Thursday, March 31, 2011
感激我遇见
Monday, March 28, 2011
Forever Charmed
Sunday, March 27, 2011
累
Friday, March 25, 2011
我在长大
Thursday, March 24, 2011
我老板
得为自己计算所有可能的开销来作比较,得自己一个人到处去找资料,去问人,得自己一个人去安排,自己一个人去做。
Friday, March 18, 2011
Idioms
Thursday, March 17, 2011
A letter from Chinese Malaysian to our PM
I saw this on Facebook.(Well, if the font size and color is weird here because the damn blogger isn't really working and I have no idea how to fix it.)
Prime Minister of Malaysia, admin@portal.gov.my
Dear Prime Minister,
We refer to the letter below from a Chinese Malaysian for your information.
Would you like to comment, please?
We look forward to hearing from you in due course.
Yours respectfully,
Eddie Hwang
President
Unity Party WA Unity
PartyWA@westnet.com.au
Ph/Fax: 61 893681884
A Malaysian speaks up....
I am a female Chinese Malaysian, living in the Washington DC area in the United States . I have read many of the letters that often talk about foreign countries when the writers have no real knowledge of actually living in those countries.
Many draw conclusions about what those countries are like after hearing from someone else or by reading and hearing about them in the media or after four years in a college town in those countries.
I finished STPM with outstanding results from the prestigious St George's Girls School in Penang . Did I get a university place from the Malaysian government? Nothing.. With near perfect scores, I had nothing, while my Malay friends were getting offers to go overseas.
Even those with 2As got into university. I was so depressed. I was my parent's last hope for getting the family out of poverty and at 18, I thought I had failed my parents.
Today, I understand it was the Malaysian Government that had failed me and my family because of its discriminatory policies.
Fortunately, I did not give up and immediately did research at the Malaysian American Commission on Education Exchange (MACEE) to find a university in the US that would accept me and provide all the finances. My family and friends thought I was crazy, being the youngest of nine children of a very poor carpenter. Anything that required a fee was out of our reach.
Based on merit and my extracurricular activities of community service in secondary school, I received full tuition scholarship, work study, and grants to cover the four years at a highly competitive US university.
Often, I took 21 credits each semester, 15 credits each term while working 20 hours each week and maintaining a 3.5 CGPA. A couple of semesters, I also received division scholarships and worked as a TA (teaching assistant) on top of everything else.
For the work study, I worked as a custodian (yes, cleaning toilets), carpet layer, computer lab assistant, grounds keeping, librarian, painter, tour guide, etc. If you understand the US credit system, you will understand this is a heavy load.
Why did I do it? This is because I learnt as a young child from my parents that hard work is an opportunity, to give my best in everything, and to take pride in the work I do. I walked away with a double major and a minor with honours but most of all a great lesson in humility and a great respect for those who are forced to labour in so-called `blue collar' positions.
Those of you who think you know all about Australia , US, or the West, think again. Unless you have really lived in these countries, i.e. paid a mortgage, paid taxes, taken part in elections, you do not understand the level of commitment and hard work it takes to be successful in these countries, not just for immigrants but for people who have lived here for generations.
These people are where they are today because of hard work. (Of course, I am not saying everyone in the US is hardworking... There is always the lazy lot that
lives off of someone else's hard work. Fortunately, they are the minority..)
Every single person, anywhere, should have the opportunity to succeed if they want to put in the effort and be accountable for their own actions. In the end, they should be able to reap what they sow.
It is bearable that opportunities are limited depending on how well-off financially one's family is but when higher education opportunities are race-based, like it is in Malaysia, it is downright cruel for those who see education as the only way out of poverty.
If you want to say discrimination is here in the US , yes, of course it is. Can you name a country where it doesn't happen? But let me tell you one thing - if you go looking for it, you will find it.
But in Malaysia , you don't have to go look for it because it seeks you out, slaps you in your face every which way you turn, and is sanctioned by law!
Here in the US , my children have the same opportunity to go to school and learn just like their black, white, and immigrant friends. At school, they eat the same food, play the same games, are taught the same classes and when they are 18, they will still have the same opportunities. Would I want to bring my children back to Malaysia ?
So they can suffer the state-sanctioned discrimination as the non-malays have had for over 50 years?
The injustice the non-Malay have to suffer in frightening silence is the most damaging problem one has to face throughout one's life. You just have to look at the mighty govt structures which completely favours only one race, the Umno Malay.
The Chinese and Indians are treated no better than the illegal Indonesians.
Racism and corruption are openly practised by the Malay politicians everywhere, Courts, schools/Uni, police, govt offices, contracts, GLC, NEP, ISA, local govt.
It's so powerful and intimidating that you walk with fear and keep your mouth shut on anything and everything political.
Religion is taboo unless you talk good about Islam.
As for being a slave in the foreign country, I am a happy 'slave' earning a good income as an IT project manager.
I work five days a week; can talk bad about the president when I want to; argue about politics, race and religion openly; gather with more than 50 friends and family when I want (no permit needed) and I don't worry about the police pulling me over because they say I ran the light when I didn't.
Have we seen the light at the end of the tunnel yet (Anwar Ibrahim)?
Or is it the head light of an oncoming Umno train ?
Lets hope its the former for the sake of all fair-minded Malaysians.
The dream of a Malaysian 'race' in the future is nowhere in sight with the present BN govt.
Where is Negara-Ku???
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Lush supper
Monday, March 14, 2011
祝我生日快乐
Sunday, March 13, 2011
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!


Saturday, March 12, 2011
我很好
Friday, March 11, 2011
日本加油
Thursday, March 10, 2011
我不累
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
我很幸福
Dear Cho Kang
Congratulations! I am pleased to offer you a place on the BPTC at Cardiff Law School commencing September 2011. You should receive a formal offer from Cardiff University within the next few days.
Regards,
Hannah Walsh
Cardiff BPTC Admissions Tutor

Tuesday, March 8, 2011
开心就好
Sunday, March 6, 2011
干杯
也许是读书压力,又或者什么的,我不知道,毕竟家家有本难念的经。
也许I've seen worse, 也许我成长比较快,也许我看到的经过的比他们多,也许大家都在慢慢长大,慢慢发现自己已经不再是那些只要为了考试而烦的小孩。(写到这里,塔斯尼亚的企鹅,有没有觉得他们的烦恼,只是我们的冰山一角?哈哈)
人总是会成长, 无论你是谁。
Don't go through life, but grow through life instead.
我们都在长大,有时候你会觉得,人越大,梦越远。
不要忘记当初为什么有梦,人生有梦才完美。 (人生有梦才过得精彩,活得完美)
模糊,就只是一种过程。
如果执着让你放不开,你就得现在乘机会学会放开。有时候过分的执着,超越了坚持,到头来你会发现那只是硬头皮不会变通。
When nothing goes right, go left!
人生不只是只有一条路。
You can't expect everything goes your way because after all, we are just ordinary human that having a dream, a far far away extraordinary dream that seems impossible and full of hell lot of obstacles that make you wanna give up sometimes. But, one day after you have already succeeded in your life, and you turn back and look, you'll see, the obstacles are just to make you grow, the process.
老套是老套了点,可是还是有它道理的:
‘没有尝试过失败,你怎么知道成功是怎样。’
It's always darkest before the dawn.
干杯!
Friday, March 4, 2011
未来
对每个人都是这样,话题里都逃不开-未来。
没有钱了,还要这样子花吗?整整马币十多万,就只是一年在这里念‘律师牌’。
为了那十多万,为了不要回去考听说因为政治很难及格的大马‘律师执照’,多少个亲戚得掏钱出来。
不是我不要,我恨不得在这里尤其是美国常住,可是可以吗?
毕业后怎么找工作?怎么在那些洋鬼子的国家跟人抢饭碗?
所以我说,回到去考了大马律师牌再做出国定居打算,直到我打滚了几年有了经验就有selling point。
可是我阿姨说,你在马来得考多少次多少年?一面打工一面念,可以吗?
可是要不是这样的话,还有别的办法吗?
我不要刚毕业就负债累累,我知道妈妈阿姨舅舅妹妹甚至表妹的生活,都要我来背,这是迟早的事。
谁叫我我年长最大又男子,不算长子嫡孙,可是状况就是这样。
可是拿了你们的钱,我负担会更大,压力会更重,再加上我这种Happy Go Lucky 看不到我的读书压力在那里的,我没本事背,我扛不起,提不上。
刚刚才从所谓的'Photo shooting'回来。
整个过程还好。我应该不会上镜,又或者是只看到我的腿,反而我的行李箱比我出的镜还要多。
无论如何,有钱就好啦。就这样子有了十镑。十一点半到一点。
重点,突然我发觉,又还是我应经发觉很久,现在又在从潜意识里面跳出来,原来,我很喜欢镜头。我很喜欢对着它,被它捉下的那一刻,很享受人群中你是特出的,人群的眼光都注视着你的那种感觉。
我知道,演员,歌手,模特儿,只要对镜头对人群,我都很喜欢,最喜欢。
我有没有入错行了?
假如说我除了去美国定居可以的话做律师,可是我更想去修很多演员出道前修的戏剧班,可能吗?还有那样的青春吗?
人在外国自己生活,真的会长大的。
有时人越大,梦越远。
以前从来不会想象到有一天,会为了得到一份工资不高甚至严重underpaid的中餐厅‘接电话,拿order’的工作,也可以那么开心。
就真的只是那种很单纯的开心。。。
I got a job
Today evening, as planned,
I spoke to the Chinese restaurant's boss, yeah, I gotta go on next Monday, Tuesday and Thursday for some 'training'.
The wages is not really high though, 20pounds per day for those three 'training' days.
After training, my timetable will be scheduled and I just have to work for one day. 25pounds per day.
Anyway, as my friend said, 騎牛揾馬。
I found a post: 找不到長工,也不能坐以待斃。惟有騎牛揾馬,見步行步。找工作不是我想像中容易。
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
At least, the boss is kinda nice in person.
He shakes his hand with me before we starts.
And, he said I can work more than one day if I want and there's need, and among the workers, we can swap too.
Also, he said, the shop opens at 5pm and closes at 11.30pm. Workers usually go at about 4.30pm for the dinner, and after the shop closes, we will have a supper too.
And, I told him that next Tuesday and Thursday it's kinda hard for me to get there at 4.30pm since I have class until 6pm and 5pm respectively. He said no problem, I can just go there after class and they will give me a meal for both days too.
Yeah, he is really nice.
Wages is not high, but at least the environment should be fine, at least that's what I hope for.
Then I went to a Chinese grocery shop and randomly, I had a great and long chat with 2 old retired 'uncle' and 'aunty' from China.
The uncle was a doctor!!! They just came here for travel and helps out in the shop. This is already 3rd month for them if not mistaken!
We chat about Chinese history etc etc.
The best thing is, they thought I came from Taiwan in the first place as they said the Chinese I was speaking is kinda Taiwanese Chinese. Well, I take that as a compliment.:D
Also, when I say I admire those whites' big size, at least moderate standard body, they said mine is fine! They said all that while from what they have observed that Malaysian who went to the shop, they're kinda small size.
'你长得不错了,身材高大的,我看到的马来来的人都没有几个像你这样的。’Then the aunty adds on :'对呀,而且还那么靓仔,不知道后面已经有多少个马来妹围着你了。。。’
Haha, I did tell them they are a little bit exaggerating, anyway, I take it as a compliment as well. Haha.
I used to it somehow, because always those who told me this, well, a lot, but all from aunty...Haiz...LOL
Anyway, as you can see, or just want to say...
I'm quite in a good mood today.
Since I got a job, wages not high but can't complain much.
And randomly had a long nice chat with two Chinese retiree and spontaneously complimented me.
Well, now, hopefully the training days will go well, tomorrow's photo shooting will goes right as well as Monday's interview.
原来, 人可以因为得到一个不起眼的工作,打从心里的笑出来,真心的开心。
那种单纯的开心。。。
I just stocked up, I mean I just bought 1 big soy sauce and 1 big bottle of oyster sauce from the Chinese grocery shop =)
See it? The bottom shelf.
I just got myself one of my favorite Chicken Donor Kebab from Woodville Fish Bar just to have a little celebration for me of getting a job earlier=)
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Jobs
They went Futsal, this is the third week, as usual, I'm still pulling myself out.
And the thing that wake me up is my cell phone ringing...
Well, who called?
The boss, Kelvin from Fortune House, a Chinese Restaurant that I went to ask for job last Thursday.
Yeah, hopefully I got the job, although the wages is underpaid apparently, but who cares, I need the job!!!
And my photoshooting on coming Friday, hope it will be going well, and the interview on Monday, although it's pretty damn far, well, I gotta give it a try.
Jobs!!! Money!!!
GO Go GO!!!
SUNNY day again
It just comes alternatively. LOL
The sun is still so bright even it is now 4.30pm!!!
No, don't ever think this is the same picture I uploaded before. It was freshly taken by me a few moments ago. LOL
Here it is the sunny day!!!=)
There's always a seagull in front of my house's garden. I wonder why. See it?
LOL
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
世界很大,我们很小 (The world is big, we are small)
如果你认为现在出国压力家境贫穷很累,还有比你更累的家人还在为你的生活打拼者。
如果你认为单亲贫穷很痛苦,还有外面很多孤儿很快乐的生活着。
如果你认为现在失去双亲很凄凉,还有很多失去不只双亲甚至全家人的孩子为生活在努力着。
就算,
如果你认为你现在年纪轻轻就有一班成就很了不起,还有多少比你更有钱更有成就更年轻的人在外面被人家崇拜着。
如果你认为你认为自己年纪不大成就不错被人家崇拜很神气,还有多少人比你厉害百倍的人在谦虚地活着。
所以,
生活没有说好不好的,世界永远没有‘最’什么的,只是你看的世界够不够大,把自己看得有多小。
请,
从不说念书苦,它只是闷。
If you ever think that studying abroad handling stress now for you is tough, dude, there' re hell lot more for you to explore in this world.
If you ever think financial is always your main concern is hard enough, there're still your family who is now working harder just to support you.
If you ever think being brought up by a poor single parent is difficult, there're hell lot of orphans living happily out there.
If you ever think being an orphan is desolate enough, there' re hell lot of children out there who have lost not only their parents their family and their home but still fighting to live.
Even though,
If you ever think you are terrific enough to have such a great success in your young age, there' re hell lot of people out there greater than you being adored.
If you ever think being adored admired for your such accomplishment is amazing enough, there're hell lot of people who have better achievement than you living a self-effacing modest life.
So,
No matter what you are who you are, life is neither the worst for you,nor the best, it pretty much depends on how do you look at the world, and yourself.
Please,
Don't ever say studying is hard, it is only bored.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
If you fail, try again!
As I said, I have made it through the application of photo shooting for international students for my school.
Actually I was confirmed on last Thursday but I am not really sure to myself yet and thus I email to the person in charge again. Well, the person only come back on today and yes, I got the photo shooting job!!! This Friday! Only 10pounds as wages though, but being a model, actor, singer, host as long as a artist is always my first interest and dream. LOL. So happy about it. Hopefully this Friday will goes very well on everything and my photo will get published in whatever it supposed to be published. Hopefully it will not be in a small column anyway. LOL.
And today, before all the email processing above, I got a text from Jobshop too asking me to call them for arranging a time on next Monday to schedule an interview for a 'telephone operator' position I was applying for.
I couldn't get up for my tutorial later at 2pm but right after the text, I just got up! I turned out fast and give them a call. That means finally at least I have a hope for a job!!!
I asked for 2 Chinese restaurant, one may be 1 month ago and the other one I asked just on last Thursday. Well, no news get back to me yet. No matter what, I am still waiting. Sometimes I just wanna give up.
Maybe, what Nick said is true(the motivator I posted on previous post),
'If you fail, will you try again?'
Yeah, if we fail, we have to definitely try again, and again, and again!
Although just a normal job here as a 'telephone operator' to ask for donation, I am happy with it, because I know it is hard for us international students to get any jobs here, which means, although I failed few times for applying pupillage or legal work here in UK, I just have to try again, and again, and again. Because if I fall, I never try to get up, I will never be able to find the strength to get back up!
If you fail, try again! NO matter what, change the CV, change the writing form, spend more time for preparing the application...One day, it will be paid off. Trust me.
Now what I hope is, this Friday, everything will goes right. and next Monday's interview will go very well to for me to get the job!!!
If you fail, try again!
Cooking
Well, just coincidentally, don't know why my Jewish house mates all of the sudden knocked on my door and come inside my room to chat with me. LOL.
He mentioned he was about to cook but don't know what to eat then I suggest that I cook for him since I got the 'Bird's eye chili'. LOL
So, that's it. Chow Mein!!!
I even asked my aunt in South Africa for recipe although I cook that for myself so many times. Maybe cooking for someone else will make you nervous. LOL.
So, he sponsored the chicken and I used mine for the rest.
Well, it tastes okay for me. Not too bad or too nice. Haha.
Here are some photos:
This is what my friend gave me from Aberystwyth.
Start cooking the Chow Mein! These are the ingredients! Marinated chicken meat, lettuce, carrot, onion and garlic, 'Bird's eye chili' and the egg noodles!!!
Here, this is it!=)
Nick Vujicic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8ZuKF3dxCY
Nick Vujicic : "I LOVE LIVING LIFE. I AM HAPPY."
He said in the talk:
“So what do you do if you fall down?
Get back up. Everybody knows how to get back up because if I start walking, I’m not going to get anywhere.
But I tell you there’s sometimes in life, when you fall down, you feel like you don’t have the strength to get back up. Do you think you have hope? Because I tell you, I’m down here, face down, and I have no arms no legs. It should be impossible for me to get back up but it’s no.
You see, I will try one hundred times to get up and if I fail one hundred times, if I fail and I give up, do you think that I’m ever going to get up?
No! But if I fail and I try again, and again and again. I just want you to know that it’s not the end. It matters how you gonna finish. Are you gonna finish strong? You will that strength to get back up.”
In the video:
“If I fail, I try again, and again, and again. If you fail, are you going to try again? The human spirit can handle much more than we realize. It matters HOW you are going to FINISH. Are YOU going to FINISH STRONG?”
“The challenges in our lives are there to STRENGTHEN our CONVICTIONS. They are Not there to run us over.”
“I’ve never met a Bitter person who was Thankful. Or a Thankful person who was Bitter. Nick is THANKFUL for what he HAS. Not bitter for what he does Not have.”
“In life, YOU have a choice: Bitter or Better. Choose BETTER forget Bitter.”
Nick Vujicic – Life Without Limbs or Life Without LIMITS?
记住你十六岁爱上的人
by 思念的疼痛,爱沵的幸福 on Friday, February 11, 2011 at 8:09am
十六岁,是一个人刚刚明白了什么叫“喜欢”,什么叫“爱”的时候。
十六岁,是一个人最青春阳光的时候。
十六岁,是一个人对爱情最真诚,执著的时候。
如果你在十六岁的时候爱上了一个人。那么,请你铭记他(她)的脸,因为你可能需要用一辈子去忘记这张脸。
十六岁的你,不会明白什么叫作门当户对。
十六岁的你,不会想到什么是“潜力股”。
十六岁的你,不会觉得面包比玫瑰浪漫。
如果说,每个人都有作梦的年龄。那么,每个十六岁的人在自己的梦中都是幸福的“孩子”,有幸福的生活。
如果你在十六岁爱上了一个女孩(男孩)。那你必定会用尽全身力气去爱,哪怕只换来半生回忆。
十六岁的你,爱上(她)他,绝不是爱他的物质实力,因为你还不懂什么叫现实。
十六岁的你,爱上(她)他,就是爱他这个人,毫无杂质,单纯而完美的爱情。
十六岁的你,爱上(她)他,你是在用自己最美好的青春岁月去换一个和他的未来。
十六岁的你,爱上(她)他,必是用尽了全身的力气,不顾一切的去爱。
请铭记你十六岁爱上的那个你。你注定今生都无法忘记他。
你把一生最美好的时光用来爱她。
你把一生最单纯的爱献给了她。
你用自己最美丽的岁月来陪伴她。
你不顾一切的去爱她。
请铭记你十六岁爱上的那个人。
因为她一定是你真正爱的人。
以后的岁月,你会明白,你很难再去单纯的爱上一个“人”。
请铭记你十六岁爱上的那个人
那是最最单纯的爱。。那种感情里只有爱。
