Miss Cindy's Blog

Happy Chinese New Year ( From USA)

2012-01-23T13:03:00.004+08:00

Sorry for a bi-weekly update of the blog. I am finally back to my Madison house after 20 days of adventurous journey around the East Coast of USA. I have been missing my apartment in Madison along the trip. The moment when I opened the house door, I smelled the usual fragrance that scented my house. Gah, it was so good. Home Sweet Home. I have had enough rest (2 weeks) before the new semester starts. Which also means the first day of Chinese New Year!

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR, MY READERS!

For those who are in Malaysia, I hope you get enough Angpao! For those who are forced to celebrate it without angpao, parents and relatives, I hope you celebrate it in a different way and are able to survive the first Chinese New Year in a foreign country! Haha. Oh At least I had some really good tangerine just now.

My Korean friend told me today is their (Korean) new year as well. Pathetically but funnily, we shoke each other's hand and wished both of us 'Happy New Year'. Sushi, BBQ Chicken, Mac N Cheese, Potato and Tangerine are my New Year dinner tonight. Ah, it has been a relaxing Sunday. I'm lovin it.

At the end of the post, I wish UW students have a good start of the semester and everyone a good start of the Dragon year! Gong Xi Gong Xi! 新年快乐! Take Care!

Love,
Cindy Chew

A Belated New Year post

2012-01-06T09:07:00.001+08:00

A big portion of the past event has been forgotten. As more and more things accumulate in the rest of the life, it is getting harder to pick up what truly makes me shuang for a very long time already. Let's count one by one the major event that occurred in 2011. To start with, I flied to USA to continue my studies. It has been truly amazing.

Few months before leaving Malaysia, I gathered with the bestest friends in my life for 2 days 1 night. Moments of picking up scraps of memories have been extremely enjoyable and fun time. Shaking off our childish face, we emerged as beautiful adult who treasure the presence of everyone that night. Usual Pillow talk has been replaced by beer/ game time. We knew very well that we enjoyed being with each other so much.

I gathered with another good friend of mine, Fiona also. I love talking to you because you are always soft. I wish that I will have chance to visit you in UK one day. I don't know why we turned up to be so close suddenly but you have always been a good and caring person, which made two good people a pair of good sister haha.

The best thing was when I returned to my Johor Bahru house for 2 weeks. That was the house that fed, milked and taught me since I was born. I miss my dad who brought me for very good food before I flied. We have more to chat in Skype after I fly to Madison, isn't it? Love you so much, pa :)

Another important major event is to spend my new year celebration with MGC! It's the same old crazy, sohai and exciting feeling to spend time with Seow, Wei Sheng and Jerry, just like the time when I was in Air Papan, Mersing. When four of us hugged each other during Christmas and New Year Countdown, it made my heart feel warmer in cold day. Good bye are always hard to say. Even though none of us know when is the next time we will meet again, but I believe that that is something already anticipated now.

I missed those years I used to celebrate new year countdown with my mom and brother. However, this year's was really different and special. I finally went to the dream city of my life - New York. Sitting on the hotel bed in Chicago to calmly gather my thoughts, I now tell myself that I should be very satisfied.

My brain is unable to process already. To end this post, I wish everyone Happy New Year once more and may your dreams come true. :) Have a good beginning of the year!

Scraps of New York Vacation

2011-12-26T12:15:00.001+08:00

Hey Readers, i am in New York now for 2 days already! New York is amazing. Times Square, Statue of Liberty, Brooklyn Bridge, Yellow Cab, wall Street, Empire State Building... New York city landscape is breathtaking from Brooklyn Bridge. Gah they are really spectacular.:O I have bunch of awesome companion with me along the journey. Seow, Jerry, Wei Sheng.. I am so glad to travel with high school close friends.

I am heading to Niagara Fall now.. sitting on the midnight bus now. A bit tired but i am replenishing my energy for tomorrow! I have some pictures to share with you in this post.
ENJOY !!!

Will write a long post after this trip.. :-)

Midnight Rant

2011-12-15T15:50:00.001+08:00

There is something I wish to say.

I remember that my mother told me to be more selfish after i step out of high school life. And I was just perplexed at what she told me.
"How can a mother teach her children to be selfish?". People need help from us, and we need help from them all the time also.
My mother never explained, so it seems like a must for everybody.
When time goes, the concept and rationale become reasonable to me.
We need to protect ourselves, or blah blah blah.

But i have met the most selfish person which made me so annoyed.
I mean like even the littlest, insignificant help is not offered by the person.
The selfish person who only thinks for herself, which made people so hard to approach to her.

This feeling just gets stronger and has become a annoyance over time.
I know i shouldn't be judgmental now.
But if you realize what's going on between us, you will be shocked at how weird, selfish and psycho the friend is. Oh btw, coming to this selfish stage, i don't even know whether i should call it my friend.

Gah. :-( no one is perfect. I ain't too. But isn't sharing a beautiful thing?
Without sharing, nothing is counted between two people. :-(

To the frien: And yeah, if you see this today, i just want to ask if you could remember how you treated me before.
I think you didn't realize, but if could admit that you deliberated to do it, you will understand that's the reasons i dislike and am annoyed by you so much today.

But, From you, i learnt that i have to be forgiveful and strong. :-)

Weekend Struggle

2011-12-11T04:18:00.001+08:00

I can't have a long sleep for weekend because i have a Human Resource project discussion in the afternoon.
DON'T SLACK, CINDY.

Get a cup of coffee and buck up.
.
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.Gah i just feel like sleeping so much now :-(

5 Things That Make Me Excited Today :

2011-12-10T05:11:00.008+08:00

1. I finished my first paper of final exam- Music in Performance. It's a good start! =)))
2. My H&M has arrived today!! This made me even more excited.

The leopard earmuff. I am into leopard recently. Guess it's quite a nice design to put on clothes. :)

And the necklace, which is 10000 times nicer than I had thought. Guess the price?
3 pounds. HAHAHA :D

3. Forever 21 is on its way from California to Madison already! Hope it reaches today.:0

4. It's FRIDAY!

5. I can chill and relaxxxxx for the whole night. :)))

Have a good rest and study hard for next week's finals!

Snippet of the Day

2011-12-04T11:59:00.004+08:00

Got a cover case for my baby tablet Asus Transformer Pad. And it's just delivered to my apartment today! Love it so much ♥ Isn't it nice?

Love this picture too :) Taken randomly after my Friday class while waiting for bus.

Simple happiness :)

Bon Week-end!

2011-12-04T03:37:00.002+08:00

Spending my typical Saturday watching online show.
As usual, I'm not going to do my assignment until night time.

Saturday is just the best time to chillax and relax.
A rainy Saturday makes me wanna be covered by a huge blanket and sit (in whatever way) sluggishly doing what enjoys me. :)

Bon Week-end!

Bad things about class during winter

2011-12-03T01:48:00.001+08:00

I wonder if americans shower in the morning.
Every breath they exhale smells really BADLY.
The condition gets worse during winter.
Damn.
I feel like i am surrounded by stink and unfiltered air now.
:-(
Save me plsss.

What's Cool about Singlish?

2011-12-02T11:11:00.006+08:00

Smoke Stark. Taste salty.

Oyster

I just came back from dinner. I ate seafood ! Didn't know there is a seafood restaurant in Madison! :) Anyway, I am not the person who is fanatic about seafood. But guess what, I had all the good food!

That's not the point. I have something else to talk about. But you don't have to take me seriously. During the dinner, I met a Singaporean girl who was super proud of Singlish. From the 3 hours conversation, I think she has successfully promoted her way of speaking Singlish. Haha. I really admired her way of talking, but one question is 'Is Singlish something to be proud of?'

At least it's not that I agree of. But in other way, it's good to be proud of your own identity when you can publicly and confidently speak 'Walao', 'Gao Wek', 'La/ler/meh' in front of foreigner. LOL. The issue of internationalizing Singlish even cross their mind. That's probably really patriotic? Is it because they learn to speak Singlish since they are born, and so they feel very good about all the weird accent?

What do you think?
P/s : what about Manglish (Malaysian English) ? How does it sound like??

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Pictures sharing moment :

Capitol Square of Madison

My apartment- Regent 101

My French classmate, who is a Korean exchange student in UW-Madison. :)

The weather recently turned colder. Always dropped below 0 degree celcius. t____t :(
*Rushing paper mood start*

Sent from Asus Transformer Pad

2011-12-01T01:48:00.001+08:00

Hello.i am writing my first post using blogger in Android. :-) yay. I think you have already known (from Facebook that I bought my baby ~Asus Transformer pad during Thanksgiving shopping in Chicago. That was a fun and awesome trip. I queued up for 4 and half hour to buy it. The effort was paid off and i was the first customer to purchase the tablet!

Actually i am having class now. T______T anyway i wish to tell you that my mum got Facebook account recently. If u want to know how i feel? I feel STALKED. :-( damn.
I am busy after Thanksgiving holiday. Was rushing assignment and French portfolio yesterday. So don`t like the feeling of doing homework in a hurry and it ended up a mess.

Some random pix to share .
Take care, everybody. Always miss you girls. :-)

Campus Candy!

2011-11-24T14:04:00.002+08:00

#1 Campus Candy yoghurt
#2 me sipping fake coke (candy) T____T

#3 Just wanna make you jealous because the ice cream is really, really nice!! :P
And I like the last picture :DD

That's all. Byeeeee~

許茹芸 - 如果雲知道

2011-11-24T12:13:00.002+08:00

我知道你可能已经忘了这首歌，也会好奇为什么I'm so into OLD SONG.
哎，我不知道。可是这些歌是我小学的时候听的歌。
记得我曾经在Larkin体育馆看过许茹芸的演唱会。
应该是6岁的时候吧。依稀记得她唱那首“泪海”。

今天想推荐的不是泪海，是她的成名曲。
让我想挖回这首是因为看到康熙来了。她说她在演唱会上唱这首歌时一度哽咽。
所以坚持把“如果云知道”唱好多一次。
我想，这首歌的年纪，也让我想起我成长了多少。

想想，我们从王菲，许茹芸到Lady Gaga。
音乐品类千变万化。
我一直都不排斥听那些没什么意义的快歌，
因为它们至少带给我想舞动的快感。
但，听老歌是不是表示我越来越念旧了。
我不知道。他们就是很有感觉。

它让我想起当初为什么那么热爱唱歌。
那么尽情地在教室里开嗓子。
而现在，是忙碌的时间让我连开口哼歌，或专心听自己唱歌的时间都没了吗？
像昱瑞说的，现实的忙碌真的让人很难停下来去回味过去。

而我现在想回味的是，当初那么爱唱歌的日子。
和跟俐琳搭档唱歌的日子。
时光飞逝，只能用录下来的影片或旧音乐来回忆。
但它们确实让我想起我曾经那么投入做一件事，也曾经梦想要把唱歌当事业。

现在呢？
哎。。。

以下是我Form 4 /5 在一个活动演唱一首日本歌的片段。
就，那是我第一次唱日本歌耶，穿着kimono :)))

Hope you like this post. :)

To Keyao :

2011-11-21T13:51:00.005+08:00

Thanks Keyao for giving me support when I am feeling down here. You won't know how much I miss our pillow talk after I come. All these insignificant actions become so memorable now! Sometimes I feel that you have outgrown me in these years. For the past few years, I used to be the one who listen to your problem. But now, you become the one who listen to my crap wtf. But I feel that I become more sensible and independent after coming here. A good thing to you and me.

I love to open the box and read all the 'letters'. Love you a lot. I can't be there for you when you need a pillow talk. or when you have to update me something. But wait for my return. Oh yeah, I watch the drama 我可能不会爱你, and I want to tell you that you must ask me to become your 伴娘 in the future. :D I am glad to see that you found a good partner. All the pasts and sad moment have proven today, isn't it? if you know what i mean. :)

Anyway, I love you as always. Let's Jia you together! :) Don't cry!