My Digital World

It has been a while that I touch my blog. In the past few days, I have been busy and besides there were moments where I don't have mood for blogging. In the meanwhile, many things happened.

First of all, I want to start with Henry. At Mondaynight, around 3AM, I received his call. While my handphone was ringing, I thought I was dreaming because I am rarely called in the very late night. But somehow I pick up the phone and surprisely I was not dreaming. Henry had a very nice thing to share with me: he is accepted to get into MIT for doing his Master study. I am very happy to hear that. He had put many and many energy and time for the tests for getting into MIT. He had failed for exams but he hadn't given up. He retakes and finally his dream comes out. BRAVO!
I am not only glad that he gets into MIT but I am also very glad that he shares his (good) thing with me. Not everyone likes to share his/her happiness with others. I am so glad to be the one who can share.

Many people have their own goal in their life. Some of the people works very hard to hope that their wishes will come true. Other people are very lazy and they are satisfied with every little thing they have. And so there also people walking around this world without any goal. For me, I have asked myself what I like to do. I used to want to earn lots of money and get into a very good University. Although I am not working hard, I care about my marks of the exams. Now I am changed. Money is not very important for me anymore. And I even don't care about the results of my exams. I also realise that there are many, many and many things that are very meaningful. I am happy that I (still) can help people. When I was in Singapore, I did volunteerwork work. Surprisely, I noticed that doing volunteerwork is very tiring: you need alot of patience. Plus you have to know what people want and making them happy. I thought I have patience since I used to fish alot. But fishing and having patience doesn't have any relationship with each other.

I have asked some friends what kind of person I am because I am also asked at the interview. So far, everyone is very positive. I really don't think I am that person as what they think. Besides many people think that I like expensive stuff, such as brand clothes, expensive lens, high-class dinner etc. All these things are nice if I can get or afford, but the "real" thing that I like is the true friendship. If I have money, I like to share that with my friends by treating them for a dinner or something else.

Last week, I am very glad and also surprised to receive a card that Shan Shan sent to me. She asked me what I like to have from Singapore or Malaysia, except camera-related-things. To be honest, there are nothing that I really want since I am quite satisfied with many things I have now. I feel that our friendship is present, although we know each other short. The little thing that comes from her heart (xinyi) can let me smile.

Talking about my friends, currently two friends of me are now attached. One of my friends asks me when it is my turn. To be quite honest, I really don't know since love is mutual thing which you cannot have fully control by yourself. I also don't want to spend time on love-related-stuff because of some issues. But I am open for girls. I think that in this world, there is no MUST to have your other part to continue to live. Someone might say that you may lose many good things. But if you never have love before, you have nothing to lose. It seems that begin of this year brings many love to my friends.

Two weeks ago, I started with my new part-time job in Amsterdam. My student assistance is finished since the lab was over. My new part-time is about software testing. The company is originally settled in US. I like to work at that company. My collegeas are nice people although they are computer-nerds.

A very good friend of my, Siu Mei, has had her graduation two weeks ago too. I am one the very few friends that she invited to attend her graduation. Siu Mei is very nice to me. Two years ago, we went to London for holidaying. She organised everything for me, e.g. hotel, transport-card, etc. Anyway, the week before her graduation, she and her boyfriend Jok had a dinner with me. I invited them to come to my place to eat roti prata that I made by myself. In that week I also had many visits of my other friends. It was a very tiring week, but I am glad that I can see my true friends regularly.

I can't believe myself what I have bought last two weeks. Now I have two toplenses of Nikon. Each of them are very, very and very expensive. I did some shooting with one of my new lenses, which is Nikon 80-200mm f2.8 AF-S. The pics are amazing sharp! I think it is the sharpest lens I have, although I haven't tested my Nikon 17-35mm f2.8 AF-S yet.

Faruk borrows my camera + some lenses, because his cousin's wedding and he has been asked for taking pics. Now Faruk is enjoying the wedding and shootings in UK. I wonder how the pics are.

This week, Shabir and me are organising badminton-competition in the sportcentre for our group of Micro-electronics from the 18th floor. This coming Friday, the tournament starts. I am looking forward it because my professor and other staff also join.