Monday, July 21

小八和多拉的双重生活|北京和悉尼100天 【转】

今天无意间看到了朋友在面子书上转载的这篇文章,读了她们的故事觉得很有趣就与大家分享下。一位是在北京工作的女孩樊小八,一个是在悉尼求学的闺蜜王多拉,她们曾是最亲密的初中同桌。十二年后的某一天,身处异地、朝九晚五的她们突然被一个火花点燃,于是,一个奇妙的世界便被打开了。两人决定每天拍不同的场景然后拼在一起,就像双城记,但是每日完全开放的命题与演绎让这些照片活了起来,充满了力量与灵性。近万里的距离,两个女孩开始了她们的跨国拍摄项目《双重生活》。这不仅是创意、友情与坚持,更是敢于冲破束缚、并一路向前找寻人生最亮点的勇气!接下来转载小八发的这篇文章是关于她们的创意灵感由来以及她们是如何拍摄和编辑这令人惊叹的每一幅图,来看看她们感人的故事吧!

 

如果你有几分钟宝贵的时间,我想给你讲一个有关细微坚持和人生转机的奇妙故事。

你好,我是小八,她是多拉。见字如面 :)

本来只是两个好朋友的跨国小游戏,没想到却坚持了100天。

从2014年2月25日开始到2014年6月24日,除去中间多拉短暂的复活节假期,整整100幅北京和悉尼的拼接照片,是我们每天的小小创作,也居然机缘巧合地,成为了人生转机的奇妙故事。

2月份一个帝都常见的重度雾霾天,我恰好正跟远在悉尼的死党Dora微信聊天,沮丧地给她直播了一张灰不拉几的天,她马上回我一张晴空万里的窗外,一如既往地打击并调戏我,继而提议说:我们可以合拍个差不多的场景拼一起呀。于是便有了如下的这第一张:

Day 1.北京的雾霾和悉尼的蓝天,小八和多拉的双重生活,今天开始。

 

那天,Dora,王多拉,我的初中同桌,十二年里我最好的朋友,说了一句看起来可能并不怎么感人却戳我泪点的话:“不知道为什么想到能跟你一起做点什么还有点小激动,感谢科技。”

然后我说,我们可以每天拍,拍不同的场景然后拼在一起,就像双城记。俩人哇啦哇啦一顿设想和激动,愉快地决定开始这项游戏和挑战。

自从那一个决定开始,每一天都变得不一样了。

两个朝九晚六的上班族,在繁忙琐碎的工作生活之余,好像突然有了一道通往秘密世界的小门,每天紧张着期盼着新的创造,就像自己给自己布置的课外作业,命题却是完全开放的,而你要做的,是从平凡生活和挤出来的有限时间里里找出那么一点不同,作为打开这道门的钥匙,到地球另一端去。

这扇门是如此宝贵,十二年里,虽然我们长时间都相隔遥远,却从没有如此近过。

共同的创作,让两人的生活真正地“double”了——它不是“双城记”,因为主线并不是城市,而是我们的“双重生活”。每一天,都不再面貌模糊,而是被牢牢记住。

Day 64. 抹茶味冰淇淋。

Day 67. 向前奔跑,就能找到你。

 

我们也从这些小小的坚持中,重新认识了自己。并且,重新选择了自己。

大学就学习报道摄影的我,辞职、搬家,开始和志同道合的好友一起,筹备自己的独立摄影工作室。

从小喜欢画画却莫名当了会计的多拉,也准备彻底改行,重新回到课堂,勤工俭学,学习她一直梦想的设计专业。

我曾因为旅行的梦想加入一家理想主义气质的公司,在两年的时间里和穷游网的众多伙伴一起经历了很多有趣的事,感谢他们一直告诉我,坚持梦想的可贵。当我重新拿起相机拍照,我知道这才是我想要一辈子努力去做的事情。

多拉过去因为对自己才华的不够自信,以及出国念书带来的很多现实压力,从来没有真正面对自己的人生并选择自己想要的。在向我连续抱怨目前工作苦逼想换工作后的某一天,突然对我说:我看了一圈会计的职位要求,发现没有一条是我想做的,没有一条。

前几天她在自己的朋友圈里,分享了这样一段话:

“我不希望有一天发现自己是在为了别人活,我愿意承担后果,就算偶尔寂寞甚至孤独而终,我都能接受。” From 《走出非洲》

嗯,是的。我们终于在26岁这一年,坚定地选择了自己想要的,跟20出头的爱幻想和不确定相比,现在的我们,尝试过、经历过,做够了加法,终于用减法把生命花里胡哨的分叉去掉了一些。前方艰难险阻都不再是事儿,没有回头路,意味着大踏步,坦然向前。

你看,每天一点点的坚持和投入,真的有聚沙成塔的能量。我把我们真实的经历分享给你,如果你也有自己的爱好,不妨每天给它一点时间,看它从泥土里长出来,最终长成它该有的样子——说“它该有”而非“你想要”,是因为它带来的,可能比你最初期望的,更让你惊讶。

创造点什么,然后让它来创造你。

Day 80. 追逐落日的旅程。

Day 84. 南半球的星空落在帝都的楼群和西山上。

 

[ 多拉要说的 ]

在长达十二年的时间里,我们真正朝夕相处的时间只有初三遇见彼此的那一年。其余时候总是各自忙于各自的生活,偶尔联系一次。但这并不妨碍我们互相了解彼此并且持续支持对方的生活。

无趣无奈又不得不继续的生活。起码我是如此。

直到二月某一个普通的晴天,小八或许是无聊或许是撒娇地给我发来一张北京的雾霾天,我不怀好意的回复一张悉尼的蓝天。就在那么一个时刻,坐在电脑前面呆滞的处理着一张张报表的我,被一个火花点燃了。这一燃,就是四个月。

四个月的时间里,低谷瓶颈期当然是有的,争论不休两看相厌也是有的。照片被表扬会开心,被批评会难过。磕磕碰碰也就这么过来了。

Day 93. Yum yum~

 

不止一个人问过我,“你做这个是要干嘛?”或者“你为什么要做这个?”我开始不知道怎么回答。

实际上这段时间,我常常都处在“fuck my life”的状态,但又不得不接受,毕竟是我自己选的路。可是一直这么下去,我大概会变成一个无趣又没盼头的中年妇女,眼神无光,面容憔悴。我愿意吗?我不愿意。

Fuck my life不如Amuse my life。
或许白天是无聊的上班族,但是晚上可以挥挥魔棒来个小变身。虽然不能带来任何利益,但是这种矛盾而隐秘的快乐,让我们的生活着实有趣了起来。

你可以看电视剧,可以打牌,可以出去喝酒来打发时间。我们为什么不可以玩些花样?

况且“双重生活”作为一个奇妙的契机,竟然真正改变了我们的生活及未来。

其实还有好多想拍的主题,但因为环境器材时间地点各种限制无法实现,虽然有遗憾,不过以后说不定就有机会拍了呢,算是留个念想。

在未来的某天,也许我们还可以给孩子们看看,当年他们的老妈,也是根正苗红的文艺青年呢(大笑)。
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最后,100天并不是结束,我们的下一个项目已经在酝酿中,想想又有点小激动呢。

Day 90. 最后十天的high five!

 

#双重生活#100天全部作品和每一张的故事,见我和多拉的Instagram——
我的ID:fanxiaoba
多拉的ID:dora_wsh

[#双重生活# Q&A]

在微博和Instagram上经常遇到一些问题,在这也把我们小小的创作经历分享给大家~

1、请问是用什么APP做的?

遭遇最多的疑问,一把辛酸泪。大概很多朋友以为有一款神奇的APP,只要上传两边的素材就可以实现拼接和排版(如果有人开发这款app请受我一拜么么哒!),实际上,我们的炒菜过程大致是这样的:

- 前一天或当天商定主题(多拉有时会画草图)

- 拍摄素材并随时通过微信给对方预览,调整拍摄和拼接方案

- 上传素材至网络共享文件夹(dropbox这几天被墙了,心碎了)

-电脑上使用Adobe Photoshop图片处理软件将双方素材拼接、调色(有时是我有时是她,看谁有时间。我也曾在没有电脑的情况下用TwinCollage拼图,眼要瞎,真的。)

-调色这一步,我经常还会在手机上使用VSCOcam的滤镜做细微调整(见下方说明)

-加字、加边框多拉直接用电脑PS,我一般在手机上用Over加字,用Afterlight加方形边框以便上传至Instagram(用Squaready也可以,Afterlight的输出尺寸更大,并且也可以实现图片的各种细微调整)

推荐APP:

VSCOcam - 最爱,胶片滤镜极其强大,推荐购买付费滤镜包,比免费的丰富得多,很值,并可实现各种细微调整

Instagram - 主要使用其强大的社交功能,当然最新版也终于开发了微调功能

Afterlight - 作为vsco的补充,滤镜没有vsco强,但有好多有趣的边框

Snapseed - 大概是最早、功能最全面的修图app,人称手机lightroom,不赘述

Squaready - 就是把你的任何照片变成各种方的,想怎么方就怎么方

TwinCollage - 两张拼,跟squaready一样只专注一种功能

另外还有Over、PicLab、Rhonna,都可以做简单的图片设计

以上都是个人喜好,可以多参考网上各种APP评测~
2、素材都是自己拍的还是网上找的?

当然是自己拍的!!!我哭了好吗!!呜呜
多拉:一出去就要扛着死沉的相机,被朋友笑称要当文艺女青年首先得是女汉子什么的,冒大雨出去拍,拍照被人白眼什么的都不算个事儿了

3、有的完全看不出是拼接的啊?

因为是试验性的项目,有时候我们脑洞开太大收不住,就会尝试一些新的手法造成这样的错觉,这时候就会需要用photoshop抠图,用图层蒙板画来画去啥的,我们的宗旨就是天马行空玩得开心!具体方法请参见各种PS教程。

4、都是当天拍的?

有句话叫,永远要有Plan B。

我们的共享文件夹里有一个叫“备用片”。毕竟是朝九晚六的上班族,每天生活的圈子就是上班下班一条路,到后来周边都快拍烂了:P。而且有时工作太忙或突发状况没有时间拍,所以出去玩或者有空的时候就多拍素材放在备用片文件夹里,需要应急的时候拿出来进行再创作。成片都是当天被创作出来的。

 

后附100天拼图。谢谢你读完我们的故事。

“Day 2.北京雾霾转雨,悉尼晴转雨,从南半球跳进北半球。Let’s jump!”

“Day 10.向阳光打招呼,再见了阴霾!”

“Day 12.来尝一尝,我的生活。三八妇女节,对自己好一点。来一口鸭腿汤泡饭吧~”

“Day 16.每一天下班的路口,狗狗想去南半球。”

“Day 22.当老北冰洋遇上洋啤酒,Cheers for a better life.”

“Day 23.车门即将关闭,下一站,南半球~”

“Day 27.一站又一站”

 

“Day 29.小绿人挥挥手说,再见啦,菠萝大叔!然后大踏步,头也不回。大概是属于我们的寓言故事。”

 

 

“Day 51.从此方到彼方,从现在到未来,都没有什么好怕。”

 

“Day 78.雅!灭!蝶!粽子节快乐。”

“Day 85.送给悉尼的下雨天,多拉说屋檐上滚动的水滴就像跳舞的音符一样好看。behind the scenes: 高速快门拍摄”

“Day 88.啊欧~她的心碎啦~(多拉:不要抢走我的饼干!)”

“Day 95.喵?到处都是世界杯!男人们四年一度的大姨妈来了。”

“Day 98.To my future, and to you. 写一封信,给你和未来。”

“Day 99.当你终于坐在我对面。”

“Day 100.庆祝完成100天——这不是结束,而是开始。四个月,100张照片,纪念我们的十二年。”

 

是不是觉得她们很有创意呢?有些图不仔细看根本就没察觉倒是两张照片连接起来的,最重要还是佩服她们的坚持,做自己想要做的事,勇敢追求梦想!

Saturday, July 19

D-Day

Throwback to 09.07.14

Today is the day for our semester 2 EOS result to release. I can’t slept well for the whole week, afraid that if I didn’t pass this time, then have to stay back for resit exam. I can’t imagine that if I fail this semester, then have to wasting one year to retake the module before proceed to semester 3. No! it shouldn’t be!!! Regretted that should have study earlier and work harder … but now could only leave my fate to god and pray hard. I hate this feeling, hate to know result like this which I didn’t face it before …

Before getting result, we decided to give a birthday surprise to one of our sister, Susan. We tend to go to Mid Valley to celebrate birthday with her. This is also the first time 9 of us ‘pretty girls’ outing together. I admitted that it’s quite awkward to name our group name as pretty girls, but seriously all other sisters are pretty girls except me XD Throwing away all the worries about results, should appreciate this opportunity  to enjoy with them and gonna take lots of pictures today ^^  

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Three of us totally didn’t notice that being capture by Natalia in this photo while on the way to Mid Valley =_= We went to shopping first while waiting for Susan to come. I didn’t buy anything this time, but Amanda and Natalia did bought some clothes. Me and others just did some window shopping.

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Selca of me and Silver Yoo while waiting for Natalia to try on some clothes at Nichii. Spot any difference between these two pictures ? totally don’t know where our eyes looked at in front the camera in the left one, LOL >< Sorry, I don’t have good skill in taking selfie. 

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Wow! Our Natalia model! She looks so young and energetic in this outfit right?

After that, we went to the newly opening dessert shop in Mid Valley, Nana’s Green Tea to have our lunch. This was the second time I been there in one week time which only few of us been there last time. Besides selling dessert, they also did sell some set meals too. We just ordered parfaits last time so gonna try their set lunch this time too.

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Sample desserts and set meals but look so delicious and appetizing ^^

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I’m so in love with the design of the menu, it looks simple but classic

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(Photo credits to Silver Yoo)

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I ordered cold matcha latte which is quite sweet for me but still taste nice

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Hot Matcha Latte which is actually quite bland but look nice with the heart ♥

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Set A Loco Hamburger (Chicken/Beef)

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Set B Oroshi Hamburger (Chicken/Beef)

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Set C Chicken Curry

(sorry didn’t focus well when capturing this photo)

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Set D Salmon Don

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Set G Kitsune Udon

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Set I Salmon Cream Udon (my set)

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Desserts after meal - Matcha Chocolate Parfait & Matcha Warabimochi Parfait

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This is the second time I tried this matcha chocolate parfait, it’s the top seller among all the parfait. I especially love the matcha ice cream on top, but the whipped cream is too fat for me so I didn’t eat that much. It cost RM19.80 each which is consider slightly expensive, but since once in a time and four of us shared one so still consider okay.

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PuiWen and HuiYing made an excuse to leave to buy a small cake for Susan secretly but who knows Susan with her brilliant eyes had already knew our plan, maybe we were too obvious ? ^^ Anyway, since she already knew then just celebrate her birthday together with cakes and birthday song.  

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Our birthday girl ^^

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Just want to take a selca but why was there a sakura umbrella on top my head ?! LOL

After lunch, XinLi had to rush back for meeting with her orientation group so had to left first. We continued our window shopping until 4pm. On the way back, something happened at the railway station. A guy gave our Clara an advertisement envelope, she thought it was just a normal advertisement and just took it. But then, Hui Ying at back suddenly pulled away Clara and walk quickly, however the guy suddenly ran to them to take back the things. Everything happened in just a few seconds, it really shock me but I’m still not in the situation and wondering what had happened actually ? After that only I realized that he was a cheater together with a group of other guys standing there just now, especially booking for innocent young girls like us. Really feeling upset for them why should do this kind of immoral things, still so young and healthy why can’t they just find a normal job ? Anyway, just really need to be careful and never go out alone. Everywhere is dangerous here that’s why I don’t like this city.

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And now just left one hour to go before getting our results. Feeling anxious and nervous again, sweating, numbness, weakness, heartbeat accelerate, just feel like dying soon. But this is the fact that I can’t avoid, just hope that everything can ended soon no matter what’s the results, I’ll accept it. I saw many others course mates were smiling happily and talking to their parents, seems like most of them had score a good grades. Not require that much, really just hoping that I could pass it at least not disappoint my parents. The moment I opened the envelope with my shaking hands, I was quite shock and almost scream out. I’ve pass the exam with an unexpected GPA! Finally, I got 3 and above which was totally beyond my expectation. I knew that it was not a excellent result yet, but at least there’s a little improvement compared to my last semester which is absolutely poor. I was happy that I could save $500 for not resitting exam, but still should have to work harder in the next semester to achieve a better grade. Since many of our seniors said that sem 2 is consider the most easiest semester and sem 3 gonna be quite tough semester. So, there’s no ‘play play’ anymore, gonna be study seriously this time. Anyway, I’m officially finished my year 1 study and could finally off for my 3 months holidays now ! Horrays !! No more insomnia and can sleep well tonight finally !!!

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Hope to see this scene again in Sem 3, see u girls 3 months later, gonna miss u all <3 And... It’s time to enjoy our holidays !!! ^^

Tuesday, July 15

Time Machine

Hello my dear readers! Yes, I’m back !!! A good news is I had just passed my semester 2 examination last week which I thought will be a high possibility for me to fail it. So now, I’m officially finished my year one dietetics with nutrition bachelor degree in IMU. Anyway, I have about 3 months of semester break to go and this might be the longest break ever throughout my studies. Currently this is my 3rd week of holidays after EOS, I just back to my hometown last week after helping with juniors’ orientation. Wondering what have I done in this past few weeks ? Besides outing with friends and watching Korean drama, the rest of time are either sleeping or eating O_O That’s all! I’m living like a pig when comes to holidays. Maybe I should start planning now how to wisely spend my holidays, can’t be wasting 3 months time like this right ?

I knew that someone had been chasing after me to blog on something, well well will keep on updating more posts these few weeks kays ? I always feeling lazy when comes to blogging that depends on my mood. When my minds lack of inspiration, I have no idea to write on anything all at even though there’re lots of things to write. After arranging and flipping through all the photos in my phone galleries for the whole day, it does help me to recall back my memories in these past few months. Looking at all those thousands of photos feeling that I should start blogging now but then a problems comes. Wondering where and how should I start from since I’ve been delaying my post for a long time but yet so much stories to tell. So I decided to blog on start from the latest one to the past according to my gallery albums. Okay, shall stop my nonsenses now, ready to start travel back in time via time machine with me ? Let’s GO !!!

 

Outing 1.0

I just met my secondary old friends last Saturday, Tang came back for holidays from Ireland while ZhiHui back from Singapore, but this time we were going to farewell our beloved HuiLing who is going to Australia for her studies. How long time we didn’t meet each other since last year, too sad that Winnie can’t join us this time, shall gather again once you back here. We change our location this time, no longer Tebrau Aeon. We went to Lost in JB escape room (密室逃脱)which is quite popular in my hometown recently. First time a theme escape room opening here so we were quite curious about this especially youngsters, I’m still a youngster too okays ? ^^

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Briefly explain to if you have no idea about what is this escape room. There’re total of 5 themes to choose which are Time Machine, Imprisonment, The Davinci Code, Room 0347 and School Murderer. I’m pretty sure that you can guess something related to the game from these themes name right? Yes, it’s more likely to CSI, you will be given the time limit of one hour to investigate the case and find out the code to escape from the locked dark room. 4 of us chosen the theme Room 0347. The story is about ……

“It was a mistake to fall in love with the leader’s daughter.
In the cities’ largest triad, “ZTC”, there is one unspoken rule – no one within the triad is allowed to be in a relationship with the leader’s daughter. She is the leader’s highly trained bodyguard and strategist, and each important decision has to go through her approval.
However, Teddy and the leader’s daughter fell in love.
10 years ago, Teddy joined “ZTC”. He was very loyal and was willing to give up his life for the triad. He rose through the ranks very quickly.
One night, Teddy was involved in planning a major deal. Looking somber throughout the night, Teddy quietly went back to his room, 0347, and locked the door. No one has seen him ever since.
As a member of the Special Investigation Unit, you have identified Teddy as a target for quite some time. 48 hours after you lost vision of the target, you boldly visited room 0347 to investigate.
You have only 60 minutes before the other triad members arrive, investigate Teddy’s whereabouts!”

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Although it was quite a little scary at the beginning, but then when time goes by, it’s still okay for me. At first, I thought we couldn’t escape the room within the time limit as this is our first time trying since my friends who played it before has been lose for 3 times. But then who knows, we managed to unlock all the codes/passwords and escaped the room in the last 3 minutes. I was quite amazing about how could we solve the puzzle or codes if we didn’t make the help calls ? However we still managed to solve it at last. But later I was quite disappointed as I thought they’ll give us either a cert or small prize for those winners who manage to escape the room, but still an eyes-opening experience for me, maybe will try out some other themes next time.

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Next was our sing K time !!! Nothing much to talk about here as you know besides shouting here and there still shouting like a group of crazy madly women (O.O) After that, we went to a Japanese Shabu-Shabu Restaurant nearby having our dinner and chit-chatting. Too much words to say until we had this dinner for almost 2 hours =_=

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Silver Yoo, purposely capture this for you, please don’t shout when see this XD

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Do Min Joon xi !!! ♥♥♥

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Do you believe that all these were eaten by 4 young girls ?

This was the result when we had been starved for the whole day =.=

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looks delicious ? XP

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Lastly, one last selfie before we said goodbye to each other

Looking forwards to the next gathering with my girls ^^

 

Happiest moments always seem to pass by quickly. Time to say goodbye now T-T  By now, HuiLing should be in the plane to Melbourne, have a safe flight tonight. Wish my dear take care & all the best in Australia. Not to forget good luck x10000000 to our sister Agnes for your papers tomorrow, keep on fighting !!!

That’s all for today! There’ll be more interesting post with photos updating soon so see you again in my next post, STAY TUNES !

Saturday, June 7

Ending of Semester 2

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Hey! My dearest readers, how have you been lately ?

It’s had been 3 months since my last post here, once again sorry about that due to my hectic school life and also because of my laziness XP

 

Just in a blink of eyes, my university life in IMU had came to the last week of semester 2 … Coming to the 2nd semester, time really flies too fast until I almost didn’t realize how I deal with all the assignments, reports and class test. I could only remember that sometimes I really felt so stress and broke into tears in the midnight when I couldn’t finish all my work in time. Many nights I couldn’t sleep not because of insomnia, just because of the unfinished work and studies, I had to scarified my sleeping time. I even slept at 4.30am and wake up at 8am once because of one of the class test, really quite miserable that time. Leaving my hometown all the way here and staying alone is never an easy thing. I admitted I am a girl that easily get emotional and sometimes I felt home sick too. I remember that I almost want to give up once in the past just because feeling too stress but there is no “give up” this two words in my mindset. I’m stubborn and had never give up anything in my past, how can I just simply give up my studies just because of that little thing ? My mind flashback to few months ago, before I came to KL, how did I entered this course, why will I choosing this course, what am I dreaming for ? I forgot my dream, forgot my choice, forgot the nature of my heart …… I changed my mind after I went to a camp organized by Tzu Chi Collegiate Youth Association, this camp had totally change my mind toward my studies and also my mind, grateful that I have the opportunity to participate in this camp, it really had been a great experience.

 

Not to elaborate too much about the camp now, will surely tell u more about that after my coming exam. Semester 2 had been a more interesting and exposure to the field of nutrition compared to semester 1 which is quite a basic foundation. Studying this course your first interest must always be nothing than nutrition and food. But speaking honestly, I really dislike one of the module – analysis of food nutrition. I just really hate doing all the boring experiments which required long waiting time before get the result which I think is quite time-consuming. However, one of the subject that I love the most in this semester is lifespan nutrition. Although there are lots of fact to memorize but is actually quite interesting especially when come to pregnancy, lactation, breastfeeding and infancy. This module has somewhat broaden my knowledge and  I enjoy learning everything that related to pediatrics. But of course, we not just focus on pediatrics, lifespan is all about the life cycle from a person born to his dead. When come to middle age adult or elderly are kinda boring too but that are the basic knowledge we are require to know. Another new in this SEM is that we start entering the ND Lab which is a kitchen for our practical session. We baked cakes, muffins, cookies, pastries and many more, cooking sessions are always interesting and fun but not when comes to the reports :’(

 

Another module that I felt quite speechless is IT for health sciences. Before attending the class and the practical, I thought I’m quite expert with IT and computer things, but it really beat me down when come to database, C-Programming and HTML. I didn’t really learn all this skill before and don’t know anything about that, and well this coming Friday I’ll have my final IT class test. I have no idea on how to start the revision at all. God Bless me! I never think that before I could learn this additional skill in IMU although I can’t really see the relationship between to our course. Really thankful for giving me this opportunity … and I can’t wait to have a look of our final group IT project which is creating a website with html. Have a guess what is our group name and theme? Maybe u might find quite hilarious but our group KMT184.05 is the truth. If you’ve watched the recent most famous Korean drama “You Who Came from the Star”, then you surely will know what is that. And because of our chosen theme “COCOA BEANS”, therefore our webpage title will be “You Who Came form the Cocoa Star-KMT184.05”. I can’t imagine the lecturer expression when he saw our group name, but I think he wouldn’t know about the origin of our name, hopefully he don’t know or perhaps he also watched that drama? We even open an Instagram account and a Facebook page for our project. Luckily we have two friends in our group that are expert in IT, otherwise I can’t imagine what will be our result end like. Hopefully will be a pretty nice one and looking forward to it and a thousand million of thankiewsss to them !!!

 

This coming week will be my last week of study in SEM 2 before EOS, and is also quite a hectic week for all of us. Besides report and class test, we’ll have our Food Culture Day on this Thursday which is the highlight of SEM 2 project. I’ve been divided into Indonesia Food Culture group, seems like I’ve a special fate to Indonesia ? Hope that everything will be running smooth and successful. Beside that, we’ll having our final PBL (Problem-Based Learning) on Friday. Seems like new to that ? It is something like a small group discussion that consists about 10 students, we were given a trigger by the supervisor and discuss everything we found about the topic as much as you could, we’ll be given marks individually based on your communication skill and critical thinking. It’s like a speaking test in MUET but much for difficult than that as you know there all 10 people in a group and you have limited chances to speak out. So, it’s like a second world war rather than a discussion for me as you have to grab the opportunity in the right time to speak out. But I think I’ve did pretty badly in my first time even I have found a lots of information but didn’t have the chance to speak out more. Maybe this is the great opportunity for me to sharpen of communication skill and also the courage to speak out.

 

Well, I know I have been too wordy after writing for such a long winded post so I think I better stop writing now. I’ll have my final exam in two weeks time before having 3 months of SEM break, can’t looking forward to that! Will surely update more about the interesting stories with lots of photos in my SEM 2 after that, still have lots to express so please STAY TUNED till my comeback ! Thanks for my reader who bearing with me all the way here. Good night everyone with LOVE and have a great day ahead !!!     

 

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