I think I've used the same title before, some where in my achieves. But who cares, it's not really the time to be creative. I'm breaking down and it's been so long, like ONE YEAR since I succumbed to total exhaustion, body sickness and am partially broken mental and physically.
**FLASHBACK
The last time this happened was during industrial training, the three months of absolute Grace I'd experienced which I knew I would not have survived without HIM. Everyone knows I'm frail in my health, and as my grandmother constantly reminds me, weakest among my siblings who despite other problems, have a stronger immune system. I'd spent more than half of my childhood swallowing tables and medicine as far as I can remember too. Arrrrrghhh~! And I used to have the thickest medical record at my family doctor's place and highest stack of MCs in my class. >.< I didn't know I was this bad until my primary school class teacher was so struck in awe at my record that she found the need to make it an ANNOUNCEMENT in class =.=|||
Anyway, knowing this, you would understand that three months under the sun, rain, air-cond, constantly rushing and running, and pressure of more than 12 hours work per day would be too much toil for me right? I even dislocated the lower part of my backbone slightly because of too much "flying around on motorbikes(obviously not driven by me)". But God put so many angels around me to sustain me, grace just sufficient for me and how can I deny HIS hand in this process? For a person who had never entered the working society before, I found people more complicated than I expected but somehow, because HE was with me, I also managed to find favor in the eyes of just the right people always at the right time. How do you deny God is in control, when there were many "hard-to-please", "selfish and cruel" leaders(terms dubbed by others)that many found so hard to work with and were constantly given trouble, but I was one of the few ones who managed to be treated well with special care? AND HE healed my spine during a Miracle Rally.
BACK TO THE TOPIC.
So anyway, industrial training was the last time I remember crying because my body and brain couldn't take it anymore at one point when i was so sick(major waterfall coz of hormone disorder- stress, gastric and flu. Crying when I had to walk home after a particularly long day, in a storm because there was totally no transport that night. It was so dark, I was shivering with cold, the road was so lonely and scary, and there were no taxis willing to fetch me. My colleagues had to OT and I didn't want to remain in the office coz I'd finished my work and I wouldn't be able to leave until around 4am if I stayed there I think. In my defense, I was having a major waterfall.(Belum ada time to visit my gynae again back then, so used like 4 to 5 Sofy Overnight 32cms during working hours which was totally insane.) Anyway, all the time, there were my family, lovely housemates and erm, a friend, who took care of me and saw me through the ordeal. I remember crying to God that i couldn't take it anymore. But I remember too, through all the prayers of my family and friends, everything, though not completely smoothly, went so astonishingly well. I remember my editors telling me, I may look frail but it's surprising how I can grit my teeth and carry on. Everything, by God's grace.
BACK TO THE TOPIC *warning2
Okay okay, here's the thing. Starting Wednesday afternoon, me and my group members just made head way into the mountain of work we had to do and we stayed overnight at Ms Eve's place. 3 of us were sick, one particularly serious(AND note she's the main source of the virus)but she told the doctor to please give her milder medicine because she needed to rush assignments and cannot afford to sleep. This semangat should be applauded and the team spirit is, in fact, quite touching. However, maybe that would explain why she is still so sick now (and decidedly getting worse too). Also, every time I think I'm recovering, I'll get the symptoms all over again coz we're working and staying together all the time.
Anyway, here's the thing, this patient went to bed at 12am on Wednesday night and the rest of us continued to work during the process which my stupid stupid lappie kept emitting weird error noises, had to be restarted, and my "delete" and "backspace" buttons kept "AUTO LAUNCHING" themselves in a very uncooperative manner. I took it to one of the "IT" housemates staying in the house and he also didn't know how he did it, but somehow stupid Lappie was cured, or so I thought. DECEIVING LAPTOP!!!
I remembered wanting to die around 2.30am coz didn't really sleep the previous night before. (Around 3 hours I guess)I actually went to school with a greenish white complexion and lips(as my classmates said) resembling a ghost, so my brain was lagging and I was typing rather incoherently by the time it was getting late. We also got caught in the heavy rain on the way to assignment briefing after getting down from the car parked in JAYA ONE with no umbrella. Then the air-cond in PC was FREEZING cold(as usual =.=|||) so when we went back to Ms Eve's house for planning, we all felt very pening already.
Despite that, I really praise God, coz we managed to all use our "professional" industrial experience to generate the flow of stories, sources, assign beats to each member according to their best ability and it was that time I was so grateful that I'd helped in the "schedule-setting" in MM before. ***Erm~ one of the advantages you work at an understaffed place is that, after two weeks, interns are no longer treated as interns, but full-time and full-fledged reporters. At least I was not completely blur in terms of what sections we needed, what stories to put below, what should link to what article as a follow up story and who should do what. This is because MR Lecturer wants EVERYTHING in our assignments 1-2-3-4-5, to be connected. So, since we HAD to do this whole big thingie, we girls thought we might as well do the stuff really PROPERLY and not use any shortcuts or lazy work like other groups. This means MORE work, but at the same time, MORE satisfaction.
Errrr so... three girls were working manfully in front of me at 3am in the morning, and though I felt as sick as a pig and really wanted to rest, I couldn't coz it might dampen their spirits and I was the group leader. Finally at 3.30am, we collapsed 2 people on each tiny mattress and slept UNTIL we were awakened around 8 something in the morning by a high-pitched "GOOD MORNING (I already told the others I was NOT the Ms high pitch in our group), IKEA SALES!~@!@!@!! RM 15 for this cute orang chair, COULD YOU BELIEVE IT?!@!@!@! Oooo~ I want I want!OOOOOOOOOooooo~~~~" by a Ms Eve who had slept well in the night and was reading the papers alone in her room(Mr T left for work already) and felt, well, lonely for a bit of company, so she decided to wake us. Somewhat rudely. Hmmmph~!
Me and Sin Yee who were cramped in the corner groaned. I really felt like committing murder at that time but I was too weak to do so. Instead, it was Jac who moaned " Ms Eve, we slept late last night and you were the only who went to bed early, could you please give us some rest? What time is it? 10am or what?" And she replied " No neh, it's very early, only 8 something and we need to start work since Ms Nat here takes 2 hours to get ready. BY THE WAY, THIS CHAIR IS SOoooo cute, Soooooo CHEAP and WOULD YOU LOOK AT THIS SHOE CABINET!???? I Want~~~!!!! WEI, DO YOU HEAR ME? IKEA SALES NEH!!! SALES!@!@!@@!!!#!!!!"
Erm, to cut the long story short, we were forced to get up, bathe in cold water to freshen ourselves. And get ready. Actually I got ready in like, 20 minutes, including everything, which was really relatively fast. Did research whilst waited for the others to put on makeup, style their hair(I'd already blown mine) which took ANOTHER 1 hour plus. =.=||| ( Okay, I admit my clique is really super Bimbo)
So 1st stop : Breakfast
2nd Stop : Petaling Jaya court
(lost our way and went to wrong building -> went inside a gruesome narrow car park with many levels-> Came out after not finding any parking...walked...asked people for directions =.=|||)- And ended up NOT finding the list of hearings properly stated in detail(apparently only the plaintiffs and defendants are named, no more information provided) after exploring the ENTIRE THREE floors of the court and making fools of ourselves trying to get into locked rooms. Oh well, first time marh. All was well coz supposedly we just needed to submit a letter two days beforehand at the registration counter(RIGHT AT THE ENTRANCE itself *sweat) and be directed and appointed to a time we were allowed to go in to cover the news.
3rd Stop : PTPTN building.
Went around exploring -> PR person was in a meeting so got her contact, email and would arrange for an appointment the following week for video shooting interview with her. Erm~ we paid RM 6 for parking just 15 minutes. (wad the fish right? coz that's the fixed rate there...Ms Eve tried to "negotiate" (manja actually) with the officer to no avail...wahaha! (*yes I know our group always 牺牲色相 for assignments and even during industrial training, but nothing unethical aa~ It's allowed okay? Not that we're flashing or whatsoever marh.)
4th Stop : Democratic Action Party(DAP)center in Taman Paramount
- Lost our way again and FINALLY after finding it, was directed to go back to Rocket Cafe in Ss2 for the politician we were finding. We had a bit of confusion at the center, coz my group members only knew the Chinese name of the politician and I could not recall his English name =.=||| (The clerk was a Banana)...finally she suggested a name and we went AAaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! (*sweat right~ Anyway, I'd only spoken to him on the phone before, and never really met him in person. The only politician I'd met in person many times would be Edward Lee, Bukit Gasing assemblyman. Other than that, talked to all the others through phone.Calls are sometimes filtered... And erm~ Hannah Yeoh's personal assistant(not to be named) refers to me as "the girl with the very sweet voice" =.=|||. On a side note, all politicians from opposition parties are really very nice and they DO work for the people. Note that I refrain to talk about the Government party at all.)
5th Stop : Rocket Cafe
- went there, ordered and met the (not to be named) politician himself, managed to arrange video shooting interview with him next week also.
Unfortunately, we also bumped into a professional crew of media from dunno wad station or newspaper who kind of forced our table to provide a person to be interviewed and captured on TV. And the girls very sporting lorh horh, pushed me and poor Ms Eve in front(One chinese and One english speaking representative WOR kononnya~) and they ran to another table for refuge(wad the fish benar)Okay, fine, I know I've appeared in papers before, but not when I have to give "POLITICAL VIEWS" okay? And my group members aaaa =.=||| They managed to give the media(CHINESE PRESS) an impression that I'm a banana (wad the fish!@!@!@!!!)
Q1 = How do you view the coming year 2010? Q2 = What do you think of Pakatan Rakyat? Q3= What do you think of Barisan National?
SENSITIVE HEONG okay?!@!@!!!??? My first response was " What if I get into trouble after I answer?" To which, I got the "oh so familiar" response(which I normally also use to persuade people in street interviews during my training) of " DON'T WORRY. It's nothing. Just an opinion. No one will sue you." (Okay, I've been a member of the press as well so I know that's kind of not convincing...haha. What la, Sedition Act, later kena detained by ISA. But oh well, all for democracy right? I mean, as a future journalist in two months time, I must have my stand and BERANI KERANA BENAR *wad semangat - if I die,I repeat, then you all must come to my funeral and say nice things about me ~) ANYWAY, I answered honestly lah. (Coz if you're gonna be a member of the press in the future, you gotta face this anyway)
Ans 1. I'm looking forward to the coming year of 2010 because I believe great changes will be made, changes, that will bring happiness to the people because when a few parties fight together, they will do their best in bringing promises to the people and carrying them out, should they want to stay in the position. It's good that people have come to realize that, they can make a difference with their votes so long as they are aware of their rights and responsibility to choose leaders in this country. I'm all for true democracy though that's kind of impossible in our country.
Ans 2 : Well, I do see Pakatan Rakyat members going around and doing work for the people. So I guess they do serve us well? At least they fight for our rights. (Actually I'm a supporter of DAP lorh, so I'm not saying much here.)
Ans 3: Haha~ Errrr...Actually, to tell the truth, I only see BN making effort in improving our lives when things go wrong(like the 2008 election) or during election periods. So~ you get the picture.
*that's my answer for the questions from an unidentified press.(wad the fish we never thought of asking, just treated them as seniors...Anyway, I was very kan cheong and not looking by best so whatever la, I don't want to see any record of it also.)
6th Stop : Mid Valley MegaMall
- I know this is kind of unrelated. But I was dragged along, as the girls said, for a "rewarding" ONE hour before we return to the "punishment" after that. They wanted to get skin products from the Laneige 70% Warehouse Sales (which by the way, in case you want to know, is in Jusco, in the Face Cabin beside the SK2 counter.)*** Sigh~ As Yen said, actually, I would find it more rewarding to be allowed to sleep at home loh. I was almost fainting jorh. But I was in the car anyway and couldn't get down. Also, as usual, it was only when we were half way there that I asked the question, "Erm~ so where are we going now" *as usual. >.< And this is why people say I'm easy to kidnap coz I never question where the driver is taking me.(wad the fish). Whatever la, I managed to try on 3 and get a set of nice Triumph lingerie on sale(last two days) when the girls were paying. Now we all have the same bra (=.=|||) but mine is a set coz I didn't want to take two for an additional price neh~XD...(what the fish) Btw, this is somewhat censored, but just too astonishing not to share. (Please do not read the following sentences in this para if you're erm...conservative) I can't believe it! But I can actually fit a (*okay, fine, potong steam wadeva, there are underage readers viewing my blog so not telling >.<). The hint is cup size.Wahahaha! HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY (and overwhelmed lorh...)!!!(the peak of the day la huh)
(Pun intended)
On a side note, I was the best of the lot coz I manged to FIGHT temptation in the form of DRESSES at Nichii which is currently going for a "Forever 21" style lorh. The prices are half the price of those in Forever 21 though. Super cheap AND NICE lorh!@!@!@!@!!! Some more it's new stock so all sizes are available. I'm Soooooo~ proud of myself coz I didn't get anything even though I tried on a dress and really really liked it. Told myself I didn't need it and left DESPITE my very unhelpful friends who kept insisting I get it coz they all got one. =.=||| We made a quick trip to Watsons and left, all purchases done within 1 hour and 3 Girls broke.(I'm NOT one of them lorh...wahaha! Wad the fish they pigi tag me in Facebook as 败家女...I'm good and proudly so okay?)
6th Stop : Back to Ms Eve's house
- (a) Wrote letters of request to conduct research to PTPTN PR, Politician, PJ Courts
(b) Typed out our Broadcast Journalism report on activities and results of today (outdoor assignment day)
(c) Made phone calls to PR group for background of their campaign next week
(d) Called Lawyer and Ex-lecturer Mr Jay to arrange for appointment next week - video shooting also.
(e) Wrote down our "to-do-list" (Gonna be outdoors the whole of next week with at least an appointment per day)
(f) Drafted out the huge mind map Ms Eve is going to draw to submit with our 1st Online JR proposal next Tuesday.
(g) Emailed two complaints to Online JR tutor ranting on how we are supposed to come up with a TITLE and ANGLE of 10 stories which are yet to be written when the interviews have NOT been conducted even. How are we to know what the sources would say, what angle to find BEFORE carrying out the interview huh? If we set everything before hand, that would be FRAMING a news story a.k.a. SLANTING it into the way we want. And it's AGAINST media ethics (wad the fish). Seriously lorh~ Stupid nia our Mr Lecturer.
7th Stop : Back home - Apartment
(a) Cooked Maggie Mee coz realized I was super super hungry. (We were on our feet whole day, had brunch at 11am and tea (half a bowl of ice kacang at 4pm)
(b) Felt feverish and nose started running non-stop so took medication.
(c) Bathed -> Felt irritated and frustrated whilst typing reports and nose wouldn't stop running. Course mates were bugging me constantly over minor things. Felt temper rising.
(d) Got overwhelmed with tiredness, frustration and went to bed with Bible to spend quiet time with God coz I just couldn't take it anymore.
(e) Cried out my stress and pent frustration within and cried even more when I read today's passage and found out what God had to say about my confusion over some issue. (It's private, so not sharing here btw). But conclusion I want to state here is, whatever the situation, " Those who let God provide will always be satisfied" =) .
(f) Fell asleep around 1am( I think) and woke up at 5.26am (wad the fish >.<) after medication lost its drugging effect. Oh, and feeling much better now - no more running nose (apparently you need to sleep off some medicine for it to take full effect. *now I know why Ms Eve is not really recovering.)
(g) Blogging until now and Facebook-ed a little. Not going out 2moro (except to perhaps meet Mike to pass the CF financial records and statements for CF camp)
(h) Gonna edit the parts group members send me, compile it with my own parts for assignment 1, then have a nice date with the thing I am developing a "love-hate" relationship with. FINAL YEAR PROJECT. I won't have time for it at all next week unless I turn into a superwoman so might as well do what I can tomorrow, erm...today in fact...Haha.
ALL THE BEST TO ME~~!!@!@!@!!!!!!!
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