own room wash your own clothes settle your meals on your own

- you can easily ask for your friends' help if you face problems in academic or you are simply bored

- you are away from home, more freedom!!! (sorry, mummy and daddy)

It is the start of leading an independent life before you enter the university. You will find time flies in the college and friendship builds in unbelievable speed. But do get mentally-prepared that you will find yourself being isolated from the outer world, though. Ah, I am eventually the third-generation senior for Selangor Matriculation College! Congratulation to those who get matriculation! I sincerely wish you guys good luck and all the best! Savour every moment in the college as you will miss it as I do after you graduate. Cheers!