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The Love in It


2010
04.04

Everytime when we go back, both mil and mom will definitely cook chicken soup for us. (This time around I went back myself, so just for me. :p) 

And I definitely want the mee suah as well. So everytime when I want to eat mee suah, both side of the stove would be heating vigorously as I’m just like mom, prefer food to be served hot.  Looking at the stove in my house, they are getting so old, rusting.  This is where my mom cooked all the nice and nutritious food for us, with love.

I had this over and over and over again for the few days staying at home. I’d never get sick of it. Its not just noodles, but love.

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The Gifts~


2010
04.03

Gifts from friends and family~

The gift from the family. Very high class watch. :)  erm… I don’t really know much bout watch. :p  There’s a series of books telling you all about the brand. Very special packing. ^^

Gift from his PSM students.

Very useful storage box~

 He didn’t want me to buy anything then, so I just gave him a card made by myself. :)

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Congratulations~


2010
03.28

27th March 2010, a significant day for Alvin, for he’s officially graduated as a Doctor of Philosophy in Remote Sensing. The family were gathered together in celebrating his 3rd, and also his last graduation. :)

Congratulations again dear, I’m truly proud of you!  It was truly not an easy and smooth journey, but of struggles and obstacles, failures and frustrations.  You’ve made it, hurray~!

Q & A: Why is there a corsage on his jubah?

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终于~


2010
02.04

2005年7月7日,我注册成为PhD candidate。是的,他们都这么称为博士班学生,让他们感觉爽点。

大约3年半后,2008年12月8号,我交了我的毕业论坛等待口试 (viva-voce)。

2009年4月7日。我经历了我的viva。经过两个教授,一个副教授的讨论。我被给予6个月的时间,改我的论文。

2009年10月6日,我交了我的改正。当时,我一直担心是否会顺利的通过。

2009年12月21日,我得到消息,说可以准备hard cover binding。还有一些小改正,但是大致上无碍了。

2009年12月28日,我的论文交了。等待Senate的开会。

终于在2010年1月21日,大学Senate开会了。我正式得到遥感博士。毕业典礼预计在3月尾。

如果你问我,为什么那么清楚这些日子。我只能说,我不是一个记性好的人,或一个对日子特别敏感的人。但这些日子我会记得,因为我走过,感觉真的辛苦。尤其是交了论文,等待口试,改正,等待成绩的那刻更是难忘。我相信以后我常会梦见这当中的一些忧虑,担心情景。

在这里,我感谢赞美主!没有主的祝福,我什么也没。我也感谢我老婆,我家人的祈祷,支持与陪伴。在后期我赶论文的时候,我时常脾气不好。让我老婆辛苦了。谢谢您老婆!最后,我要感谢这世界没有学术界人士吃饱没事做,在博士后弄多一个学位出来,不然搞不好因为工作的关系,还得读下去。从学士到硕士到博士,我花了11年半的时间在读书。我只能说,真的够了。这当中,我深深领悟到一个道理,或许别人说过,但我是真的体会到,你越读,你越不懂。这也是到后期,我害怕的原因。害怕我真的不够资格。能人很多。但我偏不是那个。

昨天在一个同事那里听到,Research Management Center (RMC) 那边的员工很喜欢叫你博士。不管你是也叫,不是也叫给人种,‘宁可杀错,不可放过’的感觉。我之前体验过。去年5月到8月在我的研究基金申请过程,从头到尾都叫我DR.我跟他们说我没拿到。不好叫。但是他们回头就忘了。昨天听那同事提起,原来是有典故的。之前有些大概也是读博士读到很辛苦,他们遇到人没称呼他们是博士,就会生气。我说,这学问是你的,称呼是别人叫的。在名字上冠上一个博士,如果是在学术论坛上,那是一个尊敬。但是如果是也不是,都要人家这么称呼你,这也太。。。不懂怎么说。我分享这一段,因为我知道,以后一些好朋友会‘酸’我,一些认识的也会有点尴尬,不懂要怎样称呼。各位,我还是我。直接称呼名字好了,不然就不够朋友! :)

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2010


2010
01.01

Everyone has their own story and own description for 2009.

I have too much to say for 2009. There’s joy, love, ups and downs, tears and smiles, sweet and sour. Of all the past that is gone, I’d like to remember more on the moments of heart melting, moments of joys, moments of love, and every moment that God is with us. I’m thankful for all that we’ve gone through together.

For this new year coming ahead, I’m going to face new students, new challenges, new tasks, and a better me. With God’s guidance and grace, I can.  I’ve not been doing well and playing my role well. I believe I can do it better in 2010.

Soothing and comforting music, intro by Alan. River Flows in You by Yiruma.

Blessed New Year to you, my dear family and friends. I miss you all.

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Genuine Chicken Essence


2009
12.23

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Home cook chicken essence, prepared by sis specially for me. Yummy, especially the set which I think is remains of blood. :p  This is the best tonic for women, not for men. :p

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The special pot used to stew the chicken essence.

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Place whole chicken (without cutting into pieces) that is smashed in this pot, then put into the outer layer pot, and put into a big pot filled with water, heat with slow fire for 3-6 hours.

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The cooked chicken

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The essence. One whole chicken can only produce one small bowl of essence. Thus the chicken essence sold in market are actually containing very little of the actual essence.  Very big thanks to sis for taking the trouble in the effort to make me more healthy. She bought another pot for us to stew when we are free during weekends. Thanks again. :)

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We’re 2~ ^^


2009
09.29

Two years ago on this day, we were united in one in God’s name, and we’ve journeyed together this far. We thank GOD for every little things and every blessings grant to us, thanks for all those around us, and most of all, Thank GOD for one another in life. :)

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Initially planned to have Japanese food, but was attracted by this restaurant. Since we just had Nijyumaru and guess there’s no other restaurant compatible to it, we tried something else instead. :)   Located in Sutera Mall, this is the first time we enter this restaurant.

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Welcome to the cowboy land~! 

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Call it EL MIGOS!  Ok I don’t know what’s that mean. :p

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A cowgirl… oops, that’s me, reading the menu.

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After taking some advice from the polite and helpful waiter, we decided to try TEMPURA TIGER PRAWN ROLL, which is fabulous! Too bad there’s only two of us, and we only manage to ate half of these, as we still have —-

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The mushroom CHICKEN CHOP, the meat is just tender and juicy~

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and their SIGNATURE JAPANESE PIZZA which consists of turkey ham and roasted chicken!~ This is very good. The pizza skin is just so thin that you’ll only have those ingredients melting in your mouth~

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My slice of chicken and pizza~ We only manage to finish half of the pizza, since its easier to take away. Only finished the chicken. But all are very very tasty, you can’t really tell which is the best of all.

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Quite a nice environment, and its not so dim as others do, as I dislike dim environment. :)

And one thing amazed us was that, the waiters actually wipe the entire table and chairs with detergent after the customers left! They assure you of their cleanliness. :)

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Decorations beside our table. I waited for the customers next to us to leave before I can take better photos. :p

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The stones ^^

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Did ask for one of the waiter’s help for taking photo of us. But the photos taken are so unpresentable. =.=  Apart from that, I give high remarks for overall satisfaction. :)

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New Semester Starts!


2009
07.03

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Its another new semester, a new bunch of freshies entering uni, and this time includes Alvin’s sis, Amy~  We were happy for her as she was given the course she wanted. :)   Thank and Praise God!!

Looking at the freshies reminded me of our good old days where we were the freshies, naive and ignorant.  I miss my campus life. :)

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Sending her to campus for enrolment, you just can easily tell who are the freshies.  They are all in white and black!  This is just the first counter, there were 8 counters all together. Wow, that’s a lot! I remembered I only went through one or two counters.

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Very few of the crews wearing masks.  The H1N1 isn’t that fearful huh? :p

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Welcome! Welcome! Enjoy your Uni Life~!

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Good time for business! They have all sorts of stuffs on sale. Pillows, blankets, mattress, pails, kettle, etc etc.

We laughed away when we saw a young man dragging along his big luggageS and also a new comforter set!  It make people think if he’s going to stay in ho(s)tel with air con. lol~~  Another one has two packs of toilet papers with him/her (didn’t see who’s the owner), I think that’s enough for one year supply, unless the person has sensitive tummy. :D

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Parents waiting under shelter. Some brought along the whole family. If you see those coming alone with heavy luggages, most probably they are from the east Malaysia. :)

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My jaws dropped when I saw this~!  Are they having this in every college? lol~

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We let Amy settle the registration and came back with her luggage after she was done.

That’s her room, its a room for two.  I’d say it’s better than my room last time. But some of my friends had much better rooms than this also. So it depends on your luck which college you are being arranged in.  I like the white board + notice board.

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Shelves are ready to be used. I had only a small table with no desk no shelves at all.  Anyway I stayed in college for one year and moved out. It feels like I went to a camp for one whole year. But it’s fun! I had 3 roomates (we had 4 person in a room) and we’d do all silly things especially in the middle of the night. You don’t sleep that much in camps, don’t you? :p  And I bought a desk similar to this after moved out. More convenient to put my stuff that’s getting more and more. :p

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Computer table which is already at your convenience.

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And that’s what was being given on the first day. That’s A LOT~! A pretty good laptop bag, umbrella, files, pen, T-shirt, very nice bookmarks, catalogs and even CDs~ I think I only had a file case and a silver piece of scarf then.

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