Ok, this is one of my teenager era hype...
I love this series so much, it's one of the literature that feeds to my early vampire imaginations.... Darren Shan and Anne Rice.......
The former is more child like and innocent and the later more to the adult and horror.. but I love both.. :)
I never had the chance to finish Darren Shan's Cirque du Freak series before, partly because it wasn't that famous (at least.. in where I am) that the books are quite rare. Really... I had to buy several of the collections of the series from abroad.
And recently I got my hands on the rest of the series... :) I'm in glee... though now I'm no longer in my teenage years and I noticed some of the 'too obvious signs that shouldn't be missed by the protagonist!!', I still enjoy it. And finally.. I've read the ending.
I was so curious about the ending... usually I could guessed some parts of the books and their endings, half of the time I could hit the bulls eyes with almost everything. It would be satisfactory, yes, but I would feel a bit boring... there suppose to be something that I can't guessed to make it interesting. Sometimes, I could get some parts of it and some are surprises, and only very several books that I can't predict at all, and that's very rare.
Darren Shan... is the mix of the middle and the later. I could guesses some of the components yes... but... I just don't know what's the ending going to be... and that's feeling gnawing at me... haunting me until I could finished it... releasing me from the torment of curiosity. Though yes.. some of the aspects are quite too obvious.
But the ending...........
How should I put this.... I dislike the ending, since I like the character of Darren Shan and I despise the idea that he would perish even though there's a happy ringing in his death, he would actually still be alive. But in the same time.... I salute the author for giving me an ending that I couldn't have guessed before and not at all part of my possible alternate endings. A surprise.
And think about it again... it could be one of the best ending it could have. Though some part of me wished that I could see him in a normal ending scene of defeating the lord of the Vampaneze, breaking the destruction destiny and yet still seize the power and throne that he could have. His love story with Debbie, his nephew, the vampire clan....
The thing that I'm longing to know is ... how the rest are doing now!! Though it's hinted that now there are other future possibilities and a good one.. I still long for more details.
But oh well..... I guess it should be enough to fill the blanks with my imagination now.
Then I think about the writing style.. He made it really as if.. the story had been true. That the author, a normal boy is real. Very interesting and creative I would say. Though I believed that of course it's just his imagination and he's clever enough to make the story 'believable'.
Then I remembered the recent news about cloning.. bringing the extinct animals back to live in the real world... and about Darren's friend collaborating with Mr. Tiny!!!!!!
so....... This saga is not really real right????
Or... perhaps... there are really Vampires and Vampaneze out there?
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Well the scientist are not cloning the dragons as far as I know of course,.. but they are trying to resurrect the Mammoth (at least that's the latest news I got). But.. if by chance in the future... they make dragons too......
I think I would really REALLY believe that Darren Shan saga is real!!!!!
Friday, July 19, 2013
Friday, May 31, 2013
My Ramble
humans are very unexpected yet predictable
the mind could be complicated and simple
to know the dark secret of people will make you tremble
take their story for example
every little things that they grumble
leave my heart purple
she took her mother as a sample
and live a life that's suffer-able
thinks of others as expandable
they are the most pittiable
others are full of comfortable
all of their attitudes are deniable
sweeping the truths under the table
I hope I could win this gamble
with all of the things that I stumble
I believe that it would be possible
to cut the chains of the improbable
to live a life that's suitable
the mind could be complicated and simple
to know the dark secret of people will make you tremble
take their story for example
every little things that they grumble
leave my heart purple
she took her mother as a sample
and live a life that's suffer-able
thinks of others as expandable
they are the most pittiable
others are full of comfortable
all of their attitudes are deniable
sweeping the truths under the table
I hope I could win this gamble
with all of the things that I stumble
I believe that it would be possible
to cut the chains of the improbable
to live a life that's suitable
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Sunday Shopping
A few days ago I read
about the Sunday phenomenal in my little red Swiss book, a gift from my fiance. And oh how I could
forgot about it after over a year out of Switzerland..
I remembered my first
weeks in Switzerland… I went out on Sunday to sight seeing and shop like I used
to all my life. Then I realized that they closed the shops!! It’s Sunday, the
shopping and hang out day and they closed the shops, most of the restaurants
and even Supermarkets!!!!! How could they???
Well it took me a few
months to get used to it and still dislike the quite Sunday. And it’s one of
the things that make me miss Asia or the States. The shops there are almost
24/7. And yes you can find anything, and everything you need/want.
The choices of shops
and restaurants in Switzerland is limited as what that I came to notice with
time as well.. Yes they have Asian food, but not the nice decent Asian food.
And how about other global type of chain restaurants?? It seems that most of
them haven’t find Switzerland yet. Nice decent Asian food is the 70% of my ‘missing
the life in the other part of the world’. Coz really, you could get a nice
decent Asian food in the States, why not here? And cooking by myself is not as
easy as said, the ingredients itself is not that easy to obtain and usually it’s
pretty expensive too. What is it that’s not expensive in this country?
And the ridiculous
part is, on Sundays.. shops are not the only things that didn’t offer their
services on Sundays, but also machines.. Yup that would include the ‘do yourself
washing machine’ in your apartment or the photo booth in the train station.
Yes.. I think they put machines as humans too and they need a one day off/week
to maintain their work and life balance.
All things said…. Switzerland
has it’s own charm on me. Perhaps it is the beautiful scenery that I woke up to
every day, or the amazing cleanliness of the country, or my freedom that I can
go anywhere without much permission from my family. Or maybe all that, and
certainly that my other half is there too, and no questions about it, I miss
Swiss.
But knowing that I’ll
start a new chapter of my life there next year.. I know what I’m going to miss…..
the variety of food, items and services that I won’t be able to have there, and
especially not on Sundays!!
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Stupid....
Yesterday morning, on the
way to my work.. I listened in the radio about the new law that’s on progress
to be validated in the country. And the law is about giving maximum 5 years
jail punishment for people using supernatural power to harm/kill other people
(if it’s validated, this country I’m in would be the only country in the world
that have a legal indications about supernatural powers), and they asked the
listeners’ opinion about it.
I was shocked just to
listen about it.. I mean… yes the people here are quite superstitious, but to
put it in law.. seriously? On what base could you prove it? People
testimonials? Their believes?
I’m afraid it would be just like the burning of the witches on the 15th century in Europe before. Where hundreds if not thousands of people convicted without much evidences. Framing innocent people would be so much easier this way, just point them as a voodoo user or something, and they would go to jail.
I’m afraid it would be just like the burning of the witches on the 15th century in Europe before. Where hundreds if not thousands of people convicted without much evidences. Framing innocent people would be so much easier this way, just point them as a voodoo user or something, and they would go to jail.
And then the first
ringer is on the line. His comment made my jaw dropped… He said maximum 5 years
punishment is too light, it should be life or even death punishment. If not,
people would just resort to using black magic medium to kill people, as the
punishment is way lighter than killing people in the ‘normal’ way. We should
not ‘encourage’ people by making the punishment light. 0.o wow… I’m
speechless.. Do people really believe it so much?
Then the second
ringer is on the line.. and thanks God.. he’s sensible.. He said that it’s
ridiculous and we would be the laughing stock of other countries.
Then the third ringer
is online.. and again.. I really can’t believe it.. She basically agrees that
it’s shameful, but we needed such law, so people will stop using it, as it is
now against the law.
0.0….. I know some
people do resort to black magic in this country for some things, but I myself
think that it’s bulls***. I mean c’mon this is the 21st century, how
could you explain how your hair/picture can be used to make you fall ill or
even kill you from a sudden unknown disease -.-
If you really want to
stop people to stop thinking about such supernatural foolishness, putting the
people behind bars are not enough. It
would only make the people to believe it more, why else do you even put it in
law if it’s not real? More people would seek help from the voodoo priests.
Unless they charged the voodoo priests as frauds, then it’s okay to have such
law.
Really….. sometimes people are just so stupid -.-
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Panicked
That one holiday that I got my heart raced..
The day that I was so afraid..
There's this little dog that live with me now. He is a very cute dog, and I have grew fond of him. He's quite lively and loves to play and run, and he loves to play and run outside the house everytime the front door is open.
And in that day, the door was open, he ran out, he was running fast as if he was flying.. and I watched him ran. He was running out of my side, behind the truck that's parked in front of the house. Then I saw this car coming.. I already got a very bad feeling.. I just wished that the car won't run over him.. please it won't happen.
I saw the car gaining speed, as I just thought it would be okay. The dog would be smart enough not to cross the road at this point, I heard a bump and I heard the dog whined...
My heart sank....
I knew what happened, I ran to the street, and I saw him laying there, struggling to get up but can't.. I panicked, I though I could even hear the sound its bones rubbing as it tried to stand up. I can't stand the view and I ran back, calling for help.
By the time the driver was in the front porch, apologizing, I realized that I was a little bit shaking. The dog seems to survive, the maid was carrying him, holding him.
We called the vet, but he would only be able to come after 3 hours and there was no hospital open that day. I was so scared..
Scared that the dog would have internal injuries
Scared that it won't be able to survive.
The dog can barely can stand up.. he was shaking
I could hear his damp breath, troubled and short
At one point, he was trying to poo, he got into position and fell down.
My heart is crying, I don't even know if I was crying literally or not.
He can't stop shaking, and I was trying to put him to sleep, to ease his pain and trauma, but all he did was whining in each of his breath..
I was preparing myself.. that I might not see him survive the night.
I was so sad.
The doctor came when he said he would, we showed him the dog, and he examined it. He said he was lucky, and he said he would survive.
I was so glad, there's no apparent broken bones.
It take some time before he would start touching his food, and start wiggling his tail again.
But every progress that he made to recovery.. it made me happy.
Today, he seems quite normal, almost like when the accident haven't happen.
I'm happy.
The day that I was so afraid..
There's this little dog that live with me now. He is a very cute dog, and I have grew fond of him. He's quite lively and loves to play and run, and he loves to play and run outside the house everytime the front door is open.
And in that day, the door was open, he ran out, he was running fast as if he was flying.. and I watched him ran. He was running out of my side, behind the truck that's parked in front of the house. Then I saw this car coming.. I already got a very bad feeling.. I just wished that the car won't run over him.. please it won't happen.
I saw the car gaining speed, as I just thought it would be okay. The dog would be smart enough not to cross the road at this point, I heard a bump and I heard the dog whined...
My heart sank....
I knew what happened, I ran to the street, and I saw him laying there, struggling to get up but can't.. I panicked, I though I could even hear the sound its bones rubbing as it tried to stand up. I can't stand the view and I ran back, calling for help.
By the time the driver was in the front porch, apologizing, I realized that I was a little bit shaking. The dog seems to survive, the maid was carrying him, holding him.
We called the vet, but he would only be able to come after 3 hours and there was no hospital open that day. I was so scared..
Scared that the dog would have internal injuries
Scared that it won't be able to survive.
The dog can barely can stand up.. he was shaking
I could hear his damp breath, troubled and short
At one point, he was trying to poo, he got into position and fell down.
My heart is crying, I don't even know if I was crying literally or not.
He can't stop shaking, and I was trying to put him to sleep, to ease his pain and trauma, but all he did was whining in each of his breath..
I was preparing myself.. that I might not see him survive the night.
I was so sad.
The doctor came when he said he would, we showed him the dog, and he examined it. He said he was lucky, and he said he would survive.
I was so glad, there's no apparent broken bones.
It take some time before he would start touching his food, and start wiggling his tail again.
But every progress that he made to recovery.. it made me happy.
Today, he seems quite normal, almost like when the accident haven't happen.
I'm happy.
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
It's never easy to say goodbye
Yesterday... I received news.. that my uncle had just died.
I'm speechless... I don't know what to say...
I am sad
But it's not something that's shocking.. we (the family) had been warn.. by the words of brain tumor.... by the words of the doctors that said "sorry, but I do not dare".
In some corner of my heart... I think somehow.. it might have been better for him. He's no longer haunted by 'when would it be' or that he won't be in pain any longer. He is free from any worries and troubles.
Yes.. this must has been something good for him.
Now that has left...
How I longed to go to my family.. to my mother that's grieving her younger brother...
to my younger cousins that just lost their father.
But then again... I don't know how to console them...
Perhaps.. I would just sit in silence with them.
I feel remorse too that I had never visited him when he was sick. But living outside of the country.. it's not that easy to return either.
But then again.. I think I do have the benefit.. the uncle that engraved in my mind is a healthy laughing uncle. The last time I was in the country, he didn't have the tumor yet... and I am late by a few months as I am suppose to go back home at last in the next few months.
But in my memory when I think of him... he's still the healthy, smiling uncle :)
Rest in peace my dearest uncle...
We are missing you and we will be always miss you.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Unsure
Today... the place that's famous for it's sunshine is grey. The cloud that brings rain has been staying over and doesn't any signs of moving out.
Sitting inside my room and looking out to the window... I only see wet roads with wet cars passing by. The sun is still too shy to show his face.
I'm stuck in this room, having a full list of what to do, but don't know how to start doing them. My future is just like the sky... cloudy and unclear.
"What should I do next?"
"How do I want to do it?"
"Do I really want it?"
Growing up is something that I embrace happily and sadly... Happy that at last a life that my decisions really make a point in my life, instead of someone else that make that decision for me has come. Sad and cautious that I'm not sure what to do with it... I'm not sure what I want. What that I'm thinking would be the best idea now, I might regret it one day in the future.
Should I do this... Should I do that.... hm.....
Sitting inside my room and looking out to the window... I only see wet roads with wet cars passing by. The sun is still too shy to show his face.
I'm stuck in this room, having a full list of what to do, but don't know how to start doing them. My future is just like the sky... cloudy and unclear.
"What should I do next?"
"How do I want to do it?"
"Do I really want it?"
Growing up is something that I embrace happily and sadly... Happy that at last a life that my decisions really make a point in my life, instead of someone else that make that decision for me has come. Sad and cautious that I'm not sure what to do with it... I'm not sure what I want. What that I'm thinking would be the best idea now, I might regret it one day in the future.
Should I do this... Should I do that.... hm.....
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
2012 Resolution
Well... now that 2011 has ended.... way faster and sooner that I thought it would... with so many things happen and me that keep rushing from one point to another (you can see that I moved from Leysin to Zurich and then now in the United States...) (or from finishing dissertation to the last internship and to a training program..) - I still can't understand how time flew sometimes...
And just now, I review back my 2011 resolution, something that I haven't done since I actually wrote it... and I'm quite surprised actually that I've done it. I did my 2011 resolution. Well... apart from having my weight down to 58 kg, just because I don't have a scale and I don't really intend to know how much I weight at the moment lol. Not that I'm gaining so much that I'm afraid to look at it, but it's just that... well... as long as I'm still comfortable with myself, I don't think that the number on the scale really matters. I might even reach 58 kg at some point last year.
Oh well, I'm happy with my last year result... and now starts the new one :)
My 2012 Resolutions:
And just now, I review back my 2011 resolution, something that I haven't done since I actually wrote it... and I'm quite surprised actually that I've done it. I did my 2011 resolution. Well... apart from having my weight down to 58 kg, just because I don't have a scale and I don't really intend to know how much I weight at the moment lol. Not that I'm gaining so much that I'm afraid to look at it, but it's just that... well... as long as I'm still comfortable with myself, I don't think that the number on the scale really matters. I might even reach 58 kg at some point last year.
Oh well, I'm happy with my last year result... and now starts the new one :)
My 2012 Resolutions:
- Keep reading books
- Write every now and then
- Learn to know my own needs and wants
- Success my training
- Find out the next plan (continue, or keep studying, or find a new job, or make my own living)
- Have fun with friends while in the United States
- Visit New York, Key West and San Fransisco
- Learn to speak more German and or Spanish
- Keep in Love :)
Sunday, December 11, 2011
The Battle of Tera
Okay, I found this movie by accident and just out of curiosity and boredom, I decided to actually watch it. I glad that I watched it though... it's actually a simple movie with a common theme and a predictable ending. Just another animation family movie.
However.. there is something in this movie that made me wonder. There is something in this movie that holds a possibility that I hadn't think about before.
It's actually about a planet called Tera with its friendly and peaceful inhabitants and how they encounter the human race that came to take their home because earth is no longer habitable and they are forced to find a new 'home' and of course... Tera is the destination.
And well, as you might also realize the nature of human race, the plan is to destroy the original life of the planet and enforced a new habitation more suitable for the humans. Yup... don't think of about negotiation or any sort of the ambassadors suppose to do, just sent the war planes.
However, the peaceful Tera-ians were originally not so peaceful.. they were as well, a race of war, and they do have the developed technology advanced enough to go face to face with the human's war technology.
It turns out that the Tera-ians itself was once almost extinct because of war and now they are teaching their children, the new generations about peace and life and forget the technology that they were once had as well as their destructive history and only the 'elders' that are aware of the truth.
The ending of the story is pretty dramatic but expected. The real hero (human) died in saving the Tera-ians and in return, they save the humans by building a habitation with atmosphere suitable for humans and the co-habitation of the planet.
The thing that stuck in my mind right now... is....
Well... there is this theory that I heard or read about a few years ago, about the possibility that.. we are.. humans... are actually aliens on earth. There are a lot of questions about massive building technique or wisdom of the ancient civilization.. Somethings... that seems.. somekind of impossible for those "without technology" people.
And well.. according to this theory... It is because that humans are aliens and of course, as aliens.. we do have advanced technology. Advanced enough to make ships that travels the solar system and find a new planet to live on. It's just that.. there is this question... if we were.... why there are no records about that? Assuming that we are advanced enough to travel the universe, aren't those knowledge about space travel precious? about the ships are precious? why do we 'forget' those??
And now... maybe... and only maybe.. IF that theory is right... then.. MAYBE it's just because we had a very sad history previously.. and the people of that time decided that they would like to start brand new. Without the 'history' and without the technology. Maybe as well... in hope that they and their next generations would live in peace and without war.
Unfortunately.. if this were the truth, then their hope has failed... humans do have just in nature, in instinct, to destroy. Although we tried our best not to have war.. sometimes war is inevitable. What else is the reason for continuous war from the ancient civilization until now? Yes, until now! Our world is not peaceful at all, considering the small coups or riots in most of the countries to the more obvious right north and south korea or the middle east... It is... in human nature to strife for more.. to be greedy and strife for "safety" even if it costs someone else's "safety". If this is not... why do we still have war now?? we have failed to understand each other.
and currently.. our earth is also dying.. not soon... but slowly. It is already predicted that somewhere in the future... our descendants might have to leave earth and find a new planet to live on. It is not in doubt that the technology to support human life continuously in space is being researched or if not developed..
and might be... the history will repeat somewhere in the far corner of the universe....
However.. there is something in this movie that made me wonder. There is something in this movie that holds a possibility that I hadn't think about before.
It's actually about a planet called Tera with its friendly and peaceful inhabitants and how they encounter the human race that came to take their home because earth is no longer habitable and they are forced to find a new 'home' and of course... Tera is the destination.
And well, as you might also realize the nature of human race, the plan is to destroy the original life of the planet and enforced a new habitation more suitable for the humans. Yup... don't think of about negotiation or any sort of the ambassadors suppose to do, just sent the war planes.
However, the peaceful Tera-ians were originally not so peaceful.. they were as well, a race of war, and they do have the developed technology advanced enough to go face to face with the human's war technology.
It turns out that the Tera-ians itself was once almost extinct because of war and now they are teaching their children, the new generations about peace and life and forget the technology that they were once had as well as their destructive history and only the 'elders' that are aware of the truth.
The ending of the story is pretty dramatic but expected. The real hero (human) died in saving the Tera-ians and in return, they save the humans by building a habitation with atmosphere suitable for humans and the co-habitation of the planet.
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The thing that stuck in my mind right now... is....
Well... there is this theory that I heard or read about a few years ago, about the possibility that.. we are.. humans... are actually aliens on earth. There are a lot of questions about massive building technique or wisdom of the ancient civilization.. Somethings... that seems.. somekind of impossible for those "without technology" people.
And well.. according to this theory... It is because that humans are aliens and of course, as aliens.. we do have advanced technology. Advanced enough to make ships that travels the solar system and find a new planet to live on. It's just that.. there is this question... if we were.... why there are no records about that? Assuming that we are advanced enough to travel the universe, aren't those knowledge about space travel precious? about the ships are precious? why do we 'forget' those??
And now... maybe... and only maybe.. IF that theory is right... then.. MAYBE it's just because we had a very sad history previously.. and the people of that time decided that they would like to start brand new. Without the 'history' and without the technology. Maybe as well... in hope that they and their next generations would live in peace and without war.
Unfortunately.. if this were the truth, then their hope has failed... humans do have just in nature, in instinct, to destroy. Although we tried our best not to have war.. sometimes war is inevitable. What else is the reason for continuous war from the ancient civilization until now? Yes, until now! Our world is not peaceful at all, considering the small coups or riots in most of the countries to the more obvious right north and south korea or the middle east... It is... in human nature to strife for more.. to be greedy and strife for "safety" even if it costs someone else's "safety". If this is not... why do we still have war now?? we have failed to understand each other.
and currently.. our earth is also dying.. not soon... but slowly. It is already predicted that somewhere in the future... our descendants might have to leave earth and find a new planet to live on. It is not in doubt that the technology to support human life continuously in space is being researched or if not developed..
and might be... the history will repeat somewhere in the far corner of the universe....
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
The good things that happen today
Today, well... I'm still nervous for my new work... Then several things happen...
Yesterday, I got an unknown caller on my cell during work orientation, of course I'm not picking it up and I have no idea who it was, and as usual, I'm not so interested to find out who... If it was important enough, they will call later, was my thought. But my boyfriend was asking me to call back. I wasn't really enthusiast about it, and I think he noticed that and gave me a hint that he knew who called.
That's it, my curiosity is at the maximum level, and I failed to make him break the news to me. I went to sleep with several guesses about what could it be... .. ..
So, yes, I can't wait to call the 'mystery' caller again and until I got them... it turns out to be a florist!! Okay, so it's flowers... :)
Unfortunately though that they can't deliver after 5pm and most probably I would be at home after 5 pm.... >.<
So... basically, they have to deliver it to my work place!! uh oh... it's gonna take some people attention.. and I don't want it... I'm not so comfortable to be on the spotlight sometimes.. depends on the situation.. and I think it's one of it..
I love the flowers, but I'm not thrilled about the part that it has to be delivered to my work place. Because, I have to tell some people about it to let the delivery able to come inside the area and deliver it, and as I was still in the orientation, they have to put the flowers somewhere else first and so and so...
But oh well... in the end I got the delivery... with even an extra surprise... a Teddy Bear!!!!
I do love roses, and yes I love teddy bears as well.... I was a little bit sad that I had to leave my teddy bears with him because I don't have any space to bring them to the states.. and now that I got one.. and it's from him.... :D :D :D :D
I am very happy :) Love love love love him so much :)
Ps: I got a fortune cookie tonight, and it says 'Someone is speaking well of you'. Well, in the position of new job... I do hope that it's true :) It really chase away all of the worries that I had :)
Yesterday, I got an unknown caller on my cell during work orientation, of course I'm not picking it up and I have no idea who it was, and as usual, I'm not so interested to find out who... If it was important enough, they will call later, was my thought. But my boyfriend was asking me to call back. I wasn't really enthusiast about it, and I think he noticed that and gave me a hint that he knew who called.
That's it, my curiosity is at the maximum level, and I failed to make him break the news to me. I went to sleep with several guesses about what could it be... .. ..
So, yes, I can't wait to call the 'mystery' caller again and until I got them... it turns out to be a florist!! Okay, so it's flowers... :)
Unfortunately though that they can't deliver after 5pm and most probably I would be at home after 5 pm.... >.<
So... basically, they have to deliver it to my work place!! uh oh... it's gonna take some people attention.. and I don't want it... I'm not so comfortable to be on the spotlight sometimes.. depends on the situation.. and I think it's one of it..
I love the flowers, but I'm not thrilled about the part that it has to be delivered to my work place. Because, I have to tell some people about it to let the delivery able to come inside the area and deliver it, and as I was still in the orientation, they have to put the flowers somewhere else first and so and so...
But oh well... in the end I got the delivery... with even an extra surprise... a Teddy Bear!!!!
I do love roses, and yes I love teddy bears as well.... I was a little bit sad that I had to leave my teddy bears with him because I don't have any space to bring them to the states.. and now that I got one.. and it's from him.... :D :D :D :D
I am very happy :) Love love love love him so much :)
Ps: I got a fortune cookie tonight, and it says 'Someone is speaking well of you'. Well, in the position of new job... I do hope that it's true :) It really chase away all of the worries that I had :)
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Iron Iron Iron
Okay.... I never dislike ironing before.... really, it's not my favorite job, but I don't dislike it either. But since yesterday and today.... I spent like an hour ironing... and I still have more ironing stuff to do actually....
Rolling and folding your clothes to little pieces is great for packing since you would be able to pack more... but really...
Rolling and folding your clothes to little pieces is great for packing since you would be able to pack more... but really...
IT MADE YOU DO ENDLESS IRONING!!
So... I have made one more decision to remember..
DO NOT PURCHASE ANY CLOTHES THAT WILL REQUIRE LOTS OF IRONING!!
Yup, from now on, I will put that into my consideration in purchasing my clothes... if it made from the kind of fabric that you don't need to iron... PERFECT!!!! :D
DO NOT PURCHASE ANY CLOTHES THAT WILL REQUIRE LOTS OF IRONING!!
Yup, from now on, I will put that into my consideration in purchasing my clothes... if it made from the kind of fabric that you don't need to iron... PERFECT!!!! :D
Friday, October 7, 2011
Swiss Hotel Management School
I think.. I'm the same as most of the other students in the world... Criticizing their school/university most of the time but adores them still deep inside..
I would say I could find a lot of flaws of this school that I was attending, but was I happy when I was there? yes. Was I satisfied with my school? Maybe not really.. but yes I do as well. It is one of the greatest chapter in my life, and I had learn so many things in that place. So many things that I doubted I would get in other places, or even if I do.. it wouldn't be the same. It is the place that had shaped the 'me' right now. The place that I learned a new perspective in life and where my 'young' personality developed to a more mature personality that I had now.
Anyway, I read this article about the top 10 Hospitality schools in the world, and I was shocked... I knew that my school, SHMS, is in it.. But that it will be on the second place??? WOW WOW WOW!!!!!!!!
I had no other words... I am just... PROUD :)
I would say I could find a lot of flaws of this school that I was attending, but was I happy when I was there? yes. Was I satisfied with my school? Maybe not really.. but yes I do as well. It is one of the greatest chapter in my life, and I had learn so many things in that place. So many things that I doubted I would get in other places, or even if I do.. it wouldn't be the same. It is the place that had shaped the 'me' right now. The place that I learned a new perspective in life and where my 'young' personality developed to a more mature personality that I had now.
Anyway, I read this article about the top 10 Hospitality schools in the world, and I was shocked... I knew that my school, SHMS, is in it.. But that it will be on the second place??? WOW WOW WOW!!!!!!!!
I had no other words... I am just... PROUD :)
Top 10 international hotel schools favoured for use by the International hospitality industry
1. Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne
2. Swiss Hotel Management School
3. Les Roches International School of Hotel Management
4. Cesar Ritz Colleges Switzerland
4. Glion Institute of Higher Education
6. Hotel Institute Montreux
7. Ecole Hôtelière de Genève
8. IHTTI, School of Hotel Management in Neuchâtel
9. The Hague Hotel School International University of Hospitality Management The Hague
10. Zurich Belvoir Park
GfK Switzerland july 2011
New Chapter in Life
The time has been running up too fast for me for the past year. My last semester in university gone like in a blink of an eye. Suddenly I had been parted with my friends.. suddenly and miraculously, I have finished my dissertation and now I am officially graduated with Second Class degree First Division... Something that I thought not gonna be that easy for me to get....
I have tried though, to make the fullest of my last semester in university. I wrote down a list of what I want to do, unfortunately I wasn't able to cross all of them. But I had fun creating it, as well as trying to cross the list one by one. Of course, there is a little regret that there are things that I still want to do before I'm graduated... but I guess it is okay and I had the most fun that I could get already. :)
At the beginning of the year... my future seems so much clouded, I don't know where I would be in the coming few months. There was so much worries, so many uncertainties...
Thankfully though, I got a job offer in Zurich just in the time that I need it. Just when I finished my dissertation then I boarded the train off to the biggest city in the country, leaving my little hometown in Switzerland, hoping for a new experience and I welcomed the stability and the little sight of my future, at least for the coming six months.
The job turns out to be great, I love the people, I love the restaurant, I love the new friendships that came along, and I even fell in love... and the least expected moments in my life, this person came and took my world to him. With him, everything just seems to be right, even though it feels like a roller coaster ride in the same time. The speed is a little bit scarifying but exciting in the same time. In just a little time, it feels that I knew him for a life time. Everyday is nice and precious to just let go.. especially knowing that we don't have much time to be together.
My next job had came to light, and everything is settled. I got my visa and I was going to the United States. This.. is going to be my home for the next one year.
I never like saying good byes... I hate it when I have to go and things could never come back to the way they used to be. The people.. the places.. even if I returned.. I know somehow it's not gonna be the same. I can only remember them as memories. I wasn't happy to leave the country that I called home for four years even though this is not my home country.
I wasn't happy to leave the friendships that had developed with the people here.
Especially, I wasn't happy to leave my schatzly.
But things in life... sometimes you have to let them go and embrace the new chapter of your life.
So... here I am, in United States, going to start my new job on Monday, still adapting to the new environments... and of course, missing this one person in another continent and hoping that the new job will allow me to still keep in contact with him everyday.
I have tried though, to make the fullest of my last semester in university. I wrote down a list of what I want to do, unfortunately I wasn't able to cross all of them. But I had fun creating it, as well as trying to cross the list one by one. Of course, there is a little regret that there are things that I still want to do before I'm graduated... but I guess it is okay and I had the most fun that I could get already. :)
At the beginning of the year... my future seems so much clouded, I don't know where I would be in the coming few months. There was so much worries, so many uncertainties...
Thankfully though, I got a job offer in Zurich just in the time that I need it. Just when I finished my dissertation then I boarded the train off to the biggest city in the country, leaving my little hometown in Switzerland, hoping for a new experience and I welcomed the stability and the little sight of my future, at least for the coming six months.
The job turns out to be great, I love the people, I love the restaurant, I love the new friendships that came along, and I even fell in love... and the least expected moments in my life, this person came and took my world to him. With him, everything just seems to be right, even though it feels like a roller coaster ride in the same time. The speed is a little bit scarifying but exciting in the same time. In just a little time, it feels that I knew him for a life time. Everyday is nice and precious to just let go.. especially knowing that we don't have much time to be together.
My next job had came to light, and everything is settled. I got my visa and I was going to the United States. This.. is going to be my home for the next one year.
I never like saying good byes... I hate it when I have to go and things could never come back to the way they used to be. The people.. the places.. even if I returned.. I know somehow it's not gonna be the same. I can only remember them as memories. I wasn't happy to leave the country that I called home for four years even though this is not my home country.
I wasn't happy to leave the friendships that had developed with the people here.
Especially, I wasn't happy to leave my schatzly.
But things in life... sometimes you have to let them go and embrace the new chapter of your life.
So... here I am, in United States, going to start my new job on Monday, still adapting to the new environments... and of course, missing this one person in another continent and hoping that the new job will allow me to still keep in contact with him everyday.
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Last Days in University
Yup... something that I honestly didn't want to come to an end yet... my school life with my friends. Now I'm officially don't have any more classes to attend. Most of my friends already gone either back to their home to other places that they should be now. I doubt that I would ever be able to see half of them in the future. It would be very difficult for me to see some of them again, since I don't know when or where that I would be able to see them again. Only some of my friends that are still left here, the ones that I could still meet and talk to in person.
Our last day past hardly with any real goodbyes thanks to the reports that confined us to our own space and as long as they're not finished, no one is happy to be disturbed. I only able to say my farewell to some of them in person, the rest are through online medias and some were very late that the next news I knew that they're at their home country already.
It is sad of course... how I wished that I could keep them next to me so we could still have fun together. Well, it didn't happen of course, I don't have any power on earth to make other people follow my wishes on a whim.
But in the same time, I'm happy that the graduation ceremony that was held a week ago enabled me to meet with my old friends, the graduating ones. It was such a nice couple of days that I could spent with them.. too bad that it's over too soon for me. Only for a few days and they're gone again, continue their own lives.
and here I am... still stuck on the place I am now, the place that I reluctant to let go, the place that I've called home for 4 years....
I know soon that I'll leave this place, very soon I'll find my other paths to other places. Even though I, myself don't know where I would be in a few months for now, it could be here in Switzerland, USA, Hong Kong, or even home... I don't know, I am just a windflower ready to be flown away by the wind, but doesn't know where it would be.
I could only wish all the best now for all of my friends, and hopefully fate is kind enough to let us meet again somehow somewhere in the future :)
Our last day past hardly with any real goodbyes thanks to the reports that confined us to our own space and as long as they're not finished, no one is happy to be disturbed. I only able to say my farewell to some of them in person, the rest are through online medias and some were very late that the next news I knew that they're at their home country already.
It is sad of course... how I wished that I could keep them next to me so we could still have fun together. Well, it didn't happen of course, I don't have any power on earth to make other people follow my wishes on a whim.
But in the same time, I'm happy that the graduation ceremony that was held a week ago enabled me to meet with my old friends, the graduating ones. It was such a nice couple of days that I could spent with them.. too bad that it's over too soon for me. Only for a few days and they're gone again, continue their own lives.
and here I am... still stuck on the place I am now, the place that I reluctant to let go, the place that I've called home for 4 years....
I know soon that I'll leave this place, very soon I'll find my other paths to other places. Even though I, myself don't know where I would be in a few months for now, it could be here in Switzerland, USA, Hong Kong, or even home... I don't know, I am just a windflower ready to be flown away by the wind, but doesn't know where it would be.
I could only wish all the best now for all of my friends, and hopefully fate is kind enough to let us meet again somehow somewhere in the future :)
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
The kind of conversation you have on your last weeks of university
Here's one piece of conversation that we had during lunch today.....
Oh, here's some piece of information you'll need to understand the conversation below:
A: I don't want to come to class today..
B: No one wants to go to that class...
A: I think I'll skip.
C: Ugh.. I can't skip anymore, I already skip 2 times and I'm planning to skip next week. So...
B: Yea A, come for today and we'll skip all of the classes for next week.
A: But I don't think going to that class will give me anything useful..
B: No, we'll go to class today and we'll skip for the last week... c'mon A..
C: Yea, go to class today and we'll skip next week.
A: But I want to skip today AND next week as well
D: But then you'll miss too many classes
B: Yea, and xxx (censored for everyone's peacefulness) for sure will do the absences without fail.
A: I only skip xxx class once, so I can skip now, and the 2 classes next week as well. Coz that means I only skipped 4 times, and verbal warning at the end of semester is totally useless.
D: oh... wow... you only skipped once?
A: yup..
B: I already skipped twice... so.. c'mon A, go to class today and we'll skip all of next week classes together!!
A:..... I don't want to... it's useless......
C: oh there's xxx!! Now A.. you can't skip anymore
B: yup, xxx knows that you're here!!!
A: %^(*&%$#$%^&&*
In the class before it starts...
E: someone please tell me what are we doing here??
A: that's exactly what I'm thinking about!!!
E: yea.. what's this gathering about???
A: I just hope it's going to be something useful...... really.....
E: nah... we're going to waste our time.. again..
Oh, here's some piece of information you'll need to understand the conversation below:
- skip 3 times: verbal warning
- skip 5 times: kicked out of the subject (you DON'T want this to happen)
- next week is the last week of our university, and it means classes are over :D but.. also the deadline for all those monstrous reports..........
A: I don't want to come to class today..
B: No one wants to go to that class...
A: I think I'll skip.
C: Ugh.. I can't skip anymore, I already skip 2 times and I'm planning to skip next week. So...
B: Yea A, come for today and we'll skip all of the classes for next week.
A: But I don't think going to that class will give me anything useful..
B: No, we'll go to class today and we'll skip for the last week... c'mon A..
C: Yea, go to class today and we'll skip next week.
A: But I want to skip today AND next week as well
D: But then you'll miss too many classes
B: Yea, and xxx (censored for everyone's peacefulness) for sure will do the absences without fail.
A: I only skip xxx class once, so I can skip now, and the 2 classes next week as well. Coz that means I only skipped 4 times, and verbal warning at the end of semester is totally useless.
D: oh... wow... you only skipped once?
A: yup..
B: I already skipped twice... so.. c'mon A, go to class today and we'll skip all of next week classes together!!
A:..... I don't want to... it's useless......
C: oh there's xxx!! Now A.. you can't skip anymore
B: yup, xxx knows that you're here!!!
A: %^(*&%$#$%^&&*
In the class before it starts...
E: someone please tell me what are we doing here??
A: that's exactly what I'm thinking about!!!
E: yea.. what's this gathering about???
A: I just hope it's going to be something useful...... really.....
E: nah... we're going to waste our time.. again..
Friday, January 7, 2011
What I WILL have in the future
Today I just realized that there are so many things that I want to do and have, or rather that I'm sure I WILL have in the future but I don't have them now.
I just went back from horse riding after haven't ridden one for a long time, and then when I'm just resting a bit, I heard a classic music in piano and it really made me want to play my piano. I realized that there are so many things that I missed from home, and how different my life here, independently and at home when I am dependent to my big family.
Life here is harder, I really need to put on account on everything that I want to buy, because I earned the money myself and the money would not come by itself like magic. Not like when I was still with my parents when I can just ask them that I want that thing or I need that thing, and the next thing was me, obtaining the things that I want. Well, a little bit of persuading is needed of course, but I know I could get it easy.
Here I don't have the luxury of home, the super nice bed and room, nice food without me have to cook or cleaning before and after, when I can just relax, drive my own car, play piano whenever I want and have lavish parties every now and then with my family and friends. No.. not here, not now. Everything need to be budgeted if I don't want to go broke in the middle of the road and have no money to do anything at all.
Well, I'm used to it. To live economically and super saving.
But also, how I realized that I don't want to live like this forever. I'm going to earn lots of money. I'm going to be able to live like I used to be (I know this is very selfish). I don't know how but I know I would be able to live like that again someday :D
And so.. I'm making a list of the things that I WILL have in the future :D
I just went back from horse riding after haven't ridden one for a long time, and then when I'm just resting a bit, I heard a classic music in piano and it really made me want to play my piano. I realized that there are so many things that I missed from home, and how different my life here, independently and at home when I am dependent to my big family.
Life here is harder, I really need to put on account on everything that I want to buy, because I earned the money myself and the money would not come by itself like magic. Not like when I was still with my parents when I can just ask them that I want that thing or I need that thing, and the next thing was me, obtaining the things that I want. Well, a little bit of persuading is needed of course, but I know I could get it easy.
Here I don't have the luxury of home, the super nice bed and room, nice food without me have to cook or cleaning before and after, when I can just relax, drive my own car, play piano whenever I want and have lavish parties every now and then with my family and friends. No.. not here, not now. Everything need to be budgeted if I don't want to go broke in the middle of the road and have no money to do anything at all.
Well, I'm used to it. To live economically and super saving.
But also, how I realized that I don't want to live like this forever. I'm going to earn lots of money. I'm going to be able to live like I used to be (I know this is very selfish). I don't know how but I know I would be able to live like that again someday :D
And so.. I'm making a list of the things that I WILL have in the future :D
- Grand piano
- Nice house
- A horse
- A yacht
- A couple of nice cars
- A Siberian Husky
- More lenses for my Nikon D90
- Telescope
2011 Resolution
Ok... here we go...
* Graduate!!!
* Get a job
* Scratch off the things to do before graduation list
* Get the weight down to at least 58 kg
* Improve photography skills
* Start to think about my own business
* Keep in touch with my university friends
Ok short one :D but at least it would be easier to keep!!!
* Graduate!!!
* Get a job
* Scratch off the things to do before graduation list
* Get the weight down to at least 58 kg
* Improve photography skills
* Start to think about my own business
* Keep in touch with my university friends
Ok short one :D but at least it would be easier to keep!!!
Monday, November 29, 2010
Make up.....
I don't know why... suddenly I'm looking at the make up tutorial videos in YouTube....
Honestly, I'm not really a make up girl, most of the days you'll find me without make up. Even if I do wear make up, most likely it's only an eyeliner and a little bit of eye brows and that's all seriously.
If you saw me in a full make up... which is very very rare... usually it's for a very important party like my family wedding or something. Even I don't wear proper make up for my diploma graduation ceremony.... I know sometimes I'm pathetic as a girl.. My mother, aunties even grand aunt already suggest me to wear more make up, and encourage me to do it every single day....
Well.... they succeed to make me wear make up more often.. but still not everyday :D
It's not that I can't do make up... I can..
But... well... I'm just too lazy most of the time. Make up took time, and honestly sometimes make up bothers me. If suddenly it rains or you did something that made you sweat.. your appearance is even worse with make up.. Okay, you can wear waterproof products... but then you also need to use special other product to actually clean your face.
Oh there you go, another part that I don't like... cleaning your face took longer than usual plus also the feeling of wearing make up somehow makes my face oilier... and I don't like that.
hahaha yup, it's just all of the reasons why I don't wear make up most of the time...
Though I also realize that it's impossible for me to not wear make up especially later on when I'm officially in the career path. Make up is part of woman's clothes. Sooner or later I do need to wear make up....... >.< I guess... I really need to accustom myself to use make up from now... well... not the full fledged make up of course... just a simple one... maybe more on the eye... or maybe with powder.... not lipstick... I don't like those since I was young. :D I remembered when I was little, I was one of the bride's maid for my uncle's wedding, so they put make up on me. But I hate the feeling of wearing lipstick.. when no one was looking, I took it off hahahahahahaha :D
Anyway... from the videos that I watched.. This girl that doing the tutorial video, she also gave tips for healthier skin.. and yups.. it goes back to a healthy life style. I guess I do need to improve my healthy life style again... I did improve it before but then it goes back again to the unhealthy style... and now... I guess I really do put back the standard and improve :D
Well.. if I have a nicer skin.. it means less make up!!!! hahahahaha
Honestly, I'm not really a make up girl, most of the days you'll find me without make up. Even if I do wear make up, most likely it's only an eyeliner and a little bit of eye brows and that's all seriously.
If you saw me in a full make up... which is very very rare... usually it's for a very important party like my family wedding or something. Even I don't wear proper make up for my diploma graduation ceremony.... I know sometimes I'm pathetic as a girl.. My mother, aunties even grand aunt already suggest me to wear more make up, and encourage me to do it every single day....
Well.... they succeed to make me wear make up more often.. but still not everyday :D
It's not that I can't do make up... I can..
But... well... I'm just too lazy most of the time. Make up took time, and honestly sometimes make up bothers me. If suddenly it rains or you did something that made you sweat.. your appearance is even worse with make up.. Okay, you can wear waterproof products... but then you also need to use special other product to actually clean your face.
Oh there you go, another part that I don't like... cleaning your face took longer than usual plus also the feeling of wearing make up somehow makes my face oilier... and I don't like that.
hahaha yup, it's just all of the reasons why I don't wear make up most of the time...
Though I also realize that it's impossible for me to not wear make up especially later on when I'm officially in the career path. Make up is part of woman's clothes. Sooner or later I do need to wear make up....... >.< I guess... I really need to accustom myself to use make up from now... well... not the full fledged make up of course... just a simple one... maybe more on the eye... or maybe with powder.... not lipstick... I don't like those since I was young. :D I remembered when I was little, I was one of the bride's maid for my uncle's wedding, so they put make up on me. But I hate the feeling of wearing lipstick.. when no one was looking, I took it off hahahahahahaha :D
Anyway... from the videos that I watched.. This girl that doing the tutorial video, she also gave tips for healthier skin.. and yups.. it goes back to a healthy life style. I guess I do need to improve my healthy life style again... I did improve it before but then it goes back again to the unhealthy style... and now... I guess I really do put back the standard and improve :D
Well.. if I have a nicer skin.. it means less make up!!!! hahahahaha
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Pressure's off but here he comes again...
Yup, did I ever tell you that I had a very relax days last week? Just because my midterm is past? and then we started totally with new subjects on the second part of the semester? Means that now we're just starting again and it also means that the projects would be far off later on?
Truth is... all of the above is just 'or so I thought...'
Last time... I could say I was underestimating my projects, I'm not really prepared yet for them and suddenly the deadline is in front of my eyes and I really felt that I should have done better by preparing better. I should have done it earlier is the sentence that always rang in my head. Not that I don't have enough time to do them, I do have enough time, I could finish all of them on time...
But still... I think I could have done better.
So.. here I am, in my second week of new subjects, sitting in the Library with books around me.
Yeah.. no kidding.....
I know some people do thought of me as a nerd or a diligent student or something. Truth is... I'm not as nerdy as they thought. I do take my time to relax, watch movies, going out, do my stuff and put my projects on a later date. Usually there are people pushing me around to finish my things early, that's how I finished early.
I remember during my high school, there are several people that always waiting for my home works because they need to copy it or to make it as the base of their work... so they keep pushing and asking me when I am finished.... That's how I actually finished my projects earlier.. and now without them catching my tails all the time, I'm pretty relax, and that's the truth.
So.. I think it's because of that thought of I should have done better, that drives me to start early. I made it clear in my calendar of when I should start doing each of my project and the preparation. I'm actually also glad that I had a new friend that is a workaholic, she started way early and done so many things... I think it's also a push factor for me to actually focus and serious at my studies and projects.
And yes, I have decided to be the good student that start the projects early, do a proper research about them and make a nicely done reports. I'll start early now, well, it's not bad for an ending of university life in this school on the top of the ski resort mountain of mine right? It's time to actually practice the slogan of "work hard and play hard" :D
Truth is... all of the above is just 'or so I thought...'
Last time... I could say I was underestimating my projects, I'm not really prepared yet for them and suddenly the deadline is in front of my eyes and I really felt that I should have done better by preparing better. I should have done it earlier is the sentence that always rang in my head. Not that I don't have enough time to do them, I do have enough time, I could finish all of them on time...
But still... I think I could have done better.
So.. here I am, in my second week of new subjects, sitting in the Library with books around me.
Yeah.. no kidding.....
I know some people do thought of me as a nerd or a diligent student or something. Truth is... I'm not as nerdy as they thought. I do take my time to relax, watch movies, going out, do my stuff and put my projects on a later date. Usually there are people pushing me around to finish my things early, that's how I finished early.
I remember during my high school, there are several people that always waiting for my home works because they need to copy it or to make it as the base of their work... so they keep pushing and asking me when I am finished.... That's how I actually finished my projects earlier.. and now without them catching my tails all the time, I'm pretty relax, and that's the truth.
So.. I think it's because of that thought of I should have done better, that drives me to start early. I made it clear in my calendar of when I should start doing each of my project and the preparation. I'm actually also glad that I had a new friend that is a workaholic, she started way early and done so many things... I think it's also a push factor for me to actually focus and serious at my studies and projects.
And yes, I have decided to be the good student that start the projects early, do a proper research about them and make a nicely done reports. I'll start early now, well, it's not bad for an ending of university life in this school on the top of the ski resort mountain of mine right? It's time to actually practice the slogan of "work hard and play hard" :D
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