You broke my heart several times this year…

So many things had happened in my life this year. I became a fan of Jonas Brothers (it's their music that I fell in love into first!) & Demi Lovato (Come on, admit it! Not many girls from Disney can have a great voice like her!). I finally have the courage to meet a dentist after 9 years. My favourite black cat died, murdered by an unknown neighbour. I started tweeting on Twitter. I learnt to drive, got my licence though I don't have the opportunity to drive [my family car] officially yet. I took my first ABRSM practical exam (Grade 1). Joined NaBloPoMo. Blogged everyday on November 2009. Went to Tawau.

And also... I had finally entered university! I'm a year behind compared to my friends who started last year. Better late than never!

Then, in university, I experienced a mild case of culture shock (coursemates from Peninsular Malaysia & Sarawak). I also discovered the hot-tempered/angry side of me. Usually only family and close friends can see my angry side before but university life (minus dorm life) seem to bring out the worst in me. *sigh* I still don't know how to deal with this. It's not really a recommending trait to have, you know. The only bright side of it is I am able to express myself easily (but that might have been because I blog more often this year and started tweeting). The fun part of university life is the access to the library (lol! SO many reference books at the university library!)... Not only that lah! Haha. I went dragon-boating for the 1st time in my life. Performed three songs with my Art Appreciation group members (assignment).


Anyway, though the title of this post sounds resentful, believe me, I'm not. There's just so many sad events I don't want to remember in 2009...

But I'm grateful for the good things that had happened to me throughout this year.

I wanted to take "Anthropology" course (1st choice for UPU) in the local university that I will not name here (any comments with the name will be rejected) to avoid being searched online, but I got "Mathematics" with CG (3rd choice!) instead. Maths is always fun, so I was also glad I was offered that course.

Pursuing studies near home enables me to continue pursuing my musical skills. I lived off campus because of an impending practical music exam last July. I passed the exam with distinction!

I think I'm starting to know myself better. Hopefully I'll be a better person next year...

Thank you, God. Thank you, Dad, Mum, @Jvira & Rus. Thank you, Eve, Mel-chan & Ren-chan! Thank you, Miss Chong!



I know this thank you list should be longer... I'll edit later!



2009. You were an important part of my life, but I’m not gonna miss you. Not gonna.

Here's a post dedicated to these sources who and which made this blog a blog.

Firstly, the layout. It's a wordpress template converted to blogger xml by Falcon Hive (you can find other beautiful templates like this in his site). This template name is Color Paper.

Modifications done to the layout.
From annie's site BlogU, I've used (or referred to) these for this blog...

• The Expand/Collapse feature in my posts
• Pretty Blockquotes. I referred to this to edit the css for quote that I used for my "favourite quotes" appearance. And following that I used similar css code for the a:hover in the sidebar.

She has also introduced me to these...
"Random quotes generator" by Ramani at Hackosphere.
That's "favourite quotes" in the sidebar. I initially tried the one from annie's but I got lost when trying to edit the appearance of the quotes.

"Label Cloud" & "Feeling Lucky" (random post) by phydeaux3.

Light Box widget (an image hack) for Blogger by Max.

I added "Reactions" to blog posts by using code from here.

Divided the "featured" part to two columns. One for my latest tweets & the other for bloglist that shows updates from my other sites. Modified some code I saw from here.

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As for the "labels" part in posts... I referred to this site to find the codes for labels. Actually I found pieces of information from everywhere but I found this site most useful to my intentions. I know there's many sites that can tell you which code is for what... but I don't have all day to search for all that. Anyway, I also found out how to modify the "comments" section from there.
edit Nov 12th, 2009: Changed my comment system. I'm using Disqus for newer posts.