Ten things from Twenty Ten.
First off, Happy New Year to all. I haven’t been updating for a long long while partially because I was very caught up with my work and dedications.
It’s the time of the year when I look back at 2010 and noted out some of the things which clearly made my year (either great or miserable).
1. Someone broke into by car and stole the car battery
I still have no idea how someone could open up a locked car hood and took out the battery.
2. Became an avid photographer covering certain events and functions (such as), and getting some good shots off people as well.
Had a great time with great retro dressing models.
2. Now I See Spiritual Revival Concert 2010.
I wasn’t an official photographer for the event but since anyone can basically just go up front to take photos, I just went ahead. Anyway. Shot for 2 concerts, first one was in New Era College Kajang, and the second at a University in Sunway.
3. Staged photoshoots.
Managed to ask Joanne & Leo, Fang Wen and Shirley & Ezone to model for me. I still feel that the photos are lacking a lot though. Need more practice.
4. Desmine and Melissa’s Wedding
My first ever Wedding photoshoot. And I didn’t do quite well. Hmmm. But they are a loving couple. Apparently starting a family soon ^^.
5. UPM Dogathon 2010
Once again, not an official photographer. But I reckon I got some great shots that day.
I realized I didn’t blog about this since I was on a break. Regardless I had a fun, great and emotional time at Port Dickson.
7. Chinese Opera Charity Concert
This was a charity event so I wasn’t paid for it (nor I was for most of the events). But still enjoy taking photos of the actors and mostly actresses on stage. Also didn’t blog about this but most of the photos can be found on my Facebook.
8. Alex and KaeChing’s Wedding.
Was a guest but that didn’t keep Esme (my camera) away. They finally tie the knot after… 7-8 years?? And they will surely have many more years to look forward to.
9. CSSUPM Freshies Day.
Welcoming the lovely juniors to the family away from home.
10. English Language Dinner
Was called to shoot this event. More photos on Facebook. Though I think I was paid for this. Since the dinner was free for me ^^.
11. Some random shots of people around me
Nova might kill me for this. But its a
lovelyvery descriptive shot.12. Macro photography.
Loving the Tamron 90mm lens I have right now.
3. Met Karen Kong during Alex and KaeChing’s wedding.
I’m a fan for hers though not so recently. But I do like some of her songs. Did managed to get a couple of photos of her.
4. Won a few tickets online for miscellaneous events.
Tickets to Moto GP UK from Air Asia, which I didn’t go because it was in the UK. And they gave me the tickets 1 week before the event.
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NTV7 Star Live Concert 2010 tickets from DailyChilli.com which I gave to Sally.
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I did won tickets to Alice in Wonderland special screening though… I misplace the photo but I gave the tickets to TJF and Wei Keat. That particular screening was pretty harsh on my wallet though cause even though I got the tickets for free… I was fined for speeding on my way back from the cinema TT.
5. Got my photo published in a magazine.
I remember I intended to get a photo out in a magazine during my 2010 resolutions which I made in 2009. And in November 2010, I got my first photo out in the Digital SLR Magazine Malaysia October 2010 issue. I submitted the photo in September and I was very disappointed when it didn’t come out in the September issue but was really shocked when I saw it in the October issue. Won a memory card as well. Hurray for me.
6. Took care of a CAT for a whole month.
Smokey isn’t mine. She’s Sandy’s cat but Sandy is having her break so I offer to take care of her. And she is one timid cat. Enjoy my time scaring her all over the place. She’s going back to Sandy soon though. I might miss her. But she’s better off with Sandy since I found out that I can be quite a bully 
7. Lost some weight.
I have no proof of this yet though since I haven’t weight myself for sometime. But since most of my jeans are a lot looser than they was, I guess I should have lost a few kgs. But definitely didn’t reach my target of 65kg. Perhaps somewhere within 70kg to 75kg. I’ll keep trying the coming year.
8. Cried my eyes out during the CSSUPM Annual Camp.
I did mention that it was emotional but you would never guess how emotional it was for me. Perhaps only the few who sat beside me knew what had happened. But it got me to change some parts of me though I guess. Some parts of the evil me still remain but I’ll slowly take care of that.
9. Travelled all over Malaysia.
I went to Malacca, Johor, Penang, Kedah, Pangkor, Perak and also went back Labuan for a few weeks. Didn’t managed to go outside Malaysia though like in 2009 when I went Taiwan. But AirAsia is already flying to South Korea and also New Zealand next year. These destinations are really tempting me. Maybe I will really fly to this places in 2011.
Went to AIMST university in Kedah when my sister enrolled there.
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Got attacked by monkeys and leeches during my trip to Pangkor. It was funny though.
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Went to Malacca with CharYong to meet up with FangWen for her photoshoot.
10. And finally… Made a decision to get my doctorate by 2013.
I have to graduate by then. Seriously I have to!!! Working hard on it now. Progress this year had been better than the past years but its still a long way to go and I still can’t see the end of the road. But I’ll keep walking… And I have to go on a faster pace as well. Lets do it!!!
I hope your 2010 was as eventful as mine ^^
The 12 unforgettable moments of 2008.
I’ll be doing a recap of the 12 most unforgettable moments in 2008 jotted down on this blog. Its kind of hard for me to actually sort out all into 12 different moments… But I’m doing my best… Why 12 you ask??? Cuz there are 12 months ma… But some moments may happen on the same month… But regardless… I’ll just stick with 12…
So here we go…
#12: My retirement from CSSUPM Exco…
This seemed to have happened so long ago… But it was really still this year… Late of January 2008… I remembered that a burden was lifted, but then a deep sense of regret remains… I didn’t do a good job… That’s what I regretted till now… Until I can feel a tinge of jealously at Dominic’s batch… Honestly… He did much better than me… Dominic… I remembered how reluctant you were… But you did well 
~Dominic’s batch of EXCO~
#11: Kisses from Shirley on Valentine’s Day
I love those kisses… Ha ha… But I guess too bad you won’t be giving me any kisses after this…
The secret is revealed…
#10: Writing the ‘I am the Alan’ post
I wrote this after reading of a similar thing on another blogger’s site… Didn’t expected anything in the beginning… But it leads to us getting back together… But too bad it didn’t last as well…
Sorry…
After all the dead rats, the hours of me forcefeeding, the hours of me getting dejected from bad conditions, the hours of me rewriting my thesis, after the one rat which ran away during the New Year celebration…
I’ve done it
#8: Langkawi Trip 1, 2 and 3
Really had a lot of fun during this trip…
Especially when you go with a crazy bunch of people…
Doing crazy stuff…
Like
Getting stuck in the sea with a storm like this coming your way…
Visibility was 0 after a while… We can’t even see land…
And I was praying silently that we will reach safely…
In the end… we did…
~Everyone was wet~
And then there was the suspension bridge… I love it… But I do like land more… Haha… Especially solid hard earth…
And then visiting one of the best waterfall I’ve ever seen
Really miss that trip
#7: Learning how to cook… And made good food
I made this… And comments were that its delicious
Click on the link above to go to the recipe
I shall never forget thee… Who ventured with me for the past 3 years…
And I’m still really holding a grudge with those who stole it… Haiz… Sien.. Why must have thieves in this world??
#5: The terrible NSF interview
Which I got shot… Really really bad… Till it made me think whether I should continue studying post-graduate or not… But I continued…
Oh ya.. Regarding the outcome of this interview… I just received a feedback… I got it… I got NSF… @.@ Frankly… I’m shocked… Haha… Now processing it anyway.. Hope this can fuel my desire to be a better researcher
#4: The CSSUPM Camp at Cameron Highlands (Day 1 , 2, 3)
Which was my first trip to cameron…
The camp was really fun ler…
I became some sort like a faci summore…
And then my group was overall winners summore…
~Love you all my fellow St Gabriel-mates~
#3: I graduated
Ya… Honestly the whole graduation thing was quite sad… I was in an argument with my parents for quite sometime… But things like this don’t last for long… So forgotten about it already…
One of the photo which I didn’t put up… My family photo… Thanks…
#2: The walk from K17 to old flat…
Yup… I really am that crazy… But I managed this feat… Thought it was impossible at first… But I do recommend those who want to try this not to try it at night… Its dangerous…
Doing the unthinkable
and last but not least…
The #1 unforgettable moment…
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#1: The ‘Specially for you’ protected post…
Its protected so far… But I did pour my heart into that post…
Too bad no-one can read it… Hahaha…
Yup… I’m just evil… I know… 
2008 will always be a year that I’ll remember… Relationship wise… The pathways that I chose… A lot of things had happened… Sometimes we look back and wonder what would have happen if we took another path… But then it wouldn’t really matter anymore… We must continue to walk down the paths that we have chosen
Tired, Lost, Discouraged
Recently a lot of things have clouded my mind… I feel tired, lost and discouraged… My whole week was filled with ups and downs… Felt as if a lot of things happened in a short time… Even felt hard to sleep at times… Lost the peace within myself… Lost to the fear within me… Can’t seem to get back the silence within me without my head thinking of things…
The wrong timed visit to South City
It was suppose to be a day for me to study… A day for me to remember what I was taught… But my love to play music got me running the other way… And a friend’s call for help brought me to South City… Thinking of getting a keyboard… And then having lunch… That was the plan… But not only did the South City ToyCity shop closed down… The friend whom I was meeting came with her boyfriend by which I left them two together (Since they seemed to lack quality time together)… Feeling hungry, tired… and a bit depressed… Ate my late lunch and started reading… Didn’t really know how much got into my head…
The day I strived for my paper and realizing the truth of something
I got myself into the mood I had for the paper… But on the same morning… I learned of something from a good friend that made me numb once more… How do you understand what you feel…? That was the dilemma within me… I got a deadline for the thing I had to do… But the deadline is coming soon… And I wasn’t prepared… Knowing the truth got my mind occupied even though I was suppose to study…
~While your head is occupied with matters till the point where you felt lost… Even view such as this feels unimportant.~
The day I had my paper… And realized that I didn’t really understand
I sat there looking at the paper… Some answer I could… Some I couldn’t… It was cold… And I was tired… I got through it without thinking much… But didn’t managed to finished the questions… And then I look back… What did I really understand from the whole thing…? I didn’t think so… What have I been doing then… The thought still lingers in my head.
The night when we celebrated birthday… Being Alan…
The birthday was supposed to be cancelled at one point but someone brought it alive again… Thanks to her… And the place of meet seemed to be a bit desolated… And noone seemed to know where it is… Everyone didn’t managed to get there without asking where it was… And being Alan… I did another thing which I think was quite ordinary this time… Made a special gift for the birthday girl…
~Happy Birthday~
~The place we had the celebration… Gasoline, Mines… Yup there is one opened there… Its just hard to find…~
The trip to Jusco Balakong and the accident there
Rammed into the automated gate for Jusco Balakong… Miraculously, the glass didn’t break… The brake of the car didn’t seemed to function at the time… And we hit the gate… Going under it… Thinking negatively… The gate may be costing a lot… And all of us shooked up… Noone really had the mood for anything else… But thinking positively… I guess we must all thanked God that we noticed the brake wasn’t functioning and only hit the gate… And not realizing it while speeding on the highway and then finding out the brake wasn’t working… And thanked God some more that the brake didn’t really work while we hit it… Or the inertia might have caused the windshield to break hurting all of us…
The day when things got really busy and the night when I talked my heart out to a friend.
Considering the week I’ve been through, there was a day when I was busy the whole day… Running in and out of the lab… From the time I arrived till the time I actually ended everything… Around 6.30pm… It was tiring… But then… Thats what I’m supposed to do… Met up with a friend that night that cleared a lot of doubts from my mind… Really appreciate her support and care and advice… It made my mind clearer as to what had to be done… But clear things never seemed to last…
The day when I got scolded by my co-supervisor…
Made a big mistake recently… Scolded by my co-supervisor… He scrapped off an essential component of my project… I can see he’s really frustfrated at me… Really sorry… I didn’t know… And that got me thinking again… Did I choose the correct way?
The day we had lunch… And the night I learned something else…
I really treasured the times we had lunch… And you should understand that I called you out for lunch for a reason… I wondered if you have noticed it… Or you’re just feeling that it’s a friend calling… I hadn’t done much… And at the moment I couldn’t do much… And I did what I thought I could do… There is a reason behind all the things I’ve done…
And then the night I learned something else… That what I did may not be successful this time… The deadline is almost up… And I understand that I’m not going to make it… I couldn’t sleep that night… Felt bad deep down…
Looking at the cross
I looked up upon the cross during the mass at chapel, trying to find the peace within me… The peace that I thought I had lost… I still couldn’t find it… I still felt my life is in a mess… Sorry to those who asked we what was wrong but I couldn’t answer… There’s just too many things I felt that I couldn’t share out with others yet… Perhaps its cuz of fear of breaking down in front of them… And fear once more… Why am I fearful…? If I was brave enough… Could I have changed the things that happened?
I hope I can find my way soon…
