Highlight No. 1

It is honestly the most painful and horrifying and at the same time most memorable experience I ever had in my entire 18 years of life. Dengue. Spent 5 days in the hospital with having to take blood every six hours or so. But my first night in the hospital was almost as hell. There's this houseman punjabi doctor on call and he was the only doctor there in the ward. He had to take my blood test again just after like 15 minutes ago, I took another blood test. Seriously! He had big hands and was struggling to find my vein. After 5 attempts of poking and no blood coming out into the syringe, me squeaking on the verge of crying, my brother and mum's tense reaction, he finally agreed to take my blood from my hand instead from my arm. Imagine a mini knife stabbing your arm. That's how it was. 
          It all started with fever. Up and down. Until it got too long to be in my body so mum finally decided to send me to the clinic to take blood test. That result came out showing my platelet counts less than 150 000 (mine was: 110 000). So doctor said to come again the next day to see whether it increases or decreases. If it decreases, I'm going into the hospital. And well, obviously it decreased, to 77 000! So that Friday evening, I was admitted into the hospital. The IV tube insertion wasn't painful as many who experienced it described. It was very quick and I only felt a prick. Unlike the intensive blood tests during those 5 days. I came out looking like a drug addict who has blue-black marks on the arm. (That was what my good friend told me when she saw me in tuition)

          

            I feel so proud looking at this picture. Haha!
Besides all the physical stuff, I thank God for allowing me to be in the hospital. For the first time in all my remembrance, my dad stayed back during lunch hour to feed me cause I was too weak to eat myself and mum went back home to rest and do a few chores. I also got to observe the housemen and Medical Officers and the specialists work cause I, myself will one day have to work like them. Walking all the time from bed to bed, writing down observations based on the patient's conditions and kena scolding from your supervisor medical officer for giving your firm opinion. Yeah... Am I ready for that? At this moment, no. I am not. But if it's God's will for me to continue my studies in the medical field, then He will prepare me in every aspect: physically, emotionally and mentally. 
            This is the highlight of my life for the past 2 months since I've blogged. There is another highlight though. Will blog about it later. That one is so far the most amazing discovery of my 18 years of life. Just in 1 sentence: I have found another human being whose race is exactly like mine and my bro: Dad's a Myanmarese and Mum's a Chinese. Plus, he's a Christian too! XD

Restarting - Refreshing!

Being in Form 6 is a blast, I tell you. Especially when I decided to be a librarian. Being a librarian in High School Klang is no joke. We Form 6 students are assigned to specific tasks and I was placed in a group in charged of movie shows. I was selected as the secretary of that group and secretarial work is also a NO joke and NO play-play job. I handle every single thing that has to do with paper from letters, movie schedules, duty schedules and also contacting group members for meetings and reminders. Library month has started 3 days ago and so does everything else. Movie shows are going through smoothly so far, THANK GOD! 
             We have earned nearly to RM400 now which is quite a progress. Although we couldn't match to our seniors achievement which is RM300 the first day itself. I tried finding a picture of my school's library on the net but it seems that High Klang isn't that famous after all. Haha!
             Being super busy and tired ever since I decided to be a librarian, my quiet time spent with God has also decreased and I tell you, I've noticed that my behaviour has become more and more ungraceful and joyless; which is the total opposite thing of a Christian. I should be shinning not dimming darker and darker. That is why I've got to get back on track again. No matter whether my homework is piling up or not. I've gotta make time for God. Restarting and refreshing now... Lord, Your grace is enough!  

I'm A Librarian

Wow... It has been half a month since I've blogged. That shows that I'm either super busy or just plain lazy. Hehe... Well it's a combination of both. I'm so relieved that Youth Sunday in WMCK is over. I have received many, many, many good feedbacks about the presentation. ALL GLORY TO GOD! You must be blur... 


I was in charged of the presentation for Youth Sunday. I planned every single detail about the mini musical skit. From the script, to the songs used, to the video shooting and the dance moves. Besides that, dear Aunty Jane also helped to improvise and edit the script and help enhance the quality of the acting, dancing and narrating. Video shooting was a blast! So was the photo shoot. All our effort and hard work paid off. If only I could post up the slide show on this blog. Hmm...


I want to personally give credit to Gang Ming Jer for the excellent humourous line of Mrs. Young to Kyle~
Kyle: But, but, I'm scared of blood.
Mrs. Young: Blood, blood, blood. HAHA! Blood. You do chef also same thing. You do chicken chop, mutton chop; you chop the chicken and mutton all also got blood. 


SUPER FARNEY!! In case you're blur, the video's gonna be up soon, in a week's time. It's just so funny I was recording it and I was using all my will power not to laugh. That's the part on Youth Sunday. Will blog properly about it when the videos are out. Then you'll know what I'm blogging about. Haha!


Library.... School Library. They are killing me man! I was elected as the secretary of my group which is in charged for "Tayangan Filem" during the Library Month and I have to do nearly everything! (except the tickets) Contacting the members, hold meeting, type minutes, type letters, arrange the movie schedules and duty schedules and my laptop has been honoured to be used during the movie shows. Which means I have to bring it to school everyday for the next 3 weeks! Argh! Plus, I have Bio test tomorrow and I'm not completely prepared and I don't know how it's gonna be like. 
            One thing I realized throughout the weeks, God has been gracious and merciful to me. My Chemistry teacher has found favour in me. I started Maths T tuition last Thursday and Mr. Chan who is the teacher also a personal friend of the family sponsored my tuition fees for the whole term. How awesome can God get? And His protection on me all these while when I walked across the Klang bridge to church, back and forth and walking to tuition as well. God is indeed good! 


I will blog more in the future. Till then, these are the things I've gone through over the past few weeks. 

Life At The Moment

It's the school holidays now and it doesn't feel like the break I used to have after SPM. Haha! Of course it wouldn't be like that. My schedule's pack with loads of activities. 2 activities down at the moment: Photo shooting and my Driving's QTI test. (I passed!) Would have my P license after the holidays are over. Pray-tell I'll pass the real thing with the JPJ people. 
         2 unusually exciting things happened. No. 1: Weldon's birthday (ex-ketua of SOS). Thanks for Foon Yoong (a.k.a our ex-secretary) for organizing a mini youth outing to watch Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, we had loads of fun!

 It's a good movie. I laughed, quite a lot. 23 of us wanted to watch but there were only 16 tickets. So Yoong, Cally, Juan Wyn, Joel, Tevin and Wei Zheng sacrificed. (I can't remember who was the other one...) Before the movie we had lunch at Govin's. (I hope I didn't misspell) It's a Northen Indian Restaurant. Good food... Yum... 

My beloved SOS Youth. I will surely miss them in 2 years time. Oh well, and then it's the photo shoot which happened yesterday. I cannot show any of the pictures yet, but the video, I can. I think. Still, thinking about it. It was incredibly funny. That's all for now. 

Discipline

Thank God that Orientation Week in High School Klang is finally OVER!
I can finally put my head straight on the prize, the goal of scoring the best an STPM student can ever score: 4 FLATS. Yes, yes... Everybody is telling me what a killer STPM is. That was the same thing my secondary seniors told me about Add Maths, what a killer it is. And with that negative input in my brain, I struggled through the 2 years. It was only by the grace of God that I managed to last minute grasp the concept of Index Numbers on the day of the exam itself and managed to score a B. (which I have never accomplished before in my entire life)
            So, this time around in STPM, I'm not gonna let those comments about STPM get in the way. I will my best and discipline myself to the max to achieve my full potential. I ain't bragging, but I am born smart. In fact, no body on earth is born stupid. They have brains and their brains work well. The only honest comment I can give about my SPM result: I was lazy. Yeap, there you have it. The truth. 
           I am going to put in my best effort in disciplining my life now. The mission now is to do my best to accomplish the best, for the glory of God. 

Dear Lord,

thank you for this second chance to redeem myself from the failure of not disciplining myself last year. With your help and guidance, Lord; I want, I need, I am going to do my best this 1 and 1/2 years. Do accomplish what I can accomplish with my best effort. I cannot do this without you. I acknowledge it's gonna be a wild, rough ride. But with you, nothing is impossible. I believe! I believe!

Into your hands, I commit again

With all I am, for you Lord

You hold my world, in the palm of your hands

And I am yours forever...

Amen.

Orientation Week

High School Klang's Orientation Week is the most interesting and at the same time the most "pissing people off" one I've ever seen and been in. 
                     The first thing they did was to use the mic and yelled at us juniors. 
Day 1: Registration, taklimat, instructions to make firefly costume, signature book that uses almost 75 A4 papers. 

My Firefly costume

Day 2: More taklimat, wearing the costume the whole day, ordering us around, commanding us to greet seniors and seniors with special name tags and special posts; signature book check, more yelling, instructions on how to win signatures from seniors tomorrow, buy sweets! 


High School is nice. The environment is nice. The food is nice. And 3 different canteens, one Malay, 2 Chinese (cooked and served on plate food + bakery). Transferring to ACS would be done next week. Hmm... Will I miss High School? 

Plans

SMK Tinggi Klang (a.k.a High School Kang)
I am posted to this school to study form 6, but my mum and I have talked and thought about it, I'll need to transfer to ACS. The thing is, I need to wait stay 2 weeks in that school and only then I can apply for transfer and who knows how long that process is gonna take. 

The Main Building

Looks quite grand right? They have 3 different canteens. A single building for the library itself and form 6 students get a whole block to themselves out from the rest of the secondary students sight. So cool right? It is really a beautiful school. It's super BIG! I'm afraid that being in that school for 3 weeks will make me stay and not think about transferring. *sigh...
            I really like that school. The environment especially. It's an all boys school and yet, they are really clean! It can be considered ancient but still way much better than ACS. I've been to ACS a few times over the years and that school has a huge field and compound in the middle on the school. The office sucks though. The canteen is ordinary and the layout of the building is just simple unlike High School. I feel like sticking to High School now. And all this while I've been telling people that I want to go to ACS. 

The badge looks ugly though. 

I am really contemplating. What's most important is the teachers. Whether they are committed and dedicated to their work to teach us properly. Especially for me. I'm a little weak in Chemistry and Maths. I need real guidance and teaching that will make help me understand well. If the teachers don't teach well in High School, that's it; I am transferring out of there.