Pursue

Time flies. It's exam soon and it's finals time. This semester has been a tough one... and a dangerous one too. I feel like falling off anytime soon. I must really have a more solid ground to stand on, which means I've to really catch up in the basics of all the subjects that I'm taking this sem, which is... 4 subjects and 12 lectures each in 3 weeks time. That's possibly the most shocking and the craziest thing in my life that I've ever done. Believe me. I've to go through somehow. No choice... I'm not financially ready to repeat any subjects.

What about AIESEC?
Finally, the LC is seeing results. 4 realizations in 2 months? Seem possible enough. It may not be something great compare to any LCs in Malaysia but it's a great achievement for TBS to start off with. Most of the hardwork done in the 1st half of the LC term are paid off in the form of a good performance result in exchange. However, the real test is emerging - A challenge to produce a system which is sustainable and measurable. An organization without a proper structure, financial and people system can be looked as a tree without a strong root - It tends to fall easily when being blown by the wind. First, it has to start from communication system. When there's a systematic communication which stretches down from the LCP to the VPs, and from the VPs to the executives and members, and vice versa, the communication flow will eventually be more effective. Besides that, it provides an opportunity for the VPs to be more innovative and creative in seeking for solutions for a variety of matters and problems. It also creates opportunity for the VPs to take charge of their own departments, to have power to make decisions on their own and at the same time, to let the members know that the VPs are who they can turn to if they need any help or guidance.

I can foresee that the first step in improving communication flow will lead to the next step which is to improve on functionality of department. How does it happen? When communication flow is good and the VPs have control on their own department, the departmental goals will be better focused and these will keep the departments functioning as they are supposed to, with contributions from all members from all level of responsiblity. I believe the LC can achieve more than what we're achieving now when all above mentioned are happening. What's more than having all systems functioning at the same time and the existence of a dynamism in the interrelating departments in the LC.

Whether we can make it happens, it's up to us!

Melvin

FUTSAL Game, 4th April 2006

Thank goodness. I scored in my new shoes!

My FUTSAL Statistics
4-April-2006, Sports Barn PJ

Attack
Goals scored:
2
Penalty goals:
0
Shots on target:
3
Shots off target:
2
Hit woodwork:
0
Passes completed:
6
Passes not completed:
4

Defence
Saves:
0
Shots blocked:
0
Interceptions:
2
Penalties conceded:
0
Own goals:
0

Discipline:
Handballs:
0
Fouls:
1

Good Day

Had a good day today from the moment I opened my eyes. Well, I've experienced a breakdown of the laptop last night. It came at a wrong time where I have great loads of work during then. It was really bad... I remembered once my friend told me that technology will tend to let you down when it's critical and when you need it the most. I guess it's quite true, after last night. =P
So, I went to send my laptop to be fixed at a shop in Low Yatt Plaza today but how was I to know, the moment I tried to show the difficulty I was experiencing to the person in charge of the shop, the laptop came back to life and worked normally. What a weird thing to be thought of... and there I went, going back with a recovered laptop without opening any parts of it, and most importantly, without spending a single ringgit to repair it.

I realised that I've to get a pair of shoes for indoor soccer games because my current shoes are breaking apart. Got myself a pair of Adidas shoes...again... It shows the reliability of the brand anyway. Besides the design, I love the quality of the material. It'll be making a debut tomorrow in a game at 10pm. It'll be great if I score tomorrow in my new shoes. Can't wait till tomorrow comes...



My new Adidas Predito II TF. Hope to score in my 1st debut in it...

Happy Birthday, April!

Although this post comes a bit late, hope she doesn't mind. It's her birthday on the 1st April.
"Happy birthday to you, April. I want to take this opportunity to tell you that you're a great girl indeed, at least in my heart. Take care and all the best for your future undertakings! Till then, see you on Monday!"

God bless her in whatever she does. =)


April & I Posted by Picasa

Reach

Of all the things that I want to do so badly now, I would want to fly away again to a land far far away and forget all the things that are knocking like hammers around my head, for a while. It feels like as the passion in me is taking its toll on me. I wish I have all the time in the world to make things happen. I realised that I've not much time in a year to turn things around. As a person who has a thirst on success, given passion and commitment, I hate failures. I just want everyone to know that I'm just like anyone, but what makes me different is not only the experience I have but the will to learn through self discovery. I believe everyone will be much better if they're willing to learn without depending too much on others for directions. Acting alone isn't easy. I've just have to wait for this talents to be shaped into the great ones. Hopefully, by the end of the month I would have the elites of the elites. I really hope they are not far away...

Refreshed

Sitting in the warm AM office now, in front of my very own laptop, I've just realized that I've never been blogging for ages. Feels like I've lost touch with my blogger. Well, many things had happened in the absence from my blogging activity, and they are good and bad ones to be frank. On top of all, I'm glad that I've gone to the Philippines for the XPROs.

Though a hectic one, the conference was awesome. The people I've met there were truly inspiring and never before it crosses my mind I'll gain much from the conference, given my moderate knowledge in AIESEC. It has defintely made me a better AIESECer in one of the millions in the world.

Held in the beautiful island of Bohol, the sea and the sky were really adding to the value of experience of the conference here. It was breathtaking at night too as millions of stars filling the sky of the wonderful Bohol Tropics Resort and for a few nights the delegates enjoyed the beautiful stars, lying next to the sea.

Least to say, the travelling activity was a hectic one. Rushing from one flight to another, it was disappointing in experiencing flight delays and followed by missing the last ferry trip of the day to Bohol Island which I was forced to put up a night in Cebu. Glad to say, it's not a bad one as I got to experience Cebu for a while, alone. Overall, it's an unforgettable experience in the Philippines. Should consider of going there again in the near future... ;) It would be a different experience, I assume.

God bless.



A beautiful view in Bohol Tropics Resort Posted by Picasa

Hope

It's Saturday today and the week is approaching the end. My brain has been overworking for the LC and I've thought of a bundle of approaches and ways to ensure that the LC is sustainable. What's the cause that the LC is moving so slow? I've received numerous comments like, "No worries, it's still early", "You've to teach your EBs instead of you handling the LC alone", "Your LC gonna make it, don't worry..."and etc. To be frank, it was tough for me and disbanding the LC was one of the options but of course, I'm not a person who will give up that easily. Earlier this year, my reason for fighting over the existence of the LC was because I knew that there's someone in the EB, RL who has the same will with me to bring the LC towards full status. However, I wasn't assured that she'll stay with me after the promotion of the LC. The issue of sustainability came to mind. After a series of deep thoughts in a few days, suddenly a bell rang. I realized that I've a couple of talented new people who will be bold enough to take the LC to the level where I've been aiming for. Instead of spending so much time in training the current EBs, I will focus on these people and they'll be trained personally by me myself and RL has agreed to help.

Therefore, last Tuesday, the Elite6 of LCTBS was formed. Consists of 6 bright, young, driven and talented newbies, They're carefully selected judging by whether these people can work together as a group, and they are already showing some positive signs of being attached to the LC, not to mention their teamwork. The term 'Elite6' has shown that they're bound to gel up as an Elite team in the LC. The role of importance they're playing might be better and more than what the current EBs are playing. And they did! Their first task is to organize LLDS for the LC. It's not a hard yet challenging job as they've to race against time (in less than 28 days and a target of 40 participants) to come up with the 1st initiative of a Local Committee's step to organize a conference for the members. I've been observing their performance and I'm pretty sure that they'll be the pioneer of the proper system of management in the LC when they've taken over from the current EBs. I believe they'll make it happen...

王力宏 - Kiss Goodbye (LeeHom - Kiss Goodbye)

Baby不要再哭泣
Baby DonÂ’t cry anymore
这一幕多么熟悉
This is too familiar
紧握着你的手彼此都舍不得分离
Grasping each others’ hands tight,can’t bear to be apart
每一次想开口
Everytime I try to open my mouth
但不如保持安静
But maybe I should just be silent
给我一分钟专心
Give me a moment to concentrate
好好欣赏你的美
To appreciate your beauty well


幸福搭配悲伤
Happiness matches sorrow
痛是在我心交叉
Overlapping in my heart
挫折的眼泪不能测试爱的重量
The tears held back can’t test love’s meaning
付出的爱收不回
Love that has been given can’t be returned
还欠你的我不能给
And I can’t give what I owe you
别把我心也带走 去跟随~
Don’t take my heart away too Following you~


每一次和你分开
Everytime I have to be apart from you
深深的被你打败
Deeply defeated by you
每一次放弃你的温柔
Everytime give up on your gentleness
痛苦 难以释怀
I suffer Get over my emotions difficultly

每一次和你分开
Everytime I have to be apart from you
每一次kiss you Goodbye
Everytime I kiss you goodbye
爱情的滋味此刻我终于最明白
I can finally understand what’s love

Another Week...

My laptop is letting me down again. This time, the adapter cable can hardly be detected. The laptop power will remain uncharged until I found the right "position" to ensure the power input is detected. It is terribly frustrating. At this period of time, I'll remain offline most of the time and online when it's necessary. The hassle of recharging the battery keeps me off the laptop. To make things worse, I've a few TN forms that needs to be matched urgently and AIESEC.net is shifted into 'Read-only Mode', which means that whatever dealings that requires the use of Insight XP (e.g. editing, adding TN forms) could not be carried out for a period of time.

I've just came back from Penang yesterday (Saturday, 25th Feb) after the closing of the UUM's We CARE project which took place the day before. It was a short time spent in Penang and it's actually an unplanned trip but it's enough as I've to be there again on the following week when I'll be attending USM's BUDAYA concert in the university itself, coming Saturday. That's a planned trip =P. The concert sounds great and we're eagerly waiting till that night arrives, but for the period of 5 days before that, beginning tomorrow, my LC will be my concern. We'll be having our first GM (General Meet... any other suggestions or ideas for a better name than that...? =P) and AIESEC Annual Dance & Dinner, co-organizing with UKM which will take place in Equatorial Hotel, Kuala Lumpur on the same day, Friday, 3rd March. Before that, EBs Meet on Wednesday. Way to go...

Alright, the laptop is making noise again. I gotta get it shut down soon. I'm praying for a great week to follow. God bless.

Back To Business...

Alright, back to real business where I've to juggle between handling AIESEC and making sure I'm doing fine in my studies. One by one assignments are allocated to the students at the beginning of each semester, which is now. I can really feel the heat is on where effective time management is crucial here. Not careful enough, there I'll go, struggling behind to keep everything balanced. Nobody would ever want to be left behind, I'm sure.

1st week of the semester is coming to an end and I've already missed two lectures. Bad, I know... I don't want to justify as there's definitely a reason to that. My greatest achievement this week? Up to now, ...is AIESEC TBS Introduction Day/Information Session 2006. I was unhappy though as I've to set everything up on my own (with a little help from Victor) on that day and closed the session my own as well (this time, with a little help from Yoong Hui). Everyone was telling me it was an event well done but deep down in me, I've failed to utilize my members in that. I should've let my members handle because it's all about experience, huh? Anyway, another learning point there. Afterall, it really went well and the members were impressed with the presentations (I hope...=P). A couple of people signed up for AIESEC. Thanks to the UKMers as well for the materials and their show of support in participating in our session.

I'll be leaving for Port Dickson together with some of my EBs today (Friday) for a camp. It's about some leadership developing stuff, organized by TBS. Everyone's telling me of how interesting this camp will be. Any chance close to the AIESEC leadership development seminars? Lol. We'll see about it and I'm really looking forward to this. I wanna see how good this camp could be. I hope it's really good. I'm sure I'm gonna miss a lot of KL's events this weekend. Hope somebody would save some moments for me, at least in photographs =P.

We CARE Roadshow will be happening next week. I didn't hear much updates from either sides. Pretty worried here as I think the preparations ain't enough somehow. I've the feeling that it'll be a mess at the beginning. Hopefully, I'm wrong. But I've to keep myself from taking control of the team again. I'll be repeating my mistakes for taking experiences away from my members. All the best for them to prove me wrong. And I hope members from the organizing LC won't give my members any troubles too.

I've to get prepared for the trip. I have yet to pack a single thing in my rucksack. Gotta move my butt off my chair, in front of the computer. AIESEC will rock the camp. I'm certain that we will as we're gonna entertain the participants with our square dances! We're hot to GO! ;D

It's Valentine's Day!

Despite not being able to spend the day with someone I think I should, it's not too bad here going through the whole day today either. At least that's the way I console myself for the day. It's meant to be celebrated with loved ones, like close friends and family members, right? Although I'm missing her, I can only settle with the sweet sound of her voice for the day. Fortunately, i'm blessed with her presence in my heart.

It's okay, sweetheart. Don't be sorry for not being able to be with me and having no gift for this beautiful occasion. No gift for Valentine's Day? I don't think so. I've you in my life, the best gift I ever had.

Happy Valentine's Day.


;) Posted by Picasa

Learning Process 1 - Mamak Session

As being one of my favourite hobbies, mamak session will be one of the many favourites in most Malaysians' culture. Personally, I enjoy it because you get updates of your friends' daily activities, who they're into lately, how much they've spent in last three days and etc, but most importantly, you get to know about them better and how you can actually learn from them. I would sometimes think that how fortunate I am for not being in their position and be thankful of it. It helps in self-reflecting and analyzing too.

There was once when a friend, M told me that he has a dream. A dream of earning big bucks and living a life which every person in the whole world would be dreaming about. I saluted him for a fabulous dream and vision he is owning but is he taking the steps of realizing his dreams? What makes things worse are the attitude of him bragging all the way that he's already earning thousands of US DOLLARS and his late father has left him some valuable assets? In front of us who're close to him and know every single bits of his life? Awfully horrifying statement. To be frank, I admire his will to go big but isn't it a bit of an unnecassary action to brag imaginary things, just to catch some females' attention? Another friend of mine, P said he's a loser, who likes to brag. Is he really a loser? My opinion: No, he isn't a loser. A little sympathetic to this dear friend of mine and the real story is...

M's father passed away when he's still studying in high school. As being the eldest among
the three siblings, he has to be the breadwinner of his family. From the
current conditionof his family, he vowed to continue to provide a comfortable living
for them, taking over his father's legacy. That's why he has big dreams.
His intention is clear, sincere and kind. He wants to support his two younger
brothers in their studies. Assuming that he won't excel in studies anyway, therefore,
he chose not to further his tertiary studies after high school and save the money for
his brothers' acedemic fees instead. However, it made him developed a habit,
bragging the false and untrue.
It is understood that the real reason for him doing that is because he doesn't want
anybody to see the hell that he's now going through. He wants to be known as a normal
and capable person, just like everybody else. I pity him for that but talking about the false
without knowing the limit can do damage to himself one day. Instead of building confidence
to himself, he'll lose it terribly when everyone finds out that he can't be trusted and no one
would listen to him. The trust will be gone. He'll be known as someone who can't be frank
to himself and everybody else.

I've known M for almost 8 years. I've never given up hope on him. As being a friend who's the closest to him after his brothers, I really, really admire his will to go beyond everybody's doubts. What I'm afraid of is, before he can really make it (I know he will), everybody has already turn their backs on him. Then, he'll experience the most terrible moment of his life and eventually, harmful to his self-esteem and confidence.

Till then, hope he'll really understand why do I keep on reminding him to keep his feet solely on the ground. God bless.

Los Lonely Boys - More Than Love



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I'm Back...


My sis & I with "gunny" poses Posted by Picasa

This blog of mine had experienced some funny setbacks for a couple of days and got me a little upset too. Why upset? I've been keeping tracks with the blogs of the people I know through the "Link" I've created in my blog page. They had lost twice. First was when I accidentally chose a new design outline wihout saving my HTML codes and it meant that I've to start searching for the lost URLs. I had to do the same again recently when my HTML code gone nuts suddenly... and my main page of the blog showed nothing except some funny HTML codes. This means that technology can't be too reliable sometimes and I hate looking for the same URLs over and over again.

五月天 - 知足 (Mayday - Be Content With)

怎么去拥有 一道彩虹
How can I own a rainbow?
怎么去拥抱 一夏天的风
How do I embrace all the breezes of the summer?
天上的星星 笑地上的人
The stars above laugh at people on the ground
总是不能懂 不能觉得足够
They (people on the ground) can not understand; can’t be contented with


如果我爱上 你的笑容
If I fall in love with your smile
要怎么收藏 要怎么拥有
How do I collect it (her smile)? How can I own it (her smile)?
如果你快乐 不是为我
If you are happy; but not because of me
会不会放手 其实才是拥有
If I let you go; that (let her go) is truly owning you?


当一阵风吹来 风筝飞上天空
When a wind comes and the kites fly up high
为了你 而祈祷 而祝福 而感动
I pray for you; then I wish for you; and I am feeling touched
终于你身影 消失在 人海尽头
Finally your silhouette; disappears at the end of the crowds
才发现 笑着哭 最痛
Then I realized; to cry with a smile on; is most painful


那天你和我 那个山丘
That day you and me, on that hill
那样的唱着 那一年的歌
To sing together like that; that year’s songs
那样的回忆 那么足够
That kind of memories; are so enough for me
足够我天天 都品尝着寂寞
Enough for me to everyday; taste the loneliness (of your absence)


当一阵风吹来 风筝飞上天空
When a wind comes and the kites fly up high
为了你而祈祷 而祝福 而感动
I pray for you; then I wish for you; and I am feeling touched
终于你身影 消失在 人海尽头
Finally your silhouette; disappears at the end of the crowds
才发现 笑着哭 最痛
Then I realized; to cry with a smile on; is most painful


如果我爱上 你的笑容
If I fall in love with your smile
要怎么收藏 要怎么拥有
How do I collect it (her smile)? How can I own it (her smile)?
如果你快乐 不是为我
If you are happy; but not because of me
会不会放手 其实才是拥有  
If I let you go; that (let her go) is truly owning you?


知足的快乐 叫我忍受心痛
The happiness of being contented with it, is asking me to endure the heartache
知足的快乐 叫我忍受心痛
The happiness of being contented with it, is asking me to endure the heartache

Pre-CNY Reunion Dinner in Kelana Seafood Centre, 28th January 2006


..While waiting for food to be served.... Posted by Picasa

My sis and I Posted by Picasa

My cute and youngest cousin sis, Nana Posted by Picasa

From right: My aunt, grandma, younger cousin sis, Sabrina and her bf Posted by Picasa

From left: Linda, my elder cousin sis and her bf, her father and mother (My uncle and aunt, lol) Posted by Picasa
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