A meaningful assignment

Hope

by Brian Quinn

When all about you is black with gloom,

And all you feel is pending doom.

When your bones are racked with grim despair -

When every breath is a gasp for air.

Keep on going, though you need to grope,

For around the bend is a ray of hope.

A ray of hope is perhaps all that's left,

As your will to live has been bereft.

You've lost it all, it's just no use!

You can end it all, you need no excuse.

But throw away that piece of rope,

And give yourself a chance of hope.

Just give yourself another day,

Brushing aside what your thoughts may say.

This is your life and you can make a new start,

By ignoring the brain - just follow the heart.

Taking baby steps in order to cope,

And minute by minute you'll build on your hope.

Build on your hope,. one day at a time,

Though the road be steep and hard to climb.

The hurts of the past - they should be dead.

The fears of the future are all in your head.

Just live in the present and refuse to mope

Your life will sparkle for you're living in hope.

Task

Write in a paragraph of about 150-200 words on your perspective of this poem. You may include your experience, if you wish to share with your classmates.

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When I was small, I did everything with happiness by following my heart. I finished my homework quickly because I wanted to play around with my neighbours and I read because I wanted to know about the story. When I was in secondary school, there were changes in my value of 'success' by adding in the context of dissatisfaction. Harsh competition among peers and judgement by teachers had been taken into account for studying process. Everyone around me was striving to score straight As in examination. However, through the years under such circumstances, I have learnt to focus on learning process instead of the result.There were times I wallowed in self pity when I encountered negative things in life. Somehow, I have realized that positive disposition is important in life because it is the source of happiness. Failure is not frightening and we should learn to recover and mend it. I have tried to look on the bright side of life whenever I am sad and gloomy. Similarly, from this poem, it stated that "for around the bend is a ray of hope". Everyday, there is hope waiting ahead so we should give ourselves an opportunity to embrace the happiness of life. Lastly, listen to the voice deep inside our hearts and live life to the fullest.

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.

莫名其妙

成堆的功课

乱七八糟的笔记

时间盲目地溜走

钱包空空如也

成天胡思乱想

睡眠品质不好

我的熊猫眼

比熊猫还上镜

很糟糕？

或许我有被虐倾向

还蛮喜欢这生活

崭新的学习过程

虽然睡眠时间被剥夺

但已渐渐习惯

很可笑？

习惯，还真是可怕的东西。

K17, My 'Beloved' Hostel

Tik tok, Monday blues. Had a boring weekend with assignments and songs. Although I went shopping on Thurs and karaoke on Fri. What's wrong with me.... ish... bored bored.. Should learn to LOVE this isolated K17 more! That day a girl got on K17 bus but she was telling me she wana go K16, I told her this is the wrong bus then she said, "I thought K16 should be near to K17?" =.=

So since I am so free today, I should blog on K17, the so called most well equipped and beautiful college in UPM, located beside Hospital Serdang.

The photo is cool right? But dun be cheated by the lights, but I have to praise the person that captured this photo.. Fuiyoh...

Anyway, the problem here is the transportation, If you want to go main campus for meeting, e.g. 10am, you have to go out 10 minutes early for 9.30am bus and you will arrive 15 min earlier for the meeting. After meeting, you have to WAIT for the bus, the time consumed depends on your luck. Sometimes you might meet some crazy drivers who simply scold people or let you down at guard house, ask you go all the way back to your block.

But one thing good here, I think pak guards in K17 are better than main campus as they will smile at you and let your car pass without talking much (it's dangerous actually, simply let ppl go. LOL). That day I went to main campus and the guard there asked us where are we heading, we said Fakulti xxxx ( I forget dy) then he suddenly get mad and said, "cakap saje la, ape susah?" CRAZY, saya tengah cakap la, apa masalah dengan you? Andropause? what's so hot tempered ni???

People will say, so good arr, beside hospital, you can go there when you are sick la??

That's wrong actually. People sick till wanna die also, the nurse will ask you to go Pusat Kesihatan (in main campus), unless you really 1% near to death. So you have to get on the bus (again, the tedious bus routine) to main campus, half dead.

Students in main campus think we are very lucky, to have all the facilities here, so called 'apartment style' hostels, library, tennis court, badminton court, basketball court, jogging track, etc. And we are near to Bukit Ekspo.

Okay la, actually we shouldn't complain much but still in Chinese proverb, I would say "dogs won't sh*t, birds won't lay egg and grass won't grow here". Everyday, we have to pass by the 'bridge' and walk to faculty (it's convenient actually, can wake up late), and see the same persons (only 6 courses been offered, not many students here). So round and round, you will see all the familiar faces everyday.

That's all about K17, I should love K17, eeyer. Assignments are waiting for me...

Songs

Fall in love with Alicia Keys recently. Like her new album very much.

Empire State of Mind, Try Sleeping with a Broken Heart, Doesn't mean anything.... Songs that accompany me for dull assignments crazy-ing days...

and the song that I like to listen recently which was introduced by my roomie -

<暗示> by 方炯镔&弦子

结局

复杂化

始于事情

抑或自身

缰绳紧拴

无解的情绪

唯有

无奈地反击

直到

一切瓦解

重回原点

那会是结局。

Can't Stop Nagging

How to describe my life recently...

BUSY like hell! Maybe my life is too 'carefree and comfortable' since the first semester, never bothered by assignments + most of the tests were in MCQ. Started from this semester, with all the

HIGH QUALITY lecturers...

of course the first thing to promise their quality is to ask u to do bunches of assigments

so that you can learn SOMETHING from it. Well, no more plagiarism =.=

So we are kinda hooked up by assignments recently especially the dietary assessment, weighed and recorded everything that we ate then tabulated the data and analyze it. WT hell, I spent so many nights on that, even after combined with the result of my roommate, have to adjust everything. The worse thing is, our COMs purposely being CRAZY during this period, sometimes cant even save the files.

@.@

The next thing to come is my pitiful legs, I fell down from staircase (YES! STAIRCASE), what to blame? Shoes ? Staircase? I blamed myself for being so stupid and CLUMSY and maybe something wrong with my body posture LOL. It was in Mid Valley after watching JU-ON, wt Sh*t, so embarassed. JU-ON already like sh*t, my luck was like sh*t also, hooray! And after the traditional dance practice- stretch here and there. More bruises. Double blasts!

That JU-ON, so many scenes and not well arranged, keep seeing people died with no reasons, meaningless and storyline doesn't go smoothly. PLUS my friend and I were surrounded by around 6 couples, yaa, SURROUNDED.. U know la, when ghosts come, they purposely screamed like sitting on roller coaster and the guy will hug them and laugh. I can tahan the sweet scenes, but please don't SCREAM la, so distractive!

I think I have complained too much recently.. LOL.. and I came across with this article recently on 'Why do we complain?'

"The act of whingeing can be a reaction against a world in which it's perceived we have no control. While "having a moan" may make you feel better temporarily because it creates an outlet for your strong feelings of annoyance- it won't solve anything in a long run. Without effecting positive changes, you'll just end up 'treading water' - and getting even more frustrated."

Well, I still seek for positive changes. *_*

千禧年后……的十年

那天，我看见烟花。

绚烂的色彩于2010的夜空划出无数花朵。

由欢笑和泪水交织的2009，我反思一切。

新的一年，我希望，我相信，我会快乐。

也祝福我身边的每一个人。

Weekend

Had a great weekend for New Year celebration.

Spent New Year eve at Ikea and The Curve, wish the showroom in Ikea is my house, greedy huh? haha...

Then at The Curve, searched so hard for dinner, every corner was fulled of people and the restaurants only served expensive lousy New Year Set Dinner and we ended up in Subway, lame *-*

We tried to avoid the crowd by sitting in Dome...zzz... I was sipping coffee and capturing photos, she was browsing magazine, he was surfing net and.....zz... Then YaY 12am, fireworks time!!! I made all my way here just for the fireworks, I love it so much~

Then the 2nd day,lunch at Ampang, the famous Yong Tou Fuh, then shopping spree at Sunway Pyramid. Too bad, we were exhausted and sleepy, and worse, cannot get anything that we like. Lacked of glucose, craved for sweets in Honeymoon. Dinner at TGI Fridays and we all agreed that the food in Chillis is better.

3rd day, Genting Highland. Enjoyed the free air-con, it was very misty that day, can't even see the road clearly. What we did there? Watched movie and walked around. The miserable thing, my friend lost her cellphone, what a tragedy. This made us the way to the security room and had a talk with the police officers, good *-* Okay, what I wanna say is, every cloud has a silver lining. Great things will happen ahead after this incident, cheer up my friend^^

Off to The Mines now, my friend is going to buy a new phone and retrieve her sim card~