He said

Mahatma Gandhi once said :

"You must be the change you want to see in the world"

and

"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it"

Go figure.

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突然间好想用中文写些东西， 所以就写了。
写些什么呢？？我也不知道。
已经是凌晨两点了，脑袋重重地，昏昏地，已不太能正常思考了。
却还是想用一用已快要退化的中文。
啊。。。用中文写作变得有些困难了耶。
耶。。。忽然听见有鸟叫声耶，就在我窗外呀！
原来凌晨了，也有不睡觉的鸟儿哦。
我想啊，既然有夜猫子，那有夜鸟子也应该不奇怪吧。
谁说晚上不睡觉是猫子的专利啊,对不？

好啦，我该去让我的脑袋休息了。
再这样糊涂地写下去，还真不知道会写些什么东西出来。
呵呵。。。晚安啦！

Ahhh...lucky Us??

In response to Vince's recent post about how lots people in S'pore don't really speak their own language but english nowadays. It is sad cause that not only happens in S'pore but all around the word. I as a Malaysian Chinese, feels extremely lucky too to be multilingual, although we are incompetent in some ways with s'pore and many other countries, most of us still speak our own language, like for chinese, if not mandarin then at least some other dialects.
I guess in a way, we see language as a way to preserve our ethnic identity, the way to cling to the sense of belonging since we're the minority in the country. As if you don't speak the language, you're seen as a traitor, as a person that doesnt care about your own ethnicity, Maybe those people really don't care, they were not brought up the way we were, with a strong sense of ethnicity. Their parents wanted them to be "International" and presentable by being able to speak perfect english and their own language is being put aside and abandoned.
For those parents that still think that way, you don't have to speak only english to your children to enable them to speak good english and just so you know, multilingual is the new trend and not being able to speak your own mother tongue is embarrassing.
Oh, by the way...if you are to speak only english to your kids at home, do speak proper english and not Singlish or Manglish, you don't want them to hate you when they find how ridiculous they sound when they actually talk to a english native speaker. Plus, if you want them to speak good english, just let them watch more english channels on TV, and in no time, you'll find your kids speak better english than you do!

Often when chinese from other Mandarin speaking countries like Taiwan or Hong Kong that come to Malaysia are atonished when they find us capable of speaking mandarin or cantonese or both and more!
Honestly speaking, i think that's the only thing I'm proud of being a Malaysian. Our strong sense of ethnicity and multicultural society and being multiligual.Other than that....well...let's just say Malaysia has lots of things need to be worked on.

Cooking pictures

2nd post of the day then I usually wont be writting for another week or so,hahahaa..

I've been cooking almost everyday since I came here, and vince asked me to post some of my cooking result so you all can judge. Sadly, I don't photograph my cooking but fortunately, Joyce does sometimes. So here are some pictures of the dishes, mostly taken by Joyce.

The cheese baked mashed potato with brocolli and carrot

White sauce pasta with chicken and brocolli

Fried rice

Pasta with meat

Some healthy veggie soup

Fried mee with chicken (this is the version before we bought the tomyam paste)

Most of the dishes posted are old dishes laaa, will remember to take more pictures after this.
hehehee...now we have a lot of pasta to finish and instant noodles too!!
hahaha...this is what happens when you bought too much when you see discounts~
Kids, don't try this at home.

Chocolate confection

Seems like everytime someone has to remind me to update my blog, hehee..paiseh laa.

I was preoccupied with everything else such as...erm..enjoying my life~ muahahahaa...

I guess I am really born to irritate eh, but just so you know, I don't simply go around and irritate people, I only like to irritate those who are close and matter, hehehe..are you one of the lucky ones???

Ok ok ok, forgive me. I'm in the midst of high-ing, probably because of the blackberry tea I'm drinking..hmmmm...anyways...

You guys have probably know that I have a tea addiction now, not coffee but tea, herbal tea to be specific. Ooh..and chocolate too!!!

The tea addiction has something to do with the cold weather here (I have camomile tea, lemon ginger herbal tea, blueberry herbal tea and I'm drinking some blckberry tea now)but da chocolate addiction started with da triple chunk chocolate brownie I bought for Joyce on her birthday, it was so good it got me hooked with the 1st bite!! Then, the addiction was worsen by the chocolate project Christina (one of my roommie) had couple weeks ago with all the ready-made chocolate she bought (not made, she was supposed to make something edible out of a plant and she chose chocolate). Sshhhss....I'm not suppose to eat and tell.

Oooopppssss....

Well, I have to give her credit for effort, she did put in a lot of effort trying to make edible chocolate although it turned out to be chocolate butter fudge, which is not that bad if you really like A LOT of BUTTER~

But Seriously, the chocolate butter fudge aint that bad because it was hundred times better than her 1st attempt. Trust me...you wouldn't even want to know how the 1st try tasted like. (I hope she doesnt read about this ever, if she does...Christina, we still love you even tho you're not the most talented chocolate maker ever!! xoxo). The ready-made chocolate she bought was pretty good tho,heheheeh...basically any chocolate would taste good after that.

Anyways, chocolate does make you feel good and relax, sometime too relax until you forgot or ignored that you were supposed to be studying for the test that was on the very next day. I don't quite remember how it all started but it lasted for 5 hours. We pretty much were just eating chocolate and some of Christina's chocolate butter fudge and just hang out at the dining table with very comfy positions and then...someone started to play with the camera...

Oh ya..Joyce was the one with the test the next day or should I say, that morning...

hehehe..go ask her how she did on that day la.

I have totally forgotten what we were talking about that night, mostly about guys and...guys and...hmmm...

See, its really important to have good housemates, you get to realise how bad can chocolate actually taste like and every decent chocolate that you eat afterwards...taste like heaven!

lol..she's so gonna kill me!

ahahahhaaa!!

p/s: I said I was going to edit this post cause I wanted to sound more polite,

but....I changed my mind. hehehee..