Cheng Jee shigu.
I got so touched and it was a very warm feeling that I felt after reading this sms from her, but shigu, am I doing enough for her, my mum? I do know that all mothers are almost the best creation on Earth not to mention the uncountable sacrifices they made just to mold us into who we are and what we have today. I once vowed to myself that I'll never want to see her cry or get upset ever again and will do anything that to see her smile every day. And up to now, I am still hanging strong to this promise; a promise that she didn't know I made since 7 years old.
I've just calculated that I've not been updating my blog for about 3 week so I'll got a long list to share with you guys. :)
3 weeks ago
Went to work for a 3 days part time job at Global Art Centre to teach young children how to make handicrafts out of soft clays and here's two pictures I managed to snap after we're done with it:
Fast foods (Sorry McD, didn't meant to imitate your products but the children picked to make you. :p)
(A tray filled with lollipop, french toast, biscuits, pumpkin, fruits and OREO :D)
Frankly speaking, I got a bit 'mm se tak' with my two young students at the end of the third lesson although we only met for three days because they were both so sweet. May Buddha bless them both always. :)
2 weeks ago
The last time we learnt how to prepare new food was the Japanese sushi's and for this time, it's the food of our own traditional Chinese culture; a food that existed for a long time ago. Something white and soft.
*Spotlight*
*Spotlight*
It's THE PAOs. *Wootss~~ clap clap* :p
1) Trying to wrap the fillings in the dough flour like how paos usually look like but in the end, it ended up looking like an onion. (Hehe..)
2) Baby size pao with kaya fillings *Yummm*
3) Before: Paos being arranged on the steamer plate before taking to steam.
4) After: Oh my gawd.. so BIG right?
* Take note that both trays are not the same trays so the paos that are placed in them are different but they're all approximately the same in sizes before going through the steaming process.*
Look kinda big, if you ask me but the fact is that if you see it real with both eyes, each of the paos are about 15 cm wide in diameter. So, we were all shocked at first when the steamer cap was removed only to reveal that our small, innocent and cute-looking paos became so big. *Pao pao, why you grow so fast? Naughty.* Probably due adding too much of yeast or not succeeding rolling the dough properly to remove the air bubbles. But it's okay, still taste as great as the sushi. :)
1 week ago
Location: Sunway College Cafeteria
Time : 11.30 a.m.
Time : 11.30 a.m.
Supported Sunway College's "Plant a Tree" campaign on Wednesday because I love the idea of contributing small effort to raise awareness among the students that it is never too late to start caring for our dear Earth. As donors are given a yellow board so that they could all leave a message of what they wish to tell the world and I did, had quite a hard time trying to figure what to write on it. After some time, I thought that it was right after joining Tzu Chi that I started to be concern about the environment so this is what I wrote:
*Fuyoo* I can write Chinese! Well, the embarrassing fact is that's among the few Chinese words or 'roses among the thorns' that I will never forget how to write in my whole entire life. Da Ai; meaning Great Love not only to ourselves, society and also the environment. :)
Actually, we will also be able to do our part for the environment by going vegetarian but it is not easy as I have to consider my family's opinion about it. Usually the right thing to do is not being selfish and to see things from other people's point of view. Plus the fact that my mum does get pissed if I do not take meat because, according to her, I already look like a walking stick (lol, I know mum) but I can't help it. Not that I don't eat a lot at home, she stuffs me with lots of food but sad to say that her effort never.. succeed? Although I, myself am really wishing to gain weight but I have to admit that there are some times when I skipped brunch in college for personal reasons. :p
Occasionally, Tzu Chi will be organizing free health talks for the community and the latest one was to give a deeper understanding of the terminal disease. I was there to help a shigu to take down notes on the program, given the agenda sheet as a reference and to write a report out of it. Generally, I find it really enjoyable to be able to gain new experience and at the same time, sharpen my knowledge about this disease.
I remembered a shibo once said "In Tzu Chi, you will see, hear and encounter all sorts of things that you could not be able to get elsewhere." It was a sharing by a man in during the talk program somehow, managed to reflect perfectly with the shibo's words. Here's a copy of a part of the report I wrote based on the situations I observed that day:
" After he was done, Dr. Chan was presented a small souvenir by the English group coordinator and a lovely sign language presentation entitled “Giving Love” was performed to all. Deep inside, we know that giving love and spiritual support is the best thing we can do for cancer patients so that we can all overcome it together. Before the talk comes to an end, a man spoke and shared his personal past experience to all. As tears filled his eyes, he slowly unfolds the painful experience he once had when his beloved mother was succumbed to breast cancer, a fact that was quite hard for him to accept. It was such a great pain that even the doctor cannot give morfin to reduce the pain and he was stuck between the decision of letting his mother go peacefully or watching her painfully fighting for her life. By the time he finished, we were deeply moved by his story as we listened with full compassion and watched him silently cry with watery eyes. The atmosphere went still and silent for a short moment when Dr. Chan comforted him with care that it was not the man’s fault based on the medical technology the country had back then. He did it out of love and made a decision, a tough decision, a decision he finally managed to make in the end so he is never wrong and nobody else can say that too. "
I have to admit that after hearing his story, I went to school the next day with a heartache because I can really feel the pain he had inside. To me, he's actually quite tough to be able to gain the courage to share his bitter experience to us all which is not an easy step for him but.. he did it. Let us all pray that Buddha will mend his scar and get over it soon yeah? :) Amitofo.
CAE Task 2 Presentation;
Wore heels to school today for formal clothing purposes and oh my gawd.. the heels are killing me. Literally. It was fine for the first 2 hours but as time flies, I began to wonder how did the office lady managed to stand walking around with heels for the whole day. It is just so.. amazing, don't you think so too? :) I even lost count of the numerous times I wish I could just remove my shoes and walk barefooted up and down the college IF and only IF people won't stare at me when I do that. Haha.. I wish! :)
And my goodness gracious, the last thing I've ever want to do during the CAE presentation was to get nervous breakdown which.. I did. *Sigh* It was sort of sad and disappointing because it's a group marks we're all working for and I really don't want the awkward moment I have to affect it at all. Especially when I saw how Vip Kent and Jia Jin did their best to present their part well and it's definitely not worth it to lose marks just because I didn't do mine smoothly. So guilty. :( So, in the end, I tried to cover up my mistakes at the second part of the slides hoping it'll work. Wheww... :)
当你喜欢一个人，你是不是会偷偷看他?
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Wo hao xiang you dian kai shi xi huan shang ni le.
~Hugs~
2 comments:
"tian kai shi xi huan shang ni le"
i cannot translate leh....==
teach me how to make handicrafts out of soft clays ...=)
finally update ur blog....^^
nice one =)
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