A year filled with challenges!

Time really flies, just a few more days this year is going to end. This is a pretty special year to me as the challenges I received in this one year were much more compared to the previous years.

The challenges which I mentioned earlier on were not merely academic wise, but also included many other aspects. All the things I had been through had definitely made me a tougher and more determined person. Though there were times when I felt really down due to various reasons, still I was happy that I did not give up in the middle of the process, no matter what.

The main focus for this year was no doubt the major exams which I'd just been through, the studying part was just crazy! Partly due to studying at the very last minute, and the things to cover were just too much!! Thinking back on how I used to study from morning to night, it felt as though I had no life, the first thing I touched after waking up and the last thing I touched before sleeping were NOTES!! So sick of seeing them now!!

I gotta thank god that I passed the exams, really thankful that I had successfully been through my second year. It wasn't easy for me. And I was happy that I had supportive friends and family who were being really considerate during my most "lifeless" time of life.

One thing about me is I just can't take too much of stress, I can handle it mentally but not physically. Somehow stress is just something that is unavoidable during exams. I know myself too well that I could even predict what would come next when I was under tremendous stress.

But I just had to study for exams no matter what sorts of things would happen to me, sometimes sacrifices had to be made, though the consequences may take really long to heal. I knew I just got to keep on motivating myself. No matter what I was feeling inside, I made sure I put a smile on the outside, though some people could tell that it wasn't genuine. I just dislike telling people how upset I felt at that time, because it would only make matters worse. Thus, I chose to put them aside until exams ended.

I knew who were the people who could read me even when I didn't utter a single word to them, here I would also like to thank these people for being so understanding.(if you ever see this:P) When I bottled things up, of course it wouldn't feel good, but I was just looking for a right time to throw them out. 

One thing I had come to realize especially in this year is if you ever have any problems, even as tiny as a sesame seed, never overlook them, as they all have the potential of becoming a difficult problem later on. Or if you have any thoughts in mind, don't let it just linger at the back of your mind, but at least take some actions. That way you are at least one step closer in achieving yours dreams! 

With that, I can foresee what my new year resolutions will be. Still remember I had two wishes early this year! One of them just came true, and another one is yet to come true, but I will fervently look forward to the arrival of this day!:D Don't let me wait for me too long please :) But I will definitely WAIT(because I've put in so much effort) :)

 


 

Just because I care~

I still can't accept it, I actually wish to just stay at home until I think it's what I consider as OKAY. But is pretty hard, since there are times where you just have to go out, like seriously reluctant to but still I will get into my car and drive to the destination. 

I rather just stay in my comfort zone than getting myself into a difficult situation if there's no need or no important occasion to go out. I will definitely not give up on myself just that this time round I think I need some time to be at home. If you wanna find me, most of the time the only place you can see me is my house! All due to personal reasons and not any serious causes. Hopefully this won't last for long:)

During this period of time, I will feed myself a lot of food (preferably healthy ones), entertain myself with lots of tv shows and ensure myself getting sufficient amount of sleep, so see you when I see you, and for sure I will be seeing people tomorrow coz it's a MUST! till then~

Time to ENJOY!~

Any special plans for holidays ?? Hmm not really for the time being. Planning to just take this break  to really rest well and spend it well with all my dear family and friends. Unless there are some impromptu plans coming out, not surprised!:P

Gonna think of more things to do just to keep myself fully occupied, especially those things which I like to do but couldn't do it when I was busy :)

Even though the first day of my holidays was purely spent at home except for dinner, I still felt very happy for the simple yet carefree moments that I had, regardless of what I was doing.

Did really stupid things like playing some seemingly childish yet super fun games with sis, playing so crazily that I had definitely lost my self-image, hahahaha!!! Can't bother so much when I was trying so badly to win, though there was only one opponent!

One day well spent, more to come, and more to anticipate before the big day comes! XD

A complicated & dreadful period of time~

When studying for exams, it is the most stressful time of all. But at the same time, this is also the time I learn the most, since now there's a REASON to study. 

You will feel happy when you've finally understood something. But the next moment, you will get panic-stricken when you realize that there isn't enough time to study the remaining notes. All kinds of feelings will just be encapsulated during this duration of time, such as guilt (after watching too much of tv), nervousness(when exam is the next day), loneliness (when studying alone), so on and so forth.

I don't find it useful to complain about how dreadful exams appear to be, because it doesn't make me feel any better. In fact, after complaining, I feel even more stressed. Every day, I am trying new method with the hope that I can study better as I get bored pretty easily .

Hopefully I can continue to work hard in spite of the time constraints. I feel rather tired of what I'm doing sometimes, but I know I just have to do it no matter what. Stop procrastinating and slacking for the remaining time left. Note to myself! 

Must not give up kay!!!!!!!!! :) Remember holidays are coming in a months' time too!

There's a limit to everything we do~

Recently, I don't feel quite good about certain things. I don't know if it is alright or I should have stopped it from happening right from the beginning. 

My biggest weakness is- I'll feel bad after saying NO to people, especially to a friend or family member. But whenever I spotted that something is not right, I will make or push myself to say a big NO to either him or her. That's still okay, but the effect after that is the worst part of all.

Sometimes I may feel guilty for no good reasons, this is really torturing and I really dislike this. If I were to face this kinda situations in the past, I would just unwillingly say YES (if it's not something too serious), but not for now.

Something about me is that I just dislike the feeling of being forced to do something, I dislike it when something is done for untoward purposes. I tend to stay away from all these once I detected one. 

I think is bad to keep those uneasy feelings to myself, hence writing this out. All I can say is I think I'm just kinda bad when handling some friendship or relationship problems.Currently, there's nothing happening, just a premonition that something is gonna happen if i don't do something about it.

You have a lot more things to do. WORK HARD!!!!

When you realize....

You know what, just keep your mouth shut, then the world will be much peaceful? WHO? YOU....!! YOU....!! YOU....!! okay I'm telling myself this, not anyone else. 

If you want to talk, just go down and find your pets, I think they can be your best listeners. If you want to cry, please jump into the pool, so that people cannot see your tears. If you want to hug something, just buy a bigger soft toy/bolster. If you want to scream, make sure you are in a soundproof room. All I wanna say is please don't ever disturb others with your problems, you will seem really annoying, or maybe not you is just me.

Perhaps I should pretend to be blind, deaf, mute when is necessary, and just focus on what's more important for the time being and not anything else. 
 


 

Sunday~

Please please keep me busy, as busy as possible, as tired as possible,

so that when I wake up I can be busy, when I'm tired I can sleep 

and nothing else, nothing else.  

Forever stuck at home for some irritable reasons, 

I'm sure everyone is going out tomorrow,

I will go out too, but for lessons, 

then for the rest of the day you'll see me at home.

Where?? HOME. 

I'm always looking forward to having a happy Sunday!! Though it's unlikely for the time being. But is alright! Sometimes sacrifices have to be made, as usual.

 

Overprotection

When things have a sad ending whenever you are directly or indirectly involved in it , you tend to lose courage in doing the same thing again, as you now need even more courage than the first few times to even start doing it.

The feeling is never good, but I'm always suppressing it. Thus, if you ask me what do you like to do most?? I can say is singing and drawing, as these are the best ways for me to release the mental stress which I have been accumulating. I don't care what I'm drawing or what kinda of songs I'm singing. 

I know I always appear to be a little moody, especially when I'm alone. So I like to keep myself as occupied as possible, if I can, I rather I talk non-stop than keeping quiet. 

But I really don't like to argue with people though I may do it sometimes, talking in this way make me feel really unhappy, I really don't like. But if you're doing that to me, I'm sorry this is gonna be the way I treat you, even if is something I dislike, I just gotta admit that I have a very thick face.

Why am I always the one who is giving myself problems, or rather making every little thing a problem for myself. Life is really difficult if I were to live like this. I'm building too many walls around me, but not a single window, you know how that feels like?? feeling.. SUFFOCATED~

Note for myself: Please don't get tensed up easily, love yourself more and at the same time allow others to love and care for you too, don't overprotect yourself; the door is always there, but why do you always choose to lock it?? 

I guess I just have to find the right key to open it when it's the time to do so.

Sleep MoRe!

Sleep is all I need most now. I just gotta wake up early every morning, yes is every morning, even weekends?? YES YES YES.

By right if that's the case I should be sleeping earlier, but I always fail to do so. And no matter how sleepy I am during the day, I just can't sleep. My god feeling really tired, sometimes I just wanna rest and not do anything. 

I still feel very tired even after I wake up every morning, really need more sleep I suppose. Good thing is when I know I'm supposed wake up, I will still wake no matter how reluctant I feel D:

How's your tempo of life~

Nowadays, I realized that I always talk a lot, sometimes I even think that its a bit too much. But most of the time, I was purely CRAPPING or JOKING unless there's something serious, just don't know since when I started to be this talkative (it's only when I'm with my friends).

If you knew me before this, you would never describe me as talkative but rather the opposite. You could hardly hear me when I spoke last time, but now this happens maybe once in a while. Now that I think back, I was a much more gentle and soft-spoken person back then :P

Then I started thinking why the change?? WHY?? 

I think is because I no longer want my voice to be unheard, I can voice up for myself, SO why act like a coward. Being silent about everything is not always good, you are more likely to miss out on a lot of things, and people might start taking advantage of this weakness of yours.  

Another thing, 'why are you so fierce sometimes??'.... ME?? Looking fierce?? Yeap but only to certain people, not because I hate or dislike them, no such thing, just that I tend to get a bit tense when people start getting or becoming closer to me when I only know them for some time. 

I don't usually get close to a person so easily and quickly, it takes time for me to slowly know a person. Thus, if this process were to be fast-forwarded, I will start feeling a little uneasy and insecure. That's when I behave as if I'm a little angry or looking fierce (that's actually my super tense look). I totally can imagine it now and hate it when I look like that.

I know I'm a little too sensitive in this sense, but that's the difference between what I called as close friends and a-friend-or-close-friend to be. 

Taking one step at a time is the tempo that suits me the best, but sometimes this might be a bit too slow for other people. Just like how every piece of music has its own tempo, if you think presto or allegro is way too fast for you, just choose a piece with a slower tempo. 

You might consider mine as adagio, but who knows, perhaps slow and steady works better for me:)

Clear ENOUGH??

When you know you are about to do something simply due to the impulsion you have at that moment..... Heyy don't do it first, think twice!! Because most of the time, you will be regretful after that.

Always think of the consequences of the things you are about to do. There were times when i really felt like doing something, really close to doing it, but after thinking, luckily I didn't. 

Unless you are very sure of what you are going to do is really what you want or worth doing, if not don't make a decision immediately, it might just be an illusion sometimes, maybe?? 

Do it only when you are clear of what you want. This way less problems will be created.

Being rational is a good thing, but of course I won't just follow the rules and regulations I set for myself blindly. When I'm sure enough of what I want, I will go for it!!~

I know it all :)

I know how bad it is... I definitely know, don't need to tell me :]

But I know if I manage to go through the hardest times in my life, I will be so happy by that time. So just by thinking how happy I will be by that time, I always tell myself to just bear with it for the time being. It's definitely awful to be in this situation, but I will not let this be my problem forever, NEVER! This time, I'm very determined to do so! No matter how much I need to suffer, it's not a big deal anymore! Because I'm ready for that!!  

Missing You BADLY :(

I'm missing my phone quite badly. There are so much things about me inside, feeling so sad and unsafe at the same time. 

After this, once again it proves to me that there's no where safe to keep your things, no matter where, there's still a chance of it being missing or taken, by chance or by bad intention. A place which I once thought was safe, and things which I never thought would happen could just take place right in front of me.

In fact, nothing is impossible, don't ever think that it won't happen to you. But at the same time, do something to prevent all those bad things from happening, don't just sit down and hope that everything will be okay, no such thing!

I also learned that when something bad has happened or affected you, solve it as soon as possible, don't procrastinate!! I had learned this the hard way and suffered through the process, here I'm talking about another bad experience. 

All in all, when there's a problem, solve it, don't hide, don't procrastinate, don't be scared!!

Back from Melb:)

Just came back from Melbourne, and it's such a nice place to go to:)

The 13 days I spent there were merely awesome, every day was filled with activities and we'd eaten almost everything from the food list. 

All the friends whom I was with for that 13 days were really fun to be with, I admit that I wasn't very close to them before the trip, but after that, we'd definitely known and understood each other much much better. They burst away my "bubbles" (my barrier :P), but not all lah XP And I've gained one brother and one sister from this trip:D LOL

It's very true to say that 'A friend in need is a friend indeed'. During the trip, we solely depended on each other when facing with any problems. Still remember, it was extremely difficult to walk on the snow coz it was really really slippery. There were also ups and downs during our trip. But all the hard times and also the happy ones that we'd been through together are now memorable.

We took tonnes of photos and were playing like crazy, shopping till all the shops closed down, shivering non-stop when the wind blew, eating all the yummy food, in short, having lots of fun there!:D

There will be more updates about the trip if I'm free enough to do so :D if not, pictures will do the talking! but not NOW :P

I'm starting to miss Melbourne already~ a place which I don't mind going again:)

Don't think so much plz ~

Supposedly to sleep when it's so late, why still don't want to sleep?? >_< Been having too much thoughts in my mind, I just don't feel that it's right or good to share with anyone. But this is really not good and it's affecting my sleep. When I don't get enough of sleep, everything just gets terrible, my mood, my skin and urgh! Don't mention! 

I always think that I can become my own therapist for every problem I face, yes it works most of the time, or rather I'm good at convincing myself? I seriously don't know. I've been very tough for this but sometimes I just feel as though I can't breathe anymore, can't take this anymore! I'm very TIRED actually, but T. J.Y. , you must not give up in the things you do, cannot!! Must go on till the end!!! I don't know what will happen in the end, but will definitely cheer myself up if I ever get sad during this process, reward myself a bit if there's something great happens. 

Don't worry, I think I'm just too tired that I get myself a little confused sometimes. As long as I get enough of rest, I guess I'll be back to normal again! Yes I'm sure I will be!! Okay should rest before going for my trip, this would be the best chance to clear my mind:)

Things I did during the holidays~ #Part3

 Hanging out

Met up with some of my close buddies from secondary school. Those were the days when we were still so naive, haha are you sure?? :P But yea kinda miss those times when we spent our time together, studying in the same class, all the fun, happy, sad or crazy things that we did together was simply nostalgic!:)

We always have this pose whenever we reunite, lol looks kinda funny but just don't wanna forget that we were once called the X-group,  with 2 pretty members missing here:P

Sushi-making workshop

I went for a sushi-making workshop held by the T-Garden Cooking school. It was actually meant for my elective, guess what? Was quite fun. After the workshop, I've gained more knowledge regarding sushi. 

Surprisingly, there was a lesson teaching us about the theory part of sushi, things like the different types of sushi and their Japanese name, ingredients used and etc. They also told us from where we can buy those ingredients and the price. HAHA felt like an auntie out of a sudden, but yea it's good to know all these, just in case I want to do it on my own.

But I think I will still prefer eating at the Japanese restaurant, reason being there are quite many things to prepare when making sushi. Lazy people like me think that is a bit tedious and time-consuming to do all these things. Unless there's some special occasions, then I don't mind making sushi:D 

If you are interested to learn, I am quite willing to teach you since it's still fresh in my mind, BUT just teaching you verbally LOL. Don't ask me to prepare the ingredients XP. 

The workshop specifically taught us to make Gunkanzushi, that means sushi which has a seaweed sheet encircling the rice ball, the reason why it was named Gunkan was because Gunkan in Japanese means warship, and this type of sushi has the shape of a warship which we see in the olden days. Altogether, I learned to make 10 types of sushi, 4 pieces for each, so in total I'd made 40 sushi:D

(From top to bottom: Egg Mayo Gunkan, Salmon Roe Gunkan, Red Ebiko Gunkan, Chuka Wakame Gunkan and the one on the right is inari sushi) Not too bad but definitely not up to standard yet :P

CONCERT!~

Went for Jayessless's concert over the weekend, yeah man!! I just love listening to their sweet voices, very soothing and it's simply wonderful!! First time listening to their live show! I could see that they are having quite a lot of fans out there, still increasing... I'd been longing to go for a concert, but there was nobody to go with me, this time I finally had somebody to go with me :DDD

Merely awesome!:)

Up till now, I have almost finished blogging about the things I did during the holidays. Soon, I'll be going for a trip! But not too sure if I'm free enough to blog by that time, since it's close to the commencement of another new semester!! 

Anyway, I think my holidays this time were well spent!:)

Things I did during the holidays~ # Part 2

SHUN'S BIRTHDAY!:) 

Ooh hoooo, next up!! Shun's birthday was just around the corner, and somebody here was quite free still:) Hmmm...

As I was watching TV and thinking of what I could do at the same time, my sister started baking, hmm again? Yes it's AGAIN! I think baking is now her latest hobby, nowadays she bakes quite often, haha quite good also, I get to eat them :P yummy yummy, if not yummy just eat one slice and keep quiet will do XD

Then I asked her what are you baking this time, ' Oh it's red velvet cake again!! You wanna help me??' Then I said, 'Oohh it's okay... I will just watch, hehehee' Baking was never my cup of tea, probably because after I failed miserably during the first attempt, I just didn't have the motivation to bake again! So lousy right? :P

As usual, I would watch her bake, and maybe disturbed her a bit, or be her little helper, taking this taking that for her. Apparently, she was baking the cake for her boss's birthday, so thoughtful right! Then she said, 'Do you all want to eat also? I have another set of ingredients to bake one more cake.' 

Then suddenly this thought came into my mind, maybe I could bake a cake for Shun! Yeah this would be a good idea!!:D Only then I started to be more interested in what my sister was doing. Kept asking her was it hard to bake this, how to do this, how to do that?? For the 1st time! 

Then she just told me to go to this website, so I read everything and watched the video, hey didn't seem to be too hard:) And if you're interested too, click here.

So the next day, I spent my whole day baking with my younger sister. It was exceptionally fun because I was baking for a reason, thus I told myself,' This time I must not fail, must give shun a cake on her birthday!!'

For the first time, I was reading a recipe so thoroughly without skipping a single sentence or word, even my sister was asking,' Are you done yet?? I can't wait to start alreadyy!' Me replied, ' Heyy give me some time la, I want to make a nice cake this time or maybe even nicer than the one jie made xP'. Super ambitious right, when it was only my first time baking a birthday cake:D

All the materials were taken out before baking! so Are you READY??

Hehee this looks a bit disgusting over here, hey wait laa...

Waiting anxiously for the cake, 2 more minutes, it's 2 more minutes!!

Not too bad looking right?? But in fact it should be redder for a red velvet, sb here reduced the amount of the red colouring, coz think that it looks kinda poisonous:P

Spreading the cream cheese on top really took me ages, lol so hard to make it even! Y u still no smooth yet..??

First round of decoration~ using my favourite- STRAWBERRIES!! :D

Since there's a big empty space, why not put her name right? :)

Lol still can't believe that I baked!

On her birthday, a few of us celebrated for her. Though it wasn't like a big celebration, but we spent one whole day with her, trying to keep her happy, amid the stress she was facing while preparing for the major exams. 

The pretty card jin made, so creative right?:)

Birthday girl looking really happy here!:DD

I think I'm starting to have a little more interest in baking now. Wow my god who's talking here, ME!!!! Yea I'll try to bake again when I have the mood, so till then!! :DDD I just like seeing people's happy faces, it makes me happy too:D

Alright, to be continued... # part 3 cominggg!!!

Things I did during the holidays~ #Part1

Did quite a lot of things during the holidays:) My holidays are treating me really well since now I have more time to do what I've always wanted to do! 

I don't know where should I start first, so I will just write out whatever that comes in my mind:b EASIER!!

SELECTIVE

I had completed my selective during the holidays, which was about 3 weeks long. The selective I got was in fact quite interesting since this topic wasn't really covered in my course. It was about adolescent sexual and reproductive health, I've learned something here and am now slightly more aware of those issues regarding this topic. 

I seriously feel that adolescents ought to be given more focus and care as they are going to become the leaders of tomorrow. In fact, this is quite a crucial period, as they are undergoing a lot of changes physically, mentally and emotionally. They are all in the process of finding their own identities, understanding themselves and the changes which are revolving around them better. It's not an easy phase!!

Therefore, getting support from family, friends and society is very very important when going through this phase of life, no joke!! This is speaking from a person who had just gone through this phase hmm not too long ago XD

Every group has to come out with a poster and it can be anything that we learned during the selective. So this is from our group, looking really nice:) Awesome team mates I had!! :)  

DANCE

Our dance performance was great on that night, apart from having some technical problems, which gave us some topsy-turvy moments and I could see some minor mistakes here and there when watching the videos. But that doesn't matter anymore, all we care now is the process that we went through together. What more important is, the dance was performed smoothly without any pauses in between!! so GREAT SHOW people!!!:DDD

The dance crew~ ( From left to right: arranging from tall to tallerrrR =D)

DENTURE

Finally I've finished doing the dentures, looking so pretttyyyyy! LOL of course I'm saying that, is all hard work okayy, hahahaha!! It took me about half a year doing it, firstly I didn't spend every single day doing it, then we had to attend some lectures before proceeding to the next step. The bad news is there are just too many steps when making a denture :(  Still, I think it was really cool to make it on your own, and the lab assistant really helped us a lot!:D 

>>>>  TADAAAaaaaaa!!:D  <<<<

Omg so pretty XD  just gotta admit that this is what we called syiok-sendiri:P

WOW so shinny!! Right?? right? erm.. 

 BUT sadly, Ms. Tan you need to break your denture into half 1/2

and REPAIR it!! 

HUH?? WHAT!!!!!??!! HAAAaaalf?? D:

Such a sad thing to do, is like cutting my own flesh :(

HAHA sorry for the exaggeration! Just wanna joke a bit :D

So now, I'm currently still repairing my poor denture, its almost done, just left with the polishing part. Don't worry, I will make you look prettyyyy again!!!:D

SO that's all for now! To be continued....in part 2 (:

 

Once in a lifetime experience!

Recently been busy practising a dance, this dance will be performed during the gala dinner of the 4th National Dental Students' Scientific Conference 2012. Sounds like a big thing, so we're actually representing IMU to perform, since it will be IMU's turn to be the host for this event next year. 

We only had about two weeks or even slightly less than that to prepare, thus the dance is rather simple but it's not too bad when we dance together, just that we need to be more synchronized.

Just had our rehearsal at UiTM yesterday, we were so surprised to see such a big stage where we were going to perform, none of us expected to see that. We even started to get a bit nervous, but in the end after getting used to the stage, we became better when rehearsing for the second time.

Had never performed on such a big stage before~

Gotta face a huge crowd on that day! Quite excited and nervous ~

Can you see a heart-shaped bruise on my knee <3, 
so nice right?? HAHA

Yea all of us had bruises here and there, but I'm sure it's worthwhile after all :)

Hopefully our performance tomorrow will be a great success!! NO matter what, all of us will put in our best!! & Good show everyone!! (=

As long as it works for me!

Sometimes when you care too much for some people,  little petty unhappy things that they did to you could actually make you rather sad. I admit that I'm a busybody, everything that happens to people whom I'm close to I would want to know, but.... MAYBE I shouldn't know so much, I suppose if people want you to know something, they will automatically tell you. 

I'm kinda tired of my busybody role too, actually all I wanna do is just to make sure that people around me are feeling alright. And I realize that even if you want to make them feel alright, not necessarily they will be alright, everyone just has that particular person they choose to listen to.

So from now onwards, I will divert my focus on brushing up skills which I can still improve on. I'm paying so much fees for some lessons, thus shouldn't put my parents' money to waste, should spend more time to practise!!

Yes I will try not to get distracted so easily, gotta accept the fact that I can't care so much about others unless there's a need to.
 

All I know is hopefully I can make myself better, healthier, cleverer, mentally stronger (haha) and maybe prettier (LOL). Yes I'm gonna do that!!!! xD

Okay I'm feeling alright now!!! Phew~

Having a great time :)

Early this month, we celebrated daddy's and my pretty sister-in-law's birthdays:) The cake on the left was baked by my sister BUT accidentally damaged by me, so was covered with the happy birthday stick :P while the one on the right was bought from a bakery shop, and the coolest part was they were both RED VELVET cakes.

Honestly, the one baked by my sister tasted so much better as compared to the other one, big claps for my sister!!:)

We wanted to give dad a surprise on his big day, but seriously epic fail XD Still, he was more than happy to see all his friends invited by us and an array of yummy food ready to be served.

:)

Next up, I invited nearly half a class of our dental batch mates to my house since some of them wanted to sing karaoke.  Nowadays we all go for our respective selectives, thus very seldom we get to spend time together. It was in fact quite an impromptu plan, but still turned out to be quite well and I suppose we all had fun:)

Even my little cousie was very happy that day, he was having a great time playing with all the big brothers and sisters, chasing here and there, I had a really hard time catching him:D

Sometimes it's good to have a gathering like this once in a while, where everyone gets to know each other better. 

Then I realized that just by making people around you happy, you are actually giving yourself a reason to be happy, just as simple as that. 

I'm sure deep down in everyone's heart, there are things which can make us a little down, but when you are feeling that, DON'T FORGET there are also a lot more things which you can do to make yourself a happier person :) So why not? 

Alright, so for those who are preparing for the upcoming exams, work hard and strive for the best, don't get too stressed out k!! For those having holidays like me, happy holidays and enjoy as much as you can!!!:DDD

Till then~

Simplicity is sometimes the best !!

Recently I've just finished another task, that is to design a logo for 

OHC (Oral Health Committee) . 

It's a rather simple and plain logo.  

I personally think that a logo should not be too complicated so that it can be remembered easily by the viewers. 

 

My friend actually asked me if the logo signifies or symbolizes anything. 

So based on the design above, the “tooth” in the logo is representing our group, the oral health committee and also us as the dental students. Then the assorted squares and rectangles behind the tooth show that even though each of us has got different responsibilities and positions, we all still work and stay together as a team.

As you can see, all these squares and rectangles can be merged easily together, just like a jigsaw puzzle, which also signifies that all the members can work very well with each other in achieving our goals.

Some of the reasons why I decided to choose those colours for the logo:

From what I found, apparently GREEN is an important color because it often brings some professionalism to a logo. It signifies tranquility, nature, health, and freshness, widely used in healthcare, really suits our group.

BLUE is a colour often associated with trust, loyalty, royalty, friendliness, wisdom and peace.

ORANGE represents energy, enthusiasm, flamboyance and demand of attention. This colour offers a sense of openness and friendliness to their viewers. It captures the attention of the spectators and gives the logo a contemporary look. I think this can evoke some cheerful aura:)

WHITE is the universal color of peace. It represents purity, simplicity, sterility and refinement.

This might not be the most perfect logo, but I had already encapsulated everything that I thought was good in it, so hopefully this logo can bring some positive energy to OHC :)

Not to forget, I wanna thank my brother for giving me some advice and helping me to make this logo look more presentable.

Hong Kong~

The end of the examinations marked the end of semester 3. Yup it's finally over!!! So now I'm having a break which will last for about one and a half month. Sounds rather long isn't it?? Hmm my holidays this time should be rather interesting since it's almost fully occupied XD I can foresee a rather eventful holidays:)

First task after my exams was to get one of the assignments done- the Port Folio. At first I thought I had plenty of time to finish it, but in the end I needed to accomplish it before the due date, and I spent like one whole night without sleeping just to finish it. Gosh I'd never sacrificed my sleep for things like that, that was an exception.

But it was worthwhile sacrificing my sleep after all, because I got to travel to Hong Kong with my family and neighbours. We had not had a family trip for quite some time, thus it was a great opportunity for us to spend some quality time together.

It was actually my third time going to HK, but it just felt different when going with different bunch of people. I had lots of scrumptious food there and tried many different kinds of meat, which was something that I was really reluctant to try last time XD But actually not that bad =)

Those food that I ate in Hong Kong, not all but some, tasted really good and the food presentation just made them look way too appetizing, even to the extent that I couldn't resist anymore!! :D So the best part of having meals with lots of people is that you get to try a lot more good food.

Dim Sum:P

Had yummy dessert:P

curry fishballs!~

And if you're a shopaholic, you will be crazily happy to go on a shopping spree here. Everywhere you go, there are shops selling things that will surely catch your attention, all that you need is to bring more money $$$$$$ !! Then you can get all you want ~ LOL  

I myself am not really a shopaholic, but I still managed to buy quite a number of stuffs here, especially towards the end of the trip.

For me, one of the highlights of this trip would be to meet up with Jeff. It was great seeing him again after so long, he brought me to quite a number of places, even to some of the places that tourists wouldn't visit. That was what he said, HAHA.. Then I also tried many yummy local delicacies :D Thanks for bringing me around!

And I'm not going to elaborate everything in detail, just gonna display a few pictures here.

Taking ferry to Central~

 

Saw this super huge Apple store @ ifc mall

Visited HKU too ~

Avenue of Stars looking nice at night~

HK at night~

(Did not bring a good camera for this trip, thus those pictures are looking kinda blur :P)

Anyway, I had a great trip !! :)