Friday, January 28, 2011

A great woman.

This post is specially dedicated to my great grandmother, (yes, you heard right) who passed away due to a heart attack on Thursday afternoon. Yup, another death in my family, and I would be going to her wake later. So soon, and yet another funeral. I guess it's because I'm getting older and therefore its inevitable that people around me pass away one by one. But that's so sad right? I guess, no one can stay by your side forever, therefore we have to always treasure what we have now and the people around us, instead of constantly wishing for things we didn't have.

My great grandmother, which we fondly call Tai ma, is really a great woman I admire. She is really strong and I'm really proud to have her as my great grandmother. I'm not really sure if my version of her life story is like that lah but I think mostly is true. She had 2 husbands. I don't know much which one is which but they both weren't around when I was born lah. I think the first one, came from China and married my taima and after awhile, his wife and son came from China to look for him, then she realised she was actually the second wife and I think he went off with them, abandoning her. The second husband was I don't know how much later, but my Ah mah was from her second husband. And after having several kids, it was the Japanese Occupation period, and he was taken away by the Japanese. And you all know the massacre, where they pulled men into a truck to be taken to Changi to be shot and killed. He never came back, so they all supposed he is death lah. My taima, single-handedly took care of all her children. I don't know how she got the money, she bought land in Singapore and rented all these kampong houses to coolies who came to work in Singapore. Then, she would cook like noodles with veg or something to sell to these workers for lunch and dinner. From there, her business sorta grew and she became more and more prosperous. I guess God is watching over her and helping her to lighten her burden in taking care of all her kids lah. Actually I'm not even sure how many grand uncles and aunties I have but definitely more than 5. So, life became better for all of them. When we go over for CNY, my Taima is always sitting at the same spot where she will be the first to see anyone who comes into the house. And we will all go hug her. And her hands are all wrinkled and old, but they still feel so nice to hold. And she, being so old, will give everyone at least $10 lor. And all the adults who give her money, she will go to the room, take out the money and give back half. Coz she really don't need the money but have to accept coz all the adults will push it to her. Haha and she is always so nice and I really love her!

Dear Taima,

no matter where you are right now, I just wanna tell you that I love you and thanks for being so strong and everything. I will always remember this spirit you have. To raise up your kids no matter the circumstances. You taught me to always be strong no matter what happens. I will always smile everywhere I go! Thanks and I love you!

Yours truly,
Joyce

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

ANGRY!

I'm so angry right now and upset why are there humans like that. I just watched this video where this man, speaking Cantonese, don't know where he is from lah, is like training his brown toy poodle how to beg. Like stand on two hind legs and put the front legs up. Then the dog doesn't do it right and he slaps the dog. At some point, he slapped so hard that the dog totally flew so far. Like kena flinged somewhere else. It was yelping in pain and all the man cares about is if the dog is on it's hind legs with front paws held high in begging position. I know some people like to train their toy dogs how to beg, but are these dogs beggars? Why must they beg you for their food when it's you who has decided to buy them and take care of them for life? Aren't dogs a man's best friend? Is this how you treat your best friend? By slapping and scolding when one party does not do things right?

Dogs have to be slowly taught. Nobody can learn something just like that. Not even you, Mister Mean! I bet you have never read any books on dogs and therefore you don't know how to care for your animal. Dogs have to be taught slowly. Without punishments, but rewards when they have done well. This is called positive reinforcement. Not to beat them up or throw them anywhere you like when they didn't do their tricks right! Hello, what if your mum flinged you or slapped you till you fly across the room, just cause you didn't do a Maths question correct? There are so many more chances for you to learn and parents don't do that because they love you and because they know thats the wrong treatment! Dogs need love. They too are animals and have a life. Just because they do not have the ability to speak up doesn't mean you can be a tyrant and bully animals like that. Don't say outsiders have no rights to say please. Everyone is saying and hoping you go to jail or at least reflect and know your mistakes are wrong!

Dogs are just like children. They need to be slowly taught and nutured, and cared for even when they do wrong! And it's not even like the dog peed everywhere or bite everything. JUST BECAUSE THE DOG DIDN'T DO IT'S TRICKS RIGHT! Hello man, you are seriously inhumane. At one point of the video, the dog already showed you its begging and stood there for a few minutes. Why can't you be happy and let the dog go? How long you want the dog to stand there like that! You think dogs naturally stand on hind legs only isit? The front two legs is hands like us? It's just like me asking you to do handstands forever untill I'm happy. You can meh please! Before doing anything, you should put yourself in other people's shoes. Have you ever considered how the dog might feel? Scared, fear, pain, sadness. Imagine the person you have to live with will abuse you every single day. I bet the dog confirm very scared lah. "If I do anything wrong, he will hit me agian." Then, out of fear, he tries to stand up. But due to the hurt on it's body, it's unable to give you what you asked for. It's tired, for standing on it's hind for so long. It's tired, from experiencing the pain, after being flinged halfway across the room.

My uncle's dog, Princess, does not know any tricks anymore! Except sit and paw. But still, we love her nontheless because she is already considered to be part of the family! And no matter what wrong she does, if she bites the table cloth or steals shoes, we will shout "Princess! Drop!" Or sometimes we just snatch it back. But when she wants people to play her bone with her, we still do it. When she wants people to stroke her, we gladly. Coz we love her. And she does know what is family! When there are strangers at the door, she will bark continuously because she wants to tell us "oi! Got stranger!" And when I come over to the house! She will bark once or twice to tell the maid that "Joyce Jiejie is here! Open door! I got friend already!" Then her tail would be super waggly which makes you also happy to see. It depends on your value system. What you take something to be. Dogs will only be around for a maximum of ten years. Why not we love them throughout their ten years here? When they pass on, we will still be around and we will remember then and if you have never treated them well, then don't you think it will be too late to regret? Don't you think it will be sad for yourself if you constantly have to live in fear? Fear of what your close ones might do to you. What if I don't master this trick today? Am I strong enough to withstand today's punishments? The dog will sooner or later fall into depression, and thus die earlier lah. Please, once we made a committment to buy the dog or take it home, we have to treat it well and love it like it's our family member. Like it's our little baby. Like it's one of us. Can we all start loving our pets a little bit more today? Before they go, less you regret. If you want them to live on this earth happy, then please do your part. They might just be animals, but you and I are once all like them. Slowly growing up, learning things, getting the care and attention from our parents. Our parents didn't treat us this way, did they? Let's show some love today.

Thursday, January 20, 2011

My blog is so dusty.

HARRRR CHEW!!! Woah so much dust here!! *Wipes off the dust with MagiClean* Okay! Clean now!!!! Been so long since I last blogged. I'm so sorry I neglected you! Actually I've been neglecting everyone else as Joyce had been busy with projects and everything. MY mid sem results ain't fantastic, no where near satisfactory to my eyes. So imma have to put double efforts to get A for projects!! Thus the long hiatus! It's like as though I went on a long vacation or something. Oh I am going on a vacation soon! Haha I would be going to Australia in April so don't miss me. And I went to Universal Studios Singapore last week! Bought "I *insert heart shape* USS" shirts and a laptop bag for myself. Heh. I actually thought it was quite fun. But really small! As in like, there weren't many rides available. My favourite was The Mummy ride. It was quite cool leh woohoo!! Then next in line is the kiddy junior roller coaster in Far Far Away. I went Far Far Away that's why long time never blogged! Haha ok lame. Why no mention of the Battlestar Galactica? Oh, coz right, I sat that ride pretending to be a hero, then I daringly went to sit the Cyclops one which had dangling feet, ended up with a puking Joyce at the end of the ride. Not cool... Okay lah! I was kidding! I love roller coasters actually! The feeling when you are thrown off your seat. I get that alot. Even in the Viking Ship in Escape Theme Park! And I did not get to ride the Battlestar coz it isn't opened yet boo... *inserts weeping face* It's quite funny because one of my friend's name is Weeping! So when you call him, you just have to give the sad face! Hiak hiak hiak! A few photos of USS! By few I mean like really little. By little I mean like 2. Hahaha you wanna see go Facebook see lah! :P







Okay what else? Can I tell you why I love my Chiku (iPhone 4)? Remember I haven't named my iPhone 4 hor! And I'm calling it Chiku! Coz it has this baby pink casing right now and I attached this handphone strap on it, that has a chick in an egg and you can open and close the egg. Super cute! Hehehe okay maybe if I change cover and everything, it will look totally different and it won't suit the name Chiku! So I guess by that time, Chiku will have a new name! Hehe.

Oh I love Chiku, because firstly, there is dual cameras!! That makes it easier to take photos of others, take photos of yourself, no need to measure or do Physics formula to calculate how high we should position our hands so that can capture everyone! Hehe. And and got flash also lor! There is this thing which says "HDR" and when you turn it on, it makes the photos super clear and High Defination! Ok maybe HDR stands for Hi-Def. Hmm.. Oh! Also you can take photos of people behind you if you want, using your inner camera. Like example a hot guy or girl. Hahahah what? Nooo!! I don't do that hor! Really never!! Argh, never mind.

The iPhone 4 also has many apps and you can play games the whole day! It really has many many apps lor. So many games and also Photography apps got alot of different effects and all. It's damn cool lah! Got a lot of games also, depending on what you like. For me, I like cutesy games, so actually a lot of my friends complain my games are lame. But I like can liao what! Actually I don't know so many games is for who lor. For you or for your friends to play. Or show off to your friends. Like when they're bored, they will ask for your phone. And then you can proudly lend them. Then the games many many and they will like, "woah, u a lot of games! I like to play your phone." Then you can do the heart laugh (which is outside act like nothing but inside you are like laughing) which I always do. Hahaha.

Therefore, I love my iPhone 4. I love Chiku coz she can have so many clothes lah can randomly change. Not many phones can have different casings found everywhere! Hehe and I don't like BlackBerry. They are worst enemies! BB is a keypad phone and I don't like the keypad with all the letters all out there. I think very hard to press lor! And also iPhone is heat sensor one! Means if in your pocket, it won't anyhow press and go anything!! Okay lah, my younger sister went to sleep and she is now awake and before she went to sleep, she did not switch off the computer, so I woke up first huh, then I used the com lor. Then now she is awake and complaining. So byebye human folks! I'm off!

P.S: What if you found out your friend's friend is stalking you?

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Happy New Year!

It's a new year already but I just don't have the feeling that I'm jumping to the next year. I don't feel smarter, wiser and everything! Booo! 2010 was really eventful. I went to church, I became a Christian. Tried to get the boyfriend to believe what I also believe in, but it didn't work out. Birthday in June, family time this year was better than 2 years ago coz sec 3 and 4 I was more of concentrating with my BGR. Then Sept, it ended. My very first relationship. Cried and everything. People were there to comfort me. True friends. I think I got over pretty fast. Maybe the spark was all gone. We were doing the same things week after week. But I'm glad I'm not in a relationship right now. Family ties are stronger than before. Then wow, knew ALOT of people this(last..ahem. Haven't gotten used to saying 2011 yet) year! My facebook friends like jump jump jump and now its 966 I think. Haha. My friend and I had this bet. If I overtook his Facebook friends, he will have to cook for me MUAHAHA and I won! The marginal difference is like 30+ people hohoho. Okay lah I have nothing much to say. I summarised my 2010. Now for my resolutions, which I prolly won't follow!

RESOLUTIONS OF 2011:
1) Exercise and get flat abs!
2) To up my bank account to $----.
3) To read my Bible everyday!
4) To bring smiles to people by loving everyone around me. Hehehe
5) GPA 3.8 yo!
6) Get a slack job. Like a Frolicks girl or Best Fries Forever or Red Mango or get paid doing modelling! And work on my free days like Tues and Thurs.
7) Start learning driving! Yes! And get my license too!
8) Become prettier hahahaha!
9) Perfect skin FTW!
10) Clear all enemity!

Ya one of my shortest posts ever! Hahaha Laura says I'm too long-winded ma!

Ok toodles woodles,
Joyce

P.S: Remember to write --/--/2011 instead of 2010 for the date! Haha I go new year always got this problem!