omg out of all the papers dynamics is the hardest and its not easy and omg why am i typing thsi grrr goinna die gonna die gonna die.

An old page I found about my family history.

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Going back to our roots. By Chan Soon Meng.

Our pioneering ancestors Mr. & Mrs. Chan Kwan Seng sailed from China in a junk boat and landed on the banks of the Klang River in 1880 where they settled down in Kuala Lumpur.  It never dawned on me that I will be the only Chan to do the opposite of what my great grandfather did……

In 2005 my husband Kok Peng was offered a teaching post in Yang En University in Quanzhou in the province of Fujian, China.  He had retired from IBM and our children had grown up.  Cynthia had married and settled in Australia and David also tied the knot and working in Vietnam.  Our "birds" have flown off and there was an "empty nest" or emptiness left behind without the kids. We felt a need for some changes in our lives.

 

At first I was quite reluctant to go to China.  Never in my lifetime had I ever wanted to visit China. However I do recollect that sometime in the spring of my youth or early married life I had wished to go abroad and live as an expatriate in a foreign land in a western country.  My dream finally seemed to have materialized much later in my autumn years!  But it was to go to China, the land of my forefathers!

Well, I had prayed to God for a change in my life and God responded.  I did not mention to God what kind of new lifestyle I wanted or which country I would like to go.  I should have been more specific in my prayers.  Anyway, I decided to give it a try as Kok Peng said it was a yearly contract and we can always return home when the contract ends.  It turned into five years of living in China!  Every year we renewed the contract and thanks be to God it has been five wonderful years of a changed lifestyle.

 

I fell in love with Yang En University as soon as I arrived.  There were beautiful majestic mountains, green hills, valleys and lakes surrounding the University.  Farms planted with  various types of fruit trees and vegetables are nearby  in the countryside. There are lots of mango and longan trees all over the campus.  At night one can see the twinkling stars and a bright shining moon up in the sky making it so enchanting and peaceful.

 

Nearby is the Majia village, which is like Pudu when Ah Poh and Ah Koong were alive and used to live in the 1960s.  There is a beautiful government controlled Church situated on a hill which I have to walk a distance uphill and downhill passing through pigsties, chicken and duck farms if I wanted to attend the Chinese Church service. I regretted I didn't learn to speak mandarin when mother engaged Chinese teacher Mdm Wong to our house in Cheras years ago to teach us when we were young.  Everyone in the village and campus communicate in Chinese and some spoke Minnan which is the hokkien dialect.

I got to know many University students and local teachers when I started to occupy my time conducting free English classes and Scrabble sessions to the many eager students who wanted to learn English.  The students are so friendly and they love to speak to foreigners.  In the mornings when I go for my backward walks, some students follow me around in the stadium so that they can practise their oral English.  They invited me to their homes and  gave me gifts of scarves, tea sets, and exotic food such as chicken and duck feet and duck necks!

 

This will be our fifth year stay in China having had an opportunity of living in a new environment.  We have gained new experiences and exposure of life different from Malaysia, Australia or Vietnam.  It has been a satisfying lifestyle living in the land where our ancestors came from. Soon we will go home to where we were born and bred, where our ancestors took their first bold step into a foreign land which we now call home sweet home in Malaysia.

Watch Number 1.

I opened the door and looked behind. Emma had a shocked expression on her face and quickly close the door. I turned back and there were 20 pairs of eyes on me.

Damn wrong classroom.

Work

Work is the opposite of play. It is the differentiation of integration. Its friction against force. Resistance and current. It is life, but with life there is death.

No more time to waste. Loads of projects and assignments to finish before exams. So not ready.

The weekend was awesome :D

I'm excellent in this game, and therefore, have no life.

4 days 15 hours to become level 34. Compare these stats to others, who take an average of 1 day 3 hours longer to get to the same level. I've played 454 games so far and have collected 109 Ace Player pins (Be the best player in the whole game) which comes to 0.24 of my games, which means in a quarter of my games, I am the best player there is (Hell yeah). But there's a problem.

I've been playing this game for 4 days and 18 hours.

This "problem" which exists definitely shows in my uni results, which to tell the truth, is not up to par. Scoring 67% for the Physics mid-term (Don't get me started on Dynamics test) and 26/40 for Engineering Materials mid-term says it all. I always have the feeling that I mostly know everything, which in turn, leads to my demise as I stare blankly, clueless at the questions being asked. Some of the mistakes made as extremely stupid such as 2-4(2) = -10, while others were carelessness (It is the recovery process that makes the material ductile, not annealing, which is the process of heating up a material so that it recovers,
so that it becomes ductile. Ugh)

Oh btw, I'm not a firm believer of carelessness and that I hate it when people say "Next time don't careless" because the word careless means that you didn't see the wrong in the question and therefore thought it was right, which in turn means that you can only reduce carelessness, not eliminate it. And also the fact that being careless means that you couldn't see it, so how can you see something which you couldn't see?

I think I should study more often, I don't like the fact that my calculator has ran out of battery, not my printer which has ran out of ink.

Gotta focus on studies for these few weeks cause after June 24^th it'll be all over...for about a month.

I keep failing with this "Part" posts.

YAY NISSAN SENTRA.

85k km, 37k, gold colour, 1.6L, its okay.

I died a little inside though