The Golden Thread

"In a world where many things do not always happen. Not all of the many things teach you something good. Of those of which do, they do not come very often. I am lucky, yes I am, to have witnessed such rarity and to come across such a golden thread in a pile of hay. People who saw the hay went away because to them there is no chance of having something valuable in the pile of hay. People who saw the thread left the thread because they thought it was like all threads, or maybe just a bit better. People who saw the golden thread may leave it in the hay for it is they felt fear of the assumed harms and pains to reach the golden thread. I pity these people for not persevering, because they may have lost the only golden thread available left in that town. The only golden thread that can be fit on their clothes that lasts forever. I knew the maker of the golden thread, and I am lucky, I admit. He gave me a bit of that thread today."

Thank you, my mentor, brother and friend, for that golden thread.

The Pain I’m Not with You

The Pain I'm Not With You
by
SKY

I don't know what I'm doing
I told myself i have to leave you
But at the end of any day
My mind is filled with shadows of you

Your tenderness your kindness
The shine on your appearance
Oh where I can find another one
As charming as you are

Chorus:
It's hard to sleep any night
It's hard to breathe any seconds
Coz at anytime
At any moment
Your face is in my mind

It pains to know you have a someone
It hurts coz I'm not the one
Who's by your side
Embracing you
And saying to you
The three words
I Love You

Verse II
Some friends told me to give you up
There's someone out there better than you
But all the girls I met before
None is is even a quarter of you

Your humor and your cheerfulness
There is magic in your smiles
To me a girl like you comes only once
Every thousand years

Chorus
It's hard to sleep any night
It's hard to breathe any second
Coz at any time
At any moment
Your face is in my mind

It pains to know you have a someone
It hurts coz I'm not the one
Who's by your side
Embracing you
And saying to you
The three words
I Love You

Bridge:
When I couldn't see you in a day I felt that
A pain has reached inside
But when you're there and standing in front of me
It hurts even more
To know that you're not mine
Whoa...

Chorus:
It's hard to sleep any night
It's hard to breathe any second
Coz at any time
At any moment
Your face is in my mind

It pains to know you have a someone
It hurts coz I'm not the one
Embracing you
And saying to you
The three words
I Love You

And I'm still feeling the pain
The pain I'm not with...
You...
Whoa... Hoa....
The pain I'm not with you

Completed my previous song!!!

Ok, 看见你 is actually my.. 5th or 6th song.. couldn't really remember. I just completed and old song from myself. It's called "Goodbye". I wanted to make this song and sing it to my friends who'd be going away for their studies, but couldn't finish it in time. Haha.

Goodbye (SKY)

Verse I
Since we've met
Lots of things have happened
And we soon became friends
With memories to share

The times we spent
The challenges we conquer
And our friendship seems like
It's never going to end

We all know that one day we're gonna be apart
Now that time is here
It's only too soon
to say it to you

Chorus:
Goodbye
Sayonara
Selamat Jalan
and
An yong hisa ge yo
Farewell my friends
till we see each other again

Remember
That you are always our friend
And you'll be in our hearts
Let's pray
that one day
We'll meet each other again.

Verse II
The things we did
The smiles we had together
Through the dark and the bright
There's hapiness within

We love you all
Let's embrace each other
Let us walk hand in hand
Let friendship never end

'Tho we know that one day
We will have to say goodbye
But let's appreciate
The fun we've all had
For me and for you

(Repeat Chorus)

My Song!!!

Hey... Based on a girl, I was able to create a song!!! Took around one week but the song was done. Sang it, but not so great yet. Maybe it needs a little bit of editing. Anyway, here's the lyrics..

看见你（SKY）

每次我看见你就听到Hi!
把你五指手指也放出来
你能够把我心情便跟high!
你甜蜜的笑容也让我笑起来

不知道什么让我
躲在一边
偷偷望着你
是不是你的可爱
加上你的愉快
让你在我眼里也逃不出去woooo…

不管有多莫伤心
不管有多莫操心
看见你
把那所有都忘记
看见你
失落都变成欢喜
看见你
我很高兴

只要有你的可爱
只要有你的愉快
就能带那蓝色天空出来
我不怕孤单伤心和操心
只要我知道
我还能再次
看见你

I still need to perfect it. But please have cut the slack on me. I'm still half a banana..

Zealous Piranha Hi Dinner

Yup, last Saturday we went all the way to Port Dickson Batu 4. It was.... not a smooth trip as we faced a few problems throughout the two days. Hmm... I wonder if "Cheng Beng" has anything to do with it... Scary...

So just a brief account and some pictures, let me describe the journey...

We start at about 10.00 am from KTDI......We had breakfast at "bismillah" at Serdang.. .

Then one of the bikes got a puncture in of the tyres, we had to stop at Seremban to wait for that bike....

After replacing tyres we went to one of my floormates' brothers' wedding at the Ampangan area Negeri Sembilan where...Chee Loung was converted to Islam. Maybe I should call him Muhammad Chee Loung. Lolz

We ate and took pictures with the bride and the bridegroom.... Then we went our way to Port Dickson Again. Nth much until we reach there

Haha! Our banner... We prepared the barbecue pit and the Malay played in the waters. Us Chinese did not dare to go in, Jia Choon said "pantang ar... Month of Cheng Beng.."

It was quite beautiful though...

Haha.. Yeah.. Looks relaxing...Our campfire...

At night we had a few activities going on... My camera could not take good night pictures so I kept it. But I got the "Anugerah Non-Malay Terbaik" lolz!!! We slept at about 3 a.m.

Straight to morning views...

Well... took these when everyone's asleep... Haha and when they woke up we took more photos again. Then a caterpillar jumped on my neck and triggered allergic reaction. Caution: The following picture is very graphical. Viewers discretion advised...

AAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!! Itch Ultima!!!!

We had to rush back to KTDI.... With motorbikes!!!! The swelling got worse. Sorry no pics this time.

We arrived back at KTDI at around 2.

Overall... It was a.... Bumpy ride....

Wa Ai Chut (Hokkien Poem)

Ta pai wa ai chut
tio bo ki hue chut
ta lang ta pai chut
ma bo jio wa chut
science com chut
si jit tua bu chut
bio chem chut
ma si jit group chut
bio tech chut
ma si sa si ko chut
microb chut
ma wu no sa lang chut
tesl chut
tio si hie no ko chut
bo lang jio wa chut
wa ma bo sim chut
tapi wa ai chut
hai, ai tan ka tiang si chut?

*Hehe, immediately spoken while talking to Anthony. Hope u understand. For any translation, ask me personally*

My English has a Problem!? So what?

People who talked to me in English have very different opinions on what my English level is. To be more accurate, it's my accent that people have different comments about.

Some people, when they talked to me says...
"Hey, I like your English, you speak very well in English, I want to learn more from you!"
For those friends of mine, I thank you very much for the compliment. Really, it's a sort of motivation for me to keep speaking the way I am comfortable with. However, there are some advice to all locals reading this post.

1) To be good in speaking English, it doesn't mean you need to have a British, American or Australian accent. We are Malaysians, it is inappropriate to say that having a Malaysian accent in English speaking is wrong.
2) The most important thing is not the accent, but the message that you want to present to your prospects. If they understand what you are talking about, you are speaking a good enough English.
3) Being really good in English speaking really has no connection to the accents, but if you can speak correct structured sentences clearly, that is enough.
4) There is no two person who speaks in exactly the same sound, so why are we so certain that the accent from the west is standard?
So, my friends, I do encourage people to talk to me, but don't be so concerned on the accent. If you are confident with it, it's your style, be proud of it.

Now, on the other hand some people said...
"Stop speaking with that AAUUUSSSTTTRRRALLLIIIAAANNN accent la.... You should be ashamed of yourself for NOT SPEAKING LIKE A MALAYSIAN. Stop acting and showing off la..." (Especially by "mentor" and "Mrs. mentor")
Ok, this I must clear my innocence. I speak like that because I enjoy speaking like that. It's one of my hobbies to play around with different accents. And in the end, I cannot really speak Malaysian English comfortably.
I am comfortable with my current accent, and it's not really because I envy the West.
I never condemn anyone for their accents, and I think that is fair enough to let me speak in the accent I want. Get a life!

What I want to conclude is, the most important things are that you are comfortable and your messages get through.

Don't focus or condemn accents. Peace.

Finish Memoir Semalam n First Assignment

Phew.... Two down, more to go, more coming.
My performance in diabolo was quite disastrous on Sunday. Lot's of dropped diabolos from me.
I could hear "Come on la SKY!!!" from the crowd.
But with a little luck all went fine, the crowd supported me in a way, haha. Gotta thank the audience.
The next day I spent the whole day thinking about my first assignment, finally able to finish it, just need to print...
Haha... things are getting a bit adventurous now, gotta keep up the ENERGY in me, a few weeks more...

Anyway, I seen something yesterday which tells me the importance of feeling happy.
I've got a friend who was homesick and tired who could not go back home for a few weeks. And her face looked drained from all colours. After coming back from a short holiday, all her colours came back! Vibrant and beautiful once again with all the grace in the movements. Certainly, the break let her recharged. Haha, what a sight. Wish her the best. (so that i can enjoy watching perhaps? :p)

So I need to continue and increase my energy this few days... Hmm... what than can make me really happy to be energetic.... Gotta be something.

My Schedule.

Hmm.... Let's see.... Just to list out coming deadlines and activities..
8 March 2009 ~ Memoir Semalam
10 March 2009 ~ Psycholinguistics Assignment Deadline
11 March 2009 ~ May have Survey of Prose Forms and Poetry 2nd Test
12 March 2009 ~ Hubungan Etnik Assignment Deadline
13 March 2009 ~ Tamadun Islam & Tamadun Asia Assignment Deadline
15 March 2009 ~ Malam Appresiasi Keunggulan Tradisi (I am Choir Leader)
20 March 2009 ~ Secretariat Dinner (Biro Peralatan)
21 March 2009 ~ San Hua Reunion Dinner (MC)
28-29 March 2009 ~ Floor High Dinner (I am Timbalan Pengarah)
Ok... Be calm... be calm.....

Presentation Problem? Anyone?

Usually, because of my outspoken attitude, people tend to think I'm good at presentation, but that's not the case.
Professional people will know at once I'm not that good at speeches, that I just merely talk a lot. That's talkative not good in speech.
However, I came to a book by Jeffery Gitomer who teaches sales to people. So I'm going to give a few advices to people that I think helped me in my presentation.

#1
Know your stuff.
If you don't understand your own topic, how are you going to expect the audience to understand you? So first, really do a bit of research until you really understand your own topic. Don't worry about other people's topic, they'll present theirs to you anyway, so why waste your time?

#2
Believe in your stuff.
This overlaps #1, where I would stress on the research. The difference here is, you have to believe in your topic that you are going to present, then you'll have any possibility that your audience would be convinced by your topic.

#3
Stress on only the important points.
This is where I always have trouble (chuckle...) You are given a limited amount of time. So know what is important, and stress on that. You may like to increase your volume on that important part, or just use words or phrases like "I find this very important..." or "now THIS is important."
However, do not keep using them, if everything is important, then everything is just as unimportant to the audience, they'll not listen.

#4 Simplify your Powerpoint
Now this is what some people like to do; they have their words swirling round and round or until they arrive on the spot they are supposed to, then wiggle it a bit just to tell the audience "I am good in this, eh?". The whole idea is pointless and harmful to your presentation. It is distractive and it wastes time. Make the words appear as simple as possible, like just let it slide in in less than 2 seconds. That way, people focus MORE on YOU and YOUR TOPIC than your animations.

#5 Prepare
Not much I want to stress here, just that after #1 until #4 be sure to revise your points and be sure of the order of your points you want to present. People may say "Just be confident and be calm up there, no need further preparation." or "The problem is only in the nerves.". Again, that is not the case. If you did not prepare well, how can you be confident while presenting. When you are not confident, how can you not be nervous?

#6 Wardrobe choices...
Choose clothes which are presentable and comfortable for you. It must be comfortable, to ease you when you speak.

#7 When presenting...
Ok, besides #3, I'd like you to focus on a few things. Lean forward a little bit while you are talking. This way the audience will feel you are focusing on sending your message to them. Use different tones of voice and volume in your speech. You don't have to USE LOUD ALL THE WAY!!!! Use a mixture of all the tones, sometimes slow down your volume a bit so that people are interested to know what you are so secretive about... Besides, people do like gossips. Again I must stress that use a mixture of tones, monotonous presentation seriously bores people. Oh yeah, try not to use words like "but, however etc" those sort. It means the phrases you state before, are useless.

So this is what I can tell for presentation. I hope I can help you. Just in case you find it interesting, you may want to introduce this blog to your friends(Chuckle). Hey, it's good to help people isn't it?

Love Perhaps not now...

Hmm,

Well, I guess i should stop now on giving signals and all that. Somewhere in my heart, I told myself to quit. So I went to my "mentor", and asked him whether it'll be proper to quit, or what am I gonna do now?
He said "You go take your bath first, take your time and think of what you want under the shower, then come back and find me."

So I did.

I thought and thought.
And I begin to discover myself whilst typing my thoughts out...
"What do I really want?
Thinking this way, I’m in a bit of dilemma because after only a few attempts to court a girl, I feel the frustration and burden. Somewhere in my heart, I don’t want to go on.
Why do I feel frustrated? Is it because I don’t really like the girl, which I am too ashamed to admit this statement? Do I really like the girl? What makes me choose this girl? What do I want?
Looking back, I never had any girlfriend before, and I was rejected for a multiple number of times. There are many reasons that arisen, some I am too ashamed and defensive to admit.
I am a “flower heart”, that I never really admitted fully to myself. This is always seen as bad by other people, which is why I defended myself on that statement. Is it a bad thing? I admit in some ways it will bring trouble to me, but if I don’t accept it, wouldn’t it get worse? So I have this “flower heart” problem, how should I deal life with it? Even if I say I’d like to court this girl, my heart sometimes tell me to think about the other person. Yes, I should think. I had always been indecisive… never really decide on what I want.
Let’s face it; I court this girl because I was desperate to have a girlfriend, not because I really like her. Why must I be desperate? Others have their partners and have someone to talk to, sweet time with each other, holding each other whispering, joking…
What motivates me, I know. Girls motivate me, girls whom I think are pretty enough. Any encouragement, no matter how small, energizes me for at least half a day. Appreciation gives me the most motivation, real sincere appreciation, no matter how small it is.
So do I need a girlfriend? Since all I need are girls’ motivation and appreciation? Another reason is that I want a girlfriend is to have a girl talk to me. Someone to talk to… And a girl’s touch. I won’t die without any certain girl; it’s just that I longed for any girl to talk to, to be with, anyone who’s pretty enough.
In the end.. what is it that I want?"
So I had to admit to some of my "bad points", which was hard, because I wanted myself to be a "good" guy.

I went back to my "mentor" and told him what I discovered myself. There I said my decision:
"I should stop now and hang around a bit, until I can find a girl that really sticks to mind"
There he said,
"You have made your decision."

Be it then.

Goodbye Choir, Hello Choir.

Haha, well good news is, our choir team won the inter-combination choir competition. We're champions, although I kinda ran out of key in the end. We'll, there's that. Goodbye Choir.
However, MAKT is coming, and they need choir members to perform......

So....

Somehow I put my name in and got involved again. (never learn do I?) So hello Choir again.
Assignments start showing their red lights now and I am into another adventure of sleepless nights and raging wars (quarrelling). But I know it's gonna end well.

For the PAC award receivers, I congratulate them. For the non receivers (those who cared), work hard and we still have next year.

Life is going to be extremely exciting from now on.

PAP and MESRA over!!!!!!!!

Phew, after two weeks of endless work, PAP and MESRA is over, and PAC incoming Choir Competition tonight.

My... I've really gotta work on my stamina, handling so many things.... Haha, some even said I am power hungry!

I suffered from fatigue after those two activities, aching mentally, psychologically, physically and emotionally these two weeks. As i braved through the activities, I felt as if I had just swam for miles offshore and back.

Luckily, however, one lecture was cancelled yesterday and i was able to take a long nap. Thanks to Chi Chung, I recuperated faster when he took us out of UPM to play basketball. Now I must say, I'm at about 80% health, I should be okay by next week, should I have enough rest.

Well, throughout the activities, I have been trying "something" brave.... signals I have been passing... And it kinda hurts and confuses sometimes not to get any response.... Well, gotta try...

My Chinese New Year

My Chinese New Year has been one of the busiest i've had in my life! Travelling for more than a thousand kilometres to visit my relatives and friends! And all in less than a week. Phew! it's like a month rather than a week. I seriously need to improve my stamina.

Well, anyway, i didn't get too many pictures... My camera's out of battery, and shops were closed so, no purchase.... Anyway, I still have some. Here are the pics...

My Mum and Little Sis Kelly

My Eldest Younger Sis, Tiffany

My Second Younger Sis Angela

My Little Sis Kelly, always with the Peace sign

This "hu lu", Tiffany made with yellow cloth and some sort of filling, I was amazed. (She never sew, and yet she can sew this one, WOW!!)

And Me, myself on the sofa.

Of course, it's always nice to meet old friends again. Some of my female friends became way beautiful! Could have took pictures with them and showed, but... haiz, my camera...

Still, now i'm back in UPM, with loads to do... Gonna be busy again.. haha..

Chinese New Year Coming! Friends Going Home lo!

Yup! Chinese New Year is just a few days away. And my friends (especially the Chinese) are going home one by one!

I'm going back this Sunday to Kuching, same flight as two of my collegemates. A little late considering The First Day of the Lunar Year is on Monday. Come to think of it, it can be quite challenging, as excitement starts just as I land on Kuching. My mum will rush me to my Grandfather's house for the Reunion Dinner (团圆饭). Then three straight days of visiting relatives. Then my friends. Going to be a short week, but lots of kg's I may gain. Normal anyway, girls will go frantic and may be badly out of shape when they come back to college, haha! One of my friend and I may silently gossip about it, haha. Beware girls...

However, anyone reading this. Enjoy your CNY, do not hold back. Out of shape? Don't worry, with tonnes of activitites to do, your shapes and sizes will be back in no time.

Hope you'll collect lots of fat red packets. I wish you all a prosperous Chinese Bull(牛) Year! Mooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!

People, please be Positive!

Haha, I'm just scolded by a friend on what a lazy blogger i am. (Sorry Leisurely Life!)

Yeah, i guess I'm to be blame for this, so I promised her I'd put something here. As a typical chinese man (we can't stand losing face!), I'll have to fulfill my promise.

So here, I'll be talking about being positive.

Now, friends, this is what I have seen in many people, many times. When we are met with assignments, problems, tasks etc, what always goes in mind is:

1. Owwhh man!!! Not again!
2. I'm definitely going to do badly this time...
3. Don't you think I am busy enough already?
4. My results! How am i going to score with so many to do!?
5. This is DAMN STRESSFUL!!!

... and the list goes on!

This is NOT HEALTHY! And it's not going to HELP YOU complete your tasks either! People may say "Yeah, Buddy, I get it already! I've heard about it THOUSANDS OF TIMES!". The funny thing is, almost everyone STILL KEEPS COMPLAINING! Because let's face it, it's EASIER to COMPLAIN and to BLAME OTHER STUFFS on how MISERABLE and STRESSFUL your lifes are.

My friends, WE HAVE TO THINK POSITIVE! We are RESPONSIBLE for OUR LIVES!

Okay, so those who knows me might say, "I don't see you being POSITIVE everyday!". That's right, I don't. So why am I typing all this crap, you ask? Firstly, to REMIND myself I have to stay POSITIVE! Secondly, to let as MANY of you people READING this, to STOP thinking NEGATIVE, we can do this TOGETHER. It's more FUN doing it TOGETHER and the IMPACT is GREATER!!

I'll explain a little bit more...

So WHAT is exactly thinking positive? HOW do we think positive? A few questions I'd like you to answer here.

1. WHAT is it that you REALLY WANT?
2. WHAT makes you HAPPY just by THINKING of IT?
3. WHAT MOTIVATES you?
4. WHAT do you WANT in your FUTURE that you think MAY BE impossible but nevertheless will be a MIND BLOWING EXPERIENCE if it TRULY HAPPENS?

All the answers you have given for the above questions, KEEP THOSE ANSWERS IN MIND, as FREQUENTLY as POSSIBLE! By doing those, you'll GENERATE a form of POSITIVE ENERGY that will HELP YOU accomplish ANY TASKS AT HAND!

Intead of thinking "OH MY GOD! Why ME?", try PICTURING what you WANT as the END RESULT of your tasks. Like picturing PEOPLE CONGRATULATING YOU, saying "HEY, what you DID was GREAT! GOOD JOB!".

Have you ever kept thinking "Don't let this happen! Don't let this happen!" and the things you fear will happen just HAPPENED LIKE THAT? This i s because unconsciously, YOU ARE PICTURING YOUR FEAR IN EVERY SENSE, and thus FOCUSED to make it happened. Ever thought of that?

I had always enjoyed a sitcom when i suscribed to Astro few years ago. Now the subscription have been stopped. Anyway, this show I was referring to is "That's So Raven". For those who are unfamilliar with the show, let me explain a bit. The main character of this sitcom, Raven, has visions randomly popping in her mind very frequently, and those visions in the end almost always happened. Basically she can see the future. Usually, she'll do something to make sure it happens (or not happen), but at the end of the show, the vision will usually materialise.

Now I want you to picture you are like Raven, having the ability to forsee what is going to happen in the future. Except this time, instead of having random visions like her, you have the ABILITY TO CONTROL WHAT YOU WANT IN YOUR VISION and WHEN YOU WANT it to APPEAR in your MIND. Try it, you'll get what you want. I've tried it. It does happen in the end. I'm experimenting on BIGGER visions. Those just need a little more thing to it.

Oops, my batteries is almost dried up. I'm typing in a cafe now, haha. I guess I'll have to stop here. I have more to tell next time, if, you readers want to tell more.

Bye!

Hello Everyone!

Yo! I'm a new blogger here.

Hope I can bring something fun and entertaining to you guys out there!! Haha!

Just for intro, my name is Sim Kuan Yew. You may (because most people now) call me SKY, it's due to my initial.

Now like i said, i'm new here. So cut some slack off when judging my blogs ok? Haha!

Anyway, i hope for the best of all of you out there! Peace on you! Lastly, Hakuna Matata out there ya'll!