Chinese New Year Celebration..

USM's Chinese New Year Night was fantastic! I enjoyed it very much. The organizers sure put in a lot of effort and it's all worth it..! This is the 1st time the celebration was held outside of campus, it's nice although i personally prefer it to be in the campus, then there would be more 'feel' to it.. I seriously have to take my hats off to the organizers.. Firstly, the show's getting better and more 'pro' by the year. They're even able to use high-tech animation to bring out the storyline of their sketch, the animation is so nice, it felt like i was watching an introduction to a RPG game.. well, although at times the story by the animation was quite lengthy.. They've managed to link up almost the performances that night to the main sketch which gave it a nice touch of continuity of the night's programme.

The decoration was simple yet and a traditional touch to it. I liked this year's backdrop:

The dragon was quite majestic in close view but maybe the audience can't appreciate the details much from far distance. This alone brings out the Chinese New Year 'feel' to the hall. Also, they decorated the pillars around the hall with smaller dragons..

At the main door, they put up images of their sketch's main characters, Yue Fei and his son, Yue Yun. (At first I thought it was the 2 door guardians..!?! he..he..)

Too bad my eyes were closed..! =(

It was also a precious time for our coursemates to gather and chat. It's difficult to find a time when we can gather our coursemates from various postings and have a get-together. It really felt wonderful..

Tolerate..

It has been a busy day & just want to share a little something that my friend had said.

He told me about a story of a granddaughter & her granddad. It goes like this:

Once, there was a granddaughter (let's name her Mel, so that i need not type the word 'granddaughter' that many times.. ;p) who loved fell in love with a man at 1st sight. After Mel's marriage, she gradually realized that she's finding more & more faults in her husband, thus they ended up always in a quarrel. Everytime, she would complain to her granddad about her husband. Her granddad had always just listen to her stories without any response. Until 1 fine day, Mel went to her grandad'a place to complain again. This time round, granddad handed Mel a piece of white paper & a pen. "Mel, do put down a dot for every fault that you think your husband has..". So, Mel made a dot for every thing that she's not satisfied at.. At last, Mel had at least thousands of dots on the piece of paper. "Ok, that should be it, you see, the dots covered practically the whole paper..!" Then, her granddad said to her, "well, there seemed to be quite a lot of dots that made both of you unhappy.." "but, why didn't you realize that although there might be a thousand dots on this paper, there are still lots of spaces left white..!"

Have you got what he meant?

When two people are living with each other, surely every bits of theirselves will show for the partner to see; however, if all that you saw is faults & weaknesses, surely there will be hard times ahead. Besides the faults, surely everyone has their own strong points, so why not focus on these and not dwell on the weaknesses. This way, there will be tolerance & understanding towards each other. I think this doesn't only apply to marriage but to every relationships: parents-children, friends, students-teachers and even enemies! This way, you'll also be more contented & feel happy for yourself.. so why not?

Down with a flu..

Just my luck, down with flu.. it just seized me so suddenly! when i woke up in the morning, i got all the symptoms: tired, runny nose, red eyes, cough & sore throat..





Decided to just stay in my room all day, therefore bought some ingredients from 7-11 for my breakfast, lunch & dinner.





Breakfast: Mushroom soup + bread





Lunch: Ice Lemon Tea + tuna sandwich + cawanmushi

My lunch..!

Dinner: friend asked me out, so didn't get to finish off the breads i bought.. :p

Still feeling quite sick now.. tonight have to sleep early.