Karte.CX

Updates, updates, updates

Oh well its been another few months since i've written on the blog again, as for me, a lot have been going on.

Its not easy to embrace this new phase of life after graduating, I noticed that being a fresh graduate and a fresh/noob work person can be quite challenging.

In the perspective of financial wise, I guess its one of the biggest struggle, given a salary which is just enough to make it through the month sometimes made it very hard to have savings. Its with savings only we can plan for the future but i guess again i'm trying to rush things through. Anyways, still looking and trying hard to budget budget budget =)

Well as for work matters and work load, i pretty much enjoy what i'm doing currently, though sometimes it could get a little messy and complicated but its going through the challenges and setting the complications straight thats what gives the satisfaction =) . Though easier said, but still i know i have loads/piles/heaps to pick up in order to get me to where i want to be one day.

Aside from the above, everything is pretty fine with me just that i'm lack of gym, gaining fats a lot *always get the comment "ei you fat ad" -.- ''''.

Oh ya, anyways i promised someone to write about her, and I'm looking forward to seeing her as I post this blog =) hope you'll read this hee^^

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Holiday Blues

Yup, the month of December, it's suppose to be a fiesta with the excitement with plans where to countdown for Christmas and as well the largest occasion of all New Year.

With students busy plotting how to skip class, how to plead for the lecturer to cancel class so we'll have longer holidays, while workers are trying to clear up their annual leaves so that they can enjoy a longer period of holiday.

As a student, I am excited at first to think of all this facts that i will be having a long holiday, meeting up with my friends from high school, mainly, it's a season of gatherings, but somehow it's not what i expected to feel. It's just different.

The feeling is like i want to spend all this occasions with somebody, does not necessarily be in relationship - somebody, it could be a good pal, buddy or bestie .. or maybe it's a desperation to have company, it's just contradicting, effect of the holiday blues, therefore, this year I am not liking holidays and rather bury myself in work loads :) at least something is done and not me here pondering all this sort of things :)

Neways, hope none of u readers are feeling the blue's of holidays as me :) Merry Christmas and Happy New Year :)

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GOT STRUCK MY MOOD-LESS ......

I'm finding a song to express my mood, when i suddenly heard this song in my play list, just suit my current feelings ... so .. BLUE ..

How I wish I could surrender my soul;
Shed the clothes that become my skin;
See the liar that burns within my needing.
How I wish I'd chosen darkness from cold.
How I wish I had screamed out loud,
Instead I've found no meaning.

I guess it's time I run far, far away; find comfort in pain,
All pleasure's the same: it just keeps me from trouble.
Hides my true shape, like Dorian Gray.
I've heard what they say, but I'm not here for trouble.
It's more than just words: it's just tears and rain.

How I wish I could walk through the doors of my mind;
Hold memory close at hand,
Help me understand the years.
How I wish I could choose between Heaven and Hell.
How I wish I would save my soul.
I'm so cold from fear.

I guess it's time I run far, far away; find comfort in pain,
All pleasure's the same: it just keeps me from trouble.
Hides my true shape, like Dorian Gray.
I've heard what they say, but I'm not here for trouble.
Far, far away; find comfort in pain.
All pleasure's the same: it just keeps me from trouble.
It's more than just words: it's just tears and rain.

Tears and Rain.

Tears and Rain.

Far, far away; find comfort in pain,
All pleasure's the same: it just keeps me from trouble.
It's more than just words: it's just tears and rain.

Tears and Rain by James Blunt

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Good News

So, I headed back Ipoh on the Fri night with my cous sis, brother , though i was tired, drove midnight but still come to think of the home cooking and the fantastic plus satisfying food you can get in Ipoh, its really enough to wipe your boredom of driving back. Not to forget, meeting all my old school mates

As I reached Ipoh, my sister suggested to have supper (2am) at a place in town called Tuck Kee, I was so blur when i reached Ipoh after a whole tired day on Fri but as the food was served, the aroma awaked me, it's the home sense of feeling, the aroma of the food is just intriguing! I've posted a few picture, they're all in my stomach but you can savor the pictures

Presenting...

Wat Tan Hor

Fried Lo Shue Fun

Steamed Squid

Pork Balls aka 'Zhu Yok Yuen'

It was a good night's start and the food journey continues with my family, I didn't took any pictures then though, but if you really made a trip down to IPoh i can guarantee you that it will definitely be satisfying!

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BOLT! ZOOM ZOOM

I still can't watch my movie, Quanrantine, due to reason my friends would get freaked out easily if they're watching scary movies, so i'll have to wait another week till i can get friends who won't get freaked out from scary movies :)

So instead of Quanrantine, we settled for Bolt,The Super Dog kononnya la, we watched the 3D version, cost me RM17. It was quite an experience but i won't be returning for another 3D movie unless it's really really interesting, I would definitely go for 3D Quarantine, if there's one la hahaha

Back to Bolt, if it were to be compared with Madagascar 2, i guess Madagascar made me laughed alot where as Bolt is rather the animation with moral values, not to say Madagascar don't have but Bolt is presented in a more dramatical way, so at times there are parts i felt it's rather draggy. But luckily, there's Rhino, hahaha that furry guy made me laughed till my jaws hurt.

Therefore all in all, if you're looking for a good laugh i suggest Madagascar 2, but if you are looking for something bit more serious, Bolt but then again, both are animations so you should know what you're expecting :)


*Those specs, it keeps dropping, maybe my face ain't big enough, anyway don't loose it, penalty is RM150 ...

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Food Therapy

I've been eating, eating, and eating since that day .. it was rather depressing to know about it, somehow i had high hopes for what i expected, but i guess once again my world crumbled... made me, empty.

So eventually, i guess food therapy in Ipoh is really cheap :), for just only RM10 here you can stuff yourself until you can't move, I didn't took much pictures though...

And, it began like this, if you are looking for some therapy to cheer you up besides shopping, knowingly expensive, do try food therapy but of course look for good food, it's sort of a way to pamper yourself and know that there's still good things in life worth living for, well at least for me cos i live to eat, not eat to live type of person.

Like I said, rm10, let me introduce to you all, mee goreng and mee rebus, yup each for only rm2.50 so i gobbled up this plate of mee rebus, plus few pieces of nyonya kuih(RM3->rather expensive :( ), which is superb, you can't those delicious kuih anywhere else, of course again, don't compare it with penang :)

Eventually I was really surprised when i paid, the kid said it's rm2.50 and I was like thinking there's still food below rm3 besides all the roti-rotis in mamak stall hahaha, so lets proceed.


Next would be mee goreng, again rm2.50, another plate of cholesterol XD, this one was goreng-ed to perfection, yeah so if you add up the sum rm2.50 + rm2.50 + rm3 + mah favourite coffee :) = it's only rm9 less than rm10.

So there you have it, food therapy for 1 session, another way would be swallowing biscuits, i don't mean it literally, but if the way you eat it like you're eating junks then it's really swallowing hahaha.

Eventually now would be the best time to eat biscuits because festive seasons are just around the corner, there are a variety of biscuits out there! Go grab and start stuffing! hahaha I eventually just finished 1 bottle of bee-hive(a type of biscuit) in a day.

Anyway, my food therapy sessions will be ending soon cuz i am heading back KL soon .. -sigh-

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My Inaugural Road Trip

Like I said, it's inaugural, it's not a trip which hoping to go again because it's for a medical issue which have something to do with my uncle.

So, I started from Ipoh at 5.30 in the morning, took a bus down to Taiping and from there I took over the driver seat and drove all the way down to Penang. When we(Uncle, Dai Yee, Kam Mou and me) reached Penang we went directly to Gleneagles where we spent more than half a day there. Thanks to the hospital's facilities where there's a TV equiped with Astro I watched 2 movies there :)

After things have been settled there(Glad that the doctor said my uncle was in recovering stage") ), we went for food, didn't really hunted for it, we just drove around and hoping to find a place where there are some variety of food sold, fortunately we found 1 and i've been to that place before XD how lucky. Was rather happy due to the fact at last i've managed to taste Penang's genuine Fried Koay Teow + chu cheong fun with the black paste(aka har gou) and what made me drool when i think about it was it's coffee, it's so original even Ipoh had to lost to it.

So after our late lunch, I drove all the way back to Taiping and took a bus back to Ipoh, my inaugural road trip ended around 6.30pm. Therefore basically I was on the road for almost 14 hours hahahahaha, do hope I can make a trip down to Penang again and this time be it really a trip :)

*Get well soon uncle :)

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I Like to Move It, Move It!

Yes! I finally get to watch this movie! Hey and I tell you I had a terrific time laughing at those lost animals from New York to Madagascar and ended up in Africa XD

Sometimes i do wonder, how can those animals be so chill? From Madagascar 1 those penguins have really made a deep impression on me, and yes! not forgetting King Julien, he really is a cool character!!

Though I know I am a bit late to watch cause some of my friends have watched it before it's released date but I still enjoy it so much, and I failed to watch alone thanks to ma 'bud' that came along :) We even had Move It Mcflurry, hahaha

*Hey bud, if you're reading this post, maybe one day we shall have double cheese burger hee^^ -> as supper hahaha,

So that pretty wraps up my day besides a whole day of biscuits making, yup, I'm helping out my family in biscuits making, so well the next post i'll be talking about my biscuits :) stay tuned .. till then .. Keep On Moving, I Like to Move It Move It !

Karte.LVIII

Coffee and Kinta River

Introducing my new blend, yup coffee + kinta river , ok it's not like i am taking kinta river's water to make a cup of coffee, kinta river is the spot and coffee is the drink, you know me, coffee is practically my life.

The place was rather serene, I would really like to applaud those who developed that area, it's about time Ipoh have a concept of dining by the river side thingy, but unfortunately it's just like few percent of completion, and yeah kinta river's water is still brownish but at least it's something and i totally dig the environment there with so miniature famous bridges such as the Brooklyn bridge, our infamous Penang Bridge, London Bridge and if i am not mistaken there's 2 more, which i think it's rather a cool concept :)

As for beverages, it does not only serve coffee, you can reasonable western food typical "Yeolde" style of food there, price is pretty reasonable and best part is there's not tax! hehehe everything sold there is net price. I didn't had the chance to try the food there, I just a had a cup of coffee with my friend as we both have taken a very heavy dinner i guess.

As a reminiscence, this place, Kinta River brought back lots of memories to me while i was a school kid then, as my bus would always stop next to the school and we would run down to the river and start throwing stones beside the river bank, then to me the river was just a very big drain to drain out all the dirts of the city and it even smells but now look at what man has decided to do it, I am pretty pleased with it. Definitely will visit again :)

Well, I really do hope this project would be a success so I would have another thing to look forward to when I am back in Ipoh, so ppl of Ipoh do check out this place, it's just located next to St. Michaels School if you are wondering where it's where abouts. Sorry for not much of pictures uploaded due to my phone's low battery, but promise if i ever do visit there again i will take more pics :)

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Stressed?

Ok I know finals are around the corner for a lot of people I know, and the intensity in the air is high but take some time off ur books, comps, philosophies, laws, management .. or what ever you are reading and think how answer to your parents if you didn't do so well ........

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Got no answer??

I do have one for you,

Here's how it goes ,

Student 1 : How should I convey the news to my father that I've failed?

Yangkee : You just send a telegram:" Result declared, past year's performance repeated"

"A smile a day keeps worries away :) :) "

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Maybe,

Well, maybe i screwed up my exams, maybe i didn't treat my friends so well, maybe i purposely didn't answer that call, maybe i fought with my parents, maybe i had a bad attitude, maybe today is just a bad day, maybe it's just another boring day, maybe it's just my conscience... yes and the maybe list goes on and on, the bottom line is, we don't know.

Taken from a drama which phrased, " Can you measure the distance you are from the sky? or can you measure the quantity of water in the ocean?" Well to be honest we can't, we just can't so there comes the word maybe, maybe it's this deep or maybe it's that far...

The point is, maybe and with that word maybe there ain't a definite answer. So instead on focusing on maybes focus of yes or no. What you are today is what you've learnt from the past and becoming better, with past, i don't mean by just reflecting on yourself or maybe your experience, learn from the past focuses on a broad and wider scopes, which means family's path, friends and everyone you've met.

Yeah, so MAYBE, you can stop lingering in your little whinny world, instead, be realistic think of something reachable within you, reach out and achieve it and it will be a start for you at least you've achieved something.

"The world is not going to stop there and hear you whine, while you are whining everyone is picking up their paces and running ahead of you far far and further that you have least expected"

Karte.LIV

Holidays and Home,



Yeah, holidays have started not long i guess just about 3 days and yet i don't feel like it, to me it's like a routine in life already, end of semester go home, then same old things will be repetitive, felt like it's too redundant, but well maybe it's like that, which we can't deny it's just life again right?

I am rather predictable, every morning when i am awake, i'll march out to a mamak stall just located outside my house. Breakfast will be -> "boss, teh tarik, roti telur bawang" hahaha yup that's me it's rather easy to satisfy me.I won't be picky for food as long is it fills the stomach and it doesn't taste too bad until it can't be munched or swallowed Xp

After my breakfast or lunch maybe i'l sit down at the stall read a paper till my legs feels like moving i'll go home. At home i'll either do some chores or just sit at the sofa staring at the TV.

So, everytime i am back i have this thought of catching a movie alone, so i guess this time i'll really do so :) (fyi : i do this things alone, though i guess it's not anything great which i guess a lot of ppl ard who's visiting my blog do so as well? -> so do share with me how u spend time alone ) UR NOT ALONE hehehe that's what my friend would always say.

Before I am back here I do miss home a lot, kinda felt a bit home sick, well the feeling is like when you've been away too long you just need a shelter to go back too, rest, recharge and reclaim the lost in your soul so that you will be able to see things ahead better. I guess that's the definition of a home, after all we're mere mortals who's bounded by feelings aren't we?

So to those whose feeling like me, i've attached a pic of IPOH, taken from the hills of Mount Kledang, Menglembu, so for those who misses home do be reminded by the valley of IPOH surrounded by beautiful mountains where we once shared so much memories in growing up be it I know or don't know you :)

"Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to" ->I find it quite true like i say, mortals ..

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Back and here again,

If you would look at the picture beside, i've not been updating my blog so frequent, month of october and november was really busy. So barely had time to upload any posts, but I AM BACK!!!

Before i get emo or start with all my posts bout my crazy philosophies, i first blurt out what ever happened for these past 2 months. Well for the record, i managed to somehow disappeared myself from the world for bout 2- 3 weeks which i don't remember how have i disappeared myself Xp.

Well, it's been another great and disastrous sem, so from here i would like to express my appreciation towards all my buddies out there who's been with me with the struggle to get through this semester. So buddies out there you all should know who you are rite?

As i said, Great yet Disastrous sem, I guess those whom are with me should know and as for those who aren't with me also should feel the same right? but i guess i'm just happy that i came out alive.

Why it's a Great sem? One simple reason, buddies are always by my side, they are like your brothers and sisters of war Xp

Why a Disastrous Sem? Lots of reasons to it but i'll just state a few, as usual beginning of the sem i was hoping i'll do well for this semester, it all went well until SE. SE which stands for Fundamentals of Software Engineering, gave me a hard, it was the worst failure throughout the years i'm in uni, therefore .. DISASTER

Then came the emo attack which happened a few times when i was alone, hate emo attacks, don't think guys don't have emo attacks, it happens as well, it's actually quite a different sem this time. To me everything was different ... so how different it was, guess maybe when i'm emo i'll write about it just that now i'm too neutral back in ipoh so my body charges are neutralised not too negative not too positive as well :)

All right so i guess i'll write this much first, stay tune for next post :) ..

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.-Alice Walker-

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Happy Birthday!!!->22 wishes Xp

This year marks the 8th year we've known each other .. 8 looO0onng years .. hahah stil to come stil to come Xp
Don't worry bout your exam that's coming later, birthday girl will get all the luck she needs for her exam hahaha !! ENJOY!!~Xp

Karte.LI

After all, we're just mere mortals waiting,
Waiting and hoping that some day,
Miracles could once again appear in our lives...

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Pain..
You just have to fight through,
because the truth is..
you can't outrun it and life always make more

week 12, commencing ...

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CONGRATS! CONGRATS!!
yay! i will be getting an extra Ang Pow Next year!!

Handsome Bridegroom and Pretty Bride :)

PROJECT TEAM and Team Leader XD

2 Brothers Wong

lil cous Rachel .. gosh no more little lur ..

.. cheerZ!! ..

Yong Family pricesses :)

JUST A MAGNIFICENT NIGHT!

Karte.XLVIII

Another week flickers by, though wave after waves of pressure hit me i'm still standing strong! At least it's subsiding now, but still the waves won't stop. I know after the calm weather storm will arise and it will be here soon. May I have the strength to stay strong to overcome this storm and for those out there who's experiencing the same thing as I do, don't worry 'You're Not Alone'!!! Virtually, We are together not in body but in mind and spirit! so don't give up the fight and fight on!!! We're born survivors and we will survive!!!!

On the other hand,
Mooncake Festival is up this weekend which means, mmm let me see .. MOONCAKE!!!! and Hahaha to have a reminiscence of the childhood memories, I am so gonna get a lantern ('tanglung') to play!! YIPPEE!!!!! and sambil sambil eat mooncake and as usual my very own interest, admire the moon hehehehe...

..ending of week 10..

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Our body is a wonderful mechanism that enables self repair
Isn't it amazing how physical wounds of a human heal ?
But after healing, if the wound inflicted is deep enough there are scars
But ..
Some wounds to the heart doesn't heal
Though we thought it has healed, but it's still bleeding at hurts
Even if it heals, there are always scars,
So if u have a wounded heart or maybe there are too much scars in there,
I dedicate this song to you all ..

I just want to run
Just want to hide away
Close my eyes to your gaze
Just want to leave
Don't want to hear them say
"You're no good at this"

When the world swirls with naysayers
Broken wings and torn pages
The road ahead
Drowning in my tears

Break me open
Tear me down
Into pieces
Broken crumbs
On the ground
You can mould and shape me
In your image
Breathe your life
You know I need it
Scars make us stronger for life

Losing myself
Gaining it back again
Forging strength from weakness
All that I am
All that I'm meant to be
Melting in your hand

Let the world swirl with naysayers
Pickled hearts and sour faces
What is real is what I cannot see

Break me open
Tear me down
Into pieces
Broken crumbs
On the ground
You can mould and shape me
In your image
Breathe your life
You know I need it
Scars make us stronger for life

Cut away
All within me
That won't bear fruit
Cut away
All within me

Cut away
All within me
That won't bear fruit
Cut away
All within me

Break me open
Tear me down
Into pieces
Broken crumbs
On the ground
You can mould and shape me
In your image
Breathe your life
You know I need it
Scars make us stronger

Scars make us stronger for life

Scars by Corrinne May

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Happy 20th Birtday Wei Wei!
Gosh sempat upload before 12 midnite tonite hehehe hope you had a blast with us this few years back and may all you hopes and dreams come true!!!!!

Me and My Mei Meiz XD
Gosh, it was suppose to be a surprise next time on birtdays pls ppl!
dun be so smart!
Act Dumb XD
Hope you enjoyed :)

week 9 ain't that bad oso, at least a celebration :)