the mystery of the missing necklace

sounds like a catchy title huh? but this really happened to my hommie and i. here goes, once upon a time ago...well actually it happened yesterday. well, since tomorrow is a friend's birthday, we decided to go present hunting and since we decided on buying her some sort of accesory, we knew where to go. so we went walking all around the city without an exact place to look for it but after our long conquest, we decided on the exact necklace that we think would suit her well. so we went back to that shop to look for it, bought it, and went off. since we wanted to buy a matching earrings too, we decided to open the wrapped package. while walking away from the shop, across the street, i still couldn't open it so i passed it to my hommie. she managed to open the package while we were still walking then when it was fully opened, we couldn't find anything inside. we panicked, too shocked because we just walked for such a short distance, walked back and forth searching in vain with the thought that the necklace could have dropped off. it's not surprising that it would happen because it's just a piece of paper used as a wrapping. but we couldn't detect it, then we started thinking if the thing was in the wrapper in the first place. i don't know but i have a feeling it was, wouldn't it be weird if it was empty? so without any option left, we went back to the shop, wanted to ask if the person actually packed it in, it could be that she put it in the wrong pocket and it fell off before we even left the shop. then the person wasn't there but there was another kind lady. she asked us which one we bought, and she gave us a whole new one for FREE! and we thought we would have to buy another since nobody knows where the necklace went. we were so thankful, so speechless but yea, we thanked her over and over again! but she even said, if that happen again, don't come back. i guess we were lucky that the person who packed the thing wasn't there at that time because if she was, she could have said that she was sure she packed in it and that we definitely dropped it on our own. until now, we still don't know where the necklace is. think about it, if u were opening a package with a necklace in it, wouldn't u know that the necklace fell out if it did? because it's shiny, big and made of stones! there goes the story and the missing necklace that is still missing.

*as for Marianne, imagine walking from Accesorize near FCUK in Melbourne Central, across the street towards Sportgirl, then toward Max Brenner at Kikki K. then back out toward New Zealand Natural in the direction of Surf, Dive and Ski. how short of a distance is that?*

what is it about religion?

does it really matter what religion you are in? or whether you have a religion or not? as a friend said, "i believe a bit in everything". well, i sort of think myself as that way too. although my dad is supposingly a buddhist, i don't really think i can call myself a buddhist because i don't know much about the teachings nor do i go for any classes and the only thing i know is the story of how buddha came about. it's sort of the same as i know what Good Friday and Easter Sunday is about. I may not be christian but i do believe in god, the mighty one that determines our path of life and that everything happen for a reason, for better or worst. I may not be a christian but i pray, sometimes, for myself, family and friends. does it mean that the god that i believed exist, is the same god those of you believe in? to me, there's only one superior being, be it in a christian or muslim point of view. why do we have to make things so difficult? how people always say, christianity welcomes brothers and sisters regardless of their religion? how far do you think it's true? my friends went for some event carried out by one of the ocf, then the organizers were walking around asking about them about their religions and inviting them to join ocf and discover god etc. then when a friend said that she was muslim, they sort of ignored her there on. can't they just be polite eventough she has no chance to be brought into christianity? chinese people believe in hell, depending of how much sin you've done in your life, you'll end up in different levels of hell. but i believe in heaven too, i believe that if you've been good you'll end up in heaven, sounds like a nice place to be. but what is it about shows protraying things like, if you do not believe in god, or accept him in your life, then you cannot enter the gate of heaven? does it mean i have to be a christian to be accepted in heaven? does it mean i have to be a christian to have all my sins pardoned? i guess now you know why i do not want to be pressured into accepting a religion. it doesn't mean that if i do not believe in a particular religion, i'm a bad person does it? even buddhism is not really considered a religion, it's just a bunch of people who believe in the teaching of righteousness. don't condemn them just because they don't believe in god, or do they? why do i see kuan yin statues in buddhist temple? i'm thankful that i'm not easily influenced, or else i would have been converted due to peer pressure. i'm more than happy and willing to learn about god and stuff but i'm just not up to the pressure to do it by going to ocf or church. if god really wants me as his child, i'm sure he'll touch my heart and reach me one day. just the day is not today. do u still love me for who i am? well, even if u don't i love everyone of you regardless of your religion!

a bit about everything

* exactly one week ago i applied for a vacancy at freddo. for those of you in msia, it sort of our favourite gelati/ice cream shop on lygon. at first i thought i was supposed to go for an interview or something but apparently there were so many applicants and the owner just said to leave our resumes and they'll look for those who have the most suitable timing for the job. so i waited with anticipation but one week have passed and not a phone call from them. well, can't really blame them cause probably my resume had nothing that looked impressive? though she did say that we could give her a ring if we didn't hear from her but i'm too chicken to call.

* two weeks have passed since we were told about our biotech assignment that worth 5% and it's going to be due exactly one week after today. and the progress? just started finding materials this week and have been working hard to put the information in place. it's just like trying to incorporate the pieces of a puzzle. started off wanting to do something about a cow hormone called bovine somatotropin that increases the production of milk then ended up with the topic of biopolymer. it's a polymer made up of biological materials which is biodegradable. then now, going to use that information about biopolymer in the field of tissue engineering. any idea what's that about? somehow, those clever people in the biotechnology field came up with a biopolymer scaffold that can be impregnated with all sorts of molecules, enzymes, etc. to enhance the healing of a bone injury. so the purpose of using a biopolymer is so that when the body is in the process of recovery, it has a support to help and speed up the healing and the biopolymer scaffold will be degraded down by enzymes by the time the body generates new cells. tada! so what you think about that? tissue engineering versus cow's milk production?

* the weather had been very cold for the past few days but too bad it didn't snow in the city. we in melbourne complaining about the cold weather while those back in msia complaining about the haze. i guess being frozen is better than inhaling polluted air. i do hope that the haze back home disperse faster or else more people will fall sick especially those with asthma or any other types of respiratory problem. i also heard that there was hail in subang! how come it never hailed when i'm back there? was it due to the cloud seeding process? i remember how my mum or dad always uses the expression "if u actually did bla bla bla...malaysia also will snow already".

* besides, i think this cold cold weather is making me more lazy or is it just me finding reasons not to be hardworking? it's too cold to study because my hand will freeze and i can't write nor should i be able to type. and yes, my hands are also half frozen now. solution? stay in bed with notebook on lap to keep warm! *yawnz* there i go again, feeling sleepy as usual. adios!

motivation, no?

what's so special about this term? it seems like everyone insaf already. it's just the second week of the semester and there's so many people in the library. i wonder if they were doing last minute work or were they actually studying? how come everyone around me seemed to be so hardworking all of a sudden? imagine, i was in the library answering questions for my tute and the library tables were basically occupied. then i met a friend, she wanted to use a pharmacology book, which i was sure not many would borrow it because it's only a one day loan. to my surprise, i couldn't even find any of it on the shelves! another possibility could be that everyone was also doing last minute work answering the worksheet for today's tute but then again, can answer without the book also. another funny thing was that this friend of mine, she seems to be going for a lot of additional lectures for subjects that she's not enrolled in. so is she hardworking or too-free-nothing-to-do? then another friend, who's taking architecture, he was like reading materials way early of the sem, like the second day itself? well well, i've learn not to compare with people too much because there's so many people smarter than me in uni so as long as i do what i need to do to score within my standard, i'm happy. don't you know that too much competition among peers can be unhealthy? perhaps to the extend of boycotting that person because he/she claims to not study yet score well? anyways, some people are just born smarter than you so why don't you just accept the fact! and doesn't mean that if you are hardworking, you will score well either! as for my cousin, she's taking her spm this year i think, and she can study like the whole day, lock herself in the room, don't watch tv or anything but thankfully her effort is rewarded by good results. i seriously think that if she were to do badly in any of her papers, she could be mentally and physically depressed to the extent of i-do-not-dare-think-what-will-happen. conclusion? study yes, but have fun too! as for me, relax first, study or die later.

what do dreams mean?

someone once told me that when you dream of something, it means that you've been thinking about that particular thing throughout the day, perhaps something that worries you. also, i've heard that normally you only have dreams when you sleep more than the required hours of rest. but i've noticed that that's not always applicable because sometimes i dream even when i'm having a nap. i think it's better to sleep without dreaming because it seems to me that when u dream while you are resting, means that your brain is not really 'sleeping' with your body so you will wake up and still feel tired. and someone once told me that if you dream in colours, it means that you are a creative person or something? don't you all have dreams that are coloured? at least i know i do. i don't really know how to interpret dreams but it's funny how our minds incorporate many different things into one particular dream/sketch. i've always had jumbled up dreams so does it mean i'm a confused person. come to think of it, i am! my dreams are always jumping from one scene to another, from being in a 1st person view to a 3rd person view [it's as though i'm in a movie or something], from seeing X and next thing it's Y. at times, i know it's supposed to be some place but it looks nothing like the real thing. take for instance, the other day i dreamt about bringing a friend to a bookshop in aussie to look for the harry potter latest book because i told the friend it was cheap, but i know that the place was subang parade. nowhere near aussie huh? another silly thing i used to do when i was younger, to think of a person, recite the name and memory of that person for the whole day, hoping to dream of that person when i fall asleep. i tried this hoping to dream of my greatgrandma but all attempts were in vain. it was actually my grandma who told me if you think of a person so much, they will appear in your dreams. as for her, she always dream of her relatives, including my late grandpa, giving her 4D numbers! or else, what they do is to interpret the things that appeared in the dream and convert it to some particular number. have you seen such book? i have! so, when i say i dreamt of you, just accept it as "you're on my mind","i've thought about you recently", "i missed you" or something along those lines ya?

*for those of you who can't remember what you dreamt about when you wake up, try thinking about it the moment you wake up or tell someone, then you'll automatically remember the details of the dream*