May You Rest in Peace

One afternoon, a lady from the company which has been sponsoring my education expenses called.

Lady: May I speak to Cassandra?

Me: Yes, speaking.

Lady: I'm calling from XXX company. Can you send us a copy of your recent exam result slip as we would like to issue the cheque for your upcoming semester fees.

Me: I've emailed it to Ms X.

Lady: Hmm...Can I know when did you do so?

Me: I think it was in early July.

Lady: Ermm...I'm sorry to inform you that Ms X has passed away last month. I'll be taking over your case from now.

Ms X has been liasing with me on my education fees for 2 years. I never knew that she got breast cancer until she added me on FB one day. Never did I expect that her illness is at a very serious stage. I only come to realise that when she has been taking leave just to be admitted into the hospital.

Thank you for everything.

May you rest in peace.

One day after that

My birthday CAKE! ^^

Obviously, I'm 22 years old *sob sob*

Notes:- A 'surprise' party were supposed to happen. However, with Ms Leong around, nothing can run away from my eyes. The whole thing happen without surprise and all the involved party were blaming each other.

LOL.....

22nd!

On the 26 Aug 2010, my life has reached to a 1/3 if my expected life span is 60+ years old. Not much of celebration this year but manage to receive blessings from those who care though.

When you reach to a certain age, presents is not much of what you desire already. What you really want is just a simple birthday greetings from friends and family.

Millions of thanx to those who sms, left msg on FB, and especially those who call from US and Kedah!

LOL =P

Still, birthday cake is a MUST for Cassie ^^

Since its the only chance to excuse myself not to go on diet. Haha

Chocolate Indulgence from Secret Recipe!

Half-way eaten T_T

Going to finish.... T_____T

24 Aug to 28 Aug, days to be remembered ^^

Hand-made card from Ms Leong with blessings from all over the world =D

Hugz and kisses for all of you who have made this a wonderful time!

Remarks:-
Got a surprise party from cc, joo, apr & ms leong on the 27th Aug '10.
Will blog on this when I got the photos. Hehe

21, Bye!

Going to bid goodbye to my 21 years old life in another few hours.
I made a few birthday wishes last year. Some came true, some not.
Gonna give an extension of one year to the same wishes again =)

Anyway, my best friend, knowing that I don't really hope for any present, gave me a treat on Starbucks in Jaya One today! We were planning to go for Secret Recipe cake, who knows there isn't any Secret Recipe outlet there.
I want a big big big infinity cake T_________T

My favourite Green Tea Frappuccino ^^

Thanx~~kisses!

这种又期待又害怕受伤害的感觉是怎么回事？
-倒数两天- >.<

Mess the Kitchen!

Saturday afternoon, 1 uncle and 3 aunties gathered in Sunway for home-cooked food!

*Clapping*

Menu of the Day:

Mashed Potato with Ham

Cabbage with Chili & Shrimp

Cauliflower & Mushroom in Cambell

Shredded Pork with Mushroom

Lotus Root Soup

Fresh Lime Juice

Let's peek into the kitchen!

Aunties preparing ingredients

Uncle preparing juice

Trying my best to reduce the quantity of carrots by stuffing into Cooper's mouth =P

Tada! The main dishes of the day!

Finally ready for dinner after 3 hours of hardwork

In the end, we cooked a table of food which is enough for 7 persons, while there were only 4 of us =________='

After all, it was a great day with lots of home-cooked food. It has been ages since I last enjoyed a table of 'natural delicious mouth-drooling' food. Waiting for the next round! 

Sentences

I kept recalling this sentence recently, which I used to discuss with my best friend.

"When someone left our life, god will eventually send another one to step into our life."

At first, we were just merely discussing this and agreed that it really applies to our life.
Now, I'm totally agreed to this.
It seems like a cycle where god will always be fair to you.

The 'left' here doesn't mean that particular person passed away or dissappeared, it can be refering to merely less contacts or there is other more important person to attend to.

And I guess, this sentence not only applies to one 'whole' person, it includes the absence of 'half' of the person.
When half of the person which was in your life left, god will also send another person by 'half' to you.
Its just like a process of 'refilling' until its full tank.

Try to think about it and see whether it applies to you as well.
If  it does, don't ever say that god is unfair =)

One of my friend keep reminding me,
"Don't find because you want, but find when you feel its the time to find."

Seems like a really no-meaning-sentence, but did give me some insight to step back & rethink.
Thanx ya friend =)

Now I know what's the meaning of being a normal undergraduate.
Not to be free of heavy work load or packed schedule, but to be away from family financial problem.
Yes, I understand you do not want to be bothered with all these problems.
Yes, I understand you depend a lot on me.
Yes, I understand you are not blaming me.
Yes, I understand you have other problems to deal with.
As though I like to be bothered with all these huh?
I do not want to take charge. I do not want to be depended, at least not by you.
We're not losing a life now, what's the point of yelling and making everyone frustrated?
Its just such a simple small problem.
You still haven't change after all these years.
The devil is still there. Get rid of it, I beg you.

Klang趴趴走

The advertisement of photography competition organized by Canon and i-City caught my eyes weeks ago. Wanted to visit that place and try my luck.

So, a day trip is organized on the Saturday, 6 persons, all squeezed into Ms Leong's car, and here we go!

What else to eat in Klang but Bat Kut Teh?

Not many of us really know how to play this.
So I'm the winner of the day! =D

These young girls found their childhood favorite game.

Freshly-steamed fish head RM 22

Reach i-City!
Love this pic alot =)

This 'let it snow'man is in a 'high demand' status.

They're really good in posing. LOL

All trees are taken =P

This couple keep forcing the little handsome guy to take pic with them. Haha

At the end of the day, around 300 photos were taken *O.M.G.*

My models were so good in posing to the extend that passerby keep stopping around and 'watch' us as though we're shooting for some sort of special event.

I heard a mother telling her children,

'See how gor gor jie jie pose! Come, learn from them then I take photo for you.'

LOL..... 

Had a great day with this bunch of people =)

Back on track

It's time to get myself back to the busy life.

Remember me saying that I wanna get back to normal undergraduate life?

Well, its way too boring and I become lazy with just going for lectures & yum cha everywhere.

Guess I've been so used to the packed schedule for the previous 2 years, felt so empty seeing my diary left with lots of empty spaces.

AIESEC? No thanx, I've got what I want from there.

Its time to throw myself into a different channel.

So yup, got myself involve back to faculty's activities. Our course mates are determine to revive back our Economics Society. I thought, why not join as well and give a helping hand?

It'll be another type of experience though.

One week passed after the committee is selected, got the sponsorship dept which I hate so much.

Dealing with externals is always my weakness and nightmare.

Another challenge from fate huh?

We'll see how =)

This remind me of those days when the freshies were newly recruited into my team. Out of 13 members, 9 resigned and only 4 stayed on till the end.

Luckily, at the end of the day, I still have a team of 10 lovely people.

*although some of them joined accidentally...haha.

Anyway, still feel blessed for this 'suffering yet challenging' position that bring us together. I would never expect this unexpected friendship with 'the one who washed the cup by the drain ' & 'the one who only stick with leng lui'.

Back to the topic, out of 8 team mates this time, how many would I be left with?

Have a mixed feelings of excitement & 'preparing for the worst'.

Wish me good luck!

How she wish a simple sorry can solve everything.

It gives one an excuse to run away after the damage is done.

She miss those days with yelling and screaming at each other.

Yet, not knowing the reason, silence seems to be the solution nowadays.

We believe it's the best antidote, without realizing it added a teaspoon of spice to the next argument.

Just a Random Papa Mama Thing

Sunday Afternoon, travel ALLLL the way to KLCC again to get a lap top for my 53 years old dad.

Its definitely not a good idea to go to PC Fair on Sunday.

Stuck in a traffic jam that happen in the car park =.=

Finally, bought a Toshiba model that cost me RM1699.

Lap top is Dad's.  Free gifts? All mine! Hahaha...

Both of the folks have been bugging me that they want to learn up some computer skills.

And yup, its a good thing. My only hope that they'll be consistent.

It's not a good feeling when you know you can't operate something which all your subordinates know how to.

This is the problem faced by my dad. After all these years of being the-one-who-knows-everything, guess the incident really destroy his highly-built self esteem. He quit the computer-skills-needed-job in Vietnam and went to Indonesia. Just after one month, he resigned again and decided to resume the job offer of Vietnam. This brings the connection to the Toshiba thingy.

Such a filial daughter I am. *sigh*

-The end of dad's job history-

Mum, another headache factor. Resigned from KL, planning to go Singapore for another job offer. Result?

Work permit application rejected.

Therefore, I have these two folks staying at JB, jobless. T_____T

My account balance has reached the lowest level of its life.

Just one more year to go, hopefully can get through this.

No worries, I believe I can.

Travel all the way

Thursday Night, travel all the way to Kuchai Lama with cch, joo & sc just to have fried rice & loh mee for dinner.

Thanx to cch, my taste bud has defeated my brain, causing my stomach to regain the ability of making a balloon. xD

Friday Evening, travel all the way to KLCC PC Fair to bring my beloved camera back home. After long years of waiting, have finally got myself owning one. Spent a total of RM1870

*I'll never forget this amount, the highest value item after my lap top T_T

This is what I get in a package:-

- Canon EOS 500D (18-55IS)

- 8GB SD Card

- Bag

- Tripod

- Additional battery

- Lens EF 50 mm f/1.8 II

- Filter 52mm

- Filter 58 mm

- Screen protector

- and, something like a filter cleaner pen =)

Let's name you.... Bobby, Cooper, Doddle? 

Saturday Afternoon, travel all the way to Uni to witness the big day of Kai Ting, Foo Cheong, Alif and other engineers. Wanted to get flowers for kt, switch the whole thing to a dozen of donuts as it'll seems kinda unfair if only one person gets the flowers =P

Gave him a scarf as well for usage in NZ's trip. Hopefully he'll remember to get a NZ travel adapter himself.

Love this pic a lot!

Anyway, the most important thing is Doodle's first outing *smile*

Honestly, totally can't hold a candle to others DSLR users.

1st reason, experience. 2nd reason, height. LOL

But I think I've done quite a great job as a beginner. Haha.

At least I get to grab the moments that I wanted to =] 

Should it or shouldn't it?

The whole university is filled with graduation atmosphere for this whole week.

Lots of photos were being uploaded in FB tonight.

Was wondering whether guys like to receive flowers as a graduation gift.

It seems weird for a guy to hold a banquet of flowers while taking photos.

But it seems even weird when a guy is not holding any when everyone else have one!

Any comment/suggestion?

Mirror mirror on the wall

After 3 weeks of studying life, its finally time to face the reality and start working on my graduation exercise.

25 items in pdf waiting to be read within one week's time, 50 pages waiting to be written within 2 semesters.

Whenever I try to recall back, my study life has never been like the majority's.

I'm definitely not the hardworking type nor the 'want to show off' type, but why do I always choose the 'darker' path? Taking extra subjects during SPM, took Maths during STPM, and now, choose to write when everyone else choose to go for internship. Not to mention all those other tiny little things that were done in daily life.

Have been wondering, have been asking myself to make own life easier, yet still doing the same thing.

Am I one of those that adults always said, 'always following what your friend do'?

Sometimes I do ponder on this question too.

Not trying to say that I feel regret right now. Its just like the daily routine reflection to make sure I'm still on the right path to lead me to the ultimate goal.

So, "have I choose the right path?"

A question that I posted 1 year back.

Not refering to the field I'm studying now (which is Economics), but refer to all the extraordinary decisions that were made all these while.

Kinda deep huh? =P