Feel of the Day.68

Back from melaka...tired and dizzy. lemme explain why.
You'll know how SMART i really am after this.lol.

On the way back, my bro was playing a game on me itouch and yeaa, being on a comfortably 2-person seated backseat of a car, i was bored haha and yeaa i looked over @ my bro playing the game. and yeaaa, totally lost track of time and i felt dizzy lol seee, here is why im SMART lol i knew that i can't read or concentrate @ something when im in a car, i'll get carsick, but i looked anyways haha...things that boredom can do to you :P
Believe it or not...i'm still feelin the diziness lol no joke..haha
oh wells...

Its almost new years :) time sure flies, a year flies by in a blink of an eye :)
anywaysss, i shud sleep. more food adventures tmr :P ciao!

alvin.k

Feel of the Day.67

2nd day in Melaka and it's as awesome as ever!
Today was the hisotical walking/photo snapping :P Me and the fam literally walked for 5 hrs, with maybe an hr's break (accumulated). Mashed potatoes r jealous of my feet after today's tour. Fortunately a local relative was able to take us around :P so yeaa, free tour guide :P

and then @ night, we went on a river cruise, and i took a few sweeet shots of the lights! =] planning to upload sooon....ish aaha :P

Also, for the very first time today, i had RAMLEE BURGER haha! my relatives sed that they've had better but meh, im happy :)

oooo...before i forget, i also tried chicken rice balls ! :) It's something made from very ordinary ingredients (simply the oily rice for chicken rice) but they look special haha the chef simply roll the rice into a ball haha hence chicken rice balls :P It's an experience! :)

alrighty, i'm yawning :P thats all for today! :)

alvin.k

Feel of the Day.66

First day in Melaka and it was a blast !!!!!!!!!! Did many things for the first time todayy :P e.g. ate satay celup! :P WOOOO so gddd! haha its like "luk-luk" but with curry peanut sauce haha so very gd ! also, i did some night photo shooting with my bros :) i wish i brought my tripod! =.=' haha :P i improvised and used my cam bag :) works just as well, the only down side is the many squating while adjusting the cam position on the floor :P

Today i didn't reli do much historical tours/visits etc but am plannin' to tmr :)
I think my cousin also planned a river cruise wooo! (Y) Can't wait! hehe...

mann i am so shacked! haha..i think the bottle of carlsberg also helped with the sleepiness :P i think i'll leave it here :P relatively short post :P hehe..

anyways, gd nite ! :)

alvin.k

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soooooo FULLLL lol i just had Big Headed Prawn Noodles for dinner! it was amazing ! :D
Also, me and the fam headed to the night market! so FUN! bought sunnies (again! haha)and some cool asian Tees :) OH YEAH !

The only down side to the day is my upset tummy :( i've been having a tummy upset for a few days now :( but i'm still eating as usual haha! too hard to resist...Gd Foood! lol :P Hopefully the indegestion is only temp...fingers crossed !!!! :D

As usual, i had an arvo nap todayy, wakin up to dinner time, and soo gym was posponed to 10.30pm believe it or not :P hehe..Feels gd after sweating it all out! :)
I think i sleep better too (Y) so yeaa, with regards to exercise, if in doubt, as nike says, Just Do It ! *nike logo: tick!* :D

Anywhooooo, off to Melaka tmr :)I better get some sleeeep! Gd nite ! :)

alvin.k

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Christmas Day! i know it's already the 26th but its like 2 hrs past 12, so yeaa, you know what i mean hehe..
Christmas Day! Me and the fam had a beautiful Buffet Lunch! It was the BOMBS ! :) They served turkey with Giblet/Cranberry Sauce OMNOMNOM!
They also served a nice warm Christmas Pudding ! oh so gd ! *droooool!
After that, we went to the mall for a stroll and end up buying some clothes :)
I also got another pair of shoes hehe it wasn't actually planned haha see, there was a promotion, if you spend more than 100 bucks u'll get to buy a pair of seakers for 1/2 price :P so yea..got meself some new shiny footwear ! haha well it's not reli shiny, its just white haha :P

The buffet lunch was so full i had to nap it off when i got home hehe woke up @ 8pm (yeap, you read right, 8 PM haha) and head off to gym :) yay! After that, it's supper or dinner technically :P

...and here i am :P Alrighty, that's all for today ! :) Nites!

alvin.k

Feel of the Day.63

First of all, Merry Christmas! :)

Just got back from a family dinner, YUM :) Turkey + Cranberry Sauce ftw ! :D
And some Baileys for drinks...that's the life ! :D:D:D:D
I've forgotten how awesome baileys taste hehe its the BOMB ! add some ice and its pleasureville hehe

Today is pretty much a very very lazeee day haha no gym, just lazing @ home with food and hibernation hehe :P and then dinner @ my auntie's :) FOOOD
There was this special dish called Begger's Chicken, it was superb! Basically its herbal chicken vbut cooked within dirt/mud believe it or not :P what they do is that they first put the chicken within a plastic bag and then some baking paper (i think :P) and then the outermost layer is MUD! haha its like solid and u need to literally hammer it open :P Special? i think so ! it tastes AWESOME too ! :) NOM!

and now i'm just lazing on my bed, with my pc :) wooohoo !
That's all for today :) Merry Christmas once again ! :)

alvin.k

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Just so you know, i actually wanted to post some photos of food and Brownie but blogger is being gay :( oh well, look em up on fb hehe :)

I watched meet the parents: Little Fockers today hehe it was pretty gd, but it wasn't as gd as the first one :( but still Ben Stiller and Robert Deniro makes a gd team in a comic picture (Y)
My bros have already watched Tron and they sed it was gd ! one of em even rated it 8/10 so yeaa, i WANA WATCH IT! in 3D ! WOOO haha

Apart from that, today was a pretty uneventful day, gymed, had dinner with my aunty and uncle...and yeaa thats it :P maybe i'll catch up with some Boston Legal later hehehe haven't watched an ep in a while :P

Tmr's Christmas eve! YAY :) will b having a Christmas Eve Family Dinner :) FUNFUNFUN!
FOOD FOOD FOOD :P

Anywho, i think that's it for today :)

alvin.k

Feel of the Day.61

Today is another funfunfun day! went to Bukit Bintang and brought friends around :) Also did some shopping ! WIN ! :P Btw, uniqlo is an awesome brand ! haha its jap and it rocks ! like stone-style hehehe...
Also, i finally got a pair of Havaianas! :P It's a funny story actually haha i was walking in Pavillion and then uddely my $5 cotton on flip flop decided to kick the bucket and yeaa..that left me limping all the way to Havaianas :P so yeaa, it wasn't really planned but yeaa...works out just fine :) Havaianas are SOOO COMFY ! It's really worth the $$$$ (Y)

I also bought 3 pair of new jeanssss haha WOOPEE! To top off the day, i had supper with the fam! We ate Hokkien Noodles with added ingredients such as pig liver, intestines etc :P hehehe WOOOPEE !

lalalala im tired...that's all for today :) nite !

alvin.k

Feel of the Day.60

Jam pack day today is..."the force is with you young padawan" hehehe

But today truly is a jam pack dayy, apart from travelling back to kl, i also met up with a few friends from melb :) It was kinda cool meeting friends from melb here in kl hehehe i took em around and also mamak ! haha they had a gd time eating the diff sorts of roti, incl. roti tissue ! WOOO :)

Anywho..short post today..im tiredd :P NITES !

alvin.k

Feel of the Day.59

2nd day in Taiping and the food is FANTASTIC ! :P
Also another day to spend time with brownie (doggie :])
I was meant to go jogging @ Taiping's famous Lake Garden but my ride lef without me haha i was up and rdy to go by 7.30am but no cars were around anymore :'(
I was 15 mins late haha oh well..it was still a gd morning :) Dad took away breakky for us and yeaaa...satisfaction 101 :)

Then, me and the fam went to our Hometown Optom to have an eyecheck. Fortunately my eye power didn't detriorate, however, my astigmatism worsen this time round :( so yeaa, that mewant new lenses wooopeee ! :P and and and and since the specs store were having a promotion/sale, i got new glasses and sunnies ! WOOPEE ! haha (Y) mannn, it really is a tonne cheaper to get em done here :) hehehe :D

Anywho, tonite is my last nite in taiping. Back to the ct tmr :) This is sorta like a bittersweet situation, as much as i wana go back to the comfy bed/room in the kl condo, i know i'll miss this old town and everything in it. I've been coming here almost every hols since i was born and yeaa...it's me grandparents' place. I'll miss this house. Full of joy and laughter, full of memories :)
And of course, i'll be saying goodbye to brownie. The next time we meet again would most likely be in a years time, that's 7 years in Brownie's doggie yrs. Take care Brownie ! :)

I guess that's it for todayy :) Take care and have a gd one ! :)

alvin.k

Feel of the Day.58

If i could describe today in 5 words, it would be like this :

Wake Up
Travel
Unpack
Makan
Makan
Blog
(okay fine...7 words xD)

Today we left Penang for Taiping and being back here sure bring back memories :)
The first thing we did after unpacking was LUNCH haha foood xD Although the stuff we ate were basically the stuff i've been eating for the past week, it has a diff taste, perhaps its the taste of "hometown" :)
Anywho, after lunch we rested, i had a nice nap :) and then we had dinner lol the rest in between is really only time for digestion to take place, so that we can eat summore! LOL now that's being MALAYSIAN hahaha xD
After dinner same story laa, rest and then makan supper LOL

During supper, a few of my dad's old friends/classmates tagged along :) It was kinda cool seeing them re-living their old days by sharing :P Really makes me wonder where i'll be in 20-30 yrs haha :P

oooo! i got to see my gd old doggie today :) he's like old haha one of his whiskers has turned white xD It's nice seeing him today again :) He's as hyper and joyful as ever ! :)

Anyways, i think i'll stop here. Time for bed ! :) nites !

alvin.k

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Hey Hey Hey ! Penang rocks ! even the rocks are tasty! haha :P

If you wana droool for fun, please scroll down xD

Asam laksa

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PENANG CHAR KUEY TEOW !
(the real stuff xD)
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Penang Cendul!!!!!!!!!!!
(The real stuff too xD)
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Today is a great day. First of all, THANKS DAD haha i bought quite a fee things todayy hehehe If anyone is in penang, or will be there soon, there's a massive converse/everlast/(i forgot the 3rd brand xD) sale...50-70% off! in Gurney Plaza Mall :) i got my pair of converse for like Rm 70ishhh :) SWEEET DEAL! and i got another pair (brand forgotten :P) for Rm 40!!! Crazy right ??? :P so yeaaa, pretty sweet day :)

Also, me and the fam had a bunch of food to eat. Dad took us to a super awesome coffee store (the asian ones with tonnes of stalls) that sells a bunch of famous top-notch FOOD!!! including char kuey teow, OTAK-OTAK, Popiah, Rojak, Kuey Teow Teng (Soup), Ice Kacang + Ice cream! :D *DROOOOOOL! haha i haven't uploaded those pics yet :P I'll put em up sooon :D

and noww, in my ice cold hotel room, i think back to the looong and fulfilling day :) thank you Lord ! :D

I'll be heading to Taiping tmr with the fam, and that means i'll get to meet up with my DOGGIE soooon ! :) and my cuzs too! FUN =]

That's all for today :) Take care ! :D

alvin.k

Feel of the Day.56

Sitting beside the hotel window, gazing thru the water-condensed window glass, out into the quiet night streets of Penang...This is the life...

Sometimes you wonder, if only life could remain on pause like this, just for a little while. That would be nice :)
As with all things, nothing is permanent, everything fades away...eventually. That's of course gd...and bad.
Once again, its the end of the day, and the beginning of a new one. many thoughts are in my head and i'm trying to seperate the +ve from the -ve's.
Pretty deep stuff huh :P

Alrighty, moving on...Today, me and the fam travelled from kl to Penang, and i, FORTUNATELY, got stucked sitting on the back seat, surrounded by luggages. YAY ! NOT lol my leg room was -ve something haha true story xD But yeaa, after 4 hours of travelling, we finally reached and we enjoy a lovely late lunch! We ate Penang's famous Char Kuey Teow and Asam Laksa and Cendol! (i haven't uploaded photos today heheee i'll show em to u on another post :P). so yeaa...Great Day ! :)

Right now it's approx 15mins past mid night and i can't wait till the morning because....im going to enjoy some Roti Canai and Teh Tarik ! YAY ! :) lalalalaaaaaaaaa haha..

Alrighty, that's all for today :) Have a good one ! :):)

alvin.k

Feel of the Day.55

Once again...Pictures of FOOD! i shall call this...FICTURES ( Food Pictures xD)
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otak-otak or Brain-brain lol

NINJA JOES BURGERS FTW!!!
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(i know this isn't food, bear with me :P)
FERRARI !!!...and me :P
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Tutti Frutti Frozen Yogurt! (Y)
(It tastes better than it looks xD)
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Today is SHOPPING DAY ! :) Me and the fam went to sunway pyramid for a day of shopping and food hehe..pyramid was sorta packed today, eventhough it's a thurs today. That's msia for u :P

I did a bunch of shopping today :) Bought 2 pairs of shorts and 2 jackets! so much cheaper here !! :D Me and fammy also ate a tonne of food. one of em being KAYA BALLS ! THEY'RE THE BESTTT ! :)

i still wanna buy shoess ! converse and VANS ! WOOO :P SOOON ! (Y)

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i should sleeep soon, heading to penang tmr ! the land of AWESOME FOOD ! :) weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ! Till next time, take careee ! :)

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alvin.k

Feel of the Day.54

First of all...photos that may induce uncontrollable drooooling (Y)

Fatty Crab FTW ! :)

Satayyyyyyyy (Y)

Roast Chicken Goodnesssss! :D
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Famous OUG Pan Mee *DROOL
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Cool Kopi Ais !
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As you can see...my day ONCE AGAIN has been filled with lovely foooods (i know there's no "s" after food but it was just so abundantly awesome! :P). In conclusion, a FUN day! (Y) my tummys happy (Y)

and guess wat...i did something i've never done before in msia.....i went to da GYM! WOO haha..it goes like this *clears throat*, food..foood...fooood...foooooood...guilty...gym hahaha :P

hopefully me and miss treadmill will meet again :P

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just on a side note. i just wana say that as much fun this hol is, that lil fish, nivla, is creeeping out again =.=' and as usual, with all of his friends (Mr. octopus ...etc...etc..). I just think that it's stooopid. With all the GOLD in front of nivla, he's still bothered. never satisfied ? greedy? perhaps. maybe helpless? maybe.

oh well, enough of this nonsense for one night :P

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That's all for today. Lookin fwd to tmr :)

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alvin.k

Feel of the Day.53

Today, once again, was about the FOOD haha..
Me and the fam started off the day with some top-notch shanghainese cuisine @ midvalley :) If you're wondering which one, its the one next to the hotel heheheh YUM! i would love to have shown you pics but unfortunately i woke up 15 mins before leaving for lunch, and so, as a result, the camera had a day off @ home (Y) but yea...awesome food hehe yay! then, me and the bros went to do some shopping! bought some shirts ! yay =]

After that dad dropped me @ Tropicana Mall for a movie wth some friends :) we watched a movie involving a mice, 2 teenagers, a Lion and a prince + a cool ship :P if you're thinking Narnia...BINGO ! :)
The movie was pretty gd, there were some new characters, actually just 1 main one but yeaa :P It's defs better than the 2nd one if you ask me, but the first one is still THE NARNIA MOVIE :P in my opinion :P

After the movie, we decided to have some titbits b4 dinner, while waiting for some other friends. Me kawans took me to NINJA JOES ! the cooolest concept restaurant ever ! hahaa they serve mini burgers :P They taste pretty awesome too so yeaa :D After our friends arrived, we had dinner @ a place called otak-otak place (if my memory serves me well) :P Fun night! Thanks guys for all the LOL-Moments :P

That's all for today :P NITES ! :)

alvin.k

Feel of the Day.52

Today has been a rather simple day. I woke up early actually, even though i went to bed rather late, or should i say early :P

If you're thinking "wait a minnn, alvin waking up early during hols??", you're right :P see, to explain my early wake, we'll have to go back to my tummy situation last nite :P

It was approx..1? last nite and my tummy had started singing again, and i was tempted to go to the kitchen to get a bite..but meh i was lazeee and i think the existing adipose tissue on me body are starting to complain "dude..there's no space! Urban Consolidation mannn!" haha :P soo i thought i'd wait till the sunrise to get a nice bite :) and i did...so worth it ! :) PORK NOODLES WITH PIG INTESTINES & LIVER ! WOOO :P The pleasures of life ! (Y)

alrighty, since we're on the topic of foood, i'll post a few pics from a few days ago :D

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Jap seaweed, Oyster & various sashimi (Y)

Sushi! (Y)

Tepanyaki! WOOO

Loh Meeee ! *drooool*

hungry yet ? :P haha..i apologise if you're reading this post @ 2 in the morning and your stomach is singing now :P

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That's all folks! Cheers ! :)

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alvin.k

Feel of the Day.51

2nd day back in malaysia :) WOO!

Just got back from a primary school gathering not too long ago..it was major fun! :) We mamak-ed it @ murni's and then translocated to 1U for some ice-cream fun @ Baskin's (Y) Top notch fun wooo! :P

You know what...i'm glad to be home =] i feeeel good today (Y)
I hope tmrs the same...or BETTER ! :):):):):)
no plans for tmr yet, maybee some shoppping...hm.... :P
oh mannn..i just ate not long ago and i'm hungreeee now haha this is a completely diff feeling to yest (refer to me last post :P ).

ooo..one thing, i dno if i mentioned this yest but....i got a new haircutt ! :P haha it's sorta like a mohawk :P my sides are like super short and my middle section is like longish :P i woke up this morning resembling Mr.T a lil xD gd stuff :P

Newaisss...i think imma sleep now. been a long-ish day :P
Peace out ! :D

alvin.k

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feeling: SUPER FULL ! :'(

alright, today is actually a great day ! :) (Y)
First day in kl and it was a splendid one :) had breakky with my uncle's family and then casual lunch/brunch (my ku ma made roasted chicken! NOM!!) and then awesomee jap buffet dinna with my uncle again :)

The only downside to this perfect day is my STUPIDITY ! lol
i ate too much during dinner...now i am suffering...like NOW haha
i actually felt nauseous after dinner and had to use my old friend...tiger balm ! haha

it's that serious...LOL

anywhoo, i'm satisfied ! :) fun day ! and a super full tummy ! xD
looking fwd to tmr :) meeting up with a bunch of my primary school mates ! woohooo :D

maybee i'll do some shopping in the arvo :P haha..
anyways, that's it for this post :)

Till next time, i'm....

alvin.k :P

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I'm homeeeeee ! :P

It sure feels gd to be back! Char Kuey Teow...have u missed me ? Oh dear Bak Kut Teh...It's been too long :P

Surprisingly my flight landed early in kl, GO MAS AIRLINES ! MH...Malaysian Hospitality! haha [they should so pay me for advertising (Y)]

As soon as i got home, me and the fam had an awesome dinna/suppa @ Taman megah. Steamed fish, drunken chick, Beef&rib noodles....all digesting happily in my G.I. tract now xD
I am actually totally shacked! only had a few hours of sleep on the plane and had a total of 8 hours of shuteye for the past 2 days....WIN! haha..

*yawns* I think that's all for today :) Enjoy the hols guys !

alvin.k

Feel of the Day.48

Feeling : soso..

Today has been a pretty tiring day, eventhough i didn't really do much haha.
I slept pretty late last night =.=' I had to backup my com data before going back to kl :):) you never what'll happen, and so backing up is always better (Y) haha
Well, the packing's pretty much done, all that's left is the toiletries stuff which is to be packed tmr morning. You know what, it feels weird this time, going back to kl. Maybe it's because i've already gone back during the winter break but there's something different about this time. It's not that i don't feel excited, because i do, i'm quite pumped to see my relatives again and all the CUTEE nephew/nieces (Y) and the FOOD + SHOPPING...Malaysia...Truly Asia lol!
See, i'm totally excited about tmr, but at the same time, i kinda feel meh. Maybe it's because this sem has been pretty hectic, in terms of the study load and blablabla..perhaps. I guess it was worth it, since i'm pretty happy about my final results :):) Maybe i'm just tired, or just dislike change in general hahaa well i did want to stay in Melb to do a summer research program, mainly because it was good experience before getting into the field later on, but also i would look great on my CV, esp. for the M.D. interview. sigh...oh well. What happened happened..or maybe i should say, what didn't happened didn't happened :P ahhhhh...i'm so tired right now :'( upside:gd sleep tonight (Y), downside:final packing procedures BLURRRR haha what do i say to that ? mehh..that's right! take that sleeepiness !
oh man, i'm even starting to sound weirdddd..sleeeeeep i need you ! D:

Hols has started for quite a while now and that means GAMSAT is drawing near RAWR !!! Oh well, it's one more test and that's it (i'm hoping that's it *fingers crossed*). GAMSAT is also the reason why i have to head back to melb earlier :'( I've enrolled for a prep course for it and it starts in mid Jan. One more year !!!! and then no more GAMSAT. I've had the priveledge to tag "DAMSAD" on GAMSAT haha..so true right? i bet you biomedders are nodding right now haha :P

Alrighty, new topic *whoooosh!* Right now, what's bubbling on my mind is TRAVELLING ! I guess it's partly because a lot of my friends are goin overseas, exploring the world, adventure ! woo haha but also i've gotten to know more international friends in uni this year and the storie they've told me about their hometown is amazing! Like indo, i've heard a lot abt it from my previous housemaid, and then more this yr from indo friends in my course :) I kinda wana go there now for a hol ! haha cheap food, new country, adventureee ! what's not to like? haha also, i get to embarrass myself with my noobish bahasa :P apa khabar !!! :P
and that's just one country ! there's sooooo many more places i wana go explore ! WOOO next yr ! can someone pleaseeee orgaise ? :P

anywho...msia tmr ! i needa get pumped ! but not so much to the point where i loooose myself ahaa...the ending wouldn't be pretty :P Well, i think my motto for this month-long hol is "Enjoy life while you can and be happy!" i think that's do-able! woooO!

Another thought that's beeen floating around in me head: GET A JOB !
I really need to get a job. I'm kinda pov haha i've been living off month allowances, but don't get me wrong, it's more than sufficient but i am only human...haha sometimes i just buy unnecessary stuff :P i hope you're agreeing with me on this ? i don't wana be alone ! haaha Next semester's hours is pretty lil for 3rd year and i'm thinking if i should get a part time job..hopefully by then i'll be able to drive too so i can get to places easier haha defs a plus to put on your resume haha but the thing is..next yr's 3rd yr and that means IMPORTANT ALERT ! it's worth the most soooooo...i guess a job can wait ? hm...too early to decide...i got time :P
I guess i can wait till later on to get a job :P I've worked before and i know the satisfaction of getting paid and all...i kinda miss that feeling haha the stuff u buy with your own hard-earned money is always the best stuff :)

Newais...i should go fin packing and the maybee watch BOSTON :P My next blog entry would be from MALAYSIAN INTERNET ! WOOO :P Take care y'all ! :):)

alvin.k

Feel of the Day.47

1. Sleeep at 5am
2. Wake up at 9.30am
3. Bus at 9.55am
4. Time to walk to bus stop: 30 mins, in other words...GEEGEE!
5. Caught next bus, reach ct just in time for movie "Monster".
6. "Monster". Not really District 9. Take 10% of District 9 and add 100000% Romance. haha.
I actualy didn't mind it (Y), eventhough i expected more alien slaughtering haha :P
7. Carols for 1 hr "Joy to the World !" (Y)
8. Quick lunch at Egg Bistro..OMNOMNOM!
9. @ ERC to enquire stuff.
10. City RoAmInG...WEEEE!
11. lack of sleep (refer 1. & 2.) = zombie = RAWR!
12. 307 to shoppo = hibernate= ZzZzZzZz
13. Dinner @ shoppo with seafood and anything = AMAZING ! :)
14. Max Brenner = WOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
15. Dark Choc = WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
16. lalalalalalal
17. blogging
18. return to 1.
19. :)
20. Good Night ! :D

alvin.k

Feel of the Day.46

Feeling: mehh...

Today was a combo day. You know like the combo meals you get from fast food places ? yea those kind. There was gd news, bad news and a whole jumble of unknown-ness.

Firstly, everything seems fine now with the mole. Let's hope that this is the last time i speak of the mole. Even though blabbering about this issue provides me with a sense of relief, i still feel....unaccomplished/unsatisfied/unhappy. Let's hope that this chapter ends here. for good.

Anywho, i went jogging today and after yesterday's stupdity, i managed to go at a more suitable time :) No headaches today! BOOYAH ! :) hm...i thought i had more to say about exercising today. i guess that's it. peace out!

I am still jealous. so is nivla. The fish's friends were out again, catching microorganism smoothies, and nivla was where ? well, i don't know. definitely no where near the smoothies. After so many cold seasons, nivla begins to think if solitude is a better option ? that way there will be no temptations to go smoothie hunting. perhaps it's a better way then. maybe. I thnk that solitude is sometimes a gd thing. We go through life everyday, facing different kinds of people and different sorts of situations. As the old saying goes, "clapping requires 2 hands" (something like that), so solitude basically means that there's only one hand and all that matters is that 1 hand. The hand may choose to wave, or extend or do all sorts of weird actions, whos to say "stop it, it's weird!" ? no body. That's one of the pros of solitude. of course there are many cons as well. See, i usually won't say what i just said but sometimes certain circumstances are just too big to handle. At this point, clapping-free sounds pretty damn gd.period.

anyways, on to happier things :) tmr i'll be having dinner with a few friends and i look fwd to it :) It's been a while since i caught up with these bunch of friends and i'm look fwd to some serious chitchat :)

I think that's all for today :) It's time for some boston ! (Y)
Take care y'all !

alvin.k

Feel of the Day.45

Feeling : sub-sub-sub-sub optimal

It's the mole again. You know sometimes ppl just don't feel up to it. It's hard to be, wait lemme rephrase that, it's hard to appear to be optimal all the time..it just is. Sometimes we just don't wana walk and sometimes we wana show some attitude. you do it too! yes i'm talking to you mole! But i know i am at fault too. I've been taught in school that i should always be grateful in everything i do, as the chinese proverb goes "remember the stream from which you drink" (i can't seem to type chinese here, oh well..). And so i have decided to look at the situation at a different angle. I will be grateful for the kindness that has been showered upon me over the years and i will be thankful for the provision that has been provided for me. I should. Now i may be coming off as sarcastic, but i'm not, i have been blessed with so many things and i should be grateful. The very least i can do is be grateful, and that's what i plan to do. I will be grateful. In times when i wana explode into a million pieces and then explode again to a gazillion pieces, i will remember this "remember the stream from which you drink". and i will calm down, i have to and i will.

Right now in my mind, a song is playing on the background, with the lyrics going "you can't always get what you want"...."you get what you need". It's an old classic by the Rolling Stones. Those words are very true, the fact that i am alive typing right now means that i get what i need. but i can't always get what i want. i don't get what i want, often. Lemme paint you a picture, you're a fish, and you have your fish friends, and y'all live in the same pond/river. The pond/river is full of supplements/nutrients/food, but not all fishes get the same amount, however all get enough to survive, some get more than others. There's a particular fish, we'll call him nivla. He gets enough to survive, but he wants more. He sees all his friends getting MORE and MORE and MORE. and it pains him. No matter how much nivla wants it, he doesn't get it, but he gets enough to live, to survive, to feel jealous. I feel for that fish. But one day, perhaps, nivla will be able to get a taste of "extra-ness". He hopes that he can. and i hope that he can too. You know what makes it worse ? If another fish friend comes along and say "hey nivla, how's it goin? you wana go get some microorganism smoothie ?", nivla obviously wants a microorganism smoothie, who wouldn't, however he can't, he just can't, so he passes the offer. Now imagine this particular situation, but magnified across the entire year. Now imagine how nivla feels. Do you feel what nivla feels ? i do.

I shall stop blabbering now. Thanks for reading :)

alvin.k

Feel of the Day.44

feeling : suboptimal

These few days have been suboptimal. It's just that...sigh..i dno.

One word...i'm jealous.

okay, i will say no more.

Well, today i went to Chinabar Buffet ! it was pretty gd, haha but i must say that buffets are only OPTIMAL during the first visit, it sorta goes downhill from there, it's just human nature i suppose, we are thirsty for new tastes and the same just never satisfies the same. or maybe it's just me haha i guess i just love food too much xD

Also, i was meant to go for my DAILY jog today but instead my short nap turned into a mini-hibernation-sesh and i woke up at 8pm lol the nap after a supeer full meal is always...OPTIMAL haha i feeel fat.haha i really needa go exercise tmr! MUST !

Shows/series/movies are very good distracters. I realised today. I was in a rather sub-sub-sub-optimal mood after my nap and when i flicked on the tv and watched an exciting ep of stargate:atlantis, i manage to sneek out a few laughs haha i love my scifi shows :P and BOSTON ! wooo i haven't watched an ep today but i will soon :P "denny crane" haha too gd :P

my thoughts are very jumbled today. it's like i have too much to say but can't put it in words or type it out. it's all stuck in me head. or maybe these particular thoughts are meant to stay and not leave. meh who knows...but today is another day. time just flies...i mean like it doesn't wait. it's the most neutral thing you can ever find/perceive etc. it's speed is maintained in gd times or bad times. I was thinking, if time was a person, what sorta character would he/she have ?

maybe i'll leave you with that thought haha :P thanks for reading! and i wish you a good day/night :)

alvin.k

Feel of the Day.43.2

i miss your smile.

alvin.k

Feel of the Day.43

...i walked and walked, but the streets were foreign to me, i knew i should've stayed on the usual route. See, the reason why i changed my normal route today was because it started raining after about 15 mins of jogging and so i thought i should take a quicker route home, now, usually that plan would be flawless and i would get home quicker, however (there's always a 'however'), me being the KNOWLEDGABLE suburbian, i didn't really know the other roads that well, and so, when i took the supposedly shorter route, it kinda took me off course, by like...a lot haha i'm so smart =.=' anywho, the rain got heavier and it didn't help, however (this 'however' is better news), right before my worried eyes, was a beautiful rainbow, it was simply magnificent and my pace even slowed down to take in the awesome-ness. It was really something. God is great ain't He ? :) anyways, i continued walking and then the 'feeling lost' feeling resumed. I wallked and walked and the street names didn't ring any bells, but i kept walking, remembering that i actually thought "all roads lead to Rome" haha so i kept walking, while simultaneously enjoying the beautiful rainbow.

Also, one other thing, i had an MV moment. MV meaning Music Video. Usually when i go jogging i listen to music on my itouch and today was no different. There was this one unknown street where the setting sunrays shone directly to my face and at the exact moment when the blinding sunray hit my face, a song came on, i cant rmb what song it was, it was asian i think haha but it had that sorta effect, i felt like i was in an MV. It was a similar feel to WongFu Production's "That Girl" MV, performed by David Choi (P.S. both WongFu and David Choi ROCKS !). It was like a particular scene in the mv when both david and the girl were on a beautiful field and they too had that sun-ray-blinding effect haha alright i just made it sound weird but those who have seen the mv would understand me...i hope haha.

So i kept walking/jogging confusingly and then i saw a street name that made me smile, seriously haha it was the street that links to my main street, i was overjoyed ! haha as i turned into the inter-connecting street i rmb thinking "i love my street" haha never thought i would say such a thing but at the time, i really meant it. The feeling stayed as i turned into my street. As i walked down the familiar street with all the familiar flora and imperfect pavement, i had the same thought again, "i love my street". Usually when i walked home from the bus stop (after uni), i would complain that the street was too long and ugly and blablabla...but today, it was just a total different feeling, imma say it again, "i love my street!", haha..The timing was actually pretty good today, i manage to do my 40 mins eventhough i was lost :)

This whole experience got me thinking, specifically about travelling, i know it sounds silly but i was just thinking about how awesome travelling would be. Like, i was just having my usual jogging sesh and by simply using a different/unkown route, i had such an experience haha alright i know ur thinking im crazy to have thought all that from a simple jog but really, i truly had the epiphany about travelling, just being in a completely different country, city, town, street, that would be fantastic! haha i wana go travelling now :P

Yeaaa, that was my highlight of the day haha i basically stayed home watching boston legal and also the usual star trek and stargate :P I love exercising now, it's just so refreshing to go out and breathe fresh air :) I also feel better after having a jog/walk :)

That's all for today, tomorrow i'll be having a hs reunion/catch up @ an awesome buffet restaurant :) CAN'T WAIT ! FOOD...CATCHUP...DRINKS ! haha funfunfun!
Alright, i think it's time for me to sign off :) i'll leave you with just 2 words, 2 words that have made my past few days funnier and happier :P here it is..

"Denny Crane" lol (Y)

alvin.k

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"Once a jolly swagman camp'd by a billabong;
Under the shade of a cool-i-bah tree and he
sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled;
You'll come a waltzing Ma-til-da with me"

-Waltzing Matilda
by: Banjo Paterson

I love this song! i've been listening to it over and over again. The version i'm listening to is the one done by Carl Riseley :) It's so jazz-filled and soul-filling haha and the story behind it is so interesting! Cool fact: Waltzing Matilda is often referred to as the "unofficial national anthem of Australia" (quoted by wikipedia). cool stuff :P
Well, i just wana say thank you Mr. Paterson, this song has made my previous few days easier to live :)

Today was a pretty alright day, didn't really do much hehe I woke up round 1, watched tv and BOSTON and then i had asian take away for lunch. Then i watched more "Denny Crane" :P Me and the fam then had dinner at our local asian restaurant, it was nice :P Bumped into a few friends then as well and we ended up getting coffee later :) Good catch up ! :D:D:D:D:D

Now i'm sitting in front of me comp, listening to Waltzing Matilda :P (it's a really nice song!) and just thinking about my day...A day as passed, so quickly. I ended up writing something today, The chorus is about heating up cold food lol seriously, but after listening to it, it could possibly mean something else, so yeaa all gd :P now i just gotta finish it haha i've semi-written so many stuff but it's all like half finish, either just chorus or pre-chorus, some are just tunes haha with "lalalalalala" as the temp lyrics hehe...

Tomorrow, what shall i do ? i've already missed my exercise today, thanks to the RAIN ! Hopefully tmr's weather is better :) even if it's just dry for an hour, i'll be happy :D

Newais, i think that's it for tonight :) gonna watch more BOSTON now hehehe...
Take Care Y'all ! :D

alvin.k

Feel of the Day.41

Today is my birthday. Birthdays are meant to be fun, happy, fun-filled and joyous. Mine was all that...and more...trust me, this isn't gd. I am happy with fun, happy, fun-filled and joyous. I shall introduce a character into this post, the mole. The mole is a freaking annoying character. My birthday was perfect until he (for the purpose of this character, i'm just gonna make it a boy) showed up. Yea..When he's around, nothing gd happens. This is the mole, when he sees a glass half-filled with water he says "It's half empty", that's what im dealing with. When he sees a clear sky with the radiant sun, he says " Where's the clouds ?", i could go on, but i don't wanna. so that's the mole. One day, there would no longer be a mole in my immediate life, and i look forward to that day, i really do. You know what, i'm not asking for a lot, all i want is a simple, quiet peaceful day, without the Octopus, Cat and dog around and MOSTLY without the freaking mole. WHY ! WHY IS THE MOLE SOOOOOOOOOOO........*insert an unpleasant word*......sigh.

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Well, life isn't that perfect, and i guess i should accept that.

Anyways, i could go on and on and on and on about the mole but i won't, it just gets me angrier (not even sure if that's a legit word). haha oh wells *exhales*...

On to happier things, today i spent the day @ shoppo with 2 of my hs friends, we watched due date ! It's so funny ! haha fav quote "I puked on your wound" lol! check it out ! :D

Well, i really enjoyed the arvo @ shoppo, it was just chill and relaxing (i wonder why, oh that's right, maybe it's because the mole wasn't there). Really had a gd time catching up with my friends, y'all rock ! :)

After the nice outing, i got home and i had a run. It was a gd run. you know what, i wana try to run more these hols :) I think that's a challenge ! haha woooo ! let's hope today isn't the only day i run :P

You know what, *EMO ALERT*, sometimes i wish im back in the exam period, i truly do, at least i get the few hours of the day (after i fin my daily quota) to relax in total peace (well not total, but you know, it feels like total peace) and watch stargate and chill and not have to worry. Even if it's just a few hours, it's worth it, i know you may think that i'm crazy, wanting to go back to the stressful exam period, but that's the only time when the mole is at his lowest power and even though the octopus, cat and dogs are around, it's not so bad, in conclusion, i hate the mole (not the animal, but the character behind the mole. again, i'm using an animal as an illustration/metaphor etc etc and i mean the animal no harm :) animals rock ! :D ).

anywho, something else....I've started watching Boston Legal ! thanks to my awesome kak! you know who you are, give yourself a pat on the back ! :P

Alright, i wana end this post with a photo i took quite a while ago:

Can you see the few flies on the top and top right corner ?

can you see them stucked ?

Welcome to my life.

alvin.k

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moody/sucky/strangle/fear/yell/express/sorrow/pain/yearn/feeling/release/song/emotion/cry/neutral/safe/letting go/farfetch/achieved/sunlight/breath/bus/hope/express/communication/people/smile/talk/express/look/search/smile/giggle/see/hope/sorrow/joy/laugh/smile/tired/

Happy Birthday//

alvin.k

Feel of the Day.39

It's a drizzly Sunday...i didn't know nature knew me that well.

Just before i officially start this post, i just wana say that this post will include some pretty nasty description of animals and all these are just metaphorical. I am an animal lover and i mean these animals no harm. I am simply using animals as an illustration to my post.
Again, i love animals, and i'm sry if this post offends you, i intend no harm.
Okay, the post begins :

Today, i'm gona tell you a story about octopuses, cats and dogs.
These three animals go hand in hand. They do. They may appear during the early days, or later days. When they do come, they are there to stay. Their initial presence feels...unknown, different, weird, questioning. You ask yourself "why are they here? Why can't they crash some other person's world?" but guess what, they are here/there to stay.

The octopus will use its four pairs of arms and try to detain you. you try to struggle your way out of its grasp, but often, your effort ends in total failure, with damage inflicted onto you as well.
That's Mr. Octopus.

Then, there's the pussy cat. "meow" is its common calls. Mr. pussy is all furry and cute and everything and usually he doesn't cause you harm. He's just being himself, licking his paw and what not. awwww...but sometime throughout your life, he'll change and become violent, he'll fury swipe (quoting pokemon :P) you till you bleed out, all out, until there's nothing life in the vessels in your body and you lie there, like a fat forsaken meatball. You don't know whats happening to you and you're there struggling, trying to figure out what's happening to you and again...you fail..miserably. The common outcome.

Lastly, there's Mr. woooof. The dog is there, waiting, with it's blood hound eyes, waiting to tear you apart. Thankfully he's being bound up by a chain, but every so often, the chain looses itself, i don't know why, you don't know why, but it happens, and then you have no where to go, you try to run, but for some reason you can't, and you just stand there....while the furious dog comes and devour you, you feeeel the pain, the freaking "is this really happening to me?!" kind of pain. The pain ends, thankfully, but things soon resumes its normal course, the dg locked up in chain once again, and you're there, again, wondering around and the cycle begins once again. Fear is your companion in this realm.

There you have it, the Octopus, Cat and Dog. You may be confused reading my post and that's alright haha this post has beeen pretty bizzare and yeaaa. Thanks for reading it :P Once again, i just wana say that i didn't intend to verbally abuse any animals in this post, all the descriptions are just metaphorical/analogical/illustrative etcetcetc. I love animals :):)

I feeel like going on...ok i shall :)
It's pretty cold today, with the wind blowing strongly outside and the low temp. brrrr...
I plan to go for a run later, so im hoping that the weather will change for the better :)
Ohohooh, SOCIAL NETWORK ! I watched it the other day and it was a blast ! :) The storyline was gd, the whole plot was portrayed in a very unique way and yeaa gd show :)
you know what, i feel like i have done this before haha, commenting about social network lol anywho, i just had a quick browse through youtube for movie trailers and there are so many awesome movies coming out, when i get back to msia, imma watch a movie everyday ! LOL
Due date, green lanturn, the mechanic, source code...all awesome movies !!! :) According to the trailers anyways hehee

It's my birthday in 2 days, doesn't feel like it though. I feel like it's gona be a usual day. a normal day, with the usual trials and errors. Well, i guess we can never know what the future is like until it becomes the present. I shall look forward to that day and embrace whatever the day has to offer.

The rain has stopped, i think :P Time for a run! Thanks for reading today's post, i wish you a wonderful and splendid day :) Ta !

alvin.k

Feel of the Day.38

*the alarms goin...
*snooze...
*alarms goin again...
*snooze...
*fone alarm goes...
*snooze...
*and now i'm here :P

Had a very gd sleep last nite :) refreshing and recharging! You know what i realised, fb is a gun. I mean that in many ways..yess it's a gun in a sense that it's AWESOME ! haha i've been reconnected to many friends through and it has convenienced me in many ways (photo viewing, event making, wall SPAMS :P etc...). I'm sure everyone who has an account would agree with me. However, there is another side to fb that is "not so nice". [For the record, i'm not saying that fb is evil or anything, i love fb :) but this is just one aspect of it that sorta makes me feel glooomy from time to time.] haha i have no idea what i'm saying haha. i was gonna go for, a gun being a weapon, could be used for gd (like cops) and for bad (like robbers) haha, i think i failed haha but just bear with me hehe. Alright, moving on. Ever heard of polymorphism? It means "when two or more clearly different phenotype (observable characteristics) exist in the same population of a species" - quoted from wikipedia. Just focus on the word "different". Just as polymorphism is true in the biological/genetics realm, there is something really similar in reality, i don't know what to call it, it is many things, different factors all mushed up into one big PAININTHEBUTT. I shall call it "The PITB". It is something that is extremely annoying and sometimes feels worse than a stab to the heart (p.s. i've never been stabbed in the heart, physically, so i guess i don't really know what i'm talking about, but you know what i mean). Anyways, back to the point. If you read my previous post about beans (yes, you read right, beans), this post is sorta similar in nature :P it's just my way of ranting/yelling etc. Anywho, PITB is like the different variety of beans (again referencing to me previous post), like polymorphism in the bioscience discipline. Some ppl experience an enormous amount of freedom, and they're indifferent about it. Some ppl experience a moderate amount of freedom and "mehh.." they say, and then there's me. This is PITB. Usually PITB is hard enough when you're a 2nd yr student @ uni but with FB, it's that much harder. Now, again, for the record, i'm not saying that fb is evil or anything, if anything, fb is awesome! It's just that PITB is an issue that is exacerbated by the use of fb. You wake up one morning, boot up your com and then what do u see ? all the things that people do, funfunfun, gd for them. yea..gd for them. Sometimes its hard you know, it's in our nature to want more...more..and moree. But when we see how much "more" others have, it's worse. "one day" i say...hoping that the day will come when PITB wouldn't be in my face.

Ahhhh whatever...that's all. rant finished. haha. i don't know if what i talked about made sense but yeaa haha i'm hoping it does :P Well ppl, have an awesome break :) It's a fairly nice day out there today, make the most of it :)

alvin.k

Feel of the Day.37

*yawns*

Today turned out to be a pretty gd day :) Today Melb Uni's biomed student society had their post-exam bbq celeb and i crashed it for a bit before heading to my combined birthday dinner (with a biomed friend :P). The bbq was gd, as usual, sausages, soft drinks and also gettin locked in med basement.....WOWOWOOWWO rewind ! haha yeap you heard (read) right, a few of us got locked in the basement lol we even had to call security to let us out ahaa a great start to the day :) The dinner was held @ the MaxBarRestaurant in Hardware lane, off lonsdale st. The food was pretty gd, tasty and just the right amount :) I had gelato as my choice of desert and OMNOMNOM ! :P

It was a great time catching up after exams and there was laughter during every sec of the dinner :) I also really like all of the presents that i received tonight, thanks guyssss ! :)

When there's sunlight, there's also darkness, u know where i'm goin with this...
imma just say it, i feeel jealous, i do. People get to do things later at night but i have to come home. It's been like this from the start (*flashback*my heart swells up as i see my friends cycle to [insert name]'s house). Some day....it's gonna be different, perhaps, hopefully...

Anyways, that's all for today! My eyes are half shut hehe i should get to bed. Good night everyone ! :)

alvin.k

Feel of the Day.36

Gd morning world wide web !

Gd sleeep last nite! hopefully my stuffed up bioclock will re-adjust itself today :) fingers crossed !
As i woke up this chilly morning, one thought came to mind, beans! haha i know it's sorta weird but it's something that i actually thought about for quite a bit. Beans come in various sizes, shape, color, texture. mine's not all the flashy. i flick open facebook (btw, speaking of fb, i watched social network yesterday and it was gd! nice story and the film was portrayed in a very unique, elegant way :P haha go watch it !) and i see ppl's status saying things that they did lastnite and how awesome it was etcetcetc..gd for them. It's sometimes hard that i can't sprout like other beans do. It's like Day 1, alright, the outer layer of coating starts to break but it just stalls afterwards, nothing happens, while other beans start to shed the whole wrinkly exterior and start to show some leaves in the middle groove. I mean, i'm not asking much, i'm ust asking for a faster growth rate, not even, i'm simply wanting to shed the exterior and perhaps show a tiny weeebit of leaves ? I know the day will come when i'll be at the place, but by then, everyone would have already given birth to more beans, and many of those beans might even have started sprouting themselves. Am i exagerrating ? i don't know. i know i should just be thankful and grateful that i am a growing bean and i have my own soil and nutrients and w/e i need to grow. I should be grateful. but why am i not ? well, i'm not totally ungrateful, but this feeling of wanting more is defs > than gratefulness. This is foolishness i know, i shouldn't feel this way.

Life is full of beans and beans and more beans, some grow faster, some slower, some stalls for a bit. I guess i just need to remind myself, while my bean is strugling to sprout, there are other beans out there that's not even on soil, not even on grow-able anything, the're just on concrete, waiting to be trampled on by bypassers. Some are harvested for nutrients before they even shed their outer exterior and end up in the G.I. Tract of some multicellular eukaryotic super-organism. haiii....and some just rot, they don't even have the chance to grumble, they just exist and then they don't. nowww...i look at myself, how pathetic i am for complaining, i am an EXISTING bean ! i am GROWING, i have SOIL and i'm NOT ROTTEN. I need to be thankful and grateful, i need to see things on the positive side, i need to see the light, not the shadow, i need hope. i need an agonist. i do...Lord help me.

That is all i wana say. If you're someone who has actually read till this point, i thank you, i prob won't know when you read this, or who you are, but i thank you. It's nice to "know" that someone's listening to you :)

For all those who has a break coming up, enjoy it, treasure every moment of it, because it's here today, and gone tomorrow, in a flash. Live life to the full, with no regrets and be grateful for what you have (note to self !!!!!! :P). That's all, Thank you once again for reading.

Cheers,

alvin.k

Feel of the Day.35

Hey y'all !

EXAMS ARE OVERRRRR ! OMGSH ! 2 more proper exam periods and im freeee ! from undergrad that is :P

Mann, it sure feels weird to be exam-free haha its like that feeling when you've been jogging on a treadmill for 30mins and then you stop suddenly....legs feel weird ? yea that's the feelin haha

i'll be goin back to msia soon, cant wait !!! FOOOOD ! OMNOMNOM ! :P
and the shoppin haha CHEAP!
so that concludes my 2nd yr @ uni. mannn time flies...i rmb in first yr when a friend of my calculated the day of the exact 1/10 of our course and said it, i was like dudeeeeeeeee....haha but seriously uni is a FAST train, it's here today, gone tmr, true story bro.
hopefully next sem won't be too hard, fingers crossed, it's gonna be third yr and the final yr, and we all know how the final yr's like..BUSYBUSYBUSY..mehhhh, it's still ages away :P

Speaking of 3rd yr, i decided that imma major in microbiology & Immunology :) was gonna do anat but mehhh i find that i like stuydin microbes more hehe me and my micro-friends ! WOOO xD

oooo...before i forget, one of the weird things that happened during SWOTVAC was that my sleepin pattern went completely CRAZY ! haha during the last 4 days before the final paper, my sleepin time was 7pm-1/2am..LOL seriously it was maddd, it's been 2 days since the final exam now and i'm still feelin it :P after dinner, the drowsy in me kicks in *SNORES* haha but mehhhh it's the hols now, i'll just sleeep the whole day (Y) hehe..

Anywho, im sleepy zZzZzZ..hope everyones gona have a blast during the summer break ! CHEERS !!! :D

alvin.k

Feel of the Day.34

Life is a lil muddy atm. First of all, i'm sick. Second of all, assignment (50% of subject) due soon. Third of all, the first of all and second of all exist. sigh....

Also, i wanted to go to a trip to Cairns, organised by my fellow high school mates, but this request was denied by my parents, unfortunately. It's always nice to be granted a "yes", but never nice to be denied....or listen to the word "no".

I dno what to say anymore...i think i'll stop now. short-ish post today :P

Hope everyone is doing well and for those who are going thru exams atm, all the best !

alvin.k

Feel of the Day.33

Today was a satisfying day :) Although it was preetty stressful at times, but in the end, it all worked out and yeaa, happy-ish ending ! :)

Today was Apollo's annual end of yr Pops Concert and it was a blast ! We had several guest performers and we pretty much filled the place ( we performed @ a hall in Queens College ) :) yay ! I was in charge of stage management for the 2nd half of the nite (after interval) and this was a first for me :) i didn't actually do ALL the work, we all helped each other and yeaa it was a group effort, but nevertheless, it was a first time experience for me. It's actually quite stressful @ times and yeaa. but it all worked out fine :)

Apollo Rocks ! :)

alvin.k

Feel of the Day.32

Its quarter past 3...in the MORNING ! and i just submitted my assignment. i am so tired i can't think. it's been a wavy week, with crap here and there. but all's gd i can see the end, or at least what i think is the end...i really hope it's the end.

At this moment in time, a particular song is playing in my head, Jonas Brothers' "Play My Music" from Camp Rock 1. I know i know...Jonas brothers and all...haha but i actually do like their music ! so deal with it ! :P hehe anyways, in the chorus of the song, it goes :

" Music's got control,

and i'm never letting go, no no

I just wana play my music "

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I wish i can sing at the top of my lungs now, and just jam those EADGBE strings like crazy, @ 3.15am in the morning. sigh..LALALALALALLALLAALA !

You walk down a market, thinking you're gona get some fruits today, but instead you got fish, WHAT ?!?! i know this sounds weird but this is how im feeling atm. just weird and weirder..and weirder...i think i really shoul go to sleep now, my head hurts, which probably isn't good haha

i'm off, take care everyone ! :)

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alvin.k

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all i can say is....CRAP DAY !

alvin.k

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Mannnn ! It feels like it's been ages since i last blogged ! :P hehe hi blog ! sry i neglected you ! hehe anyways, tonnes has happened since the last time i wrote, so, lets see, where to start.
Well, I have just finished 2 massive MST and it was really a relief after the tests ! the last week of hols studying for the tests actually felt like SWOT VAC ! :( but yeaa, i'm glad it's over ! but now there's more assesments ! assignments and prac reports ! arghhhh ! it's never-ending ! Oh wells...it'll be all worth it at the end ! :):)

I'm feeling kinda depressed ? i dno what you call it. It's like you're in, but you're not. you clearly have an "IN" tic, but yet you're outside, looking inside thru a glass window. ever feel like that sometimes ? i do today. Frustration has filled my guts today....only i know. Sometimes i just wana run...keep running until i reach a new dimension, a new surreal world where i could just pause time and lie down....for ages & age & ags & ages....how i wish there's such a place. There's so many things, so very many things :( i feel like i could die right now, drown, even decapitated, as horrid as that sounds. sigh. I'm sry this post is so emo ! just not my day. ah wells...suck it !

Anywho, everything else is sorta going okay, and yea, i guess i should be grateful for the things that are going well :) Life has ups and downs. and i should embrace every single moment of it. crap, i should really be sleeping now, class @ 11am tmr. ah wells...

actually, i should go :P that's all for today. cheers !

alvin.k

Feel of the Day.29

Another ordinary day ? Perhaps..
Had classes as usual, ate lunch, hoohaa bits here and there etc.
One class/lect that really caught my attention was today's music n health lecture. Today's topic was Music and Identity, and one of the subtopics was music composition, or in lay man's terms, writing songs. I actually kinda wana wagg this lect, but thanks to Audrey i stayed :) Thanks Aud ! :D:D I was really curious about how the human mind works around music composition and how we can produce something from nothing. This really gave me something to think about. is me writing songs a way to "find myself" ? hm...perhaps. The lecturer also talked about musical flow ? i think thats wat its called. she described this as a moment when you're so in tuned with something you're doing/participating that time wasn't a factor, it was as if the moment froze and we just stay in this infinite space/time, and *snap* immediately i know that i can relate to that. Maybe that's the "hooking factor" that has "hooked" me to playing guitar, singing, composing? perhaps.

Have u ever been stuck in mud ? sinking sand? well, neither have i, but i sure feel like im stuck right now. it's been a while now, back then it was like i KNEW i was stuck, but now its like i know im stuck and its just routine. don't get me wrong, i still feel the discomfort and all and it sucks ! but its like ive accepted my surroundings. ahh BULL ! BULL I SAY !

phew...okay. I feel better :) welll, i think i wana stop here. feeling kinda tired.
Hope you guys are all well :)

alvin.k

Feel of the Day.28

Hello blog, its been a while :P
Oh man, i just realised that a while is 3 WEEKS ! Time sure flies..
Today is a very abnormal sat, why ? Thats because i woke up @ 8.30. WHAT ?! you say..its true. haha it all started on fri nite. I was meant to nerd for a test on mon, but yeaaa one thing led to another, and before i know it, bang ! it was 12 lol so yeaaa i just slept and woke up earli :P
true story haha!

oooo ! before i forget, i had sumthing very cool for lunch today ( and yes i say lunch because i actuallly had breakky ! WOO ! WEETBIX ! :P ) => KEBAB ! It was amazingly tasty ! i'm having another one soon ! :P
While i'm on the topic of food, i have recently discovered the awesomest icecream ever made!
It's WEIS Mango icecream bar ! ive always seen it on tv but never gotten to actually tryin it.
This brings me back to my trip to msia in june. MAS' service has been declining lately and ice cream hasnt been on the desert menu for milleniums ! but this time it was diff ! after our hot meal, the air stewardess walked pass the ailes with a brown basket and i thought to myself " more peanuts ? after a meal ? " i soon came to know that it wasnt peanut, it was WEIS MANGO BAR ! WOOO ! ahah and yeaa the end, loved it ever since :P

Anyways, now to talk about new shows ! BONES ! its like NCIS, but better ! 0.0 its true ! haha after greys, i had a no-show period of approx. 12 hours and i caved haha ! my will power is thru the roof ! :P ( i have a very low roof xD )

anywho, thats all for today, sleeep time ! :)

alvin.k

Love You More Than Life.

" I love you more than life,
..I need you more than life,
..Can't you see that we are meant to be ?

..I miss you everyday,
..No matter what you say,
..Can't you see that we are meant to be,
..We're meant to be. "

-3.10pm; 9/6/2010-

alvin.k

Feel of the Day.27

Today was a pretty eventful day, i must say. Had lectures as usual, and betweeen breaks me and some mates went to makan nando chippies ! :D gd timesss...Then there was Apollo Pancake Day ! :P I think Apollo gave out a total of 200+ pancakes ! :) AWESOME ! Thanks everyone who came ! and if you're living in Melb and love to sing , please come and join Choir ! :) contact me @ kongsterkwl@hotmail.com for details :) okok, that was just a lil plug for Apollo :P

If there's one thing that i can change about my life right now, i would change the way i feel. We can't control the way we feel, we can certainly control the way we're manifesting the feeling outwardly, but we cant alter the feelings we're feeling. Its just natural. David Tao ( me fav chinese singer ! ) wrote a song recently titled " Unrequited Love " ( the title is originally in chinese, i just translatted it :P ) and that song would be my life right now. DT also mentioned in one of his interviews that having a kind of love such as an unrequited love is powerful. To be able to love someone and not expect anything in return, even without the person knowing the way you feel, that's something. ( btw im just paraphrasing DT, not his exact words ) anyways, it's painful in some sense, just like a kid lookin at a candy store full of candy but not being allowed to have one. poor kid. poor me.

I really wana tell you, but i don't. but if you're reading this, here's a msg for you.

" I really like you, you think mayb we can go out for a cup of joe sometime ? "

That's all for today . Take care ppl ! :):):)

alvin.k

Feel of the Day.26

You know what...sometimes things just don't work anymore. Not even a service centre will help.
Sometimes I wish that life could be like a bowling ball, you roll it, you watch....it rolls, it rolls, and it hits the pins..job done. The responsibility is taken off right after the ball leaves the bowler's fingers, and u just watch. i feel like im still holding the bowling ball, even after it has left my finger tips.

Anywho, emo start :P Today was a pretty gd day ! Had church, then makan YumCha, which is always awesome ! haha and then, something that rarely happens happened ! me and 2 of me bros CLEANED ! with mums help of course haha she never trusts us with the cleaning :P

It's currently 11.22pm. Uni Week 2 tmr, sigh.....i want hols ! when you have it, you dont appreciate it, but when its gone, u think about it like its GOLD ! haha i rmb in a song i wrote once, i sed " We only want wat we can't have, so let's treasure what we have " so true ya ?

Anywho, i'll leave you with that thought :) Take care now !

alvin.k

Feel of the Day.25

It's Sat ! 2 more days before uni starts ! I'm happy and sad.
Happy : Meeting friends, just chillin in uni, Apollo Choir !
Sad : No more HOLS !

I think i'm ready for the new semester, after 1 month off, after travelling back to Msia, after late night series watching, I think i'm ready to start it all again :)

To go off topic here, have u ever felt like u've done so much to draw a fine picture and when you finally finish that fine picture, it starts to rain and no matter how much you try to block the little rain dropplets, your fine picture is ruined, what was a fine picture is now a moist paper with charcoal smudged all over.all over.all over. It's like that. I am tired of seeing that moist paper again and again and again. Theres nothing wrong in seeing the ruined picture again, it does no harm, physically.I'm not so sure emotionally. Am i a pussy ? Am i a weakling ? Time and time again i try to see the ruined picture and not be affected but i fail. 100% of the time. Monkeys have more chance of flying than me letting go of this picture. Will it be like this forever ? Will the picture fade away and let me move on ? i sure hope so. if not...I don't know.

okay, enough of me rambling on :P back to the usuals, today i played baddy with some optom friends+others, all thanks to Joanne for organising ! :) you rock ! and then, i headed to the ct to have lunch with me awesome kak ! :) y'all have to try the new jap restaurant in Union Basement, Melb Uni. It totally rocks ! It's like DonDons/DonTojo, but in uni :) so much more convenient ! It opened on Monday and i've been there 3 times haha and uni hasn't even started yet haha oh boy ! You must try the Teriyaki Chicken, it is....NOMNOMNOM haha

Well, that's all for now. Back to Grey's Anatomy ! :):)

alvin.k

Freeway Memory Lane

Can't stop thinking about You//
I see the peaceful blue sky, i see your cute smile//
I see the green trees beside the freeway,
I think about how you always make things seem alright,
no matter how hard it is sometimes//
Just the idea of u&me makes me smile,
makes me all warm inside, I can't contain it//

I think I love you//

alvin.k