Happy i-hope-i'm-getting-wiser Day!

oh yeah, nothing feels better than doing the CAD drawings on your birthday *are you kidding me? this is a joke, seriously.*. oh well, my parent's did came down for a surprise birthday party last weekend so i'm happy :) and i do wish people would get more creative when wishing one happy birthday... is it too much wishing for a wish that is much more crazier/creative? make me laugh! make me fall off the chair! it's my birthday! i take birthdays seriously because it's the only day i can go super crazy and act like a total kid and still get away without a single scratch :) it is a happy day! *does a happy dance*

ok, craziness aside don't forget to wish me or else..... here's a animation of part of the balloons from the early celebration. happy get wiser/happier day to me!

night peeps. forgive the overly happy me. can't help it ;))))))))))

Lil' birdie

had a not so surprise finding today... the shreds of dried leaves and twigs has finally turn into a bird's nest!! spotted the owner, it's a tiny yellow bird, today. hopefully i didn't scare it today....it has already move into the new house! i'm so happy and yet i'm sort of worried what will happen at the end of the semester when everybody has to leave the room... hopefully it'll leave when the eggs has hatched? i'm not too sure about how birds generally live but i'll let them be for now, it's really nice to open up the window and see the nest just right there! :)



have a nice weekend! :)

About Time

it's been quite sometime since i've last blogged, and for me to finally write again the idea of what i should write here strike me. i mean, i have not define this blog, and it has always been about what i want to write, about anything that interest me, and mostly, on what happens in my life. for those who has been reading, i thank you for still sticking around to find out what i would write about next, i couldn't be much grateful :)

the past week has been a long and exhausting week, i've participated in a bridge design competition where preparation was so last minute rendering of the presentation was done in one night! one night, and we made it, although we didn't win anything, compared to the other well prepared participants from other schools who obviously came to win something (well, our mindset should be set in that way but, oh well, it was a really good experience, and this really is the case where result depends on how much effort you put in), we placed 19 out of 76 groups, and 3rd in the silver category (each category has 10 teams, gold, silver and bronze) so it wasn't that bad, right? first competition! :) plus the best thing was i got to know new friends! and i found somebody else that likes hakka lei cha as much as i do! 

plus i've been hopping around singapore for the internship interview. it was tiring, and i haven't got a solid answer yet so i'm keeping my fingers cross. i think it's slightly tiresome because the interviews are not in one day and i've been travelling to and fro from johor, and i'm doing this alone as all of my friends has decided to intern in malaysia instead. at one point i was about to give up all the trouble, but then you can't always have a friend to accompany you to work or go anywhere right? i'll just make some new ones in the new place. it's scary not knowing what to expect in a new place, but i think singapore is a good place to start trying to live and work independently, right? :)

that day during studio my professor was mentioning about star trek and stuff, and he was looking at us to see if we've watched it, and none of us gave him the nod, which he went to discuss some other shows for the inspiration that he had in mind and yet none of us has watched, leading him to shake his head and say, "how do you guys live? ah the facebook generation", and shakes his head again in dissapointment. ha, i guess i could relate to what he had in mind where when i was in primary school in the 1990's there wasn't any myspace or friendster and the only chat rooms where ICQ which i have never use, the games that we play was marbles, anything that we create like eraser racing, where we add things like staples to make it go faster, and when i mention this to my cousin in primary school while he was playing on his ipad all i get was a weird glance. owh. i swear i would not let my kids near gadgets like this till they're in middle/high school. i grew up with a ban on tv (tv only on weekends and those are limited to 2 hours i think) and yes, you will survive without watching any shows.  some might think, then what do you spend your time on? i read, duh. most of the things that i know comes from books, not wikipedia. and the library at home is located at the floor where my room is :)  if only books in malaysia is as cheap as the price printed in USD or pounds. if they were priced like 7.99 or 8.99 i would buy a new book once a week! and yes i dislike reading through the screen, i need to touch and smell and feel the book! whoever thought of making e-books erm, clearly doesn't understand the joy of having a real book in your hands. yes it's easier, much convenient, but i would rather carry a paperback in my bag, thank you very much.

so that pretty much sums up what's going through my mind, and week right now. the above picture was taken when i was about to take a bath but i had to get back to my room to grab my camera for this because the sky was such a breathtaking blend of blue and yellowy sunset. 

have a nice week! 

:)

hunger games

let's just say i heard about the movie only after i heard taylor swift's safe and sound. and initially i thought hunger games was some sort of a game that was turned into a movie. i know, right? just like harry potter the book *in my opinion* it only got famous after the movie was made,that is, how i felt in malaysia. i didn't know it was on the bestsellers list!  i haven't even heard about it, or maybe i can just blame it to the scarce visit i pay to the bookstores these days.

i finally got my hands on the trilogy, read halfway, watched the movies, and spent the next 2 days staying up late to finish the book. the story line is so good it's kind of eerie that it's sort of a blow up version of what is happening around us, the war, reality shows, everything. what i couldn't bear about the book is the amount of fights that they get into. the pain that katniss has to bear, she gets burned, bombed, almost losing peeta, and everyone that is important to her it's just such a pain to see her get hurt badly, mentally and physically numerous times.

maybe it's me but i get emotionally attached to the stories that i've read. right after i finish the last book i felt empty. yes the ending wasn't that sad, *i won't reveal it here* but the way it got to the ending was painful. i don't even want to talk about it and i guess the only reason i've blogged about it right now is to write it down so the emptiness that the book brings would be less on me :(. and i have to keep reminding myself that it's just a story. ugh me, i know, i'm just emotional.

the reason i chose to post these pictures are because to me they have absolutely no resemblance of the hunger games, with their outfits and smiles, when in the movies they are actually trying to kill each other off. 

i would highly recommend to read the book first before watching the movie because it would explain a lot on what is actually happening. i ended up explaining about the scenes to my friends while in the cinema. the movie wasn't oh-so-awesome like lord of the rings *the only movie that holds the number 1 spot in my heart* but it wasn't bad either. so go watch it.

oh and there's another reason why i'm attached to it. i actually share the same birth date as katniss everdeen.

experimenting with VUE

fooling around with vue in cad application class. first try!!! i'm excited but this took a real long time to finish rendering. next try? lava filled background with dinasours and flying aeroplanes. and probably running humans. ha :)

i kid i kid. but i'm gonna try.

:)

taking things one at a time

baby steps here....lately i've been trying my hands on some amazing tutorials found on the net.... and here's the first try! i know it's not really clear... but i'll try to tweak it when there's time.

currently most of my time are spent on trying to finish up work on time, and trying, *trying* to squeeze in some time to experiment some stuff i see on the net and try to cut down on slacking. oh you know, the usual culprits like reading novels and how i met your mother. 

and i suspect my assignment from different lecturers are the best friend ever because they have been congregating together. every week. now i feel as if i'm back in primary school counting my fingers out for assignments for the week. the workload's getting tougher, no doubt, and i know it's not going to be any easier for another 2 years before i graduate.

i've been heading back to kl during the weekends for the past two weeks and to my surprise i caught the homesick bug. real bad. i mean, believe me when i say i've never experience any form of homesickness at all prior to this. now i understand. how do people living oversea's cope with this? thanks to dad i'm feeling much better now.

so now i'm taking things one at a time. finish one thing and cross it off your list.*i'm not gonna lie but there's a major satisfaction here* and to take deep breaths! 

have a nice day :)

what's the big deal? you tell me.

all this for 1% malaysia's entire economic output?  even if it would contribute more than 1% the government shoudn't even EVER consider having lynas here.

have they thought about how building and running a rare earth refinery could affect the whole country in the long run?

so you think you don't live in kuantan it's not gonna affect you. funnily enough our dear prime minister comes from pahang. do you not care for your family and relatives who are staying there? you want a good example? go see what happened to japan after the tsunami. honestly, japan is one of the most technological advanced country and if it wasn't because of the natural disaster they wouldn't have faced the problem. but the truth is one of the most technology advanced country is facing difficulties trying to contain the leaked radio-actives. what if that happens in malaysia? *touch wood* do we have the necessary means and are we THAT ADVANCED in the category?

i'm sure all of us has read about radioactive elements and how it would affect us. oh well just in case any of you don't even realise about it, radioactive waste can't be just thrown away like that. "oh just throw it away in the garbage bin and the collector will do it's job" are you even kidding me? do you know how freaking long does it take a radioactive substance to dissolve? the least would be a decade, and i'm only guessing here because mostly it might take a century or more depending on the types and size and it's isotope.

but as far as i'm concern no radioactive elements are good for us. yeah it cures cancer, with a price, and in small dosage. but they are building a freaking refinery! there's no way the amount of rare earth are going to be small.

having it all listed out in a diagram put things in a clearer picture. the truth hurts.

A visit to the lynas website shows the vision of the company is to be the leader in rare earths for a sustainable future. tell me, how is it possible that by using rare earth we could create a sustainable future? if you're so interested in providing a sustainable future there's always the various free natural resources and technology that you can tap into. 

and i don't understand the logic behind mining  rare earth in australia, and then sending it here in malaysia for the refinery. how is this even sustainable? the carbon footprint of just transporting these elements are already huge. why malaysia? why can't the refinery be built in australia, or better yet, not be built at all?

i know some of you reading this might think that i'm just some naive girl venting out my frustration on some huge project that should supposedly bring "greater good" or "a better future for the economy". i digress. 

think about it, what if you wake up next morning and found out a rare earth refinery will be built just a few meters away from YOUR HOME. what would you do? keep quiet because you think there's nothing that you can do? or do what you can with the rights that you're entitled with since birth? 

we live in a democratic country people. it's high time we make good use of it.