Credit

When we do things no matter work or voluntary, we want to get the credit. We want to be praised. We want to be acknowledge by others. It is normal to have such thoughts.

Even in university, we can also do credit transfer for our module/subject. Some of us night be doing an overseas summer school and one of the important things that we will take note is whether can the module be counted in our home university, in other words that it credit transfer. Indeed we want to experience different culture and learning environment in overseas, yet we also hope that we won't waste our time and money. So many university students Wil attend a summer school that can be credit transfer.

Give credit to others. In academic writing, we need to do citation. Basically means we code the author or the title of the article and acknowledge their contribution. Of we don't do so, it is consider an act of plgarism and it is a crime.

In daily life, how many of us is willing to give credit to others? Especially in working world, will you do a proposal and at the bottom of it is signed by others?

C and my life

Complaint

As human beings, we do complaint! We complaint many things,from public transport, goverment policy, education system to the service of the restaurant, friends or even parents. Admit it , it has became part of my life.

Why we complaint? On the bright side, will have improvement. When we complaint about something, the authority party will take note and try to solve it or improve it!  A good example is when we complaint that the cleanliness of the toilet, the cleaning company will make sure that the cleaners keep the washroom clean.

People complaint when we are not satisfied, when we are angry. Hence, what time are we using? We will voice out with a rude, impolite tone! So, what will the being complained party feel? They will be unhappy, disappointed or even angry !!

In other words, when we complaint, we are literally transferring the "anger" to another party so that we can be "cool".

Malaysia. Malaysian?

When MH 370 happened, I am still proud to stay that I am a Malaysian, then MH 17 I still being around to be a Malaysian

Born in Malaysia and lived there ever since I wa born. I really love Malaysia. Everyone is so good. Staying in a multiracial society, I visit my Muslim nieighbour during hari raya and go to my Hindu friends' house for deepavali. My best friend during secondary was the Indian girl sitting beside me for 3 years. Everything in Malaysia is so good and it is indeed the best place to be in the world except the Politics.

I came Singapore for my degree end of this July. Whenever I tell a person that I am from Malaysia, they will ask me do I feel discriminated being a Chinese in Malaysia as there is too many unfairness. I always replied, NOPE because I don't feel I am discriminated but only the BUMI HAVE SPECIAL RIGHTS!

Yup, special rights. There are Bumiputera lots which is lower cost for housing, more government substidation, higher chance to enter government university, special scholarship (MARA), special Education like Boarding Schools ans special Programs and etc.

No doubt, all these special rights are stated in the constitution, there is nothing to can be change. Since young, I know Bumis have special rights so I don't really feel anything. I don't feel discriminated not isolated. However, I don't see myself as a MINORITY as well as I know that Malaysia is belongs  to all Malaysian! We own our country, Malaysia!  We are Malaysian!

I am so sad that whenever I was told I, as a Malaysia Chinese, am just a foregeiner (in Malay : Pendatang) and this land belongs to the Malays. I am holding a Malaysia passport, isn't Malaysia my country, my land? Isn't it as stated in the national song "negaraku, tanah tumpah darahku" ?

Right for their rights? In my opinion, Bumiputera already have their special rights, isn't it? What are these politics parties trying to do? Building a better Malaysia or creating trouble? It is benefiting the peeople or just for their own sakes? They are not trying to get us together instead separating us! Should these so called religion/race based politics parties protects our rights by creating a peceful country?

What is ONE MALAYSIA when we are separated by our race, religion and skin colour! Is 1 Malaysia only a slogan to attract foreign investment? Is these so called goverment party trying to separate us? Why they want to do so? Isn't all of us Malaysian?

BEST CHOICE

Wrong Pre-U program? To me, taking SAM is the best choice i ever made! Indeed, I suffered during the process but i learnt a lot and grow a lot ! 
If you prefer something like Malaysia Education system then you should go for A level! Australia Education system needs you to apply your knowledge, not just understanding what you are learning! If learning to you is just for score A in EXAM, then it is not suitable for you! 
Why the entry requirement using ATAR is high? Because it is based on World-ranking (ie. Bell-curve), 3A-2B+ is already ATAR 94.25 Besides, the content of SAM is less than A level and hence it is relatively easier.
However, it is true that SAM is not that internationally recognized! if you take SAM, you should be aiming to go Australia or maybe private Uni in Malaysia. UK and singapore do accept SAM results but some need to take certain test. 
In my university, it is very RARE to see people entering uni with SAM but it doesn't mean you cannot enter with it. 
Choose a Pre-u that is suitable for you, don't make the WRONG choice.
if you choose SAM, then make Your choice RIGHT! 
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D'good cafe

This place is cozy and comfortably
It is located holland village and is on the 2nd and 3rd floor

After swimming and washing up, shu qing and I were hungry.
As we are sick of u town food, time to go out for brunch( technically it is 11.30 am )
Shu qing recommended d'food cafe which I saw in it the net last night

We took a bus then Mrt to this cafe
Sitting on the swing, looking at the view of holland village is how we spend our morning
The place was rather crowded.
Some reading , some chilling....

We took numerous of 📷!

I little sharing on what I get from pastor last week!

Tithing

1. God wants to prosper and provide for his children. God is a good God. Father God loves us so much and he wants us to be like him.God is a provider, he is out father and he will provide

"A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children"

2. God wants to transfer wealth of a sinner to the righteous

DIVINE TRANSFER

God gives us the power to get wealth. He gave us the opportunity!

3. The transferred wealth is to establish his covenant

4. God is looking for faithful steward

5. God's test of our faithfulness ia out tithe

YEP Briefing!

Recently, i am addicted to a apps called DAYRE!
it was first introduced by my apartment mate, SHUQING
ever since that i am really addicted!
mainly because of that i don't really post on Blogger so frequent.
yet, i will try to cut and paste from DAYRE!

anyway, this is my DAYRE URL: http://dayre.me/gine95

so i start my day with a briefing!
as i am going to OCIP i need to go to a YEP briefing.
9am at YIP!

This is how my Saturday spend!
YEP briefing for my ocip love export. Cambodia
#Ocip #Cambodia #loveexport

I want to sleep!
I Slept very long last night but still.....
I feel a bit waste of time.
Haiz....
Discussion, reflections.....
Bored

This is what. Are we doing now!!

Brunch @ JamicaBlue!

Family came over to visit me  + sign MOE tuition Grant
they came pretty early so we went starVista for brunch!

Family came to visit me!
Actually to sign the Moe tuition grant

 Jamaica Blue

Brunch with my family. Have a Jamaica brunch.
This place is cosy and comfortable. A bit like Australian brunch feel.
Coffee, cakes and pastry!

Steak sandwich
Served with salad. Rocket salad!
This is what my brunch in Melbourne
Kinda in Melbourne feel

Steak sandwich: steak, beetroot,tomatos, onions on bread.
The steak is quite good.
Filling brunch
I shared with mummy!

Mocha
A bit too sweet for me

Cappuccino in nice cup

Mini breakfast frittata
The frittata is nice!
Served with salad too
Fritta contained ham and cheese!
One of the cheapest items in the menu.
Cost around 7.90
Worth it!

Pasta!
With mushroom and feta cheese and sundries tomatoes
Delicious

Even the tissue is so cool!
Great visit to this place.
Will come again next time!

a visit to Changkat!

The elderly is very friendly. The main purpose for them to go to Tampines Changkat Community Centre is to feel up their time. They are usually alone at home in the day and they have nobody to talk to. In other words, they are bored and lonely. However, at first, they are not willing to go to the Community Centre because they claimed that they don’t have friends and will feel awkward to be surrounded my strangers. I chatted with them about how they discover the community center. I got a same reply from the aunties that I talked to : they were arrangement to a buddy that will visit them almost every week and chat with them. As time goes, they are literally friends and when they are invited to join the CC program, they accepted it and ended up be a frequent visitor of the CC.

The CC has a lot of facilities. There is activity room or called “lao di fang” in Chinese which means “the usual place” that also bring the meaning that the place that we usually meet up with our friends, something like your secret place. In this activity room, the elderly play board games, cards, majong as well as doing handicraft together. I realized that although they are from different races and may speak different languages, they can get along well. Everyone there is happy with each other’s accompaniment. There are volunteers as well to talk and help them. The environment is friendly and it is air-con so that the elderly will feel comfortable.

I was helping a group of Malay aunties to make lantern. They are decorating the lanterns and my job is to cut the flowers and patterns that they want. It is basically an easy task! Throughout the session, I chat with them, a Malay auntie tell me that she comes here every Wednesday and Friday. Usually, Wednesday is the handicraft day where they are gathered to do some crafts. She even showed me what they did in the past. I was amazed to see, the bags, key chains, clips and other decorative things they did. She also mentioned that on Friday, they will have potluck party. Everyone will cook their favorite dish and bring it to the centre to share. They will talk and have fun together, it is just like a party.  

On the other hand, there is also a karaoke room so let the elderly enjoy themselves. According to my friend, they usually sing songs in dialect and they don’t really care weather do they sing in tune. They just want to have fun. Some of us also sing along with them. Surprising, most of them can sing pretty well!

The community centre also provide food for them. Hot food such as fried meesiam , fishball nuggets and spring rolls are served. According to the person-in-charge, the main purpose of this CC is to take care of the elderly, give them a place to hang out and mix friends instead of staying at home alone while their children are working. In my opinion, it is very important for us to take good care of the elderly, they are the one that take care of us and brought us to this wonderful world. Without them, who me are? Now, they are old and some even sick, it is our turn to take good care of them!

Open croissant

Sriously I am sick of wholemeal plain bread
Yeah, the brown and think toast
So let's make a twist

Instead  I used Croissant !
Bought a few days ago! Haha

Today's breakfast served sandwich!
3 choices : egg sardine.ham & cheese
Since I wanna stay healthy (although I still love junk food), I decided.SARDINE.
I even told the auntie that I don't want bread

As my croissant is in the fridge for a few days, I toasted it in my pantry
To be honest, ever since I tried open sandwich, I am in love with it
Now I have OPEN CROISSANT
transfer everything on the croissant and I am done!

Yeah! Tasty !

A day with Thai !!!

Don't ask me why

Maybe out of curiosity, maybe because nothing to do

Anyway, I went for a friendship day with the Thai workers in singapore 

To be frank, I don't even know there is Thai workers in singapore

I thought singapore only has Bangladesh and Indonesian workers

So I am surprised that the amount of Thai people in singapore

That's why I signed up for the event

A little more about me: I can speak mandarin, Malay, English and Cantonese

But NOT THAI

although there is a handout given, I didn't really read through it

In other words, I cannot speak Thai at all

Hmm... Maybe I can say HELLO in Thai 

The event venue is  near lavender, in a basketball court near north bridge food court 

As I am not really familiar to singapore, I took some time to fingered it out the location

Anyway, after asking and searching plus getting lost, I manage to get to the venue although I am 30 minutes late! Haha

Blur queen!

Let's talk about what I have heard and seen there

Actually the Thai men usually work in construction sector

Most if them are dealing with electrical and supervised the construction projects

Their pay is not very high but it is enough for them

Oh, I also noticed that most of the workers are at their middle age 

they have been in sinagpore for about ten year 

Many of them can speak pretty good English and mandarin

I talked to them and asking them about singapore

To them sinagpore is nearer to Thai and that's the main reason they come over

Usually they stay at dorm that provided by the boss

Yet, it is all in the rural area like woodlands

I spoke to a worker and he mentioned that he has been here for 13 years

His children already 23 and 27

He is now 50+ yet still working

His daughter is a teacher and the son is also working in Thai

Yet he still need to work so that the family can have a better life

On the other hand, for the Thai women, they usually work as domestic helpers 

But nowadays they usually come over for marriage 

Many of them married Singaporean 

There are still some women doing Thai massage yet fewer

The younger generation doesn't want to come singapore anymore

Because the pay is lower

They prefer to go Europe or Israel

For agriculture sector, usually they will go Israel for mass production using high technology 

Thai is very good at agriculture especially in rice sector

I realized that Thai are very friendly and cheerful 

They usually gather together for events 

Although the pay is not high, they treasure what they have

They are creative as well 

A great example is the games we played!

Can u imagine what we are playing?

Yup, I think u get it right

We need to use eggplant to "kick" the ball into the goal

I participate the game as well

It is quite fun!

Perhaps next year o camp should include this game

It is a great experience for me

First time get in touch with Thai 

I realized that actually a lot of Singaporean is interested in Thai language and took up Thai in university

Some even when Thailand for exchange

 a little small boy named Tim

3 year old boy that claimed himself as 5!

mixed blood Thai! 

so cute!

LITTLE LITTLE INDIA

Starts my singapore adventure!

FIRST STOP : Little India

why? because my new friend, Nicole suggested to go there

she wanted to try indian food

together with sharon and another hong kong exchange student

to be frank, this is my first time to little india

it is full of indian obviously 

when we reached there, it is already lunch time

so, guess what? i brought them to try MAMAK

indian temple in little india

we didn't manage to go in

but busy taking photo! =)

yeah

i ordered a dosai masala

in fact i dont  know what is masala at first 

it is actually potato

this cost me 2.80

which is a bit pricy according to the others

not really special, just normal

nicole has a cheese prata 

sharon has a onion prata

i realised that in singapore they don't called it ROTI CANAI but PRATA

anyway it is the same thing

then we pay a visit to the LITTLE INDIA ARCADE

there are many shops

selling all sorts of things : food, snacks, clothes, bags...

Nicole did a tattoo with henna that costs her $3

a nice tattoo

there is a shop selling many snacks

super cheap

i bought choco drink and biscuit plus a umbrella! 

it is a nice trip!

good experience! 

maybe next time should go chinatown! =)

CAPT Popstar O CAMP

my first ever O camp in my life!
O CAMP? orientation camp
camp for freshie to know each other!

SP games!

a bit like mix-matching

i heard that this game is very common in singapore 

we are blind folded and required to hold each other's hands (girl & boy)

then like speed dating

play games and know each other more

the way i was welcome to the neighbourhood of Garuda

so cute!!

too quite a long time to clean it!

a day in Sentosa!

FIRST time go to Palawan Beach of Sentosa!

have a fun day of Beach day!

sunny day

in return, i got sun burnt badly!

but no regrets!

a pic with the magnificent grass! (actually it is just normal grass)

amazing race !

we are the last group!

because we are too chill

have too many breaks (starbucks, food, toilet///)

yet, we enjoyed ourselves very much! 

photo with my awesome GROUP MATE!

we are WASEH!

really WAseh !!

cool man with cool people!

i really appreate 

It's Fledgling

so here comes the CAPT Fledgling Week !!
what's that?
basically it is like another bonding sessions for the CAPTain
mainly for those who didn't attend o camp last month
anyway, to me it is just to have fun and know new friends or neighbour!
so what we do?

design our door tag!!

since Garuda is yellow house

we have "yellow" card

Inai session

just to let us bond together!

my cute pikachu drawn by Tong Jun 

R.E.G.I.N.E.

by Wan Ping, the Dino

After that, we still got ice breaking session

play games and know each other better

till 12 am 

it is tiring for me as i woke up early 7am for lecture

yet, enjoy the accompaniment with the rest

Happy 49th Birthday SINGAPORE!!

9.8.2014
a special day for all SINGAPOREAN

not only it is a public holiday but a day that they won't forget
because this will be the last year they have their NDP in the float
next year will be back to stadium!

friends from Hong Kong, Thai , Indo & Thai!

we all stay in residential college!

however, this year's NDP is very special to me
i have not at Malaysia, watching TV live broadcast
but i am at singapore
more specifically i am at Marina Bay
celebrating Singapore NDP with my other international exchange friends!
my first time sit at a place for 2 hours just to watch fireworks!

To be honest, i am seriously an epic fail Malaysian!
i never ever watch malaysian NDP not even on TV live
firstly because malaysia celebrate in the morning
secondly, it is in KL not JB
yet, even i am in Subang last year i also didn't go to take a look!
maybe because in Singapore i am a tourist! i am curious!

the fireworks last around 15 minutes!

it is worth waiting!!

College Meal : AWESOME!!

College food is sucks?
I BEG TO DIFFER!!

see what i have for my dinner and breakfast?
i need to admit that is doesn't taste good but is freaking delicious!
we have many choices
5 menu for us to choose!
indian, muslim, vegetarian, chinese & western!
i heard that every month still got theme dinner!
that's awesome!

food served is healthy as well
i am allowed to customize my own meal as well
i can go for a healthier option with brown rice and request for more veggie!
every food there is a portion recommended
this helps me to make a better choice!

most importantly the auntie and uncle are super friendly
they will introduce me the tasty food!
they are more like my grandparents! asking me to eat more!
so good!

It is on my treat!

Dad came to visit me!
actually to pass me my old samsung s3 phone!
anyway, Thanks God that i have an awesome Daddy
I love him so so much!

i have when camp for the past few days
so obviously i didn't have my dinner in my residential college!
in other words, i have extra credit for my dinner

when my dad said want to have dinner with me
dinner in the dining hall came through my mind!
so why not?
should let him take a look what will i eat every day as he is the one who foot the bill!

as my dad is kinda China Man

he have chinese food

brown rice with 2 meat & 2 veggie

plus lotus soup & green bean soup!

this is freaking great!

haha, first time treat my dad in singapore

in fact he is still the one paying it! haha

Chocolate time !! Lindt

#throwback : last day in melbourne (13.7.2014)

Lindt chocolate is amazing!

But have you tried Lindt chocolate lounge/bar?

I went to the Collins outlet

Lindt is more expensive than san churrous and max bender

Actually  I bought the groupon voucher which have 50% discount ! Save money!

It is a high tea for 2 voucher

Contain a chocolate platter with 2 hot beverage

Since we are at chocolate bar HOT CHOCOLATE is a MUST

so this is more like a self make hot chocolate!

Hot chocolate and milk is given seperatly 

Then more the amount of chocolate I want in the cup and add milk

In order word, I can control the concentration of my hot chocolate

The only thing is I cannot choose which type of chocolate

Nice try

 Chocolate platter

Brownie. Ice cream. Macaroon. 

Chocolate cakes. Chocolate syrup. Chocolate.

All chocolate

Heaven to me!

To be frank, I think this can share among 3

It is really great to try!

I went there with my best buddy!

This will be the last time my outing with guosoon in Melbourne 

He is always be with me rain or shine

I am glad that I have him all the time

Thank you for coming to cbd almost every weekends to visit me

Because of him, my Melbourne life is amazing!

Thanks, pal! BFF!