人生就好像一杯酒。

2.11.10 Disneyland

Woke up this morning thinking that it'd be great if I'm able to record my life here in Montreal. Although it's been 2 months since I first arrived , but Better be late than not...

The day started with Chloe (my dear roomie) waking me up at 8.00a.m. She always have early classes so it's great! I have a life alarm clock! However I did not completely lug myself out of the bed until 9.00a.m. Well, 2 more dreams from 8.00 to 8.30 and a lovely conversation on skype with my Dear Jiejie from 8.30-9.00a.m. pretty much explain it.

I am surprised how my life is still quite unorganized now that it's been 2 months already. Everyday schedule seems to be different! And what I meant by this is that I can never fix the order of washing up, making breakfast, and checking the news. So today what I did was making breakfast first while brushing my teeth and checking the news at the same time. I'm amazed at how increasingly I'm able to multi task now. ^^

So when everything is done, it's almost 10.30a.m. and it's time for school! And now it's time to explain my post title, it's called disneyland because I really felt like I'm in those disneyland movie this morning as I walked pass the street of my residential area seeing squirrels and humming birds. It's fall now so the trees are either all yellow in colour or has no leave left hanging onto the branches. Hope my limited description can somehow help you to picture it. Waking to the bus stop takes me 10 minutes and it takes another 15 minutes for me to reach school i.e. Mcgill University ( the first ranked university in Canada as of now). So it's 11.00a.m. by the time I reach, time for some serious work now. A long day is awaiting me!

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First class done for the day and here I am to share this incredibly nice japanese song with you guys. I'm usually not a fan of Jap songs, but this song is just amazing. trust me, have a try listening to it!

"手纸” by angela aki.

The meaning of the lyrics goes by:

English Translation:
Dear you,
Who's reading this letter
Where are you and what are you doing now?

For me who's 15 years old
There are seeds of worries I can't tell anyone

If it's a letter addressed to my future self,
Surely I can confide truly to myself

Now, it seems that I'm about to be defeated and cry
For someone who's seemingly about to disappear
Whose words should I believe in?
This one-and-only heart has been broken so many times
In the midst of this pain, I live the present

Dear you,
Thank you
I have something to tell the 15-year-old you

If you continue asking what and where you should be going
You'll be able to see the answer

The rough seas of youth may be tough
But row your boat of dreams on
Towards the shores of tomorrow

Now, please don't be defeated and please don't shed a tear
During these times when you're seemingly about to disappear
Just believe in your own voice
For me as an adult, there are sleepless nights when I'm hurt
But I'm living the bittersweet present

There's meaning to everything in life
So build your dreams without fear
Keep on believing

Seems like I'm about to be defeated and cry
For someone who's seemingly about to disappear
Whose words should I believe in?

Please don't be defeated and please don't shed a tear
During these times when you're seemingly about to disappear
Just believe in your own voice

No matter era we're in
There's no running away from sorrow
So show your smile, and go on living the present
Go on living the present

Dear you,
Who's reading this letter
I wish you happiness
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Romaji Lyrics

I love those singers who can capture people's heart through their songs. And the lyric is awesome, I wish I've had the chance to listen to it when I was 15 year old, and work harder to go into Harvard University. AHAHAH, kidding. I mean, I'm glad that I've worked decently hard to achieved where I am now. But of course, without my family and friends, I wouldn't have gone this far. There is still a long way to go in my life, I know this is for sure. The only question remaining is, how I want to live it. And for some reason, I am really thankful that I actually have the chance to go for exchange. Which somehow opened my eyes, that now I know the world is not only confined to Malaysia, Australia or Singapore. There's much more beyond that. There's so much in this world which I have yet to understand and explore. Understanding how it works and putting myself into these mechanism is the point.

Me in Montreal

Here's a little update about my life in Montreal. ^^ Hope wei cing wouldn't mind about this! ^^ This is actually a reply to my friend's email asking about my life in Montreal.

Dear wei cing, how r u? ^^ Im fine here, everything has been going well. I remember that I told you that I will write everything down in my blog but unfortunately, I didn't have the capacity to do it. ^^ It's all due to my laziness I guess. Anyways, my blog address iswww.ponichen.blogspot.com. But as you probably would have seen, I uploaded lot of pictures on facebook. Feel free to have a look in them! As of the blog, I will do it when I'm free^^ and provided that I'm hardworking. And I thought I might as well just tell you what's happening here in Montreal through this message^^.

My classes officially started last week, so i shall tell u a little about the classes here. ^^ My first 2 classes in my first day was boring, they are organizational policy and financial statement analysis, the last one of the day was international business, in which i fortunately have a know everything under the sun-lecturer. ^^ Thought some of the courses aren't as impressive as others, base on the courses structure which consists alot of in class discussion, I'm quite confident that I will have a good time in the classes especially when I don't have to worry about the grades. ^^ yes, student on exchnage only transfers back the credit, but not the grades! ^^ cool huh.

Ok, that's on the classes side, now let me tell u smth about the people that I met here. They are friendly in general. Haha, and this really trigger my interest to learn french so that I can discover more about the people and this lovely beautiful old city. ^^

So that's all for now, I'm running out of idea as to what to write here. I'm ready to explore more about this city in a coming few weeks and also to the region that's beyond the border of montreal i.e. quebec city and toronto! ahah, more if time and finance allow me to do so! By that time, I wish I'll have more to tell you! ^^

Now, tell me something about yourself! ^^ Anything will do! It's always great to hear from my good friend!

Be it good, be it bad.

Be it someone that's good, be it someone that's bad

We don't think bad about people

We just have to be ourselves, be truthful, be sincere.

^^ Wisdom by someone that I respect a lot.

用心 好好的去掃地吧！

Please sweep the floor with your heart and soul.

You will find something really different in yourself.

LovE YZ.

finally done with the job

^^ yippie, it's 1.55a.m. now and i've officially completed my first little task in for the holiday! yoohoo. i'm happy, i love u sis.

And the reward for completing the task is...... 1 lamborghini..haha, did i even spell it right?

Hey friends, do i look cool "standing" beside this car? thinking of getting 1 in the future.

lol~ ignore my day dream (or if u like, midnight dream).

good night!

holidays thus far

the official beginning of my first day of holidays. ^^ had a satisfying brunch with phuong at The Deck, one of the best canteens in NUS. Apparently the orders are haywired..

But still, "memorably" presenting our group photo during the genting trip.
Love all of them to tiny winy tweeny litlle bits. Had fun with the gang, my wushu gang. Thank you. Quote from bernie: "5 days, more than 5 different nationalities, in less than rm 500", and I would add to it: " invaluable friendships".

the crying babes at the airport sending ji ye off.

back to the day when i was about to leave Singapore...my lovely cluster mates, had a great gathering at holland village.

Last but not least, we are good student.^^