Winter's coming!

おはいよう！（or こんにちわ or こんばんわ）

ケスビックです。よろしくおねがいします！

5S5はおげんきですか？　＝）

ひらがなとカタカナをかきます（かんじはかきません）。すみません、みんな。

Translation:

Good morning! (or "good afternoon", or "good evening")

Kesvick here. Nice to meet you!

How is 5S5 doing? =)

I'm writing in hiragana and katakana (no kanji). Sorry, everyone.

Well, that was the best of my translating from taking classes in my university's Japanese program. I'm kinda liking it though, it's fun to learn new languages.

Sorry again, I haven't been able to contribute as much as I have been able to, partly because I'm still rather shy around this (admittably), partly because I was afraid that if I started posting here I would somehow make this my personal blog. Hopefully, that won't happen, and I'll try and post some relevant content for the class blog.

Well, I attached a picture of how I look in the USA right now. I could post it on Facebook, except for 2 very important (some would say critical) points: 1. I don't have Facebook 2. I don't think I am going to be getting an account without incentive. I was gonna ask how do I look, but that would make it seem rather egocentric and sad.

Oh well...it's me trying out some tricks picked up from my kitty. Meh...

Anyways, over here, 'tis the season of fall. Frost has started settling over the leaves and grass. If you squint hard you can see frost on the leaves. Still, I was walking around with my camera and I came across a rose bush that still had not wilted from the cold, so I took a picture. Winter will come soon...probably about 2-3 weeks away.

*contemplates what to write*

It's amazing how short a time has passed. I remember thinking that this was going to be a LONG year. Then, before I know it, 8 weeks have passed, and it seems as if all the settling-in, the getting-reacquainted-with-classes phases were only last week.

Ah well, I am talking in circles here. It's probably best to just stop here and save myself further embarassment.

ありがとうございます！さよんあら！

P.S. Where is Ter-Yi? It'd be nice to see him back on. As well as...you know, the others.

bckground source:http://www.oyonale.com/images/3D/classe.jpg

In other words, hope life is treating you well!


ps: Follow up on the Bright Side of Life, it really cheered me up =)

The Bright Side of Life

We humans are so blind, most of the time. It takes a disaster to make us realise the power of nature. It takes a loss to make us realise what it meant to have. It takes a death to make us realise what it is that matters most in life.

Things happen without warning. Without premonition. Without any sense of omnious foreboding. Things happen before we have the chance to apologise, to embrace, to speak our heart out, to finish writing letters of farewell and gratitude to all our friends and family.

People, you've known me for almost 5 years and counting. You know me enough to recognise this as another piece of my unreasonably exaggerated melodramatic crap. You've already seen me at my worst, my weakest, my most irrationally emotional many times over. I know it's annoying. Forgive me for ranting once again (you: not again!).

S5, I take it for granted that you already know this, but - I can't be any blunter than this - I just wanted to say it out loud that you have been an important part of my life, and I appreciate the opportunity to have known you all more than I can put in words. Thank you for being there, for being amazing, for being you. For caring, for sharing, for bringing so much cheer by cracking super-lame jokes you'll never hear anywhere else/ singing the birthday song or the national anthem/ insulting each other in friendly banter all the time/ endless things to laugh about even though we haven't met in a long while.

Who would've thought that a bunch of people who started off as strangers would eventually become the same friends who organised various "last gatherings" after graduation, then finally dropped the "last" knowing it will never be? It's a known fact that acquaintances inevitably drift apart with time and distance but you proved otherwise. And I salute you.

I don't expect many to see this, really, or even any at all. Not that it matters. Like my boss said about blogs, "Never mind if anyone reads it. If you write it down, at least it's documented." Thought I'd just want to put down on record that I cherish every class gathering we had in the past, and every one that we are bound to have in future.

On another note, Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life! :D

(Lovely song! Go search for it on youtube. Works for me all the time.)

MAlaysia Public Policy Competition

Beach trip

Picture taken at Batemans Bay, New South Wales.

Another beach trip in Aussie, which is so reminiscent of our Pangkor trip.

In other words, miss S5 a lot. How's everyone doing? Shout out at our Cbox =) Take care!

Happily ever after

Prince William and Kate Middleton are getting married on the 29th, and the hype is all around the country. The ordinary citizen feels connected to the royal family at such a personal level to be fervently interested in, deeply concerned about, and genuinely happy for the couple. It's amazing to see how the people here derive so much excitement from this royal wedding, and it's difficult not to be infected by their enthusiasm.

Admit it - which girl has never dreamed of riding into the sunset with a prince, upon hearing those fairytales as a child? This really, really old song is for all the single ladies in the class - cheers!

Saje

我献丑了

尝试玩点不同的，质劣误多请勿见怪。别理画面，没有录音器材软件，只能用相机放在音乐室椅子上，过后也没花心思去想怎么弄掉。这只是一个晚上的EMO，现在忙起来就没空乱想了。;)

给同在异乡过新年的朋友们。预祝元宵快乐。

每一个早上 每一次开窗 想起家乡的夏

每一点星光 每一回彷徨 想远方的关心无价

每一声恭喜 每一句国语 有谁会不想家

每一封消息 每一缕叹气 想要回去一下

一天一天 在外的经验 又再增加多一点点

一遍一遍 团圆饭画面 它不断在脑海里面重演

才知道 月是故乡的圆

才知道 家人的笑最甜

才知道 有些歌会刺痛双眼

才知道 什么叫做思念

才知道 离开家有多远

才知道 不归巢会疲倦

才知道 有些事 宁愿不改变

才知道 什么叫做过年

The answer is 5

5 Selections of 5s -

Events:
1. 携手publication
2. Post-携手 huge RedBox session
3. Graduation day
4. Christmas party
5. Pangkor class trip

Venues:
1. Class A 011
2. Sunway Pyramid
3. Midvalley
4. Chor Yeng's house
5. (New addition!) Snowflakes

Songs:
1. Happy birthday
2. If you're happy and you know it clap your hands
3. 掌声响起来
4. 祝福
5. 思念是一种病

Habits:
1. Singing the birthday song. What else?
2. Always, always, always winning the cleanliness prize
3. Kai ma, kai zhe, kai yi ma
4. Occupying the whole walkway outside class, sitting along both sides doing last-minute revision for SPM
5. "[insert obscure excuse] So let's have another gathering."

Times during which you think of S5:
1. Staying up late at night
2. When you're happy
3. When you're not happy
4. Hearing an S5-specific inside joke and laughing to yourself, only to realise no one else got it
5. Saying something that sounds very much like something another S5-ian would have said



Miss y'all. (x 5.)