Genting - My Motivation

This is Genting Highlands - the place which inspired me about the importance of cash. The most basic necessity, food played a major role in this motivation process and because it is several times more expensive than those below the hills. This trip really made me realised that I must be rich in order to enjoy life and there really isn't any place for lazy and ignorant mortals in this world. So whenever I lose my motivation or desire in making money, I must go to Genting once more to boost the urge of achieving financial freedom again. And by delaying this post till now, I can remind myself about this when I'm typing.

So the photos below are some of the moments captured during the 3 days 2 nights trip - 1 night with my family at Genting Hotel and 1 night with my classmates at First World Hotel (it is called as "First World" because its services and facilities are like millenniums ago).

At the Temple

Scenery of the rocks with the temple's name on it

Pagoda taken from the observatory tower

Guan Yin standing on the higher grounds

Buddha on the mountains

Genting with Friends

Shan Lung, Parveen, Shu Wen and Nicole
(the most lively ones of the class)

Genting Hotel entrance
Floating above the fountains

Brian's modelling session

At the First World Hotel Room

Yee Von celebrating her 18th birthday at Genting
(how nice)

Certain people caught off guard while everybody WAS paying attention
(haha, just joking!)

At the Theme Park - Night & Daytime

Parveen and Shu Wen with the Genting mascots

Taylor's Charlie's Angels providing guide to the Theme Park

Some last few pictures with my lovely classmates at the deserted counter

Pirate Ride - one of the worst rides
(just to warm us up before the scary ones)
Glad that Nicole, Parveen and I achieved our 10 rides target which made every ride cost RM3.80 only

Even though the whole trip was rainy and misty, I actually had so much fun with my family and friends. This is why an atmosphere is not determined by the environment, but the people around us. Therefore, we should always mix around with the cheerful ones to stay happy. And even if we are surrounded by those who always want to spoil the fun, we must never be influenced by them because we do not want their evil plans to succeed, right?

Bolt 3D

Last Friday was another fun day for me. My sister, Yuli, my primary school classmate, Wee Hong, and I went for our first 3D movie in our lives, BOLT! I missed this movie once at Mid Valley with Shan Lung, and once with Rachel, Gary and Daryl on Tuesday. Now, I can finally see the cute little doggie acting in a movie's movie, if you know what that means. These are some of the snapshots featuring Bolt with the other characters during his quest of searching for his "person".

After the movie, we decided to take some photos of the cool 3D glasses which cost about MYR150 each. The whole movie was awesome with the quite stunning images seen through the special glasses. However, I wouldn't go for a second 3D movie as it isn't very extraordinary though because 3D is actually making the scenes having few layers of backgrounds and characters BUT all the layers are still in the screen! I thought it was supposed to stand out of the screen and frighten the audiences or something. Anyway, it is still a good first-time experience.

Speaking of first-time experiences, that day was also the first time I went into Red Box twice in a day, and that made me sick of singing. Altogether, I gone to KTV for 3 times in a week. The reason why I went twice in a fay is because we only sang for 2 hours during the lunch hour, and after that we need to watch BOLT. So after the movie, we decided to sing for another 3 hours again since we did not sing enough. This was one wrong decision as I will not be singing again for weeks as I'm so bored of it. Nowadays, when I don't even feel like listening to songs which will make me have the urge of singing. But this will definitely not kill my passion for music.

One more thing is that I realised I always spend a lot of money during school holidays. Normally during school days, I would only spend about MYR5 for my lunch and nothing else, but school holidays is the time I go to shopping complexes and hang out with my friends. This would cause my expenditure to increase by 10 times, and throughout these few days i had spend like MYR50 per day. If this goes on, I'll go bankrupt for sure. It is either I reduce my expenditure by going out lesser OR increase my income through my main operating activity which is the development of ChinWynn.com or some investment activities which are unlikely to come to fruitation in a recession. So, can somebody advise us what to do in a recession like this??

Difference between Pre-Finals & Post-Finals

So what do you think about the differences between these two situations? I guess majority would assume pre-finals to be hellish and post-finals as heavenly, right? This is only half true for me. What I had before my final examination was all the mountains of assignments and oceans of presentations, and all these "nature of tertiary studies" really kept my head spinning round and round. On the other hand, you are about to witness how much enjoyment I had after my projects and finals here.

However, those mentioned above were just the surface of what I'm feeling. Actually, I prefer pre-finals as in I still can see my coursemates and friends for the last few weeks. And now post-finals is like so sombre for me: I got the feeling that I won't be able to see everyone anymore and I miss all of you so much. Anyway, life still goes on and why not enjoy it like everyone else?


Pre-Finals

The first thing to do after the assignment week was over was to celebrate Wei Qi's birthday at Neway Karaoke Centre. It seems like my blog is full of these kind of Neway visits and birthday celebrations but this would be the last one for my Foundation studies. This time we had some newbies such as Rachel, Gary, Christy and Shan Lung. The party was fun as we sang all sorts of songs from old ones to the latest ones. These are just two videos when we were warming up.

Vid - Please Don't Stop the Music


Vid - Bye Bye Bye

Guess who's hiding in the dark?

The Rap Master still keeps up to his reputation

See how much fun everybody is having?
(Since when the girls are taller than Shan Lung??)

As I have said, this was just the beginning, and too bad I did not take any photos or videos during the climax like usual. You ought to join us to really experience the jubilance. This time we went crazy with the older Backstreet Boys' series. You guys really rocked my world!

Post-Finals

After seeing how much excitement we had just a week before finals, now let's observe how people react after their examinations. These photos were snapped right after the specimens went out early from the MPSJ Hall during their last paper (Moral Education).

Rachel expressing her relief to "somebody" on the phone

Wan Yi running out of the hall as fast as she can

The calm and cheerful look of Wei Qi

Li Jhuin and Yee Von still searching for the answers, I guess?

Ken, what are you pointing about?


The Happy Faces after Finals

On Saturday, my class had an outing at Mid Valley. Sadly, only 8 out of the 23 classmates turned up for the lunch and movie. Lunch - Chili's; movie - Shan Lung and I watched Madagascar 2: Escape to Africa whereas the rest gone for Twilight except for Christy and Ken who went back to Ampang together. This was the first and last movie I had watched with my foundation classmates, sort of (I just realised it while I'm typing).

Group photo taken in front of Mid Valley's Chili's
(which was a very difficult place to find due to Ken)

On the following Tuesday, my class had a last karaoke session which is held at Red Box, Sunway Pyramid. This was more fun than the previous one because there were another three newbies which included Nicole, Wan Yi, and Daryl who is Rachel's boyfriend's (Gary's) twin brother.

The right side (parti berhaluan kanan) of the room

The left side (parti berhaluan kiri) of the room

Group photo of 3.1 who attended
(nice background Red Box has)

What's left at 6pm
(those who went to BBQ Plaza for dinner, yummy!)






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Now, what did I learn by the end of the year?

1. Accounting - Debit and Credit
2. Economics - Demand and Supply
3. Statistics - Population and Sample
4. English - I don't know as I am not qualified for a HD??

This is just a joke. To be honest, I really acquired communication and presentation skills throughout the course, and also understand the importance of teamwork here. Most of all, I am extremely glad to know this whole lot of classmates as friends. All in all, I had an enjoyable year thanks to all of you!