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Merry Christmas and Happy 2016 New Year

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So the past few days, I have recorded myself playing the piano (not like it's the first, I'm really camera shy). I played "Santa Clause Is Coming To Town". Every year end, I always practise playing Christmas songs on the piano. Eventhough my family and I don't celebrate Christmas, but I enjoy listening and playing Christmas songs. It seemed like I played well in the video and it took only one shot. SO WRONG. I made so many mistakes, if not mistaken this was the 15th time before I stopped recording myself being a fool. It's when the camera starts to shoot, I get all nervous and my hands start to freeze and become stiff. I have stage fright... I've always enjoyed doing improvisations; a little acting; re-enactments of scenes or reciting from famous movies; ONLY WHEN nobody is looking. BALLS, where have you gone? 2016 is just around the corner. 2015 has been quite a good year. 2016 will be better.

Yiruma Live In Malaysia 2015

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Last week, I took mum to attend Yiruma's concert at KLCC Plenary hall. The hall was packed. I saw many people, mostly couples, and it was a treat to my eyes, if only I could... Anyway the performance started at approximately 8.30pm, lasted all the way till 10pm. Can't remember how many pieces he played, but it was really enjoyable. Yiruma even did an impromptu play with the assistance of an audience (she used to be a freelance harpist). He asked her to play 3 notes, and from there he improvised and played a song on the spot. Such talent, much envy. The song was called "Green Something", just because. And Yiruma jokingly said he will be using that piece in his next album. I wanted to take more pictures but the hall staffs were like eagles preying on its preys. Eversince I started playing Yiruma's two most famous pieces  - Kiss The Rain and River Flows In You, at home on the piano, mum kept requesting me to play them and that wa...

Engineer

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Yesterday was my 1 year working anniversary at Air Liquide Malaysia. How did it all begin? It started last year during my final year at university. My parents(brother too!) have been nagging and constantly reminding me to send out my resumes. Before sending them out, I had to make tons of corrections, hoping to make my CV stand out of the crowd, there were so many revisions. To be honest, I actually made 4 applications(ONLY) online, mostly at jobstreet.my. I saw a post by Air Liquide Malaysia, vacancy for Total Gas Management engineer or something. Without hesistating, I applied. And usually at the end of the application, we had to make a pitch. I remembered bullshitting in it, I am great at bullshitting. Soon before I know it, I received a call from HR or HOD, I can't remember. It was 8 in the morning and I was still asleep in the rented house at Semenyih. I answered the phone, half awake and agreed on the interview. I tried to speak as soft as possible, tryin...

No sound without silence

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Last few weeks I attended the The Script concert at Stadium Melawati. If not mistaken, they were playing "Never Seen Anything Quite Like You" They were sporting enough to wear the Songkok and even took a picture on stage I went with See Chai and her friend (sorry I didn't take pictures with you and your friends) I also wanted to try out the "Doughnut Selfie" but was too shy(I had a friend who did this during her trip to Japan, she recorded her selfies and it is on Youtube. It was so good, a Japan TV company decided to feature the clip on their program, link here  and FB status here ) I was hesitating to buy the concert tickets, but then she asked me whether I would like to join them. I didn't know she was also a fan of The Script, it was great to have company. I really liked their songs such as The Man Who Can't Be Moved. Breakeven, Nothing, If You See Me Now, For The First Tme, and the list goes on. They started off thei...

D.e.l.e.t.e

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I have been playing this game for many years now. I keep telling myself that I have to stop, it has become an addiction. I gathered my strength, and did the impossible. I DELETED DOTA 2 I have actually done this before, it was in year 2013 when I was busy with my FYP. I was clean for approximately 20 days, here . I have been missing out on a lot. I know it will come haunt me again one day, in fact it is happening right now. I am taking baby steps to slowly get over this. I unsubscribed myself from any Dota 2 related page in Youtube. I guess this will be my New Year's Resolution. I will be better. I promise to update more often. Wish me luck. I LIED

The ship we call friend

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Me and my friends used to play basketball on friday nights weekly ever since we graduated from highschool. It was my good friend Jefferson's idea as he was the one with the big Toyota Unser, he fetched all of us from our houses before heading to the basketball court at Kota Kemuning. We chose to play at night because the weather was nice, no hot blazing sun to sear our soft tofu-like skin. These basketball sessions used to have at least 8 people attending where we can play a pick-up game of 4 v 4. Then after our ball session, we would head to the mamak for the next session - Yum Cha. We would catch up on each of our lives by meeting and talking face to face. Nothing beats physical interaction. Facebook, Whatsapp or whatever social media are just not up to it. We would talk about anything on the face of Earth. "That so and so already so buff!" "Wow she really changed alot!" "Did you know that A is now with B already?" "Hey did you k...

The End is Just The Beginning

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Today I challenged myself to a certain limit. I wasn't familiar driving a manual car, driving to a place I'm unfamiliar with, located far from the nest. I was driving a very old se cond/third/fourth hand car, I kept imagining of the worst case scenarios. I was nervous and afraid, but I didn't show any sign of it. I called my dad to tell him I was leaving, I waved my mum goodbye, before leaving on a journey. I was leaving for Malacca that very day. I will be starting my first new job as an engineer, away from home. I was having so many mixed feelings. Excited that I will be living outside on my own, Sad that I will be leaving the warm and cosy nest, Afraid that I will screw my first job, Happy to be making my own money(soon...), Lost because I really have no idea what I'm doing. 16 years of studying, blink of an eye, I have finally finished my studies and am glad that it's all over. To be honest, I have returned almost everything back to my te...