CEP Experience!

As i promised…… CEP was awesome! It just knocked Camp Yuber out of the no. 1 spot. Can you believe that?

Here’s a summary of what we did there. Chant, Pray, Games (outdoor), Hiked and Had FUN!!!

Chant: This is a buddhist camp, what do you expect? Well, chanting for the first time isn my life is a weird yet peaceful experience. Seeing everybody so peacefully sitting down, crossed-legs, palms together, it gives you the feeling of peace. Plus, it’s all done in silence. Have you ever taken time out of you busy life, from listening to all the traffic and typing noises from working computer, or maybe just the work chatter coming from you boss or colleagues, and just set-aside five minutes time to meditate in silence and remember all the happy and peaceful thoughts in your life? If you did not, try starting now. It helps relieve stress and calms the mind down.

Pray: Here’s what we Buddhists always do. ”Buddha…. Buddha….. *prayer* *prayer* *prayer*”. And this is what i’ve learned in CEP. Actually, Buddha isn’t God. Buddha is just a teacher. A teacher that practices and mastered the Brahmavihara, which is the four rules to acheive total peace and happiness. First, Metta- Loving-kindness. Second, Karuna- compassion. Third, mudita-appreciative joy. And fourth, Upekkha- equanimity. If we Buddhists are to acheive this, we would be in total peacefulness and liveing a very happy life by now, and research shows that the happiest man alive is indeed a monk in New Zealand. So, i advise all Buddhists out there reading this to stop praying to Buddha and start working harder.

Games: The thing we had to work the hardest for. But i’ll get to that part later. The games they created were fun and each of them corresponded to the Buddha’s Teachings. We had to work smart, work tagether and have fun at the same time to get the game finished.

Hiked: Well, the game system wasn’t good, as teams were going to the same station and one of the teams will have to go to another station and therefore taking loads of time. And we were playing on some place which looks like a  mountain and we had to hike to get there.

Well, i sure had loads of fun at CEP and i hope that i can join it next year!

yueyanglim~

Well, since there’s not much to do at home during the holidays, i guess better join something or die of boredom at home. So ths friend of mine, Ryan, asked me to join this holiday camp for 4 days 3 nights. It’s held in Singapore, but it also invites Malaysians to join as well.

Camp Ehi-Passiko is a buddhist camp. It teaches the buddha’s teaching in a fun-ner method. With games and all that, this should be fun. The last time Ryan went, he gave me a very good feedback, and asked me to go with him the next time. Since it’s so good, i wouldn’t bother the trip it takes to Singapore, i wanna just go there and have fun and learn.

Once i went to a Sunday school, SABS, short for Shah Alam Buddhist Society. But not long after i joined, i quit and never joined anything buddhist related programmes. Maybe it’s just me being too young or unable to adapt causing me too quit SABS. The buddha’s teachings are all about peace and helping those in need, being selfless, for short.

For kids, if you don’t understand this then let me put it this way……. It’s like the Jedi from Star Wars. They try to consult a peaceful solution to the galaxy and end the war. Being a Star Wars fan when i was little, i know a couple of thing related to it.

It’s been nice typing this post, i have no idea why but i’ll check back to you fellow readers with the experience of CEP!

yueyanglim~

Pre-Christmas Present

Well, the sound of the title may sound good, but it’s actually something bad. Obviously. I fell from my bike. Many people keep going like: How did it happen? You so old already and you fell off a bike? *smirks*. Well i  have one thing to say to them, nobody’s perfect. And so are you.

I have been through many injuries in my biking life but this is the worse case. I was cycling around when my hand slipped. The handlebars dragged me with my body at the side of the bike, legs hanging out, knees scratching the pavement…. It was a very painful moment. It’s happening all in slow-motion. I could even remember the sight of the front of the bike dragging my knee and ”A BAD KNEE INJURY IS COMING” flashed through my mind. Why? Because it was not just a fall, it was a DRAG for 40cm, on rocky pavement.

Well in the end I had a wound the size of a 50cent coin. Slightly bigger. With blood coming out. Part of my flesh is showing and i think you wouldn’t wanna imagine it in your head, or you will vomit. I almost had a picture of it posted here.

That night, afraid of an infection, we went to the doctors for medication and miraculously, my wound was heart-shaped, with a sharp end and a top that looks like a ”3”.

Here a picture of my wound wrapped after the doctors medication and care. Bye for now as i need to tend to my wound, it has already been unwrapped and it doesnt look good, at least better than before but, yeah~ You get it….

yueyanglim~

The Surprise!

Well, i forgot to blog yesterday. SO here goes the post today.

Ok, So i am here in Muar. Somewhere in the Johor part of Malaysia. The home of the infamous Namewee. My mom actually knows him and even can bring us to his house. This time it’s slightly different. I am currently here with my ”blogging buddy”, Ryan Ooi.

The life here is simple, just get up, breakfast, work or do whatever you do, and go back. Now you just read the basic everyday life of an uncle that you see in a kopitiam. Everytime you’ll see uncles and their friends sitting at a kopitiam, chit-chatting, living their final years.

This post is gonna end here and i’ll see you guys soon!

yueyanglim~

Tough Luck…..

Well, let’s just say that the day did not go well. 

This morning was rushed, golf killed my normal waking up time. But at least it was a great thing to wake up too. Sleeping being my hobby is quite a bad thing for me if i am required to wake up early on that day. I usually go back to sleep even after my alarm rings, and in the end wake up late and rush through preparation.

Well, golf is quite a tiring game if you don’t like hot weather or walking long distances. The experience of golfing for the past 10 years has trained me for walking, and i think i can out-walk most people i know. Not to show-off or anything. I played bad today, don’t even wanna talk about it but the game was quite fun.

It was tiring but luckily got some sleep on the ride back home. It was a typical golfing day but tomorrow’s gonna be a big surprise! If you really wanna know about it, tune back in tomorrow night to know what happened!

See you people tomorrow.

yueyanglim~

Restless….

Two very tiring days and I had to be in both of them.

Yesterday was my schools appreciation day, in other words graduation for form 5′s, performances, art selling, etc. etc. Well, the place was very crowded as there are 500 students there with and without parents. My estimation will be that only 250 people bring their parents. And that makes 500 parents, but some brought other relatives too, making it around 600-700 people in the hall. Most of the students are performing but there are still  some that are part of the audience, making around 50 people that are not performing. Last year’s graduates came back to have fun making an extra amount of 100-150 people. In total, around 900 people were in that hall that is the size of  1/3 of a football field. So crowded man!

Most performances are okay, just that the stage lights, the microphone system and the stage itself were bad, worst system i’ve ever seen. Hip-hop crews are good, but the acting was bad, mostly due to the mike system being so crappy, most of us can’t hear a single word!

I just wanna say that today was also restless and tiring. Just had golf in the morning and i don’t think you all will be interested in what i do every week. However, i have some minor improvements in my game and now scoring below 100. Yay to acheivement!

So that’s all, gotta get some rest now, bye!

yueyanglim~

Uncles…

Today i wanna talk about old uncles.

Due to rain, we (my friends and I) went to mamak instead of going to the usual Summit to have our dinner. Why, because we have tuition at school today. At the mamak, the uncle gave me a pat on the shoulder and started chatting with us throughout the entire meal.

Uncles are very open towards other kids and like to chit-chat with people even though they have no idea of who they are. He was kind and funny at the same time. He shared some life stories with us, apparently he fought in the war too! He had a gun pointed at his head but while he watches all those kung fu stuff back then, did he not only just see, but he learned and he tried it out. It saved his life.

He said that back then children our age were working their asses off and do not get luxury like what we have today. I changed my mingd on wanting more after the uncle left.

Uncles are funny yet nice. Why? They like to joke around with us youngsters and he told me his name was *lau wan tong, in english it’s called old play kid. You get the rest….

So this is my post for now, and p.s i got Modern Warfare 3!!! (Auntie Clara please tell Tj this, Thanks)

Signing off,

yueyanglim~

New Category!

Equations, everyone knows what it means. But mine are different, it goes like this:

Heavy rain+ strong winds= uprooted trees
No, not 1+1=2, mine are words.

Ya want proof? Here! This happened!

P.S this is my first post from the iPod. Celebrating the birth of an iPod post!

Please help me spread the word about my blog. Its not getting much views now. Thanks if you helped. If you read this and did not spread the word, go die in a hole. Just kidding!

Projects

I have no idea on how i feel about projects. Maybe it’s the type of project that makes me excited upon doing it or make me feel like suicide doing it. Some interesting yet hard projects are the ones that get me frustrated upon.

For example the project that i’m currently working on, my art project. They asked me to make something for Deepavali (although it has passed) and so i did the rice paintings. The first impression was always so simple, just colour the rice and paste them on cardboard. Turns out, colour not rich, rice no stick, cardboard destroyed by some good-for-nothing friends. Therefore, i had to make due with a broken cardboard, rice that falls apart after i stick them.

Oh long projects! Why do you always annoy me!?

yueyanglim~

Best Birthday Evar!!

So far this is the best birthday i ever had in my life.

First, as all of you know, i got a laptop. Partially from my grades, and half from being my birthday present.

But now, i got and iPod Touch!!!! It’s so wonderful that i got the two things that i wanted the most in a week! How amazing is that!? Plus, i’ve just bought my iPod cover and screen protector just now, and i also got WordPress in it. So that means pictexts are going to be up soon, again.

The iPod is just a shrunken iPad. It has all the same features, just more portability.

This is gonna be a short post so i’ll just end it here. Bye!

yueyanglim~

Definitely Different

Having a pc and a laptop are two very different things. First of all, we get to store our personal stuff in laptops and not like on the pc, which is shared by everyone.

Lately i’ve been using my laptop to do some never-done-before stuff with my pc. First of all, Windows Movie Maker. I had it once on my pc and i didn’t knew how to use it, and didn’t even bothered about it. Until the time came for me to use it, i went crazy. Now, Movie maker is slowly becoming more and more interesting to me, as I know more about it’s functions and all the amazing stuff we can do with it. So far i have made two photo album videos, you know those that you put a few photos in and a random song and you call it an album, yeah that’s just about it.

Typing on the keyboard just doesn’t feel the same anymore. Most probably because i have gotten used to typing on a rock-hard surface, the iPad, making buttons feel comfortable for me. The chiclet keyboard also makes typing easier and smoother. The fonts on the keyboard are nice, and the problem in which the keyboard sinks down has gone away completely. It is amazing how Dell makes laptop keyboards. It comes with a built in number pad, therefore you can imagine how big the size is. I should cut a piece of mouse pad and cover it and tell people that my laptop comes with a built-in mouse pad, as long as i don’t use the number pad.

Somehow the weight is gone. It says 2.7kg in the description but to me it weighs less that a netbook. Plus, it’s bigger and better to type in, nicer screen, better touchpad, yet still quite portable to me. My parents keep saying: ‘’Are you sure you don’t want a smaller one?’’ But a 15.6’’ is good for me. It has more features, better quality, and i don’t care about portability. It’s not like i’m gonna bring it anywhere and everywhere, maybe a few times a month or so.

So now i’m still enjoying my laptop and hopefully i get the chance to write my next post using this laptop again!

yueyanglim~

Finally Back and Typing Again…..

I almost forgot how nice blogiing was already. I just got my new laptop, giving me more motivation to blog and therefore making my blog more attractive. I know i have lost almost all my fellow readers in the past few months because I stopped blogging. I’m sorry for that. Those who are keen to read what i write about my life will now be delighted and infused with joy (i’m using so-called BIG WORDS) that i’m starting up this blog again.

And today  shall be blogging about my new computer. A laptop us not something that a parent can be okay about. There’s always worries in a child when he gets his own stuff like a small toy, he might swallow it. When they are older, school, which is being bullied. And a little bit older than that, their gadgets. Just like me. I don’t know about the future because i have never experienced it first-hand, and i’m not going to make any predictions or anything.

But at the teenage years of life, teens like to have their own stuff and not relying on parents, except financially. And what the parents do is very simple, make them live their lives, earn what you get. Which is right, to a parents mind. But in their minds they’re going like ”What!?” Thats because most kids are spoilt there fore they go ”what!?”. Don’t get me wrong, i earned this laptop myself, it came from the sweat and blood and all the enormous effort i put into my studies (PART of it is true——-Just kidding) so i could earn my dream laptop. I’ve been wanting one for the past 4 years. Turns out, i had to wait till i was so called mature and knows how to manage time and priorities. True true…

Now the other problem is most youngsters are wanting gadgets so much that they beg for it.. Some even threaten their parents. I see some kids nowadays having iPhones and iPods when there are looking like five year olds. Turns out they ARE five year olds. When i was five i had toy soldiers, i had rocking horses, but iPhones!? That’s something new.

Okay, i should talk about my new laptop now. Thinking of the moral behind it is like findind trouble for myself……Just kidding, what trouble could i get except for being whacked by small kids if they read this and saw me in the mall or something?

It’s a Dell inspiron15R.I didn’t get my dream laptop, the XPS15z because of the price. It was 3000++ or 4000++, and dad said i shouldn’t have such an expensive laptop at this age. It looks like any other inspiron laptop from the outside, just bigger (15.6 inch), heavier, and has more features. it has this face recognition thingy that apparently scans my face everytime i log in. Quite cool. The big screen is for mostly gaming (heheheheheh……..) but for work and studies as well. Using this laptop brightens up my life. With the sleek blue outer skin and beautiful keyboards and touchpads. Its a nice laptop, although i still prefer the xps.

The outer skin can be changed and there’s some keyboard problem and beautiful graphics, thanks to the LED display screen.

I’ll put the link down below so you can check the specs and the features.

http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-15r-n5110/pd?refid=inspiron-15r-n5110&baynote_bnrank=1&baynote_irrank=0&~ck=baynoteSearch&isredir=true

Thanks for reading this and hope my readers increase and i will be posting more oftenly in the future.

yueyanglim~

 

Laptop Cravings!

As you all know, i’ve been using a crappy desktop for ages now. And now it’s the time to change.

I want to tell you readers beforehand that i am truly sorry for not posting as usually as always.

Now to the main thing. A laptop is what i need to fulfil my life goal, well maybe teenager-colleger goal, but a  laptop is just what i need. My friend has one and he overusues it from when school ends to maybe about 11pm? Thats like being crazy about your laptop. So after i got my good grades to prove that i’m studying (i did get good grades for this time….). So i went surfing the internet for a laptop. My scoolhmate said that any laptop that runs on an i7 processor is a supercomputer. Excluding mac of course.

So this is the laptop that i want so much if i get to skip a grade.

The laptop is a Dell XPS15z. Lately its been one of the latest products created by Dell. It runs on an i5 or i7. But any of them is fine with me. Thats all, hope you agree with my choice of laptops.

Laptop!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m desperate…… :/

yuuyanglim~

Workout

Workouts are very tiring for some and yet torturing. It is the worst experience in an entire life, but yet we must do it at some point. So workouts are like study.

Today is my workout time in my life. I have officially reached the POINT. And now my hands are shivering as i type. First of all, today should be a boring day. But my dad is afraid of getting the “bored poisoning”? And decided to make us go do some sports.

Look, the reason we go to a golf club to excercise and not somewhere near home is that we must somehow live a higher-class life since we moved to this house. At least thats what i think. Well look, mom has made us go swimming at the clubs pool for like 5-10 times? And yet we have a pool just at walking distance! Why drive a car 15 minutes just to swim? I know it’s a bigger pool but can’t you just swim more reps if you really want to get fitter? This is an obvois sign that she wants to upgrade life. And yet she’s always talking about saving money on technological stuff.

And one more thing, technology is overtaking us right now. Why can’t we blend in and get some technological device that we can use for an entire lifetime? Rather than spending money on temporary entertainment right? (By that i mean entertainment that can support you for a day or two)

D-u-ree-ian

Whats up guys!

Durians are back and for me, i’m not so fortunate nor excited about it. But my family sure does! They love durian, they say it tastes soooo good that it feels like eating ice cream to children.

First of all, i am not a durian lover, same as a few of my other friends, which maybe took a few bites and screwed it. For me, i was born to hate it, the smell, the taste, the pricks. And this is what a leaf in a box of durians look like:

Poor leaf.

Anyways being in a family full of durian lovers is quite nice. Every year we get to sit somewhere cooling and nice in the night and chit-chat while enjoying durian. I just stick around and smell the so called “fragrance” of durians.

From what i know, durians are heaty food. The can cause fever even if you just took a few bites. I tried it once and suffered fever after that incident. So i recommend that you enjoy durian-eating while it lasts! But don’t eat too much. Fever, you will suffer.

D-u-ree-ian is how you pronounce durian, just say it faster.

yueyanglim~