I Couldn't Sleep So I Sat Down and Posted This

I felt pretty sick yesterday and decided to call it a day at 9.30pm. Instead of sleeping soundly through the night, I struggled in my dream and woke up at 12.30am, mentally exhausted.

In my dream, my sis was driving me around in Penang.

Instead of being in the car, I was actually on the outside with both my legs tied on the bonnet. Can't remember why.

The horror started when the road suddenly went vertical and super narrow with cracks everywhere. I was shouting to my sis, "No, no, no! You're not driving up there! I'm gonna fall...even you're going fall". I think she couldn't hear me. Anyway, she kept driving but surprisingly, the car didn't fall. Me on the other hand, hung on to the car the best I could.
Minutes later, my arms began to shake and were about to gave way. I imagined myself hanging in the air with my legs tied up the car...

Then I woke up. And couldn't fall back to sleep...btw, the vertical road was shaped like an intestine and linked the highway to the Penang bridge.

Living It!

Picture at times, exaggerates the true beauty of nature or even human. You scrolled through some awesome photos of destination you were about to visit only to be disappointed that the real place didn't live up to your expectations. You would be standing there thinking, "Darn, I could've sworn this place looks a hundred times better in photo!"

But when it actually does, you'll start to feel as if you're living in a dream. It soothes your emotions and temporarily deviates your attention away from whatever stress you're having. Cycling through campus every single day during autmn has been such a wonderful commute. I'll be riding my bike saying, "Wow..it's like I'm living in a poster...everyday."

ANU is currently experiencing its very own version of Sakura Season. It doesn't take an observant student to notice how quickly the colour of the leaves changes from green to red/yellow/orange, and finally brown, sometimes only in a matter of days. Soon you'll start to notice that the leaves start to fall and the tree that took your breath away yesterday is starting to balder and balder. Looking at the pile of leaves on the grass makes you feel like lying down on them and make a swimming action =p

As time goes by, you'll start to notice any particular tree that stands out amongst the rest.

And you hunt for the sole leaf survivor when most of its "colleagues" are already on the ground.
Aw..how I wish Taiping Lake Gardens could experience autumn.

Pengalaman Band yang Pertama

Melibatkan diri dalam sesebuah band sememangnya tidak mudah. Namun, itulah impianku selama ini. Kutidak mahu asyik bertungkus-lumus mencari karaoke lagu-lagu kegemaranku sama ada di Youtube mahupun di pasar malam. Lagipun, pengalamanku akan lebih bermakna jikalau band tersebut terdiri daripada rakan-rakan seperjuanganku dari ANU. Justeru, apabila Tim dan Lili ingin menubuhkan band sempena pertandingan Avenue of Stars, kutidak melepaskan peluang untuk menyertai mereka. Tambahan pula, 2009 merupakan tahun terakhir kami di ANU.

Seperti yang dijangka, konflik tidak mengambil masa yang lama untuk menjejaskan sesi latihan kami. Aku pasrah apabila beberapa cadanganku ditolak tanpa diberi pertimbangan yang sewajarnya. Sampai minit yang terakhir, ada lagi ahli kumpulan yang masih belum menghafal lirik-lirik dan nota-nota muzik sepenuhnya. Selain itu, kami tidak habis-habis menghadapi masalah untuk memilih antara persembahan dan persahabatan.


Pada malam persembahan tersebut, aku melakukan beberapa kesilapan di luar dugaanku. Salah seorang ahli kumpulanku berasa amat marah akan apa yang berlaku. Sebenarnya, aku sendiri turut kecewa akan kesilapanku. Pengalaman semalam memberi gambaran seolah-olah apa sahaja boleh berlaku di atas pentas. Tidak kira betapa gigihnya seseorang itu berlatih, kebarangkalian berlakunya kemalangan tidah mungkin dapat disingkirkan. Yang penting sekali adalah reaksi kita terhadap apa yang berlaku, seperti apa yang dikata oleh Stephen Covey, "10% of life is made up of what happens to you while the other 90% is decided by how you react." Mana-mana ahli kumpulan yang tidak berpegang pada prinsip ini, sudah cukup untuk menjejaskan prestasi sesebuah band dan mencemari perngalaman sekumpulan sahabat yang cuma ingin melakukan aktiviti yang bermakna bersama-sama.

Sekiranya diberi peluang, kutidak pasti sama ada kuakan melibatkan diri dalam kegiatan sebegini pada masa akan datang. Menjadi kawan karib dan menubuhkan sebuah band adalah dua perkara yang agak berbeza. Kita mampu bertolak-ansur dengan perwatakan negatif rakan-rakan kita tetapi setiap manusia mempunyai had masing-masing. Apabila kita perlu bekerjasama dan meluangkan lebih banyak masa bersama-sama, barulah kita berupaya memahami sikap mereka dengan lebih mendalam. Malangnya, persahabatan yang dahulunya kukuh menghadapi risiko untuk menjadi makin rapuh dalam tempoh ini. Mungkin sebab inilah kawan rapat kadang-kala menjadi musuh setelah tinggal lama sebumbung.

Walau apapun,pelbagai aspek tentang band telak kupelajari dan memori-memori manis bersama rakan-rakan seperjuangan sudah kuperolehi. Aku turut bersyukur kerana mempunyai penyokong-penyokong yang meluangkan masa, tenaga dan wang masing-masing untuk menghadiri malam tersebut. Ada di kalangan mereka yang memberikan kata-kata semangat yang sangat bermakna buatku. Jutaan terima kasih kepada kamu semua =)

This Quote Rocks!

If every person in the world was given 1/4 of an acre of land
The whole of the worlds population would fit into Australia
With the rest of the worlds land left over

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