Chocolate Muffin + Ice Cream + Strawberry

With all the coursework and dissertation coming in, the only way to entertain myself is to eat something nice though the weighing scale is showing all the kilos that i used to get rid of in a hard way. As if someone cares about it!

Just when i thought i will survive in Nottingham, things just did not move according to plan. Still i think i should at least write down some new year resolutions to give myself some small hope.

Sorry to say that, Nottingham is a place where i have the worst experience though is only 4months. I really want to escape from this place. If you ask me anything that i regret, yes, i should have apply to the other master course then i would be in Korea now.

All i ask for this new year is that i complete my master studies quietly. I don’t see anything wrong for being a loner for a year. I can survive with just food and internet.

Happy New Year? Let’s see how happy i can be though i have my doubts!

 

Well, Amy Teo!!! Why have you not learned about the fact that no one will ever care! The way to stop disappointment is to stop hoping too much. The only thing that will never fails you is :

My Dear Ice-Cream

Christmas is around the corner and we are expected to have a white christmas this year due to the early snow~~

Snowing in Nottingham

Christmas Shopping

Not to forget Christmas is about the celebration of Jesus's birthday!

~~My Christmas Tree~~

See! Even Jiji has present!!! Where's mine???

Once again : Merry Christmas and Happy New Year~~

Well, it feels good to take up the camera and deals with all the editing~~~ At least it makes me feel good from all the coursework, exam and reading that i have to do in this cold weather~~ 

Well, i went to Oxford during my birthday. Oxford isn’t a bad place to visit but it isn’t my ideal place of visiting too. Whatever it is, at least i didn’t spend my days in during my big day~~

Some buildings which i have no idea what it is

~~Is me~~

:)

~~Nice scenery~~

Inside a museum

~~Street Performer~~

 

It isn’t a bad day in oxford except it rains. Why do i always have some big days raining? It rains during my convo too~~ Who knows, maybe is true~~ Shower of Blessing~~

 

 

Credit : Clara

Ok, is been a long time since i updated my blog. I feel bad for ignoring my blog. I really did not expect my life to be so busy here in Nottingham. Seriously, i did watch lesser drama now and have fewer hours of lectures but time seems to be not enough. Maybe this is the difference between undergraduate and post-graduate!

I will update it after i settle all my essays.

University of York

New Friends in Nottingham

Clara and I

 

 

 

Credit : Thanks Clara for taking and editing so nice pictures~~~

Recently i’m kind of addicted to the on-going drama, Queen Seondeok. I started watching this drama with no expectation at all apart that i’m curious of how good Ye Jin’s acting skill can be. However, that drama is like a storm that swapped me in without any warning. Now it is like a weekly routine that i have to download it and watched it without fail and with no delay at all.

I’m very impressed about how good the koreans can be in making a film like this. It is not something i can ever dream of to happen in Malaysia, at least not now. I learn a lot of things here and that is also one of the reason why i like korean dramas.

For those who watched this series will know about the character of Misil. She is the person in power before Queen Seondeok took over everything. In episode 30, there was a scene where she cried finally. She cried because she was envy of DukMan. Envy that she was born with royal blood, envy that she is young and there are many things that can be dream and done ahead.

I really loved this part very much as i thought it is kind of similar to me except that i’m not as capable and hardworking as Misil. There are a lot of times where i would wonder what if i was born into a richer family or with a prettier face, everything would have been different. Misil thought that if she was born into royal family, she can be the Queen easily and she can start dreaming of another new dream.

If i’m richer and prettier, a lot can be done in instance. I do not have to sit here and dream about my dream. Maybe with the money and pretty face i have, of course not to left out the little capability that everyone ought to have, the base of my dream which is to have an entertainment industry of our own can be set up easily. If that’s the case, i can now dream of bigger dream. Maybe i can aim to provide music not just for teenagers but for the different age groups. Maybe with the base, we can start building up our capability and slowly moving into producing a high budget drama like Queen Seondeok.

At the same time, apart from envy, i too felt angry because those who has the capability and money are not doing anything. All they know is to enjoy their lives. They have no interest in doing something for the country. Even though i dislike a lot of things happening in the country, i’m still Malaysian, i want to do something big for my country, for my people regardless of races and background.

Today someone posted something about the 1Malaysia song in the newspaper which some of the comments made did not make me feel good. Yes, no doubt that this is a patriotic song but do we have to have the same kind of genre for all patriotic songs? Come on, we are in the electronic era where everything has got to do with electronic. So what’s wrong it is to have songs which uses a lot of electronic sound. Whatever it is, if we want to create a brand new industry, it got to be aim at the teenager first. They will be the one take charge of our society in 10 to 20 years time. No point starting with oldies and when they are gone, you have to start doing things all over again. One more thing is what do you mean by the song must have Malaysian feel? The music mostly satisfied the taste buds of youngerster are of course those modern pop, hip hop or R&B. We are in the era where this type of music are the mainstream music. If  we were to compose a song why not use this kind of melody? You want Malaysian feel, we can give it to you too. You want traditional instrument, we can put it into the arrangement too. Even in korea, traditional instrument can be use to play modern music, we can do so too.

Every country has their own different kind of music as mainstream music but i have yet to know of any country which uses their traditional music as mainstream music. So if people in the industry still thinks that those so called malay tunes are to be the mainstream music, i have my doubt that i would want to support the industry. Which is of course i’m not supporting it now!

^_^

Still remember last year this time i was all so excited over i’m finally able to escape temporarily to UK for my further studies. However, this time the feeling isn’t as good though i still believe that i can set off on time heading back to UK once again for my postgraduate studies. For me, is good physically to reside in UK but mentally it isn’t. Maybe because being a single lady, the feeling of loneliness does visit me here and then. So it makes no different whether i’m in Malaysia or elsewhere.

Whatever it is, i’m still proud to say that i’m Malaysian and as i grew a year older, the urge of doing something big in Malaysia is even stronger now but at the same time the feeling of disappointment did not decrease. Ever since the last election, all i can read in newspaper is about current person in charge digging out problems of the past. Hello, people!!! The votes did not choose you to do all these things, they dare to make a changes in their decision because they are giving you guys a chance and placed their faith in you that you can do a better job. The better job is not to do all these stupid stuff. Everyone knows politics are dirty, if everything goes accordingly with the law, the society will not need the law. So stop doing all these things and get back to your seat and start doing what you have promised.

No matter how people thinks, i still believe that Malaysia can be united through the entertainment industry. We can’t deny that in this 21st century, entertainment has been part of our lives. We can’t live without music, tv series, movies, radios or at least one of these. But have a look at our society. Most of the people i know did not actually know what is happening to our own Malaysia’s entertainment industry maybe except those Malays. Yesterday when i’m on the bus back home, even the Malay girl besides me has Big Bang & 2ne1’s Lollipop song as ringtone. A lot of people have opted korean music, dramas, japanese anime, english movies and also hong kong series. Why is’t that Malaysia’s music(i only mean music with Malay lyrics – because this is my aim) is only confined to Malays? Why can’t they open up the industry or should i said why can’t people(non-malays) invade into it? I don’t see a problem doing it.

What disappoints me most is that when i read the NST today, there is comments regarding hip hop culture playing a part in our society which people thinks that it diminished our own culture. Come on, people!!!! Be a bit more open minded. Is jeans our culture? Jeans as i know is for cow boys, but nowadays everyone wears it. Our society accepted it and we wear it. Does this make people not wearing traditional costume? Indian still wear sari, malays still wear baju kurung, chinese still wears chongsam. Is piano our culture? It is from Europe. Go out in the streets and ask, you will realised that there are far more people know how to play piano from what you expect it to be. On the other hand, have a look at Malays, they still play kompang during weddings. We can’t progress without changes, it is all the matter of acceptance.

My aim is that one day Malaysia will have an entertainment industry of its own, with its own colour but on the other hand, we have all types of variety of music, series, movies that can cater to all people of all ages and races. My example will always lead to k-pop. Although their mainstream music is based on idol singers, underground music has always been given enough credit. Nowadays they have started to promote more on their traditional music which are more of those trot type singing. Their trot music has also been improving to cater for more people especially to attract those young people by having younger singers which pay more attention on the overall packaging. See!!! Why can’t malaysia learn from it? Korean is only korean. But Malaysian, not to be too specific or detailed, we have Malays, Chinese and Indians!!! That means there are more choices and more area which we can progress in and make use of it.

I don’t see any problem in using the Malay language in songs which has the music genre of pop, R & B, dance, ballad, rock or even those funky type of music. I know some people treat music as a kind of art and so they think it should only be make with those so called ‘feel’. For me, i am a music lover, i may not be a music expert but i do know how to differentiate singers that sings with feel or not. However, regardless of all these things, i still thinks instead of spending so much money buying foreign CDs, we have to well packaged our music into a product that the market wants! With now k-pop increasing their foreigner in their idol group like chinese (Hankyung – gosh, he is a hottie) and thai (nichkhun – he is such a cutie), i know see why we can’t have an idol group which consists of different races in Malaysia, afterall, we are all Malaysian. But of course to make our product more marketable, we have to put in different colours to cater for more people of different taste.

Gosh, now did i realised i have written so much on it. I have been doing a lot of thinking as time goes and as i get to learn more about from korean entertainment. For me, i do not qoute examples using US entertainment because i’m not a fan of it and for Malaysia, english music may be a bit too modern for us. Korea to me, can be considered a more conservative country, so with all those idol singers and dramas that are a bit modern but not to the extent like US, the standard they took is just nice for us. At least this is how i think. The explicity of substance and nudity level used in their series are still acceptable to me. So perhaps we can also create our industry based on that standard.

So this shall be my wish for our 52nd birthday. Until this is achieve, it shall be the dream i always hope but of course, some of the details will change as time goes. This dream is something that pull me through the loneliness of being single. Until it is achieve, it will always be my dream, this will be the big thing that i hope to do as a Malaysian.

^_^

This post really came in late but is alright, anyway this blog is only for my personal update, no one bothers~~lolz~~

Some random church

Cafe in National Glass Centre

My Pumpkin Soup and Bread

Glasses

Glasses

Last but not least

Stadium of Light

 

 

 

Credit : Andrew’s camera

Well, my family and i went for holiday in Switzerland last month and i got to said that this is the best trip i ever have. Nothing to worry about, transportation, programme, food, accommodation everything has been planned in advance by my mum’s uncle and cousin brother. All we have to do is get down from the airplane, search for some chinese look at the arrival hall (since we never met her uncle before) and enjoy every minute of the trip.

Arbon Am See

Bondesee

Arbon Sea or Bondesee or whatever it is refer to as, it is actually a lake. We stayed at this small town named Arbon which is located at the border of the country. It will only take you a 40-minute drive to Germany and 30-minute drive to Austria. Once you reach Germany, we was told that another 30-minute drive will land you into Poland. Woah~~ fantastic, isn’t?

Let’s have a look at the lake once again.

Beautiful Lake

Arbon

This was where i lived during the 5day trip to Switzerland but of course not the 2 houses shown in the picture. But the one i lived has the same design and in front of it is the turnip farm.

~~Chocolate~~

~~Swiss Chocolate~~

How can we missed shopping for chocolate when we were already in Switzerland.

Some random Church we visited

We did visited a few places like St.Gallen, Arbon(of course) and Appenzeller. Since internet connection at home now in Malaysia isn’t that good, i’m too lazy to post pictures of it.

Mountain

I’m not quite sure what this place called but this is the place where we played the roller-skating-like thing and roll all the way down the mountain and we get to see the nice scenery. For those who have weak heart, there is also cabel car up to the mountain and you can walk up there. Other than that, there is also some parachutting(sorry, not so sure about the spelling) thing as seen in the pictures. Is a nice place to visit for a evening leisure.

Last but not least, we visited what was told to be the largest waterfall in Europe.

Rheifall

Approaching to the waterfall

Boad Ride

The boad ride only cost us 8frank which is approximately RM26. The ride is 30minute long with the tour guide giving little explanation about some facts regarding the waterfall and also the significance of some area around the river bank. Something to our surprised is we did went to Germany. The boad reach Germany border and then that’s all, we took a turn and headed back to Switzerland again~~lolz~~

Whatever it is, I’ve been to Germany!!! ^_^