Last two weeks was busy preparing for some Anti-Dadah competition… which we didn’t get anything… not even into finals… hahh.

I got to play for the first time with Windows Movie Maker, but I guess U Lead is better… anyways. Here’s just some of the videos I did…

Here’s a short spontaneous sketch by my classmates… We managed to do it in 25 minutes, including practice… Hahha. Glad to have good clowns in class =P

1. It’s not a norm to walk and eat during recess.
No one does that, except Convent girls!
Hahha, and our friends (from our other schools) even gave remarks, like, “Makan sambil jalan boleh kenyang ke?” when they saw us.

2. Co-ed schools are sexist? Hahha.
I mean, why do they always have to ask the guys to carry stuff?
Or maybe I should ask, why are most girls from co-ed schools weak? =P

And, why do guys always get a free haircut?
Not fair right, girls don’t get a chance… Never gets a chance?

3. Is it necessary to have so many discipline teachers in a school?
It’s not as if the school is more strict also…

4. Urgh. Announcements through the speakers when class is on?
*deep beep sound* “Assalaimulaikum dan selamat sejahtera. Maaf menggangu. Di sini ada beberapa pengumuman… Ulang lagi sekali…”
Hahha. At least it would wake someone who’s falling asleep in class.

5. School so big…

…facilities so hebat, and so hard to use a Makmal Ciber after school.
…teachers so many, and so hard to find them.

Can actually ulang-alik from the class to the Staff Room starting after recess, 10.10 pm until 1.15 pm and they are no where to be seen! It’s incredible I tell you! Like… Magic! *a big wahhh… and drools*

Oh my. It’s not that I have cultural shock or anything lah…
Just some funny observations to amuse my day in school. Hahha.

And yeah, I just started school (masuk kelas) and I feel so stressed!
So many things… It’s not just studies… I mean, that’s just 40% loh.

Anyways, where was that berhenti sign again?

Oh yeah, I forgot, I can’t find a person who uses sign-language.

It’s an irony when we suddenly find ourselves having compassion on people when natural disasters happen.

Where does our compassion go when we read the newspapers or hear little news of a child being raped?

A foreign worker wrongly acused and has to pay a heavy penalty for it?

A wife stabbed to death by her husband?

Everyday hearing and reading of such.

Has it blinded us and made us deaf?

Have we lost our true feelings?

Or are we just moved by images we see?

They may have lost their possesion. Others may have lost their dignity.

Some moments i just  wish it could last forever

and some moments i just wish it could end right then.

Wanting forever, it ends like snapping my finger

wanting endings, it prolongs.

Would I find an end, like how one suffocates to death?

Is it unknown to keep doing and being and loose one’s self?

To pretend not knowing that what you feel isn’t real at all?

To imagine tears but not actually crying?

I want everything to stop.

I want to hold up “BERHENTI” signs all over my life and right in front of people’s faces.

Please stop.

Please stop me from stopping?

One week of orientation.
The other week of scoldings.

Orientation week was fun! I enjoyed it.
Besides listening to all those talks given, we did group activities everyday.
We even got to sit in an air-conditioned hall!

Though we had to wear those big manila-card-tied-with-raffia-string name tags around our necks the whole week through, it didn’t matter to me, but it mattered to some of my friends… Which I found it a bit irritating when they kept complaining about that tag! Hah.

We did group persembahan, my group did an Indian dance. Simple one lah. We got number 6 or 7 (out of 12 groups), but we could have got top 5, if we wore outside clothes. I mean, the dance was in a classroom scene, so we just wore school uniform and seledang to perform. We scored highest for kerjasama kumpulan and zero for pakaian.

Other than that… we created our group name, motto, logo, group tepukan and lagu.

Left down to right down: Amirul Ariffin (leader), Bao Ching (was laughing cos she heard the Chicken Dance music), Renuka, Sheila, Hazirah, Me, Pathma, Shazereen.

Name: Dream Team (Amirul’s idea)

Motto: The more we dream, the better we are (My idea, but I was actually joking when I gave that idea. Hahha!)

Logo: (My idea too)

Tepukan: (Shazereen’s idea + NS influence)

Lagu: (Joined effort)

Dad keep saying, “Pre-U already still do this kind of things ah…” Hahha. Sheila and I even went to Amirul’s house in Sunrise Park to finish up the logo together! But too bad we didn’t win anything. There was only one prize anyway. Haha.

Second week was freaky and ridiculous!

Hari Selasa aku kena tegur oleh cikgu dua kali! Kali pertama waktu rehat. Guru kelas suruh saya hantarkan senarai nama pelajar lelaki dan perempuan bila semua dah habis tulis nama kat kertas. Jadi waktu rehat saya ngn member pegila cari mane bilik guru. First kita pgi pejabat tanya mne bilik guru. Kerani kat sane pun tau kita 6 Bawah baru masok, tpi muka pun muram btul! Dhlah x bg direction yg jelas. Hanye ckp, pegi tgok blok sane. Blok sane blok mane?! Wahhliaooehh…

Okay. Bila dah hampir kat bilik guru, 2 org guru keluar. Kita smua tgah mkn. Saya jln last skali. Guru pertama lalu kita saje. Guru kedua tegur sy! Die tanye, “Haiwan mane yg mkn sambil jln?” Aku terkejut! Mane ade guru tiba-tiba tanye mcm tu? Sy senyap je la, kata xtau. Guru tu kata, “Ayam kn, ayam saje yg mkn sambil jln…” Lepas die ckp ngn saya, die terus jln saje.. Entahle knape… Mkn sambil jln pun salah ke? Mane ade peraturan sek mcm tu? Ishh…

Lepas rehat kat dewan, guru kaunseling panggil smua ketua kump sb nk berikn tajuk-tajuk pidato. Masa tu ade 2 org guru lain kat dewan. Smua ketua kump kat depan catatkn tajuk… sambil menunggu ketua kump, kita smua pun cakap la… Then seorg guru ambik mike, suruh kita cakap slow skit.. Tapi smua pun wt bodoh xdgr… sambung wt bising.

Tiba-tiba guru tu dtg ke arah sy… ingatkn die nak lalu je… tapi die tanye aku kuat-kuat, “What are you talking about? Is it so important that you need to speak so loudly?” Pd hal masa tu member tgh tanye knape harga kiddy set kat Barney’s mahal sgt… Xtau nak jawab cikgu tu ke x… Xkan nk bg tau sy tgh ckp psl Barney’s.. pelik.. Tapi die mcm tunggu je jwpn sye… So sy jwb je la, “I was talking about Barney’s.” Muka die pun mcm xtau pe tu Barney’s. Hahha..

Die mula la kata, “I was watching you since just now and you just can’t stop talking.. Do you need to talk so loud… (dah lupe die kata pe lg)” Masa tu aku fikir, ade ke sy ckp x henti-henti? Ade ke sy ckp kuat sgt? Klau kuat pasti de org yg kn senyapkn ku ni… Bukannye ku ckp kuat sgt sampai die kt depan tu blh dgr… Atau.. mungkin reaksi aku tu besar, jd nmpak ku tgh ckp kuat-kuat…

Malu btul! Smua org masa tu tgok ku! Best la klau jd penontonnye… Haihh… Dewan senyap je… Hanya blh dgr suara guru tu ngn aku! Smua ahli kump ku yg duduk tepi-tepi ku pun kata sy x ckp kuat-kuat! Fed up btul la!

Hari Khamis pulak, kita org kena marah sb msk kelas dulu sblm lagu Negaraku dimainkn dan doa dibacakn. Dahla tingkat 4 xdpt dgr ape-ape sb xde speaker. Pengumuman smua hari-hari sblmnye pun xdpt dgr sb smua org kat luar bising je. De hari yg kita dgr lagu, de plk hari yg xdgr langsung.

Smua 6 Bawah kena turun ke pentas kat carpark dan nyanyi lagu Negaraku. Tiba-tiba guru yg marah pun kata kuat-kuat, “Hey girl, why are you talking? Convent didn’t teach you manners is it?”. Pd hal, bukannye bdak Convent yg ckp! Entah bdak sek mane… Pe ah!!

Yes, I don’t like people insulting my alma mater!

Anyways, here’s some photos of school:

In the hall…

Keat Kang with the name tag during recess.

Persembahan Kumpulan

Group that won first place.

Group that won second place.

We had a simple jamuan during recess.

Teacher’s Day. Sitting by the cover walkway.

Teacher’s performing as a band. Not bad lah.

By the way, that’s Encik Selamat, who was our SPM Ketua Pengawas.

Lee Tian Woon, Ketua Pengawas.

Hahha. Sorry, no decent photo of him.

Well, this photo actually proves that he’s doing his job =P

He knows me ‘cos “all” the teachers say that his inversed name reminds them of a good student named Woon Tien Li. Haha. And fortunately or unfortunately, I am her sister.

Zarena and I

Zarena, Faten, Nellie

Group presentation

SMS-ing =P

Phrase/Line of the two weeks:

S.M.K.T.H.O… teguh megah sekolah kami…

Besides being tegur-ed, I’m finally enjoying my freedom from “discipline”.

Yes, I’m actually enjoying it.

After two long suffering years.

Haha!

Smua gmbr2 yg diambik kat Barney’s blhle dilihat bila tekan SINI!

It took me so long just to compile all those photos! But it’s worth my patience =)

Sbnrnyekn, sye nk crita dlm BM… tapi lpas fikir2 byk kali… sori, xjd!

Here’s an overall view of what I’ve got from work…

1. Malay Lifestyle (speaking of the other side, what I’ve never seen before)

- Slow and easy, cukup mkn cukup. Which actually explains why most of them never make it big when they open a shop. Keep opening late, closing early (not to condemn, but it’s a fact). 10 minutes to closing time can really make a huge difference! Within that 10 minutes 2-8 customers can walk in the shop!

- All the guys smoke. At such a young age they start smoking! Some even start at 12 years old! This is the most bothering issue to me! If they live up to 50 years old, that would be 38 years of smoking! Imagine their lungs! Imagine how much $$ wasted! One pack per day, maybe more than just one pack (one pack consists of 9 cigarette buds, costs around 5-6 bucks). On the side note, I never got a chance to hold a cigarette bud! They don’t even let me hold the cigarette box? Hahha. In school I was wondering, how many lower six has already started smoking… how can they tahan not smoking during school hours?

- Payroll. Money come, spend. It’s normal to take advanced pay. We get our pay every half a month and end of the month. And yet, they still have to take advanced pay? Oh, not enough? Have to borrow from people? Hahha.

- Education. Most of the kitchen people (I think all of them), after Form 5 they straight away start working. Wah, the jobs they had last time… so many different jobs.. hoping from one job to another… When I got my SPM results, one of them asked, “Ade fail x?” Which means that failing is common to them. After they heard that I got 9A’s for SPM… two of them asked, “Tien, cita-cita nak jdi ape? Doktor eh?” Haha. It’s weird, ’cause it’s like sooo good for them… and when I’m in the midst of those going for JPA interview… it’s like nothing compared to theirs! Hahha. But anyhow, I am satisfied with my results.

Ah. There’s so much more to say, but the rest are just “work politics”. Hahha.

2. My Chinese has improved!

Going back to school… speaking Chinese… all my friends say that my Chinese has improved! Yayyie! =D

3. I’ve learnt how to read Malay text messages!

It’s not that easy ‘cos they type following the way the word sounds.

4. History on the Today’s Special Menu board!

Writing it everyday can really make me run out of ideas. Hahha. But I enjoyed it anyhow. And it’s sometimes different from the usual (it’s a fact). Hahha! During Mother’s Day, I was privileged to work on a brand new board with Abg Najib =) He’s good too!

5. Time

I don’t know why Barney’s punch card machine is 5 minutes faster.

Conclusion: If you don’t want to continue studying after high school, make sure you have enough skills to work a job that will pay you a real degree holder’s pay. If you can only earn less than 1000 a month, forget it. Go study. And study hard!

After two long busy tiring days at work… finally!

After weeks and days of waiting for tawaran JPA… finally!

Finally.

I’m done with work. I so darn miss it already! (oh, it’s like just 1 hour and 45 minutes since I left work!) It was fun though! Last two days of work. Being busy… I mean, I actually like it loh! Fellow workers my age going to Form 6 will still be working! One during the week. Two during the weekend. It’s not fair! How can I work during the weekends when I have YF and church??! =(

I’m done with JPA? I guess so. Might be appealing again. Yes, I didn’t get it.

Tomorrow.. today, in fact, I’m heading to SMKTHO. Oh my. School. They (Barney’s people) were all teasing me going back to school! Not being able to wake up! Buying my school shoes like just yesterday (Sunday)?! So last minute loh!

Trademarks of Tien Hui. Doing every important preparation last minute! It’s a super duper bad habit of mine!

Okies. I need to sleep. I need to wake up early. Hahha! That’s like… been ages!

Photos at work will be up… soon!

She makes me go, “BOOM”.

It’s so so so so so so so so super duper irritating!!!!!

I’m, trying so hard to tahan her.

Her voice of bossiness!

As if she’s so damn great…

Her silly simple instructions!

When we all know what to do…

URGH URGH URGH

Yesterday all I kept asking myself, “How can I love her? How can it ever be possible?”

It stretches my limit. My patience. My brain.

Yet, I still have to put a smile on her, on the customers.

And talk to her.

BOOM!

—-

Yesterday was so “BOOM”!

No water, and so everyone comes to Barney’s?

I worked over time yesterday because there were two functions, one with 30 people and the other with 20 people.

Speed speed speed without being careless and clumsy.

Guy who made drinks almost went crazy because there’s no water!

So susah!

And there were so many many many customers that after the 30 people function at the “VIP” side, another 3 tables of customers were waiting to be served. Just after clearing the function loh!

Kitchen people also had a pretty hard time, so busy until the dishwasher guy had to help the kitchen and the plates! Oh! You should have seen the mountains of plates! and cutlery! All piled outside the kitchen…

And the customers of course shouldn’t be seeing those piles of plates outside…

So I quickly cleared the plates, dispose of all those sisa-sisa makanan on the plates, then stack the plates and bring them to the kitchen… And I wanted to be fast since there were so many plates… but they were so damn LIGHT HEAVY! Some more I did it a few rounds! If I do it everyday I can build mussels muscles loh!

Ina saw me and told her that she’ll take over… And later on told me that she saw my muka satu macam, so she offered to take over. Haha!

Yesterday was so tiring! So crazy!

Some more had to sweep and mop the whole shop… which was so so dirty.

But funny, I felt happy and satisfied when I was doing all that =D

Yes, satisfied =DDDDDD !

—-

Waiting for it makes me so wanna “BOOM”!

JPA results is supposed to be out this week. They didn’t even say exactly which day! And everyday I have to check their website! And I don’t know if I will still be working till this week a not because I haven’t got the JPA results! And and and and urghhhh!

BOOOMMMMMM!

This Sunday is Mother’s Day!

Surely gonna be crazy crazy crazy at Barney’s!

Thank goodness Epul is gonna work on Saturday and Sunday! =D

Phrase of the week:

Dose tau…

Song of the day:

Khafi - Fantasi Cinta

Dulu kita angankan cinta sehebat kisah lagenda
Aku laksamana engkau puteri di gunung kita bersemadi
Kau aku cinta itulah kata terakhir buat diriku
Jiwa gelisah kita terpisah akan aku tebus dirimu

Chorus
Cinta kita berdua memang tiada penghalangnya
Sekukuh tembok batu pasti juga kan runtuh ku rempuh
Cinta kita berdua seluas langit tanpa hujungnya
Takkan tercari semua terletak di hati

Mereka bilang cintakan hilang sebelum kau temu yang baru
Jika tu benar tak terciptalah puisi ini untuk dirimu
Kau pejam mata fantasi cinta guna mata ketigamu
Aku pimpinmu terbang ke sana tuju istana rahsia

Bridge
Hulurkan tanganmu jika kau terjatuh
Ku di sini untukmu… (ku di sini untukmu)
Kau bersedialah untuk menerima
Cinta yang takkan luntur…

Hmm. Eden’s Day is coming soon!

Yesterday Pek Ying and I went to Pris’ house to prepare our YF games props. Firstly, I woke up late! We were supposed meet at 10 am. And I woke up at 10 am! That’s because Pek Ying called me… Secondly, I took 20 minutes to get myself and all my stuff ready (including the styrofoam)… left the house… when I reached the round about, I realised that I forgot to bring the styrofoam along! And the styrofoam was like… the main thing!

So I ended up going to Jeanette’s house first, to get the styrofoam cutter, then back home to get the styrofoam, then to the shops to get batteries for the styrofoam cutter, and finally, to Pris’ house… which I reached like at 11 am? Hahha!

It’s like a waste of petrol going up and down because of forgetful me! =(

——

Hmm. My siblings will be coming back this week.

Now that I’m the only child left with two rooms to use… that simply makes more things to clear, more clothes to fold and keep away…

But it’s okay… ’cause it is nice to have them back! =D (at times it’s nice to be the youngest child =P)

I have no idea why, but these few days I just keep thinking of how great my siblings are! How I’m so different from them… Must be some sort of “sibling pressure” hahahaha.

Okay… like.. both of them were President/Vice President in Form Six Student Council.. Presidents in CF… Wahhh… And like… they can happily do office work, stay in the office… do paper work… but me, I can’t tahan loh! I’ll probably be making paper boats there… hahha. But when I think of them working like at Barney’s or some sort of that kind… hahha, it’s funny… I’ll be lucky enough not to be their customers! Hahahahaha…. =P

Well, like Mummy says, everyone is different. She can’t imagine me working in an office ’cause I’ll be sleeping there with the air-con and neither can she imagine my siblings working at Barney’s.

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Hmm. JPA results are coming out, Form 6 is starting.

Pass few weeks I’ve been so gila about wanting to get JPA (even dreamt that I got it! I didn’t even dream of my SPM results! Or SPM itself!)… But now, I can say that I am prepared not to get it. I mean, I will be disappointed for sure, but I guess I’ve learnt how to accept not being able to get it. I mean, it’s better to accept it now than when the real results comes out, right. It’s less the “hassle”.

I’ve been telling God that if it is His will for me to get it, I will go. If I don’t, then it’s not His will for me to go. I don’t know if God gets tired of listening to us… I know He doesn’t lah. Hahha. But imagine, my parents pray that I will get it, and some other people pray that I won’t get it. Hahha! I wonder what God’s thinking =P

Some things I can’t wait if I go for Form 6… Getting school uniform, wearing it and orientation week! I don’t know why everyone seems to hate wearing school uniform… but I really find it nice loh!

Hahha.

—-

Hmm. I have exactly 10 more working days at Barney’s.

Hahha! Are you bored my tales of Barney’s?

I am counting down to my days left!

It’s sad to leave, but oh. I will have to leave anyway. Whether then or then then.

I feel weird. When I told Mummy that I was prepared enough if I don’t get JPA and prepared enough to leave Barney’s, I wanted to cry! It’s like my heart was so “heavy”. Deep inside it’s like bleeding.

Then I decided to tie it with a rubber band to stop the bleeding. But the rubber band broke. So I put a plaster. But it wasn’t sticky enough. Then I added honey on the plaster. And Naza came.

Hahaha!

Oh yeah, I got tipped RM 6! Gosh, it’s the most tips I’ve personally received! And yes, it’s from those Australians! Served them again last Sunday =D

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Here’s the peribahasa for the week:

Tak kenal, maka tak cinta.

And here’s the chorus of the day:

KRU - Jangan Lafazkan

Jangan lafazkannya
Hasrat di jiwa
Oh kerana ia kan menambah luka
Biar ku sendiri mengubati hati
Jangan lafaz kau sudah membenci

Okay. It’s actually F R I E N D S .

But it makes sense right?

Friends END on FRIDAYS.

Um. Yah.

These few days, I’ve been just so hit by friends. Friendships.

Firstly, Catherine Tan Shar Ling is leaving. Like. TODAY.

She’s going to Inti, Nilai, for A levels.

She got a scholarship (actually just tuition waver).

Sigh. So fast okay.

Rashdip’s GONE.

Cat’s GONE.

Next who??

Jae-Yenn, I’m waiting for you to leave! =P

Just been thinking here and there…

We won’t be that close anymore.

We won’t be hanging out so much together anymore.

Our life’s will be different.

We’ll be mixing with different people. Different situations.

Unlike the past.

Same friends. Same surroundings.

Mutual understanding of things/problems happening.

It’ll be so so so different from today.

Urgh.

I hate to say this, but well.

I’M GONNA MISS YOU SO SO SO MUCH!

Hahha.

I really treasure those great 2 and a half years of friendship!

Plus those moments we had in completing the school magazine and Interact Club!

Ah. Time does pass fast eh.

LOVE YOU LOADS KAY! *with a muacks*

Secondly.

I just feel as if I lost a friend. Probably a nice friend?

It’s sad when there’s a line to be drawn. A limit to deeds and words.

I thought there was no need for all that.

But as days passes. Days of just being normal friends…

It gets scarier and scarier.

When unexpected things are done and “out of the world” Invitations offered.

Words betrayed. Trust lost.

Need it be this way?

It’s just supposed to be fun! Great!

Skrg sape yg rugi ni?

Ku ke kau?

And now, even my hand sighs. (Whatever that was supposed to mean)

Thirdly.

I’m gonna have to leave Barney’s soon.

Yes. I’m talking about Barney’s AGAIN.

Well.

JPA results will be out during the second week of May.

And Form 6 will be starting on the third week of May, 12 May, Monday.

So, if I don’t get JPA, I’ll stop work on the 11th or 12th.

If I get JPA, I might stop work at the end of May or later (JPA intake at the end of June).

I’m just preparing myself to leave Barney’s…

although I’m hoping on JPA…

It’s like.

Relationships built… can just “disappear” the next moment.

It’s different when you already stop working.

Urgh.

Anyway.

Speaking of work…

There’s been this group of like 14 orang putih (from Austrialia and Austria) from Kor Colin’s company coming regularly to Barney’s. They come in a few groups at different times lah.

They came two days before, all of them, plus Kor Colin and around 5 of his fellow workers. I am glad I got to jaga their “function”. Had a lot of remembering to do, and multitasking… I’m still learning!

Ever since they have been coming, I’ve learnt that before their cup of beer is totally empty and they ask for another can of beer, it’s better get them another can of beer before they actually ask for another can of beer.

Why? Because, in customer service, you need to provide before the customer asks’. Like… being there to take an order before the customer calls. Okay, that’s my conclusion.

It wasn’t that obvious lah two days ago.

But yesterday when 7 of them came again… I took their orders… (oh yes, they were very happy to see me =P) All of them ate a large pizza each (craziness)… Drank beer… before their cup was empty, I just gave them more beer… Like open a can and put it on the table… And when I did that, they spoke some stuff in their language about me… and they laughed… (quite obvious they were talking about me lah). Next time I passed their table, one of them showed me his cup and said, “My cup is empty..” And a few of them laughed… Hahha.

Funny a not?

Don’t pretend to laugh for the sake of it… hahhha…

Anyway… I’m just telling you that it’s nice serving them lah.

And their bill for 7 people totaled up to around RM 350 (one person around RM 50)

7 large pizza’s, 21 cans of beer, 4 espressos.

Yes, beer is super expensive.

One can like RM 5 +

Hahha.

You read so long…

But it’s worth it right?

Of course…

Kau x kan rugi!

Psti punye!

Oh ye, klau kau gi sane ble ku de, orderkan brownies with ice-cream, sb ku suke sgt sgt wtkn tu!

Huahuahua!

Okie.

Skrg ku nk msuk tdo!

Esk de byk kje nak wt!