An Unexpected Gathering at Melaka

There is a few stuff happening last week that going to make changes in my life here at JB. 

Not sure how much it would influence myself. Some good news that enlighten me and also some  to pull me down. I have end up to  go back Melaka for my family and my USM buddies are also have a short gateway and small gathering at my hometown. 

Not manage to join them all day long but managed to join them for a dinner. 

It feels like back to university life and we will be eating out after done with one hectic semester. 

The difference is that we are now all touch down at different city and seldom have time to call out one another. 

After almost half a year worked in JB, we have visitors from Penang and Kedah, we had dinner together and go for  a movie night  just like we were still a student. Not managed to join the weekend activities as I need to be at home, but stopping others from visiting UK Farm without me so they decided to go Melaka at the end. 

And we also  have another few come from Selangor/KL to meet up. 

A little story shared by my friend when she visited the company I had my internship, I was surprised when finally one remember correctly that I am not working under Old Town White Coffee. She met her client at the company, which is the QA manager, and they mentioned about me. 

Suddenly I miss the colleagues at Emperor's Kitchen, my supervisors and also other managers there. Not keeping in touch but it is great to hear that all of them are doing well. 

Shared the laughter, and February is going to have new members to join us in JB. 

Here another kick start for the "Goat" year, Huat Ahhhhh!

 

Bite-Size Knowledge

Today, one of my friend find me to ask about one thing that I have been putting it down for quite some time. My passion towards study, my passion towards my major, Food Technology.

During my final year, our professor has come out with a project, called "bite-size knowledge" focusing on food knowledge. It was exciting when few of us started to study on our own for the topic that we are interested and make it into video.

What is bite-size knowledge? To direct translate it, it is a little knowledge that can be gain after watching it. Our plan was to produce 1 to 3 minutes short videos to explain about food science and technology knowledge.

It can be seen easy, but it could be hard to use layman term to describe scientific knowledge. We have try on a few topics on enzymatic browning, meat texture, meat colors, E-numbers, bread staling, Modified Atmospheric Packaging (MAP) and Hurdle Technology, the topics are all mess up because we simply study what we are interested on.

Halloween Apple created by Daisy

She kept it for more than a week in the fridge

so it end up shrink and become the real devil. 

It was really fun when digging out the knowledge from the reference book, online articles, and even our lectures notes.

Unfortunately, the project stops when each of us getting busier for our final year projects and prof is too busy to introduce the open learning culture.

This blog was returned today as a remarks of this and thanks for my friend who suggest me to kick it a start again, it could be my "part-time job" as it will sure encouraging me to continue learning about food fact and yeah, that time I will love to shout "Welcome to Food Technology Course!"

Leave USM for almost half a year, 

all the memories are still vivid in mind. 

So, lets the stories for Bite-size Knowledge continues, 

This time, as an appreciation for Food Technology,

My course, my friends, my lecturers, my university, my "second home"!!!

Good Bye Year 2014! Hello Year 2015!!

Year 2014 has been another significance year which has been passed.

I am finally a graduate after 4 years, eat, play and enjoy in USM, Penang.

The footsteps have been slowed down during the final year, no more activities or long distance travel. Final year project can be tiring but a short day in Georgetown is sufficient to recharged. I am just not able to get myself ready to leave this lovely city.

The people, old streets, public transport and the national park are those filled up my undergraduate's years.

We had a few times farewell party together before we leave our coursemates, and each are now going into different path and continue their own story.

I wished that I could stay in Penang for a longer time, but after finish the final paper I do not have any reason to stay there again. It is time to say Goodbye and I do know that I will be there again soon.

July, I am home for a month, busy for nothing, moving away my four year stuff in Penang, and after a month I am again leaving home for another city in Johor.

Johor is always so near yet so far to me. Most of my friends study in Johor, as Penang is too far for them. But I never been really walk into Johor, I did have relative here but never really walk down to streets. The journey to south were ready to make by oneself, but my family decided to have a day off and come together with me.

Daddy would never interrupt our decision made, I appreciate the effort that he allows us to fall and stand up again. You know that you always can come home when you feel so.

Well, the life at home is never been a relax one. There are simply too many to do list that make the time feels so short.

Then I come to Johor without really much prepared, being taken care well by my USM seniors and there after come my USM coursemates and friends. Managed to meet some long lost friends and catch up with them too.

Initially I thought it is a bad idea for me to start here alone without my best mates, but there is always a reason for you to continue the journey and eventually you find the God actually gave you more. I have more interactions with the seniors and their batch graduates, also my USM mates and also other new people around.

It has been almost 5 months in Johor, and so many things have been happening each day. People come and go, left the memories in our mind.

People keep asking me when I will get a boyfriend here. Too soon for me to answer as it is not under my control. But I can tell that I have had an awesome life in Johor, with the stories will be continue in year 2015.

Everyday is a good day depending on how you evaluate it. New Year is just an another day to start with but what make it special is you can have a time frame to review what have been captured in the past one year and it reminds you to creates more awesome memories.

Say cheers!

Happy New Year!!

p/s I am drunk when writing this post. XD

Ma famille et moi

Bonjour, Je suis Jiao Wei, J' habite Johor.

Mes parents habitent à Melaka. J'ai trois soeur, Je suis le plus jeune.

Je suis étudiante,  j'etudie français.

J'adore langue, je parle d'anglais, chinois et thai.

Time to practice more. I have forget everything in class!

Random post: Sue Anne and me

I never ready to leave Penang because of my crazy buddy there. One of the girl that accompany me for all the sports that I have been into.

We started our friendship from the day we step in USM, not the course mate, but faith has brought us throughout the years and until today. In front of her, I am another crazy people.

Still remember first semester, she invited me for dinner with her new friends Kem Pimpin Siswa, and also our first National Day in USM was hiking to Monkey Beach. She is one of those who accompany me jogging besides Elizabeth, she called me crazy during our first year for joining Half Marathon, but she joined it for two years since 2013, gradually increased from Fun run to 21 km. She thought me on focus on the legs and running without wasting energy on talking instead of training. She is also the one who makes me run further.

She is also the one makes me keep returning to the national park for hiking.

The last time we finally went to the Lighthouse before graduation. 

She is the one who brought me to the badminton court first time in USM and we had a crazy one hour session between both of us non stop and I realized jogging is not sufficient for a sports (I sweats crazily, with hands shaking and also the face turned bloody red and she is just not enough. The difference between a college representative and an ordinary people. LOL), and then only I started to go with my course mates and continue my badminton after about 5 years not touching it.

She asked me to join the badminton match in USM 

but she gone crazy during the game and we lost it. LOL

Other than that, she is also the one who accompany me for swimming when in stress, without much of words, she will just appear if she is free and we will dump ourselves in to the water and enjoy ourselves.

She is an easy going people, she joined my course mates activities as well, we often joke that she is also part of us, she entered the wrong course. By the way, she is an architecture student. It is often weird that you have a mates who are totally an opposite but then we are just mixing around anywhere.

We traveled together also, last time she listed out a few places she wanted to visit and then two crazy people explore Kuching city together, my first drinking experience for "Tuak" in the hostel and two drunk people in the room.

I left USM earlier than her and she is now in her final year of Part II in architecture. Busy for her final year project. Few times I had been teasing her of don't know cooking (Hardly imagine when she really found her Mr.Right and then be a wife and then mother) and now she also stay outside of the campus and kept showing off of her cooking skill.

I am really glad to meet such a great buddies back in my university. Simply she is just too awesome. Lets keep our promises to have trip together at least once a year! Starting 2016 the latest.

Both in 2013 and 2014 for our run in Penang Bridge Marathon.

The Power of Words

Recently, I am addicted to the China Program "I am Speaker" (我是演说家）.

Giving a speech on public has been a history to me back far before I  was 10 years old and I am trying so hard to memorize the story line. I often also failed due to lost of words, and there after I am no longer dare to speak on the stage anymore.

Then, I focused on writing, a place where I can rehearse for thousands time before I publish them. An article can be revised again before I share with people.

I salute people who are able to speak out their opinion immediately. Often, I became the listener rather than the speaker. There is a few people that soon realized that I somehow talk more than I listen when I get used to the environment. But it takes time.

It takes time for me to build a sentences and spells out the words.

Well, but words have given me a strong emotion, to motivate people and also vice verse.

I can easily hurt people with the sentences, especially when I lost my patient. Sometimes I talk far before the mind can read.

Change of environment, also change of a whole bunch of people around, I am still learning the way each and everyone interact, and with my old buddies.

A facial expression can easily spells out your thinking, but the wording that you use could easily express your facial expression as well.

Keep reaching out for the positive and bring people out of negative thoughts. Life has got two phase, it is how you transform them into the part code, 0 or 1, or the combinations.

Everyone has got their tasks to learn and to teach. I am still learning the balance, people often teach me but I am just clueless on how to share with others.

Well well, life is a learning process.

It is Christmas Eve! A party night to people, a relaxing night for me!

Simply choose a picture as it looks too plain for my blog posts. 

Life is as simple as learning a new language from ABC. 

Can you recognize what language is this? 

XD

December: Festive or Farewell or a Year End Fighting?

Time has been travelling fast, it is end of the year, with a lot of celebrations coming soon, Dongzhi, Christmas and also New Year. It should be a happy month to go. But so much happening that we don't even have the celebrations mood but more of a complicated one.

Everyone has been facing different situation and changes in life.

Four months, enough of farewell until you realize that the world suddenly become so small that people keep travelling, say hello and goodbye. Just like they never leave but yet you are just here, seems like with a lot of people, but, another but, sometimes you just keep yourself alone.

Loneliness is scary. That is what people commonly think. But keeping your own alone, is a different story than lonely. Keep yourself calm, analysis needs rational. That is what the reality thought us.

A teacher once thought us Physics in a humor way: Heat Capacity vs the change of Temperature, the higher the heat capacity the lower the temperature change. A person with "lower" heat capacity, he/she gets angry easily even just a small matter, but it can be easily goes back to the normal condition, whereas one with high capacity will remains calm nor matter what happen, but since it will still have its own limit and one day it will still gets angry, when it happens, it takes time for it to lower down.

Chinese also says, 物极必反. Being moderate of everything, being as ordinary as you can, not a big deal. Simple is the best, but anyone would want it to be just simple?

Most of us wish that we will become somebody, we fight for life and target to achievement. All will have its own dream to realize. It is only half a year gone from wonderful university. Take it easy and eventually a snail will reach the tip of the leaf one day.