Friday, November 14, 2008

I'm okay la....

It is not good to let people to worry about me, no?

All the drastic changes I made...

He scared of me... He said, "slow slow"

Mommy worried (since I first time came here) about my food, my studies...

But oh well, Mommy, guess what have I found out here?

Whoa... soooooo Malaysian style? A telur dadar with mix vege + pork + A pile Chicken-rice-style Rice...

*The French people will whack me - Whack whack whack whack!

A cup of ice-tea...

*The French people will still whack me - Whack whack whack!

Dessert with -supposed-to-be-orange-not-red oranges....

*The French people will still whackkkkk me - Whack whack!

Ahhh... Complete set of meal...

*The French people will still whack me.

It's not from restaurant. I cooked it myself one alright? Um yea la, I eat a lot I know. Looks a bit terrible I know too, and it tasted a bit too salty. But ceh... I can cook good bak kut teh ok. (Just throw into a pot of boiling water with  the ingredients and the 2 packets and done!)

What will I have for dinner today huh? Ermm... Brocolli a.k.a "圣诞树" (my baby words! Eh serious, mom told me so when I was a kid ok =P *until now still don't know its chinese name. Haha) with pork meat I guess. Oh yea, with mushrooms =) Yummmyyyy leker leker~

Mommy, remember when I was watching over my BKT while talking to you? Haha...

Oh by the way, know what I meant by the whacks by frenchies? They are soooo systematic in meal: Starter -> Main meal -> dessert. In a restaurant in Paris, they won't serve you the main dish unless you finish your starter. The dessert won't come unless you finish your main dish. Unless you told them you're done of course, but other than that, happy waiting. This is also why having a meal, especially lunch and dinner, at Paris takes more than 2 hours. They are quite, not happy if you don't order all the 3 parts. That's what happened when we went into a famous restaurent just for dessert. Haha.


I'm still ok. I'm satisfied with myself this week =)

I learned that the Heilbronners are not very specially gifted in studies. Ermm, doch! They do gifted! But the outstanding results (AND I MEAN IT! O-U-T-S-T-A-N-D-I-N-G!) also come with the huge pile of efforts they've put it. I'm not the Ausnahme (exception) to be good. I'll not be one either. I can be just like them. All I need is to reduce some times on internet to longing for things that won't happen (my favorite quote, eh?), and use them to give my studies more thoughts about it. Study hard, now I know what it means. Study smart, now I know what it means. The feeling going into class and following the lecture without loosing my head is a good sensation.

Oh no.... I think I want to verlängern (make it longer) my days-with-no-internet. Haha. Nothing much to play with in Internet also. I admit I do face some difficult times without internet. You know, without Wikipedia, it's very hard for me to acquire info quickly. LoL. It took me 1/2 hour just to figure out how many Pa is equivalent to 1hPa. Still remembered flipping through my notes, Mathematik Formelsammlung (mathematics equation book), which surprisingly don't have!!!... In the end looked into Tabellen Buch Metall (metal characteristics and properties book) and found it. A painful "journey" where the time could be saved by just moving my few fingers in front of the LCD. But then, I realised that although with computer is indeed faster, the chances I browse to your blogs twice or more a day and to the famous "youtube" side is relatively much much longer (mathematics use the symbol ">>" ) than the time I need to search for the info. So, in the end, time was saved =)

As for lecture classes, I found out that the lecturers were eyeing on me. They knew I can't describe things well using German language and acknowledge me by the "body language" I used. I understood well all the lectures were all about without loosing concentration. It was one of the few times for me to realised that "Oh, class is over already?" after each classes. I learned that Prof. Rauschnabel and Prof. Sell love to make jokes that I usually not understand, which I now fully understand about all the "yellow card", "student moving the electronic blackboard up and down" jokes etc. I attended the tutorial classes. I did not skip even a class. I'm satisfied with my performance. Just that I still can't keep full concentration in class. Sometimes, I really got tired, even when I was in the first row. Guess too tired. Still finding my optimum time to bed. Or maybe too tired because of doing homeworks.

The week was a splendid one. I did homeworks that is relatively almost as same as what I did last whole sem. I learned that I'm not smart as others. But people said, a success is 99% + 1% luck. I don't believe the luck part. And I don't believe that 99% also. I think God plays hugh roles in determining a success. Therefore, I changed my quiet time to mornings instead of night before I go into bed, which often have lots of excuses to skip. I guess that's why my relationship with God got a bit "stranger". But the funny thing is, I'm currently learning to fear Him, and at the same time decided to read Psalms. And again the "fear" word comes in:

"Serve the Lord with fear,
and rejoice with trembling,"
Psalms 2:11
*bolds are mine*

I will fear Him. Maybe the broken pieces of mine were partly from Him to let me learn to fear Him.

Things are starting to turn G-R-E-A-T in my life. It'll be clean, from 4th semester onwards. Got back first 2 physic lab reports and were all 5/5 full marks. Very satisfied, along with the efforts I've invested in it. Very satisfied with the thrust to do homework, and finishing homeworks soooo quickly than I thought. Just helped a classmate to use the graph plotter GNUPlot. This is the motivation, I guess. Motivation to keep going on. Motivation to prepare for bigger things. Motivation to continue the trends. Motivation in life.

I will, move forward. Stronger. Than ever.


Cheers,
Vincent

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

yeah! that's french people. they sit on the table for hours and they chat while they're eating!
the diet is balanced, and that's why i'm getting fat now, too much of nutrients! lol

chailan said...

well, then i know what you are putting into your body! Good cook now? Next trip back home, you cook for me to eat.=)
I get to know French eating habits, thanks. Chinese wedding dinner kalah lo.
I agree with you that browsing Internet is time-consuming, if we cannot control well.
Sorry to ask what is "BKT"? I can't recall that.
Keep up your motivation!

Helen Pang said...

wah...very encouraged by you... Vincent, I have to say this, please allow mw to say this, please....

YOU ARE AWESOME!!!


Keep trusting God and believe that He would guide you more in your life. Cheers, Vincent. Proud of you...

Unknown said...

Gareth: Msian where got this ermm... Eating protocol?! hahah...

Mom: Okay okay!!! I cook, u dun ambil alih ar... =P Chinese wedding dinner only YAMSENG nia le, where can fight. Internet, unplug cable is the best choice. Haha. BKT=Bak Kut Teh la!!!!!!! Mommy arrrrrrrr... =.="

Helen: Thanks thanks =) He will guide me. I awesome? Nah, just someone trying to be disciplined =) Thanks for the encouragement!