Gong Xi Fat Chai~!

A week of Chinese New Year holiday in Medan was great and fun. My boy met my parents and family and some of my friends. My lil brother seems abit kaku with him at first but they get along quite well after that. My bro even invented a short song for him using his name. Silly boy.The environment there was so much different with KL and the daily life too.If I sleep at 1am and wake up at 11am here (when I don’t work) and have brunch or directly lunch, then I got to sleep at 10 or 11pm and wake up at 8am and off for breakfast with parents.

Billboards go crazy along Medan roads. The roads was fulled with MPV, can see Kijang (Unser in Malaysia), Panther everywhere, seldom see sedan, considering the road was so bad for sedan. If Vios is like a dream-must-have-car here, then it is a taxi in Medan. At here everyone drives at least 60 km/h, at Medan ppl can drives at 20 km/h. No fly over at Medan. No toll in the city. 2o minutes drive to one place is considering long and far enough for Medanese.

What bungalow, semi bungalow, the house in the city area mostly like ‘kotak sabun‘ with 4 floors or more, the highest the better. We also have mini bus called Sudako. Becak is everywhere except for some certain area.

Went back hometown will never make me bore (will get bore when 3 months college holiday came and nothing to do =P). Somehow I feel so sick with KL and the life here. I feel like changing environment, move and find a job somewhere else. Penang will be good, look so alike with Medan, not so loud, not so busy, not so crowded, not so big.

Or go back to Medan since the billboard business there is getting hot. And I got an offer to work in an elevator company while on the plane on the way back to Medan. It’s a big one, I went there to fill the form and so does my boy. Just that the task involve Autocad and not into Graphic Design, but have to do other work beside design too. I’m not sure whether to take it or leave it, my dad helps me to look for some info too, in Medan and Penang.

I only have 5 weeks more in Malaysia. Feel like wanna faster find a proper and permanent job instead of an internship. So I can settle down and not in the uncertain situation.

It’s a new year, new beginning, new spirit of life. But I’m so confuse with my life now. Ah well, I make it complicated myself.

He gave me flowers~!

Happy belated Valentine day~! This is our 3rd Valentine. Life went on like usual on that day. What makes it great is that my boy gave me flowers~! And it’s handmade! I love and appreciate handmade stuffs alot. So sweet of him.

It’s my second week of having internship. I screwed up sometimes, well still in the learning process mah. Writing brief or job req isn’t easy! Not to say my grammar first; the clarity, the message, the words that I choose, all haven’t pass also. Duh.. But the working environment is fun, friendly, like a family.

And now I realize how precious the time I had in my weekend. I appreciate Mr.Saturday and Mrs.Sunday alot more now. Hehe..

Less than 1 hour I will flight back to Medan for Chinese New Year and he will be there on saturday. Yeay~!

Where are we heading to?

The two of us have just ended another chapter of life, the college life. Graduated as Diploma in Graphic Design, I don’t feel like I am good or strong in design and so does he. Ironic huh? The skill doesn’t reach one standard and so does the portfolio of design work.

I continue the journey and choose the other path which is the Brand Executive or AE, whatever term you name it. I don’t know whether or not it is the best choice and I will success in it. I am just doing what the heart tell me to do right now, what I want now.

For me, it’s not something easy to shift from a Graphic Designer mindset to an AE one. On the first day of my internship, when I was asked to beautify a chart and what software I was going to use, what comes into my mind is Adobe Illustrator. -__-” It was just a simple chart and I manage to beautify it with Ms.Excel though I couldn’t find how to insert symbol inside. A trial and error.

So far, it seems like everything is ok and fine. I got my internship, he still looking for a job, we got a little extra money from parents and he can earn some from the internet. We manage to survive, eat like usual, live like usual, love each other.

But we realize that this is not gonna work for a few months to go. There is always outcome and hardly got income. He can’t always spend his time everyday at home and do nothing, so unproductive. We have finished our study last year mid of November and it’s almost 3 months we are unemployed. Some of the classmates have already employed while some continue their degree either here or overseas. And the two of us, I can say one of the good students in class, most of the lecturer love our works, we went thru training at 95% before, he won Kancil, but unemployed for months. Ironic huh?

Maybe we didn’t do our best to look for a job and didn’t prepare the tool (read: portfolio) for interview well. I believe skill can be improved. Not everyone born with a great knowledge and skill in design, suddenly know how to use Adobe Photoshop and so on. Talent in design or stuffs maybe ya, but not with the skill. I believe it went thru the process of learning, fall down and pick oneself up.

But he was so pessimistic, that he can’t do anything; bad in design, everyone also can have idea, bad in art direction, and so on. And me such a bad girlfriend can’t even manage to convince him that he got that talent and the skill is something that need practice and to be improved. Sigh..

Not want to waste time, he plans to go back hometown after CNY at my hometown. Find a job there or help the family. While me, after the 2 months internship, I have no idea where to go, whether I can be a permanent staff there or not.

Things become so blur right now. We don’t know where we are heading to. We are not sure about the future, about us. Don’t know we can manage the LD relationship or not.

Boy, whatever that gonna happen, we will go thru it together. It’s always better to walk with somebody than alone.

Yes, sometimes I do complain about life, everyday have to walk until I become so dark and my heel crack, most of the time we do window shopping, take free bus to Ikano or the RM1 RapidKL bus to Subang, I can’t simply buy clothes and shoes that I want, CNY is coming and haven’t buy new clothes yet, it’s been a long time I don’t eat at PizzaHut and so on.

Part of me want the happy comfortable life back. But I am ok with the life now. It just that sometimes when I compare my life with other people, the complaining stuff come out. My bad.

You open my eyes to alot of stuffs, from blogging (including the ‘poem’) to walk fast to how to take bus and not always waste money to the taxi, and so on.

Boy, we gonna go thru everything together, and stand on the peak of the mountain and let everyone know that ‘We did it’. We will be SOMEBODY one day no matter we are still in advertising or not. And when someone mention our name to our parents, they will proudly say,”that’s my son/daughter” with a smile on their face. It’s the best thing that money can’t buy.

I am so emo now.

Life is so unpredictable.

The news about the robbery and murder case at PohKong Subang Parade is still hot. It was so scary and so real. I mean it’s not somewhere which is so far away, it is at Subang Parade! where sometimes me and my boy would like to shop there. Thanks God I wasn’t there for shopping last weekend.

Then the robbers sth sth were caught at a hotel at Sunway, I stay with my parents at Sunway at that time.Then just now Mark told me about a death case at LUCT carpark. Yeah, I just had my convo there last saturday. Everything was so happening and happy at that time. Now, the happening feeling is with the sad one. And that lady is the one that I and other students always see every time we go to the art shop. But I’m not sure is which one yet. The news will be on the newspaper tomorrow I think.

Life is so unpredictable. The forward email that I always receive, now I feel so real. Yesterday you saw and talked with that person then today that person gone already. We got to appreciate what we have right now and cherish the time with the person that we love; friends, family, husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, colleagues, etc. Don’t wait until tomorrow to express our feeling to them. Do it before it’s too late. Money can’t buy back the time that has gone.

Officially graduate!

The ceremony at Hall of Fame. 430 students graduate.

The lecturers that I respect and love the most (apart from their mistake and bad stuffs), who have been supporting me thru my final year and make me fall deep into advertising. Patricia and Lawrence.

With the beloved one who always be there for me, irreplaceable. The boyfriend and parents.

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I’m so happy for I’ve officially graduated from Limkokwing after 3 up and down years!Despite the bad things, if not because of Limkokwing, I won’t be who I am today. I won’t know the people who make me become like today; the boyfriend, the classmates, the ex-housemates cum ex-sisters, 95percent, etc.

Three years, short and long at the same time. So much memories, some to be keep, some can’t wait to be forgotten.

It’s like yesterday only when I’m so worried and busy looking for college or uni to continue my study. Now, I’m so worried and busy to look for a job. And tomorrow, I’m gonna end my hibernation and start my internship at GFH until end of March, when my visa gonna expired.

It’s a beginning of a long long long journey. A wish, a hope, a dream, a passion of a little girl name Kathie.

Parents had fly back to Medan. I miss them I’m so damn sensi and my mood swing easily today.

So exhausted after 3 days in a row shopping with parents. Been walking and taking public transport (bus, taxi, Putra lrt, star) alot in that 3 days. Gonna sleep soon to rest and gain energy for tomorrow to wake up early in the morning, something that I haven’t done for quite some time. Oh no…

KJ - CJ (KelanaJaya-CyberJaya)

Oh my.. I don’t even know today is holiday, Thaipusam sth like that, until a friend told me. No wonder the traffic was so smooth this morning and college was so empty. Luckily this morning we didn’t stupidly wait for college bus.After 2 and a half month break, I came back to LUCT for rehearsal. Now I know how to go to Limkokwing from Kelana Jaya by Rapid KL bus and only cost RM3 but took quite some time la. This morning 8sth me and my boy take Rapid bus from Kelana Jaya LRT, T43 RM2, without knowing exactly where it will stop. We only know that it will go to Putrajaya and the driver seems doesn’t wanna talk so much also. -__-”

Me waited for 1 hour here. The desert, peaceful, calm Cyberjaya.

The last stop after Puchong is Putrajaya Sentral, then we took the other bus 429 RM1, to HSBC. Then wait for 428 RM1 bus to Limkokwing. We have been waited for about one hour, no 428 but 429 alot. So boring then we took pictures with my not pro digicam. Saw the same bus driver that dropped us there passed by at least 3 times. When he passed by and stopped again, he asked us still no 428 sth like that, and he decided to drop us to Limkokwing although it’s not his bus route. Wah.. So nice.

At college, I saw my classmate, the only Indonesian classmate that I have, and she said that she saw me took pictures at bus stop there, in a teasing way, like I purposely stop at the bus stop and camwhoring with my boy. -__-” I was like what the tuuutt? You passed by, saw us there and take no action, not even horn at us. Ah well, maybe your driver drove too fast and by the time you saw us it was too late to stop already.

Makanlah! The place where I had my lunch, wait for bus and relax with friends during my 3years at Limkokwing. Also the best place to see hot chicks and dudes. Muahaha.

We went to hall of fame, pay ticket and robe rental, all cost me RM590, can get 300 back when I return the wardrobe. Thanks God cos still got the last S size. Rehearsal start at 12. The lady that talked on the stage looked like play play only though it’s good to have fun, sometimes what she said became a joke. When Tan Sri walked in and watched the process, she became kinda proactive and looked more serious. -__-” Even the lecturers who sat on the stage get up immediately when he walked towards them. Wakao eh.. The process went so slow, typical Limkokwing style.

Limkokwing London start March 2007. Come join the best of the east and west.

Hopefully on the day everything goes smooth. Parents will be here tomorrow. The first time in my 3 years here, they come and visit me. Yeay!

The college painted in black, car is black, even window glass also black. -__-”