A Family Phuket Trip

So this was my 4th overseas holiday trip – to Phuket Island of Thailand. I’ve went there for 4 days and 3 nights. The photo above is the calm, peaceful, serene and tranquil section of the beach. Well, that’s my first stop once I reached there since it’s just next to the hotel that I was staying.

What you are seeing down there is a tree trunk which looks like a deer. I wondered if it has been shaped by mankind or formed naturally with the amazing power of God.

View of the hotel from my room’s balcony

From the here onwards, I’ll let the photos explain the activities I did over there.

Visited one of the deserted Buddhist temple

Elephant ride, a new experience for me

I don’t really fancy this. This is because of the cruelty that they were treating against those poor elephants. They have sharp crescent-shaped blades used to hit the elephants when they did not follow their orders. How unfortunate it is if you are born as an animal controlled by mankind, don’t you think so?

Thailand’s Dancing Competition for 2010, seen at the Central Festival Shopping Mall stage (standard not as good as Astro Battleground in Malaysia, but their performances are more professional-based)

I was amused by this scene where the dancers are dressed so colourfully. It doesn’t even seem like people on first glance.

 

Besides these, we also visited the cashew nut and birds’ nest factory and sales units on the first full day. These two food are the local’s famous manufacturing products. It sure was surprising seeing cashew nut fruit being able to product juice for healthy drinking, besides just the edible nuts itself.

Sunday lunch at a Thai restaurant in the “jungle”

Go-kart racing on the way to Patong Beach

At Jungceylon, a huge shopping mall near the Patong Beach

The popular Patong Beach during sunset, not a single speck on the Tsunami event 5 years ago

    A high-class outdoor shopping village next to my hotel

In case you are visiting Phuket, this is a list of restaurants I went which I think their food are all delicious:

• Kin Dee Thai Restaurant
• Khon Thai Restaurant
• Siam Deli Hotel Cafeteria
• Bill Bentley Western Restaurant
• Khondee Chinese Seafood Restaurant

Well, it sure was difficult to find food there ‘cause they are all scattered around the map, except for those along the Patong Beach which would be similar to Petaling Street.

Finally at the Phuket International Airport

MERRY CHRISTMAS!! 

 

Penetrating into the Cruel Reality

I guess people who will realise how difficult and cruel is the real society when they start to look for jobs. The word “pity” does not exist in their dictionary, and you will need to sacrifice in order to secure a position no matter how talented and skilful you are.

I have finally get to experience this by seeking internship vacancies in banks lately. Now, I am able to stop wondering why some of my peers are so realistic and mature in their career prospects. It is undoubtedly difficult to find a relevant internship position especially for one who is applying so late. All I can find are those located in the heart of Kuala Lumpur, which I would never sacrifice the traffic jam stress to get to there for an internship.

Furthermore, companies normally recruit on a first-come-first-serve basis with reasonable qualifications, and their preferences would very unlikely be first-year undergraduates. These factors absolutely put me at a disadvantage, all because I thought I was going to Australia next year and I won’t be able to intern now.

However, networking plays an important role here. If one is able to know the right people, it would be so much easier to secure the relevant post. Conversely, one who is unknown will have to take the long road. This is the lesson that I have learnt and I will make the world know who is Chin Wynn very soon!

The Last Will Not Last Long

Exams are finally over, and this signifies the end of my first year in degree.

2012 is indeed a really great movie. It was really worth my extra RM8 for buying a couple seat just to watch it in a fully packed theatre. I can’t believe so many people were watching it even on a weekday right after my Law paper. Some of the scenes were really touching and some were so destructive that my heart stopped beating for few times.

The lesson learnt from this movie suits my title. The disaster that happened in 2012 would not last forever. It just cleans up the Earth and there would be a new world after that. So much for what I thought as the end of the world.

Similarly, the end of exams is not something we should be dwelling upon because there would still be plenty more after that.

I was also so bothered with people leaving to University of South Australia to study, or even myself. It’s as if I can’t see my friends ever again. But the last will not last long! It would just be a temporary separation and we’ll definitely meet again during holidays. So why are we lamenting about it?

And finally, I also wonder how long my study decision will last. Will I change my mind again and go to University of South Australia at Adelaide next year? Who knows?

Though I don’t believe that humans will still be able to live in Earth after the 2012 event if it really happens. The weather and environment would not be suitable for them to live anymore. Well, there would always still be hope, somewhere in this dimension. After all, the only matter that keeps us going is hope!

Teacher Chin Wynn

Although it is study break which means one week of holidays before the final examination, I went to college to consult lecturers to solve my doubts. Not to my surprise, I was consulted after that. My students of the day are Nicholas Yong, Shi Hui and Su Ling for Microeconomics.

Taylor’s Lakeside Campus Car Park

You must be wondering why is this photo here. This is because I jokingly told my “students” that I will be parking my car at the teacher’s reserved area. They initially laughed at it, but started agreeing after they learned about Market Failures.

After all, I was an Additional Mathematics and Chemistry teacher. Right, Phooi Kuan, Yee Lyn, Cassandra, Jean, and Boon Kuang?

Although a day has gone just like that, but I never regret because I get to possess the latest song by Lady GaGa, which is Bad Romance.

A must-watch video:

Motivation

“Where can I find my motivation to study?” This WAS the question in my head during the past few days in order to face the battle at 18th November 2009. For the past big exams, I had the right person to be my role model:

SPM – Jolene

Foundation in Business – Chye Soon

UniSA Semester 1 – Alvin

Now, I chose something more realistic to motivate me which is reward myself with a new mobile phone after I got my straight HD’s.

However, I don’t think I really need such motivation to keep me studying. Now, I really feel like crying in pain after seeing how unprepared I am for Microeconomics and Introduction to Law. At my standard now, I will definitely run out of time in the exams and not finish half the paper for Microeconomics; whereas for Law, I don’t think I can even write a word in the exams.

I hope I can really feel the pressure until the end of the exams, and stop playing my Naruto and Facebook! I already quitted MSN and it is a big step.

Let’s pray we all do well in our big examination, whether finals or SPM. Cheers!

Evolution of My Blog

After all the delayed posts about past events, I decided to modify my blogging style. I will no longer be posting photos here since it will appear in my Facebook profile anyway. So by just blogging with words, I will not be so overwhelmed and I will update my blog much more frequently. Hence, be sure to check this as much as I blog.

By this evolution shown through my blog header, I have uploaded those past photos onto my Facebook profile few hours ago. They include first KTV session with Su Ling, Alex, Mei San, Jocelyn and Shi Hui; Yew Wooi and Shan Lung’s birthday bash.

PRESENT

So the important update that you will be granted by reading this post is that:

I WILL NOT BE GOING TO AUSTRALIA NEXT YEAR!

Despite this, I kept telling myself and my friends that today was the last day of college. I’m sure this was the day I would see some of my course mates for the last time. This seems sad but the good news here is I’m staying. I’m overjoyed with the decision I have made currently. Hope I don’t change it again.

For specific details:

I’m not going to UWA because after some research done, my parents found out that UniSA is more specialised in business courses and it is well recognised in Australia and Europe. On the other hand, UWA is just popular for its Go8 status and high ranking but it is more towards the engineering faculty. Furthermore, I was shocked knowing that UniSA has almost 3 times the number of students than UWA for the business faculty.

I’m going to UniSA on the final year instead of the 2nd year even though my parents want me to stay there for 2 years to have more exposure and experience towards the international culture. I convinced them by further editing my study plan to doing a double degree which means I will extend my studies there for 1 more year.

So that’s it! Good news to most of you, hopefully. ^^

 

How Blood Was Spilled At the ASQ Battlefield

Astro Star Quest Grand Finale was held on 25th July 2009 at Bukit Jalil Putra Indoor Stadium. Everybody was so enthusiastic before the competition started. Those who sat in my car, Alex Loh, Yew Wooi, Yong Zhen and my sister knew best what I mean.

The Real Stars on the ASQ Stage

The results were disappointed from how Alvin Chong got 5th place to how Kah Fai lost to Min.

  Alvin’s Fans Group Photo

The best part of all these competitions is always the photo session.

My good pals

  A new star has emerged, Alvin Chong

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Me with the Top 20’s & Song Composer Winner, Kok Hui

Last Memories of the Official Banner (hope it can be of use next time)

That’s all for the day we all worked so hard on. Special thanks to Meng Jiun, Elsa Lam and Yew Wooi for the great effort in making those banners.

Latest info: I have finally uploaded most of the state trial papers of 2009 at www.chinwynn.com. All levels of government examinations can be found here at my website, especially the PMR papers. Hope you all can practice and excel in your actual examinations. Good luck!

The Earthquake that Rocked My 18th Birth-Week

A Cake-less Candle

Since this is a pathetic post without photos, I would be making this post a bit unique from the previous ones. Try browsing on names which appear in this post and see what happens.

Sunday (12th July 2009)

This year, I celebrated my birthday early with my parents. We went to Chilli’s at Mid Valley for lunch and that was what I’ve got, as shown in the photo above. Chilli’s was at least generous enough to offer a free ice-cream brownie to the birthday boy.

Monday (13th July 2009)

Next day was KTV at Neway in Subang Jaya. I was in the same room with Alex, Shan Lung, Kar Mun and Tien Jiun. Alex proved his enthusiasm on Transformers by shouting New Divide with Shan Lung. On the other hand, Tien Jiun portrayed his prowess in partially imitating Jay Chou’s rapping and adding his own rapping style into it while Kar Mun didn’t fail to disappoint him with her Jolin Tsai’s vocals. I was in Tank mode on that day because of his new songs at that time. The other VIP room was filled with the “insane” gang led by Siew Fen.

Tuesday (14th July 2009)

On my birthday eve, Boon Kuang celebrated my birthday with me. We went to Sunway Pyramid for the afternoon and caught one of the coolest movies in town which I also enjoyed most.

At night, I missed such a nice opportunity to have a Japanese Buffet Dinner with Tien Jiun, Kar Mun and her star brother, Kah Fai at Mount Kiara. This was due to the tuition which I am obligated to teach. But I am really overjoyed that Kah Fai sent me a birthday wish past midnight.

Wednesday (15th July 2009)

I spent the actual day giving tuition only. But I was touched by my student, Yee Lyn who played the birthday song on Mary’s piano just for me.

The night was the fun part for me. Shan Lung, Alex, Yew Wooi and Meng Jiun came to the Matahari clubhouse for swimming. Too bad Meng Jiun had tuition and he was forced to leave early.

After swimming, they surprised me with a string of events. We went to Subang’s Pizza Hut and had dinner over there. Then, I was taken to a night movie with and by them, Obsessed.

After the movie, their plan failed when one of the shops they intended to go was closed on that night. Subsequently, Shan Lung, the pitiful driver, had to take us to The Curve. However, the streets along those clubs were not lighted on that night, and many shops were not opened too. That’s a little unfortunate.

We also thought of watching another movie at midnight but Jeff had classes on the next day. So, we ended up supper at one of the mamak stores in Sunway.

This whole night was really great, and I am so extremely grateful to them for planning everything for me.

Before the official night ended, I received a birthday message from Alvin which gave me a flurry.

Thursday (16th July 2009)

Jamie insisted to come to my house and he did came on this day. He gave me a present which is his brother’s newly recorded album. He told me more about his family background which I didn’t know before this. I was quite impressed with his elder brother who is a rapper with codename, Jin Hackman.

Friday (17th July 2009)

Phei Hern came back from Perth during his study break. He invited me and Kevin to meet up in conjunction of our birthdays. We went to Summit for the movie that I was waiting so long. It turned out to be average only but still worth the watch.

I really hope that I can meet up with Phei Hern next year at Perth by completing my tertiary studies at UWA. I sure wish everything goes well till then, including the obliteration of A(H1N1) disease.

This is such a special year for me because I managed to celebrate my birthday throughout the whole week. Normally, my birthday always fall on my examinations and I have to delay celebration or even minimise it. This year is so different as it fell on my holidays and I get to enjoy as much as I wanted to.

Thank you to all my friends and family members. I really had a blast this year ALTHOUGH I DIDN’T HAVE A SINGLE BIRTHDAY CAKE. I’m just joking. This year I received about 90 birthday wishes in total and this already cheered me up.

A Delayed Meteor Shower which Signified an End to Semester 1

29th June 2009 (Monday) was the last day of my Bachelor’s degree semester 1. While everyone celebrated their independence on the previous week’s Friday (because their last subject was Marketing Principles), we Finance students finished with Financial Management.

If it’s solely based on Last Day of Exam, there is no big deal. But Veronica celebrated her birthday with us at Sunway Pyramid on that day before going back to her hometown, Indonesia. Therefore, it really is a memorable day for us.

 Happy faces after final exam (Li Jhuin, Mary and Veronica)

Being rejected by Shao Xian to the party (how sad!)

Yee Von & Li Jhuin at Blue Atrium

Brian, Benedict, J-Tsen, Benjamin, Nicholas and Ridzuan buying presents

Shan Lung, among the 14 people to attended the party (Can anybody guess what restaurant is this? Tips: At Asian Avenue)

The only 4 girls in the party

Eating the chocolate piece of the birthday cake

Veronica biting candles off her birthday cake

The answer of the location: Snowy Healthy Dessert Home

After the hi-tea (it was lunch for me since I forgotten to have lunch due to my exam), we went for movie! One of the most mind-boggling movies I have ever is, but is also Veronica’s favourite –> State of Play.

My rating: 6 over 10 because it’s dull and hard to to understand. I only derived my satisfaction because I got to understand such a sophisticated storyline.

1st time taking photos in cinema

Late dinner after movie at around 9pm at Kim Gary:

(Okay, those long hairs in the photos are scaring me)

Vandalism on Kim Gary’s table with its own pencil

And then erasing it off after that!

Arcade at 10pm

Before ending this post, let me show you how a meteor shower crushes the Earth:

Sucked by the Quicksand of Astro Star Quest 2009

 

Lately, I have been telling everybody that I am busy with Astro Star Quest 2009, and the first thing that comes to their mind is that I’m one of the contestants. Of course not! I wouldn’t be so foolish to join it, knowing what I am now. So, my business (busy + ness) is actually because I am supporting this amazing guy:

Alvin Chong

Initially, I only know that Astro Star Quest 2009 has started by watching it for a few minutes every Saturday night before I go out for dinner. It wasn’t until an opportunity arise that I get a million steps closer to knowing these future stars. The opportunity is as such:

Thanks to Kah Fai who made it into the Top 10 of ASQ 2009, Kar Mun who is my Foundation in Business classmate, invited me to go and support her younger brother, Kah Fai. So, I was more than happy to agree with her and went for 3 Semi-Final rounds out of the 4. On the 2nd round, I got attracted to Alvin Chong’s singing style and I took a photo with him on that night.

I guess it is fated that I started to support him and then even created a forum for him, which now became Alvin Chong’s Official Fan Club. This is the link: www.alvinchong.forumotion.com.

In the end, I have sort of lowered my support slightly towards Lan Kah Fai, though I still like him very much. I guess I should apologise to both Kah Fai and Kar Mun for being such a traitor. But thanks to both of you, I get to know Alvin too.

So, I started watching ASQ live performance from Top 10 to Top 5. Below are the photos of me at the Astro studio:

  Top 10

Top 9

(My parents didn’t allow me to go for the 3rd semi-final round. So, I missed seeing Justin’s and Billy’s last appearance on stage)

 Top 6

 Top 5

More photos of me during the trips:

 

3 Different Jojo Styles (Missed the golden one)

Dinner at Overseas Restaurant, thanks to Kar Mun’s Mum

 

With the composer contestants

 

Do you think the left guy on both pictures look alike??

Finally we have a group photo of Foundation in Business classmates!

With the siblings who I knew them separately (Meng Jiun & Sheen Yeen)

With Xiu Bao

With Wan Yi

Justin, the most friendly contestant who has the best vocal too among the guys

SPY, who has a very strong voice, able to compete with Jaclyn Victor’s

Chuu Chuu, found out that she’s a very good friend of Elsa Lam

 

Yean, who wrote a song to Nicholas Teo, named Shuo Ni Ye Yi Yang Ai Zhe Wo

Alvin Chong!! You should know who is he by now

Kah Fai, supporting him too in the finals

On 8th July 2009, the Top 5 had a Conference Session at Sungei Wang, and I was there to get their autographs and my VIP tickets to the Grand Finale tonight!

The colourful theme and the black theme of their exclusive photos

I went to Sungei Wang, Times Square and Pavilion on that day with Meng Jiun, Shan Lung, Alex Loh and Yew Wooi. Jeff Law Yew Wooi is the an Alvin's fan who I met in the forum which I created.

 

The 2 emcees that will appear on the Grand Finale

  

Top 5 singing their new singles one by one (Kah Fai, Alvin, Min, Ryan, Yoke)

The banner which Yew Wooi spent much effort doing for Alvin!

   

Answering question session

  Autograph session (notice Alvin’s head really look like a small boy here)

Session ends

  Alvin departing to China

Finally, I get to take 1 photo with Isaac!! And Justin too

After that, we went to Pavilion. These are some photos taken over there:

At the SALE display of Pavilion

 

This is Pavilion, which is a first time for some of us

 

The beautiful art creation in front of Pavilion

 

The Black Fours …

 

… including me

 

Final picture of the day –> The Silver Statue (It’s a man, by the way)

This is an extremely long post because I compiled all my ASQ experiences here, except for the Grand Finale which I’m going to attend later. So once again, congrats for reading this far. You are on your way to becoming a blogworm.