Ohai

I'm writing this post at the gym because I need to kill time while working out(?) on the cycling machine. I would normally watch videos but today the WiFi connection isn't stable so yeah. Beside me there's this couple who can't leave each other and I'm kinda beside them so it's awkward (they're looking at me right now hoping I would leave), more of a reason I feel uncomfortable at the gym today. 

Anyway! Blogging is more fun than ranting about them. 

I was checking others' Instagram accounts out and found this awesome app - Moleskine! I mean, at one point of anyone's life you sure as heck want a Moleskine notebook, but it would soon fade away once you see the price tag. That feeling sucks right? To be restricted by budget. Anyhow, Moleskine is a free app for iPhone and iPad! What attracts me most is that there are many tools to doodle on your digital notebook and also highlighter! Which I've been dying to find an app for it! I have Evernote but it somehow didn't meet my needs so in glad that I found Moleskine! 

It looks like this : 

Under artist toolset are all the cool tools. 

Moving on, I've been addicted to Michelle Phan's YouTube videos. The first video I watched on her channel was Draw My Life and her drawing is fantastic! She is a very inspiring character and I look up to her. Despite all the low tides she had in life, look at her now! Being able to move to NYC and bought a house for her own mom. 

She also inspired me to be my own hero to make my life better. Not complaining there's imperfection in my life but we are obliged to make our own lives better, no? After all, it's yours so make the best out of it. 

Okay here's a few Fortune Cookies which I found quite accurate. (Yes, I believe in them sometimes.) 

Instead of hoping for conflicts to disappear, cope with it! Not only does it make you stronger, you're one step closer to embracing the real world, which is a lot different compared to fairytales. 

So... I've kinda started this plan where I will start saving for a vacation once a year (hopefully), using my own savings! The first trip was Penang recently and I will try my best to post it up here sometime soon. 

P/S: I'm loving the new Blogger update. :) 

Till then! 

Realisation

The older you are, the more you realise words can't express how you feel; 

Friends aren't necessarily faithful and you're the only person whom you can depend on; 

You start to miss the past but on the other hand, you persuade yourself to move on. 

"Give yourself ample of time", and time makes me realise these. 

Parents' month

Seeing so many posts on Mother's Day made me realise many things. Well, I believe if you really love your parents, you'll keep that in mind every single day, not only on Mother's Day. However, they do deserve special treatment once in a while because they deserve it that much.

I feel it's truly a privilege to have great grandma, grandma and mom around. I would like to wish everyone of them happy mother's day! Undeniably I seldom show love towards them, but I really do (so cliche). I tried my level best to show it today by washing the toilet (never realised it's such a filthy job but since it's mother's day I decided to do it), buying cakes with dad for grandma and also buying her favourite ice cream for her as dessert. :)

They taught my dad and I well.

My grandma has been my second mother and babysitter since birth. Most of the time it's her who takes care of me, up until now. I really thank her for everything. She has her ways of teaching us into the right path (just look at my dad and I). When I was younger, she accompanied me while I did my homework and we would hit the sack together. She was strict but it got better when I grew up. Now that when I look back, I see the effort she's put in. She's never forced me to do my work, I had my own schedule and everything. Now that I'm getting respectable results, getting into a medical school, I seriously can't do it without them.

My dad is the only idol I can think of if anyone were to ask me. I've never felt so in debt with someone besides him. He could've bought a super car with the money he's investing in my education. Instead of keeping the money all to himself and enjoying high society life, he saves up so that I don't have to apply PTPTN and I know my life will definitely be better without worrying how to settle the loan once I start working. He travels so much just to earn more for my education. He hopes to send me to the best medical school in KL and worries most of the time when I'm not home, but he doesn't annoy me with endless calls or whatnot. He knows me so well that he'd know when I lied that I'm full just because the dessert was too bitter and I didn't want to finish it. Although you may not be with me all the time but I know you're secretly supporting me. You treat me like a princess and I promise you'll always be my king. 

Thank you for building the path to my future.
Thank you for remembering me everytime you're overseas and always buy my favourite Doraemon merchandise, accessories or clothes.
Thank you for forgiving me when I underachieved. No matter where I graduate, I promise to be the best surgeon, an ethical and passionate one. 
Thank you for everything.

Movie review - Oblivion

So, Katrina won 2 complimentary GSC movie tickets where we could choose ANY movie we wanted to watch at the cinema. We chose Oblivion because of Tom Cruise and there wasn't any other movie which intrigued us, here goes!

WARNING : SPOILERS.
Hahaha.

Oblivion was mind-blowing really. According to IMDb it's the best Tom Cruise film since Mission Impossible 3 (2006) which earned $47millions; Oblivion took $71.9 million over its opening weekend.



I'll sum the whole movie up in a word : futuristic.

The movie takes place in 2077 and 60 years ago, which was 2017, human won the war with aliens (a.k.a scavs). Now, 60 years later, these scavs are planning for revenge, where Sally (Melissa Teo) communicates with the effective team, Jack Harper (Tom Cruise) and Victoria/Vika (Andrea Riseborough) on a project to evacuate essential elements; especially water to Tet, where they claim to be a place to sustain human lives. They're in the final weeks and they can return to Titan (where the human beings live because the Earth and moon were destroyed during the war) afterwards.

Victoria.

However, little did Jack know that he is one of the clones made to carry out this project; there are 1000 of them because Jack Harper was the best pilot. The main clone in the movie is known as Tech-49.

Part of Jack's memories haunts him; there's constantly a beautiful girl in his mind. Soon he learns that she's Julia (Olga Kurylenko) as he goes to a wreckage to save survivals from a spaceship - Odyssey. She remains as the only survival as the others were killed by drones. Vika is upset seeing Julia again. Jack is captured by scavs, and the leader Malcolm (Morgan Freeman) requests Jack to reprogram a drone to deliver a nuclear bomb to destroy Tet.

The truth reveals when Jack and Julia went to the observation deck of the partially destroyed Empire State Building. Julia showed Jack the engagement ring he gave to her and they embrace. It infuriates Vika and she decides to report that Jack and her are no longer an effective team. Sally activates a drone to kill Vika and commands Jack and Julia to be an effective team since then and return to Tet, but they flee instead.


Julia and Jack


Pursued by the drones, they were forced to enter radiation zone where they eventually crashed. Jack Harper met Tech-52 and takes his spaceship to return to his "tower" which is completed with clone of Vika.



The Tower where they live in.

Jack reprograms a furious drone and on his way to Tet with Malcolm, not Julia. Unfortunately, the drone is destroyed in chaos; Malcolm and Jack decide to send the bomb to Tet themselves.

Obviously, they were destroyed along with Tet tower.

3 years later, Tech-52 goes back to where Julia stays, as he says "He is me, I am him". Julia and Jack have a child dated back in 2017 but the hibernation in pod inhibited pregnancy so she gave birth as she returned Earth.

It's long and complicated storyline but it was worth the while. Many people dislike it because they don't understand, can't blame them. I was blur at first but that was what kept me awake in the theater to keep watching it. :)


I'll rate this movie 7/10 because it's the first movie I had the urge to write a review on and the story kept me awake the whole time (Well, I feel sleepy watching most of the movies in the theater). Although the plot is twisted and hard to understand, but the details of those futuristic vehicles deserve appreciation. :)

Maniac

One morning, I checked my Twitter as usual to find one of my friends retweeted an article from The Star online, where a woman passed away from saving her daughter. The title left me 'wow', such a noble woman. Later on, I opened my Facebook and learnt that I was my senior's aunt.


He also shared a post from his cousin, declaring a few facts that were twisted in the article.

Now, how much can we trust our news press? These few days, those "ads" are rather defacing. I really hope our country can practise a fair election, before and during the real event. It's rather ugly.

Anyway, back to the topic. The truth is here, written by none other than the sole witness of this cruel act :My mother, my hero.
Where's the humanity in these human beings who go around stabbing anyone like a maniac?

Where's the law? Or is it going to be ignored because...?

I hope the murderers get served what they deserve, be it by laws or karma.

R.I.P aunt Irene, and stay strong Hui Wei.

Make-A-Wish experience

Since I'm awake at such ungodly hour and can't seem to fall back asleep, I shall update this semi-abandoned blog.

Sometime last year when Do-good volunteers website by The Star was launched, I used to search up what is there to help various non-profit organisations but it was more of a freelance thing. They recruit many volunteers and if you turn up on the event day, kudos to you; otherwise, well... Nothing really. There isn't much of appreciation. Over time, many other companies start to post on the website just because they know well enough that volunteers don't have to be paid. I began to Google other non-profit organisations and see if I could find any volunteering information on their website. Make-A-Wish was the first I found and I was interested to help out.

Background information : Make-A-Wish is a non-profit organisation which solely depends on the donations/fund given by the society. They've been trying to apply for tax exemption but got rejected by the government (you know what to do here) so there isn't a company that donates a steady amount every month or so. It's an organisation that grant wishes of any kid who had life-threatening disease, despite their race. In Make-A-Wish, no wish is impossible (unless it's to own firearms or license underage).

Last Saturday I was informed to attend a wish granting training which briefly taught us the phases in granting a wish, and today, I was able to help in the first step; interviewing a child.

It's a task that really needs you to think on your feet because many unforeseen circumstances might occur. Today, one out of three kids we were supposed to interview went back to her home at Kuala Selangor, which we are going to visit her on Wednesday.

We went to Mid Valley to pick up some gifts for them and then headed to Hospital Kuala Lumpur.

To be honest, times like this make me wonder if I really want to become a doctor. As you know, government hospitals aren't fantastic environment to work in. The atmosphere is as depressing as it can get.

Interviewing a child makes me realise how lucky I am; I have everything I need and most importantly, I am healthy. There was a kid whose biggest wish is to receive a tablet and another wishes to go Singapore. It was then I realised I easily got both.

I'm really looking forward to planning the wish! :)

Till then!

Updates

Sorry for the lack of updates because I haven't been too fanatic to take photos of my meals and the things I do, but I shall upload a few at the end of the post to sum up what the past two weeks have been.

Have you ever tried hard to figure out what you really want? I have. And I did not get any answers out of it. However, they usually hit you right in your face when you least expect it.

Now that it's clear; I want a future I've always pictured in my head and nothing less. A future that doesn't revolve around people who don't matter.

Maybe a gap year is doing me good.