谢谢,我毕业了!

可能因为一早已经开始工作，对毕业典礼，一直抱着不是太大的兴奋和期待。我一直觉得，毕业典礼不过是一个仪式。

对我来说，毕业典礼最重要的，莫过于我家人千里迢迢赶路出席。父亲挨着自己有失眠症，也乘长途巴士一路到来；妈妈劳累也给馋嘴的我烘了蛋糕，一路带上；姐姐从曼谷飞槟城，赶路到新加坡，又在同一天赶回槟城；弟弟为了出席，也逃了一天的课； 毓豪也下了班就赶路到来，虽然典礼已完毕。这一切，都是为了庆祝我的毕业典礼而来。

对我来说，毕业典礼不是为我而庆祝，而是庆祝家人一直以来的支持和关怀。庆祝父母在这二十年的时间，默默教导我们，扶持我们，付出最大的努力，给我们最好的教育。这一切，才是毕业典礼的意义。

只是，典礼以后，我耿耿于怀的是姐姐为了这趟毕业典礼，不知花了不少钱，还没办法和我们一起享受那愉快的周末。要是她能一只留下来，直至今天早上，一切就更好了！

谢谢你们，我毕业了。

The Visit of My Family

Chinatown

Maybe some of you may claim that:"What's so fun in Chinatown?"
Well, maybe not to you. My dad told me they visited Chinatown when they came to Singapore for their Honeymoon. Unlike the "ho mia" generation like us, my parents could not afford to have honeymoon in Paris, Japan, USA etc. The furthest they can go is Singapore. To them, this is nostalgic.

Revisit to Chinatown

Just Zho Siau-ing

Papa and En En

Vivo City

We didn't get to spend much time at the nostalgic Chinatown as the sky started to weep some tears... We rushed to MRT station and went all the way to Vivo City. That's where we tasted free chocolates, wines and beers at some choc fair! Hahaha! My dad claimed that this is the best tourism spot of his Singapore visit.

Then, we met up with YH, whom came after work and had an expensive Indian lunch at "Go India".

At the sky garden

En tasting the wine

Yum Seng~~~~

Giving out beers

They're all very TEMPTING!!!!

Family Gathering Dinner

After spending some time at Vivo City, we went to Orchard to meet up with our relatives in Singapore for dinner. The adults did all the talkings while En, Yee Hau and me were bored. That's why camera ended up with many photos from the dinner. I just picked a few to show :P

Ting Ting, the elder daughter of my cousin

Baby Girl of my cousin

Yee Hau, I was as bored as he did.

A random photo of my dad ^_^

Mama and Ah Nee Ji Ji

Lobby of Golden Landmark Hotel

I took this when I was bored waiting for the extra bed to be taken to the room. We have too many "extra" visitors in the double room, so, we have to avoid being kicked out :P

My Convocation

Before the Ceremony

Mei Ni, Xueling, Me (from left)

Ying, The nicely dressed photographer of me~

En, Me, Mama, Papa

A random photo of me by Minhua

After the Ceremony

Prof. Raju posed handsomely just for us (Yiing See and me)


Jiayen, Xueling, Libin, Me, Meijin, Minhua (from left)


Celeste and Me ^_^


Can you see my name on the board?


"Piggy", a graduation gift from my brother.

Convocation, A DAY to celebrate with our parents~


Yee Hau and Me

Handicapped

I feel handicapped! At work.

Remember things that I could not manage to get them done? I felt more handicapped after finding out from the colleague what I could have done to them. I felt stupid and helpless!

Argh~

Somehow, I just do not know how to deal with my own self. I talked to the technician in the lab after that. He kept on saying, give yourself some time.

I know, patience is what I need to learn along the way. Sometimes, my mind just forget to remind myself of that.

I feel lucky though, that my colleague is extremely patience to me. I couldn't lie, I found myself relief when I saw him back in the office this morning. It's a big "Phewwwwww....". And a bigger "Phewwwww..." when he said I'll be following him to do some other testing tomorrow. And biggest "Pheewwwwwww..." when he didn't scold me but encourage me when he found out that I've cracked one of the samples because I dropped it on the floor. (He didn't find out, I actually went up to tell him that I cracked his sample :( ...)

~Patience~

简单

简单，是怎样的一个定义?

有人说，“我只想要个简简单单的生活”。可是，简简单单是有多简单？如果进一步追踪这个人，问他、了解他，可能你会发现，他要的根本就是不简单！

简简单单的生活？我现在回想起来，我们每一次这样子说的时候，可能是

1. 没话找话说
2. 没有动脑就说

为什么突然说起简单？刚刚看完的那本书“plain truth”，就是叙说着这群很简单的人，过很简单的生活。但是，进一步探讨，有些事情可能不是那样简单。让我不能不想起两个月前的云南之旅，那些简单的纳西族、白族等。再简单的生活，也已经商业化。纳西族的文字——东巴文，是丽江的特色，也就是赚钱的手信。白族人的扎染，亦是大理的特色，也是赚钱的工具。Amish，也供游客入住他们的小屋子，感受“简单”的生活。

但是，一切的一切，都不再是那么简单。相对我们住在城市里的小孩，他们的快乐来的简单。但是，也因为我们，往往把一切弄得商业化，弄得不再简单。

有了全球化，我想知道，地球上的那个小地方，还保持着简简单单的生活？或许我们永远不会知道，因为知道以后，就变得不简单。

（哦……我究竟是想表达些什么呢？）

Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult

Ying, I know I had told you that I would not buy books before you come to Singapore for my convocation this coming Friday. But I just couldn't help it when there's a book fair! Hahahaha!

Yeah, I just bought two books last week, both by Jodi Picoult. I decided that it's enough "chim" books for me for the past few weeks. I need some refreshments with some fiction. I have read reviews on Jodi Picoult's books but never ended with reading any one of them. This book fair had given me the chance. It's a buy one free one deal, so I got two of them.

I've learned much more about Amish in this book. In case you do not know what is Amish, they're a group of people, who live without technology (no TV, internet, electricity, telephone etc), self sustain, ride on horse etc, in Pennsylvania State of USA.

An Amish girl, Katie had been convicted murder of her new born baby. Ellie, a lawyer from the city had come to defend her, by chance. That's the beginning of the whole story. Why is it interesting? Because of all the cultural shock between the two very extreme cultures.

Amish, they are "plain", they call themselves "plain people" while people in the city are "Englisher". That's why the title of the book is "Plain Truth".

I'm not very good in writing reviews, but please read them here.

Conclusions: Good for light reading~

Hazard in the Work Place

Finally, I had something "REAL" to do from my colleague. As he has to be on course yesterday and today, he passed 12 samples to me. To remove the layers and observe for cracks which might have caused the failures. (He must be a lil beh tahan since I have been following him almost everyday, in and out...(Not toilet la!) Until finally he decided to give me some task to stop me from following him!)

And I did, removed the polymer layers for the first time under the supervision of a technician. But I didn't manage to find any crack after a few hours of observation under microscope.

You might want to ask me, so what is so dangerous about my work?

1. Strong acid have to be used to remove the layers
2. Long hours in front of the microscope... Neck and back pain, stressed!

Shit!

I personally think that the strong acid is not a problem, as long as I have myself fully covered! And of cause, 100% concentration on the work. But, THE MICROSCOPE thingy is getting on my nerve!!!!

Ask my parents, I have known as one of their children with least patience... Now, I've gotten myself a job, which require patience the MOST!

I guess this is how everything works. When you're bad in something, you'll get one of it. And it's your choice, to become EXPERT in it, or get out of it.

I'm choosing the first one.

Bless me!

回望

有没有试过在欣赏风景的时候，回头望一望自己所走过的路？回望的风景是否一样精彩？抑或是更美好？还是逊色？

幸福快乐！白头偕老！

文鸣和佳秦在七月五日结婚了！！

因为结婚日定为周四，我没有办法出席！但是，作为他们的朋友还是替他们开心！他们可是我朋友当中第一个派红炸弹的朋友哦！文鸣，你太不够朋友了，红炸弹都不派，只是口头上通知而已！我回家的时候可不可以补请？

很巧合的，文鸣和佳秦都是我中一的同学，都分别曾经是我同座的朋友。佳秦是我第一学期的“同座的你”，而文鸣是第二学期。文鸣比较文静，经常被我欺负！哈哈哈！

他们特地为了他们的结合搞了一个网站，你们不妨参观参观！

Eric & Cheah Chin

祝你们幸福快乐！^_^

Harry Potter and The Order of Phoenix

I couldn't explain myself, why I still want to go cinema for Harry Potter, why I want to read the last book of Harry Potter. I guess it's because I've been following the stories for so many years (though I've forgotten most of them).

Not very enthusiastic about the release of Order of Phoenix, but I know I will still watch it, with or without the free ticket. Oh ya, please allow me to show off. I had watched HP one day before most of everybody. Yee Hau had got 2 free tickets for private showing from National Health Group. So I was there, watching movie with 50% of doctors and dentists in the cinema. FREE!

Order of Phoenix, was actually better than Goblet of Fire. I thought Goblet of Fire was too draggy and no climax reached. But I would still say Prisoner of Azkaban was the best among the 5 movies.

The stories? Well, HP readers would have known it. Non HP readers might not want to know it, because the stories are still surrounding the same theme, You-know-who and Harry Potter of course. I just don't feel like telling them here.

One thing to take note, all the teenagers are so grown up now, so matured. I couldn't stop to wonder if they could still make it to 7th movie. I hope they can. I miss the little Potter in his first appearance. Do you remember how he looked like? Well, take a look.