Hey!

Happy 'niu' Year to all!



(although it's almost a week since day one of CNY)



.:XD:.


Dear readers,
More updates to come. Sorry for the lagginess of updates cuz was superly busy.
Now I understand fully why some bloggers whom I ask them to update are unable to because of busy-ness in life BUT don't too busy until forget the people around you! YEAH!

Got this from an email

?????????????????????????????? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??????Money?????? 錢

↓ ?



It can buy a House
可以用來買房子　

But not a Home
但是不能買一個家　

　


　It can buy a Bed
　可以用來買床　

But not Sleep
但是不能買睡眠




It can buy a Clock
可以用來買時鐘　

　But not Time
但是不能買時間



　
　It can buy you a Book
　可以用來買書　

But not Knowledge
但是不能買到知識






It can buy you a Position

可以用來買職位　

But not Respect
但是不能買到尊敬



?

It can buy you Medicine
可以用來買藥　

　But not Health
但是不能買到健康





It can buy you Blood
可以用來買血

But not Life
但是不能買回生命　







It can buy you Sex

可以用來買性行為　

But not Love
　但是不能買到真愛

　


So you see money isn't everything.
所以金錢不是萬能的　

I tell you all this because I am your Friend,
我之所以告訴你這些道理,是因為我是你真正的朋友

　

and as your Friend I want to take away your pain and suffering.....
而身為你的朋友,我想要消除你的痛苦
免除你所受的折磨

　 so send me all your money and I will suffer for you
所以把你的錢都　
寄來吧!　

我決定替你承受
這一切痛苦......　

　

　A true Friend than me you will never find.
你再也不會找到任何一個比我更真心的朋友了

　

CASH ONLY PLEASE

我只收現金，謝謝!

This is so out of the norm

Have you ever seen a male singing in female's voice? I mean, if you close your eyes and just listen, you would really thought it's a real woman who's singing. Enjoy watching.

Torture

It ain't a good feeling for my tummy as the acidity level raised.


It was past dinner time at 9 sth pm today that I had a big bowl of soup from the chicken rice bought from Super Tanker. I didn't had the chicken rice as it was for Daniel, and for me, the soup looked tempting, so I decided to had it.


One sip, it gave me the spicy taste that runs all over my tongue and throat as it was cooked with a dried chicken wing, over-cooked veggie till it dissolves in mouth, and, most of all, dried chillies that gave the spicy taste.
At first, it was very addictive that I drank all the soup, and that is where the "torture" started.


The amount of acidity from the soup I just drank that my stomach couldn't handle. I was like roaring and whining while I fetch Rachel to work in starbucks QB. Then the intense pain travels to my chest that gave me some weird feeling when I breathe. All I could think of is drinking some milk to neutralize the acidity.


At last, by the time I reached home, the pain subsided and I make myself a cup of milo with a five teaspoons of Anelene milk. I also had something to nibble to help the pain.
Am really glad that the pain was over, and next time, I should take lesser spicy soup or food like tomyam soup which is my favourite.

New Year Resolutions - to make them or not? to abide by it or not?

Look at how beautiful the sky is, keeps me ponder how wonderful are God's creation!
(click on pic for enlargement)

My heart is so full of many topics to post about, so choosing something to type about is ain't easy..


Let's talk about new year resolutions on my own perspectives.



Why do people set them, but at the end of the year, if they don't achieve much, how would they feel? Another disappointment? Self-condemnation? lowered self-image? totally feel useless and helpless about it?


On the other party, they said there's no point setting on resolutions on every head of the year as most of it are either unrealistic or too far to get hold to it, but heck, what is a resolution without extraordinary dreams to achieve within a year? Besides, it doesn't have to be in a time frame of a year, but could be like five years or ten years from now.


Rachel trying to wish for her new year resolution to come true..but...



Making resolutions yearly is not wrong, in fact, if it is done yearly, it would be a good check point to evaluate once more about the achievement done and what has to be done. Sometimes you would have to even look at the little things you achieve everyday that could boost up your motivation to do more of it, as taking a little step each time will bring you a big leap!



....she's not sure it will work or not...


One tip of having your goals achieved is to set it within your reach and your limitations, for example, setting a desirable weight loss at a logical figure and not beyond what your body can't do.
But one thing I have decided, that is to take things a step at a time, little by little and a drop of water, and all of these could mount up to big steps, into large quantity, and to a big mighty ocean.



As for me, I used to set a lot of dreams, hoping to achieve them within a year, in which I set a lot of goals, but in the end, couldn't really achieve much. This is because, I perceive, that I had too many things in mind that in the end, I don't know where to start, how to start and when to start..and it drags on for months and then years..for example, I had been dreaming of mastering the mandarin language since like when I was younger as I was studying in a non-chinese speaking school, but till now, I still don't know how to read and write in chinese, what more speaking in it.

Check this out! Look at what 'big fish' that I caught in the wishing well...ngek ngek ngek...



Another example would be reading novels and story books. At home, I have a lot of them, and in fact it is one of my resolutions, that is to read them. Once in a blue moon I would think of reading them, stuffing my face on its first few pages for days and weeks just to finish the whole series of it, BUT I never touched them or even read a single line..I mean, not until that extreme, but as a habit, I would read the first few chapters of the book and then gave it up as I was distracted by other things. After for long, I began to lose interest on the story line, and began to forget what I read, so no point continuing where I started, so I left it unread..for months..and then years to come.



Next, is losing weight. I know, many girls do have this resolution or goal, but seriously, all I did was just jotting it down, and the next thing I do, is doing nothing about it. Not really a good thing.


My piano at home



As a pianist, I have this thought of being a good pianist, being able to read new music notes that I never played before and play it for the first time in a smooth manner. With that, I have to practice everyday without fail to achieve that. But when I am in front of my piano, barely half and hour, my eyes are switched away and glued to the dummy box. Besides dreaming of having a good sight reading, I also would like to score distinction in my piano exams and also knowing how to self-improvise a song intelligently, and it never come to surface as procrastination and laziness strikes.

Oh ya, before I forget, most of all, every time I try to learn a new piece of song, it would take months or even years for me to learn it, though it's simple because I just wouldn't wanna sit down and practice. I tried to practice song like "Kiss the Rain" by Yiruma on the piano, and has been months since I touch the song and I haven't master the song completely yet!! I even posted this song on my blog (upper right side) to inspire me to practice it, yet I didn't even move a muscle..



These are just a few that I named among the long list that i had in my mind or wrote it down. So, lesson here is, do one thing at a time, and most importantly is to FOCUS on what I do and stay close to it.




Abigail Tan
~speaking~



P/S: I am not saying not to dream big. You can do it, like inventing a helping robot or doing bungee jumping even though that you're small. Do keep that spirit, hold on to it, never give up, set your eyes on it and work hard and smart. AND

my apology for the unending words..hehe

Everything under the sun ~

Just a little update of myself recently:



First up, my mum is currently taking care of this cute little girl who is Felix's little sis..


Rachel started to work in Starbucks in QB Mall since early January this year.


Went to TGIF with Den Den to try out the food since we never been there b4, and the above is some fried chicken as an appetizer.


The hungry Den Den and his meal


Gail Gail and her Jack Daniel's chicken & shrimp
We ate till our heart's content and stuffing ourselves to avoid waste of food.
We had cookie & ice cream as dessert.
Two person eating there could mount to a hundred ringgit plus plus.

and this is the most recent, where me and ruth brought daddy to Bandar Perda, crossed the Penang bridge to the other side where they have a big shopping mall which opened recently end of last year, and there is Jaya Jusco.


We navigate our way thru but got lost a few times. While we make a 'U' turn back, we spotted this artificial Penang bridge.

And finally, after an hour, we are at Bandar Perda Jaya Jusco!


As a brief story, my dad had to be on wheelchair because he fell from hiking down BJ Hill and broke his ankle on his right leg about a month ago. So we pushed him everywhere with the wheelchair whenever he goes out.


Some arcade game there.


There's also a cinema there called TGV.


The Bandar Perda Jusco is much bigger than Queensbay Mall. Each shoplot is like twice or thrice bigger than the ones in Queensbay, but Bandar Perda Jusco is like a 'white elephant' because there's not many people there, and mind you, we went there on a saturday!




The front entry of the arcade


A boutique

In comparison, the the shops in Bandar Perda Jaya Jusco is a combination of shops from Gurney Plaza and Queensbay.


Some of the shops: Skin Food


Big Apple Donuts = notice Ruth in yellow shirt there?


Choosing some cakes in Secret Recipe




Some crystal shop


Elianto



The Body Shop



Look at how wide it is



Some play ground for little children
There are also a variations of restaurants, and some you couldn't find in Penang Island such as Black canyon etc.

A dear friend deeply missed

A friend of mine whom I met during my intern in The Star had went back to the Lord this morning as early as 5.15am.
Although I just got to know him for a couple of months, he will truly be deeply missed by me and many others as he touched a lot of people. He is a man of much experiences and would share it to people around him, with cheerfulness and friendliness with a good sense of humour.
It was really quite a shock to me as the last time I saw him, he was healthy and strong.
He taught me photography skills and composition and some photoshop. Now what is left is just memories.

May you rest in peace with the Lord and we'll one day meet in heaven.

Reminiscing the days

The final life chapter in diploma course (Just some pictures to 'show off' to you all) :


Lecturer Mr Ken (in orange - with the KDU logo); top from left: Justin, me and Jocelyn



Second left: Wendy - of course you all know her, esp thru her famous blog!!

For more about my college life, click on the "college life" label on your right. Thank you.

On my 20th Birthday - as promised -

In reference on this previous post...

My friends and family made my day on my 20th birthday!

I came back from work on that day and I was surprised that Dennis and Patricia was already at my home to give me the surprise birthday celebration.



However, little felix boy almost cause the whole surprise thing to ruin..lol..let me tell you..



The cakes and the people were hiden in Ruth's room, and when I stepped in the house, little Felix was at her room door and said "QQ, you 'surprise' gei ni.." (translation: gail gail, there's a surprise for you) and my mum quickly closed his mouth..
So I roughly had the idea..but I definitely didn't expect both Den Den and Pat Pat would be at my house in preperation for the special day.




Gift from my secondary school friend from Starbucks. Thanks Goldie =)



The cake bought by Dennis..




The cheeky little Felix boy boy..







The big family







Here are the gifts I received from them:


Miniature Starbucks cup from Ruth and Patricia



A card from church sent via snail mail



A card originally made by Rachel my sister, the origami expert



And last but not least, a lovely card by Den Den


And a watch, just as what I always wanted with a few hints to him..hehee =)


These things happened on the 6th Nov 2008