There's no use crying over spilt milk.

Hello there. LOL. Still haven't post about D-Code part 3 and 4. 
Before that I have some VERY IMPORTANT stuff to tell.
In my post D-Code part 1 I told you guys that 60 students will be chosen to the D-Code bootcamp. Which to be honest, in the first place, I thought that our team will actually make it to the camp. Unfortunately, on the 7th of November, when they announced the finalists, we were not chosen. My heart sank and drowned in the pits of my stomach. I have been waiting for this day for months and this is what I get?! HELL YES, I AM SAD AS HELL. I just finished my piano exam on that day and it was such a relief getting that big bloody burden off my poor shoulders and this shit just ripped my shoulders out, literally. I just went through a roller coaster of emotions. At one point I was the happiest person in the world, then this thing came in my way. Of course I am not blaming them for not choosing us. Of course they will choose the best to attend the camp. C'mon lah. This is not some belacan camp, okay.
I have been thinking that some miracle will happen for the past week. Like them suddenly calling us to the bootcamp. But unfortunately, no. I have been so moody these few days. I have been imagining the scene of the bootcamp for days. How it would be, who would be there, etc. 
When i told sir Nizam about this, he was telling me that he thought we would be able to make it. That was the part. I stood there and I thought "He actually had such high hopes on us and we just broke it". Seriously, I thought we would make it too. And when he asked me, "what do you think we should do then?" I said, "Sir, there's nothing we can do. Redha je lah.." hahah! :D
Recently, they just posted the pictures of the bootcamp on facebook. And yes, the jealousy just added up even more! :( I was already so damn jealous of them getting to go. And the pictures! OHMYGOD D: So, being my typical self, I was groaning and doing all sorts of stupid noises. And my sister was saying "There's no use crying over spilt milk". And I was going all bizzare over it. But after that I was thinking. C'mon. Of course I will cry over spilt milk. WHAT IS THERE TO NOT CRY. What if the milk was my only food? What if the milk was my only source of income? What if the milk was needed to feed some poor children? What if my mother was gonna scold me for spilling the milk? HELL TO THE YES I WOULD CRY FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. I know it is no use, but I still need to cry. To let my feelings out. To let everything be okay. To express the sadness that has been trapped. To express how desperate I am and how much I miss the camp and the amazing people.
I know. Maybe it's just luck? But I think mostly, our web page too. I keep telling myself. It's okay that we are not chosen. It's okay, maybe the competition was just too intense and we didn't make it. It's okay, there are people who are definitely better than us. It's okay, they deserve the best. It's okay, I'm so damn chill with this. It's okay, I'm not jealous.
But the truth is, hell no, I'm not happy with all of this. I'm not so damn chill with this shit. And hell yes, I'm jealous as fuck. But again, I think, maybe God has something better in store for me. Maybe like PASSING MY PIANO EXAM?! That would be great! :D
I like looking on to the positive sides of things. But this, no, it's really hard for me to see the positiveness in this. I can only come up with the point that maybe God has something better for me. Other than that, no.
Anyways, what's over is already over. There's really nothing much I can do. As I said earlier, redha je lah.
Okay then, I think that's it. Goodbye. Until then! Hasta luego, amigos! :) Te amo!

A screenshot I took with my phone and I think it suits this post really well :)

Birthday, Friends, Languages, Apologies.

HELLO THERE :D
Sooooo. I did not type D-Code Camp part 3 and 4 yet :/ I'm busy and lazy :P
Sorry tho. But I know nobody reads my blog so what's the point apologizing? 

About a month ago, it was my birthday. Which was on the 11th of August. I bet most of you forget your friends' birthdays. I dare not say family because you have been celebrating birthdays with them since.. like forever! It's not like you can easily forget your birthday. So let's be honest here. Without facebook, most of us forget our friends' birthdays. Only your super best friends remember them (Well, sometimes). Luckily for me, my best friends remembered :) My family members too :) I purposely hid my birthday on facebook just to see who remembers my birthday. Trust me, by doing this, you can see who your true friends are. And your wall won't be filled with wishes from other people besides your friends and families. It will also not be filled with wishes who you have NEVER talked to before on facebook, which is a little creepy to me. I thought about this last year. I waited a whole year just to do this! Thankfully, I remembered! :D -SUCCESS-

Next, I've been going to Japanese class which is thought by a teacher in my school. Which is really nice of her to start up this class for us form 4s. I started a few months ago. My hiragana is off to a good start. Conversation wise, still bad :P I can introduce myself in Japanese tho! Urm. I have the sudden urge to type Japanese. If any of you guys are Japanese. Do comment or something so that we can be friends and I can perhaps practice some Japanese with you? And you can practice some English or Chinese (FYI, my chinese sucks) with me? LOL. As if there are people who read my blog =_=
So here goes.

はじめまして。わたしはリンスユインです。スユインとよんでください。じゅうろくさいです。SMK Sultan Badlishah　のよねんせいです。ペナンからきました。いま、ケダにすんでいます。わたしのしゅうみわしょうせつをよのことです。どうぞよろしこおねがいします。

Hahah. Go Google translate if you're curious :P

Next, do not be surprised. I am learning..... SPANISH. If any of you guys are from Badlishah. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE (a billion times) Don't think that I learnt because there's Guille in our school. I was inspired by a person on youtube from the USA who is actually a hyperpolyglot. Which means, a person that speaks lots of languages. He lives in New York. He speaks 20 languages like Farsi, French, Hebrew, Pashto, Arabic, and many others! He inspired me. So I took the initiative to look up any languages which are easy to learn and are quite close to english grammar wise and vocab wise. And I found out that Spanish is quite an easy language to master if you are fluent in English. So I decided to pick it up. I mean like.. why not? If it does not work out, it's okay. At least I tried. And gained some knowledge. If it does work out, that would be brilliant. But since this guy (his name is Tim Doner) can speak 20 languages (he is only like 17) it makes him a HYPERpolyglot. A polyglot can speak around 5 languages I guess. But nobody actually officiated how many numbers of languages you have to master to be a polyglot. So, I guess around 5? I will leave a link at the end of the post so you can check him out and hopefully get inspired too! So, I'm gonna attempt introducing myself in Spanish right now. HERE GOES NOTHING!

¡Hola! Mi nombre es Lim Suying. Tengo dieciséis años. Mi cumpleaños es el once de agosto. Yo vivo en Kulim. Me gusta leer libros. Yo estudio en la escuela en Kulim. El nombre de escuela es SMK Sultan Badlishah. Tengo tres hermanas. Yo soy el tercero. Yo hablo inglés, malayo, chino y un poco de japonés. 

Basically, that's it. Again, Google translate if you're curious :P
I think that's it for this post! I will try updating about the D-Code camp soon. I hope I still remember the details I wanna tell you guys. But no worries, the memories are always kept in my heart so it wouldn't be a problem!
So, that's it till the next time, guys! Goodbye! UNTIL THEN!
じゃまたね！¡Hasta Luego! :))

CHECK TIM DONER OUT!

D-Code Camp 3 2013 (Penang) Part 2

Hello there. 

I can't seem to be updating really quickly. Even though I'm in front of my computer most of the time, I don't see the reason why I do not blog. I'm still afraid that I'll forget all these memories that I had. So without crapping so much, let's get straight to the point ;)

I thought I didn't have to wake up early anymore since it's the school holidays and this camp is pretty relaxing. Unfortunately, I had to wake up at 6. To take my bath and get ready to go down for breakfast at 7. Man, I WAS LAZY AS HELL. Ameeta took a bath first so I decided to switch on the TV. Upin & Ipin was on! One of my favourite Malay cartoons ever! But it was in English cuz it was in Disney Channel. It was still awesome anyways. After the two of us got ready, we went to Izzati's room which was a few rooms away. 

Went down together with the others and had our breakfast at the cafe. We were the first to arrive. Then we had our breakfast which was SCRUMPTIOUS, FYI. But I took a little too much. And I remembered what they said about NOT WASTING FOOD. And my friends were also constantly reminding me. Suying, NO WASTING. And I had to stuff them into my mouth and clear my plate. But the one thing I regretted was taking the bread pudding a little too much. I did not like it very much because I think that the vanilla sauce was LACK OF VANILLA FLAVOUR. Like how could that happen =_=. 

After that we went into the hall. Being the first team to arrive, again. And we realized that our sitting position is different already. The board which has our school name on it was transferred to another table. Which meant that we had to shift places. And I had to sit in front! D: But it was all cool and awesome. It's actually I had the HONOR to sit in front. OH, WHAT A PRIVILEGE! This is not sarcastic :D It was actually nice sitting in front. But the bad thing was that in order to see Kak Liyana, I had to turn my whole head. Which was aching. Even if I turned to face her, I still had to turn my head. And it was not for a while only, it was for about half an hour which I had to keep in that position. Imagine my pain.
Before starting the class, they had a mystery session which they have every morning. We played Kamil kata! Which is actually Simon says in Malay. The game was conducted by the awesome Abang Paan. I was doing pretty good in the beginning. But when he started to go fast. I lost. I lost when he said "Jump!" I was like shitzzzzzzzzz. Then I had to sit down T_T. But it was really awesome. 
After that, we carried on with our first lesson of the day, HTML 2 and the review of HTML 1. Man, my neck hurt the entire one hour! When they said "Okay, go back and do your codecademy now!" IT WAS SUCH A RELIEF TO HEAR THAT. Okay, lemme be honest. When I don't understand something, I get sleepy. When I'm so into something, it is possible that I won't sleep for the whole day just to learn that thing. But I kinda didn't understand. I was getting a little sleepy. But thankfully I did not sleep in front of Kak Liyana. It would be such a disgrace :P. 
Later, we did the chicken dance which lead by Abang Fazril. I mean like who doesn't know the all so famous chicken dance! If you don't know the dance, you must have been living under the rock.
Then, they had their morning tea. But I totally lost my appetite. In the camp, I was eating only for the sake of surviving, not for the sake of pleasure. LOL. Sounds so... Philosophy-ist. haha. But seriously I really lost my appetite. And I did not eat. But every time there's a break, we will definitely get out of that hall. Because it was freezing like hell in there! Holy shit. It was so damn cold. And there was a hint of pleasure when you go out and feel the warm air against your skin. Ahhhh. Even though it was not that warm, but it was definitely warmer than the hall. We just went out had a little stroll and eased ourselves. And went inside again. Even though the food looked good, I really did not want to eat. I just went inside because I could not take another look at food anymore @_@ Yes. It was THAT bad.
Then everybody came back in after a short 15 minutes break. After that we continued on with the 2nd lesson of the day which was the review of HTML 1 and 2. Kak Liyana seems very professional when teaching. I understand everything she says easily. She looks very determined and very professional indeed. After another neck breaking 1 hour, the magical sentence was said again. "Continue your codecademy, guys!" Hallelujah. 
After that we learnt CSS. Kak Liyana said "If HTML is the skeleton of the webpage, then CSS is the skin of it." CSS is something very basic to give colours and stuff to our webpage. It is just to give our webpage a little bit of decoration. I started to really like this coding thing. She thought us many ways of using this CSS thing and ways to link it to our HTML file. Things were getting really interesting. How we get to decorate our webpage in so many ways. I never actually thought I will be able to do all this! I was quite surprised my self! But at the same time I was having TONS of fun! 
After that we had a short tea break. All of us had no appetite so we just went back to our rooms to change into our sports attire for our team building activity. As usual we went to each others' rooms to wait and get down together. 
We went into the hall and waited for everybody to arrive. After that all of us did some stretches and stuff. Haha. It was really relaxing because of my stupid neck pain. Then they asked us to group up according to our groups and we went to the beach together! Which was amazing. There were lots of tourists and stuff. Then they briefed us on how to play the games which was amazing!
The first game was the whole team had to line up in a line and pass rubber bands by straws and the last person has to kneel down and put the rubber band at the tip of the cone. And they pushed me in front. So I was the only girl in the front. The rest were boys and the last were the other girls. LOL. I don't mind. As long I had fun! I was passing the rubber bands really quickly to Mustaqim (my group leader). And all of a sudden, when I was passing the rubber band, his straw accidentally poked my chin. Ouch. I wanted to laugh at the same time. But I kept on passing the damn rubber bands. At last, we got about 5 only =_=. But it felt like I passed 50! After that they had another game where the whole team still stand in a line. And they pass balloons filled with water to the person behind. And the last person has to pass it to a pair of people who will be holding a kain batik to catch the balloon! Our team only managed to catch around 3 :P. It was really fun.
After that we did a small photo shoot by the beach. Amazing! We took lots of pictures. And also a group picture of the whole camp. I thought I wouldn't be able to be in a group picture cuz I had to leave the camp early. Thankfully I'm in this pic! :D 
Then we went around the beach to take our own group pictures. We took lots of pictures! A team of Badlishans! Which was amazing! Love the girls! We make such a wonderful team :). Unfortunately, I left my phone in my bag. And my bag was in the hall. I was such a genius. But I got the photos cuz I got it from the others :P
We got back to the hall. They told us that we only have 1 and a half hour to bath, pray, and eat. Ameeta and I made a great team. Half an hour for bathing and a whole hour for eating :D It felt really great to bath after a whole day. But it was not that bad cuz we didn't sweat much. 
Then we went down to have our great dinner! Seriously, I enjoyed every single second I was there. I did not regretting for coming to this camp. NOT EVEN A SINGLE BIT. We sat together with our schoolmates as usual. Even though being on the 2nd day only, it's like we've known each other for a really long time! 
Then we went back into the hall to continue with our projects that we've been doing like our own web pages and codecademy! I really like doing codecademy and trying new stuffs. Even though sometimes I get my codes wrong, I do it like trial and error. 
We went back to our rooms at 10. And this night, we did not meet up. We went straight to bed. After refreshing myself up, I went straight to bed. 
It was an amazing day I had. That's all for this post! Till the next post, goodbye! xox
Here's some photos I got from the D-Code Album :)

Me looking retarded doing the chicken dance :D

Kak Wa, Me, Farahin! :D

Farahin and I ;)

My teammate, Alia. Putting the rubber band into the tip of the cone.

I'm behind there with Aina, my teammate/ schoolmate.
Catching the balloon using the kain batik.

The group picture that I never thought I would be part of :')

D-CODERS FOR THE WIN!
Love my D-Code family :')

Fellow Badlishans with Abang Fariq by the beach!
1 person was missing :/

Badlishah's D-Coders. Hearts.
All 9 of us were in this pic! 

Loving this pic! 1 person was missing :/

D-Code Camp 3 2013 (Penang) Part 1

Hello.

Wow. Half a year of NOTHING. Well, here goes. FIRST POST OF THE YEAR!

Actually, I really need to post this. Because I'm afraid I will forget about this amazing camp that I've just been to. I do not want to forget this amazing experience. So, I treat this blog as my online diary or something so that when I grow up and I read this post back, I will remember about this camp, the amazing people I've met, and the things that I've done that I never thought I can ever do!

Well, here goes nothing! I've been to this camp in Penang.

We have to do an IQ test first to get qualified to go to this camp. They will only choose the top 10. And thankfully, I got chosen! All thanks to luck (again)! It was a five-day camp in Penang. I was really happy when I get to hear that I was chosen to go to the camp! But something struck me. The camp was on the 27th to the 31st of May. BAM. There goes my camp. I've been organizing a camp (the St. John camp which I've been to every year) for the past 2 months which is held on the 30th, 31st of May and 1st of June. And hell, I was torn between two choices. I kept thinking on which camp to go. Sir Nizam (my AWESOME ICT TEACHER!) told me to think properly and give him the answer by the 25th.

Everyday till the 25th, I kept thinking which one should I go. I was making a list of pros and cons in my brain everywhere I go. I kept thinking that I shouldn't just leave the St. John camp alone! We've been all working so hard on it for about 2 months! There's NO WAY I can dump it just like that. And I was thinking about the D-Code camp. It IS a GREAT opportunity. I mean like a ONCE in a lifetime opportunity. It MAY have something to do with my CAREER, and my FUTURE. I was so sad at that time, torn between two important things in my life that I can NEVER miss. I cannot MISS ANY OF THEM! I was so sad and desperate only God knows how horrible I feel. It was until the last minute that I called up Sir Nizam and asked if I can go back on the 4th day of the camp. He said he'll try talking to them so he asked me to come on the first day and I get to go back! Thank God! I was very very happy. I was thinking at least I get to go for 4 days! It's better than not going and not learning ANYTHING AT ALL!

And everything went by really quickly. Bla bla bla. And BAM. 27th of May 2013. Was the day of my life. I woke up bright and early. Went to BM to had our breakfast. Back home. Then straight to school. I packed my clothes for the next six days on the night before. Because my plan was to go back from D-Code on the 30th and straight to school for the St. John camp! So, it was 6 days straight that I was not able to go home! 

I finally reached school and saw some of my friends there. I was pretty excited even though none of my best friends were actually following me cuz ALL of them took accounts. But I did not regret for taking ICT. I definitely did not regret.

Back to the story. We waited for the bus to come cuz it came from Baling (a deeper place in Kedah). When it finally arrived, we went in and saw like 10 boys sitting at the end of the bus. We didn't say hi, didn't greet, or anything. We just got to our seats made ourselves comfortable and stuff. Then sir had to wait for 2 other boys who IN THE END did not turn up. Then we went to buy some stuff to eat on the way to penang. 

Then the bus started going. And all of us were in our comfortable position. And the driver actually took the other route to Tanjung Bungah. Like seriously. That place was jam packed! It was lunch time. And all of us were getting a little panicky cuz we thought we were gonna be late. I actually fell asleep in the bus cuz it was getting all chilly and stuff. 

When we finally reached there, I woke up and got quite excited for the 4 days stay in at Flamingo Hotel by the Beach, Penang. Like seriously, who isn't?! And we got greeted by a few facilitators like kak Nadh (I'm sooo sorry idk her real name :/) and Abang Fadzril and Abang Paan! We left our bags at a corner for the hotel staff to bring them into the hall. Then we registered ourselves and got a bag! Inside there were 3 t-shirts (green, blue, and orange), a pen, a notebook, an info kit, and a 4GB pendrive. Then, we went to have our first lunch! Buffet style. Then we changed into our first t-shirt which is the green one. And the t-shirt which I got was with the size XL. I WAS LIKE. THE HELL IS THIS. XL. I know lah, I'm fat. But why XL?! It was super big and long. Then my Muslim friends went for their prayers. Then I went to the hall, alone. I was the first one there. I saw all board which has our school name written on it. And I just sat there. And they asked me to open my email. The internet was super duper slow. But they got it fixed right away. Then some schools started coming in too. 
Not long after that, the facilitators came in and introduced themselves. And there was Abang Fadzril A.k.a TOMOK, the emcee of the camp. Which was definitely amazing! They thought us the D-CODE CLAP. Which goes like this- 2, 2, 3, GO! and when they shout "CODERS!" we must clap like this- 1, 2, READY! That was certainly amazing. They did some briefing and stuffs. Told us things that we should and should not do. And also introduced us to coding like what is coding, why coding, and stuff like that. 
And we did some ice breaking game. All of us had to use a colour paper which each school got a colour. My school's colour was pink! XD We had to write our name, school, and hobby. Fold it into a paper airplane and throw it all over! Then once we got a person's airplane, we have to go find that person and return it back to him/her. I got a boy's one from SMKA Kerian. His name was Akif! Then Abang Fadzril had to go around testing people if they remembered whose airplane they got. And he came to me! I said that I got Akif's who is from SMKA Kerian. And thankfully I remembered his hobby which was surfing the internet! :P Then another indian boy got called. He got one from Alia. But he forgot her hobby. So, she had to decide what punishment to be carried out on him. She asked him to do Gwiyomi. But he didn't know how to do. So, they forced her to come in front and teach him. But she gave another reason and said that she didn't have the music! But another boy from Baling had the music. So he was also called in front to perform! But in the end, only Alia performed. And the other 2 were asked to mimic what Abang Fadzril did! Hell, was it funny! We had a good laugh! :)
Then, came tea time. Which I did not even take a bite at all. Cuz I had a very full filling lunch. And they gave us the keys to our room! Ameeta and I shared a room. At room 814! :D Which was very awesome indeed because it was only the two of us in a room. AMAZING. Settled down a little. Changed into sports attire for team building session. I was a little curious on what was about to happen.
We went back to the hall quite early. So, we just switched on the computer checking on our facebook and stuff like that. Then when everybody came in it was time! Each of us had a file in our computer. So, we had to type our name inside. Then, it will display which group were we supposed to be in. They had the blue, white, orange, yellow, green, and red team! I got the blue team with my school mate, Aina! Which was amazing. Cuz one thing I hate in camps was getting team mates that are not that sporting and that do not interact much. But, to my surprise! The team that I got was amazing! We had to choose our group leader. We had to put our right hand in the air with our index finger out. Then, at the count of 3, we had to point to the person who we think will be a good leader. At last, our group leader was Mustaqim! Then the group leaders had to go get some stuff. Then he came back with a paper written 'bicycle'. We had to innovate the object that we got into how we think it will look like in around 10 years' time. And at the same time, we had to create our group cheer. They thought that it would be a great idea if the girls created the cheer while the boys brainstorm the idea. But I got a great idea! And joined the boys instead cuz I remembered reading about a Doraemon comic about the bicycle. But I don't quite remember it. So, we just randomly draw some tricycle and had a few buttons on it. A button that can make the bike invisible and can go through anything. A button that can make the bike into a boat thingy. And another that can make it fly. The bike is made of alloy, a very light material. It also has a solar panel for it to transform solar energy into chemical energy. Which I thought was really amazing as a stepping stone to a great team! Cuz we really talked and cooperated, which to me was incredible! LOVE BLUE TEAM! ;)
After presenting, we get to go back to our rooms and take a shower and then go take dinner and back to the hall at 7. Which means we only had 1 hour. Which was honestly, a little short. Then I decided that I can just take a little shower and wash my hair at night which was around 10. Then, we went and had our dinner! Buffet style. But the dishes were just ordinary. Nothing much. But it was nice. I ate really little only. Idk what happened to my appetite. 
After that we went back to the hall to start out first lesson! Which was HTML 1! It was very interesting indeed. And we had to make an account on Codecademy which we used to do all our exercises. But the internet was REALLY slow as  everybody was using it and there were some problems here and there. Some of us got the connection. But most of us did not. So we did some exercises using Notepad. So now I know the uses of the Notepad. All along I thought it was just some useless application. But there's so much I can use with it.
Then they gave a paper to every school. Which is sort of like a mind map. It need us to generate an idea which uses the ICT concept to help solve problems and make life much easier. So we decided to go to one of our rooms later that night to discuss. Then they told us that we had to take our breakfast at the cafe at 7 cuz we were sharing our breakfast with the other hotel guests as well.
After everything at night, at around 10 they had some supper but I did not want to eat :x. Then we went to our rooms changed into something more comfy then we went to Aina and Farahin's room. Which was a floor above ours. Then we started discussing on what problem we should come up with. I really love our team. One thing is because we're all girls. And it's much easier to work with all girls cuz we can just enter a room all together. And if we have boys, that would be a lot more harder. And another thing is that all of them are so amazing at brain storming in the middle of the night. And full of energy. Then we came up with some crazy ideas. But decided not to put them cuz that would ruin our school's image and stuff :P It was incredible working with them. But of course, all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. So we also gossiped a bit( Well, ALL GIRLS. What do you expect ;) ) 
After all that laughing and stuff we went back to our rooms at around 12 cuz we had to wake up at 6 to get ready. Said our goodnights and went to sleep. But the worst thing is that my room's air cond was not working. But it was still quite chilly.
And that is the end of DAY 1! An amazing day it was. 
Okay. That's it! Will post the 2nd day as soon as possible! BYEEEE :D Take care! XOX

My first lunch at the cafe! Delish ;)

My view for the next 5 days. How amazing is that? Working with just a computer :)

My dearest Team Badlishah and a little bit of the Amazing Cikgu Nizam! :)

Overview of the ballroom before everybody arrived :)