Balik Pulau Durian

Granduncle Michael

Balik Pulau Laksa

We've got to know that the famous Balik Pulau laksa has moved to the new market.

Balik Pulau Murals

While venturing the round island tour via cars, we stumbled upon one of the murals that has been pretty famous around the area recently. You may track and check out the rest of it here.

A beautiful view at one of the lookout point near Bao Sheng Durian Farm.

Teluk Bahang Dam

Lunch @ Hollywood Restaurant

Their famous Hainanese Spring Roll.

Grandma's 83rd Birthday Dinner @ Chinese Recreation Club (CRC) Restaurant, Penang

Siblings love.

The following weekend, I returned home to Ipoh as everyone from Penang journeyed down for the weekend.

Pomelo Farm @ Ampang Jaya, Ipoh

Kampung Kacang Puteh, Ipoh

This is how you covert a 5 seater Honda CRV to a 7 seater. #youngestandshortest

Gunung Lang, Ipoh

Concubine Lane, Ipoh

Plan B, Ipoh

Yew Ming Teochew Porridge, Ipoh

Granduncle's Advance 80th Birthday Dinner @ 1919, Ipoh

Birthday kisses from the birthday boy to his sister. Seeing them happy makes me happy.

Time really do pass a lot more faster when you're having an amazing time. I can't wait to see my family again, and I hope you readers enjoyed reading this blog entry.

11 weeks left of being a university student

It is that phase of life again where I worry very much about the unknown and uncertainty of the future. I feel rather insecure about where my life is heading to after this, and the fact that I have not exactly found my field of interest even up to this point scares me a lot. I know there are a lot of articles and books to help discover myself, or even self evaluation tests that I can easily find online. But at the same time, part of me is still clinging on the hope that I can one day generate enough income and eventually have it as my full time career with things that I am passionate about.

At the same time, I am excited for the plans lined up this August and September. As excited as I am about it, it makes me feel agitated about it when plans can't be finalized. The word 'hope' comes into the picture again for this because as urgent as it is to get things confirmed, I can't help but to hang on to that slim chance of hope that things could become better and easier. 

I have also recently took up a work from home part time job which pays me pretty decent for an undergraduate. Don't get me wrong, my parents still provide for me more than they should, but I am at the stage of life whereby I want to earn for myself be it for extra expenditure or to put into savings. However, I may have taken up this part time job at a wrong timing, because I seriously had no idea that the final semester would be THIS hectic. I mean, I knew I was going to be busy but it was just not as what I've expected. Opportunity doesn't come knocking twice, and I can say that it fits in rather well with how this job opportunity came to me. I just really hope that I will be able to juggle everything well, to keep in focus on my priorities and not let my past 5 semesters' effort to go to waste. 

I am someone who gets her thoughts cluttered very easily when things can actually be done efficiently ONLY IF I am discipline enough to do so. This always lead myself to unnecessary stress, and lowers my confidence in excelling in things that I do. Unfortunately, this is pretty much what I am going through now. I keep telling myself that I have too many things to do, and I am stressed out, and that I am running out of time, and yet, here I am in this space. 

It's now only week 3 of my final semester, and as I am typing this, I fell sick in class today. I woke up today with a very bad sore throat, which later became a really bad flu. As of date, I have a lot of work and assignments waiting to be completed but I don't know what it is that I am constantly tired and in need of long naps, which slows down my progress with getting things crossed out on my to-do list. This is like the worst time to fall sick, but I hope after this, I'll be healthy enough to brace through the remaining 11 weeks of the semester.

Fingers crossed that the weeks will only get better. After all, this is my last shot to excel, and the last few weeks to enjoy my life, with my friends, as a student.