Year 2017 Review

Year 2017 is almost reaching the end, time flies so fast! 
(～￣▽￣)→))*￣▽￣*)o

Let me recall and value my goals and revolutions for this year. 
I will try to write this year review in a different way, kindly leave some comments! 😂 
(I think what I want to share were mostly wrote in previous updates.)

Here is the summary of my year 2017 goals:

• Choose my degree course cautiously after the result comes out. Who knows I am studying foundation in science now lol, but I am still grateful to meet crazy friends here. 😈
• After applying the desired course, start to plan the hostel rental. I surveyed the hostel after applying my foundation and prepare myself before coming.

Seriously, I was upset when my result came out and was not satisfying. At that moment my brain was blank, what could I do for my future study? My mother and I went to an education agent, the officer suggested me to take foundation in science then take the degree course that I had interest on it. My parents left me to decide because I was the one who decide as I was the one who are going to study.

And finally I am here. (Eh?)😌

  

Sincerely, studying foundation in science is not as easy as I thought. It is full with lectures, tutorials, lab reports, assignments, quizzes, tests, and even presentations. What I always taught and saw is foundation just like happy-go-lucky, but it doesn't apply here. The timetables are packed, from 9 to 4 (sometime it can be until 5). The syllabus are not easy also, although I learned some of the topics in previous study, but some are deeper and some I haven't learn before.  Quiz always come through after one topic has been taught. Mid-term exam is coming at about week 7. But we only have about five days of revision days before final exam. 😢

Go Noodle House

Sometimes procrastination is fine (but don't over), semester one is just a start, semester two becomes busy, and the third semester is the busiest. Actually I am thinking to share some of the study notes made here.

• Practice to update blog weekly in English, Chinese or both. I FAILED to do so. (can see it obviously lol)

• Write one travelling trip. Yup for my  Melaka and Penang short trips.

• Write more than five food-hunting posts. If including Taiwan posts, I just wrote about THREE. 

As I wrote before, sometimes I am really struggling about which language I want to use to update the next post. This year I only update here once few months (facepalm).  To be active, I challenge myself write four posts per month. Sometimes I maybe lack of idea, my friend suggests me to write some journals in Mandarin since one post about the Olympic one has quite high views. It has been a long time for not using Mandarin to express myself.

I don't know when is the next trip because of busy studying but I am still looking forward for it! This year I had lunch outside together with my classmates and also my housemates! 
(Maybe next time I can write in anyone new post? Hmm......)

Nando's!

Bibimbap rice balls!

• Don't keep procrastinating in anything. I admit that I still procrastinate and not self-discipline enough, but it improves when I meet my roommate, she is really a discipline person.

• Learn new Photoshop skills. It has been a long time not opening my PS already......
• Read more novels and articles, and then write the reviews monthly. This one I really FAILED to do this, I seldom read novels but more often on articles or short stories shared in the social media.

• Learn to do planning using journal. I am not really planning routine using my journal, I just write down the to do list in a small whiteboard sticking on the wall in front of me.

I learn a lot from my roommate, she is a very self-disciplined person. Looking into myself, I always procrastinate and do things at almost last minute and don't satisfy my work as it has been done in a rush. She makes me to be more independent, not only in studies, but also in daily life. Besides, I also learn to make own notes. Making own notes let us easier to understand the learning outcomes, taking out the important points from study materials, and can have a quick glance before the quiz or test.

• Lose 5 kg weight. Seriously I lost approximately 1 kg. (Mum: It is caused by stress lol.)
• Learn Japanese Language with target N5 standard. Maybe my vocabulary can reach N5 but my grammar is still at the very beginning level.
• Recall back the English Language skills learnt before. I think it improves some as I speak to my classmates in class as most of them speaks English, but my presentation skills still need improvements.

• Take some time to do drawing. Instead of drawing, I start to do my notes using colorful stationary or random writing.

I feel relieved as my weight loss a little bit (at least not keep increasing is fine lol). For my Nihongo, I just keep learning vocabulary from Memrise, I haven't manage my time to learn the grammar, maybe sometimes I can guess the meaning of the sentences, but I don't know how to reply it, that's the matter. 

What I bought from Big Wolf Book Fair!

Occasionally, it is the time for us to find our hobbies. Hobby is not just a hobby, it is a thing that we can do or like to do other than studies during leisure. Interest and passion are very important values that we have to practice. Without them, we will feel bored easily, or refuse to do or learn something that seems troublesome. This is because not everything we learnt are always our favorite, some of topics may become our weakness. It needs time to change our minds to accept something that we don't like. You will feel the difference when you try to learn it, maybe it's still difficult. Try again. Try again and again. You may feel afraid and discouraged at that moment, but throw away the negative emotion and keep saying try. That's what I am trying now as I take physics in this semester. (Seriously I don't know why I am so scared of this subject, maybe lack of confidence.)

Merry Christmas!

2nd prize

Consolation prize

• Learn to be grateful and learn from mistakes. That's what I always tell to myself, be grateful for everyone and everything.
• Learn more God's words and built up confident. It improves since I joined the fellowship.
• Learn to be lean more on God as He has plan on us. Yes, thanks God as I can be prepared to be baptized in this Christmas Day!

My friends and I joined as volunteers for our church's event - Love Serdang Christmas Carnival as stage managers, although there were a few times of light rains, thanks God that the event still can proceed and end successfully! Also, our group in fellowship won the second and consolation prizes in Christmas lighting making using recycling materials competition! Congrats and everyone did a great job! We spent few days to make three works to join. I can still remember we made it until the midnight and reached hostel at about 2 a.m. (break record !) 


This year I had three Christmas gift exchanges with my housemates, classmates and also friends in church! My housemate sent me a cute and grey seal pillow to me; my classmate sent me a heat sensitive mug (as shown above) and my friend in church send me a mask.

I don't know the real name of this fruit, but it is a type of wild mangosteen!

• Watch more animes and write reviews, and also listen to more anime songs. I planned to write but haven't write the anime reviews (facepalm), this year there are lots of wonderful anime songs released.
• Learn to explore the surrounding more. I explored new things in my university, friends, fellowship, foods and so on...hmm.

I didn't watch many animes this year, mostly watch online. The only anime that I watch and download is The Ancient Magus Bride. I am attracted by the beautiful drawing style, nice opening and ending songs, plus the beautiful background musics (soundtracks)! I am not going to spoil, just recommend you to watch it! 

Other recommended animes are Land of the Lustrous (Houseki no Kuni), Blood Blockade Battlefront Beyond (Kekkai Sensen Beyond), Jūni Taisen, Classroom of the Elite (Yōkoso jitsuryoku shijō shugi no kyōshitsu e), Kakegurui – Compulsive Gambler, Princess Principal and so on... ...

I went for our secondary school friends gathering the day before yesterday, it has been almost one year not meeting them already. This make us feel like it is getting more difficult to meet each other as everyone is studying outstation at different universities, appreciate every moment with everyone here. 💗

Although I suppose have to study at this holiday, but I was sick these few days!! QAQ I got flu and fever, but luckily it is getting better now. Now, both of the legs still have lots of mosquito bites and have to apply the medicinal lotion on it. So, my short trips post have to be postponed again (facepalm), as the next coming post is about the goals.😬

I forgot to write that my roommate and I got denggi this year. I started with the fever first, my roommate also had fever later with higher body temperature than me. After the blood testing, she told me that she got denggi and had to go back home on that day. At that time, I was getting better and the fever is remitting, but haven't recover my appetite (it is terrible as you are not willing to eat food in front of you!). I ate many Chinese medicine brought and keep going to toilet. 😧 

Always have a gathering with her also haha. We both are bloggers now, we always talk about the blogs, animes, travelling, studies and many more. Appreciate every time we meet. 😆

In short, year 2017 is a special year that changes me a lot since I chose to study foundation here, meeting new friends here, and also learning new things here! Thanks God for His plan full with unexpected wonderful things come to me. I am grateful for everything! Thank you!

Year 2018 is going to be challenging year for me especially in my study. Nevertheless, let's let the past pass and keep stepping forward! We can't forget all the memories we want to forget, but what can we do is forgiving. Forgive ourselves and forgive everyone, then tidy ourselves and cheer up! ✌

Wish everyone a Happy New Year! 💖💖💖

GOODBYE 2017, WELCOME 2018!

About Me

:.。.。.:*ヾ(●´・ω・)(・ω・`○)ノ*:.。.。.:*

Hi, everyone! Sincerely, it's the time that I have to introduce myself and also my blog to everyone. 😀

First and foremost, let me introduce myself. You can just call me Shirly. I am a Malaysian. I study foundation in science and continue my degree course which is the Occupational Therapy at the same university in year 2017. Before that, I studied A-Levels before but didn't get a good result.😟

I started my blog at the end of year 2014 after SPM exam. However, I admit I didn't update my blog frequently because of my laziness and procrastination. I realized and decided to manage here seriously. My friend who is also a blogger always reminds me to update my blog. Yup, this year I only manage to update less than 10 posts. (Facepalm!😧)

My blog is all about my daily life——my study, routine, study notes, activities or events, food hunting and also animes. There are also others like reviews and journals here.😉

About the language, sometimes I really struggle whether using Mandarin or English to update my posts as this will make my blog looks like in a mess. So, I just decided to use both languages in my blog posts. (What?!) Mandarin is my mother language and I use English here as a practice to enhance my English language. For you information, I already put a label of using Mandarin or English for every post! For some posts like travelling (guide) posts, I will try my best to type in two languages separately. (It's a big challenge!) 🙌 

Based on what I had updated recently, I use Mandarin to update my monthly update post and some events. Also, I will use English to update some events. travel trips and some language learning. I always decide the language based on what language was used to communicate at that time.

I am an anime and Japanese songs lover. I watched new animes but not much.I study Japanese Language myself now, but still at the beginner level. Sometimes I still confused with the Katakana lol. I stuck at a point now.😡

I love travelling too (although in reality it needs money T.T). I had my very first travelling aboard with my family to Indonesia and with my friends to Taiwan. It is the wonderful time as you can enjoy the moments! I wish I can travel to Japan in the coming future with my family and friends. 😆

To conclude, thank you for everyone who visit my blog! Your view and comment are the momentum for me updating my blog! Feel free to leave comment or suggestion for the coming blog post! 😏

Cheers and stay tune! 💖💖💖

大家好！真心觉得需要特备介绍下关于自己和自己的部落格。😀

首先，允许我介绍我自己。我是Shirly，来自马来西亚。我在某大学读大学先修班，现在（2017年起）继续在那里读职能治疗学士学位，其实我之前读过A水平，只是成绩差强人意。😟

我在2014年注册并开始经营部落格，那时候正是考完SPM之时。但是我的懒惰和拖延症让我变的很少更新，甚至今年更新不大10篇（对，我很需要面壁反省了！😧）我也有一位朋友也是在经营者部落格，感谢她常常提醒我要更新部落格xD

我的部落格多数都是关于我的生活——学业，日常，笔记，活动，寻找美食，还有动漫。当然，这里也会有其他内容比如日记或者回顾。😉

关于更新部落格所使用的语言，有时候我真的很纠结要用华语还是英语。华语是我的母语，而选择要用英语更新是因为要加强书写能力。部分贴子比如旅游贴子，我会尝试用两个语言来更新（大挑战！）而且，其实我已经在每一篇贴子都标上了中文/英语了哦！🙌

以目前的更新来看，我都会用华语来更新每个月的总结或者参加的一些活动，一些游记和活动则会用到英语。我多数是跟着当时的语言环境来更新。

我喜欢动漫和日文歌曲（虽然看的动漫不多），却因此成为了自修日语的动力，虽然还是个菜鸟，有些字还是分不清楚，最近也停在一个点上了咳咳。😡

我也喜欢旅游（虽然需要钱〒_〒）。第一次出国时和家人去印尼的加里曼丹，第一次和朋友出国去台湾。我享受在旅游中的一切。希望日后能和家人朋友去日本游玩。😆

总结来说，谢谢每一位浏览我的部落格的朋友们！你们的留言和意见都是我更新的动力！也欢迎大家来留言给意见哦~😏

日后就请多多指教啦！💖💖💖

August to November updates

Hi guys! I am sorry again for not updating for a few months (......). By the way, I am going to update my second semester here! よろしくお願いします！

After one week break, semester two starts! 

During registration, we taught that we will take five subjects in this semester as told before. The officer told us that we only took four subjects which are Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics and Academic English. Introduction to Critical Thinking will be shifted to the next semester, which means five subjects will be taken in the coming semester. (￣▽￣)"

One more thing, we moved to new hostel at the end of August! (It is extremely tiring to pack all the things and unpack the things once moved in!). Due to the complaints about the previous hostel, the management decided to change the hostel. Now, the new hostel is nearer to the school, the rooms are new and bigger than before! (but still waiting for the Wi-Fi......)

One day, my English teacher gave us some advises before starting the class. She said honestly, some of us still are not independent enough. Learning independently is a very important skill as nobody will keep reminding us to do things. Try to read the lecture notes first or find extra knowledge ourselves. She told us we have to learn how to manage the time wisely especially when we are getting into university. Also, most of the students nowadays lack of one thing - think deeply. Are we really reflect ourselves after each semester? Is there any mistake we made? How to improve ourselves in the coming semester?  Yup, try to think it. I will try to think and write here.

Feeling grateful to have the first short trip in this year with my classmates during the public holidays! This short trip will be updated in the coming new post! o(^▽^)o

(Actually I am thinking whether using English or Mandarin to write the blog, kindly leave some comment for this! xD)

September is the intake month for the local universities. My fellowship seniors prepared a lot of activities for the new students. The first thing is picking up them at the airport then having dinner together. Our theme for this year orientation is named ALIVE!. Orientation camp to welcome the new students was not only from UPM, but also from other universities like us. The 3 days 2 nights camp was held at the Dusun Eco Resort, Bentong, Pahang, taking one and half hour of bus. There is totally no signal there, but it is the time we can put down our phones and enjoy the breathtaking scenery here! The blue sky is so beautiful!!!(❤ ω ❤)

We stayed at the hostel which can accommodate 30 people. The water in the bathroom is as cold as the ice. Everyone was like "wah~" while taking the bath. The food here is in Malay style, but it is nice also! o(^▽^)o

I am really enjoy the peaceful moments here, few people, wind blowing, fresh and cool air, clean and tidy tables with chairs, and also the trees around the canteen! But be aware of the insects on the floor especially during the night time! <(￣m￣)>!

 

During the station games session, I was bite by insect and had some bleeding. I thought it will be okay after applying some medicine on the wound. However in the following day, the wound started to swell. I was worried and friends keep comforting me. (Yup I am the type who worries much.) I had to squeeze out the toxin which is colorless by myself. It took me almost one week to recover. Thanks God.

Another interesting and exciting activities are jungle trekking and bamboo rafting. We chose the trek with took one hour to be finished. The sky was completed covered by the canopy of leaves above us. The air was damp and the surrounding was quiet. We saw many types of trees and not all the tree are safe to be touched! A senior who had studied some of the species of plants also shared some information which were quite new for us. We helped each other during the jungle trekking, as some of the parts of the path are really slippery. Always lower the center of gravity so that we won't easily fall down. Also, be careful for the leeches, the bloodsucker!  (;☉⌓☉)

We did it ! ( •̀ ω •́ )y

Bamboo rafting is also a challenging activity! The most challenging part was not  the teamwork between group members, but it was we had to prepare the bamboo raft ourselves!!! (;☉{}☉)!!!!! 

Chill, the person-in-charge will demonstrate to us how to do it ! LOL. 

I didn't joined this activity because of ......(hmm girls will know lol). I just helped to take photos for others. We are given about 20 minutes to complete making of the raft, because once we finished, we will directly start the competition! Yah, competition! It was fantastic!

Everyone did a great job!!!

At night, we had a drama performance, every group had to act the character drew before. Honestly, this is the first time I can lose "face" entirely to act the character assigned lol. (Yeah I am typically shy one and also because of dignity.) Thinking back of it, I didn't feel so shy or what, I realized there is a small change in myself.

My group .

Group photo!

4th October is the Mid-Autumn Festival and it is not included as a public holiday. Thus, my housemates and I decided to have a D.I.Y. steamboat at hostel as a simple celebration. (In Chinese culture, Mid-Autumn also has the meaning of reunion with family.) 

After that, I had second short trip with my classmates to Penang! (unexpectedly, as we decided at last minute lol). I will update this short trip in a new post too! Stay tune! (●ˇ∀ˇ●)

Indeed, I decided not to join the annual dinner held by the university as  I just wanted to take a break first before my parents came here next week. However, my housemates told me that there are someone who brought the ticket but won't make it, they asked someone to replace them. My housemates asked me a few times but I was hesitated, as the theme of this annual dinner is Bollywood Bonanza, which mean we have to wear Indian clothes! "Don't worry, we have extra clothes borrowed from my friend." said my housemate. 

When voice calling with my mum, I asked for her opinion. My mum replied decisively "Just go for it, as a new experience." (￣▽￣)"

Then, I decided to join for the annual dinner when there is a set of clothes that suits to me.

We took a van going to the hotel. It is the very first time for me to attend the annual dinner in buffet form. The food and desserts seems mouthwatering. While we were enjoying our delicious Indian food, there were many performances such as singing, dancing, music performing and also many rewards for students and lecturers. The dinner ended at 11.30 p.m. and we reached home at about midnight. It is a crazy night lol.

I managed to take photos with my beloved classmates! (It's Satu Malaysia LOL). Everyone looks so gorgeous! (❤ ω ❤) There was a photo booth there and we went and take photos together also. 

 

And aslo with my housemtes ^w^

My parents came and visit me at this Deepavali holiday. We had a wonderful time. (Family love❤). We spent the holiday going out to some shopping malls. We also visited my younger brother studying at another university. And the time flies. 〒_〒

My mum recommended this Japanese Green Tea brand for me——Harada YabuKita Blend Green Tea Bags 50 pc, the price is between RM22 to RM30, depends on which shop you find. Plus, it is HALAL recognized. For me, I think it is great because it really helps me to clear heat and I will go to toilet after drinking it! 

Here is the Ready to Cook Corner found in Midvalley Aeon Market. (so far I think it is the only one market that has this kind of food). The ingredients are packed ready for cook. I bought two packs for beef and wantan mee, thet tastes nice!

The holiday ended. My housemate bought the local food back for us. Thanks for her fried kampua. (❤ ω ❤)

When the semester is going to the end, all the things came at once. The quizzes, tutorials and also the English assignments came one by one without stopping. (panting) The English assignment was about doing a research for a discursive essay. Doing research takes time to search and use reliable sources. However, I didn't perform well in my presentation because I was too nervous until I did not have enough eye contact with audiences. The comment given by teacher just hit my heart directly - "Your slides are good, but you waste your slide because of the way you present. Try to observe others how they present to attract audiences." Yup, I admit it. I accept it. I cannot blame anyone, what I can only do is reflect, reflect myself. I still have a long way to go. Honestly, I felt disappointed to myself at that moment because I didn't perform as what I expected. Thus, my presentation mark is the lowest. (T_T) 

Sometimes, learning from mistakes sounds okay, but the courage stepping out to admit and make changes from your mistakes is the thing that we always lack of. Don't be rushing, just take time to make it. Me too.

Let us chill with throwback food photos hanging out with my roommate. (￣▽￣)" 

When Kenny Rogers has a Buy 1 Free 1 promotion, this is the cheesy pasta with 1/4 chicken. The pasta sauce really tastes nice!

Tokyo Ramen RM 10.90@Sukiya

Gyouza RM 6.50

Chicken Curry Medium RM10.40

Before sitting for the final exam, we celebrated my roommate's birthday by preparing the surprise! (Yup it really surprises her lol). Happy birthday to my roommate!

Cheese cake~

Chicken soup is love (❤ ω ❤)

At last, final exam came. What I always tell to myself is DON'T BURN THE MIDNIGHT OIL. It doesn't suit to me as I must have enough sleep to sit for exam. If not, I can't concentrate fully when doing the question. Also, semester break is one of the most powerful reason for us not to keep procrastinating to do revision. The exam hall is extremely cold, I still remember I was rushing to finish the questions as the time was going to the end of the exam. The cold environment made me shivering and my handwriting became ugly. 〒_〒 

For the reflection on my studies, I satisfy with my carried marks but I still admit that I procrastinate, sometimes have to rush to do the homework. Also, I am still need improvement to be more self-discipline as sometimes I stay in bed. I also have to be more confidence when communicate in English with friends. We will always help each other, so tell myself don't be shy. You still have many things have to be learn. Learning is a non-stop progress. Keep moving!

Recently, the new timetable came out. We will start the biology class with anatomy first. (⊙o⊙) There are 10 systems that we are going to learn. The first four weeks are mostly filled with anatomy lectures, labs and tutorials!!! QAQ It seems packed. By the way, enjoy the new coming semester although it is very challenging! (￣▽￣)"

Always bring a grateful heart and passion to explore new things in lives. ❤ 

And don't forget God will always be with us.❤

Thanks for reading! Stay tune! ❤