Saturday, January 29, 2011

A day full of memories

I have exactly 9 days to stay in Malaysia before I board the MH123 to reach Australia, complete my first dream. Standing on the balcony and view right through the road of Taman Desa Tasik, suddenly joy and sad memories in that town flashes right in front of me. I live in this humble small town in Sungai Besi called Taman Desa Tasik for 15 years. This is the only place where all the memories formed.

During my childhood, I played guli, gasing, batu seremban, football, rondus or also called as M'sian baseball, lastic, futsal and many things with my Malay friends. In SJK (C) Kwon Hon primary school, I played basketball, yu-gi-oh cards, tamiya, breeding spiders for fight, eraser battle, beyblades etc with my classmates. Mostly, my classmates are chinese. So, it was lotsa fun in childhood.However, not all memories are sweet though. Because of my playfulness, I often got a really bad results and always being scold by my parents. My dad, a really strict policeman always beat me using cane or punch me. All I can do is endure it till I get a better result.

When I enter secondary school in SMK Sungai Besi, my chinese friends have become less. I was being sent to the 3rd class because of my poor UPSR result. Thus, I hardly see my chinese friends such as Tan Jin Fu, Patricia, Sky, Ng Kar Hon, Lee Chun Yong and Cheng Kah Hoe as there are all not my classmates. Since I seldom meet them, all I can do is study during my freetime. Then, because of my hardwork, I get a really good PMR result.

A really funny story starts here when I was Form 4. I got an offer from Technical Institut of Kuala Lumpur, or also know as Sekolah Menengah Teknik Cheras. At first I don't want to enter the school because of several reasons (I don't friends there and I need to travel everyday to school if I choose not to live in the dorm). I told my friends that I will reject the offer of going there. However, news travel very fast to my beloved BM and English teachers. Both of them force me to accept the offer since I was being offered to that really prestigious secondary school. They also treatened me not to teach me if I stay at that school. My mind went blank. The Penolong Kanan HEM, my Maths teacher also heard about my case. She quickly 'summon' me to meet her in her office. She offer me by helping me to settle all the important documents needed for registration in one day, if I want to transfer to SMT Kuala Lumpur. After a careful consideration, I accepted the offer and the rest is history.

Nothing extraordinary happens in SMT Kuala Lumpur. All the students there are really smart and at their top form. I have to study really hard to compete with them for the top spot in the school. One thing I dislike is I didn't study for P. Moral during my Form 4 because the teacher does not know anything about P. Moral. The teacher for P.Moral keep on changing until I reach Form 5. I didn't really memorise the 36 nilai until 2-3 months before my SPM. I requested the Form 4 P.Moral teacher to have an intensive class for P.Moral. Guess what? I got an A for my P.Moral in SPM.

If I have a chance to change anything about what happen in the past, I'll choose not to change anything including all the painful memories because these event actually shaped me who I am today. Without these past events happening to me, I dont know where am I today. Maybe I'm not one of the 2009 JPA who study in Taylor's in Subang Jaya, maybe I'll will not meet my new friends in Taylor's College.

All I wish now is to become a better person, and strive for my second dream, open a game studio. That's all for today. Adios peeps~~~

Friday, January 28, 2011

Pre-CNY story...

It's been a while before my last post. Today I'm going to summarise what's happening between last post and today.

Bernard Yong came to town to meet us (Kok Kuan Hsi, Xandra, Elynn Chai and me) Actually it will be more fun if most of our friends from Taylor's can join us. Nevertheless, we still have fun together for the whole day. I went to Kuala Lumpur at 11.30am to catch the train, in case I'll be late to meet them because I went to Low yat to settle some stuff before meeting them in Sungai Wang. Bernard and Kok reach Sungai Wang first, then followed by me, Xandra join us later and then Elynn Chai met us at Times Square's Starbuck. We went to many places (Sungai Wang, Times Square, Lot 10, Farenheit 88 and Pavillion). To kill our time, we watch Meet the Parents: Little Fockers. It was freaking funny and hilarious, full of dirty jokes. We even had our lunch in Sungai Wang and dinner in Lot 10. We even window shopped till late night 10pm.

The next day, I help my mom to make Chinese New Year cookies. Pineapple tart, chocolate cookies, peanut cookies etc. I even took some pic, in case when I'm in Australia, I'll just look at the picture during next Chinese New Year if I didn't come back for next Chinese New Year.

Last thing happening during these weeks is pre-departure briefing for all JPA students. I'm so glad and happy to see all my Taylorian friends there before we depart to different university. All information that we needed before we depart was fully explained by various speakers, Mas Cargo, JPA representative, Australian Malaysian Student representative and Banker. Actually, i'm more interested in Banker, because they will provide us all the money and traveller cheque before we depart to Australia. (money minded)

So, that's all for today. Hopefully I can update the blog as frequent as possible. ^^

Monday, January 10, 2011

Welcoming a new family ^^

I've just bought Nikon D3100 today in Low Yat Plaza. As usual, the plaza was full of people and they were busy shopping for cheap electronic gadgets. For me, I want to buy a DSLR camera. After order and waited for 2-3 weeks, finally the shop called Tarita added their stocks with Nikon's models.

Here, I want to advice all shoppers... If you want to shop for some electronic gadget, my advice is be patience. First, scout all of the shops in the shopping malls or in the city. Look for the cheapest price, but of course with better specifications. Every shops will provide different gifts, so choose the shop that will provide better gift.

Here, I would like to share a few photo about my new DSLR camera.





Sunday, January 9, 2011

Newbie's Introduction

Hello ladies and gentlemen. This will be my first post in my new blog page called 'A Story Behind My Lense'. Before I start my blog, I briefly introduce myself.

My name is Hunter Chiam, currently 20 years old. Soon, I'll be studying in Australian National University in Canberra, Australia.

Basically, this blog is created for me to put all of the picture that will be shoot by me, with my "coming soon" DSLR Nikon D3100. For every picture that will be posted on this blog, there will be a story behind it. It will be a small platform for me to improvise my writing skill and chance for me to expand my creativity. Can't wait for the day to come. Hope that you all can support my blog by regulary visit my blog.

Thanks.